FL8: Cannot Place Components Within MovieClip, Why?
Top of the mornin' to ya'll,
I've got a lame situation. I need to utilize Kirupa's tutorial of scrolling for a visual playback. Problem is, I need to have multiple UI Combo Boxes components within the necessary contentMain_mc.
When I make a movie clip with components inside it, their label display no longer functions or displays.
Any ideas around this?
Thanks,
Rick
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Posted on: 11-10-2006, 01:45 PM
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Hi,
I have a flash movie with a number of objects movieclips that can be dragged and dropped onto target movieclips.
The object movieclips are all on the same layer and therefore when dragging some appear above and some appear below each other.
I want whichever object movieclip is being dragged to appear above the others.
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Hi,
I have a flash movie with a number of objects movieclips that can be dragged and dropped onto target movieclips.
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[F8] Place The Movieclip In The Centre
I have a Movieclip that I like to place in the centre of the flash.
Even if I change the size of the flash I like to have that in the centre.
The movieclip is 200x200 but I can't make the movieclip in the centre
Code:
Stage.scaleMode="NoScale";
setProperty(mctest, _x, (Stage.width-100)/2 );
setProperty(mctest, _y, (Stage.height-100)/2 );
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Stage.addListener(resizeListener);
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}
/EDIT
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Hello,
First, let me tell you that in actionscript I'm a beginner. I do know flash - but mostlly for animation and other similar stuff.
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Hi everyone
i want to be stopped my movieclip on particular place.
here given code
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
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this code helps me to move movieclip. its ok but when it reaches 20 then i want to be stopped how can i do so ?
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waiting
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on (press) {
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I am creating a game with alot of minigames. In the minigame I am currently creating, I am doing a "Spot 6 differences" question.
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Im working on the following code and i need some help to change part of the code:
The code is a slider to view pictures loaded from external file. I changed the size of the stage(1000x1000), the big pictures are displayed above(1000x400) and i would like to do 3 things:
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Heres the URL of the code working: http://www.flash-creations.com/notes/dynamic_slidingviewer.php
Thanks
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Heres the code:
/********* DECLARE AND INITIALIZE VARIABLES **************************/
// names of folder and pictures, in the order to put them into the slider
var picnames:Array = [
"flower_orange",
"flower_yellow",
"flower_pink",
"flower_red",
"flower_purple"
];
// constants
var PICPATH:String = "flowers/"; // folder with jpgs
var NPICS:Number = picnames.length; // number of pictures to load
var PICX:Number = 10; // x loc of big picture
var PICY:Number = 10; // y loc
var THUMBHOLDERX:Number = 0; // x location of thumbnail holder movieclip
var THUMBHOLDERY:Number = 240; // y location
var THUMBW:Number = 72; // width of each thumbnail
var THUMBH:Number = 40; // height
var MARGIN:Number = 10; // margin between thumbnails
var TOTALBYTES:Number = 212000; // approx sum of bytes in all jpgs (x 2)
var MAXPIXELS:Number = 12; // max number of pixels to move slider per frame
// mask definition; mask is assumed to cover some part of the thumbnail slider (here the numbers
// were chosen so that there are margins between the mask and the right and left edges of the movie
// (which is 420 x 290), and enough space above and below the thumbs to show them when they 'grow'
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var MASKW:Number = 400; // mask width
var MASKY:Number = 230; // start y location of mask
var MASKH:Number = 60; // mask height
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/********* DEFINE FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING INIT FOR MOVIE SETUP **********/
// thumbnail rollover handler
function grow() {
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this._width *= 1.05;
this._height *= 1.05;
} else delete this.onEnterFrame;
};
}
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if (this._width > THUMBW) {
this._width /= 1.05;
this._height /= 1.05;
this._x += this._width * .025;
this._y += this._height * .025;
} else delete this.onEnterFrame;
};
}
// function to move thumbnail slider ("this" = thumbs_mc)
function sliderControl() {
var w:Number = this._width/2;
var hw:Number = mask_mc._width/2;
var npixels:Number;
// only do when mouse over slider mask
if (_ymouse > mask_mc._y && _ymouse < mask_mc._y + mask_mc._height) {
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if (_xmouse > mask_mc._x && _xmouse < mask_mc._x + hw) {
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} else if (_xmouse > mask_mc._x + hw && _xmouse < mask_mc._x + mask_mc._width) {
npixels = (_xmouse - hw) / hw * MAXPIXELS;
this._x -= npixels;
if (this._x <= -w) this._x = this._x + w;
}
}
}
// thumbnail click (onrelease) handler
function openPic() {
pic_mc.loadMovie(PICPATH + picnames[this.i] + ".jpg");
}
// assign event handlers (called when all jpgs are loaded)
function setupHandlers() {
pct_txt.removeTextField(); // don't need loading indicator any more
thumbs_mc.onEnterFrame = sliderControl;
for (var i:Number = 0; i < NPICS*2; i++) {
thumbs_mc["mc"+i].onRollOver = grow;
thumbs_mc["mc"+i].onRollOut = shrink;
thumbs_mc["mc"+i].onRelease = openPic;
}
}
// listener function for broadcast 'done' message (for each pic)
// onLoadInit gets executed when the movieclip has been loaded into _mc AND
// its width and height data are available.
// (_mc = the movieclip being loaded into)
// this routine sets the size and position of each thumbnail clip as its jpg
// is loaded and starts the next one loading. When all have been loaded,
// a random picture is loaded into pic_mc and setupHandlers is called to
// assign handlers to each thumbnail movieclip
function onLoadInit(_mc:MovieClip) {
// this gets done when the jpg is completely loaded:
_mc._width = THUMBW;
_mc._height = THUMBH;
_mc._alpha = 99; // for image clarity
// give the movieclip a property to remind it who it is
// (used by openPic to know which big picture to open)
_mc.i = (ipic >= NPICS ? ipic-NPICS : ipic);
// add picture size to totalloaded variable
totalloaded += loader.getProgress(_mc).bytesTotal;
// now load the next one (if there are more) or set up handlers if done
ipic++;
if (ipic == NPICS * 2) {
// start with a random photo displayed when all thumbs loaded
pic_mc.loadMovie(PICPATH + picnames[Math.floor(Math.random()*NPICS)] + ".jpg");
setupHandlers();
} else if (ipic >= NPICS) {
// load jpg into duplicate thumbnail (will already be cached)
loader.loadClip(PICPATH + picnames[ipic-NPICS] + ".jpg", thumbs_mc["mc"+ipic]);
} else {
// load jpg into thumbnail
loader.loadClip(PICPATH + picnames[ipic] + ".jpg", thumbs_mc["mc"+ipic]);
}
}
// listener function to handle broadcast progress messages
// make pct_txt show cumulative loading progress
function onLoadProgress(_mc:MovieClip, loaded:Number) {
var loadedsofar:Number = totalloaded + loaded;
pct_txt.text = Math.floor(loadedsofar / TOTALBYTES * 100) + "%";
}
function init() {
// create holder for pictures
createEmptyMovieClip("pic_mc", 1);
pic_mc._x = PICX;
pic_mc._y = PICY;
// create (and draw) holder for thumbnails
createEmptyMovieClip("thumbs_mc", 2);
thumbs_mc.beginFill(0, 100); // black
thumbs_mc.moveTo(0, 0);
thumbs_mc.lineTo(2 * (MARGIN + THUMBW) * NPICS, 0);
thumbs_mc.lineTo(2 * (MARGIN + THUMBW) * NPICS, THUMBH);
thumbs_mc.lineTo(0, THUMBH);
thumbs_mc.endFill();
// drawing the thumb holder at 0, 0 and then moving it makes its reg point = upper left
thumbs_mc._x = THUMBHOLDERX;
thumbs_mc._y = THUMBHOLDERY;
// create, draw and enable mask over thumbs (could use different variables to define mask
// if desired)
createEmptyMovieClip("mask_mc", 3);
mask_mc.beginFill(0x0000cc, 100);
mask_mc.moveTo(0, 0);
mask_mc.lineTo(MASKW, 0);
mask_mc.lineTo(MASKW, MASKH);
mask_mc.lineTo(0, MASKH);
mask_mc.endFill();
mask_mc._x = MASKX;
mask_mc._y = MASKY;
thumbs_mc.setMask(mask_mc);
// create loading textfield indicator
createTextField("pct_txt", 4, 200, 100, 40, 100);
var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.align = "center";
tf.size = 12;
tf.font = "Verdana";
tf.color = 0xFFFF00;
pct_txt.setNewTextFormat(tf);
// make empty movieclips in thumbs_mc for each pic to go into
// make double the number so the slider can move continuously and show content
for (var i:Number = 0; i < NPICS * 2; i++) {
var mc:MovieClip = thumbs_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("mc"+i, i+1);
mc._x = i*(MARGIN + THUMBW);
mc._y = 0;
}
// set the pointer to the first jpg in the array picnames
ipic = 0;
// start loading jpgs (ipic is initialized to 0)
loader.loadClip(PICPATH + picnames[ipic] + ".jpg", thumbs_mc["mc"+ipic]);
}
/********* CALL THE INIT FUNCTION TO START THE MOVIE *****************/
init();
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First what I am trying to do is really simple. I want to add a button dynamically to a MovieClip. I want to do it in pure ActionScript (ie I'm using the FlashDevelop IDE and have no .fla file).
So I started by looking at the MovieClip class. This has no "add a component" method. So I looked at the UIObject class. This does have a method for attaching a component. Great. But now I'm stumped. I do not have an instance of a UIObject; I have an instance of MovieClip. According to the documentation, UIObject extends MovieClip, but neither class seem to provide the means to create an instance of UIObject that wraps an existing MovieClip or to add an existing UIObject to a MovieClip. So I have two halves of the solution with no way of plugging them together.
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Hi,
I realize that pasting in place between movie clips is referening the registration point in each separate movie clip and that is why they don't align to the stage properly. So is there any way to turn this off?
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trace(comp);
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But when I attach one instance of this componenet manualy, then when I run the movie, everything is OK, and the second instance is attached by above line.
Of course I can set _visible property of this manualy added componet to false and everything is like it schould be, but I want to do it right.
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[F8] Draggable Movieclip Is Leaving Components Behind
So I have a movieclip and inside it are a few dynamic text fields and graphics.
The problem is that when I load the html page with the embedded swf, the first time I try to drag the movieclip the movement is jerky and the text fields keep getting left behind. The second time I cick and drag the movieclip everything is perfectly synchronized and the movement is smooth.
The only script I'm using is:
on(press) {
startDrag(_root.quad_window,false);
}
on(release) {
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}
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I can get around this problem if I click somewhere else in the flash movie once to give it focus. Is there a way I can assign focus to an embedded object via javascript/html?
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How To Get At MovieClip Components From A Class? (Kind Of Urgent)
If I have an Action Script class that is linked to a MovieClip, and that MovieClip has a Loader called photoLoader, how can I get photoLoader to load a photo from within that class?
Here is my .as class
import mx.controls.Loader;
Code:
class Photo extends mx.core.UIObject {
function Photo(){
}
function loadPhoto(url){
//This is what I would do, but doesn't work
photoLoader.contentPath = url
}
public function onPress(){
this.startDrag();
}
public function onRelease(){
this.stopDrag();
}
}
I would do photoLoader.contentPath = url or _parent.photoLoader.contentPath but both don't work. I also need to be able to alter the size of the Loader dynamically. There must be a way?
The catch is that Photo is created from another .as object called Page using attachMovie("Photo", "_photo1", getNextHighestDepth())
I don't know if this matters. Note that the above code has a lot chopped out of it at the moment.
Any help that leads to some success would be met with a dozen beer if you happened to live in Auckland.
Access From External .as File, Components Placed In A Movieclip
I am making a "setup box" for my game where players can choose the number of players, assign a color to each player and give each player a name. I had this working when I had the code in the timeline, now I want to see if I can make the same thing using OOP.
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Hello, im fairly new to flash MX 2004 and i am currently working on animations.
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Thanks
Removing Components From The Components Panel
This seems like a stupid question, but I can't seem to get my old components out of my Components panel!
I put some custom made components, just for a try, into the folder
C:Program FilesMacromediaFlash MX 2004enFirst RunComponents,
found them in the Components Panel, but wanted to get rid of them immediately. Deleted the components from the folder, but they don't seem to disappear from the panel! I have no idea where they come from, since I should not have them even on my hard disk anymore!
Cheers!
Flash Components Vs. Flex Components
I know almost nothing about Flex. Just wanted to establish that at the outset.
A client sent me an API component - an swc file - to use in a project I'm doing. I installed it in my Flash folders, but it didn't show up in the Components panel when I launched Flash. When I queried the client about it, he said that it was actually a Flex component.
My question is, what's the difference between a Component written for Flex and one written for Flash ? Can a Flex component be adapted for use in Flash ? In that what I received is a .swc, I'm assuming it has to have been written in ActionScript.
Any help would be hugely appreciated. Many thanks.
CS3 Missing Components Or How To Use Flex 2 Components In CS3
Does anyone have a good resource for how to use Flex2 components in CS3?
I found an install that said it would install Flex2 components in CS3, but all it added waas the UIMovieClip for packaging Flash MC in swc's for Flex.
Right now I am specifically trying to solve the missing dateField component in CS3.
But I would like to find out if anyone has found a good resource for alternatives to all missing components in CS3.
I'm hoping the answer is not to build them from scratch.
Thanks,
Hunter
Components Inside Components (Flash 8)
Hi,
I have an Accordion component which needs to contain a number of small forms, each of which is built as a MovieClip containing TextInput, Button, ComboBox, etc.
So, I build my little forms in Flash, make them into MovieClips, give them a linkage identifier and assign them the AS2 class "mx.core.View", as the documentation says.
Then I use ActionScript to attach these to my Accordion control, using my_accordion.createChild(). OK, fine. Works nicely.
The problem is that in the next few lines of code I also want to be able to populate the TextInput and ComboBox components which reside inside my accordion. I can't do it. Trying to do so fails silently. Tracing out the path to the Components shows that they are "there", but if i put some content into, say, one of the TextInputs up-front (i.e. in the Properties panel inside Flash) and then try to trace... my_acc.my_form.my_textInput.text... i get undefined.
So, it looks like the components inside the form inside the Accordion aren't yet "initialised" when I am trying to get/set their values. I've seen similar behaviour before, but it's not clear in the documentation how to get around it.
Anyone help? What is the correct way to use components inside components like this? I don't want to have to call a second function or put any code on the timeline or anything like that!
Many thanks,
Andy
Components Inside Components (Flash 8)
Hi,
I have an Accordion component which needs to contain a number of small forms, each of which is built as a MovieClip containing TextInput, Button, ComboBox, etc.
So, I build my little forms in Flash, make them into MovieClips, give them a linkage identifier and assign them the AS2 class "mx.core.View", as the documentation says.
Then I use ActionScript to attach these to my Accordion control, using my_accordion.createChild(). OK, fine. Works nicely.
The problem is that in the next few lines of code I also want to be able to populate the TextInput and ComboBox components which reside inside my accordion. I can't do it. Trying to do so fails silently. Tracing out the path to the Components shows that they are "there", but if i put some content into, say, one of the TextInputs up-front (i.e. in the Properties panel inside Flash) and then try to trace... my_acc.my_form.my_textInput.text... i get undefined.
So, it looks like the components inside the form inside the Accordion aren't yet "initialised" when I am trying to get/set their values. I've seen similar behaviour before, but it's not clear in the documentation how to get around it.
Anyone help? What is the correct way to use components inside components like this? I don't want to have to call a second function or put any code on the timeline or anything like that!
Many thanks,
Andy
Flash Components Vs. Flex Components
I know almost nothing about Flex. Just wanted to establish that at the outset.
A client sent me an API component - an swc file - to use in a project I'm doing. I installed it in my Flash folders, but it didn't show up in the Components panel when I launched Flash. When I queried the client about it, he said that it was actually a Flex component.
My question is, what's the difference between a Component written for Flex and one written for Flash ? Can a Flex component be adapted for use in Flash ? In that what I received is a .swc, I'm assuming it has to have been written in ActionScript.
Any help would be hugely appreciated. Many thanks.
Communication Components Do Not Appear In Components Panel
Hi! I've installed Flash MX and Flash Media Server. I would like to use the communication components in flash MX however, I can not see it in my communication components panel in flash MX. I've already added the communication components.fla to my ---Flash MX/First Run/Components directory under the
Macromedia Flash MX installation directory and updated the ASC files
in my /scriptlib/ directory.. But after adding this, only four components (audio conference, av presence, chat and connection light) appeared in my component panel. I need to use other components but its not available. What should I do? Any help will be appreciated.Textcommunication components
Add On To Using New Built Components Or For Building Components?
My version of Flash won't even let me use components created by other people... Is there a plug-in or an add-on that I have to get to use components that didn't come with Flash? Is there something else I need to get to build my own components? If so.. Where can I get it? Is there a homepage I may purshase it from? Where? How much?
Can Components Be Put Inside Components?
Does anyone know if components can exist and function properly within other components??
For example, I have a large form with radio buttons and checkboxes that is in a movie. This movie then shows up in a scrollpane and doesn't function at all.
Just curious if that is a limitation.
Thanks.
MX Components V MX2004 Components
Appreciate any help to this problem.
I'm working on a project using MX2004 and my business partner is working on the same project using MX only. I design and he codes. He has created a form in MX using a few components such as the Combo Box. However, when I recieve it, although it works fine I cant seem to swap the components to MX2004 - when I try I get a blank box/boxes!
Is this a known issue? He can't afford to upgrade to MX2004 at this stage or else we probably wouldn't have this problem!
Thanks, Steve
FMX Components Vs. FMX2K4 Components
Hi,
I would like to export movie clips as components and let other developers use those to create applications.
I have very little experience with components; I did use FMX components in the past.
I would like to let users change the components features, for instance, totally redo the animation of a button's components rollover effect.
1.Can this be done with FMX2k4 components (I think not).
2.Can this be done with FMX components?
3.Can I export FMX components with FMX2k4 IDE?
4.What effect will components have on file size and performance?
Thanks in advance,
DMZ
UI Components V/s Flash MX UI Components
I am having a problem with traceing a combobox using UI Components. I am tracing the value of the selected combobox using a combobox with the UI Components. I prefer the UI Components because they have the glow, rounded corners and are more attractive. the code works fine with the Flash MX UI Components. However, when I use the UI components it doesnt. The combobox populates however I can not trace. Does anyone have any suggestions? I use the following code to trace the value of the combobox:
myCombo.setChangeHandler("myFoo");
myFoo = function(myCombo){
trace(myCombo.getValue());
I also used this code:
myCombo.setChangeHandler("myHandler");
function myHandler(obj)
{
trace (obj.getValue());
trace (obj.getSelectedItem().label);
}
The code for the entire section is:
function getStateArray(){
myStates ="AL,AK,AZ,AR,CA,CO,CT,DE,FL,GA,HI,ID,IL,IN,IA,KS,KY,LA,MA,MD,ME,MI,MN,MO,MS,M T,NC,NE,NV,NH,NJ,NM,NY,NC,ND,OH,OK,OR,PA,RI,SC,SD,TN,TX,UT,VT,VA,WA,WV,WI,WY";
myStatesArray = new Array();
myStatesArray = myStates.split(",");
return myStatesArray;
}
myArray = getStateArray();
myArray.unshift("--");
myCombo.setDataProvider(myArray);
myCombo.setChangeHandler("myHandler");
function myHandler(obj)
{
trace (obj.getValue());
trace (obj.getSelectedItem().label);
}
Please help. Thanks in advance for any help.
Justice
Components Inside Components
I have built a custom component which I call 'VComboBox'. This component is composed of a single label and an instance of Macromedia's builtin ComboBox 'FComboBoxSymbol'. I named the instance of the FComboBoxSymbol to 'comboObject'.
Now when I drag a copy of my component onto the stage and in ActionScript I use the following code:
_root.myVComboInstance.comboObject.addItem("red", 0);
It works and adds the item into the combo box inside my custom component. However when I dynamically create an instance of my VComboBox it does not work at all, like below:
_root.attachMovie("VComboBox", myNewCombo, depth++);
_root.myNewCombo.comboObject.addItem("red", 0);
The combo appears but however no item is added. And when I click on the arrow for the combo to drop-down nothing happens. I am trying to find out what I am doing wrong? Is there a way to make this work? Also why is my custom component acting completely different based on whether it was created at design-time, or whether it was created dynamically at run-time? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Not Sure If This Is The Right Place But Here Goes
Ok i have been looking at the tutorials on here for scrolling text boxes and im not to kean on them. Does anyone have a clue where i can get some real good tutorials for this cause i need to conquer this problem.
Second thing can you also point me in the right direction to some tutorials on how to publish your flash movies and embed them into html and then centre them and so on. I no this may not be the right place to post this but i thought i would ask anyway.
Thanks.
Mentaly Insane
Best Place To Buy Mx On The Net
is there someone out there in cyberland who can tell me the best place to buy MX professional version on the net?
i've seen a few on ebay going for around US$400 but am a wee bit iffy on using ebay.
thanks in advance
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