IDE :: Multiple Instances Of Movie Class With Same Variable Name
Sep 3, 2009
I am creating multiple instances of a movie class with the same variable name. The movie is then added random on the stage with a tween. On a mouse handler click, i want to remove the movie from the stage.
I am getting error -
ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
at Untitled_fla::MainTimeline/removeBlock()
Code:
import gs.TweenLite;
import flash.utils.*;
var block:block_mc;
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 15);
myTimer.start();
[Code] .....
Is there a way to group a bunch of movie clip instances into a single variable? Reason is, I have a lot of movie clips acting as buttons that I have added to event listeners. All of the movie clips with do the same functions and I have a few different functions created.
I am making an AS 2.0 Class for polygons called "Shapes2". Shape2 is basically an array of Vectors (another Class I made) and is built using the function addPoint(x1,y1) to build the shape from a series of points. The points are then converted to vector-edges, etc etc.Here's the long and complicated construction:
Code: var pent:Shape2 = new Shape2(); var rect:Shape2 = new Shape2();
if I comment out either instance, the other is functional when I test it. Trying to do two instances makes rect and pent point to the same array of vectors, but they keep other variables and properties separate, which means rect isn't just pointing directly to pent or visa versa.
I'm trying to create a simple ripple effect made of circles created using the drawCircle() method. Afterwards I animate the circle by changing it's size and alpha value. The final radius of the circle and the position is random.
How do I create multiple circles/ripples?[code]...
I have a "Window" class, which will create a window with the parameters you specify. One of the functions inside of that class is to place an element inside the window - something such as a text field, button, etc.
Now my issue. I've created two windows with different names, slightly different parameters, etc. I am adding a text field to each one. On the screen, both text fields show up (have borders enabled). I can refer to both windows using getChildByName(), but for one reason or another I can only find one text field using the getChildByName method. The other one will give me an error.... "Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference."This is the code that I use to add a Text Field, keep in mind this is inside the window class:
ActionScript Code: public function element(builder:Object) { switch (builder.type) { case "static_text" :
[code]....
This code is repeated twice, for different windows. The only thing that's different about them is their names, which are slightly different. It seems that whichever text field I add first gets to stay, while an subsequent ones appear on the screen, but I cannot refer to them. I've tried switching around the window definitions and that does seem to be the case.
I have a button class and I made 3 instances of that button class as.. btn1, btn2 and btn3 Is it possible for the btns to share a global variable or something? For instance what I am trying to do. if btn1 is pressed it triggers a global variable "isClick = true" and if I click on a different button (btn2 or btn3) it checks to see if isClick is true then it calls a function A if not then calls different function B.
i've made a Tile-class where i set "buttonMode = false" for each instance. I have been able to test that the value can be change from the main AS.-file, so this part works.
Code: package { import flash.display.MovieClip;
[Code]....
This does change "buttonMode" but only on the very last instance. So this is where i'm at a loss -- i thought you could change all instances with one command like this but apparently not?
So I know how to target a specific instance using MovieClip(root).objectName which I think is nasty way of referring to it anyways, but right now I'm trying to make a fighting stick-figure game and I can only refer my code to one NPC right now using an "enemy" class but I would like it if I could spawn multiple NPC's at once using the enemy class and instead target the enemy class instead of the instance itself while still having the NPC instances being unique so when I hit one they don't all get hit.
I'm creating an image loader with a specific effects that requires layering multiple masks over the same movieclip. in the timeline it looks like this:
What I want to do is add an instance of the loaded image into each of these masked movieclips. I'm trying this:
create a new instance of the loader and store it in an Array
Code: for (var j=0; j<allThumbs.length(); j++) { imgLoader = new Loader(); img_arr.push(imgLoader);
[Code]....
The only way I've been able to get this to work is to create an entirely new Loader object for each movieclip instance. Doing it this way loads the same image 4 times... that's not acceptable.
how I can store the image that is loaded and reuse it in the different movieclip instances?
The code works fine, but I am getting unexpected results; the array seems to be shared across multiple instances of the same class? I've coded an example to highlight what is happening:
Code: import myClass; var instance:Array = new Array(); instance[0] = new myClass;
[Code].....
keep all objects/arrays separate across multiple instances of the class.
I'm creating an XML custom card game and am at the point of building the deck and making them draggable so the user can drag and drop them on top of another card.how to build the deck and put multiple instances of the movie clip that resides in the library, I just cannot figure out a way to make each one of the cards draggable. What currently is happening is the card on top of the deck is the only one that will drag, even if I click on the card below it. I have researched setChildIndex(), but I don't think I am using it correctly.
Another issue I'm having is when the user clicks the click_btn (named for testing only) to build the deck it takes a while to build it, can that be sped up any? Then once the user clicks the first card to drag it there is another long wait?
Document Class (CardGame.as) package library { import flash.display.*;[code].....
The xml file actually has 64 activity card entries and 41 event card entries, but I trimmed it down to make it easier.
I have a placeholderMC and then two instances of that placeholderMC (both with different instance names) in a containerMC. This containerMC is then animated using tweens, not actionscript.
I need to be able to load a JPG, PNG or SWF file using AS2 into the placeholder from a server. At present, loading the movie requires a specific target path which will only load the movie into the one instance. Is there some way I can load the movie into the placeholder without being as explicit in the path, such that it will be loaded into BOTH instances of the placeholderMC in the containerMC?
In laymans terms... I am loading a graphic and using the second instance as a drop shadow reflection under the first. The reflection has a different instance name so that I can cacheAsBitmap and use a gradient on it as a mask at runtime, it is also flipped vertically, so that like a reflection it is upside down.
The other problem I am experiencing is that when the containerMC is removed from the stage during the animation, the movie is unloaded as well and needs to be reloaded if i require the containerMC again. Is there anyway around this or is that native behaviour to flash. Ideally I would like to only have to load the Placeholder images once at the start of the file and then have them available for use as and when they are needed throughout the movie... does this require them to be on the stage the entire time?
I'm running into a roadblock with creating multiple instances of a movie clip. I'm trying to display a series of boxes across the bottom of the stage. The number of boxes are determined by _global.maxStep[_global.sectionNum]. I have a movie clip called StepBox that will serve as the template for each box. In the StepBox movie clip is a dynamic text box called stepNumText, which I want to set to the value of the counter. The problem I have is that I've only ever used attachMovie, but there is no movie for it to attach to. I tried using Content since that's the name of the layer this is in, but I know that doesn't make sense (and it doesn't work).
Code: _global.updateBoxes = function() { var curr_box; for (i = 1; i <= _global.maxStep[_global.sectionNum]; i++) {[code].....
I have created a movie clip which contains a button and a dynamic text field, instance name "anwTxt". In the dynamic text field I entered just the word "field" and set the the following in the properties window: multiline=true, wordwrap=true, font=16, font color=white.I then dynamically create multiple instances of this movie clip at run time, populating the text field from the contents of a user defined array. However if the text inserted from the array is to long it is simply cut off, instead of continuing on to a new line. Does anyone know why the field will not generate new lines, or have another solution to this issue?
Supporting info:
Code: Comments to explain //inside a for loop[code]....
Using "holder2.anwTxt.multiline = true;" has no affect. If I attempt to alter the height or width of the textfield (ie.holder2. anwTxt. height = 400 I recieve the error "thats a read only property"
I've done some basic flash for my college course and i'm moving onto advanced flash and Actionscript. For this, i'm trying to build a "construction game".
What I have is objects on the right side, and I want to be able to drag out copies of those objects onto the left and have the size and rotation of each object adjustable...
So say click and drag on a circle, it puts a copy of the circle where I place it on the left. I can then drag that circle around, scale it or rotate it, or if I decide I don't want it at all, drag it onto a recycle bin icon and have it removed.
I'd like to be able to make as many copies of that circle as allowed (so maybe a limit of 10?), and have each one adjustable when you "select" it...
click btSpawnAdd 1 mcObject to the stage, with a limit of 5 maximum of that objectclick btDestroyRemove 1 mcObject from the stage until all are goneI assume you'd use classes and arrays to get this done? I've managed to get a button creating objects onto the stage by doing that, but I can't figure out how to set a maximum.The end goal is to create drag & drop objects by clicking a button, and then being able to drag those objects onto a "recycle bin" to remove one.
I have a movie clip on the root which contains my menu. And another movie clip which plays my video. Basically when i click a menu item it calls a function which i want to able to send a command to my video player to play another video.
This is code inside my video player movie clip (i've missed out the including of the class and various config stuff - below is just so you see the name of the class instance)
var MDVideo:MD_VideoPlayer; var videoPath:String = "assets/ski_video.flv"; MDVideo = new MD_VideoPlayer(videoPath, local_config_obj);
[Code]....
How do i access the MDVideo instance from my menu movie clip?
i know its probably been answered here before but I havent been able to find exactly what i need to make it work. Plus this is my first time doing AS3 so
i have a movie clip which is exported for ActionScript , i want to get a variable from the document class into the movie clip class i tried this but there was an error !!
ActionScript Code: var main:Main=new Main(); main.txtScore.text="hello";
In my project are pages of text with each word having a button that when pressed will display a movieclip presentation about that word (its pronounciation and spelling etc..). In the project I am working on now I have over 450 unique presentations of words to deal with. I don't want to have all of these hundreds of movie clips on the stage and tell them one at a time to stop and rewind and then have one play each time a word button is pressed. That seems to be very inefficient to me.
add movieclips to the stage using addChild(movieclipname) and remove them using removeChild(movieclipname) but there is a problem. I have hundreds of unique movieclips and I don't want to have to manage hundreds of variables containing the indivudual movieclip instancess. It is a real pain having to figure out what instance is still on the stage before i delete it.In Adobe Director all I have to do is this:
ActionScript Code: stop(); var xmlRequest:URLRequest= new URLRequest("graphicImages.xml"); var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(xmlRequest);
[Code]....
So I figured that the coding of separate scenes would work independently of one another, but I guess I was dead wrong, because when I apply this to a different scene and change the XML path for a different set of images, I get all sorts of conflict errors when I test the entire movie. I have my flash film set up so that each link send the user to a different scene, which plays a unique intro for each, and then the slideshow appears on screen and the viewer can navigate the images.
Is there a work around for this? Or am I going to have to break my flash movie into separate movies? Or should I just add a suffix to all my vars and functions so that they are unique for each scene?
Is it possible to have multiple movie clips inside one variable? I want to be able to just use var._totalframes instead of mc1._totalframes, mc2._totalframes, etc... Or is there another way I can avoid copying and pasting dozens of movie clips over and over
How do I create a variable which can hold multiple movie clips? I have 4 movie clips called: char, ceil, plat, and wall. I want to put them into one variable called gameLevel. Something like: var gameLevel: char, ceil, plat, wall; <<but this doesn't work. So instead of calling each of the movie clips separately I can just use gameLevel (if I want to, for example, move all the objects to the left 5 pixels.)
Movie 3_mc is inside the timeline of 2_mc which is inside the timeline of 1_mc.1_mc has an integer variable called var1.I need to change the value of var1 by a mouse event for which the listener is on the timeline of 3_mc.I know that I can change the value of a variable of the parent movieclip (in this case 2_mc) from an event in 3_mc by using;
I want to know how to make class instances into listeners and broadcasters, from inside each class. Here is what I am trying specifically... part of the Proj class... (projectiles, as a matter of fact)
Code: private function listen():Void { u.register(this); onUpdate = function(){ step(); // a function I have which makes the projectile move (not shown) } }
where "u" is another class, the Updater class with this code...
Code: class Updater { // const. --- make this a broadcaster public function Updater(){
[code]....
PS: What is the syntax for using AS2 code tags instead of just "[CODE|"?
I'm slightly new to Flash CS3 + AS3 combo, so its more of a lack of practice question. My question stems from the problem described here http:[url].... . Note, its not the same problem, its a new one.The Problem ,So I have multiple library assets (which are on teh stage) and I want to assign similar functionality to all of them.
Attempt 1: So I create the n assets, create a custom class in AS3, link them to Flash CS3 and obviously enough it gives me the error that multiple assets can't be linked to the same class.Obvious enough to understand (well not completely, because from a programmers background it doesn't make sense).
Attempt 2: Same as attempt 1, but instead of linking all the assets to the same class I make the base class the same class, and let the derived class be dynamically created by Flash on compile time.So the linking works, but the problem is, in my base class I have a method which does something (say an tween) on a child of the library asset. So if the assets on the stage/library are called asset1, asset2, asset3 (same name for asset name, class name, id name), each of them has a sub-movieclip called ... say 'foo'. now if I manually wrote a class for each asset, I could do 'this.foo' to play with the sub-movieclip. However since this functionality is in the parent class, I'm unable to do it.
P.S. If you're form a programming/OOP background, its basically a abstract class problem. My Base class knows how to doSomething(), but it needs aSomething, which is defined in the Derived classes. However I found out that AS3 classes don't support virtual(C++ )/abstract (Java) in the true sense of the word (unless I missed some obvious documentation).
I'm trying to change a varialbe in a seperate class from inside a movieclip that I have on the stage in the timeline, but the variable I'm trying to change keeps coming up as null instead of what I am trying to change it to. How is this usually done?
I declare a Boolean variable in my main class (Main.as file)[code]What I want is to change myboolean variable from inside a movie clip I've got on stage (when it reaches a certain frame).[code]
