Flash :: Finding An Objects _x And _y According To Its Position On Stage

Finding The Frame Position
i had made a dynimic text.

on entering into the movie i want the framenumbers to be displayed in the dynimic text area.

for example

if the frame is playing the frame 5 then in the text area it should be displayed as "5/120" (120-the total number of frames.)

on every frame move the frame number should displayed dynamicaly.

help me out in this

from
aristotle

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I have defined an array as follows:

listRA[0] = "first";
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Is there any way to determine which member of listRA == daValue? Or do I have to search it out with a For loop?

I haven't found anything else, and I know other languages have functions to discover the value.

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Any ideas,

Thank you,

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trace(cnumber);

so that cnumber=2. How would I go about doing something like this?

-Brendan

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If you want an example take a page or so of text with paragraph pages and paste it into the big text frame on this page. Once you hit "commit" it will find the paragraphs and you can use Next and Prev to scroll through them. (its a very rough alpha version utility to generate XML)

Any help is appreciated!

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Hi,
a short question, how do you find out in which position a certain value is in an array?

thanks in advance,
polar

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Hmm.. ok this is pretty basic but I have bean wondering for some time and was afraid to ask...

How could I find the exact position for a attachMovie that should align with the background?

and does these positions sometime change when published? I mean I have to consider somekinda html and/or java config when publishing......right?

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If I want to position a movieclip symbol behind a word in a textfield, how do I do it? I mean if the text in the textfield changes fonts/or sizes and the text reflows, I need the movieclip to be positioned behind the word/words regardless of where the words fall.

Is this possible?

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm trying to find the possition of an elemtent within an array.

I'm currently work around this. It a button attatched in relation to the amount of items in an xml file:

this.onRelease = function() {

for (var k=0; k<array_length; k++){

checkARRAY = (_root.Nav_array[k])

//search through the array and get the possition of the currently clicked item

if(checkARRAY=this){

number_in_array.text = k

}else {

trace("not found")

}
}
}

What i'm trying to do is tell find the position of the currently selected item in the array so i can move the _y value of the items infront of it. Its a menu - all the other items would move down once i clicked the top item. I'm trying to make it all dynamic [from XML] so i can't refer to the items in the array without looping through it [i think].

If anyones got any ideas - it would be awesome!!

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Is there a way to find via Actionscript a list of objects that reside in the root timeline?

I'm think there must be a way to find out say what movieclips or textfields exist in a movie or the root timeline.

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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to find a reference to a sound object in AS3.0.
I am loading in a swf that has a sound object embedded in the timeline. I do not have the fla for that swf. So i cannot set linkage to the library asset.
I need to read properties in that sound object once i have found it

Please, any help or direction would be great. After hours on end of attempts, I am stuck
thank you for any help or insight
devcajun

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I am working on an audio player that will take a parameter from a web page and play the appropriate MP3 file. Each page in a series of pages calles the same movie. It works but I have a seriouis problem with the code. If the user navigates to the next page while the current page is still playing the audio, the new audio is played on top of the older clip. I suspect that each time the same movie is called, a new SoundChannel object is being created.

I'd like to come up with a function to search all current objects that are not in the display list and issue a Stop command to all existing SoundChannel objects.

Does anyone know if it is possible to write a function to do this? Have you written such a function? I can't come up with any other way to stop the currenlty playing audio automatically. I can't rely on the user to stop it manually...

The SoundMixer.stopAll(); doesn't work, I've tried it. :-(

TIA
Peter H.

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Hey guys,

I need a method of finding all the objects over the top of another object...

I realise I could use hitTest to check if something is intersecting, but I can't use it to find the names of the said objects.
I also realise I could just cycle through all the objects on the stage and calculate it that way, but considering there's over 300 objects that could 'possibly' be covering this particular object, thats a lot to calculate, and i'd like it to be snappy...

Any ideas? Is there something already avaliable that i've been missing?

Cheers in advance for your help...

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I'm using Flash MX 2004 Professional.

I have a multiline word-wrapped TextField of fixed font type and size (varying BOLD/ITALICS attributes) and all other formats set to default.

I need to find out the position in the text where the lines wrap, i.e. where a long sentence goes to the next line in the display. The _width and _height of this TextField is dynamic, so I require a fast and efficient method to doing this.

Currently, I precalculate the width of each character (bold and not bold) for the font and size I use. Then accumulate the width of the string til the width of the TextField is reached, then assume the line wraps at the start of the current word.

This method isn't very accurate somehow... my calculations tend to be different by one or two characters sometimes. I know its the rules of line wrapping that I'm guessing at, thats causing the discrepencies... wonder how we can very accurately determine how the lines wrap? (many special cases like "-", spaces, super long words etc...)

Anyone knows of better ways to do this? Very much appreciated.

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Hey guys, I could use a little help with some math.
Basically I am trying to find a random position to place a movieclip outside of my stage, but within a certain bounds.

I want it to be so the position is completely random and can have either a positive or negative value, and of course it must be a position with either the x or y out side of the stage, so that the movieclip is completely off stage, but inside the outter bounds.
I've tried to hack around, but could not think of a very clean solution that retained complete randomness within the defined area.

I also do not want to have to run a loop until I randomly come up with a set of points where atleast one of the dimension is outside the stage.

any help is much appreciated.

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Hi,

I've been getting to grips with xml and as3 but cant figure this out....

If I retrieve the value in a node from the number of the node, how do i then find the number of the node from the value. (confused?)

this is my code:

Code:

var hx:XML =
<hmv>
<level> <area> Music </area>
<subject> <area> Radio </area>
<content>Live Stream </content>
<content>Archive</content>
</subject>

<subject> <area> Library </area>
<content>Brian Ferry</content>
<content>Harvey GoldSmith</content>
<content>The Levellers</content>
<content>The Kooks</content>
<content>SugaBabes</content>
<content>Take That</content>
</subject>
</level>
</hmv>

trace(hx.level[0].child("area"));

var neededVal:String = hx.level[0].child("area");

///// this gives me the result "Music"

How do i then get the number 0 back from putting in the name Music?

should be relatively simple, i'm sure i just haven't been able to find this explained in any tutorials and its quite a difficult subject to search for.

any help greatly appreciated,

thanks

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Finding Y Position Of Dynamic Text Field...
Hi all,

I need some help with my flash, i'm making a simple movie that display testimonial quotes randomly into a dynamic text field.

basically each quote is place into an array, the dynamic text field then reads a random quote each time it it loaded.

I have a separate MC, bottom_mc, that i need to be placed below the last line of text(loaded from array), if i could find out the Y position for the last line (make sense)

is it possible to find out the Y position of the text field (bottom corner), then i can simple put

onClipEnterFrame {
bottom_mc._y = position of last line/bottom corner
}

I've attached my flash file to take a look. is it possible to count the number of characters in a dynamic text field? then i could roughly work out how many line the quote would be on...??

cheers, any help or point in right direction is cool. sorry if it don't make much sense, but if you take a look at the zip it may help explain.

will

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What i want to do is to populate a text field with the numerical position of an item in an array. Here's what I've got so far:

an array- call it bArray - which holds references to three button mc's:
ActionScript Code:
bArray=new Array[btn1, btn2, btn3]

Then I have a for loop which feeds a variable that numbers each button, and includes rollOver and rollOff functions:
ActionScript Code:
for(var i=0; i<bArray.length; i++){
pos=i+1;
//numberText is a text field in the btn movie clip.
bArray[i].numberText.text=pos;
[i]//bPos=bArray
bArray[i].onRollOver=rollOverButton;
bArray[i].onRollOut=rollOutButton;
}

Okay, not a problem. But now what I want is this- when you click a button, a text field in another movie clip displays the number of the button just clicked. And I can't figure out how to derive that value from the array.

Anyone have any helpful clues?

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So far I've gotten this far, I'm not a math whiz, that's for sure:

halfX = this._width / 2
halfY = this._height / 2
this._xscale = (this._width + _xmouse) - halfX;
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Hello everyone,

I would appreciate it if someone can help me out with this. I would like to write a function that would return the names of the all the movieclips that are on the stage. I have written an function but it only return true or false whereas I would like the function to return the name(s).

Attach Code

function checkClip()
{
var j:Boolean;
j = typeof(movieclip) ? true : false;
trace(j);
}

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My code:

_root.centerXPoint = Stage.width/2;
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My problem:

When I test my movie using ctrl + return, I first get the right value, but when I hit ctrl + enter again, I get a different one. Can someone tell me why?

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or something close to it.

I was called in to work on a project for a company, as they project has got5ten beyond the skill level of their in house developers.

This thing is Huge, and in its final stages. They want users to be able to resize the flash player window (projector) using the windows (and mac) controls outside of the move (like the maximize button) They want the scale mode to be "showall" and they want everything to scale up and dwon *except for an videos that play.

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I know this should be straightforward, but for some reason it's not working ...

I want to create a 'Square' class that will automatically bounce off the "walls" (edge of the stage) so it needs to know the dimensions of the stage to do this. But using Stage.stageWidth or any of a dozen other things I've tried just doesn't work.

The error I get is:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Square()
at SquareTest()
My code is below - if someone can help, that would be very much appreciated!

Attach Code

package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Graphics;
import flash.display.Shape;
import flash.display.Sprite;

public class Square extends Sprite {

private var side:uint;
private var colour:uint;
private var hspeed:Number;
private var vspeed:Number;
private var moving:Boolean;
private var bounceable:Boolean;

public function Square (sideLength:uint, col:uint=0x00000,
myX:Number=0.0, myY:Number=0.0):void {

if (sideLength < 1) {
trace("side length must be at least 1 pixel");
return;
} else {
side = sideLength;
}
if (col < 0) {
trace("not a valid colour!");
return;
} else {
colour = col;
}
this.x = myX;
this.y = myY;
// decisions about other properties' initial values
hspeed = 0.0;
vspeed = 0.0;
moving = false;
bounceable = false;

// actual code to draw the Square
var square:Shape = new Shape();
square.graphics.beginFill(colour);
square.graphics.lineStyle(0,colour); // no border
square.graphics.drawRect(0,0,side,side);
square.graphics.endFill();
addChild(square);
}

public function showWidthOfStage() {
trace("stagewidth is " + Stage.stageWidth);
// have tried MovieClip(parent).stage.stageWidth and other options as well
}

// other functions
}
}

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ActionScript Code:
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Hey I was wondering if anyone knows how to find a target objects _x and _y value according to the stage... while that object is located within another movie... i've tried something similar to this Code: with(_root){trace(this._x)} but it doesn't seem to work...

Hey I was wondering if anyone knows how to find a target objects _x and _y value according to the stage... while that object is located within another movie...

i've tried something similar to this

Code:
with(_root){trace(this._x)}
but it doesn't seem to work...