Hi guys …
I’m a newbie to AS3 and I’m struggling with getting a mc to sit infront of this slideshow to overlay it …
My MC is called - overlay
How do I do this? I know it’s something to do with addChild() and addChildAt() but I don’t understand how to get it working as the overlay mc is in the library and the slideshow is dynamically generated …
Any help would be much appreciated!
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.text.*;
import noponies.net.LoadXml;
import noponies.display.Xslides;
public class As3_CrossFade extends Sprite {
//private vars
private var myloadXml:LoadXml;
private var newSlides:Xslides;
private var playPause:button_mc;
private var prg_txt:TextField
private var status_txt:TextField
public function As3_CrossFade() {
myloadXml = new LoadXml("images.xml");
myloadXml.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, initSlides);
//set the stage frame rate.
stage.frameRate=31;
//create a UI
playPause = new button_mc();
playPause.x = 200;
playPause.y = 120;
playPause.btn_txt.text = "PAUSE";
playPause.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playPauseSlides);
addChild(playPause);
//progress text
//status text
}
//create a new instance of the crossfading slideshow in the callback
//handler of the XML parsing routine.
private function initSlides(event:Event):void {
newSlides = new Xslides(myloadXml.imagesArray);
newSlides.xFadeTime = 3;
newSlides.imageTime = 4;
newSlides.slidesPlayRandom = true;
newSlides.slidesLoop = true;
newSlides.slidesAutoPlay = true;
//Note, add to display list after class instance props are set..
addChild(newSlides);
//demo event listeners showing how you can listen in for slide events and the use of some of the
//classes getter functions to access information about each slide.
newSlides.addEventListener(Event.OPEN, handleSlideOpen);
newSlides.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, handleSlideProgress);
newSlides.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleSlideLoad);
newSlides.addEventListener(Xslides.SLIDE_SHOW_COMPLETE, handleSlideShowComplete);
}
private function playPauseSlides(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (!newSlides.slideShowPaused) {
newSlides.dispatchEvent(new Event(Xslides.PAUSE_SLIDE_SHOW,true));
playPause.btn_txt.text = "PLAY";
} else {
newSlides.dispatchEvent(new Event(Xslides.RESUME_SLIDE_SHOW,true));
playPause.btn_txt.text = "PAUSE";
}
}
private function handleSlideLoad(event:Event):void {
status_txt.text = "Slide number "+newSlides.currentImage+" of "+newSlides.totalSlides+" slides loaded";
}
private function handleSlideOpen(event:Event):void {
trace("New slide "+newSlides.currentImageName+" requested");
}
private function handleSlideProgress(event:ProgressEvent):void {
prg_txt.text = Math.round(100 * (event.bytesLoaded / event.bytesTotal))+" %"
}
private function handleSlideShowComplete(event:Event):void {
trace("Shows Over");
}
//text field utility creation method
//fileText = createDynTextField("Selected File: " + fileNameString)
public static function createDynTextField(txt:String):TextField {
var tf:TextField = new TextField()
tf.type=TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;
tf.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
tf.embedFonts = true
tf.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
tf.multiline = true
tf.wordWrap = false;
tf.mouseEnabled=false;
tf.text = txt
return tf;
}
//util textformat creaton function
public static function createTextFormat(size:int, colour:int, weight:Boolean,font:Class, leading:int,kerning:Number):TextFormat {
var tfFormat = new TextFormat();
tfFormat.font = new font().fontName;//class name of font in parent library
tfFormat.size=size;
tfFormat.bold=weight;
tfFormat.color=colour;
tfFormat.letterSpacing=kerning;
tfFormat.leading = leading;
return tfFormat;
}
}
}
