Hello everyone. I built a program in Flex Builder back in 2011. I have since lost the project files for it and I am trying to rebuild it. At one point, I knew how to do this, but for one reason or another, how I pulled it off now escapes me. It's really incredibly simple.
textInput 1
textInput 2
textInput 3
dynamic label for result x
In my original, the user would input values into the three boxes, as the values were entered for each box the label would read "n/a", once the final value was input it automatically populated the label with the result of the math. In this particular case, it would be:
x = (input1/(60/input2))/input3
I am not a programmer, and there have been some changes since I accomplished this last. I've tried starting over from scratch, but I can't seem to get a working result. If someone could help crash me through this one calculation I can proceed again on my own, I just need a refresher. Thank you in advance!
I guess something like that may help you.
private function SomeMath():void
{
dynamicTextBox.text = (input1.text/(60/input2.text))/input3.text;
}
and all these dynamicTextBox, input1, input2, and input3 are the ids which are defined at correspoding part of mxml file.
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I have ran into a strange problem that I'm not really sure where to begin investigating of what could cause it. I'm currently using a library, angular-stl-model-viewer that uses Three.js. I call a component that renders a 3D model. However, when I call the component again and add a different file both components have both parts even though each component was assigned one different part file.
Ex.
<div class="row">
<stl-model-viewer stlModel="model/teapot"
class="col-5"></stl-model-viewer>
<span class="col-2"></span>
<stl-model-viewer stlModel="model/other"
class="col-5"></stl-model-viewer>
</div>
2 different components first should just be a teapot with part in the middle
Image of both parts in both components
I feel like the component is being referenced as one even though it's there twice. Is there a way to make each invoke of the component unique and separate? Also I understand this may have been asked before but didn't really know what word or phrase to search. Sorry about this and thanks for the help.
Temporary fix might be :-
<stl-model-viewer *ngIf="showModel" stlModel="model/teapot"
For eg:- if you are changing filename in a method :-
changeFileName() {
this.showModel = false;
//file Name Changing Code Here
setTimeout(()=>{this.showModel=true});
}
As you won't get a fix soon. One use posted same question 26 days ago :-
https://github.com/tevim/angular-stl-model-viewer/issues/389#issue-605311429
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.
Okay, so I've been busting my hump the last week or so on this project for my OOP/AS3 course and this past Sunday I realized that my approach wasn't going to work so I scrapped the better part of it and started over.
Our assignment is to create an XML based flash menu that demonstrates an understanding of the OOP patterns we've just learned. It was kind of a 'test the waters' project where he gave us a ton of tutorials and information and told us to make our best attempt at making sense of it so I'm certain there are more efficient ways to do what I'm doing, but that's a moot point.
We need to employ at least two patterns in our menu, though at the moment I'm just focusing on MVC so that I can get the mainUI working before I finalize the second part of the UI. It essentially flows like so:
MainUI has 4 menus that slide out.
Each slider has 3 thumbnails on it.
Clicking on any of the thumbnails will move to the next part of the UI. This functionality is currently disabled.
The program runs with 0 compiler errors, but the images are not being placed on the stage correctly and I can't figure out why. All the image paths are being pulled and stored from the XML properly. The main background image is pulled once and is supposed to be only placed once (if statement that uses a count to determine whether to run the placement function or not), but it is being placed 4 times with the sliding menu image. The sliders are being placed in the correct positions (switch statement that iterates through the mainUI function in the View class and creates a separate loader for each one), but the thumbnails are not all showing up. So here is what I'm seeking help with:
The mainPanel image should only be placed once, rather than 4 times with each slider.
The sliders, while being placed correctly, must be tweened in different directions through the as (using TweenMax), but each instance is unidentifiable from the other so right now they all have an eventListener that calls the same tween method. How can I distinguish them in a way that lets me apply a different tween to each (This will likely be a concern with the thumbnail functionality later as I will need to load different XML data based on which thumb is clicked).
I have added what I hope are very informative comments to each script so hopefully people can help. Also included are images of what I want the mainUI to eventually look like and how it's coming out currently.
pastebin with all 3 classes and XML (2 hyperlink limit) - http://pastebin.com/u/crookedparadigm
top image is how the stage is outputting, bottom image is what I'd like to to be - http://imgur.com/a/bOmsS
Last quick note, stage is currently set to 600x480 with a black background. Ideally, to reinforce OOP principles, our professor wants us to avoid using the timeline or library if possible.
Any advice at all will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Install FlexPMD This is a very good add on( sometimes hard to install ) It basically is used to show areas of your code that you are not following standards. For example your classes lack the use of "this". And you should avoid passing parameters in constructors. It would be good practice to develop standardized writing skills while you are still new.
Looking at your code I see you are calling buildUI from within a loop.
buildUI is assigning a MainView object to mainUI.
So each time you go through a loop iteration you are reassigning mainUI.
In the end mainUI will only be the last iteration of that loop.
Not sure this is your issue but is an issue.
[EDIT]
Excellent Singleton guide for Flex SDK
Part 1
Part 2
Some Good writing on pure AS3 Singletons.
I would prolly start from scratch as your XML data is miss formatted.
your XML should resemble something like this.
<MainProject>
<MainUI>
<Thumbnail Name="Spring">
<Destination Name="Spring" Price="99" ratingPath="images/SP1/SP1rating.png" />
</Thumbnail>
<Thumbnail Name="Winter">
<Destination Name="Winter" Price="152" ratingPath="images/SP1/SP2rating.png" />
</Thumbnail>
</MainUI>
</MainProject>
Then you should have the following structure on your stage. These movieclips should be empty and already placed inside on your stage with instance name.
Stage
MenuUI MovieClip
ThumbNail1 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
ThumbNail2 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
ThumbNail3 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
ThumbNail4 MovieClip <- feed it thumbnail from the XML
This might be a bit too vague, just tell me if you need more details.
Hope this helps !
I have a flash assignment that I need help getting started, any advice would be greatly appreciated. The assignment is to create an application for playing a card game, I have to create an MXML component that has two variables, one variable stores the image of the back of a playing card, the other variable has t store all 52 options of a front facing card (the second variable will store over 50 images).
I've written the variable for the back of the card image like this:
public var backOfCard:Image = new Image();
backofCard.source = 'asset/backImage';
However I get an undefined variable error (1120: Access of undefined propery variable img1), I feel like there's something small that I'm missing here, but I was wondering if anyone could spot it.
I'd also like to know if I should use the same method for each jpg image for the front of the cards, it seems like it would be a lot of repetitive code aside from the change in filename for the front of the card images.
Here's a snippet of the homework assignment, again I just need help getting this part correct, I really appreciate any help with this.
Your job is to supply the custom component named Card. Create the
component by using File → New → MXML Component. In the popup dialog
box
leave the Package blank
Name the component Card
Base Card on spark.components.Image
What goes into the Card component?
For each card, we'll want to be able to show the front face of the
card, or its back face. That means each card should have a place to
store information about what file to show as its front face, and what
file to show as its back face.
To do this, create two variables in the Card component to store the
file names. You might call these variables backImage and frontImage.
Your access modifier is what's bothering me.
If you're creating these definitions in your class file, then the first statement works:
public var backOfCard:Image = new Image();
But if you're in one of the methods, usually the constructor (sometimes called the ctor), or any other method of the application, you could use the 2nd statement:
backofCard.source = 'asset/backImage';
But the combination of both is what I think is confusing. Because the "access modifier" (i.e. public, private, internal, protected) is what you use to define variables and methods within a class. And since you're putting both side-by-side (a definition and an assignment statement), I think you're mixing when to declare them.
My head is spinning from two days of trying to find an answer to this seemingly simple question.
I'm developing a Flex/AIR application built entirely in ActionScript -- there's no MXML beyond what was originally auto-created.
I need to dynamically generate some kind of editable text-field with high control over formatting. The TLF text fields all seem great, except that I can't get any of them to render on the screen. Due to the nature of the application, they have to be inside a MovieClip, but since I've read that everything must be a descendant of UIComponent, I use UIMovieClip, which is AddChild'ed to the stage.
I'm about to go crazy here, the whole application is in jeopardy over this. I CAN NOT use MXML, and all the 10,000 examples on the internet are MXML. I need to generate these dynamically. I need to generate upwards of 50 fields under one movieclip based on database data. There's no way to hardcode that with MXML. Please don't suggest to change this. The GUI is very specific about this, and it's the right GUI.
In two days of searching, I can't find a single example in ActionScript, only MXML. I've tried everything that smelled like an example.
Is there some obvious general pointer I'm missing? I'll be happy to post code, but it doesn't make sense because I've been through so many examples.
Does anyone have the simplest possible code for creating any kind of TLF text editing field in ActionScript only (zero MXML), which is then added to a MovieClip or UIMovieClip, which is added to the stage of a desktop AIR application?
I will greatly cherish any help here.
Best,
Per
This should get you started:
//create your TextFlow component
var textFlow:TextFlow = new TextFlow();
var p:ParagraphElement = new ParagraphElement();
var span:SpanElement = new SpanElement();
span.text = "hello world";
p.addChild(span);
textFlow.addChild(p);
//create a Sprite that will contain the text
var textBlock:Sprite = new Sprite();
//create a controller for compositing
var controller:ContainerController = new ContainerController(textBlock);
//set the size of the composition
controller.setCompositionSize(100, 200);
//make the controller control the TextFlow object
textFlow.flowComposer.addController(controller);
//update the composition
textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();
//add to the stage
addChild(textBlock);
About the size: it is important you use setCompositionSize() instead of the Sprite's width and height properties.
Using addController() you could spread the text over several Sprites. Each Sprite would have its own ContainerController, but all would share the same FlowComposer which would calculate the composition.
warning : using TLF like this can be pretty complicated. Above code is the bare minimum to get things running. I do not know your requirements, but you'll probably hit a few other roadblocks along the way. You have to ask yourself this question: are you really willing to drop all the built-in features of TextArea? It might cost you months of development to get things right, depending on the requirements. You still may want to reconsider your architecture...