I know this is possible but not sure how to do it. What i need is i have a head of thumbnails in a folder which are in jpeg format. Now what i want to do is load the jpegs to the stage. I want it to be dynamic so that i can just keep putting more jpegs in the folder and not have to change my code...more >>

Hi all I'd like to know if there is anything equivalent to a cookie for flash. My goal is to open a new window with a flash movie that will behave differently depending on which previous page we're coming from. That is, I'd like to pass a variable from a flash movie in one page, to another fl...more >>

I have a movie with a few scenes, 3 to be exact. I master scene where two other scenes can be navigated. I am having a problem finding the right actionscript to make the FLASH movie return to the frame it was on when the surfer navigates to another part on my site. I want the FLASH mov...more >>

Could someone point me in the right direction for this? I created a few graphing movies with Flash (MX 2004). These create pie graphs, bar charts, etc, and load their data by pulling an XML file from the server. These graphs have worked well, so now the people in charge & the customers ...more >>

Is there a way to get the total frames of a movieclip? ...more >>

my code is like this on (rollOver) { tellTarget("MCcarl") { gotoAndPlay (2); } } on (rollOut) { tellTarget("MCcarl") { gotoAndPlay (11); } } - navbar on www.imaginationbrewery.com ...more >>

I have a small form that populates a MySQL database using a PHP script. Everything works fine except after you click Submit, you are sent to the PHP script page. How do I keep it from going there. I've included the actionscript that is called when you click submit. This is driving me crazy. Y...more >>

I have a keyframe that unloads a movie on level 1(unloadMovieNum(1);) , however it does seem rather unpleasant to the eye...is it possible extend the action to give a brief fade out or something? Many thanks ...more >>

Hi all I am loading external jpgs in a MC holder. As they load, when their width and height are known, they are dynamically centered relative to the mcHolder. Now, I want to be able to zoom in the image, onPress, in such a way that the center of the zooming is wherever the mouse is pressin...more >>

I am using a Flash Standalone Player (developed with MX2004 Pro) as a demo screen and jukebox for a plasma screen in our company's reception area. Basically I have written code that dynamically imports and plays music tracks (MP3) from a specific folder (local to the EXE file). The program p...more >>

I'm doing a flashlight effect that is looking at a scene with a flashlight ( I'm using a masking effect ). I want to be able to move the flashlight with/through the mouse but I don't know the scipt. Can anyone help me? Thanks ...more >>

how do you place 'rollover' commands on a movie clip to treat it like a button?...more >>

My question is: can i set de size of a movie (.swf) with ActionScript???. For example, with parameters coming of scripts... Thanks. ..:: wolverine ::....more >>

Can I access the layer/div ID in Flash and therefore re-assign it's z-index? I have a wide Flash movie, with intro included, after which I want links to apppear from under neath the movie. I have made the .swf transparent to allow this, and if the z-indexing of the layer beneath the movie) is...more >>

Hello, I'm building a kind of portfolio, using draw api to create my buttons and the LoadMovie function to load jpg's into them. The problem is that my buttons have rounded corners, so I need to mask them to make the pictures rounded corned too. This Is not working. Can you plea...more >>

Hi Go to this link -> http://www.archizen.com/ On the splash page, you can view a small flash animation where you must click to enter in the website. If you wait, the image appear slowlly with a pixel, noise or whatever the name of this effect. How they do that. Any idea? Tanx in ...more >>

how do i make a button FADE IN/OUT on rollover? any input would be useful. thanks...more >>

I am using Flash on the home page of a site and I need to include some detection. I want to conditionally display either a Flash 6 movie or a static image. What is the best method w/o introducing the standard invisible redirect/splash page? Publishing for Flash 7 player is not an option. Any h...more >>

I am trying to transfer a variable from the main swf file to a external swf file that is being loaded within the main swf. I want to then execute another loadMovie inside the external swf loaded relating to the variable that would be passed. Follow? I figured that I should use the loadVar...more >>

Hi, I would like to create a simple flash file that will display a number based on an external text file. Well, actually, i'd like to make lots. I have a text file as follows: product 1 : £100 product 2 : £200 product 3 : £10 etc etc I will have lots of flash files, one per page, so o...more >>

Hi all I have a swf thats loading XML that's generated from a JSP page. The JSP (called test.jsp) looks like this: <%response.setContentType('text/xml');%><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <root> <field1>This is the contents of field1.</field1> <field2>You specified ID number <%=requ...more >>

I am using a flash intro to a new website and want it to automatically take the view to another url address when it reaches the end of the intro. I've tried adding a frame action, but I seem to be missing something as the flash file stops and just sits there. How is this achieved? Thanks f...more >>

I am trying to dynamically set the text of a Dynamic Text Field on a button with the following line, but it does nothing, why? this.buttonInstanceName.textFieldInstanceName.text = 'Put This In Text Field'; It works fine in my Head, but Flash does not agree with me. Thanks Mathias ...more >>

This is my first flash movie!.... This is what I want to do in english- when the mouse is clicked, check to see if it is over a enemy movie clip. if false do nothing, if true, place blood splat over enemy or replace enemy movieclip with dead enemy movie clip. I already have a mouse li...more >>

I am duplicating a movie on scene called intro: The following scripts I am providing below: This goes on the movie clip: onClipEvent (load) { scale = (random(100) + 50) this._x = random(1000); this._y = random(600); this._alpha = random(10); this._xscale = scale; this._ysca...more >>

Hi, I have a problem, I hope u can help. Imagine, I want to develop a continuous counter. So for instance, it will start at 0000 then it will start counting (e.g 0001, 0002...). When it reaches 0009, it will become 0010. Similarly, after a minute, it will become 0100. How can I do this easil...more >>

Deer Flas Programmer mates! I would like to ask you a question about managing FLV-s. As the MX 2004 Pro tutorial told me, I have created a movie. It's very important for me, that the movie must read an external FLV, mecause my FLV's size are very large. So I folloved the Help, and created a ...more >>

I have a combo box, dynamic text box, and a button. I want to select an item from the combo box and on mouse release i want to display the select item in the dynamic text box. my current code is: on (release) { quantity = quantity.getValue(); message.text = quantity; } This co...more >>

How can i reset my countdown?? countdown.onEnterFrame = function() { if (!pause) { this.timer = int(20-(getTimer()-startTime)/1000); if (Number(this.timer) == 0) { _root.gotoAndStop(12); } } }; ...more >>

Ive found some script that preloads movies which works fine...however the mc's are visible (for a split second) over the top of the movie. How do i alter the script so that the position of the mc is off the stage? Ive had quite a few gos, but as my actionscript is rather poor ive made a bit of...more >>

I have seen posts on how to send a variable within the URL... How about "grabbing" the string in the URL? IE - http://whatever.com?status=yes I tried doing it this way: var strStatus:String = status=yes; And then tried to do some feeble conditional statement but got nowhere with it. ...more >>

I tried those but nothing seems to work???!!!!! Help!!!!!! i = 1; while(i<=10) { // calculates random time hitTime = Math.ceil(Math.random()*5)*1000; trace('hitTime =' + hitTime); // calls a for loop that stops a loop for a hitTime for(startT = new Date(); (endT - startT) < hitTime;...more >>

I want my presentation to wait for the narration to finish before going to the next frame. Also, while the narration is going there are animations on the screen that coincide with it. For sound 1 frame 10, I currently have this: var my_sound:Sound = new Sound(this); my_sound.loadSoun...more >>

I'd like to write a flashcard app in Flash for learning vocab words and need to be able to mark the "cards" I've learned and "file" them accordingly. Is this possible with Flash without requiring an internet connection to a remote database? I want it all to be local... Thanks! ...more >>

I have built a Flash search engine .http://www.dirttracktrader.com/linktous.htm, so it pops up the search results in a new window....more >>

hello all, i'd really appreciate any help you can give me on this problem. i'm not that great at flash...yet...but i'm trying to get better! i broke down my problem in outline form. --kevin;) GOAL: -after a timeout period, a 'randomized' screen saver is called. when the mouse is moved, the...more >>

Hi all Been struggleing with this a bit. I have a JSP file called test.jsp, that consists of this: <%response.setContentType('text/xml');%><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <root> <field1>This is the contents of field1.</field1> <field2>You specified ID number <%=request.getParameter...more >>

:confused; Please help!!! I need to either find a way to add multiple js function calls to a single button instance OR find a work-around. This is really important. Although a simple problem (I think) I need to finish my project at work and this issue is holding up the shift to production. ...more >>

onLoadProgress doesn't seem to work. Copied the code directly from the Help file and just pulled out what I didn't need. I can get it to work with files referenced with an absolute URL, but I need to have a preloader for files running off of a CD. (Embedded video makes the files fairly...more >>

:sun; Admittedly, I'm an ActionScripting Newbie of the worst and most hopeless sort! I need to put into a Flash site a small Listbox where only one item will be selectable at a time. The various list items will each drive the movie playhead to a different frame in the same timeline. A m...more >>

I have a flash file with a combobox component in the first scene. I can code to navigate between scenes with this combobox, but If I put the box on say the second scene, I can not navigate from there. I guess my question is, why can I navigate from the first scene, but not back to the first ...more >>

I'm trying to place background music in my Flash movie. I can do that easy enough, but commanding it to start and stop using buttons and actionscript isn't working. Does anyone have a suggestion that will help? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi. I have made a program where I need to send some information between two swf-files, and I am using LocalConnection to do that. The problem I ran into was when I tried to send an array that had the value of 'this'. The other swf-file couldn't recognice that so when I traced it, it said 'unde...more >>

I have 2 movie clips one was created by createEmptyMovieClip() the other by attachMovie() when i try to detect the collision i get nothing or rater (UNDEFINED) when i trace the hitTest from one of the movie clips. both objects are dynamically created and both are visible on the screen once ...more >>

Hello, I need a function to dynamicaly create buttons or textfields distributiing then acordingly to my needs. In this case I need to create 12 buttons, in 3 rows and 4 columns. Would someone please help me on this, I just nedd the math function for the _x and _y placement, I know al...more >>

I created a class t2.b4 which is a subclass of Button. It is a very simple class. //the parent directory of t2 is in the classpath //the symbol b4_btn is in the library //in the linkage properties of b4_btn, the AS 2.0 class is t2.b4 class t2.b4 extends Button { public static...more >>

I have some dynamic text fields for which I have set the font to an embedded font - which I've added to my library. I do this right from the Properties panel. These fonts work across both Mac and PC. I have a second area where I am creating and styling text fields dynamically using the follow...more >>

Has this bug been fixed? Can allowDomain be used to access an xml or text document? Thanks, Todd...more >>

Is it possible, perhaps with a method on a textbox, to get a boolean value if a scrollbar is nessercary, i.e. the text is more than the textbox can handle? I want to use this value to decide if I show a scrollbar or not dynamically for each text I am loading into my textbox ...more >>

Does anyone out there know how to go about making a ski jump game similar to this one: http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games/StanSkiJump/index.html Are there any tutorials out there for a simple version of this. I want to have the skiier sliding down the jump and when it gets to a point have th...more >>