Flash :: Can't "removeChild" After Referencing The Object Earlier
Oct 29, 2010
Basically, I have two routines: One is a CDK collision check, and the other is a generic verification of an array. They're both inside the same Timer Event. There are two arrays - the collisionList and the MasterArray, and the object is in both of them.
First, the collision routine:
var collisions:Array = collisionList.checkCollisions();
for(var i:uint = 0; i < collisions.length; i++)
{ var firstShape:Sprite = collisions[i].object1;
I should always be able to call the Collision class without referencing it earlier. I have all the imports I need (Events, Movieclip, Keyboard, MouseEvents). For some reason though, when I enter any code involving Collisions, specifically: Collision.block(player, block);
I get this error: /Users/Mike/Documents/Main.as, Line 50 1120: Access of undefined property Collision.
Is there something previous to using the Collision Class I must do? Placing it in the same folder as the rest of my work? Some sort of unseen reference?
I've got a button which is called "playBtn", within this i have a MC called "btnlarge", If i remove the .btnlarge from the below code, then the "playBtn" is coloured correctly in my player,
however with it in.. i'm obviously wanting the btnlarge MC to be coloured, but this isn't happening and its throwing me this error:
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property btnlarge not found on flash.display.SimpleButton and there is no default value. at f4:layer/skinCompleteEvent()
Is there something really obvious i'm doing wrong? I've tried changing the "playBtn" into a MC and all kinds of things, but nothing seems to work, i can't seem to reference anything within another object.
I am using removeChild() to remove a MovieClip. And via tests, I can confirm that it's working fine ( stage.contains(mc) returns false ). But the MovieClip still does not seem to be removed, as if the stage is not updated correctly.
I have a media player that I am codging together, one that will play either videos or MP3s depending on the variables it is passed. The video player part works fine. The MP3 player controls are all actual physical MCs on the stage; each one has its own AS class file as part of the package, but there is also a lot of AS that is happening in the main FLA as well. Messy, I know, but it mostly works great.The MC on the stage in the main FLA is properly linked to the class file via Actionscript linkage, and the control itself worksHowever, I am trying to make some aspects of the control respond to variables that are set within the AS on the timeline of the main FLA, and I cannot seem to pass values to the control no matter what I do.The following variable is set in the main AS:Code:var notPlayedYet:Boolean = true;I also have some flashVars being passed in from the html, and these I can reference with no trouble from the main AS - the relevant one is:
I thought I might have had this answered before, and my question is just below, which I marked as answered, but really it's not, so, apologies for asking again. I inherited a site to maintain [url]... and I've just got the original 'fla files (I only had .swf previously). However, while I can get the file to play in it's entirety, I only get to see 35 frames, so I get the impression I'm not able to import the lot.
How do you reference and already existing object in as3? My below program draws 2 circles and a line to connect the two. The circles and the line are all individual objects. The line (connector class) has a function called update that should redraw the line between the two circles. It has two variables which I want to be the references to the two circles. The circles (coolcircle class) has a variable which I want to be the reference to the connector. It doesn't seem like my update() function is getting called.
I first noticed it when this function started throwing a 1009 error:
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were throwing the 1009 error. Which is wierd on two accounts. First, if I remember right, error 1009 comes about when referering to an object that is not on the stage. Which makes NO sence when getting it from an addChild! Second, this error only starts to occur the second time I use the function.
All of the bullets are of the "Bullet" class and are stored in an array called "bullets" in the main class. When bullets exit the screen, removeBullet(bulletID) in the main class is called.
private function removeBullet(id:int) { removeChild(bullets[id]); bullets.splice(id); }
In my Bullet class I have an enterFrame listener that traces "stillHere". So as soon as a bullet is added to the main stage using addChild, "stillHere" starts popping up in my output panel.
My problem is that even after I call the removeBullet, "stillHere" keeps popping up in the output panel, which tells me that the object which I tried to delete is still sticking around somewhere in the memory.
I'm working on a project which uses timline animation. The animated objects are involved in a collision detection script.
When they collide with other objects, their timelines are told to stop() and they're removed using removeChild. At this point they have a value of null (I've tested this.)
Strangely however, they invisibly re-instantiat themselves when the timeline animation loops back to frame 1. There's no code telling them to play anywhere in the program. They still have null values, but their collsion code still affects other objects.
I have strange problem. I remove sprite object from container and its not visible anymore but still behaves like its existing. here is how i add object to container:
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I think that all listeners and vars has been removed from the object but probably not because GC does not remove the object comepletly. Why object is still at its place ? Is there easy way to check what has to be removed from object so GC can collect it?
I have an object present in frame 3 of the main timeline. When the object was present in frame 1 i could access it from an as3 code file. But when I am keeping the object in frame 3 of the timeline (Please note that the previous frames for that layer is blank). I am getting a null value for the object. if I try to use trace the object.Logically if I am in frame 3 i should be able to access it.
I need to know how to call or reference (not sure of the terminology) an object by way of a string. What I'm trying to do is create a loop that will add event listeners to objects named "portfolio1" through "portfolio15", and use a function.[code]If I could just reference these fricken objects through a string and an integer, I could set up a small loop like this to make the button "portfolio1" bring up a big jpeg of "bigportfolio_1", and "portfolio2" bring up a big jpeg of "bigportfolio_2", ext. While yes, I could just go through them all and set up event listeners to each one individually, but its REALLY inefficient. Also, I am still working on more advanced actions (like scrolling through the portfolio pics chronologically) that absolutely requires a different reference method.
I have my main flash, named "front page". Inside of it, I have 2 movie objects that have a time line, one named "About Us", and another named "Button Group". Inside of "Button Group," I've made a drop down menu that can go to a frame on the main page (in "front page") using the _root command. I was wondering if I could go from the front page into the other movie object ("About Us") by going through the main page.
Tl;dr, I'd like to know how to go to the parent of a movie clip and into another movie clip to modify where the time line is.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to access a certain object in an array. for example, I created an array of buttons displayed on the stage. Now I need to attach an onRelease command to each one to launch a new image on the stage.e going round in circles with this. I have attached the code below for reference:
thumArray = []; function thumbs(){ for (i=0; i<totalImages; i++) {
I have a fairy sizable class, a`nd an mx:Application that will periodically instantiate a new object of this class, which results in member functions of the class being assigned as event listeners to the application, and also other member display objects of the class being added as children to the application. When the application creates a new object of this class the old object is destroyed: to accomplish this, removeEventListener and removeChild are called on various members of the old object (to decouple them from the parent application) and then the final reference to the old object is set to null, and then finally the well known localConnection hack is called to force FP to actually free the memory.
And the thing is, the above destruction procedure always works to deallocate an object - except for the very first object allocated. it has proved impossible thus far to release the memory of the first such object created, or find out what is preventing it (i.e. find out what is still referencing it). So my question is - is there any useful utility that will tell you what is still referencing an object and keeping it from being garbage collected. Someone implied to me that the flex profiler would do this (which I do not have access to) but another 3rd party profiler I found for flex would not do this (i.e. tell you what is referencing an object and keeping it from being deleted.)
I am in no way very knowledgable with ActionScript, so this might be very simple and I am looking in all of the wrong places... but basically here is my issue: Instead of accessing an objects attributes like this, _level0.thumbnails.thumbnail0._width = 500; I want to be able to access it with _level0.thumbnails. (this.id) ._width = 500; where as (this.id) is a variable that could be equal to "thumbnail0" or "thumbnail99" depending on which object gets clicked. I have everything working to if I hardcode thumbnail0 it works fine, and this.id does get set to whatever thumbnail I click's "thumbnail" + ID
I want to be able to build a navigation and reference each navigation item separately changing each instances properties depending on rollover actions etc.
I would have thought that once the name is assigned through the for loop that would stick, eg. the following code would create 3 vars called navItem, each with the name 0, 1, 2. But it seems if I trace the name outside of the for loop each is called 2. I think Im misunderstanding something really simple!
public function buildNav():void { for (var i=0; i <itemNum; i++){ var navItem:NavItem = new NavItem ();
I have a several objects nested within an array. I'm trying to reference a property of one specific object (intel).
function eventGenerator():void { var randomArea:Number; randomArea = Math.ceil(Math.random()*5);
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ainPlace names is the array's name. The random area variable contains the co ordinate on the array for the object. Each object on the array has a property called intel. The idea is I want to able to store the value of intel in a number and use in an equation. I would also like to be able to adjust the number. the trace function here returns an error saying it is undefined so eventArea.intel for some reason isn't referencing the intel property of the object.
If I removeChild an object from the stage can it still be detected by a hittest? I have objects that are tweening off the stage and if they hit other objects they stop their tween i use removeChild to remove objects that I don't want a hittest to occur on which is the nature of my question.
Here's the code I'm having trouble with: function offNav(e:MouseEvent):void { if (mouseX >= 0 && mouseY >= 0 && mouseX <= 36.45 && mouseY <= 325) { TweenLite.to(navPanel,.5,{x:0}); TweenLite.to(home_btn,.5,{x:15.65}); TweenLite.to(work_btn,.5,{x:11.5}); [Code] .....
The problem is with smallImg_mc. Later on when it is clicked, it gets removed using the removeChild(smallImg_mc) command, and my question is how do I signal it through an if statement where it says if (smallImg_mc.visible !== false) { setChildIndex(smallImg_mc,1); setChildIndex(logo,1); } It's causing annoying output errors.
If you dynamically create a parent movieclip, and dynamically add a color picker to each clip, and add an event listener for each color picker, does a removeChild on the parent movieClip remove event listeners belonging to any of it's children?
Here are my classes Main - creates preloader Preloader - createas Website Website - creates MainMenu
When a button in the main menu is clicked, it creates an object. And when another one is clicked, that object needs to be removed. The removing part got a little bit messy. package src { import com.greensock.TweenLite; import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.geom.Point; [Code] .....
I have a removeChild and null question. I know removeChild removes my object from the stage but stays in memory until I call null on it. My question is, if I set the object to null, do I have to removeChild it at all? For example, I have a movieclip where I addChild lots of objects to it. So If I want to completely remove all traces of said movieclip and all its children, can I just set movieClip = null, or do I have to removeChild all its children and the movieclip itself beforehand.
and I'm trying to add an event listener and a function to the class, but I keep getting errors of undefined, I tried just about everthing to be able to refference obj0
objGroup.obj0.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick) private function onClick (event:MouseEvent):void{ trace ("Click"); }
I'm trying to:Jump from frame 1 to a frame later in the main timeline Reference an object that exists on the stage in that frame, but not in frame 1
Like so:
ActionScript Code: function endGame():void { gotoAndPlay("gameOver"); scoreField.visible = false; }
A movieclip with the instance name 'scorefield' exists in the "gameOver" frame, yet for some reason, I just get a "Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference." This code is all within a function. By the time the reference to scoreField is executed, the timeline is at the right frame.
i'd trying to build an interactive tree that allows the user to move the tree's branches and nodes. the lines (branches) of the tree are drawn programmatically between points (nodes and tips). i'd like for the user to click on points to drag them while having connected lines and points move correspondingly. i've gotten this to work to some extent using the code below:
ActionScript Code: function startMoveOa(evt:MouseEvent):void { thisPtOa = Sprite(evt.currentTarget);
