hey all. Im currently developing a game engine in flash mx :). I was wondering if it is possible to use actionscript to write to a local file on the HD. Now...the flash itself wont be on a webpage, its a projector, so i think its possible. IF its possible could you please tell me how i would...more >>

Is there a way to flip a movie horizontally or vertically in script? I have an swf that I load dynamically but would like to be able to flip it around in script so I don't have to duplicate animations. ...more >>

Hi, I am very new to the flash, and here is a probably very simple problem, but please help. Please take a look at this page: http://www.commerceim.com/flashcom/samples/sample_videoconference/sample_videoco nference.html It's borrowed from a sample from macromedia. You can find all the...more >>

I am having a difficult time doing something that would be very easy in html - creating a link between sections of a website. Let me explain... I have a base SWF that I called "intro.swf". This SWF has three scenes, a Preloader, Intro and Base. In this "Base" scene of this SWF is a movieclip ...more >>

Hi again, Is it possible to create a single xmlsocket in say the application screen that can be accessed from other screens? Or do I need to add a socket to each screen? If so, doesn't this create a lot of sockets for one application? Thanks T Brownell ...more >>

I had a corrupt layer in a file. If I tried to do anything to that layer such as add a keyframe, modify the images on the layer, change the easing, Flash crashed. The only thing I could do to it was copy it and then paste the frames into a new layer. At some point I did manage to delete the co...more >>

Hi. I need a bit of help with a preloader I'm working on. Here's the situation: I have 20 swf files that were given to me that I need to package into one larger flash movie. These 20 files are rather large in size (150kb to 600kb) so I want to make each of them preload when they are called...more >>

Hi. I've been surfing, posting and writing in this forum for a while now and you've made the bigest impresion on me (+some newsgroup members which names i dunno). I'm 21year old working in GSM internet company. I like the computers. But to be true, I dunno any of comp. languages. Becouse I...more >>

I am building a game that talks to an socket server written in C. Everything is working great except: When the swf is closed ( browser refreshed, page navigated away from, etc... ) The socket server is unaware that the open connection should be closed. This is causing problmes as it begins to ...more >>

If i have the attribute "SIZE" from the following xml string.. <CHANGE SIZE="32"> How can I convert this to an integer in flash? Thanks ...more >>

I have dynamic content which populates a textbox within a movie clip. There is a lot of content, so I have made the text box very large to house it all. Unfortunately the larger I make the text box, the smaller the font size gets as flash tries to squeeze the text box onto a single page. For ...more >>

Hello all, I'm experimenting with LoadVars objects and creating arrays with them. The trouble I'm having now is splitting the strings that are loaded... I have two text files containing the following: aNum.txt has: numA=Mark,Cheri,Tristan,Aubrey bNum.txt has: numB=42,34,7,6 my mov...more >>

I have a simple action script that reads the date and then sets a variable for the month. I then used a switch statement so that it will play a different frame for each month. Right now it plays the default case. If I hard code a value for the variable "currentMonth" it works fine. Any idea...more >>

I have a long voice over, 2 minuets. I have put the voice over audio in the timeline and set the Sync to Stream so that I can synchronize objects on the screen to a specific words in the voice over. I need a mute button that dose not pause the animation. What ActionScript should I use for...more >>

I just want to do one simple thing, read a cookie, is that too much to ask? Any ideas (not including shared objects!)...more >>

hi, why when I set one of the sound object 's volume property to 0, others' volumes values becomes 0? how can I solve this? sample file on: http://www.delizade.com/files/sound_problem.zip ...more >>

question... lets say i load a movie in the _root of my .swf From that [b]loaded movie[/b] i call in action script : _root.xxxxx.yyyyy.gotoAndPlay(1) this will execute into my [b]Main[/b] _root and not in the [b]loaded movie[/b] _root right? so if thats case, how can i refer...more >>

Does anyone knows how to use the <img> tag to display an image within a text field? I know that the multiline and word wrap property of the text field has to be enabled. Can anyone provide an example? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Has anyone figured out how to set the scrollbar position using the ScrollPane component? I have created a form(movie clip) and attached it to a scollpane. I have the entire form completed, tab order is correct, validation, etc, but the only thing I cannot figure out is how to set the scrollbar...more >>

hello everyone, hope someone can help shed light on this one. I am trying to use the accordion component. Everything works perfectly apart from the colour. I want to change it from the default green to a blue colour but have not got a clue how to go about this. I have tried to use the setS...more >>

Ok first off i am a newbie so forgive me if this is a dumb question. I have a list of buttons and when you rollover one of them the button doubles in size and its supposed to go infront of the buttons next to it. Is there some kind of script where on rollOver it brings the button to the front?...more >>

I have a form that I'm trying to add a button that will serve as a Tab button on your keyboard and allow you to go to the next text field. Anybody know how that can be done? Thanks in advance!...more >>

I'm a mac user & have a request for right-click functionality on a little swf program I've created for the web... Is there a way to attach specific functions to right-clicks? I.E. Can I add script to a button that will allow the user to click to go a label and also right click to go to a U...more >>

Is there a way to dynamically load(import) a picture into flash? I am trying to make it so that the user can pic an image of their own, to use as a background in my flash movie....more >>

I had posted yesterday in regards to attaching components within components dynamically. I found that I could not get the onEnterframe to fire from the component that was attached dynamically at any level until I checked the export in first frame check box. this however is not a good way to d...more >>

Hi. Can you help me with this problem I'm challenging: I have button on stage and movieclip in library. I would like when rollover on button, MC to play on the up left corner on the screen. Thanx in advance. Benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------ To live ...more >>

I have a flash movie with many buttons that need to open MSWord docs. getURL is causing problems since on some machines it will open the doc in Explorer. Also need to center the projector so I'm moving ovet to Director. Any suggestions on calling lingo such as "baOpen" or "baShell" fro...more >>

I have a function that, amongst other things, is supposed to alter the width and height of mc's when a zoom button is pressed. All works fine, except that if the mc has been rotated by 90 degrees (several of the mc's have this option) the height and width assignment goes to pot. here's ...more >>

Hi I am attaching a movie clip from the library . This movieclip has buttons inside calling some actions (actions doesn't matter). My problem begins when I call another movie from the library to replace this first one. The buttons inside this last one don't work. This works _root...more >>

hi I have a sound problem. I created a sound object and attached a sound linkage to it. later I call a flv file to mediaDisplay object and setting to sound object's setVolumeproperty to 0 for hearing only flv file's sound. But when run setVolume(0) code, the sound of MediaDisplay also becomes...more >>

Good day, Has anyone manged to connect the ProgressBar component to the WebServiceConnector ? Ideally, I would like to be able to show the progress of the data being received from the ColdFusion server... I have sucessfully achieved this when using Flash Remoting and NetServices, but not...more >>

Hi I was just after a bit of advice to trying and cut down my code. I have this code: if (_root.mcBody01._x <=200) { _root.mcBody01._visible = false; } else if (_root.mcBody01._x >=201) { _root.mcBody01._visible = true; } But I repeat it for mcBody02, mcBody03 etc and I was wonde...more >>

I have created a shopping cart using the tutorial (see link below) as a model. The cart works great but the products do not snap back to the original location if they are dropped on the cart like the hats in the example file. I looked at the code and I see the hats are set to visible 0 if the...more >>

Hi all, Having changed my clock I found that some changes I made in code were not being mirrored in the SWF. Having pulled my hair for a while, I discovered that flash caches compiled *.as files in the the local settings folder (C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Applic...more >>

Please I need help urgent, I am currently developing an animation which is like an encyclopedia in every sense it has like 150 aricles which I need to present in pages being an overall of 600 pages how can I migrate them from word into flash so they don?t lose its quality. Help me out plis it ...more >>

is it possible to detect the frame label of a given frame (the current frame for example) in actionscript?...more >>

Hello!! I'm a starter (flash mx 2004), so probably this is a simple question to you guys... i meda a simple menu using tha accordion component, now i want to get actions depending on which button is pressed... ( listener rigth?) ... i tried to do it like if it was a menu bar but it didn...more >>

friends, This might be very very interesting for ... ok, I want to know what all the swf files have been visited from my browser, when I opened the presentation [web based] second time. But there are some limiatations are there for it to get them out... we shouldn't use any client side ...more >>

please i want help in my problem can flash send vars to text file???? if yes how?????????????? by (load variables) or what?? and how can i do it? WYvernS [E=E-Mail]realyverns@hotmail.com[/E]...more >>

Hi all, I have a site I'm developing that uses the code (attached) from a FLA from FlashKit. It all works like a dream (clicking on a link slides the page over to another) but I have a problem where the page will rest after moving with a 1 pixel line on the side. The text is also slightly ...more >>

Hi, does anyone know of a reliable way to detect a movie's frame rate? Carl...more >>

Hello, I'm using a Mysql database to store pictures in binary data, and I'm searching for a way to import this binary data directly form the database into flash and let flash reconstruct the jpeg. Getting the data into Flash as a variable is not the problem, it's reconstructing the jpe...more >>

is this site accessible the U.S. ? could somebody (in the US) take a look at this site www.bohyn.com and tell me if you can see it. Please tell me also where you are in the US, because people are telling me they can't see it in Orlando, but they can in Dallas ???? Thank You very much for your...more >>

Hello everybody I have a problem with the "a name" tag... in my home page I have a menu builded in flash with several anchor inside... the problem is: when in another html page I click on a link like <a href=home.asp#sport> the browser goes to the home.asp file but not in the exact frame mar...more >>

I am creating a self running product demo. I want to include a FastForward and Rewind Control option on the main timeline. How should this be done. TIA...more >>

I have made a preloader showing the progress of dynamically added images. The code works fine when i play the movie on local machine, but when i play the movie from the server bytesTotal is always 0. It even says 0 after the images has finished loading. what i'm doing is basically: create...more >>

Hi All, I am learning to use flash-php-mysql. The book I'm learning from is FOE PHP for Flash. I am trying to update the code for textbox formatting and css. The problem I'm running into is the code in the book uses loadvariables into this. loadVariables("http://myDomain.com/phpNews/fetc...more >>

is there a way to have a piece of code that will run as fast as the computer running it will allow, while still keeping the rest of the flash movie at 12 fps? or having a MC move independent from the 12fps, so that it can reach maximum fps speeds without affecting the 12fps? ...more >>

Does anybody know if it's possible to control the main scene with a button placed into a movie clip and with this movie clip in the scene. I know how to do this with a button places dirrectly on the scene but not with a button placed in a movie clip in the scene... If anybody know how to do t...more >>