My Situation: I am sending and retrieving information from php via the XML object using a php xml parser. When I send information from a mysql database contained in a 'text' column type that contains carriage returns ' The enter key ' I must send it through a text node..... Now the problem...more >>

Hi, I posted this in the general discussion, however, I haven't received an answer - and maybe it is something wrong with my action script? Or maybe it can all be done via actionscript? Any help is appreciated!! Flash MX 2004 I have a line of text in a movie clip that I am attempti...more >>

Can someone please tell me why this small amount of code is creating an infinite loop, and more importantly, how to stop it? text1.onKillFocus = function() { text2.setFocus(); } It's pretty simple. I just want text2 to gain focus when text1 loses it...? -TomEnokR ...more >>

I want to create a Flash movie that as a button which allows the user to browse their drive for an image and load it into a layer of the Flash movie as it plays. Can anyone out there tell me how this is done? ...more >>

I know how to attach a script to a button INSTANCE by selecting it on teh stage and choosing actions. BUT is there a way to attach an action (i.e. gotoAndPlay) to a button SYMBOL so that I don't have to put the same action in each INSTANCE? Thanks, Jeff ...more >>

This is very basic but i can't seem to figure it out. I am working in MX 2004. I have created a main menu page with several buttons. The buttons that link to other websites work fine. But I can't figure out how to make the buttons link to the other pages I have created. HELP! ...more >>

Hi. Im working with flash and asp ,but something strage happens. I have a button, that when pressed should send variables to the asp page, and then the page returns the result, and I show it on screen. The problem is that this won't happen unless I press the button at least , 2 times, not les...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Flash. I was wondering how I can change one image for another. I have a faded circle and a bright circle in my library. The faded circle is on the stage. When the user clicks on the button, I want the bright circle to replace the faded one. Thank you for your time. ...more >>

I just don't get it. I have this preloader where I get % loaded (start: 0 completed: 100%) Now I need to move a movieclip _x cordinate from _x 65 to 200 How can I move the clip based on percent loaded? eg. start: 0% mc._x = 65 end: 100% mc._x = 200 can anyone please help me out ...more >>

Hi guys... I have the well known problem i.e. removeMovieClip does not remove an MC previous attached with attachMovie. The problem is with the depths, but i cannot understand what i'm doing wrong. Take a look at the attached FLA please..... ...more >>

My movie has a glitch. I have set a preload bar to show up when my external movie is loading. For some reason the progerrs bar only displays at either 0% or 100% when I test my movie. Here is the script I am using for the preload movie instance: onClipEvent (enterFrame){ loaded = _root.i...more >>

Can anyone help me? I am leading an .swf movie in the main movie. Here is the script that I have used to load the external .swf. It works great, but the external movie keeps repeating itself instead of going back to the main movie after it has finished playing. Any suggestions? Thanks. sto...more >>

I would like to dynamically layout input and dynamic textfields from external data. The input boxes appear throughout the dynamic (nonselectable) text. Imagine a paragraph with several 'fill-in-the-blanks' throughout. I want to build one function that will automatically parse and populate this...more >>

I am having trouble getting mysimple slideshow to loop. If someone could just help with my actionscripting that would be great...more >>

is there a property or easy way to check if a movie clip is playing or stopped? i can keep track with a variable but it will add a lot of extra lines of code (or a lot of replacing code and a function call i guess)....more >>

How do i get the swf movie to adjust to screen resolution? how do I do that . Please help!!!!...more >>

I've made 8 movieclips that reside in the library. I've set the linkages to export all of them in the first frame. Only 3 of the movieclips from the library will not appear when I click on a button to call for this certain attachmovie. Do I need to make each movieclips in different depth?...more >>

I entered the url in "actions > getURL" in flash and export the movie to dreamweaver. But the PROBLEM is: when I preview the page, in a second flashmovie immediately redirects it to the url I entered without "hitting" the banner. ...more >>

Hi. Im trying to load an image into a scrollpane, after consulting the pictures name in a database. When I load it into the scrollpane, it appears a sandbox security violation. The image it's loaded, but it doesn't fit correct into the scrollpane. If intead of a scrollpane, I use a mx.lo...more >>

First I created a banner movie and "a button layer" at the bottom of all movie layers. And for the movie I entered the url in "actions > getURL" in flash and export the movie to dreamweaver. But the PROBLEM is: when I preview the page, the movie starts to play and in a second it imm...more >>

i just can?t seem to get the following test working: i have a html page. on it i have one swf movieclip (called buttons) with two buttons : A and B. next to that movieclip i have another swf movieclip (called numers). movieclip numbers has only two frames, each frame has a movieclip with an ...more >>

Iam a beginner in AS 2.0 when i was testing out the dinner menu application using the dataset and xml connector ...i got a output message stating //////////////////////Output Message **Error** C:\Documents and Settings\Full House\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX ...more >>

I use getURL function to execute my .exe files. But every time when user clicks the button, Explorer shows the window with questions "Open, Save". I don't want this windows to be shown, i only want to quickly execute an application. And also i don't want to use fscommand(); because all exe fil...more >>

I'm using an XML file to populate my site navigation and content (a simple image portfolio). I would like to be able to display some descriptive text as well as an image. I can do one or the other, but I'm not sure how to do both at the same time. Is there a way of joining two elements within ...more >>

I'm trying to understand the relationship between the PrintJob class and actual printed output. Ideally I'd like to construct a reasonably precise A4 page. What is the relationship between Flash pixel units and my printed page? Thanks, Paul ...more >>

Hi, Can any one tell me... can we change the cursor of the input box from the default to "?" or any other character. thanks in advance, kakas...more >>

fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); I placed this script on the first frame of the main timeline, >>>also on the button: on(release){fscommand("fullscreen", "true")};<<< but it doesn`t work & I don`t know why === stage 800x600 pixels Macromedia Flash MX Flash Player 6 Internet Explorer ...more >>

Dear All, I wish to change text color/size formats in text within buttons. I can only achieve this in text outside of buttons. The reason for using buttons and not using movie clips is because my work has to be accessible, and therefore use buttons and not movie clips as buttons. (Butt...more >>

Hi all, I want to have a scrolling text box on the top of a site, with random text appearing at set time intervals. any hints? Cheers. Zack...more >>

Hello! I have attached a image in to scrollpane and i want print the image part visible _root.mcHolder.setScrollContent("mc_cartiglio"); _root.vrb_mc_cartiglio = _root.mcHolder.getScrollContent(); vrb_mc_cartiglio.loadMovie("img/" + vrb_SWF + ".swf"); stampa.onRelease = function() {...more >>

I want to create .sol file from some application like VC++ or VB. My problem is user will work on en VC/VB exe. I want to pass some information from that exe to Flash. I can use a txt file as I dont know where it would be stored. Some systems dont have C drive. Also some one may use Win XP...more >>

I enter the address to actions/get url in flash and export the movie to dreamweaver. (it is not a button, it is a banner movie) But when I preview the page in browser it redirects it to the url I entered without clicking on it. How can I solve this problem. I want it to do this after the v...more >>

I am trying to create some menus that take their content from an XML file. I am using someone elses script, which works fine, but I could do with some help editing the action that occurs when you click on one of the links. At the moment a URL is opened and this is the code that does it: Ac...more >>

for example, I want to know the char '?', belongs to GBK or it belongs to BIG5?...more >>

Hi, I am loading a sound file(mp3) in the flash movie. The getBytesloaded method is showing the total bytes in the streaming file. I used a software web speed simulator for previewing my published flash file. (WebSpeed Simulator helps you design more efficient web pages by previewing your w...more >>

I am trying to makes the movie clips myClip1 and myClip2 invisble with the following code.. for some reason it won't work... any ideas? for(i=0;i<=2;i++) { clipName = _root.myClip; clipName += i; clipName._alpha = 0; } ...more >>

I am struggling with a problem and I can feel the answer tickling my brain, bit I can't quite get it, so I thought I would see if anyone else can get me jump started. I am building an application that collects data and stores it to text files (customer requirement). There are multiple entrie...more >>

I have a problem with a movieclip...in Flash MX There's a button inside a movieclip(mc)...the btn has a rollover script in it..the movie clip is on first farme on the stage... now I want when the usre clicks on the mc it should take him to frame 5 on the stage (the main TimeLine).... what ...more >>

I have a problem with a movieclip... There's a button inside a movieclip(mc)...the btn has a rollover script in it..the movie clip is on first farme on the stage... now I want when the usre clicks on the mc it should take him to frame 5 on the stage (the main TimeLine).... what script shou...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create a slideshow with numerous photographs, along with a control panel to play, pause, move forward and backwards. However, I would like each image called from a URL, not loaded when the slideshow starts. I can make the slideshow work just as I want, but the imag...more >>

HI: //xml file name = text.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="gb2312" ?> <body> <a name='a'> <aa name='aa'> <aaa name='aaa'> aaaa </aaa> </aa> </a> <b name='b'> <bb name='bb'> <bbb name='bbb'> bbbb </bbb> </bb> </b> </body> //code ...more >>

is there any-way through which i can play midi files in flash. i will appreciate it if i can dynamically load the midi files at the run time. thanx...more >>

hey guys... what's the easiest and the simplest way of creating an xml file from flash on the server using user input... lets say i want to let some1 type some stuff in a text field and save them up on an xml file... what's the shortest way... i know this can't be too complicated.... ...more >>

Hello - I'm looking for the code to get an effect like the blue square buttons on http://www.peterhobbs.com, where the size of the squares gets bigger or smaller depending on the location of your mouse. Just getting my feet wet with AS, so my knowledge is limited. ...more >>

First of all, sorry for my poor English. It will be easier for you to understand if you have my file in hand: http://esky.info/chalk/main3.fla Each of the squares has 3 frames, the 1st frame and the 3rd frame contain the scripts. The 3rd frame shall send the moving = true; to the 1s...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to get a movie clip to play when a random number occurs. So far, all I can do is generate the random number. My movie clip is called bug_mc and is off the stage, just in the library and has no actionscript attached. Basically, I need something like this: generate ra...more >>

Good evening. Im having some trouble here... I have buttons on a layer that call in external swf's onto an emptymovieclip that is placed on another layer ABOVE the buttons layer... The script works fine, but I've noticed that when the external swf is called in, and you move your mouse ar...more >>

I want a button, when clicked, to go to a random frame in that scene. Its for a random quiz thing.... Can anyone help please, seeing as how i have no idea how to e-mail the macromedia support people... ...more >>