ok How do i morph text...sounds stupid, but i just don't know. It might be a tween, or it might not. Thanks very much Sylvan...more >>

ok How do i morph text...sounds stupid, but i just don't know. It might be a tween, or it might not. Thanks very much Sylvan...more >>

Hi, I have a movie where I want to load 5 other movies into level 1 randomly. I have accomplished this with this script in the second to last frame of each movie: random = Number(random(5))+1; loadMovieNum("q_" + random + ".swf", 1); But I would rather that the movies come in rand...more >>

I have a slide show with let's say 3 images. I use a transition between each image and I would like to "pause" the slide show on each image for a certain amount of time, the send it to the next frame. Can I use a function for this? function timeLine(thisNum,next) { if (getTimer() < ...more >>

I have a looping sound playing in channel one... i want to be able to control the sound volume with a Plus and Minus button.. i had the idea of setting a variable to put in the "sound(1).volume=X-10" but i cant get the syntax right... Also if it is possible am i able to start and stop the chan...more >>

I have a movie clip and I want to put two png images in the movie, one on top of the other so the bottom one shows through parts of the transparent top png. Can someone suggest how to do this? thanks Bryan ...more >>

I'm trying to make a html desktop backround with flash on it. And I want it to change with the time of day, for example: 5 am - 8 am would be a sunset, and then 9 am - 11 am, a early day thing, then 12 pm - 3 pm a noonish type thing, 4 pm - 7 pm, a early evening thing, then 8 pm - 9:30 pm a ...more >>

I am trying to make the datagrid component have a horizontal scroll. Because it does not have that option I put the datagrid in a movieclip (mc_grid) exported it for actionscript with the name mc_grid. Then put a scroll pane on the stage with the scroll content = mc_grid. Now everything looks ...more >>

I have a routine that is called for a bunch of movie clips in my flash movie. Each time this routine is called, I create the movie clip and I assign a function to that clip. Then this same routine gets called and another instance is created and I assign the same function to the next clip. ...more >>

Hello all, I've got a problem. I've got a button that is basically telling it's parent movie clip to go to a certain frame. There are 3 other MC's in that button's parent that need to be sent to a certain frame as well, but they're not present in the timeline at the same time the button in...more >>

Hi, I imported a music to the library> right clicked> linkage> exported for action script with the name Xmusic At the first frame i wrote: my_button.onRelease = function() { my_music = new Sound() my_music.attachSound ( "Xmusic" ) my_music.start() } ...more >>

Anyone know of a simple way to do this? I'm loading a text file into it, and I want it to auto size it's self... For instance... 150 px wide but auto set height as needed...?...more >>

Hi, is there any way in flash to check whether the file exist before loading the swf, with loadMovie("url"); ...more >>

Hi--I'm trying to populate a V2 combobox dynamically, but instead of displaying all values, it only shows the first one and the drop down feature doesn't work. Basically, I have a string in which each letter represents a color to be displayed in the comboBox. I'm using a substring routine th...more >>

I'm trying to detect when the cursor is outside of a certain area, but I don't want it to look like they can click on that area. I have a map with a bunch of regions, each reagion will play a movie clip, some will be the same movie clips some will be different. I can't use onRollOut, beca...more >>

How would I go about adding flash to my website. I know this may be very beginner, but can someone please help!...more >>

Hi all, I'm having a strange problem in flash. I'm doing a simple loadMoive command to load a .jpg into a named movie clip. It works fine locally but when I go there over the web, the images will not load. I've tried hard coding the image paths- no dice. The visibility prop...more >>

I have a Click tracker that calculates a formula upon fuction calculate. This works fine in a regular flash document However I need to bring it into a Flash form application with screens. I cant get the fuction to work when I do this. The script is attached to the timeline on the screen....more >>

I have a flash app to allow the user to change the colors of objects by combo box. I have also created a print button, to only print frame 2. My combo boxes are on frame 1. When the user prints, the values(colors) are reset because the app goes back to frame 1. I want to know if there is a...more >>

Hi I'm trying to make a button to change the language of my movie texts, I have 5 movies and I want something to switch the text to english or spanish. When I load the other movies how do I make them to get the information from the main movie to know if the language is in english or spanish...more >>

I am passing the variable "Occupations" into "myFieldName" in the function below. I want to have the last line pick up that variable and execute as "Occupations.addItem(whatever, whatever);" Anyone know how to do that? :) function AddItems(myFieldName) { for (i=0; i<NumItems; i++) { ...more >>

I've made a simple test but doesn't work. I've been looking at it and I don't understand why doesn't work. I've put a button on the stage and added the Alert component to the library. Then I added the function to the button: on (release) { getURL("lloret/home.htm"); } When the button i...more >>

I am loading movies into other movie, etc. There are several components involved, etc. I have a preloader that works fine in other files. The problem I have is the following. When you click the next button for the next section to load, it sort of stalls or delays for a few seconds before e...more >>

HI, Quick intro... New project, got to load external variables, (ie: text file), to a text field that is inside a movie clip... No way around it... text field variable = "text" mc="arrow"... So; My code,,, [Q]loadVariablesNum("text.txt", "0.arrow.text");[/Q] but that's no good, it...more >>

I'm working on a presentation for a CD in Flash MX (v6) that will be compiled to an executable (.exe) application. The flash movie will auto-launch when the CD is inserted and run. When the presentation is over I want to add an option "QUIT" to the menu that will quit the executable. Is this ...more >>

I am desiging a 2D scroller game, I am running into the problem when advancing to the next level( which is a seperate scene) movie clips are remaning on the stage. Is there a clear all function or removal technique? thanks ...more >>

I am trying to get my screens to go to the next page once the sound is completed. I have tried positioning an on(load) or on(reveal) clip event on the slides actions telling it that once the sound is completed gotoSlide() and i specify which one. Help would be very appreciative! ...more >>

Hi, I am fairly new to flash and for a college project I need to creat a media player. I have the player fully working except for one annoying peice of scripting. When a song is started it plays through even if a button is pressed to start a new song. The second song simply plays over the to...more >>

Is there any way to use the RollOver & RollOut commands without using a button? What I am tryin to do is create a button that rolls up to reveal another menu and when you move your mouse outside of an area the button then rolls back down to cover the other menu. I realize I can do this by ...more >>

my situation here is whenever I create a preloader on the first frame it took a while for the preloader to show. Usually it'll display after 80% of the overall movie. I noticed the bandwidth profile reported most of size is on the first frame and realized "preload (AS 2.0 Classes Export Fram...more >>

Hello, I am having difficulty writing the code to reference a streaming sound object. The code that does NOT work is: var vo:Sound = new Sound(); vo.loadSound("http://www.muURL/sounds/vo.mp3", isStreaming); Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you Richard ...more >>

Basically, I have an array of data coming back to me, and I need to be able to do something different to every other array node element. I'm duplicating my movieclips on the stage from an array and would like to be able to do two columns of movieclips, based off of the array. So, I would like ...more >>

Well, I finally finished my board of news dynamic, but when it reaches the last news it stops. has a anyway to make a loop? when it reaches the last one it backs to first one and on and on? -- Jefferson Teixeira ColdFusion Developer www.companyweb.com.br ...more >>

Please Help ! At the moment when my movie calls an external swf, the swf tends to land where it wishes. How call I better position an external file within my flash movie. Regards, Peter...more >>

Hi, I need some help, how make a comparison with a radioButon and a ListBox element? I try this code but don't work: if ((RadioButton1.getValue() == true) && (ListBox1.getValue().label="dog")) { box.text = "yes it's a dog"; } Can someone help with this? ...more >>

Please can somebody help ! I'am trying to make this text scroll working from a Flash 7 movie... This version is flash 5 ! it works ... [b]Please help ![/b]...more >>

i get this error when i try publish my movie Scene=KysymysHelppo1, Layer=Pohja, Frame=20: Line 9: ';' expected 3pohja._visible = false; Scene=KysymysHelppo1, Layer=Pohja, Frame=20: Line 10: ';' expected 4pohja._visible = false; Scene=KysymysHelppo1, Layer=Pohja, Frame=2...more >>

Hi there Is there a way by using try to catch an error when a function that is called does not exists. If not - how can I know if a function exists or not (with out checking the return value). Thnaks Guy ...more >>

help me pls i have to send variables to a pages Jsp, how i can do it with flashMx...more >>

I have a Flash quiz that when the user finishes I want to send an email with the results which are stored in an array. I am trying this code to send the email: on (release) { getURL("mailto:someemail@hotmail.com?subject=Quiz results for"+firstname+"&body="+output); } When I run t...more >>

My app has a panel (movie clip) of clips that contain other clips - its a set of checkboxs and textFields. The amount of checkboxes and text may in some case become a little too much too render in a full screen so my idea was to use a scrollpane compoennt. However, the scrollpane compoent only l...more >>

I have a mc linked to scrollpane. When I resize the mc the scrollpane doesn't scroll to the end. How do I tell the scrollpane the mc has changed. I've tried refreshPane(), but that doesn't work....more >>

I'm developing an e-comm app that keeps a set of key variables and arrays on the _root timeline. I'm able to trace the value of the .jpg I'm trying to load in--"trace (_root.myProductData[(_root.currentIndex)].image);"--but am getting a "Cannot load <path>/undefined" when using this value in ...more >>

I have been working on this seemingly "do it in your sleep" website all day. I am a newbie but this ain't my first rodeo. First, a dumb question. I just noticed that the back and forward buttons on browser windows don't un-gray when looking at a flash site; are the buttons in the .swf fi...more >>

I'm newbie to ActionScript. Can anyone tell me how to create a flash(with .swf) that can pop a IE with a specific URL? Eg. When user click a button, and that button will link to another .swf to load a new macromedia page. Thanks in advance! :) ...more >>

my title might not express my question accurately. ... i have an object exported in my library as mvBasicObject which has functions defined for onRollOver, onPress, etc. i have exported it because i use it later to dynamically populate a scroll pane. specifically, if you edit mvBasicObje...more >>

Like how do you let people know that its loading so people won't go away,and also where can i find free templates....more >>

I want to create frames like if i click the button it'll change some parts of the site if you guys know what i mean please help me....more >>