Arrays :: Dynamically Removing Movieclips When Clicked
Oct 27, 2011
I have a game where i add some cartoonish ants, that when they are clicked, they need to be removed from stage. There are 4 differend kinds of ants, so im doing a Math.random for picking which one to add. (ant 1+2+3 have 50% chance to spawn and 4th 50%) rnd_nbr = (Math.random() * 5)+1;
I have a timer doing 10 tick, and i reset the timer to make neverending. Then i have a math random and if sentences adding mc' to the stage with movement from Tweener, and event listeners for clicks. But i cant figure out how to remove them when clicked. I have done alot of failed tries right inside the click_candy_anty function. I've left them commented out.
On my stage I have 5 items labeled item1_mc, item2_mc, item3_mc and so forth...they all have two keyframes on their respective timelines, one labeled "active" and the other "inactive". My code contains 2 arrays, inactiveArray and activeArray and a variable known as energy that regularly goes to and from 0 - 100.What I am looking to achieve is basically the function of...if energy >= "insert given items 'active threshold' 20, 40, 60, etc..." then add it to the activeArray, if it is not, remove it and add it to the inactive array.
all objects in activeArray gotoAndStop("active"); all objects in inactiveArray gotoAndStop("inactive");
I have tried many different ways of achieving this effect but I always end up with duplicates and extras or something doesn't move when it's supposed to, where it's supposed to, it just ends up into a giant cluttered mess and I start from scratch.
I have 36 images in a movie clip. Inside of that movie clip there are 36 other movie clips containing one separate image. I have figured out how to click on them and add it to the stage. But I can figure out how to get them to remove when another image is clicked. (ex. I click on image 1 it will appear on stage but when I click image 2 it show image 2 on top of image 1.) the thing is I don't want to have to click on the images in order. If any image is clicked the one showing on stage will automatically disappear.
I'm stucked here. I want the font type "BauhausMedium" to apply when ft_01 is clicked, font type "Haettenschweiler" to apply when ft_02 is clicked, etc... at the same time I want all" ft_01a", "ft_02a", "ft_03a" movieclips to hide except for the movieclip similar to the clicked button. E.g. if "ft_02" was clicked ft_02a to be visible =true and rest to be visible = false (ft_01a, ft_03a).
Alright, So i have a function which generates alot of the same MovieClip on the stage, however i need to be able to both Hitcheck this MovieClips and Remove them in other functions, so somehow ( what i have attempted here and isn't quite working yet :confused: ) is putting each MovieClip in an array slot, so if you needed to remove them it would be as simple as a For Loop to run through the Array. Also, when i hittest them, optimally since they are all in an array, i could just reference them via MovieClip.Hittest (movieClipArray[i]) i being the instance to remove.
Background for the project, adding and removing colored MovieClips Which are all systematically distributed on the stage. When the player Pushes the # Keys color it would run the construct function creating the MovieClips on screen. After that if the player hit the same color key again, before generating a new layout it will remove the previous first.
Also a key is to be able to hittest the colors against other MovieClips on stage so it needs to be linkable. Right now im attempting that by containing all my generated colors in
ActionScript Code: "ColorContainer"
Currently my color Remove Function has Children Being removing which aren't referenced to the Array, i realize this... But want to get the generation of the Array down before i start cutting away at it.
Here is the code i have so far: For some reason i keep getting:
ActionScript Code: TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. at ColorantConfusion_Current_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
I am dynamically loading and removing movieclips from the stage.I am using this to remove them
ActionScript Code: var n:int = rootElement.numChildren; while (n--){ delete(rootElement.removeChildAt(n)); }
The movieclip does remove itself from the stage, yet I can still hear the audio continuing to be played by that movieclip. The audio in the movieclip was not being removed while playing. It is audio that is initiated later in the movieclip. I'm not sure if the delete is overkill, or not.
if you view my project you will see that it is a drag and drop application. You will also see two buttons at the bottom (I plan on adding more), when you click on a box it will add more objects to the menu. Heres where my question comes in, the box then says remove on it, I want the items that were added by clicking on the box to be removed as well as items added to the stage when you click on that same box again, how do I do this?
I've created a drop down list and populated it with dynamic buttons. (I made a DropDown_btn class with a dynamic text field in it and then filled the button text from an xml file). On rollover I tint the button blue and then set the tint back to black on rollout. When you click on the button I'd like it to stay blue until a different button is clicked.
...and then I need to addEventListeners back to any button that doesn't have them and set that button back to black. I could do this by looping through an array of the buttons but I can't figure out how to access them as objects.
I also gave them each a property of "buttonValue" when I loaded them so I can access event.currentTarget.buttonValue (which in this case is a number from 1-5) but once again I can't figure out how I might leverage this information.
After solving my previous problem I have encountered another.Basically I have 3 things moving around in it and when they hit other items they have different reactions to different numbers.hen the number 5s hit the number 2 I want them to be changed into a number 0. I have tried a few things including removeChild but I get an error that its not referenced.
I am generating lots of arrays in a for loop again and again.It it possible to delete these subArrays from the mainArray so that they dont exist any more?
Code: var mainArray:Array = new Array(); for (var i:int = 0; i< columns; i++) { var subArray:Array = new Array();[code]....
I forgot to write:I am pushing movieClips into these subArray in this same for loop and later on, I am removing these movieClips from subArrays, but these subArrays (after being cleaned) still remain in mainArray, dont they?
I have a game where i add some cartoonish ants, that when they are clicked, they need to be removed from stage. There are 4 differend kinds of ants, so im doing a Math.random for picking which one to add. (ant 1+2+3 have 50% chance to spawn and 4th 50%)
Code: rnd_nbr = (Math.random() * 5)+1;
I have a timer doing 10 tick, and i reset the timer to make neverending. Then i have a math random and if sentences adding mc' to the stage with movement from Tweener, and event listeners for clicks. But i cant figure out how to remove them when clicked. I have done alot of failed tries right inside the click_candy_anty function. I've left them commented out.
Code: import caurina.transitions.Tweener; var ant_index:Array = new Array(10);//index for ants var ant_number:int;
how to remove a mc when another mc is clicked. [URL] The movie clips are pages and if you check the link you will see the pages aren't removed they simply stay on the page when the new mc appears. This is the relevant part of the .as which appears to have a remove code but doesn't seem to take affect.
I can find plenty of ways to remove duplicates with literal datatypes, and I guess at an absolute pinch I could use toString and adopt one of those, but there surely must be a better way of doing this?
I've got an array of multiple textboxes that will be used for entering information. However I made this function that should clear them all whenever they're clicked yet it says that the object I entered into the parameters==null.
var arrange:Array=new Array(TB1,TB2,TB3,TB4,TB5); function focuser(ityou:Object):void { trace(ityou)[code].....
I don't know if you can enter functions inside .addEventListener like in Lua but, I tried :P
I'm loading an xml and creating thumb buttons from it. I loop through the xml list and add thumb clips to a container clip and add the loaders as children to the thumb clips. I store the loaders and thumbs in arrays. When I need to remove the thumb clips, do I just remove the thumb clips? Or do I need to unload the loaders first, then remove the thumbs?
I've got an array of coins, which are called within the array coin1, coin2, coin3, coin4 etc. I'm trying to reference them to say if the character hits coin 2, then coin2 will disappear. Here's my array (so far): ActionScript Code: var coinArray:Array = [coin1, coin2]; //an array which contains all of the coins
And here's the script I'm working on: ActionScript Code: function coinCollect(evt:Event){ if (collisionTest (character, coin/*[n]*/){ var i:int = /*the number from coin[n]*/ - 1 remove coinArray[i] }}
But I'm missing some major things, mainly how to reference which coin has been hit, and how to take the number from that coin and take 1 from it to reference it's correct position in the array? (the code in /* */ tags represents things I'm not sure on the code of).
Sorry if this is a little n00b-ish. I'm working in AS3. I've got an array of 8 buttons. I'm currently hiding the button that is clicked using e.currentTarget. How can I tell flash to make all the buttons that aren't the currentTarget to become visible (i.e. if a button has been hidden by previously being clicked, how do I tell it to become visible again when another button is clicked?)
I have an image map with hotspots that animate when clicked and bring up info onto the stage. My problem today is how to stop the animation and remove the info on one button when a second button is clicked. The info is intended to appear in a space to the side of the image map.MY code works apart from it throws up an error when user clicks on the hotspot.[coder]I'm pretty sure that there is a more elegant way of doing this, particularly as there will be ten buttons overall.[Code].....
I've been trying to convert and AS2 project to AS3. I've been able to load all the static items from the library and been able to get the buttons to load different text. However when I select a previously clicked button it doesn't remove the old text. here's a section of the code.
ActionScript Code: //Add the FactFind button var factFind_btn:factFind = new factFind(); addChild(factFind_btn);
How can I make an array that accepts only a single kind of element?For example, this:var arr:Array of MovieClip = [ mc1 , mc2 ];Basically, I want to do something like this:for ( var i:Number = 0; i<arr.lenght; i++ ) arr[i].alpha = 0.5;Of course, I could to it manually, but that's ugly, and I'll have to add a bunch of "if"s if I want to access the next element (as "if ( element == mc1 ) mc2.alpha = 0.5;")
I'm trying to create something (which has probably been created a 1000 times before) that will fade in and out a series of images. I load the images into my movie and then I want to make some action script to loop through them to fadeIn/Out.So to begin with I want to store all the image names in an array and then loop through this. But I'm having problems accessing the movie clips from the array. Where am I going wrong?
Code: var images:Array = new Array(); images = [wine_mc, sunset_mc, poppies_mc, pool_mc, eastView_mc]
i have an array of movieclips that are only in the libray:
///////////////////////////////////////////////// var aeropuertosInfo:Array=new Array (iacapulco,iaguascalientes,icampeche,icancun,idf,i carmen,ijuarez,iobregon,ivictoria, ichetumal,ichihuahua,icozumel,iculiacan,idurango,i guadalajara,iguanajuato,iguaymas, ihermosillo,ihuatulco,iixtapa,ilapaz,iloreto,imoch is,imanzanillo,imatamoros,imazatlan,
[code].....
when i try to place them in the scene, for example: addChild (aeropuertosInfo[2]) , an error pops up telling me that it can't convert icampeche$ in flash.display.DisplayObject.
code: function loaderCompleteHandler(e:Event):void { var scoreXML:XML=new XML(e.target.data); var playerResult:MovieClip;
[code]....
I have a MovieClip with the linkage name of "playerResult" in the library. For every loop it takes the scores+names from the xml and displays them by creating a new instance of "playerResult" and attaches them one by one under each other.I need to be able to remove this highscore when it's not longer needed, thus (the most important part) freeing up memory. So I can then use the same code to show the scores again without doubling the memory it uses every time.
code: function loaderCompleteHandler(e:Event):void { var scoreXML:XML=new XML(e.target.data); var playerResult:MovieClip;
[code]....
... so I now have a name for each instance (playerResult0, playerResult1...) but still can't come up with a way to remove them.
Anybody any ideas on how to remove children from stage using AS3 if I store the reference to the objects in an array and they exist in different locations i.e they are not all children of the same parent?
I'm developing a game.I've attached random movieClips from library. I've movieClips named picLeft1, picLeft2, picLeft3 and so on in library. Its working fine but i'm having problem removing it. the code below is for the attachment of movieclip. Here ranque is an array which stores randomly generated numbers up to 5 and HolderL is the movieClip in which I want to attach the movieClip. And q is a sprite.
for (var i:int = 0; int<3; i++) { que_mc.push("picLeft"+ranque[i]); var que_mc_class:Class = getDefinitionByName(que_mc[i]) as Class;
I'm currently trying to make a cross-hair shooter game with an additional onstage character so that you not only shoot the AI, but also dodge using the arrow keys. The problem is, I have a code saying that if the AI hits the player unload the player, the AI, and the AI duplicates. The player and the AI are unloaded, but the AI duplicates are not! I tried fiddling with the code but just can't get it to work.
[URL]I've managed to get it all working though am having trouble extending it more. Basically I've got it set up so that when the used click on another button it loads another xml, basically going to another gallery.It works fine apart from the fact that when i change the gallery, if the previous one has more photos then they are left over in the thumbnails of the new one. So basically what i need to do is remove the created movie clips, when i click on a button then load the new xml file. I can get them using the following code, added onto the end of the tutorial:
Code: image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader(); image_mcl.addListener(tlistener); image_mcl.loadClip(thumbnails[k],"thumbnail_mc.t"+k);
[code]....
Obviously this isn't what I want as it removes them just after they are created, i was just trying to figure out how to remove them! I've made this function global etc and had buttons use the function but it still wont remove them!The Full path to the created clips is contentHold.content2.gallery.thumbnail_mc.t[i], where i is the numer of photos in the gallery.I created another movie clip within the thumbnail_mc clip and could manipulte that so i'm guessing it has something to do with them being created dynamically?
I was wondering if anyone could tell how I could go about removing or deleting movie clips that have been created with a for loop. Here is my code that I have attached to a movieclip on the main stage.
onClipEvent (enterFrame) { for (i=1; i<=10; i++) { duplicateMovieClip("_root.moveline", "_root.newline" + i, i);
i'm making a mini-game (part of a larger game) where worms pop up randomly on the screen. You can click on a spraycan do remove them all at once. After that it should repeat itself. But during the second wave, when I press my spraycan, it doesn't work anymore and it gives me this error:
