Loading a movieClip from a class
Hello all,
I'm attempting to write an AS 2.0 class using Flash through
which I can load and control multiple movie clips in the library
and from external files. I've attempted multiple different ways,
don't quite seem to be able to get the images to show up on the
screen. After some time searching, I've been unable to find a good
example online. Please excuse my inexperience with AS classes.
I'd like to write a class that extends MovieClip and is used
to control multiple 'sub' movieClips, all from methods inside the
instantiated class.
From .fla file, I call instantiate my class as follows:
var theScene:sphere3D = new sphere3D();
In the constructor of my class file, I'm attempting to attach
or load a movie. I simply want to get it to show up on the screen,
when I test the .fla movie. I've tried using attachMovie and
loadMovie with not luck.
dynamic class sphere3D extends MovieClip {
function sphere3D() {
this.attachMovie("shadow","shadow",1); // shadow being a
movie clip in the .fla library with linkage
shadow._x = 100;
shadow._y = 100;
this.createEmptyMovieClip ("shadow2", 100);
shadow2._x = 100;
shadow2._y = 100;
shadow2.loadMovie("images/cube.png");
What am I doing wrong? Suggestions for stuff to test would be
welcome.
Thank you,
dana.
Ah, thank you, that make sense now. The solution you
suggested worked great.
I did also find two other solutions, for anyone else who
might read this. One is to essentially create an empty movieclip on
your timeline. From the linkage window for the empty movieclip, I
made sure I set the Class field to the name of the class I'd
written, something I didn't do previously. This attaches all the
class actionscript to the empty movieclip, and even automatically
runs the constructor when the empty movieclip is placed on the
timeline. It also automatically provides a 'reference' to the main
timeline when I refer to this.attachMovie() from inside the class.
So it worked, but isn't as elegant as doing everything from the
actionscript (unless you are building a component).
The last reference I came across is the
Object.registerClass() method used to attach as class to an object,
similar to using the Linkage method above. But I haven't
successfully tried it yet.
Thanks again for the help kglad,
dana.
Dana Sheikholeslami
Art Institute of California
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