Flash :: 2 Subjects: 1.Actions Window+2. List Of A Tree

Printing Contents Of List Or Tree UI Component
I have an accordion component that contains 3 list components and 2 tree components...there are all the components from the flash library of components...and I need to print the contents of these 5 "lists"

For now I'm concentrating on the lists...then I will worry about how to print the trees with all the nodes expanded...but I can't seem to figure out how to determine how many items are in a list...for the lists I am not using dataProvider so I'm kinda lost here...any ideas?

List/ Tree View Problem ... On Some Computers
Hi,

I have a listview that is functioning perfectly on my computer but at some other computers the listtree reduces its size (hight + width) and moves to the upper left corner.

This makes it impossible to see data herein. Why is this ?

I believe this to be some setting on the users computer that has to be changed ..........but I have no idea precisely where ?

Maybe it is something else ?

Any suggestions ?

Best regards.

FINALLY: Transparent Tree Or List - Solved
Hi All
I'm puzzling with this for a while and now I finally reached a solution!
To make the Tree or List background transparent use the following code:

mx.controls.treeclasses.TreeRow.prototype.drawRowFill = mx.controls.listclasses.SelectableRow.prototype.drawRowFill = function (mc:MovieClip, newClr:Number) {
//Author: Marcelo Quinan <marcelo@aretha.com.br> - http://www.aretha.com.br
//You can freely use this code, but please don't remove the credits. Thanks!
//This code set the list and tree components bg's to transparent. Put it before populating the components
switch (mc._name) {
case "bG_mc" :
//Alpha when the row is not selected
var tempAlpha = 0;
break;
case "tran_mc" :
//Alpha when the row is selected
var tempAlpha = 25;
break;
default :
var tempAlpha = 100;
}
mc.clear();
//Here's the trick:
mc.beginFill(newClr, tempAlpha);
mc.drawRect(1, 0, this.__width, this.__height);
mc.endFill();
mc._width = this.__width;
mc._height = this.__height;
//Hide the main bg of component
this._parent._parent.depthChild0._alpha = 0;
};

Hope this helps!
Marcelo Quinan

Rollover / OnRollOver Events For V2 List And Tree?
This is killing me. I’m looking for a rollOver / rollOut event for the v2 components namely the tree and list components. (I know it’s there for the button.) The List and Tree both have the itemRollOver / itemRollOut and that is what I’m using right now but it is fired a lot more often than I need it to. I’m looking for the event that tells me the mouse is over the component and when it’s moved off the component. I can’t find it in documentation for UIObject, UIComponent, nor List. Help…

R. Sparrow

[mx2004] Actions Window Won't Show Actions
Well the problem is rather annoying and stops me from doing any work...

If I open my actions window, it opens up, but I just have a gray area inside the window, I can't put any scripting in, and even funnier, if I try to put my actions window locked into place it will actually crash flash entirely without any error message.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Photo Gallery With Several Subjects
I've applied the xml photo-gallery tutorial but would like to use a menu with different subjects.

With every click in a different subject I'd like to load different pictures into my gallery. I'd like to use one XML sheet with different nodes for the several subjects.

I've seen the tutorial on XML based drop-down menus but I have no clue how to implement and link this into my photo gallery.

Who can give me advice?

Noucky, a novice!

Dynamic Layout - Can I Refresh The Entire Display List Tree?
I am writing a display engine in AS3/Flash CS3 to organize and display dynamic content. It is loosely based on the concept of CSS.

I have created a series of nested "windows", each of which is relatively positioned inside of it's parent container. The windows are being used to create a layout into which I am loading dynamic content.

I am using relative positioning, and so within the display list each one of these windows looks back out to its parent to see where to position itself. Whats happening is that the entire layout is constructed at once from the client code, and then milliseconds afterwards any loaders which hold dynamic content (such as images or swfs) will finish loading, effectively altering the size of those particular windows. But nothing else knows of the windows that have changed, and so the relative positioning from that point in the display list tree and on down, is wrong.

Ideally there would be some kind of way to say (stop the procedure until this loader is Complete), but I have seen nothing like this in flash.

So I need to integrate this into some kind of design pattern that will allow any changes to a window to be sensed and then send a cascade of updates down through all its children.

Currently there is no master LayoutManager that is aware of the whole tree. My only attempt at fixing this dynamically and within flashes native display list resulted in disaster because it essentially sets off multiple update cascades that are nearly simultaneous - all of which look outwards dynamically to find their bounding boxes in that moment. It has resulted in chaos.

Any ideas of a solution to this problem? I'm sure that the problem of a loader finishing just after all the client code executes comes up a lot - what are the various ways other developers out there have come up with to handle this? Any design patterns, articles, or tutorials you would recommend that speak to this?

Thanks,

Greg

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I have chosen not to post any code at this time. This is a work project and I am not able to make the source available, however I am willing to go into some depth describing the architecture (it's pretty simple, actually) and some sample client code for anyone who requests it.

Request: A Slideshow With Subjects Or Groups
I am working on a website that will show a portfolio of pictures. I would like to have a scrolling bar at the bottom, similar to what I have seen in this thread by rhamej.

This would be perfect for my needs, but I need something that I can put into a movie clip or load in my current swf. Also, I need to be able to have the scrollbar images load up galleries.

For instance, , the image scrollbar scrolls through 15 pictures, starteding with a parrot, then a boat, a cat, a dog, lizards, etc.. When you click on the image of a parrot it will load up a larger pic of that parrot, then will slowly cycle through other pics of parrots. I don't need to see every other parrot pic in any other location, only just as it's cycling through them, nor do I need to be able to physically cycle back and forth

A gallery that loads up a cycling view of each subject, and one that i can include into an existing SWF, not a standalone.

I've searched high and low, and everything i found will only do one thing or another, not everything. If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would make my head stop hurting.

thanks
gw

Easier Way To Write A List Of Actions.
I have 20 MC's that I want to move to frame "on" onRollover and move to frame "off" onRollout, and stay on frame "on" onRelease and disable the MC. Now at the same time I have 19 other MC's that I want to react in the same way, and when the user clicks on another MC I need all the other MC's to go into their "off" frame and become enabled again. I'm using this code to make it happen, But I have to do alot of repeating for each MC -
IS THERE AN EASIER WAY TO SET SOME _Global command to do this ??

_root.illnum.num01.onRollover = function(){
illnum.num01.gotoandStop("on");
}
_root.illnum.num01.onRollout = function(){
illnum.num01.gotoandStop("off");
}
_root.illnum.num01.onRelease = function(){
illnum.num01.gotoandStop("on");
illnum.num02.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num03.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num04.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num05.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num06.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num07.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num08.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num09.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num10.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num11.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num12.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num13.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num14.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num15.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num16.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num17.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num18.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num19.gotoandStop("off");
illnum.num01.enabled=false;
illnum.num02.enabled=true;
illnum.num03.enabled=true;
illnum.num04.enabled=true;
illnum.num05.enabled=true;
illnum.num06.enabled=true;
illnum.num07.enabled=true;
illnum.num08.enabled=true;
illnum.num09.enabled=true;
illnum.num10.enabled=true;
illnum.num11.enabled=true;
illnum.num12.enabled=true;
illnum.num13.enabled=true;
illnum.num14.enabled=true;
illnum.num15.enabled=true;
illnum.num16.enabled=true;
illnum.num17.enabled=true;
illnum.num18.enabled=true;
illnum.num19.enabled=true;

}

Smart Clip Scroll Menu-attach Actions To List Items
I am using Flash 5 on a Mac platform.

I downloaded the Scroll Menu extension from Macromedia Extensions Exchange.
It works great.

What I would like to do now is attach actions to individual list items.
I have no idea how to go about that. I have been searching forums and posting the question of how to use Actionscript to accomplish this, but have received no answers.

Can you give me direction on how to attach actions. Do I need to do something like this to label the array in the smart clip first?

onClipEvent (load) {
function onMenu (item, label) {
labelArray = new Array("1", "2", "3",...)
val = labelArray[item];

And then use an
if(currentValue = "[0]")
gotoAndplay (3)

I am over my head here (not a programmer)! If you can assist me I would be very grateful.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me
Jody

The Actions Window
When i type in the letters some of them are black some are blue and some are a bright blue. why is that? if anybody has any answers please help me.

ACTIONS Window Gone/minimized/?
sometimes my actions window disappears. Where does it go? I do the ctrl+alt+a and click on the arrow but it's gone. It says it's active but nowhere. Is there a reset function/switch/spell??

thankx.

Flash Actions Window
I have a bit of a peculiar problem; I seem to have lost the actions window! I don't know how it happened but the actions window is gone. I am on flash 5 and I already tried reinstalling it to no avail. Please help, I need to finish a project by tommorow (how cliche'!).
I have tried everything imaginable, I thought I may have accidently put it in another window tab, but I checked all of them. I opened a new flash page thinking it may have been hidden, but it wasn't there either. I check the 'windows' tab and it says it is open. I tried double-clicking on a frame in the timeline which usually brings up the actions window. Same result. I really have no clue what to do now. Please, any advice/help will be appreciated. Thanks

Actions Window Is Too Big For Screen
My actions window (Flash CS3) when open is bigger than my screen, which means I can't resize it as the bottom of the window is beyond the screen. I have tried restarting, docking and undocking it, nothing works. Can't find a setting/preference for it - Can you help? Thanks.

Actions Window Not Opening
Hello all,
i am working in Flash player 7 actionscript 2, and i am trying to open the actions widow by either F9 or clicking on the arrow in the properties sections but nothing seems to be opening.....
anyone know if the actions panels is locked or something.

thank you in advance.

PopUp Window Actions
This tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/centered_popup.htm
shows how to create a centered pop-up window when a button is clicked on... but this is written specifically for a button instance and not a movie clip instance. I tried editing the code for my movie clip, but cant seem to get it. I am novice at actionscript... any help in Lehmans terms would be GREAT! Thanks!
Ken

Actions Window In Mx 2004
Just a question, is there an normal mode in flash mx2004 like in flash mx ? or do i need to be an expert to code?

Mel*

Lost My Actions Window Please Help
that's it
i made ctrl + alt + A - nothing
right clicked on action symbols everywhere - nothing
click on the actions icon on the bar - nothing
re-installed flash - nothing
please help!

Actions Window In Mx 2004
Just a question, is there an normal mode in flash mx2004 like in flash mx ? or do i need to be an expert to code?

Mel*

My Actions Window Has Disappeared
I cannot get the actions window to reappear!
Have any of you seen this?

I double click a key frame, nothing...

I right click and check "actions" the check mark stays there like the window is open but it is no where to be found.

What can I do to get the actions window to come back????

Slow To Open Actions Window
Has anyone else experienced this. In one particular scene, if I try to open the Actions window, there is a delay of about 20 seconds before it opens. Every other scene works fine. The are a few complicated animations animations in this scene, but I don't see why that would matter. My entire flash file, exported is less than 300k, and the .fla file is 2.2MB. Any advice would be helpful. Also, once the actions window is open, I can select different frames and edit the scripts easily.

Actions Window (Panel) - URGENT HELP
Ok, here is a stupid one -- I moved the Actions Panel down towards the bottom of the screen and evidently went to far, the panel is now totally off the page and I can not retrieve it --

HELP! HELP!

Flash MX Freezes When I Go To Actions Window
I need some serious help. Everytime I hit F9 or go to the Windows menu for Actions, MX freezes up on me and I have to restart my machine. What do I do?

Scroll Bars? And Actions Window
I want to post my resume. It is longer than the size of the stage. i want to add a scroll bar to let viewers scroll thru at their own pace. I found the scroll bar on the component menu, but I can't get it to work. Should the text be a movie clip? Other advice?
Also, the Actions window is so darn big. Can I make it shorter? It's not leaving enough room to see more than 1 inch of the stage.
Thank you!

MX 2004 Professional (Actions Window)
Just got a copy of MX Professional and in the 'actionscript' window, it is set default to 'EXPERT MODE' .

Please don't tell me they did away with the "NORMAL MODE' for amateurs like me. I can't find any way to set it to normal.

Strange Symbols In Actions Window
Hi, whats this all about?? The strange symbols.. Kinda' annoying Is it a setting ive turned on? Flash8..

Bye bye Mejinta

Can't Adjust Size Of Actions Window In CS3
I've got my actions window open for a project and on my Mac, the window is too big. It's running past the end of the screen resolution and I can't seem to make the window any smaller since I can't get to the resize tool. Is there another way I can resize the window so I can get it to where I can add the rest of my code?

Multiline String In The Actions Window
There's no doubt a simple answer for this, but it's been driving me nuts for years. In the Actions panel I am writing a paragraph of text to appear in a dynamic text field. If I write it as a single line (stretching maybe a half a mile), it comes out fine. If I try to break the text up for convenience only, like...

display.text = "This is an experiment to see if there's any way
to type several lines of text in the Actions Window.";

... I get a syntax error back. If I insert a backslash at the end of the first line, like...

display.text = "This is an experiment to see if there's any way
to type several lines of text in the Actions Window.";

... the text will appear correctly in the text field, but the backslash will also appear. I don't want a line-feed or a carriage return (
,
); just want to be able to break up the string as I'm writing it. Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance.

Action Window Actions Display
Hello

Trying to get started on flash mx but am unable to view any of the actions on the in the actions window all i get is a load of question marks like so "????". I've change the font thats used for the actions display in the prefs but no difference and searched the tech docs on macromedia.com to no avail, has anuone else had this problem??

a+
gar

POP-UP WINDOW From A List Search
Hi,
can you tell if it's possible to create a pop-up window from a list search like this one: http://actionscript.org/tutorials/advanced/active_search_list/index.shtml

if you know any outher idea you are free to sheare.
thank you

Actions On Press Title Bar Of Window Component
Hello!
Anyone know how to change actions happend on press title bar of window component? Specially I interested in changing depth.

Thank's for any information!

Actions On Press Title Bar Of Window Component
Hello!

Is anybody know:
name of function that changed depth of window component on press it's title bar?(no onPress, no onRelease...)

Or how on press window's title bar set it's depth not on highest depth?

Please, HELP! !!!!!

Viewing Windows In Flash (Actions Window....)
Since 3-4 days, I'm trying to edit the actions of a frame.
I can't even see the ACTION WINDOWS, how could I access it ??? Do I need to reinstall flash ?
Anyway, thanks to people who help each others. That's great !

Flash MX Crashes When Opening Actions Window
Help please!
Everytime I open up the Actions window (Window > Actions) MX crashes with a type 2 error. Don't know what to do. I've upped the memory, threw my preferences away, do I have to rebuild my desktop? Not sure what to do. Thank you in advance.

Smart Clip Scrolling Window-actions?
Last edited by msa : 2002-05-07 at 18:08.

I've been trying to figure out the actions to put on four separate buttons to pop up four separate scrolling windows. The windows are a smart clip, so I'm using clip parameters to load the different text in. Nothing seems to work. Either the window doesn't pop up on release or else each window has the same piece of text.
Any suggestions in Flash 5? I've been using Flash for almost a year, but still need tons of help and study.
Thanks.

List Objects In Debug Window: What Is This?
Hi,

I'm trying out the debug window to solve a major problem.
However, I can't find a good explaination as to how to read it.

Here is an example:

Code:
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.Ps1"
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.Ps1.instance12"
Shape:
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.Ps1.instance13"

Now, in the library I have a mc, called P1.
On this frame, a 'attachMovie' is performed, putting an instance of 'P1' on the stage and giving it the name 'PS1'.
There is only one of it on the stage.

Looking at the code however, it seems there are two of them on the stage. Why so many lines? What should I learn from all these lines ?

Thanks, once again,

Papermouse

Actions Such As Stopping Against A Wall Don't Work If The Window Is Scrolling. Help?
so yeah, when the character normally hits a wall when he's near the middle of the canvas he stops and doesn't go forward, but when he reaches a certain _x coordinate and the window starts scrolling to the right, say, his _y just keeps going up and he shoots up the wall...
what's goin on here?
here's the code for the stopping i think:

PHP Code:

stopped = function() {
        for (i=0; i<1; i += 0.5) {
            if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT) || YukiMC._xscale == -28.8) {
                if (world.platform.hitTest(YukiMC._x-(YukiMC._width/2), YukiMC._y-120, true)) {
                    YukiMC._x += YukiMC.speed;
                }
            }
            if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT) || YukiMC._xscale == 28.8) {
                if (world.platform.hitTest(YukiMC._x+(YukiMC._width/2), YukiMC._y-120, true)) {
                    YukiMC._x -= YukiMC.speed;
                }
            }
        }
        // if (_root.world.platform.hitTest(YukiMC._width, YukiMC._height/2, true) || _root.world.platform.hitTest(YukiMC._width-120, 62.45, true)) {
    }
    stopped();

Button Actions For Center Pop Up Window In External Swfs.
Hello everyone,

I'm trying to launch a centered pop up window and i've been using the following tutorial for help.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/centered_popup.htm

I'm running into problems now because I have these buttons to activate the pop ups in external swfs. I've been trying to remedy it, but to no avail. If any one has any ideas your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you kindly

Jennifer

How To Create A Selectable Symbol Window/list/etc...
Hello,

I am brand new to Flash and Actionscript and have a project I want to do.
I would like to have a graphic area where I can display a list of graphics/symbols that could be dragged
on to the stage or to a Movie clip to create a layout and do this within flash. There are a couple of sites
I have seen that do what I would like to do.

In essence: I would like to have a window that would show a scrolling list of symbols/objects that would
be populated (2 symbols/graphics side by side) and any number of symbols loaded in the list/window.
Then to be able to drag one of the symbols to the stage or to a movie clip. Being a beginner I don't know if
it is possible on a web page to have to SWF files on a page and if you could drag between them?
A site where this is done is www.sugarhousebanner.com with their banner designer tool. I would like to do
something a bit similar. Any input on how to do this in just getting started would be appreciated.

The 2nd item I have is also seen on this same site. I am not sure how they do the zooming in and out and not have the whole stage affected if all the controls for the graphics, fonts, etc... are on the stage also.

Thank you very much.
Kim H.
kimhovorka@yahoo.com

Accordion/Tree Navigation ... Tree DataProvider Issues
Hello all!

I've done a navigation scheme that uses both the accordion and tree components. The data being gathered is from an XML file. The only problem i'm having is getting the tree components to display the data that they're being provided with. I did traces and I found out that they are getting the data...can anyone take a look at the FLA and see what's going wrong?

http://www.jake3p0.com/downloads/accordionTreeNav.zip

I'm using Flash 8

How Do I Make A Tree Menu? Like The Explorer Tree?
I am currently writing a tree menu in flash that will look nearly identically to the std tree widget in windows (like explorer).

my problem is.. how do i link an object to an mc?

ie i have made a node class with member variables and methods (an array of child nodes and the LoadChildren method) and i have an mc that i want to be duplicated for each node (a little folder icon thingy).

when a node loads its children via xml it will get the data then create an array of child node objects:

for each child in xml
{
var node = new node("name from xml", "data from xml");

children.push(node);
}

so at the end of this i have a nice array of child nodes.

I dont know if i put the code that defines the node class into the folder thingy mc and then duplicate that or what..

Has anyone seen an example of something like this anywhere.. i saw a cool tree ages ago but i cant find it now..

I know its a bad explanation but my brain hurts at the moment

thanks for any help =]

Need To Find Tree Graph Or AVL Tree
Does anyone know where I can find a tree graph, also called an avl graph, which I can modify? I am creating a flash console to manage computer nodes on our system and need a dynamic tree graph to represent where the nodes are located and be able to represent child/parent relationships. It would greatly help if I found an example or something to build off of.

Thanks!

Expend All Folders In Tree (tree Component (Flash MX 2004/Flash 8))
Hello all,

I have a tree component witch reads an XML file. Now On my tree I got folders and subfolder. I want by a press of a button, to be able to expend all the folders of my tree. How do you do this?

Tree format: (view attachment)

Tree XML file:

PHP Code:

<node label="Project 1">
     <node data="data1" label="Item1" />
     <node data="data2" label="Item2" />
     <node data="folder1" label="Folder">
              <node data="data3" label="Item 1 in folder" />
              <node data="data4" label="Item 2 in folder" />
              <node data="folder2" label="Folder in folder">
                       <node data="data5" label="Hello!" />
              </node>
     </node>
</node>

Any ideas, paths? Please!

Thank you A LOT in advance!