Hi everybody, just wondering if it is possible to set the stage background to transparent when publishing....more >>

Hi, I am trying to find a Macromedia tool that will allow for creating images programmatically. Our company has a web site that sells Boat lettering. Users can type the text, select a font, effect (e.g., border), and click on the preview button. This action should create an image on-the-fl...more >>

Do I actually have to make a preloader for this? It is flashing white before going to my page. There's not even any animation in it, so I'm surprised. thanks, anyone, for letting me know. ...more >>

i have a dynamic text box which load some text from server script. it works when tested within author env or by this individual swf file. But when combined within a larger project, the text from server cannot show. i can watch the traffic through my browser. So it is sure that the text from ...more >>

Hi again, I'm working in a image gallery with flash and xml, now I can show the images, thanks Tim for your help, but I got a nother problem, maybe it's something easy but i don't know how this doesnt work: var movieNum=0; for(var p=minFor; p<=maxFor; p++) { // create the mc name - w...more >>

hello, i have a movie which has 4 almost identical scenes, the only difference is the txt file it loads, which contains the names of jpgs. when i first go to the movie, it doesn't load the pics and stops before displaying all the graphics and stuff on the page. if i hit a button to go to...more >>

why can i make a button from text outside a symbol, but when i have a lot of text, and want to use a certain font for a header and make that header a link, can i not select the font and hit f8 to make it a symbol? I have tried dragging in GIFs but I really want to the text to look exactly lik...more >>

Can anyone tell me why this code wont work. I have a checkbox called "box1" on the stage. The variable "checkbox" contains the string "box1". I want to change the label of this checkbox to "This is a test." When I directly write box1.setLabel("This is a test"); It works fine. Bu...more >>

Hi All, Is there any way that I could remove the right click on the input(type) textfield. The problem is I have restricted few words and this copy (from any text editor) and paste into the textField works. Any help wud be appreciated Have a nice day!!! Regards, Kishore ...more >>

Hi all, please any body can tell me how i can create dynamic references to movie clips, what I'm doing is this: in a movie clip (no _root) i load an xml file, the xml data is stored in a list component, in _root are 4 void movie clips to load 4 jpg files, then i made a loop (for) using the l...more >>

Dear Friends of Macromedia Here is one bit by bit effect of picture's changing [L=http://www.windowsmedia.com]http://www.windowsmedia.com[/L] How can i finish this effect from Flash? For example? ...more >>

Hello and good afternoon. I have two movie clips (A and B) on the same level. MovieclipA is draggable. I want to know how to activate dynamic text when MovieclipA rolls over MovieclipB. I'm at a loss as to what ClipEvent I need, or even if I need something like that. Thank you for any help...more >>

I would like to create a button ?play and stop button? that when you click on the button it stops the movie. When you click on the button again (the same button) it starts the movie where you left off. I would also like to create a button ?next and previous button? that when you click o...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with XML object. In my xml file, it looks like: <basket> <food id=0>&#39;Apple&#39;</food> <food id=1>&#39;Orange&#39;</food> </basket> When I use the actionscript "this.current_node.firstChild.nodeValue", I get 'Apple', but my application needs to get &#39;Apple&#39;...more >>

How do I snap my drag-and-Drop to a specific location? I want to drag an item to the vacinity of where I want it to be, but I want it to snap the the exact location....more >>

Hi, I have only used Flash in a basic level to make web pages, the only script I have used is "mail to" and "get url" . I have Flash MX (not 2004), and I am interested in learning "Action Script" What language is "Action Script" ? Or is it a stand alone language in its own right ? Does ...more >>

I have a questionarre that consists of multiple checkboxes. The way in which it is designed, I have an array that holds the lables for the checkboxes. Then, I have a loop that takes the values from the array and places them into the appropriate checkbox. Code is below The checkboxes h...more >>

I understand that Flash Player 6 will play a movie written using ActionScript 2. Question: will Flash 6 handle ActionScript 2 on Windows, Mac and Linux players? Also, what actual version of the 6.0 player? Thanks, Mark ...more >>

Does anyone know of a tutorial for resizing a MC using elasticScale by clicking on a button outside of said MC?...more >>

hello, just wondering if tabbing into and out of MX 2004 ComobBox's was possible? the following code doesn't seem to work as expected: this.cmbAssignedTo.tabEnabled = true; this.cmbProject.tabEnabled = true; this.cmbAssignedTo.tabIndex = 1; this.cmbProject.tabIndex = 2; thanks, ...more >>

help :), I'm trying to get my movieclip that I'm creating to accept mouse interactions (onLoad function too, but I figure once I can get the mousey bits working then rest should make sense) This is what I'm doing at the moment createEmptyMovieClip("test1", 0); test1.loadMovie("1.jpg"); tes...more >>

Hi, I'm searching for a way to send an email from inside a flash movie, but all i found was scripted sollution (php, cgi, ...) is there a simple way to send a form from within my swf annimation ??? ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to get this to work but the code from moock didn't work for me. Is it possble to call a Flash-Funktion from JS on the common browsers (IE MZ PC MAC ...)? thanks for any help!...more >>

Hi, The sound starts to play and then stops although the duration indicates 24 seconds to be played. Changing to streaming sound makes no difference. Would someone know what is wrong? Thank you, below the code: var duration_str; introSound=new Sound(); introSound.loadSound("s...more >>

Hi am in urgent need of help. My problem is that i want a button to link to a window that you cannot resize and will be set to a specific size, how do i do this? An example of what i am talking about is [L=http://doom3.com]http://doom3.com[/L] Click on either the screenshot/trailo...more >>

I have been staring at this for too long. All I want to do is click on a button in my root file and load an external swf on level 1 at a specific frame. on (release) { if (sinuses == "no") { loadMovie("sinuses.swf", 1) _level1.gotoAndPlay(7); sinuses = "yes...more >>

I know that to pass a variable from HTML to Flash i can use: <param name="movie" value="Param.swf?foo=teste" /> Like this at flash foo will be teste. But if i had to variables at flash, how can i pass two variables using this system at Html? Nova página 1-------------- Mário Diogo Poderá cont...more >>

I would like to create an if statement that, when someone pushes a button the if statement looks for a file on the hard drive and if the file is present, it will get a URL if the file is not present it will re-direcr them to an error page. Here is what i have as far as code so far... ...more >>

I have created a flash file named "test.swf" and this file will call the "getdata.asp" file to retrieve the data from the database. There are multiple rows of returned data. Code Description ----- ------------ A1 Notebook <button> A2 PC <button> A3 VGA Card <button> A4 Projector <b...more >>

Simple question here. I have 2 keyframes - 1 and 2. There is a button in frame 1. There is nothing in frame 2. I've inserted stop(); in frame 1 and I've added the following script to the button: on (click) { gotoAndPlay(2); } The movie does NOT go on to play frame 2 upo...more >>

New User. Tried Making a movieclip of a button which changes opacity on rollover and again out on rollout (this works) I use instances of this movieclip/button in my main movie but when i add the behaviour [goto url] to an instance the fade in/out part of the button stops working???? ...more >>

I have a class with different variables defined, I want to insert data into these vars inside the succes function of a loadVars.. but how do I do this? I've tried _root, _parent etc. but nothing seems to work class Blah { var blaharray:Array; public function Blah():Void { //co...more >>

How can u indentify users graphicaly on your website? very much like you see in Colin's Moock website http://www.moock.org and http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com (click on the cross at the bottom right corner) Any assistance or guidance would be greatly appraciated. Thanks Xavier ...more >>

Because components are 'one-size-fits-all' they're too bloated and buggy for most purposes (much like Directors fat'n'ugly library of behaviours). The only consistently useful component I found in MX was the srollbar, which, if you didn't want to code one yourself, made up for the fact that F...more >>

hi sorry in advance if something like this has already been answered in the forum, but i couldn't find anything.. i'm making a grid of images that will load randomly, but i want to ensure that images don't get repeated each time the grid loads.. so far i have this code in the movieclip...more >>

I am trying to make a flash movie that has lots of (23) pictures in form of movie clips (it has to be movie clips) stacked on top of each other. Everything is fine untill i plase Movie clip number 13... Number 2 disappears!!! When i mark all in the stack it is still there but not showing whe...more >>

I wrote this the other day, but I wasn't specific about the problem. I am trying to use a singleton (a static member variable) in actionscript, and it seems to be having some pretty severe issues. I don't know if anybody has ever found anything like this before. The problem occurs in the fol...more >>

I send a message for u to help me before. I'm a beginner in flash, then I want a help from u to make a logging in flash by xml I want some help please. Give me any link to help me and left the rest on me I didn't told u that u make the task for me but just the beginning of the road. ...more >>

Hi, I want to use Flash MX 2004 combobox component for my navigation. What I want to achieve is that when making a selection in combobox, a specific external xml file is loaded into the textarea component and a specific photo is loaded into the scrollpane component. How can I acheive ...more >>

I have noticed an issue with the Scrollpane component, when I look at either the dev site or the live site from within my network I can see all of the content (i.e. scrollpane and it's content) but when I look at it from outside my network I can't see the scrollpane. I'm stumped, why would i...more >>

I'm trying to simulate a software app. my company sells that heavily relies on keyboard combinations. For example, one process is initiated by pressing shift+space. Another, like Word, is initiated with ctrl + B. Is there a way to simlutate these in Flash? ...more >>

My combox box is working perfectly in its own movie. But when I load it as a external SWF into my main movie the dropdown doesnt work. Does anyone know how to change this? Help apprecitated asap!...more >>

My website is going to be a flash movie with text files loaded as the pages into a text box in the movie but I can't get my button to work so it loads the page. My text field is located at "_root.Content.Content_Loader.txtLoader" and to start with has some welcome text in it. It is set to ...more >>

Hi, I use LOADMOVIE to replace the current flash movie with another one that uses the UI Component ComboBox. (Flash MX 2004) The ComboBox does not work properly if it's movie has been loaded this way. If you call up the movie from scratch i.e. directly embeded the ComboBox behaves i...more >>

I've successfully loaded HTML data from an XML document to a dynamic text box using CDATA sections, all the HTML tags are removed correctly - but they seem to be ignored, as no formatting appears. I am using textBox.htmlText for assignment and have set the text box to render text as HTML...more >>

This is really starting to piss me off. Flash is really not written for programmers. I want to declare just a few vars in a server side script which i can then use in my action script. So no textfields or objects involved. Just normal global vars. test.txt: testvar=hello.mp3 in the firs...more >>

hi all i wanna check my client flash player running on mobile device, i mean if(System.capabilities.language == "en"){ loadMoive(forEnglish.swf,,); }else{ } if(System.capabilities.mobile <-doesn't exist ){ loadMovie(forMobile.swf,...more >>

Hi forum, I am creating a quiz using flash.I am having 10 questions and are given in 10 separate frames. I had a submit button in each and every frame. But while submitting my answer some times right answers are shown as wrong . For a ready reference enclosing my code here with this. Any ass...more >>

Hi I need to find / trace all the current .swf files which are in one movie. So if a movie consists of imported movies a.swf and b.swf, I need to be able to detect these movies dynamically. However if b.swf contains various movieclips I am not bothered about detecting these just b.swf...more >>

how do we call the video files into flash. do we have to do it the same way as we do .wav files.....more >>

how shlould we use the radio buttons and in the final count the number of radio buttons checked....more >>

Hi! I'm not really a Flash MX developer, but I am using a Flash MX component in my asp.net application that posts data to an aspx page using loadVars - anyway... The following should happen: 1. Flash compent sends XML data (using sendVars/loadVars) 2. ASP.Net page reads XML data as a s...more >>

For a college project I need to design an interactive flash document that lets a user assemble and reassemble a virtual computer using drag and drop, but I dont know where to start. Can you help? I assume I need to use actionscripts. I will import the flash document into a Director movie ...more >>

Hello, I'm playing narrated audio clips in Flash and for the majority of them, I am calling the mySound.start () method from the root timeline. However, some audio clips are called to play from within externally loaded movie clips and when I am calling _root.mySound.start () from my extern...more >>

I have made some pre loaders before, but i cant solve this one. I have a flash document which has nothing but a movieclip on the stage, so therefore the stage has only one frame. i would like to make a preloader before my movieclip before it plays. I am trying to make the pre loader...more >>

how can i pass parameters byref like c# "function(ref param1, out param2)" in actionscript????? help plz...more >>

Can anyone help with this one: I'm trying to create a printed report from a desktop application that uses a FLASH MX projector file. The projector displays graphs and most screens include multiple timelines. I want to select a number of screens to be included in my printed report. So far a...more >>

Dear list I am having problems with my preloader. The preloader doesn't show up at all. I am using the standard script I always use in my movies, it usually works with smaller files. this one is almost 2 megs and there are a lot of movies that have linkage names because I am attaching ...more >>

Hello, I want to create a progress bar for Streaming Video.. Can any one suggest me the way to go about it..? Regards, Sal...more >>

HELP!!! I have written script to read a .TXT file that has button descriptions and URL addresses. reading the file and breaking it apart work fine, but I do not know how to get the buttons to display on the movie clip. could someone look at my code and tell me what I am doing wrong? .TXT f...more >>

If I run this on flash1.swf _root.container.loadMovie("enemy.swf"); Then on the second one I have a movie clip with this onClipEvent (load) { _root.enemyname = "Dragon"; _root.enemydef = 5; } Then back on flash1.swf why can't I do trace(_root.enemydef); I get undefined. ...more >>