hello i am trying to make a button work like setting home page. is this possible in flash ? so far i have tried [code] myBtn.onRelease=function(){ getURL("javascript:setHome();"); };[/code] and it's not working .. i dont even know if this is possible in flash ? cheers ...more >>

I need a way to double click a movieclip as need to be able to drag & drop it. This is a section of the code i am using outbar1.numero = 1; outbar2.numero = 2; outbar3.numero = 3; outbar4.numero = 4; outbar5.numero = 5; outbar6.numero = 6; bigC = false; function countup() { if (counter<=50...more >>

Hullo! Ok, so, I have this friend (clichè? no, no, I swear it's true!) that has a problem. I thought i could help her but I couldn't after all. So the problem is: she has this thingamajig that you can guide around on the scene (I think it's a fish). There are also a few barriers around on the ...more >>

I've gone through every post on this site and have been unable to find an answer to my problem though many claim to be it. I have a site with a radio Movie Clip. _root.radio I want to load external clips- stop(); _root.radio.sound.loadMovie("radio/mov1.swf"); _root.artist = artistname; ...more >>

Hello, I would like to downsize my entry page. It's 550kb with seven different animations. Is there a smart way to downsize it without loosing any animation? You can see one of the seven animations at www.whyrobbierocks.com Thank you in advance, Stephan. Referring URLs www.whyrobbierocks....more >>

Hi all, I have a movie with 65 buttons. When you click on a button, it calls data from an external .txt file. My question is, how can I assign the instance name of each button to a variable so that I can use the exact same code for each button rather than changing the name for each entry. If ...more >>

I have a situation where various static text objects need to be clickable to implement gotoAndStop actions. The Properties panel only has a field for specifying URL. (Can actions be placed here? I think not...) I'd rather not make each clickable object a library symbol, and the only other thing ...more >>

I am running two movie clips. OnRollover on one of the clips the action is to stop both clips running. OnRollout they carry on from where they stopped. So far so good. On modifying the script onRollover to enlarge one of the movieclips (_xscale etc) the movieclip enlarges but in a modified position....more >>

Hi there, Is there any way flash can read the diskspace of a users computer? The flash-app is running local so there are no 'sandbox' problems. Thanx ...more >>

I have the following line of code placed on a keyframe in my movie which is producing inconsistent results (described below) in different evironments and I cannot figure out why. _root.onEnterFrame = function() { _root.testText.text = Key.getCode() + " " + Key.getAscii() + " " + Key.isDown(2); ...more >>

Hello peoples, Could someone please help me figure out the action script needed to do this: duplicate a mc (which contains a bitmap) once every time the playhead enters a new frame for say 100 frames; and scale the movie clip by +1%; and change the y position by an amount that remains co...more >>

when i put an email link in a html text, it works when using it in a embedded flash in an html page, it doesn't work when clicking it in a projector. any ideas? thx tim ...more >>

I'm very new at Flash, so, my question is probably peanuts for you people. I made some movies with an (interactive) photo slideshow. This one only works with loadMovieNum (not with loadMovie). I try preloading it, in Flash it kinda works (doesn't reflect the correct bytes though) but once published,...more >>

I'm working with a simple app that lets a user design a shape and then send it to a server side script that will save it. I'm using a pre-designed set of lines and shapes that the user can drag to a stage and then rotate, scale etc to build the dinal shape. I am using SVG as the output format and th...more >>

dear Macromedia, i have a proplem of how can i preview my data of myList in DynamicText when i select one item of myList items in the runTime ? Where i use : myList.addItem() to add item to myList but how can i get the item's data which is an external array. and thank you all of the stuff. ...more >>

Hi! I've built a mock registration form which combines Flash, PHP and MySQL. Everything works fine except, after you submit the requested information and try to log in, Flash does not execute properly. Essentially, after you enter specific info, Flash will take you to another page with the info...more >>

I'm currently attempting to bring an extremely large project from Acitonscript 1.0 to Actionscript 2.0. One of the (many) stumbling blocks along the way is the sudden break of the attached code. Math.randomBetween = function(a, b) { if (b<a) { var c = b; b = a; a = c; } ret...more >>

hello all I've worked through some tutorials on loading text intoo a dynamic text box from an array and it works just fine. As soon as I make the dynamic text box using createTextField it won't work. The only thing I can figure that is different is that, that the tutorials give the text box a va...more >>

Is there a way i can do i ping check within flash and it if it pings i can have it state 1 and if not it sates 2?? Chuck ...more >>

This works: levnew = _level1; levnew.gotoAndPlay(2); But this doesn't: x = 1; levnew = "_level"+x; levnew.gotoAndPlay(2); How can I make the second example work? ...more >>

This feature is often used by new car websites that allow the user to "rotate" a car 360 degrees. I'm using Flash 5 and I am new to Actionscript. I'm assuming that if I have, in my case, the eight images that represent a full rotation (a little choppy, albeit) and place them in separate frames in ...more >>

I have a menu for an all flash webpage on a top level and I want to command flash to check and see if there is a movie loaded on another level, such as level 1, and if so play frame 30 of that movie. and if there's no movie, do nothing. I tried the ifFrameLoaded command, but cant get it to wo...more >>

okay, I've seen a thousand tutorials out there for sound controls. However none that do what i would like. I want to create volume and pan controls that operate upon press and hold and continue to alter the volume/pan until the user releases the mouse. it will also change the status of the volume/...more >>