How to Programming with Actionscript

actionscript-3,flash,flex,actionscript,arraycollection

If you need to check a text (String) to contain non digits, I would personally use RegExp. It would be easier for you to test the string against a regular expression. Here's a simple example that will check for anything that is not a digit var str:String = "04.sdf.."; var...

Actionscript 2.0 Movie clip

flash,actionscript

If you create the movie clip with ActionScript, just call the removeMovieClip method. ant_mc.removeMovieClip(); However, if you create the movie clip in the editor, then you will need to use the swapDepths method first. ant_mc.swapDepths(0); ant_mc.removeMovieClip(); ...

How can I remove duplicate names?

If you want to remove duplicate entries from the result, you should do like this: public function processorNameFormat(item:Object, column:GridColumn):String { var processorNames:String = ""; if (!(item is ProcessOrderDO)) { return ""; } var d:Dictionary=new Dictionary(); var poDestReqList:ArrayCollection = item.processOrderDestinationRequirementDOList ; for each(var destReq:ProcessOrderDestinationRequirementDO in poDestReqList) { var s:String=destReq.processorName; if (d[s])...

check file type from FileReference after file load complete

actionscript-3,flash,flex,actionscript

You can check it manually by file signature. You need to read file signature from file raw data (usually first N byte) and compare it with expected file signature. Here is incomplete list of file signatures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures. But if you want to use some specific file format, I am sure...

Get all selected items -

flex,actionscript

One simple solution I found so far is, to iterate my dataprovider checking, if the item is selected or not. And here you go! var tmpList:ArrayCollection = ArrayCollection(dg.dataProvider); var obj:Object; for (var i:int=0; i < tmpList.length; i++) { if (tmpList[i].Selected == true) { //Added to my array collection. } }...

Drawing function but only on a certain screen/page (actionscript3)

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,drawing

To draw something in your stage, you have added some MouseEvent listeners to your stage, so to stop drawing, you have simply to remove these listeners and clear your Graphics object, if you need of course, like this : stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDown1) stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mouseUp1); stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMove1); Line.graphics.clear(); Hope that can help....

Flash Buttons Not Working Correctly

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,flash-cs5

Your problem doesn't come from this code. You just have to put your transparent flash buttons over the icons (they are under them).

ActionScript: How to call an objects function within an array?

arrays,flash,object,actionscript

A Vector will let you easily call the functions of your objects which are stored in that vector. var vector:Vector.<YourObject> = new Vector.<YourObject>(); vector[0].yourObjectFunction(); http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/Vector.html Alternatively, you can cast the members of an Array to a specific type and then call the functions. (array[0] as YourObject).yourObjectFunction(); ...

Drag and Drop Text Fields AS3

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,drag-and-drop

startDrag(); and stopDrag(); are methods of the Sprite class, and also inherited by MovieClip, which is a subclass of Sprite It's a good idea to check the official Adobe documentation to see what classes inherit what methods; Sprite class TextField class Because Sprite and MovieClip are both base classes of...

Using actionscript Xml.send() to coldfusion 7 stopped working after flash player update

flash,coldfusion,actionscript,flash-player

Turns out that the contentType "text/xml" was deprecated and the newer version of flash player must be more strict about setting it to valid value and updating my value to the default. As soon as I changed it to "text/plain" all started working

TimerEvent Dispatcher Error

actionscript-3,flash,timer,actionscript

Ok, first, you have some invalid code (not sure if that is just a copy paste error or your actual attempted code). Take out: **strong text** & change TimerEenter code herevent.TIMER to TimerEvent.TIMER. Now that that's out of the way, on to your actual error. The error is being cause...

Get dispatchEvent data as a result

actionscript-3,flex,actionscript,flex4.6

The .data property is defined in DataEvent, not Event. But your parameter of the method is of type Event. Change the type of the parameter to DataEvent....

Sending notifications and/or messages to a Flash/Silverlight/HTML5 player in fullscreen

flash,silverlight,actionscript,html5-video,flash-player

Clearly didn't do my homework, have found that this will be nearly impossible: Are overlays on top of full-screen flash video possible?...

Hit test with line

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,adobe,flash-cs6

As far as I can understand, you are trying to make a platformer game where the player controls a ball. So you need circular collision detection, at least for going right and left. While implementing any kind of program, especially on parts which will executed so often, like collision detection,...

Platformer game hit test

For player physics, it's more clear approach to make a central ENTER_FRAME handler function that just for calculating the transformations to be applied to player. You can still get information from out, but you just process the final output there. Else, it could be problematic, especially when things gets more...

How to write the Flash actionscript to makes this mouse action?

flash,actionscript,actionscript-2

There are several ways to achieve what you are looking for, I recommend you to check also about Touch/Gesture events, also, check this library Gestouch (very powerful and well documented and with several examples) To help you to understand how to start understanding ActionScript and this logic in question, I...

How to check what is inside an input textbox in Adobe Flash CS5.5

Assuming you've given your text input an instance name (for my example let's says its txtCode, and you have a submit/go/check code type button and that's where the below on (release) method is, you would do something like this: on (release){ //parseInt converts the text to a number. this will...

How to remove a child from a random array?

arrays,actionscript-3,flash,random,actionscript

Your problem is your nested loop. With each iteration, you add one new dot, and then loop over all of the existing ones, and remove them if it collides with the box. I don't think that's what you intended to do. It looks like you just want to make sure...

Does AS3 support functions when using the String.replace() with a RegEx?

actionscript-3,flash,background,actionscript,uiloader

I found more info here. So while this works in JavaScript: string = string.replace(/\b\w+\b/g, function(m){ return /^[A-Z]/.test(m) ? "Word" : "word" }); We would have to remove the parameter and use the arguments object available to all functions like so: string = string.replace(/\b\w+\b/g, function():String { var match:String = arguments[0]; //var...

UILoader cover background in ActionScript 3

Based on the Alsacrations jQuery solution (http://www.alsacreations.com/astuce/lire/1216-arriere-plan-background-extensible.html) : function backgroundCover(){ var image_width:Number = uilBackground.content.width; var image_height:Number = uilBackground.content.height; var over = image_width / image_height; var under = image_height / image_width; var body_width = uilBackground.width; var body_height = uilBackground.height; if (body_width / body_height >= over) { uilBackground.content.width = body_width; uilBackground.content.height =...

If I have a multidimentional array, how can I acsess only the first value of the first dimention?

arrays,actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,flash-cs5.5

In your sample code "Nouns" is actually located at sampleArray[0][0] However you are replacing that with sampleArray[0][0]=["Person","Place","Thing"] Perhaps it would be easier to keep your information in an object. Then reference them that way. Not sure what your end goal is though so that may not work for you. var...

Play video files online sequentially without delay/buffering between videos

html5,flash,video,actionscript,ffmpeg

An approach that will work on some browsers currently, and on most browsers going forwards is to use the HTML5 Video Media Source Extension mechanism. This essentially allows you replace a static 'src' file for a video in your HTML5 page, with a dynamic src buffer which you can then...

Using multiple classes to control a character

actionscript,intellij-idea

You need to add the KeyboardEvent listener to the stage - currently it'll only work if your character has text focus, which it won't ever have. A simple setup that I like, it to have an Input class, that adds the necessary event listeners and you can then use to...

Is there any performance reasons to change a function into a static function?

No. There is actually quite an incentive to do the opposite. This should not be so - naturally, one would think static functions would be faster - but ActionScript 3 does not behave this way. Whoever wrote IDEA did not do their research on this, but rather they went with...

When using the 'Class' datatype, how can I specify the type so I only accept subclass of a specific class?

actionscript-3,class,actionscript,superclass

If you are going to instantiate it anyway, why not accept an object instead which allows you to type it to :SuperClass? careless(SomeClass); //vs. careless(new SomeClass); Not too much of a problem there as far as your code goes. There are a few differences though: The object has to be...

AS3 - Menu with textfields

actionscript-3,flash,events,actionscript,listener

After removing your TextField, you can re-position all other text fields like this : // the menu items container var menu:MovieClip = new MovieClip() addChild(menu); for(var i=0; i<5; i++){ var txt:TextField = new TextField(); txt.x = 20; txt.y = 26*i + 20; txt.height = 24; txt.width = 120; txt.text =...

AS3 : EventListener won't be removed in an [IF]

Everytime you call function dispositionShip(shipTarg):Function { return function(k:KeyboardEvent):void { rotateShip(k,shipTarg); }; } You're creating a new anonymous Object of type Function that calls rotateShip(), so when you call stage.removeEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, func); your func is a different Object to the func you passed into addEventListener(), so it doesn't match the orginal listener...

Change Text of spark progress bar in flex

actionscript-3,flex,actionscript,progress-bar

Add event handler to ProgressBar: progress="progressHandler(event)". private function progressHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void { var percent:int = Math.round(event.bytesLoaded / event.bytesTotal * 100); idOfProgressBar.label = "Downloading " + percent + "%"; } ...

AS3 - Get and Set

xml,actionscript-3,flash,actionscript

The difference is that the set method is implicitly called when you set a property of the same name. You do not have to type the ( ) that do the function call but assign the value via =. player_X = 5; vs. setPlayerX(5); It can help with information hiding...

Is it possible to view the downloaded crossdomain.xml from SWF in AS3?

Take this example which load the crossdomain.xml and verify the reachability of the server : var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest('http://www.fb.com/crossdomain.xml') var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(request) loader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, function(e):void { trace('crossdomain file content : ') trace(loader.data) } ) loader.addEventListener( HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, function(e):void { //trace('http status: ' + e.status) if(e.status == 200){ trace('this...

Is it impossible to increment in a for loop by decimal numbers in actionScript 3 and get accurate results?

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,floating-point

The initial problem, as reported in Hobo Sapiens's comment, is that you have declared i as int, but want it to store fractions. However, even after you have fixed that, you are likely to encounter rounding error issues. Adding up a floating point approximation to 0.1 is not a good...

ActionScript 3 Error when dynamically playing audio

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,air

Either need a cross-domain or the path to the file is incorrect. Your AIR app is probably not running in the same folder as your mp3. See where your compiled air app is being stored and move the mp3 to that folder. http://www.judahfrangipane.com/blog/2007/02/15/error-2032-stream-error/ You may also want to use a...

Flex mx:SWFLoader Loads Incorrect SWF File

actionscript-3,flash,flex,actionscript,swfloader

mxml file must be named differently in loaded applications

why my code is not working about CameraRoll in android(as3)

android,actionscript-3,actionscript,camera,camera-roll

With the few details mentioned in your questions, I think this is a problem of permissions and the code is fine. Try to add this permission : <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> You can add it directly to your your_app-app.xml, where your_app is the name of your application ( project ), before </application>...

Displaying the total sum of values from strings

string,actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,flash-cs5

You should be able to string together multiple parseint statements like this: var total:number = parseint(amount1.text) + parseint(amount2.text) + parseint(amount3.text) + parseint(amount4.text) + parseint(amount5.text); output1.text = total; If you go this route, you will need to handle stituations that involve NaN Here is the documentation on parseint if you haven't...

Object changing layer when going between frames?

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,adobe,flash-cs6

In AS3/Flash, the bottom most layer is 0. So doing addChildAt(character, 1) would make your character the second to the bottom layer. addChildAt(character, 0) would make it the very bottom/back layer. If you want to make it the top most layer, you do any one of the following: addChild(character); //this...

EventListener never get's hit

actionscript,flex3

first load your content than go for eventListener just like this: tmpLoader.load(new URLRequest(front.url)); tmpLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoadComplete); and make sure that there is no problem with your URL address...

Actionscript 3.0 ; Character Movement Speed is Stacking on top of itself under specific circumstances

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,adobe,event-listeners

It should be event listeners. To debug if so, add this code: if (e.target is MovieClip) trace((e.target as MovieClip).currentFrame,"in moveChar"); to moveChar function. If the same frame would appear twice in a row in the trace window, you are adding two listeners to one object, they then act separately. A...

Stop the main timeline from within a Class function

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,stage

You can access the main timeline from any display object (that is on the display list) by using the root keyword: MovieClip(root).stop(); If your class is not on the display list (as appears to be your case), then you'll need to pass in a reference to something that is. I...

Android in which thread(GUI or custom) make calculations better?

java,android,flash,actionscript

This really depends on how much work you are doing. Most times, I can use the main thread for small graphical calculations. Im not sure what you are doing, but something like setting a position based on an input sounds like a main thread thing. Generally, if you expect an...

I cannot solve error #2136 swf contains invalid data

actionscript-3,flex,video,actionscript,ffmpeg

In your Tamagotchi Class you have var food:Food = new Food(); And in your Food Class you have var tam:Tamagotchi = new Tamagotchi(); This seems rather infinite loopy... (One gets created, which creates the other, which creates the first one again, which creates the other again, and so on...)...

web recorded video not played in ipad

It's a normal behavior that iPAD didn't play your FLV video because simply it's not supported by iOS, as mentioned here by Apple : iOS supports many industry-standard video formats and compression standards, including the following: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second,...

How to run a range of value in specified seconds in Flash?

actionscript-3,flash,timer,actionscript,range

You need to scale your values to map one range to the other. To go from 0 to 90 in 4 seconds, you'll have 90 / 4 or 22.5 values per second. So on every tick of your timer, you'd increment by 22.5 to go from 0 to 90 in...

Actionscript, how to add a time delay for an object

flash,actionscript

I would add a counter, based upon your framerate (say you have 24fps, 3 seconds is 72frames): var hit = false; var counter; onClipEvent(enterframe) { if (_root.char.hitTest(this)) { hit = true; } if(!hit) { waitcounter = 0; } else { waitcounter++; } if(waitcounter >= 72) { unloadMovie(this); _root.gotoAndStop("StageL2"); } }...

ActionScript is activating two buttons at once

flash,actionscript,actionscript-2,flash-8

If you want several arrows btn1, btn2... to disappear one after the other, you can do like that: var a:Array = [btn1, btn2]; var l:Number = a.length; var n:Number = 0; var keyListener:Object = new Object(); keyListener.onKeyDown = function():Void { if (Key.getCode() == Key.UP && n < l) { a[n]._visible...

Actionscript 3: Drawing lines and bitmaps the right way

actionscript-3,loops,actionscript

Well, it depends. In Flash, you have the option of relying on the Flash Player's vector rasterizer and rendering system, which will figure out all the redrawing for you. For instance, you can draw once to a Sprite then simply apply transforms to the sprite (set x, y, width, height,...

AS3 How do I make these objects loop endlessly?

If you're trying to get cars to reposition to the top of the screen as @onekidney guessed, you could easily do so by using the % operator: function fl_EnterFrameHandler(event:Event):void { car1.y = (car1.y + 12) % stage.stageHeight; car2.y = (car2.y + 12) % stage.stageHeight; car3.y = (car3.y + 12) %...

ActionScript3 Function to hide or show movieclip currently on stage in a different class

arrays,actionscript-3,flash,actionscript

Your issue is confusion between object references and instantiation. When you use the new keyword, you are creating a whole new object. So in ConStartMenu when you do this: public var menuDisplay:Menu = new Menu(); You are creating a new Menu object. And, in SideMenu when you do this: public...

Actionscript 3 Search for string in array, propblem

What kind of syntax are you using there and have you even checked the documentation of the Array class? That should be the first thing you check always, as there is a pretty straightforward method for it: var arr:Array = ["1111", "2222", "3333"]; trace(arr.indexOf("3333")); //traces the index: 2 ...

How can I remove button I press in Flex?

arrays,actionscript-3,flex,actionscript

Try following. It will work and remove the button which is pressed. public function removeButton(event:MouseEvent):void { myGroup.removeElementAt(myArray.indexOf(event.currentTarget)); myArray.splice(myArray.indexOf(event.currentTarget), 1); } ...

How to disable default browser navigation with Space in Flex

flex,actionscript,keyboard-shortcuts

Try to set event listener on a stage and use capture stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, ignoreSpaceNavigation, true); ...

Get textinput number of character in Flex

actionscript-3,flex,actionscript,flex4.6

According to the manual, maxChars is not checked when text is altered in code. So, you have to manually control the new value of text to not exceed 2 chars. An example: protected function onNumberClick(event:MouseEvent):void { var s:String=txtGuestCount.text; if (s.length==2) s=s.substr(1); // drop first char s+=event.currentTarget.label; // if (s.length>2) s=s.substr(0,2);...

Array, Object, Memory. Actionscript

arrays,object,memory,actionscript

The objects stored in arrayOld get garbage collected if there are no other references to them. The ones from arrayNew are not copied - they are referenced by arrayOld after the assignment. It's to say that that after: arrayNew[0].name = 'a random silly text'; arrayOld = arrayNew; arrayOld[0].name = 'another...

Should I use Actionscript 3.0 or Python or something else for cross-platform programming? [closed]

python,actionscript,cross-platform

Cross-platform Python is very good on cross-platforms. Which is you can use Django for web, Kivy for mobile apps, Pygame for games etc etc. Python is an Open Source Code which is pretty awesome!! Reliable Too broad. It depends on people, too subjective.. Fast Yes, Python is probably faster...

sending a GET request from a banner

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,get

I think there are many points in your case that should be clarified : If you want send a URL request to a server, but ignores any response, and I think this is your case because you can't get response, It's better to use sendToURL instead of URLLoader.load(). If you...

Ways to incorporate dynamic update in flash cc

javascript,flash,actionscript,adobe

Yes it is possible, but its a little more effort as i see your using the timeline animation. Easier way to reference everything is to set up a scope of variables that can be accesses anywhere: In your situation its best to put your whole content movie inside an Empty...

Accessing timeline variables from a class?

actionscript-3,flex,actionscript

From the class you can access a variable like this: MovieClip(root).variable

Auto resize Spark NavigatorContent

I found solution myself. There is a magic property resizeToContent that solve my problem!

How do I use Jangaroo to convert a single As3 function to javascript?

javascript,actionscript,code-conversion,code-converter

I just updated the documentation on how to use Jangaroo as a command line tool: https://github.com/CoreMedia/jangaroo-tools/wiki/Stand-Alone-Compiler After following steps 1 through 6, you can compile your single class like so: mkdir joo\classes jooc -v -g SOURCE -classpath %JOOLIBS%\jangaroo-runtime.jar -sourcepath . -d joo\classes GACodec.as Note that the generated JavaScript file GACodec.js...

How to migrate SWF plugin panel for InDesign CS4 to InDesign CC2014?

flash,flex,actionscript,indesign,extendscript

The Flash/Flex Panels are deprecated. Take a look at Extension Builder 3. You can build panels for ID CC 2014 with HTML5 and Javascript/Extendscript now. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/extensionbuilder3/ To your questions. A1) In extendscript you can address InDesign CC like this. You can ommit the target if you want. #target "indesign-10" var...

How can I solve a “Type Error #2007 Parameter child must be non-null”?

xml,actionscript-3,flash,actionscript

Your for loop do 21 iterations but your array has only 20 elements, so you should do : ... for (var i:int = 0; i < toyArray.length; i++){ addToys(1200 * Math.random(), 200 * Math.random() * 2) } ... ...

Remove duplicate enteries/items from XML in AS3

Here is an example on how to do what you'd like: Using this test XML: var xml:XML = <data> <profile> <first_name>ann</first_name> <last_name> lee</last_name> <photography>sport</photography> <photography>landscape</photography> <photography>still life</photography> <image>img1.jpg</image> </profile>; <profile> <first_name>john</first_name> <last_name> thomas</last_name>...

Actionscript 3.0 Timer doesn't display in text box

actionscript-3,flash,timer,actionscript

You should update your dynamic text field inside the timerHandler like this : function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void { trace(upCounter); upCounter++; text_field.text = (upCounter).toString(); } Also, you have to remove this line : myTimer:String; because it is useless....

Actionscript 3 - jumping between frames in a MovieClip?

actionscript-3,flash,events,actionscript

The problem is that you don't understand those listeners, and you mess up moving on timeline as well as moving the frames of the num MovieClip. Here's what's happening: You are on the first frame. You press some button (nextbtn) and the main timeline goes to frame 2. There is...

Sound object in actionscript 3

actionscript,flex4

I think your sound URL may be wrong. Where you are getting this URL? Is it from your local or from your db? Please check your URL... sound is not available, but you are trying to load means it will come like this. I don't know its correct or not......

ActionScript stage browserZoomFactor error

actionscript,swf,stage

Unless you're on IE, Windows 8, this feature won't work. Other browsers don't report the browser zoom amount, so that property will not be found. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/09/improved-resolution-of-stage3d-content-on-browser-zoom.html

Simple For loops not working on cs6?

actionscript-3,flash,button,actionscript

If you only need the variable i within the loop itself and don't need the variable beyond the scope of the loop, you can also declare it within the loop parameters: for(var i:int = 0; i < 5; i++) { trace(i); } In terms of performance it's a marginal difference,...

Making a button display a text field on click in ActionScript 3.0 [closed]

learn_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onButtonClick); textField.visible=false; function onButtonClick(e:MouseEvent):void { textField.visible=true; textField.text = "Three paragraphs of text..."; } ...

Add your Stage in a ScrollWindow ActionScript 3.0

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,flash-cs5,flash-cs4

Your issues is likely these two lines: aBox == stage as MovieClip; aSp.source == aBox ; You're doing a comparison by using two ==, which effectively does nothing in your case. Use a single = to assign a value. This is how I would suggest you approach this: In the...

List all LocalConnection channels open in the page

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,mouseevent

No, unfortunately, it's not possible. If your embed swf is AS3 based you can pass LC name to it when swf is loaded (or listen for the name in event from it, not difference), if it's AS2 the only way to pass variables is to load it with Loader by...

Action Script 3.0 - MouseEvent Listener + function issues

Disable mouse interaction with children of antwoordBox's: antwoordBox1.mouseChildren = false; antwoordBox2.mouseChildren = false; Register event listener: addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, antwoordboxclick); Inside the event handler: if (event.target == antwoordBox1) trace('antwoordBox1 selected'); else if (event.target == antwoordBox2) trace('antwoordBox2 selected'); ...

How do I stop the edge of movieclips that extend the stage from entering stage boundaries in AS3?

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,adobe,flash-cc

Sounds like you want to constrain the object so you can't scroll it to a point where it's edge is seen? In that case, you need to sanitize your value so it doesn't go beyond that point. So, for moving the object down, instead of just subtracting 200 like your...

Flash Pro Admob Banners

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,google-play,admob

maybe you can try to run this flash file.it is a file by flash pro cc https://github.com/lilili87222/Admob-ANE/blob/master/demo.fla...

Error: Call to a possibly undefined method getRegionNameForCountries through a reference with static type com.framework.model:CountryModel

actionscript-3,flash,flex,actionscript

You can only access static vars/method from the Class object itself (eg. MyClass.method()), or from within the class declaration (static or instantiated). Here is a simplified example: MyClass.staticFunction(); //allowed var myInstance = new MyClass(); myInstance.staticFunction(); //NOT allowed //inside the MyClass.as this.staticFunctionInSameClass(); //allowed What you are trying to do is access...

How to use string in path to object?

actionscript,actionscript-2

In you case you could access instance you created like this: _parent[nameOfTrails] The point is that you can access an object using string with his name by searching proper object for property with that name. In your example you creating variable with id of nameOfTrails value inside some object which...

ActionScript3 | Object or Array

actionscript-3,flash,actionscript,adobe,flash-cs6

Objects When we talk about an Object in ActionScript 3, it is important to note that everything inherits Object and that a vanilla Object instance is dynamic (meaning you can freely attach data to it without that data being defined within the class definition). You are able to initialize a...

Redefining the hitbox of objects?

Well yeah flash does that, it needs some time to properly add movieclips to Stage. It's the reason why Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE exists, read this article to understand it better. But I'd say you would be pretty safe to go with a simple if statement making sure shark and shark.hitto are properly...

Accessing timeline objects from a class, giving null object reference?

arrays,actionscript-3,flash,actionscript

First: You have a syntax error in these two lines: _player.x = MovieClip.(root).character.x + 5; _player.y = MovieClip.(root).character.y + 5; There should not be a period after MovieClip, so it should look like this: _player.x = MovieClip(root).character.x + 5; _player.y = MovieClip(root).character.y + 5; Second: You are always creating a...

Don't understanding this instantiate

c#,actionscript

Is this a list of list? Yes. It is. In c# it would be private List<List<Tile>> map = new List<List<Tile>>(); There is a difference (in c# at least) for how you access array elements. If you did a multidimensional array it would look like this: string[,] map2 = new...

Flex radioButton Set selected Value via ActionScript

flex,actionscript

I figured out a simple solution and wanted to post here for others who may need it. I created a Boolean variable (btnPhValue) and set it's value based on the value of the field AthleticsFavs in my SchoolList array. Then I set the radioButton.selected value to the Boolean var I...

Actionscript 3.0 - detecting multiple instances already placed on stage and adding them to an array

Make those blocks instance of a custom class (export to as -> custom class). Run a loop on the display list and check if the objects are instances of that custom class, eg: for(var i:int = 0; i < this.numchildren; i++) { if(this.getChildAt(i) is MyCustomClass) { myarray.push(this.getChildAt(i)); } } ...

AS3 Error on URLRequest in Flash with HTTPS url with self signed certificate