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Relative0
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September 14, 2009
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Problem finding which methods and properties are available for a movieclip within actionscript 3.0

  • September 14, 2009
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I am having troubles trying to find out which actions/properties or instances are available with a particlar movie.  Also I am looking at a piece of code, for example:

var btn = new flashmo_button();

btn.flashmo_button_bg.gotoAndStop(alt_no + 1);

but I can not find where "flashmo_button_bg" is located at.  There are some methods/properties that I can track backwards but there are several that I do not know where they are coming.  I have tried right clicking different movies in the files and looking at the "Linkage" but do not find this method , (I don't know if there would even be method names under the Linkage box anyways).  I can not find an instance called this either inside other movies.  What I would really hope to find is to some button or menu choice I could click and it would open up the movie etc. and show me where this method/instance is defined but it is not on the right click and I can not find it.

Also, is there some sort of menu choice where I can get some intelli-sense/code completion working?  Perhaps I am very used to Visual Studio where the stuff is nice and organized and there are all sorts of tools where you can figure out very easily where something is declared.  I am wasting a bunch of time trying to figure this out in Flash.   I attached the master file so if someone wants to look at it quickly the code I mentioned above is in the "actions" layer and in frame 76. 

Thanks very much,

Brian

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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September 14, 2009

flashmo_button is the name of a class that's either defined in a class file or attached to a library movieclip (or both).   flashmo_button_bg i added to the class member in the class file or on the movieclip's timeline.

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Relative0Author
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September 15, 2009

Thanks for the reply Kglad.  I am not sure what you mean "flashmo_button_bg i added to the class member in the class file or on the movieclip's timeline."  Wasn't it already part of the class since he is calling it somehow?  I just can't figure out which class and some sort of way to figure this same problem out with other methods or properties.

Thanks,

Brian

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Relative0Author
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September 15, 2009

Now this is really bothering me, I can't find:

fm_button

It is driving me nuts since I can not copy the code from the frame 76 in the action layer, (in my original post), paste it in a new project and be able to run it. I copy all of the library and try to run the new project but I still get errors.  All have to do with fm_button  such as this one:

1120: Access of undefined property fm_button.                 btn.y = fm_button.y + alt_no * 50;

So where is this button defined?????  I tried looking at the time line and all the action script files but can not find where it is defined anywhere.  Anyone have some idea?

Thanks,

Brian

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