Flash :: UIComponent In Swc - New Instance Doesn't Seem To Construct The Children Arranged On The Layers
Jun 7, 2010
In Flash, if i create a custom Movieclip, and compile it to a SWC, i can use it in .fla files (by linking to the .swc)..
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All the arrangement of graphics on the custom movieClip's layers is preserved. If i subclass UIComponent and compile to a swc, I can use the custom Class in my .fla file, but the new instance doesn't seem to construct the children arranged on the layers.
I know that the correct way to make a custom component is to have the two frames, first to specify bounding box, second frame for assets, and that the first graphic in frame 1 is removed at runtime. But i'm not really trying to make a reusable component - i just want to use the UIComponent class (It seems to have some nice extensions to Sprite). As i really want some hand-positioned layers inside the component i figured i could have the bounding box as the first element on frame 1 (knowing that it would be removed), but any other items i put on frame 1 would be preserved - buttons, images, lines, etc.
I have a base class which is being created via remote_object [RemoteClass alias] from the server.I have other specialized classes that are derived from this baseclass, but serialization with the server always happens with the base class.The base class has meta data that defines what the derived class is, for example
[RemoteClass (alias="com.myco...')] public Class Base {
For instance the mx.controls.Image objects are only displayed when i add them directly to the main application object. If i add a "subimage" to the previously created Image object it simply doesnt show.
What I want to do:
var img : Image = new Image; var subimg : Image = new Image; img.source = "images/panel.png";
My application will load an xml file that has the name or id of a UIComponent. Later this will be used to set text or images.
This component could be on a panel or a panel in a panel, I am not familiar with flex but in javascript getElementByid would return the element wherever it is on the document (when called on the document). There is no get....Byid in fex and getChildByName does not look in children.For example
Thinking of creating a getElementByid but has to be called from the top element, have no idea what the top element is. For example this.root does not have a getChildren method to go through nor does stage. Guess I need to find the highest possible Container class starting with this.parent.There must be a "simple" way to do this but all examples I could find would not go from top level to lowest child as javascript would do in document.getElemetByid.
I am dynamically creating a UI component based on XML templates stored in database. Now I want to access one of the child component of this UIComponent Class. I dont see any children property in this class? How could I possibly traverse through each child comppnent of this class and set its properties according to some logic in code(which I could not do in templates itself).
I have placed 3 movieclips named mcParent, mcChild1, mcChild2 and 1 textbox in flash. child are childrens of parent movie clip. child1 and child2 both are of sizes 300 whereas parent movieclip is 600px, textbox is placed inside child2 movie clip .
I have made the flash to auto resize according to the screen area. Everything works well, but after resize it resizes parent and all childrens and textbox which is correct. The problem is with the correct placement of textbox on mcChild2. I have seen that after resize, mcParent width and scalex both changes but the child clips doesn't changed its sizes even they are stretched but there sizes are not updated due to which I am unable to get the exact location of where to place the textbox.
I've read on the net that actionscripting from the action layer will result in a more readable file once published, as apposed to attaching onClipEvent functions which slow down readability.
For this reason I am trying to add variables to a MovieClip I have on the stage with an Instance Name of Player. However I wish to assign the MovieClip variables from the actions layer using the MovieClips Instance Name.
I've created a class which displays a carousel menu , I've then instantiated this carousel class in another class, created a method to hide the carousel and a button to open / close the menu by setting the alpha to 0. Within the carousel object is the controls for rotation. The problem is when I compile and run and then click the button the carousel is made invisible along with the controls but when I press it again, the controls appear again but the carousel doesn't. Really stumped on this one,
how could I make a simple loop which loops through the childrens of specific movie clip and add each of them instance name lets say "iname", since I have movie clip in which childrens are not added by code.
And if I'm sure I could acces those childrens then by code like iname.x = 100?
Is it possible to get dynamically created children of a display object instance in action script 3? Example trace(_view.getChildByName("name")) = returns name of display object (success) trace(_view.getChildByName("name").getChildByName("name2") = returns error 1061
I have an idea for a web site image in which a 3d object moves across a background, turning as it moves and thereby demonstrating its 3d nature. Obviously, Flash supports design of the static background and the motion of the object. But can Flash construct that 3d object with the complexity of say for example Autodesk? If not, and I have to construct the object with a 3d design application, what 3d file formats does Flash support?
I have the following code with which I am creating a grid.what I need to do is, either create the grid in a random order at the beginning, or 'shuffle' the grid once it has been created.. meaning each time I load the page the order is changed..
for (var i:uint = 0; i< boxNum; i++) { var animatedButton = new AnimatedButton(); animatedButton.x = animatedButton.width * (i % cols); animatedButton.y = animatedButton.height * int(i / cols); grid.addChild(animatedButton).name = "m" + (i + 1); }
I'm trying to build a set of menu items arranged vertically, and to be able to change their scale and position according to the current item selected, giving it some sort of depth effect. found a little bit about scaling menus, and used a script(nothing explained much, just cut and paste) that changes alpha an size of the menu items. I managed to add a swapDepths to bring to front the current item. I need now to figure out how to make the first item full size/alpha on load, move the items to make it look like they're rotating backwards, and get them to stay on their states when one of them is pressed (that is, one at full size/alpha and the others faded and smaller).The test file i'm working on can be downloaded from here, it's in FMX format.
I have bitmap generated each frame and when clicked needs to simulate a click at a specific pixel in a separate movie clip. If you really click on a movie clip, the event trickles down the hierarchy of children to dispatch click events for all children as well. If you have a button in a button in a button in a button... and you click the top button, the click event is dispatched for all buttons in the hierarchy, but my problem is that if I "virtual" click like...
Code: var myClick=new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK,false,true); myClick.localX=X; myClick.localY=Y;
I'm seeing lots of cool clocks made in flash, but they load the time based on your machine's date and time. I want to construct a clock which takes the time from an official time server so it will always be up to date.
And it works. My question is what code to put to replace trace(xmlData); with code that will allow me the XML components be arranged in textfields. Here is how my XML is constructed:
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What code to put in AS so when i start naming my textfields tf1,tf2,tf3,tf4 each line from the XML to go to its text field (like first line from the XML goes to tf1, second line to tf2 etc.)
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)
I see plenty of AS3 examples of loading 1 image file into a 1 frame movieclip, but how can you take a folder full of images, load them and treat each image as an individual frame of a single movieclip?
I am new to Flash/Flex. I would like to use a Component I created in Flash extending fl.core.UIComponent. How do I use this in Flex? Do I just export it as a swc or do I have to use the Flash Flex 3 kit which will convert it to a UIMovieClip. That does not sound right.
I used the Fuse example he posted and started to convert it into a class. Here is what I came up with, which works great. However, as you can see in Main.as, it only works one instance at a time, and the last instance that gets called to tween in the onRelease is the one that works.I'm only attaching the two classes that make this run as it depends on some other classes that i have linked up as libraries in eclipse and I don't want to put together a whole package of it, but if its absolutely necessary then let me know and i'll repost a package of files.
[code]I have included import fl.controls.* and fl.events.* and I've also made sure the Slider UI component is included in the Document library.The UI keeps flickering in a strange way, seems to be redrawing the components in every frame or something. I did have this all working before, but since introducing some new classes, it's stopped working. The rest of the drawing within the application is working, just the UI components flicker and don't work.
I need to move 100+ sprites from right to left, for example, a hundred musical notes will be scrolling horizontally should be as smooth as possible, having tried move s:Group component found it to be inefficient with high CPU load even after apply updateafterevent(). Is it possible to scroll a large numbers of sprite smoothly?
So I add this line to my .FLA file in the first frame's script:
import mx.core.UIComponent;
I receive this error:
1093: Syntax error.
in UIComponent.as line 54. Double click on that in the Compiler Errors panel and I see:
#include "../core/ComponentVersion.as"
OK, the syntax error is likely in ComponentVersion.as ... except it really, really shoud not be. And if I load that file into the Flash editor and syntax check it has no errors. However, if I copy the sole non-comment line of that file (static var version:String = "2.0.2.127"; ) into UIComponent in place of the #include, it works??
Now I get this error:
5007: An ActionScript file must have at least one externally visible definition.
Excuse me? This is a class definition file suppled with Flash!
I know it is intended for flex ... but what does that mean ... can I use it in flash ... if not, why not ...
but more importantly: all of the mx classes, spark classes, flashx classes ... why are they NOT for flash? pixels are pixels, matrices are matrices, 0's are 0's, 1's are 1's.
I have 1 class (that is extending a UIcomponent) that is representing a component. In that component I create different instances of another class that is also a UIComponent but this class doesn't show up in de first class. I see that it is running and that it has the correct hights but I got the feeling that it doesn't show up with this hights. If I trace I see the width and height is 200 X 200 but there is still nothing visible in my component.
Extremely frustrated with this. I've created a simple class that extends the UIComponent. I create an instance of this class in a parent class and utilise the 'addChild' method to add it to the parent. I've overridden the 'updateDisplayList' method of the extended UIComponent to add my own drawing routine using the 'graphics' object.
My problem occurs when I start attempt to change any of the following properties (x , y , width, height) either directly or using 'move' or 'setActualSize' because the UIComponent will no longer display - prior to changing any of these properties the object displays fine. I know the object is still there, the 'updateDisplayList' method is still being called (as I'm calling 'invalidateDisplayList' after each change) and it correctly reports the changes.
