Actionscript 3: targeting issue 44 Responses

Last post: 3 years, 10 months ago | Thread started: Jul 26, 09, 5 p.m.

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• CyBrain

  What would be the best approach to target a button in a movie clip?

  Obviously, the simple direct approach in AS2 (targetMC_mc.btn) is completely unusable.

  Jul 26, 09, 5 p.m. – Permalink

• dijitaq

  use the getChild method. maybe something like this
  var button:MovieClip = targetMC_mc.getChildByName("btn...
  button.yourAction();

  

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  Dog-earJul 26, 09, 5:17 p.m. – Permalink

• CyBrain

  What I did was use a linkage name (Welcome) for my movie clip intro and after that the references I made to the new name (intro) let me target my button (enterBtn_mc) inside

  var intro:Welcome = new Welcome();
  addChild(intro);
  intro.enterBtn_mc.addEventListen... enterOverListener);
  function enterOverListener(e:MouseEvent... {
  intro.enterBtn_mc.gotoAndPlay("o...
  }

  

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  Dog-earJul 26, 09, 6:11 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  place the movieClip dynamically...

  make sure it's available at runtime as a class - when you place it dynamically - you give the new instance of that class a specific name...

  var myMC : customMC = new customMC ( ) ;
  myMC.buttonMc... whatever

  

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  Dog-earJul 26, 09, 6:23 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  haha...

  ... I had this thread sitting opening and didn't bother to refresh...

  ... you did exactly what I would have done (as you can see). :D

  

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  Dog-earJul 26, 09, 6:24 p.m. – Permalink