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 >>

Hi, I have a drop down menu on www.gx30.co.uk & it works fine apart from it doesnt seem to refresh a page when i go to it. Let me explain. I have a "graphics" page where people can upload pics, and if i view that page, then after viewing other sections on my page return to the graphics page v...more >>

Hello at my movie at first frame i am loading [CODE] myData = new LoadVars() myData.load("en.txt") myData.onLoad = function(succes){ if(succes){ mainpage_txt.htmlText = "<b>"+this.mainpage+"</b>" } else trace("Error loading data") } [/CODE] and i am trying to load ...more >>

I've seen it now on several sites, but can't find much help on the topic. It's a technique that aligns the elements on your stage according to how the browser window is resized. example: http://www.graylabel.net/index3.html Any help finding the tools or tutorials would be appreciated... ...more >>

Hi, I need to know if there is a way to invoke a Windows File Chooser Dialog from Flash ? I'm writing an application and would like the user to be able to select an XML file to parse from a dialog instead of entering the name in a text box. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks....more >>

I've just started experimenting with incorporating XML into Flash projects, and have noticed something odd. When I use firstChild to access my root node, it looks at the XML declaration, rather than the first tagged node. In other words, trace(XMLdoc.firstChild) returns "<?xml version="1.0" ...more >>

As we know,"startDrag"command have four parameters:left, top, right, bottom which Values relative to the coordinates of the movie clip's parent that specify a constraint rectangle for the movie clip. but I just don't know how to determine these parameters' value so that it can specify a constr...more >>

hello, I'm a totally new person to this actionscriptthing and I need some help trying to build a menubar to kinda learn this on. I have a pretty simple menubar with 5 buttons, one of the buttons has a submenu with 3 buttons on it. The script I have so far is this: _global.style.setStyle("t...more >>

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to host ActiveX controls in Flash ? Thx in advance...more >>

Is is possible to export a movieclip while its playing? I'm trying to make program that lets people design a card and save it to their hard drive. I already have made the designing part, but how do export? ...more >>

Hi, I have just learned how to put a preloader scene in my movies, I use a two frame scene; frame one : if(_framesLoaded>=_totalFrames){ gotoAndPlay("Main",1); } Frame 2: gotoAndPlay(1); Then in the last frame of the main scene : gotoAndPlay(1); This works fine,...more >>

I have a movie of 3 mb most of which is called from the library in the first frame using the linkage thingy. Is there any way to make a pre-loader that can understand that all this stuff is being loaded? The loader I normally use doesn't appear until the whole movie has practically finished lo...more >>

Hi, In array i have store some random repeated number, now i have to get greater one value from array. for example [2,4,6,2,5,6,] how i will get only 6. Pls reply my solution. Thanx...more >>

I want to change the color of text in a movie clip after performing a hit test. I also want to play a sound. I have the sound playing but can't get the movie to go to frame two where the text has changed to red. I had it working by replacing the text variable with myText = "<font color = ...more >>

I am creating a web site that uses 340 product images. I am using a master movie that loads 20 or more individual movies so that people can see all of the products. It works fine until they have to go backwards in the list of movies. When movie number two loads and they want to go back to s...more >>

Any way to perform Flash player and bandwidth speed detection at the same time in an entry page? If so, does such a setup work well (*reliably*!) without causing problems etc.? I would like to find detailed information on how to set this up. Thanks for any info. ...more >>