I have a movieclip called PointerMC. Inside PointerMC is a tween which has actionscript. PointerMC starts off as
pointerMC.visible=false;
. I have a MovieClip called playMC as well on the stage. Here is the AS:
playMC.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playClick);
function playClick(evt:Event):void {
pointerMC.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
and here is the AS inside pointerMC:
stop();
MovieClip(root).pointerMC.visible=true;
Now, when I click playMC, I want to make pointerMC visible and then play the tween inside PointerMC, I know I can do
function playClick(evt:Event):void {
pointerMC.visible=true;
pointerMC.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
but how do I make pointerMC visible while I am inside the MovieClip? How come
MovieClip(root).pointerMC.visible=true;
is not making PointerMC visible?
If you're already inside of pointerMC, then you shouldn't have to use root to access it, you can just use the this keyword: this.visible = true;
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I have an as3 script that will scrub the timeline of a movieclip on the stage.
This scrubs the timeline and displays the frame by frame animation but does not execute any actionscript placed on key frames within that movieclip. Users can scrub backwards or forward. I would like to load the script as well as unload depending on the direction the user scrubs. Can this be done?
What you can do is to make new class and extend MovieClip, Inside of that class you can create public methods that you can call from timeline:
public class MyMC extends MovieClip {
public function myMC() {
// constructor
}
public function load():void{
// Do something
}
public function unload():void{
// Do something
}
}
Than if you used "interface" to to add movie clip, click on movie clip and change instance from MovieClip to your class MyMC. Give it also a name (variable name) for example my_mc Than you can call your function from action on timeline
my_mc.load();
my_mc.unload();
Or if you are using just actions to create movie clip you can do like this:
var my_mc:MyMC = new MyMC();
my_mc.load();
my_mc.unload();
I'm running into some problems with making the movie clip so I can drag it about the stage. The scenario: the user clicks a button that spawns the movie clip to the stage, from there they can move the item around the stage - it's a draggable object. I can make it so the movieClip spawns, I can make it so it drags... but i can't make it do both, once I try to attach the drag function. Any pointers please? I'm new to as3! :-)
spawner_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, spawnspinkjewel);
function spawnspinkjewel(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var myChild:pink_jewel= new pink_jewel();
stage.addChild(myChild)
myChild.x=300;
myChild.y=150;
}
pink_jewel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickupblack_pink_jewel);
pink_jewel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropblack_pink_jewel);
function pickupblack_pink_jewel(event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.startDrag(true);
}
function dropblack_pink_jewel(event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.stopDrag();
}
You added the listeners to the incorrect object.
Change this:
pink_jewel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickupblack_pink_jewel);
pink_jewel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropblack_pink_jewel);
To this:
myChild.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickupblack_pink_jewel);
myChild.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropblack_pink_jewel);
Alright, what i need it's simple but its driving me crazy, i want to know if AS3 detects my mouse inside a movieclip.
For example, i have a movieclip instanced "BEframes" which is inside movieclip "BE1" and i want to put him inside a new movieclip instanced "roll". So the order would be roll > BE1 > BEframes.
I want to know if flash will only detect "roll" or he will detect all movieclips, thank you,
for(i=1;i<=77;i++){
var str:String =("BE" + i);
this[str].BEframes.gotoAndStop(i);
this[str].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clique);
this[str].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, over);
this[str].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, out);
}
function clique(evt:MouseEvent):void{
var botao:String = evt.currentTarget.name.toString();
var num:String = botao.replace("BE", "");
parede_esquerda.gotoAndStop(num);
}
function out(evt:MouseEvent):void {
evt.currentTarget.gotoAndPlay("out");
}`enter code here`
function over(evt:MouseEvent):void {
evt.currentTarget.gotoAndPlay("over");
}
*
Probably, you should use MOUSE_OVER and MOUSE_OUT instead of ROLL_OVER and ROLL_OUT.
this[str].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, over);
this[str].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, out);
To avoid receiving mouseEvent for movieClips set mouseEnabled to false, i.e if you don't want clip roll's mouse event setroll.mouseEnabled = false so that the object below will receive mouseEvent
I've got a movieclip that is composed of 3 separate symbols. 2 of the symbols have their alpha tweened over 60 frames. 1 of the symbols is not tweened at all. All symbols are in separate layers, and there is a 4th, empty layer with a keyframe on frame 60 for actionscript.
The actionscript on frame 60 is simply "stop();" .
I am adding an instance of the movieclip to the stage dynamically from the document class. When I have "stop();" in there, the movieclip appears on the stage and skips straight to frame 60, where it succesfully stops.
Without "stop();" in there, the movieclip plays the alpha tweens perfectly, but obviously continuously loops.
Manually dispatching an Event.COMPLETE and listening for it does not work either and I would prefer not doing it that way anyway.
Here is the code that adds the movieclip to the stage:
//initialize the gameplay, remove title screen.
private function initialize_gameplay():void
{
//remove the title screen
initialize_title_screen(true);
this.screen_transition_obj = new tide_out_video();
this.addChild(this.screen_transition_obj);
this.game_board = new tidepool_gameboard();
this.screen_transition_obj.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,swap_transition_video_for_screen);
}
//replace the current transition video with the screen it was transitioning to
private function swap_transition_video_for_screen(e:Event){
this.addChild(this.game_board);
if(this.screen_transition_obj != null){
if(this.getChildByName(this.screen_transition_obj.name)){
this.removeChild(this.screen_transition_obj);
}
this.screen_transition_obj.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swap_transition_video_for_screen);
this.screen_transition_obj = null;
}
}
The movieclip's class is tidepool_gameboard and the property of the document class that stores the reference to it is game_board.
Any idea why putting stop(); on frame 60 of the movie clip is causing it to skip to the end without tweening?
UPDATE:
Adding the movieclip to the stage instantly instead of as the result of an event listener works properly, the problem only occurs when the movieclip is added in the event listner.
I can't believe I overlooked this, as it appears to be fairly obvious to me now.
In the code posted in the question, I've initialized a new instance of this.game_board, then added it to the stage after a delay based on an event listener for a video clip. The animation is playing, but it's playing before the clip ever is added to the stage.
Thanks go to alecmce who answered this question.
I did his Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE event listener, and it worked, which led me to realize that the MovieClip does not wait until it is added to the stage to start playing its own timeline, it simply starts the second you instantiate the object.
This is the new, fully functional code:
//initialize the gameplay, remove title screen.
private function initialize_gameplay():void
{
//remove the title screen
initialize_title_screen(true);
this.screen_transition_obj = new tide_out_video();
this.addChild(this.screen_transition_obj);
this.screen_transition_obj.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,swap_transition_video_for_screen);
}
//replace the current transition video with the screen it was transitioning to
private function swap_transition_video_for_screen(e:Event)
{
this.game_board = new tidepool_gameboard();
this.addChild(this.game_board);
if (this.screen_transition_obj != null)
{
if (this.getChildByName(this.screen_transition_obj.name))
{
this.removeChild(this.screen_transition_obj);
}
this.screen_transition_obj.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swap_transition_video_for_screen);
this.screen_transition_obj = null;
}
}
I am trying to determine in AS3 Flash if a draggable movieclip on the stage completely fills another movieclip also on the stage. I looked into another StackOverflow article with this code:
var inter = mcOverlay.getRect(this).intersection(mcLoadedImage.getRect(this));
if ((inter.width * inter.height) == 0) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
This code uses the intersect method, it works, but I also want to check that the movieclip is completely covered by the draggable movieclip on the stage.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
I think you could use compare each movieclips rect, ie compare the left, right, top and bottom values.
Instead of using intersection, use Rectangle.contains.
var contains : Boolean = mcContainer.getRect(this).contains(mcContained.getRect(this));
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/geom/Rectangle.html#containsRect()