duplicateMovieClip problems 3

[MJB3K]

Hi, i have a movieclip with a border and 2 dynamic textboxes in it. One called theTitle and the other theDesc. how do i set these textboxes text when i duplicate them? the MC is called 'sData'

Also, how would you make it move the duplicated movieclip down the page like:

movieclip1
movieclip2
movieclip3

any ideas or tutorials??

Regards,

Martin

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[wangbar]

The textfield names don't have to change - since they're embedded in a clip you just have to reference the duplicated clip's instance name. Like this:

clip1.duplicateMovieClip('clip2',10)
clip2._y+=100//move duplicate down
clip2.textBox.title='clip2'

 

[wangbar]

Oops - last line should be:

clip2.title.text='clip2'

 

[MJB3K]

how would i make the movieclip clickable??

like say i clicked duplicate number 5, how would i make it trace 5 for example?


Regards,

Martin

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[wangbar]

clip5.onRelease=function(){
trace('5');
}

 

[MJB3K]

here is my .fla that sort of explains what i want. you click the button and it duplicates the MC, but i want each movieclip to do someting different when clicked.

http://dev.webrevolt.biz/files/dupMovClip.fla

on (press) {
	yPos = 0;
	for (var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
		duplicateMovieClip(_root.sData, "sDataMC"+i, i);
		setProperty("sDataMC"+i, _y, yPos);
		yPos += 42;
		this["sDataMC"+i].theTitle.text = "Title"+i;
		this["sDataMC"+i].theDesc.text = "Desc"+i;
	}
}

any ideas?


Regards,

Martin

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[billwatson]

myButton.onRelease = function() {
yPos = 0;
for (var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip(_root.sData, "sDataMC"+i, i);
setProperty("sDataMC"+i, _y, yPos);
yPos += 42;
_root["sDataMC"+i].theTitle.text = "Title"+i;
_root["sDataMC"+i].theDesc.text = "Desc"+i;
_root["sDataMC"+i].onRelease = function(){
trace(this._name);
}
}
}


just use a switch statement with this._name to assign code to each duplicated clip

 

[oldnewbie]

myButton.onRelease = function() {
yPos = 0;
for (var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip(_root.sData, "sDataMC"+i, i);
setProperty("sDataMC"+i, _y, yPos);
yPos += 42;
this["sDataMC"+i].theTitle.text = "Title"+i;
this["sDataMC"+i].theDesc.text = "Desc"+i;
this["sDataMC"+i].num = i;

this["sDataMC"+i].onRelease = function(){
trace("Button "+this.num+" was pressed!");
};
}
};

 

[MJB3K]

still can't get it to work

could someone please make a .fla with it working?

PS, bill, have you got your website up and running again??


Regards,

Martin

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[oldnewbie]

http://blake.prohosting.com/~tektips/masking/sData.zip

 

[billwatson]

http://billwatson2.no-ip.info/public/duplicate.zip

works just fine

dont have flash web site up and running....maybe again in future if i get time

 

[MJB3K]

ok thanx just one more q... how would i make it goto a different frame or scene when it is pressed?

on (release) {
	yPos = 50;
	for (var i = 1; i<6; i++) {
		duplicateMovieClip(_root.sData, "sDataMC"+i, i);
		this["sDataMC"+i]._x = 130;
		this["sDataMC"+i]._y = yPos;
		yPos += 42;
		this["sDataMC"+i].theTitle.text = "Title"+i;
		this["sDataMC"+i].theDesc.text = "Desc"+i;
		this["sDataMC"+i].num = i;
		this["sDataMC"+i].onRelease = function() {
			trace("Title or Desc "+this.num+" was pressed!");
			clicked = "Title or Desc "+this.num+" was pressed!";
		};
	}
}

any ideas??

and a star for you both


Regards,

Martin

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[oldnewbie]

You shouldn't ever target scene names, nor frame numbers, but labeled frames instead.
Label the targeted frame with an unique label such as my_target1 (no number only labels, or at least not starting off with a number, no caps, no spaces, no other special characters other than the underscore...), add _root or _level0 to your path to target the main timeline, and target the labeled frame on your scripts...

...
this["sDataMC"+i].onRelease = function(){
_level0.gotoAndStop("my_target"+this.num);
trace("Title or Desc "+this.num+" was pressed!");
clicked = "Title or Desc "+this.num+" was pressed!";
};
...

Of course label the appropriate targeted frames with my_target1, my_target2, etc...