I'm programming an AS3 application where I'm loading an external SWF file to a movie clip in my stage:
var bgLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var bgURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("file.swf");
bgLoader.load(bgURL);
addChild(bgLoader);
My question is this: how can I read a variable inside the embedded swf (probably through the bgURL, but I can't figure out how)
I'm programming an application where I'm loading an external SWF file to a movie clip in my stage[code]...
My question is this: how can I access the variables inside the embedded swf (probably through the bgURL, but I can't figure out how)
I'm trying to make a button that gets it's getURL address from an external text file. So, I load the text file and assign it to a variable:
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I'm currently learning OOP through Sen's information here at Kirupa, and I've decided to try out his "creatures" exercise mentioned in his Best of Senocular thread...The situation is a random number of sprites are created, and they move around the stage, interacting. They all have a certain amount of "health," defined as a variable in a MovieClip prototype applied to the MC. When they hit, I want their health to go down a little bit, so how can I access a particular MC's "health" variable while I'm outside of the MC itself?
View 1 RepliesI'm currently learning OOP through Sen's information here at Kirupa, and I've decided to try out his "creatures" exercise mentioned in his Best of Senocular thread...I still have a bunch to learn, but I wanted to go ahead and ask a question for a problem I am having right now.The situation is a random number of sprites are created, and they move around the stage,interacting. They all have a certain amount of "health," defined as a variable in a MovieClip prototype applied to the MC. When they hit, I want their health to go down a little bit, so how can I access a particular MC's "health" variable while I'm outside of the MC itself?
View 1 RepliesIve loaded an swf-file (using mc.loadMovie("the.swf")) into movieClip (mc)
inside of that swf there are some variables that id like to manipulate
how do i access them.
Is it possible to access variables or even functions of an embedded SWF? (One which has been embedded manually and has not loaded from somewhere)For example, I embed an swf called Movie1 which contains a string variable declared in its root, would it be possible for the parent SWF to access that string?
View 1 RepliesWith the GUI (Flash CS3), I made a button that included an instanced dynamic textfield. Whenever I try to access it, I get the error message 1119: Access of possibly undefined property
The line is:
big_btn.labelTxt.text = "Start";
the button is named big_btn and the textfield is name labelTxt
If I change big_btn to a MovieClip, no error and it works.
Can you imbed an instance inside a SimpleButton? If so, how? If not, what's the logic behind allowing it in a MovieClip, but not in a SimpleButton?
I have one .swf file inside a second .swf file. How do I have one .swf access variables from the second?
View 3 RepliesI have the following PHP file with a variable I am trying to access to place in a dynamic text box on my flash stage.
PHP code:
$returnVars = array();
$returnVars['username'] = "test";
$returnString = http_build_query($returnVars);
//send variables back to Flash
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The code was adapted from a tutorial using a class. However I do not get on with classes so wont be using any.
I have finally started with AS3 and flip-'eck its a different animal that AS2
I have a swf called login.swf and in it have declared the variables var total:uint=0; and loginState:Boolean=false
All my scripts for logging in sending/receiving variable from/to server scripts are all working!
So... when a user supplies a correct password another swf (userLogged.swf) is loaded (note: in AS3 this process is seriously different than in AS2) swf dont seem to be loaded 'into' another movieclip anymore... and this leads me to the puzzle!
How do I access variables declared in the project.swf, from within the userLogged.swf!
the old AS2 way = trace (_root.loginState);
or trace (_root.project.loginState)!
I am stumped by this new approach of AS3 of loading in other swf files. The _root. options is no longer available in AS3 (that much I've descovered, some tuts say use root. but I cannot get that to work)
trace (root.loginState)
or
var userLoggedIn=root.loginState
gives me the error
1119: Access of possibly undefined property loginStatus through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject.
when I try to publish the userLogged.swf
I'm trying to embed an SWF in my ActionScript project (Flash Builder 4.5). I need to have access to variables inside that SWF, but for some reason, embedding it strips it from all scripts.The solution I found on the web was to embed it like this:
ActionScript Code:
[Embed(source="sprites.swf", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
private var Sprites:Class;
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The project is a simple flash application that queries a weather content provider, retrieves an XML file containing weather data, then uses that data to display weather information. In addition to being used on the web, the application is also being used on digital signs, terminals, etc:
The application is sold to hundreds of clients, who specify their location, desired layout / theme / colors, and other variables by passing variables to the SWF file via a query string. For instance, a client located in Greenwood, Indianapolis, might use the following code to embed/run the SWF file[code]...
But I have a serious problem. Someone has to help me before I lose my mind. That's the project I've sent before. I've just returned from holiday and I'm stuck in focusing between mc's. My .fla file is included. I want my app to jump to the next movie clip after entering a letter to the current one. But there I have the problem : accessing mc inside mc. You'll see the details on the .fla file.[URL]..
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to access the AchievementScreen's textfield from a medal object. Point being to have a mouseover event of the medal, change the content of the textfield shown. I tried a trace first: trace(this.parent.parent.parent.parent.textLineCon tainer); 1119: Access of possibly undefined property textLineContainer through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObjectContainer. trace(this.parent.parent.parent.parent) shows me it is a AchievementScreen object. textLineContainer is the instance name of the MC nesting the textfield (I actually drew the achievement screen then exported it to actionscript.
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I want to use the variable var_page3_title for dynamic text boxes in movie clips further on down the timeline. Of course I don't want to repeat this code for every textbox so my question is, how to I access the variables from the function loading();
I have defined a variable in frame 1 and want to set different values in frame 65. How can i access that variable in 65th frame?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to create a JW player plugin, a part of the source code is shown below:
public function initPlugin(player:IPlayer, config:PluginConfig):void {
api = player;
var streamUrl:String = 'xxx';
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First off I don't understand classes, how to "call" or "initiate" them. I'm class ignorant.
I have two .fla files. One of my .fla files consist of 15+ .as files; we'll call this one XML editor. The other .fla file consists of 10+ .as files; we'll call it the interface.
The xmleditor.swf loads the interface.swf. Within the xmleditor.swf, a login screen appears and the enduser logs in as either a "user" or an "admin". The "user" or "admin" is stored in a public variable called "userType". The userType variable is created in one of the many xmleditor.fla .as files called Login.as.
Once logged in, xmleditor loads the interface.swf. interface.fla uses 10+ .as files. one is called nodeNames.as I need an if statement in nodeNames.as that is something like this:
if (Login.userType == "user"){
trace("do something");
}
I have the following FlashVars.as file but I have no idea what the steps are to make it work.
package extras.utils {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
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Should I use this FlashVars? and if so, how?
Or is there an easier way to access the variable?
I would like to know if it is at all possible for AS3 to grab header information and process it? I am trying to avoid having to use PHP to get the information, then store it in a DB, give it to flash, then go and delete it again, or something alike.
Basically the flash is waiting for three variables that get sent through the URL, right when it gets initialized, then once it gets those variables, it can determine where to go next.This is for a Facebook application, and I am using FBML to embed the flash.
I am creating a flash program to open other flash programs (load swf files), and change their textfields to my own extended textfield class. This is to capture all text written to screen using a textfield object. Here is what I am doing:
1. If a textfield has been created, the event is captured
2. I want to replace the textfield with my own class extending textfield
*3. Any further access to the original textfield for value changes can be captured, and would update the replaced extended textfield object
The problem is if in their original code, at sometime, the text value of textfield is changed (mainly through textFieldObj.text = some_value) , I don't know how to capture this event.
This cannot be captured by event.CHANGE which requires the user input (ie: keyboard strokes) into the actual text field and changing the text through the code: textFieldObj.text = some_value does not trigger the event.
Here is a simplified example:
// FlashMovie.fla START -------------------------------------------
// any DisplayObjects (such as a created textfield) created will be captured
// by ChildAdded()
this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED, ChildAdded);
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i'm having trouble creating an image preloader with a loop. my apologies, this might be a very simple task that i've been pulling my hair out over for an hour.
i have 8 UIloaders. each named image1,image2,image3, etc. they are inside a movie clip called "allClips_mc".
this VERY long, redundant code works:
Code:
magicBox_mc.allClips_mc.n1.image1.source = "newsClips/images/newscast01.jpg";
magicBox_mc.allClips_mc.n2.image2.source = "newsClips/images/newscast02.jpg";
magicBox_mc.allClips_mc.n3.image3.source = "newsClips/images/newscast03.jpg";
magicBox_mc.allClips_mc.n4.image4.source = "newsClips/images/newscast04.jpg";
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I have an input box and button on frame 1. I want user to enter some text in the textbox, and press the button.This will take him to frame2 and based on the info supplied it will take something from the server. The code on the frame 2 would be:
ActionScript Code:
var path:String = ("Http://" + w.text + ".pl");
var nodeLoad:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
nodeLoad.load(new URLRequest(path));
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I get the error. - Access of undefined property w. (where w is the input box)
I need to access the contents of a variable that is filled inside a function, but is declared outside the function.. [URL] says that if you declare the variable outside of the function the variable should be accessible even when its content is filled by a function. I have declared the imgs variable at the start, outside the function, as an array. After that the function retrieves a string from the URLLoader and splits that string into to the imgs array/variable.
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I have a parent swf which loads a child swf. The. Child swf is a game and when. It finishes, I need to access the score from the parent swf. How is this possible....
View 1 Repliesnumber = '12345' I'm trying to hook my counter up to a PHP script that echo's a DB query. Now I've had no issue passing the variable and I can even display it in a dynamic text field but no matter what I try I cannot get the "number" varibable to use my PHP variable The dynamic text field shows the correct value clear as day but the counter just shows "undefined".
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I have this code on the main timeline:
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loading);
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I want to use the variable var_page3_title for dynamic text boxes in movie clips further on down the timeline. Of course I don't want to repeat this code for every textbox so my question is, how to I access the variables from the function loading();
I'm having a SWF call functions from another SWF loaded in the first one with the Loader class. There are no problems as long as the target SWF does not contain any TLF TextFields created on stage by authoring time interface. As soon as I place a dynamic textfield on the stage of the loaded SWF, the main SWF (the loader) fails to call any of the functions within the SWF that is being loaded.Static text does not seem to present problems and neither do TextFields created via ActionScript.Also, is it possible to access variables of the parent SWF?
View 2 RepliesI am having a problem accessing variables in a loaded flash movie.
As my understanding goes (someone please correct me if I am wrong), if I load a flash movie into a parent movie (i.e. 'loadMovie("myMovie", emptyClip);'), I should be able to access the loaded movie's variables using dot-syntax.
As an example, say I have two movies: MainMovie.swf, and SubMovie.swf. SubMovie.swf contains a (global) variable called someText. After loading SubMovie into an empty movie clip called "emptyClip", MainMovie.swf should be able to access the aforementioned variable by saying "emptyClip.someText", right....? Well, when I try this I keep getting an undefined value for the variable.
accesing the movieclips/function/contents of a extenal swf.I used movieclip loader to load the swf.i have two files.. preview.swf and main.swf preview.swf loads an xml and renders its content. the xmlpath is embedded in preview.swf. when i play the file directly, it seems to load the content. however when i load preview.swf into main.swf with a moviecliploader, it does not load or render the xml.i cant even access the functions / variables in the file preview.swf.
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