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copied!<p>I am currently building a project where I have a map with a number of ship and aircraft. What I am trying to achieve is to check the Line of Sight distance between them. I have set up a LOS Calculator which checks the height of one platform and the height of a second platform then gives a response. That works fine.</p> <p>I then wanted to addCircle based on the result from this calculator. So if the result was 10 it would draw a circle 10cm in radius. If the result was 100 then it would draw it at 100, you get the picture. This works.</p> <p>My problem now is that I need to be able to click on one platform either before or after I have made the calculation and the .addCircle be added to that movieClip. I have set up an array to store the movieclips instance names and traced that. I have added a field on stage so that you can click on a platform and it will recognise the platform clicked. I am just lost as to how to get the circle into the movieClip that has been clicked.</p> <p>I am very new to AS3 so this is starting todo my head in. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>The code I have is attached below. I hope I have inserted this properly. Thanks again</p> <pre><code>import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.display.MovieClip; stage.focus=ht1; // creation of array containing movieclips and code that adds the clicked movieclip to Array-platformClicked var platformArray:Array = [arunta_mc, f15_mc]; var platformClicked = []; var selectedPlatform:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); for(var i:int = 0; i < platformArray.length; i++) { platformArray[i].buttonMode = true; platformArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, item_onClick); } function item_onClick(event:MouseEvent):void { var selectedPlatformArray:Array = platformArray.filter(checkName); selectedPlatform = selectedPlatformArray[0]; myText.text = event.currentTarget.name + " was clicked"; var platformClicked = String(event.currentTarget.name); trace(platformClicked); } function checkName(item:MovieClip, index:int, array:Array):Boolean { return(item.name == platformClicked); } //setup of LOS Calculator code var counter:Number=1; operator_txt.text = "+"; ht1.restrict="-0123456789."; ht2.restrict="-0123456789."; var myresult:Number; var test = []; //start of code when equal button is pressed equal_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, equalhandler); var newCircle:Shape = new Shape();//defines circle to be drawn function equalhandler(event:MouseEvent):void{ newCircle.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x000000); newCircle.graphics.beginFill(0x435632); newCircle.alpha = .1; //start of result code result_txt.text = String(int((1.23*(Math.sqrt(Number(parseFloat(ht1.text)+parseFloat(ht2.text)+"")))))); var test = String(int((1.23*(Math.sqrt(Number(parseFloat(ht1.text)+parseFloat(ht2.text)+"")))))); trace(test); //end of result code newCircle.graphics.drawCircle(0,0,test);//add circle based on LOS calculation newCircle.graphics.endFill(); //var selectedPlatform:MovieClip = selectedPlatformArray[0]; selectedPlatform.addChild(newCircle);//this is where I need to add newCircle to the movieClip that is clicked trace(selectedPlatform); //trace(platformClicked); } //start of code for the clear button clear_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clearhandler); function clearhandler(event:MouseEvent):void{ ht1.text=ht2.text=result_txt.text=""; removeChild(newCircle); var test = []; } </code></pre>

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