I am trying to get this script to work. class manager { var _myXML:XML; function manager() { trace("Manager Created"); this._myXML = new XML(); this._myXML.ignoreWhite = true; this._myXML.onLoad = XMLloaded; this._myXML.load("images.xml"); } function X...more >>

I've been working on this pop up menu for two days and I'm going crazy. I followed the instructions and have started from scratch twice can someone please look at this file and let me know why the sub menus are not popping up? Any help is very much appreciated! Here is the file it is name 312....more >>

Hi, I'm a new flash user and I didn't find out how to change a movie clip level. I know how to change a loaded movie level, but is it possible with a movie clip? Thanks......more >>

I have a SWF which loads another SWF from the same directory on the server into a movieClip. loadMovie("dog.swf", holder) The Holder MC has a variable I wish to pass onto the dog movie which was loaded into it. This works fine when using it Online but not in the standAlone player. Th...more >>

Hello, I am trying to develop a custom application where a user can control a movie clip via mouse gestures. I am currently looking into which language(s) would be best to code this in. Can something similar to the requirements listed below be done using Flash, ActionScript, etc...? If...more >>

Hi, i'm looking for some pratical knowledge about the new ActionScript 2.0? Is it allready applicable for greater application development or should we use the 'old' ActionScript? Thanks in advance for any hint. Stefan...more >>

Ok, this sounds easy but I'm having a tough time making it work: I am: - attaching an empty movie clip from the library - loading media in this mc using loadMovie() - now, I want to duplicate that movie clip - but duplicateMovieClip() doesn't seem to work w/attached movie clips. ha...more >>

Can someone please help me, I need to know to create a scrollbar in flash mx 2004 professional. I really need help with this....more >>

I'm dynamically loading an event sound and it plays too fast. What am I doing wrong? Here's the script: mySound = new Sound(); mySound.loadSound("MySound.mp3", false); while (mySound.getBytesLoaded() < mySound.getBytesTotal()) {} mySound.start(); I've tried adjusting export setting...more >>

(COMPLETE BEGINNER) I recently got the guide-book Studio mx 2004 - It was going so well until I hit page331 In the flash section I' ve created html text in a dynamic text field (quickTip_txt) inside a movie-clip, (quickTip_mc )but after I written the code & tested it, the movie-clip a...more >>

Hi, Can you please suggest sites where I can get some information (source code samples, techniques, etc) related to Artificial Intelligence programming in Flash ActionScripting using Object Oriented programming? It is fine if the site deals with AS2 also. I want to program some science experim...more >>

I have a movie that contains a map. On this map are many instances of a movieClip. These instances statically placed on the main movie. Each of these instances has onClipEvent() handlers. My client wants the ability to remove and add items to be displayed on the map. The only way I can...more >>

Im am currently working on a project in flash mx and I have a movie clip on the screen that moves when the arrow keys are pressed but i also want it to move a certain way within the movie clip when another key is down. But only the arrow keys and enter are working. I want it to play the movie...more >>

hi, im running a flash 5 tutorial but when i try to apply a "with" statement to an existing "if" statment it wont let me. on (press) { startDrag(this); } on (release) { stopDrag(); if (_root.circle.hitTest(_root.bag)) { setProperty(this, _width, 100); ...more >>

hello, can any of u kindly brief me on the GET and POST method? i m quite confused with it. thankx...more >>

I want to place a sequence of movie clips on the main timeline and have the movie play each movie clip in its entirety before moving on to the next movie clip. For example, I have a movie clip "CR" on frame 2 of the main timeline. CR is 110 frames in length. I want all 110 frames of CR to ...more >>

When I click a button, a image cover all screen and there are one button to close this image. But if you put mouse over some parts where there are button under, the mouse runs link if you click it. How can I deactivate this button when It is under other things? ...more >>

I need help on restarting a movie clip when the same button is presed to start it. Say you press a button to goto the movie clip, then inside the movie clip there are other buttons you press to goto other areas. Now when you press the button that started the movie clip it stays where you left ...more >>

I have to insert a set of code (flash 4) developed by an earlier employee long since gone into a new flash movie developed for a flash 6 player. The old program works just fine but when inserted into the new movie will not work. When the publish settings for the old movie are set to Flash ...more >>

I can not figure this one and it is probably very stupid. I have an array (MyArray) containing several numeric values; when I use MyArray.sort(), the array gets sorted but the method returns semi sorted data like 146,175,199,227,251,27,45,71,78,94. Obviously, the three digits numbers are cor...more >>

Hi everyone, I have searched thru this forum as well as several others to find an answer to my question, but have had no luck. I am posting something here in hopes someone can shed some light on the subject. I have a client who wants a tutorial built in Flash, including audio voiceover ...more >>

Hello, I'm doing a Web site using screens (Flash 2004 Pro) where each slide has a little animation which should play only when the screen is revealed. Unfortunately, all the animations play although their corresponding screens are not revealed, so when I click on the link to a screen, the an...more >>

I have the main movie (name: interface) embedded on the html page with a MC named "Load". I also have a set of html links towards the bottom of the page (not in swf) that when clicked on, will tell the MC named "Load" to load an external movie named home.swf. I have seen this done with the FS ...more >>

Is it possible to access the value of a variable that is located in a place in the flash movie that has not been reached yet by the playhead. I am actually trying to access a number of dynamic text boxes throughout the flash movie, all from the first frame of the flash movie, which i think ...more >>

Hi, in my flash-application I use a shift and a zoom function to navigate through an area. My problem is how I zoom the movieclip that contains the area with keeping the middle at the same position. I zoom the clip and of course moves, depending on the current position, from the zero-posi...more >>

Someone created a cool swf file in SWISH ( Logo ) and I would like to place it within a swf file to be displayed as one swf file. I have been able to get this done ( With guidance ), but when the file is tested ( Published ) the logo is not displayed. When the result swf file is displayed, t...more >>

How do I load a movie into my movie that has to use a variable as part of it's name... for example I have lots of movies each called movie1.swf, movie2.swf, movie3.swf...and so on. Then I'm generating a variable which is a number lets call it - myNumber - and I'm trying to say something li...more >>

Hi, Have a problem with function keys in flash MX. The problem doesn't really come from flash but from the browser supproting it (IE). Is it possible to disactivate function key like F5(refresh)? I tried a solution with javascript. It works well, but only when the focus is on the HTML page...more >>

If you have a variable in a text file (which I attribute to a dynamic text box) for example: staff1= Doe, John 222 223-4354 and u want to add another variable afterwards (ie) staff2= Doe, Jane 222 223-4355 how do u terminate the first? I tried using a semicolon but no luck. it ju...more >>

Ok iam trying a different way of a login system. Heres the deal: I have 1 password field on the stage named "passWord", and i want to have actionscript that will check what the user types into the password input text and if it is correct to the password i have stored within the actionscript th...more >>

How do I get label3 contents into anotherStringVar This is what you gave me, except I added the .txt? mystring="http://www.tribidz.com/"+anotherStringVar+".txt?nocache="+random(65000 ); dateVars.load(mystring); If I do this: <PARAM NAME="Movie" VALUE="highbid.swf?anotherStringVar=123...more >>

Hi! I have moved to mx2004 and made some changes to a few of my flash files. Once I did that it asked me to save in Flash 2004mx format which I did. Since doing that, I now get errors on my pages. These are the 2 types of errors I'm getting: 1. **Error** C:\Documents and Settings...more >>

Hello, I've made a "grid" of using 256 instances of one Mc (10 frames). Now, I need it to play randomly, how do I do that? Thanks :-) Pluda...more >>

I'm trying to call up random movie clips into my movie, each movie is named 12.swf, 13.swf, 14.swf and so on. I need to randomly call up any swf between the numbers 10 to 20, for example... Can anyone help? ...more >>

Please can someone help me with the following problem. I am using actionscript to link sounds to particular events and on buttons using the following code: Music= new Sound(); Music.attachSound("MySound"); Music.stop(); Music.start(); Everthing works except when the user clicks the b...more >>

Question 1: How can I set for a button variables, like window width & height? well the script looks so: on (release) { getURL("something.htm", "_blank"); } Question 2: Is it Possible to set buttons background transparent? Thanks for the answer! ...more >>

Could someone please tell me how to display the line numbers inside the actions window - Mine seems to have been turned off. Thanks Andy...more >>

Hi, having a problem trying to get one swf to cummunicate with another on the html page and get it to change scenes, I can get it to change frames using the code below, but can anyone tell me how to make it play a new scene instead? Code from "movie1": button1.onRelease = function() {sen...more >>

I have three movies: - First is the movie to show pictures (is a movieclip called "manualmc" into loaded movie in _level9) -Second is the movieclip with this big pictures (is a movieclip called "zoomfoto" into movieclip in _level9) -Three is the button to show this picture in big size (is ...more >>

Hello, I have some knowledge of using flash but would like to learn flash mx actionscript much better. What book would anyone recommend to learn acionscript for a beginner?...more >>

hi all Links, flash base web Application, srinath...more >>

Does anyone now how I can draw a circle with ActionScript 2.0? I also wonder how to pick a random element from an array?...more >>

please help me to create a script to multiple passwords and users calling a ..txt file. i know how to create a password and user but i need to do that for 1000 users and i can?t put 1000 users and passwords in the script like most of the tuturials do, to include the password and the user in ...more >>

I have found this code, I want to restrict the user from draggin the mc outside a set area. startDrag(target,[lock ,left ,top ,right,bottom]); I dont know how to stipulate the coordinates, can anyone give me an example. Thanks - you would know I was a newbie ;) ...more >>

Dear all, I have a button that call a function that containt a switch statement and i'm a bit surprize. The strange things is that the output is giving me : 1 3 2 and for me when flash is executing the case statement is should execute taxload before ending the case statement. Where...more >>

Can anyone give me a reference to change the appearance of a scrollbar. Cheers!...more >>

I've been racking my head... is there a way to dynamically reference the input field by a dynamically created name and then populated it with ANY text???? ~ START, THIS DOES NOT WORK ~ // 2 input text fields on the stage, named inputBox1 and inputBox2 for (i=1; i<=2; i=i+1) { vTe...more >>

I'm stuck, I have created a program that goes on a stand alone player for the mac. This means I have had to use the autoscale and fullscreen in order for my program to fill the screen. However when I do this these commands do not seem to apply for each swf movie that I load, unless I load movi...more >>

Hello Everybody! I am not a coder in actionscript. I am interested to make a vu meter that works in Flash MX Pro 2004. I'v found a piece of code on the Internet, but it only works when exported to Flash Player 6 and I target Flash Player 7. Bellow is the code and I also attached the FLA...more >>

I have a quiz of 50 questions, and now the client wants to choose 5 randon questions at a time, but how can I ensure that they never get the same question twice? Any ideas?...more >>

I have been running into a lot of problems with line breaks, formatting characters in the middle of sentences, and embedding fonts of text brought in from outside Flash in a sql database. I was just wondering what techniques you all are using to cause line breaks, fomat text (ie. html vs. regul...more >>

I am new to flash and actionscripting. I want to add something like this to a button's rollover: if movie "a" is not at a specified frame # then make movie "b" do nothing but if movie "a" at [i]is[/i] a specific frame # then make it gotoAndPlay do you know what I'm trying to say? ...more >>

today i've mad flash+php mail form, but problem is, when i put 'ENTER'(carrige return) in the text field(Input text) and send, then check email box, i got only one long string text. i already search this forum, and one guy had same problem but can't find any solution. (i also tested, ...more >>

I have a 300 frame movie clip in a frame. I want to assign a variable to track where i am up to with that movi clip. For example if the user views 200 frames of the movie clip and then clicks the next button to view the next section, when they click to go back to the previous frame the variabl...more >>

i have a massive problem with my [h]preloader[/h] messing up my movie clips! 2 Scenes: Scene 1 - Preloader Scene 2 - Main With the preloader intiated and completed the movie clip in my main scene doesn't work nor do anything for that matter. other instances work and the timeline sti...more >>

Hey, Do u guys know how to create a forward button and a backward one? Say, I have 8 Mc to show, but I would rather show them one by one through the two buttons. So, any suggestions? Thank you! ...more >>

hi, i would like to know how to pause and play a voice over in a flash using interactive buttons. thanks guru...more >>

My page loads everything about an item...In an html label, Label6, is the item number. I want that string to also load into this flash variable -- | ...more >>

Hi All I have one swf called 'Main.swf' and a number of other swfs called 'myMC1.swf', 'myMC2.swf' etc Withinn the 'Main.swf' i have created a number of movie clips in which to import the external swfs. These have instance names of 'mc1', 'mc2' etc. I load the external swfs into the ...more >>

I am just learning flash 2004 and really do not know what to think about it yet. I suppose it is better but different to some extents too. I have the following code that worked well with FLASH 4 but not with this newer version if (location == "new") { yltr = starty; xltrcur = endx; ...more >>

Trying to load an external html doc and have it display the text as formated from a loaded CSS doc. Works if I embed the html but not when I load it externally. Just started trying to use the CSS feature in Flash MX 2004. Files at, http://www.xccelerant.com/HTML_CSS_load.zip Thanks i...more >>

I am new to using Flash MX Professional 2004. I have been unable to find out where the parameters pane is. I have been told to select Normal Mode form the Options menu, however the Normal Mode option is not there as well. Could someone please tell me how to activate the Parameters Pane? ...more >>

I have been having some difficulty recently with a script I have. The script should be instructed to change colors of an object, based on a random number generated earlier in a script. I thought that this should be relatively simple to do, because of the RGB controllers in each object,...more >>

Can I read a directory list only with Actionscript? or I have to create a text file using a PHP or ASP script?...more >>