How do access all of the children of a DisplayObject using code? (I'm looking for something like movieclip.children)
I'm using this in two cases:
1) To loop through and reposition all of the children of an enclosing MovieClip.
Or
2) To loop through and delete all of the children of a MovieClip
I want to publish camera over FMS. But I don't want to use adobe security panel to be displayed(not even once) with setting as "access" by default.I wan't to set it allowed programatically.
View 3 RepliesWhat would be the most efficent way to remove the children from a sprite/movieclip in respect to memory and garbage collection?I have seen atleast three ways.Simple re-assigment
sprite = new Sprite();
null and then new
sprite = null
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I have a Sprite called pageContent. Inside pageContent are 12 more Sprites with unique names, a couple of Buttons, and some TextFields. Inside each of the 12 Sprites I have either one or two TextFields and one TextInput. My question is, since they are children inside a child of pageContent, how can I access them? Here is how I am trying to do it:
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In my mind, this should totally work. But surprise, surprise, it doesn't. I have debugged it and it works fine for the first two lines, but when it tries to get numChildren of a Child of pageContent (line 3), I get this error: PHP Code: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property numChildren through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.
I have a Canvas which has many components inside it and those again, have many components inside them.
getChildren() returns only the top level children. What is the best way to retrieve all the children (children of children of children and so on).
Well, I sorta know how to do this by iterating through the children, but the code is really messy. I'd prefer to use a nice recursive function. Has anyone written this before? Or is there a Util class to do this?
I have a getter within a class which is used to make my property skin:DisplayObject read-only. This class also has a property body:AvBody which is used to define the x y width height etc of the object, which in turn positions the skin.
What I want to do is disable access to the properties x and y on skin unless accessed from within the internal namespace (where AvBody is also located) Is this possible?
Note: I can't make skin any type other than DisplayObject (I can't even make skin a class that extends DisplayObject because it creates issues with library symbols).
How do I access the stage in Actionscript 3 in a class which is not my main class and not a displayobject?
View 4 Repliesi was caught in the situation that i need the DisplayObject to access its parent.variable.
I have a Loader"B" was inside MovieClip"A"(with a variable"v") and i want called A.v like this:
Code:
trace(B.parent.v);
the above code is not working. and I need something similar. is it possible??
by the way, it has to be dynamic because i need to use it with function:
Code:
function doSomething (d:DisplayObject):void
{
trace(d.parent.v);
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I am currently working on a shooting game, its also a trial for me to use Classes and Packages.My set up is the stage holds the player, the script then adds 2 movieclips, enemy holder and a bullet holder. The bullet is then added to the bullet holder.
Here is what I have:
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How can I find the player, or any other instance?
I have a simple class to create some buttons:
Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;[code]....
brings up "access of possibly undefined property" I do have other mcs etc within that container which don't have a ref but also trace (this.container.getChildAt(5).ref) doesn't work and I know number 5 is one of the ones that does have a ref.How do I use the ref to target the buttons.
I'm trying to access the childrens from an external swf previous loaded. This swf is a movieclip exported as swf which has two movieclips inside also.It loads the movieclip, but when I try to access to his childs, there is no one. What I'm doing wrong? I'm missing something when I export or load in AS3? I'm loading the swf as:
itemLoader = new Loader();
itemLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, itemLoaded);
itemLoader.load(new URLRequest("path"));[code].....
Does anyone know if its possible to access children elements in a SWC? I have created some MC's and inside of some of these MC's I have some dynamic textFields. I export the content to a SWC and load it into my Flex project. No problem loading it or accessing the parent elements, they display fine. But I want to access the textfields nestes in the MC's and modify the text. When I debug the app, I can see the textfields as child elements. It's typed as a TextField and the Instance Name is the same as input in the Flash IDE but I cannot access it. When Flex compiles it throws an error saying it doesn't recognize the method. I've tried to insert actionscript on the timeline, linked external classes and nothing can be accessed.
View 3 RepliesI have multiple MCs which im creating and storing them into arrays for access. Whilst I create these MCs, I am also putting bitmaps inside them. When I access my MCs later, I wish to access these bitmaps too - but I cant seem to write the syntax to reference them.
Code:
//within my loop
mcs[i] = this['mc'+i];
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This is a problem that's best explained in code. I don't see how active_button.upState, which I know is a TextField (see trace statements), mysteriously turns into a DisplayObject when I try to access the textColor property. I've included the error messages below for reference. Also, why is it that when I have an object that I know is a SimpleButton (again, see traces) I need to cast it to SimpleButton in order to store it in a var? That doesn't make any sense to me.
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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)
Code:
<root>
<dir name="images">
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There is a lot of code that I have but here is snippet to get to the point. I have created a Movicelip called via actionscript called "McButton". Then I created 10 MovieClips within that MovieClip ("McDot0", "mcDot1", etc). I need to know how to access mcButton.mcDot3 to change its color when button3 (mc already on stage) is clicked but can not figure it out.[code]...
View 2 RepliesI am trying to create an image gallery :
<card>
<product catalog="Thread Works">
<name>AK E001</name>
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I can access the attribute, but if i am selecting "Thread Works" i want only access <product catalog="Thread Works"> with children node , for additem to array collection
I've got a Flex 3 application with an HTTPService returning an Atom feed. I catch the result from it and store it in an arrayCollection which is then the provider of my Datagrid. I have no problem accessing the data from the "first-level" of my Array, but cannot go under it. Not very clear, so here is some code:
My XML [part of it]:
<entry>
<title>Test 2</title>
<id>http://collaboration.*****.com/collaboration/messaging/feeds/****/todo//7D6637D3E86B3ED3C12575B***8479</id>
<link rel="alternate" href="notes:///C12575B4004***8
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The "title" column shows the data correctly, but the status column is empty ! When I launch my app in debug mode, I can see that my notesArray has the correct format and I can access todo -> status with the value..
Trying to parse the following XML:
Code:
private var pbStr:String = ( <![CDATA[
<phoneBook>
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I'm trying to load a SWF I created with Flash CS4 into Flash Builder with the SWFLoader class, but I can't seem to access the loaded SWF's children. Everytime I try to change the property of a child it'll ignore it.
I tried loading the SWF with the Loader class, but it doesn't allow me to add it to the stage. How can I load the SWF and access it's children?My code atm (m is a child of the loaded SWF (SWFToLoad)):
ActionScript Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
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I would like to be able to quickly check if a given DisplayObject is a descendant (not in the inheritance sense - ie. child, grandchild, great-grandchild, great-great-grandchild, etc.) of another DisplayObject. There doesn't seem to be a native way to do this and I can only think of two ways to achieve it: Create the mother of all nested loops. Seems a bit, I dunno, wrong? Dispatch a bubbling event at the 'child' and check if the potential 'parent' receives it.
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How to access a display object on the stage in a class which is not a document class?
I am looking for a solution that doesn't involve passing the stage as a parameter to the class.
One solution i always come across is using "TopLevel.as". Is it a good method because as far as I have heard using global variables is not recommended because it might cause some problems while working on big projects.
In flex, I am able to add mouseOver ( in mx:TextInput ) event as follow: mouseOver="canvas1_mouseDownHandler(event)"It is not the property of TextInput so how can I do it programatically in ActionScript?
View 1 RepliesI basically have this and what I need to do, is when the user clicks on one of those boxes on the right, it'll appear in the yellow box on the left.
Each of those right boxes will be unique with different graphics. It'll basically be different graphics to be displayed on a T-shirt, which will be represented by the big black square.
Now I know that each of those graphics should be a button symbol with mouse click event, but I'm not really sure how to handle the event.
Should I just create a clone of that item and move it to the target area? Or is it possible to create some kind of blank placeholder where I could just display it?
I have a TextField movieClip within my main swf. Then an external swf plays an mp3 (as a result of a prior action). When the external swf completes I would like to programatically click the TextField so that all the ActionScript within the TextField.onPress event will occur.I don't know how to programatically issue a click event. I could repeat all the code within the TextField.onPress event again within the external swf file but I thought it would be a lot easier just to programatically click the TextField again.
View 3 RepliesIn this game attached I need the old Children (rats) to hurt the character when he walks into them, however only the most recently added Child is active in that way... also the rats seem to appear above the character instead of below, is there any way to resolve these issues??
View 4 RepliesWay to take a piece of text and make it go around the edge of a line that is warped? (specifically, circular, but I'm sure once it's following the line, the shape is not relevant). I can't find a good resource for how to do this. I assume I'll need to create separate movie clips for each character and then rotate, and position, but I'm having a hard time finding a resource for how to do this.
View 4 RepliesI'm doing some Actionscript work right now and I'd like to know whether there's a way to initiate an empty object's value programatically like this:
var myObj:Object = new Object;
myObj.add("aKey","aValue");
To add a property called aKey whose value is aValue.I need to create a "Dumb" (data-only) object to use as a parameter to send via POST. So I don't know offhand how long and/or how many attributes it's gonna have.
Is there any Actionscript-C# API/Libraries available so that i can create a flash file via my C# program and manipulates the content of that (Ex : Add a motion tween animation to it). I have seen something similar to this in adwords.google.com (to create promotions/ads)
View 1 RepliesHow do I make a line dotted programatically? A line can be made dotted if drawn in the IDE, so it's got to be possible, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the Graphics (lineStyle) class to allow for this.
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