Flash :: Movie Clip Instance Issue

Want Opening Movie Clip Instance To Close Underlying Movie Clip Instance
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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Using On() With A Movie Clip Instance
I tried applying the following action to a movie clip instance:

on(rollOver){
myVar="1";
}

myVar gets set, but the movie clip doesn't run if the on() action is present. Is on() only supposed to be used with button instances? Is there a way to achieve the results of using on() successfully with a movie clip?

Any advice is appreciated.

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Help With Movie Clip Instance
I have some buttons in my movie that are made from a moive clip so that it will stay in the down state when you click. They work great until i use them to loadmovie then the rollover state and click state stop working. you can see in my movie that number 1,2,3 load a movie but there is no rollover , the rest of the buttons look as they should when you roll over and click .

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

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

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Currently, I'm reading Phillip Kerman's "Flash MX in 24 hours" One of the exercises is to place actions on a movie clip instance. In the book reads 1)create a movie clip with some animation 2)Place this movie clip onstage and test the movie 3) Back in Flash, select the instance of the Movie Clip onstage and open Actions Panel (the task is to have an instance load onstage and then stop) The exercise asks in the 2nd instruction to place the movie clip onstage (also it notes that the timeline will have only 1 frame) How do I create animation and then move it onstage? I test the movie, it loads, but the action isn't stoping the movie. Help
Russell

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I have created a scrolling row of banner ads that reacts to the mouse. I had some help getting the images to load in using an xml document and also to pass the url from the xml. My problem is the button funtion is blocked as the button movie clips need to be placed inside the scrolling movie clip in order to get it to scroll. Is there anyway I can get these buttons to work? I have attached my fla, please help!

Thanks for your time,

Glenn

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ok, here is my problem. i am trying to add a movie clip to a button. see what i want to do is make it so that when you roll over the button a flashy little movie comes on behind it. then when you roll out the movie goes away. so here is what i did, by the way i am using windows and flash 5, ok so i right clicked on the instance of the button that i want to use and in the actions i put an on mouse event and check the rollover button. then i add a loadmovie and load the movie on level1. the i put in the other on mouse event and check the rollout button then i add the unloadmovie. ok everything works fine. now here is my problem. when the movie loads it loads in the upper left hand corner, which is not where i need it to be. so i try to use a couple of setproperty's but that don't work. so how do i position the movie where i need it to be, PLEASE HELP!!!!!

this is what i have so far. and i have tried putting the setpropety right under the loadmovie and it don't work. and i can't put the setproerty in the next frame cause the movie won't load if i do that because i have to create another key frame. JUST SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

on (rollOver) {
loadMovieNum ("OverAnimi.swf", 1);
}
on (rollOut) {
unloadMovieNum (1);
}

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Im slowly getting there. Im having a problem with the movie clips still. What im trying to do is have a menu system that loads in the different movie clips.

I have my intro and menu where i want them. But when i assigned an instance to the intro mc and then tell a button in the menu, for a new mc to take its place. The new mc shows up in the bottom right hand corner. Instead of replacing the original.

I just can't understand instances, they seem perfectly logical yet, they aren't working.

Jim Miesner

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Is there are way to replace an instance or movie clip with a click of a button??

ex:

I have an instance on screen and when I click a button I want to replace it with a movie clip that is not on the screen but is in the library.

Is there a way to do this??

The way I have this movie working now is there are 100 movie clips on the screen with their alpha levels at 0.
When I click the button the alpha level on the desired movie clip/instance changes to 100. Thus it is visible.

This is very inefficient.

Is there another way????

Please help . > .

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Hi there,

I just started using MX to load JPEG Images with the loadMovie(); from a web server. All good. Now though I positioned a movie clip inside a button and is seems not to load Jpegs into it and when I insert a target path flash does not show me the instance of the movie clip within the button... something I am missing?

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Is It Possible To Have An Instance For The Duplicated Movie Clip?
I totally lost. In the game I am trying to create the shooter shoots with arrows to an object. If the arrow hits this object then the gotoAndStop command should be assigned to go to the next frame. I cannot figure out how to assign this command, because the instance name is for duplicated movie clip. I am wondering if someone can help. I assume if I will have the correct name of the instance for this duplicated arrow I will able to assign the gotoAndStop command.

Many thanks in advance!

Here is my code:

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

if (this.hitTest(_root["arrow"])) {
_root.gotoAndStop("next frame");
}

//This code I applied to the shooter object.

onClipEvent(load) {
moveSpeed=5;
_root.arrow._visible=false;
arrowCounter=1;
scrollx=_root.mainGround.ground._width/3;
scrollStart=false;
maxArrows=1;
depthCounter=1;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
// shoot arrow
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) and (arrowCounter<=maxArrows)) {
arrowCounter++;
_root.arrow.duplicateMovieClip( "arrow"+depthCounter, depthCounter );
_root["arrow"+depthCounter]._visible=true;
depthCounter++;
if (depthCounter>maxArrows){
depthCounter=1;
}
}

//The code I applied to Arrow.

onClipEvent (load) {
arrowMoveSpeed = 20;
this._y = _root.cupid._y-49;
this._x = _root.cupid._x-20;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this._name<>"arrow") {
this._x += arrowMoveSpeed;
if (this._x>600) {
_root.cupid.arrowCounter--;
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}

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I can't seem to find out where to name the instance for a movie clip in flash MX, i can't find out where to put the instance name, can anyone help out, its diffrent from Flash 4

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I'm trying to insert several mcs into my website that are buttons flying onto the stage. I can't get them to fly in without repeating when the root timeline loops - how can I fix that? I have some other things going on in other layers that I want to loop, but I don't want the mc buttons to loop.

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Hey there,
I've been having this problem with naming movie clip instances, and it seems very stupid but I can't figure it out.

I made a movie clip of a phone, which has some frames for ringing, and then some frames for being picked up off the receiver. I dragged it onto the timeline and named it 'ph' in the instance name section. Then in the action section of that keyframe (not the actions for the phone movie clip) I added some code to have the phone play the frames I wanted to:
ph.gotoAndPlay(8);

When I test the scene, nothing happens. It doesn't jump to the desired frames. It would appear to ignore that code entirely. Then if I go back into that scene, click on the phone, add that same code to the phone and run it, something different happens. First, it will throw an error saying that I can't put code in the movie clip unless it's in an event, but then it will execute the code in the way I want. In order to get rid of the error, I click on my phone movie clip, delete that code, leave the original code in the keyframe, and it works. So basically, all I do, is add the code to the movie clip, then delete it, and my movie starts working. Does this happen to anyone else? I can't figure out why this would be. I'm using FlashMX2004, but I believe I had a similar problem in FlashMX.

Thanks for any help, and if something needs to be clarified, just lemme know.

-skiz

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I'm using

PHP Code:

onClipEvent (load) {
startDrag(this, true);
}

on an instance of a symbol in a movie. How can click somewhere in the flash movie and have a symbol be placed there. This will happen a lot, as I intend to use the movie symbols to create the effect of splattering eggs on the background. Any ideas?

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hi,

How do i create the MC instance dynamically when the program runs? and assign the name to each instance?

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Ive recently posted this problem, but I apparently didn't express myself clearly.

First I want to thank all those who have tried to help me. I did learn better means of writing syntax.

Now, the problem. I have a movie clip with 5 instances on one frame. The function of these instances is to be _visible or not and to be specifically positioned according to a particular button action. All this works fine.

When I move to the next frame and attempt to use 5 new instances of the same movie clip (named differently than the 5 on the previous frame), nothing happens.

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.

All ideas are welcomed with thanks.

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Firstly I'm working in Flash 5 and my skills are rudementary.

Attached is a sample multiple choice exam. Yes, I know there's a smart clip available for multiple choice tests. I haven't been smart enought to use it.

My problem is once I've made all the instances (1 to 5) of movie clip "answer dot" visible by clicking the invisible buttons and go to the next page, none of the susequent instances (6 to 10) of the same movie clip respond to the script.

Why?

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I am trying to do a simple animation in which I have stars in the sky which brighten and dim at random times. I have created a movie clip, on which the brighten and dim tween starts at frame2 and frame1 is just a stop() command.

Then on the main stage, I have two layers. One in which I have dragged several instances of the movie clip and one for actionscript. The movie clip instances are named "star1","star2", and so forth. There is just the one frame in both layers.

I cannot get it to do anything on the instances from the actionscript layer. This is the code I am trying to use to test it and it does absolutely nothing.

Code:
_root.star1.goToAndPlay(2);

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Question:

Shouldn't I be able to create one MC in my library and drag multiple instances of it onto Stage and edit each instance individually w/o affecting the other instances on Stage, each w/ unique instance names and other different MC's inside it?

Everytime I try to do that, if I change one instance, it changes the other instance also, even though they have different instance names, but they share the same MC "parent" symbol in the library....how do I accomplish this?

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I'm creating a menu with actionscript by making movie clips. I've got the menu part down, I'm just trying to get the menu to be scrollable. I've got a scrollbar already built, but I need to give the movie clip an instance name in the actionscript somehow I think. Any ideas? Sorry, I'm a flash noob.

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Hello there. I constantly meet the same problem by making my thumbnail gallery.
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So I import from library an image (thumbnailed) convert it to movie clip and in the Mclip stage I use action script with on rollover action. But I always get the same error : on rollover only for button instance. Do I have then to convert my image as button ???
I am lost . Please help me, I'm getting nuts. : (
THANKS !!!!!!!!!!

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Hi, hopefully someone can answer this beginner question.

When a button is pressed, I'd like to make an instance of a movie clip (called "square") at X=100, Y=100.

I'm guessing it would be

on(press){

CODE FOR CREATING AN INSTANCE OF A MOVIE CLIP????

}

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Hello

I attach MCs within actionscript but I don't know how to use them. For example:

PHP Code:

for (i=1; i<5; i++){
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    setProperty("mca" add i, _x, i*100);
    // how can I control clip "mca1"..., for example how can I change txt box inside "mca1...
    // it works with setProperty, but that's it.
}

I need something like:

PHP Code:

mca1.txt.text="abc"

but mca1 is a variable. Or

PHP Code:

for (i=1; i<5; i++){
             temp = "mca" add i
    attachMovie("mc1",temp,i);
    setProperty(temp, _x, i*100);
         ->***    temp.txt.text="abc"   ***<-
}

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Any help would be great, thanks!

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hi all, here is my question:

I ve created a mc(contains a simple picture), can I add a new property to this mc by using addProperty?

Here is something I want to do:

///////////////////////////////////////////////////
_root.pic.prototype.setQ = function(value){
this.xxx = value;
}
_root.pic.prototype.getQ = function(){
return this.xxx;
}
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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

I fail to do so......

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First of all, I'm new to Flash and the forums so hi everyone !

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I have a library clip with noAS code in it.
I drugged a copy onto the stage and edded onClipEvent (mouseDown)
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I am waiting your reply.

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Sushil Kumar

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hi all - -

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Hello,

I have a problem trying to define a variable in a movie clip instance from a button in another movie clip.

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There is a button in MyMC1 which I want to be able to cause MyMC2 to resume play and establish a new variable. I have the part where the playhead resumes in MyMC2, but not the part about defining a new variable. The code on the button in MyMC1 is this:

Quote:

on(press){
this.MyMC2.play();
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var skipcontentend:Boolean = new Boolean();
skipcontentend=true;
}
gotoAndPlay(14);
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Hi,

I want to show a movie clip instance on the main stage while a streaming MP3 is buffering. Basically I have created a little loading text clip to show when the MP3 is buffering to notify users of this fact. I need to show it when a user clicks a button to choose a particular MP3 and then have it hidden again when the buffering is done and playing commences. There will be about 10 MP3's on the movie to choose from so I need to be able to do this for all of them individually.

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What I want is if I could capture the state of the first movie after a certain number of frames and ...say it can be saved in a .swf fromat. I can use this into the main movie. This will remove the load time, I think.
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maven5.

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Perhaps this is easy, but in online stuff I've found I have not found an example. Wish to send my site live this Friday so would love it if someone could answer quickly. I have tried very hard to explain my problem below -- please stay with me....

I have a main .swf which is my site (site.swf)
this has up/down arrows to turn pages and return home.

When it starts, site.swf loads an external .swf (eg homepage.swf) into a movieclip instance on the main timeline of site.swf called 'themedia' no probs there it loads fine.
.
To turn pages from within site.swf (the main movie) I have a movieclip instance called 'flipbook' (on the main timeline). This has all the loadmove details to load other pages like page1.swf, page2.swf etc into 'themedia'. The arrows mention above work fine with this.

***PROBLEM IS HERE******
My problem comes when I've gone to author home.fla of which the exported home.swf is then loaded into my main movie (site.swf) as described above:

I have a button within home.swf which needs to tell the 'flipbook' movieclip instance on the main timeline of site.swf to advance one frame (thus loading a new clip into 'themedia' movieclip instance.

Q: How do I address a movie clip instance on the main movie timeline from a loaded .swf which has been placed inside a clip* within that main file???

I hope someone has had experience with this ?? If I can't work out how to address clips like that for this function, some of the cooler things I wish to do have no chance of happening.

El_Stupid

*(load movie 'home.swf' target="_root.themedia") etc etc

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I am duplicating a movie clip around 50 times which works fine the problem is I want to place the newly duplicated clip which is being loaded into its own level directly next to the previous one in all new instances. So the new clip is always directly next to the older one. (Left, right, top or bottom - it does not matter).

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The problem I have is I am not sure how to reference it.

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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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just trying to get the syntax right trying to do the following:

i've got anywhere from 4-8 instances of a movie clip, determined by loaded variables, which are named "section1", "section2", "section3", etc. the number of instances of these clips is determined by variable "numsections". each of those instances fades onto the stage in sequence and i have a totally different movie clip that is going to do something once the final instance has completely faded in. initially, i thought i could accomplish this task like so:

onClipEvent(enterframe){
if(_parent.section[Math.floor(_parent.settingsholder.numsections)]._alpha>99){
dadadumdadumdadda...
}
}

but even when i know that numsections=5 and test this way:

onClipEvent(enterframe){
if(_parent.section[5]._alpha>99){
dadadumdadumdadda...
}
}

...it doesn't work so i know the brackets are not working as i thought they would. anyway, what's the proper syntax for this?

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I have a grid of (up to) 30x100 cells. I need to find out which cell is under the mouse so I can manipulate it if a certain parameter is true (each cell is a different instance w/ unique instance name, and each row is a MC also w/ unique instance name, so a sample path to a particular cell would be _root.row5.cell32).

I have tried a number of techniques, using the Mouse properties, as well as using a 2x2 dragged MC for detection, but can't quite get it to work how I need it to.

I have too many cells for it to be realistic to repeat throught all the cells on mouseMove using .hitTest with either a point or the dragged MC. I can't set a _root variable (e.g. - "currentCell") whenever a cell is rolled over, because this needs to work even when the mouse is down (dragging), and rollovers don't register when that is happening.

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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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eg.

//movie clip gotoandStop
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// assign value to question
var question = "q01";

// reference to question
question.gotoAndStop(2);

Can this be done??

Cheers,

mmasci.

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Movie Clip Instance Not Playing Correctly
I've got a series of walkcycle animations in a movie clip which I'm using in combination with key presses to make the character walk across the screen. When I press up, left or right the clip plays the relevant frame so the character faces and walks in the right direction. There are only two walkcycle clips in reality, despite the four directions. The other two directions are instances of the first two clips flipped horizontally to face the other way. Now this is working fine for the clip that is facing away from the user. However for the clip that walks towards the user something strange is happening. When I press "left" the clip works and loops through the animation correctly. When I press "down" the clip plays an instance of the same clip flipped in the other direction but it won't play the whole timeline! As a result the character limps or hops across the screen in that direction.
So I tried to make a separate movie clip that was facing that direction without flipping, and it still did the same thing! I've changed it back to the way it was, and I've searched and searched for conflicting actionscript.
Can someone take a look and tell me if its just my stupid computer/keyboard playing up, or whether I've just overlooked something. Its driving me mad, and I want to move on to something else! I'm using FlashMX2004
Thanks people!

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