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preload will not work
Posted by Ara Agopian at 10/17/2004 11:55:18 PM
My preloader will not work, I think the reason is because I have a component (scroll) in the library that the linkage is checked on "export in first frame", when I uncheck this the items on my scroll will not appear. Any way around this? help. aa ...more >>


Text align = center doesn't work
Posted by Sir Zaire at 10/17/2004 7:48:35 PM
Hello I have dynamicaly created a text field, and i need it to be: align = center , but it doesn't work. That's the code i'm using : ftt = new TextFormat(); ftt.font = "Rotis"; ftt.size = 25; ftt.color = 0xBA122B; ftt.leading = 3; ftt.leftMargin = "0"; ftt.rightMargin = "0"...more >>

Help!!! how to save to file
Posted by Vladimir Shkuro at 10/17/2004 6:35:45 PM
Hello, All! How to save text in a file??? help please!!! With best regards, Vladimir ...more >>

List component Font
Posted by Vladimir Shkuro at 10/17/2004 6:33:13 PM
Hello, All! How to change Font from "_sans" to "arial" in List component? With best regards, Vladimir ...more >>

loaded movie to unload and go to a specific point
Posted by flashuser79 at 10/17/2004 5:46:06 PM
Hi all. I have a flash movie loading an external swf into a target. Once this movie is loaded, I've created a button for it to unload itself, which works fine, but where im confused is how to make the loaded movie, when it unloads itself, to gotoandstop at a specific place on the parent m...more >>

Dynamicly loaded text problems
Posted by scourtaud at 10/17/2004 4:38:54 PM
Hi, I work mainly in french and this lovely language uses special chars like "????". When I load text into ? Dynamic text area, those chars apear as a an emply square. How can I make those apear correctly? knowing that if I type thos chars in a text area, they display nice ans smooth, ...more >>

Attach movie, best pactice
Posted by thoand at 10/17/2004 3:56:10 PM
Hi, Can anyone here explain why my attached movie won't show I am loading an XML file with city data, and this data I want to present in dynamic text fields using a loop after each city I need a line (from my library with linkage name "cityDivider"). But I can't see my line anywhere, d...more >>

loading % in external text file
Posted by dr-transgres at 10/17/2004 3:33:43 PM
Hello all, I have run into an issue that i can't seem to get a clear answer on. I am loading in a .txt file that is setup like this: home=hello% I am using loadVars like this: var cLV = new LoadVars(); cLV.onLoad = function(success) { _root.gotoAndPl...more >>



Trash/Dispose of a text field?
Posted by j1e1g1 at 10/17/2004 3:25:31 PM
Hi, I have a text field, which is created dynamically via actionscript (i.e. _root.createTextField("textBox", 1, 255, 69, 534, 490); ). I'd like to be able to dispose completely of this text field when the user clicks a button. I don't want to hide it, set its visibility to zero, or any...more >>

input text (how)
Posted by mrmille at 10/17/2004 2:34:34 PM
hiya! How do i retrive the information from input text fields? ...more >>

Export frame for classes in Publish Settings Flas
Posted by sfbaygrrrl at 10/17/2004 1:23:33 PM
My preloader doesn't load until 100KB into the movie and I figured out it's because it's loading my components (I'm using 3 instances of a Media Display and of a Media Controller) in the first frame. So I changed the Flash ActionScript Settings (in the Publish Settings) to Export Frame for...more >>

get bytes loaded and total
Posted by Rankankan at 10/17/2004 10:38:26 AM
Hi. Is there any function for detecting loaded and total bytes in flash mx 2004? I had an old script for this lik: _level0.percent = _root.GetBytesLoaded()/_root.GetBytesTotal()*100; but it doesnt work anymore :((( How do you do this in mx 2004? Thanx ...more >>

Roll-over Menus
Posted by Neil Smith at 10/17/2004 7:10:31 AM
Dear All, there is plenty of advice and examples of menu systems. But I am having trouble finding an example and solving the problem myself of the following situation. A roll over event, of an area adjacent to where the movie clip will play, causes that movie clip to play, dropping down a ...more >>

Make data grid header with solid color
Posted by ETang at 10/17/2004 6:24:26 AM
Hi, Do you know how to change the default datagrid header to have solid color? There are 2 grids in my flash. On grid can just use datagrid and its header but another needs to have custom header. So, I create text at top of the grid with custom header. But my clients complained that t...more >>

EMERGENCY! Image Viewer script (window)
Posted by OrganicJerk at 10/17/2004 5:58:23 AM
I just learned that Windows SP2 blocks Popups from ANY external App, including Flash... Anyone knows how I can use a thumbnail/button to launch an image window in Flash that is closable? I used to have it set up as a pop-up...but not anymore.. PLEASE, if anyone knows how to do this,...more >>

Slides and Triggered Sounds...
Posted by Supercram at 10/17/2004 3:35:54 AM
Hi all, I'm new to Action Script but I have put together a really nifty slide presentation using slides in Flash MX Pro. What I've spent the last four hours trying to do is to make so that when a given slide is active and ONLY when a given slide is active, a given MP3 file starts to stre...more >>

Preloader AS question......
Posted by kjwilliams at 10/17/2004 2:25:27 AM
Howdy, I'm trying to make a preloader that works in MX2004Pro, and still supports Player v6. (If I didn't have to support Player 6, I'd just use the 2004 components and be done with it.) Anyway, I've been trying to use the "smooth preloader" that a lot of folks use, but it states tha...more >>

linked list
Posted by lreadl at 10/17/2004 2:18:16 AM
I'm new to ActionScript, and after pouring over the documentation, maddingly, I still cannot seem to find the answer to one simple question. I need a linked list, preferably similar to the java class SortedSet, which I want to use only for manipulating data (not displaying it on the stage). ...more >>

Help with Global Variable and Button Function
Posted by FlashMXDood at 10/17/2004 1:14:23 AM
Hello, Trying to get my Pause/Resume button to work accordingly when I was adviced to set a global variable first. Here's my button script: var _root.isPaused = 1; if (_root.isPaused == 1) { this.start (this.pauseTime / 1000); _root.isPaused = 0; } else { this.pauseTime = this...more >>

returning full domain
Posted by adamberk at 10/17/2004 12:39:23 AM
Is there a way for flash to get the full url of the page ... for example, if I am on http://www.somedomain.com/page7.html, I need it to return the whole url ("http://www.somedomain.com/page7.html") .. I know how to return the URL in aspx, php, etc and pass it in to flash using a variable, but ...more >>


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