I have a hand-built component... basically it is a movie clip continaing a 'label' text field and an 'input' text field... there are also some built in methods so that I can change the 'input' text field to dynamic, change it's text, run some validation etc... a page of these components make u...more >>

Hi I am wondering if it's bad form to combine symbols on the stage into a movie. I am duping another movie, giving it a name in the library, dragging to stage, naming the instance, and editing in place because I want to swap out a couple of graphics, but it will only allow me to go so far. I...more >>

Hi, I have a weird problem here, probably a bug in my code but I'm starting to wonder... nodeType never changes, it's always set to 1... does anyone has a idea? here's the code: XML: <main> <search id="id1"> <criteria>...</criteria> </search> <search id="id2"> <...more >>

I know how to create clock using the time on client machine... but any one how to create a clock which shows the time on server. ...more >>

I have 4 frames in a movie. I have a movie clip in the first frame. This MC has a button. On click of this button, I want the play to go to one of the frames in the movie. A simple on (release) { gotoAndPlay("secondframe"); } doesn't seem to work. How do I access the main timeline from the b...more >>

When I am loading XML data into my dynamic text boxes special characters are being printed out in their escaped form. For example, if my XML document says : <tag>"blah"</tag> the dynamic text box will print out : &quot;blah&quot; I've tried embedding font outlines. I've tri...more >>

Can someone tell me how you pause a sound clip in mid-play and then restart it from the same point? Thanks for your help. Sam...more >>

Hello all.... I have an app and something is really really acting odd in it.....at the end of the app I have some pictures that are loaded onto the stage via... createClassObject(mx.controls.Loader, "icon3", 3); icon3.load("images/" + _level0.iconImage4 + ".jpg"); icon3._xscale = 32; ...more >>

What is the best way to create a dynamic sized text box? I am going to be reading some data from an XML file, and would like to display it in a dynamically sized box. ie, if the input data is only three lines long, I would want the box to be that size. But I would like to add scrolling i...more >>

Hello, I am working within the Learning Interactions components and I am curious if anyone knows how to have the cursor set focus on a text box? Basically I have a few fill in the blank, one for every frame and I don't want the user to have to click inside the text box to enter the text. ...more >>

This is in a swf (slideshow.swf) that I'm loading into a level of a main swf (main.swf). slideshow.swf attaches and plays the sound fine when it's tested by itself, but when I load it into a level of main.swf it doesn't play. voiceNum = 1; voiceover = new Sound(); voiceover.attachSound (...more >>

I am working on some falling sprites I want them to come in from the top of the document and fall to the bottom while rotating. Then when they reach the bottom I want them to start over making it seem like they never end. HOW CAN I DO THIS ANYONE PLEASE HELP!!!! ...more >>

Hello, I would like to control the cursor position. I'm dragging a movieClip and under certain conditions, I want the movie clip to avoid something. What happens is that the movieclip avoids the other one, but the cursor ends up away from the dragged movieclip, but is still dragging it. I...more >>

Is this code ok? Or can you only have one action per button? on (rollOver) { gotoAndPlay (11); } on (release) { getURL ("javascript:NewWindow=window.open('http://www.switch-design.com/work/web1.htm', 'width=500,height=500,left=0,top=0,toolbar=No,location=No,scrollbars=No,status=N o...more >>

Hi people, I need help concerning the fact that I want to ignore some tags inside a tag. In my flash program, when I read in the XML file, I want to interpret the node's content as HTML: [i] dynamicText.htmlText = content.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;[/i] In my XML ...more >>

I need help with a preloader, ive never understood how to do them. I thought I finaly had it sorted out but when I uploaded it I had to wait for the flash to load in, and it was just a white screen and by the time I could see the site it had already loaded in. Also Im pretty sure the preloade...more >>

I am trying to make elements in a combo box accessible, so that the elements can be visible for screen readers; however the individual elements in the combo box are not showing as accessible. The code I have produced is as follows Firstly I create a function for a new object as shown bel...more >>

I'm having a problem with the components in MX2004 when they are loaded from an external swf. Once a component has been loaded and then is either reloaded or another set of components loaded, clicking on the components causes an outline box to appear (using halo theme colors). This is partic...more >>

Anyone know of any good tutorials using attachMovie to attach multiple movie clips dynamically and the most effective way to manage their depths? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Chuck Vollmer ...more >>

I play my voice over audio with this script: voiceOver = new Sound(); voiceOver.attachSound("slide_2-1.wav"); voiceover.start(); Is there a script that would hold the playback head at point in the timeline until the audio is finished and then continue to play? Thanks in advance. As...more >>

i have some probleme in action script. and my problem is that i like to get the .fla of this effect (.swf) see on this link http://e-friends-rw.com/help/help_me.htm plese help me !!!!!...more >>

Hi, smee again. I know that you'll laugh at this question... How can I make password page? So the user enters password. And if correct, access is granted, otherwise not. I've allready tried some inputText.password (); but I've lost myself in code. I suppose that I'll need UI text compon...more >>

Hi Me have found that textfield images will overlap the text with which my_txt.html = true, also will only happen when specify the embedFonts the images will overlap the text while first veiw on screen everything will be display well after the textfiled is scrolled by user did anyon...more >>

I am trying to put 3 items into a droptarget area then play the next part of the movie, I have got all three to dragndrop into the area, but am stuck as to how you go on from there. What I want is to have a piece of code that says, when mc_1, mc_2 and mc_3 are in "area" goto and play next fram...more >>

I need to create negative levels when I attach MovieClips. In other words, I have a "wall" MC with a window onstage, and I want to attach an "outside" MC so I see it through the window, behind the wall. The only way I can get this to work consistently is to create an "empty" MC onstage, t...more >>

i was making a pw gate last night, and It works great with only one user name and pw. My question is, how do i add more user names? on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") { if ((name=="admin") && (password=="852147")) { gotoAndStop("pass"); } else { gotoAndStop("fail"...more >>

I need some help with a Flash coding issue. Here's the url where the fla is so you can look at it: http://sorbera.home.texas.net/boxster/ (right click on ctatest1.fla and save it) In frame 17, if you click on the mouse over that's over "click here to print...", and then look at the co...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem concerning the drag n drop ability using movie clips containing textBoxes. My drag-n-drop works well and the text appears correctly. The problem arises when you click on the TEXT and then drag the movie clip OR when you drop a movie clip onto another movie cl...more >>

We'll I'm trying to get one mc to follow another but I can't seem to get it to work. Could you guys help out? I used this: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { //x movement mx=_root._xmouse; if (mx<_x) { dx=_x-mx; } else { dx=mx-_x; } moveSpeedx=dx/3; if (mx<_x) { ...more >>

I got a problem with a chat thingie I made. The problem is that it sometimes works online, and sometimes it doesn't. And I have absolutely no clue why. When I test the movie from flash (ofcourse with other paths to the external files) it always works. Does anyone know a problem? The ur...more >>

Can I make it work? Doesn't seem to ... the variables I fill inside the "with" section are emtpy....more >>

how can i save the content of a imput text box in to a txt file so i can use it has a text to update a dynamic text box in other flash movie. i can't use php mysql or other tecnologie like it. ...more >>

hi there: i have a client who's hosted with earthlink (i know, i know), and i need to get flash to submit some stuff to earthlink's built-in MAILTO CGI script. works fine from HTML, not so great with Flash...it gives me a BAD REFERRER ERROR ("Sorry, this CGI is only available to sites host...more >>

hi. i've got a shell file which loads five external movies on(release) of five different buttons. the first time i press each button the external movies load fine and their speed is fine (they're all set to 40fps). but as soon as i click a button the second time the speed increases. it's as if...more >>

Could somebody tell me please if there's a way to consolidate this chunk of code? This works just fine, but seems like there should be a more condensed way of doing it. Thanks! --cindy function myFunction() { if (_root.activeClip=="mainNavItem0") { _root.mainNavClip.mainNavItem0...more >>

FlashMX2004pro flashplayer 6.0+ Can I use a listener to call clearInterval() when it detects that a movieClip containing the interval has unloaded? //my intervals are called within the first frame of myMC as follows: doSomething = function(someVars){ this._rotation+=5; } myObject...more >>

Go to this [L=site]http://www.fredperry.com/index.html [/L] go to estore section and lets say footwear You see there is a step one and image of shoes is loading. Am trying to make something like that ( not all thats in the page only loading the images dynamically in the rows and columns wi...more >>

Hi I am wanting a search box in my swf file that will search my site HTML pagesand display the results in a html page. I have just had a search but can only really find the google search examples or examples that search the flash file and/or display the results in flash, which i do not want...more >>

I have created a class file called Recipe.as What I want to do is create instances of the Recipe class but assign it to a dynamically named variable; What I have so far is: function createRecipe(id){ var objectName:String = "recipe"+id objectName= new Recipe(this.menuID, this.menuT...more >>

hi, can someone please help me?? i have loaded an SWF into my scene using the loadMovieNum action, i was just wondering now that i have got it in my scene, how do i position it? At the moment these are the actions that i have applied to the keyframe: loadMovieNum("dialogue box.swf", 1);...more >>

Hi All, I'm totally baffled by this one. I have a list box in frame 5 I want them to pick a state. I assign that to a var named STATE with a on(press) then later (Frame 15) I take STATE and reassign it to STATE1 then I check to see what STATE1 is with my if statements and assign the number to Exp...more >>

I know that Flash supports the import of externals XML files which are either encoded as unicode or according to a "traditional code page". Unfortunately I have a datasource which outputs XML where all characters above code 127 are ecaped in HTML 4.0 style like &#223; Now, when I import t...more >>

Hi, I want to launch window's notepad on click of a button. I tried fscommand but it works only for projector & not for swf files. could any one help me to sort out this problem. thanks in advance.... ...more >>

Hi. Is there an actionscript that will keep a flash movie 'always on top' so no matter what is running in the background the flash movie will always be at the forefront of the screen? Thanks...more >>

Hello NG, i had named a frame on the timeline of a movie as "myTitle". In some places i need the frame-number, but how do i get this one if i only have the name of the frame? I there a function? Greets Christian ...more >>

I have the following setup: a function called bands_func which is stored in an external file "variables.as" and is icluded in frame 1, and later on called by a button an array called bands_name_array containing names an integer called bname 7 TextFields with the instance name sub_text fo...more >>

Hi. I'm struggling with this something terrible. I have a MC called "subNavClip". Inside that is another mc called "subNavItem" that's been duplicated 8 times. Is there a trick to targeting a movie clip that's been created using duplicateMovieClip? Here's the code for the duplicatatio...more >>

hey guys and gals look at this script moviearray = new Array("imgs/image1.jpg", "imgs/image2.jpg", "imgs/image3.jpg","imgs/image4.jpg","imgs/image5.jpg"); indx = 0; while (indx<5) { moviename = moviearray[indx++]; loadMovie(moviename, "_root.target"); } am trying to loa...more >>

Try this: Make two movies, in one movie ("A") make a movie clip with the linkage of "A_link" and named "A_mc". In the other movie ("B") make another movie clip and put code into it's first frame like: #initclip 1 function newClass() { trace(this + " newClass"); } newClass.prototyp...more >>

hi.. // ... i need to know how to preload multiple movies into a main movie // with a percentage display or something that indicates status of the movie being preloaded ?.. >> can anyone help me with this?? ...more >>

i got a handful of movies to play. i am using media display and media playback. the movies are paused then unloaded. media playback works fine but media display plays the first time but chokes the next media display. using action script i checked autoplay, change, playing, content path all oka...more >>

Hi this is probably a really straightforward question but for some reason I seem to be missing something. I have a movieclip on frame 20 of my main timeline (only one scene). I want to have a button in the movieclip that takes you back to frame 10 of the main timeline. I have tried both: o...more >>

Hi My client has requested that their website be optimised for distribution on CDRom. I have embedded some video, into the html, using the MediaPlayback component in FlashMX2004 Pro. The page views fine if it is previewed in Internet Explorer from my machine. but... Once I burn i...more >>

I'm reading a block of text into Flash with XML, and I would like to know of a good way to italicize a portion of the block. Obviously, I cannot throw <i></i> tags into the xml, because it will be read as a child node. Does anybody know if this is possible? ...more >>