hello, i'm having trouble having flash read from text files at a set interval of five seconds. instead of cycling through a set of 5 captions and headlines, flash loads the last one specified. it seems like my setInterval isn't working for some reason even though it works for my dynamicall...more >>

Dear All, setting up a series of small buttons. There us an irritating 'flicker' as the mouse moves over the button. There is no script, only standard states for a button objects. Any ideas on how I can get rid of this flicker? ...more >>

Hey, I am using this to go to certain frames of movies.. It works great except that it wont go to just the first frame??? What is going on? I have this code on the first frame of all the moives i am loading in: this._visible = 0; this.createEmptyMovieClip("loader", 34567); loader.onEnter...more >>

Im having this problem. If I compare two strings , ABC and abc, it says it's not the same. I know they ain't the same due to the alphanumerical values, but I don't want to force the user to type always in capital letters. Is there a function to convert it to caps, or what can I do to make fl...more >>

Hi All - this is somewhat of a continuation of an earlier topic on random numbers in a card game. I am moving along with the gracious help of kglad, rothrock and david. I have a fairly simple card game with two decks of 88 cards each. When you click on a btn it calls a random card from d...more >>

I'm trying to create a general MP3 player in Flash for a website. I put up a version 1 up on the http://www.highschoollogic.com. When you go into the high bandwidth, I have a small .swf file that plays 1 of 5 songs on the bottom. I got the next and previous buttons working as well as sto...more >>

Im trying to set up a basic Accordian but Im not understanding how it works too well. I have Flash MX 2004 Proffesional. It would be greatly appreciated....more >>

is there a way to rotate a movie clip and reset the source graphic (png) for it to point (0,0). for example, i have a movie clip with dimensions 33 width x 22 height. i rotate it 90 CW so that it is 22 x 33 and now the source graphic for the movie clip is no longer located at 0,0 -- it's ...more >>

My form is in a movieclip. When the submit button is released, the form information should go to an asp page and then to an email address. When I test the movie the form is never completely executed. The form never goes to the asp page. I not sure if it is the asp file or the actionscripts ca...more >>

Is there a way to determine in script if a clip is running in a projector or in a web browser? Thanks. ...more >>

hi everybody, i have the following code: for (var i = 0; i<productos.length; i++) { this.createEmptyMovieClip("foto_mc"+i, i+1000) var aux = productos.fotoCH; this["foto_mc"+i].onPress = function() { trace("ok") } this["foto_mc"+i]._x = -55*i-55 this["foto_mc"+i]._y =...more >>

looking for a way to reorder an array.. one item at a time. ex: make item[3] become item[2] and vice versa i was going to do this with splice() but i thought there might be an easier way to do this ultimately, this is for two buttons UP and DOWN User will select an item and ...more >>

I'm trying to use the forms buttons in flash to create a demo application. To advance the the next page, I am using the following action: on(release){ getURL("nextpage.htm", "_self", "POST"); } when I click on the button from with the flash, I get a page cannot be displayed message...more >>

Hi, I can change the color of a single movie clip with no problems at all...... ie: var colorful = new Color("_root.shapes"); colorful.setRGB(0x003366); However - I have a MC (parent) which contains 2 other MC's (children) and I want to change the children MC's to separate colo...more >>

Is there an "fscommand" to get rid of the window around your flash movie whilst playing it as a projector? Thanks!...more >>

Hi. I have a beach scene on my stage, i a have a cloud Movie clip I want this cloud go cross my stage from left to right by code. And also make this crossing radom in time. Ex- the cloud just crossed the stage, now it ill return to the orginal place and after 3 secods wil cross again, t...more >>

helo there, help me out I have this flash application consists of date chooser, data grid, and xml connector (events.swf). I created another .swf movie (load_events.swf) to load the events.swf into this movie. The first try was a failure. When I load the events.swf into the load_events...more >>

I have multiple MCs.. they all have instance names.. I would like to use an 'on(rollOver)' action on each of these MCs... Preferably, I would like to create this code once in the timeline..and have it affect ALL the MCs .. I do not want to put this code on each of the MCs individually...a...more >>

Didn't know where else to put this so here goes I have made this full page flash intro for my website with macromedia flash mx. But my question is how can i get it to foward to the main page on my website? I would like to have a few seconds of delay between this transition as if possible....more >>

I've got an Image Rotator that uses xml and as2 to pull images from a folder - What is the action script code to create an "alpha in" (alpha=0% to alpha=100%) effect on images that are being pulled from the Images folder and placed into the flash file? Any help would be appreciated! Th...more >>

I am making a game in which I need my main character to bounce off the walls. I have used flash for other stuff but have never attempted to make a game. I have my main icon (icon1) in which I have put movement on. I have walls made (walls1) and have made my walls into a movie clip. What I am w...more >>

Hey all - Is there an issue loading a SWF from one domain while calling a FLV from another? We are using Flash MX 7.0.19.0 Thanks in advance! Ryan...more >>

I have a silmple problem (Flash MX 2004). I current have my interface on my main timeline. My buttons call movie clips to dynamicly load into the main time line. once I have a movie clip loaded, this is where my problem is. I have another button inside of that movie clip that is control the...more >>

Hi there, here is my query: I have a movie which is a questionnaire, making use of several v2 components. On compiling and testing on a 56k connection, it takes up to 20 seconds for ANYTHING, including a preloader, to appear. Initially I thought the problem may be the "export in first fram...more >>

.... thinking that i'd be a good little order and split various parts of my movie up into levels as it's an inter/intraweb project for a large company when low and behold I'm told they come back saying that their system is limited to Flash 4! HMMmmm, so what do I do? how can I get element to "...more >>

Hi! Is it possible that when a swf opens, it opens maximized ? Not fullscreen , but maximized ? Any answers or suggestions are well received. Thanks...more >>

Hi everyone, Is it possible to create / save / edit a text file from a swf file? What i basically want to do is, my swf file to create a text file with a prespecified name, based on inputs made by the user in the swf movie, save certain content to the text file and display the contents of ...more >>

im trying to resize the height of an object with actionscript, but it expands in both directions instead of just downwards. How do I make it expand downwards only? Happy for ANY help // David ...more >>

Is there a way to fade text from a textfile or variable? Fadeeffect] The fade effext should go from 0% alpha to 100% and then from 100% to 0% again b]The textfile look like this: Line 1 with the first text to fade. Line 2 with the second text to fade. ..... I?m quite new to fl...more >>

working with 1 scene, and alot of external swf?s My current preloader, is designed to detect all the content within the "swf" not external files. can anyone help me, or give me a hint how you create a preloader that can preload the move "scenes" and all the ext swf -files ...more >>

the actionscript to retrieve data from an asp file.. my job is to input actionscript into the flash. this actionscript calls the asp file and retrieve the input value in the asp file. the value is then displayed in the flash. i'll also be having bar charts to represent these values. the proble...more >>

Hi. I'm creating an 800x600 Flash-based site, and I need to import a previously-created game. The game occupies a small area (about 400x300) within it's Flash movie (which is also sized for 800x600), and so has a large backgound 'border' all around it. When I import it like this: _root.l...more >>

Can I load more than 1 .mp3, using the loadSound() code, in one file?...more >>

hi guys, i've been away from flash for so time now an i'm wonderring about a problem. i created a array at the beginning of a movie. monster=new array() Monster.push{(name:"black wolf", hitpoints:15, number:3..........)} etc. in the game i got different mc. On starting the game all the ...more >>

Hi all I have a problem with an event handler onRelease in a dinamic load images. The code i use is: but the onRelease don't work. I think that the elements in the array are not the MovieClips, but i'm not sure. I need help, thanks. createTiles(); function createTiles():Void { ...more >>

Am I correct in thinking if I want to perform several operations on each element of an array, it will take the same amount of time if I A) traverse the array and perform one operation on each element, then traverse the array again and perform another operation on each element, then traverse ...more >>

Hi, assume I have 2 textfields on the canvas. The 1st and 2nd textfield contains "Hello my name is John Smith" I'm applying someTextFormatting to the 1st textfield , say: - "Hello" is bolded - "John Smith" is coloured blue. I want to copy textfield1.text to textfield2.text while reta...more >>

I'm writing a program that attaches Movie Clips and then later manually removes them when they leave an area which includes the stage. Will this increase the performance of the program? What I mean is, on slower computers, will this allow the frame rate to remain higher than it otherwise wou...more >>