Moving a Movie Clip dynamically

Hi All,
I want to move a movie clip dynamically on a predifined
track. How could I do this? help me.
Thanks in advance
Ankur

Ankur Arora wrote:
> Hi All,
> I want to move a movie clip dynamically on a predifined
track. How could I do this? help me.
what kind of "predefined track" is that ?
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Moving Movie Clips dynamically

Here's the deal. I have a function that I call to move the
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name. The function as I have it now can be seen below listed under
figure A. Figure B shows my call to that function. It takes in an
array of strings and passes the current index to the function.
Figure C shows my output panel text after I run the function.
For some reason, the function is only moving one of my
movieclips, and none of the others. I can tell this by tracing the
instance ._x value, as shown in figure D. So, I know that my calls
to the movieclip instances are correct, but why can I only move one
card?? I know the movie clips are instantiated, as can be seen in
Figure E, which show my objects list that I get from my debug menu.
Any ideas/suggestions?

My latest crack at it... I create multiple controllers for
each movie clip, and I test the calling of the method by inserting
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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. ?
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I have a project where I'm trying to move the movie clip: "wally", up and down three levels of a stage.
However, from the default position I have him move up 145 pixels, and down 120 pixels.
I want to limit this action to one use, meaning if wally goes up once from his default position he must come back down, and vice versa, if he goes down he must come back up(or stay on that level). Also, if he goes up the 145 pixels, he needs to come back down 145 pixels, likewise if he goes down 120 pixels, he needs to come back up 120 pixels. I might be over-thinking this, as I had to strip it back to the starting code the other day, and am at a loss once more. If this'd be easier performed by moving with keyboard arrows and case statments, let me know, as I'm stumped.
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stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyPressHandler1);
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use:
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stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyPressHandler1);
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This is happening because of what the value of graphic.y is at the time of instantiating myTween1c and myTween1d. Perhaps they should be this:
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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;
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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);
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redrect.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100);
redrect.graphics.endFill();
addChild(redrect);
// position at x:100 / y:100 on stage
redrect.x = 150;
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// now draw a blue square but with a container while centering the shape
// container
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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;
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on the onRelease() action of a single movieclip.
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sure there are many ways to do it, but I don't know where to start.
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I'm not newbie to flash but I am newbie to coding using
actionscript!!!
I am trying to create a button that moves a movie clip
("content1") diagonally across the screen but once the movie clip
reaches a certain x co-ordinate I want it to stop and then when I
click another button I would like it to return to it's starting
position. At the moment the movie clip moves if I click one of the
buttons but as soon as I click another one it stops which it
shouldn't it should go back in the other direction. The other
problem is that once I've clicked a button I cant seem to get it to
stop moving once it reaches a certain _x position it just keeps on
moving off the stage.
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conditions to check if "content1" has reached it _x position
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I've tried the code you suggested but it doesn't seem to work
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dynamic text box to dispay the user name, but for some reason it is
coming up undefined, even though i have the dynamic text box set to
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screen. :( Can anyone tell me where i am going wrong?
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screen? I can only print all the frames in the movie and without
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Inside scene one i have a movie clip that contains a movie
clip that contains a dynamic text field. Also inside Scene one I
have a different movie clip that contains a movie clip that
contains a movie clip that contains a input text field. And I need
for the user to type in to the input text field and see what they
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Lets say you have your dynamic clip on the same level as the
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_root.dynamic_texfield_name.text =
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the user types something in the input field you can use a onChange
handler.
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because the looping movie clip just continually goes back to the
first frame and makes the ph2TopTextBrush text field visible again.
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Dynamically adding multiple instances of a movie clip to the stage with one button

hello,
I was wondering if there was a way to add several instances
of the same movie clip to the stage dynamically utilizing one
button.
I can do one with the following code placed on the button...
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
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filled1._y = 225;
But I want the user to be able to hit the button again and
get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the stage.
I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
around...
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Muhl

Muhl,
> I was wondering if there was a way to add several
> instances of the same movie clip to the stage
> dynamically utilizing one button.
Sure thing.
> I can do one with the following code placed on the
> button...
>
> on (release) {
> attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
> filled1._x = 370;
> filled1._y = 225;
> }
Gotcha.
> But I want the user to be able to hit the button again
> and get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the
> stage.
You're in luck, because this isn't very hard to do. The main
thing to
keep in mind is that each instance must have A) its own
unique instance name
and B) its own unique depth. In your example, the instance
name is filled1
and the depth is 5. The next clip's instance name should be
filled2 at a
depth of 6. Then filled3, depth 7, and so on. You can use a
single
variable to handle the incrementation.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
// code on your button
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter, counter +
4);
With me so far? The variable counter contains the numeric
value 1. The
second parameter of attachMovie() is provided with a
concatenation of
"filled" + 1, which makes "filled1". The third parameter is
provided with
the sum of counter plus 4, which makes 5. Obviously, we need
a bit more.
The button must, in addition, increment the value of counter.
The ++
operator handles this perfectly.
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter, counter +
4);
counter++;
Now, it seems you also want to position the attached movie
clip to (370,
225). Are they call supposed to go to the same place? If so,
you may use a
second variable to hold a reference to the newly attached
clip. Look up
MovieClip.attachMovie(), and you'll see that the method
returns the exact
reference you need.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
var mc:MovieClip;
// code on your button
on (release) {
mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
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mc._y = 225;
Make sense?
> I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
> around...
Then you need to handle a few events. You're dealing with
movie clips
here, so your best bet is to study up on the MovieClip class,
which defines
all movie clips. (Note, also, that the TextField class
defines all input
and dynamic text fields; the Sound class defines all sounds,
etc. This is a
very handy arrangement of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.)
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
var mc:MovieClip;
// code on your button
on (release) {
mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
counter + 4);
counter++;
mc._x = 370;
mc._y = 225;
mc.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag();
mc.onRelease = function() {
this.stopDrag();
Easy as that. You're simply assigning a function literal to
the event
of each new MovieClip instance as you create it. Take a look
and you'll see
each of these class members available to you -- that is, to
all movie clips.
MovieClip.onPress, MovieClip.startDrag(), MovieClip._x, etc.
Wherever it shows the term MovieClip in the Language
Reference, just
replace that with the instance name of your clip -- or a
reference to that
clip (which even includes the global "this" property).
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