Coding of text within a symbol to invite "play to" on the main timeline

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• Within a symbol instance is not recognized on the scene

  OK I'm pretty new to this Yes, can you give me some soft if my terminology is bad or if this problem is known as

  Flash, I bought recently and I'm starting to make a play, a shooting platform game, something. What I have is a button on the main stage, I want to activate a function in an instance. But this instance is inside a symbol. So this is step-> character-> firearms. But if I filed:

  Shoot.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fire); Shoot is the button on the stage

  function Fire(evt:MouseEvent):void {}

  DERP(); What is the function I want to be activated

  }

  This is the code in the case of firearms:

  function DPEP (): void {}

  Insert here the epic code

  }

  It will give me an error saying "1180: call to a method maybe not defined DPEP.»

  So basically it tells me that it can not happen to this code because it is not on the same stage.

  So I ask you and it will solve all my problems (because this is the situation I have for about 4 other things), how can I get an instance to be recognized by all the code in my project, no matter we are in the project?

  I want to keep all my symbols where they are, then ActionScript external file will not be good if I have to recreate the object on the stage. But please help me with this so I can do things that are impressive!

  What you in name of the instances objects.  These words by the main timeline, you can target the function inside the gun to help...

  function Fire(evt:MouseEvent):void {}

  character.gun.Derp ();

  }

• How to set a variable in the main timeline of in a symbol?

  Just get started with Animate and coming from Flash, it may be apparent to my question. How do you define a variable for the main timeline of in a symbol?

  I have 24 pairs of clickable elements, each in their own symbols, and 24 of these symbols to sit inside another symbol. I want every 24 to set the global variable even when you click on it. I do not find that this question is anywhere, which makes me think that I can be stuck in a mentality from Flash and approaching the task in a bad way. (However, there are MANY discussions address showing how objects to different levels in the hierarchy.) Which is well covered).

  By the way, how to access a function on the main timeline of in a symbol?

  Adobe should consider putting on foot (or pages) support just for people migration form Flash. In the documents that I've met so far there seems to be a studied effort to refrain from mentioning Flash somehow. I imagine that there are many people out there like me who have a deep background in coding Flash, but start with Animate. We don't need help with most of the basic concepts, but we still have some pretty basic questions on how to achieve certain things in Animate because our knowledge of Flash gets in the way.

  Hi Bill,

  There are a lot of discussions here on the scope, but here's a way to create a global variable:

  code on Stage.compositionReady

  sym.myGlobalVar = 1;

  Then, anywhere in your project, you can check/set this var as follows:

  sym.getComposition () .getStage () .myGlobalVar = 2;

  And here is a way to create a global function:

  code on Stage.compositionReady

  sym.myGlobalFunction = function() {}

  Console.log ('myGlobalFunction');

  }

  Then, anywhere in your project, you can call this function as follows:

  sym.getComposition () .getStage () .myGlobalFunction ();

• embedded symbol communicate with the main timeline.

  Hi all

  I create a survey with say 7 questions.  each question has the same MovieClip symbol each with a different instance name, as q1, q2,... q7.

  the MovieClip symbol has 5 texts static and 5 SimpleButtons.  I have a code in the symbol to ensure that only one button has the 'on' or 'verified' status to show that this one is chosen.  It works very well.

  My question is, how to communicate the choice of each user with the main timeline after the user clicks on the button "submit"?  or, how can I get the code in the mousedown event 'submit' that can iterate through the 7 symbols to interview each of them and see which of the 5 SimpleButtons is 'controlled' or 'on '.  this iteration then creates a list of answers to questions 7.

  in the end, I'll have flash concatenate a string GET POST that will send the results of the survey on a web server.

  I am using / learning AS3 in flash cs4 and I know I'm a bit new to these concepts.  Thank you in advance and if you could point me to a video tutorial that will support your advice, it would be useful also.  Happy new year.

  assign a variable (say checkedBtn) that stores a value indicating which button is checked in each or your 7 movieclips.

  so if all 7 movieclips are at the point where you click on the submit button you can browse your 7 movieclips using:

  for (var i: uint = 1; i<>

  This ["q" + i] .checkedbtn attribute this to your url variables or create your concatenated string

  }

• How to call a function within a movieclip on the main timeline in CC animate canvas?

  Hello world...

  In AS3: Function (fnc name: myFunction) inside a Movieclip (mc1). I'll call you timeline mc1.myFunction ();

  But how to call AnimateCC canvas?

  If you have an instance of MovieClip named "mc" with the following code in to:

  This.Fun = function() {}

  Alert ("Hey!");

  }

  You can call this function (increased to 'this' within the MC) using the oon following the main timeline:

  var root = this;

  this.mc.addEventListener ("click", function() {}

  Console.log (root.mc.fun ());

  });

• What is the relationship between the main timeline and timelines of symbol in Adobe Flash Professional CC?

  I am new to Adobe flash and tried to create an E-card for a class. My teacher said that it is better just to have a keyframe for each layer in the main timeline and do all the clips of animation and film on the deadlines of each symbol. I'm having a hard time to understand how it works. To illustrate my confusion, let's start with an example.  I have a kite I want to start flying to frame 20. The kite is a symbol, so I create movement to 20 image interpolation in chronology of the wing. 20 on the symbol Timeline frame occurs at the same time as frame 20 of the MAIN scenario, or are they completely separate instances of time?

  Part of my mission, is should I use code snippets to add an element of interactivity to the Ecard. My confusion about the timeline affects my ability to do so. My teacher said that you need a stop on the first keyframe code to make sure that things will not start before you click the play button. Can I put the stop action on the main timeline or in the timeline of each symbol, or both?  Let's say I want to create a button that makes the kite flies when I click it. Where to play action 'go to and play', in the Assembly of the wing?

  I would greatly appreciate any help from the community. I'm the kind of person who needs to understand how things work. I searched for days, watch videos and read articles, but I still need to find a resource that effectively dissolved my confusion on this subject. So if anyone knows of any tutorials that explain how the main timeline and symbol timelines coincide, please share them with me. Thank you very much for your time.

  (P.S. are CC Animate Adobe and Adobe Flash Professional CC the same?)

  Thank you both for responding. Yes, your answers were useful, but a bit Advanced. I hope that you don't mind me asking a few follow-up questions.

  For Pete47-

  So I put my stop() in the main timeline. How the actionscript in the main timeline code works on the chronology of the wing if the two are separate?  Why not put the ActionScript on chronology of the wing? Clearly, there must be an interaction between the main timeline and symbols, right?  When you say "you can drag the symbol on the main timeline and it will run when you start", what do you mean by that? Like GETTING started, in the main timeline or in the scenario of the symbol? As you can see I am very confused by there!

  For Colin.

  I thought that Pete said you want to only have a keyframe in the main timeline. Then, when you said... "you can do it with an interpolation of the main timeline... from the beginning to the final position," why would you animate the motion on the main timeline? Why not in the chronology of the wing, can create another symbol of the tail in this period?

  And if the schedules of chronology and main symbol are separated, how SYNCHRONIZE you together different symbols to their movement to work together? And why should it be like that anyway?

  I am new to the community here, the last thing I want to say because you two sounds very knowledgeable on the Flash. How did you get your start? Did you start by watching the tutorials, read the manual, or something else?

  Once more, you have my abundant thanks for taking the time to help.

• Symbol animation does not play on the main timeline

  I created a ŒIL on the main stage and then transformed into a symbol of Clip and in that nested some cover eye movements and pupil. If setting it up like this:

  ŒIL

  -top cover

  -bottom cover

  -mask

  -student (student is also a symbol)

  -White

  Once the playback cursor reaches the image where the symbol of the ŒIL begins, the playhead moves through the timeline but any animation nested in a symbol is read. All I see is the static image of the first frame in the nested symbol. I thought that maybe I needed to extend the size of the layer of the EYE on the main stage and add more pictures. I added more pictures that the nested animation had actually and still no animation showed on the main timeline...

  Any thoughts?

  It is expected your wash / play timeline in the ide.  If you test, you should see the animation of your movieclip.

• Trajectory using 3D - OK to the main timeline broken into symbol

  I spent many hours of frustration trying to figure why this is happening. It is totally broken. I need to use a path using 3d in a symbol. Because of the way in which the project is being implemented (flexible), there are several FLAs that must be converted to symbols.

  So when I convert the FLA that contains a path with 3D, the object moves away from the path in the symbol (the 1st framework remains in place, but everything else is off the beaten), even if it remains correct in the main timeline.

  And once I have start to edit the object in the symbol, the object refers to the way ok, as if it had been a weird display problem, but 3D is all wrong - the vanishing from the object point has changed. The same thing if I create the 3D path using the parameters of the tool "global" or "local".

  
  

  What is happening is, of course, the registration point in the symbol, but I was confused by what I saw.

  The reg in the main scenario is at the top left, and he is a symbol. So when executives are pasted into the symbol the reg point moves toward the Center from the position of objects on the stage. So if the scene is 400 x 600, then the reg point moves 200 + and + 300.

  What is happening is that the 3D vanishing point remains numerically identical, so he also moved the reg point. The confusion occurs because objects on the 3D trajectory also move and appear in the wrong place, but the road and the first object remain in the same place. But once any object on the path is published (eg. click an object and it up and down again with an arrow key) they all break the path again. Right now, compared to other objects, but incorrect to the point of leakage.

  If the vanishing point must be reset for the symbol-200 and -300 of its current values. Easy, isn't it?

  Well, no. Because that redefines the vanishing point in the world, and all 3D in the main storyline is the new point of flight, which is different from the scene. And if this symbol is reproduced in the main storyline, the vanishing point will be according to the main scenario and it wll look all wrong again.

  So what you really have to, is to move the point of reg of the symbol to to - 200 and -300. Easy if it is a simple symbol with a couple of short times, but if it is complex, it is not easy.

  You need select several images and drag the end of the selection range to the end of the timeline, and then select all and move + 200 and 300 + to have the reg point at the top left of the area of 'scene '. This can be a real drag when you have a long timeline and you miss a little in the selection range or realize that you have some layers locked, hidden in folders or below the fold.

  WHAT WOULD BE REALLY USEFUL would be to have the ability to simply change the point of a symbol reg digitally. A new extension, perhaps?

• CS5: Symbols animate on the main timeline (glitch)?

  I use Adobe Flash Professional CS5, and when I saw my flash animation on the main timeline, symbols with animations in them are blocked on their first images.

  How to make symbols animated on the timeline? I saw this was done in the different tutorials. Is this maybe a glitch?

  MovieClips don't animate in the ide, graphics.

• Communicate with the symbols of the main timeline

  Hi, I created a movieclip and exported to Actionscript. I have a few cases of the new symbol (class) on the main time line and I have a few

  The timeline class code. Im trying to communicate with an instance of movieclip that is in the main timeline, but for some reason im getting

  a mistake. the name of the movieclip instance is mcGalleryWin. im sure that the keyword root has worked for me before in a similar situation

  but for some reason, this is not not workin now...

  I tried to trace (root) of the class and I don't get the main timeline.

  Code:

  imageLdr.load (imageReq);
  imageLdr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener (Event.COMPLETE, firstImageLoaded);
  function firstImageLoaded(event:Event) {}
  root.mcGalleryWin.addChild (imageLdr);
  }

  error:

  1119: access of property may be undefined mcGalleryWin through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.

  Try:

  MovieClip (root).mcGalleryWin.addChild (imageLdr);

• Give the text within a symbol a play of command

  Create a project report that has a ridiculous amount of command set. When I did it... i had the command to receive messages by clicking on text. In the end it wouldn't work because even when I was not hiding no longer necessary texts, they overlap texts newly inspired and were still cliccable.

  So... i tried it by creating and by separating the texts in 5 symbols different (one for each chapter of the draft report).

  Now I admit im a noob when it comes to code, and I can't understand what the code is necessary to ensure that when I click on the text (which is part of the symbol) it invites the control panel.

  I tried to add the symbol get or get the item symbol predefined channels, but im clearly not to fill all the details or something.

  Thanks for the time spent

  M.F.

  Hi M.F..

  When you say 'hide' the text, were you changing the property 'Display' OFF, or just set it's alpha to 0?

• How to play a symbol on the main timeline timeline

  Ive created a box, turned into a symbol called box,

  Inside the box, I have a left to right of animation with AutoPlay disabled.

  I went back to the main scene, click on the box, action, added click here to play, but it does nothing.

  How to play the sequence of symbols?

  In, click handler for the use of the symbol

  sym.getComposition () .getStage ().getSymbol("__nameofsymbol__").play();

  or

  sym.getSymbol("__nameofsymbol__").play();

  Replace the italics by the literal of the symbol name as it appears in the components Panel.

  A few details of the API are here (http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/edgeanimate/api/current/index.html) in the section work with symbols .

  Darrell

• How to access the symbols on the main timeline of the nested symbol

  I have read the JSAPI edge but still no way to make it work.

  Very simple: you click on a button, a window will appear. the button that makes the window appear is supposed to hide elements of what he does. HOWEVER when I want to use a close button in the symbol (window) to make these symbols appear again, it does not work.

  Inside the symbol I tried:

  sym.getComposition () .getStage ().getSymbol("openTabButtBlack").show ();

  Does not work.

  sym.getComposition () .getStage ().$("openTabButtBlack").show ();

• How to change the image of the main timeline of a symbol

  I need to use, GoToAndStop(), from a symbol, which is not on the timeline, to change the active image on the timeline.

  I have trouble understanding, is this possible?

  MovieClip (this.root) .gotoAndStop (10);

• Goto frame within a movieclip on the main timeline button

  So what I have is a button (then named) on the main timeline. I have a clip on this framework (on the main timeline) and the clip has 3 images I want to be able to scroll using the "Next" button located on the main timeline. How can I do this?

  Thank you

  assign the movieclip an instance name (in the properties panel - for example, mc) and use:

  Next.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, f);

  function f(e:MouseEvent):void {}

  mc.nextFrame ();

  }