I am working on my first flash site and am having a couple of problems. First, when i test my movie all of the links work as advertised but after I export the movie the "Portfolio" button sends me back to the intro frame. I have coded all of the buttons the same and use the gotoand play frame ...more >>

Hi, It's possible to do that? I want to create a button with a dynamic text field inside it and change the name dinamically. It i do the following: button_name.variable_name = "my text"; don't work. any ideas? thanks! nacho...more >>

Hey, I just discovered a few weeks ago that the good 'ol boys (and girls) at macromedia have bundled a tool called 'Flash Paper' with their contribute package. My team and I made something strikingly similar to this a few years ago but we were having an issue with printing multiple documents a...more >>

I have an application that I am developing that I need some help on. Basically, I am querying a DB via Flash Remoting, outputting the returned query into a scrollpane, and now I need to be able to attach a button to each movie clip within the scroll pane. The issue that I'm encountering is t...more >>

hi, i've got a little problem. i've got a movieClip generated by a createEmptyMovieClip. this movieClips alpha is set to 0. with an interval it fades in all 100 ms by 2%. that all works fine. the only thing is, there is a textfield in this movieclip generated by a createTextField. th...more >>

anyone know how to edit the listbox component? the original listbox will scroll upon click, how do i edit the script that when i rollover hit are, it will actually scroll instead of having on mouse down? ...more >>

I have a button that moves on the screen from left to right . This is a simple motion tween. I have this button initially invisible, hence the button is alpha 0%. I want to make this button visible anywhere along the motion tween. So when my event takes place that I want the button to...more >>

i want to use the getURL method to launch a html, but only if it is not open already. is there a way to check if a html file is open or not? thanks DD...more >>

hi, I am working on this project that creates a flash movie player with the ..swf files that I already have. my problem is that I need to some how create main .swf file with all the names of .swf files that I am going to play on the left hand side and the actual movie play with button(play, ...more >>

I have a very strange problem when dynamically loading clips. If I leave out this._width = 20; and this._width = 20;, all movies load fine... however, with those lines present, some of my images load fine, while others don't appear at all (I'm loading those images in a grid, in a custom made...more >>

Currently I have three swf files, each containing a number of buttons, inside of a Dreamweaver html file. Each button calls up an html page. The linking between the swf buttons and html pages works fine. My problem is that I need the swf file to know what html page is loaded, and keep the...more >>

how to minimize a projector file?...wat AS should make it work? i tried fscommand "minimize" but its not working...the action is to be given on a button ....please help.. thanks in advance tanvi...more >>

Hi, I tried about everything in Flash MX2004 Professional to implement required fields. I had no problems doing this with Flash 4 but with Flash MX 2004 it just won't work. Im using this action script : on (press) { if (naam ne "" and adres ne "" and postnr ne "" and woonplaats ne "...more >>

Can anyone direct me to a tutorial or paste in some script of how to do a preloader like the one on the following website? http://www.gridplane.com/ Cheers, ? iota....more >>

hello everyone, I would like to publish my flash with the parameter "wmode=transparent" in the html. But I have one problem: buttons and input text fields doesn't works. Do you know how to fix this bug? thanks, Valerio Text ...more >>

hi, i have a text file which contains the variable and following html text: &clipTitle=<p align=\"center\">Ali G in Da USAiii, Channel 4/HBO<br>2003,<font color=\"#B5A2DE\"> Kremer & Green</font></p>& this loads into my movie fine, i'm trying to display it in a dynamic text field like so...more >>

Hi everyone, I have attached mainmovie1.fla please check it and reply me. there is down movieclip which i want to stop on specific location like up movieclip. up movieclip is working ok. there is on marquee movieclip also want to work like marquee tag in HTML. Please help me. ...more >>

I've looked through the forums to find a solution to my problem, but I haven't found what I was looking for. I would like to know if there is a way to retrive the name of the html page that loaded the SWF. I know the _url returns the name of the SWF file, but I need the page name that load...more >>

I've tried and tried but I cannot figure out how to enter text into this component. Flash MX was so much simpler with the snapping scroll bar / dynamic text box. Any help would be appreciated. I can find absolutely zero info on this. Even the Ultrashock tutorial on how to use this doesn't even...more >>

Let's say you have clip ("myClip") with shape 100x100 and mask which covers this shape only in one place and makes visible 10x10 area. Script myClip._height should return 10 but it returns 100 - this is real problem! ...more >>

Hi everyone, I have attached mainmovie1.fla please check it and reply me. there is down movieclip which i want to stop on specific location like up movieclip. up movieclip is working ok. there is on marquee movieclip also want to work like marquee tag in HTML. Please help me. ...more >>

can i list local files and directries as part of Flash Listbox component?...more >>

Hi All My problem is i have class file for example login.as, i need to be able to access the controls inside the fla file without passing them to my object, is there is anyway i can do that with actionscript. class login { var login:String; fucntion process (){ // i need to ...more >>

I am looking for tutorials on creating a drawing application that allows users to drawing trig items, lines for example. I have been trying to teach myself how to draw dynamically created trig items, using moveto() lineto(), curveto() etc., in a FlashMX scrollpane where each style of trig can ...more >>

I am using Flash MX2004 to write an Accordian Menu Component which loads data from an external XML file. For each main menu item i want an array to be created which has the amount of elements in the submenu. However, the array are created dynamically when needed. I can create arrays and do ...more >>

The second line works fine so I assume I know how to use an if(){} statement. The first clearly doesn't work but I don't know why. I stumbled across fscommand but that does not seem to apply. if (this._rotation>60) {quit()}; //if (this._rotation>60) {this._rotation+=100}; Thanks, J...more >>

Im having a problem with a class i made, here is the code of the class I am able to create the instance, but when i try to use its methods, defined in the class, everything calculated in the constructor is undefined in the methods, therefore making everything useless, can somebody explain why ...more >>

I am using the latest Flash Player Release 7.0.19.0 and IE 6.0.2800 and I have set my Forms-based flash application up to accept FocusManager. When I use the FocusManager to navigate to another form, IE crashes saying please restart windows if the problem persists. Anyone else have this pr...more >>

Hello All, I'm a newbie in Flash programming.I have a question regarding communication between Java and Flash.I have a framework available in Java.But I need to develop a GUI using Flash using the underlying Java framework. i.e Is it possible for me to invoke methods/instantiate objects of ...more >>