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Help With Button Coding

Apr 5, 2012 8:13 AM

Tags: #button #as2 #actionscript #2.0

I make dress up games in ActionScript 2, and am having a problem.

I want to make a button find all movieclip items with, say, "shirt" in their Instance Name, and move them to frame 2. I know how to do this with one item, (on(release){

_root.shirt1.gotoAndStop(1);

}

and on previous games, I merely copied and pasted that several dozen times for every item. However, on this game, I am trying to cut down on code, and learned how to use

for(var i:String in _root){

if(i.indexOf("_drag") > -1){

_root[i].onPress = function(){

(put in the code)

(put in the closing }s)

on the stage to make items drag and snap into place. I have learned that this code cannot be used on buttons, which need static commands, I think? I'm still very much a novice.

Any help would be appreciated!

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1. kglad,

Apr 5, 2012 8:47 AM in reply to ilovetoread247

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what is it that, you think, doesn't work with buttons?

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2. ilovetoread247,

Apr 5, 2012 11:27 AM in reply to kglad

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I discovered my mistake- kind of (I had forgotten to indent). However, I now have two related problems.

One: the code I am using is

on(release){
     for(var i:String in _root){
          if(i.indexOf("shirt") > -1){
               _root[i].onPress = function(){
                    this.gotoAndStop(2);
               }
          }
     };
}

the onPress here refers to the item- I have to press the button, then the item, for it to move to the next frame. I don't like this, and want the button to do all the work for me. How do I do this?

Secondly, this overrides the original code on a frame of the stage, given above, and the items no longer drag. This is obviously not what I want. How do I make sure the items are "hearing" both codes?

Thank you, and sorry.

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3. kglad,

Apr 5, 2012 5:33 PM in reply to ilovetoread247

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you should remove all code from objects. so, whatever button has that code attached should be given an instance name (eg, btn) so you can use:

btn.onRelease = function(){
     for(var i:String in _root){
          if(i.indexOf("shirt") > -1){
               _root[i].gotoAndStop(2);
               }
          }
     };
}

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