Implemented a pre-loader to main.swf to call a external.swf , now this works great using the loadmovie() external.swf , 1.......... the problem I have the pre-loader is loading the external movie into the main movie OK, but then loading my next frames page on top of the external .swf or behind...more >>

Hi people, Hope this question is easy for any actionscripters: I created a site which consists of a main.swf file that hold two other external swf files (portfolio.swf and random.swf) Basically you click on portfolio and the portfolio.swf displays, within portfolio is a link to load ...more >>

Hey all, I have some numeric variables being pulled from a database via php. I need to stip the commas from them so I can add them together... currently if I try to add them, it just shows them as an "array"... _root.deeds.td1 + _root.deeds.td2 ends up as: 140,000200,000 rather than: 3...more >>

Hello everybody: I'm trying to make my flash movie get external data from a txt format. The movie arrives to get the data but when I write latin words like ?, ?, ?, the ..swf movie does not reconize then. Can someone help me? Thanks Gertrude ...more >>

Hello people, im doing a ski game , here it is www.plan-play.com.br/marcelo/files/ski/ I need to do the follow thing: Little flags in pairs have to appear in the stage for the dog to pass through, and some holes and plants. But, the holes cant appear inside the path made it by the flag...more >>

Hi there I have what I hope will be a pretty straightforward query you might be able to help me out with. I have an button. I want the button to perform a 'SwapImage' kind of function (Dreamweaver users will know what I mean) to a seperate instance when rollover occurs, then back to or...more >>

i have an animation as button Over state. but when you get off the button and animation hasn't finished you go to Up state immidaitely. how to keep playing until the end after leaving the button?...more >>

Okay. I've been round and round with this code. Same code (different names) I've used many other places but this time it won't work. In another place, in the same frame, similar code works fine. When I check the status of tUser I get "undefined". The trace I have in there shows 0,1 for ...more >>

Hi, apologies for the crazed title, but an actionscript problem I am encountering is driving me crazy! I am trying to reference a button based on a value passed to a function. I have a series of buttons, called 'button1', 'button2' 'button3' etc... When the button is clicked a series o...more >>

Hi, I am working on my first flash site and as it stands right now, the movie plays x number of frames before hitting a stop action. The user can then choose the first navigation option - playhead moves forward to next stop action - meanwhile the background sound is still playing; good. But i...more >>

How would I make an instance of something disappear or dissolve away upon rollover? Is there a way to reverse the instance's colors as well (negative colors)? Could I make the instance strobe upon rollover? There are several effects I want to achieve with this current project; if there...more >>

Hi, I am new at action script. I have movie clip A and movie clip B. movie clip B is invisible. when the mouse rolls over movie clip A, I want movie clip B be visible. When the mouse leaves movie clip A, I want movie clip B to be invisible again. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks ...more >>

i have a 4 sec flv looping on my "master" page as a background element i created using slides. i would like the loop to STOP once someone clicks on a button(S), i.e. "about us button".. thanks, ...more >>

Hi, after being all cocky, John, I thought I had it correct and still cannot get it. I have also gotten the same answers from two other posters and what is says in my books (ahem). I guess I am not properly "drawing" the shape around the text? My text is in a rectangle, but the text come...more >>

Hi All, I have a MovieClip(say myMovieClip) which has a linked class behind it, this class contains other MovieClips that get created dynamically and these also have their own classes. when I call for instance: "_root.myMovieClip.removeMovieClip();" It is not removed from the stage. If I...more >>

Version: MX2004pro FlashPlayer 6+ Problem: I need to duplicate an image that has been downloaded using loadMovie(); So my approach has been: Create an empty movieClip, called DZ Then use DZ.loadMovie("myImage.jpg"); Test whether the image has loaded and, if true, attempt to duplicat...more >>

I?m trying to parse an XML file into a tree component. I instantiated an XML object and set it as data provider in onLoad function. But I am missing something I think I need to parse the file manually because when I test I get what seems like an array of unparsed objects([type Function, ...more >>

Hi, how do you find an array's elements position within an array? Like: biggy = new Array ("slideZero.swf","slideOne.swf","slideTwo.swf","slaideThree.swf","slideFour.swf" ); find what array number "slideTwo.swf" is, should be 3? What I'm trying to do is a simple slide show, BUT... ...more >>

Is there a sleep() or wait() command in ActionScipt? Something to pause the execution of the current Thread for a specified length of time? Basically what I'm trying to do is create a synchronous wrapper method for asynchronous web service calls. (so that a call to the wrapper only returns ...more >>

Hey everyone, I've searched the forums with little luck on this, so I thought I'd toss it out to all of you..... I have this project I'm trying to finish up early next week, and I'm getting stuck on something. I am loading in dynamic htmltext from external txt files (which is working fin...more >>

Hi I'm making a small flash game and I have a problem with my character when moving or slashing. When I hold my slashing key down, my character starts with his movement, but he doesn't complete it and he freezes on the first frame of his movement until i let my key loose. The same for ...more >>

I have some navigation that has a little bar the scales and slides over underneath the active item. I'm doing that with this on the bar itself: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { this._x = _root.nav.navslider._x + (_root.go - _root.nav.navslider._x ) / 8; this._width = _root.nav.navslider._widt...more >>

I need to refer to a movie in a movie . this is done in a loop. The movie has a name(number)_mc format ie movie1_mc, movie2_mc, etc. This is the code line Base_mc.movie(i)_mc.loadMovie("mve"+i+".swf"); I have tried the following: Base_mc["movie"+i+"_mc"]loadMovie("mve"+i+".swf"); B...more >>

i want to make Scroll bar like this site. http://www.fotoek.com/flash/flash.html click profile. and then you can see it what i want to make it. please help me!!...more >>

can someone tell me where i can get scripts, maybe link me or something.. thanks lol...more >>

Hello, I'm a relatively new Flash user and am learning as I go along....so bare with me. I have a flash file that has 3 scenes and in each scene I have several movie clips. For example, in one scene I have 3 different movie clips (each on its own layer), a layer with a Next button, a...more >>

loadVariables is not working. I have double and triple checked script and it is simple as: loadVariables("url","GET"); I have tried every other mehod like using POST instead of GET but didn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

Hi, I have constructed a flah movie which pulls in a flv file. The flash file has a scrubber and a loadbar. The scrubber can not be dragged beyond the loadbar. I have set a buffer time of 5 seconds. The problem is when the scrubber plays on its own and catches up with the loadbar. ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with loading 19 asp every 5 seconds in one movie, when I test the movie in flash it works fine for about half an hour then it starts to give me an error on loading the asp files, so I check the asp files from the browser or running the exe of the movie- while the movie is ...more >>

I have read numerous postings and have even found a script that was widely posted, that does not work. Before I pull all of my hair out trying to figure it out, can somebody tell me if it is even possible to minimize an HTML window from a Flash button. If so, how!?! I have no problems openi...more >>

Hi, I'm new at flash scripting. When the mouse cursor rolls over a particular movie clip, I want the mouse cursor graphic to change but have no idea how to do it. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Tim ...more >>

Hi I was wondering if this is possible. Can you load a few swf on level0 then mask it using script. thx in advance....more >>

Hi, I have a requirment in flash (MX), where in the user has to click on a perticular button to open a pop up ,the pop should have a record ,play option ,so when the user click on the record button he can record his voice and then corrospondingly play it back when he clicks on the play butto...more >>

hi, when I call gotoandplay("off"), flash go there but not going on. waiting there(on as "off" labeled frame.) first frame include below code; if (a1==1) { gotoAndPlay("off"); } and I have only a single "off" labled frame why flash is waiting? I also use frame number, and shift label, ...more >>

I've made a slide show in 2004Professional that fades from slide to slide using nested slides with transitions as behaviours. But if the speaker makes a mistake and wants to go back he can only go straight to the previous one. I want to make it possible to undo a mistake in the show subtly, by...more >>

I have a dynamic text field linked toa .txt file which is generally working fine. However, I wish to include some HTML in the text, so have selected the "Render Text as HTML" button in the Properties window. I am trying to use simple <b> ...</b> tags in my .txt file, but it is displaying the ma...more >>

Hello all I have some drop target action that works fine in its own swf, however I now load it into a master swf and the paths dont work. The hierarchy is as follows master movie loads other movie into instance "level2" the"target" instance is on the root of my other movie ...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to send an load vars from a php webpage...and see a progress bar! How can i do that??? i am trying to do something like this: first keyframe of the movie: var dados = new LoadVars(); this.perc.mask._xscale=0; _root.loading=false; onEnterFrame = f...more >>

hi all, Why does "tabstops" not work when i load the variable from ASP? the following works: receivedVar = "Tim\t20\tsomewhere" content.txt.htmlText = "<textformat tabstops='[50, 200]'>"; content.txt.htmlText += receivedVar; content.txt.htmlText += "</textformat>"; output = ...more >>

....or at least I hope not. I'm experiencing an odd phenomena when loading movies - it has nothing to do with incorrectly referencing _root in the loaded movie though. Hopefully I'm being stupid and missing something obvious. I'll try and be as succinct as possible in my description. I have...more >>

I'm new to Flash, and would like to put several checkbox-like buttons with different appearances (completely different, not just theme variations) in the same file. In fact, I would be happy if I could make ony one function happen: could a button swap the content of its up-state on releas...more >>

Hi all, I have, for example, some code in frame 2 and some code in frame 3 and i want the program to just simply STOP for let's say 10 seconds after executing the code in frame 2 and only AFTER THAT to go to the code in frame 3. If there would have been something like wait(10.000) or...more >>

[Q]I'd suspect the easiest route is to combine two Learning Interactions[/Q] Sir, Can u provide any example file, which implements two learning interactions combined together. I am not able to control the answer checking with my button. Thanking you, MVN ...more >>

Hi all, I need help. I have a movie clip cuttng out when certain buttons are presssed, but I want it to fade. Here is my script for having it cut. Thanks if anyone can help. search_btn.onPress = fuction(){ for(i=100; i>=0; i--0{ elliottPic_mc._alpha = i; } ...more >>

Inside movie clip X I have a variable (var) whose value (movieClipName) is the same as the instance name of a movie clip on my main timeline. From inside movie clip X, I can say _root.movieClipName.play(); This works because it looks on the main timeline for movieClipName, finds an i...more >>

I'm using Flash Mx 2004 and a SMART OFFICE KEYBOARD EZ-8000. Key.ESCAPE and Key.ENTER (maybe others too) don't work. Could it be the keyboard. Anybody else have this problem or a solution. These keys also don't return any ascii or code values. The other keys work fine. Please Help! ...more >>

trace (this._name); If I use the above line in my code it returns the instance name right.. How can I return the instance name and the path form the root timeline? eg _root.1stmovieName.2ndmovieName.targetmovieName Thanks.. ...more >>

i want to know when the mouse of the user is not over the swf in the browser... The only way , and it's a cheesy one, is by creating a button the size of my swf. When i do that, i am able to have an action on the onRollOut/onReleaseOutside even if the mouse is outside the flash. Since the ...more >>

on my first scene, i have an imput text field and a go button. the button takes me to my next scene. how do i use the text the user has imputed on the second scene. ...more >>

Any one can tell me what and for what ill use or i can use "getBounds()"? Thanks marcelozep[E=my email, marcelozep@hotmail.com]marcelozep@hotmail.com[/E]...more >>

In MX 2004, can I control a dynamically created (attached) movie clip by referring to its instance name? On the main timeline, I have a manually created movie clip with instance name "testClip", another manually created clip with instance name"queue", and another clip, created dynamically ...more >>

I am new to Flash and having trouble with event listeners. I want to check the key board choices when a user enters data into a text field. My basic script looks like this pageNumber_txt.onKeyDown = function() { trace("Test"); //Code that would look at the ascii ...more >>

Hi all, I am using php to load my comboBoxes for day, month, year... problem is... php/MySql returns the day as "07" rather than "7" Inside of flash i am using...... from_month.setSelectedIndex(myVarFromPhp); to set the comboBox works fine if I hard code my variable inside flash... ...more >>