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HELP! Having trouble with Clip Events

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  - dynamic text loading into movie clipI'm pretty new at action scripting so please bare with me.
    any help is appreciated.
    thank you.
    I have a flash movie called "products" that has a movie clip inside it. I did
    not give the movie clip an instance name-does it need one?
    Inside that movie clip I have a dynamic text box that is given the variable
    name "dates"
    I have a txt file in the same folder named dates.txt and on the first frame of
    the products movie timeline I have a script that reads:
    
    loadVariablesNum("dates.txt", 0);
    
    the content of the dates file reads:
    
    dates=January
    1 New Year's Day
    etc..........
    
    the products movie is not the main movie.
    I have the main movie called "Index.fla"
    
    the index movie has several movie clips in it.
    there is one movie in it called mc_products -with no instance name-does it
    need one?
    at the end of mc_products there is a loadMovie script
    that loads the external published products.swf file
    into a target "clipholder" in the main movie "Index"
    
    loadMovie("products.swf", "clipholder");
    
    The problem is that the text is getting lost somehere and is not loading into
    the textbox
    The products.swf file is loading into the main movie, but without the text.
    can anyone decipher this and help out??
    
    i think the problem is that the path is incorrect. once in the the dynamic
    textbox is put into a movieclip the dynamic text no longer finds it's way into
    the textbox. If the textbox is not is a movieclip it works fine.
    
    again, any help is appreciated. thank you.
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  - passing variable will not executeBig help[ needed!
    Having a big problem getting a vaiable to execute once passed the the main
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    I hope there is a simplke oversite on my part.
    I'm passing variable from a code clip to the main time line of th root movie.
    
    1-
    //codeclip
    onClipEvent(load){
    loadVariables("extfile.txt", page);
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    _level0.page = page;//passed but not acted on in ml
    //_level0.page = 40;// IF HARD CODED it passed and fnction executes ok
    }
    
    2-
    //A button calls fbkmktest() function below
    
    3-
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    step =page; //assigns value passed from codeclip from --THIs WORKS IF HARD
    CODED at code clip
    trace("page at fbkmktest======="+page); // Checks out OK values is passed
    fro mcode clip external text file.
    
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    tested and works
    vtofile = "contents/screen";
    ext = ".swf";
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    Problem - Question - Goal
    The perplexity occurs in item 1-
    if _level0.page is hard coded i.e if i enter a 12, the function executes???!
    However if using a variable from loadVariable etc, even though loaded value is
    being successfully(tested using trace-it's value does appear in the
    function)... now the function will not execute?
    
    Again, if hard coded then passed from codeclip function bkmktest() execution
    occurs
    If passed form using variable only function execution will not occur?
    
    My goal here is to execute the function(as usual) based on a value it recieves.
    
    Any help greatly appreciated.
    
    iaustin
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    possition - gives total time of streaming (including brakes and waiting
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    class A extends Movieclip
    {
    ...
    }
    and I need a class that extends from Class A.
    
    Thanks in advance.
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  - How to load an html fileHi, I'm a beginner and I need to do a program that display a tree at the left
    of the screen and a textfield at the right. I load the tree's elements from a
    txt file whit loadVars but how can I introduce the code from
    textEnhancements.fla to load an html file at the begining of the flash movie.
    This is my code.
    
    var dateVars = new LoadVars();
    dateVars.onLoad = function(ok) {
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    //** Cargamos la lista de las paginas correspondientes al concepto
    paginas_web = dateVars.pags_web;
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    izquierda
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    dateVars.load("concepto.txt");
    
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    html_contenido.wordWrap = true;
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    Thanks a lot. I'm mexican. =)
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  - Use LoadVars to load a random txt fileHi all,
    I am wondering if there is any way to load a txt file by random.
    I am trying to give the client the ability to load many text files
    or many parts within a text file and each time the site is
    loaded. Can the LoadVars load a different text file or
    does it have to load the same one every time?
    
    Thanks!!
    -bennett
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    I would like to change the tint of a movie clip object in Flash 7. Can
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    I have seen the script in help:
    fl.getDocumentDOM().setInstanceTint(0xff0000, 50);
    
    which i can't use in the document. The instence name of the object is "aa".
    
    Thanks in advance.
    
    Regards
    Anup
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  - maskingif that is not working, pls mail me the file.
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  - Getting html text sizehow do all
    
    Heres what I want to do. I have a text field on my timeline, it is 10
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    filled in before the text box starts getting wider. So if I set it to
    two lines and the piece of text coming in is greater in length than
    400, the text box will start getting wider.
    
    Using simple dynamic text boxes I have been able to do this, but when
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    formatting) the metrics that flash passes back are either a little bit
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    The one thing I did try was to put the html text (with formatting)
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    Any ideas? ... please
    
    Troot
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  - droptarget mc problemHi THERE,
    
    I have a problem that is driving me crazy! I will explain it the best I can.
    
    Situation:
    
    6 Draggable mc's
    4 fixed mc's (these act as dropping zones for the draggable clips)
    
    When the user takes the 1st drag mc and drops it on a drop mc, a copy of the
    drag mc (as a new movieclip instance)
    is created and placed on the drop area (to give the impression that they
    dropped the clip there).
    The original mc that they dragged is then put back in its original place ready
    to be dragged again elsewhere.
    To achieve this, I am using _droptarget to obtain the instance name of the
    dropzone that is used for various
    variables.
    
    I am able to drop and cover the mc fine, the problem occurs when I attempt to
    drop another drag mc on a drop mc that
    has already had something dropped on it previously. I cannot attain
    _droptarget at this point because the drop mc
    is covered by the instance that was created previously.
    
    Here is what I have thought of to try and fix this:
    
    I thought of creating an array for each drop mc. It records the name if the
    instance covering the drop mc, then when
    the user goes to drop another drag mc on it, I reference the name of the
    instance currently in place from the array
    associated with the drop mc and then remove it via removeMovieClip. The
    problem is, the only way I know where the
    user will drop the next drop mc is when onRelease is activated, and by that
    time it is too late to register the
    _droptarget var which I need, so really I need to remove the mc before the
    user does onRelease, but this is a catch 22 situation.
    Anyone know anthing that could help? Did I explain this ok?
    
    Thanks for any advise offered.
    
    Cheers
    
    Mike
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    and then drag the symbol from the original library where the symbol is to the
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    there is an object that you create automatically, usually is named Tween1 or
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  - duplicateMovieClip {help please}hello all,
    
    here is what i am tring to do. i want take the value of an array(value1) and apply that value to a movieClip(square) then duplicate the mc that many times going up on the y axis, like a graph. i can do this but it looks staic,
    
    i was wondering if someone can help with the code to animate the movieclip(square), based on the array value.
    
    thanks, so much,
    
    chuck
    
    http://webforums.macromedia.com/attachments/graph.zip

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webtexr.com.au

Posted: 2004-5-18 7:21:58

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flash-actionscript, HELP! Having trouble with Clip Events Have you tried doing it this way?

my_mc.onMouseUp = function() {
trace("Clip Name: " + this._name);
}

Replace my_mc with whatever the instance name of your clip is. Also you have a
comma instead of a period in the trace statement (this._name) so that may have
something to do with it. Slow down. Take deep breaths.

mandingo

Posted: 2004-5-18 10:07:00

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flash-actionscript >> HELP! Having trouble with Clip Events be careful when you try to use events like mouseUp etc... these are a 'global'
mouse listener event and are not relative to any specific movieClip. All
movieClips will respond to these because quite simply, the mouse button is up
and they have actions to perform for this.

if what you want is to make a specific action when you release the mouse after
clicking on a certain movieClip... then try:

myMovieClip.onRelease = function(){
trace("You just clicked and released on " + this._name);
// whatever you need to happen
}

hope that helps... oh and if this is a button:

on(release){
trace("You just clicked a button on " + this._name);
// and again whatever you want
}

cheers,

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