how do i make a mc slide across the stage and stop at specified location? what i have done is at http://www.blookie.com/blookie/helpVan.htm. It is an fla file. I just can't figure this thing out! Thanks. Van ...more >>

Can someone explain how to do the following? I have a series of movie clips on the stage, that contain images. I want to select the clip using the mouse. Than using a button I want to capture the movie clip name/ID and store it in an array, to be used in another part of the movie. My questio...more >>

I have a keyframe at the END of a scene (scene 1) with a "go to and play" action that jumps to another scene (scene 2). Problem: The audio from scene 2 starts playing before scene one is finished playing. Is there anyway to require that scene one is finished playing before the "go to ...more >>

I need to have a function that copies a movieclip (snow) every 500 milliseconds and each new clip is a has a new instance name and the one before it stay on the stage. When each clip enters the stage every 500 Ms, I want it to start like this... _x = xCloud _y = yCloud xCloud and yClo...more >>

Hi, ive run into a bit of a problem with a flash project im working on and could really do with some help. I have a movie clip which I want to scroll horizontally when a user clicks on a button. this horizontal scrolling image is broken up into five different images each of which corresponds...more >>

hello all, hear my plea please. my first preloader gave trouble so i decided to load my main movie as an external .swf file. so now, the animation play, and the preload bar starts from 0 bytes. the way i wanted it. but now, it does not play the remaining animation when i ask it to. this is...more >>

I was wondering if others can verify that "tuccMask.FLA" is a valid file (within the .ZIP download) at the following FlashKit.com web site: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Animations/Masking_-Lee_Brim-8860/index.php I am trying to open this .FLA file in Flash MX 2004 without any luck. I keep ...more >>

Hi, I have the following code in the first frame of my movie: if (fileuploaded == 1) { _root.gotoAndStop(5); } else { _root.gotoAndPlay(2); } The fileuploaded value is being passed into the swf from a ColdFusion page in the querystring: <param name="movie" value="SenateI...more >>

Hi.. I'm working on a Flash-created EXE projector that serves as an application screen to launch an installer called "setup.EXE". The user is to click a button,with the command: on (release) { fscommand("exec", "setup.EXE"); this.gotoAndStop("quit"); } However, the screen does ...more >>

Please excuse my obvious newness to Flash as I pose this question: How do I display a scene from a larger Flash presentation in a new window? I have a scene that would appear out-of-context if played along with the other scenes, so I though I could set up a button to present that scene in a n...more >>

How do program a cursor to move invertly to the mouse or to move very slowly?...more >>

does anyone knows how to create a component that will behaves as the standard components, ie, use the style.setStyle ("backgroundColor","0xffffff"); so that it will change color. fonts and so on?...more >>

Hello, how can i preload some video that being pulled into a Target so that when I want to view the video later in the site, it's already chached? Also, I don't want to bog down the flash player. so perhaps after the loading animations? I just want it to be loaded, not play. So, again,...more >>

Has anyone else run across this problem? If I convert the string ".95" to a number, and then compare it to the number ..95, it says the two are unequal. Which of course is wrong. This is true for using Number(x) or parseFloat(x). I did some testing, and it turns out that out of the 100 n...more >>

Hi, Im hoping someone can help with this. Im working on a drag and drop type matching game using 6 different hit tests. When all the mc's have been matched up correctly, I want the movie to advance to particular part of the timeline. Heres the code im using on the mc's that are being ...more >>

Hi everyone. Ive got a main movie onto which I load an swf via the loadMovie command. I load it into an empty oveclip instance called blanka_mc Thsi occurs int he firts frame of the movie with: a_btn.onRelease = function(){ loadMovie("preliminares.swf", "blanka_mc") } avanzar_btn.onRelease =...more >>

I would like to get the script to load/unload a number of movieclips throughout my .fla. For instance, a movie clip has been loaded, a button is pressed, this tells the movieclip to exit (via a few frames to give it a nice fade out exit), then it loads the desired movie clip. If someone c...more >>

Hello all: Does any one have any code that prevents more than one drag object (mc) per target object (mc) in a drag and drop? So basically, when some drags a drag object onto a target oibject, they will no longer be able to drag another obect on that target. Make sense? Thanks, JK ...more >>

Hi! Can anyone get this fla to work? I'm trying to first add a key listener and trace if space is pressed, then I want to remove that listener and replace it with another that traces if enter is pressed. Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, I was trying to display text on an angle dynamically (a rotated dynamic text field) and discovered it doesn't work. I ended up making separate movie clips for my 'dynamic' content and displaying the text with static text fields. Has anyone else ever encountered this problem and come...more >>

Hi everyone, Ive been trying to write an xml driven mp3 player, and I have a problem with it I just cant figure out. The object objTrackInfo contains the information for the tracks that is loaded from the xml file, and then the object objTracks contains all the objTrackInfo objects...kind o...more >>

Hi all, I'm having sort of a problem with the display of an xml node. My problems is that I'm using a set of nested tags and both have information in it. The routine I have to process the xml works but it spits out the information as separate lines. For example, on a line of text that says ...more >>

Hi, have a dynamic text box and use the following code: ted.htmlText = ""; ted.htmlText += ted.htmlText + "<img src='http://adl-db/dev/images/mm_s_fleece.jpg'>"; ted.htmlText += "this is a test"; I want the text to be below the image not next to it. Tried all combinations of <p ali...more >>

Hi, a .fla from Flash 5 does not work in Flash 7 due to this code...I think: ../:showed = Number(../:showed)+1; and set ("char" add i add "/letter:char", substring(text, i, 1)); How can it be converted for Flash 7 publication? (I'm most unsure of how to change "../" and "/:var" in...more >>

I need to produce a CD with formatted text in different languages. Using Director I would hold all the external text in different XML docs, then use bespoke tags and chunk formatting for bold, underlined etc. I understand flash can format HTML text, which would, I imagine, do most of the hard ...more >>

Title says it all. How can i set _x and _y properties to a loadedMovie? Thanks for helping....more >>

I am building a movie which must be accessible. One of the accessibility features is that the user must be able to tab and select buttons using the keyboard alone. I'm using Flash MX 2004 and publishing for Flash player 6 and AS1. I've got a simple custom scrollbar with up and down buttons...more >>

Here is my delima. I'm loading an xml document into my movie. I'm loading it into an XMLConnector component. Here is what the xml format looks like: <JournalLinks> <Link> <heading>Something</heading> <url>Something.htm</url> </Link> . . . ...more >>

Ok, this is a bit challenging: I have a game, which times you how long it takes you to complete. It records the time, in seconds, in the variable (time). How can i make a high score table with MySQL so that it submits the time taken (time) and there name which they can enter. Once submitted ...more >>

Hi All Here is a snippet from the output window of my flash app. *** Security Sandbox Violation *** SecurityDomain 'http://localhost/MediaServer/getImage/getImage.aspx?FileID=9c7ce140e3024d90 ad41606e25451d39&ImageType=Thumbnail&Page=1' tried to access incompatible context 'file:///C|/Inet...more >>

im using actionscript to read a number from a text file, then loop through and duplicate, position and size that number of movieclips, and load a jpg into each. the jpgs are named 1,2,3 etc. the positioning etc all works, but when i try to add an onRollOver action to each mc, nothing happ...more >>

I'm looking for the code for a mortgage/loan calculator written in Flash. hope this is the place to ask... ...more >>

Hi I'm making a CD to promote products built in html. I would like to create an auto start facility using an inf file linked to an exe. I was going to make the exe in Flash using action script's geturl to open the first html file. This works fine, the problem I have is automatically clos...more >>

I have 2 2d arrays, rsField containing students on a field trip, rsTask containing students assigned to a task. On my stage I have 2 datagrids, dgField and dgTask, and 4 buttons > (btnAddOne) >> (btnAddAll) << (btnRemoveAll) < (btnRemoveOne) for the standard move selected and move all r...more >>

HI-- I'm loading a series of 20 jpegs into empty MCs ("slot1", "slot2"...), but can't figure out an easy way to hide these until they've all been loaded in. Any ideas? for(var i = index; i < (index+20); i++ ) { var j = eval("slot"+(i+1)); //slot MC name k = myData[i].prodIcon==null ...more >>

hi! in flash 6 and down I can choose expert or normal mode when I write actionscript. But in flash 7 it´s only expert, how can I choose normal mode??? please help me. ...more >>

Hello I am new to Flash, so I am struggling a bit with the ActionScripts and UI Components. My problem is the following: I must create a listbox: When the user clicks on an item in the listbox, the selected item (label) must open an external swf movie into the current movie ? this c...more >>

I have been programming a clock to remind me that there is food cooking, so that it will not be spoiled. I am playing a song, when the time is over, and that works OK. Normally I would iconify the running clock. But I dont't know how to deiconfy the flash projector? I have tried fscomman...more >>

I am producing a drag and drop exercise, where the user drags a description of a word, and has to match it with the correct word. The 7 descriptions appear at random, one at a time, each time the user clicks on the 'generate description' button. *The problem I am having is that I only ne...more >>

Hi All i wish to make fractal animation through script can anyone help me out is getting fractal effect through actionscript.... if anyone know something in similar also let me know please help me ..thanks .. Tushar ...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to dynamically resize a component label width based on the font size/number of characters. I know that I can use setSize to set the initial size of a component, but what if the text changes and it becomes too long/big for the width of the label? Which ...more >>

Hi All, I wish to move the playback head to a random frame number, each time the SWF loads...I have the images on each frame, the total frames being 12...how do I get a random number between 2 and 12..the first frame has the random generating script: randomFrame = Math.round ((Math.rando...more >>

hi, I have created an application for image display in Flash. In this application i loadvariables from a txt file on very first frame. and assigned it to one Dynamic text which is there in the application. Now the problem is when i trace the variable value it displays me undefined where as...more >>

Hi guys, As you can see i'm new here, i've created a flash movie for our company and need to save it as an .exe, i have managed to do this and get it looking ok; however when then movie is played i would like it to be centered on the screen with no flash player boarders on it or any play /...more >>

Can anyone help me with this? I have created an emptymovie clip in an fla called "timeline" using this code: on (release) { _root.createEmptyMovieClip("bubba", 1000); _root.bubba._x = 300; _root.bubba._y = 0; _root.bubba.loadMovie("hello.swf"); } I have the following code tha...more >>

How can I place a swf file in place of other by clicking btn which is in third swf like shown in fontsforflash.com??...more >>

I have used the loadVars() object for some time now to load external text. Using components the movie user could scroll up and down and display the entire and sometime lengthy text in this manner. However I can not seem to find a method that allows the externally loaded text to scroll cont...more >>

Hi there, I've got a quick question. If I make changes to a DataSet by editing the values of the CurrentItem, such as in the following code: this._parent.myDataSet_ds.locateById(some_id); this._parent.myDataSet_ds.currentItem.Price = "newValue"; The DataSet doesn't update a DeltaPack...more >>

Hi there, I've got a quick question. If I make changes to a DataSet by editing the values of the CurrentItem, such as in the following code: this._parent.myDataSet_ds.locateById(some_id); this._parent.myDataSet_ds.currentItem.Price = "newValue"; The DataSet doesn't update a DeltaPack...more >>

Can anyone direct me to a tutorial that will help me solve this problem? I have a button and on MouseUp I want 1 of 5 names to pop up at random. I can find articles and tutorials on how to make numbers pop up as random, but never anything else...if anyone could help I'd appreciate it. ...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problem with a voting program for blind people I'm trying to put together in flash. It's just the front end so it's not very complicated. I'm trying to make two sounds play in sequence so people know what they have voted for. One sound (justvoted) says "You have just voted for...more >>

I want to be able to show or hide a picture with a checkbox. I have managed to do so with two checkboxes (so that chkbox1 hides and shows chkbox2 when selected and not selected) but can?t get it to work with a graphic (or *.jpg/gif). I used ....visible = true; and visible = false; Am i st...more >>

Hello, I am using the TextArea component that loads the text from a txt file. When I publish the movie by itself then everything works just fine. However, when I load the movie into another movie then the TextArea component starts to behave in a strange ways. When I click to scroll the text ...more >>