Add movie clip in AS3

i want to have a movie clip come up on a specific pixel
coordinate. how would i finish this code?

i made a new forum with everything. the only part it says is
wrong in the compiler errors was the coordinates at the end

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Putting movie clips in AS3 package into movie clip on stage

Hi - I am a as2/flash animator and am working on an AS3
project. The AS is in a separate file, inside a package. I am
modifying existing code.
The script adds movie clips in a function via addchild.
What I am hoping to do, is have the movieclips added to a
clip that already exists on the stage.
I put a clip on the stage named holder, with the instance
name holder_mc - and I tried to add the clip with
holder_mc.addchild in the AS3 file - it seemed to work, but
manipulating the holder_mc - it looks like the added clips are not
affected?
Any help is appreciated.

Child_array is a property of the Parent class.
It's only added to in one point, in a function that creates a
Child and adds it to the array.
I think I might have found out the problem with my code after
adding a trace to the function, think I'm creating twice the number
of clips I'm removing, and the deletion part of my code is fine!
Turns out AS3 is maybe not so bad after all :P
Thanks alot for taking the time to reply though kglad!

I recently purchased a refurbed iMac with a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. It came with iMovie ver. 9.0.5 installed. I do allot with iMovie and iDVD and would like to get a camcorder to add movie clips. Does anyone have any suggestions for a reasonably pri

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Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I recently purchased a refurbed iMac with a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. It came with iMovie ver. 9.0.5 installed. I do allot with iMovie and iDVD and would like to get a camcorder to add movie clips. Does anyone have any suggestions for a reasonably price camcorder that would work with my setup?
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How do I create a play button for movie clip using AS3

Hello.
Bit new to this and have been searching the adobe forums and google. I am trying to create a button that will play an imported MovieClip.
I have a movie clip that I've imported into it's own layer (Layer1) Frame 1. I've given the MovieClip an instance name of foundationMovie.
I've created a button and have that on its own layer(Layer2) above layer1, it is also in Frame 1.
I've added a
stop (); action to layer2
The video is not set to autoplay.
I want the video to start playing when the viewer clicks the button. I know I've got to put some kind of event listener using AS3 in my timeline somewhere.
I've found some code and I've been trying to work with it. I'm sure I've mutilated it beyond usability but this is what I've got.
stop ();
player.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play);
function play(event:MouseEvent)
gotoAndPlay("foundationMovie");
If someone could point me the right direction or help me with my code I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

First, you need to clear up what you are working with... a movieclip and a video are usually entirely different things.
Next, your code may get you started on your way with some changes. You shouldn't use "play" as a function name due to there already being a play() method/function in Flash.
If the movieclip is a movieclip and has an instance name of "foundationMovie", and your button has an instance name of "player" then the following adjusted code would normally work...
stop ();
player.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,playMovie);
function playMovie(event:MouseEvent)
foundationMovie.play();

Center movie clips dynamically, as3.0

Hi. I have seen this discussed both on Adobe Forums and other sites but I can't seem to make sense of the code supplied by what I have seen thus far.
I am trying to center display objects that are added to the stage at runtime dynamically through a basic drawing application.
the code is something like this:
1. add an event listener for the drawing event.
2. add the path you want to draw to a container movie clip on the stage.
3. add an enter-frame event listener to change the scale of the path randomly .... and this is the moment i want to change the default top,left registration point to the center,center of the path. each path has its own registration point as i can tell thus far but at this point the scale is happening from the top,left of the container rather than about the path's own self. and if it were to happen about the path i would have to get the bounds of the path and do some averaging to center the registration point.
unfortunately i don't know what the code looks like to achieve what i'm trying to get.
any help is appreciated. thanks in advance.

Well if using the graphics.lineTo method is Bitmap data then that is what I'm using. But each call to the shape that I'm drawing is a new Shape(); . The second paragraph you wrote seems a bit daunting when viewing it in the abstract sense. Your first reply was a bit more concrete but I guess the first response didn't account for everything being in one container. Should I create a container2 Movie Clip and create that as a new box on a per-shape basis so that I have multiple container2 mc's in the following path:
container.container2[i].shape[i] where i would be an index (such that i++) though the code wouldn't be written exactly that way. ?
(To store localX,Y positions in an array or vector shouldn't be too hard but I would need to try it several times before I get it right).

Controlling Movie Clip with as3

I try to controll my mc. I want put one MovieClip to other.
i use next code:
box_mc.addChild(pic_mc);
but its not working.
box_mc this is the a box movie clip, in this mc i want put my pic_mc.

In addition to what dmennenoh said,
DisplayObject's x and y properties are preserved no matter parent. In your case, it seems, original position of pic_mc is not 0/0. So when you place it inside the box - x and y are the same but now they are RELATIVE TO BOX. So, on screen it looks like it is outside the box but it is inside except that box's x and y are added.
For instnace, if the original coordinates are pic_mc.x = 200, pic_mc.y = 100 and box_mc.x = 50, box_mc.y = 20, when you add pic_mc as a child, it will have the came x and y but relative to box_mc (not its original container) and on the screen it will look like it is on x = 250 (box_mc.x + pic_mc.x) and y = 120 (pic_mc.y + box_mc.y).
box_mc's dimensions also change IF pic_mc x and y plus its width and height are outside of original box_mc boundaries. After you add child box_mc.width will be pic_mc.x + pic_mc.width and box_mc.height will be pic_mc.y + pic_mc.height.
I suspect that because there is a border in the box, you expected objects to placed within the border. Border in the box IS NOT the box but ANOTHER object (child) inside the box. In other words, box is a container. After pic_mc is added - it will contain both border and pic_mc - not border containing pic_mc. You see the difference?

Add movie clip in a New Native Window

Dear Friends,
i have created an air application, which open a new window on
click of a button and load the movie clip or a scroll pane with
some items in it. it is working fine but the size is very big than
the actual size of the movie clip. it shows like zoomed picture. it
looks odd and i got sturck up. please help me to show the correct
size of the scroll pane which i added (i used --
nativewindow.stagge.addchild) in native window.
Thanks and advance,
Rahimhaji

You must set the stage scaleMode property to noScale. (If you
want to use one of the other scale modes -- even though there are
better ways to achieve the same end in AIR, see the " About Stage
properties" section of:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/quickstart/launching_windows.html
The article is about a Flex application, but the stage
properties section applies equally to Flash. )

RePost: center movie clips dynamically, as3.0 ?

I have a question that was somewhat answered but I now have some problems with, as far as implementing the solution is concerned. I posted in August and I have revisited the file only now to see if I can create the changes necessary to center my mc's dynamically as they are drawn on the stage at runtime. They need to center to themselves rather than having their registration points in the top left corner, per display object.
Here is the thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5760947#5760947
Thanks in advance for any responses.
-markerline

I attempted to reply yesterday but the forums became under maintenance (as we all re-logged in after).
What I tried to post before the system went down was to give a single example as you had mentioned. To remove the complexity of the rest of the app so this can be understood alone and then implemented into your larger system.
Centering via container in code is very simple as long as you can grab a hold of the shape in code as well.
Here's a complete AS3 example of centering a single object inside a container. I just want you to paste this into a new AS3 doc so you can tell me you understand how it works. After that, the more complex multi-object container in a container approach comes in:
e.g. 2 squares rotating:
import flash.display.Shape;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.display.Sprite;
// start rotation loop using a Timer to turn all objects
var moveTimer:Timer = new Timer(10,0);
// function to rotate objects
moveTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, handleTimer);
// draw a rect shape
var redrect:Shape = new Shape();
redrect.graphics.lineStyle(3,0x0,1,true);
redrect.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000);
redrect.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100);
redrect.graphics.endFill();
addChild(redrect);
// position at x:100 / y:100 on stage
redrect.x = 150;
redrect.y = 200;
// now draw a blue square but with a container while centering the shape
// container
var blueContainer:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(blueContainer);
// draw a rect shape
var bluerect:Shape = new Shape();
bluerect.graphics.lineStyle(3,0x0,1,true);
bluerect.graphics.beginFill(0x0000FF);
bluerect.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100);
bluerect.graphics.endFill();
blueContainer.addChild(bluerect);
// position in center of container (subtract half width/height)
//-------------centering code----------------
bluerect.x -= bluerect.width / 2;
bluerect.y -= bluerect.height / 2;
// position container
blueContainer.x = 400;
blueContainer.y = 200;
// start timer which invokes function below
moveTimer.start();
// rotate the red rect (upper left reg) and blue (objects centered);
function handleTimer(e:TimerEvent):void
          // just rotate both to see the registration
          redrect.rotation += 2;
          blueContainer.rotation += 2;
Now do understand I know I can draw my bluerect with negative coordinates to achieve the same thing inside the shape (e.g. -50,-50,100,100) but the point here is containing potentially a complex object into a single object so the entire outer contents can be measured and rotated from a single center point. That comes after this simple code is understood.

Play animation (movie clip) randomly as3

Hello,
Could anyone out there tell me what as3 code i should be using to make this happen.
I want the animation (shooting star) to play at random times.
Many thanks indeed.
Damien

on the last frame of your movieclip attach:
stop();
this.dispatchEvent(new Event("finished"));
right click your movieclip in the library, click linkage, tick export for actionscript and assign a class (eg, Starmove).
you can then use:
var minTime:uint = 1000;
var maxTime:uint = 3000;
var timer:Timer=new Timer(timeF(),0);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,starF);
timer.start();
function starF(e:TimerEvent){
var star:Starmove=new Starmove();
addChild(star);
star.x = Math.floor(Math.random()(stage.stageWidth-star.width)); // these two will probably need adjustment
star.y = Math.floor(Math.random()(stage.stageHeight-star.height)); // ditto
star.addEventListener("finished",removeStarF);
timer.delay = timeF();
function removeStarF(e:Event){
removeChild(e.currentTarget);
e.currentTarget.removeEventListener("finished",removeStarF);
e.currentTarget=null;
function timeF():uint{
return minTime+Math.floor(Math.random()*(maxTime-minTime));

Making movie clips play in reverse in AS 3.0

Hey all. I'm changing all my files to AS 3.0 because of some
new elements I'd like to use in flash CS4.
Here:
http://www.iaw-atlanta.com/IvyLeague1-13-09.html
I have the menu navigation at the bottom with 4 buttons. When the
buttons are moused over they ascend and when they are moused out
the movie plays in reverse so that they descend. Basically in the
movie clip, I have it stopped as well as gotoAndPlay the next frame
when the button is moused over and then have a script telling it to
reverse when moused out. I know how to do this in AS 2.0 but how
can I translate the script to 3.0?

DjPhantasy5,
> Ok thanks, I'll see what he also has to say as well.
Actually, NedWebs pretty much nailed it. :) The approach
you've taken
is an interesting one, because it scales all the way back to
Flash Player 5,
which didn't yet support the MovieClip.onEnterFrame event.
Without that
event, you need something like your "controller" symbol -- a
separate
looping timeline -- to perform code that depends on frame
loops.
Available as of Flash Player 6, that event would allow you
to
consolidate your code a bit by putting it all in a single
frame and avoiding
the extra movie clip symbol. That doesn't mean your approach
is wrong, by
any stretch. In fact, it's good to know your options, because
if you ever
need to publish to Flash Player 5, you'll probably do best to
use the setup
you've taken.
I'll demonstrate onEnterFrame in just a bit, in case you
want to take a
look at that.
>> there's no _root reference in AS3, but you can use a
>> MovieClip(this.parent) (which replaces what _parent
>> used to do) to locate something outside of the
immediate
>> movieclip.
The term "parent," in this context, is technically a
property of the
MovieClip class, which means all movie clips in AS3 have
access to the
"parent" feature, which points to the timeline that contains
the movie clip
in question. Buttons also feature a "parent" property. In
AS2, this
property acted exactly the same, only it was preceeded by an
underscore.
In fact, NedWebs' suggested code works the same in your
existin file.
Instead of this:
// Your existing code ...
if (_root.animation._currentframe>1) {
_root.animation.prevFrame();
this.gotoAndPlay(2)
if (_root.animation._currentframe<=1) {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
... you could be using this:
// Alternative code ...
if (_parent.animation._currentframe>1) {
_parent.animation.prevFrame();
gotoAndPlay(2)
if (_parent.animation._currentframe<=1) {
gotoAndStop(1);
... because from this scope -- that is, from this point of
view -- the
MovieClip._parent property points to the same timeline that
_root does.
That changes, of course, based on how deeply nested the
current scope is.
The term "this" in the above code is optional, because Flash
understands
what scope you're in. From the point of view of this code,
_parent is
understood to refer to the current scope's parent timeline,
just like
gotoAndPlay() is understood to refer to the current scope's
own timeline.
You could precede either of those by "this" or not.
Many people will argue that _root is probably best avoided,
only because
it's a slippery slope. It doesn't always refer to the main
timeline you
think it does, depending on whether or not your SWF is loaded
into another
SWF at runtime. Meanwhile, _parent *always* refers to the
immediately
parent timeline.
So when you look at it that way, this perfectly valid AS2:
if (_parent.animation._currentframe>1) {
... isn't much different at all from its AS3 counterpart:
if (MovieClip(parent).animation.currentFrame>1) {
It would be nicer if you didn't need to cast the parent
reference as a
movie clip here, but if you don't, AS3 doesn't realize that
the scope in
question is a movie clip.
>> You can string them along as...
>> MovieClip(this.parent.parent)
Exactly.
>> Your _currentframe in the the controller becomes
>> currentFrame. That's about it. The rest of what I
>> saw will fly as is.
Not quite. AS3 doesn't support the on() or onClipEvent()
functions, so
you won't be able to attach your code direction to the
button. Instead,
you'll have to put it in a keyframe -- which you can also do
with AS2. It's
a good idea, in any case, because it allows you to put all
your code in one
place, making it easier to find.
Here's a quick note on direct attachment:
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/museum-pieces-on-and-onclipevent
To convert your existing FLA structure to AS3, you might,
for example,
do this:
animation.buttonMode = true;
animation.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, outHandler);
animation.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,
overHandler);
function outHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
controller.gotoAndPlay(2);
function overHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
controller.gotoAndPlay(4);
That takes care of the on(rollout) and on(rollover) code in
your current
version. The first line (buttonMode) is only necessary
because I got rid of
the button symbol and, instead, associated the event handlers
directly with
your animation clip. (Movie clips handle button-style events,
too, so you
don't need the button.) In AS3, event handling is very
straightforward:
you reference the object (here, animation), invoke its
inherited
addEventListener() method, then pass in two parameters: a)
the event to
listen for, and b) the function to perform when that event
occurs.
You can see that spelled out above. In AS2, there are quite
a few ways
to handle events, including on()/onClipEvent(), so it's
harder to know when
to use what approach. For buttons and movie clips, the
princple works the
same as I just showed, but the syntax is different.
Let's take a quick look at reducing all this code by using
the
onEnterFrame event. First, check out this AS2 version:
animation.onRollOut = outHandler;
animation.onRollOver = overHandler;
function outHandler():Void {
this.onEnterFrame = reversePlay;
function overHandler():Void {
this.onEnterFrame = null;
this.play();
function reversePlay():Void {
this.prevFrame();
All of that code would appear in frame 1. You don't need the
controller
movie clip. The animation clip no longer contains an orb
button, because
we're using animation itself as the "button". (You can always
see what
functionality any object has by looking up its class. If
you're dealing
with a movie clip, look up the MovieClip class. See the
Properties heading
to find out what characteristics the object has, see Methods
to find out
what the object can do, and see Events to find out what the
object can react
to.)
In the above code, it's all laid out pretty easily. This is
AS2,
remember. We have two events we're listening for:
MovieClip.onRollOut and
MovieClip.onRollOver. Those events are established for the
animation movie
clip by way of its instance name, and associated with
corresponding custom
functions. The outHandler() function associates yet another
function to the
MovieClip.onEnterFrame event of the animation clip. Very
simply, it
instructs animation to perform the custom reversePlay()
function every time
it encounters an onEnterFrame event. The overHandler()
function kills that
association by nulling it out, and telling animation to play,
via the
MovieClip.play() method. Finally, the reversePlay() function
simply invokes
MovieClip.prevFrame() on the animation clip.
Here's the AS3 version:
animation.buttonMode = true;
animation.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, outHandler);
animation.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,
overHandler);
function outHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
animation.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, reversePlay);
function overHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
animation.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,
reversePlay);
animation.play();
function reversePlay(evt:Event):void {
evt.target.prevFrame();
It looks wordier, but if you look carefully, you'll see that
it's
essentially the same thing. The main difference is the way
scope works in
AS3. In AS2, there are numerous references to "this", because
the event
handler functions operate in the same scope as the object to
which the
association is made. In AS3, the references aren't to "this",
but rather to
the same animation clip by its *intance name*, because in
AS3, the scope
operates in the same timeline in which the code appears
(namely, in this
case, the main timeline).
In the reversePlay() function, in order to emulate a "this"
sort of
setup, I'm referring to the parameter that gets passed to all
event handler
functions in AS3. I happened to name it "evt" (for event),
but you can call
it what you like. In the case of reversePlay(), the evt
parameter refers to
an instance of the Event class, which has a target property.
The target
property refers to the object that dispatched the event --
happens to be
animation, in this case. So evt.target, in this context,
refers to
animation, which is what I invoke the MovieClip.prevFrame()
method on.
I've uploaded a handful of FLA files to my server. I won't
keep them
there forever ... maybe a couple weeks, as of this post:
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS3.fla
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS3_new.fla
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS2_new.fla
David Stiller
Co-author, ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide
http://tinyurl.com/2s28a5
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Dynamic Instance for a MOVIE CLIP

Hi Please help me!!!!!!!!!!
I am creating dynamic Movie Clip using as3, but I don't have
any idea about dynamic Instance name, please give me some idea that
how I can assign Instance name for a movie clip.
I am waiting your reply.
Thanks
Sushil Kumar

You can assign a value to the name property of the MovieClip,
but refering to the variable name of your MovieClip instance is
preferable. This code illustrates the difference:

How do you horizontal scroll a movie clip?

Can anyone suggest any resources for horizontal (left to right) scrolling a movieClip? I want to be able to scroll through a movie clip that has pictures in it. I can't find any good ones that explain the code. FYI, I do not want the user to use a scroll bar to scroll through. They should be able to touch the screen (on the movieClip) and scroll left or right. I looked at the ThrowPops plugin example on Greensock's website but the code is not explained very well. So I need a basic description of how to scroll a movie clip.

google: as3 beginner tutorial flash ios movieclip scroll

AS3 Putting Buttons Inside Movie Clip

I am practicing AS3 (after years of AS2) and am having trouble having a button inside a movie clip talk to another movie clip on the main timeline. Here is the code:
OneButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, OneButtonClicked);
function OneButtonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieTarget.gotoAndStop(1);
MovieDescription.gotoAndStop("One");
TwoButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, TwoButtonClicked);
function TwoButtonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieTarget.gotoAndStop(2);
MovieDescription.gotoAndStop("Two");
The code above works, but if I put OneButton and TwoButton inside a movie clip, I know longer can target MovieTarget and MovieDescription. The reason I want to put OneButton and TwoButton inside it's own MC is so I can dim each button after it is clicked by toggling the playhead inside that MC. Help? Thanks!

Start over from the begining
press f8 and chose movieClip then draw your untoggled button call the movie button then create another movie and create your toggled button or greyed out button and call it greyedButton. Go to main stage add 2 button instances and 2 greyedButton instances( just drag from library). you have 4 instances on stage. give call instance names and place one them on top of each other so u can only see 2 buttons on stage. put the greyed button under the button.
now with action script
button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, OneButtonClicked);
function OneButtonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieTarget.gotoAndStop(1);
MovieDescription.gotoAndStop("One");
button1.visible = false; // here the greyed button will show
button2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, TwoButtonClicked);
function TwoButtonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieTarget.gotoAndStop(2);
MovieDescription.gotoAndStop("Two");
button1.visible = true; // here button1 will go back to its orignal state
button2.visible = false // here the greyed button will show

How can I display a Movie clip from library on stage in AS3?

Hi,
I have a movie clip in my library and I would like to display it on the stage using AS3.
do I have to define it as a variable?Do I need to use this code: addchild(movieclip);
can I use the 'x' and 'y' to position it?
What would the code look like?
Ben.

Great! it works well ! thanks
But I have another question, if I wanted to used the same movie clip but postion it at different x and y positions when a different btn is selected how could I do that?
Would I have to make a copy of the movie clip and give it a different name?
or is there an better way around it?
Ben.

Subject : Slideshow looks bad Hello guys I have a project in my Final Cut just about done. I want to add my slideshow as part of the project and burn it to DVD. In my slideshow, there are some stills from the movie clips and some downloaded from the i

Subject : Slideshow looks bad
Hello guys
I have a project in my Final Cut just about done. I want to add my slideshow as part ofthe project and burn it to DVD. Inmy slideshow, there are some stills from the movie clips and some downloadedfrom the internet but they all look blur when playback and even worse if Iapply Ken Burn to it. Pleasesome one can tell my how to do it right or it can’t be done because thedownload quality and stills from the clip are not suitable or slideshow. Thank you
PSC

Thank you Ross.
The entire DVD containing Quick Time movies (Final CutExpress project) and slideshow was done in iPhoto. The Final Cut project was rendered prior to export to QT, the slideshow was sent to iDVD withoutrendering. The slideshow with most of the pictures from my still camera incombination with stills from movie clips and some downloaded from the Internet.After burning, the movie playback is perfect but the slideshow is not. The slideshow containing 3 differentkinds of pictures; those from my still camera looks OK; the stills from themovie clips and from the Internet are not. I don’t have much knowledge in this game, but I think NTSCwith frame size 720x480, and the downloaded picture Item Property shows most ofthem are between 400 to 500 x 300 to 600, may be both of them are not suitablefor TV screen while the stills from my still camera looks OK because they are2048x1536. Please enlightenme. Once again, thank you so much,I really appreciate the time you offered.
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