I have a movie clip that exists only in the library linked to a scrollpane component using its linkage identifier. It scrolls perfectly. However, in the movie clip there are additional movie clips I wold like to control, but for that I need to be able to access them using DOT syntax. How can t...more >>

Hi all, Im a newbie to Actionscript and here's my problem. I want an event to loop during a rollOver. Here's the code I have on (rollOver) { setProperty("filmstrip", _y, Number(getProperty("filmstrip", _y)-50)); } What happens here is the "filmstrip" movie gets moved 50 pixels ONCE. ...more >>

I am trying to make a button that will allow the user to print out his notes from a textbox. Does anybody know how to do it? thanks...more >>

I'm having a terrible time trying to produce this slider. Here's the idea -- for each pixel the mouse drags a slider, another movie clip moves 1 frame. I keep track of the last _x position so that I know if we're going forward or backwards. I only want whole pixels, so I round off _x to see if...more >>

In the past I have loaded external text into a dynamic text box and then I've attached the scrollbar component for scrolling purposes. I have now upgraded to 2004 and there is no longer a scrollbar component. I've looked in several places and I'm reading that the textarea component is to be...more >>

Does anyone know of a way to control text color for the textArea component when html turned on?...more >>

When i select a item of the list box, a movie clip begin. (play)., So, when i choose another element of the list box, the movie clip stop and begins a new one. ...more >>

http://64.207.177.164/flash/test.fla...more >>

Ok.. so it seems that LoadVars no longer works with Flash 7 or AS 2.0 (or something) - I am getting errors all over the place. Is there an easy replacement for this, so that I don't have to replace all my server code that expects simple posted variables. thanks, -jbuckle24 ...more >>

i'll preface this by saying i'm just startin out with mx04. i'm trying to access the text property of the textfield component that i have placed within a window component and i'm just not getting the path right or something actionscript: _root.attachMovie("Window","newsWindow",0); new...more >>

Hey all, I am wanting to animate several things on the scrren using actionsript instead of tweening. Can someone point me to a good tutorial or pass some code my way? Thanks for the help!!! Russ...more >>

I have a Flash movie that is sending data to a database via PHP. The problem is that if users don't have the Flash player installed on their browser they will be asked if they want to install it. I don't want this. If a user does not have the Flash player installed, I don't want them to be bot...more >>

how can i make my actionscript program run in a different layer than in = the one runs by default. tx karina...more >>

Hi all, I'm having trouble using asfunction within a <![CDATA[ *]]> wrapper. I'm using the CDATA to allow for extra html formatting (within the dynamic text field) but somehow the asfunction doesn't seem to like that. The link comes up with the proper formatting and it is active but the fu...more >>

Hi it s my first post im developing a login that sends a varaible to ASP i take the number value from a input box. which is cool i then need to format it like so var age:String = "22" myloadVars = new LoadVars(); myloadVars.send(my_URL+"myage="+age,"_blank","POST" ) so i use this as a ...more >>

I'm really new to the Flash world and I'm trying to use a Graphing component that pulls and uses XML data from a web service on an aspx page. I'm having a really hard time trying to debug the flash file to figure out where it is bombing. I think it's hanging on the XML load function even though I...more >>

I have the following problem targeting a MC in my movie that is loaded into another movie. Let me explain... I have a button inside a MC instance called "btn_mc_01". The MC is on the root timeline of a movie called web.swf. The actions for the button are on the root timeline in the actions la...more >>

Anyone know how to detect when a movie being played in the Media Playback component has reached the end? When one video finishes I want another one to load up in the same component. Some kind of listener I reckon. The best I can come up with is to have a function that reads in the parameter ...more >>

Is there a way to add a print button that simply prints only the frame a user is on? I want it to be compatable with Flash 5 player, so I need to use the print() action not the printjob action. Is there a way to get it to only print the frame i'm on and not all of the frames In my movie? ...more >>

Hi, where can I get some of the formula related to circles and its tangents from an external point. ...more >>

ok, i have been looking for the answer to this for 2 hours... how in the world do you know the sort direction (asc || desc) of a datagrid. here is some code: objDataGrid.headerRelease = function(event) { trace("i need to know the sort direction - here!"); }; this.myDataGrid.addEv...more >>

I have a textarea component displaying some dynamic data...working great.. but it is displaying any apostrophies as a small box... http://www.cavaliermortgage.com/indexsb.asp?location=VA Anyone know the workaround for this? ...more >>

Can any one help and advise on how I can get, Macromedia Flash to read Macromedia Director variables. Mark Webley Freelance graphic designer/ programmer...more >>

Hi, A newbie question about actionscript: is it possible to clip a movieclip using the borders of another movieclip? I have a large rectangle as a background, with a smaller rectangle on top of it. On this smaller rectangle, clicking results in drawing a circle with the clicked positi...more >>

Hello everyone, I tried to do this example http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288&thre adid=739028 but could not get it to work? Anyone have any ideas? I will attach the file. Thanks ...more >>

am using the book, "complete flash remoting mx" by joey lott and i can't do the "create an e-commerce website" in the back! i've typed in all the code and it's all correct, but the connection between flash and the coldfusion componet does not work. i have connected coldfusion to sql and th...more >>

I'm trying to change the color of the scroll pane component border, or make it transparent, or remove it altogether. The help section says the scroll pane doesn't support styles or have its own skins, just the scroll bars do. Anyone know how to effect the scroll pane's look? ...more >>

Is there a way to link a keypress to a button for a standalone interactive presentation using Flash 5? For example I need to be able to press various keys at the same time in order to show two seperate events occur on the screen? If there is a way, is there a limit to the number of keys that ...more >>

Hi, i am trying to set up an else if statement for my drag and drop?? any ideas how to make it so when the target is not hit.. i can set up an action? heres what i got: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (_root.boom.inkhit.hitTest(_root.mc1.lenshit) && _root.lightvar == 1) { _root.boo...more >>

Hallo, I have found a chat FLA with cgi script, and to script with dat extension, that I want to use on a webside in Norway. The problem is that when I am trying to use the letters ?,? and ?, these letters are not show`n in the swf file. Is there a way to encode the script so that I can use...more >>

Hi, is there a way to get back the instance-name of a mc, onClick. I treid the following ActionScript (attached on a mc): on (press) { trace (this._name); } It works, but it puts out something like "instance21", but not the detailed instance name. Every help appreciated,...more >>

Hello Friends, I am not able to do the simple thing... and dont know where i am commiting a mistake. What I am trying to do is.. in the 1st Frame I have declared a Variable and trying to read a valued of this variable from JSP file but some how the value is not comming in the SWF file. ...more >>

I?ve heard of problems running Applications written with AS 2.0 on older Flash Players ( before version 6,0,65 ) Not only that the performance is worse, there are supposed to be stability issues because variables are called with the use of registers since 6,0,65. But all my tests with AS2...more >>

Hello, Attached is the file (test19.zip) containing a test flash file where I try to do the following: 1) Inside a movie clip I have two others (next to each other) 2) when the mouse moves over, the mc will move either to left or right based on the mouse position relative to the ...more >>

i have a button which is a movie clip.... the problem is that i want the button to open a movie clip when i click on it but this doesnt work it only works when i use a button which is not a movie clip... my button(movieclip) is in the first scene and the movie clip i want to open is in...more >>

Hi forum, I have a parent movie in flash(parent.fla). Now i want to load child1.swf, child2.swf and child3.swf in to this parent movie one by one. The action should be at the first frame of my parent .fla and no actions to child movies. While giving the action with 'loadMovie()' only the ch...more >>

This must have been asked and answered here, but I cannot find it. I have six mc's and want to pass each in succession to a function called by setInterval. When mc6 passes thru and meets a condition, clearInterval kicks in. The logic of what I want might even look like this: on(release...more >>

Hello, I am preparing a flash slide presentation for a trade show on Monday. In the end of every slide I have put in a "stop()" statement to prevent the slides from repeating over and over until a forward or back button is clicked. However, for the show, I need the entire presentation to...more >>

First off - Newbie alert. Sorry. I'm good with other languages, but Actionscripting is pretty new for me. On that note - I have searched newsgroups, including this one for a solution. It may be out there, but I could be searching for it incorrectly. I have a for loop with a gotoAndSto...more >>

Can someone please fill me in on the different set ups for the actionscript panel in MX versed Professional. Is it true that MX has retained the normal expert mode. Whereas Professional has opted for a different set up?? ...more >>

I want to dynamically attach movieClips to the stage in different levels. Is there a way to check if a level is not used before I attach the movieClip?...more >>

var totalbytes = _root.getBytesTotal(); _root.getBytesTotal(); trace(totalbytes); This returns the amount of bytes in the output window when I trace the variable however when I do the following using "_framesloaded(); and trace my vaiable "test1" the output window shows undefined. ...more >>

so i have one main swf movie wich got his preloader in first frame: stop(); loadInterval = setInterval(preloader, 10); function preloader() { if (getBytesLoaded()>=getBytesTotal()) { gotoAndPlay("ok"); clearInterval(loadInterval); } } that is ok. but now i have 350 swf mo...more >>

I am using php>flash for a catalog system that I am building. I have it betatesting to a localize text file. Upon loading the variables, it does this fine, however, when it comes to the conversion, I am hitting a literal brick wall. Somevariable="2", but when I convert it comes out NaN. or wor...more >>

Investigating how to build a dyanamic web site in flash...the idea is i load a movie with text and video; based on content in the movie, the user selects one of several links; based on the selection, the application retrieves a new set of content (text, video, new links) and plays. Again, base...more >>

I'm generating an empty movie clip using the createEmptyMovieClip method. Once it's created I load an image into it and set the position, which works fine. The problem is that the onRelease method isn't working properly. I want this movie clip to act as a thubnail that when clicked, will call...more >>

Hi I am writing some preloaders for various parts of a site that I am developing and would like to know if anyone can shed some light on the ifFrameLoaded action. I have written several percentage based loaders but I have a situation where I want to check if a certain frame or frame label ...more >>