If your opening a .exe projector file and the program does not take a full window is their a way to make the program open up in the center of the screen? Thank you in advance for your help. Keith...more >>

Hi. I have 6 pieces which can be dragged anywhere on the screen. I have used startDrag and stopDrag, but stop drag wont 'drop' the piece when the mouse button is released and it follows the mouse cursor around until you click on a new piece. This is what I am using: on(press) { ...more >>

Hi Everyone. I am working on a small app that will read from a text file. The space where this will go is somewhat confined, so I want to apply vertical scrolling to it. My text file contains two variables: &headline and &special. I have two fields on the timeline linked to these varia...more >>

When i execute a fla, a message pops up like "a script is making the flash player run slowly.Do you want to abort it or not??" Can anybody throw some light on this Thanks!!!...more >>

Hi, Quick question.. If i have the following... myXML.onXML = handleXML; function handleXML(xmlObject){ //doing stuff here } .. is it necessary to put ALL of my code that handles the xml input into this one function, which would become very large, or can I break it up some...more >>

I would like to close the browser window that my SWF file resides in by placing actionscript on a button to close the window. Can this be done without opening the window first? And is there important code to place in the HTML file that the SWF file resides in? I have tried placing "javascr...more >>

I want to let the user load a image in a flash movie. How can I click a button in flash and bring up a "choose file" box and let the user choose the image and it gets loaded? -S ...more >>

Has anyone worked with wav and other sound formats to make visualizations in flash?...more >>

what is the action script to have your flash buttons on one web frame and when you click it it will put the url in the other frame? ...more >>

Hey guys, I know this is easy, but I can't figure it out: I've written a function that needs to be on frame one, but also involves frame 3. function downloadSongs(){ var downloads:Array = new Array; for(i=0; i<list_lb.length; ++i){ if(list_lb.getItemAt(i).label.indexOF("Download")>0{...more >>

Is it possible to create a drawing application (like Paint) entirely in Flash - just basic features, realtime drawing, selecting colors and fill. If its possible, can anyone guide me? -S ...more >>

This is what I am trying to do and I am not sure if it is even possible. I would like to use the attachMovie Method to get a mc onto my movie and then attach the following script to the attached movie clip. So basically I would like to attach actions to a MC remotely. Is that possible? I have...more >>

i'd like to have a splash screen come up while my my flash exe loads from a cd. In Director this was easy, just include a .bmp in the same dir as your ini and exe files. It dosn't work with flash exe, I havn't figured out how to do this with a flash exe yet. Any ideas??? ...more >>

Ok the problem is very simple but the solution seems to be hard. I want to be able to highlight specific areas of a a dynamic text field using ActionScript. I must be able to highlight more than one area in the same text field and the highlight must "stick" after the focus has changed. I...more >>

I have used Mouse.hide() many many times in order to make my own cursors. I put the code in the first frame of the first layer which is called "Actions". For some reason, when I was working last week, it just stopped working. I thought maybe it was just the project I was working on, but I s...more >>

I am currently a problem on a site I have been working on with the vertical scroller. Everything works fine on it's own but as soon as you convert the buttons to a movie clip the main code for the images to show up no longer works. I need all 18 buttons to be part of the movie clip. When ...more >>

I have a movie(2) that loads into another movie(1) via loadMovie. Pretty simple. Movie(2) runs great on its own, but when pulled into movie(1) the sound stop working. The problem is that an onLoad or onSoundComplete, _parent is the _level0 not the movie clip that movie(2) was loaded into. ...more >>

I found the simple script for uploading variables from a txt or php file but cannot find a way to reverse the process. In case there are any newbies like me out there looking for this here is the uploading script. The myVars.php file holds the variables in this format var1=one&var2=two&v...more >>

hi. i've been working on resizing a holder movie clip based on the dimensions of the external movies loaded in. the external movies are mousetrail experiments. anyhow, with the attached files this is what is quirky: --------------------------------------------------------------...more >>

I have 10 movie clips in the first scene titled "Front-End". The first MC is named Menu_1, the second Menu_2, the third Menu_3, the fourth Menu_4, (so on and so forth all the way to Menu_10) Now what i want when the *.SWF is done loading is to randomly place 1 MC after the other with 1 second ...more >>

Have 60 buttons with getURL scxript to open MSWord docs. Problem is some machine open docs in Explorer (why?) and this won't work for me as the user needs to edit them. I have tried using fscommand to open a .bat file that then calls on the word doc, but this only seems to work if I cre...more >>

I have a movie clip (spaceship_mc), that needs to dropped on another MC (asteroid_mc) that is placed inside a MC (base) that is created when the movie is started the script I am using is not working. I think that it cannot find the (asteroid_mc) in the Base clip can anybody help me with this??...more >>

I still do not get it...I have tried every syntax (minus the one that works) Simple problem.... I have a flash movie entitled "indexmovie.swf". when it loads, I want to load "intro.swf" into a mc located in "indexmovie.swf".... Basically "indexmovie.swf" is a movie containing a navbar ...more >>

I am in dire need for some tech support for ActionScript. I am out of my league on about 5 things and I need to talk or chat with someone. Is there a Macromedia live chat? If so I can't find it. I am rather budget-less. Thank you ...more >>

i'd like to make a preloader for a flash exe made with slides. the final product will be delivered on cd only. how??? -thanks, Dave...more >>

Hello everyone and thank you in advance. I have a situation where I'm trying to load external .jpg files through the loadMovie() function, and I'm finding that it doesn't work on my network machine. After spilling through my code and 2nd guessing everything I did, I got the notion that may...more >>

Hello, I am having a problem printing using Flash player 7. We have an application thats prints fine when using version 6 player, but when I install the new Flash player 7, it prints 2 blank pages instead of the content that used to print. Has anybody experienced any similar behavior?? .....more >>

Hi...I know this is a really easy problem it's just one of those problems thats hopefully really easy to fix. Basically I need to get a colour from a variable and set it to a movie clip but i am finiding this impossible. I am able to select colours for the text and backgrounds and for them ...more >>

Hello, I'm not sure how to ask this, so please forgive me: I'm trying to make a movie that is completely dynamically generated: buttons, text, functions, everything. I want to be able to load the functions from an external text file with loadVars() so I won't have to use #include. I want to ...more >>

Hi guys, Im trying to create a dynamic menu at the moment, and I cant quite figure part of it out. What i'm trying to do is dynamically load the information for the menu items from an XML file, which then creates the menu items using movie clips, and sets their properties so they can act as...more >>

I am building online lessons for which the user pays a subscription. I'm trying to prevent someone stealing the lessons and reselling on a 'black market', so I have included some authentication to check the file is being played at the correct domain, and within the correct file. However, if I...more >>

I have a clip where I define a function like this onClipEvent(load){ _global.thePlan_mc = this; skalierung = 75; this.setZoom = function(iZoom){ .. .. .. .. When I define it like this ... function setZoom (iZoom){ .... I can not call the function from the global-obj...more >>

I am using loadmovie to import an authentication script. If the authentication works, we can continue, if not, we go to an "error" frame. My problem is, it is taking some time for the authentication movie to load -- what is the best way to force the frame to wait until it is loaded? Thanks G...more >>

Does anyone out there also seem to have trouble making MP3s stream using the standard actionscript. sound.loadsound("http://soundfile.htm", true) Above is of course an example but I am creating a streaming MP3 player and though the action script seems to be technically correct, it won't s...more >>

I'm using this script that I found on line that loads .Jpg's dynamically. (safly assume that I know nothing about how the script works.) however.... while the registration point of the MC is "center" the images load with the upper left corners of the images aligned to the center. It would see...more >>

I am having trouble with a flash file which contains 2 empty movie clips in it. The file is a computer screen. When the user hits the ctrl key then esc, a menu appears. The user then uses the up and down arrows to highlight each selection and presses enter. This then loads another flash mo...more >>

good morning, ive created a button and converted it to clip, added this code: on (rollOver) { gotoAndStop("hold"); } this keeps rollover state after rollout. is there script i can add that will produce the normal state only when another button is rolled over? ...more >>

how can i use multiline with System.setClipboard...more >>

I find that the navigation bar on the macrodedia website is very considerate. if you put your mouse pointer on one of the terms of main navigation bar , for example, "products", after ** ms the sub-navigation bar will appear. Why after ** ms ? Because if you want to click one of the...more >>

I created buttons in a flash movie, but when I try to apply the "on" action (for "On release, goto URL...), the "On" is grayed out. What am I doing wrong? Thanks ...more >>

Im loading an external swf into my main movie using loadMovie. The loadMovie command executes on frame 3 of a movie clip and loads the movie into a component. I tell it to play on frame 185. If the external swf is larger than around 250k...the main movie freezes for a moment before playing t...more >>

Ok, I've just started using Flash today so bare with me if this is a simple question... I've finished creating a introduction animation for my website. The animation plays then when it reaches the last frame, it launches the website's main page. Perfect. The problem is that the anim...more >>

I am working on a modular menu system, where the menu items are defined by an array and loaded into the title's movie. The problem is that the onRollOver and onRollOut events on the items aren't being triggered, only the title movieclip's on(rollover). I know I could load the items into _root,...more >>

HI, i havbe a problem. I am using loadvariableNum to pick up a datafrom a txt file. That data is a string .I can see that in a field on the stage, that is ok but i can used that var like a number. i did that ( code): // name of the variable from TXT var dataT; takDAT= new Number(dataT); ...more >>

Hello all, I've recently bought Flash MX 2004 and i realy miss the actionscript feature: " Normal / Expert mode ". Is there any way to add it back to the program ? Thanks Udi...more >>

I have a button1 that has the following Action Script: on (press) { movie instance1.MovieClip.attachMovie("movie name1"); movie instance1.play(); } The movie1 has a "stop();" Action in the first and last frame. I have button2 that attaches and plays movie2. The button1 will play t...more >>

how to screen the right mouse thank you from china gzsxy8013@sohu.com...more >>

I am trying to open up an HTML file and I want to scale it with a .swf file, however the swf file is not in an HTML document.. Can someone help please, or tell me the script that I put into flash to do this. Thanks ...more >>

Hi - Is it possible to launch a PDF file while you are in a Flash created .exe and have the PDF come out on top of the movie so you can see it? I would be alright having the PDF linked in an HTML window if that helped. I have a CD that has many PDFs that need to be viewed in front of the Fl...more >>

I have tried many different pre-loaders that I found on the net and have even tried the progress bar from Macromedia's site (the macromedia extension) - I cant get any of them to work... I'm fairly new to Flash, but definitely not a complete novice...but I just can't figure this out. B...more >>

If i have created a movieclip in Swift3d, how do i tell it specificly in the actionscript to stop on load, and then play on mouse down, etc. I figured this out on flashmx, but then my brother upgraded to 2004 and it seems les friendly, it doesnt work the same. Please help?? - Bryce ...more >>

Is there anyway to change the stage background and its dimensions using actionscript/actionscript 2.0?...more >>

I often use the [i]myMovieClip[/i].loadMovie() method to load jpg images at run time, but am encountering an issue when manipulating the properties of [i]myMovieClip[/i] before the image has had a chance to load. When the image does appear it is often rotated 90deg around the top left corne...more >>

I have this Flash movie. In it there is a movieClip called "graphList". Inside of EACH GraphList movieClip (cuz, duplicateMovieClip was used, there is a field called "startTime" that has a time "00:00" format. each duplicateMovieClip has the name "graphList1", "graphList2", "graphList3...more >>

Hey, I have a button in the first frame that fires as soon as the movie loads? What I'm trying to do is send a string via xmlsocket. function said(output){ myXML.send(output); } a_btn.onRelease = said("Hello"); Also I can't get this button to fire when I put the 'said' functi...more >>

Hi! Is there a simple way to exchange information between Flash- and Java-Applications? I'm asking out of the blue because I'm in the midst of developing a graphical intense Application and considering a few alternatives for the GUI/Visualisation. Since it is quite simple to design and progra...more >>

Home come an swf that is loaded at runtime runs properly but if the swf is imported into the stage/library and used that way it seems broken. The imported swf ignores any code that is in it and also does not respond to gotoAndPlay() calls when using a label. For example I had a stop() call ...more >>

I was wondering how i would write a formula to do the following. What i have is a button and a horizontal bar on the stage which acts like a health bar when i press the button it runs a function containing the script i need help with. What is supposed to happen is when i press the button on ...more >>