I have a website that is almost completed. I have a navigation bar across the top with five buttons. The buttons all link to the different pages which appear below. When the site loads, one of the scripts I have is this: _root.servicesPage.words.products._visible=false; This is supposed to...more >>

How can I make a button that I can attach or put into an email that when pressed with send a notification to my email that the email has been opened. Or is there a way that I can put some scrpt so that when the email message is looked at I will get an email that the resipiant has looked at it. ...more >>

Greet's.. How I can write and read XML file, that is, to enter data into it and extracting it again? ie. small phonebook in flash where I can add, delete or change data entered and that would be saved. I don't know about XML but if there is tutorial .. :) Thanks.. ...more >>

Please bare with me im new to actionscript :) I have two symbols. A fish and a bubble. The fish is user controlled using the keyboard. Im having dificulty figuring out how to make bubbles spawn from the front of the fish and float directly up since the fish will be moving. Help would be appre...more >>

Hi all, Here's my situation: I have a URL with a link that: 1. Opens a new browser window, in which reside an SWF movie. 2. At the end of the movie I have a button that closes the bowser window My question: Once the window is closed, is there a way (via actionscript or any other way ...more >>

Hello there! I'm not a newbie, but I don't know how did those guys do that... please see http://www.max.rcs.it/080edi/index.shtml How did they that pop-up whithout any browser window? is there any action script to do that? Thanks! Pluda Please do not mail me directly. I want t...more >>

I've got a movieclip that has some various functions declared inside of it like init(), etc...those work great. Then inside of that movieclip I have another movieclip called topBar and it has it's own functions like initBar(). Those do NOT work. In the first movieclip if I do: topBar.initBar(); i...more >>

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I'm building an interactive Map movie for work. It's a county map with a series of sites plotted on the map according to coordinate data drawn from a database. Here is the movie on a temporary page: http://cs.wcpss.net/page.php?page=2.1work It pretty much functions as needed (clicking on a ...more >>

Does anyone know how I can inspect a class's properties and methods at runtime, similar to the Java or .NET reflection? I see an [Inspectable] attribute that can be applied that will allow the IDE to inspect some properties, but what method does the IDE use to inspect the class's Inspectable prop...more >>

I'm trying to load text into a dynamic text field with a mouseover event using the following function: _root.populateQuoteStr( '\"I grew up at AT&T Wireless.\"' ); However, I need the quotes around the text to appear as curly or otherwise known as typographer's quotes or smart quotes instead ...more >>

I would like to halt the execution of some actionscript I have. Basically, I have a funtion that does a bunch of stuff and I would like to stall the excecution at certain points. Is there code that stops the reading of the code for a certain amount of time? Below is the code and I indicated...more >>

Ok, I have a projector file that loads an external swf with loadMovie. The swf is fairly large (20 megs) so it takes a few seconds to load in, in which time the main program freezes (until the swf completely loads). I'm guessing that means that loadMovie in a projector loads the entire swf firs...more >>

I'm trying to create an array of textfields based on the number of rows returned in a query from Flash Remoting. My code is like this: for (i = 0; i < numRows; i++) { //loop for each row textNames = "companyName" +i; //array of strings "companyName1","companyName2" _root.crea...more >>

Hi I have my nav which sits in level o, on the first frame i have put the code fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); fscommand("allowscale", "false"); this movie goes fullscreen, but when i load another movie from the nav, which loads in to level 0 replacing this movie i loose my full screen acti...more >>

Here is my problem: I am a newbie to Flash and assume that others have encountered this problem before. I built a site entirely using flash. I have an index page that has three thumbnail pics that when selected load three separate .swf files. (Take a look http://home.austin.rr.com/bfanninportf...more >>

I have a SWF file below (slideshow I found somewhere) that loads in these jpg's and does a little automatic slideshow (no buttons, auto repeat, auto play). The swf filename is ashslide1.swf. Here is the code: pic_arr = ["pc1.jpg", "pc2.jpg", "pc3.jpg", "pc4.jpg"]; color_arr = [0xf75eb0, 0...more >>

Alright, I have two mc's, one on frame 1 and other on frame 2, with 790 frames total in both. One is a unloop version and the other is a loop version. I have made a loop button that when you press it takes you to the loop version. What I am having trouble with and need major assistance with is wh...more >>

Ok here is the skinny. I have multiple check boxes but for the sack of this question I will use 3 labeled OPTION1, OPTION2, OPTION3. I am writing a function that when you select one of the check boxes the others are toggled off. Action on Frame 1: function toggleOff (itemNumber){ i=ite...more >>

Hi, I have created a flash document that makes that ?magnify? effect, where you drag a circle round a picture and it enlarges the section in the circle. It also gets the two images (big one and small one) from an external source. I got most of this code from an example I found on a website and th...more >>

Can anyone help with the following query. I want to open up a new window from a flash movie when i click on a text box link. The code is as follows: newFormat = new TextFormat(); newFormat.url = JobInfoVars.website; website_text.setTextFormat(newFormat); Where the tex...more >>

I can't find straight forward info on adding labels in my Flash movies. I left my text at work and am sick in bed with THE FLU and my laptop. All tutorials I find get into actionscript. I am a beginner and just want to organized my movies. When I try just adding a label layer and select a frame ...more >>

Quick Question Have just started playing with flash to create interactive training tools. Have played with action scripts to start and stop a video when a button is pressed. However I would also like a rollover effect on the button to replace the button bitmap with a second bitmap. My reference b...more >>

I am fairly new to flash and have been trying to create a good looking flash drop down menu. I have got pretty much what I want but with one problem. I was having a problem with when i rolled over my main button and the submenu appeared and then tried to roll over to the submenu it would dissape...more >>

If i have entered text into an input text box, say for an email address. How do i check whether that text has certain characters in it, such as '@' ? It would be a great help in anyone can help me? thank you. ...more >>

i'm using a progress bar component to show the loading progress of external swf's in a scrollpane...simple enough? yes. works just fine, but, the progress bar won't go away after it's done loading. very annoying!!!! I NEED A SCRIPT FOR THE PROGRESS BAR COMPONENT TO GO TO FRAME 2 OF IT'S OWN MC WH...more >>

Hey Flash experts, I'm working my way through ActionScripting, trying to expand my abilities. I'm working on an extremely simple project that involves dragging around images and things happening based on where they're released. Can anyone tell me why this script isn't working? on(press){ ...more >>

i have an xml file with the values 1,2,3,4 in it. they are parsed into an array which puts them into a combo box. the user selects the value which puts it into textbox1. if the user clicks button 1 with the number 1 in textbox1, i need to create an array with the values 2,3 and 4. is t...more >>

I'm loading a series of external JPGs into a couple of placeholder movie clips (img1 and img2) for a slideshow-type presentation. I'd like to add some fade-in/fade-out effects later, so I'm passing some variables to the objects. Each placeholder has an onEnterFrame function to receive any variabl...more >>