Pausing, stopping and playing movieClip (MC) children. I am making SWFs that an interface will load and control (pause, re-start, stop, etc.). Then the interface is paused, the main MC will pause but not it's child MCs. I didn't write the interface, I am just supplying SWFs that are loading into the interface. The developer of the interface willn't allow me to use animated MCs in my SWFs since he can't control them with the interface. So all my animation need to be on the main time line, which is no optimal to say the lease.Can I provide him with some code to allow him to stop the child MCs or is there an Event Listener I could include in the child MCs that would pause, stop, restart, etc when the main MC changes?I currently do not have a fix at this time and since all my animations are on the main timeline, is there a way to select multiple objects (on difference layers) and move and resize them across multiple keyframes?
I don't use Flash that much so the question may sound simple, but how do I pause audio in a timeline? I have added the audio, play and stop button. When I test it works fine, but I can't figure out how to add the pause button, or the play/pause button.
I have a template I created in CS4 where an flv video clip was embedded with a controller skin, etc. It worked fine.
I'm working in CS5 now and using f4v files, and publishing for Flash 10 Player. The files are targeted, load and play properly, but if I pause the video, then hit play, audio stops. Starting a new clip at a different point in the timeline works fine. I noticed if I turn off autoplay under Component Parameters, audio doesn't work at all.
I want to have a rollover effect of a movieclip (mo1) inside a movieclip (mo) of another movieclip (popup1).Is it possible to do that? I try calling it using this code in the frame 1 of my flash, am i doing wrongly?
I am making a banner which displays jobs and moves upwards on the screen continuously.and every job ad is a button that navigates to the jobadvertisment.The buttons are inside a movieclip that contains all the buttons.I would like to pause this movieclip that is constantly moving upwards on mouseover.but how do I call the parent movieclip to pause on mouseover that resides inside the movieclip?
I'm using a CLICK event to add a MovieClip to the stage from my library. Within the added MovieClip is a child MovieClip animation with a stop() on it's first frame.For some reason when I add the parent MovieClip to the stage on CLICK, the child clip immediately starts playing, even though it has a stop() on it's first frame. This is how I'm doing it:
Code: Select allstage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClick); function mouseClick (event:MouseEvent):void {
here's what I have going on so far--I have a movieclip that's acting as a continuously scrolling text field, and want it to stop scrolling onMouseDown.
I have a movieclip that contains an animation with several soundeffects in it.Now i would like to be able to pause the animation and play it again. Which isn't so hard for the animation itself but it is for the sound.
In the launch.exe, I have a loadmovie command which loads the external file video.swf. When the video is loaded, I want the viewer to be able to hit the SPACEBAR at any time which will result in pausing the video (pause.swf appears on screen) and after 3 seconds unloads the video.swf file and jumps to a frame label on the Launch.exe timeline. The code below is what I have at the moment but it doesn't work.
I tried to get this right but it just won't work for me. It's probably something very simple. I have a video in a movieclip on my timeline. On the first frame, I have the stop(); command. I want to be able to hit the SPACEBAR: which results in pausing the movieclip and jumping to frame 2 on the timeline.
I tried to get this right but it just won't work for me. It's probably something very simple. I have a video in a movieclip on my timeline. On the first frame, I have the stop(); command. I want to be able to hit the SPACEBAR: which results in pausing the movieclip and jumping to frame 2 on the timeline.
I have attached the file to this document, but basically I have a street scene which will eventually have about 5-6 people walking along the stage.
Currently on rollover of a button within the movie "movement_clip" my button will go to the overstate which shows a still of the animated women standing still. However...what I want to do on rollover, is I also want to pause "movement_clip" wherever it is in the process and then continue from where it got paused on rollout.
I'm making a OSX-finder-type file browser in CS4.The Structure for the folder and files is being generated by a PHP in a XML, heres an example:(sorry the xml is not sorted, but the command i'm using in php doesn't sort it)
I have a video in a movieclip on my timeline. On the first frame, I have the stop(); command. I want to be able to hit the SPACEBAR: which results in pausing the movieclip and jumping to frame 2 on the timeline.
when I have one movieclip mc1, mc2 is child movieclip in mc1. How can i copy mc1 to mc1_1 with all children movieclip ? if i use attachMovie or duplicateMovieClip, i only copy mc1 without mc2.
I have an movieClip Container and I want to move all its children into an Array.i think about the method I used to delete all children of a container by using while and removechild at 0, but I think it wont work in this situation.
Is there a way that I can obtain the name of a clip's children just like I can obtain the name of it's parent by using _parent?
Basically, I have a whole bunch of MovieClips that I have created through a function that parses an XML file. Basically, it's a custom-made Tree.
I have them all set up in their proper horizontal and vertical positions, but the one thing I'm having trouble doing is closing a branch on it. I've tried storing values in arrays to help me sort all the MovieClips on the Stage, but I must confess that I'm not good with arrays at all, so is there some sort of obscure function somewhere that can return the child clips, so I can do something like:
Code: myMC.onRelease = function():Void { if (myMC.hasChildMovies() == true) for (var i:Number = 0; i < myMC.childMoviesArray.length; i++){
I have a MovieClip that I dynamically add other MCs as children to. Now I'd like to have a function that removes ALL children at once. I tried a loop with (i < mc.numChildren) but somehow it will only remove even-numbered children, the odd ones stay on stage?
I use swapChildren(mc_1,mc_2) to switch depth between 2 movieclips from the root level. Everything work just fine....
but when I create a container_mc and place the two movieclips into it then the 1120: nullobject reference error occurs?? container_mc.swapChildren(mc_1,mc_2);
How can I reliably iterate through a MovieClip for every child?
I'm working on a game and a great way to lay out my levels is inside a MovieClip, with each frame being a new level. The problem is that when I move on to frame 2 or 3 and try to iterate through the MovieClip's children, I'm getting a different number (less) than is actually on that frame.
I think it's because the instances from the previous frame are being carried over to the new frame.
A simple solution is to create a new MovieClip for every level instead of a new frame inside each MovieClip, but this isn't the most scalable solution (say I want to remove a level or add a level between other levels, etc).
after this re-position process.. I want to set the last item position as 0 and so on. How can I do this?My target is to attain a circular movement.like
I have 2 movieclips on stage; one called 'myMarker_mc', the other called 'myMarker_mcOne') - they both contain 4 children (bt_up, bt_dn, bt_remove ) and myText (a textfield) and they only work properly when it is the 'myMarker_mc' that is being called (called from the xml at the top of the file).
When myMarker_mcOne is called the dynamic textfield, called 'myText' produces a blank and the output box pops up with...
Code: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at MapMovieClipJune09TrialMarkersB_fla::MainTimeline/showData()[MapMovieClipJune09TrialMarkersB_fla.MainTimeline::frame61:126]
I've got a MovieClip contaning a few children.When I mouse_over on it I see that the current target is the children where I got on and not the parent movieclip.How do I get the parent movieclip as currentTarget while mouse_overing?
I'm using Flash CS3, programming in AS2 and I'd like to know if there is a method that allows me to retrieve the names of all the children of a particular MovieClip.I have been creating a custom Tree for an application as I can't find any Tree component out there that can deliver the specs that I need (it's to create a simulation of a particularly complex Tree created as an ActiveX component for a custom application) and I'm using an XML to feed values to this Tree, thus I don't really know beforehand how many MovieClips will be on the stage or their exact names (as they all just increment as necessary).
I'm at the point that I need to be able to hide the nodes in this Tree, and I'm having a devilish time trying to manage it through arrays,so I figure that if there's a way that can I can retrieve the name of MovieClip's parent with the _parent property, there has to be a way to retrieve its children as well right? Right? I just can't find that method or property anywhere though. Much like the XML parser lets you find out if a node has any children.Or maybe someone is familiar with where there's a custom class that I can DL for this purpose? Or am I doomed to try to unscramble a mess of arrays?
I've drawn a few shapes, converted each of them to a MovieClip, and then put them all in one parent MovieClip. How can I loop through them all so I don't need to do this:
I'm working on my second flash game and have been stopped in my tracks trying to cache MovieClip Animations into arrays of BitmapData frames. To capture the frames I have set up a loop which runs through the frames in the MovieClip and use copyPixels to get a snapshot of the graphic.This works fine if the MovieClip to cache does not contain any child MovieClips, but if it does, these MovieClips are frozen on their first frames. I've been looking at MovieClip.getChildAt(index) in attempt to navigate their time lines but because that returns a DisplayObject it seems impossible.
So, my question is: Is it possible it to use copyPixes on a MovieClip and also step through child time lines, or should I be using sprite sheets?
I have 2 movieclips on stage; one called 'myMarker_mc', the other called 'myMarker_mcOne') - they both contain 4 children (bt_up, bt_dn, bt_remove ) and myText (a textfield) and they only work properly when it is the 'myMarker_mc' that is being called (called from the xml at the top of the file).
