How Am-I supposed to do for doing a "TellTarget" to an object in my scene if I do this actionscript into a button placed in a movieclip that is in this scene. I mean : _global.TellTarget ("Background") or TellTarget (_global("Background")) or anything else... thanks for your help ...more >>

I can't seem to get onClick to work for listboxes, but I really want onDblClick if there is such a thing.. Right now I have this for onClick yet NOTHING seems to happen.. Any ideas on this or hopefully how to use Double Click instead.. myObject = new Object(); myObject.onClick = fu...more >>

I'm not shure how to do an if in a button with a global variable this is my code : on (release) { if (position="Accueil") {tellTarget ("Background") {stop(); } } else if (position="Nouvelles") {tellTarget ("Background") {gotoAndStop("Nouv - Acc"); } } else if (position="Biographie"...more >>

Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial or sample file for an analog clock that works with MX2004? I have a sample movie for one built in Flash 5 but it doesn't work in my Flash 7 movie. thanx for any help! -kimmie ...more >>

O.K. This is kind of a tricky problem. I have an animated menu of a cube with four sides and and four blocks to a side. I only used 8 different buttons to create it. So each button is repeated twice in the animation. I need all 16 seperate blocks to display the name of the page it links to whe...more >>

Hi, I have a flash movie with many frames. In the first frame I have a movie clip. Within this movie is a button and I added this action script to redirect the user to frame 2 on the main timeline. on (release) { gotoAndPlay("q2"); //q2 being the label name of the frame } I aslo tried ...more >>

I want to play an MP3 music track throughout a flash movie even when linking to other frame labels with new content. I put the sound event on frame 1 of the main timeline. It plays fine when movie starts, then I click to go to a new frame label and content, the track continues playing the way ...more >>

Hi Guys, I am fairly new to flash and have 3 scenes in my movie that i want the user to be able to navigate those scenes at will. I have a main menu + two other scenes, and i want to the movie to start at the main menu and from there the user should be ale to use buttons to naivgate to ...more >>

I am trying to create a Shared Object from within a class instance, but a trace on the SO returns 'null' indicating the SO does not exist. I am obviously missing something obvious in my approach, so if someone could shed alight on this, I would appreciate it. Basically this is the way I do it: ...more >>

I have an action that uses duplicateMovie, so that one movie clip appears many times on different layers. I have been unable to create a mask that will work with this script. I usually get things figured out, but this one eludes me. ...more >>

i have 2 files file name : test.html first file having 4 buttons in second button script i write it like that on (press) { _global.pra = 2; getURL("test1.html", "_self", "GET"); } file name : test1.html second file having 4 frames each frame having the stop. i...more >>

I'm using a database driven flash, which contanis information reading from a Access database file, how can i convert text fields to a static format so that if i download the swf file it will include the information whithout having any connection to database. also i want to do the same for Im...more >>

Hi This is the code where the variables: obj and obj_sub may contain spaces. Is there an easy way to check for spaces and remove them if there are any? Thanks for your support _root.targetClip.loadMovie ("flashpaper/" + obj + "/" + obj_sub + ".swf"); ...more >>

Hi I have a problem I've made a movieclip (clock) which should control my scene... It is a clock (timer).. My scene excist of 3 frames. In frame 1 I have this movieclip. When the movieclip has a time of 2 minutes it should put my scene to frame 3. Only I do not know how.... :-S hel...more >>

I am working on a small presentation. Frame 1 - Animation Frame 2 - Animation Frame 3 - Interactive animation Frame 4 - Animation The interactive animation is a town map with a function that can zoom around on the map when clicking on some buttons. (East town, Centre, Northern area.....more >>

Hi, I'm writing a custom component using an external AS 2.0 script (containing the class code). If I put a design-time component when editing my component (eg: I add a label to my component) I'm unable to access this label box from the class code... The design-time label instance's name ...more >>

I have a boomerang that is twirling through space to hit a Kangaroo. I don't know if the hitTest is detecting the collision as there is no message in my "Trace" test box. Also in the actionscript for another mc to play if the boomerang hits the kangaroo. This is a very basic problem wh...more >>

I have just created some scrolling text, however I would like a "back to the top" button at the bottom of the text, can anyone help me! Thanks...more >>

Does anybody know how to set up a non local variable in a layer and then how to use it with my buttons??? Thanks...more >>

I want to set a timer in between playing a movie. Get timer will give me the time since the movie started. Is there is any provision to set the time as zero for a movie which is already playing?...more >>

Hi, I've created some actionscript in an external file. The code posts an XML document using the sendAndLoad function and then prints out the XML document that is returned. The code works fine unless it is inside a function, in which case the trace command prints, "undefined" for the XML...more >>

I use CFCs return a query to FlashMX,the codes like this: [i]DataGlue.bindFormatStrings(list,result,"#a#","");[/i] I found the result in the list has a lot of spaces,so I change my codes like this: [i]DataGlue.bindFormatStrings(list,result,"#trim(a)#","");[/i] But the Trim() deleted al...more >>

hi. has anyone experienced any weirdness with loading external movies into a placeholder movie clip? i've done it before and it's worked fine. but now i've got movies of different dimensions and there is movement based on mouse position inside them, too. the first one always loads...more >>

Dear fellow flashers, I have created an all flash website where I tell flash to load 5 movies, the three biggest are about 250K. For some reason at least one of these loads partially, but not completely. Any ideas as to what would prevent a movie from loading completely when instr...more >>

I am having major difficulties deciding where to put my loadMovie() function that loads several external swf files into my Flash movie. I have tried putting it onto a frame, as well as putting it onto a movieClip (using onFrameEvents), but in both cases the result is that if I play my movie ...more >>

hello, I have loaded an external swf file into my main Flash movie... using loadMovie() to load it, is there anyway that I can control that loaded swf?? for instance resize that swf....within my main movie?? thanks a lots. ...more >>