I have an XML variable with a bit of content and I want to completely overwrite that content.I thought by calling "new XML" that I'd have an empty variable and could replace the content.Is that not the case?If it's not what method would I use to overwrite the variable content?
View 11 RepliesOK frame 1 new fla and I type the following code:
[AS]createEmptyMovieClip("clip1",0);
clip1.createEmptyMovieClip("clip2",1);[/AS]
I have tried over and over again to get this to work but it won't! I want to create an empty MC and then create anoth MC within the first!
I have an AS 2 movie that has tons of navigation. When the movie first loads, the main screen plays an animation and stops. That animation is my main menu. If a user clicks the home button (which is an MC instance) it takes him to the Home Movie and plays. From here, I need to be able to fade out that movie and fade in a new movie when the user clicks on the next button. So, I want to create a variable on(release) of the button thats within the Home MC that will play the fade out and then be directed to the next animation.I imagine something like this.
buttonA == false;
on(release){
buttonA = true;
[code].......
I'm having difficulty accessing a variable value within nested MCs.
On Scene 1 in the addFullPanel function, the variable panelNames exists.
However, I'd like to use this variable value within the MC FullProjectPanel in the switch function in order to load a corresponding xml file.
As it stands the variable is empty within the FullProjectPanel function.
I'm having difficulty accessing a variable value within nested MCs.On Scene 1 in the addFullPanel function, the variable panelNames exists.However, I'd like to use this variable value within the MC FullProjectPanel in the switch function in order to load a corresponding xml file.As it stands the variable is empty within the FullProjectPanel function.
View 1 RepliesI have an swf that plays a video (toobplayer component) and has two dynamic txt fields. The video and both txt fields are "fed" from an xml file. I also have a movie clip that loads an image on another layer and is set to an alpha of 0. Is there a way to use a conditional statement to check the video variable and if one is not present to change the image loading movieclip to an alpha of 100. here is what I am working with.[code]...
View 5 Repliesi would be glad if anyone can answer this.
i have an actionscript class as follows:
package
{
[code].....
I'm having difficulty accessing a variable value within nested MCs. On Scene 1 in the addFullPanel function, the variable panelNames exists. However, I'd like to use this variable value within the MC FullProjectPanel in the switch function in order to load a corresponding xml file. As it stands the variable is empty within the FullProjectPanel function.
View 1 RepliesI tried searching for this, but couldn't find exactly what I am looking for.
I want to create a new instance of a blank movieclip using actionscript and name each instance differently.
trying to make an empty movieclip, but after compile the file i press ctrl+L to see the objects instances on stage, it shows only Level #0: Frame=1. how can I make myMC movieclip???
package {import flash.display.Sprite;import flash.display.MovieClip; public class drawCurve extends Sprite { public function drawCurve() { var myMC:MovieClip= new MovieClip(); addChild(myMC); myMC.name="MC"; }}
[code].....
On frame 1 new fla and I type the following code:
[AS]
createEmptyMovieClip("clip1",0);
clip1.createEmptyMovieClip("clip2",1);
[/AS]
I have tried over and over again to get this to work but it won't! I want to create an empty MC and then create anoth MC within the first!
I have a timeline and want to create an empty space to put in an additional timeline animation in the middle.
View 4 Repliesi am trying to load a list of jpgs in to flash using as 3. eventually i am going to tile them etc. but right now my script goes through my for loop and just replaces the image i previously loaded... in as 2. i of course would change the name and depth of these images as i loaded them but i am of course not using createEmptyMovieClip or loadMovie etc.. so i am a bit lost..
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I am trying to create and delete empty movies that I can load external .swfs into. While the below works if I get rid of
var currentLoaded = "my_loader" + myNum;
I can't work out how to dynamically name the empty movies, as the below just comes up with errors. I'm pretty new to AS3 and stuck. Any ideas?
var myNum = 0;
var currentLoaded = "my_loader" + myNum;
function loadNew (myNum){
[code]....
I have an Array Object called extData_arr, that contains data read from a database. Using this data, I'd like to populate my subMenu MovieClips appropriately. I can elaborate on the format of this array if required but basically the problem is this. Now this line seems to work and displays correctly as I expect
status.text = status.text + n + " : " + i + "
";//tracing
but for some reason, on the following line where I try to create empty Clips, flash just doesn't recognize the value of i and therefore refuses to create the clips. Does anyone know why?
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I have a main file running at the bottom (HD video of myself), and several clickable options (for various stuff on my portfolio). To show my digital work, I have a button that takes me to a frame label on _root. and a frame action that tells it to open a movieclip into a containerMC. All this is working perfectly, but it might be needful background info.
This section of my digital portfolio is a mock up of a mac screen desktop (yes I use a mac) / and I want to show my work as "programs". I expect to have 5-10 programs, 2 for now in testing. With no open "programs" at start, but I want the possibility of multiple open "programs", and when you open a new one or click one that already open but in the back, it automatically comes to the foreground (and does not close the ones already open - just like the desktop actually works). Obviously the "programs" have to be draggable too.
[Code]...
c_mc2 = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("main_text", 4);
c_mc2._x = 0;
c_mc2._y = 359;
If i use this method to create an empty clip and then once i am done with the clip i unload the movie which was previously in it, what happens to the clip. Do i have to re-create it if i want to reuse the empty movie clip again with the same name?
f you know PHP...then you know that you can create a string variable...and then use the value of that variable to declare another variable. like this:
PHP Code:
<?php$foo = "haha";$i{$foo} = "success";print $i{haha};?>
and it would display "success"...or like this:
PHP Code:
<?php$foo = "haha";$$foo = "success";print $haha;?>
and it would also display "success".
I found lots of links to creating 1 moveclip dynamically but not to create multiple move clips. I am trying to create 10 empty movieclips dynamically, but I cannot seem to get my script to work. This is what I came up with and does not work:
var i;
for (i=0; i<10; i++) {
var myMC["myMC"+i]:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
myMC["myMC"+i].name = "mc"+i;
addChild("mc"+i);
}
Why this does not work/how do I make it work?
I am trying to make a photo gallery in as3. I found a tutorial for a scrolling thumbnail panel and found how to convert it to as3.
What I would like to know is how do you get the larger image to display when the user clicks on a thumbnail in the scrolling panel? (I have 8 thumbnails, and 8 larger images).
ActionScript Code:
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, panelOver);
function panelOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
[code]....
I was wondering how you could move an empty movieclip that is set as a mask?
PHP Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mask", 1);
mask.setMask(square);
[code]......
i'm trying to attach/create a new empty movieclip to load an image into each time my function fires (function has setInterval on it).so far, my code works in that the first time it creates the empty clip and loads the pic in it, measures the loaded bytes and alpha fades in when it's loaded.when the function repeats however, the newly created clip is either not there or i am not referencing it correctly, or there's some problem with the way i'm trying to do this.I don't want to delete the previously attached clip since i'm alpha fading the new one to 100 on top of it.kind of a simple crossfade that way.here's my code:
Code:
startSlides=function(){
this._parent.largePic.createEmptyMovieClip("clipp"+i, 5);
this._parent.largePic["clipp"+i]._alpha=0;[code].....
I'm trying to have a button rollover create an empty MC (board_loader) that will load a swf in itself (board1.swf) and follow the mouse around for the duration of the rollover. I know its not much, but here's what I have so far[code]...
View 4 RepliesOk so basically I have a button that will create a empty movie clip and attach some things into that clip When the button is first clicked. My problem is that when the button is clicked a second time. The clip will reload itself and I need it to duplicate. So if I hit the button 5 times, there would be 5 items on the stage.Here is what I'm doing.
Code:
hold1.onPress = function(){
trace("your hit me");
[code].....
How can I create an empty movie clip where I can set It's name plus a number?
View 2 RepliesI am trying to migrate as2 to as3 code.The normal solution to my problem involves using the first parameter of the createEmptyMovieClip() as the name of your movie clip. In several instances I have a dynamic value for this first parameter- so my question is How should I go about doing this?
//my code
function someFunction (){
loader_mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip("text"+value, value);[code]......
I'm new here and it's been a while since I've used AS I'm trying to create a MC inside another MC
[Code]....
The code mostly comes from a tutorial I found where the demo works fine. Just my code seems to not stand up to the test
I'm trying to dynamically create an empty text field with as at 560px wide, fill it with a bunch of text (one line) and continuously scroll it from left to right using hscroll and setInterval. I've read all kinds of specs about createTextField and hscroll but I can't get it to work. I ouputted the mytext.hscroll value and it's always at 0;
Code:
_root.createTextField("mytext",10,150,281,560,10);
mytext.multiline = false;
mytext.wordWrap = true;[code]....
I have a movie clip that is dropped onto my main scene, and I have the AS below as the frame's AS.
The concept is simple: Create dynamic empty movieclips, position them, fill them, make them clickable. The code under "//////////////////////////////////////Code below here doesn't work" isn't working. The code worked fine when attempting to do this on my main scene, but I ran across some interface issues that caused me to put them into anorther MC. I understand that I only included the code for the first button, right now I would like to get at least one working.
Code:
for(var i=0; i<=43; i++){
iDepth = i + 200;
this["z_Brickmc_"+i] = this.createEmptyMovieClip("zBrick"+i+"_mc", iDepth);[code].....
I'm trying to create and expand a simple empty box (hairline perhaps) with an Action script to create the same effect as a shape tween. Why not shape tween?! Well I've tried that and the shape tween messes up the rendering. see picture....
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