Hello there! I'm abaut one week to now trying to attach a button to an txt field created on the fly, but... no results :-( I' now using the img src tag like the code i'm posting, and it works, but... the button doesn't place himself behind the text, he places himself above the text. ...more >>

Maybe it is because it is Friday and been a long week, but this one is toasting my brain. I am trying to figure out how to do an action continually while a button is pressed. I figured out how to do it with an on (press) sending it to a function that just loops and then when the on (relea...more >>

Hi guys, Im trying to build a custom behavior that will go onto a deisred movie clip so that i can easily build game enviroments. Basically i have a script which defines a collision object "bumper" for a pinball game that would go onto every "bumper" in the game. I want to be able to dra...more >>

I'm creating a game, with a score counter that triggers events. The first event adds a "boss" character to the stage when a certain score is reached. The boss is an animated movie clip (BossX_B) that scrolls around the screen and attempts to kill you. In frame 1, I define varibles as: Bo...more >>

What Actionscript is needed to get a separate Flash movie window to open up when an invisible button is clicked? Thanks!!!...more >>

Hello, I have just started using Flash MX. I have created 11 scenes with text animation on each. What i would like to do next is have those scenes play in a random order every time the file is opened. Thank you in advance! ...more >>

Okay...this is FlashMX...I have a swf called "data-workshops.swf" and in that swf is a movie clip with instance name of 'text'. In that movie clip is a dynamic text field, also with an instance name of 'text'...and a Flash-component scrollbar that is assigned to 'text.' And on frame 1 is this...more >>

The following script is inside a movie clip as is the object that it refers to, Menu1. The script does not work. When I copy and paste the movie clip into another document, it does work. Can anyone tell me why this might be? Menu1.useHandcursor = 0; Thanks, Tim ...more >>

Hi, I have a strange problem where my code does not work properly in a function. Without the function, it works fine. Please see the code below. If im doing something wrong, please let me know. The problem relates to the use of this[varName]. Thanks Chris // this[vAns...more >>

I tried asking this earlier on im my project but I think I'm far enough along toask it a bit clearer now... I have a a flash movie with a map... when you click on the map it highlights a region or multiple clicks will highlight multiple regions. when a region is highlighted it switches a v...more >>

HELP! I tried changing my Output filter to Verbose, and trace() still doesn't work. We recently upgraded to MX. Does MX not recognize trace() commands in projects authored in the previous version? Just a thought, but it really wouldn't make sense. Please email response to nancee.heim@...more >>

I'm not sure why, but none of the trace functions seem to be working for me. Here's the AS I'm using to simply set the value of an input field (myText): ============================ Action Script =================================== // Create new XML Object and set ignoreWhite true book_xm...more >>

What Actionscript is needed to get a separate Flash movie window to open up?...more >>

Just started playing around with the Flash MX action script.... I created 3 dynamic text boxes with the Var setting of msg, msg1, and msg2 respectively... I have a layer set up for scripts on which I put the following function: loadVariablesNum("message.txt", 0); The message.txt file is in ...more >>

Hello Everyone. First of all, I'm very newbie here, as well as to Flash and its ActionScript. So if i make mistake please forgive me. I have play around with ActionScript for a couple days, especially with the MovieClip class. Now, I have some problem when I tried to do something about ...more >>

how do i add depth to my tree? all the examples seem to be adding to the root. The attached code works beautifully, but how do i e.g. add pic1.jpg to task 1 and pic2.jpg to task 2? stop(); listenerObject = new Object(); listenerObject.change = function(evtObject){ trace(evtObject.t...more >>

Hi I made a site where I want to load external .jpg images into my flash site. Everthing works fine when I'm working locally but when I uploaded the site to my server he won't display my images again. What would be the problem here? I use this path to load my images images/month1/i...more >>

items shift alignment in published swf, but are aligned properly in authoring enviormnet. Text also shows up slightly out of line with the placement in authoring environment. This is making me nuts. I'm using flash MX and publishing in fash 6. Has anyone else experienced this, as this has...more >>

Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but here goes.... I'm kinda new to using Flash MX 2004 Pro and would like to know if anybody has a link or knows of any good tutorials for using the menu bar component. Thanks in advance for any help Capt Verde ...more >>

I am using the following basic preloader but instead of "total" I would like to name the number. In other words preload until 3000kb have loaded then play. Maybe I can replace "getBytesTotal" with a number, but I don?t know the syntax. Do you have any ideas? I cant find anything post...more >>

Hello, I created a cd of installation of product under Flash 5. I made it migrate to MX. Today I meet myself blocked to launch various files (setup.exe of installation of products). I am obliged to work on the version 5 of flash to by-pass the problem. Why to have to get rid of the mo...more >>

how to resize image using actionscript? for example, when I click a button, the image is resized from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600. can anyone help? chung ...more >>

Hi forum How can i prevent the caching of swf ? Is it can be done with in the flash file? Thanking you MVN ...more >>

Does anyone know of a program or a method in flash to count lines of actionscript code?...more >>

Can anybody tell me, how to add a loader to a flash movie, that includes a loading animation and a percentage of how much is already loaded. I already searched the internet, but I do neot seem to get the right thing. I am using Flash MX (not the 2004 version), so if anybody knows how to to thi...more >>

HI, this it is a bug? or what i am doing wrong? In the frame 1 of my scene i put the next code: _root.onn._visible = true; _root.offf._visible = false; _root.musica = "true"; loadMovie(_root.musica, "audio"); then in the frame 54 in same scene i put the next code (check the line 3): _...more >>

if i create a class that extends the TextField class in AS2, like: class MyTextField extends TextField {} and press the "auto format" button it automatically makes my class dynamic: dynamic class MyTextField extends TextField {} why is that? mike -- portfolio: http://w...more >>

Ok lest see if I can explain this. Can Arrangement value be set in ActionScript? I have 5 movie clip symbols on one layer(named All) in frame 19. Above that layer I have a layer named "Buttons" that contains 5 buttons, each layed on top of a movie clip. Now I want to add an action to the but...more >>

I'm a confused Flash novice. I expected code to work whether i put it on the control or if i put it in the general code section for a frame. I choose the latter cos i get fed up with having to type _level0 all the time, and it's easier to print out. But occasionally the code will work for one ...more >>

I have an interactive exercise where the user can click on one of 14 'hotspots' on a diagram. When they click on one of these, I would like one of the 14 corresponding paragraphs of text to appear in a separate dynamic text box. This needs to be done from a single .txt file. I understand th...more >>

This code opens a new window but loads the message "[object]" in the parent window. getURL("javascript:window.open('mypage.php','win12','location=no');"); What's wrong? Thanks...more >>

Does anybody know how can I load an .swf file in another .fla movie in particular coordinates?...more >>

Does flash allow you to embed complex types inside other types (e.g. is it possible to have text or an image containing a hyperlink inside a table?)...more >>

can anyone say what is the difference between String.substring() and String.slice() ? ...more >>

I am producing a cd flash project and I want open/launch a pdf from a button. I have used... getURL("mypdf,"_blank"); When I test this movie, clicking the button opens my default browser, then goes to the pdf file but doesn't actually open it. It simply opens a finder window and highl...more >>

Hey, I am trying to figure out how to do a chatroom in flash. I was thinking there would be a dynamic text box, which continually updated from a web form/server. there would be an input text box and when you typed text in there and hit enter, flash would send the text to the form/server, w...more >>

comboBox : empty dropdown when movie loaded into a parent swf I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and remembered what was causing it.. I've made a movie ("gallery.swf") and in it there is a comboBox component populated with data loaded from an external text file(data.txt...more >>

I want to contrl the frame rate use a button anyone kown how to change frame rate by using AS Thanks ilan2003 http://ilan2003.freewebpage.org...more >>

Hope someone can help me about rollovers..i was ask to make a table or organization adn everytime the mouse moves over the picture a enlarge picture and profile of the person will appear on a separate part designated for the profile . i dunno about script hope u could help.Thanks ...more >>

Hope someone can help me about rollovers..i was ask to make a table or organization adn everytime the mouse moves over the picture a enlarge picture and profile of the person will appear on a separate part designated for the profile . i dunno about script hope u could help.Thanks ...more >>

I need to include (#include) external swfs into a fla and then compile it outputting one swf file without any additional loadMovie calls to the server. Does anyone know how to do this? Can it be done? Thanks for the help! ...more >>

I created a Button in flashMX on the HIT frame. I want when someone hit the button it loads an external .swf that would be located in c:\windows\project.\test.swf What actionscript code can I use to achieve that? ...more >>

I have a scene "Menu" and in that scene, i have a movie clip scripted to where it scrolls the contents relative to the Y position of the mouse. All the contents in that movie clip is a clickable button. How do i make it so if i click on one of those buttons inside that movie clip, it would...more >>

I am using the following basic preloader but I want to assign the number of bytes that it should finnish at. Instead of "total" I would like to name the number. In other words preload untill 3000kb have loaded then play. Anyone have any ideas? I cant find anything posted like this. ...more >>

Could someone please tell me what is wrong with my set up: 1- A layer with a scrollbar as a movieclip 2- A layer with dynamic text box with variable name and instance name 3 - An action layer 1- Code attached to the scrollbar movieclip [h] onClipEvent(load){ left = _x; right ...more >>

Does anyone know how to link a scrollpane to a text box with dynamically loaded text? Problem seems to be: * Have to set linkage property for item that displays in scrollpane * Can only set linkage for library item, not specific instance --??? * No way to set text inside of a MovieClip tha...more >>

Ive tried and tried and cant get the fscommands to work where do i put them. I dont want the user to be able to right click and select zoom in or play and forward none of that how is it done. Thanks in Advance ...more >>

Is there possible to change Main Background color dynamically? I have build a generic Pre-Loader to load my site banners dynamically and randomly, and when the banners are loading, I show my site logo and a load progress status... but my problem is that pre-built banners with color background di...more >>

First, I create an empty movie clip, then I load a jpeg into it. Next, i would like to size them, defining a width and height. However, this doesn't seem to work. Whenever I try to size the new MC (ie. clip._width=20), I get "0" for width + height in the debugger. However, _xscale and _y...more >>

I want to dynamically load JPGs and display them. I've tried loadMovie but that doesn't seem to work or else I'm doing something wrong. Been looking for an example but can't find one that does this for some reason. I would think one of these picture viewer programs would include how to dyna...more >>