Comments on: Flex: working with MovieClips http://annafilina.com/blog/flex-working-with-movieclips/ I fix stuff Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:36:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Flex Developer http://annafilina.com/blog/flex-working-with-movieclips/comment-page-1/#comment-1517 Flex Developer Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:27:58 +0000 http://annafilina.com/blog/archives/35#comment-1517 Hi, I am trying to create Flash Files on the fly. Can I do this using MovieClip ? Example application toufee.com Basically design a Flash Studio where the User can generate screens and objects with Effects. Can I achieve it using ActionScript and Flex. Please advise, thanks. Hi, I am trying to create Flash Files on the fly. Can I do this using MovieClip ? Example application toufee.com Basically design a Flash Studio where the User can generate screens and objects with Effects. Can I achieve it using ActionScript and Flex. Please advise, thanks.

]]> By: Philou http://annafilina.com/blog/flex-working-with-movieclips/comment-page-1/#comment-1512 Philou Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:30:09 +0000 http://annafilina.com/blog/archives/35#comment-1512 Hi Anna, I'm wrapping an swf created by Indesign in a flex application in order to add some extra buttons and use the \full screen\ feature. I would like to access some components inside the swf created by Indesign and am doing so already successfully with some named buttons. The Indesingn.swf has 5 frames (=5 spreads) and the named buttons are placed on spread 1 = frame 1. Here is what that looks like: var myMovieClip:MovieClip = MovieClip(mySWFLoader.content); var o:Object = Object(myMovieClip.getChildAt(0)); var myIndesignButton:DisplayObject = o.getChildByName('buttonNamedInsideIndesign'); However, I would like to select other unnamed elements as well. Specifically I regret that the text of my finished flash animation is not selectable and available for copy&paste, so I would like to loop through the movie elements and if they are Text components, then I would like to set their \selectable\ property to true. Well, maybe my thinking is along the wrong lines, but even when I debug my flex application in eclipse, I cannot find the elements of my loaded Indesign swf anywhere inside the MovieClip object. Maybe you can give me a hint as to where I should look? Many thanks ind advance! Philou Hi Anna,

I’m wrapping an swf created by Indesign in a flex application in order to add some extra buttons and use the \full screen\ feature. I would like to access some components inside the swf created by Indesign and am doing so already successfully with some named buttons. The Indesingn.swf has 5 frames (=5 spreads) and the named buttons are placed on spread 1 = frame 1.

Here is what that looks like:

var myMovieClip:MovieClip = MovieClip(mySWFLoader.content);
var o:Object = Object(myMovieClip.getChildAt(0));
var myIndesignButton:DisplayObject = o.getChildByName(‘buttonNamedInsideIndesign’);

However, I would like to select other unnamed elements as well. Specifically I regret that the text of my finished flash animation is not selectable and available for copy&paste, so I would like to loop through the movie elements and if they are Text components, then I would like to set their \selectable\ property to true.

Well, maybe my thinking is along the wrong lines, but even when I debug my flex application in eclipse, I cannot find the elements of my loaded Indesign swf anywhere inside the MovieClip object.

Maybe you can give me a hint as to where I should look?

Many thanks ind advance!
Philou

]]> By: Anna http://annafilina.com/blog/flex-working-with-movieclips/comment-page-1/#comment-1173 Anna Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:52:55 +0000 http://annafilina.com/blog/archives/35#comment-1173 sanhita, Flex is not a programming language. It is a framework for AS3. A quick search in Google yielded the following result: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ I hope that helps. sanhita, Flex is not a programming language. It is a framework for AS3. A quick search in Google yielded the following result: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/

I hope that helps.

]]> By: sanhita http://annafilina.com/blog/flex-working-with-movieclips/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 sanhita Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:24 +0000 http://annafilina.com/blog/archives/35#comment-1148 I am Action Script Programmer. I am finding flex very complex & different from AS 3.0. Please help me with some tutorial where i can see difference between AS 3.0 & Flex AS I am Action Script Programmer. I am finding flex very complex & different from AS 3.0. Please help me with some tutorial where i can see difference between AS 3.0 & Flex AS

]]> By: Anna http://annafilina.com/blog/flex-working-with-movieclips/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Anna Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:33:20 +0000 http://annafilina.com/blog/archives/35#comment-155 If you use myCanvas.rawChildren.getChildByName("myMC"), don't forget to actually name your clip: myMC.name = "myMC". getChildByName() does not look for variable names, but for the "name" property. If you use myCanvas.rawChildren.getChildByName(“myMC”), don’t forget to actually name your clip: myMC.name = “myMC”.
getChildByName() does not look for variable names, but for the “name” property.

]]> By: Manimaran http://annafilina.com/blog/flex-working-with-movieclips/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Manimaran Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:49:14 +0000 http://annafilina.com/blog/archives/35#comment-154 Dear Friend, I added the loader.content as MovieClip in my Flex application canvas(myCanvas.rawChildren.addChild(myMC)), but i cannot control this MC by getChidrenByName(), please help me to do this. Thanks, Manimaran. Dear Friend,

I added the loader.content as MovieClip in my Flex application canvas(myCanvas.rawChildren.addChild(myMC)), but i cannot control this MC by getChidrenByName(), please help me to do this.

Thanks,
Manimaran.

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