shadowtower.swf

The Shadow Tower window, opened when interacting with a Shadow Tower portal. Lets players select a floor (boss), choose a difficulty (Normal/Hard/Ultra), review key costs, and enter the tower, with a second tab showing a leaderboard of completion times per boss and difficulty.

Document/main class: ShadowTower (extends _kiwi.Core.UIComponent) SWF-specific classes: 10 (excluding skin/scroll stubs)

Main class: ShadowTower

Root component managing two tabs (Portal and Leaderboard), up to 6 floor buttons, difficulty selection, boss art display, key-cost panel, and a reset timer. Floors are selected via node button MovieClips inside a floors container. configUI() wires floor click listeners (with optional console tooltip offsets), tab click listeners, and registers ExternalInterface callbacks. Has three timeline frames (1, 11, 21), all stopped — frame 11 is the console layout.

Public methods

  • setDefaultDifficulty(index:int, only:Boolean) : void — sets the difficulty through setDifficultyHelper(…, false), so a change still sends OnDifficultySelected back. When the second argument is true the index is the only difficulty this player has: the other two difficulty clips on createPortal are hidden. The engine uses this to refuse a pick: after OnDifficultySelected for a difficulty the player cannot open, it answers setDefaultDifficulty(0, true) and the selection snaps back.
  • setFloor(bossName:String, bossPortrait:String, accessible:Boolean, defeated:Boolean, reward:String, score:int, fluxCost:int, bestTime:int, powerRank:int) : void — populates one floor button at loadedFloors index; builds a localised tooltip from translated strings; sets completedIcon visibility and enabled state on the node button; stores boss data and calls setCurrentFloor for floor 0 on first load. bossName is a translation key (translated on the not-defeated branch only); bossPortrait is an object-preview target; fluxCost fills $ShadowTower_LevelRequirement ("It costs {0} Flux to open this portal."); bestTime is seconds, shown to two places with $TimeUnit_Seconds; powerRank fills $ShadowTower_LootLevelRequirement ("You must be Power Rank {0} or higher to gain loot.") and is per floor, appended only when above 1. reward and score go into {3}/{2} of $ShadowTower_DefeatedLevel ("You defeated {0} in {1} this week!"), which has neither, so they never show.
  • setCurrentFloor(index:int) : void — sets selectedIcon visibility on the active floor node, updates boss art (bossArt.iconImage, setImageSize(392, 220)), and calls createPortal.setPortalHeading() and leaderboards.setLeaderBoardHeading() with boss name and current difficulty string.
  • showBossIcons(normal:String, hard:String, ultra:String) : void — sets iconImage on each difficulty slot in leaderboards (normal, hard, ultra SlotBasic children).
  • updateMaterials(icon:String, cost:int, shadowKeys:int, lunarKeys:int, eclipseKeys:int) : void — sets createPortal.artClip.iconImage, txt_cost text, and shows/hides key count fields in keysPanel with amounts for shadow/lunar/eclipse keys, i.e. the Normal, Hard and Ultra keys (the Hard and Ultra key items are named "Moon Key" and "Eclipse Key"). Only the cost arrives with an icon; no key icon is sent.
  • addLeaderboardEntry(name:String, time:Number, isFriend:Boolean) : void — creates a Listing row, fills rank/name/time fields, handles tie-rank display, colours friend entries green (0x66FF33), marks rank-1 row white on "active" frame.
  • addPlayerLeaderboardEntry(name:String, time:Number, rank:String) : void — fills the player-specific row at the bottom of the leaderboard panel.
  • canEnter(enabled:Boolean) : void — enables/disables createPortal.btn_enter.
  • setTimeUntilReset(seconds:Number) : void — formats via TimeUtil.formatCountdown and fills createPortal.txt_timeRemaining.
  • moveHighlight(column:int, delta:int) : void — console D-pad navigation. column < 1 moves floor selection (up/down through node buttons); column == 1 moves difficulty selection (cycles through normal/hard/ultra). Manages lastHightlight (selectedIcon on floor nodes vs. selectionGlow on difficulty buttons).
  • switchTabs() : void — toggles between Portal and Leaderboard tab MovieClips. When switching back to Portal if displayDirty is true, calls ExternalInterface.call("OnDifficultySelected", currentDifficulty).
  • setLeaderboardSize(n:int) : void — resets leaderboard entry counter and clears the rowView.
  • scrollBarTranslate(value:Number) : void — updates leaderboard scrollbar position.

Key fields

  • leaderboards : ShadowTowerLeaderboard — the leaderboard tab panel.
  • createPortal : ShadowTowerCreatePortal — the portal entry tab panel.
  • floors : MovieClip — container holding floor_0–floor_5 as node (BaseButton) instances. Each floor's tooltip is set through the button's UITooltipTitle / UITooltipDescription.
  • keysPanel : MovieClip — shows shadow/lunar/eclipse key counts. On its PC frame it carries one key icon (bitmap character 170, the only key art in the SWF), one name field (lunarKeyText, holding $prefabs_item_key_delvekey_01_name, "Delve Shadowkey") and the three amount fields; its Console frame adds shadowKeyText / lunarKeyText / eclipseKeyText labelled $ShadowKey, $LunarKey and $EclipseKey, keys defined in no shipped language file.
  • currentDifficulty : int — index into difficulties array (["normal","hard","ultra"]).
  • difficultyString : String — translated difficulty label for heading display.
  • keyType : String — translated key type name for tooltip.
  • currentFloor / loadedFloors : int — track which floor is selected and how many have been set.
  • bossData : Array — cached per-floor data (name, portrait, accessible, defeated, etc.).
  • lastHightlight : MovieClip — the currently console-highlighted element.
  • displayDirty : Boolean — true when difficulty changed while on Leaderboard tab; triggers OnDifficultySelected on tab switch.

Frame scripts / timeline

  • Frame 1: stop() — PC layout.
  • Frame 11: stop() — Console layout (fires when the SWF is running on a controller-based platform).
  • Frame 21: stop() — third layout variant (NX/Switch).
  • Stage 762×600 at 30 fps, 30 frames.

Runtime dependencies & integration

  • ExternalInterface.addCallback registrations: setLeaderboardSize, setDefaultDifficulty, setFloor, showBossIcons, updateMaterials, addLeaderboardEntry, addPlayerLeaderboardEntry, canEnter, setTimeUntilReset, moveHighlight, switchTabs, scrollBarTranslate.
  • Outbound ExternalInterface.call: OnDifficultySelected(index), OnFloorSelected(floor), OnAccept(), OnLobbyClicked(), GetLeaderboard(floor, difficulty).
  • IggyFunctions.translate — used for difficulty strings, key type names, and floor tooltip text construction.
  • TimeUtil.formatCountdown / _kiwi.Util.FormatCountdownResult — formats the reset countdown.
  • Translate keys include: $ShadowTower_LeaderboardHeading1, $ShadowTower_LeaderboardHeading2, $ShadowTower_PortalHeading, $Open. setDifficultyHelper also translates $ShadowTower_KeyNormal / _KeyHard / _KeyUltra into keyType, but keyType only fills a {1} that $ShadowTower_LevelRequirement does not contain, so it never shows (and $ShadowTower_KeyUltra reads "Moon Key", the same as _KeyHard).
  • showToolTip / hideToolTip (SLOT.POINTER_ENTER, TOOLTIP.SHOW, TOOLTIP.HIDE) are never attached to any listener, so those calls are never made from this class.

Other game-specific classes

  • ShadowTowerLeaderboard (extends UIComponent, embeds symbol132) — leaderboard panel. Has normal/hard/ultra SlotBasic difficulty filter buttons (click dispatches DataEvent(SET_DIFFICULTY)), rowView:RowView for scrollable Listing rows, rank/name/time header labels. addLeaderboardEntry creates Listing instances and handles ties and friend colouring.
  • ShadowTowerCreatePortal (extends UIComponent) — portal entry panel. Has normal/hard/ultra difficulty toggle MovieClips (with selectionGlow child), bossNameText, bossArt:ArtClip, btn_enter:LabelButton, txt_timeRemaining, artClip for material cost icon. Difficulty clicks dispatch DataEvent(SET_DIFFICULTY); btn_enter click calls ExternalInterface.call("OnAccept").
  • createPortal (extends ShadowTowerCreatePortal, embeds symbol161) — concrete SWF-symbol binding for ShadowTowerCreatePortal; sets btn_enter component defaults.
  • Listing (extends MovieClip, embeds symbol11) — leaderboard row. Fields: friendIcon, txt_userName, txt_time, txt_rank. Two frame-label states (frames 2 and 3, both stop()).
  • node (extends BaseButton, embeds symbol61) — floor selection button. 4-state (frames 1, 10, 20, 30). Expected children: selectedIcon, completedIcon.
  • btnGreenWide (extends LabelButton, embeds symbol31) — wide green action button. 4-state.
  • Image (extends ArtClip, embeds symbol143) — generic art display slot.
  • Equipped (extends MovieClip, embeds symbol34) — equipped/selected badge stub.
  • dummy — 100×100 BitmapData placeholder.
  • ShadowTower_fla timeline clips (5): btn_toggle_7 (symbol154, difficulty toggle with selectionGlow, 2 frames), tab_39 (symbol197, tab button with textField, 2 frames), headerFrame_40 (symbol202), keyHeaderFrame_4 (symbol182), keysPanel_2 (symbol189, 3×(amount+text) TextFields for shadow/lunar/eclipse keys, 2 frames).
  • Skin stubs (18): scroll arrow/thumb/track skins, focusRectSkin, SlotBackground, SlotBackgroundLocked, SlotFrameHigh, SlotFrameNormal, SlotFrameMedium — all trivial MovieClip embeds.

Notable logic

  • Difficulty dirty flag: changing difficulty while on the Leaderboard tab sets displayDirty=true and sends only GetLeaderboard(floor, difficulty). The game engine's OnDifficultySelected is only called when the user switches back to the Portal tab, preventing spurious server requests during leaderboard browsing. Any difficulty change also runs resetFloors(), and the engine re-sends the floors (setFloor) only in answer to OnDifficultySelected, so until the switch back the floor buttons carry no data.
  • Player row: the viewer's own result arrives separately through addPlayerLeaderboardEntry(name, time, rank) into fixed fields under the list; on a board the player is not on, the engine sends no rank for it.
  • Leaderboard tie-rank handling: addLeaderboardEntry tracks the previous entry's time and rank; if the new time matches, the rank display is blanked out to show a visual tie.
  • Console D-pad navigation: moveHighlight uses two separate interaction domains. column < 1 navigates the floor node buttons (delta ±1 index). column == 1 cycles difficulty toggle buttons, managing selectionGlow visibility.
  • Key panel visibility: individual key type rows in keysPanel are shown or hidden based on whether the game passes a non-zero count for shadow/lunar/eclipse keys, allowing the panel to collapse unused rows.
  • Test/preview mode: when not in Iggy, configUI seeds 4 floors with dummy boss names/portraits and 15 leaderboard entries to allow offline layout inspection.