OnPress and onDragover

I have 100 movieclips on stage (in square shape). When I onPress one of them it should highlight. Till I release the mouse button and drag mouse over all movieclips they all should also highlight irrespective of on which movieclips I pressed the mouse.
If I again pressed on any of the movieclips highlighted and drag the mouse over other movieclips they should go back to their original position.
Could you help me in achieving this? Thank you.

in your onPress start a loop the checks for a hittest with your movieclips. if positive, highlight them if they are not already highlighted and un-highlight them if they are already highlighted. onRelease terminate the loop.

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OnPress and Text Link ERROR

Hello guys. I am new to Flash and would like some help from you guys. I would really appreciate it. Thanks,
So, here is the problem.
My friend has created a flash navigation bar for me. Since I can not add links here, huhtea is the address with com.
Now, I would like to add text links and onPress (getURL) for images in my submenu.
I have tried all kinds of things. I have watched numerous youtube clips on this matter.
After adding onPress codes in Actionscript 1.0 & 2.0 and checking them, everything was fine. But if I publish it, the image does not go to the URL.
This goes for the text link as well. After highlighting the text and adding http address in the properties, everything is fine. But again, published file does not lead me to the URL.
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks,

If I look at the page code of the page you say to look at, I'd say your problem lies there, and possibly in the flash file as well. I see one url in that page that targets a local drive, which is not going to work...
url=Link[file\:/C\:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Yahoo%20SiteBuilder/sites/Imex/ready.html
So it is possible you have other such links in your Flash file. I am not able to find the swf's in that page code, and seeing as how it indicates something in the way of Yahoo Site Builder being used, there could be any number of problems in trying to go that route.
What does the getURL code look like in your Flash file? If you are using relative links, that might be related to the problem, especially if the Flash file is in a different folder than the web page.

How can I load movie on (onPress) and then check if the invoked has not been called by any other members before? Thx

Hello Everyone,
I would highly appreciate your wisdom and advice on this
functionality. Lets say I have two
movieclips on the stage(ClipA, ClipB). I would like user to
be able to click on any of them and, this click
will invode a createclip function which pretty much creates a
dynamic movieclip and loads
whatever I assign to it such other existing clips within the
library. The only problem I have
makeing the functionality work is that I would like to limit
the function call to one at a time.
So if the user clicks on ClipA, function createclip would get
invoke and will attach the assigned
movie clip. And when user clicks on ClipB, I would like to
end the function call that was invoked
by the ClipA and then then allow ClipB to invoke the
function.
Pretty much it would a logic like:
if(createClip = true)
end it;
else
createClip();
When a movie is attached, can it be unloaded or unattached?
I don't know how to write a function that would check if
function createClip() has
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If the objective is just to get a unique list of authors based on your key, you could use the REPLACE statement in MySQL which functions as an "insert on duplicate key update" type of construct.
[http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replace.html|http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replace.html]
Catching an exception to detect dupes is functional but not very elegant. If you use REPLACE then you know your statements will always work. The drawback is that the statement is not portable across databases.

OnPress=null; problems

Hi all,
I have a clip on the main timeline (parentClip) that has an
onPress event set, and it contains a child movie clip, also with an
onPress event.
When I click parentClip, it traces 'parent' and then clears
the onPress event. When I then click the child clip, nothing
happens (it should trace 'child').
I have tried to clear the parent onPress in two ways:
(a) set onPress to null or undefined. This does clear the
onPress, but leaves the mouse pointer as a hand, and child onPress
doesn't work.
(b) Set parent 'enabled' to false. This clears onPress, but
child onPress still doesn't work.
How can I clear the parent onPress and still keep the child
one working?
Regards,
Peter

Use delete.
// _root.parentClip
parentClip.onRelease=function(){
trace('parent');
//this.onPress=null;
// this.onPress=undefined;
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// _root.parentClip.childClip
parentClip.childClip.onPress=function(){
trace('child');
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Using xml to load urls

I am a designer working on a flash project that is used to navigate to html pages. The project is a map - when you roll over different states there is an animation making that state pop out and show the state name. When you click each state (Button), it should open an html webpage. Right now the project works great, but I have the url's coded in flash actionscript using "onpress" and "load url." I would like to set it up so the flash file calls the URL for each button from an xml file, so it can be easily edited. The only thing it needs to call is the URL for each button. Can anyone give me simple instructions on how to make that happen?

you'll need to change all the code attached to those buttons so each button has an instance name and you use that name to code for your mouse handler.
and, if you're going to make those changes, you may as well use movieclip buttons and set this up so the next step is easier to accomplish.

AS2-CS4 unnullify "Null"?

I'm creating a card game tutorial (well, a small part of what will be a tutorial) and ran into a wall.
A movieclip has an onRollOver, onRollOut, onPress and onRelease state, each doing different things (go figure). In the onRelease state, I nullified all 3 other states so that the movieclip becomes frozen, i.e. movieclip.onRollOver=null; etc.
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Generally I wouldn't null all the event handlers, instead I would just disable the clip.
myClip.enabled=false;
That will prevent the events from being dispatched.
Then it is easy to have a function that goes through all your clips (you'll have to keep track of them some how) and set the enabled property to true.
Or you could do the same type of thing with reassigning the event handlers.
I'm guessing that you've originally set them up something like this:
myClip.onRollOver=function(){
//some code
That isn't the best practice. You should do it like this:
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function handleOverClip(){
//some code
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Movieclip color transform

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at any time.
I have 2 problems that I am looking for guidance on.
1. The code I use to change the color of the object is bulky.
As it is, depending upon the amount of objects you have in
the menu,
the code could grow to a painful amount making it difficult
to manage.
I am looking for a way to better my existing code, by
upgrading it to a more advanced method.
I have attached my code here.
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Thanks for the answer Rob.
It works perfect.
I apologize for my last tread not making much sense.
I have one question, that I would like to find the answer to.
Is there anyway to create this function.
for (j in partsList) {
partsList[j].onPress = choosePart;
Without it being an onPress, onRelease, onRollOver or
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the "GreenSock transform manager"
which is already using the onPress and onRelease function for
the partsList.
http://blog.greensock.com/transformmanageras2/)
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Problem targeting a loaded MC (easy answer?)

Hi, thanks in advance. I'm lame and can't figure out how to
target an external swf that I've loaded via AS. I have one main
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'countryClip') and loading an external swf ('usa.swf'). So far, so
good, the swf loads and it looks great. But when I try to click on
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just unclickable, and that's my problem. Any ideas why? What am I
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// everything above works great. but then...
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// so I put this into frame 1 of usa.swf
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
trace(this._target);
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trace("pressed");
// but it does not work. Why?
[/end code]

Hi,
the loaded swf is accessible via the instance name of the MC
that loaded it, so _root.countryClip.onPress should work. Now when
you look at the Flash Help for loadMovie(), you'll find this:
quote:
Using event handlers with MovieClip.loadMovie() can be
unpredictable. If you attach an event handler to a button by using
on(), or if you create a dynamic handler by using an event handler
method such as MovieClip.onPress(), and then you call loadMovie(),
the event handler does not remain after the new content is loaded.
So this should be the reason it's not working. One solution
would be checking the loading progress, and assign the event when
the clip is fully loaded. You can use something like the attached
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blemmo

V2 Flash components unsupported in Director?

Page 11 of
http://www.adobe.com/support/director/flash_8_asset_xtra.pdf
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Xtra.
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I have a scrollpane in a SWF that gets pulled into director
which doesn't
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requrinand I found changing onMouseUp to onRelease or
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and it usually solves the problem. I don't know if you have
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> Scrollpane
> (Flash component).
>
> The problem is that when I make a projector file and run
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> scroll on the Scrollpane, I need to click on it once to
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> is
> annoying like many web sites using flash.
>
> Any solutions to this??
>

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all the other buttons work(they are movie clips), but the
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move when clicked on,
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and "volumescrub.onPress" it doesn't show,
which would obviously mean that the function doesn't even get
called,
I will attach the code,
I would really appreciate help,
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Inheriting from MovieClip

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LuigiL,
Thank you very much for your assistance. I truly appreciate
it.
Though the code works perfectly, I wonder if I may trouble
you to clarify a couple of questions that I have with your code.
Looking particularly at this section of the code:
private function setHandlers(target_mc:MovieClip):Void{
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target_mc.onRelease=function():Void{
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var thisY=thisObj.box_mc._y;
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I was under the impression that the onRelease function is a
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functions, or perhaps just in the event-handlers. I would
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Use Any key to activate a button

HI,
I was wondering if there is anyway to activate a button by
hitting any key?
Currently I have this code but it doesnt seem to work,
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I've found many threads referring to the problem (here's some), but none of the solutions suit my particular situation.
http://www.directorforum.de/threads/54055-Flash-within-touchscreen
http://www.directorforum.de/threads/52818-Mouse-events-for-Flash-Object-in-Director-on-tou chscreen
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/159381?tstart=0
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Managed to get around it along the lines of: this[my_name].onRollOver = function()
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One

It might be a player version issue. Can you verify that the
PC and Mac Flash Players are the same revision? You can also grab
the one on Adobe labs (
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/)
and try it with that. This way we can eliminate any player version
issues. We might have a bug in the Mac player and it would be good
to resolve it quickly.
How are you loading the "main" Flash SWF (load.swf) with
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??

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for every 3 px up move 1 px left, done in real time, or a
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and direct any movieclip to adjust its _x, _y properties as a
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