K i made 2 mcs. 1 moves to up, down, right and left (NSurveyor helped me alot with those) 1 called "BG" 1 called "TFT" i tryed things like: stop(); if (TFT._x=BG._x){ then; play(); } if (TFT._y=BG._y){ then; play(); } nothing happens when they cross, it should play.... ...more >>

Is there a script that would allow my website to randomly choose the background? I all ready have 2 background within a symbol, frame 1 and frame 2, I have the stop script on both and instance names and symbols all done. I just need to know how I would go about the random script. ...more >>

Dear Users: I was wondering how to properly script the 'for' loops that I need to tile a movie clip in the x and y directions. I am looking to do something similar to the Desktop Background in Windows where an image can be repeated across the screen. So far, what I have is: for(i=1;i<11;i++)...more >>

I'm having an odd problem where gotoAndPlay is broken in IE. I'm passing some variables to flash via FlashVars: <param name='FlashVars' value='sec=about&amp;subsec=intro'> <embed src='/rn15.swf' flashvars='sec=about&amp;subsec=intro' .... I use these variables to decide what section and su...more >>

Ok. I'll attempt to describe what I have to do here and hopefully I'll make some sort of sense. For a project I must utilize 2 list components from MX2004Pro. The first contains 3 .wav/.mp3 instances, when a user clicks on them the sound will begin playing by itself. Ie; attachSound. ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering where I can start to look for Flash 4 coding examples. Books are hard to come by on this topic. Thanks in advance, Dave...more >>

Dear Users: In Flash 5 I was able to export a movie clip from my library so that it would be imported back into the SWF in cases like 'attachMovieClip' in a 'for' loop. The result is that I only have to create the movie clip graphic once and then the loop would place the file any number of t...more >>

Does anyone know the script (button action script) to go to another flash movie ( I want to go from one flash movie to another)? Or if the question already have been answered where do I look, what is the search word? I have tried several but not found what I've been looking for: ...more >>

Hi, I working on a small flash movie (production) that consists of 4 different scenes that I have namnes Main, game,music and picture. In the picture scene I have a movieclip (button_mc)that consists of 4 buttons that each go to a different movieclip. I have no problem with the action script ...more >>

I have a Flash/PHP email form with several text fields. Four of them are inputs and one is dynamic for status/error messages. I embedded the font Tahoma at 12 point into my flash movie, but when I run the swf, the @ symbol and a few other characters can't be typed in. Considering there is an e...more >>

Our company has been given the ugly task of taking data developed by a third party company and integrating it into flash. Unfortunately the data returned is ugly. I have no idea where to begin in working with this. I would appreciate it if someone could direct me in some way on this. I need ...more >>

I have two movie clips in my movie, map_mc and myClip_mc. When I use the following script to print one of these movie clips I get no results. on (release) { var my_pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob(); var myResult:Boolean = my_pj.start(); if (myResult) { my_pj.addPage('myClip_mc',{xMin:0,xMax:...more >>

These functions worked fine in the "old" ActionScript. Can anyone help convert this over to v 2.0? I think It's close but it runs very slow now and I can't seem to get a lot of different clips to work with it at the same time. The first time you roll over the button it jumps to the desired ...more >>

I've figured out how to detect one movie clip entering into another movie clip with the code: area.onEnterFrame = function () { status.text=this.hitTest(car); } car.onPress = function (){ this.startDrag(false); updateAfterEvent(); } car.onRelease = function () { this.st...more >>

I get the response page, but not the email :( Any ideas would be really helpful. var gatherForm:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); //-----------------------------<send form LoadVars>--------------\\ function sendForm () { gatherForm.recipient = "info@bluemooninteractive.co...more >>

Hi, I can't call a swf from a external secure domain. The swf is called by a class file. Can you help me?...more >>

:disgust; I am using the loadVariablesNum code in the first frame of my main movie to load an external text file 'cprnews.txt' into a dynamic text box that is then controlled via scroll arrows. I've gotten it to work when the text box is in the main movie using the following code: loadVari...more >>

I have a dynamic text field that is reading a txt file, this is in a MC what is scrollable. My problem is when I put a layer mask over the MC I can not see the text (if there is not layer mask it works fine). Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated! ...more >>

Hello all, I'm developing a preloder, based on draw api and create movieclips and textfields on the fly. Everything works, but the progess textfields arent correctly updated using this: mc["loader"+i].loadMovie(url); // mc["loader"+i] is the main movieClip.loader0 or loader1 ...more >>

i have populated a dataGrid component with data, but i wish to send a specific cell of this data, as a string, to an actionscript variable. how can it be done?? can it be done??...more >>

hello i have some trouble with embeded fonts with French language i'm using Arial (so i shoud'nt need to embed the font) but if i embed or not, it do the same : all the latin chars "? ? ? ? etc..." disappear or shows as squares. i've tryed lots and lots of ways to deal with this, ...more >>

Hi all, I want to make a simple searching business directory with flash. I want "When anybody enter name or company name to search he get all information of company like address, logo, number". Is it possible without database in flash? can anybody give me details about it? ...more >>

The following line my_txt.autoSize = true; Is giving me this error? Type mismatch in assignment statement: found Boolean where String is required. my_txt.autoSize = true; But the help for .autoSize shows that should work. Any Ideas? my_txt is defined as a text field (var my_txt:TextFi...more >>

My client has requested that the flash projector i have created on CD-ROM can not have multiple versions of itself running at the same time. Eg: the user can't accidently click the projector icon twice and launch the application twice. Cant find any Actionscript that can check if a file is al...more >>

hi there, i have a movie clip on stage. i want to drag it when you click on it (mouseDown). on release i want to let it on place where it was when released. and then aagin on startDrag on press and stopDrag on release. i'm trying: _root.myClip_mc.onPress = function(){ star...more >>

I have a function called loadAndFade that I call like var clipper = _level0.pattern["clip"+q].percentage _level0.pattern["clip"+q].empty.loadAndFade(clipper,strJPEG,1); MovieClip.prototype.loadAndFade = function (emptyclip, file,spd) { var t = emptyclip.getBytesTotal (); trace(t); ...more >>

Hi. Here's my little question: Is there any way to do a rightClick custom menu item with sublevels, same as the standard 'Quality' - which has 'low-medium-high' sublevel items?.. Thank you....more >>

This seems so simple, that I am sure I am missing something very basic. I have a dynamic movie clip in the 'up-state' for a button. It loads .jpgs from an external source. I want to be able to reference the Instance Name of the particular button to complete the url. The actionscript for the m...more >>

Hi everyone, I am trying to build dynamic image gallery which allows the user to zoom into the selected images. The images are also dragable so the user can move around the zoomed image if it is bigger than the stage size. My Problem is the following: how can I zoom into the image wi...more >>

I have a screen-based Flash document. I define a function in the load event of a screen: call it myFunction(). Within a button components, I try to call myFunction(). It doesn't get called. I tried _root.presentation.SlideName.myFunction(); That doesn't work. I tried _level0.present...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to parse an xml file that contains the content for my site. One problem that i have is that the string values for a certain attribute in the file contains tags because it will be used as HTML in a html text box in my fla. It doesn't seem to like '<' or '>'. I'm sure there is...more >>

Hello, Can someone body help me to do an effect like in the url below...:: http://www.designcontents.com/global/fileflash_up/200406214W5navi.swf The image appearing from different slices.. thanks .. love you alll!!! ...more >>

I have scrollpane component. I want to add content there dynamicaly at runtime. For ex: _root.scrollpane_sp.content.createTextField(.. Content added ok, but scroll size don't change accordingly scrolled movieclip height. Is there any way to change it by ActionScript. Thanks. ...more >>

I have created a flash movie, 2 scenes (Scene 1 the pre-loader and Scene 2 the main movie). Scene 2 contains three layers on one frame?background, content and actions. The content layer has 7 layers across 10 frames, six of the layers have numerous movie clips. The pre-loader keeps playing u...more >>

I just created a Help screen for a tutorial I'm developing. I've created hyperlinks to it from all scenes in the tutorial. However, I can't figure out how to return to the previously viewed screen given that the learner could be accessing Help from any scene in the tutorial. Help! ...more >>

In Flash, I want to use the keys F1, F2, F3, etc. However, these keys are already used by IE. Is there a way for Flash to intercept the keys and disable IE from getting these keypresses? Thanks....more >>

I was just wondering how or if you can change the textArea Color. Jay...more >>

I'm trying to create a vertical scrolling (scrolls from the bottom of the viewing window to the top...like a Java Applet) marquee of 400x500 pixels in dimension, which has text loaded via a .txt file. I can load text into a dynamic text field fine, but I don't know how to get that field to ex...more >>

:confused; Can someone help-me with it: Why a i do for when a select a input textfield this execute an action? ------------------------------ Thanks for who help-me. Have a nice day. ...more >>

I am fairly new to actionscript and am trying to create a search function using text fields. attached is my string of code. the code will either search for the first or last name, but does not work for partial names. it currently returns a not found message. how can i make a simple mod to my c...more >>