.... i need to dynamically call action script which is held in an external (.as or whatever action-script-recognising formatted) file. #include does only work while testing - i wonder if there is any dynamic solution? (... i does not help to evaluate chunks/parts of action script or variabl...more >>

Is there a data limitation with reading XML data from a text file? Either in the number of nodes or number of total characters or file size? I want to avoid a problem similar to one I had with Flash 5 and text string where you could not convert a coma delimited string into an array if the ...more >>

I have created a movie clip and assoicated an actionscript with it that creates the MC many times and in a random fashion, this works as expected. When I create another movie clip that is similar to the first (named differently) and associate a similar actionscript with it (modified to rela...more >>

Hi all, I'm not a brain surgeon, but having trouble getting the following to happen: I have loaded multiple movies inside a container movie (level0) Movies on levels 2 & 3 Trying to get a button on level 3 movie to trigger a change in level 2 movie from current position to gotoandplay fr...more >>

Hi, I have asked this question numerous times before in different forums but no-one seems to want to respond. HELLO MACROMEDIA?? How exactly does on go about getting support any of your products? Anyway: The PrintJob stuff does not work in some of the flash files that i have. They are ...more >>

I need to be able to load a file, which is an .exe, when someone clicks on the button. The .exe file is also on the CD with the flash movie. I have tried getURL, which doesn what I want, brings up the save as box, but it also brings up a browser window, which I don't want. What would the ac...more >>

Hi, I?m using buttons to load images into a MovieClip, what i'm trying to do after that, is to download the image that was loaded, by clicking in the MovieClip (the one who received the image): If image loaded is: "img1.jpg" then download: "img1.zip" else image loaded is: "img2.jpg"...more >>

I know this is an easy script as i made a copy of it a long long time ago and accendentally deleted it, and have forgotten the actionscript for it. the name of the input text i want it to automatically set focus is named "firstName". Thank you for your help. ...more >>

Yes I know that there already is a topic like this, but it doesn't answer my question. Alright, I'm making an interactive menu for my movie, which is cool, yeah I know. But, I am putting a code like this: instanceName.onPress gotoAndPlay(1,1); } The interactive menu with the butto...more >>

I have one main window, when a button is clicked in it movie 1 loads into a movie clip in this window. When a button is clicked in movie 1, movie 2 loads into a movie clip in movie 1. But all the buttons on the levels below are still clickable; how do I prevent this happening? The...more >>

i have duplicated an mc several times. how do i randomly place the mcs within a certain area say within an area such as 200 px by 100 px. attachMovie("friction_mc", "friction_mc", 2, {_x:458, _y:192}); //friction_mc._alpha = 35; for (i=3; i<=12; i++) { friction_mc.duplicateMovieClip (...more >>

Hi.. Just wondering if anybody could help me. I am getting returned variable values with about 10 decimal places. Is there a standard maths funtion, or any other method that I can use to reduce this to one decimal place. My maths isnt too hot!! Cheers for any help Matt Brown. ...more >>

I am trying to get a button to play a movieclip when I rollover it and then reverse the play of the movie clip when I rollout from the button. I think I'm close but the reverse does not play back. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this script or if I'm even close. on (rollOver) { _r...more >>

I am trying to switch to a newer version of Flash and the old ifFrameLoaded doesn't work as it once did ... any help with this would be highly appreciated: I need to change the following ActionScript to the new version so that a specific set of frames is skipped ... thanks in advance: ifFr...more >>

Hi All, I have a DataProvider holding custom objects connected to a datagrid in flash, I would like to send this dataProvider to a webservice. When I send custom objects to flash I can read the properties etc, but how do I send custom objects as parameters on a webservice and deserialize them ...more >>

Hi, I have a flash piece that reads in information from a simple text file. I have this working but I was curious if there was a way to diplay a variable in the middle of a sentence. For example in the text file I have &text= this is my text and if I had the user enter in their name in the...more >>

I have a set of links at the top of the page that when clicked, each link will open up a set of sub navigation at the bottom using a tell target. Is there a way that when another main link is clicked, it will reverse play the previous sub navigation before it plays the next sub navigation. He...more >>

hi..... can anyone say.....how to retrieve or pass variables from another movie.....let me tell this problem in detail....... i had made a html page which consits of 2 frames...in left frame...there is navigations links or text links of different html files which would be loading on th...more >>

Can anyone help me with some interface code. I am simply trying to use an interface for a class, however it will not compile. It says that the class being compiled does not represent the class that was imported. I have the path right. the only thing I can think of is that I am only using a sma...more >>

Hello there. I'm trying to track down a tutorial or some help on a rather common animation effect. What I basically need is four items to expand/shrink and affect the rest. So if the four items had the same width on load: [---A---][---B---][---C---][---D---] When "B" was cliked the others ...more >>

How do I add dynamicalli large parts of text to a Flash animation...more >>

Does anyvody know of any issues on Mac's affecting the displaying or calculating of '_x' or 'getTextExtent()' values. My scripts are working fine on PC, but are overlapping on Mac browsers and my Mac is broken for the next few days. The site can be viewed @ http://www.workinprogress.tv/...more >>

Right now I?m developing an animation with documents within and I need to put a zoom buttom so the user can maximize a bit or minimise a bit the text of thespecific document can anybody help me...more >>

Hello, Why does my movie don't play the next scene if(nummer == 1) gotoAndPlay("startpagina", 1); if(nummer == 2) gotoAndPlay("5modules", 1); if(nummer == 3) gotoAndPlay("module1", 1); Thanks, Marco ...more >>

Is it possible to retrieve the page URL for the web page that contains the ..swf file? Geoff ...more >>

Hi , Any body tell me the action script for creating dyanamic pie chart using flash?.....more >>

Hey all. Im looking for a quiz engine I can implement in Flash MX. I desire the following: right / wrong answer checking of users input display of correct answer - graphically randomisation of questions skipping of question - user forfeits points point results - correct answers vs. q...more >>

I am trying to use functions for the first time. What it is for is I have a lot of movieclips which I want all to have the same function, which is when they are dragged to a certain part of the movie they scale up 150%. This code works if I attach it to each movieclip, but not when I trying to...more >>

Would anyone be able to point me to help in scripting Flash user authentication (with a database)? Exisitng scripts would be very helpful. Thanks! Geoff ...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to goto scene 2 true a ASP querystring ? Thanks, Marco ...more >>

I've been looking through my Actionscript 2 dictionary but cannot find any way of discovering if an item is an array or not. I used to use an edited array prototype and used the property isArray. In flash player 7 you can't alter the array prototype like that. I thought if typeof(arrayName...more >>

Hello buddies, I have an strange problem, I try to use a class (MyClass) in a .as file in another .as file and following boring error message happens: Could not load class MyClass. I have imported the class and the path is correct (both files in the same folder) Why is that plz help!...more >>

[b]Development Platform: [/b] Flash MX 2004 (Windows || OSX) [b]Target Platfrom: [/b]Linux standalone flash player. [b]Problem: [/b]Unable to use fscommand to run a local application on a linux client. With a little effort I have been able to get fscommand("exec", "app") running on windo...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to access the objects/variables holding the multilingual data as used in the "Strings Panel"? I want to access these strings manually thru actionscript without having to associate with a TextField. Thanks, Phil phil@undefine.takedisout.co.uk...more >>

Hi All, Is there anyone know how to execute a .REG file from a flash project ..exe file. I have a software on a floppy disk which include an .exe installation file and a .REG file. Know this .REG file exetension is call FLREGK~2.REG which is to install itself in the system regis...more >>

I am having a textbox and pictures related to the paragraphs of that text box. I have to scroll pictures along with the text. Is there is any method to link a picture in to a text box? Or what is the solution for the same problem? ...more >>

The exec command runs in the subdirectory fscommand only. In other words, if you use the fscommand exec command to call an application, the application must reside in a subdirectory named fscommand can u pls right the code and give me an source file.. i making mistake somewhere in the...more >>

I am running Flash MX 2004, ver. 7.0.1 on my desktop computer with Microsoft XP Professional and on my Laptop computer with Windows 2000 Professional. On my Laptop, all panes are visible on the Actionscript editor (Script Pane, Actions Toolbox, and Script Navigator), but only the Script Pane...more >>

How would you edit the action script so that it would link to another frame instead of a webpage so that you could use it internally in a movie. Someone please advise, It is driving me nuts...more >>

I have a MC that is loaded as not visible when you enter the frame. If you scroll over a button (rollOver), the MC becomes visible. When you focusOut of the MC, it's invisible again. All this is successfull, but I can't get the MC to become visible again if I rollOver the button. ...more >>

I am building a window panel which will build itself and fade up. When I am authoring the piece, I just want to show the final state of the panel (without the animation) when I drag it from the library and move, resize and change the settings. Is there a way to detect whether or not a ...more >>

Hi! I've been fighting for hours against a little game I'm building and I was wondering if someone could help me. I have a string object in a variable (strFct) which contains the name of a function. I also have another variable (strPth) which contains the absolute path to execute this fu...more >>

hi forum, i am looking for an external script editor where i can write script without opening flash. i have found one called SciTEflash but is not exactly what i need. my code becomes longer and longer and the embedded window is not very handy.. do you have any suggestions? thanks s001...more >>

How do I know from flash, which Internet browser a user is using ? Is there any action script to detect the browser name ?? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I have developed a flash movie. On click of a button, I am loading another Flash Movieclip in Level 2. This movieclip contains a login form. It accepts username and password and sends to ASP. The ASP validates the user details. If the details are correct, I want to load a different movie...more >>

I?m looking for a simple way of sending variables to a file and have the file basically, list those variables. example, in flash I have? Name: (dynamic field ?name?) Comment: (dynamic field ?comment?) And a submit button with the following action script: //on (release, keyPress "<Ente...more >>

I want to play a single sound clip across a number of scenes. Is there a way to do this with and action script?...more >>

is there a way to set a bg image for a text area in MX pro? I have tried css: body { background-image: url("image.jpg") } But it didnt work. By the ways i'm linking xml docs into the text area. Thanks ...more >>

In the color object setTransform, I can set each primary color's "percentage" between -100 and +100. And I can set each primary color's "offset" between -255 and +255. But what do the words "percentage" and "offset" mean? They both seem to control "how much" of each color, but I can't fi...more >>

Is there anyway of telling a MC which layer to load onto? I'm trying to dynamically load a background image but it always goes and covers over everything else in the movie no matter what depth or anything else I try. ...more >>