I'm positive I've done this before, but I can't seem to figure it out again or find the FLA I did it in. I need to set a variable with the name of a function and call on it that way. Simple Example: FRAME 1: stop(); forward = frame2(); frame2 = function(){ gotoAndStop(2); } BUTTO...more >>

I have a text file called frontPage that loads text from external file. The external file has monthly variables with different text info for each month. When I play my Flash movie, I want the textfield to load the appropriate info based on the current month. Here's what I have so far: The array i...more >>

Hello All; Does anyone know how to apply a header color change to the DataGrid and remove the gradient?? I need all of the functionality of the headers (sort, drag to resize, etc.) but I need to get rid of the default gradient. Thank you in advance! ...more >>

How do you link from one swf movie to another? (the two movies are in the same html document) I have a menu (swf) and a content (swf) --> and I need the menu to load a movieclip in the content movie, but how do I do this? JoKKe ...more >>

Hi, I am soooo confused. The Flash help files have proved themselves 100% useless for everything I look up and this is no exception. I've spent about 6 hours reading these forum posts and none have helped, now I'm out of ideas and the deadline is approaching! In Flash MX 2004, I have a 170 f...more >>

My gameboard has squares that are 60x60 pixels. My game pieces are movie clips with the 0,0 coordinates in the center. When I drop the pieces, I want them to land in the center of the square they are on. Say 30,-30 for the upper left square. Can anyone help me with the ActionScript code for th...more >>

Question for you gurus out there. I want to make a movieclip draggable but ONLY so that it rotates around a point. For a visual, imagine clockhands that you can adjust by dragging them. Can I use startDrag() to do this or should I jsut stick to a more complicated method of rotating the object on Pre...more >>

Do the SWFs have to be in the same directory as the HTML page for the loadMovie command to work? I have two SWFs in my "images" directory. One SWF loads the other SWF into a movie clip. They work fine when I just view the SWF files but as soon as I embed the parent SWF file in an HTML page i...more >>

//**********The ActionScript ********************** var num1:Number = Number ("0.875"); var num2:Number = Number ("0.375"); var p:Number; p = num1; trace(p); if (p <= 0.875) trace ("equal"); else trace ("unequal"); p = num2; trace(p); if (p <= 0.375) trace ("equal"); els...more >>

Hi I am trying to write a dynamic statement below but am having problems, here is my code: wordsArray = new Array(); for (x=0; x<10; x++) { wordsArray[x] = eval(_root+"moving.shiftytext"+x); } e.g. wordsArray9 = _root.moving.shiftytext9; wordsArray10 = _root.moving.shif...more >>

Is there a good tutorial to do this? I am building greeting cards - I am loading a seperate file before I print them out so I am trying to pass the information from the main movie to the print file (without popup) and temporarely changing the movie size to fill the printed page. I am using :...more >>

Hi again My second question: I want to build a movie from a series of image sequences created as flash movies (seq1.swf, seq2.swf ... ). When loaded it should then play each of the movies in turn. So, I understand that I can use loadMovie( ) or loadMovieNum( ) to do this. I have in frame 1 o...more >>

I am working in FlashMX. I am trying to load jpeg images from an external folder. Using the following actionscript attached to a button on (release) { loadMovie("ads01.jpg", "_root.ad movieclip.cliff"); _root.ad movieclip.cliff._x = 74.4; _root.ad movieclip.cliff._y = 60; } When I do not ...more >>

In the library is a movieclip-object with 3 radiobuttons. There is a method in that object to initialise the data for the buttons. In the movie, on frame 1, three instances of this movieclip-object are dynamically attached, and then initialised. But the first initialisation doesn't succeed, ...more >>

I have a simple String-Problem: A textfield-variable called "display" contains a string like "(12/2)*3". when i click on a button, the content of "display" should be calculated. I always get "Not a Number" or "undfined". how should i programm the button, to calculate the variable? thanks ed ...more >>

Hi I've got a little problem (no not that one! :-) ) I want to access different parts of a flash movie according to what html page it's embedded in. Somebody told me that query strings might be the way - but I haven?t got a clue :-( could somebody shed some light on what the solutio...more >>

I have a movie which is supposed to show news on my website. The movie loads a txt file using this action script: loadVarsText = new loadVars(); loadVarsText.load("sun.txt"); loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) { if (success){ scroller.Text = this.var1; } I have the import text as htm...more >>

Arggg! Hope I can explain this. I have a series of circles contained in a large MC called map. I have 3 circles inside *map* and I need to have various buttons move the map over and zoom into the corresponding circle. The move and zoom fucntions work fine. (thanks to joox for the zoom codin...more >>

Hello out there! I have created a survey and saved all the answers in variables (and array). Now, all I need is to email those answers to myself after someone finishes filling out the survey. Does anyone have a CGI/perl script that I can send the answers to and it can email me the answers or ...more >>

Its going to be to hard to fully explain, so i'm going to explain the best i can...if your willing to help!!!Please Do!!! Reply so that i can give a URL to download my file, to make your adjustments... Here it is...I have the page turn thing i recieved through e-mail via this forum...I'm using it...more >>

Hello everyone. I need a movie to pause while an embedded movie spins for x number of seconds. Having trawled these forums for related posts, the closest answer I could find was this: stop(); myInterval = setInterval(doContinue(), 5000) function doContinue(){ clearInterval(myInterval); pla...more >>

Perhaps a silly question since I am new to actionscript ... but: Is there a way to refererence a clicked object (=button) within an on (release) script bound to this object to get its properties like in particular its name to pass it fscommand-wise to javascript for further actions depending o...more >>

I want to make flash movie, with music, which starts, when u click on button play, pauses when u click on button pause and stops, when u click on button stop. In begining of movie I inserted code: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("holder_1", 1); sound_1 = new Sound(holder_1); sound_1.attachSound(...more >>

I need to make a button in my html page go to a specific frame in a flash movie. I've tried this using DreamWeaver and it works fine in IE 6 PC but it does not work on a MacOSX IE5. Is there a way I can do this and have it work on Mac and PC? I have a sample below of a test file. http://...more >>

hey folks: i've been doing some animation and one problem i have repeatedly is that i want to mimic REAL 3d movement....in particular, i want to move objects by the user as they would appear to move if the user was moving with some constant velocity and a 90 degree field of view (pi/2). this cou...more >>

Hey folks! I want to create a document editor kind of thing online.....i want users to be able to type in text, select text, make it bold, select a font, etc. I have done some very helpful preliminary programming efforts where i have embedded font objects and the user can enter text, pick a font...more >>

I am attaching a movie to the root, but then i want to pass vars to the constructor of the linked class. Here's what i have. This is just with test variables to see if they would pass and they are coming out as undefined. I'm an AS2.0 novice, can someone tell me what i have missed? function Env...more >>

I am trying to send a username to .cfm page, query the data and return the results. I have several Macromedia manuals for 2004 they say it can be done (in passing), but none of them provide explanations or examples. Here is the Action script I am using: *******************************************...more >>

Using the Bike Trips Tutorial (http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/xmlconnector.html), I wanted to try to add a button that would advance the selection of the comboBox when clicked, using actionscript. While incrementing the selectedIndex property does in fact change the value in the...more >>

Hi there, I am having problems with a class that contains an XML object. There are no compile or run-time errors, but I was wondering if my 'onLoad' event class was the problem... Is it possible to specify the event handler as a class method like this: class myNewClass{ // ### PROPERTIES...more >>

Hi, A need to preload some JPGs that are given through XML to my flash But I haven't find a way to duplicate movies that had were dynamicaly loaded with loadMovie method... Here's the example : var mov = this.createEmptyMovieClip("Icon1", 1000); mov.loadMovie("Icon1.jpg",_root.ddd); f...more >>

Are there a tutorial to explain how to move a movieclip when you click a button into it like happens in this site? http://www.musze.com/ ...more >>