Dispatching and Event in Parent SWF & Receiving it in Child SWF

Hi All...
      I would like to receive an event(Dispatchd in Parent swf) in Child SWF, the bold italic text represents the piece of coding i require help with
     //in PARENT SWF i have -----------------------------
        dispatchEvent(new Event("CloseDoors"))
    // in Child SWF --------------------------------
     here i need a code that catches the event dispatched in parent.addEventListener("closeDoors",closedoor)
       Please let me know if there are alternative ways to do it. I think some people prefer to listen to the event also in Parent file and run
       the function in CHild from parent file....i would like to learn the best practive to INFORM CHILDREN through a PARENT FILE...
     Thanks.

Perfect....just to make sure i m taking care of it in a nice practical way....here is how i learned to access a file located in Child (researching other posts)
is this the way you recommend it?
(LoaderName.content as MovieClip).functionName(new Event("whatever"))
and in Child File we have
function functionName(e:Event)
i have seen other ways of calling a function in Child Swf , like using EmbedSWF and etc. wanna make sure which one is a better practice. Thanks

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Parent swf call function in Child swf not working

Hi all,
I'm having a problem with this and I just can't figure it out
:( (I've been trying different things and staring at it for hours
and I'm losing my mind...)
So I have a Parent swf that loads a Child swf (this goes
without any problems), but I want the Parent to call a function in
the child, now this is where it goes wrong...
The function the Parent has to call is named "lookupcar" and
needs to give the value "wagen" with it. The problem I think is
that the Parent wants to call the function but it still needs to
load (correct me if I'm wrong). Is there a way to check if the
Child swf is loaded completely before trying to call the function?
Could you give me an example of this please? Or any other
suggestions on what goes wrong?
Code in the Parent
root.inhoud.createEmptyMovieClip("thetext", "thetext",
this.getNextHighestDepth());
root.inhoud.thetext.loadMovie("uitrusting-wagenpark.swf");
root.inhoud.thetext.lookupcar(wagen);
Code in the Child
(the function lookupcar)
_global.lookupcar = function(carnr:String){
trace("LOOKUPCAR, with car nr: " + carnr);
Thanks in advance for all the help.

Perfect....just to make sure i m taking care of it in a nice practical way....here is how i learned to access a file located in Child (researching other posts)
is this the way you recommend it?
(LoaderName.content as MovieClip).functionName(new Event("whatever"))
and in Child File we have
function functionName(e:Event)
i have seen other ways of calling a function in Child Swf , like using EmbedSWF and etc. wanna make sure which one is a better practice. Thanks

Problems accessing child swf from parent class

First off: Hi. I'm new - to the forum and to Flash.
I'm currently writing a flash app that requests a XML feed
from a Java controller and loads child swfs into various parts of
the stage based on the settings/URL details received from the XML
feed.
Its nearly there and I've got my head round a couple of weird
things, but theres one thing left that I've found impossible to
solve. Once the loader class has loaded the swf, it can't access
its methods or set its variables and the child can't access the
parent either (or access the parent's variables full stop). From
what I've read this should be possible. Heres some of my code plus
pseudo code:
Note the Panel class is not linked to a symbol and uses
composition to act like a movie clip, rather than inheritance.
quote:
class Panel{
function Panel(owner:MovieClip, insName:String,
depth:Number){
initiates properties etc....
panelMovie = owner.createEmptyMovieClip(insName,depth);
listener.onLoadComplete = mx.utils.Delegate.create(this,
scheduleModule);
loader.addListener(listener);
loader.loadClip(moduleX.url, panelMovie);
function scheduleModule(){
trace(panelMovie.key);
trace(panelMove.keyTest());
panelMovie.key = "dave";
trace(panelMovie.key);
Child swf:
quote:
var key:String = "test";
As you can see I create an empty movieclip which I store a
reference to in this class under the field "panelMovie". I then use
this (instead of target_mc like you might do with an event handler)
to try to access the child swf. The output is:
trace(panelMovie.key); = "test" (Works fine)
trace(panelMove.keyTest()); = (Nothing returned)
panelMovie.key = "dave";
trace(panelMovie.key); = "test" (Previous line = no effect)
Is this something related to using a class? Really would be
preferentially to keep all code outside of the fla.
I've also tried a lot of different combinations of _root,
_parent and _levelx. None of which I truly understand.
Any help would be much appreciated! Plus any good tutorial
links on timeline and referring to objects in it!
(Couldn't find the code tag/button...)

>>trace(panelMove.keyTest()); = (Nothing returned)
You have panelMove here instead of panelMovie
Dave -
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You can use this example:
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How can I remove a child swf and stop all sounds when parent closes?

Hi All,
I am new to actionscript 3 and trying to learn as I go. The problem I am having is the following:
I have a carousel of images that load an external swf movie with a FLVPlayback component on it. The problem is that when the external swf unloads the sound of the FLVPlayback component continues to play. I am using a carousel component I found online to load the images and each image loads an external swf file. here is the code for it.
import com.carousel.DegreeCarousel;
import com.carousel.data.CarouselDO;
import com.carousel.data.AngleDO;
import com.carousel.data.ItemDO;
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carouselSettings.transitionTime = 1;
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[link removed]
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Option 2
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[svn:osmf:] 17565: Fix FM-937: ProxyElement dispatches trait events for blocked and overridden traits.

Revision: 17565
Revision: 17565
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-09-02 17:30:08 -0700 (Thu, 02 Sep 2010)
Log Message:
Fix FM-937: ProxyElement dispatches trait events for blocked and overridden traits. Add unit test.
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FM-937
Modified Paths:
    osmf/trunk/framework/OSMF/org/osmf/elements/ProxyElement.as
    osmf/trunk/framework/OSMFTest/org/osmf/elements/TestProxyElement.as

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Parent SWF controlling Child SWF variables

1) The code below works but the browser sends an annoying
alert message
“Received Parent Message” and you are obliged to
click OK before the program can run. How can it be fixed ?
2) Why this code needs to use the
ExternalInterface class if the Child SWF gets loaded and
becomes incorporated in the Parent SWF ?
3) Is there a
simpler and more straightforward way for a Parent SWF to
communicate with a Child SWF ?
package
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.*;
public class ChildMovie extends Sprite
public function ChildMovie():void
public function alert(msg:String):void
ExternalInterface.call('alert', msg);
txt.text = msg;
package
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
import flash.display.Sprite;
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public function ParentMovie():void
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
onLoadComplete);
loader.load(new URLRequest('ChildMovie.swf'));
private function onLoadComplete(e:Event):void
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swf.y = 50;
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Please check if you have done so. That should solve the problem. Let me know if it doesn't.
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Hello Everyone,
I am just learning how to handle custom events, and after spending couple of days tring to understand the process, I am unable to get it going. What I am trying to do is to write a Two Button (component/swf). So when I need to utilize this component in other projects, I can simply load the the swf and be able to fire the buttons.
I have two button objects on the stage, and I would like these two button object to fire custom events when the parent component is loaded as swf in other projects. Perhaps, I am going all wrong about what I am tring to accomplish here, I would highly appreciate your help.
After some research, I concluded that I will need to employ Custom Event(s) going for my component. I spent hours on google and have not been able to get it working.
Here is my code:
============================
CustomEvent Class
============================
package com.custom.apps
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            return new CustomEvent(type, arg, bubbles, cancelable);
        public override function toString():String
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============================
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============================
import com.custom.apps.*;
btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent):void
    dispatchEvent(new Event(CustomEvent.CUSTOM, customHandler));
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function customHandler(e:CustomEvent):void
    trace(e.target);
    trace('hello');

Kalisto,
I appreciate your help. Do I have this right? So I can build a navigation component with two links:
LINK1 | LINK2
then I load this navigation component/swf into another project and when I click on either of the links, it will dispatch a CUSTOM EVENT and when the event is dispatched, lets say I have a function (sayHello) listening for that particular event and when the CUSTOM EVENT is dispatched when one of the navigation component's link is clicked the (sayHello()) function would fire itself.
Can this be done? Am I on the right track?
I have been at it for couple of days now, I am able to dispatch the event but don't know how to have a function listen for the events. I would highly appreciate it if you can have look at my code.
Thanks a lot

Order of elements and events.

INTRO
Hi Oracle community.
A while ago I started a thread here on the forum where I had put three different subjects to be treated. The user jsmith guided me saying that I was supposed to separate things, dividing each subject in a separate thread. The original discussion is at the following link:
Interesting things, however, unknown? StackPane, animations and filters.
ABOUT
So in this discussion, I will be talking about input events and maybe about event filters. I created a JavaFX 8 (b123) application that checks the mouse click on certain nodes. Basically I have a panel of buttons. Behind this panel, I have a scroll pane with rectangles. The rectangles are contained within a Group, and the buttons are in a VBox. The Group is set as ScrollPane content. VBox and ScrollPane are within a StackPane, which becomes the root of scene graph. If we observe the nodes tree, we'll find the following scenario:
IMAGE
Here is my source code:
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.ScrollPane;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class ScrollTest extends Application
    //                                                                                                       MAIN
    public static void main(String[] args)
        Application.launch(args);
    //                                                                                                 INSTÂNCIAS
    // CONTROLS
    private Rectangle[] rectangles;
    private ScrollPane scrollP;
    private Button[] buttons;
    // LAYOUTS
    private StackPane root;
    private Group group;
    private VBox vbox;
    //                                                                                                  INÍCIO FX
    @Override public void start(Stage estagio) throws Exception
        this.iniFX();
        this.confFX();
        this.adFX();
        this.evFX();
        Scene cenario = new Scene(this.root , 640, 480);
        estagio.setScene(cenario);
        estagio.setTitle("Programa JavaFX - RDS");
        estagio.show();
    /** Just instantiate JavaFX objects.*/
    protected void iniFX()
        // CONTROLS
        this.rectangles = new Rectangle[5];
        this.scrollP = new ScrollPane();
        this.buttons = new Button[6];
        // LAYOUTS
        this.root = new StackPane();
        this.group = new Group();
        this.vbox = new VBox();
    /** Just sets the JavaFX objects.*/
    protected void confFX()
        // CONTROLS
        for(int count = 0 ; count < this.rectangles.length ; count++)
            this.rectangles[count] = new Rectangle();
            this.rectangles[count].setWidth(Math.random() * 100 + 20);
            this.rectangles[count].setHeight(Math.random() * 100 + 20);
            this.rectangles[count].setFill(Color.rgb((int) (Math.random() * 255) , (int) (Math.random() * 255) , (int) (Math.random() * 255)));
            this.rectangles[count].setTranslateX(Math.random() * 600);
            this.rectangles[count].setTranslateY(Math.random() * 600);
            this.rectangles[count].setRotate(Math.random() * 360);
        for(int count = 0 ; count < this.buttons.length ; count++)
            this.buttons[count] = new Button("Button - " + count);
        // this.scrollP.setVbarPolicy(ScrollBarPolicy.ALWAYS);
        // this.scrollP.setHbarPolicy(ScrollBarPolicy.ALWAYS);
        this.scrollP.setPrefSize(400 , 400);
        // LAYOUTS
        this.vbox.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER);
        this.vbox.setSpacing(20);
        // This doesn't solve my problem.
        // this.vbox.setMouseTransparent(true);
    /** Just create the realtion between nodes, and the root.*/
    protected void adFX()
        for(int count = 0 ; count < this.rectangles.length ; count++)
            this.group.getChildren().add(this.rectangles[count]);
        for(int count = 0 ; count < this.buttons.length ; count++)
            this.vbox.getChildren().add(this.buttons[count]);
        this.scrollP.setContent(this.group);
        this.root.getChildren().add(this.scrollP);
        this.root.getChildren().add(this.vbox);
    /** Just add some events to some nodes for debugging.*/
    protected void evFX()
        this.vbox.setOnMousePressed(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>()
            @Override public void handle(MouseEvent e)
                System.out.println("Mouse pressed inside VBox.");
        this.scrollP.setOnMousePressed(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>()
            @Override public void handle(MouseEvent e)
                System.out.println("Mouse pressed inside ScrollPane.");
        if(this.rectangles.length > 0)
            this.rectangles[0].setOnMousePressed(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>()
                @Override public void handle(MouseEvent e)
                    System.out.println("Rectangle pressed.");
                    rectangles[0].setFill(Color.rgb((int) (Math.random() * 255) , (int) (Math.random() * 255) , (int) (Math.random() * 255)));
THE PROBLEM
I wish I could click the mouse on VBox buttons, but also in the scroll pane, and in it's internal contents (the rectangles). I tried changing the VBox mouseTransparent property to true, and modify mouseTransparent to false on each VBox button, but that did not work. I've been reading the JavaFX documentation talking about routing events, and found the following:
The route can be modified as event filters and event handlers along the route process the event. Also, if an event filter or event handler consumes the event at any point, some nodes on the initial route might not receive the event.
Could it be that VBox is filtering events so they do not reach ScrollPane? Or is this being done by StackPane in some other manner? Does anyone have any idea what I could do?
In any case, I thank you for your attention.

You might need to modify the event dispatch tree so that the events get beyond the VBox. I'm not saying this is the right thing to do, but something worth looking at.
root.setEventDispatcher(new EventDispatcher() {
@Override
public Event dispatchEvent(Event event, EventDispatchChain tail) {
tail.append(group.getEventDispatcher());
return tail.dispatchEvent(event);
There is some info on event processing at Handling JavaFX Events: Processing Events | JavaFX 2 Tutorials and Documentation

Child .swf controlling parent timeline

Hello Captivate Heroes,
I've searched around, and can't seem to find any solid info on an issue my team is having. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Javascript, so I apologize if this question is too basic for this forum.
Is it possible for an embedded .swf (created in Captivate) to control the main timeline in a parent .swf? Consider the example below:
1) This window is an embedded .swf (another captivate file, which I’ll refer to as the “child”) that has an interactive walkthrough. It loads and begins playing immediately. I want users to complete this module and all interactions in it before continuing to the next slide in the “parent” file. Essentially, I want either the child or the parent timeline to play, but never both at the same time.
2) This is our normal continue button, and I don’t want it appearing until 1 has been completed.
My solution was to add a javascript call on the first slide of the child file that tells the parent file to pause its timeline (something like _root.rdcmdPause=1;). Then, do the opposite on the last child slide ( _root.rdcmdResume=1;). In this way, the parent slide would essentially pause on its first frame (which doesn’t have an active continue button) while the child animation continues to play. However, this isn’t working. It’s been a really long time since I’ve scripted, so I’m very rusty. Is that the proper way to manipulate parent variables in a child file? Do you have any other ideas on how to accomplish this task?
I have a backup solution -- providing a "password" at the end of the child animation, which users can use to unlock the continue button. I'd rather use a more graceful solution
Thank you in advance,
Jamie

Hi Jamie,
I don't think JavaScript is going to help you here. You need to be doing this in ActionScript 3.
For the non-scripting part, you can control the Captivate movie using system variables. To pause the main slide, you could assign rdcmdPause=1 on the Slide Entry action. You may want to adjust the slide transition to none so that it won't look faded out when it pauses the movie. You can also show/hide items on the slide using the timeline, but it sounds like you won't really know when the Learner will be done with the interactive child .swf.
From what you described, it sounds like the Child .swf (#1) needs to communicate with other objects on the slide... mainly the continue button (#2). In order to do that you'll most likely need to make the child .swf #1 into a widget so that it can communicate with the main movie and other objects on the slide. I would suggest 3 possibilities:
1. Learn to use a widget framework such as Widget Factory or CpGears to make this possible
2. Take a look at the Infosemantics Event Handler Widget. Not sure if it will meet all your needs, but it's worth a look.
3. Hire a Captivate Widget Developer to make this possible... and yes I am a Widget Developer (shameless plug )
Hope that helps,
Jim Leichliter

Problem: Unable to call a function in parent swf from the child swf.

I am working on a site right now that has a parent loader
(all it contains are the menu bar [which is as3 tweened] and the
functions for calling all of the other pages.) The problem that I
am having right now, are some of the internal or child pages, need
to call functions that are in the parent loader. For what ever
reason, I am unable to do any of that.
I have attached the code so you can look at that.
Let me see if I can explain it any better.
The code I just posted is for the Main Stage swf called
loader.swf. It has the menu, and all the functions that control the
menu's movement and when to load all the other swfs. The easiest
way for me to ask this, is to show you.
click
http://dev.locallinux.com/mystictan/layout2.html
When you get there, you will see the menu bar, and it is
loading home.swf onto the stage behind the menu.
Mouse over "The Perfect Tan" and click on "1: Base"
You will notice it just loaded a new swf called ptbase.swf.
Well in that swf is a button for "Products" That button
basically needs to take you to "Products > 1: Base" on the menu
(not working yet, I know. But theres no point in me making that,
until I could get this working"
What I would like is when you click on "Products" in
ptbase.swf, it calls the function clickedProductsBase(), which does
its thing. But that function is back in the loader.swf. Does that
make sence?
What am I missing here?

RyanORo, thank you very much for your response.
I try that, and I get this sort of error when I click on it:
TypeError: Error #1006: fwd is not a function.
at ptbase_fla::MainTimeline/testing()
I know all that code that I posted was a bith much, but here
is the movie loading part:
function loadComplete(event:Event):void
loaderbar.visible = false;
mainbody.removeChild(thisMC);
thisMC = MovieClip(myloader.content);
myloader.unload();
mainbody.addChild(thisMC);
thisMC.gotoAndStop(1);
TransitionManager.start(thisMC, {type:Fade,
direction:Transition.IN, duration:5, easing:Strong.easeOut});
mainbody is an empty mc under the menu, so that the loaded
swf file appears under the menu.
You know what, scratch all that . *MOOWHA* I could KISS you
right now. "(parent as MovieClip).clickedProductsBase()" did not
work because it was calling it out of the wrong parent. Just did
"(this.parent.parent as MovieClip).clickedProductsBase()" and that
did the magic I needed. Thanks...

Dispatching and Event in Parent SWF & Receiving it in Child SWF

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