I am working on a movie that goes through explaining simple machines. There is a main menu with buttons that lead to different scenes that have explanations of the simple machines. The scene that the main menu is on is called mainmenu1. At the end of each scene that explains the machines, the...more >>

if this is even possiblr can someone please explain how i would go about it? I'm way too far along to go back and load them into container clips. thanks...more >>

I created my flv in After effects 5.5 and I want to read it in flash. How do I do this? What component do I use to control this video? Thanks, Brenda S....more >>

I am working on a movie that goes through explaining simple machines. There is a main menu with buttons that lead to different scenes that have explanations of the simple machines. The scene that the main menu is on is called mainmenu1. At the end of each scene that explains the machines, the...more >>

I have been searching for a tutorial or an editable example of the use of a dropdown selection box/combobox within a form, whereas the selectable items are variable of who to send the form email response to. For example the user will be able to select who his form is sent to by choosing a ...more >>

none of the answers have worked...i want the mouse to go over the text and when it goes over the text to act as a goto button without having to click it...more >>

First: This is actionscript 2.0 and we are working in Flash MX 2004 7.2. We have found the following strange behavior. We are comparing two Numbers, one of which is undefined and the other has a value(it is the same result for any value). Both >= and <= return true, while == returns false. ...more >>

Hey all, I'm having a problem figuring out something that should be fairly simple I believe. Basically, I have navigation buttons ... each button has its own 'section' in the timeline. The sections are basically layed out in the timeline in 10 frame intervals. Each section is loading it's ...more >>

Yes, I know, you're probably tired of seeing 'varables' in the message title, but none of the prior topics has answered my problem: I have a url(this on is fake): www.somedomain.com/index.html?variable1=value1 index.html contains my ..swf file. Can someone please tell me how I can load the var...more >>

Hey, i'm creating an application that requires a textfield with an easing scrollbar. I don't have a lot of time, so i downloaded a couple of fla files that do this kind of thing. They work great until i publish them under Flash 7, at which point the scrolls stop working! I'm sorry i don't h...more >>

I have a .fla with only one scene. It seems that when you have a _root.gotoandplay() command that goes to a frame that has actionscript in it, it is inconsistent about running the actionscript. About half the time that I use the gotoandplay command, I am going to a frame that has a stop() as i...more >>

I have a main movie (Main.swf). That is my main movie with other SWF files that get loaded into a empty mc (container). When i load the first movie (home.swf) everything is fine. But, within that first movie (home.swf) I have an MC on the timeline (mc_door). I have labeld the frame as "door". ...more >>

I am familiar with using a swf as a shared library for other swf's to borrow from - like buttons graphics etc. How do i use this system for sounds. I am trying to balance out some of the file sizes of my swfs so i would like to put some button sounds into one of my earlier swf's to be used in...more >>

I need to create something similar to Dreamweaver's 'Repeat Region' behavior in Flash. Is there an easy way to go about this? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hello, All... I am pretty new to Action Script and have run into a small problem I am sure any number of you can answer for me. I have an online portfolio where my photos are being displayed. On this flash site I have basic buttons which advance the frames (photos) frwd or backwards ...more >>

How can I grab an object (button, movieclip text, whatever) and modify its properties like I can in Javascript? ...more >>

Where are these servers running from? Europe?...more >>

I am sure this is an easy one but I can't seem to get it to work. I am doing a For loop, in the command I am comparing it to my Array the problem is my Array is saying there are three objects in the Array which is true but it start at 0 and not 1 so when I do my For loop and I start at 0 the ...more >>

I have a swf that loads external swf files. These external swf files can be larger than the stage they are being loaded into. I want to resize the swfs from the stage they are loading into so they will fit. Do I put code into each of the called swfs to find the size of the stage? or do I...more >>

In javascript we can do the following get all the elements in the document document.elements.length and then do the following for(var i=0;i<document.elements.length;i++) { if(document.elements == 'MyName') blah blah blah } So we can search the Flash FLA for specfic elements and then get a ...more >>

The dot syntax in the behaviors panel was not creating the correct link and I was wondering how this could be done. ...more >>

Ok this is strange. When I use loadMovie, In Mozilla style browsers I only get the movie loaded and not the background "interface" movie. Basically I have an interface movie that loads the swfs inside a smaller movieclip in the middle. It will only show the loaded movie and not both. It ...more >>

I am trying to write some code that will take a string sent from Authorware and parse it into an assignment statement. For example, if Authorware sends the string: "_root.place=1", I want to be able to use eval to change _root.place to a value of 1. I've been trying a number of different app...more >>

I've created a flash site that consists of 1 main movie (a home page), and 5 subsections which load into this home page when required. Each of these 5 has up to 6 movies loading into it too. When viewed on a PC, everything seems fine - except that sometimes there is a massive time delay be...more >>

I wanna start to make some real-time applications, such as chats and online games in Flash, using the XMLSocket class, but I'm having trouble to find a good server. Does anyone know some good server that I could use in an IIS/Windows XP environment? Thanks, Rodrigo ...more >>

if this is even possible does anyone have the code to do it?? thanks...more >>

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Hola! Does anyone know how to set cookies from flash? I'm trying to use a javascript function, check if there is a cookie, otherwise set a cookie any idea are welcome thanks in advance...more >>

Hey just wanted you to see some cool flash video and get some oppinions on the site (other than design, still working on that). Check out the media section at www.how2dance.com BackBayChef www.how2dance.com ...more >>

How would I go about testing one movie clip against the transparency of another one? Is that possible, or am I limited to only testing if their bounding boxes interesect? I've checked the help files, and they don't go into much detail about hitTest other than how to obtain a true/false va...more >>

hello I want to make a page that will have an option , so that users could enter a text in an empty field and then this input will be saved in blahblah.txt (for example). I know how to make the field but I don't know how to transfer this information into a text file,or html ..... Bob...more >>

Hi. I am working on a project that is loading jpgs at runtime using myClip.loadMovie . In order to be able to replace pics in the future, I am using a naming convention ie: 1A, 1B etc. and the client can just rename the pics accordingly. My question is: is it possible to load the pics f...more >>

Hi all, I'm stumped. I've looked all over Usenet and in the Flash MX 2004 help docs, and as far as I can tell, I'm doing everything correctly, but the below isn't working. I'm loading an external CSS file with the code below: var my_styleSheet:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleShe...more >>

Have been trying to connect a movie to a button with no luck. I have imported a quicktime.mov 'rgb.mov' to flash library and would like it to play whith release of button; on (release) {loadMovieNum('rgb.mov', 1); }... greatful for any help! hakon ...more >>

I need to disable the keyboard from inputting anything into a input field at runtime. I have tried many things but have had no success as of yet. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance...more >>

Hi, I want to change the projector file icon. How can I change it ? Do i need to write some code or through 3rd party tool can be done ??? Thanx in advance ~Anand...more >>

I need to make a gradual color transition for 8 mc inside 1 mc. (each to a different color) I can change the colors with setRGB but haven't been able to control the speed. With seTransform I get what I want but only for one mc. I think I need a new color object and a new color transform obj...more >>

Ok... I really hate looking and sounding like another retarded n00b, but I've looked through the lessons/tuts as well as searched the forums here and I can't find any solution. After having looked at the maze example, I wanted to make one of my own from scratch, to get some practice with t...more >>

hi, i have a progress bar mc which i want to chnage the color at runtime . so i have used color object ..on click of the button i am calling color.srtRGB(); its chnages the color but stops the movie clip. can ne body help thx in advance.. kakas sbar_Color = new Color(sBar); on (rele...more >>

i cant seem to understand the rollover...im sorry for posting again, but how would i do a actionscript that would be like a goto script, for example: when the mouse is hovered over a symbol it would go from frame 1 to frame 2 ...more >>

Hello! My question is as follows: I have learned how to provide movement through ActionScript, however is there any way to force movement along a path, like in a traditional animation? Also, if I set variables to different coordinates, is there any way to test if the object is at a specific...more >>

I created a button by doing insert--> new symbol. Added all my text/images for button. I placed the button on stage and gave it an instance of button1. I want the button to call an event listener to open the window component. Nothing happens when I click on the button. This is my code. ...more >>

hello, i hope someone can help me, i just want to create 2 forms, 1 for the hour and 1 for the minutes, i have already created such form, but i want to know is how to create those forms whose value is the exact time (the hour and the minutes), on which i can edit it and submit into the databa...more >>