I want to display multiple images and when rollover above it i must get a tooltips (names). The same names are in the database mySQL. Naturally, to tooltips displayed without delay, preferably immediately put all the names from the database into an array and then manipulate them. Tell me please what I do wrong?
Php class to connect database:
public function getDataMean($id,$dir_id) {
$mysql = mysql_connect(DATABASE_SERVER, DATABASE_USERNAME, DATABASE_PASSWORD);
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8';");
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8';");
mysql_query("SET SESSION collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci';");
mysql_select_db(DATABASE_NAME);
$query = "SELECT name FROM files WHERE id='".$id."' AND dir_id='".$dir_id."'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
return $result;
}
FB4 code:
public var Names:Array = new Array();
public var textName:String;
protected function decks_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
arrayOfNumber = new Array();
generateArray(minCount,maxCount);
randomize(arrayOfNumber);
var dir_id:int = 7;
card1.source = "http://***/gallery/7/"+String(arrayOfNumber[0])+".jpg";
card2.source = "http://***/gallery/7/"+String(arrayOfNumber[1])+".jpg";
card3.source = "http://***/gallery/7/"+String(arrayOfNumber[2])+".jpg";
for (var i:int=0; i<4; i++){
getDataMeanResult.token = authors.getDataMean(arrayOfNumber[i], dir_id);
Names[i] = getDataMeanResult.lastResult[0].name;
}
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
It's a bit hard to see from your code. But as I understood; you have some cards with in ID each, and you want to grab matching data from array when ever the user interacts with that card? - Correct?
If that is the case you properly want to use an associative array instead. In AS3 you use an instance of the Oject class as an associative array (yes that does seem a bit wierd). So maybe you should rewrite your code declaring Names as a Object instead of Array.
With that being said I can see one other problem with your code, you write Names[i] = ..., but you have not declared the size of the Array (or maybe that is what the generateArray function does?). Try using Names.push(getDataMeanResult.lastResult[0].name) instead.
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I am in the need of multiple staged WebViews for holding multiple loaded websites at the same time.
I was hoping to manage this by making an array of webviews object, so i could call them later as view[i].
var view:Array=[webview0, webview1, webview2];
for each (var v in view){
var v:StageWebView = new StageWebView();
This gives error: 1086: Syntax error: expecting semicolon before left bracket.
Does someone know how to make an array like that?
You're doing something really weird there in terms of syntax. If you just want an Array of freshly created instances, it goes like that:
// Initialize the array.
var Views:Array = new Array;
// This loop counts 0,1,2.
for (var i:int = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
// Create a new instance.
// Yes, you can omit () with new operator if there are no arguments.
var aView:StageWebView = new StageWebView;
// Assign the new element to your array.
Views[i] = aView;
}
Or, if you need only 3 then you don't need to go algorithmic.
var Views:Array = [new StageWebView, new StageWebView, new StageWebView];
Not on topic but related:
Here is an example of one HTML page hold multiple StageWebViews
https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/tryit.asp?filename=trymap_basic_many
I've spent nearly 1 week to learn working with objects instead of arrays. I had thought it was easy to call them and created some objects and set their properties. However I can't access them now, I tried this:
function onBoxClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
var str:String = event.currentTarget.name;
trace(str);
str = str.substring(str.indexOf("_") + 1);
trace(getChildByName("copy_" + str)); // trying to trace an object by name
}
My question is if there's a practical way of dealing with objects, otherwise what's the purpose of using them.
Edit: Here's my function that I use to create movieclips and other things:
function addBoxes(isUpdate:Boolean):void {
var copyOne:Object = getReadOnlyValues();
copyOne.name = "copy_" + num;
// Set default mc1 settings
var settings1:Object = copyOne.mc1Settings;
for(var num2:String in settings1) {
copyOne.mc1[num2] = settings1[num2];
}
// Set default mc1text settings
var settings2:Object = copyOne.mc1TextSettings;
for(var num3:String in settings2) {
copyOne.mc1Text[num3] = settings2[num3];
}
copyOne.mc1.x = nextXpos;
copyOne.mc1.name = "captionBox_" + num;
addChild(copyOne.mc1);
copyOne.mc1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onCaptionClick);
copyOne.mc1Text.name = "captionBoxText_" + num;
copyOne.mc1.addChild(copyOne.mc1Text);
// ---------------------------------------------------------------
// Set default mc2 settings
var settings4:Object = copyOne.mc2Settings;
for(var num4:String in settings4) {
copyOne.mc2[num4] = settings4[num4];
}
// Set default mc2text settings
var settings5:Object = copyOne.mc2TextSettings;
for(var num5:String in settings5) {
copyOne.mc2Text[num5] = settings5[num5];
}
copyOne.mc2.x = nextXpos;
copyOne.mc2.y = copyOne.mc1.height;
copyOne.mc2.name = "box2_" + num;
addChild(copyOne.mc2);
copyOne.mc2Text.name = "box2BoxText_" + num;
copyOne.mc2.addChild(copyOne.mc2Text);
copyOne.mc2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onBoxClick);
if (num / subunits is int) {
trace (num);
// createMc("normalBox", true);
}
nextXpos = nextXpos + copyOne.mc2.width;
// traceObj(copyOne);
// traceObj(getReadOnlyValues());
}
I called this function in a loop so I created many movieclips. Now I can't access objects' properties and their childen (e.g textfield).
Objects I have on stage: Movieclips and textfields
Where they come from: The function above
What I'm trying to do with them: Tracing movieclips and textfields (that are holded by objects) to change their children (textfield) text
What happens instead of what I expect: Trace code outputs undefined instead of giving me object type trace(getChildByName("copy_" + str)); // trying to trace an object by name
Is there a practical way of accessing an object whose name is "copy_1" and its property whose name is "box2_1" (movieclip)?
One problem I see is the "copyOne" object has been created within the scope of "addBoxes", so it will no longer exist outside of this function.
Another is you're trying to access an Object via getChildByName, which only addresses displayObjects of the displayObjectContainer you are calling from.
If you want to loosely keep track of variables with things like Objects or MovieClips (which are both dynamic-style objects that let you add properties to them as you wish), just use MovieClips to house your values. The movieClips, being on the stage, will be retained in memory until removed from the displayList (stage).
Also, check out the Dictionary, a sort of key/value based way of storing collections of objects.
Better yet, if you use strongly-typed custom objects (creating your own classes to extend MCs, and adding your own public or private methods and values), there are benefits such as using Vectors (fancy, fast arrays that are compatible with any Object type you choose).
I don't really know if I understood your question or not, but as #ozmachine said in his answer, you can not use getChildByName, instead I think that you can take a look on this, may be it can help :
var container:DisplayObjectContainer = this;
function getReadOnlyValues():Object {
return {
mc1: new box(),
mc1: {
name: 'mc1_',
alpha: 1,
x: 0,
y: 0,
width: 30,
height: 25
},
mc1Text: new TextField(),
mc1Text: {
text: 'test',
x: 0,
y: 0,
selectable: false,
multiline: false,
wordWrap: false
}
}
};
// create 5 objects
for(var i=0; i<5; i++){
container['copy_'+i] = getReadOnlyValues();
var obj:Object = getObjectByName('copy_'+i);
obj.mc1.alpha = 1;
obj.mc1.x = 0;
obj.mc1.y = 50 * i;
obj.mc1.width = 100;
obj.mc1.addChild(obj.mc1Text);
obj.mc1Text.text = 'test_' + i;
addChild(obj.mc1);
}
// get object by name
function getObjectByName(name:String):Object {
return container[name];
}
// change the text of the 4th button
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(e:MouseEvent):void {
var obj:Object = getObjectByName('copy_3');
obj.mc1Text.text = 'new text';
})
Array and Object are both data structures.
Data means some form of information.
Data structure means some form of information being stored in a certain way.
Array and Object are two different ways to store information.
Arrays identify data with integer numbers.
An integer number to identify a single element of an array is called an index
Arrays are ideal to represent a list of similar things that belong to each other.
var names:Array = ["John", "Paul", "George", "Ringo"];
This often means that the elements of an array are of the same type, like in the example above.
But they don't have to:
var numbers:Array = [42, "twenty-five", "XIIV"];
For the above examples it's easy to answer the questions "What are the names of the four beatles?", "What different representations of numbers did you stumble upon during your trip through the historic town?". Other questions are harder or impossible to answer. "What Roman numerals did you stumble upon in the historic town?"
Objects identify data with names.
A name to identify a single element of an object is called a property
Objects are ideal to represent a list of dissimilar things that belong to each other.
var paula:Object = {age:37, name:"Paula", hairColor:0x123456};
This often means that the elements of an object are of different type, like in the example above.
But they don't have to:
var car:Object = {manufacturer:"Porsche", color:"red", sound:"wroooooom", soundOfDriver:"weeeeeeeeeeee"};
Considering this, let's take a look at your code and see how it applies.
The big picture is that you have a function addBoxes that you call multiple times. As one function should have one purpose, this function will do something similar every time it is executed. Uh-Oh: "similar". Whatever the result of this function is, it should go into an array. Each call to that function would be an element of the array. You can see this clearly on your use of "num" to identify whatever is happening in your current run of the function.
What data is present in your function?
copyOne
mc1
mc1Text
mc2
mc2Text
copyOne is a troublemaker here and what causes your confusion. It's trying to do everything at once and therefore you are not able to think clearly about when to use a Array and when Object. One would call it a god object. And that's not a good object to have around.
Your choice for variable names is very bad.
You choose super generic names like "mcX" only to later add a name property to it that describes what it truly is.
But even that doesn't hold true for whatever "Box2" is supposed to be.
Choose names so that it'S easy to understand what something in your code is.
It looks like you created all or parts of this structure jsut for this question and therefore lacked meaningful names.
I highly recommend that you do not learn by such made up projects. But from the real world.
I will therefore impose the following goal:
mc1 and mc1Text represent a caption
mc2 and mc2Text represent a content
With all this, I ask again:
What data is present in your function?
captionBox
captionText
contentBox
contentText
Both caption and content consist of a box and a text.
These are different things, so caption and content are each an object with properties "box" and "text"
One could think that due to this similarity, they both should go into an array.
But I beg to differ. A caption and a text are not the same thing. You deal with captions and texts differently. Walking on the streets you might catch a big caption in the news quickly, but not a lengthy text. That's why each of them should be a property of the object that's created in the function.
Here's somewhat of a conclusion:
var allBoxes:Array = []; // array to store the similar results of every function call
function createBoxes():void
{
var boxes:Object = {};
//the box consists of caption & content, both bying of the same type, but are containing different data
boxes.caption = {box:{}, text:{}}; //caption
boxes.content = {box:{}, text:{}}; //content
allBoxes.push(boxes);
}
This is it. That's how and why I would model your data with objects and arrays.
But it doesn't end here. My conclusion lacks a lot of the code you posted.
While the above is mostly language independent, the missing code is specific to Actionscript and not just on how to model data. It's as follows...
As3 is object oriented.
This is good, because the above conclusion has a lot of objects in it.
To define how some object is/does/moves/farts/etc, one creates classes.
The following changes take place (for reasons out of the scope of this answer):
createBoxes (formerly known as addBoxes) calls the constructor of
a class "CaptionAndContent" that extends Sprite.
There's no more need to explicitely create an object "boxes" as the constructor does exactly that.
The caption and content will not have a property "box", because
they can be the box themselves. This is exactly how it's done in the
code of the question. The default settings are set in the constructors of their classes.
Here's reduced snippet of code that hopefully illustrates how the classes could look like.
Each class should be in its own file, with the necessary imports, package block and the additional functionality that you did not specify in your question.
public class CaptionAndContent extends Sprite
{
private var caption:Caption;
private var content:Content;
public function CaptionAndContent(captionText:String = "", contentText:String = "")
{
caption = new Caption(captionText);
addChild(caption);
content = new Content(contentText);
content.y = caption.height;
addChild(content);
}
}
public class ClickableBoxWithText extends Sprite
{
protected var textField:TextField;
public function ClickableBoxWithText(text:String = "")
{
textField = new TextField();
textField.text = text;
addChild(textField);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
}
protected function onClick(mouseEvent:MouseEvent):void
{
//override this in a sublclass
}
}
public class Caption extends ClickableBoxWithText
{
public function Caption(text:String = "")
{
super(text);
// apply all the default settings of caption here.
}
}
public class Content extends ClickableBoxWithText
{
public function Content(text:String = "")
{
super(text);
// apply all the default settings of content here.
}
}
Using them would look something like this:
var allBoxes:Array = []; // array to store the similar results of every function call
function createBoxes():void
{
var captionAndContent:CaptionAndContent = new CaptionAndContent("This is the caption...", "...for this content");
captionAndContent.x = nextXpos;
addChild(captionAndContent);
allBoxes.push(captionAndContent);
}
Last but not least, the identification problem in the click handler.
Your question already contains the answer:
event.currentTarget
That's the reference to the object that was clicked on.
In my code it would be
mouseEvent.currentTarget
This identifies the object already. It's pointless to look up one of its properties (its name for example) in order to search all the objects for that name, just to identify the same object that you already had to identify (without a name) in order to get the name.
You aren't identifying the objects by name anyway. What differs between the names and what supposedly makes them unique is a number at their end. As pointed out in this answer, this is what's called an index and the thing you are trying to identify with it should go into an array. In my example codes, this is allBoxes.
I really wonder. I made a MovieClip class Apple, I wrote a function that creates a new instance with a name "apple". Each time a new instance is pushed into an Array "apples". I call the function 5 times and I get 5 apples. I can manipulate them by calling them i.e. apples[0]. And when I trace my array I see 5 [object Apple] things. So maybe I don't really understand the structure of AS3 objects but shouldn't each object have a name?
When I set apple.name and get an array with 5 different names, I can't manipulate objects by names like apple1.x = 10. How does computer know which apple is where if each has own coordinates? Is the only way to call them: apples[0]-apples[4]? And if I create a code that should be same for all apples, how should I address the function, to "this"? Cause when I write class code I don't have any names yet...
For example, if I want to make Apple class a picture(MovieClip) that can be dragged, create any number of apples, up to a million, I can't possibly add apples[0].addEventListener, apples[1].addEventListener ... apples[1000000].addEventListener to the code. How do I make it global?
I'm asking cause when I'm directly coding for a specific instance, it has a name and I know exactly what am I addressing. And working with a class and making many objects I kinda don't... Sorry, I'm green
You don't need names to be able to access and manipulate your instances.
You can do something like this:
var apples:Array = new Array();
for (var i:int = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
var apple:Apple = new Apple();
apples.push(apple);
apple.x = Math.random() * 500;
apple.y = Math.random() * 500;
addChild(apple);
apple.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onAppleClick);
}
function onAppleClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var ind:int = apples.indexOf(e.currentTarget);
var apple:Apple = apples[ind];
trace(ind);
apples[ind].visible = false;
//or
//apple.visible = false;
}
The same problem, huh? :)
For example Apple extends Sprite and inherits property name.
It's public, this means that you can change its name.
var apple:Apple = new Apple() ;
apple.name = "MegaApple" ;
Also, if you add the apple to stage, you can get him via name.
stage.addChild(apple) ;
get apple back:
var oldApple:Apple = stage.getChildByName("MegaApple") ;
But that never means, that you can use apple like that:
MegaApple.move() - because name of apple is supposed to be a property of apple, not a name of a variable.
Of course, you can create a lot of apples manually:
var apple1 = new Apple() ;
var apple2 = new Apple() ;
var apple3 = new Apple() ;
But if they all behave the same way, there is no point in doing. That's why you store them into array.
Hope you understand what I mean.
How to make a kind of array that index things based on a object? but not being strict like dictionary.
What I mean:
var a:Object = {a:3};
var b:Object = {a:3};
var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
dict[a] = 'value for a';
// now I want to get the value for the last assignment
var value = dict[b];
// value doesn't exits :s
How to make something like that. TO not be to heavy as a lot of data will be flowing there.
I have an idea to use the toString() method but I would have to make custom classes.. I would like something fast..
Why not make a special class that encapsulates an array, put methods in there to add and remove elements from the array, and then you could make a special method (maybe getValueByObject(), whatever makes sense). Then you could do:
var mySpecialArrayClass:MySpecialArrayClass = MySpecialArrayClass();
var a:Object = {a:3};
var b:Object = {a:3};
mySpecialArrayClass.addElement(a,'value for a');
var value = mySpecialArrayClass.getValueByObject(a);
I could probably cook up a simple example of such a class if you don't follow.
Update:
Would something like this help?
http://snipplr.com/view/6494/action-script-to-string-serialization-and-deserialization/
Update:
Could you use the === functionality? if you say
if ( object === object )
it compares the underlying memory address to see if two objects are the same reference...
so.... eval() out of the question, any idea to do this? I also don't know how to use "this" expression or set() in actionscript 3 ( i seem couldn't find any complete reference on it ), just say through php file a multiple variable (test1, test2, test3,...) sent by "echo", how the flash aplication recieved it? I'm trying not to use xml on mysql to php to flash aplication. Simply how to change a string to a variable ?
example
(in as3-actions frame panel)
function datagridfill(event:MouseEvent):void{
var varfill:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
varfill.tell = "do it";
var filler:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
filler.url = "http://127.0.0.1/flashdbas3/sendin.php";
filler.data = varfill;
var filling:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
filling.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
filling.load(filler);
filling.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, datain);
function datain(evt:Event){
var arraygrid:Array = new Array();
testing.text = evt.target.Name2 // worked
// just say i = 1
i=1;
arraygrid.push({Name:this["evt.target.Name"+i],
Test:this.["evt.target.Test"+i]}); // error
//or
arraygrid.push({Name:this["Name"+i],
Test:this.["Test"+i]}); // error too
// eval() noexistent, set() didn't worked on actions frame panel
//?????
}
};
I hope it's very clear.
You could use this[varName] if I understand your question right.
So if varName is a variable containing a string which should be a variables name, you could set and read that variable like this:
this[varName] = "someValue";
trace(this[varName]);
Update:
In your example, you could try: evt.target["Test"+i] instead of Test:this.["evt.target.Test"+i]
If you have a set of strings that you'd like to associate with values, the standard AS3 approach is to use an object as a hash table:
var o = {}
o["test1"] = 7
o["test2"] = "fish"
print(o["test1"])