copy motion as moviescript into a class

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Good day, kind sir's. I have a quick question..

Why doesn't this work:

i have a class that extends movieclip, then in it i put a "move" function that runs when an instance of the class is added (event.ADDED).

Then, i created that class in the main time line, created a keyframe, made a motion tween and stuff, then copied those frames as action script.

In the "move" function, i pasted the above motion code.

However... when i run it, it doesn't move =(

i placed trace functions before and after the pasted coded and both of them were working properly... what step am i missing?

i already imported:
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.motion.Animator;
import fl.motion.*;
into the class btw..

thanks for your time

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anyone?

[sekasi]

We're not psychic. You need to paste your class, not just the import statements (that are wrong btw, never use .* unless you're actually USING every single class in the package...)

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Sorry about that... here it is:

package com.fred.stuff
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.motion.Animator;
import fl.motion.*;


public class TestExperiment extends MovieClip
{

public function TestExperiment():void
{
this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED, swirl);
}

function swirl(event:Event):void
{

trace("TestExperiment, Swirl");
import fl.motion.Animator;
var this_xml:XML = <Motion duration="20" xmlns="fl.motion.*" xmlns:geom="flash.geom.*" xmlns:filters="flash.filters.*">
<source>
<Source frameRate="12" x="162.35" y="134.35" scaleX="1" scaleY="1" rotation="0" elementType="movie clip" symbolName="testMotion" class="com.fred.stuff.testMotion">
<dimensions>
<geom:Rectangle left="0" top="0" width="38" height="32"/>
</dimensions>
<transformationPoint>
<geomoint x="0.5" y="0.5"/>
</transformationPoint>
</Source>
</source>

<Keyframe index="0" rotateDirection="cw" rotateTimes="1" tweenSnap="true" tweenSync="true">
<tweens>
<SimpleEase ease="0"/>
</tweens>
</Keyframe>

<Keyframe index="19">
<color>
<Color alphaMultiplier="0"/>
</color>
</Keyframe>
</Motion>;

var this_animator:Animator = new Animator(this_xml, this);
this_animator.play();


}

}
}

the whole bunch of stuff inside swirl function was the pasted code using "copy motion as action script"


in my main class, i have:



import com.fred.stuff.TestExperiment;
var testExperiment:MovieClip;


testExperiment = new TestExperiment();
addchild(testExperiment);


When i run it... the trace in swirl works... but the copy pasted code doesn't work... The testExperiment just sits in the stage... =(

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help anyone? i'm not really one who likes to bother others.. but i really need help on this one >_< thanks in advace

[Felixz]

try:

animator = new Animator(animatorXML,this.getChildAt(0));

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thanks for the reply Felixz! I figured it out though... apparently i had to declare the animator instance outside of the function so i put

var this_animator:Animator;


outside all the functions of my TestExperiment class.

I still don't know why i have to do that though X_X but thanks for your help ^_^