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Dynamically Calling Movie Clip Instance
Hi there,

I'm trying to reference an instance of a movie clip without using the exact name. This is hard to explain so I'll give you the example:

I have 6 movie clips: (mc_movie1, mc_movie2, mc_movie3...etc)
I also have 6 buttons. when I press button two for example variable 'button_pressed' is set to 2.

Now, I'm trying to affect the movie clips depending on which button is pressed.

so what I want to know is how to write, for example : mc_movie(button_pressed)._x =100;
....where the (button pressed) value will mean this action will affect mc_movie2
if it was a string it c would be: "this is string number" + button_pressed +" of 6"... so how can i achieve this when it's an instance name?

very hard to explain, hope you guys understand and can help!!
cheers

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How To Change Instance Name Of Movie Clip Dynamically?
Dear,

Is there any way to change instance name of movie clip dynamically?

Suppose, there are...
Button A named 'a1'
Button B named 'b1'
Button C named 'c1'
Movie Clip named 'm1' with instance name 'm1'. (this constains button 'c1').

if I press Button A then, I want to show movie clip 'm1' with instance name 'm1'
And if I press Button B then, I want to show movie clip 'm1' with instance name 'm2'

To make a long story short, I want to change instance name of movie clip dynamically.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,

Yung

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Hi everyone

a shove inthe right direction very much needed.

I have a movie clip (Lets call it mc01.swf) that I am loadin on my main movie.
this movioe clip is loaded inside an empty container in my main movie. the contaner mc han instant name "contmc"

I want to stop the loaded Mc i.e mc01.swf whcih is loading inside the empty container.

any idea how i can target the time line of teh loaded movieclip??

thanks for your help

P.S. im using flash MX

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Just so you all know, I'm one of three people in our company that uses Flash and I'm considered "the expert". However, we don't do more than a few Flash projects a year, so my scripting knowledge is very, very green. Thanks in advance for your patience.

I have 22 buttons that play an assigned movie clip from the library. I suspect I'm building these things the wrong way (probably true), but here is how each button is constructed....

Each instance that I'm calling a button is actually identified as a movie clip intance with a button in it. It sits on its own layer. When I double-click an instance, several layers are displayed, the majority of which belong to the presentation of the movie clip. The clip lasts five frames.

The first frame consists of blank keyframes for each layer except for one layer that has stop() assigned to the frame and another layer with the actual button. The layer with stop() at frame 1 is then blank for the next three frames, and then another stop() on frame 5 (the last frame).

The button layer lasts all five frames. Here's the script for "display1980":

on (rollOver) {
_root.display1981.gotoandstop(1);
_root.display1982.gotoandstop(1);
_root.display1983.gotoandstop(1);
.
.
.
_root.display2003.gotoandstop(1);
_root.display2004.gotoandstop(1);
_root.display2005.gotoandstop(1);}

on (release) {
_root.Play();
play();
}

For each instance, there is no line of script that refers to itself. In this example for display1980, "_root.display1980.gotoandstop(1);" is not used.

As I mentioned earlier, each instance is on the main stage on its own layer. I've done this with only eight of my instances, so there are now eight layers. (There are--in fact--more than eight layers, but those are not part of this issue.)

The script I created does the job of getting rid of any previously displayed movie clip, but I created a new conumdrum: If I rollover any other button, the currently displayed clip closes. I've tried replacing "on (rollOver)" with "on (press)" but that doesn't work.

Like I said, I suspect I'm buildng this wrong. Is what I built a waste of time, or can it be salvaged? Or, is there a much better and efficient way (and I suppose there is) that can be described so that my green experience can absorb to good effect?

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Say I have a movie clip called viewer.

Inside "viewer" I have a function defined in frame 1:

function foo(){
trace("foo called");
}

Then I do this:

this.attachMovie("Viewer", "window", 0);
window._x = 100;
window._y = 100;
window.foo(); //this doesn't work

Why window.foo() doesn't work?
The "viewer" movie is shown, but the foo
function is not called.

I think I am missing some basic concepts of flash...

Thanks.

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Is it even possible?

I have been trying to do it for the last few days for a site I am working on.

I have done searches in many forums and it's foolish looking for an answer that way, because quite frankly every thread I opened was something to do with LoadMovie or GetURL, etc.

What I have right now is on the button in my Menu Bar Movie Clip:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(285);
}

Which plays a fancy little animation in the movie clip and then on the last frame of that movie clip I had:

gotoAndPlay("Contact", 1);

Which is the Scene for the "Contact Us" Scene named "Contact"

One would think that it would load up the scene and play at frame 1, however all that happens is it reloads the movie clip of the "Menu Bar" at frame 1 and starts over, not even realizing what I asked.

Anyways, I figured there's a script or something that tells it to look outside of the movie clip or to the _Root, or whatever.

If someone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry I have no example to show, since I have yet to upload it. (It's my company's web site, and I don't think customers would want to see some half-arsed web site that's not complete.

Thanks in advance.

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I have looked all over for a way to do this and can't seem to find one.

I have a movie clip with a text box in it. I want to place three instances of this movie clip on a web page and have each instance have different text in the text box. The instances are menu choices, so I want each on them to open a new web page.

My question is, how can I dynamically load different tet into each instances text box.
P.S. I am fairly new to flash.

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is their a way to dynamically give all movie clips unique instance names?

Example:

I have 20 different MCs without instance names and when it loads or exports (doesn't matter to me) it will give instance names like p1, p2, p3, p4, etc... to all the MCS

Possible?

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Will something like this create and attach separate movie clips onto the stage with different Instance names?

Because I'm having a problem where each one of the attached movieClips will display the exact same information, which would be the information sent to the last movieClip created. I'm assuming that my problem is that I'm creating their Instance names incorrectly, since when I try to trace the names out (eg panelIndex0), it comes out as undefined.

code: for (currentPanel=0; currentPanel<totalPanels; currentPanel++) {
// identifies and creates appropriate Instance name for the current panel
thisPanel = eval("panelIndex"+currentPanel);

// creates the new panel with its own Instance name (eg panelIndex0, panelIndex1, ...)
attachPanel = attachMovie("GameDescriptionPanel", thisPanel, this.getNextHighestDepth());
}

Is there any way to find out if my panels are indeed coming out with different Instance names?

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My problem is I have two movie clips that i'm working with. The child-clip has a variable and a movie at _level10 (the base of it) that I would like to call when the child-clip is loaded into the parent-clip. I tried _level10.variable but that did not work. And commonly _root brought me to the _root of parent.

How can I get around this?

P.S.
I know there was a way in Flash 4 that you could call instances backwards (//instance) or something like that. But I haven't used Flash 4 in a LONG while.

Plz Help

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This is hard to explain, I apologise if it's been covered, if it has, I can't find it.
Anyway,
I created my normal navigation bar out of buttons. When one of the buttons is 'clicked', I want a second navigation bar to pop up elsewhere on the screen. To keep the site simple, I want to make the movie clip for the second navigation bar seperate from the first. How do I get the first navigation button to 'call' another navigation bar.

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link ot movie:
http://christinedesign.com/flash/buttontest.html

link to fla
http://christinedesign.com/flash/buttontest.fla

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the answer to this question must be simple and i have made a hard honest attempt to find the answer myself. i cant find it in the book i have so i was wondering if u ppl could help me out.

i have several scenes and the first one loads and the user can click one of 5 links done, and then it takes them to another scene with another navbar. what i want to do is assign a variable to the scene thats says what scene(or page) it is, i need this so i can use it in a if else statement in the nav bar mc code to figure out which scene is loaded, that way a user clicking the same button as the page he or she is on will not have any effect. i need the actionscript for it.

oh yeah btw, i stopped writing this message twice cause of ideas i had that might work, and guess what, they didn't i really need your help

thankx in advance.

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on (release) {
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or

on (release) {
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My movie has one simple movieclip. it simply has one function defined on its timeline:
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This is cool. However, calling the function with:-
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In help would be great....I have tried _root. and _level0. syntex.

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I have tried the following code with absolutely no results:
_root.myMovieClipName.myFunctionName();

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Hay all,

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I have to make the MC exported for action script i know that. then its like"

loadMovieNum("Mymovie",4)

but i cant get this to work right and i think there has to be some sort of x/y values in there somewhere to.

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Basically myset up is this, in the main timeline on the first frame I load the function fadeBGAudio and the mp3, now when I reach a certian frame on the main timeline, my menu which is in a movie clip loads (menu_mc). In the menu are several buttons any one of which I need the fade sound call to operate from.

This is my fade sound code. How can call the fucntion from with in my menu_mc?

Code:
// variables for sound object
var bgVol = 100;
var bgVolMin = 0;
var bgVolMax = 100;
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///////////////////////////////////////////////////
// this function fade the background music down or up
function fadeBGAudio(upDown, sndObj) {
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delete this.onEnterFrame;
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On my menu button in the menu_mc I have this:

Code:
on (release) {
//////////////////////
for (var i in _root) {
if (typeof (_root[i]) == "movieclip") {
removeMovieClip(_root[i]);
}
}
///////////////////////////////
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nevermind figured it out

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so here's my problem:

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i sent up the linkage to export of action script with the identifier of "cloud".

so far this is what i have:
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"cloud"._y = randomYpos;
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i know that this part is wrong:
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"cloud"._y = randomYpos;

but i'm sure don't know what right is! lol
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Hi, I'm tired now of searching about it, I'm gonna ask it this way :

First: Can we do?
Second: if yes, how?

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function foo(message:String)
{
trace(message);
}

And call it externally like :
_root.myMC.foo("Hello World");

PS : ho, and I put this function at layer1 first frame of the movie clip, where should I put it?

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ActionScript Code:
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Here is my problem:
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Code:
//The code I applied to the object which arrow can hit.
//This code should direct to the next frame if this object was hit
//by the arrow. I know here is the problem - the instance name
//is not right

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maxArrows=1;
depthCounter=1;
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I've attached a test file of what I'm talking about.

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PHP Code:

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I've managed a work-around by making a new movie clip for the new frame- this works. But I need this mc for multiple frames and this method would be cumbersome.

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