I need a script to scroll a banner of images right and left on a mouse over following the direction of the mouse. thank you in advance...more >>

I am trying to insert a jpg file into a movie clip and the jpg file is distorted, eventhough I defined the movie clip to be the exact size of the jpg. What's up?...more >>

I am doing a tutorial from flashkit on loading text from a .txt file. The code for loading it is placed in the only frame of the only layer. A dynamic text field is placed on the screen with an instance name of "text". I then placed the following code in the frame. stop() loadVariablesNum("n...more >>

Hi, Is there a funktion like StringTokenizer and StringtoValue in Flash, like in Java? Thanx freez ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to use the new ActionScript 2.0 functionality using classes. I have created a very simple example - which has a compilation error and I do not understand why ? (I am using Flash MX 2004 professional - with publish settings to ActionScript 2.0) I have included ...more >>

This is Urgent Hi, I have just completed a fully dynamic site for a publishing company, working with php mySql and flash, and now the client wants it to be bigger. Problem is that the images are loaded externally and if i scale the swf the images(jpg) look awfull cause they are scaled. Is th...more >>

Im sure someone flashy can help. I duplicate a movieclip 6 times in a for loop. Inside the loop I call a function called Drag() which enables each duplicated movieclip to be draggable. It works fine. But if I use loadMovie("letter"+a+".jpg", movie); inside the loop to load a JPEG imag...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004 on a PC. Haven't used Flash since v5 so everything is different and not in my favor. I'm trying to get a submit button when clicked goes to a frame within a movieclip and I don't know the updated ActionScript programming to make it do that. (The submit button in not act...more >>

Hi all, Does the onRelease method not work with a movie clip created with createEmptyMovieClip? How do you create an Empty movie clip as a button? For example, I do something like : everything works but the onRelease method never runs (i assume because it's not a button object ) :-( ...more >>

I have an MC that moves via an AS loop. I have a stop() command that it won't follow - it just keeps looping. How do I fix this? The code is in frame 3 so it loops between the two. this._y = this._y - velocity; if(this.hitTest(_root.cursor)){ stop(); } else gotoAndPlay(2); ...more >>

When using the WebService class and setting the URI to a relative path the class only uses the root of the relative path. Example ws_Test = new WebService("/mytest/test.cfc?wsdl"); //on "http://www.mytest.com/TestDir/" Returns an error "Cannot find WSDL at http://www.mytest.com/m...more >>

hi there, I'm working a flash movie that creates buttons with pictures from database in flash mx 6 , the communication between the database and flash is made with cabron connector and it's working just fine. I only know how to assign properties to the dinimically generated movieclips in the...more >>

hello, creating my first mail form through flash via PHP. It can be viewed http://www.portsmouth1009.com/helpfla.html. 1. What is that code (_level0.form.name) showing up in all my form fields? I've found no help, and have gone over my stuff a bit and am deadlocked. 2. Why do all my bu...more >>

hi i have a very strange problem I use createEmptyMovieClip() to create a movie clip. I then use clip.loadMovie(url); to load clips into the clip. i can stop and play them no problem BUT when i put my swf file on a web server it all goes wrong. when i call clip.stop(); ...more >>

I'm having a problem with my movie. Some people seem to be having an unexpected error when te movie loads, I'll try to explain what's happening I've a main movie that loads movies using the loadmovie function in a main scene, beeing this the code I'm using: on (rollOver) { load...more >>

I use an XML-Document with chinese characters within my Flash project. The problem is, that the chinese characters are not displayed. I tried to use different encodings for the XML-File. I tried UTF-8, UTF-16 and gb2312 but none of them showed me any chinese signs. I use FLash MX 2004 and w...more >>

Does anybody know how to make Flash MX pro action window act like the old Flash 5 version? Where it write the code for you. thanks steve...more >>

Hei Cant target a text after using attachMovie. My code : // attach movie_mc to _root _root.attachMovie("trg", "movie_mc", 5); // In movie_mc I have textField named "name_txt" // trying to set name_txt to "Dan" _root.movie_mc.name_txt.text = "Dan"; Please help me. ...more >>

Hi everyone, I am new to using flash. Well, to actionscript really and am used to Lingo. My question is this: I am making a little whiteboard thing and have the drawing API drawing lines in my movie clip, but I want to restrict the drawing to within the movie boundaries. As it stands, i ca...more >>

I am trying to use a variable from an array and combine it with different endings to control different objects. However, I?m having trouble combining the two pieces and having actionscript recognize it as an object. It usually comes back as a number or a string. Could someone please help me? I...more >>

I have a mc in another mc in another mc. How do I get the _x postion of the first mc realtive to stage? Josp...more >>

Can someone help me with a script that will display data from text, combo box, radiobutton, and checkbox data on another scene. For example a user enters a name in the first name textbox and when the submit button is pressed, the scene that it's linked to will display that first name in a text...more >>

Hi there. After updating the help files with the update button, the section in which the topic to update was residing (using components) is not visible anymore. Error 404, can't find the specified page. Any hints about what's causing this annoying behavior? Thanks in advance, G. ...more >>

Is there an easy way to embed existing code into FLASH. I just want the output to be flash instead of HTML. It's HTML, PHP and JS that i want to embed into FLASH...more >>

I am trying to build a component that uses other components and objects, like textFields, ComboBoxes, and loadVars. So, I define my component and create a textField and loadVars object. But then I want to create the onLoad function for the loadVars object: I've put a textField on the stag...more >>

I am creating an interactive CD presentation with Flash. Within the CD I need to have a button that opens a Powerpoint Presentation held on the same CD Is this possible? And if so, can anyone point me in the direction of how to do this please? Thanks, Stevie ...more >>

urgent help needed. how do i make a dynamic scrolling text but a horizontal text scroller NOT a vertical scroller using simple actionscripting. i tried using, ( scrolltext.scroll - 1 ) but it scrolls the text from bottom to top, thus making it a vertical scroller which i donot require. i am us...more >>

Hi, my flash movie uses three external movieclips. So I created three placeholder (dummy) movieclips which will be replaced with the external files by using the loadMovie method. Everything works fine so far. Now, I would like to use a progressbar for loading the movie, using the methods ge...more >>

Do we really need all the crap below (taken from A.S. Help) just to implement an onLoad handler for an external JPEG? Does anyone have a shorter, more general, more useful example of how the MovieClipLoader function might be used? // first set of listeners var my_mcl = new MovieClipLoade...more >>

Hi, I am trying to use the new action script 2.0 API and I cannot have the = TabBar component to work. Am I doing something wrong here ? I tried both: createClassObject(mx.controls.TabBar, "myTabBar", 10); and createClassObject(TabBar, "myTabBar", 10); and the TabBar is not present at runt...more >>

Hello All, I have a swf file.On a button click I load another swf file on level 1 this is the code in the button instance of parent swf: on (press) { loadMovieNum("new.swf",1); } How can I make the background of the file on level1 new.swf transparent regards anant ...more >>

Hello.. i need help! I'm now doin scirpting for my school project.Its about a shooting game.. My problem is...... =( How do i shoot to the specfic target that i point my gun to? its like i have 5 stationery targets on stage.. Tom Dick, and Harry.. i point at Harry.. how do i program my...more >>

Hello.. i need help! I'm now doin scirpting for my school project.Its about a shooting game.. My problem is...... =( How do i shoot to the specfic target that i point my gun to? its like i have 5 stationery targets on stage.. Tom Dick, and Harry.. i point at Harry.. how do i program my p...more >>

Hi! I have an abacus simple program using Flash mx 2004. Two MC (BeadCollection1 and BeadCollection2) had the Number value (BeadValue). The problem is how I get a sum of Number values between that? Would you help me please...., Thanks before ...more >>

I've been asking a question repeatedly and searching for an answer to no avail. I then decided to build the simplest flash application possible with the same functionality I was testing. Here's what I found. A hitTest on any object in a Window component will fail almost all the time. Depen...more >>

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it's is possible to load some actionscript code at runtime for my movie from a database. I think it's not, but i want to do somthing like save the actionscript code into a database and load it into my movie using php. But if anyone can load actionscript fr...more >>

Is there a way to have a flash movie project (.exe) open directly to fullscreen? I'm using the fscommand (fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); ) and my movie does open to fullscreen but its not smooth. Meaning, I see the Flash Player blue bar for a split second before it opens to fullscreen. ...more >>

I am using attachMovie function to dynamic attached MCs depending on the database. How can I overwrite the current attachMovie MCs with a new set of MCs at the same position and location after a click on a next button? I attached some codes, hope somebody can figure it out for me ...more >>

I am having problems getting the asfunction to work. I have loaded a .txt file into a TextArea in FlashMX and have the html set to True. The text appears fine but I can not get the asfunction to work, this is what I have: In my text document: <A HREF="asfunction:goframe,7">designated profes...more >>