Assigning A Linkage ID To A Movieclip Created With CreateEmptyMovieClip()
Hi,
I have a movieclip I created usind createEmptyMovieClip(). How can I assign a Linkage Id to that clip?
My reason for this is I later want to attach that clip I created to another clip using attachMovie() which requires a Linkage Id.
Thanks
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Posted on: 01-25-2009, 11:43 PM
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Code:
addressVars= new LoadVars();
addressVars.load("http://localhost/test/flashmx_dbPassReturn.php");
addressVars.onLoad = function() {
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setProperty("myMC", _height, "35"); //it'll appear as thumbnails
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thumbnail_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("t"+k, thumbnail_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
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ie thumbnail_mc.t0, thumbnail_mc.t1, thumbnail_mc.t2...
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Code:
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===============================
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Daf
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PHP Code:
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TL.width = 60;
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PHP Code:
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TL._x = -300;
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TL.width = 60;
TL.height = 60;
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Code:
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Code:
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Code:
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www.cpasols.com/photos2.htm
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_parent.selectItem(id);
};
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_parent.deselectItem(id);
};
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_parent.clickItem(id);
};
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trace(this.ymenu_mc.data)
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};
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I found a tutorial on line that was designed for Flash MX, with actionscript 1, and I've rewritten almost everything to work in AS2. BUT--
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The code that I have now is causing a problem when I try to test the movie-- flash says "there is a problem with one of the scripts in this file, causing flash player to run slowly. Do you want to abort this script?"
The section of script that I'm having problems with is as follows:
//------------------<SHOW SUBMENUS>-------------------\
// called by clicking the main menu buttons, this shows the submenu and moves the main menu buttons to give them space
function submenuShow() {
resetMenu();
h = eval("subText" + choice);
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this["subMenuMC" + choice + n]._visible = true;
}
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this["menuMC" + p]._y = this["menuMC" + (p-1)]._y + this["menuMC" + (p-1)]._height;
}
}
}
//------------------</SHOW SUBMENUS>-------------------\
I think the variable "choice" is causing the problem. I'm calling this variable at the very beginning of the script, in this section of code:
for (i=1; i<= _root.total; ++i) {
//duplicate movie clip
menuMC.duplicateMovieClip("menuMC" + i, i);
//then position them one under the other
this["menuMC" + i]._y = this["menuMC" + (i-1)]._y + this["menuMC" + (i-1)]._height;
/*The next step is to assign a variable to each main menu
button, so that when it is clicked, there is a simple method for identifying
the menu item.
*/
this["menuMC" + i].choice = i;
/* Finally, track how many levels have been used to create the main menu, so that
these can be added to as the submenus are duplicated.
*/
levelTrack = i;
}
Basically, I need to be able to reference a number index for each item on the menu, so that I can plug it into the code that operates the submenu.
Am tearing my hair out over this one-- please help.
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untfFont = ("utFormat"+i+"_font");
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eval ("utFormat"+i+".font")
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newClip.onRollOver = function ()
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};
newClip.onRollOut = function ()
{
subClip.moveThisY (-19,15);
};
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Assigning Variables To Text Fields In Dynamically Created Mc's
Hi Guys n Gals,
Here's a teaser that I'd like some help with:
for (i=0; i<aLetters.length; i++) {
trace('aLetters = '+aLetters[i]);
attachMovie("spider", "spiderD"+i, _root.getNextHighestDepth());
spiderD[i].alphabet = aLetters[i];
}
aLetters is an array containing any word - say hello...
the trace works fine. The trace inside spiderD[i] works also so I know they're being created. However no instances of spiderD appear on the stage? Puzzling...
What I'm trying to do is set a text field variable inside the spider clip to each one of the letters in aLetters.
Can anyone help me? I'm not even sure I've explained it very well but its an interesting conundrum...
Cheers for any help
Problems Assigning SetRGB Method With Dynamically Created Number.
I was after a way to make a clip transition through a number of shades/colors by assigning a color objects “setRGB” method to a number which decreases every frame.
code: stop();
next_color=new Color("useit");
var num=22339033;
useit.onEnterFrame=function(){
num-=1;
next_color.setRGB(num);
trace(num);
}
Everything sought of starts off promising, but then the colors seem to get stuck in some kind of loop & revert back to the colour set at authoring before transitioning again.
Anyone any idea what is going on here or why it won’t work?
Fla attached
Problem Assigning Dynamic Event Handlers To Dynamically Created Clips
I am in a for loop creating clips and assigning a rollover script to each. It works if I hard code gallery_mc1.enterFrame = navGrow; I have pasted the relevant parts of the script below.
this["gallery_mc"+i].onRollOver = function() {
this["gallery_mc"+i].enterFrame = navGrow();
};
//////////////////////////////////////
navGrow = function () {
if (this._xscale<100) {
trace("it triggered navGrow");
this._yscale = this._xscale += 5;
this._y -= 5;
this._x -= 5;
} else {
this.onEnterFrame = null;
}
};
[F8] Assigning A Movieclip To An Attached Movieclip Dilemma
I attached a movie clip:
customer = _root.attachMovie("customer","customer"+number,_root.getNextHighestDepth());
I want to attach another clip that is unique for each customer being attached by:
customer.timer = _root.attachMovie("ticker","ticker"+number,_root.getNextHighestDepth());
Will the timer be attached and identified for each UNIQUE customer?
New MovieClip() Vs CreateEmptyMovieClip()
Anyone know why this is not working .. if you use the new MovieClip() to instance a movieclip none of the movieclip-methods are available -- BUT when you attach/create ,and thus, psysically make a movieclip they are .. so what does new MovieClip do .. or Am I missing soemthing ..
this doesn't work :
myImageHolder = new MovieClip();
myImageHolder.onEnterFrame = function() {trace("test")}
and this is:
myImageHolder = createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
myImageHolder.onEnterFrame = function() {trace("test")}
thnx in advange ..
Nyls
MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip
Hi,
Is this function is new in Flash MX or was it already there in Flash 5?
Does the Function MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip runs well on Flash5 plugin?
What's better performancewise (and other view):
having an empty MC in the stage and on load MC i'll load it into the empty MC (the location is already determinded)
OR
use the function: MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip and 2 lines of code to place it where ever i want it to be?
I'm using alot the loadMovie into an empty MC so i need to know what's better,
Thanks in advance,
Maya.
How To Hide My Current Movieclip And Display 2nd Dynamically Created Movieclip?
I have a movieclip in which there is an image create this movieclip dynamically by reading the oath of the image from file and play an effect. its working fine, now i want to hide this MC after its effect is ended and then dynamically want to create the other MC and similarly so on. how to do that. my code is as below:
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcLoader.addListener(this);
lv.load("data.txt");
var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
my_lv.load("data.txt");
my_lv.onLoad = function(success)
{
if (success)
{
if(this.pic1!=undefined)
{
var ImgMc:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip("ImgMc", getNextHighestDepth());
_root.mcLoader.loadClip(this.pic1,_root.ImgMc);
//Some effect on ImgMc
//how to hide the ImgMc whe nits effect is played and then load another image in a movieclip and so on
}
}
}
How To Load Image Into Movieclip Inside Movieclip That Is Dynamically Created?
Hello Kirupa Cats!
I am building a menu from an XML file, and I'm cool with cyclying thru the xml data to create menu items.
For every menu item in my XML file, I'm using attachMovie to insert a movie clip called menuitem from my library into a movieclip called menuholder. This works no problem, my menuholder movieclip is poplulated with as many menuitem movieclips from the library as designated by the xml data.
However, inside the library movieclip called menuitem, I have another movieclip on its stage, called mc_menuImage. I want to load an image into that movieclip, and I'm taking the URL for the image from the XML data.
My problem is I can't seem to figure out how to fully identify the movieclip mc_menuImage to load the image. It may have something to do with the fact that the library movieclip is being loaded dynamically, but the movieclip inside the library movieclip exisits pysically on the stage. I don't know...here's the code I'm working with:
THE CODE:
var xmlMenu:String = "menu.xml";
menuholder = createEmptyMovieClip("menuholder", -1);
var xmlMenuData:XML = new XML();
xmlMenuData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlMenuData.load( xmlMenu );
xmlMenuData.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
var mImage:Array = new Array();
var mRootNode = this.firstChild.childNodes;
totalMenuItems = mRootNode.length;
// fill array
for (var i = 0; i<totalMenuItems; i++) {
mImage.push(mRootNode[i].attributes.menuImage);
}
}
//make the menu
for (var i = 0; i<totalMenuItems; i++) {
var menuitem = menuholder.attachMovie("menuitem", "menu"+i, i);
menuitem.id = i;
/* now here I thought I could just do this: */
menuitem.mc_menuImage.loadMovie(mImage[i]);
/* but that doesn't work... */
};
When I trace menuitem I get this: _level0.menuholder.menu0, _level0.menuholder.menu1, etc, so I figured the syntax menuitem.mc_menuImage would identify the movieclip inside menuitem, but to no avail. Maybe it has something to do with levels, I'm not sure...
So I don't know, any suggestions? Thanks so much!!!
Assigning Text In Dynamically Created Text Fields; Flash 8
I'm having trouble with dynamically assigning text to a dynamically created text field.
This works:
ActionScript Code:
//set font with TextFormat
myFormat=new TextFormat();
myFormat.align="left";
myFormat.color="0xFF3300";
myFormat.font="MyriadProBoldCon";
myFormat.size=25;
//create text field
this.createTextField("timText", 1, 10, 10, Stage.width,40);
timText.text="I declare a truce for robot juice";
timText.embedFonts=true;
timText.setTextFormat(myFormat);
but this doesn't:
ActionScript Code:
//set font with TextFormat
myFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.align = "center";
myFormat.color = "0xFF3300";
myFormat.font = "MyriadProBoldCon";
myFormat.size = 25;
//create text field; text shows up right now
this.createTextField("timText", 1, 0, 10, Stage.width, 40);
timText.text = "I declare a truce for robot juice.";
timText.embedFonts = true;
timText.setTextFormat(myFormat);
//but click a button, and the text disappears and is not replaced!!!
btn1.onRelease = function() {
timText.text="Breakfast is served all day in Hell!"
};
btn2.onRelease = function() {
timText.text="We prefer to be called Buccaneer-Americans."
};
btn3.onRelease = function() {
timText.text="It's fun to use learning for evil!"
};
I've tried setting up the TextFormat and createTextField as a function that's called on the onRelease handler. I've tried dropping the whole frackin' code in the onRelease function for each button. Neither approach works.
I've been digging around on the web, looking for answers, and nothing seems to solve my problem. Does anyone have any ideas?
thanks in advance!
MovieClip.onLoad And CreateEmptyMovieClip
I am trying to use createEmptyMovieClip, and assign each new empty MC an onLoad function, to initialize the location, etc, but the onLoad function never executes.
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("box", "box" + boxNum, boxNum);
_root["box"+boxNum].onLoad = function (){
trace("onLoad Called");
}
_root["box"+boxNum].onEnterFrame = function (){
trace("onEnterFrame called");
}
the onEnterFrame is called, but the onLoad is not called...
Any suggestions?
Also, one more quick question, what command makes the movie unscalable, like when internet explorer, if you right click on the file, you can' zoom in on the file?
I tried fscommand("allowscale", "false"); but it doesn't seem to work...
Thanks,
Dave
Assigning Varibles From One MovieClip To Another MovieClip
if for instance i had two movieClips and in one depending on which frame the movie was on it assigns a varible to match, ie frame 1 ---> varible=1
then how could i create a varible in another movieClip, or reference the first varible, which checks this varible and progreeses as required.
Sean
MOVIECLIP PROBLEMS: Referencing CreateEmptyMovieClip
guys,
I've got one little.. yet anoying problem here and I don't know how to get rid of it
I'm reading in an XML file that has the location of images. I've got a movieclip on stage that acts as a container (mc_container is it's name).
What I want is for each image that is read in, to be inside a new MC so that I can movie it around or change opacities later on.
- ie use createEmptyMovieClip and mc.loadMovie(image.jpg)
It's all in a loop and it looks like this:
code: ...
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
_root.mc_2D_img.createEmptyMovieClip("img"+i, _root.mc_2D_img.getNextHighestDepth());
_root.mc_2D_img.("img" +i).loadMovie(image[i]);
//trace(image[i]);
}
This obviously doesn't work - else I wouldn't be posting here. The reason is for the part that goes:
code: _root.mc_2D_img.("img"+i).loadMovie(image[i]);
Now I don't know how to properly reference the newly created MC without it causing grevious errors or simply doing nothing.
There must be a way to reference the new movieclip labeled img1, img2 etc etc.
Can anyone shed some light?
Problems With Release(movieClip) And CreateEmptyMovieClip
Hi, I've created a function to load some photos from an XML document in a movieclip (instance name: contenedor), with createEmptyMovieClip and it works fine. But now, I'd like the "created movieclips" containing the photos become buttons. I try with on Release(movieClip) function, but I have a problem: only the last loaded photo work as a button, for example if I load 4 photos the 4th works fine, but the rest doesn't work. Here is the code of my function:
Regards, Xatucans.
Attach Code
function photoLoad(){
_root.total=this.firstChild.childNodes.length //total photos in XML archive
for (i=0; i<=_root.total-1; i++) {
photoLoaded=this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.pics;
myPhoto=_root.contenedor.createEmptyMovieClip("mc"+i, i)
posi1=getProperty(_root.contenedor["mc"+(i-1)], _x);
setProperty(myPhoto, _x, posi1+145);
myMCL = new MovieClipLoader();
myMCL.loadClip(photoLoaded,myPhoto);
myMCL.onLoadInit = function (){
myPhoto.onRelease = function() {
this._alpha = 20;
}
}
}
};
MovieClip.onPress Only Executes CreateEmptyMovieClip Once?
Now, this is really strange... Is there a difference between onPress behaviour of a Button Symbol and a MovieClip?
I wrote this function, which was becoming to be the host of a loop, which would dynamically add items to my submenu, but, a very strange thing happened. menubutton1 is a movieclip, if i leave it this way, my object "submenu1" will be removed, when i invoke the creation of a second emptyMovieClip (the trace before the second "createEmptyMovieClip" would give me the coordinate and the trace after the "createEmptyMovieClip" returns "undefined" ) --> but if i make menubutton1 a button, it works perfectly fine, now my problem is that menubutton1-n are created dynamically in actionscript and therefor are MovieClips and MovieClips only (except if there may be a trick, to create an alpha=0 Button on the fly, which i could lay over my actual MovieClip Button - But I doubt that)
well here's the code:
function loadentries(num, submenu_height, submenu_scrollstep)
{
eval("menubutton" + num).onRelease = function()
{
newmenubutton_name = "menubutton" + num;
submenu = "submenu" + num;
eval(newmenubutton_name)._x = menubutton_x;
eval(newmenubutton_name)._y = menubutton_y;
createEmptyMovieClip(submenu,this.getNextHighestDe pth());
eval(submenu)._x = eval(newmenubutton_name)._x;
eval(submenu)._y = eval(newmenubutton_name)._y;
count = 1;
// arrow up
newsubmenuitem = "submenuitem" + count;
eval(submenu).attachMovie("DropDown_SubMenuBG",new submenuitem,this.getNextHighestDepth());
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem]._width = eval(newmenubutton_name)[newmenubutton_name]._width-10;
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem]._height = submenu_height;
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem]._x = 5;
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem]._y += 7;
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem].createEmptyMovieClip("labelholder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem].labelholder.createTextField("arrowup", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, -2.5, 20, submenu_height);
myformat = new TextFormat();
myformat.size = "8";
myformat.font = "Arial";
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem].labelholder.arrowup.text = "back up again";
eval(submenu)[newsubmenuitem].labelholder.arrowup.setTextFormat(myformat);
count++;
trace(submenu1._y);
submenu = "submenu2";
createEmptyMovieClip(submenu,this.getNextHighestDe pth());
trace(submenu1._y);
switch(num)
{
case 1:
trace("entry1");
trace(submenu_height);
break;
case 2:
trace("entry2");
trace(submenu_height);
break;
}
}
}
if you want to test this code:
create at least one menu button (MovieClip), called menubutton1.
create a button, called tracer, to test if submenu1 is still there
then add this to the bottom of the code
loadentries(1, 50, 5);
tracer.onPress = function()
{
trace(submenu1._y);
}
AS Movieclip Linkage
hey guys, i'm a beginner in AS and have this assignment i'm kind od stuck with. there are 2 things i would like to ask here.
1. I have to import a certain ammount of jpg images into different movieclips.
do i just create a loop en than do a createEmptyMovieclip?
and how do i load the jpg files into that created Moviecilip?
2. when i would create these movieclips, i need linkage to use them in the rest of my script, but i don't know how to do this in AS. Normally i would just rightclick on an movieclip > choose linkage and check Export for Actionscript.
but how do is do it with movieclips created in AS?
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