Right, I have attached the current swf for you to take a look at - it might help explain the problem! (give the intro a sec to run) At the moment, "Projecten" is on the main timeline, and all the images for that section are on separate layers to allow for tweening. I want feedback for ...more >>

Just came across a sweet navigation bar http://www.holstphotographic.com. Any idea if this is a component that I can grab, or is this just straight insane coding?...more >>

I'm using javascript to set variables in dynamic text fields. it works great on a PC, but not on a mac, here is the code i'm using <script language = "JavaScript"> <!-- function SetVariables() { window.document.mdimaging.SetVariable("sectionParent", "Services"); window.docu...more >>

Dear members, How to count the pixels in an image in flash on runtime.. in detail.. i have loaded an in image into my flash movie - then here I have to put a button count pixels on the image. whenever user clicks on the button i need to store the pixels of the image in to my text bo...more >>

Scripters and Gurus! I have this one small problem to place before you. I have a text set of about 5MB and was wondering whether it was possible to write a FULL-TEXT search engine using AS? without speed issues that is.. Hope someone has something to say.. Thanx anyway for the time. ...more >>

Please help me in this.. Is there any functionality for an image to be created by the flash at run time..? in detail: i want to save the run time movie capture for flash (not using print screen), i am adding a button on my moviee named capture this... when user clicks on that i wan...more >>

Is there any way to tell the processor speed of the machine that a Flash movie is running on? I have a processor intensive Flash file (to be run off a CD ROM) and I want to give the user the ability to select between this version and a less intense version. I would like to give them a hint as t...more >>

Hi, I have just upgraded to Flash MX 2004 from Flash MX, I dont want to learn actionscript as a whole but I learn the bits I need when I come across the need for them. There are a few peices of script I have used in the passed in MX and I would like the equivalent in ActionScript 2. ...more >>

How can the following code be written to call on a function using a "for loop"? buttons.btn1.onRelease = function(){ [cpntBtn1Data](this); } It's the second line of code that's the problem ([cpntBtn1Data](this);). I have tried, what seems like, a million different ways to do this but to ...more >>

I have two flash (EXE) created with the Projector. One sets values in a SharedObject, the other reads them. The Reader originally only read them when starting. This works fine. Now I want the reader program to check the variables occationally to see if the setter has changed them. I am ...more >>

I´m loading an external swf (foto1.swf) into my movie but i want to detect when the file gets loaded so that i can control my loading clip... What i have is: my_foto = new loadMovie("foto1.swf"); total_bytes = my_foto.getBytesTotal(); loaded_bytes = my_foto.getBytesLoaded(); if (loaded...more >>

Hi all, i'm trying to import xml in flash wich all worls fine, but now i want the values of the xml file to manipulate some properties of some movieclips on stage. I want to us vars in my paths wich point to the movieclips on stage but it doesn't work, i tried to make a path construcor but it d...more >>

Hi, I have this: if (shake == 1) { this.shake._x = this.shake._x+1; this.shake._x = this.shake._x-2; this.shake._x = this.shake._x+3; this.shake._x = this.shake._x-2; this.shake._x = this.shake._x-2; this.shake._x = this.shake._x+1; this.shake._x = this.shake._x+1; } B...more >>

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Hi i was hopeing that someone could please tell me a simple actionscript to pause a movie at a point and then have it resume after a second or two. Thanks...more >>

Dear Reader, My subject may sound it littile odd ..sorry for it I have a say 10 textfields on the stage. They are getting created dynamically using createTextField. Now these textfiedl has got a fixed width and height which I can not change or can not make autoSize/wordWrap/multiline. ...more >>

I am have a problem finding a tutorial for sound that does not loop. My main timeline is about 200 frames with 5 different labels. The presentation has forward and backwars buttons. Just did your tutorial at www.macromedia.com/support/flash/sound/sound_player/sound_player04.html and I could ...more >>

Hey all, The pop ups work fine from inside flash when html page is accessed via direct address, however not when its inside a frame set (redirect). Also the pop ups WILL work in mozilla and in netscape, but not explorer. This is the code I am using for the pop ups: on (release) { uUrl = ...more >>

Hi i have been trying to make a car game, when i press the up key i want the frames to go quicker I have tryed FPS controller extention for flash but this made the game jumpy i have heard of setting an interval or something and was wondering how that works exactly i have included the .fla file...more >>

Hi all AS gurus, I have a flash exe running on a local machine (i.e. not on a server & therefore mailing option not available). I have a feature similiar to feedback where users can post comments. Can I write all the posts to a file? Can someboday offer a better solution to log all the ...more >>

Here is what I think is a real simple little piece of code: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("foo", 100); foo.lineStyle(1, 0xFF0000, 100); foo.moveTo(250, 250); foo.onEnterFrame = function() { var x,y; y = 250 + 100 * Math.random(); x = 250 + 100 * Math.random(); foo.lineTo(x,y); ...more >>

I have found that I can only make 'loadClip' work if the movie to be loaded is a fixed name in the code with inverted commas around it. I want to be able to pass a variable so that I can handle version control in my application. So, for example: This doesn't work: var loginMovie: String ...more >>

Near and Dear onces, I am developing musical site , in which the interface of real player is not working. I want to upldate my site with the help of flash player. Would you please help me , how to embed object of flash player to play sound automatically. Functional requirement is p...more >>

Hi, Would like to know how to create mulitple line entries in a list box component. The component only support single lines. If anyone has made it then could they pls tell me how to go about it. Regards, Abhiuday ...more >>

i am loading a movie on target say by click of a button.Now when the movie gets loaded, when i click on the button again the movie reloads (though not completely) it gives a flicker can i disable the flickering by some way since the movie is already loaded ...more >>

HI, what it is that i am tring to do is create a link in flash that will link to the site.htm and the iframe forum.php. the problem i think i am having is within javascript. i am not very good with javascript. the code for the link in flash is simply this but is not what i am tring to do...more >>

how to find a sine inverse of a value give that is sin(90)=pi/2 is there a revese way to find from value to degree???...more >>

Hi All, I wana Open PDF. Ok But i wana also a condition for this. Condition is If Install Acrobat Reader in My computer then open PDF else Go on Second Seen. Plz Help Me ...more >>

Hi, I'm relatively new but this isn't a very complicated issue. I made a short flash for an intro to a website then want it to go on to the main html webpage. At the end of the animation I added action getURL "mysitename", _self. Code is simple. No matter what I do it opens in a new wind...more >>

Hi All, This is Parag Shah. Well, actually this is not exactly an actionscript problem but as it relates with, I thought this to be the right place to approach. I am willing to get quite deep into flash actionscripting. In fact, I have been doing it tit-a-bit since 3 years or so. Now, I have c...more >>

my loader doesn't work... Isn't a loader supposed to come up as soon as the person opens the page, then load the page, and then play the rest of the movie? whats wrong? heres my movie... http://inet.francistuttle.com/wisdom/NewModules/ViewMyDocuments.aspx?DocumentID= 1415 any help would be ...more >>

var recData = [{id:0, firstName:"Mick", lastName:"Jones"}, {id:1, firstName:"Joe", lastName:"Strummer"}, {id:2, firstName:"Paul", lastName:"Simonon"}]; userData.items = recData; I am trying to learn how to use the DataSet components with the Macromedia Flash D...more >>

I need to have another name for Number type, such as Age, how to set Number's alias so that I can do this: var age:Age; instead of: var age:Number; ...more >>

Hi Folks, I wonder if someone can help me on this. Ok, I have a Dynamic Text Box, which I will populate with an external txt file using the LoadVariables command, now, for updating purposes this would be the easiest solution for the user, since just update the text file and flash wil...more >>

i have the following actionscript that seems to work well, var sl = new LoadVars(); sl.load("http://www.site.com/streams/update.php?unique_id="+getTimer()); // this indexes the dir and creates a few XML files that are called later in the SWF file // some other stuff mycomboXml.load("...more >>

I've searched and read, but can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. I've attached my source code (it's Flash MX), it's much easier for me with examples. If anyone cares to take a peek and give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it. I'm trying to start with a blank page wi...more >>

I have a MASSIVE problem with my website. It has the main swf, and in that i have a music player that loads music on to level 20 and i have backgrounds that load in to a movie clip. So far this all of this works, BUT my music tracks are 1 frame per second and my backgrounds are 120 frames per ...more >>

I just asked this question on flashkit but I am not convinced with the answer so here goes. I'm using loadVaraibles to load a .txt file into a MC that I've created using creteEmptyMovieClip. some of my txt file are 20k. Is it safe to say that when the MC.onData function is called tha...more >>

Hello, I'm using Flash MX and I have a question about a text field. If data exceeds the given space of a text field, when being filled in, the beginning characters are no longer visible. That's no big deal but when the text field is tabbed away from, the text remains just as it was, still no...more >>

HEllo, I created a movie to scroll a textfield with a slider and buttons. THe movie works correctly in flash five, but not in flash 7.0. THen the slider goes when I slide down and then release it, the text and the slider go back to the top and they not maintain their possition. The ac...more >>

I want to call actionscript' function within a text field , just like Director's text link, anyone knows how to do this?? pls help. Thanks!!...more >>

Yes hello, I have been using Flash 5 for two years, then upgraded to Flash Mx I finally decided to get Flash Mx 2004, and it was worth it. There was a small problem though... I'm still new at 'Action Scripts' and I noticed the actionscripts is set on 'expert mode' Is there any possible w...more >>

I'm using this script to checkout if a field is left empty : on (release){ if (veld1 == " ") { gotoAndStop("nietok"); }else {gotoAndStop("ok"); } } but this isn't working. I'm using Flash MX 2004 Could somebody please tell what is wrong Thank you for your help Peter ...more >>

I'm trying to learn several ways to make mouse trailers just as a way of learning more actionscrip. I've downloaded several and I generally see how they work. This one, though, is a tough one for me to crack, but it's so simple. I understand every line of code, but for some reason it does w...more >>

I've read a value out of an array and I now need to convert that value to a number. However, the value is currently an object. I know this because the following code returns 'object' trace("type="+typeof(cardNum)) My question is: How can I convert the variable cardNum to a number? I ...more >>

I need to put a movie - is just inside the swf and not externally loaded - on level1 but can figure out how. I played around the onLoad command without a goal. Any ideas? Thx...more >>

Hi - Please help. I need the action (FLASH MX) for a html page to be able to pop-up when a button is clicked on my flash site. I know its out there. Can someone please post the actionscript. thanks a bunch! ...more >>

Hi all, Please view http://gahook.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ToSharon/kitterick.com.hk/swf/aaa.fla. Thanks, Aumaz Jang...more >>

Hi chaps, I have serveral buttons on the main movie. When I click one, and new movie pops up and takes up about 50% of the main movie clip. I want to disable access to the buttons on the main movie clip while this new clip is running. I was looking at the setFocus statement but couldt ...more >>

Hey guys, So I am working on my personal portfolio site, and I'd like to have the scroll bar for a scroll pane be on the left side of the content I'm scrolling for some functionality reasons that are suffering because of the design. (I'm using a Scroll Pane to scroll some static text b...more >>