im having trouble comparing two strings togeather. this code always returns false. please help!...more >>

Hi. I'm a newer Flash user and the actionscript sometimes defies me. I was wondering how I could make a movie (or scene) advance after the last frame of a movie clip. Ex. In frame 1 there a movie clip and I want to advance to the next frames at the end of the movie. What is the commands? I cam...more >>

Hi all ; I am not a Flash developer. I need to download and execute a .exe from a Flash movie. How can this be done. Thanks Willb77@3pp.com...more >>

Am considering Flash MX 2004 capabilities for a project but need to make sure I can call methods I create in ActionScript from my DHTML hosting application's javascript. I've done the movie.GetVariable() and movie.SetVariable()thing, and the movie.TGetProperty() and movie.TSetProperty() thing...more >>

I want to add say 30 days to today's date and display the new day. How can I do this easily?...more >>

I'd like to make an advanced slideshow with Flash MX 2004 (with visual effects...). Does anyone know a good tutorial for that?? Instead of clicking a forward/back button to advance to the next slide, I'd like the slides to advance automatically and allow me to set a time Thanks so much for...more >>

I'm using the following action script on a simple button that fades in on mouse over, and out on mouse out onClipEvent (enterFrame) if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ymouse, true)) This.nextFrame() } else This.prevFrame() When setting my publish settings version ...more >>

Hello Everyone I am using flash mx 2004 professional. What I am trying to do is give focus to a text box based on some criteria of another text box. I have placed 3 textInput box from the componets panel and assigned instance names to each one. The first is area, the second is exchange ...more >>

I made a component that has a TextArea in it. This TextArea takes a html formated string and displays the text , part of the text has links using the html abchor tag, what i would like to do is when you click on a link instead of opening a browser window, it would call a internal function Ex...more >>

I have loaded and external swf file some_mc.loadMovie("xyz.swf"); how can i check the current frame being played at external file? Please help!!!! its urgent ...more >>

hi all i have a movie clip within my main timeline that is controlled by three buttons. each click on one of these three buttons, executes a script that loads data from an external text file into the above mentioned movie clip. the text loads correctly but my problem is this let's say ...more >>

What does the XML format look like when using the xml.load() function doc = new XML(); doc.load ("theFile.xml"); is it like this <xml <var1>value</var1 <var2>value</var2 </xml or what Thanx Chiz ...more >>

Situation 1. 4 switches on the screen (288 possible positions between the four switches 2. First arrive at screen the 4 switches are aligned at what is called "Current Settings 3. Moving a switches or any number of switches changes "Current Settings" to clickable Program Butto 4. Moving ...more >>

I have an external swf loading into a flash movie. This swf has the media playback component loading and playing an FLV. When I unload the swf using the unloadMovieNum command and then reopen it the video does not play.. now.. lets say the movie is 30 seconds. If I close the swf and wait 30 se...more >>

i'm trying to do a fade programmatically...but it seems far more taxing than setting up a fade animation... anyone else experience this...should i just animate it or is there a better way?? thanks...more >>

I'm a newbie, so bear with me I have a .fla that displays a replay and exit button at the end of the animation. When I convert it into a .swf, I have it coded so that the exit button will return the user to a specified URL, it works just fine I now want to convert the .fla to a projec...more >>

Hi I've posted a few times looking for information on adapting the XML tab Menu template that came with MX So far I've seen no post related or replies to my post. So, I'll just ask, doeas anyone know where I can find a good tutorial for XML menus I've upgraded to MX 2004 PRO, but...more >>

How might I apply a different font to a List box? Will style sheets work? Or is there another method?...more >>

I was windering if anybody had an example of a simple code to test the connection speed . Thanks....more >>

H This is probably a simple question but is it possible to stop users from pressing the "Enter" key to jump to the next frame, when you have stopped on a frame I have set-up a drag and drop game with a number of items on a frame, but if you press "Enter" the game skips to the next fram...more >>

HI I have revisions on a project that need to be taken care of, like now! Problem is these revisions require a piece of actionscript I dont know how to create At the end of this animated intro for a website it's supposed to automatically transition into the homepage where all the navigat...more >>

Hell I am using the Flash MX 2004, and i understand the the scrollpane is different from prev verstions, for instance i need to use 'vPosition' to get the current posion of the scroll. How do i get the real size of the content inside the scrollpane, inorder to stop the scrolling in tim...more >>

Hi Al Is there a way I can open a movie clip within my main flash movie using text in a dynamic tect box. I think I will have to create a function, but not sure how. Can anybody point me in the right direction Many thank ...more >>

I am getting really really frustrated here. My new task is to create a race between two products. Basically there will be a button for starting the race. Once the race starts, the timer sets off. I want to have two timers, one for product A, the other for product B. The timer for product A s...more >>

I've got a slide presentation built with embedded video, sound, and animations (no small task!). Now I'm noticing that the file size is up around 17MB, and that takes a while even for broadband users to download. When I hacked this together with plain Flash MX, the presentation would strea...more >>

I have a draggable object within my flash movie that I want to set a boundary for. By this I mean that I can't drag it past a certain point, both on the x and y axis. The object starts on the screen at 0,0 and is 2800 x 1401 pixels. I don't want to be able to drag the object off the screen, wh...more >>

I know its actionscript forum but can't decide where best to ask this question so here goes I am in a real pickle here. I created a guestbook and contact page using php. Everything worked fine on my server but when my client has loaded all the stuff onto his server, we find out that php is...more >>

I have 14 seperate movie clips that animate big to small and back in space to give the illustion of depth, but they over lap depending on where each is individually in its seperate animation. Heres the deal. I want to be able to rollover each one and have it be on top of the others. Is there a...more >>

How do you reference a mc located inside a scrollpane? I am new at scrollpanes and have a zoom in and out slider that I want to control the size of the swf file inside the scrollpane. I do not know how to reference the mc using the setproperty command Thanks for the help ...more >>

I have the Flash Menu Tree. from Flash Exchange and it really works well using an externally loaded XML file. I am interested in passing the name of the XML file as a PARAM to the flash swf file. I have tried to pass it as follows but within the onClipEvent, the variable is not recognized. W...more >>

I have a file (.txt) that I load.(I am using projector) The file is designed with value pairs enclosed with & start and finish &name1=value&&name2=value&&name3=value& etc the field names are numbered sequentially to that they can be looped through I will never be sure of the number of file...more >>

I duplice a movie clip called "ZAKLAD" which contains a text field instance "POPISEK each time I duplicate the movie clip I crate a new name of the instance of the movie clip - ZAKLAD[b]1[/b], ZAKLAD[b]2[/b], ,....... after that i want to set the TextFormat of each text field POPISEK. That c...more >>

Has anyone come across this. TextFormat.getTextExtent( (Returns the height and width values of the given text when the given format is applied Works fine on pc, but on mac, it returns a value far in access of the correct one Does anyone know of a fix for this, or whether its ...more >>

I need animate a movieclip doing a specific path; everywhere it apear, it'll go to center of the window. I write some functions using linear algebric but didn't work. anybody some help thank ps.: sorry my english... ...more >>

Hi al I'm making my own little OS kinda thing, and there's an option where you can create folders on the desktop I've already created the movieclip for the folder icon and animation, but how can it be loaded [b]out of the library[/b] Thanks in advanc ...more >>

Is it possible to force a keypress using actionscript? I have an object which deletes itself from the stage when the delete key is pressed. I want to activate the same listener via a button press hence the need to force the delete key from script ??????????????????????????? ...more >>

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h i have comboboxes and textfields inside scrollpane component with tabIndex set to all of them. but for some reason it does not work. its driving me crazy please, is there any thorough tutorial on making navigation work perfectly? please someone ps. its for Player6, so no MX2004 funct...more >>

Hi, I have a flash which is well developed and work fine with Flash Player 6. When I export this fla to Flash Player ver.7 with Flash MX2004, it fails to load sharedObject and occurs run-time error when loading external jpeg. Can Macromedia team help me to fix it with Flash Player 7?? Tha...more >>

Hi All! Is that any way to garantee that the file that called the PHP script is, for exemple, the "insert.swf"? I have a SWF file insenting data on a db through a PHP script.. so I want that PHP insert data only if it was called by my "insert.swf" file. Thanks! Matheus. ...more >>

I know how to make a swf file go to fullscreen, but the user can't do anything else on their computer while looking at the site (unless they use alt+tab to switch between other tasks they may be running). I want them to be able to minimize the browser window in case they want to keep this site...more >>

Hey everyone! I'm having a bit of a problem and any help is MORE than appreciated. Here's the problem... I've created an enter page in wich i want to disply text on the screen like it is being typed and have the blinking cursor moving with it and everything. I have no idea where to start on th...more >>

I am working on a product demonstration that walks a user through the features of the product. So it seemed that mx2004's screens/slides would be an good way to create something that could be updated quickly as the client decided which features to focus on in the final piece So I built ou...more >>

I'm using the Flash MX professional 2004 for the first time I made a button and put the action like this [q]on(release){getURL("action.htm", "_blank");}[/q In browser I click the button, it's not move to 'action.htm' What's wrong with it Thanks for advices ...more >>

Hey everybody I have been working with flash for a short while, but have never really dove into actionscript. I have checked out some of the tutorials on the web, but they are usually limited to one effect, or a general overview. I was hoping some you could recommend some books, tutorial...more >>

Is there a way to open the open/save file dialog in flash without useing javascript? I'm trying to develop this for a stand alone distribution and cannot execute javascript from the exe. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated Thanks Brya ...more >>

How do you reference a movie located inside a scrollpane. Since the movie in the scrollpane is from an external file, I am having difficulties referencing it. What I am looking to do is scale the size of the movie in the scrollpane by using the setpropery function. I have named the component "...more >>

I saw a year ago a post by someone, who said that not only the .exe files can be started from the projector. By using (as i can recall) a .bat file: you type something like "Run /Home.html" in notepad then you make a txt out of it, and then rename it into .bat (or its maybe something else) and wh...more >>

The mission: create multiple MCs (see the attachment) of a library item (a ball) that is linked with a class. At runtime, if user presses "q", ALL INSTANCES of that ball get bigger; instances get smaller, if user presses "a" How did i try to solve it: with a for loop i cycle through all the ...more >>

Hey, sorry if this question has been asked many times before I understand that hittest() can only be used for checking to things 1. that the _x and _y co-ordinates are touching another object 2. that the bounding box of the object is touching another shape but, the same i want to check...more >>

I know that the keycode for Enter is 108. What is the code for when Enter is pushed, gotoandStop on frame 5?...more >>

Hi everybody, Have been busy lately writing a tutorial on the use of HTML in Flash. Fr that I've been trying to get a complete overview of the tags supported by different players. As I am not completely sure if the support grid I created now is complete and correct, would some of you perhaps b...more >>