Thanks in advance for any help. Here's my problem: On the main timeline I have a movie clip called "mp3player". In that player I have the following code: music = new Sound(); music.loadSound( clip, streaming ); musicPosition = 0; When I go to different frames on the main timeline I nee...more >>

I would like to dynamiclly (at runtime) insert frames into a timeline to change the length of an animation. Is there a way to do this?...more >>

Hi: i was wondering if it is possible to determine the type of a variable passed to a function...in other words, if this is my function function foo(var_arg) { } how can i determine if var_arg is a STRING, NUMBER, or ARRAY? Also, if it's a number is there any way to determine if i...more >>

We have a main scene that we want other scenes to show-up in the middle of, so we can retain the links from the main scene to navagate between other scenes. But we can't even get one scene ("economics") to show up. So we have the one scene called "economics" and I tried using "1" and a label...more >>

I am adding a search engine to a Flash mx site. The source of the engine is: http://www.promoplace.com/ws/webstore.dll/Search?DistID=20582 check it out. I want to load this into a designated frame and position, not a new window. I have tried loadVAR and getURL. I have not been successful. ...more >>

i have downloaded Flash communication server and several demo flashcom projects that i wanted to experiment with. i found out that all of them require netdebug.as as an "#include". where can i find this file and what does it come with (whitch product)? i use Flash MX v. 6, but i can also h...more >>

Hello, I have three movie clips that act like buttons. All three are inside another movie clip which is loaded using attachMovie. I want each movie clip when clicked link to a different page. The problem is when I click on one button all buttons respond and execute the code in their lis...more >>

I am making my first game (pong). I know its basic but gotta start somewhere. I have a hit-test for a bar at the top of the game, which works, and a hit-test for the Movie clip that is a sliding bar at the bottom, which doesn't work. I can't seem to get it to work no matter what I do. ...more >>

How do I use Actionscripting gather and submit data entered in a form? I have built a web page for a client of mine that has several input text fields and a submit button. How do I gather the text entered into the input text fields and send it off to my client? The page can be found at http:...more >>

i thought i had seen someone answer this before, but how much many Kilobytes can be loaded into flash in a single loadvars sendAndLoad call? ...more >>

If I dynamically load an swf into another using loadMovie, is there any way to communicate with it (like calling a function or something) besides using querystring variables or the localConnection infrastructure? Example (the functionality I want): x_mc.loadMovie("myClip.swf"); x_mc.ca...more >>

Hello there. I have a btn that when rolled over plays a few frames. I also have a controller mc with instance name "controller" that, when activated, plays the timeline in reverse. The btn has this code on it. on (rollOver) { play(); _root.controller.gotoAndStop("1"); } on...more >>

Hello, I don't think I am thinking very clearly about this, but I can not figure out how to re-order an array that is the datasource for a DataGrid component. For isntance, if a user sorts on a column, then the SelectedIndex value isn't going to match the original array's correpsonding va...more >>

I'm really not sure the best way to handle this and would be more than happy to hear suggestions. We're builing an application similar to an online application. What I'm looking to do, is to somehow hightlight, or indicate to the user, form fields that are invalid. I'm using regular expr...more >>

I have a movie that uses a styles declaration to remove borders from a ScrollPane component: http://cksubject.com/media/news.html Thing is, scrollbars don't disappear when this movie is loaded into a separate level from the "main" movie. I've tried setting this style thru global decla...more >>

I am new to flash and web development in general, and was wondering if there was a way to make scrolling text for my flash movies without using symbols and motion tweening. Would scripting of some sort work? If so, I would love any help/suggestions. Right now I am trying to get an effect of th...more >>

I am using the duplicateMovieClip function to duplicate a movie 5 times in a for loop.. what I don't know how to do is set its position after its been duplicated .. see code for what I'm trying to accomplish: var totalSwfs = 5; var category = "library/anniversary/anniversary0"; functio...more >>

I want to change the cursor to hourglass while waiting for process to complete. Looking in help, I've found something called tools.setCursor() There's no hourglass :-( but I tried the code anyway. It don't do nuffink :---((( So 2 questions. 1, why doesn't my code go through the 6 states of...more >>

In web I can easily use ASP, PHP etc... but how can I do it locally? -- ='o'= Arturo ='o'= www.miltonfrank.tv ...more >>

I'm tesing something out before I use it in my development and I'm having difficulty getting it to work properly. Basically, just trying to scale a square box from 0 to its 100% state using actionscript. I can get the height to work properly, but when I try including scaling the width, things ...more >>

i've been looking and i can't find any documentation on this problem. i have a large number of squares that i want to all react similarly by saying their name when clicked. so i made one base movieclip and then used duplicateMovieClip to make about 50 of them. something like this. the p...more >>

I need to detect keypress of function keys (f1 to f12) for a software simulation. My code : ecouteur = new Object(); ecouteur.onKeyDown = function() { if (Key.isDown(112)) { gotoAndPlay("affichage2"); } }; Key.addListener(ecouteur); It works fine in Flash but the browser (I...more >>

I am design a website that has flash navigation. One section is called Diary. In this section there are 5 html files. april.html, may.html, june.html etc. Is it possible to code the single link that says diary (in the flash navigation) so it automatically selects the current month. For e...more >>

Has Anyone Tried This? I'm about to embark on a project and wanted to know if anyone has tried it already? What I'm trying to do is use the PrintJob Class in Flash MX2004 to print a set of frames in an existing project. The project was writen in Flash MX using ActionScript 1.0. A...more >>

I'm using a dynamic text box set to render HTML, into which I am loading external HTML from an XML file. I am using the <li> (ordered list) tag to implement a bulletted list. The problem is, I want the bullets but I don't want the indented paragraph that comes with it. In HTML I could use ...more >>

I have a simple drag and drop movie, for some reason I can't get it to go to the next frame....maybe my code's not right. Here is what I have for the button within the mc... on (press) { startDrag("/cuphand"); } on (release) { stopDrag(); if (getProperty("/cuphand", _droptar...more >>

This may have already been posted. It didn't appear so... i'm reposting I'm reworking a statically designed Flash website to load information Dynamically (like PHP only i have no PHP skills). This bug applies to all the sections but it best demonstrated by the links section. My sense is that ...more >>

Hi I need a little help with some actionscripting. I am creating a menu system with four different options: about us portfolio testimonials contact us I have a movie clip (paperMC) that is on the first frame of the timeline. When the user clicks on about us, I want the paper...more >>

Hi! please check out the attachment there is a swf file and the text is coming from xml file what i ... when your mouse on the over of any button there will be a text box will appear what i want to put the text on that area also and this will also i want from xml file please if you some body k...more >>

I have 4 buttons on the stage and one empty movie clip called content, and on each button it loads a movieclip into the content clip. It all works fine, but i cant figure out a pre loader for it. here are my actions for the button on(release){ _root.content.loadMovie ("Damo.swf");...more >>

Hi, flash mx 2004 takes too long to compile and publish AS 2 classes. what can i do to improve it? are there any tips and tricks? My flash project takes 5 or more minutes to complete the process. Does everybody observe the same problem? Is macromedia thinking about this for future releases...more >>

hello, i want to load two xml file in one movie.i make the code that is working fine if i load one xml file but if i load second xml file with the same code then it's not working for second one.....i attched code.... thanks for ur suggestion.plz help me. playListPath = "newReleasedMovie....more >>

Hi! please check out the attachment there is a swf file and the text is coming from xml file what i ... when your mouse on the over of any button there will be a text box will appear what i want to put the text on that area also and this will also i want from xml file please if you some body k...more >>

Hi! please check out the attachment there is a swf file and the text is coming from xml file what i ... when your mouse on the over of any button there will be a text box will appear what i want to put the text on that area also and this will also i want from xml file please if you some body k...more >>

Hi All, Can somebody help me in trapping the BACKSPACE key in flash...I have been able to trap all other KEyS except for BACKSPACE, ENTER, DELETE.. I have developed a Crossword interaction and for that i need to code for BACKSPACE key. ...more >>

I am trying to target a specific symbol, [b](ie porfolio_mc.button7)[/b] but when I look in debug to get the path it shows up as [b]porfolio_mc.instance34.button7.[/b] The instance number changes, one time it will be 34 and the next 56, as I load or reload the different swfs' of my site. How...more >>

I LOAD SOME OF EXTERNAL COLOR IMAGEFILE BY LOADMOVIE METHOD AND I WANT ALTERNATE THIS MOVIES TO GRAYSCALE PICTURES BY ACION SCRIPT(COLOR.SETTRANSFORM) BUT I CANNOT PLEASE HELP ME ...!...more >>

Hello, I have the following problem: Loading an image using MovieClipLoader class works fine except when I try to read its dimensions; it only returns 0. =================================================== myListener.onLoadComplete = function(target_mc) { trace("onLoadComplete - m...more >>

is there a way to have a rollover and rollout applied to the same object? code: only the first part seems to work. it will roll over fine...but the rollout does nothing. is there something im missing. im trying to apply this to one object...its a button, it already animates when it...more >>

I have a movie which loads in a new scene from the main timeline when a button is clicked. stop(); loadMovie("FootValve.swf", _root.mcLoadFV); The problem I'm having is when the preloader starts for the new movie I can't get the rest of the movie to play past the preloader. What happe...more >>

Okay, I understand how to write the setmask code, I just can't get it to work. What do I attach it to, the MC that I want to mask or the layer it's on? Where do I put the MC that I want to act as a mask? I've read every explaination that I could find online and I've tried every combination I...more >>

Dearest Developers, _root["mainclip"+i]["mainfield"+i].text = nuj; _root["mainclip"+i].onRollOver = function() { trace(_root["mainclip"+i]["mainfield"+i].text); }; tracing nuj works, as does nuj appear in each iteration of "mainfield"+i. Any thoughts as to why _root["maincli...more >>