I what to create a movie clip M1.fla which contains only the following, with empty content (no graphics on stage). function f1(x) { return 2*x; } function f2(x, y) { return x +y; } I want to call the M1 functions in movei M2.fla. M2 has two objects and a button event handler and an in...more >>

i've made a movie clip. its a circle and when u move your mouse over it, the circle with do kinda a small 5 seconds dance, with a funny sound. How do i make this movie clip when you click on it go to the next scene.? (i cannot make it a button because the dance wont "flow") and these codes ...more >>

Hi to all, This is probably a simple problem to most so please forgive my ignorance. I am a Newbie I have trawled most of this forum looking for the answer but have not found a solution. and i hope i have posted in the right forum. My Problem is this I am halfway through creating a si...more >>

Is there a way once a movie is playing full screen (using fscommand) that another linked SWF file can be loaded and immediately play full screen also? It seems like a simple question, but when I use a button to load another movie, the new movie plays in a smaller window (not full-screen, even ...more >>

Greetings all, thanks in advance. I've created a Flash file that is in the fullscreen Projector .exe format, intended for use as a demo CD. This Flash file is as an interface to materials on the CD, as well as external URL links. All my links are coded with the getURL command, and seem t...more >>

Hi all This is a very specific AS question (although it might HAVE to involve some PHP?): I'd like to implement a navigation system in flash, for a gallery. The gallery loads external jpegs from a folder. Easy. Now, I want flash to go look into a specific folder and list the jpegs in that ...more >>

Does anyone know where I can find a flash five plugin for testing purposes? Thanks! Michelle...more >>

I'm loading images dynamically into an empty movie clip using loadMovie. Is there a way to build a loading bar to show the amount of the image that has loaded? I know how to do this for a regular flash movie but not for external files. Thanks for any help! ...more >>

When I embed my swf file in an html page all of the animations tend to be slower then if I play them with the flash stand alone player. Does anyone know why this is happening or a way to fix this. Please help. Thank you. ...more >>

HI I was working on a flash website, in Flash MX, when I ran into a problem. I have a series of buttons that HAVE to be in a movie clip (so that they can show up in the "Scroll pane" component") But I need several of them to control the MAIN timeline (level 1) and command it not to go to a s...more >>

Does anyone know why sun's flash player in Java was discontinued?...more >>

Hi there, I doubt anyone can help with this but it seems that a dynamic text box with an assigned variable will not work if the variable assigned to it is an array item (i.e. "_root.variable1" works, "_root.variable[1]" won't). I noticed this bug in previous versions of Flash and had hoped...more >>

I have to put these HUGE hurricane evacuation maps on our web site. Does anybody know a good way to do it... other than slicing the maps into sections and making several pages? (Please note....I'm VERY new to FLASH) Randy ...more >>

What are the cons of doing an all flash website? I've heard that search engines can't read it, but is there a way around this? What are the other downsides? - Jon...more >>

Sorry for th dumb question, but I really don't know if action script keywords, variable names function names and class names are case sensitive or not. Are the following the same? CLASS MY_CLASS { VAR MY_VAR = MY_FUNC(); } class my_class { var my_var = my_func(); } ...more >>

I have spent countless hours trying to import a transparency into a flash movie. The transparency is of a photo that is created in Photoshop 7 with the figure outlined and the background made transparent. When I import it into my flash movie, the background of the figure is white and is not tr...more >>

I'm using the new learning interactions in mx2004 pro and am having problems with the drag and drop quiz function. When I replace the drag icons with images, then test the movie, the images won't stay in the drop locations. You can drag them across the screen and place them, but they move do...more >>

My company is looking to license existing flash games for commercial use. We need to have access to the source (graphical library items at least) for re-branding/skinning purposes. Our client has a decent budget but does not wish to spend a large amount on having us design the games from scrat...more >>

Issue.. I have an one-frame main timeline with some movieclips in it, a sun, a boat, a snowman and so on. I dont want ANYTHING to move from start (when pressing CTRL+Enter=testmovie it moves) Than I will add buttons who do the work for me.. like button -sun shine-, -melt snowman- and so on....more >>

my flash 'guru' at uni reckons this is the place to be for flash beginners silly questions..... if it is....here's my contribution.... I've published and exported a small swf (104 kb) on my g4 superdrive mac and have burnt and saved it onto my xp pc desktop.......why cant I open and view...more >>

Hi, How do you simulate gravity in Flash? for example, make an airplane that is harder to keep in the air the slower it travels, until it starts to descend at a certain speed. Or make a movie clip orbit/fall in to another depending on the position and velocity. Thank you. ...more >>

When importing an XML file containing the textual elements for my Flash movie, I can't make this work UNLESS I put the HTML wrapper, SWF, and XML file in the same folder. If I move the SWF and XML to a subfolder (e.g. "media"), and edit the HTML to use <param name="movie" value="media\filename...more >>

I am creating a simple slide show in flash by just importing small .png images into the timeline. The images are 72 dpi and no larger than 450x800 pixels. All the images are doing is fading in, moving slightly either horizontaly or verticaly and then fading back out. For some reason though the...more >>

I am using macromedia flash mx 2004. and i have just created a short movie clip. But how do you change it so that when the clip finishes it loops back to a pre-defined frame and repeats from there? At the moment it just loops back to the beginning, but i only want the first 20 or so frames to ...more >>

Hi. I'm am familiar with basic functions in Flash and am attempting to build my first website. I'm having problems making the transition because I'm not sure how to correctly build it. My design is fairly simple: http://www.aprilkinnelly.com I would like to make functional buttons ...more >>

hi- i am making a movie that akes place over a 24 hour period and is composed of 24 scenes. iw anted to know if some one can help me with the following topics: 1) is there a way to check the users system clock for the time and jump to that particular 'hour' of the day - (ie if it is 11am ...more >>

Hi I'm trying to load an external swf, but I need it to appear underneath the stuff on my main timeline. If I've understood the stacking properly, it seems that an swf imported using loadMovie will always sit above the main timeline, no matter what level I specify in loadMovie (or loadMovieNum...more >>

Hello, at me such problem: when I write words in Russian at me not readable symbols are displayed if to write in English that it's OK....more >>

how can i set the focus just one one spez. texfield?......now it goes on every text-field i have!!!! here the script: myListener = new Object(); myListener.onSetFocus = function() { myTextfield = eval(Selection.getFocus()); myTextfield.text = ""; }; Selection.addListener(myList...more >>

Hi guys I wondering if it is possible to get flash to execute an http request without actually executing the page- reason being I want to fire a script server side to track visits. Regards, Paul Anthony ...more >>

I'm doing some site design/implementation for a client, who has decided that he wants to have a Flash-based menubar at the top of the site's pages, and has in fact gotten one (from someone other than me). I'm running into the following problem with this: The main image creating the menuba...more >>

I'm trying to achieve a button hit state that is moving. There are pictures I have on a site that are moving and while the images are moving, I want the button to follow the correspoding picture. As the button is following the picture, the user can select any picture and click it while it is m...more >>

I am trying my hardest to make a box flip on its center axis vertically in an animation for a website, I have figured out how to rotate in an animation and to flip an object independently of the animation. The box is orange then I want it to flip over to red how do I do this? ...more >>

Hi, I am importing an XML document into flash. In this document there is a " ' " somewhere in the text. However in flash i don't see that character, i get a &apos; instead. How can i show the proper character instead of &apos; ? Thank you. -- _____________________________ DESIGNSERVER D...more >>

Greetings, I have applied text effects to a web page, but I can't figure out how to get the effect to only render once and not keep looping. There is a place in the "Properties" panel in which you can specify a "no repeat", which I did, but it didn't work. Any assistance would be appreci...more >>

Hi, I can embed one AVPresence and it works well. But when I embed *two* ones,only one can capture my camera(I have two cameras) and the other can not capture(I press it,but nothing runs). Any suggestions are appreciated! Best Regards, Xie Bo ...more >>

PC-Pentium 4 WIN XP Pro Flash MX 2004 Working in a client/server LAN environment I've seen some posts that say that my text file needs to be in the same directory as my .swf on my server for flash's dynamic text field to access it OR I must use a "full" URL such as http://server_name/s...more >>

Im using a flash file to hold pictures i want people to be able to download. I dont want to open them in a new browser window but instead be downloaded to disk. Ive written a php script (thanks to urami) called download.php containing the following code: <? Header("Content-type: image/jp...more >>

is it possible to alpha fade in and out images which have a transparent background? Flash wont give me the alpha pull-down menu when I try to select my transparent image. Any advice welcome. Ive tried .jpg .png and .tif ...more >>

Hello all, I would greatly appreciate any help. On the Xbox site if you don't have flash it asks you to download it, on the same page(no redirects), you download it and voila, there is your flash content. There is no redirect, you do not pass through a detect page, or go...more >>

Environment:: Windows Home XP, MSN version 9, flasher player 7, running Macafee antivirus I have tried to uninstall flashplayer 7 using the uninstaller on macromedia site but i receive the following error message, "can't uninstall flash ocx file in use. Any suggestions? thanks ...more >>

Hello I have a button that when clicked I want the user to be able to download a picture. This picture is a jpeg (due to file size) and im using this code on the button: on (release) { getURL("path/imagename.jpg", "_blank"); } Works fine for a PDF file in the same context but a j...more >>

Couldn't find any answers to this problem so decided to post here. Each time I try to run a fla or visit a site with flash I end up in BlueScreen! Any advice will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Alp ...more >>

http://www.visionartsmgmt.com/index_flash.htm I just did a transition on the logo (Vision) I want to really have it draw itself. How do you make that happen? Obviously I'm a real beginner. I spent some quality time with the Help files to no avail. Is writing the code the only way to m...more >>

...i have 2 button at the moment...one should make mt music play. one shhould make it stop. i kno the code for the stop button. but whats the code for making the sound start?...more >>

Hi, My first work with MX did verry well, i could animate pictures or txt, fading in and out (alpha), no problems there. To day is started a new film and all animations with pictures and txt are doing fine as long i play the movie on stage (Enter), but when i publish it and test it any o...more >>

Hi, I am very frustrated; since I am unable to add a simple action to a button simply to go to a next named scene.... I tried behaviors and all kind of actions... The Help section in Flash is poor and only mentions the actionscript.. Could anyone please tell me the steps I have to t...more >>

Hello people, I'm going trough a serious problems about fonts. I made a design and break the fonts apart but when I publish my file all fonts become strange, very different from those I chose before. I also tried to embed the fonts but it was not possible, the embed font option simply does...more >>

Hi, Ik know how to import .jpg files in flash using actionscript. But can i also import .gif images? I use Flash MX. The help says it can only import .jpg and .swf. Can the new flash MX 2004 import .gif images? Tanx ...more >>

ok.. say there was a scene with 3 pictures on it (the main scene). Each time any1 goes to the main scene i want there to be Different pictures in the same spot. How do i achive this? ==================== S/<illz~(>' ')>~ ==================== ...more >>

I want a simple music stop and play button -but can't seem to get it to work. Want to retrieve the MP3 from a server location (so I can change that music file from time to time). Does anybody have such a FLA file? 70px x 20 px or so. Thnx! zigginlSPAM@STOPANDREMOVE.zonnet.nl ...more >>

I've imported 5 jpegs into my library. I'd like to be able to load them into separate movies dynamically. Is that possible? Do I have to put them in a movieclip OR do they have to be external to load them? ...more >>

Is there a way to vary the frame rate in Flash 5? In my case, I want to run the 1st 24 frames at 45 fps, and the rest of the movie at 15 fps. Can this be done? I am currently trying to concatenate a separate file running at 45 fps, with the rest of the movie as a separate file, where the fr...more >>

Hi I have a project to do consisting of some Flash animation combined with PHP. The PHP part is done by a colleague of mine (I don't know PHP). The idea is like this. there is a HTML file with some textboxes, managed in PHP. When the user writes something in that textbox, PHP gets it ...more >>

Hello I have been offered the following code to create a sized browser window from a button link - but it does not support a scroll bar or nav buttons. Can someone please let me know what code is missing? on (press) { param = "www.yahoo.com"; sUrl = "http://"+param; wdth = "300"; ...more >>

Hi ! How do you put japanese text into a flash movie? (...and other non roman languages?) I've got an english version of Flash MX. -- Thanks Pop ...more >>

This week's highlight is brought to you by Danilo Celic: The "Create Include" extension. This extension enables you to quickly export selected code from a document, and make it into an include. Simple, but once you've used it, you'll wonder why this wasn't part of DW to begin with. CMX Create ...more >>

The other day I was reading an interesting article abut depths ( means and the other one is what the correct way is to show the depths of my movie clips. I am using MX 6 on Windows 2000. Thanks in advance to whoever read my posting. adok ...more >>

Hi I have created a assessment template with asp as backend. I am using loadvars object to get assessment questions from the asp page. The questions are been loaded into the internet temp folder and loading to flashplayer. Is there a way to load data directly to flash player without l...more >>

Hi- I'm on Flash Mx04 and I bought the MM Studio MX04 book and so have been reading it pretty heavily. Could anyone point me to an online tutorial on how to do a "loading" graphic bar/movie as my animation and page loads ? I'm still a beginner (newer to Flash,...not to computer/software pr...more >>

Folks, I'm looking for some suggestions for books that I can use to learn FlashMX web-development. I have a few customers who want me to update their website with Flash content, but I'm not very facile with Flash. I have Studio MX (2003 version), not that it should matter too much. ...more >>

most flash web sites either have no sounds or put sound volume to almost minimum. Is there a reason for this? are sound effects good or bad web design practice? ...more >>

Anybody know how to build an online video conferencing application with Flash? I've seen it done. Any source for instructions on how to do this? Also, can a live text chat be done with Flash?...more >>

I'm having trouble scripting a few of my buttons. The project is a portfolio on thats going to be burned on CD. In the portfolio I have a button for the user to press to open my resume as a PDF or a Word DOC. Is there a way to program a button to open up an external file in the default applica...more >>

SOmeone if you know why my cartoon that i'm making won't export will you help me figure it out. ...more >>

I have a Button within a Movie Clip. I want to link the Button to a frame on the main timeline (not the Movie Clip's timeline), but I don't know how. Help!...more >>

Can I put a group of instance names into an array? I have about 7 or 8 movie clips all with instance names. I wish to control all of their alpha with one command. if(whatever) { allMyInstanceNames._alpha=50;} Thanks Will ...more >>