have two movie clips in the stage with the instance name of bola1 and bola2 and i wanted to apply them some gravity so i?ve put this code in the first frame of the stag translation: bola = bal gravidade = gravit atrito = attritio ...more >>

Ok, I'm a total newbie to programming in flash I can animate in Flash, but that's all So, this is my question How can I add a command to my buttons so that it plays a certain part of movie (like the buttons fading - lets say frame 5 to 10) and then goes to another part of my movie (like ...more >>

Hello I have a menu with a movie clip that slides following the mouse, up and down The code looks as follows onClipEvent (load) _y = 0 speed = 8 onClipEvent (enterFrame) endY = _root._ymouse _y += (endY-_y)/speed I need to make this movie clip follow the mouse only ...more >>

when I use a mask on my dynamic text it disapears is there a way around this?...more >>

I have a menu bar, with a delayed rollover action. That keeps the user from activating another button by cutting corners. There is one problem with the code. If the user goes from button 1 across button 2 to button 3, button 2 fires even though it does not have the mouse over it. Is th...more >>

i know this is a pretty basic question, but I am having trouble finding an answer, so please bear with me: I have a script that is attached to several different movie clips, and is triggered when the user clicks on the clip. Instead of copying the same piece of code to every instance of th...more >>

I can work with Sound objects with audio that exists in a movie's library, but I have an .swf file that contains audio inside it (such as a music loop) I'd like to load that external .swf file into my base movie using the loadMovie command. Is there a way to access and control the audio pl...more >>

I am creating a button in flash to open a new window with no toolbar,no scrollbar and not resizable... Can I do it with Action Script?...more >>

I'm using Flash 2004 Pro. Is this version buggy or what In a frame action, I'm trying to tell a movie clip to go to a named frame within the clip mTextBlock.gotoAndStop("text2") it worked once and then stopped working I doublechecked the instance name and the frame name and I also ...more >>

Is there a way to dynamically refresh the scroll pane component to adjust to the size of a dynamically created movie clip. ...more >>

What I am attempting to do in a whole is to create swf files that will be drawn from several premaid swf's, alls I want to do is change the data (text, images) inside of them. If I was placing these files online it wouldnt be a problem, but I am playing them in a specialized program called Sca...more >>

I'm moving into a Mac office where they use BBedit to edit their scripts. But I'm PC based. What's the best / most common external editor going for use with MX2004? Thanks, Rich ...more >>

I've been able to target the items loaded with loadMovieNum by targeting the level then the clip name, but i'm wondering how I would target functions within the clip I'm also wondering how i would target movie clips inside a loaded clip through loadMovie. ie loadMovie("myClip.swf", "myHold...more >>

I have text coming in via remoting. I can see the text, however it will not multiline for some reason. I have checked the height of the text box and set it to 500 which should be sufficient. Anyone got any ideas? Here is the code // CREATING HEADLINE TEXT FORMAT /////////////////////////...more >>

I built a project in MX 6.0 that I published in a projector and burned to CD. It contained a number of swfs with embedded video clips which the user accessed by clicking on text in a scroll box in a main template. The text in the scrollbox used asfunction commands to create links that then cal...more >>

i have an if statement that reads if ( "answer" add i == "answered" It is part of a for loop that is supposed to check the value of answer1,answer2,answer3,etc. However, I am unable to return the concatenated value as anything but a string (ie: '"answer" add i' comes out as the string "ans...more >>

Ohkee. Anyone... I have a html page(mainpage.html) that will open a pop-up with flash inside. My mainpage is a non frames page. Now, when i click on a button in my flash, i want to open a new html page in the mainpage.html, so how can i target a flash button so i opens the url in a non f...more >>

Hi there I am doing a search tool in Flash MX and using a .xml as the archive containing the text At the moment I am using "indexof" as the tool to find a word in the .xml (As a string) and I can find coincidences using capital letters and small letters. For example "Hello my name ...more >>

I believe there is a way to record audio in a .swf file. Can anyone pont me in a direction to learn how to do this? Thanks grob ...more >>

Welcome... My problem is this I made a movie containing an island picture. I have 6 layers containing 6 buttons in this movie. at keyframe 200 , I added the following script for all the buttons On Rollover , goto and stop (Frame# On Rollout , goto and stop (Frame 200 On Press , Got...more >>

Hi! Would you recommend me any good and updated actionscript book? Thanks! Emiliano ...more >>

i was wondering if somebody can help me with the Date Object i want to make 3 swf that will display (according with the user pc time) in order from time to time (8 hours mc1 04:00 to 12:0 mc2 12:00 to 20:0 mc3 20:00 to 04:0 how can i do this i know that i have to use the date objec...more >>

I had originally posted this message in the General Forum by accident, but have not gotten a response. I cannot figure out why the text in my dynamic text field won't highlight when focus is given to the field? Any help anyone can offer is appreciated, please see the script below myTextFi...more >>

I'm trying to build a configurable menu where the user can define buttons with actions. The buttons can be jpegs stored locally. Getting the image into the button is fine but the hit area is not working at all so the cursor never changes to the hand. My tests indicate that unless the butto...more >>

Hi all : I'm currently working on project which consists of a flash(mx) interface, php server side scripts and a MySQL table. My problem is this: when I query the databse from the UI, I am returned a number of records (number can vary dependant on query), what I want to do is dynamically c...more >>

Is it possible to use part of one XML file while the rest of the same XML file loads in the background? In case the XML is quite long, I'd like to use the first 5 nodes to display something. Thanks!...more >>

I am new to flash and I have no previous experience of programming. Consequently I am struggling to get my head around action scripting. My current problem is that I want to use a button to load an external movie (this I have achieved using 'behaviors'), but I wish the new swf to start part th...more >>

anybody have an example of any chat in flash??? or how uses the xmlSocket to do it??? thanks ...more >>

bonjour à tous, j'ai un problème d'action script. J'ai une scène sur laquelle j'ai 5 clips. Chaque clip est appelé par le précédent à l'aide d'un gotoandplay. A la fin du dernier clip, j'ai mis un bouton pour rejouer l'anim. Ce que je voudrais, c'est que ce bouton appelle sur la scène le clip ...more >>

I was after creating a menu similar to the one on http://www.dnastudio.com/index_flash.htm Where I have a box that moves over the menu buttons as you roll over them, and also changes shape so it is the same size as the particular button I am not to bovered about the elasticity effect, ...more >>

Is there any way to insert a break <br> in xml document as in html? If no is there any other way to insert a new line when send a node value in Flash?...more >>

Hi. I'm sure there's a way to do this easily with AS, but I don't know how. I'm trying to load an SWF into an empty movieclip instance. I've got that part down pat. But is there a way to have that mc scaled down using AS, at the same time that it loads? Right now, I have a mc with a while b...more >>

Hi I'm trying to export variables to a text file, so that the user's settings can be reloaded when restarting the program. Is this possible?...more >>

I made a button and add an action "getURL(test.html); When I export it, it made an error saying " Statement must appear within on handle getURL(test.html); What's wrong with it ( I am very new to flash! Thans in advanc ...more >>

I try to load some variables from txt-file a use them: loadVariableNum("1.txt", 0); trace(_level0.var); 1.txt: var=abc "Trace" wrote me: undefined Why? How can I access variable?...more >>

i have an .exe file that i want to launch from a swf page, when i use the on (press) fscommand ( "exec " , " name of the file.exe ") nothing is happening and the program does not launch even so my script is fine and does not contain syntax errors whyyyyyyyyyy can someone help me ple...more >>

Hi all I have a clip buried deep within other clips, and I want to find its _x and _y position relative to the _root clip. Is this possible e.g. I have clips A, B, C and D, all nested within each other. If I find the position of 'D' from within 'D', its 'D's position within 'C' that i...more >>

Hi All I am reasonably new to Flash, and I am trying to fade some pictures in gradually, instead of fading the whole picture in at once. It is a bit hard to discribe what I am after, so I have done a quick diagram for you. Click here to go and see what I mean [L=www.jaali.com/images/fa...more >>

Hi there; I want create a movieClip in actionscript and load a jpg or swf file to it, ofcourse i can't create a MC in stage and must create it in actinScript.Please help me. (aghaee_webdg@yahoo.com)...more >>

We run into severe problems with the Flash MX2004/VSS combination. It looks simple to set up a working configuration and all works as expected, but only when there is ONE user. Since we use the projects for a group of persons, we want to use this combination also within our group. Now we are ...more >>

Hi All I am trying to put a five-second countdown timer on a page that is going to be redirected. I have seen lots of tutorials on how to read the system clock, but I don't want the exact number of seconds left in the minute- just want to display "5", "4", etc This has proven to be mo...more >>

Hi I have a flash movie which plays a music loop in the background When i add a loadMovie ("movie2.swf", "holder"); (which contains no sound) it stops the music above I'm new - but can you please advise me how to keep the original music going so it doesn't go silent when the loadmovie st...more >>

I'm having a problem with swf's continuosly loading when a button is double clicked. If the button is clicked once, it works fine. When the button is clicked one of several content swfs are loaded into a movieclip on the root timeline. If a user happens to double-click the button, say the ...more >>

I have upgraded a large, old Flash MX movie to Flash MX 2004 Pro. Everything worked fine until I begin to add data types to my variables. For example, var x = 20; became var x:Number =20;. Now, nothing works and when I trace these variables, I just get "undefined", even if I trace(x.toStrin...more >>

I'm new to scripting, so this may be basic. Still I can't figure it out using the available texts. This is for a drag and drop matching exercise, with dynamic text feedback. There are multiple options as to where an object can be placed, and many others where it can't I just can't seem to ...more >>

First time using flash MX (not 2004 When I apply the Stop action to a frame, it doesnt stop, it just plays right through it (example: stop(); it just plays right through it. Als When I apply the gotoandplay action it doesnt go to it (example: gotoAndPlay(15);) Am I missing something ...more >>

Hello I have a swf with use: Host.loadMovie("X.swf") to load inside it another swf file. how can i pass variables form the host to X?? Thanks, Ido...more >>

I own a copy of 5.0 and like the ease of the basic actionscripting and autocompleting it does (ie you click "onrelease, gotoandplay" it automatically puts it in the proper syntax) however in the MX trial I recently downloaded it seems that the action scripting is 100% *manual* having to put ...more >>

[L=Need to know how they did this]http://www.panoramikka.com[/L When you click on each new section, the new movie comes in over the old one, but as it is coming in, the old one is still present until the new one has filled up the screen making for a really nice seamless transition. I really...more >>

I was wondering if you could use overloaded methods with AS2.0. I wasn't sure if it just didn't work or I was coding it wrong somehow. Thx, Fallow ...more >>