movieclip

sequencial movieclip name in AS3

I'm pretty unexperienced with Action Script but searched the forums extensively to try and find a solution to this simple problem. I'm creating several copies of a MovieClip but I need them to have different names. // this array gets several cities var cities:Array = new Array( { nome:"london", pos_x:20, pos_y:10 }, { nome:"nyc", pos_x...

c# edit avi tag

Hi all! how can I do in c# to read and write some tag of an .avi file?? thanks ...

Referencing movieclip within another movie in Flash AS3

Hi All, I was creating a drap and drop simple game, dragging and dropping an item from within a movie clip. All was working fine, but then I had to add more items so I created a ScrollPane and referenced the movie clip through that, now I need to rework how I pull reference that movieclip again. The movieclip is exported so the scrollp...

movieclip.graphics disappear when using .draw() function

I'm making a drawing interface and using the Graffiti Canvas Library, on my stage I have a bezier point drawing tool, which is drawing graphics to a movieclip/sprite (I've tried both) and in using the drawToCanvas method which just passes data to the.draw() interface, the graphics immediately disappear. Any body have any ideas?? ...

Add movieclip to stage from child class in Flash

Can you add a movieclip to the stage from a child class? My setup is as follows: DocumentClass ->SubFolder --->ChildClass1 --->ChildClass2 DocumentClass calls ChildClass1 and creates an instance of it. ChildClass1 has in it's constructor a call for ChildClass2 and creates an instance of it. What is the cleanest way to have ChildClas...

Playing a video with MPMoviePlayerController in Portrait WITHOUT Private API - Will I get rejected by Apple?

It's my understanding that MPMoviePlayerController movies must play in landscape orientation because the "setOrientation:" function is private API. Well, it occurred to me that if I were to rotate the video 90 degrees in Final Cut and then re-render, the video would APPEAR to be playing in portrait orientation even though it was technica...

I have a AS3 class which extends movieClip with a dynamic image, how to make this image draggable?

I need to make an item draggable (dragable?) Sorry if my terminology is not right! I have a class where I will store variable and do calculations: package Classes { import flash.display.*; import flash.events.*; import flash.net.*; public class PrintItem extends MovieClip { public var imageLoader:Loade...

MovieClip can't see base class methods

I have this base class package sevengames.miranda.front.res { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.text.TextField; public class MenuButtonBase extends MovieClip { protected var text:TextField; protected var bt:String = null; public function MenuButtonBase() { stop(); ...

AS3, for loop create button inside movieclip and how to call it??

Here is my full code import fl.controls.*; var test:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); var btn:Button; for(var i:int = 1; i<=7; i++){ btn = new Button(); btn.name = "btn" + i; btn.x = i * 100; test.addChild(btn); btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(evt:MouseEvent) { nothing(i); }); } addChild(test); functio...

AS3 - Embedded SWF video shows totalFrames == 0

I've got this 1 minute long movie that I want to compile into an AS3 project. The movie started out in MOV format, so I used FFMpeg to convert it to FLV, then again with FFMpeg from FLV to SWF. I'm embedding this movie into the AS3 binary by using Embed metadata: [Embed(source="1.swf")] private var _Vid:Class; I've got a container ...

AS2 Trigger onRelease event

Hey all, i have a movieclip with an onRelease event. Is there anyway i can trigger this event in code? without clicking the movie clip? ...

How to get name of MovieClip on Flash stage that was created dynamically?

There are multiple MovieClips that will be dynamically placed on stage. These MovieClips are coded to be buttons. I'm trying to figure out--when a user clicks on the MovieClip...figure out which object on the flash stage the user clicked on. Inside function toggleClick I put the trace statement: trace("movieClip Instance Name = " + e....

How to assign a value to a variable in Flash (AS3)?

Using targetCurrent -- I am able to get the name of the MovieClip a user clicks on. On function toggleClick there is a trace statement that says: trace("movieClip Instance Name = " + e.currentTarget); OUTPUT Window: movieClip Instance Name = [object Comp] Based on what a user clicks on -- there will be a value associated to the Mo...

How to grab a value from from an Object (associative array) in flash, and reassign that value to a new variable?

I have multiple toggle buttons on my flash stage. These toggle buttons are MovieClips. If a user clicks on one of the MovieClips, I want to be able to find a way to go through the Object below--get the appropriate value based on what the User clicked--and store that value in a new value called var powerData which will then be passed to a...

Naming Instances of MovieClips loaded dynamically

I'm trying to name the instances of MovieClips that I dynamically load. I tried doing this: comp = new Comp(); // and also tried doing this--> var comp:MovieClip = new Comp(); comp.name = "comp"; // comp is the name I want the instance to be BUT in the OUTPUT Window: ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create prop...

What is the most effective way of combining multiple flash files into a single movie?

I have 8 flash movies, each with 3 scenes within each one. What is the most effective way (by which I mean, takes the least amount of time to implement and produces a file without each and every object used in the library) to combine these 24 scenes into a single flash file so that they play consecutively and can be exported as a singl...

The problem with alpha channel MovieClip (Actionscript3)

Here is my code: var menu = new Menu (); menu.x = 0; menu.y = 0; addChild (menu); menu.alpha = 0; TweenLite.to (menu, 10, (alpha: 1)); This works, but transparency varies for each element MovieClip separately, but I would like that would have changed the whole MovieClip transparency as a single image. Menu(); is generated from XML. ...

When is Flash frame script executed exactly?

I have a movieclip which has in the actions for frame 1 this["myCustomVar"] = "bla"; I then do this: var mc:MovieClip = new MyMovieClip(); trace(mc.hasOwnProperty("myCustomVar")); // is false Why does the movieclip not have myCustomVar, or to put it more generally: When are frame scripts in movie clips executed exactly? ...

Dynamically place instances of MovieClip on stage (AS3)

I'm trying to dynamically place instances of MovieClip on the stage. Receiving an error: TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null. at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChild() ActionScript: // properties in class ---------- var circle_ary:Array = new Array; var circ_num:int;//...

hitTestObject on dynamically placed MovieClip instances

Trying to do hitTestObject on instances that are dynamically placed on the stage. Receiving an error: TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter hitTestObject must be non-null. at flash.display::DisplayObject/_hitTest() at flash.display::DisplayObject/hitTestObject() at eatCircle() ActionScript: var circ; var circle_ary...