Controling Duplicated Movie Clips
please could some one help me as this has been bugging me for days now.. i have duplicated a movie clip with the following lines :
for (i=0; i<=nosBoxes; i++) {
_root.box.duplicateMovieClip("box"+i, 1);
}
Now what i can't work out is how to contol/position the newly created boxes..
Also do you know where i could get some decent tutorials on scripting interactive graphics, i can't find any anywhere!! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted on: 01-09-2003, 05:57 PM
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hi, i'm developing a shooting game, in which i am duplicating the bullet (ship) to shoot at a guy.
i have an array as you can see here.
Code:
for (i=1; i<=50; i++) {
_root.ship[i] = new shipparent();
duplicateMovieClip(_root.ship, "ship"+[i], i);
_root.ship2._x = _root.gun._x;
_root.ship2._y = _root.gun._y;
}
}
in stead of using ship2, i would like to use what ever is the next unused ship... and im not quite sure how to do this.
does any body else know?
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first i want to say thx for taking a look at this post.
ok I have uploaded a screenshot so you can see what i'm working on but not sure how the boards handle them so here is the url-> http://www.liveslate.com/brad/suit.jpg
ok so here's what i would like to do and would appreciate ANY help possible.
I would like to have the red circle be dragable over the smaller image and control the movie to the rights position so that the location of the circle is enlarged to the right.
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hi,
i am new in flashkit , and hello to you all..
well i have a problem. i am trying to do photo gallery with categories and i ll make movie clips for each category . but i dont want them to appear till i call them in main stage. how can i control them ?
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Controling Movie Clips
Hi
I'm in need of some help!
I have a string called my_string("tiger")
I use my_string.charAt() in a loop
and populate my_list["t","i","g","e","r"]
I attachMovie using my_list with movieclips of the same name
called t i g e r and they all appear on the stage so far so good.
problem bit...
in each clip on the first frame is a variable called my_num and I want to make each clip have a different value using another list my_nums[10,11,3,5,6] in a repeat loop but when i check with a trace my_num is undefined
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Controling Movie Clips From Buttons Within Them
greetings - 1st time posting here so please tell me if this question belowng in a different forum.
i have a movie clip consisting of 3 objects that scrolls across the screen. I am trying to make it so that when the user mouses over one of the objects in the movie clip, that clip stops playing and when they mouse out, it starts up again.
I am using the 'tell target' action for this but the button seems to be ignoring it. Is there some rule that prohibits objects embedded in a movie clip from controling that clip?
I am able to control the movie clip using another instance of that button outside of the movie clip and I am able to execute other actions (not controlling the movie clip) from that button when it is embedded in the movie clip.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-d
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Dear Anybody
Fron the main scene of my movie I’m trying to stop a movieclip running using a button
Currently I have a stop button with the command
on (release) {
stopAllSounds ();
stop ();
}
Which stops the sound and the main timeline but the movie clip carries on running..
I have stopped the movieclip by converting the stop button into a movieclip and using an instance of it with ‘on clip event as follows’
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
_parent.stop();
}
onClipEvent (load) {
stop ();
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
gotoAndStop (2);
}
Which is fine apart from I can’t then seem to create a rollover effect on the movieclip ‘button’
As a new scripter any help is very welcome!
Thanks
Mark Waterfield
Dam Another Issues Controling Movie Clips, HELP
I have a external .SWF file that plays within a movie clip called “Quote”
The movie clip “Quote” code on frame one looks like:
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When the external.swf file finishes playing how do I move to the next frame in the movie clip “Quote”.
The external.swf file was created in Swish, but any code I seem to add with in Swish is not moving to the next frame. So I just want to know when the dam thing ends, then I will have code outside of Swish move to the next frame in the “Quote” movie clip.
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Murphie
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I have a movie clip of a meter that movies when a song is being playing. I have a timeline in this movieclip with frame 1 showing movement, and frame 5 showing just a static image.
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hello, I wrote a message earlier and could not get my code to work. I am trying to control a movie clip named "mensroomMovie" that is on the main time line of scene 1 when a button is pushed inside of a movie clip named "womensroomMovie" it looks something like this:
this.stop();
function gotoFrame(event:MouseEvent):void
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this.gotoAndStop(10);
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};
enterButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,gotoFrame);
the second line inside the function does not work and the code works fine without that second line. Can anyone suggest anything. Thanks a lot
Edited: 05/31/2007 at 11:19:35 PM by robert113
Duplicated Movie Clips Help
Question 1.
How do I duplicate movie clips that aren't in the frame but in the library? I went to linkage and exported it for actionscripting (I told it to export in the first frame) but it doesn't recognize them.
Question 2.
I use a variable called movie_num to keep track of my duplicated movie clips. Everytime a movie clip is duplicated, I add 1 to movie_num. When I try to alter a variable in a movie clip (let's call the movie clip "circle"), I would say in action scripting:
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What action should I use and how?
I have dhtml paga with 2 frames:
1."menu2) menu.swf
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how do I make screen.swf button in "screen" frame open 5th frame of the menu.swf in "menu" frame ?
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__________________
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this will work fine but when I try to
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hope this makes some sense
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var rw="r"+a
var cl="c"+j
trace("cl "+cl);
trace("rw "+rw);
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}
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hi,
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How can I address a certain movie.clip or loaded movie from inside another movie clip? By assigning names to every movie I want to control?
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On the scene I want 2 insects.I scripted one insect movie,when you click it,it gets crushed.Then ý duplicate it but when ý click on the second movie clip ,still first one crushs.Can you tell me what to do to crush the second one?Sorry,this is the second message but I couldn't get any help from the first one.
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on(keyPress"i"){
//variables
b = random(12);
i++;
a = "leaf" + i
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}
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}
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}
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the biggest problem... when you click on a different stamp, one of the previous stamps disappears. so if you put two pig stamp on the board, and then put a chicken stamp on the baord, one pig will disappear. i dont want to have a stamp limit, they should be able to fill the whole board with stamps if they choose.
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count += 1;
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}
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stopDrag ();
}
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I have an array of thumbnails that I create through duplicated movie clips and loading jpegs into the clips. I have more jpegs than I do space in the strip I am using to display them however and I wanted to create a mask for each of the thumbnails so they would only be visible in the center of the strip.
duplicateMovieClip(_parent.thumbStrip.ImageButtons , "ImageButtons"+i, i);
duplicateMovieClip(_parent.thumbStrip.mask, "mask"+i, (i+totalImages));
_parent.thumbStrip["ImageButtons"+i].loadMovie("Thumbs/"+ _parent.slideImage[i]);
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i = 1;
do{
my_mc.duplicateMovieClip("my_mc" +i,i);
i++;
}while (i < 50);
The next thing I want to do is line them all up side by side, so what's the best way to target all the duplicated movie clips so I can re-set their _x and _y coordinates?
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yo...
i found this tutorial here in fk that teaches how to make a flame animation.
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i'm lost for words right now... sorry if im unclear...
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_root["shotx"+count]._x = _root.enemy._x;
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Code:
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
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duplicateMovieClip(line, "line"+i, i);
}
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};
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i'm using duplicateMovieClip() to display a list of results and i'm trying to mask an area of those results.
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anyone have any ideas how to fix that?
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How Do I Target These Duplicated Movie Clips?
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unloadMovie(_root.smoke_mc+j")????
_root.smoke_int = setInterval(createSmoke, 50);
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for (j=0; j<50; j++) {
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Loading Jpg In Duplicated Movie Clips?
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I am trying to make an easy upgradable thumbnail flash. the concept is, duplicate a movie clip x times in order to load x .jpg files in the duplicated movie clips.
my code is:
x=1;
mc.duplicateMovieClip ("mc"+x, x++ );
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meaning, when I use:
newclip="mc"+x;
trace(newclip);
..I get the filename that corresponds to the loaded jpg I want, eg, jpg filenames be mc1.jpg, mc2.jpg, mc3.jpg, etc.
but I can't use this using loadmovie, eg
newclip.loadmovie("mc"+x+".jpg");
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Duplicated Movie Clips And Hittesting
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I've used both the available tutorials, then built from there.
I'm up to finding a way in which you can not place a tower on another tower.
i know it can be done.
heres the code.
Code:
function new_tower() {
tower.duplicateMovieClip("tower_"+t, t);
_root["tower_"+t].delay = 1;
_root["tower_"+t].dmg = 33;
_root["tower_"+t].bulletspeed = 5;
_root["tower_"+t].timer = 0;
_root["tower_"+t].range_visible = false;
_root["tower_"+t].tower_range._visible = false;
_root["tower_"+t].placed = false;
_root["tower_"+t].radius = 18.5;
_root["tower_"+t].onMouseDown = function() {
if (!this.ctower.hitTest(_root.path1.g1)) {if (!this.ctower.hitTest(_root.path1.g2)){if (!this.ctower.hitTest(_root.path1.g3)){if (!this.ctower.hitTest(_root.path1.g5)){
with (this) {
placed = true;
}}}}}
};
Just the top third of the tower actionscript.
Anyway, the t value is ++'ed at the end.
I've been toying around.. but to no avail.
But yeah, how would i do it. I tried a few stupid attempts like if(!this(_root["tower_"+Infinity]))
ect.
Please help us out, thanks.
Controlling Duplicated Movie Clips?
Okay, I was here just the other night discussing this (and you guys were alot of help!) and i just have some questions
I have this game I'm making, its kinda like the game Defend Your Castle (if you've ever played it)
Basically I have one movieclip of a stickman, and i have that stickman being duplicated using duplicateMovieClip. All these duplicated stickmen spawn on the left side of the screen, and start running to the right.
Here is the code on the frame:
------------------------------------
interval=setInterval(SpawnStick ,1000);
count=1;
depth=1200;
function SpawnStick(){
status=Math.round(Math.random()*2);
if (status==0){
name="stick"+count;
duplicateMovieClip("stick", name,depth++);
setProperty(name,_x,-31.7);
count++;
}
}
------------------------------------
//basically just a setinterval to call the function SpawnStick (to spawn new stickmen)
I just want the stickman to turn red when you shoot/click him once. The red version of the stickman starts on frame 7 of the movieclip
on the "stick" movie clip i have:
------------------------------------
onClipEvent(load){
shot = 0
this._y=random(175)+140;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x += 2;
}
onClipEvent(mouseUp){
shot++;
if (shot==1){
this.gotoAndPlay(7);
}
}
------------------------------------
The only problem is that when i click/shoot any of the stickmen, ALL of the stickmen that are on the stage turn red. I understand WHY this happens (all the duplicated movie clips have the same code on them) but I don't know how to fix it.
How can i individually control each duplicated movie clip? I just need them to turn red when i click/shoot them once.
If anyone could help, i would be eternally grateful
Removing Duplicated Movie Clips
HI There
I know this has been discussed before, but I was unable to resolve the following problem using the proposed answer. I am working on a Flash / ASP application for logging IT related requests. In order to display all requests logged by the current logged in user, I query the database, and return the results as arrays. Using the arrays, I create a set of duplicated movieclips using the following code:
ActionScript Code:
stop();
// hide the origional clips
RefID._visible = 0;
Subject._visible = 0;
DateLogged._visible = 0;
// split up the array by looking for the commas
ID_array = IDoutput.split(",");
Subject_array = SUBoutput.split(",");
DateLogged_array = LOGoutput.split(",");
// get the length of the array
ID_length = ID_array.length;
// set the start y position (x position depends on where you put it on the screen)
yposition = 70;
// looping everything
for (i=0; i<ID_length; i++) {
// RefID
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setProperty("RefID" add i, _y, yposition);
RefID.RefID = ID_array[1];
set("RefID" add i add ".info", ID_array[i]);
depth--;
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duplicateMovieClip(Subject, "Subject" add i, depth);
setProperty("Subject" add i, _y, yposition);
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set("Subject" add i add ".info", Subject_array[i]);
depth--;
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duplicateMovieClip(DateLogged, "DateLogged" add i, depth);
setProperty("DateLogged" add i, _y, yposition);
DateLogged.DateLogged = DateLogged_array[1];
set("DateLogged" add i add ".info", DateLogged_array[i]);
depth--;
// Set the y position plus 25
yposition = yposition+25;
}
The code above works fine. When the user clicks on the "RefID" movie clip, it must take him/her to the details of that issue. This once again works fine, but when I try to remove the movieclip, it only removes the first one, and the rest remains visible.
I tired the following code to remove the duplicated clips:
ActionScript Code:
stop();
for (i=0; i<ID_length; i++) {
test = "RefID" add i;
removeMovieClip(test);
}
Thank you in advance
O-Grrrrr
Formatting Duplicated Movie Clips
Hi All,
I am using the following code to duplicate a movieclip (itemInstance) and get them to stack one below the other.
Code:
// get position of template movie clip
yPos = getProperty("itemInstance", _y);
// iterate over array elements
for (i=0; i<(names.length-1); i++) {
// clone movie clip and name it
duplicateMovieClip("itemInstance", "itemInstance"+i, i);
// set position
setProperty("itemInstance"+i, _y, yPos+i*108);
}
This works fine, but I want it to stack 10 vertically and then go right 300px (or so) and then go back to the top and stack another 10. And so on, like bricks in a wall.
Just so you know the number for 'i' is dictated by the number of names in a database.
Any help will be greatly appreciated - thanks
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