hi! please help! this small bug is one of two things keeping this from being completed! i am getting a date from sql/php, breaking it up successfully into arrays and variables so that i have 'month' , 'day' , 'year'. i am successfully fading the alpha of 'phrase' movieclips that have a d...more >>

Hi Any ideas as to why I can't change the color of text using the TextFormat() object? Here is my code. this.createTextField("tfield",1,10,10,150,30); tfield.text = "Here's some text"; tfield.background=true; //tfNewfield.backgroundColor = "0x00cc00"; tfield.border = true; fo...more >>

Hi every body, i have a problem with list component, I've been using it with out problems but now I want an image and a little description of it in each row of the list, or use a scroll pane in each row of the list, I tried to use html tags in the label field of the list to show jpg file or a ...more >>

Hello. I have an mp3 player as its own .swf. It streams a song using the loadSound script with a true value for streaming. My play and pause btns work fine and the song starts playing anywhere from 1-8 seconds on a broadband connection. My question is this... I would like the song ...more >>

Silly question but i can't find out of it :-P I have one htm file with three frames in it, top frame mid frame and botom frame named botom, my flash movie is in the mid frame, how do i controll "botom" frame from withing my swf? I've tried with on(release){ getUrl("new2.htm","_botom"); ...more >>

Hi, I just got Flash MX 2004, and I'm having trouble doing simple navigation in actionscript. I can't get gotoAndPlay to play a different scene and a certain frame. It says to just put in the (scene, frame) but does that mean I put in the name of the scene or the scene number? and do i put a...more >>

I am loading XML by calling a query string to a server. Because the XML is for a search function, the user can type ANYTHING, which would be passed along to this query strring. What I am discovering is that if the user types one of at least 5 special characters, (&:"#\), the function doesn...more >>

I have a not so tough question, basically I am trying to have a movie clip change depending on the value of a selected combobox the Bottom half works great, When someone chooses the color red for the maincolor, then the movie maincolor changes to red, how do I get the maincolor movie to chan...more >>

Hi, I am currently writing my uni dissertaion and am totally stuck on a problem, I am trying to add mutliple images to a movie clip at runtime(the file path is returned from a file browser - i have that bit working), and to have this movieclip shown within a window. in the window id like t...more >>

I am having trouble getting a variable to display much less update it. if I have declare a global variable like this: _global.myName = "George"; I cannot get it to display in a dynamic textbox that is displayed on the same frame in the timeline. I tried naming the var for the dynamic box...more >>

How do I move from say frame 5, 12, 20 or whatever to frame 30 and then return to the last visited frame. I don't want to nominate a certain frame, I want Flash to know what the frame I came from was. Thanks Richard ...more >>

I have a script I want to run when I get to a certain keyframe. However, when it gets there, it starts looping. So then I thought about doing an onLoad but that didn't work because the movie is already loaded. So I tried putting the stop() command in different places to no avail. This ...more >>

Hi, I have straight line, if i pick the end point of the line and move the mouse the line should be stretched. how to do it through Actionscript? give example. Txs Ag ...more >>

I am using one of the templates provided in Flash MX for my project, and when I click on: "a href=abc.swf?pagelocation=5" to launch my flash, which has a script of _root.gotoAndPlay(pagelocation); it brings me to the 2nd frame of my flash, not 5th. And when I click the 'back button'(...more >>

i use the easing function below all the time, but now i need a similar one but for ROTATION anyone know something like that? thanks andrew function ease(objet, targetX, targetY, speed) { if (!easingArray) { easingArray = [[], []]; } var found = false; for (i=0; ...more >>

I'm dynamically creating a sentence using one movie clip that has dynamic text in it and Actionscript to create the rest. The text has an alpha change and small movement change over something like 4 frames. The dynamic text used to create and fill in the user's input doesn't scale to the next ...more >>

I just go Flash MX 2004 and have the following problem. When I open a file I have been working on, the fonts (flash fonts, pixel fonts) are all displayed higher than in the old file. They all now sit a few pixels too high in the file. I was wondering if I just need to adjust or if there is a...more >>

Hello there, I need some help with my mp3/movieplayer in flash MX... It's a jukebox with movies and mp3's. With the movies, the play and stop buttons work perfectly, but with the music only the stop-button works. The music is loaded via a menu and starts to play. The stop button do...more >>

Am I missing something? Can you change the width and height of the DataGrid component via Actionscript? Whenever I do, the edges get expanded an ugly. Thanks, Kirk...more >>

hi, i have a movieclip that contains another movieclip which contains a dynamic text box...the text box has its var set and i reference it like this someMC.someMCText.textvar = "hello"; the problem is that i can't seem to see the text...when i do a trace on it...it holds the correct va...more >>

I have a flash animation where when you press on a arrow key the movie instance on the screen moves. And I also have it set up so when you press a certain other key like the A key or S it plays the movie instance. But my problem is when the animation is playing the arrow keys still work and ca...more >>

The company I work for uses Microsoft PowerPoint a lot for presentation. They are getting interested in using Flash for these presentations and with that I have a concern. In PowerPoint you can use both mouse buttons to advace/return slides. Left button is advancing to the next slide and t...more >>

I have two similar pages that return statistics from an access database every half hour via and ASP pagee. I want to display the results graphically in a flash movie. The first page I made works perfectly and the second page will only load the variables one time. I assume this is a cache pr...more >>

Hi I have been reading posts for hours trying to figure out how to import exteranl swf movies into a flash movie. I have been able to import it but it takes over the whole stage. I need to import it and then control the size and position of it. I have tried to use many different scripts...b...more >>

Hi folks, What follows is code that both works and doesn't work. Lines 1 & 2 work using the externally supplied variable "maincolour". Lines 4 and 5 work using the externally supplied variables "pageObject" and "pageObjectOn". The commented out lines of 6 and 7 don't work with the same v...more >>

Hi, I am trying to copy a library item from one document e.g. fl.documents[0].library ... to another library: fl.documents[01].library ... using JSFL, is this possible? Thanks, Wiebe...more >>

I have a direct link to a swf file which passes variables to the swf: "a href=abc.swf?var=123" But how do I retrive the variable for the swf to make use of? Please help. Thanks...more >>

I want to build a exe from flash which can trace all keys in a keyboard when pressed randomly. Can anybody help me? Its very urgent....more >>

My Problem: My Preloader seems to work fine (created for display only), but I'm havng trouble with a flash movie not playing until it is fully loaded... I need it to stream. I don't think the problem is in my preloader script (pasted below). Here's my situation: Overview: I am working on a...more >>

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this? Basically I have 2 dynamix textboxes; the first has the variable name 'text' and its contents are defined by whatever is typed at the end of the src tag (?text=...). What I need to do is have the second text box be populated with whatever...more >>

Hello All, I am developing a custom radio button and have run into this scenario. First a brief overview of how things are set up: All code to handle the passing of the value and the checked/unchecked property is contained in myRadioButton. The code is set up to send the value back to ...more >>

Hi there, I'm using Flash MX and usually just deal with the animation end so I know little about action scripting. I have a problem in that the current project I am working on goes way over the 16000 frame limit. Going through the help files, there are ways to call up other swfs meaning that...more >>

var baseUrl:String = "http://www.my_domain.nl"; //i?m Dutch // variables for the amount of pools of the different producer var countStarlinePools:Number = 0; var countZodiacPools:Number = 0; var countCerlandPools:Number = 0; // variables for the buttons var spacing:Number = 20; var ...more >>

Is there any way to launch an html page using the getURL property and contain the page within an mc or locate to specific area of the stage?...more >>

Hi People!!! so...can i make this ?? if i can...somebody can tell me how ??? thank you all!!!...more >>

here's my problem! i made a function which draws a box with a shadow! so now if i want to move the box arround and change size, the size of the shadow will change too!!! how can i set it up so the shadow will automatically reset and not be scale? here's the code: function makeBox(x, y,...more >>

Aaagh. Having problems with loops and if statements: I'm running a 'for' loop through some XML nodeNames to check for matches, then running another 'for' loop if x == y. So there is: - a FOR loop containing an IF statement containing another FOR statement Is that my problem right there i...more >>

Hallo, I am sitting now for days above this Script and I cant finde out what is wrong! on (release) { if (_root.circle._width <100 ){ var pumperBreite = new Object(); pumperBreite.pumpUpBreite = function(schritt){ _root.circle._xscale += schritt; _root.circle._width += 1; getPr...more >>

Hi, I have triangle, how do i find the length of the triangles (AB,BC,CA) programatically. Help Needed. Txs, Ag ...more >>

Hi, Does someone knows if it is possible to debbug an external .fla. I have two .fla, the master an the child. A loader in the master call the child swf. The child fla can't run alone, it need to be execute in the master. Well is there a way to put a breakpoint in the child and debbug it. ...more >>

Hi. I'm working on the application, which I would like to put in tray(next to the clock) when minimized, or when counts cetrain time, or when cetrain button pressed. On some event, basicaly. That's in WinXPPro. Any ideas? Benjamin ...more >>

<OBJECT classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve rsion=6,0,0,0' WIDTH='440' HEIGHT='330' id='player' ALIGN=''> <param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE='http://w...more >>

need some tips on how to animate an arrow in actionscript using XML data....more >>

Hey all! Ok heres the boggle. The preloader i made for my site has an enter button that appears after everything has loaded. Now when i attempt to apply actions to the button such as on (release) i get an error screen telling me that The action is reserved for button instances only, not in tho...more >>

Hey, I'm trying to build a webpage just to get some knowledge and to say I did. But, I'm really confused about how to put an SWF onto and HTML page. AND if Dreamweaver is the best program for a begginer to use? ANY help with this is appreciated, Thanks to all _C ...more >>

I am creating a component with the choice of about 6 skins, but I dont want to pump the file size by exporting the unused 5 skins. I am attaching the skin dynamically by Exporting it for Actionscript. Is there anyway that I can disable certain clips from exporting? Or perhaps another way ar...more >>

OK, Ive been scowering the site and forums etc for an answer, cant find one. useing mx 2004 I get data via XMLConnecter, but need to access the data via actionscript not bindings. cant figure out how to either set it as a variable or retrieve it via actionscript either from xmlconnector, datas...more >>

I am creating an album, picture are dynamically loaded, but I am having difficulty to center it! How can I get the property of the picture the page is loading? I need the width and height of the picture! Some more details, My album only have 2 buttons to go previous and next, since the p...more >>

Can anyone help me make my site work, I've checked and double checked code, and my site still isn't functional. My movieclips won't unload and my .swf's are taking to long to load into clips. site is www.edni.net/site SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS. ...more >>

let me explain better... it?s just a simple example. I?ve created some objects with the same function. In fact they are people with [b]age[/b], [b]country[/b] and [b]sex[/b]. this is the function [i] function createObject ([b]age[/b], [b]country[/b], [b]sex[/b]) { this.[b]age[...more >>

Hi everybody, I have a Alert and I want to insert an icon but I tried insert a movieclip with name Icon and this not display, what is the matter? [h]var myAlert = Alert.show("message", "title", Alert.OK | Alert.CANCEL, this, myClickHandler, "Icon", Alert.OK);[/h] Thanks a lot![ ...more >>

I wish to load two movies into the main time line; movie1 into _level02 and movie2 into _level01. I want movie1 to tell movie2 when to start playing. How do I reference back to the original timeline? So far all I can get is to reference within movie1 itself and not the main time line by us...more >>

[b]Constrain sartDrag(); to a lineTo();?[/b] I have 4 points that allow themselves to be dragged around the Flash stage through a startDrag();. Each set are connected via a lineTo();, however they are not connected to each other. So we see, "|------|" and, "|------|" on the stage wher...more >>

Greetings, i dont really know that much about scripting, but i figure somone should be able to help me out. I've downloaded a flash Template from Flashcomponents.com, of which are ment to be very customisable (hence the name 'template'), but there is a actionscripted Collapible Menu involve...more >>