Flash :: Property Assignments Etc. Ignored (_visible And SwapDepths Mainly)

[F8]using _visible Property
I'm creating a standalone .exe file in Flash. Instead of loading external swf's (the whole file needs to be completely self-contained if possible) I'm trying to use the _visible property to turn a slide show on and off. However, when I assign a "_visible = true" property to a button, the movie only stays visible for one frame then blinks off again.

Complicating this somewhat is that I'm using a scroll pane component. The button which turns on the _visible property is inside the scrolling content, and the slide show plays on a layer in front of the scroll panel. So the end result I'm looking for is being able to make the slide show visible from inside the scrolling content, then turning it off again with a button that is either inside the slide show or a separate mc.

Thanks for any help!

Gerry

_visible Property
I am loading external swfs as my webpages, but when i roll over them and go over a location where i have buttons on my homepage behind the external swf i still get the little hand pointer, but there is no button in the swf just on the homepage(parent swf) behind it. I thought of trying to make the buttons not visible when i load an external swf but that was no help because then they go away before the page is loaded. Is there an alternative to this problem. Please Help!

_visible Property...how Does It Work?
Hi!

I'd like to know how can I do to make a button or a graphic to become visible/invisible.

Any idea??

Thanks... and keep on rockin' !!!

Help With Text._visible Property
In my movie when I get to a certian key frame I want to make 2 text fields that are in the next frame invisible. But I don't seem to understand the syntax correctly.

Would not do something like this in the keyframe before you get to the frame with the text? I need to control it from one frame ahead.

Code:
evelutionText1._visible=false;
evelutionText2._visible=false;

Problem With _visible Property
i got this as error

**Error** Symbol=Clock, layer=a, frame=1:Line 6: Syntax error.
clock_mc.0_mc._visible =false

this is the code

clock_mc.0_mc._visible =false

0_mc is a movie clip that is inside clock_mc, another clip, WHATS WRONG :S this is driving me crazy

Please Explain _visible Property...
Can someone please explain how the _visible property works and how I can use it with loading external movies into my main.swf...

I have 3 movies loading into my main and I want to hide two of the movies until my main movie is preloaded. I am using a preloader for the main movie but I don't need it for the other two movies...

Any help is appreciated.

Help With _visible Property Onload...
Hi All,

I'm hoping someone can help me with this... I have 2 EXTERNAL movies being loaded with initial load of my site into my main.swf, one of which (movingbg.swf) is being loaded with a preloader. The problem is that my other movie (menubar.swf) is loaded before my first movie. I think I should use the _visible property to solve this and here is what I have so far...

On second.swf I have:

onClipEvent (load)
{
_y;
_y = 0;
this._visible = false;
}

On my preloader located in my main I have:

this.onEnterFrame = function ()
{
var _l1 = _root;
percent = _l1.empty.percent;
if (_l1.empty.percent == 100)
{
_l1.menubar._visible = true;
this._visible = false;
} // end if
};

I am stuck because I have no idea what to use in the first frame of my main movie. I think I am on the right track here... please let me know if I am not.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Question On The _visible Property
As in, I want to load up a bunch of jpegs, but not display them on the stage.

Is there a way to load jpegs and swfs, into the library, and not even worry about killing their visibility on the stage?

thanks

Changing The _visible Property Of A Symbol
As above, how do I set & change the visible propery of a symbol?

The only reference to visibility I could find was under properties in the actionscript menu.

_visible Property Not Displaying Correctly
I have a problem with programming a simple Memeroy game, where you have to find pairs. Only two cards can be revealed at a time. If it is a pair they will stay visible, if not they should be turned again after waiting some seconds. The pictures are the underlaying layer, the backside of the cards are in movieclips of which the visible property is changed and invisible buttons on top trigger the thing.

The SWF can be viewed at http://www.mhofele.de/Memory3.swf

The code should be fine, because all the trace prompts are correct, but somehow I can't see the visibility changing on the second cards. Can someone see what is wrong with it?
Here's the code of the buttons. (There is only a global variable in the framescript, no other scripts)

Code:
on (release) {
trace ("Beginn");
if (A2._visible == true) { // this script is only doing something, when card was not revealed
trace ("card is not yet revealed");

// 1. Click
if (aufgedeckt < 1) {
trace ("1. Click");
A2._visible = false; // reveal card
aufgedeckt++;
trace ("Variable 'aufgedeckt' was increased by 1");
k = A2;
trace ("movieclip is saved in global Variable k");
trace ("k = " + k);
}

// 2. Klick
else {
trace ("2. Click");
trace ("reveal card");
setProperty("A2", _visible, false); // reveal card

trace (" is partnercard already revealed?");
if (D2._visible == false) { // if partnercard (pair) is revealed
aufgedeckt = 0;
trace (" Card was already revealed, var 'aufgedeckt' is set to 0");

}
else { //if 1. Click was not the partnercard: wait and then turn the cards

//Timer
trace ("Timer for waiting: wait 3 seconds");
x = getTimer()/1000;
y = x+3;
while ((getTimer()/1000) < y){
trace ("Timerstart:" +x +"Timer plus 3 seconds" +y);
setProperty("A2", _visible, false); // Karte aufdecken
}
trace ("Timer finished, now turn cards again");

trace ("turn this card");
setProperty("A2", _visible, true);
trace ("now turn the card that was revealed first");
trace (" What is in k? " + k);
setProperty ("k", _visible, true);
aufgedeckt = 0;
trace ("cards are turned and 'aufgedeckt' was set back to 0");
}
}
}
}
[Edited by MoniH on 05-25-2002 at 05:28 AM]

Looping And Setting _visible Property
Hi everyone, I've been a lurker for awhile, but now I'm stuck myself.

I'm basically trying to load a given number of .swfs into new mc's and then turn the _visible = false but it's not working. I think I'm reference the mc's correctly since the positioning is working...here's the code. And it is getting in the if..then statemement. THe movies are loading and positioning, just not hiding. Thanks!

PHP Code:

for (x= 1; x <= maxSlide; x++) {
    var sName = "slide" + x;
    this.createEmptyMovieClip(sName,x+1);
    this[sName]._x=0;
    this[sName]._y=50;
    var sPath = "content/" + sName + ".swf";
    trace (sName + ", " + sPath);

    if (x>1) {
        trace ("in loop, " + sName);
        this[sName]._visible = false;
    }

    loadMovie(sPath,sName);
}

CreateEmptyMovieClip() And Setting _visible Property
I am attempting to create a series of empty MCs, load an external .jpg into each created MC and then make the MCs invisible so I can have my way with them later in the file.

My code is as follows:

Code:
var slideCount = 1;
while (slideCount<=6) {
createEmptyMovieClip("slide"+slideCount, slideCount);
loadMovie("img/img"+slideCount+".jpg", "slide"+slideCount);
setProperty("slide"+slideCount, _visible, false);
slideCount++;
}
The creating and the loading are working fine. But it seems it is not possible for me to set the _visible property of the created movie to false. Strangely, any other property I attempt to manipulate this same way (_alpha, _x, _xscale, everything else I've tried) works. But not _visible. I've even tried using direct references in later frames to make these created clips invisible and it's not working.

What am I missing here? So baffled.

._visible Property True...only For Several Seconds?
Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if there is a way to make a movie clip only visible for several seconds. Instead of saying

Code:

this._visible = true;

Is there a way that "true" could be replaced with the amount of seconds somehow?

Thanks for any advice here.

Brian

_visible Property Resets After Scene Redraws
Hi,

I have a button on a scene. I make it invisible onrelease and goto a different scene. When I come back it is visible again.

What can I do besides not leave the current scene?

Does "_visible" Property Really Invisible?
A simple Question!
I have a movieClip with a lot of tweens... When I set the "_visible" property to FALSE, does my movieClip still running for my CPU??? Does my CPU still calculate the tweens of my Mc???

Thank's for lightning me???

???

[CS3] Please Help On Assignments Pro Cs3 ActionScript 2.0 And 3.0
please helllp it's my last class and i can not pass it I done fail it twice.I haven't came this far to fail.any kinda help?

we can only use Adobe-Flash-Professional we can not use adobe flash 8.
Scripting Conventions
All of our scripting will be done in frames or external ActionScript files. All of your ActionScript must be placed in your "actions" layer, which should be the topmost layer in your timeline. No object actions will be accepted

And speaking of ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0, both are viable scripting languages. This class will attempt to present translations for each in the scripting exercises. If you have Flash 8, you will be limited to working with ActionScript 2.0.

(You must be able to explain, line-by-line what the code means. )

post the following Flash files in a zipped folder named "wk1_ex_yourlastname" to the Discussion Area:
•scope1.fla
•scope2.fla
•scope3.fla
•variables.fla
•arrays.fla
•conditionals.fla
•loops.fla

Looping Through Assignments
I'm brain dead today - I can't remember the syntax to create a loop assignment to simplify the code below:

Code:
item1_mc.onRelease = function() {
pageText_mc.pageText_tb.htmlText = contentArr[0];
easeContent();
};
item2_mc.onRelease = function() {
pageText_mc.pageText_tb.htmlText = contentArr[1];
easeContent();
};
item3_mc.onRelease = function() {
pageText_mc.pageText_tb.htmlText = contentArr[3];
easeContent();
};
(etc.)

What's the best way to deal with incrementing through the movie clips - "item[i]_mc" in this context?

Dynamic Text Assignments
Okay, this seems simple enough but I cant seem to figure out how to make it work right. I have a series of dynamic text boxes on stage, named d1, d2, d3 etc to d42. I want to set them equal to a variable, say x = 1. Im trying to do this with a for loop

x=1;
for(i=1;i<43;i++){
"d" + i = x;
x++;
}

however, im not allowed to make this assignment. And I thought in flash 5 you could name a different variable, such as box = "d"+i. The only problem is, how do i assign the value of x to box without overwriting what is stored in box, because box just views it as a string and not an expression? Any ideas? If there is another way to create what Im looking for, Im open to suggestions..

Is It Possible To Use A FOR Clause For OnRelease Assignments?
My actionscript is often cluttered with button assignment code. If I have ten buttons on a page I will have ten instances of:

b1.onRelease = function(){
trace("button1")
}

if the buttons perform similar tasks, is it possible to use a FOR clause for the onRelease assignment? For example:

for (i=1,i<11,i++){
b[i].onRelease = function(){
trace(i)
}
}

I tried to make this work but it never performed what I wanted it to do. Or are there other shorcuts for assigning 10 onRelease functions?

Kevin

Advanced Question Re: Function Assignments
Say I have the following code in a movie clip:

localFunction = _root.globalfunction;

And globalFunction is of course a function sitting at the root.

Does anyone know (and I mean really know, not just guess) , whether Flash Player will create a reference to the function within my movie clip (sort of like using _proto_ with objects), or will it duplicate the function into the movieClip.

I think that ECMA-262 (assuming you can apply it to this) would have it just create a reference, but Flash does not always play by the rules.

Thanks.

For Loop And Array OnPress Assignments
I have a script like this to assign a number of buttons to change a variable on rollover:
code:
for (logoCount=1; logoCount<=6; logoCount++) {

temp = eval("logo"+logoCount);
temp.onRollOver = function() {
scaleFactor[logoCount] = true;
};
temp.onRollOut = function() {
scaleFactor[logoCount] = false;
};

}

The problem I have is the scaleFactor array gets assigned to the variable named logoCount when you rollOver any of the move clips. So rolling over logo1 makes scaleFactor[logoCount]=true, but logoCount is irrelavant after this loop is done. I want it so when you rollOver logo1 then scaleFactor[1]=true and rolling over logo2 then scaleFactor[2]=true and so on. Anyone know a looping way to do this?

Duplicate Movieclips With Different Link Assignments.
Hi guys,

I hope some of you might be able to help me with this small problem I have.

I downloaded the yugop like menu from:
http://laco.wz.cz/tween/

I have reskinned it and made my own version:
www.kimnielsen.org/helpme/menutest.fla

BUT! unfortunately there was no links on the example provided! And since its made up of a clip that duplicates itself, I haven't got the faintest clue how to link it dynamically... Every clone needs an individual link to I.E. a movieclip..

Nomatter what I've tried with my very limited understanding have ****ed everything up. Please take a look at the fla. file.

This is the place I think I need to change on the Parent:

Code:
bg_mc.onRollOver = function() {
_parent.selectItem(id);
};
bg_mc.onRollOut = bg_mc.onReleaseOutside = function() {
_parent.deselectItem(id);
};

bg_mc.onPress = function() {
_parent.clickItem(id);
};

I've tried something like this, but not with any real succes:

Code:
_root.ymenu_mc.item4_mc.onPress = function() {
_root.ymenu_mc.item4_mc.loadMovie("contenttest.swf")
_parent.selectItem(id);
};

Please somebody help me, I've spend so many hours on this, and I am really trying to learn and understand, but its very hard and my time is getting very limited.

PS: You need to have the Tweenmanager component installed, download it here: http://laco.wz.cz/tween/

-----
Thank You,
Kim Nielsen.
www.mouth.dk/greyman/

Var Acting Like Const; Not Accepting Assignments After First
I've only been working with AS for a couple months now, within Flex Builder. I've run across a weird bug. I have one Class (let's call it Cart) that contains several public vars of various types of my own Classes (like Order and Customer). See example below.

Setting the order works fine. It's not with a 'set' function, it does more than that so I've named it differently, but it can be called several times and the assignment to the variable is updated.

Setting the cust does NOT work. It accepts the first non-null assignment, but then subsequent assignments do not change the cust variable. I first noticed this when, in a clearCust() function, I tried to assign null to the cust variable. When that didn't take, I wondered if it was some aspect of AS3 that I wasn't familiar with yet. Then I tried to change the cust variable to a different instance of a Customer class, and the assignment didn't work.

Any ideas?

Code:
public class Cart
{
public var order:Order = null;
public var cust:Customer = null;

public function clearCust():void {
cust = null;
}

public function changeCust(newCust:Customer):void {
cust = newCust;
}
}

Trouble With Button Assignments In For-loop
I am trying to assign some buttons onRelease functions through a for-loop but somehow all buttons are assigned the same command no matter what I do... In this case all my buttons try to read a value from PetipinoBoy[Antal] (which is of course not defined as the array starts at 0 and ends at Antal-1)

I have put some trace commands in the code if anyone would like to copy/paste the code.

ActionScript Code:
var PetipinoBoy:Array = new Array("side2top1.jpg","side2top2.jpg","side2top3.jpg");

PetipinoBoyFunc(3)
function PetipinoBoyFunc(Antal){
for(var i:Number = 1; i<Antal+1; i++) {
loadPicture("tn_side2top"+i+".jpg",this["tn"+i],this["script"+i]);
this["btn_"+i].onRelease = function(){
trace("i is now: "+i)
trace(PetipinoBoy[i-1])
_parent.SomePictureHolderMC.loadPicture(PetipinoBoy[i-2])
trace(this)
};
}//End for statement
}

The first function loadPicture(...) works fine (it loads some thumbnails into a tn-holder and fades it in) and all pictures are located in the same directory. How do I make the code assign the onRelease command to my buttons correctly?

I can assign the onRelease one by one manually and then they work fine, but that was not my objective

Calling And Manipulating Instances Thru Name+variable Assignments
Don't know why this isn't working. It makes sense to me

ActionScript Code:
for (i=1; i<=3; i++) {
var mcalpha = 'mc'+i;
if (mcalpha._alpha<=100) {
mcalpha._alpha = 0;
}
}

I have movieclip instances called mc1, mc2, and mc3. I am going to add more movieclips and wanted to be able to use something like the above script to run thru the list of mc's and set their alpha to 0.

What am I doing wrong?

[F8] Dynamic Text Field Naming And Assignments?
Hi,

Probably a lack of knowledge on my part (no, definitely...), but how do I go about loading dynamic text fields from an array, using dynamic variable naming?

for(j=0; j<count; j++){
this["contacts_mc.nameText"+j+".text"] = inputArray[j][0];
}

"nameText0", "nameText1", etc are the instance names of dynamic text fields in the contacts_mc movie clip, which is on the root level of my timeline.

I get no return at all when tracing the target dynamic text field as trace(contacts_mc.nameText1.text), for example. Dynamic naming examples I've come across don't seem to work here - perhaps a difference in how dynamic text fields are assigned?

Thank you for any advice!

Get Property Visibility Set Property Visibilty
I am trying to work out some navigation on a site to make it more user friendly.
I have a number of buttons which when clicked set their correspoding graphic to visible and all the other relevant graphics to invisible.
This is so I can get the graphics to appear in the same place but only one visible at any time so no overlap.
What I already have is a rollover so that when the user rolls over the buttons the corresponding graphic will appear. Then dissappear on rollout. And the script to place my graphic in the right place and make it visible. Here is the script.

on (rollOver) {
setProperty("_root.drag0", _visible, "1");
setProperty("_root.drag1", _visible, "0");
setProperty("_root.drag2", _visible, "0");
}

on (rollOut) {
setProperty("_root.drag0", _visible, "0");
setProperty("_root.drag1", _visible, "0");
setProperty("_root.drag2", _visible, "0");
}

on (release) {
setProperty ("_root.drag0", _x , 323.4);
setProperty ("_root.drag0", _y , 360);
setProperty("_root.drag0", _visible, "1");

}
The bit I can't work out is how to get the graphic which has last been clicked and locked visible (rather than temporaly visible on rollover/out)to revert to being visible on the rollout of the other buttons.
I think I need to use the get property and set property but can't quite work out how to link the two so that it checks which graphic is visible before the rollover on a different button, makes it invisble on the rollover and reverts it back to being visible on the roll out.

Sorry That was long finding it hard to explain.
Thanks for any help you can offer. I am using flash mx 6.0.

Preloder ScaleX Property And X Property
Hi!

within the loader listener's progressevent I had my preloader mc update the scaleX property and works fine, thus, it moves and scales just like a preloader does until it reaches 100. My only concern is when scaleX updates the preloader mc 'x' location seems to be moving as well making the preloader clip looked liked it scales on both sides (both ends of the line). As i examined the preloader mc 'x' property it stays the same all throughout. This is weird.

anyone?

thank you in advance.

_visible On MC's
Help... Here's the scenario:

I have 8 swf's loading into seperate, blank (holder) MC's. What I want is for the MC's to be invisible until a button is pressed, then the 1 MC corresponding to
the button becomes visible. When a second button is pressed another becomes visible and the rest go invisible. I don't know how to explain it properly, but you
should get the drift. The code on each button may look something like this:

on (release )
_root.MCone (_visible=true)
_root.MCtwo (_visible=false)
_root.MCthree (_visible=false)
_root.MCfour (_visible=false)
_root.MCfive (_visible=false)
_root.MCsix (_visible=false)
_root.MCseven (_visible=false)
_root.MCeight (_visible=false)

The code on each MC will be maybe like this:

onClipEvent (load)
(visible=false)

The reason for doing this is so that I can load all the clips while the intro is running to increase the smooth running of the site. Please could someone help me
with the code for the visibility on the clips AND the buttons...

Many thanks for any help given...

_visible
Hey guys, thanks for all the help so far, you have been very helpful, and i have learned a lot from it.

I have another prob here

I have made this spacegame where i have enemies coming agains me, and when i crash, its game over (hit test)

but when i am at the game over screen the enemies keeps coming over the screen. I want them to dissapear when i crash and its game over.

the game are on keyframe 1 and the gameover is on keyframe 3.. Everthing else dissapear (background, points, etc..) but not the enemyes (

Can anybody help me with this ?

thnx

Synthieboy !

_visible, Help Please
using buttons to handle MC properties (_visible). they work fine on the initial click but NOT if you click them a second time (on the second click it hides the clip again, but on the third click it functions properly????). script is as follows:

on (release) {
_root.mc1._visible=true;
_root.mc1.gotoAndPlay(1);
_root.mc3._visible=false;
_root.mc4._visible=false;
_root.mc5._visible=false;
_root.mc6._visible=false;
_root.mc7._visible=false;
_root.mc8._visible=false;

}

the default state of the MC's is
onClipEvent (load) {
_visible=false;
}

what am i doing wrong???

_visible ?
I am trying to do this with two buttons. One button only becomes visible when the other is clicked. I know the commands, but just can't get them to work.

I have two buttons, "generate" and "checkButton"
To the first button, called "generate" I apply this code:
_root.checkButton._visible = 0;

and

on (release) { _root.checkButton._visible = 1; }

Help??

_visible Bug?
Can anyone else reproduce this error?

I have an empty MC that I'm loading an .swf into.

Before I execute loadmovie, i'm setting the _visible property to false. AFTER I execute the loadmovie, I again set the _visible property to false.

The MC is still visible on the stage, even though the property reports itself as being false.

._visible ?
Hey all, I've got this form that I'm working on, with input boxes. Over the boxes is an mc of text (single frame), essentially labeling the input boxes and notifying users what info to put where. What I'm looking to do, (unsuccessful so far) is, that when the user clicks on any box to input their info, the mc visible = false.

I guess another way to word it, is there any code that can be used with selecting an input box?

Thanks,

Robb

This.MC._visible=0;
Hello,

I have 2 MCs in my library.
From the main MC, I created an instance of the firtst MC of the library. (MC1)
In the newly created MC1, I created an instance of the second MC in my library (MC2).

I want to make MC2 invisible from MC1.

I tried this actionscript :
this.MC2._visible=0;
MC1.MC2._visible=0;

But it doesn't work. After looking in newsgroups I also tried the following :

this["MC2"]._visible=0; but without success.

I'm a beginner and don't have much experience, can someone help me with this please?

_visible Help
The function below is executed and all runs well (i.e. the percentage preloader works fine and displays the percentage values in my Dynamic Text Field which has a Var label of 'loadText'. It is stored inside my percentage_mc movieclip on the main timeline), however, when the whole movie has loaded, I need to be able to hide the text field from view, but it's not working with the code I have below.

Any idea on what i'm missing? (apart from a good actionscript brain!)

Thanks for reading.

Attach Code

percentage_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
getPercent = target.getBytesLoaded()/target.getBytesTotal();
this.loadText = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"%";

if(Math.round(getPercent*100) >= 100) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
this.loadText._visible = false;
}
}

Object.property.property ?
I'm making a movie that will read data from an object and build some rows and columns of radio buttons, but I'm having some trouble dealing with the objects that I'm using to store data on the _root.

Here's what I'm trying to test:

I have the following code on the root of my movie:

PHP Code:

radio_button_object = new Object ();
radio_button_object.row_2 = 2;
radio_button_object.row_2.radio_button_1 = true;
radio_button_object.row_2.radio_button_3 = true;

Within a movie clip named "radio_button", I've got the following code:

PHP Code:

myObj = eval ("_root." + this._name + "_object");

// inside a for loop I'm going through rows
// inside that for loop, I have another for loop that goes through columns

for (i...) {
  for (j...) {
    if (myObj ["row_" + i]) {
      if (myObj ["row_" + i + ".radio_button_" + j]) {
        (eval ("row_" + i + ".radio_button_" + j)).gotoAndStop ("selected");
      }
    }
  }
}

I've tried:

PHP Code:

myObj ["row_" + i ["radio_button_" + j]]

and:

PHP Code:

myObj ["row_" + i] ["radio_button_" + j]

But I've had no luck.

Essentially, I'm looking for object.property.property, except that the object name and all property names are variables.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks!
cooper
www.pigdogtoad.com

My Property Is Your Property.thankyou.
im trying to create a drag and drop where you drag the image to the left of the screen and if dropped more than half way across the stage the image has a word,but once dropped can also be dragged back to how it was originally. I was thinking its something to do with getting thexproperty(as its all horizontal)

I'm new to flash so would really appreciate anyones help,
ta.

_visible Problem...HELP
Hello!

I am loading 10 swf's into 10 instances of a clip as a holder (as needed for positioning). In frame one of the clip that does this, I have all the instances set to _visible false. The next frame loads all the swf's into the clips. Then a mouse over list toggles the visibility for the various clips on and off. The last part works great. Like a javascript roll. However, when the movies load, even though the clips at this point in frame one where set to _visible false, I see the movies stacked up, and the last clip, 10, is still visible. There is another button on the interface that turns all those clips off and that works. Why do I see the movies in the clips when they load, even though the clips have been set to _visible false? Is there an order or processing or something? If I (and I haven't done this yet) set the mc's to visible false in frame 1 on the main timeline, would that behave any differently? It should work whereever I put it, right?

db

_visible Problems...HELP
I am loading 10 swf's into 10 instances of a clip as a holder (as needed for positioning). In frame one of the clip that does this, I have all the instances set to _visible false. The next frame loads all the swf's into the clips. Then a mouse over list toggles the visibility for the various clips on and off. The last part works great. Like a javascript roll. However, when the movies load, even though the clips at this point in frame one where set to _visible false, I see the movies stacked up, and the last clip, 10, is still visible. There is another button on the interface that turns all those clips off and that works. Why do I see the movies in the clips when they load, even though the clips have been set to _visible false? Is there an order or processing or something? If I (and I haven't done this yet) set the mc's to visible false in frame 1 on the main timeline, would that behave any differently? It should work whereever I put it, right?

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_visible Over Frames
hi there, thanks for reading this post.

I have a movieclip called myMovie in a number of keyframes:

| | | | | | | | | | | | |
o o o o o o o o o o o o o
a

and on the first frame I call something like

stop();
this["" + myMovie]._visible=false; // as part of function

and this does make the movieClip invisible within that frame. But as soon as I go to another frame by a gotoAndPlay() action, the movieClip becomes visible. It is called myMovie on all frames.

I would like it to stay invisible. What am I doing wrong, dudes?

Thanks, Richard

How Do I Set The _visible Function?
I want to preload a movie on _level1 and make it invisible until the user clicks a button to load it into _level0 How would i do this? The code I'm using right now dosen't seem to be working.
Code in the main movie:
if (_level1.getBytesLoaded() == _level1.getBytesTotal() ) {
loadMovieNum ("allseasons.swf", 1);
allseaVisible = false;
gotoAndStop (20);
} else {
gotoAndPlay (9);
}

Code in the external .swf:
if (_level0.allseaVisible == false){
this._visible = false;
}
_level0.allseaVisible=true;

I Have Problem With _visible
i dont know what happen but first time that i click at button it not have any problem and secound time still ok but third time when i click again sth that i _visible it ...blink i try many time to find it but dont know y ??

file is at http://www.geocities.com/wondermail/Movie1.fla

_visible = False?
O.k this is what I want to happen... I load a swf into my main scene with loadMovieNum, name.swf, 1); And I added _visible = false on frame 1 of name.swf. So what I want is to click on a button within the main movie and have it bring the loaded movie into view with _visible = true, but then also make that loaded movie jump to frame 2 and play.
How would I do that. It's probably simple and I am having a brain fart, so please bear with me.

Thanks in advance, william

Stupid With _visible?
What`s wrong?

"naar_werk" is a button in a mc, in a mc.

This is what I have:

on (release) {
_root.naamtex = "tex/agenda.txt";
_root.gotoAndPlay("cv-agenda");

setprop...("instancename", _visible," must dissapeare")
setProperty ("_root.naar_werk", _visible, "false");

trace (_root.naamtex);
_root.buttonChange = 1;
}

thanx

_visible Does Not Work
Hi,

i try this:

on (press) {
_root["InhaltVorwort"]._visible = 30;
}
on (release) {
InhaltVorwort._visible = false;
}

but both versions do not work. The only thing that works is _root._visible = false. But i can not change the visible property for InhaltVorwort. Please can anyone help me?

Regards,
Alex

Question About The _visible A/s
I have an external movieclip loading into another by the a/s of

loadMovieNum("/menu.swf", 3);
it loads onto layer 3 because the menu.swf has the option to play load yet another MC inside the original.

The problem I'm having...
the second MC is just some pictures that use fades and fade in and out. When they fade in and out the original image becomes visible, which I don't want. I just want the black background to be showing...

how would I go about making the MC on 0 not be visible if the movie is loaded?

I tried
if (movie.swf=true) {
_visible=false;
}
to no avail.. lol
I'm not that great at a/s but pretty good at problem solving and this one has me puzzled...