Quick question.. I think :)
I am trying to chance the hue of a button inside af movieclip. The movieclip is called 'container' and the button is named 'traps' (which I get from another variable elsewhere).
This is my code
function get_muscle(muscle:String, tension:String):void {
if (tension == 'primary') {
var getChild:MovieClip = MovieClip(container.getChildByName(muscle));
greenHue(getChild);
}
}
Sadly it does not work. If i type in greenHue(container.traps) manually it works fine, but when I try to do it like this, it does not work. I have also tried to just use greenHue(container.muscle) but that does not work either.
Thanks in advance!
getChildByName searches the children of the container for a element has a name property that is equal to what you pass in.
So does container.traps.name == muscle?
Also what is the type of container.traps? You said it is a button but you try to cast it to MovieClip.
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I have a class called "airport" which extends movieclip. I have, successfully, managed to add a mouseclick-eventlistener for every object of the class that i create.
When I click on one of the objects, I am supposed to enter frame 2 on the main timeline.
I've tried to use the following code inside the class:
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
private function clickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
MovieClip(parent).nextFrame();
}
When I click on one of the objects, I don't enter frame 2, but the whole screen goes blank. Any ideas? Thanks for advice.
PS: If you request more of my code to provide an answer, I would be happy to provide it.
Whatever 'this' is isn't a direct child of the main timeline. Try this:
private function clickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
MovieClip(root).nextFrame();
}
Oh..I just found the error. In my code I used the line
this.parent.visible = false
to hide the objects when I entered next frame.
What I did not know was that this also would hide every other movieclip, which results in the screen beeing totally white.
I'm trying to remove a child movieclip but it's always get an error. I already tried different way and nothing works.
Here is my print screen. The Movieclip i want to remove is movieclip1 that is inside the movieclip playerPaddle.
Any help please.
my code to remove:
if(playerPaddle.movieclip1.hitTestObject(ball)){
playerPaddle.movieclip1.removeChild(movieclip1);
}
Error Message:
Dialog box saying dismiss all or continue - cannot converto movieclip1$ to flash.display.DisplayObject
If i understood correctly, you're trying to remove movieclip1 from playerPaddle object.
To do this you have to call:
if(playerPaddle.movieclip1.hitTestObject(ball)){
playerPaddle.removeChild(playerPaddle.movieclip1);
}
And That is because playerPaddle is parent object of movieclip1 hence, calling removeChild on parent object will work perfectly.
While Kuba's answer brings up an issue with the code you've provided, but I think the issue you are facing right now is that movieclip1 object that is passed as parameter to playerPaddle.movieclip1.removeChild(...) isn't a movieclip1. If I have to venture a guess, it most probably is null.
Can you try:
if(playerPaddle.movieclip1.hitTestObject(ball))
{
playerPaddle.removeChild(playerPaddle.movieclip1);
}
(I've included the suggestion by Kuba too).
the following may help you
if(this.parent) this.parent.removeChild(this);
you can replace this with the proper child and have the same result. like:
if(ball.parent) ball.parent.removeChild(ball);
Kuba is almost correct, but movieclip1 will not be in scope. You still need to point to movieclip1 which is an object belonging to playerPaddle.
if(playerPaddle.movieclip1.hitTestObject(ball))
{
playerPaddle.removeChild(playerPaddle.movieclip1);
}
If your removing the child you also need to remove the EventListener that is listening to the child. If you remove the child object and the event listener is still checking for it, you will get an error. You can nest the function in a check statement like this
if(playerPaddle)
{
if(playerPaddle.movieclip1.hitTestObject(ball))
{
playerPaddle.removeChild(playerPaddle.movieclip1);
}
}
This is a function that loads a specific video into a MovieClip container at 0.0 using a video class.
public var mainVideo:SimpleVideo;
public function loadVideo(videoString:String) :void{
mainVideo = new
SimpleVideo("videos/"+videoString+".flv","",true,video_container.positionMc);
video_container.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,controlVideoPlayer);
addChild(mainVideo);
trace('adding new video to container');
}
I'd like to preferably check, each time a video is loaded, to see if there already is another video loaded. And if there is, then remove it, and add the new video.
I've tried using removeChild() in a variety of ways, but it doesn't seem to work correctly.
Would I use removeChild(mainVideo)? video_container.removeChild(mainVideo)?
And how would I be able to check if there was already an existing mainVideo?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-Update-
If I try and use removeChild(mainVideo) I get this error:
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null. at
flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChild() at
Main/removeVideo() at MethodInfo-127()
If you add the video into a container movieclip rather than onto stage, and that container only has just one instance of SimpleVideo in its display list at a time, you could do:
if( myVideoContainer.numChildren > 0 )
{
myVideoContainer.removeChild( myVideoContainer.getChildAt( 0 ) );
}
A bigger issue though is how the SimpleVideo class you are using cleans itself up. Most video classes have a cleanup or kill function that removes the listeners and cleans up the netStream. I would think you'd need to call something like that as well as removing the video instance from the container.
I hope this respone may help you
--> Would I use removeChild(mainVideo) ? video_container.removeChild(mainVideo) ?
you should use removeChild function but you need to know who is the parent of mainVideo and call this function of his parent, in your case, I think, video_container is not the parent because is a variable near mainVideo and you add mainVideo to the instance of the class which has loadVideo function
sometimes you can use mainVideo.parent.removeChild(mainVideo), not the best approach but it works, it's better to know who is the parent and call function removeChild() explicitly on that "parent"
--> would I be able to check if there was already an existing mainVideo?
well, you can do a simple if(mainVideo != null) { .. } because in function loadVideo you create new instances each time, that means if you called at least one time this function then if condition should be true that means you have already an existing mainVideo
--> TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null.
that means your mainVideo is not instantiated, because I guess you have not called loadVideo() yet, that's why #putvande asked you to provide more code, we need to see where and when you call removeChild()
If im usin function to add a mc to the stage like so:
var myChild:MC= new MC();
function somefunc()
{
stage.addChild(myMC)
}
but when I try to remove the mc by:
stage.removeChild(myMC)
I get The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller error...
any suggestions or work arounds?
Your code should work if the item is on the stage. Perhaps qualifying it with a conditional statement like so:
if (myMC.stage != null)
stage.removeChild(myMC);
Alternatively you could use the following code but it is probably not best practice.
if (myMC.parent != null)
myMC.parent.removeChild(myMC);
The problem is not with removeChild. It's with the displaylist. If you check the parent property of the displayobject, when you call "removeChild" it will be null.
Why does it become null could be because of lots of reasons:
Parent is nulled before the child.
The child or parent have event listeners that won't let them die.
The Display Object is really not the instance you're trying to remove. THIS one can be very tricky to find out. Look at the "name and parent properties" of the variable you're trying to remove while calling removeChild.
You could try hiding and showing the movieClip, if possible.
I think its a bit faster than removing and adding consistantly, code permitting.
Keep in mind this is just a suggestion, someone smarter than me outta be able to help you out..
You could also use this fail safe:
if(myMC.parent) myMC.parent.removeChild(myMC);
I could fix this problem by simply removing every EventListeners I added to that object before removing it.
i'm adding a movieclip element ("lastSlide") to an other movieclip element("endLogoButton"). The added element has a child which is a button("endLogoButton"). How can i call that button?
mcSlideHolder.addChild(lastSlide);
/*mcSlideHolder.getChildByName("endLogoButton").buttonMode = true;;
mcSlideHolder.getChildByName("endLogoButton").mouseChildren = false;
mcSlideHolder.getChildByName("endLogoButton").useHandCursor = true;*/
lastSlide.endLogoButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, linkClick);
As a beginner i'm struggling around ... but can't make it work ...
It always tells me that the access to a Nullobject reference is not possible.
Thanks for any advice!
You can either 'dig in' to the nested objects to get to the button instance or you can add event listeners to the button instance before adding it to its parent container then let its click event bubble up.
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what is nested inside of what in your case but I see you're trying getChildByName. getChildByName only gets a direct child (not a child of a child) by its instance name, (not it's variable name).
Dig in example:
lastSlide.getChildByName("endLogoButton").addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, linkClick);
or
lastSlide.name = "myLastSlide";
mcSlideHolder.getChildByName("myLastSlide").getChildByName("endLogoButton").addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, linkClick);
If lastSlide were placed on the stage visually in the Flash IDE, then you could set the instance name myLastSlide there in the properties panel rather than by setting the name property in as3.
or maybe: try casting the "lastSlide" to a MovieClip like:
MovieClip(mcSlideHolder.getChildByName("lastSlide")).getChildByName("endLogoButton").addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, linkClick);
This worked for me several times when the "possible unreferenced object" error popped up when referencing a movieclip that was clearly added to the stage