Flash :: Change Symbol In MC With AS

Change Symbol Position
I want to change a symbol _x with a button rollover and it should repeat until the pointer is off the button. I also want to make it conditional as the symbol should not go off the stage. I take it this will require an if statement. I can make the symbol move and can create repetition using the button on a mc timeline although i am sure this is not the best method.

Any ideas on how to go about this?

[CS4] Button To Change Symbol.
I'm making my portfolio website and I need to have a button that changes the background image. I have them as symbols and two buttons, when I click the green button, the background should be 'desk' and the brown button changes it to 'wood'.

I also have two boxes with text in which I want to swap position. The First one is on to of the second, then when you click it, they move apart and come back together with the second one on top.

I'm really not very good at AS so I have no idea where to start.

Please help!

Change Other Symbols Than The Symbol Itself..
Hi

I want to change properties for a button named button, wich is a mc, and I use this AS:

_root.button.setProperty("",_alpha,"30");

the actionscript is inserted as an action that will occur when another button is pressed, but nothing happens to button...

ergo; I want to be able to change other symbols than the button that is pressed. how do I access them? I haven't really got it straight regarding _root etc.

Change Symbol In Library With AS
Hi,

I have 10 symbols on my stage that all come from the same symbol in the library. Is there a way I can change the the symbol in the library with action script so all 10 of the symbols on the stage change at one?

Thanks,

Waffe

Change Symbol Axis?
I'm working out a tutorial online that I found for object rotation

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
i=getProperty(this,_rotation);
setProperty(this,_rotation,i+5);
}

but it doesn't seem to rotate on the center of the object, rather the corner. I am assuming I need to change the axis, but am not quite sure how to do this, i'm new to flash 2004.

Symbol Bkgrnd Size Needs To Change
I'm not sure the best way to describe my symbol issue. I have a 1200 x 700 document. In one of my movie symbols I want a lightning effect to light up the entire background. My symbol is only using one frame on the main scene. My symbol stage (not sure of the right term) is a square - not a rectangle of 1200 x 700.

When I insert the symbol, everything works OK except instead of my entire background turning white, I get a square in the center of the screen. How can I change the size/shape of my symbol background.

You help is appreciated.

Is There Anyway I Can Change The Mouse Arrow To Another Symbol?
Please can someone kindly tell me how the hell I would or 'if i could' change the mouse arrow to another symbol?

If you can....... I love you!

Cheers,

Stef.

Symbol Behavior Change Through Actionscript?
Good Evening,

I was wondering, is there any way to change a symbol behavior through actionscript?

For example, I have a button in my movie named 'btn1'. When 'btn1' is clicked, I'd like to have it stay lit up in it's over state - so if i could have actionscript change the symbol behavior on 'btn1' to be a graphic symbol - single frame - 2 that would work...is there any way to do this?

Please advise!

Thanks

Foochuck

Change Symbol Instances With ActionScript
Hello chaps,

I am a designer just picking up Flash having cut my teeth on Director and Lingo originally. Funny way of doing things I know?

I have a little slide show thing running that fades between different images via a TWEEN that I have repeated over 10 different SCENES for each different image.

This is rather clumsy and I would like actually to use one scene but to have a BUTTON click change the graphic SYMBOL used for a given INSTANCE.

This was easy enough to do in Director with a Sprite CastMember change if memory serves me. I wonder if there is an equivalent in Actionscript in Flash MX. I have scoured the Actions menus and cannot seem to find anything that suits??? But there has to be surely!!!

Thanks in advance for your help...

Scene Change In Movie Symbol --please Help--
I have made a menu as a movie symbol, and when you click on one of the buttons symbols in the movie symbol I want it to go to a specific sene

e.g.

click home button in menu movie it will go to the home scene

Thanks for any help you can give

How To Change The Text Color In A Symbol
i have a movieclip, with a text field in it. i have to change the color of the movieclipdynamically.

if i use, Color xyz = new Color(movieclip), even the text color changes to that of the background color of movie clip.

Wht is the solution to this probelm??? can anybody ans please...

I Can't Change Text Color In A Symbol, Help
Using freehand I created text and gave it perspective. I then did a "Copy Special" and pasted it in a new layer in Flash MX. I converted it to a graphic and made it a symbol in the library.

Not having completely designed my page I colored the text arbitrarily red. However, in the final page the background has a lot of red in it, and this makes the "Star Wars" style scrolling text hard to read. I want to change the color on about 8 scrolling text objects to yellow, but I cannot find a way to change the text colors, only the background.

To see wht I am talking about you can view the swf at
http://adzoe.8m.com/Coffins.html

This is my first effort to do anything in Flash, and I have no idea how to fix the problem.

Also, I have printed a figure at the top of the screen and would like it to update automatically in the movie. I can't figure that out either. I update the number in Flash every time I see that the value has changed in the Javascript that prints it on my page. The javascript is borrowed and uses programming I do not have. Any suggestions?

Feel free to email an answer to me or just post it.

Can You Change The Registration Point Of A Symbol?
I have a bunch of MC's that have registration points in the center,
but I would like to go back and change the registration point to the middle-right.

Is this popssible? I've tried everything I can think of.

thanks for any help.

jhilgert00

Change Alpha Of Symbol In Actionscript
I have two symbols on a layer and I want the following to happen:

When a button is clicked the alpha of one of the symbols is set at 100, thus showing the symbol. When another button is clicked I want one symbol alpha set to 0 and another at 100 thus hiding the one symbol and showing the other.

So basically I just need to know how to set the alpha on a symbol. The two names for the symbols are frontImages and moreImages. Any help?

This is Flash 6.

Button Symbol - Change Text
Hi,

Is it possible to change the text on a Button Symbol from within ActionScript? The only way I can think of (and have tried) is going into each frame within the button (Up, Down, etc) and giving each piece of text an instance name (ButtonUpText, ButtonDownText, etc) - and then changing it like any other property, eg: MovieClip.ButtonInstance.UpText.text = "new text".

But nothing seems to happen. Can this even be done, and if so, how!?

Button Symbol And Text Change.
I have a button symbol with an Instance name of myButton that has a text field in it. The text field is dynamic and an Instance name of myText.

I'm trying to change the text from a class I've created like so...

myButton.myText.text = "Changed Text";

I'm getting this...

1119: Access of possibly undefined property myText through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.

Change Color Of Graphic Symbol
Hi!

I just wanna ask if I can change color of graphic symbol or i have to convert symbol to MC?

example:
I make a rectangle, now i wanna with some color picker or buttom change a color of rectangle.

Second problem:
i have two rectangles and i change bg. color of one rectangle, and when i changed the color of background of that rectangle tweening stop.

Is It Possible To Change Symbol's Pivot Point?
Yeah I need to know is it possible to change symbol's pivot point via actionscript to be able to scale object using that point as scalling center?

Change The Registration Point Of A Symbol
I pretty sure I've seen it somewhere before but can anyone tell me if a registration point of a symbol can be changed after the symbol has been created? If so can you tell me how you would do it?

Dynamically Change A Symbol's Skew
I have a wheel with a shadow. As I move my mouse the wheel's x position is set to match my mouse and moves left or right accordingly. The wheel's shadow follows along except it remains at a skew setting of 42 degrees. I want the skew to change incrementally as I move my mouse left or right to mimic a light source set to the center of the stage creating a shadow towards the person viewing the screen. Here is the code. I redid it and this is what I have. Can anyone help me with the Skew issue I am having?
"
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, rotateIt);
function rotateIt(evt:Event):void
{
uni.x = mouseX;
uni.wheel.rotation = mouseX;
}

"

How To Change Registration Point Of A Symbol?
Hello there,
please help with this.
When I create a symbol, say, a circle, the registration point is the upper left corner of the square wrapping the circle. Now I want to change it to the center of the circle, what should I modify? should I modify it in Edit Symbol mode or elsewhere?
thanks.

Change Behavoir Of A Symbol Using Action Script
does anyone know how to change the behavior of a symol using action script?

for instance, lets say you have a button - that you don't want to be a button a various points of your movie. is there a way to change it's behavoir from a button to a graphic.

i realize you coould do it by using duplicate symbols with different behaviors - dispersed over different frames - but i'm really looking for a way, if possible, to do it with actionscript.

Using A For Loop To Change A Collection Of Symbol's Properties
hello, i have a question on how to simplify something:
i have a couple of buttons named a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, etc..

instead of changing its properties piece by piece i'd like to use a for loop to do it

right now its done like this:

a1._visible = true;
a2._visible = true;
a3._visible = true;
a4._visible = true;
a5._visible = true;

and i wanna do it this way:

for( i=1; i<20; i++ )
{
.... (a+i)._visible = true; // this is the part i dont remember how to do
}

anyone?
thanks in advance

How Do You Change A Button Instance Without Selecting The Symbol?
I'm a noob to flash but trying to learn on my own... I want to save on file size by creating a button symbol and reusing it over again 6 times for my menu. I want each button to have a different rollover color but when I double-click the button in order to edit the "over" frame I default to editing the symbol. How do you edit button frames of an instance without editing the symbol itself?

Thanks!

ST4R,

Change Graphic Symbol On Movie Clip
I am working on a gallery and have create a movie clip that uses two graphic symbols and tweens them in different frames.

Right now I have to craete the same movie clip over and over for different jpg's.

What I want to know is if there is any way to simply replaces the jpg's the graphic symols are associated with and play the same movie clip over and over again with the different jpg's.

How Could We Change The Color Of The Symbol Dynamically Not The Instance
hi guys,

i need to change the color of the Symbol(movieclip), Dynamically
i dont want to change the instances color directly...
Let me explain in details

I have a symbol name ball..its color is blue
i have around 10 instances with 10 name on the maintime line
what i need now is if i want to change the color of the symbol...so that all the instances get changed. this should happen dynamically by AS in the symbol only...

Regards,
Mohan.

Change MC Color Placed In The Up Frame Of A Symbol Button
hi,

very new to Flash (since 2 days ), i'm doing a simple drop down menu to get it work in my Director MX 2004 app. Anyway, here is my problem :
i have 5 buttons (symbols). in each button, i have a clip instance for each frame (up, down, ...) - i used different color tints.

i have to change dynamically the color of the clip instance placed in the up frame of the button.

It's probably trivial, but I don't know how to reach (from _root) the Clip instance object to give it to the Color object.

here is my code placed in a function (_root) :

Code:
colorButton = new Color(_root.Button1.MC_Lib);
colorButton.setRGB (0x600000);
_root.Button1.MC_Lib ... is bad !

Button1 is one of my Button instance
MC_Lib is the MC instance place in frames of Button1 (only the color tint change).

i search many forums, help, etc and can't understand/find what i miss ...
I try with simple graphic symbol instead of MC and didn't manage to get it work. can you help me please ?

Change Default Graphic Symbol Type?
i've been playing with an animating knot tying strategy; that has reuseable 'pieces', that can be used in other knots. Presently just have a clove hitch animated.

i use mostly mc's, but on the 'top layer' (with mc's loaded internally in the graphic symbols) have chosen to use graphic symbols instead. Is there a way to get them to default to play once, rather than loop forever when placed on timeline? Just an annoyance really, but figured i'd ask..

Thanx!

Change 'Up' Image Source For Button Symbol
I'd like to know how to write a if() statement in ActionScript which decided which image the button symbol will use on the 'Up' frame.

I have a navigation bar, and I am using the FlashVars parameter to pass a URL variable to the Flash movie. If the Home page is being viewed, the URL will be "index.cfm?content=home", and the FlashVar "content" will be set to "home". When "content" is set to "home", I want the Home button on my navigation bar to be display a different image from the library, indicating it is the current page.

I don't know how to write it, but here's what I have so far. I just ned someone to fill in the blanks:

if (_level0.content == 'home')
{
[show <active_home_image> for Up frame]
}
else
{
[show <normal_home_image> for Up frame]
}

I'm still pretty new to ActionScript, and I hope I explained what I want correctly...

Trying To Change A Movie Clip Symbol Mid-guide Path
Hi:
I have a movie clip that follows a guide path. I have been trying to make it change to a different color on an event by puting in a gotoAndPlay to a different frame on the movie clip symbol's timeline.
Then I use the coordinate location of the the symbol to trigger the change of frame on the symbol's timeline. The trouble is the movie clip freezes at the coordinate location. Can anyone point me to an example that might help me figger out what I am doing wrong?

Mark

HELP 2nd Post - Check Length Of Symbol And Change If Too Long
(Using MX 2004)

Hi,

I have a graphic symbol called “title” which contains text.
This symbol is used in two FLA’s. The first one, say “10021_image.fla” is just fine. The second one, say “10021.fla” has the “title” symbol at a particular place (x,y) in my movie. This “title” is linked to “10021_image.fla”. When the text length is under 225 pixels, I do not have to edit the placed link to resize it in order for it to fit in the desired box. However, when the text length is over 225 pixels, I need to correct it in the properties panel. This can be tedious…

Can anyone help me write a script which would check the length of the placed “title” symbol in my “10021.fla”, then if the length is over 225 pixels, the script would assign 225 pixels to the symbol width – if not, the script would leave the symbol as is. I do not want the script to shorten the size of this symbol (or brake the link between both files) in the original “10021_image.fla”

Any help would greatly be appreciated!

Luke

Is Converting Text To A Button Symbol The Same As Using An Image As A Symbol?
I'm trying to use text as navigation buttons in a flash website instead of image buttons. (I am using Actionscript 2) Any help is appreciated.

-Steven

Convert Graphic Symbol To Button Symbol
Howdy,
I have a graphic symbol on stage. I then create a button symbol from the graphic symbol and the registration point jumps up a tad? Why would the registration point move?

Thanks,
mperla

SYMBOL NAME PROBLEMS In SYMBOL PROPERTIES PANEL
hey,

i'm tring to go thru a tutorial for scripting a scrollbar to a movie clip. please take a look at the attached file: container_4.fla

i can't get the btm rt scroll bar to move the movie clip (title list), and i've checked all of my work vs. the tutorial and they seem to jive.

except...

when i inspect the "scroll_target" symbol thru the library, i notice that the symbol name in the top field (Name: scroll_target) is not the same as in the bottom Source/File section (Symbol Name: Symbol 10).

what gives? when i check the tutorial file (which works...) all the symbol names jive in both areas. now i'm wondering if there is a corruption in my app (Flash MX v.6.0) that is mis-assigning symbol names at a code level.

please help.
thanx.
b

Class To Generate New Symbol From Base Symbol
I've searched but can't find a reference to what I need. I'll try to explain the best I can. I have a single symbol that is a "gear tooth" which is in the library and exported for Actionscript with the identifier name "geartooth." I'm trying to create a Class called "gear" which accepts the following parameters: numGears as Number and gearTooth as movieclip. The purpose of the class is to dynamically create a gear based on the geartooth symbol and the number of teeth requested. The class has methods to determine the radius of the gear, to duplicate the original geartooth, and then to rotate each new geartooth instance the requisite angle around the calculated center to create a seamless gear. I want there to be a getter method to return this new gear as a single symbol that can be manipulated as such. Is this possible? If so can someone point me to some relevant examples of similar code? Thanks much.

Newb Help? Putting A Symbol Inside A Symbol.
All I want is to have a man blink.

The man is a symbol, and there is another symbol inside of him. (his eyes.) Which I already set to blink.

Anyways... It doesn't work. It works when I preview it in symbol editing mode, but nothing else.

I am sorry if I was too vague, I'm still learning. Any help?

[MX2004] Movie Symbol As A Button Symbol
I have a scrollout menu for my flash movie, but each of the buttons have to be movies symbols. I try to attach:

on (release) {
gotoand stop(4)
}

But I get the error that this script only works for buttons. Anyone able to lend some assist? I suck at actionscript. ;p

Symbol -> Movie Clip Symbol?
how do i make a symbol a movie clip symbol also?

Symbol In Symbol Buttons Won't Work
Okey, I made a movie and I have a symbol that has several buttons in it. They will work if I link them to some url or some frame on same scene, BUT they don't work when I link them to a different scene..... why? I had to put each scene on different web page which really stinks because user has to load new page with big flash file each time he clicks on any button....

Refering To Other Symbol From Inside A Symbol
alright i'm editing the actions of a movie clip, called button13. this button is in a movie clip called reproduction_sub. this movie clip is in the root movie. so from inside the button13 i want it to be able to goto a certain frame in the reproduction_sub. yes i do have a button in the movie clip button13 i just want to know the code i needed to put into the balnk for the button to be able to go to another frame in another movie clip. i have flash MX by the way. well thanks very much for any help!

?symbol That Follows Mouse But Is Stopped By Other Symbol?
basically what i need help with is im trying to make a symbol follow the mouse, but i need the symbol to only move in a cirtain area, like have a box surrounding it so it cant get out...

Symbol Within Symbol Buttons Flash Mx
I have a graphic symbol which is within another symbol and within the graphic symbol are buttons. I want the buttons to play something on the timeline in the previous symbol. I have tried using .root_ but that goes to the main timeline, so how do you go one back?

main timeline > symbol 67 > symbol 84 (button here, want to go to timeline on 67)

Target Symbol Inside A Symbol
hey every body i need to target a symbol inside a symbol for a hittest. i really need some help w/ this thanx alot to any body that helps

-yeps

Converting Instance Of Symbol Into A New Symbol
When I convert an instance into a symbol, I have been told it becomes a new independent symbol. But when I try to place that new symbol within the old one (from which the instance came from) I get a message saying "Cannot place symbol inside itself".

Is there a way I can have an instance converted into a new symbol and be fully detached from the old symbol from which it came?

Thanks.

Movie Symbol & Button Symbol
Hello,

CAn someone tell me how to make an animation/movie a button?

www.humanbloom.com/links

The "goverment resources" is a movie symbol and I need it to link to another webpage. Now I have tried to make the button first & then add the animation it has now, but of course it needs the mouse in order to do something. So I am lost on how I get it to do what I want it to animation wise and make it a button too>?