Actionscript 3 :: Deal With Same Method Body In Different Handlers?
Aug 23, 2011
I have a method fired on mouse down:
private function setGender(e:MouseEvent):void
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The same method body is shared by another method fired on a keyboard Event (so, it takes a keyboard Event for argument). Which is the best way to deal with situations like this one? I would like to have only one method.One way could be to create a new method called by the two event handlers (even if, if I need to use e.target, it can change according to the type of event and other variables, so I should eventually create a method that takes e.target as a parameter). This creates three methods...Would it be possible to change for example e:MouseEvent with a parent of MouseEvent and KeyboardEvent?
I'm newish to OOP AS... trying to build a image loader that wipes between loads. having trouble getting my onloadComplete event to call a method in the main body of the class. what am I missing?
I"m a bit confused because FlexUnith 4's behavior. When I use fail() in try-catch body fail method is just ignored.
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I suppose this one should fail as there is no way around it, but it succeeds and turns green. Whatam I doing wrong? When i put fail() before try-catch block it fails as it is suposed to. BTW using Flash builder 4.
I'm trying to find an all-in-one IDE for flash, one that can deal with various flash related files. I just read this answer and it recommends fdt, but seems fdt can only deal with scripts but not .fla ones. Which IDE should I use so that I can use it to develop various files involved in flash developing?
i want to program a flash simulation using actionscript 3, infect I learned how to deal with xml files from this website:URL...But the problem that I want a sample of an xml file for simulation template and if it possible a simulation template so that I can learn how does it work.If "flash simulation" is not clear, i mean with to perform a dialog that two people are conducting one of them are you, and the other one is the pc, if you answered with deferent choice then the dialog will take another path. (Every answer will take you to a deferent path)
Anybody else have that dilemma where you have movieclips on stage that should animate, but because they somehow end up switching index/priority(top to bottom on a single layer) on stage in some keyframes, they end up resetting themselves. This causes you to go back through all your movie clips just to check for this. Is there a reletively simple way to deal with this?
Also, assume that distributing everything to layers is not an option.
I am trying to dynamically resize an flv playing back in a flash player. To do this, I need to get the flv's width/height so I can maintain the original aspect ratio. I have noticed that in Firefox the onMetaData event will be hit right away, and the video will resize properly. In IE however, onMetaData is not hit until the buffer is full and video starts playing.
One solution I have thought of is to set the initial buffer to something close to 0 (e.g. 0.01). Then the buffer will instantly hit full, and the video will be resized. The issue I have with this is low bandwidth users will have a a short 'sputter' of video (0.5 seconds say) at the beginning before it goes to the next, larger, buffer. Is there any better way to deal with this behavior in IE? Can you manually "get" the metaData from an FLV file before it even plays?
is it best to load sound files into the library, or to load them externally? What I want to do is make a sampler app. You'd have a selection of loops and drag and drop them onto a timeline. My main concern is performance and any delay of sound.
I'm currently building a website that contain different game. each game is an external swf. I'm auto-preloading it while displaying textual stuff in order to have a minimum of preloading time.
Everything work well but imagine I've got 5 external swfs. If I decide to close one game and remove the loader child, when I click back to view this game, I have to reload it again.
So, is there a problem (memory or performance) if I do not delete my 5 loader childs in order to lead them only 1 time?
I have child node that has no information ... it would be a URL, so the error message I get is Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2035: URL Not Found.. Code: _currURL = path.article.(@ID == _marker).storyURL; I thought I might check to see if _currURL == null, but that does nothing.
Im trying to setup a scoreboard type deal. I'm using SharedObjects.I can make it WRITE to the .sol without any problems but I cant seem to make it READ from the .sol to re-display the data once the user opens the swf again.
I know there are lots of posts about drop down menus but I think my ? is a bit different. I want to have a menu like URL... where when you click on say, ad campaign the options come up on the side.
There was always a flash movie on the homepage and it worked fine. A couple days ago I replaced the movie with a new one and added a .swf to the portfolio page as well. On the portfolio page, the movie is layered behind a series of transparent .pngs that link to their corresponding lightbox designations. The movie just plays, there isn't any interaction this way, atleast not in flash.
The problem: Everything works perfectly fine locally on all browsers and not at all on the server across all browsers. I have seen this problem before and read alot of posts about it.I know I have the proper scripts files. I've re-saved flash movies, changed their location within the site, published them with the appropriate settings, nothing seems to do the trick. Whats worse is that the lightbox doesn't even work online and it runs fine locally. Infact you cant even click on the .pngs and they aren't positioned the same with the css as they are viewed locally. I've overwritten the css with the up-to-date stylesheet many times as well
My work has tasked me to create a 300x250 ad unit that will pull an XML feed from a vendor. The problem is I've been reading guides on XML and As2/As3 for the last few days and I've really not gotten anywhere. My boss is breathing down my neck and I need to get this done asap.This is an example of the feed the vendor is giving us.
Code: <deal id="24"> <title>$20 for $40 worth of food & drinks at Simply Fondue</title> <advertiser_name>Simply Fondue - Orange County</advertiser_name>
any resources that could help me learn how to emulate a spoiler tag type effect for flash text?I've looked at tree menus etc but seems a bit fussier than needed. What I have is a very large piece of text with differing sections, rather than have a user swamped by everything at once I'd like to hide the majority of it with a brief intro for each section. A [+] / [-] button would expand and collapse the extra information when required (pushing the rest of the content down ala a tree menu type thing).
I'm now working on multiple config files(about 16 .txt form files) in a actionscript 3.0 project. I think it is not good to load so many files. maybe I should package them into a swf(But I do not know how to do this) or do sth else.
I have made a jigsaw puzzle game, that can be scaled up to have lots of pieces. Now I want to implement it so it can be played by more than one person at a time on a large multi-touch screen. I'm not sure how is best to proceed.
Ive had a look at some development kits and some tutorials and they seem to go into too many gestures etc. I literally only need the capability to move more than one piece at a time. So is it possible for flash to simply deal with this as multiple mouse down events rather than going into multi-touch gestures etc. Or do I need to do it another way?
I've been using this site for a while and this is my first post. Recently, I've had some trouble using the onKeyUp handlers. It's really strange and I'm not sure whether it's a bug in the way I've lay out my code or the player itself.
But, whenever I used getAscii() or getCode() methods of using the keys to basically make stuff move, the first second of movement is really jittery. It'll move, pause still, then move properly. I don't get why though, it's the same code I've used in the same layoutof (Key.isDown(Key.etc...)) codes and those worked fine.
I ask because I caught this at the end of an Adobe developer guide:
Notice that some properties are assigned to the [AsyncToken] after the call to the remote service is made. In a multi-threaded language, there would be a race condition where the result comes back before the token is assigned. This situation is not a problem in ActionScript because the remote call cannot be initiated until the currently executing code finishes.
But I could not find any information on what they meant by "currently executing code".
I have a text box (dynamic) whose value is being changed by javascript using the setVariable method. Bascially I'm now stuck in getting the flash application to recognise when the text box value has been changed, onKeyUp etc.. do not seem to work. The below code works if the user types in to the box, but if it is changed via JS it does not pick up the change, therfore not populating my variables. What Listener should i be using?
I noticed that in anonymous event handler this is referenced to global, not my class. I know that I can use outer referenced variables (because it creates closures), but how to get right this context?
SETUP: I have a MX2004 project where I'm attempting to pass a movie clip to a class, and have a method of the class act as the function for the onEnterFrame. PROBLEM: The class appears to lose reference to the movie clip when onEnterFrame() is called. TO DUPLICATE: Two files are needed, they are outlined below:
My project has a target object (center of stage) and a moveable object, which is created each time a user presses "Enter". Each movable object is identified as part of an array (i.e., object[i]), and a new line (i.e., line[i]) is dynamically drawn from the center of the newly created object to the center target object.
Basically, as the object is dragged around the screen the line is to stay connected to the target object. Therefore, that specific line for that object being moved must be redrawn using a drawLine function inside the event handler. My issue is how to get line[i] to be identified within the even handler? (Using AS3 coding)
How should I comment an event handler param?I mean, should I comment event handler param?Example:TimerMessage class extends Timer.TimerMessage class, has a setMessage method, which stores a text message whithin its public var 'message'.in usage:
var timer_message:TimerMessage = new TimerMessage(1000, 1) timer_message.setMessage('hello') timer_message.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, displayMessage)
What methods do you use to unit test event handlers, particularly if they require information from the event (such as mouse coordinates, or the target of the event)? Is the most common practice to just refactor the behavior into a method that does the lifting while the handler just extracts information from the event, or are there effective ways to simulate event dispatch in FlexUnit or Fluint?
I have a function fooA(valueA1, valueA2) which calls web method myWSA(). Upon reeiving the result, it invokes a result handler which inturn calls another web service myWSB(value2). I want to know how I can pass/access this value2 into foo2. These values: value1 and value2 are dependent on the button clicled.[code]...
