I am building a hangman game. I have some alphabet letters that are the wrong letters and I built an array with them.When a wrong letter is been clicked my movie clip Kremmala is moving a frame showing the hangman and the wrong letter becomes alpha = .5. The problem is that i want after the seventh click my movie clip Kremmala to stop at frame 8 and the elements of the array not to be clickable anymore. I have trouble building the code. Every help is appreciated.
I only have this code until now:
var wrongletters:Array = [a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a8,a9,a10,a11,a12,a13,a14,a15,a16,a19,a20,a21,a22,a23]
for (var i:int= 0; i< wrongletters.length; i++) {
wrongletters[i].buttonMode = true;
wrongletters[i].isClicked = false;
wrongletters[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, kanoklick);
function kanoklick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
kremmala.nextFrame();
event.target.alpha = 0.5;
if(event.currentTarget.isClicked == false){
clickCount ++;
event.currentTarget.isClicked = true;
}
if(clickCount == 7){
kremmala.stop();
trace("All buttons have been clicked");
}
}
}
I can think of two ways:
1) Disabling the control (list) that holds the array with all the letters. I assume there is a visible list with id="list1" that has the wrongletters:Array as it's dataprovider.
list1.enabled = false;
or 2) Removing the event listener.
for (var i:int= 0; i< wrongletters.length; i++)
{
wrongletters[i].removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, kanoklick);
}
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I want to create a stacking Game. Where when you tap the screen for instance a block falls down and a new one appears where the other one originally was. Now when the User taps the screen again the same block falls down and if aligned correctly stacks on top of the first one so one and so one. Keep stacking until you miss.
I thought creating an array and pushing each new object to that array would be able to hitTest between each new one etc and have them stack on each other. I realized I don't quite understand how to go about doing this. New instances are created so I got that down. Here is my code so far:
private function engineLogic(e:Event):void
{
stackingHandler();
}
private function stackingHandler():void
{
for (var i:int = 0; i < aCatArray.length; i++)
{
var currentCat:mcCats = aCatArray[i];
//HIT TEST CATS
}
trace("NUMBER OF CATS: " + aCatArray.length);
}
private function onTap(e:MouseEvent):void
{
//Move Down
TweenLite.to(cats, 1.0, {y:(stage.stageHeight / 2) + 290, onComplete: addCats});
}
private function addCats():void
{
//Create Instance
cats = new mcCats();
//Add Objects
addChild(cats);
//Push to Array
aCatArray.push(cats);
}
I would appreciate any help from you guys. Maybe if you can push me in the right direction. Thank you in advance!
It looks like the cats variable holds the object that is currently falling?
In that case you'd do something like this:
private function stackingHandler():void
{
for (var i:int = 0; i < aCatArray.length; i++)
{
if(cats.hitTestObject(aCatArray[i])) {
// collision detected!
// kill the Tween
// set the y position of the `cats` object
// so it appears on top of the object it collided with (`aCatArray[i]`)
// (it may have moved slightly past the object before doing this check)
}
}
}
So you're looping through the array and hit testing cats against every object in the array one at a time.
It might make more sense to use a basic gravity simulation, or just linearly increasing the y value instead of using a Tween, but you didn't ask about that.
You might also want to set a flag for whether or not an object is currently falling and use that to determine whether or not to run the stackingHandler. Otherwise, you'll just be continually hit testing all the objects when nothing is moving.
This is how I was able to fix it. Creating a double for loop. Checking if they are equal to each other continue and check for hitTest:
private function stackingHandler():void
{
for (var i:int = 0; i < aCatArray.length; i++)
{
var currentCat:mcCats = aCatArray[i];
for (var j:int = 0; j < aCatArray.length; j++)
{
var newCat:mcCats = aCatArray[j];
if (currentCat == newCat) continue;
//Hit Test between Objects
if (newCat.hitTestObject(currentCat.mcHit) && newCat.bFlag == false)
{
//Stop Moving
newCat.stopMoving();
trace("HIT");
if (highScore == 0)
{
addCats();
trace("ADD CATS 1");
}else
{
TweenLite.delayedCall(0.6, addCats);
trace("ADD CATS 2");
}
//Add Points
highScore ++;
trace(highScore + " Score");
//Set Flag boolean
newCat.bFlag = true
}
}
}
}
When my random word appears the user has to memorise it and click the correct corresponding image to it. I'm trying to write the code that runs if the user selects the right image. I have paired my words and images in my array. I'm just unsure as how to go about calling this function.
This is what I've attempted so far, but this isn't working. I'm new to actionscript3 so excuse the lack of knowledge as I am trying to teach myself.
All help greatly appreciated!!
This is one way you can do this:
See code comments
basket.visible = false;
//------ Home Button ------\\
backhome1btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goback1Click);
function goback1Click(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop("homepage");
}
//-------------------
var score:int = 0;
var items:Array = new Array(); //store all food items in array
var wordsToShow:Array = new Array(); //store all words to show in array - this is the array that will keep track of which has been asked (or rather not asked yet)
//to reduce redundant code, call this with each food item (below)
function initFoodItem(item:MovieClip, word:String):void {
item.word = word; //forget the array, just store the word on the image as a dynamic property
item.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, foodClicked);
items.push(item); //add to array
wordsToShow.push(item); //add to array
item.visible = false;
}
initFoodItem(oc, "Orange Juice");
initFoodItem(sand, "Sandwich");
//...repeat for all other food items
//now randmize the words to show array:
wordsToShow.sort(function(a,b):int {
return(Math.random() > .5) ? 1 : -1;
});
var curAnswer:MovieClip; //a var to store the current correct answer
//this does the next question per se
function displayWord():void {
if(wordsToShow.length < 1){
//they've all been asked
gotoAndPlay("gameoverpage");
return;
}
curAnswer = wordsToShow.pop(); //assigns the last item in the array to the cur asnwer, and pop also removes that item from the array (so it won't get asked again)
randomword.text = curAnswer.word; //assign the text to the word value of this item
randomword.visible = true;
remember.visible = true;
}
remember.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, readyClick);
//when you click your ready button
function readyClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
//we have an array of all items, let's loop through it and change them all to be visible
for (var i:int = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
//items[i].alpha = 1; //alpha values are 0 - 1 in AS3
items[i].visible = true; //use visible instead of alpha if just toggling visibility, it's more efficient
}
randomword.visible = false;
remember.visible = false;
bask.visible = true;
notepape.visible = false;
//! another reason to use visible instead of alpha = 0, is alpha = 0 items will still be clickable! visible = false items cannot be clicked.
}
function foodClicked(e:MouseEvent):void {
if (e.currentTarget == curAnswer) {
//if the current target (the item clicked) is the same item as what we stored in curAnswer, you answered correctly, so do this:
score += 10; //or however much you get for answering correctly
gotoAndStop("listpage"); //not sure what this does?
displayWord();
}else {
//wrong
gotoAndStop("gameoverpage");
}
}
I'm going crazy with this. I have a few bears on the stage and have listed them in an array. I want them to change their animation frame when clicked as long as they are not on the "down" animation frame to begin with. Below is the code. The problem occurs below the //check if they get hit line.
//put the bears in an array
var bearsArray: Array = new Array();
for (var i=0; i<numChildren;i++) {
if (getChildAt (i) is bear_mc) {
bearsArray.push(getChildAt(i));
}
}
//move them up and down
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,upAndDown);
function upAndDown(event:Event){
if (Math.random() < 0.02){
var randomBear = Math.floor(Math.random() * 9);
bearsArray[randomBear].gotoAndPlay("popup");
}
}
//check if they get hit
for (var j:int = 0; j < bearsArray.length; j++){
bearsArray[j].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, hitBears);
}
function hitBears(e:MouseEvent){
for (var k: int=0; k<numChildren; k++){
if (bearsArray[k].currentFrame != "down"){
trace("clicked");
bearsArray[k].gotoAndPlay("surprised");
}
}
}
currentFrame returns an integer, not string. If you want to use string, you have to use currentFrameLabel or currentLabel.
EDIT: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/MovieClip.html#currentLabel
If you want to control only one bear, remember that you don't need to cycle through them (actually that would serve no purpose as you would be checking every one of them). The better (and correct) approach would be this:
function hitBears(e:MouseEvent){
var bear:MovieClip = e.currentTarget as MovieClip;
if(bear.currentLabel != "down") { //or currentFrameLabel, depends how your mc is set up
trace("clicked");
bear.gotoAndPlay("surprised");
}
}
I got it working by checking a hittest with the mouse instead of just checking the click. That works for some reason.
My pictures gallery has 8 frames. There are a few lines of AS3 on the AS3 layer in the first frame:
stop();
var picsArrayYouthVillage:Array = new Array(pic1,pic2,pic3,pic4,pic5,pic6,pic7,pic8);
for each (var pic in picsArrayYouthVillage)
{
pic.buttonMode = true;
}
for(var i = 0; i<8; i++)
{
trace("hi");
picsArrayYouthVillage[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, jumpToFrame);
}
function jumpToFrame(m:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop(m.target.name + "_frame");
}
On the Pictures layer there are 8 frames containing pictures and thumbnail buttons (pic1,...pic8)
The problem is when I navigate using the thumbs, every time I click the first button and jumping to frame 1, the event listeners are added again.
Any ideas? Thank you all in advance.
You may check the object has the event listener or not before add event listener to it
for(var i = 0; i<8; i++) {
if (!picsArrayYouthVillage[i].hasEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK)) {
trace("hi");
picsArrayYouthVillage[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, jumpToFrame);
}
}
EDIT
After I tried the code, I have found the problem,change this code too
var picsArrayYouthVillage:Array = new Array(pic1,pic2,pic3,pic4,pic5,pic6,pic7,pic8);
to
var picsArrayYouthVillage:Array;
if (picsArrayYouthVillage == null) {
picsArrayYouthVillage = new Array(pic1,pic2,pic3,pic4,pic5,pic6,pic7,pic8);
}
Remember to trace hi in the if condition. If it works, it should eight hi and only one time.
I've got an array of sprites which I'm animating by incrementing their rotationX property. What I want is for them all to disappear once the last item in the array has come full circle. The problem is that their rotation speeds are being generated by a randomized function, so I can't just go to the end of the array to find the last one. Each time it will be a different one.
So I have an array of Sprites:
for(var i:int=0; i<arrSprites.length; i++)
{
addChild(arrSprites[i]) ;
}
Then I have my event listener:
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
And my handler:
private function loop(e:Event):void
{
for(var i:int=0; i<arrSprites.length; i++)
{
var currentSprite:Sprite = arrSprites[i];
if(currentSprite.rotationX < 361) //this will detect the first one
//to finish but I want the last
{
currentSprite.rotationX += arrSprites[i].speed; //random speed
}
else
{
deleteTheSprites(); //removes all sprites and does other stuff
}
}
}
There's got to be an elegant way to do this. Anyone know what it is?
Thanks,
David
private function loop(e:Event):void
{
var finished : int = 0; // will count the number of sprites finished
for each (var current:Sprite in arrSprites)
{
if (current.rotationX < 361) current.rotationX += current.speed;
else if (++finished == arrSprites.length) deleteTheSprites(); // executes only if all sprites have finished
}
}