Archived Months
December 2003
January 2004
February 2004
March 2004
April 2004
May 2004
June 2004
July 2004
August 2004
September 2004
October 2004
November 2004
December 2004
January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
September 2006
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
January 2008
June 2008


all groups > flash actionscript > april 2004 > threads for monday april 19

Filter by Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

[FLAMX2004]Menu de Fotos
Posted by CLFerraz at 4/19/2004 11:17:49 PM
Saudações, galera... Preciso fazer um menu de seleção de fotos, daquele tipo em que aparece uma após a outra na vertical e que dependendo da posição do mouse todas rolam para a direita ou esquerda. Se o usuário clica sobre uma delas, a mesma é exibida. Se for dinâmico, melhor ainda... Se nã...more >>

Moving to next frame
Posted by flashForum at 4/19/2004 11:06:05 PM
Hello all, I've read this somewhere, but I can't find it. I have a small movie clip with an invisible button that rests on the main timeline. Within the movie, I have 10 frames that have different text in them. I want the movie to go to and stop at the next frame on release, and simply ...more >>

3D Import
Posted by Stefan at 4/19/2004 10:56:11 PM
kann man in Flash auch 3D Daten/Animationen importieren ? Cu Stefan ...more >>

Dynamic Variable help with Datagrid
Posted by joegraphic at 4/19/2004 10:43:27 PM
I am using LoadVariablesNum to bring in arrays from an asp file. The arrays are: records_list_1 records_list_2 records_list_3 The arrays are created based on the number of records in the database and the arrays hold information like name and email address. I'm wanting to load that data i...more >>

How to set a variable in 2004????
Posted by Gerrard at 4/19/2004 10:19:05 PM
-After hours of trial and error with MX (AS1.0) I now belived there was a light in the tunnel...but the evoultion forced me to upgrade and try out the MX 2004 pro!! Then my world of understanding AS collapsed with the new AS2.0!!! Every new release of Flash takes me 3 steps back and only two...more >>

XML Connector problem with MediaPlayback
Posted by raapie at 4/19/2004 9:13:57 PM
I am trying to load the MediaPlayback with contents from an XML file using the XML Connector. I can load the volume-settings for the xml-file, but reading the URL/ contentPath doesn't work. But if I bind the same XML-node to a TextInput it shows the right link. So somehow the MediaPlayback won...more >>

Clearing the board
Posted by Dinghus at 4/19/2004 8:28:34 PM
Is there a way to know what MC are on stage and how many? Like if the user is allowed to create MCs to do whatever on the stage, and then have a button to clear all. How can I tell how many MCs are out there without keeping count during creation? ...more >>

Need a way to uniquely identify a flash instal...
Posted by RTG1000 at 4/19/2004 8:18:49 PM
Is there any way in actionscript to uniquely identify a flash install? That is, I need some kind of unique identifier for the machine running the flash. TIA!...more >>



Get number of lines in a loaded variable.
Posted by DJAnim8 at 4/19/2004 7:55:11 PM
Is there any way to get the number of lines in a variable and then split it if it reaches a certain limit? We have text that is loaded in from a variable that is updated constantly. It runs off the screen because there is to many lines.. we want it to split at say 10 lines and then fill t...more >>

Revoke object
Posted by KiranR at 4/19/2004 7:44:53 PM
Hi, Does anyone knows how to revoke an object that is already created?? For example, I created client_cam=Camera.get(); client_mic=Microphone.get(); After my work, I want to these two objects to be revoked. in other words, needs to be garbage collected and free the camera for another w...more >>

Rotate mask for a timer
Posted by Lel.P at 4/19/2004 7:39:50 PM
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to rotate a mask over a circle so it looks like the area where the mask passes fills in with a different colour? Rotating the mask isn't the problem, it's how do I get the timer to look like the seconds hand from a clock, except the colour stays where the...more >>

Help recording Audio with Flash
Posted by Bart Calixto at 4/19/2004 7:34:32 PM
I'm doing a multimedia CD and all the project is done except one thing that I thougth it will be easy with Microphone.get stuff but I need to finish the work and I'm stucked. What I really need is to 'record audio from the microphone and then play it back'. The multimedia cd let's you RECOR...more >>

progbar and loader components won't work in 6..
Posted by Andrew Caldwell at 4/19/2004 7:05:44 PM
My site uses the progress bar and loader components from 2004 Pro to load external movies. I have set the publish version to 6, but when I click to load the movies, the preloader won't go and the loader is blank. It works in 7. Are these only comptible with player ver. 7? Any suggestions? ...more >>

Controlling MC in different frames
Posted by MyFlashMXIN at 4/19/2004 6:26:49 PM
Hi, Got a quicky for you all... (HATE MONDAYS)! I have a few frames on my time line the first (351) contains some simple links to the other frames and a MC, (perception). The other frames have a transparent MC, (click), that on press or "Space" takes you back to the initial frame... ...more >>

flash forums
Posted by propatria at 4/19/2004 6:21:58 PM
hey all, It's me again... :) I was just wondering how to make a flash forum. it'd be nice if someone could link me to a nice and easy tuttorial. thanks, cody....more >>

onMouseUp or onRelease as instance method
Posted by genotype at 4/19/2004 6:07:20 PM
This is an AS file linked to a movieClip. The onRelease below is not working: class ThumbTack extends MovieClip{ function ThumbTack() { this.stop(); } function onPress() { startDrag(this,true); } function onRelease() { stopDrag(); } } ...more >>

SwapDepths
Posted by marcelozep at 4/19/2004 5:59:51 PM
Hello good people Doing mc1.swapDepths(2) I put mc1 on the _level 2? or if no what kind of depth this is? thanks marcelozep...more >>

Getting keypress to work
Posted by aznan8 at 4/19/2004 5:59:35 PM
Hi! I just want to know this: If you increase the value of a variable by 1 everytime a button is pressed, like this: theButton.onRelease = function() { var i++; debugger = "i = "+i; //debugger = a dynamic textbox to display the result. }; everything works fine. If you instead use a...more >>

Render Stage as Image? Is there any way?
Posted by justVersus at 4/19/2004 5:51:18 PM
Hi, is there any way to to render Stage as image and send it to other application for saving as image, dynamically at runtime. please, sorry for my english...more >>

How to bust up flash publishing?
Posted by zzdobrusky at 4/19/2004 5:22:58 PM
Hi, I just finished one project where I was using a lot of photos and It was really a pain waiting for my computer to publish a flash movie not to mention a projector, since I am on budget now and cannot get a new computer soon is there any way to speed it up? Will more RAM help? I don't kno...more >>

Controlling Flash Between Frames
Posted by bxSiN at 4/19/2004 4:41:02 PM
Say, I have 2 frames (html frames, not flash "key frames") - frameOne has a flash movie with buttons and frameTwo has a flash movie that simply has animations. Is there a way for me to controll the animation in frameTwo through the buttons in frameOne? ...more >>

Javascript error - please - any ideas
Posted by Will - BE Creative at 4/19/2004 4:39:14 PM
When I open my page in the browser and click on the button that the attached code is on I get the following error in IE. Line: 1 Char: 116 Error: Expected ')' Code: 0 please could anyone give me an idea where the')' character should go? Thanks a lot for your help. Will ...more >>

Why is this only working once?
Posted by HypnoTech at 4/19/2004 4:02:35 PM
I have the following code in a frame: this.setHeights = function () { for (i=1; i<=5; i++) { this["eqBar"+i+"_mc"].eqHeight = random(4)+1; this["eqBar"+i+"_mc"].eqDelay = random(20)+1; } }; setHeights(); this.setHeightsInterval = setInterval(this.setHeights, 8000); stop(); ...more >>

hitTest using shapeflag?!
Posted by Olliebird at 4/19/2004 4:00:18 PM
Hi Guys, Seen lots of posts aon this subject but not many answers. I have tried all sorts of things with no luck. I am creating a empty movieclip in which I am drawing lines using the lineTo command. That isn't the probem. What I need to do is detect if the 'line' (not the bounding box)...more >>

Get method
Posted by MilenaSousa at 4/19/2004 3:39:48 PM
Can you help me, please? How can I send a variable with the GET method of the GETURL action? An example: geturl("http://www.google.com/search", "_blank", "get"); and in the get i must send the input text content, wich variable is Text. thanks[b]Text[/b] ...more >>

Printing Multiple Levels and Movie Clips
Posted by tbomdc at 4/19/2004 3:35:09 PM
I have a Flash Application that I've built which builds an image based on user responses. The final image is made up of several other images that are brought in on different levels and then layered on top of each other. This creates a single image to the viewer. I'm having a very difficult ...more >>

InputText within MovieClips
Posted by nickgs at 4/19/2004 3:32:12 PM
Hello All. I am developing a small application for my network and I have a movieclip which contains 5 TextInput Components, 2 DateField Components, and 4 checkboxes. I am assigning the values of the TextInput.text dynamically which seems to work fine on the first movieClip but when I dupli...more >>

HELP - learning interactions
Posted by knoble at 4/19/2004 3:17:24 PM
hi guys, I've create the drag n drop from flash learning interactions and I tried to set the variable in 'Control button' from learning interactions with the code see below : on(press) { var kaztest = "testing"; } and also onClipEvent(mousedown) { var kaztest = "testi...more >>

List w/ XML nodes as Variables
Posted by JayBrady at 4/19/2004 2:46:25 PM
Hello All: Using Flash MX 2004 Professional... I'm using the List component to display values retrieved from an XML file to make a hierarchial tree view. When I do something like this: for (var i = 0; i < arWorkshops.length; i++) { var currentName:String = arWorkshops[i].firstChi...more >>

flash MX, ASP & ACCESS
Posted by bundas1000 at 4/19/2004 2:43:57 PM
what's wrong here? I can connect to the DB flash MC with: var - login var - password login button: on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") { mode = "login"; go = ""; duplicate = ""; loadVariables("post.asp", "", "POST"); login = ""; Password = ""; } firstframe:labelad ("...more >>

[FLMX] VariableN ???
Posted by Mirko at 4/19/2004 2:05:16 PM
hi everybody... now, i've got a variable N that is a number > 0 now i've got another variable X... its value must be the same as the variable JimN where JimN is a variable i called from an external file for example.... Jim1 = "abc" Jim2 = "def" Jim3 = "ghi" Jimn = "lmn" if n = 1 the...more >>

Nav Buttons stopped working
Posted by jseth at 4/19/2004 1:39:01 PM
Heavy sigh. I must really be missing something. I have a simple document, and just want to go from one scene to the next scene. I have converted my symbols to buttons, named them in the properties window (forward_btn and back_btn), have them in the Buttons layer. In the Actions layer, I have a...more >>

Audio Tempo - Advice needed, quick!
Posted by antistatic at 4/19/2004 1:20:27 PM
Is there any possible way of controlling the tempo/pitch that a mp3 file plays at in flash? I am currently building a pair of decks and a mixer in flash and this is the only control left to program. Any Ideas? ...more >>

movie mouse out
Posted by dio at 4/19/2004 12:39:10 PM
Hi there, What's the best way to detect the mouse has left the flash movie (inside a web page)? If I try to read the mouse coordinates I get the last valid ones (even if the mouse has left the movie) so, it doesn't suite my needs! Does anybody have a good solution for this? Thank you, d...more >>

embedding a font into an input text field
Posted by richatkins88 at 4/19/2004 12:06:37 PM
Hope somebody may be able to help me out as I have failed to find anything to answer my question on the web. It?s not a huge problem, but one that I have come up against before.... I?ve dynamically created an input text field (this all works fine), but as soon as I use the ?textFields.emb...more >>

Press versus Release and Stop Movie
Posted by Shane Perdue at 4/19/2004 11:09:30 AM
Hi Gang, This may be a silly question, however when I create an actionscript - is it best to select the "press" or "release" option for the action. Also, I have created a sequence that has a SWF movie. I have also created a button to stop this movie and move to the next scene. This w...more >>

Tab Control
Posted by allwyn at 4/19/2004 10:54:55 AM
Hi I am using different movie symbols.Am calling one symbol in another symbol(symbol1.symbol2) like this.I am using tabindex in symbol2 textboxes.It is working fine from first text box to last text box.is maintaing the sequence,but after the last textbox of symbol2 where my control is going ...more >>

Flash-PHP-MySQL = Very difficult !!!
Posted by germaris at 4/19/2004 10:37:28 AM
Hi there! I'm building a simple Flash Search Engine communicating with a MySQL DB via PHP. I use FlashMX (NOT 2004). To make it simple and for testing purposes, the goal is, when entering the Name of a person, to obtain his/her address. The .swf content is: -an Input Text...more >>

FLASH BUG (leaking memory)
Posted by MaKe81 at 4/19/2004 10:31:15 AM
We are working on a project where Flash application should read in a constant loop variables from php script and then properly react. Everything works fine execpt after a memory usage start to grow at 1Mb/min, more or less... it varies from time to time. Our browser works then very...more >>

Items count
Posted by yeye yaya at 4/19/2004 10:10:58 AM
Hello How to get the number of items in a dataprovider? Thanx ...more >>

How can i make a slide menu?
Posted by eduamaral at 4/19/2004 10:09:50 AM
I want make a vertical menu with photo.. When i put mouse cursor on menu... i want that menu rolling up and down... how i can get this ? Can you give me an example?...more >>

Actioscript on button
Posted by Fagerheim at 4/19/2004 9:41:39 AM
I have made a button that starts a movieclip. Now I need to have an actionscript that disable this button when that spesific movieclip is loaded. I believe this is posible, but can`t find out what the code has to be. Can anybody help me ? ...more >>

CustomListBox/CellRenderer - Not properly Working
Posted by KalViv at 4/19/2004 8:22:45 AM
Hi All, I am trying to create custom list box in which the text should appear in multiline with wordwrap. I have gone through the article [L=Stepping into the New Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Component Structure]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/v2component_migrati on.htm...more >>

onRollOver = null ?? doesn't work
Posted by Stephan Knuesel at 4/19/2004 7:04:38 AM
Dear Forum I am using a movieclip called card. The card contains a url link. (mailto) I am using the onRollOver function on a card to trigger movements of the card. Evertying works really fine except once the movement is finished I would like to null the onRollOver function for a coupl...more >>

How to get Attributes Name from XML file?
Posted by Ashish123 at 4/19/2004 6:05:05 AM
HI Another problem with XML. Following is the one of the node of my XML file and I want to access its attributes NAME and not VALUE... <reportdatas> <reportdata gender="M" dateofbirth="22/12/1980" address="XYZ" /> <reportdata gender="M" dateofbirth="12/05/19...more >>

Any IDEA about Multi Line Chats in FLASH
Posted by Ashish123 at 4/19/2004 5:57:12 AM
Hi I am having problem in creating multiline charts in Flash using XML file. Does anybody faced similar kind of problem ? Pls help me out...is there any way or any component I can use ..let me know !!! Macromedia Flashs existing chart component doesnt support Multiline charts....Any hi...more >>

Pre-loader
Posted by hiswords at 4/19/2004 4:59:45 AM
hey peeps!. I need to create this pre-loader, but the sequence is l ike tat. I click on a button and it will call this .swf file. i am not sure where i shld put the pre-loader. Can anyone pls assit me? Thank You! ...more >>

MX 2004 - No "Normal Mode"
Posted by Arena2045-Mac at 4/19/2004 3:34:00 AM
Yes I did a search... And I read the posts. I just started working with Flash, I had MX Studio but only used Dreamweaver. I upgraded to MX Studio 2004, and just started working with Flash. But I started with Flash MX 2004. MAN was it a pain to work with action script... I got so fed up ...more >>

Is there a event when a movieclip end?
Posted by guangtoutou at 4/19/2004 2:36:18 AM
hello,everyone! i wonder whether there is a event when a movieclip end...more >>

Combo Box won't open
Posted by DelerDelarosa at 4/19/2004 1:45:04 AM
Hello. I seem to have a problem. I have a FMX2004 ComboBox component on my stage. There is a stop() action on the 2nd frame. I have filled my ComboBox dynamically through the dataProvider property on frame 2. I publish my movie and i can see the first text item in my ComboBox; however ...more >>

Removing empty elements from an array?
Posted by Fredy119 at 4/19/2004 1:03:58 AM
Hi, I'm an English teacher at an Austrian school. Using the split function with the space as a delimiter, I create an array from the user input into a textfield. Then I assign the array elements to variables. As this should become an e- learning application, I give the user different feedbac...more >>

3 states for buttons
Posted by freshmanthedog at 4/19/2004 12:27:09 AM
Hi - I have been trying to create buttons that have a few states using flash! Visited link (to show which page you have been into) Active link (to show which page you are in) I am having problems getting the active link to work! I am using tell targets ! An the buttons are being used i...more >>


DevelopmentNow Blog