Comments on: Easy Movie Clip Buttons Part 2 of 3: Dynamic Button Placement http://www.rabidgadfly.com/index.php/2007/02/05/easy-movie-clip-buttons-part-2-of-3-dynamic-button-placement/ Glenn Gervais's methods, tips, and musings on Flash, ColdFusion, XML, and other web technology. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:20:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: selim dumlu http://www.rabidgadfly.com/index.php/2007/02/05/easy-movie-clip-buttons-part-2-of-3-dynamic-button-placement/comment-page-1/#comment-101148 selim dumlu Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:41:07 +0000 http://www.rabidgadfly.com/?p=4#comment-101148 Hi; I'm in desperate need of your 3. example for my schoolwork .Please send it here one more ,because it's deleted.Thanks in advance Hi;
I’m in desperate need of your 3. example for my schoolwork .Please send it here one more ,because it’s deleted.Thanks in advance

]]> By: rabidGadfly http://www.rabidgadfly.com/index.php/2007/02/05/easy-movie-clip-buttons-part-2-of-3-dynamic-button-placement/comment-page-1/#comment-14261 rabidGadfly Thu, 17 May 2007 13:25:59 +0000 http://www.rabidgadfly.com/?p=4#comment-14261 Hi Derek, You have a few problems in that first example. The first is that you aren't putting the parens after getNextHighestDepth. You're also attaching a movie clip named "empty_mc" but you aren't giving it a name. attachMovie takes 3 parameters, linkage id, instance name, and depth. Also make sure that "empty_mc" has a linkage identifier in your library (Right-click the mc, click linkage, then click export for actionscript). Another problem is that you're referring to a movie clip named "empty" when you load the thumb but that doesn't exist. One other issue that I'm surprised you aren't running into in the second example is that you're using a String variable to refer to a movie clip. To do this you should enclose the variable in brackets. In the end your code should end up looking something like this: <code> dynamicClip = "btn_thumb_section1_"+a; _root.createEmptyMovieClip(dynamicClip, _root.getNextHighestDepth()); _root[dynamicClip].attachMovie("empty_mc", "empty", _root.getNextHighestDepth()); _root[dynamicClip].empty.loadMovie(thumb_folder+section_1_thumbs); _root[dynamicClip].onRelease = function(){ trace("clicked"); }; </code> Hope that helps. -rG Hi Derek,
You have a few problems in that first example. The first is that you aren’t putting the parens after getNextHighestDepth. You’re also attaching a movie clip named “empty_mc” but you aren’t giving it a name. attachMovie takes 3 parameters, linkage id, instance name, and depth.

Also make sure that “empty_mc” has a linkage identifier in your library (Right-click the mc, click linkage, then click export for actionscript).

Another problem is that you’re referring to a movie clip named “empty” when you load the thumb but that doesn’t exist.

One other issue that I’m surprised you aren’t running into in the second example is that you’re using a String variable to refer to a movie clip. To do this you should enclose the variable in brackets.

In the end your code should end up looking something like this:


dynamicClip = "btn_thumb_section1_"+a;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(dynamicClip, _root.getNextHighestDepth());
_root[dynamicClip].attachMovie("empty_mc", "empty", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
_root[dynamicClip].empty.loadMovie(thumb_folder+section_1_thumbs);
_root[dynamicClip].onRelease = function(){
trace("clicked");
};

Hope that helps.

-rG

]]> By: Derek http://www.rabidgadfly.com/index.php/2007/02/05/easy-movie-clip-buttons-part-2-of-3-dynamic-button-placement/comment-page-1/#comment-14163 Derek Thu, 17 May 2007 04:38:52 +0000 http://www.rabidgadfly.com/?p=4#comment-14163 This is just about exactly what I am trying to accomplish, but my images are loaded thru xml... This does not work: <code> dynamicClip = "btn_thumb_section1_"+a; _root.createEmptyMovieClip(dynamicClip, getNextHighestDepth); _root.dynamicClip.attachMovie("empty_mc", getNextHighestDepth); _root.dynamicClip.empty.loadMovie(thumb_folder+section_1_thumbs); _root.dynamicClip.onRelease = function(){ trace("clicked"); }; </code> but this does: <code> dynamicClip = "btn_thumb_section1_"+a; _root.createEmptyMovieClip(dynamicClip, getNextHighestDepth()); loadMovie(thumb_folder+section_1_thumbs, dynamicClip); _root.dynamicClip.onRelease = function(){ trace("clicked"); }; </code> except that the onrelease doesn't do anything. Any ideas? This is just about exactly what I am trying to accomplish, but my images are loaded thru xml…

This does not work:


dynamicClip = "btn_thumb_section1_"+a;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(dynamicClip, getNextHighestDepth);
_root.dynamicClip.attachMovie("empty_mc", getNextHighestDepth);
_root.dynamicClip.empty.loadMovie(thumb_folder+section_1_thumbs);
_root.dynamicClip.onRelease = function(){
trace("clicked");
};

but this does:


dynamicClip = "btn_thumb_section1_"+a;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(dynamicClip, getNextHighestDepth());
loadMovie(thumb_folder+section_1_thumbs, dynamicClip);
_root.dynamicClip.onRelease = function(){
trace("clicked");
};

except that the onrelease doesn’t do anything.

Any ideas?

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