I want to ask if someone can give me an example of creating child through xml. I mean creating custom components through xml (for every xml tag you create your own custom component and then add it as a child to the stage). I hope is it clear enough... :)
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I am creating a SWF file using a MXML file. The MXML file define several MX:Button and uses an external stylesheet to style them. There is a problem I am facing at the moment, I am aiming to style the buttons in a way that is similar to the way I can style HTML button elements. However, I could not achieve such look and feel. For example, I could not find a way to define the color and thickness of the borders for each side of the button (top, bottom, left, right), the background color, the margins, the padding, the width, and the height of the button. Also, selector such as hover, active, focus are not available. I was only able to change the size and the font color of the button successfully.
View 2 Repliesi am slightly confused about the parent and child relationship. lets assume we have several different instances, what would be difference of adding them all as children of the stage and creating a parent-child hierarchy between them(other than the access path).
View 5 RepliesI am relatively new to Flex/ActionScript, but I have been using a pattern of creating one file per function in my util package - with the name of the file being the same as the name of the function.
Like if the file was convertTime.as:
package util{
public function convertTime(s:String):Date{
...
}}
This way I can import the function readily by doing:
import util.convertTime;
...
convertTime(...);
I like this way better than importing a class object and then calling the static methods hanging off of it, like this:
import util.Util;
...
Util.convertTime(...);
But, the more I do this, the more files I'll end up with, and it also seems a bit wasteful/silly to put only one function into a file, especially when the function is small. Is there another alternative to this? Or are these two options the only ones I have?
I am trying to place API variables on ONE class file or mxml file and call these variables in other random class or mxml files..
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know of a method or strategy through which a shortcut can be created through Flex for the various platforms? I've been examining the various flash.filesystem.File methods but did not notice anything that seemed noteworthy.
View 1 RepliesI want to create Flipbook in flex/Flash. Normally its created via XML and XML has some image or swf list it is loading as page in flipbook. But I want to create this functionality directly from the PDF file. Just developer need to give only PDF file name/path flip book will generate automatically.
View 2 Repliesi have problem with swfLoader in flex, when i close following code in click method i can easly add many swf to main application
<mx:VBox id="content" width="100%" height="100%" ></mx:VBox>
public function doIT():void
{[code]....
when i close adding those swfs in loop i have the same error, it looks like child apps couldn't access certain objects that were instantiated by another child app, so what can i do?
var viewStack:ViewStack = new ViewStack();
viewStack.percentWidth = 100;
viewStack.percentHeight = 100;
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Its only displaying canVas3 contents not canVas1 and canVas2
I have a component mxml file in which i have a view stack, on click of a button i navigate to the first child, now i need to navigate to the second child during onclick of a button present in the second child. All the childs are component files included within the view stack. How could this be done, Sample code is present below,
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Now in my offering.mxml file if i try to access navigationViewStack i am getting an error stating 'Access of undefined property navigationViewStack.
I have an Movie Clip in Flash that have subobject of button type which has subobject of input text and movie clips. Right after creation core Moveclip all subobject are set to null, when I expect them to be valid objects.
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MC_Core_design was created in Flash and exported to Actionscript. I've done this for button_1 class aswell. The code was written using Flex. When I comment out both lines that result in error I get correct view of the core Movie clip with all subobject. How can I set subobject properties right after object creation?
I m making a basic menu effect. Normally I would animate all this in flash on the timeline but im trying to learn as much as i can about coding. I was actually impressed that i was able to create just this simple animation, but i want to write a conditional that lets me see if a child exists on the stage, if so remove it, if not run a function. Heres where I am so far.[code]as you can see the hardware text drops down and comes in from the top but stays on screen when you mouse out.basically what i want to do in my hardwareOut function is to run a conditional to see if topText exists, if so remove it and if not then gotoAndPlay().
View 4 RepliesI have a parent and 2 children. I am trying to pass data from child1 to child2 but keep getting an error message: 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method through a reference with a static type.
In child1 I have the following code:
[Bindable]
public var TestVar:String='sometext';
In child2 I am trying to get the value of TestVar and then use it as a value to search a mysql database via php.:
var newTestVar:String = child1.TestVar;
if(newTestVar != null){
getResult.token = someService.get_filtered_Paged(newTestVar);
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I am creating a pile of stackable movieclips. The dragging function is not a prob but I have a problem with the parent/child relationship in the "bringtotop" function.
Code:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Graphics;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
public class Colorbox extends MovieClip {
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The error generated is :
RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/setChildIndex()
at Colorbox/bringtotop()
but i don't understand what it means...
I have a Adobe Flex project in which resides the following layout markup.
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But that does not work. In fact, when debugging "b" is always null even though "grid.getElementAt(0)" returns a BorderContainer.
I have a picture on the stage that has multiple items that have hotspots/links over them that should open a child swf on top of the background and show details about the items. then have a button in the child swf itself that removes the child from over the background so the user can click on another item etc.I found this code in someone's post and I am trying to modify it so that works for multiple swf files...it currently works for a single swf.I wan to pass the name of the button in front of the .swf in the URLRequest to have the same name as the instance name of the referring button. But I can't figure it out. Here is the code I am using on the stage
View 2 RepliesInitially I had a 2039 error I resolved this by using a local testing server, which resulted in a 2038 error. So then I hard coded the url and now I dont get any errors but the file doesnt upload.
Instead a file is created (FileUpload.cs) in the directory where the files should be.
Does anyone know what this FileUpload.cs file is?
I am adding child as:containerComponent.addChild(newComponent);But, it adds it as last child. How can I add newComponent as first child of containerComponent?
View 2 RepliesI have the need to change a variable in a child Flash file.
The setup is a parent Flash file, that has called a child Flash, and placed it in a movieClip.
I can send a variable using Javascript to the parent Flash file, but not directly to the child Flash file. Is there a way that I can access the child Flash file directly with Javascript?
Or do I need to send the variable to the parent Flash file, and then have the parent send the variable to the child Flash file? Is there a sort of dot notation that I can use with Javascript to get to the child Flash file without first accessing the parent, when the child is added to the parent using the loadClip function in flash?
I am currently developing a dynamic LineChart in FLEX 4.I am implementing a Tree control next to my LineChart, which will filter the LineChart dataprovider and lineseries. The tree control has several branches and ultimately 5 children (leaf nodes) at the bottom of the last branch.I need the leaf node/children to be displayed as checkboxes inside the tree control.As I understand,this will require overrides in the TreeItemRenderer class.This is where I am a little confused on how to implement that.Currently I can distinguish between leaf and branches using this code, in my main MXML component.I added this because it may be helpful to some beginning FLEXdevelopers, such as myself, who cannot easily find this functionality documented well:
private function treeClick(e:ListEvent):void {
_selectedItem = Tree(e.currentTarget).selectedItem;
if(mainTree.dataDescriptor.isBranch(_selectedItem)) {[code].....
I am looking at the TreeItemRenderer override class from the following example here: In the example, they override the "createChildden" super function to add checkboxes to the tree control.My question is, can I override the createChildren function directly in my MXML component, and not have to use an entire class file to override this functionality? Must I re-invent the wheel to do this?Also, how can I distinguish that my treeItem is a leaf node and not a parent, in the override function? I only want to add checkboxes to the leaf nodes, how can I differentiate? The following example adds checkboxes to all branches and leaf nodes, but I want to add checkboxes only to leaf node/children. How would you approach that?
override protected function createChildren( ): void
{
super.createChildren( );[code]............
Here is my tree tag:
<mx:Tree id="mainTree" dataProvider="{treeData}" itemRenderer="TreeCheckBoxItemRenderer" labelField="@label" showRoot="false" width="100%" height="100%" itemClick="treeClick(event)" />
I have an application that allows to user to select an image, write the text on the image and user can fade the image as well. I have created a canvas where user add all what s/he wants. Now what I want is how to create a swf file what the user has created and save it on the client machine.
View 7 RepliesI created a form dynamically by adding each component in action script,now i want to get back the text/data entered in to that each component dynamically?[code]...
View 2 RepliesIf I import pgming from one AS into an overall one like this:
import asFiles.slideshow.*;
public var slideshowAS:Slideshow;
//then later:
[code]...
how do I control one object that is within that child .as file from the parent .as file?so for instance if in the slideshowAS there is an item called "nextBtn" and I want to be able to do something with it in the parent main menu .as file.
I am trying to make a "Achtung! die kurve" - like game in Actionscript 3.0. So far I've done the movement of one of the 'worms', and it works alright. I wanna divide it into different class files, but I can't seem to get it to work. I have a .fla file and 4 .as files. So far I only have code in two of these. When I put all my code directly into the fla file, it works perfectly fine, but when I put it into my player class, it won't 'add the child' to the stage. Here is my player .as file: [URL].
The reason why I commented the addChild, is because I wanna do this in my mainFile.as. This is from the main file: [URL]. I'm not quite sure how to call it in the main file, so I'm guessing that this would be the issue. All the files are named and placed correctly in the same folder, and flash says that each of my .as files are targeting the .fla file, so this doesn't seem to be the issue. How I can change the speed of my sprite.
I've been looking for hours on how to solve this seemingly minute problem. I've found tones of forums discusing this similar problem but for some reason I just can't get it to work. I have a flash website that uses a root.swf and each section of the web page loads a child swf onto the root. One of these sections I have a picture that loads in another child swf. We'll cal that picture.swf. This picture I want to have a button to close it and return to the previous page.
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I need to read the n-th child of a XML file, I have some declarations and a function in the main timeline
Code:
var cats_xml:XML = new XML();
cats_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
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If I import pgming from one AS into an overall one like this:
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how do I control one object that is within that child .as file from the parent .as file? so for instance if in the slideshowAS there is an item called "nextBtn" and I want to be able to do something with it in the parent main menu .as file. If you could even direct me on what to search under I that would be very helpful! I tried googling it but did not know how to search for it.
So I'm using Adobe Flash CS4 and I'm trying to create a pop-up window with an enclosed .swf file (not a link). I want the pop up to have my gallery/portfolio artwork but all the code that I try doesnt work.
View 11 RepliesI have a file .fla and some other files like .as(I think they are actionScript classes dependent of the fla). But I am trying to create the swf with adobe flash. So I open the fla and I do: File - export movie but the resultant swf file is less size than the original swf file because I think it is not including the dependent *.as files.
View 2 RepliesI have added two consecutive streaming audio tracks (mp3) to a child SWF. The child SWF loads onto a parent SWF using a loader. After loading the child SWF the movieclip and audio plays without a problem. In the last frame of the child SWF a dispatchEvent is used to signal the end at which time the loader is unloaded and the playhead reset in the parent SWF.
I have a problem with stopping the audio. After the loader is unloaded and the playhead reset in the parent SWF the first audio track plays again (but not the one after it). I have been trying to use the SoundMixer.stopAll(); command to stop the audio. I have not been sucessful in preventing the audio from playing. The command only works AFTER the audio begins playing and I manually move the playhead to a frame containing the SoundMixer.stopAll(); command.
I have been reading some older threads with similar problems and haven't found a solution that works for me. I have placed the SoundMixer.stopAll(); command in every possible loaction in the main timelines of the parent and child SWF without success. Why is the sound file playing after I unload the child SWF? Is there a way to prevent it from playing again?
