Within the CD I am designing there are three main sections and each section ends with a multiple choice quiz. The question and answer boxes are dynamix text populated by an external txt file It appears as such: ...more >>

This one is really banging my head! I have a base movie on level 0 with some loadvars functions, a shared object, and 2 buttons that use loadmovienum to load other movies. The 2 other movies use dataset and datagrid, and get their data from the level0 functions, and shared object. One of ...more >>

hello, im trying to find out how to make different elements of a video game. I'm making one now, with a guy, with a health bar, and each time you clikk on him, that bar goes down. How could i do that? ...more >>

I am working in Flash MX 2004 trying to create the look of a smooth movement. When clicking a button, the entire header movie rises to -100. If the header movie is already here, nothing is done. I included the code below. I am a beginner in Flash, so I'm sure there's a much easier way to handle ...more >>

Here is the code below - kindly supplied by PiXELWiT My question is that i understand all the instances of this movie are loaded [and it looks like into _level10] but how does one control them once they are loaded - since we are talking not just a couple of instances. What i would like is to have...more >>

I have a button the plays the movie from the current frame. play() After the movie reaches the end I expect the button pressed to return to fame 1 and replay. It returns to frame 1 but doesn't play. The user must repress the button again. This code doesn't work either. on release { ...more >>

Hei, I created a slide show presentation by having my main movie loading and unloading 3 different .swf files (5,6MB, 4,6MB and 1,98MB respectively). The files contain .jpg images and audio files. I'm wondering if there is a way to load all the .swf movies from my main movie before playing them? ...more >>

Hello all, Macromedia now runs on Actionscript 2.0 as you all know, and it's as simple as the fact that I think it is hard to use and I don't like it! How do I make Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional run on Actionscript 1.0!? Macromedia said it was possible in one of their training video...more >>

Hello, I have a movie with several buttons running on _level0. I click on the button and load another movie on _level1. I get the new movie, but the cursor can still click on the buttons of _level0 even if you can't see them. How can I disable the buttons of _level0? I would like it work lik...more >>

I have animated movies within animated movies. When the user hits my "stop" button, I'd like all my movies to pause. Is there a simple way to do this? Thanks! Geoff ...more >>

on (release) { loadMovie("../Images/image1.jpg", "axl"); I'm trying to load an external JPG into my flash movie. I've put the script above on a button. AXL is the target.... This won't work in Flash MX 2004! Why? ...more >>

When I try to get a childnode from an xml file which actually is a number, the thing I get is the type of an object, so I try to convert it to the number type using the method NUMBER(), however what I get finally is an NaN. Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong? or is there any other method to ge...more >>

plz i need when i move the to directions do commands ex. when i move the mouse to the left, make custom comands and so for the right , down , up thank you Jad. ...more >>

i made a game , i need when i press the button the var "commemt" to be == 1 of these "nice shoot, good aiming, keep it up" what is the code to random these words? plz if any 1 can help i would be really thanfull Jad. ...more >>

hello i am Jad i am made a game in flash mx, the game contains time + score but i need 2 send the variable of the score into another movie (without having a server or database or whatever(developing stuff)) is it possible 2 be done?? ...more >>

Hi, is there a way to zoom in loaded jpegs? (and Zoom out). Has anyone done that? Thanks for any help ...more >>

Hello, I have a movie that opens a window component with another movie inside. I want to have another "close window" button inside of the window, not on the header. This code on that second button does not work... on (release) { _global.cartWindow.deletePopUp() } Thanks in adv...more >>

I've just started learning actionscript. Knowing javascript pretty well, it's coming pretty easy, but I did have a few questions. In the book I'm reading in actionscript, they seem to use certain actionscript-specific methods for doing stuff like extracting a number from a string with the number...more >>

Hi, I'd like to open a QTVR movie in quicktime from inside my Flash movie. I know how to use it through 'getURL', however, this player is going to be stand alone and I don't want to go through the browser. Is there another way I can do this? Thanks!! -Scott Scott Spencer http://www...more >>

I'm building a draggable time line that needs to be able to capture the x position of the movie clip being dragged. While it is being dragged it will also to snap to a specified x position and needs to able to move either left or right from the snaped location by given numerical parameters + or -. I...more >>

Hi, Let's say I have a movie on a web domain. I want to send some variables to a text (or php, i don't know) wich resides on the same web domain, so that the variables are stored in that file, for future use in another movie. How can this be done? If anybody knows, please reply. Any help ...more >>

Hello... If I send a variable to my site... Example --> http://mysite.com/?variable=test How do I import that variable into my FLASH movie...? Thanks for your help... ...more >>