Hi, My name is Michael Shiloh and I'm the VP of Engineering at MakingThings. Our site was honored ye...more >>

Hi all, i added this code in my mc to build my own context menu, the problem is this: when the heigth of mc is 136 pixels or less the "SETTINGS" item in context menu is disabled!!! That's what I want!!! but when the heigth of mc is 137 or more pixels it is enabled again, i don't use any comman...more >>

I saw a property in IIs for enabling server side script debugging. Can someone explain how to use this feature? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give. I am loading text to a dynamic text field and the percent signs are not showing [%$@!%$ which would display as @!] Any suggestions or escape characters would be great! Plus this text can NOT be html formatted. thx. ...more >>

I have this gallery that is powered by a Image Gallery script from the Exchange, I've gotten it tweaked and working the way I want, but the client wants the first image to automatically load. I can't seem to figure out how to do it? I really need this to work... thanks! Check it out at: http...more >>

Hi, all. I am working on a Flash tutorial that has a narration track. I want the user to be able to "pause" the presentation and then restart from the pause point. It's easy enough to make a button that will stop the movie and another button that will restart it, but how do I pause the *sou...more >>

Does anyone know how the key events work in actionscript? I want to play a movie clip when someone presses (or holds down) a key on the keyboard. But I'm not quite sure how to do it. I've seen this... on(keyPress "<Enter>") But it doesn't seem to be meant for what I'm talking about. Any...more >>

Hello, Given: object_1: 2 layers object_2: 2 layers Both movable objects, just squares for the occasion of this question, positioned on the stage. When I move object_1 partly over object_2 I do want layer "1" of object_1 to be over layer "1" of object_2 AND also layer "2" of object...more >>

I've created a movie clip animation for the advertisement and have an invisible button to trigger the loadMovieNum script which works fine. I want the animation to stop after the user clicks on it though. What's wrong with the code? on (release) { loadMovieNum("LaurasShow.swf", 1); v...more >>

Please help us. We are trying to get a textbox to glow when clicked on (like how macromedia.com has on their search box). We've got it working somewhat when you keydown, but we want it to work when you click on the box (just like macromedia's does). I've attached the document below. Please...more >>

Hey all - Thanks for the help in advance! I have a movie clip on the stage and I need it centered. I have already set the stage's scale to noScale and the alignment to T, however, when I script, only the y coord comes up centered. //get stage dimensions stageWidth = Stage.width; ...more >>

I'm building a flash form-based application. I am attempting to use event handlers in a form screen subclass (i'm new to this). I have a group of button components that are responding properly to a click action - but I also need to distinguish between which button has been clicked to perform a c...more >>

I'm dynamically creating a dropdown menu with list items created from an array. Each list item is generated and positioned correctly when the movie plays. However, when it comes to adding the URL to each list item, only the last item in the array is used. This is especially puzzling since th...more >>

Hi I was wondering, how would I make a highscores screen that stores the top 20 results in order. And also be able to be viewed in flash. Thanks for reading, hope you understand, and hope you answer! :) Dan ...more >>

Here's my problem: My company is making a "room designer" for a client. Part of the spec allows the client to upload new images to be placed in the room, in JPG format. Loading and placing the JPGs is no problem however, they are all white-box encased. No problem, we can just use masks to...more >>

Hello team, Is there any simple way that I can place my dynamically generated movie clips into my scroll pane component...? if so, please suggest me. I"ve already written a for loop for it, but it is displaying only last loop movieclip into the scroll pane. thanks in advance for U r i...more >>

I am working with the menuBar UI Component in Flash MX2004. I am having troubles getting the action script for sub menu's to work. Here is the actionscript i am working with now: var optionsMenu = myMenuBar.addMenu ( "Mike" ); optionsMenu.addMenuItem({label: "Bike", type: "bike", instan...more >>

Hello, I am using a sharedobject reader from http://www.sephiroth.it/python/solreader.php. I downloaded the player and it reads my sol files properly. But if I try to use the source code from the site http://www.sephiroth.it/include/SolReader.phps, then it gives error for some particular v...more >>

Hi, I have two days trying to find out this problem. 256 levels of recursion were exceeded in one action list. This is probably an infinite loop. I'm calling a MX movie usign this code. this.createEmptyMovieClip("myDocMovieClip_mc",this.getNextHighestDepth()); myDocMovieClip_mc.loadM...more >>

Hello. I'm making a basic calculator for my company. It takes a dollar field, multiplies it by a percentage field, and then outputs the result as a dollar amount in a final field (i.e. - user inputs $100,000 in field 1, user inputs 2.0% in field 2, user hits a "calculate" button and $2,000 p...more >>

I have a button within a movie clip. When I test the movie, teh cursor flashes from pointer to hand when over button. Why? ...more >>

Hi there! I have problems using indexOf. I wrote the following script to test how indexOf works: SSR = "12345 xxx" SSA = "test test test"; if (SSR.indexof(SSA) != -1) { trace("Found!!"); } else { trace("No Entry!"); But when I run this example I get back: "Found!".... ??...more >>

I have been attempting to pass a variable value from a Flash movie to the ASP page that the Flash movie is on. I have been successful in that once I refresh the page to itself, the variable is received by the ASP code. The problem is that it always opens in a new browser window instead of the ...more >>

hello all, I am loading a swf file into a flash movie but for some reason if I load it into a target movie using _root.pholder (pholder being my instance name) part of the movie does not load. but if I load the same movie into a level the whole thing is visiable. whats the deal? -marc ...more >>

I cannot get .url towork with text format. Does the text have to be htmlText or will url override? The behavior I get is I can see the text but it is not clickable. Does someone know a link to an example of creating text and having it linkable? ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem in communicating between levels in my flash movie. It has got two levels.On _level0 is the steps.swf, containing a movieclip with labelled steps. On _level2 is sound.swf, containing a movieclip which is a sound object with streaming voiceover, with volume controls. Now...more >>

Hi all, I have a flash (exe) file with a button that I would like to open an external folder. Can any one please tell me how this is done? Many thanks in advance. Newton...more >>

I have created a cple of textfields that are not required after use, whats the delete function?? Im cleaning up to move to a new frame, and in consideration for memory overhead have gotten rid of most of the objects and vaiables but cannot remove two dynamically created text fields, they are i...more >>

I have 3 mcs, I need to check if the current frame of one mc is at frame 2, if yes then send the other two to frame 1. thanks. ...more >>

Hi, Ive had a look at some previous posts and seen answers btu have been unable to implement them. code Ive got is here: chosenData = new Array(5); test = chosenData.toString(); this.onEnterFrame = function() { while (test.indexOf("undefined")>=0) { i=0; chosenData =...more >>

Hi, I am working on a project in director including SWFs. I made a simple function that send variables from the swf to director. It works for 2 variables, but as soon as I want to send 3 variables flash tells me it does not work because I have to choose between post and get...... Here is...more >>

Hey I am still kind of a rookie in Flash and I am having problems with changing the menuBar color... I can change the drop down boxes back ground and the font by using: myMenuBar.setStyle("backgroundColor","0x6699FF"); myMenuBar.setStyle("color","0x0000CC"); but i can't change the def...more >>

Hi, I would like to trap F3(search) and F5(refresh) keys for web browser application. This is a sensitive application so we do not want for example F5 key to undo all the work done or F3 to mess up the layout. Is there a way to trap these keys from action script when the flash movie is focused...more >>

I have a load of code written in MX and all works fine. When i open the file in MX04 and the publish setting are set on flash player 6 it all works fine but when i set it to flash player 7 a big old chunk of the code don't work. As far as I was aware anything authored in 6 should be fine in 7 ...more >>

Good day, I have a movie that has 2 sound effects. One for a button over and on for a button down. The problem is I can't give each sound a separate volume setting. I am controlling each sound as follows: this.slide = new Sound (this); this.slide.attachSound ("slide2.wav"); this.slide....more >>

Sounds like some form of code... It is like HTML or PHP? Do I need to know actionscript to make simple Flash buttons and splash pages?...more >>

Okay, I need to say a few things first...could someone please rewrite this component to work for flash mx 2004 because the component that is part of the Flash Component UI set does not work. Next, the problem I am having with the component is as follows. I am using an email form in a fl...more >>

hey everybody! i got me some input text fields in a movie. i don't want to allow users to use the enter/return key to create carriage returns. essentially, i want to completely disable the enter/return key. i'm trying listeners to no effect. any suggestions? rtf. ...more >>

hi all, this may seem a silly question, but is it at all possible to pause a dynamically loaded MP3? thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have a movie which contains 500 buttons, named 'b1,b2,b3...b500' (each of them are shaped differently so they can't be created dynamically). Each of them need to be switched on or off, so I'm trying to tell which of the 500 buttons is switched on or off so that I can apply a fade up ...more >>

Hello, I a have a problem and I really need help. I`m using to keep open a submenu when the page is refhreshing this : menu.swf?page=info Only the menu is in flash, and is working very well for PC but the submenu is not openning for MAC users. Any clue ? Please adivice ! ...more >>

Find attached a Photo Gallery I created. This photogallery reads in an external text file that does the following: Creates several arrays that do the following: - An Array of category names for the comboBox to display - An Array of data names for the comboBox - An Array of pictures to d...more >>

Any other solutions available besides using: YamzBrowser and FlashCFM.com file uploading? (they don't work very well in my system - and I'm using JSP at the moment with Flash)...more >>

I'm having a simple syntac problem. Can anyone tell me the problem: I have 4 movieClips with the names MC1, MC2, MC3,MC4. I am trying to load external movies in to them like this: for (var i = 1; i<5; i++) { _root.MC.loadMovie("flash"+i+".swf"); } I think the problem is wit...more >>

Hi everybody. Can someone help me to solve this problem : [USING FLASH5] For doing simple : - an input text named 'test1' - an action script like this : on (keyPress "x") { _root.test1 = "123456789"; } - the user enter 'abcd' in the text box - the user press 'x' - the text bo...more >>

I have a global array that I need to compare with a button instance. Currently I am attempting to do it this way: if(_global.arrWrong[2] == wrong1_btn){ yAnswer_txt.text = "MEX Q5.00"; cAnswer_txt.text = "20.29XD"; trace("Your Answer is " + yAnswer_txt.text); trace("Correct Answe...more >>

I'm trying to get my movies to stop... but they just keep looping... I'm creating graphic for the library that are animated with tweens... but they just keep looping over and over... how do I stop them? ...more >>

Is it possible to access a movie clip's width parameter from action script? I'm a experienced programmer, but new to Flash. I am creating my first project for use on the web. I have a photograph that was turned into a movie clip, with an instance named pan_1. This was placed in the first frame...more >>

need help. i have a problem on how to set a button to move 10 (or maybe more) frames forward..it kinda fast forward button. if we are using the normal scripting it'll move only 1 frame forward... btn_fwd.onPress=function(){ _root.my_clip.nextFrame(); ...more >>

Hi, I am trying this simple code on frame 1 of a movie: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("loader", 2); _root.loader.loadMovie("animsequence.swf"); _root.loader._visible = false; The movie loads, but it doesn't it is still visible. Know why? Thanks! ...more >>

I have a tricky one here.......... Attached you will find the files I am working on Here is what each file does...... Main 3.fla represents the main website I am designing.......... Upon entering (following an example from Kirupa's website - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader...more >>