I Can See Objects Outside The Stage :(

Create Array On Stage, Mathematically Referring To Objects On The Stage
Ok what I want to do is create a set of small images on the stage and name them sequentially like you would an array, then refer to them mathematically in actionscript. I tried naming them as an array but it says that the name is reserved for the system or something. Does anyone know how to get an array of objects onto the stage, or have an idea of something else I could do to get the same effect?

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Create Array On Stage, Mathematically Referring To Objects On The Stage
Ok what I want to do is create a set of small images on the stage and name them sequentially like you would an array, then refer to them mathematically in actionscript. I tried naming them as an array but it says that the name is reserved for the system or something. Does anyone know how to get an array of objects onto the stage, or have an idea of something else I could do to get the same effect?

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Best Way To Hide On Stage Objects When Other Objects Need To Be Shown?
A typical nubee question..What is the best way to hide objects on sage when a button from navigation is clicked and in response other information or objects need to be shown instead of the one previously on stage?

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Help: Stage Objects Get In Front Of Script Objects?
This is getting me mad...

addChild(my_script_object);

I can't see it...

If I try trace(numChildren) I get 10, so then I try addChildAt(my_script_object,9) and still cant' see it.

If I delete all the objects in stage then I finally see it.... If I delete one by one I find my_script_objects gets beneath a bitmap placed by hand by the designer.

Any ideas?

TIA

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Best Way To Hide On Stage Objects When Other Objects Need To Be Shown?
A typical nubee question..What is the best way to hide objects on sage when a button from navigation is clicked and in response other information or objects need to be shown instead of the one previously on stage?

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Moving The Stage After Resizing - Or Moving All Objects On The Stage? Heeeelp
Hello! I'm in dire need of help!

I've been forced to resize the stage of my movie but as the stage is expanded to the right and down everything ends up in the wrong place. So I wonder:

Is there any way to move the stage rather than the contents thereon?

or

is there a way to move all the content on all layers and even all scenes simultaneously?

or

is there a way to expand the stage equeally on all sides rather than just right and down?

THANKS ALOT TO WHOEVER COULD HELP ME!


Freddy D, Stockholm, Sweden

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Objects Off Stage
I am loading a small movie inside a larger movie. The smaller movie has object off the stage that move across. When I play the small movie by itself shows just the movie stage. But when I load this into the larger movie stage I see all the off stage objects on the smaller movie.

What am I doing wrong?

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Off Stage Objects
I was under the belief that objects off (to the side of the stage) were not visible. When I "test movie" though they are clearly visible. Am I doing something wrong, possibly they need to be masked?


Thanks
Stuart

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Objects Off Of Stage
i have a flash movie i made.... when i load it into an empty movie clip in a new flash document, it plays but shows all the items that were off of the stage and on the area around it - when these items are only supposed to be seen moving onto the stage. does this make sense? how do i make it not show any area off of the stage?

thanks a ton in advance
cosmo

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MVC And Objects Already On The Stage
So I'm finally really digging into design patterns with AS3 and I'm finally getting the hang of it. I'm currently floating through Adobe's "Advanced ActionScript 3.0 with Design Patterns" by Lott and Patterson.

For the MVC pattern, where exactly does an object fit in that has already been placed on the stage?

The problem comes up because an object on the stage at compile time is immediately instantiated without any real control as to "how" it is instantiated (afaik). The above book's clock example shows adding objects dynamically through an Abstract view, but that view requires arguments, and I don't see how you can pass those arguments at compile time.

Just a bit confused how to combine this together. Check out the clock example here:
http://rightactionscript.com/aas3wdp/

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Does MX Allow Objects Outside Stage?
may b its just me but, i remember placing instances outside the stage area and MX doesnt allow it 4 some reason or i'm totally missin somethin??

hog!!~~

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Objects Outside Of The Stage
Hello,

As all of us know the objects that are placed outside of the stage are not visible. But is it possible to access and alter these objects. I'm asking that, because of security reasons. I don't want that the user access these objects even if they are not visible. So is it safe to place them just outside the stage.

Any suggestions will be helpful. Thank You.

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Can Anyone Tell Me How To Mask Off Stage Objects
Hi.
can anyone tell me how to make the off stage objects not to show on the movie when it's maximized or fullscreen.
thankx for your time.

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Moving Objects On The Stage Help
Hello,

What I am trying to do is;

Assume there are 5 playing cards on the stage spread out evenly across the stage, and what I want to do is, when you move the mouse of each card (should I make them a button or movie instance?), the card will move to center of stage and go from about 20% of its size to 100% by the time it is in center screen. But this will have text on it, so at 20% you can't read it until it gets to center and is at 100%. Is this actionscript? I am not familiar with that other than gotoAndStop and so forth.

Ok, yes I am new to Flash MX, but I am learning more everyday from all of you, so can anyone please help me?

Thank you

Thorrax

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Objects Visible Outside Stage?
is it possible to make an object remain visible even when it moves or extends outside of the normal stage area?
HOW?

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Stage Aware Objects
Hi People,
Is there a script or extension that causes a mov to alighn it self to the edges of the screen no matter what the size of the browser is.
Check out this example:
http://www.bentleymotors.co.uk/bentl...ctlanguage.jsp
This flash site shows a logo in the upper right that moves it's placement according to the Monitor.
If you test it by using different size monitor sizes you will notice that
the logo always stays on the right but the rest of the movie stays the same.
You see that by the links at the top do not move.
So my question is again how is it possible to or what script would I use to tell an object, be it graphic or movie, to be aware of the size of the stage and align to the right .
This is a very cool trick.
What's really cool is the html page seems set at a percentage but the top of movie file grows or expands instead of just enlarging.
This is crazy.
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joseph

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How Do I Prevent Objects From Being Seen Outside The Stage?
When I watch my animations I don't want the objects to be seeable when outside the white box stage. I know you can use masks but is there a real way to do this? If there isn't then I don't get the point of the designated stage area....

Thanks in advance.

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Objects Off Stage Showing
I thought it didnt happen, but long objects off stage show up in my .exe and .swf files, and they print as well.

I thought things off stage were not supposed to show. is there a setting or way to block out the off stage images until they scrolling onto the stage? (other than covering with background matching color)

Thanks
Steve

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Objects Showing Off Stage
I thought it didnt happen, but long objects off stage show up in my .exe and .swf files, and they print as well.

I thought things off stage were not supposed to show. is there a setting or way to block out the off stage images until they scrolling onto the stage? (other than covering with background matching color)

Thanks
Steve

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Objects Showing Off Stage
I thought it didnt happen, but long objects off stage show up in my .exe and .swf files, and they print as well.

I thought things off stage were not supposed to show. is there a setting or way to block out the off stage images until they scrolling onto the stage? (other than covering with background matching color)

Thanks
Steve

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[F8] Stage Objects Not Right In Flash8
Hi,

A Summary.

The Object Instances from Flash 8 are not the same as those which come with the Flash MX 2004 D.R.I.A. coursework, which I'm currently going through.

The parameter names are different and I'm somewhat confused as to why.

eg

Flash MX2004 Group Name
Flash 8 Pro groupname.

etc.

I have Input Text boxes, checkboxes not behaving properly with Actionscript and now radio boxes where if I set an inital value it ignores other items in the same group and cannot switch off.

Any ideas what I can do or an explkantion as to why this is wrong in Flash 8? I desperately want to learn Flash properly but it seems the course I paid for and attentded a few year ago could well be defunct.




Outline

I did the Flash D.R.A.I. course a few years ago (flash MX) but didnt get a chance to practice or use any of it. I have recently decided to work through it again and have run into problems while manipulating push buttons and checkboxes.

I have created object instances, two of which need to be cleared when the user selects a push button with a clear function attacted to it.

I have named them correctly and I have typed in the correct actionscript commands. I have even checked the actionscript against the solution files and everything is exact. Yet the flash movie doesn't behave correctly. (eg the 'clear' button isnt working)

I then noticed that the object instances on my stage seemed different to the ones from the solution files.

They had the correct name etc.., but the checkbox from the solution file seems to be a symbol movie clip(???!!??) yet mine wasn't. and the Order_ID Input text had loads of superfluous parameters selected in the property inspector, which I did not set and do not seem to be able to change.

So obviously it was the objects on my stage which are wrong and to check this I copyied and pasted the instances objects from the solutions file stage onto my stage and hey presto they work.


My question is. Why is this happening. Why is the check box a movie clip symbol, which you arent supposed to be able to set parameters for anyway.? Bascially, help!!!

Here's my code, which works


/***********************************************
included ActionScript files
***********************************************/


/***********************************************
object constructors and object creation
***********************************************/


/***********************************************
functions and object methods
***********************************************/
orderID_txt.onChanged=function()
{
message_txt.text="You Entered "+orderID_txt.text;

}

clear_pb.clear=function()
{
orderID_txt.text="";
back_ch.setValue(false);
message_txt.text="";
}


/***********************************************
run at once commands
***********************************************/

message_txt.autoSize=true;
message_txt.textColor=0x630000;
message_txt.text="new message";

clear_pb.setLabel("Clear");

clear_pb.setClickHandler("clear",clear_pb);

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Spacing Objects Out On The Stage...?
Hi guys

i'm trying to find a tutorial for spacing objects out on a stage...
Say for example I have 20 spheres on the stage different sizes I want to create a script (OOP probably) that will ensure that the spheres don't overlap etc.

Does anyone know of any tutorials or can suggest a way for me to go about writing such a script?

Many thanks.

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[CS3] Detecting All Objects On Stage
How can i find every object on the stage and place them into an array?

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Stacking Many Objects In The Stage
Im trying to make a slide show of many pics (sliding from right to left) but there is a problem. They wont fit in a straight line when stacking them in the stage. There is just not enough room to stack them all in, and then make the sliding! What can i do?
I have attached the sample but i haven't put it all to be working properly, i have just added the extra samples i wanted, so you can get an idea when the fitting is beginning to become a problem!

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AS3 Find Objects On A Stage
How can I access instances of an object that i added on a stage. I create buttons with the use of class and add them on the stage giving them some label name that are read from an XML. All works well and the buttons are displayed on the stage but i want to know if there is a way to access them from within the stage.

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Moving Objects On Stage
I recently was asked to make sort of a slideshow, not a problem.
My question is, since there were 100 objects at once to be moved at the same time in the same direction, is there a simpiler way to make everything move at once instead of making them all move one at a time?

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All Objects On Stage Of Particular Class
Is there way to get an array or other collection of all the objects on the stage of a particular class? Or, at least to loop through all the objects on the stage so I can test them for their class?

Example: I have defined a class called "attractor" which extends MovieClip. Objects of this class have effects on objects with the class "attracted", which has an array property to hold references to all the "attractor" objects currently effecting it. I want to define a function that will find any "attractor" objects on the stage add them to the "attracted" object's array.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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All Objects On Stage Of Particular Class
Is there way to get an array or other collection of all the objects on the stage of a particular class? Or, at least to loop through all the objects on the stage so I can test them for their class?

Example: I have defined a class called "attractor" which extends MovieClip. Objects of this class have effects on objects with the class "attracted", which has an array property to hold references to all the "attractor" objects currently effecting it. I want to define a function that will find any "attractor" objects on the stage add them to the "attracted" object's array.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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How Can I Show Objects That Are Off The Stage?
When the browser is big, I want to show the objects that are off the stage.

how do I do this? I tried to follow directions in a book I have but it's not working.

thanks

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How Do You Move Objects Across Stage?
Hi i can't seem to move the picture to the stage..I loaded the picture in but when i press play all it does is show the picture...i want the picture to load to the x and y cordinates of 0,0 (center of stage) and it doesn't matter where the starting point is...can somebody please help? Here's the code so far...please tell me what i should do to fix the problem

var startX:Number = myImageHolder._x
var startY:Number = myImageHolder._y
var endX:Number = 0;
var endY:Number = 0;


myImageHolder.onEnterFrame = function () {
if (this._y > endY && myImageHolder._x > endX)
{
myImageHolder._y += ((endY - startY)/100);
myImageHolder._x += ((endX - startX)/100);
trace("x/y start:"+myImageHolder._x+"/"+myImageHolder._y);
trace("x/y end:"+endX+"/"+endY);
}
}

// create the XML variable
var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true; // you must ignore whitespace
xml.onLoad = function() { // the function that is called when the xml is loaded
var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes; // tells you the number of child nodes
numOfItems = nodes.length; // tells you how many items you have

for (var i = 0; i<numOfItems; i++) { // attach icons
myImageHolder.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);// attach image to the myImageHolder MovieClip
nextimage();
myText.text = nodes[i].attributes.caption; // set the text
}
}


xml.load("xml/images.xml");// load the xml

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Manipulating Stage Objects
Hi all,

I'm working on a movie that at some point in the timeline has a dynamic text field. I want to populate this field in the background depending on what I get passed into the movie. The name of the field is "PhoneNumber". In AS I try to do this, but it's not working:

PhoneNumber.text = "000-000-0000"

I keep getting this error:

1120: Access of undefined property PhoneNumber.

This has been keeping me up for the past 3 hours and I'm starting to hate it. Could someone tell me how to reference objects on the stage and edit them like I'm trying to do with this text field.

Thanks in advance!

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Deleting All Objects On Stage
Hi guys,

sometimes AS3 keeps driving me mad. In my application I have a function which indicates the application to restart. As everything in the application is built by classes, I used weak references for the listeners in these classes. So far, so good. Removing everything from the stage works fine as well, BUT also I used the weak references the garbage-collection doesn't kill all of the objects.

Is there any way to definitely kill all the objects that are currently on the stage including all their listeners or pointers?

Thx for any reply
hellslawyer

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Loop Through All Objects On Stage?
Is it possible to loop through all of the objects on the stage of a movie?

Say I have a movieclip that I placed 10 TextFields and 2 Combobox Controls on (not dynamically, at design time).

How would I loop through all of the objects?

I have tried the


ActionScript Code:
for (var obj in this)
{
trace(this[obj]);
}

but that does not trace anything, like it isnt getting into the for loop at all.

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Finding An Objects Stage
hello,
i'm trying get the stages "Document Class" (_root) of an object in its controller class with the following code:

ActionScript Code:
var targetClass:Class = Object(this.stage).constructor;

but it gives me #1023

what can i do to this?

thanks for any help

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Hide Objects Out Of Stage
When using full browser flash and resizing the browser window, the flash scales, but when the browser window gets to narrow e.g., any content/objects/shapes outside the stage are visible as well. Is it possible to use full browser flash, scaling the swf, but hiding the outer stage content somehow?

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Mouse Out Of The Stage (even If I Have Objects On It)
How can I detect when the mouse is out of the stage (even if I have objects on it) ?

If I use:

1) stage.mouseOut, it doesn't work because I have buttons on the stage, and it detects when the mouse goes on the buttons (and it is not anymore on the stage)

2) mouse coordinates, it doesn't work because if i move the mouse out of the stage sometimes the last xMouse value, (or yMouse) is > 0.

thanks

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Tracing Out Objects On Stage
I want to build an array of all of the dynamicly generated movieclips that are currently on the stage. Is there someway to trace this out?

Most greatful for any advice...

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Aligning Objects On The Stage
Does anyone knwo how I can align my MC's to the center of the stage? I've used the Align Panel but when I export my movie all the MC's (menu, borders and background - the lot!) are placed to the left of the window. Any idea why?

Sorry if this is a real noob Qs...

wB

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Printing Everything On Stage EXCEPT A Few Objects?
Hey guys,
i just need to know how i would go about printing everything on the stage except for a few things which i define, also all the lines on the stage are dynamic will they print?

(*** edit: I know how to print, but have never actually used it because i dont have a printer, so i cant test ***)

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Accessing Objects On Stage
Hello all,

Could someone explain me the concept of objects at the stage? How I would access them.

For example: I've made 3 classes, in one of them I made an container that contains a Circle. In another class I want to access them. So I know the structure of the stage is now as follow:

stage
_ container
____ circle

First I thought about giving the container a name so I could access it with getChildByName(). Only when I try stage.getChildByName() I get the error that I cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

Thanks in advance

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Referencing Objects On Stage
Ok, this is a dumb question but I'm just horribly stuck.
In my script I go toframe 5, and there are several textfields and clips on stage, but I can't reference them from my code. I get an error saying the objects don't exist.
If I move the objects of stage and just move them into place later that works but I'm pretty sure there is a better way to do it.

Any thoughts or links? I've checked around google but I don't know exactly what I should be searching for here.

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Removing All Objects From Stage
what i want to do is once the score reaches the certain number i want the play head to go to frame to which basicly says congratulations.

the problem is that once the score is reached and the playhead goes to frame two the movie clips from frame one are still there.

so i was just wondering if there is a easy way of removing all objects on the first frame before moving on to second frame...

tnx for any input

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Looping Though Objects On The Stage
In AS2, if I needed to access all the movieclips on the stage, I could do this:

for (var i in this) {
if (typeof (this[i]) == "movieclip") {
do stuff
}
}

with the preceeding code written on the root.

I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to do the same thing in AS3.

The movie clips I'm attempting to access have been manually placed on the stage. They're not beind added via "addChild", if that makes a difference.

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Aligning Objects On The Stage
Does anyone knwo how I can align my MC's to the center of the stage? I've used the Align Panel but when I export my movie all the MC's (menu, borders and background - the lot!) are placed to the left of the window. Any idea why?

Sorry if this is a real noob Qs...

wB

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Spacing Objects Out On The Stage...?
Hi guys

i'm trying to find a tutorial for spacing objects out on a stage...
Say for example I have 20 spheres on the stage different sizes I want to create a script (OOP probably) that will ensure that the spheres don't overlap etc.

Does anyone know of any tutorials or can suggest a way for me to go about writing such a script?

Many thanks.

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Throwing Objects Across The Stage
Hi
Ive got a little idea, but really have no idea where to start,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way that you could grab and object start dragging it then on release, let go of the object and it keep going the direction until it eventually stops, thus throwing it.
I will be highly grateful for any help on the topic as im finding it hard to find any tutorials about the idea.
Thanks.

Steve.

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Getting Movieclip Objects And Properties From The Stage
Is there a way to capture movieclip objects and their properties from the stage programatically? For instance, I have two movieclips ("square1" and "square2" with instance names "square1instance" & "square2instance"). I'd like a user to click on a button after repositioning and maybe changing the color of the squares. I would now like to collect the movieclip names, instance names, and properties (like _x and _y) for each instance to be send to ASP via the loadvars() object. Is this possible?

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Dynamically Moving Objects Across The Stage
I need help in moving an object across the stage. I have got it to move each time I click on a button, but I want it to move from point a to point b (_x Axis). Not in an instantaneous fasion but in a gradual fasion..

here is the code I wrote:
button1.onPress = function() {
var a = 6; //the plus value or the speed
var sP = 311.1; //Stop Point
var stP = 215.1;//Starting Point
var gX = (getProperty("button2", _x) + a);
//var mX =
if(gX < sP){
setProperty("button2",_x,gX++);
}
};

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Objects Appearing Outside Of Stage Area
Howdy everyone -
I'm sure I'm being dense and there's something extremely easy to remedy this...
I'm publishing an .fla as both a Windows (.exe) and a Mac (.hqx) executable. I've got AS written to show full screen. On both platforms, the movie does show full screen, but objects that are outside the stage area (waiting to fly in, for example) appear in the border area. Any ideas how to solve this.

I'm using Flash MX 2004 Pro.

Thanks!

Miriam

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