Communicate with the symbols of the main timeline

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• 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

  }

• Nested movie meets with the main timeline?

  I am very new to actionscript 3.0 (and actionscript in general also) so it can be done easily.
  
  My main timeline has two frames. On the first image on a button will take users to the #2 chassis. When the #2 chassis is played, a clip that takes up most of the screen is displayed. Now, is there a button to return to the #1 frame in the main timeline, leave in the movieclip on frame #2.
  
  How can I get the button "return to the #1 section" to work in the movieclip on frame #2? I guess the button must speak to the main timeline (or something like that), but not really sure.
  
  Thanks in advance!

  put this on the last image in this clip. I'm assuming that your button has an instance name, my_btn.

  my_btn.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, btnClicked);
  function btnClicked(event:MouseEvent):void {}
  MovieClip (this.parent) .gotoAndStop (1);
  }

• noob question AS3 extremely - by using a with the main timeline *.as file

  I'm in the middle of adding a performance monitor to a mobile app that has yet not actionscript, I just want to test the performance of animations

  https://raw.github.com/mrdoob/Hi-ReS-Stats/master/src/net/hires/debug/ Stats.as which is the stats.as file I have in my root with the .fla file

  I removed the folder "net.hires.debug" from the stats.as file location

  What should I type to load the .as file

  It is said to use the addchild function, I am new to as3 and I'm a bit confused with the classes

  now my first layer actions frame, it is said

  addChild (New Stats());

  and during the execution of this

  addChild (New Stats()); It gives me error 1180: call to undefined method possible Stats

  The file named 'stats.as' or 'Stats.as' (show you both ways)?  It should be named Stats.as

• Dynamically loaded swf to communicate with the MovieClip on the stage

  I have a devil of a time here with a problem. I've got an xml document when it is clicked on a certain button on the stage, it loads its corresponding external swf into an empty movieclip on the stage. This empty clip is support for all external SWF.

  So what I'm trying to do, is when an external swf is loaded that has buttons on it, I need these buttons to communicate with the main timeline and delete an mc who is on the stage. I need the swf (s) currently loaded to be able to do. So whatever the currently loaded external swf is loaded, I need to talk to the main timeline. (I have external SWF files a certain need to do this) So I guess I have to somehow target the external swf currently loaded so he could talk to the main timeline.

  The code below in summary does not, but it gives no errors either. I don't pretend to know what I'm doing, and I did not find a solution to this particular problem. If someone could give me advice or direct me to a solution. I would be so happy.

  scenario focus

  var object: index = this;

  function loadComplete (e: Event) {}

  TweenMax.to (index.mcholder, 1, {alpha:. 5});

  Add the current module to the mcholder movieclip according to addChild

  index.mcholder.addChild (e.currentTarget.content);

  (e.currentTarget.content as MovieClip) .addEventListener ("eventTriggered", startListener);

  function startListener(e:Event):void {}

  var ext_swf:MovieClip;

  ext_swf = e.currentTarget.content as MovieClip;

  trace ("external swf");

  ext_swf. Button1.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, talktomainswf);

  function talktomainswf (): void {}

  TweenMax.to (index.mc_thatsonthestage, 1, {x: 1000});

  }

  }

  Now we have the first load we set to false firstLoad

  index.firstLoad = false;

  }

  function loadError (e: Event) {}

  trace ("Error");

  }

  }

  You can use the event to communicate with external SWF Dispatcher and a main timeline

  as follows:

  //in an external swf
  
  //Once loaded
  function onLoadComplete(event:Event):void
  {
       //dispatch an event in the form of a string
       dispatchEvent(new Event("Talk to Main Timeline"));
  }
  
  //On the Main timeline
  
  //listen for "Talk to Main Timeline"
  stage.addEventListener("Talk to Main Timeline", listenForCallsFromExternalFiles, true); 
  
  //if the event is heard, do this:
  function listenForCallsFromExternalFiles(e:Event):void
  {
       trace("I heard ya, now do stuff...");
  }
  

  That's the idea anyway, I use it all the time.

  hope that helps,

  ~ chipleh

• in actionscript 3.0 how do a nested movie clip button go to a section on the main timeline

  I do a site based in flash actionscript 3.0, I have a button nested in its own clip, because I have the button bigger to be able to read what I realized the only way to do it is by creating it as a film clipa nd inside the clip in a button

  I've added an event listener for the button of blog, saying:

  blog.addEventListener (MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, gotoblog);

  function gotoblog(evtobj:MouseEvent) {}

  gotoAndStop (2)

  }

  This part of the code it goes to 2nd part of the scenario that it is and stop wich is a version of the origanal symbol breath

  I added a second order on structure 2

  blog.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK.gotoblogpage);

  function gotoblogpage(evtobj:MouseEvent) {}

  gotoAndStop ("blogframe")

  trace ("the blog button has been clicked")

  }

  I have named the blog of symbol and use the name from where will the blog page to be "blogframe" this line of code at the bottom is where I run trouble the window output in Flash says "blog button has been clicked" I like it. no errors are accouring why that which is at the playhead does not attend the image "blogframe"? If the button does not work when I click on it the code is correct, I think the problem here is he does not want the read head go to the section I want it. So I gues, my question is, how can we make a button less, a clip interact with the main timeline?

  One way to do this is to target the root timeline...

  MovieClip (root) .gotoAndStop ("blogframe");

• Communication with the main movie off external class

  Hello

  Hello, after recognizing that all my problems are as a result of the problem, I just start with AS3, having a litte experience with AS2 and common OOP. So, I try to understand the concept of AS3 on this level.

  My problems are mainly in the defined direction how outwardly objects communicate with the main movie.

  For example:

  (1) can I call a DisplayObject instance out of an external class, if this DisplayObject is defined and added to the display list in the MainMovie?

  2) can MovieClipObjects instance within a table, which works like an instance variable? I think that will cause trouble in the cascade of display list:

  {should be corner braces: class.} MovieClips {i} = new MovieClip();    -> root.class.MovieClips {1} Point separates it levels in the display list, but also object and attribute.

  Thank you

  the debugger does not recognize this error message?

  and if you want to clear the memory occupied by mc when you use:

  var a: Array = [];

  var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

  a [0] = mc;

  use:

  If it was added, remove the mc of the displaylist.  remove all listeners and other references if there is.

  a [0] = null;  or a.shift (), if you do not have null in an array element.  Use a.splice (i, 1), if you used a [i] = mc;

  MC = null;

• 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.

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

  Using a symbol to prepare my full menu (so it can maintain its own settings/independence, problem solved by your support :)).

  Is it possible for me to code, the text in the prompt symbol buttons to "play to" on the main timeline?

  Thanks for your time!

  Teo

  Hi Kratistoss,

  Thanks for posting. Here's what you need to do:

  (1) go to your Menu called symbol.

  (2) for any text that you want to have a link with a label on the main stage, add an action click by pressing the brackets to the left of the element.

  (3) this should pull up with a bunch of actions, a dialog box, press the click one.

  (4) in the white space, add the following code: () .getStage () sym.getComposition ("whatever_your_label_name_is") .play;

  (5) repeat for each item you want to link to the main timeline.

  It's her!

  Adam

• 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 ();

• 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.

• 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.

• gotoAndPlay with a _mc on the main timeline

  Hello, this is my first post here. Thanks in advance for any help.

  I try to use a button on frame 1 to go to a clip that is located on chassis 1018 (I put the clip on the main timeline on chassis 1018)

  so hand (root) - > 1018-> shipattack_mc-> "endtest.

  I tried to use these commands and some variants of the same thing.

  _parent

  This.

  shipattack.gotoAndPlay('endtest")

  gotoAndPlay ("endtest")

  My main storyline ends at 1018 with a stop() and movieclip 'shipattack_mc' plays his frames 1000 or more.

  I test things towards the end of the shipattack, and a button to jump to the end thank you.

  Thanks for the quick reply, it works perfectly. Odd that my flash instructor could not understand however.

  Is this an official forum? It seems that you answer most of the questions... I was under the impression that it was members of the community at random who contributed. I'm a little reluctant to repost futher questions.

  skip_btn.onRelease = function()

  {

  stopAllSounds();

  _root.sevenclans1.start (60.0);

  trace("shipattack_mc").shipattack_mc;

  _root.gotoAndStop ("end");

  shipattack_mc.gotoAndPlay (800);

  };

• Problem with Play Pause AS3 button on the main timeline

  I was wondering if someone can help with this? Have tried to create a play/pause for the main timeline button in my flash movie.

  Created a clip with 1 frame - a chart of the break, and then on the 2nd frame - game graphics, labeled 'pause' and executives 'play' consecutively and put a stop action on the first frame of the movieclip.

  Then put the following code in the layer actions on the main timeline (and gave the name of "ppBtn" instance of movieclip):

  var pp:Boolean = true;

  
  

  function ppState(event:MouseEvent) {}

  {if (pp)}

  Stop();

  event.target.gotoAndStop ('pause');

  pp = false;

  } else {}

  Play();

  event.target.gotoAndStop ('play');

  pp = true;

  }

  }

  ppBtn.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, ppState);

  He works at the stopping and starting of the film but the real movieclip is not switch between the break and the game graphics (a few stays on the framework - 1st of 'pause' State). Any help in this very appreciated!

  Thank you

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