The only thing this is missing is little spy camera’s all along the sides complete with docking clamps on file extensions, topped with a muscled arm squeezing a stick of RAM…
…or just a pile of dung. Take your pick. At any rate, this made my Friday. I know, doesn’t take much.
Dude on LJ had 1000 instances he needed to swap from Symbol A to Symbol B. Didn’t want to do it manually, so I wrote this command for him. Maybe you’ll find a use for it too.
You select a frame, and it’ll swap all instances to use a different symbol that you specify. Instead of clicking the instance on the stage, clicking swap, and repeating for each symbol, this just does it en-masse at light speed.
*** Updated to 1.0.1 ***
Ok, this one pisses me off hardcore. It technically works correctly on paper, but so did Marxism… or so the saying goes… whatever.
I’ve been using getNextHighestDepth for movie clips that are expendable. Timers, counters, one time processes, etc. However, movie clips created in negative depths are protected, meaning removeMovieClip will not work on them. The same goes for movie clips created at or above 1048576. Unfortunately, getNextHighestDepth will return that depth. I haven’t pinned down at what situation those depths are returned. With nothing, it’ll return 0. With a clip at 1000, it’ll return 1001. I guess at some point it just jumps to that value.
At any rate, tracking down some bugs, and this is the 2nd time I was burned by this gotcha. I don’t give a flying fizz-nuck-chuck what ECMA says, this is bs functionality. In my understanding, this command was to help me not worry about depth management. Now, however, I’m back to where I started: worrying about depth management.
Consider yourself warned.
I enter, laiden with 2 bean stuffed flour patties, dodging a hyped up spazzing animal resembling a mini black lion, and having a ragged mind. I carry with me in my other arm a recently purchased tome of geography and documented valiant deeds, in a write comparable to stereo instructions of a place that does not exist. Docking the ship into port, obtaining a New York forged Hawaiian Punch, I’m placated to the sounds of Alvin’s sister. All I could think of was being strapped into a cold, metal table in a dreary, gray room with Morrisey crying off to the side, and being strapped in with no where to go, a short, oriental girl with a sadistic grin, brings in a hello-kitty radio blaring that dang website’s song with those pictures being played out above me via a Pink-Floyd’ish lightshow of laser lights & rear-projections.
Friday’s tend to be the worst and best times for reflection. Typically, I choose not to take anything I say on Friday evening’s seriously, nowhere near prolific, but I still choose to listen just the same.
…anyway, the website that inspired Nine Inch Nails music video scene above, as well as this blog entry, is here (make sure your off button is accessible and clearly labeled):
