A movie in side another movie clip
I have a movie clip(A) thats inside another movieclip(B). Im
trying to use movieclipA's _x and _y but it gets all messed up.
Does someone know how to fix this.
What do you mean, get's all messed up? If clip B is on the
current timeline
then you can get to clip A's properties by going:
trace(clipB.clipA._x);
trace(clipB.clipA._y);
or even:
var ca = clipB.clipA;
trace(ca._x);
trace(ca._y);
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I'm very perplexed as to how to really move the clips and event structure. Should I manually copy the clips and event folder structure outside of iMovie? I worry I will mess up iMovie's internal record keeping and folder structure information.
Thanks in advance.Ahh, Ok. I actually had to go to Lynda.com to watch a training video of this highly bassackwards maneuver, but now I have it. In other words, while the intuitive thing is to make a new event to hold the clip you want and then open the old event and drag the clip into it's new event, the only way to accomplish this maneuver is to NOT create a new event, but rather, go to the clip AFTER the one you want to move, select it and then Right-Click on it and select SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP (or go to FILE>SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP). Then you wait a few seconds while the program thinks a bit (no feedback it is doing this - just a pause) and then it automatically creates a new event with the clip you wanted. Now just double-click the new event and name it something meaningful.
Thanks for your help! -
Reaching a movie on the stage from inside another movie clip
I'm trying to reach a body of text which i turned into a movie clip which is on the main stage, and have it scroll up/down whenever it rolls over the designated hot spots. Here's what i have.
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,down1,false,0,true);
function down1(e:MouseEvent):void {
if (mouseX>=0 && mouseX<=42 && mouseY>111.1 && mouseY<146.1) {
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,scrolldown1);
} else {
stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrolldown1);
function scrolldown1(e:Event):void {
if(MovieClip(this.root).resume_txt.y > 219) {
MovieClip(this.root).resume_txt.y += 5;
} else {
this.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrolldown1);Can you explain the purpose bhind these lines...
if(MovieClip(this.root).resume_txt.y > 219) {
MovieClip(this.root).resume_txt.y += 5;
It seems as though if it is >219, it will move until the mouse moves out of the region. Is there any specific aspect of it that you can pinpoint as not woking?. -
Settings changing when adding to another movie
Each time I attach a new chapter (mini movie) PROJECT to the already existing main movie PROJECT the settings change. I have tried adding on the front with the new chapter as well as trying to add the main movie to the mini movie. Is there a way to lock all settings on a movie so when it is added to another movie the setting won't change oon either clip. The chapter movie is approximately 1 1/2 minutes long and the main clip is approximately 9 Minutes long. There are several transitions, and scrolls included in both clips.
Message was edited by: jimfromdenverHi Luis, thanks for the reply. I first made a video approximately 8 minutes long. I used digitized video, still images, sound tracks, titles and numerous transitions between the clips. I then opened a new project and made a movie of one of the last letters sent home by the veteran prior to his death. I also used transitions, movie clips, titles and various images. So far I have three of these last letters completed. I was able to copy and pasted two of the letter clips in front of the main generic movie. However, when I attempted to paste the third clip at the beginning of the main movie and two letters - it causes some of the titles, scrolls to overlap.
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Accessing a movie from another movie (class)
Hi all!,
Ok, this is a little bit complicated to explain, but I will
try my best. First, please click on the link below to see the
mockup that I did:
Link
to mockup
Now for some explanation:
First of all, the Flash makes use of an XML file to grab some
data. This part was freakin complicated and it's actually a
programmer who helped me with that but he is very unfamiliar with
AS on the whole so he couldn't really help me with the rest. OK so
basically in the first frame I am loading the XML, then what you
are seeing on the stage is in frame 2.
on the stage there are 2 movies:
1. scrollPane_mc
2. cables_mc
For now you can check and uncheck the items in the scroll
pane and you can roll over the cables to see their names.
1. scrollPane_mc
scrollPane_mc is a scroll pane component that has a movie
called cableList_mc as source.
cableList_mc itself is an empty movie with just 1 frame and
which dynamically grabs a movie called cableListItem_mc (itself
attached to a class of the same name) from the library and
duplicates it, based on data from the XML file.
code in cableList_mc:
var startY:Number = -0.8;
for (var cableName:String in VPN_Utils.cables) {
var listItem:cableListItem_mc = new cableListItem_mc();
listItem.name = cableName;
listItem.x = 0;
listItem.y = startY;
listItem.cableNameText.text =
VPN_Utils.cables[cableName][0];
addChild(listItem);
startY += 18;
code for cableListItem_mc.as (1 cableListItem_mc is basically 1
checkbox item):
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import VPN_Utils;
public class cableListItem_mc extends MovieClip {
private var checked:Boolean = true;
public function cableListItem_mc() {
addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, swap);
private function swap(e:MouseEvent):void {
if (checked) {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
} else {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
checked = !checked;
trace (this + " " + this.name + " is " + checked);
2. cables_mc
cables_mc on the other hand just contains several movie
clips, placed manually on the stage and all of them based on the
class VPN_Cable.as
code for VPN_Cable.as:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
public class VPN_Cable extends MovieClip {
public function VPN_Cable() {
addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseOver);
addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMouseOut);
private function onMouseOver(e:MouseEvent):void {
text_mc.visible = true;
private function onMouseOut(e:MouseEvent):void {
text_mc.visible = false;
So basically now what I want to achieve is to control and
talk to the cables from the scroll pane. So when I uncheck "Cable
1" in the scroll pane, "Cable 1" on the stage should turn invisible
for example.
I hope this is clear....
Thanks a lot! in advance!
jon.Hi kglad!
uhhh, thnx a lot for u reply =] but it's not exactly this
that i'm looking for. Well yeah, i know i have to assign mouse
listeners to my checkboxes (....) (and I already have actually),
but could you give some details about that? That would help
greatly. My problem is that I don't know how to talk to the cables
(which are in a separate movie) from the checkboxes (which are in
yet another movie).
Thanks!
And happy new year!
jon.
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