[Xerte] Re: SWF not Functioning in Xerte - rlo attached

[Julian Tenney]

I tend to always use MCs as buttons. Use on(release).

You’d do better by organising all your code in the first frame of the movie. Give your MCs instance names, and then you can put all your code in the same place. You can also attach items from the lbrary here, and then set up event handlers, set properties, etc.

myInstanceName.onRelease = function(){…blah…}

myOtherInstanceName.onRelease = function(){…blah…}

etc. It makes it a lot easier to find your way around.

Use lockroot to make those components work properly when loaded into xerte. There’s a components example in [xerte]\templates\components


From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Deborah Delin
Sent: 25 September 2011 15:32
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: SWF not Functioning in Xerte - rlo attached


On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:

In the no-lockroot .fla change

// _root.dropmenu.gotoAndStop("done");

to
this.gotoAndStop("done");

Ouch!  I mistakenly used a button and not an mc in the sample I made.  That does indeed work on a button, but what should I put on an mc?  I could change all my mc's over to buttons but that doesn't help because none of the scoring mechanism as I have it works either on buttons or mc's.  I also don't manage to delete the on (release) function, either in or out of Xerte, so I decided to disappear the clip once question was answered and activate another mc.  But I can't get this to work on buttons or mc's in Xerte.

Could you possibly tell me how you would change the following to work in Xerte on an mc which is inside an mc on the main timeline:

on (press) {
            _root.hit();  //registers positive score
            _root.updateScore(); //calculates score
            _root.scoreText(); //displays score
            _root.three_drop._y=500; /"disappears" the parent dropdown mc on completion
            _root.smiley_3.gotoAndStop(2);  //brings up a smiley picture

}

Thanks so much and sorry to be so complicated.

Deborah



Also, there are




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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:42:23 +0300

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: SWF not Functioning in Xerte - rlo attached
Trying to simplify my problem:

SWF works as desired outside of Xerte.

Xerte ignores on (press) commands attached to mc's two levels down - e.g.

_root.scoreText();
_root.smiley_5.gotoAndStop(2);


Adding this._lockroot = true; causes Xerte to take notice of the on (press) commands but messes up the dropdown menu (menu drops down when mouse is over a different part of stage).

I attach a rlo with fla's saved in Flash 8 which illustrates both of above.

Thanks very much for any help - this is driving me mad!

Deborah


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