hi: i'm currently working on building a modal dialog component. is it possible to make a blocking function in flash? in other words, I want to be able to write something like this: if (myPromptUserWithDialog("Are you sure?")) { } and code execution will halt until the dialog is ...more >>

Hi Y'all, I am using buttons throughout my movie; some are GIFs used as buttons, some are text with hit area set larger. I am having these problems: On the home page and all the subsequent pages, the picture of Susanna in the upper right corner should link back to the main page or fr...more >>

I don't know what's happening. All's fine working while I preview in software (ctrl + enter / ctrl+enter twice). But when I upload it and see in browser, always error occures with preloader. I even tried 5/6 preloader including the preloader mentioned in bestflashanimationsite.com. See [L=th...more >>

When a movie clip's _visible property is set to false, does flash still render the content of the movie clip? I'm trying to combat lag when scrolling large amounts of pictures, drawings, etc, and to do this i'm trying to get flash to not render the graphics outside of the visible region, the s...more >>

I have been able to create a tree(v2) with checkBoxes(v2) by building a custom cell renderer. However, the check boxes indent with the leafs in the tree. I would like to keep the checkboxes aligned on the left but still a part of the branches and leaves when I scroll. Does anyone know how ...more >>

I do not know how i can use a button to change scenes. can anyone write me a code to send a button to a scene called football with the frame called frame1 ? thankyou James Duckett...more >>

Is there a way to detect when a movie is playing a sound. For example I have a root movie that has background music, from that movie you can load an SWF file into it and view that file. If the SWF file that I load contains any sounds then I want to turn my background music off, otherwise ...more >>

how do i change the text of a label which is located on the RollOver frame of a button?? using Actionscript ofcourse. label instance name = Coords_txt and yes it is set to dynamic thanx // this doesn't work?! how come on (rollOver) { _level0.mcName.myButton.Coords_txt.text = "hello...more >>

[b]HELP ME PLEASE !!![/b] I have tried linking buttons to another scene, i have tried everything... The scene i want the button to go to is called: football The frame i want the button to go to is the first one, i have called that: frame1 although i can change it to original if anyone kn...more >>

I took 20 different text boxes and made each one it's own seperate button so when you rollover the text it changes to bold text. From there I took each of those buttons and made it into one movieclip for scrollable text. Everything was running great until i had to set scripts to the buttons. I...more >>

I know this has been asked a million times... With all the .swf decompilers on the market.. Are there any ways to protect ones Action script source code? Does anyone have any hacks... Using include files or something? ...more >>

Hello, i have this base movieclip (movieclip A) into which i load another movieclip (movieclipB). movieclipB has a function, setValues(), i would like to access from movieclip A. the setValues() function is in movieclip B's Actions layer, however. so my question is: what is the path i need t...more >>

Ok, here's the situation: We have an EXE made in Flash, we also have another EXE made with VB6. The objective here is that the Flash EXE is the main EXE, but there is a link in it that is supposed to open the VB EXE. Ou Flash developer has been trying to find a solution that allows us to do...more >>

I set up a complex map with about 120 navigational elements set up as movie clips. Each one has a rollover command in my actions layer that causes it to go to a labeled frame containing a popup thumbnail image of a building. each element clicks when you roll over it - i dont know how to st...more >>

I need to set an interpage link in a Flash menu. I tried the actionscript get url for "whatever.htm#interpageanchor" but it doesn't work. Does anyone know if this is even possible? How can it be done? I find it hard to believe Macromedia would design Flash without this capability. ...more >>

Does anyone know if this is possible? Could use a shocked Director movie with the BuddyAPI Xtra, but would prefer to keep things in Flash ... any thoughts? -- Clive Green...more >>

hi all ... once again ... thanks for taking a look For some reason this code keeps causing endless loops ... the clearInterval doesn't seem to be clearing. I am also wondering if i'm allowed to call the preloader multiple times at once? that may be the reason the interval doesn't clear. ...more >>

Hi, I have a site www.whitsandbaydivers.com it has a booking form which simply uses the mailto: command to address and subject the email, also the content is partly defined with some information, my question is is it possible to create a more proffesional form that creates a better formatted ema...more >>

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var _global.rsTask = new Array(); **Error** Scene=TaskWidget, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 9: Syntax error. var _global.rsTask = new Array(); Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 ...more >>

Fellow Creatives, How do I tell flash to "skip intro automatically" for my users who've already seen(loaded in browser) the intro? I have this script: if (getBytesLoaded() == getBytesTotal()) { gotoAndPlay("system_passed"); } but it's not stopping the intro from showin...more >>

Hi everybody !!! I have always the same problem when I'm using the loadMovieNum. Here is my exemple. I have a movie(x) already loaded in _level1. If I clicked on another button of my menu. The movie in _level1 should play an animation to quit (example fade out) then after I want ...more >>

Hi Guys, I'm very new to actionscript. Could sombody point me in the right direction to solve my problem. I've created a basic photo gallery that changes when the user clicks a button. Basically this script grabs a .jpg from a folder and displays it, as well as fadeing it in and out. The...more >>

Can i include a buttons inside a mc and fuctions for that buttons. Thanking you MVN...more >>

Hi All, I am using a scrollpane in my application. I have attached a movieClip to this scrollpane. Everything looks ok so far. The attached movieclip is further made of many movieclips. Now once the attached movieclip is loaded into the scrollpane, certain events in the application can remove o...more >>

Hello; I have a series of 8 objects which the user can drag into a bucket. I need to keep track of the number of wrong and right answers. I'm trying to set it up so that if the item that is dragged into the bucket is correct, it adds "1" to the number of correct answers. Otherwise it adds ...more >>

I'm triing to understand the basics of actionscripts but why is it made in chinese. I've got myself the mx 2004 pro version of flash.So i learned to make animations, movieclips, tweening sh..t, buttons ect.... but my farmer brain doesn't get how to link a button to my e-mail adress. tried 'ge...more >>

Hi, i hoope this is the right forum for this, I want to know if the following is possible. We have a Cd thats created in Macromedia Flash MX. This Cd has certain pdf files that get updated quiet frequently. The interface is very simple and the links are used to only point to the pdf ...more >>

Hi folks, I'm a newbie... and have a problem. Basically I know what I want to happen, but I need some genius to convert my lay-terms into action script (mx 2004) or whatever works. Ok, I have a button that I want to smoothly grow when I rollover it. When I rollout of it, it then needs ...more >>

Hi, I know you can set variables on the main timeline from a javascript function, but can you actually invoke a flash function from javascript? Cheers,...more >>

Hello, I'm having a problem using tabstops in an HTML textfield - my problem is that content before the first tab is wrapping onto the next line - even though the width of the textfield is wide enough to accommodate the text (& why doesn't the last bit of content of the line wrap?) - this ...more >>

This is actually a Flash Remoting question, but fewer people seem to use that forum and so it's harder to get answer... For the life of me I can't figure out why the default responder won't work, but it stops right after it sends the data. I get all the traces up to the 2 variables being s...more >>

Newbie here. When I run flash in "Test Movie" mode, the <Enter> Key always trigger the "play" command and I can't catch it withe the Key.getCode(); command. So is the BACKSPACE. Anyone for help? ...more >>

I tryed to find such topic, but was unable. If simular question was already answered, I apologize. Can someone help me with this problem: I have a button, which in rollover state starts to spin. In rollout it stops. Well, that works just fine, but at the moment I remove mouse from it - it...more >>

Hello Friends, I am strugling on invoking the Function using Button Component .... Let me tell you what i am doing.. For the instance of the Button I have the following Code in the Actions Panel.. on (click){ doRecord(); } My doRecord() function is mentioned on the 1st frame o...more >>

I have a flash document where there is a line that follows the mouse on the x axis between 50 and 490. When the clip is following the mouse, the buttons that i have on the stage are then disabled, and no longer are seen as instances of buttons. Is this a problem with my coding (which it most ...more >>

Is there an on click action that will advance the timeline to the next labeled frame, regardless of the label name?...more >>

I created a slide presentation using "Create New - Slide Presentation" document type. Suppose the movie clip name is "slide". slide.html works fine; slide.exe works fine. But I can't make slide.swf working if I directly run it or try to load it into another Flash doc. All the slides are j...more >>

I need the user to enter one-two digit number into each of four input fields, then display the average of those numbers. Can anyone help me?...more >>

Does the Asfunction work with the Text Componant in Flash mx2004? I am using an external Htm file where the Href is in, but she no work, is this a limitation with the componant? pleeeeese help...more >>

ok im making something(flash 5), i have a clip that tells the main timeline to move to the next frame when the enter key is pressed: if (Key.isDown(Key.ENTER)) { _root.nextFrame; } this is placed on one of the movie clip's frames. it all works fine except for one thing, it always...more >>