At 6:01 PM -0400 5/21/01, Rob Walch wrote:
>Maybe there is a way in Flash that I can put the names of instances into a
>variable for Director to check? Well. until someone feels like dropping some
>undoc'd tips I'll just keep thinking out loud.
In your Flash movie, put the following code into your _root timeline's
frame 1 (I use a separate layer named "global actions" to keep organized) :
function mcInstanceList (rootNode) {
var instanceList = new Array()
for (var anInstance in rootNode) {
if (typeof (rootNode[anInstance]) == "movieclip" && rootNode !=
rootNode[anInstance]) {
instanceList.push(anInstance);
}
}
return instanceList;
}
Then, again in your _root, place a label out of the way (past normally used
frames) titled:
getInstanceList
and then put the following ActionScript code into that frame's timeline :
var gInstanceList = mcInstanceList(_root);
Finally, use the following code in Director (attached as a behavior to your
Flash sprite) to get a single level list of movie clip instances which are
active in the current frame of _root:
property spriteNum
on getFlashMCInstances me
-- make the call to Flash to get and store the list
-- of currently active movie clip instances
(sprite spriteNum).callFrame("_root.getInstanceList")
-- now retrieve the data
return (sprite spriteNum).getVariable("_root.gInstanceList")
end getFlashMCInstances
When you want to know the mc instances active in the current frame of
_root, do this:
put sendAllSprites(#getFlashMCInstances)
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