Is there a way in AS3 to make a the mouse ignore a certain movieclip? I need it to be on top of the other movieclips (due to transparancy effects), but have it in a way that allows clicking on the movieclips underneath it. I know about ".mouseChildren = false", but that only makes all the stuff inside that movieclip unclickable, but it still functions as a "barrier" on top of all the others buttons.
Is there a way to do this, or do I need to remove it completely ?
You need to set both .mouseChildren and .mouseEnabled to false before you can click on objects behind the MovieClip. This makes the mouse ignore the objects within the MovieClip and the MovieClip itself.
Source: http://pixelfumes.blogspot.com/2008/01/clicking-through-movieclips-to.html
EDIT: Oops, didn't see that comment by Alex, sorry.
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I have a MovieClip with 5 frames. On it are some other movieclips, quite a few of them. On every frame of the first MovieClip they are positoned differently and when I change the frame they change location. Everything works great until I change something within the actionscript.
If I try to color the child MovieClip or do anything with it and then change the frame, the MC stays on the same spot, it does not change location like it should (and does if I dont change it).
Why is this happening? Can I do something to fix it?
Thank you :)
Try changing the position of the movieclips dynamically, using actionscript on each frame, instead of directly on the stage.
[movieclip].x = [Number];
[movieclip].y = [Number];
I'm pretty sure objects that have been referenced in actionscript tend to ignore the IDE positioning in later frames, so you need to dynamically move them. I've seen it happen to me heaps of times.
For a project I have several movie clips into one frame in those movieClips you will find a button to go to the next movieClip.
All pages (movieClips) overlap each other.
The movie clips in this case are all different pages that I want to connect through a button.
When I click on the button in the movie clip I can not use gotoAndPlay because I want everything in the same frame. I think I should use removeChild for the other movie clips to remove them and only show the one i need when I press the button?
So is there an alternative for gotoAndPlay(); or should i just use removeChild(); if you click the button?
I have little experience with AS3 so I do not know exactly how I should do it.
You can either:
set the visibility with .visible = false/true;
set their alpha with .alpha = 0 - 1; (if they are interactive, they will stay interactive so careful about that)
remove them and add them (as you already proposed)
move them off screen (bad solution)
I would probably set their visibility. Or you can do it with removeChild. There is no gotoAndPlay() for this scenario.
I know this question has been asked before but as a noob i did not understand the answer so im hoping someone can explain a little more for me.
I have an arrow animated along a path using a motion tween I want when a button is clicked for an endless stream of arrows to follow the path, this would be easy if you could put more than one object on a motion tween but you cant? Can anyone help with the code id need to make this happen.
Is there a way to repeat the movieclip again before its finished to give this effect?
Do you have any code, or example of exactly what you're trying to accomplish?
You can use multiple instances of the same movie clip... So (for the sake of explanation) you could animate your arrow once, make sure it's its own movieClip, put it on the stage, and test your movie...It will loop over and over. You can drag as many instances of this movie on to the stage and they will all play, over and over until it's told to stop.
If you need ALL of the arrows to be one movie clip, as to be one addressable object, you can simply select all of your positioned arrows, and convert those into one movieClip (right click, convert to Symbol)
Of course all of this can be controlled precisely through code, but need to know a bit more about what you're trying to do. hope this helps a little...
The function play() will loop your movie forever, unless you have a stop() function somewhere.
yourMovie.play();
If you want to "repeat" / "reset" a MovieClip at any time, use gotoAndPlay() :
yourMovie.gotoAndPlay(1);
If you want to verify if you are at the end of your clip, use the properties currentFrame and totalFrames :
if (yourMovie.currentFrame == yourMovie.totalFrames)
{
// ex. if you want to stop
yourMovie.stop();
}
Ref : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/MovieClip.html
Hope that help. Be more specific, if it doesn't answer your question.
I have a fully working flash application, made in as3. Now i dynamicly added a movieclip and i would like to be able to erase that movieclip with a eraser of some sort, my goal is to be able pick up a sponge with the mouse and then start dragging over the movieclip and erasing the parts where i dragged over it.
Anyone who can help?
Looks like this might be what you're looking for:
http://www.piterwilson.com/personal/2008/05/07/bitmapdata-erasing-in-as3-with-custom-brush-shape/
Is the background behind the MovieClip always the same?
If so you can put an image of the background over the MovieClip you want to erase, and mask that image so it becomes invisible, then add a click listener that draws a circle in the mask when clicked. This way it'll look like the MovieClip is being erased.
With getPixel you can loop over the mask and detect the percentage of the MovieClip that has been erased, so you can remove the clip from stage when it's fully erased.
I am creating a photo editor app where, at some point, the photo you edit is supposed to be dropped between two layers of DisplayObjects (a background image and an image mask.)
There is a problem, though. When the image you are editing is dropped between the background and the image mask layers, it becomes unclickable, and therefore gets stuck there, with no chance of dragging it again. (The photo editor uses TransformManager library.)
I am looking for a way to allow you to select the image you are editing no matter if there is another DisplayObject on top of it. And that probably means finding some way to click through the image mask.
Is there a way to do that?
I tried setting mouseChildren = false on imageMask, but that didn't have the desired effect.
Many thanks.
I had similar problems and I managed to solve it by using both
displayobject.mouseChildren = false;
and
displayobject.mouseEnabled = false;
on the object that you want to click through.
How about this?
mask.mouseEnabled = false;
You can always attach a Mouse Click listener to the container, and then either use GetObjectsUnderPoint and check for your object or do a hit test and see if the mouse position is over your intended object.
The hit test would look something like this !this.YourPhoto.hitTestPoint(stage.mouseX, stage.mouseY, false)
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If I understand your problem, this handy class should solve it:
http://www.mosessupposes.com/utilities/InteractivePNG.html
Take a look at what senocular does here, specifically in the handleUpdate method. Basically: getting a list of everything under the mousePoint to find your object.
I think I stumbled upon similar problem, although in as2.
In flash when you position movie clip over movie clip, and the movie clip on the top has any mouse events implemented, it captures all mouse events so they never reach occluded movie clip.
The solution is not to have any mouse events for the top movie clip and have the movie clip positioned at the bottom capture mouse event and redirect some of them to the top movie clip (you can check mouse position with hitTest to determine if they should be redirected).
i had a strange bug i used;
movieClip.mouseEnabled = false;
but wasn't working for some reason.. was driving me crazy!! as i have used it so many times before. tried lots of different things nothing worked then i deleted the MovieClip and the created a new one and worked.. so the MovieClip's contents must have been corrupt or something as it had a old dynamic Text Area box embedded within the MovieClip.
hope this helps someone out there..