Basically what I am trying to do is I have member buttons and for what ever button is pressed an id# will be sent to the flash movie that loads on the same page than that flash movie than calls a php script to access the DB and recieves it back to flash I have the last part work by calling the...more >>

If I create a clip or text field like this: max_amt = 10 for(i=0; i<=max_amt; i++){ createEmptyMovieClip("clip"+i,i); clipi.createTextField("text"+i,i+max_amt, i, i*2,100,20); } how do I access clip0._x or clip5's value with i's? a cheesy example how do I assign the first clip's ...more >>

I want to link my buttons in my swf file to a page within the that same page as in a navigation bar in a website. I use the on (release) { getURL("http://www.nt-wave.com/index.php", "_self"); } but when i go to test the movie, i get these errors. **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Services...more >>

Hi, I am working on this flash movie that pulls pictures, music and text from an xml file and loops it to go on and on. This works perfectly fine until its running from my desktop. The moment I upload it on a server, it starts acting wierd. As soon as you go the page it loops the pictures a...more >>

Hello, i tried tu use the LoadVar in a class, something like this: THE CLASS class loadVarsClass { var test_str:String; var load_lv:LoadVars; public function loadVarsClass(){ trace("loadVarsClass construct"); load_lv = new LoadVars(); load_lv.onLoad = showText; loa...more >>

I am having a problem with buttons that are placed inside a movie clip. I just read a few threads and discovered that most people believe having 1 scene and using multiple frame labels is the way to go for efficiency. One question I have is: does this increase, decrease, or keep the overall SW...more >>

How would I send a variable from the main timeline into a particular nested movie clip if the movie clip is targetted using a variable? I'm trying variations of: set(_root.alllogos.logoclip[_level0.randomnumber].CompanyID, _level0.companyid); I know that my _level0.randomnumber and _le...more >>

Hello, I want to mask at runtime a movieclip? any good ideas in AS2? Thanks!...more >>

Hey, I want to send out an email to an already known address when i know a user has gotten to the end of my flash movie...Does anyone know how i would go about doing this?? Thanks Matt...more >>

I have a window component that has the content path set a swf file. The swf file is a very simple file with an accordion component and nothing more. The component instance is call toc_acc. The swf file is toc.swf Any idea? I create the window component in action script as follows ...more >>

Ok, i built drop down menus in my movie for navigation, however the buttons inside my drop downs won't move the movie to another scene. I tried the same thing using the same code(nothin special, just on(press) { ) ...more >>

Hello, I want to publish a Flash movie as an *.exe. How can I change the cation in the title bar from "Macromedia Flash Player" to another title? Ren? ...more >>

I need to learn how to setup up a list in a txt file and then import the contents of the variables until i hit the end of file. Does anyone know any syntax for eof's?...more >>

Hi all, I have created a timer designed to reset a program if there is no activity after " " seconds but it does not seem to be working. Below is the code. This is a project I have to have finished ASAP and it is the one thing holding me up. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, ...more >>

I'm trying to work with collection and I followed the exemple given in the "Using Component" guide. i.e: [Collection(name="LinkButtons", variable="__linkButtons", collectionClass="mx.utils.CollectionImpl", collectionItem="ButtonC", identifier="ButtonLabel")] public var __linkButtons:mx...more >>

can someone help me? (again) I saw this tutorial way back when, that would make the screen shake... It was awesome! but I havn't seen that in along time, and was wondering if anyone knows what im talking about, or knows where I can find the tute ...more >>

Hi! I want to load dynamic image in my swf and also while loading i want to show an animation of loading progress bar... Any help would be appricated. Thanks, Erphan B Rajput...more >>

When I try to use this code to spin objects; for (i=1; i<=10; i++) { iconleft._visible=0; duplicateMovieClip(iconleft,"iconleft"+i, i); b = this["iconleft"+i]; b.gotoAndPlay(i); eval(eval("iconleft"+i)+".d") = i*36; } I keep getting this error message; **Error** Scene=game, l...more >>

I have been working with the menu bar and can change every color and font except the main bar that is the default grey. I have looked on google for hours and have read forums and tutorials. I am looking for some actionscript examples. Here is the actionscript that I have used to change the fo...more >>

I am trying to load some variables from an asp script and I don't think they are going. the asp script when run alone shows in the browser: itemID=item_1,item_2,item_3,item_4,item_5,item_6,item_7,item_8,item_9&stat=d one so there should only be two variables: "itemID" and "stat" correct. t...more >>

I have a movie clip that tries to check if the user clicks with the movie clip in a triangle that can be a movieclip, graph etc. it doesn?t matter what kind of object it is since there is no code on it. The problem is that the triangle has a box around it that I don?t want to be included in ...more >>

I know this is painfully obvious but I can't figure it out. When a user clicks on a button, I want the button to stay on the 'over' frame as an indicator as to what page they are on. I tried mybutton.gotoAndStop("over") but that method is just for movieclips, correct? Anyway, any help is gr...more >>

When opening a .swf as a new window in IE, the blue title bar text defaults to the directory location of the .swf. I have seen examples where this title bar text immediately changes upon opening to a revised text message (title). How is this accomplished? ...more >>

I have a dynamically generated textfield I want to use. I have tried everything but somehow some special characters generate small squares. My text uses an e with two dots above it. Somehow -whatever I try- this symbol is 'blank'. Any suggestions? http://albartus.com/motas/ ...more >>

I need to load an external movie into a child slide named "formular1". How can I do that when I already created an empty movie there? Thanks a lot... Marlin...more >>

This only my second Flash site and and it's finished except for 2 things. #1, I used loadMovie for 3 of the pages which have scrolling thumbnails. They work fine in the original swf, but when they are loaded into the parent movie, the thumbnails don't work. The script I used is attached b...more >>

Hello, My current movie uses a lot of movable objects along certain areas simulating mechanical movements of components of a device. What now turns out is that the customer uses this application with the zoom function of the flashplayer. That's just fine as very much more detail becomes v...more >>

I am loading text from an external text file in a dynamic textField, but every time the movie enters the frame that loads the text, a line of extra text appears first, like: _level0.mc01.chapMid, mc01 is the name of the mc where chapMid is the dynamic textField in it. Anyways this line of text...more >>

Maybe a stupid question, I have 4 arrays I get from a txt by using a movieclip in timeline: onClipEvent(load) { this.loadVariables("data.txt"); } onClipEvent(data) { titulo = ttitulo.split(","); n = tn.split(","); fields = tfields.split(","); links = tli...more >>

Ok, I will breifly explain the setup that I am trying to achieve. This is for a video game website, and the setup is that a dynamic image for the newest game review is loaded into the web layout, and there is a yellow overlay on top of the image on the right side of the image, over which the...more >>

Hi everyone, i am trying to comunicate my embed flash movie with Internet explorer browser and it is very hard at the moment. The fact is that I want to press one button in my flash movie and then going back to the previus page in my internet explorer browser. For doing that, I am wri...more >>

Hi forum, I want to clear my screen before exicuting the code in a particular frame. Can it is possible through scripting?...more >>

G'day! Ive tried to kreate some kearning effects in flash by keyframing them. I assume you know what i mean by kearning. Its the letterspacing and it can create a pretty neat "zoom" effect. My experiments with keyframing whernt succesful since Flash dosnt seem to be able to animate the...more >>

hello everybody, i run a exe file at the fullscreen and i want at the end of this movie(means last frame of this movie) one html page will open.how will i do it.plz. help me.thanks.......more >>

Hey everybody, Me and my team are stuck, so I thought I'd come here for troubleshooting advice. We have a swf file that goes and gets an xml file from the server. The swf file is referenced in an html file. That html file is sitting in the web server's main directory. When we open that...more >>

hi i got a player back controler built by my own, instead of using MX components, to control play, pause, rewine, forward, jump back to start, stop of my flash movie, the problem is when i clicked whatever those buttons when the movie is playing, the voice scripting become doesnt synchronize...more >>

Is there a way around this? Using a dynamic text box with a layer mask, the dynamic text is hidden. If it is changed to a static text box, it suddenly becomes visable. This problem aslo occurs with input text boxes. Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone else had this problem? Is th...more >>

How do you create a function that can be reused and its variables reset? I am trying to open a webpage based on the results that flash gets from a database via ASP . Currently each time the timelime is put back to the start of the process the variable in it, set by asp, does not change from wh...more >>