Sizing dynamic movie clips

I have a project I am working on that has a scroll window on
the main page and the movie clip displayed in it changes. All of
the movie clips that get displayed in the scroll window are all
dynamically made through actionscript loading all of the info from
PERL scripts usingLoadVars().
For some reason I cannot figure out yet there is like a full
page worth of empty space at the bottom of each movie clip so as
you scroll down once you hit the end of the content it will still
scroll down atleast another page worth. Any ideas how I can stop
that so the scrolling will stop when the content ends?

Thats what I was thinking as well, Any ideas what I would
look for to find what is causing the problem? as far as I can tell
everything is just blank, and if I manually set the height value
for the movie clip it does squish everything and still include the
blank space so it looks like flash thinks something is there.
Or is there a way I can set the height of the movie clip
forcing it to cut off anything below? adjusting the height value
just forces the entire movie to display into that size, cutting it
off at that height value would resolve my problem as well.

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onto a label. Then when you do that you want the image to become a
child movieclip of the label movieclip. That way when you drag the
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class move it to a random location on stage.
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and 'tween'.
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eRez
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>I have an unknown number of movie clips tat are added
dynamically. I can
>add
> them fine but i want to add them so they appear off
stage at a random x, y
> pos
> and then slide in and ease up to another random spot on
the screen. So
> each
> time the movie is loaded it looks lik someone has thrown
a bunch of photos
> out
> on a table and they slide and spread to random locations
and ease to a
> stop.
> Anyone have any clues? i have found a number of
tutorials but would like
> some
> extra help/explanations.
>
> Cheers.
>

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Destroying dynamic movie clips

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already selected the item, I want the lines(few hundred each)
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the user does not see them. I am able to use a counter in the
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it invisible but nothing works. Any help would be greatly
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Originally posted by:
butcho
Hi,
use the --> removeMovieClip(_root["lineName"+i]);
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instead of --> destroyObject("_level0.lineName"+i);
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not go back through and remove those movieclips. Any ideas? Thanks
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Printing a movie clip with dynamic text boxes

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on (release) {
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first frame and makes the ph2TopTextBrush text field visible again.
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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;
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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,
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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;
> }
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> But I want the user to be able to hit the button again
> and get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the
> stage.
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single
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> I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
> around...
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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;
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mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
counter + 4);
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mc._x = 370;
mc._y = 225;
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the event
of each new MovieClip instance as you create it. Take a look
and you'll see
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Reference, just
replace that with the instance name of your clip -- or a
reference to that
clip (which even includes the global "this" property).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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hello all - i have a main stage where on the first frame my
"home" movie clip displays. i did this by dragging/dropping, and
then i put a stop action. all works fine.
inside this home movie clip on the main stage, there are
links to other movie clips. for example, to get to my faq's page -
you click that button, then it takes you to frame 4 on my main
stage, where my faq's movie clip (followed by stop action) has been
dragged/dropped and displays properly.
within the faq's movie clip this process is repeated, with
buttons taking to you various pages (different frames where
different movie clips play - all works fine).
so now i want to add a dynamic text field within my faq's
movie clip. i have read numerous tutorials where i have created the
text file but i have not been able to display it with success
within my faqs movie clip.
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on main stage as i practice getting this to work:
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myLV.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) {
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and finally, here is some code that i place within my faqs
movie clip in an attempt to display my dynamic text within the faqs
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_level0.myLV.load("vars/faqs.txt");
NOTE:
i have published this to view - not working.
i have my faqs text file starting as info=
i have eliminated white space within my text file
i am using flash 8 pro
can anyone offer some sugestions? thanks!

hmmmmm lemme double check as i seem to be a bit lost now.
// this is my actions layer code on frame 4 of main timeline:
stop();
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2. where would i replace/insert the following code?
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3. i didn't know about embedding font but i saw the option
and embedded it - still no results.
4. i'm not sure how to do the following:
_level5.loadedInfo.text ='test'; //although I would still
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To see if your getting a return from the load call adn text
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trace(myLV);
sorry to be such a pain - i really have looked around for
answers through previous postings and i googled it and i've been
taking instruction through lynda.com and dvds but i seem to be
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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.
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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:
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(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).

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