I made a button, and I attach this action script : on (release) { getURL("mailto: user@domain.com"); } But it just does not work. The default mailer was not launched. If I changed it to getURL("http://test@test.com"); It will launch a web browser (Internet Explorer). How to...more >>

I have a movie that contains a streaming audio file. I have a preloader movie in frame 1, the audio movie instance on frame 2. I do not want to stop the file until the Preload is complete, instead, I am hoping that as soon as there is enough audio streamed, the movie will advance to frame 2. ...more >>

I want to have a movie clip appear when the mouse rolls over another mc and disappear when it rolls out. I've seen this done with buttons but I need to do it with MCs....more >>

*****see my other post "changes to .as files not "compiled"********* I'm starting this new topic because the other title seems to have scared people away. Anyhow, this is it... I make changes to my class definition file, xxx.as I save, then test do flash internal tests (CTRL-ENTER) to te...more >>

Im new to the whole Flash game, and I was hoping someone could help answer a quesion that I just cant find the answer to. Im using Flash MX. Ok, I have a page with buttons on the left of the stage. I would like a small preview movie to play on the right of the stage whenever a button is roll...more >>

Not really a flash question - so apologies. But I've got a print function in my flash program, and I don't want to waist ink and paper to test if it's coming out ok. But if I print to file (Win XP) I don't know what type of file is generated as it doesn't put a .jpg / .bmp or anything on the e...more >>

hi all, I have a project , which needs to be done entirely in Flash. It should have a product comparison table.When we click on a image and drag and drop into the comparison table, it should reveal all the product features. I was wondering how much ActionScripting it needs. I am an interm...more >>

Is it possible to build a preloader that delays the movie only for as long as the (streaming) movie is buffering? Once there is enough bufffered to play, I'd like the movie to begin to play, even though I may continue the loading animation. How do you determine when there is enough in the buffe...more >>

[b]Here's the scenario:[/b] User visits a webpage that has a SWF drawing board. User draws a picture. User clicks save and it generates a GIF or JPG of their picture and emails it to them (or any email they designate). Is this possbile with Flash? Thanks in advance, Larry ...more >>

Please help! How do I load a movie clip from the library into a specific place in the working space. Example: when I press on a button I want to load in a place a movie clip containing an avi and in another place another movie clip containing explanations about that word. From the disk it...more >>

I have an empty movie clip that when a button is pressed loads a .swf with a form made up of components. when I test the form on its own everything works fine, but when it is loaded into the empty movie clip the comboBox and the dateFinder doesn't work. I am using MX 2004. and any help would b...more >>

ok, i'm fairly new at actionscripts but i'm creating something very simple and am hung up on it for some reason. i have searched the forums here and on several other sites, plus google groups, and the answers i find don't address my simple problem. i'm basically created a single animated d...more >>

I am doing the flash work for a live webcast and I am adding a section for pre-recorded video as well. The pre-recorded video loads inside the live video mc and there is a list of videos to choose from below. The videos are in flv form on our webserver. A few days ago, when you clicked on t...more >>

hi, on the first frame of my movie i create a sound object and load into it an external mp3 file using this code - bgSound = new Sound(); bgSound.loadSound(soundPath, true); right after that the sound begins playing with no problem. one of the MC's on the stage is a 'mute' toggle button - ...more >>

Hey guys, I thought I had this question answered, but things are still not working. I have a form with four frames. On the fourth, I have a submit button that initiates the LoadVars object. I want to get text data from frames 1-3. var scholarshipData:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); scholars...more >>

How do I add a pause in the Timeline so it stops on a frame for 5 seconds before continueing on? This is urgent if anyone can help me I would be most gratefull. Thanks Andy...more >>

I have a clients product list that has 6 or 8 columns and currently 128 rows of data. I would like to display this in flash in a movie that I will be loading into the shell of the site. I am trying to figure out the best and or least painful method to do this. I think reading it in from a fi...more >>

ok, i guess im still a little confused. im trying to make a percent preloader with a progress bar, but if the page loads so quickly that it plays the pre-loader animation so fast you cant see it, i want it to slow it down, so there is a minimum time the animation has to play, despite if its d...more >>

If I restrict an input textfield to lowercase or uppercase characters, why is the case always converted to what I restrict it to? If I want to restrict a textfield to lowercase characters, I don't want it accepting uppercase characters. Surely this is a bug? ...more >>

Hello All, I have a form with one combo box and several text fields. I am sending the variables to an ASP page to process. The text field values are sent fine. however I can not get the value of the combo box to to be sent with the text boxes. This is the script that I used to send the va...more >>

I am working with MX2004 and I have different components like Text Area, Combo Box and of course Buttons placed on my website. All they worked very nicely until one black Friday. Suddenly they seem to be stacked in one way. You click on them and they will always leave their blue frame behind ...more >>

hi, I need to save some values in a database when the user closes an unfinished flash using the "X" button of the explorer. I'm making tests for little children and one of the problems is that they are closing the browser before the test ends and so they answers are not recorded to the datab...more >>

Just to be sure that a user attempting to log in is the real owner of the username and password he/she uses, I wish to include the computer IP in the identification process. Is there a way, from within a .swf movie, to detect the User computer IP? This would be very useful too for banning ...more >>

AS2.0 I have a class that extends movieclip. Everithing works fine, but : private class variables are not protected! If I have class [i] class MoveRight extends MovieClip { private var n : Number = 10; function onPress(){ this._x +=20; } } [/i] and MoveRight movieclip...more >>

i am using the html file, which starts up the flash swf file, for sending a few variales into the swf file. the code looks like: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>file</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#D4D0C8"> <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://downlo...more >>

Hi all, I have a main movie which loads in a side pane swf and a display swf. in that display swf I have a number of objects which can dispatch a "moveNode" event. When that event is received by my menuDaemon (sits on display.swf main timeline) it is supposed to open a new modal window and s...more >>

I have a fairly large and dynamic flash application that I wish to break apart into smaller apps that will load sequentially into a shell flash app. Each application part has actionscript. My problem is, when I use the Loader Component to load the .swf part into the shell .swf the code from ...more >>

Hello .. I have a problem .... I'm loading in a xml file, an output the data in some movieclips with dynamic text fields .... The movieclips is under a mask .... and that is my problem .... my text seems to disapear ?? Hmm. Why is that ..... Please help! ...more >>

I have completed much of this site www.miamirefugees.com. Comments are appreciated. At the moment, I am also interested in whether I should have a preloader. The file size is about 52 kb. The "photos" and "refugees only" buttons do not work and I only have about half of the players' info....more >>

is there any way to stop all actionscript from processing like exit() in php? just like this function fatalerror(error_str) { error_description = error_str; StopActionscript(); } thanks dk...more >>

For example, I draw a combobox, I want to load the certain movie when the change event is triggered. How to do that? ...more >>

I'm having a hard time getting a swf to load inside another swf. I would like the swf to load when the user accesses a certain part of my flash piece. I've read the documentation that Macromedia provides but I am still having problems getting this to work correctly. I am able to accomplish...more >>

Anyone know any good online resources on learning basic Action Scripting ? thanks much...more >>

looks like we can't stick functions to the Math Object anymore. Math.findHypothenuse = function(tri) { var c = Math.sqrt ( tri.a * tri.a + tri.b * tri.b); return c; } myTriangle = {a:25 , b:39} ; trace(Math.findHypothenuse (myTriangle)) **Error** Scene=Scene ...more >>

Hello, I was wondering how to load the UI components like (RadioButton, Checkboxes, etc) dynamically at runtime. I was fooling around and thought this might be a way to do it...but still does not work....Anyone have any experience in doing something like this? Thanks, Dav...more >>

In Flash MX 2004 the actions toolbox is not visible. The actions navigator and script panel are there, but I cannot get the actions toolbox to appear. Moving the sizing arrows for the panel -- up and down/left and right has no effect. Where did it go? ...more >>