Hello- I have a scene that stops on frame 20 (actionscript "stop();"). In that scene are 4 movie clips that make up a directional compass. Each movie clip has an actionscript that reads "gotoandplay(10);". But, it doesn't work. It never leaves frame 20. I think the movie clips are trying to go...more >>

When loading text from an external text file into a dynamic text field using the following Action Script: Features_lv = new LoadVars(); Features_lv.onLoad = onText; Features_lv.load("about_us.txt"); function onText() { aboutus_txt.text = Features_lv; } The text does load successfully int...more >>

I'm using getURL with "_blank" as the second parameter to open a new window to return the results of a cgi query. The user can close that second window and click the submit button on the original flash movie to do another query and open that second window again. When using getURL I'm relying on th...more >>

Is it possible to dynamically resize the stage area, if playing inside an HTML page? Thanks, CP ...more >>

Hi, On a website on my domain2, I'm using text files stored on my domain1. Here is the actionscript: loadVariablesNum("http://www.mydomain1.com/textfiles/bio01.txt", 0); When testing the swf in Flash MX 2004 the remote txt file, bio01.txt, is viewable, however when I upload the swf to ...more >>

hi, if you check out this link : http://www.atreyuonline.com/flash/gravity.html You will see i've got a bouncing ball and a red bar across the middle of the movie, how would i make the ball bounce off the the bar in the middle as it does when it hits the walls? Also, is it possible that ...more >>

Good Evening, I am just trying to get to grips with the Flash MX event based model after having always previously used Flash 5, but I have got stuck. I have the following code that allows a user to click and drag on a movie clip and rotate it to a position they want. The code does rotate the mc...more >>

hi, this is probably very simple. I am using cycling74's MAX/MSP to send messages to flash to control videos with commands like play, stop FF, RW etc. At the moment I can get flash to recive messages which appear in a text box through a XMLsocket. what I'm looking for flash to read this tex b...more >>

Can someone help me understand when to refer to Instance names, and when to refer to Movie names? Is there a general rule? ta, milo ...more >>

Hello folks, I'm having a hard time trying to find a way to go back to the parent movie from a movie clip. Short description: In frame 30 in the main timeline I have a movie clip. This movie clip is playing some circles. In the main timeline, on the symbol who stands for this movie in frame 30...more >>

I am pritty green at this. However, I would like to build a movie dynamically from an empty stage. I can load movies and stack them but I can not position or unload them. (oh boy) Could someone tell me why? Thanks, GreenT greenT...more >>

Hello, I have some strings which i have in an array, i'm displaying the strings one at a time in a dynamic text box. I couldn't seem to work out if it was possible to work out how many lines of text there are when it is being displayed in the dynamic text box. Is it possible to work this out?? ...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know if its possible to control a text field in flash with JavaScript. I.E. change font and font color?? Thanks! ...more >>

I have embedded my font and am still not able to get my dynamic txt fields to alpha tween. Is there a trick to doing this? Can it only be achieved with Actionscript (which is what I've been trying), or can you frame tween once the font is embedded? THANKS ...more >>

Hi, Is something like this possible : MyArray = new Array; ArrayName = "MyArray"; ArrayName[1] = "bullshit"; This code offcourse doesn't work. But is there a way to get it to work? Can I adress an array through a variable that holds the name of that variable? thx. ...more >>

Hey guys, I have worked on this and still can't get it right. In my text file called data.txt, I have a variable &bookNames=Title 1,Title 2,Title3 I use the LoadVars object to load and split these to create an array called bookList. Then I want to create a tempArray, so I can loop the array...more >>

perhaps it is easy, but i can't figure it out. how do i define properties within a movieclip that can be set within the movieclip and which i can detect from outside. And of course this property should be "local" within the movieclip-instance. Like for example: a property named "_done" whic...more >>

Hi, I made a site which uses horizontal scrolling navigation (check: http://www.esthervenrooy.com) Not surprisingly, the scrolling is far from smooth on older machines. I would like to be able to test the actual framerate of the movie on the client machine, so when I detect a very slow fps ...more >>

Hi everybody, I created a component and made it as SWC file. Now I want to make it as a .mxp file, so that it will be loaded through Extension manager. How should we do this???? regards, Eduri. ...more >>

i got a swf movie which load in to movieClip_A in main stage. how can i get the loaded move's total frame number. pls help! dm ...more >>

I'm making a Flash Navigation Bar (menu) that could be freely customized by people just through a text file. The problem is that my submenus won't duplicate properly. I'm using Flash MX 2004 Pro, on Windows XP pro. I attached the file. thanks in advance. http://webforums.macromedia.com/attach...more >>

Hi, I am a beginner in Flash MX action Scripting. I am trying to create a dynamic graph :a histogram to display the frequency distribution. The graph is to change in accordance with the change in the interval which is the user input. Any help is highly appreciated...... Thanks and regards,...more >>

hey there im making this first person shooter game and theres this sniper guy wh hides behind some sandbags. the problm is, u can shoot rite thru the sandbags, whicha re movie clips but have no animation or nething. im using flash mx, the sniper and sandbags are seaparate movie clips, and all t...more >>