Hello... I have a MovieClip animating on the main stage and I need to tell another MC inside of it to gotoAndPlay(2); ... however this code doesnt do the trick: firstMC.secondMC.gotoAndPlay(2); How can I control that second MC? ...more >>

I am pre-newbie at Flash, but am fairly seasoned in XTalk coding and know intuitively that the following can be done in Flash. But don't yet know syntax well enough to know how. I want a simple Flash movie, blank on the first frame with a script that asks the equivalent of "what is my pat...more >>

Is there a action script around that has the following functionality? Turn off music, browse to a different page, come back to original page and it "remembers" that you chose no music. I imagine you'd use a cookie for this but it is beyond my knowledge... TIA, Greg ...more >>

Sometimes (for one or many obscure reasons) I've found a single SWF to behave different depending on what browser I am using. I always test Flash offline/online + IE/NS and I recently realized that Flash running under Netscape doesn't load all the images it was supposed to. I think Actionscr...more >>

For development reasons I'd like to redefine the native trace() function. I tried things like: _global.trace=function(){ //blabla... } But it doesn't work... Any ideas?...more >>

on my _root timeline of my main SWF file I have a movie clip called leftOptions_mc.Within this I have another movieclip called contentHolder_mc that loads a swf file containing menu options/buttons. I can get this to work fine, the problem is getting the buttons within the loaded SWF to intera...more >>

I've created a bunch of FLA files that are seperate and I need to link them together. Is there a way to either link via a "goto" or is there a way to cut and paste the contents of one movie to another. I've tried a "MILLION TIMES" and it's not working. Animations and "stuff" get moved around o...more >>

I'd like to popup a new window similar to 'javascript:void window.open(".... etc, using FLASH. I am inside a movie, and have a drop-down feature which offers the user to "View Slideshow." I don't want to replace my current movie content, I want it to open in a new window. When my SWF slide sho...more >>

I'm a bit of a newbie at Flash but am getting familiar with actionscript. I am trying to make a menu where a particular graphic (a button) in the menu changes to a graphic of equal size when the mouse is placed over it (and then possibly to another graphic of equal size on mouse press). Can an...more >>

what I have is a menu that gets created via a XML doc. The buttons on the menu have 3 states, with 3 frames. (normal, rollover, activated) I can get all the states to work with something like this: this.nextFrame(); My question is, how do target the other instances in order to reset the st...more >>

I am creating a dynamic document that consists of textfields and radio buttons. It looks perfect on screen, however, when I send my print job to the printer, it only prints some of the text within the textfield and the rest of the text is cut off, however the textfield remains the correct siz...more >>

Hi, I've attached a scroller. It doesn't seem to be working correctly though. Could someone point out why? I'd also like it to be pixel perfect preferably to use pixel fonts, so the text filed falls on an integer every time. I know I have to use math.round but I'm not entirely sure where. ...more >>

I'm getting a text from an XML file and formatting it into a TextField using the <b> tag with an Arial typo. The problem is that it seems like the char 'V' is not displayed... the others appear OK... I don't get it. Any idea? Thanks in advance: Jorge ...more >>

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Im trying to figure out how to Open a browser window from flash.... but not a regular browser window but a window without all of the tool bars and buttons. and not just out of an embeded flash file but out of a flash .exe file. If anybody knows of a way to do this please let me know.... or i...more >>

I apologize, because I'm sure this has been covered. But it appears that actionscript has a toupper function and a tolower function to convert strings to either upper or lower case. Does anyone have a function that will convert a string (consisting of either one word or many) to Proper Case....more >>

I am using duplicateMovieClip() to create additional circles in a chart which I then use setRGB to dynamically set the color. This works perfectly. However, when I use createTextField() to create a "title" for the circle, and try to set the text color of that text field, the color stays the sa...more >>

How do I make a pause or delay in action script, Example: if (this.hitTest(_root.AnalysisMenu2.Analysis)) { pause for 1 second _root.AnalysisMenu2.gotoAndStop("Analysis"); } Thanks in advance Tim ...more >>

okay im going to try and explain this as clearly as possible... im creating a website in which i have scenes i wish to slide in and out. ive created the movies for all of this and have them stopping halfway through. Theres a menu on bottom where the user can select what they want to look at....more >>

I have created a mc class and I want to make it draggable. Applying startDrag() dosent seem to work. Help please. //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- function timelineObj(top, bottom, left, right) { this.top = 0; thi...more >>

Hi I am putting this question again in the forum..if u read this before sorry. But its very urgent need....pls help me... I want to create Multi Line Charts in Flash using an XML file. Can anyone help me. I have tried at my best using existing chart component of Flash which supports ...more >>

on Mac OSX 10.3 the fscommand("quit") function does nothing whatsoever. This is with a Flash Player 7 projector created on a Mac. anyone know anything about this, or know of a workaround? Obviously user can still click on the Flash Players' close button, but of course the client won't be sat...more >>

Hy all, I need some help. Well, first of all, I don't no if it's possibel to it, and I'm sorry if that's the case. I have two diferent movies (in deferent cells) in my html page, and I would like to link them, so that one movie can call another one in that particular cell. I'm sorr...more >>

I have an html page with a flash button that changes the content of a span tag. I want the flash button to write some html and javascript into the span tag. Please see attached code. The javascript in the span tag creates a javascript error, just wondered if you could help me work out ...more >>

I'm kind of in a little perdicament, I know how to make pop-up's at a specific height & width with Javascript but how do you do it with ActionScript? For HTML I usually just use the script below. [i]<script> function openpopup(){ var link1="popup.html" winpops=window.open(link1,"","wi...more >>

I have a major problem with an SWF file that is loaded into the "main" swf movie. The external swf is opened in the main movie with the loadMovieNum action. The problem is that when it is loaded i can't have it positioned on the stage where it is meant to be. Also, how to close the ext...more >>

I have a LoadVars that I send to a cfm page to update a database. the update happens on(release) from a button. Here is my issue. I run the code on my computer using cf tesing and it works. I run the code using the full url and the server database, it works! I load the swf to the web...more >>

I have a horizontal scrolling gallery that I need to get rid of the white flash that preceeds the initial loading of the gallery. Usually I put a preloader on the first frame of my movies to correct such a problem but when I do that with this it just bounces back between the 1st and 2nd frame....more >>

To Whom It May Concern: I am writing regarding controlling the time line of a loaded swf. My objective is to get the maintime to gotoAndPlay(2). Perserve in mind, that I have a stop(); action in frame number 1 of the loaded swf. Therefore, I need a procedure that will fulfill my objectiv...more >>

I've been making flash slideshow using ActionScript 2.0 I have a MovieClipLoader (with a listener attached) and an XML object. Are those two (three?) objects really adding 28.7k to my .swf file? -- I checked the size report, and that's what it said about the AS 2.0 classes. Do I even need...more >>

Hi When I assign this string to a textfield why am i not getting text in new line string="<P><B>M</B></P><P><EM>20/08/2004</EM></P><P>AAA</P>" ie actual output should be: M 20/08/2004 AAA but i am getting M20/08/2004/AAA... I am very sure that myTextfied.html is set to Tru...more >>

I was wondering if anyone can help me? I want to put a preloader at the start of a movie (as part of the same movie) I realise that this should be simple and have followed instructions from various tutorials and cannot understand why it does not work. My movie is split into 12 scenes. The ...more >>

I'm trying to create a form in flash, the form would contain a drop down menu of TEAM members within the company, depending on which person is selected within our dropdown menu - the form would be posted to the relevent email address (person). How do I create a dropdown menu of contacts t...more >>

I'm working on a preloader to load for my game that will load the into an outer swf preloader file. I cannot seem to get this to work though. To start, shouldn't the following give me the file size of the main game swf and the amount loaded already? thegame = new MovieClipLoader(); thegame.lo...more >>

I have sent a post a while ago as I though the problem was to do with my actual script I was using to load a swf file into level 1 of the main swf file. Here is a brake down of what I have set up. Frame 1 & 2 contain a movie clip called "loader" and frame 2 has the following action: tby...more >>

Hi, I want to read attributues values from an XML file in an Array Object. How do I do that ? For Example..i am loading XML file in which there is a node <data a="123" b="456" c="789" /> Please note: Occurences of attributes is unpredictable...above its is just 3(a, b, c) but it can ...more >>

Is it OK for external JPG's that I want to dynamically load into flash to have spaces in the file names? Or will spaces cause some kind of issue. Reason is that I have some images that are not loading, but I know they exist and don't know any reason they shoul not be loading. I have other...more >>

You can download my example file here: [L=http://frans404.free.fr/files/flash/MediaPlayback-mx2004Pro.zip]http://frans4 04.free.fr/files/flash/MediaPlayback-mx2004Pro.zip[/L] (FlashMX2004 professional). As you can see I am trying to load XML-data. I am only reading the first child-node. A...more >>

Hello, Wonder if anyone can help me with this. I have an action on a flash (.swf) button that uses javascript to change the contents of some span tags and an image on my html page. One of the span tags needs to have some javascript written into it. The others just have plain html t...more >>

Anyone have any experience or know how on whether it would be possible to crate a Flash based CD-ROM with database driven content, but actually store the data in XML files on the CD??? I'd need to be able to search for records, sort results, that kinda thing... Let me know. TIA! Nath...more >>

Hi, I'm having trouble with [b]gotoAndStop/Play("Scene2","Frame1");[/b] Scene3 has a movieClip in it with approx 100 frames. In frame 100 I have the following code: stop(); gotoAndStop("HomePage","HomeHome"); This works in main timelines of other scenes. I have tried _parent....more >>

Hi I need a sugggession from you. I am generating report in flash using XML file at run time. Now my report is in 6 diff formats...ie (A4, A5, and Letter ) with Portrrait and Landscape orientation so that becomes 3x2=6..... My code for generating report is done and works smart. I have cr...more >>

Hello I am using this action script to load a swf into level1: loadMovieNum("links.swf",1); It works playing it from the hard drive, but on a server it does not seem to load the movie. Do I need to add some script to make it stay on this frame until the swf has loaded - and then move o...more >>

I have basically produced one main movie which loads in various movies.... How do I play a movie or clip <b>i.e.</b> on (rollOver) { image_holder.gotoAndPlay(21);[ from my loaded movie but which is in the main movie??? Hope this makes sense ...more >>

hi, i'm loading into my flash application external images which the user of my application upload to my server beforehand. now i already know that in case the user had uploaded a 'progressive' jpg image to my server, the flash wouldn't be able to handle it, and i also know that there's no way o...more >>

Hi, Hope someone can help. This is what I am planning on doing: - Call xml.load() method from my Flash movie. - Servlet on server starts a thread that waits around watching a stack on the server until an object is placed upon it - Servlet writes output when an object is placed upon the ...more >>

As the title ,How to make sub menu; Could anybody help me ?...more >>

This one always getts me stuck...... When i am on the main time line i can go to another scene for release with: on (release){ gotoAndPlay ("scene2",1) } But when i am down a level in another mov clip on the main timeline it goes to the first frame of that movie clips timeline!!! ...more >>

This seems like should be very simple. I'm trying to make a dynamic text object load from a php file. I have a dynamic text object with the variable name "quote". I've converted the text to a symbol and am using the following code to load the variables: onCLipEvent (load) { th...more >>

Hi, I am creating a preloader. I want to access the getBytes() method of another.swf from a seperate .swf Basically, its like this -------- Button from num1.swf clicks, Gets the Bytes from num2.swf to create the preloader at num1.swf Is it possible? If possible, any suggestions o...more >>

can anyone tell me how I can get a button in my SWF file to post using the following HTML syntax: <FORM method=post action="http://www.coolcart.com/cgi-bin/shop/coolcart.exe/test/cart"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="ID" VALUE="Product Alpha"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="Price" VALUE="12.00"...more >>

Hi, i have made a small code which dyanically fills the scrollPane component with movies defined. the scrollContent attaches several movie clips from the library to fill the content which is in _global.content_array. My problem is that when i change the dynamic text in sublist_mc and list_mc...more >>

hi, i have tried to make a text field to operate like "ms-word". but here, i have got a problem to make a string to be bold, italic. i tried to make through text-field id as well as variable. but it doestn't work properly. On putting as variable, the string of variable inserts in the field...more >>

Okay i made some stupid little animations at flash and i would like to import it to dreamweaver but it is not working?? what is the problem? i can't figure out...HELP!! thanks...more >>

I have a movie (main.swf) which has a movie (thumbnail.swf) in it (on the stage contained in a loader component). I want to be able to click a button in 'thumbnail.swf' and make something happen in 'main.swf. I am sure this is relatively simple, but I just cant quite get it :(. Any sugges...more >>

I promise I have spent about 10 hours searching various websites and forums trying to get help. I would not have to do this if MM would properly document their product. Why is it, for example, that you can drag the accordion pane onto the stage, click "help on this component" and it returns "n...more >>

I have a file that contains one button and a scroll pane. I simply need to load an external swf into the scroll pane when I press the button. (myScroll.loadScrollContent("external.swf") This I understand. What I don't understand is the preloading aspect of this. I have tried so many differen...more >>

I'm trying to use a while loop to sort through a list of movie clips that are dynamically created and the only problem I'm running into is Flash itself. Basically I create the movie clips and have a variable the shows how many there are. I need to loop through all of them to set certain sett...more >>

can someone tell me how to make pictures scroll in flash, just like a scrolling text box, just with pictures in it. tutorials are good if you can find one for me.... I asked my inet teacher, but he doesn't know (he knows everything BESIDES flash) I'm a n00b, please help! ...more >>

Dear Forum, I'm a newbie to arrays. All I want to do, is to increment the display of an array, one item at a time, and have the item appear in a text box. I have checked other posts, but, sadly i'm not quite smart enough to understand some of the code. I tried to use a for loop, and an...more >>