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RemoveChild frame animated MovieClip, will stop frame running?

If I removeChild frame animated Movieclip, will it automatically stop running the frames inside it? Actually without calling mc.stop(); ...

[iPhone] Rendering animation to movie

Hi @ll I have a serious problem with Core Animation in combination with the AV Foundation. I want to render the animation of several UIImages to a movie file. The animation of the images should only be the change from one image to the next, just like shown here http://appsamuck.com/day2.html. But I don't want to display this animation ...

Reducing the hit area on a movieclip button

Hey guys, have a little issue i need to figure out. I created a movie clip button that contains 2 text fields, one static and one dynamic. The dynamic text field holds strings that will vary in length. This MC in general is used as a button so what im trying to do is not have the hit area as large as the length of the text box. If you g...

How to pass arguments to stage instances in ActionScript 3?

I have an instance on my stage that I dragged from my library at design time. This instance links to a custom class who's constructor takes an argument. package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.media.Sound; public class PianoKey extends MovieClip { var note:Sound; public function PianoKey...

How listener will be executed for objects hidden by another objects in as3??

I have two movie-clips, one is small-box and another is big-box .Both are rectangular shape. Small- box has an index 0, and big-box has an index 1. Their x,y are same and big-box being big in size gets hide small-box. Now the problem is the listener attached to small-box does not fire as big-box is on the top of small-box. what would be...

Constraining/clipping symbol boundaries in Flash CS5

I want to create a MovieClip symbol of a certain width and height, but with content that extends outside its boundaries, with the option to have the external content be clipped/hidden or visible. In Flex, the solution would be to create a group with .clipAndEnableScrolling = true. Is there a way to do this in Flash CS5, or will the s...

Scale9Grid doesn't work in MovieClip

I have a couple of MovieClips in swf files loaded with Loader.loadBytes. They are 10-th version, as3-enabled and have scale9Grid defined (I can see the tag DefineScaleGrid in them with SWiX). But when loaded, loader.content has scale9Grid == null (maybe it is normal?) and scaling is not 9-slice. I can't even set scale9Grid myself - any a...

How to see all elements of current symbol in Flash CS5

I'm dealing with multiple hard to find/small/transparent elements within nested MovieClips in Flash CS5. Is there no outline window where I can get to an element through a tree format vs having to look around on the stage? The closest thing I've found is the Movie Explorer window, but it doesn't go any deeper than the scene level? But...

get the event when the loaded movieclip is ready in the right frame

Hi, i'm developing an app that use swf to load elements and add properties to the loaded swf. I use SWFLoader to load the movie and on the COMPLETE event i move the loaded MovieClip to a specific frame and then list its DisplayList. I've discovered that if i traverse the list soon it's note loaded. Maybe it's cleaner with code: loader....

Controlling as2 swf playback in as3

I am embedding a swf built in flash 8 into an as3 project. When I call stop() or gotoAndStop(0); on the MovieClip that represents an instance of the embedded swf it stops for a sec and then continues. Trying to call removeChild on the mc removes it from the display but the audio in the swf keeps playing. The swf, in this case must be emb...

Flash Game 'falling' movieclips

I'm gonna make a small Flash game where movieclips go downwards. Very easy to make of course but I want to make a static level. I want to draw this level in Adobe Flash CS4 (drag movieclips in a big movieclip for example). So in the game I'm planning to lower this big movieclip couple of pixels per frame. But this movieclip needs to have...

flash export won't include images imported into stage or library

Hello, I have a flash file (banner ad) that uses some jpgs that I imported onto the stage. When I publish the file... It won't include the images. If the images are in the same folder as the swf.. it will work. However, just the SWF on its own will not display the images. Any ideas? ...

insert string info into addressing a movieclip in as3?

I am trying to dynamically address different instances of the same movieclip by passing a string into the movieclip address, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying something like below: var vsTargetName:String; vsTargetName = "instance50"; vsTargetName + vsThumb.thumbHighlight.visible = true; Is something like this pos...

MovieClip is not visible at stage, however it exits.

My Flash file contains a movie-clip(Box1) that is exported for Action-script but it is not exported to Frame 1 in Linkage Dialog Box. Box1 has been put on frame-40 and the object is accessible in document Class but is not added to stage. However when it reaches to Frame 40, the object at Frame 40 get visible. My question is where is boxO...

flash cs5: when i change frames in a movieclip, event listeners pointed to one object in the previous frame are removed

Hello. I have a movieclip that contains two frames, each frame contains a different set of buttons. it seems that i cannot add the event listeners to buttons that are not in my current viewed frame. so.. problem one: is there a way to add event listeners to all the elements in the movieclip even if the elements are in a different frame...

Is there difference in performance between movieclip and graphic symbol?

Hi, So yeah I was wondering if there is any difference in performance/memory use between movieclip symbol and graphic symbol? ...

Smooth Custom AS3 Movieclip repel function

I wrote this repel function (below) for 2 movieclips and I call it from a timer instead of an enter_frame listener (speed), but it has the tendency to jerk and not be very smooth. How can I smooth the movements? I was thinking maybe adding some sort of padding or something, but idk...Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx :) func...

AS3 remove MC from dynamic path reference with removeChild

I'm not even sure if the title reflects what I want to do. Here's backstory. I have a movieclip with 5 'holder' movieclips in them. They are my containers for dynamically added movieclips. The parent containers has an instance name of pyramid, the holder instance names are labeled after the 6 food groups, i.e., 'grainholder', 'fruithol...