I have started making an advent calendar using the adobe flash professional software. I have drawn each 'door' individually with the draw tool on separate layers. I need to know how to use action script to wait for a click on one of the doors and then goto a specific layer and stop. I have tried different methods such as
button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler);
but it throws up errors.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
If you drew the door it's still just a vector drawing that you can't really do anything with yet - you'll need to convert it to a MovieClip or a Sprite or a Button. The simple way to do this in the interface is:
Use the pointer to select everything you want to be contained in your MovieClip.
Press F8 OR choose "Modify" from the top menu and then "Convert to Symbol."
From there, you'll get a dialog box that looks like this:
You'll need to give it a name. This name will be the Class Name so call it something like "Door" or something descriptive like that. Leave the type as MovieClip and click "Ok."
Now you have the class so you'll have to give it an instance name. Select the object that you just created on the stage. In your properties it should look something like this:
Where it shows "instance name" delete that and give your object a name. In your code example you called it button so call it button here. Now you have an object that can listen for event listeners. Inside your handler you can write something like this.gotoAndStop(2) to get where you need to go.
Hope this helps!
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So I have the following code for a button called "n2" and as you can see it's supposed to take me to the next scene when I click it, but it isn't working. It is inside Scene 2 and I'm trying to get to the next one and whenever I test the scene and click it, I don't even get an error, it just doesn't work.
Btw, it's a GIF defined as a movie clip and then as a button. Could that be causing the problem?
n2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToNextScene);
function fl_ClickToGoToNextScene(event:MouseEvent):void
{
MovieClip(this.root).nextScene();
}
If you put a trace in the function and comment out "MovieClip(this.root).nextScene();" you could then see if the function gets called on a button click.
I've not used animate before, but in flash you have to name your button/movieclip and then also name the instance. This allows you to create the object twice with two seperate names to be referred to by actionscript.
Not sure if this helps but thought I'd give you some things to try, good luck
I am trying to achieve sort of like an "extender" to a button. I want it to be like a invisible mask, and when you click on it, its the same as clicking on a button directly. Is this possible with an addchild method? Also, if possible, without having to make extra addeventlistners for the mask, so that additional object is seen as that same button. I know it can be done using a simplebutton, but what about a fl.controls button?
You an use either a Sprite or Movieclip as clickable button.
Create both the "button" part and the "mask" part within same MovieClip, and give that whole MC one event listener.
Example if called: myMClip_Button...
myMClip_Button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handler_Mouse_Click );
Later, to access / modify anything within the MovieClip, just use a path:
myMClip_Button.myButton = something;
myMClip_Button.myMask = something;
I'm working on game made with libgdx that needs some GUI above my game screen. Something like FrameLayout in Android.
I have GameScreen where everything is happening.
What I want now is to add a "pause" button, highscore information etc.
I've tried to combine a Stage object with regular sprite drawing.
But I had some problems with handling inputs: how to manage if user clicked pause button in stage, or clicked game area (where I should add some bullets)...
You should be able to use a Stage to manage your UI. To get input working correctly, you'll need to add an InputMultiplexer
so that the Stage and then your current input scheme will both get the inputs.
To set it up, you'll do something like this:
InputMultiplexer multiplexer = new InputMultiplexer();
multiplexer.addProcessor(stage);
multiplexer.addProcessor(gameScreenInputProcessor);
Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(multiplexer);
(Code sample based on code from https://code.google.com/p/libgdx/wiki/InputEvent)
Note that the order is important (I'm guessing you'll want the stage to get events first to see if the UI is being touched or not). Also, the boolean return value from input event handlers are more important with a multiplexer, as "handled" events will not be propagated by the mutliplexer. UI events inside the Stage have their own "handled" flag (mostly it does the right thing but there are some subtle differences).
One alternative to the InputMultiplexer would be to create a "GameScreenActor" (a new subclass of Actor) that contains your current game screen that you plug into the global Stage. You'd have to move your input processing to the scene2d approach, though. This probably isn't the right choice for you, but it is a viable one.
Say I have this specific button class in Flash called cont_button and it's supposed to be used to break out of a loop, but I want to use the class more than once. Is there a way to give every instance of this class some kind of parameter so that it knows which frame it nees to go to?
Example:
I have an instance of cont_button on frame 200 and there's a loop between 200 and 210. This cont_button executes a gotoAndPlay(211). But later on I have another instance of the button on frame 315 and a loop between 315 and 325. Is there a way to make it so each instance knows which frame it specifically needs to go to via the use of a variable? Or am I going to have to make an actionscript file for each individual one?
Pretty new to ActionScript so I appreciate the help and if there are good coding references to AS3 you guys recommend, I'll gladly look those over.
Sure, this is possible. One way you can do this is make the frame numbers class variables and when the button is clicked, they reference whatever value is stored in them, rather then hardcoded numbers. To get a better idea, can you post the relevant parts of your button class?
As you say, you need to pass a parameter to each instance of the button. There are lots of different ways you could do this, but I'd be tempted to just do it via the instance names.
You could name each button loopBreakTo211, loopBreakTo326 and so on, then in your button's class have:
var breakFrame:Number = Number(name.replace("loopBreakTo", ""));
(parent as MovieClip).gotoAndPlay(breakFrame);
Admittedly that's not a very robust way of doing it (for example, it will break if a button is named incorrectly and breakFrame ends up as NaN, so you might want to add a check for that), but it keeps the parameter together with the instance instead of in the timeline somewhere.
I have a button instance named "instructionButton" and I'm trying to trace "Clicked." to the output when it is clicked as a test but I haven' been successful thus far. Is there something I'm missing?
I'm using code in Flash Pro 6
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var clickedVar:String = "Clicked.";
var runVar:String = "mice running...";
trace(runVar);
function instructionOpen(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace(clickedVar);
gotoAndPlay(255);
}
instructionsButton.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, instructionOpen);
And of course if there's a more simple way to approach this, all knowledge will be helpful.
Check instance name is provided or not in the property window for the button (click the button and go to menu 'Window->Properties' to open property window)
What name is mentioned in the property window for the button, should use the same instance name in action script coding. Ensure the spelling from both script(code) and property window instance name.
I don't really see anything wrong with your button code, but here's how i do mine in AS3, it may help :) Creating a simple function within the event listener, I use stopPropgation to prevent my button from clicking anything that may be below it in the flash file. ( say you have two buttons on top of one another, you'll click both instead of one)
instructionsButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
trace("Clicked.");
gotoAndPlay(255);
});
This is one button, if you need say fifteen, let me know as I have a code sample I'll give you that i use to create a limitless amount of buttons and eventlistners using switch/case which has been a huge help to me :)
The only way this will not work is if you are not reaching this frame.
Try add this code on your first frame and tell me if this helping.