What will happen if i set my dynamic text field to display text in Trebuschet font (dynamic field's font type), and the user who is viewing the movie doesn't have Trebuschet installed on his system? Will the flash replace that font with similar family font, like Arial, or it will do something el...more >>

I am trying to make a movie clip button that lights up when u hover over it and slowly fades when u hover of it again. I found this can be done by using the following this. lines, my problem is is when the user clicks the button i want it to go to another frame in the main timeline the movie c...more >>

You know how ESC key will exit from a projector, can you make a graphic button that uses that command? The FSCommand "Quit" isn't working for what I'm doing, but hitting the ESC button does. Thank you. ...more >>

Greetings all: Old Director guy here, making the transition to Flash, slowly but surely. Forgive the newbie question, but... Is there any way to hang actionscript off of the buttons themselves? Basically, I've got a ton of buttons that will appear in several places across the project, but th...more >>

:clock; I'm stuck on what I thought would have a simple solution, but I can't seem to open a Director projector (MAC with no extension) from flash. I have a flash projector that plays from a CD and after it's finished I want it to open my MAC Director Projector, but it's working. My code is ...more >>

:confused; Hi: Someone help me!!!! I have two different problems with sounds: 1) I have MP3s that when play in the library sound pretty well, but when inserted into a movie clip or placed on the main time line they sound with echo or the sound is distorted. Why is the sound on the main time l...more >>

I have a problem with a website where I'm using a flash movie for the menubar. Each web page uses the same SWF file for navigation. I need to pass the button number from page to page so that the selected button will stay in it's 'pressed' state. I can pass the button number variable out of the...more >>

I've been trying to load a menu that will allow me to load variables into a swf upon demand. I'm trying to generate the menu using XML, but having almost no XML experience, I don't understand how to call a flash function in the code. Does anyone have any suggestions??? ...more >>

Can I load a graphic in my library to the staage with actionscript? If yes, what is the command? Thanks Mathias...more >>

I have a movie clip set at the start of every section and a button that leads to that section, the problem is that when you click the button and gotoandplay a frame my movie clip does not play. What do I need to add to get my clip 'intro' to play? Thanks for any help! p.s. I did a search and d...more >>

in my document, frame 1 i have 3 input text boxes with the vars "name", "email" and "message". The frame 1 has this code... stop(); send.onPress = function(){ loadVariables("send_email.php","","POST"); gotoAndStop(2); } second frame i have a dynamic text box, with the variable ...more >>

I have a keyboard only presentation. I have 5 buttons. The user must be able to tab to each button. When the button is tabbed to, the button needs to play a sound. I know how to tab to each button, I just need to know how to tell flash to play the button when it is highlighted. I cannot have t...more >>

Hello. Can anyone tell me what to replace '_xscale' with in the below script to make it so the the preloader plays the 'length' of a movie instance animation relative to the bytes loaded rather than just increasing the horizontal scale? Most appreciated, thanks. stop() myInterval = setInterva...more >>

Does anyone know an easy way to check if the mouse has been idle for a set number of seconds. I'm assuming I would use setInterval()....more >>

Hello, I want to create alogin page with the middleware as asp or jsp what ever it is. Does anybody have some samples on it. please help me If anybody has those. Madhava ram upadrasta...more >>

have a movie which includes Flash Video. I will have dialogue that will be translated for which text will scroll (movie clip) as the vid plays. The big issue for me is: how to keep the translated scrolling text in sync wth the vid if the user moves the playhead. Or, if I can disable the play...more >>

hi all ! me again :) i got lil problem can u tell me how can i put php in flash file lets say i have flash site and i wana put php shout box in it how do i do that? thank you all who are helping ;)...more >>

I have a book on 1.0 (Colin Moock) and am wondering how substantial of a change in action script from 1.0 -> 2.0 is there? Would it be wise to instead of continuing with the 1.0 book, just get the 2.0? Thanks for the advice ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to create and effective with 4 images. Each images has 100% opacity, when i rollover 1 of the 4 images i want the other 3 to fade to 50% alpha. I can get this to switch instantly using the following code: on (rollOver) { setProperty(_root.materials, _alpha, 50); ...more >>

Is there a way to list a site´s directory content, so that one can click on a (let say) JPG file listed to open or download it? Any idea would be great! Tks!! ...more >>

Hello, I am a french developper, and I just started to learn flash and XML. In my movie, I have troubles with the actionscript to read the XML file. the 'trace' inthe onLoad function returns 0, despite there are 4 elements in the xml file in my "mer/" folder (attached file). here is my co...more >>

I have a dynamic text field in a movie on another level that I am trying to set, but it does not seem to work. Should the script below not work? _level500.progress_txt.htmlText = '<b>dfassdadsas</b>'; Thanks Mathias ...more >>

Hello, Im building a new website and there are a lot of images within the flash presentations, and I want to keep low compression to have nice and crispy images. This gives me obvious problems so Ill try to make a "setting" here : Example I have a swf file which is a slideshow containing 8 i...more >>

Hi! The flash compiler wont give me any warning nor error if I declare/define a function with say, 3 arguments, and call it with say 2 argument. Example: myFunction(arg1:Number, arg2:Number, arg3:Number) : Void { ... } myFunction(10, 20); Now - is there any way to get some kind of messag...more >>

Hi guys, Can I play a movie on the click of mouse and the movie should play exactly on the place where the mouse clicked. The movie should appear and play only when the mouse is clicked. Any other way apart from "startDrag" thanks in advance. regards ...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to load RGB values for the background color or any other object's color? I am creating templates for a company and I want to create one Flash file that accepts any combination of colors so that clients can customize the templates to whatever colors they want. I have do...more >>

Hi, I have created a presentation and several external swf files are loaded as they required. The extrenal swf files are created in robodemo. I want to have a single volume control for all the external loaded files. Plz. guide me. Thanx ~Anand ...more >>

Hi all, Have anyone of u come across gd flash websites? Like www.2advanced.com? The way they did their website is they like embed their pages into a frame within the swf. Each time i press the button, the same preloader with the respective page will start loading at the same place. Can any...more >>

hi, im busy on a website where I have set up, using a component, a dynamically loaded text field which reads from an external text file, only thing is during testing on a 56k line it seems to take awhile before showing the text, is it at all possible to pre-load the text file or at least give ...more >>

If a depth is known, is there a way to find out what movie (if any) is on that depth? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I'm just finishing a project and I'm a little stuck with one bit. Basically, we have a view of an office, and as the mouse moves around, a chair looks in that direction, left, front and right. I've been going the long way round with this by using buttons and alot of layers, but as I'm fi...more >>

Hi all, Im doin a website now n i usually do scripts in function. Now i wanna do something like when i mouseover a button, it will stop or cancel out the function temporary. Once i mouseout, the function will be called again n do the effects. How do i cancel out the function? is it possible?...more >>

Just a simple question: why doesn't the onEnterFrame run in this code while it does if it is not enclosed in a function. I really need this to work. Is it possible? _root.Trigger = function() { _root.createEmptyMovieClip("Trigger",1) _root.Trigger.onEnterFrame = function() { trace(...more >>

Here's what I would like to do: _global.execute = function(callback){ _root.myMC.func = callback; } Then on myMC, I have a timeline animation, at the end of which I would like to call the callback function, which would be 'func'. It does not seem to work, am I doing something wrong? Using AS...more >>

Hi all, I have a mc, inside it contains an action. this.attachMovie('driversListing','driversListing',1,{_x:260,_y:80}); This works fine. But then If I run a shell mc, then bring in this same movie via contentClip.loadMovie the this.attachMovie('driversListing','driversListing',1,{_x:2...more >>

I have a Media Display component on stage linked to an external .FLV fil= e. However when i play all I can see is a white screen with the word = "Display" in the middle. The video doesn't play at all! Any idea what might be wrong? I'm sure the path to the file is right and I knwo the FLV w...more >>

I looked through the forums for an answer for this, but suprising didn't find one. I'm sure it's very simple. I added a link to the fla. file. (http://www.marazita.com/audiocontroller.fla) I just want to add a script that when it's loaded it will automatically play the music on the control...more >>

I'm using the trapAllKeys to TRUE and I've created a button to quit my flash projector. How do I quit my projector? I can't find the specific instruction to quit the program? Thanks!!!! Brenda....more >>

I have a flash app that loads different movies depending on the user action. I have the problem where each new movie loaded uses up more memory and I don't know how to release the memory that the previous movie used. I have tried different actionscript code and here is my last attempt. v...more >>

Can any one tell me if you can make a poll in flash using a mySQL database to store the info and if so where I could I go to lern how. ...more >>

How come the following doesn't work : var test = new Array(); set( "test[0]", "yes sir" ); trace( test[0] );...more >>