Flash :: NOOB2AS3 Problem With Import Fl.controls

Can't Import Import Fl.controls.ComboBox
Hi all!

I am starting learning AS 3.0 (used to use AS 2, that was sweet times ) and actually can't understand simple thing - why I can't include that package from action script?

I actually start new Action Script 3 file, and put single line in first frame

Code:
import fl.controls.ComboBox
and got errors

Code:
1172: Definition fl.controls:ComboBox could not be found.
1172: Definition fl.controls:ComboBox could not be found.
Actually thats part from the code listed at the manual and I don't have any idea, why it doesn't work.

Also when I open components window and drag combobox to scene error is not showed any more.

Any ideas how can I solve this problem without adding combobox to the library?

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Import Mx.controls
For some reason, I get a compile time error everytime I try to import mx.controls.* What could be the cause of this?

Code:
package src {

import mx.controls.MenuBar;

public class MainMenu {

public function MainMenu() {

}
}

}
gives me this error:
1172: Definition mx.controls:MenuBar could not be found.

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Hi guys,
I am new to the world of flash. And i have a problem with something i need to do.. maybe you guys can help me out.

I imported a huge AVI movie and conpress it enough to be manageble.

So Flash creates 1 frame per each frame of the AVI. So i have this pretty long Flash movie. What i want to do is give it playback options. Like Play, Pause, Stop, Fast Foward and Rewind.

I know how to do the Play, Pause and Stop... and i am having problems with fast foward. What i want it to do is that the person press the button down and hold it.. and as long as the button is holded down the movie will Fastfoward 10+ plus.. until the person let's go of the button.. then it plays normal.

is it possible? what's the code i need to put on the fastforward button?

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i have a main movie which loads external swfs.. and many of the external swf files contain ComboBoxes and/or Listboxes. In order to make the Combo/List components function properly, i understand i need to use code:
import mx.controls.ComboBox;
import mx.controls.List;
my question is instead of having to do this individually in each external swf...wouldn't putting the import mx.controls for the comboBox and List in the main file make them accessible for all files loaded into the main movie?... Is there some way to do this?....i guess it would be making the controls global?

i have just found that importing the controls into individual files produces a longer preload time for the files....

any ideas?

TIA

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Unable To Import Fl.controls.*
Hi,

I recently upgrated to Flash CS3 and have been porting my AS2.0 app to AS3.0 (phew!). I've been moving along - slowly but steadily till now. For some reason, I get error #1065 - variable button not defined even though I import the pertinent class.
so,

import fl.controls.Button;
..
..

-->some_button = new Button ();
addChild(...);

and I get the error on the indicated line.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
S

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Error - Import Fl.controls.TextInput;
so i was working on this project making it in classes and i tried to do this:

import fl.controls.TextInput;

and i kept getting the error

1172: Definition fl.controls:TextInput could not be found.

once i placed a TextInput component on the stage through flash cs3 and then deleted it the project started to compile without errors.

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Import Fl.controls.Button; Error
Can you explain this to me
I opend a new flash file and put in it one line

import fl.controls.Button;

And the compiler says:
Definition import fl.controls.Button could not be found

Wh dose that happen???

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1172: Definition mx.controls:Alert could not be found.

Hey there is there any particular reason why I can not access the mx classes from flash cs3.

or more so where can I get them to install into my class path directory???

many thanks

brndn

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Hi, I'm new to flash/AS3 and I'm having trouble figuring out how to use the library. I understand that when I include the line

import fl.controls.Button

I need to have a button in the library (otherwise I get a compiler error) but how do I put a button there? I tried copying a button from Common Libraries into may library, but that didn't help. I also tried drawing a rectangle, dragging it to the library, and clicking on "Button" in the properties box, but that doesn't work either.

Also, do I have to set the linkage properties to export the button?

Thank you!

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Hello yawl, well it seems that the confusion of embeding fonts in AS3 is still prevailent... I've managed to get embed fonts to work fine if I use TextFormat but if I use a StyleSheet it doesn't work... can anyone help me to get it to work with a StyleSheet? Once I can get this work in-line, I'll move the StyleSheet to an external file and load it in dynamically.

Here is the code I have that works:

Code:
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = "Eurostile";
format.color = 0x000000;
format.size = 14;
format.letterSpacing = 4;

var label:TextField = new TextField();
label.embedFonts = true;
label.defaultTextFormat = format;
label.text = "Hello";
addChild(label);
This code however does not [and I copy-pasted the StyleSheet example from the help files]:

Code:
var style:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
var body:Object = new Object();
body.font = "Eurostile";
body.color = "#FF0000";
body.size = 14;
body.letterSpacing = 4;
style.setStyle("body", body);

var label:TextField = new TextField();
label.styleSheet = style;
label.embedFonts = true;
label.htmlText = "<body>Hello</body>";
//label.text = "Hello";
addChild(label);
With respectful gratitude,

Sebastian.

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Hi very simple question but I cant figure it out...

if I am using:

Code:
//CONSTRUCTOR
rollArea.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, bounceSelfStart);
//FUNCTIONS
private function bounceSelfStart (EVENT:MouseEvent) {
trace ("over");
bounceGo = true;
//bounceAction ();
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It only works on the parts of the movie that are not covered by other movie clips, how can I make sure the roll over works no mater what other clips are on top of it?

Thanks!!!

Seb.

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hi i have the controls for car number 1 that would be the arrow keys if

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this._rotation += manuverSpeed;
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}
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
if (speed<speedMax) {
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That works great except that to close that movie again I've added a little button to say on press, unload movie.

Problem is none of the buttons or links on that page will work while it is being dragged around. How can I make the links and buttons work but still make the movie draggable?

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Code:
package nl.amsterdam.simulation.view
{
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.*
...
versus importing each specific one that I need?:

Code:
package nl.amsterdam.simulation.view
{
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.Tulip;
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.Canal;
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.Prostitute;
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.StonedTourist;
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.BuisnessMan;
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.Windmill;
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.CoffeeShop;
import nl.amsterdam.simulation.model.SkinnyBuilding;
...
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I'm sure that it must be necessary to use import statements in some situations, I'm finding that my code often works fine without them. For example, some instructions will say it is necessary to use import.flash.events.MouseEvent; before MouseEvent.CLICK will work, or that I must import the loader class before loading an SWF, but I'm finding that I can skip timporting and it works fine. Could anyone please explain why this it, and give me some idea of how to knew when to import and when I don't have to?

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Last edited by Nutrox : 2005-09-18 at 06:24.

 
Ahh!! I'm already getting a bit tired of having to continuously import classes into Flash for things like BitmapData, Rectangle, and Point etc. Is there a way I can set things up so that these classes don't need to be manually imported all of the time?

I've tried a few things including : (a) Creating extension classes, but Flash moans about class paths when I try to import something like flash.display.BitmapData into my own class. (b) Setting a class path so that it points at the class directory .. $(LocalData)/Classes/FP8/flash/display/ .. but that doesn't work either (I know why, but it was worth a shot). (c) Importing the entire class package .. import FP8.* .. but that causes errors with a tonne of other classes. import FP8.geom.* etc works though, but that doesn't really help.

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please help

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http://www.flamjam.com/lab/ice_skater_popup.htm

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Within the movie clip "control" timeline first frame I want to put another movie clip named "trigger" (like the horse!). What I want to happen is when the movie clip hits the first frame, it tells the movie clip "playbox" to go to and stop on a certain frame for example 6.

Is this possible and if so how can I do it?

It won't be controlled by a button just when that specific frame is entered.

Hope someone can help me out here.

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"

codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflas

h.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="208" height="190" id="fcd"

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<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
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<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="fcd.swf" loop="false"

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pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
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Sorry in advance if this is very obvious.

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PPl,

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I'm going to attach the file here so take a look and let me know what you all think. You'll notice that when you pan left it stops fine on the left edge but if you zoom in and then pan left, it jumps at the left edge. Thanks and please help!

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Stop
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}

Play
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like i know its really crappy but i need simple ones like this, coz the other ones that i found on this forum or everywhere else were all, the ones like:

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Code:
var cArray:Array = ["one","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","two","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","three","28","29","30","31","32","33","34","35","36","37","38","39","four","41","42","43","44","45","46","47","48","49","50","51","52","53","five","55","56","57","58"];
var cIndex:int = 0;
forward_mc.dir = 1;
backward_mc.dir = -1;
function chapterMove (e:MouseEvent):void {
cIndex += e.currentTarget.dir

chSeek(cArray[cIndex]);

}
function chSeek(id:String):void{
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Hi all! I'm new here at Actionscript.org and I have a problem that has been giving me fits for a few days. I've searched the archives and I didn't find anything specific to my question.

Situation:
I am creating an interactive CD ROM which has a world map in it. This map needs to have the following, clickable zoom in and out buttons, clickable directional buttons and the ability to drag. I currently have all of the above requirements coded and working but I'm running into a few issues.

Here is a screenshot of the map page:
http://www.malocs.com/forums/map.gif

1. The onClipEvent code that is placed on the movieclip is capturing random mouseDown and mouseUp events and triggering the dragging function. This results in the map following the mouse when the user did not intend to click and drag the map. This happens on RANDOM mouse clicks and it is not easily recreated. It could happen after the user clicks the zoom out button ten times or it could happen when the user clicks the left directional button only once.

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ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
this.startDrag();
}
}

onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
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this.stopDrag();
}
}
2. I'm having problems with the movieclip RANDOMLY inverting when the user clicks the zoom out and zoom in buttons.

Here is the code for the zoom out button:

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
mapSlide._xscale -= 35;
mapSlide._yscale -= 35;
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Here is the code for the zoom in button:

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
mapSlide._xscale += 35;
mapSlide._yscale += 35;
}

Here is the code for the left direction button:

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
mapSlide._x += 75;
}

Here is the code for the right direction button:

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
mapSlide._x -= 75;
}

Here is the code for the up direction button:

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
mapSlide._y += 75;
}

Here is the code for the down direction button:

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
mapSlide._y -= 75;
}

Here is the code for the recenter button:

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
mapSlide._x = -97;
mapSlide._y = 5;
mapSlide._xscale = 75;
mapSlide._yscale = 75;
}

Please help as I am totally dumfounded as to why the onClipEvent function randomly executes when the user clicks on the map navigation buttons. I'm also dumfounded as to why the map will randomly invert and scale when the user clicks any of the zoom or nav buttons.

Like I stated earlier these problems are random which leads me to believe that I have a problem with my logic. Please advise.

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hI
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8- previous swf
9- copy current swf & paste in specific place in PC
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Appreciate any help anyone can give me.

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OK!
here is the thing,
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on (press) {

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