I'm using AS 1.0 and have a problem with a 2d array. How do I set a certain coordinate in the array to a value? Here is some simplified code that doesn't work. Basically it should set each element in an array to a random value of 1-4. gridArray is already defined, unless I have to do it a spec...more >>

I made a multimedia in a C.D in Flash Mx and Mac OSX , but the FsCommand (in a Projector) when try to load an external SWF return to original size(SWF?s size) and the FS Command doesn?t work, i try with allowscale etc... and nothing happen, but in windows work correctly everithing.:disgust; ...more >>

I'm pulling my hair out on this one. I need to be able to search for words in the XML data I have. Since there appears to be no built in fucntion for this I just need a loop function that will iterate through the XML. All my attempts at a recrusive function have resulted in the NEVERENDING ...more >>

I know this is simple but I can not find it anywhere. I have an input text box for the user to simply jot notes to themselves. It is not used for triggering any other function. It has a scrollbar because I want the user to write as much as they want. I have a reset button that clears the te...more >>

Greetings. Is there a way to set SOAPAction http header on an SOAPCall or PendingCall object? I've been struggling with this for a couple of days - no luck. Please help. Thanks....more >>

I´m trying to put a scroll bar component to a Dinamic Text Window, but the content of this window is in a php file called by loadVariables("http://www.site.com/text.php", "", "GET"); The text loads, but the scroll bar don´t work...why?! Also, if you all could help me to "GET" from a .txt or ...more >>

I'm trying to figure out how to create this back and forth scrolling effect. It's at http://www.arcadiafinearts.com/works_adel.html Any help would be so appreciated. Bernie C bchiaravalle@comcast.net http://www.arcadiafinearts.com/works_adel.html ...more >>

I am having trouble streaming .flv files from IIS 5 on Windows 2000 Server (it works fine from Apache 1.x or 2.x, but they are not an option for this project). Basically, it starts playing, then, after several hundred KB of the file download (total of 4 MB file) it stops playing. http://w...more >>

I am a beginier at macromedia flash and i am attempting to make a site in flash and i was trying to have it move backwards through the timeline when you click a button i got it to move thorough the timeline forword and have the stuff fade in to the new page and then i wanted it to move backwar...more >>

Hi, Could enybody help me!!!! Please. I've made an menu in Flash which loads other movieClip if pressing the button. It works while i'm playing it in Flash Player, but when I'm doing the Publish to the .html, it doesn't works. here is the Script: b.onRelease = function(){ mc.loadMovie(...more >>

Hello, I got a simple question. I am creating a movie clip thats just a square, then in the main time line I place AS for it to change color when the user rolls over it. This part works like a charm; however, i am wonder if i duplicate and give it a basic name + a #, then make the AS chang...more >>

I have a component quiz on frame one of root. When the user selects an answer, they get feedback and go to the 2nd frame of root where I've placed a button giving them the option to retake the quiz (goto Frame 1)... however, when they have made a selection, the quiz gets grayed out and at Fra...more >>

I have a movieclip subclass (called "SequenceString") that I'm using "startDrag" and "stopDrag" on and for some reason, after I've dragged the clip over another clip (movieclip subclass type "CatalogEntry"), my bounds of the SequenceString no longer update. The image itself will still move wh...more >>

Dear All, I am having great difficulty implementing a situation where buttons in seperate movieclips can communicate to each other. In a simple example I can do what I want, but I am having problems implementing in a more complex situation. Any suggestions abouy how I could track down the pro...more >>

Can someone tell me why this very simple code isn't working? It just spits out "undefined." var my_array:Array = new Array(); my_array[0] = "January"; trace(my_array[0]);...more >>

Hi . I have a combobox listed with many type of products. I want that when a user chooses a product, the image is loaded on screen, make it a movie clip , so I can drag and drop it . What I have until now, is that all the jpg's are already converted by actionscript into movieclips with mc._v...more >>

How can I detect the velocity of the mouse and depending on that move an object faster or slower? Thanks a lot! Brenda S....more >>

Alright i know its fscommand("showmenu", false); But where do i put this code, on first frame or what ?? Ive tried 1st fram without sucess....more >>

flash & shoutcast stream I have a flash file that is streaming a LIVE shoutcast stream. everything works fine in safari (Mac OS X) and firefox (mac & windows) but Internet explorer on WinXP does not play the audio stream. My code is: mblive = new Sound(); mblive.loadSound ("webcams.mon...more >>

HI there, I'd appreciatte any help on this: I am creating a flash movie and its interface is the map of the world; each country is going to behave as a button (but in reality they are movieclips), so we're talking about 195 clips on stage. I created general functions for the roll over, roll ...more >>

Hi Guys, Just a small question. I have movie which i have place in the root and i named it "test2", under the movie "test2" their is another movie "mymovie". currently i'm playing the movie "test2" from the root. At a certain point inside the movie "mymovie" i want to play again the movie ...more >>

I am building an application that loads an external mp3 from a file on my server onRelease of a button. It loads it (if its not loaded it displays a message in a txt field ) if it is, it plays and displays the track name in a text field. The problem is, when I publish it with a download simu...more >>

I used this script to make my menu selection swing: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { _x = _root.myfirstbutton._x; } and the movie clip contained the button. the problem is when i double click on the movie clip and assign an "on release" command to go to anoth...more >>

Hi all, I have some databound comboboxes, the labels are too wide to display properly, is there a way to autosize them? I've had a fossick in the code and I can't seem to find an immediately obvious way of doing so. I'd have imagined that you could iterate the rows of combobox, find the max w...more >>

Hey all, I am having a movie clip with some text written inside it dynamically by attaching Label component at runtime. Now, when I rotate this clip by changing _rotation, the text inside it disappears. Any ideas whats goin on and any workarounds? Pl help! Thanks in advance, Kapil ...more >>

Ok, I wonder if there is solution for the following: 1) I've created a button 2) I place an instance on the stage on frame 1 and on frame 15 I insert a keyframe and drag the button a bit. Then I insert a motion tween, so the button gets animated. 3) On frame 1, I click the button and attach ...more >>

Hi to all I have a problem there is a part of a larger project. I will try to describe the problem first I have 3 MovieClips that is dynamicly created from a class constructor. They are called "gameClip1_mc","gameClip2_mc" and "gameClip3_mc". The game is runni...more >>

Hello I wonder if anyone can shed any light on what is going on here? I have a map (movieClip 'theMapLarge') on the stage onto which I am attaching a circular marker (movieClip 'loc'). The map itself can be dragged around the screen. I want the circular marker to do something when I move the m...more >>

hi there, i'm trying to cycle through an array with names of MC's in it, and target frames and declared like this var highlightArray:Array = new Array(); highlightArray.push({nameHighlight:"clock", page:"clock"}); highlightArray.push({nameHighlight:"aoa", page:"AOA"}); check to see ...more >>

I have a game that displays objects depending what one is listed in a text doc. Originally I had a test version working with 15 objects but for the final game I have 74. Even though I have changed the list in the text doc and added the objects to the library it will still only display the firs...more >>

This may be a similar problem to http://www.actionscript.org/forums/...ad.php3?t=44101 but I'm having difficulty targeting an swf on level1. Here's what I've got: Two files: main.swf and popup.swf. popup.swf has a component pill button (it's actually designated as a movie clip). The instanc...more >>

K, this worked without the XML content (look at the quoted function), but doesn't work when I attach the XML content to it. The idea is a menu (combined with XML data) and when you roll over the menu items, the underlying childs are shown in a seperate movieclip. the XML is formed like: &lt...more >>

So I'm just beginning my quest with xml use in Flash - so I'm really quite basic. My question is: when I load xml into Flash, I can return the node as a string and read it into a field as html, only the ignoreWhite is.......... being ignored. I still get extra gaps in my code and I'm not s...more >>

Hello every buddy, I wish you are right, doing great Would you please tell me how I can get c and y coordinates of a movie clip in its defferent container movie clips scopes. for example I have A on _root and B inside A and C inside B. I wana get x coordinate of C in scope of A and another t...more >>

Hello Flash Geeks, I am about to develop a Flash based Quiz engine which will accepts questions as individual SWF files. If u have gone thru any of these type engines in internet or ur personal projects, please brief me on that. It will be of very helpful to me. I am waiting for u people's e...more >>

Okay, under Flash5, I could tween an object, adjusting it's alpha to make it fade in and out. When I installed FlashMX on my first laptop, no problems there either, now, since my first laptop self-destructed (Heat sink on CPU melted), I have another laptop and installed FlashMX there. Proble...more >>

I hope this is the right group... I have a flash form and a PHP page. The flash form is to collect e-mail addresses and send them to the PHP page to be sent. My problem is, it's multiple e-mails, so, I'm trying to use a ListBox, but I can't find a way to send the contents of the list-box to...more >>

I've got a Flash EXE that contains 7 SWF's that load one after the other. One plays and when it ends the next one plays and so on. Those work great. Is there a way to PRELOAD the next SWF so that there is no delay, as the files are different sizes? Some are only 2 - 4 megs while a few are ...more >>

hi everyone. I have a problem of mousewheel event. I used scrollpane component ,but I found when there is no scrollbar if you click the content of scrollpane then use mouse wheel ,the content will move without limit. How to avoid it .or shield mousewheel in the whole flash? Thank you very much...more >>

i would like to know, how to make my flash movie to detect the user display setting when the user click on the button. Example: if the user display setting is lower than 1024 x 768, it will direct to other flash movie. And if the setting is correct will redirect it to the main flash movi...more >>

i have a quick question 1. i am making a game with a 'stats' page that has a lot of variables being displayed at once and, i could make it so that there are several pages, but to make it easier on the user and me, i wanted to know how i would make a scrollbar(preferably an mc). im using fl...more >>