I have always used HTML for my web pages, I am now trying flash but I cant get a button to open my Email editer the way I could with <a href ="mailto:address">.......</a> Does anyone know how to do this ? ...more >>

Hi, I am sure this is a quick fix. But could use some help. I am pulling a bunch of variables from a php page. from those vairables i want to import a jpg image corresponding to that variable, like: story_id = 1 so, first of all, I would want to pull "1.jpg" to correspond to that story....more >>

Now Ive tried the whole tutorials thing...... And none of them are... good. They just say, Once u've selected the item to be Alpha'ed.... Move the Slider bar to choose its transparency........ But there is no slider thing.......................................... If u peoples could pleez tell me ho...more >>

hello, i created this graph by the attach movie command, and i can not get it to go to the lowest level, I want the graph to appear beind the text, any ideas? // // set the array // arr = [temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4, temp5, temp6, temp7]; inc = 33; // x position increment x ...more >>

Calling getURL with a javascript command more than once will result in one of the calls to getURL not executing. For example, create a sample movie with two frames. The first frame ActionScript is: getURL("javascript:test1();"); The second frame ActionScript is: getURL("javascript:test2...more >>

Hi - I'm trying to display mouse coordinates as a design element for my portfolio site. That part is easy enough, but I want to keep tracking the coordinates even if the cursor moves off the .swf -- is this possible? All tutorials I've seen thus far only track the mouse coordinates when it's...more >>

what am I mising? 1. i have a one frame flashmx file. 2. frame action is as follows: loadVariables("readme.txt", ""); stop(); 3. dynamic text field built, variable named textHere 4. dragged the scrollBar component to this text field, it auto named the text field instance to InstanceN...more >>

I've made a preloader that should work, but it doesn't --> could anyone look at this code please. this is the code I've put in frame 1 of my main movie: stop(); And this is the code, I've applied to my preloader: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { loading = _parent.getBytesLoaded(); ...more >>

OK, the following is output from PHP to FLASH: xPosition=5&yPosition=10&dupNo=1&xPosition0=7&yPosition0=9 dupNo is the number of times I'm going to duplicate an object in Flash. In this case, it is just one. xPosition0 is the x coordinate positin. the 0 after xPosition is the table row. Thu...more >>

I have an application that launches a pop up window containing flash. On exiting the pop up window the browser (parent window) post's data back to the server. Issue: On Certain machines the Parent window times out after sometime without posting data. After this the user cannot go back to the home ...more >>

Below got error: [Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property] for (i in _parent.arrQues){ "text"+i = _parent.arrQues[i-1]; } How can I correct it? Tks for help! ...more >>

im working a game where you dodge spears and im having trouble figuring out the hit test action script.theres only 2 movie clips in the game and and when they intersect i want the game to go back to the first frame in the time line. i think the action script should look some think like this ...more >>

I need a bit of code that checks to see if a users entered text is a zipcode. I found how to restrict the input to 5 characters, and to numbers, so if they are using any characters, they must be numbers. The problem is, they can submit the value before they reach five characters if they wanted...more >>

I am designing a website, using flash of course. I am trying to be able to load a movie once a button is pressed, and then be able to scroll through that movie frame by frame using forward and backward buttons. I have so far been able to get the button to go to the frame label I have set (as the ...more >>

I am trying to concatenatetwo strings in flash version 4. I currently have Flash MX 2004 Professional. For some reason when I write this code to concatenate a variable to a string i get an error message saying that i must publish as flash 5. But I don't want to, i want ot publish as flash 4 as i ...more >>

I have made a movieclip and i wanna that the _root command puts the new movieclip in the old movieclip, but it doesn't work. on (press) {_root.something.gotoAndStop(2);} "something" is the name for the new movieclip. This code is just then working, when i put it out of the movieclip, that ...more >>

I needed to load a bunch of jpgs into my movie and then have them all scroll. And I want to check to see that they were all loaded before they begin to scroll. I'm new to using FMX2004, and thought I'd try out the loader component. That worked nicely, all the jpgs loaded in place. But now I need to ...more >>

Hi, I've assigned this action to a button in Flash MX 2004 but it doesn't seem to be working. Everything in MX2004 is so different than Flash 5 it's driving me crazy!!! Thanks Lisa ...more >>

I am making a photo gallery with the effects of this : http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/infinite.htm I have followed all the steps and it works when i preview in flash, the problem is the _x position is 34 in the gallery.swf but when the SWF is loaded into another SWF the script is reading t...more >>

Hi, I've been using flash to read data from text files..which I eventually output using html formatting and such. One particular textfile uses the < symbol, now according to http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm you can use the %3C....but it's not working, it...more >>

Can the line numbers of the text containing a special character be retrieved? e.g. text in a textfield: #line 1 line 2 line 3 #line 4 line 5 line 6 any actionscript can return "1" & "4"? tks very much in advance for any help! ...more >>

hi guys i am reading a tutorial built in the flash and i am doing the "puzzle" i have there something like 60 pieces and som how it controls them all with one action i think this is the script function RotateDisplayOrDrag (whichPiece) { if (Key.isDown(18)) { _root[whichPiece]._rotation += 9...more >>

Hi guys and gals, Got a problem I hope someone can help with... I'm populating two listboxes from a database result. Both boxes all allow multiple selections. I've created a couple of buttons that allow the user to "select all" on either box using setSelectedIndices, however, I also want t...more >>

Hi All.. I have a data grid which is populated from a XMLConnector, Part of the schema is <Latitude Dir="N">40.928004637</Latitude> when someone clicks on the row of the data grid I want the latitude and the Dir to be displayed in a label, the binding to the label works fine, I have a Com...more >>

hi, i'm trying to do this i have an app runnin on my server wich responds with a jpeg sended through a stream. this application is programed with delphi and websnap. the jpeg is created on fly and sended through the stream so there is not a file. when i do in action script loadmovie("http://...more >>

Hi gang, I'm so confOOsed' :P I place a "Label" UI Component on a blank FLA, and give it an instance name in the properties window, but when I try to script to it, It does not give me the desired affect. Ex: // in the frames Action script panel trace(_idMyLabel01.text); // returns unde...more >>

hi all i have two same swf movies load into a main movie, but i want to stop one of the movies' sound, and other one remain the sound. how can i do? pls help thank a lot peace dm ...more >>

i´m having a hard time creating an array of Loaders. what i have so far is: import mx.controls.Loader; var i; at = new Array(); for (i=0;i<10;i++){ at = new Object(); at = createClassObject(Loader,"p"+i,1,{autoLoad:true,scaleContent:true}); with (at){ load("pix/crcl_mgr_" + String(i+1...more >>

Hi, I would like to know if a flash movie can read from a local file & if so how can this be done? Regards, cheth ...more >>

Hello all.. I want to know how to make something like this : Put a field in a flash movie.. and a button.. when it is pressed.. it will take the value of that TextField and LoadMovie this address : http://www.sitename.com/TextField value + .SWF So if the value in the text field is "5" then ...more >>

Hi, As is the question. Anyone knows how to do that? Thank you! ...more >>

I've got a fla with several layers containing my menu, header, content, etc. On the bottom layer I've got some code that creates an empty MC, loads a random jpg, and fades it in. The problem is that the jpg loads on top of everything else, even though it is on the bottom layer and I have the laye...more >>

im trying to make a game in flash mx and am having trouble setting the boundries for where the movie clip can move.i made a movie clip for the character you are and by press up key or down key you dodge stuff that comes at you, the only problem is you can hold down the up or down keys and flo...more >>

I thought I knew my way around Flash before MX came walking along. Now I can't even make a simple button. I try to use the help but that is no help (heh kind of an oxymoron). All I get are stupid errors that I never knew exsisted in the flash environment. What ever happened to friendly interface...more >>

Can anyone tell me how I would make a buttons background transparent. I am working with Flash MX and I have a Text Button that sits on top of a background. It all works fine except that because I don't have it on a background the clickable area is very picky. So I was hoping that there is som...more >>

ok...this technote is bogus: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash_get_post.htm not helpful at all. i'm using win98, flash player 6, and the following code results in a GET operation rather than a POST operation. the code DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED. here's my code w...more >>