Mc.onPress not working w/ createEmptyMC

1

This code isn’t working for me. I have written the same thing a bazillion times, but for some reason this isn’t working for me right now…:


this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", -1);
for (ii=0; ii<xml_obj.firstChild.childNodes.length; ii++) {
                container.duplicateMovieClip("cp"+ii, ii);
	ext = this["cp"+ii];
	ext.onPress = function() {
		trace("onPress called");
	};
}

The MCs load into my scrollPane and everything fine, but they don’t respond to the onPress… Any idea why its not working?

2

nope. If I do that the clips don’t even show up on the stage… Like I said, I have used this technique a million times in the past so I can’t understand why its not working right now…

3

so you are assigning the onPress THEN loading something into that clip??

4

No there was a bit more code in there. The loadMovie comes before the onPress:

this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", -1);
	container._visible = 0;
	for (ii=0; ii<xml_obj.firstChild.childNodes.length; ii++) {
		container.duplicateMovieClip("cp"+ii, ii);
		ext = this["cp"+ii];
		ext.loadMovie("http://localhost/ddd/img_create_thumb.php?im_path="+xml_obj.firstChild.childNodes[ii].childNodes[0]);
		ext._x = space_btn*(ii%num_wide);
		ext._y = yS;
		ext.onPress = function() {
			trace("onPress called");
		};

edit: The images loaded show up fine and in the correct places. But for some reason aren’t responding to the onPress…

5

same difference. You have to make sure the loading is complete before you can assign the onPress. First rule of loadMovie for a movieclip: all properties and methods of the movieclip are cleared when the new content is loaded into the clip. This happens at the arrival of the new content, not the loadMovie call.

6

ok i’ll give it a shot. thanks

7

So why isn’t this working?

[AS]root[“word”+i].loadMovie ("word" + arrayChoice* + “.jpg”);

_root[“word”+i].onEnterFrame = function() {
trace(this.getBytesLoaded() + " / " + this.getBytesTotal());
if(this.getBytesLoaded() >= this.getBytesTotal()) {
trace("*** load complete ***");

	_root["word"+i].onPress = function () {
		trace("pipo");
	}

	delete onEnterFrame;
}

}[/AS]

I’ve put the onPress after the load is done…

8

use this.onPress =

9

Im having similar problems, when loading a movieClip into an empty container, I can’t access the onRelease event. For example:

 
t1.onRelease = function() {
 currentPic ='products/pro/mainImage.jpg';
 cMC.loadPic(currentPic);
};
 
MovieClip.prototype.loadPic = function(pic) {
 
 this.loadMovie(pic);
 this.onRelease = function(){
  this.unloadMovie(pic);
 // delete this._parent.onRelease;
 }
}

Thanks

Daniel

10

try


this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", -1);
for (ii=0; ii<xml_obj.firstChild.childNodes.length; ii++) {
               var ext:MovieClip= container.duplicateMovieClip("cp"+ii, ii);
                          trace(ext)
    ext.onPress = function() {
        trace("onPress called");
    };
}

i guess this won’t even help good thing someone bumped the thread now im looking at the dates lol…

11

I used a quick and dirty way to do it:
Create an empty MC inside it, like imageholder or so, and load your movie into that imageholder. But keep the onPress on you original MC…

Senocular: this.onPress, didn’t work… (-: