I have two text input components in a flash movie on a page. I want the cursor to be in the first text input component ready to receive type when the page is loaded. How do I do that? I've tried "Selection.setFocus('myTextInput')," but that doesn't work. Am I missing something? ...more >>

Hello... does anyone have a 'system' for this ? three dynamic text boxes one above the other. Lets call them digi1, digi2 and digi3. Each one starts by displaying a one or two digit number. AS on the main line says somethig like: digi = digi3*2; digi3 = digi2/2*4; digi = digi2*2/3; ...more >>

Hi, I know this is simple, but I can't quite get it. I've created a button to move an object (bluebox) on the stage. I want the object to move continuously while the cursor is over the button. I've attached this actionscript to the button, so that I can easily change the speed at which it move...more >>

Hi there, Anyone knows why this ain't workin' _root.indigatortxt.htmlText = "Blabla" + "<fontColor=0x00FF00>" + "<b>" + selectedNode.attributes.label + "</b>" + "</font>" + " blabla."; cheers, vincent (posted before in an other form but I think it is more a script kinda thing) ...more >>

I am creating a multimedia presentation using Flash MX 2004 professional. On screen 2, I have a MC in which following code is there to make some 4 sec delay. stop(); pauseI=setInterval(pauseF, 4*1000); function pauseF() { clearInterval (pauseI); play(); } And this code works fine in scr...more >>

Hello, In the following actionscript I have one movie clip with 2 frames and inside frame 1, a button. The MC has two frames (1 and 2) When testing the code I get a -> "mc1" - which is correct b -> "undefined" - ??? why is undefined The button is available only on the fi...more >>

Am working on a sportsite where the indexpage exists of a flash in which you can choose between different buttons(age-groups) , These buttons then go to a html pages. I now want after clicking a button there first appears a photo fading 0 --> 100 --> 0. Going from 100-->0 the html must become vi...more >>

Hi everyone Im in urgent need of some help with the date object in Flash! I need to set three clocks to a time based on a server side script. The script uses a querystring to return a time for each of the locations In the format-2004,6,29,16,21,13 I ignore the date and set the time to 16:2...more >>

Hi, Small question but the Flash help is frustrating me like crazy. I have a movieclip instance called "popup_clip" in the clip I have 2 dynamic text fields, "popup_title" and "popup_text". Using buttons with on (release) scripts, what is the code to set the text of these fields inside the ...more >>

Hi, In the first frame of my Main timeline, I have fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); fscommand("showmenu", "false"); fscommand("allowscale", "true"); However, I am still getting the full right-click menu (including forward, back, zoom, etc) when viewing the swf file in my web page. Any i...more >>

when I call getProgress within the onLoadStart event Handler, the object that it returns has bytesTotal = 0 if i call getProgress within onLoadProcess, no problems. He graphic also loads fine so i don't there is anything wrong with my test image. www.actionscript.org has a tutorial that show...more >>

I want a text field with a scroll bar. Great, I'll use the textArea component. After spending 1 day trying to figure out how to put text into it, I finally get it to work. Next step is skinning the component symbols. Oh that should be easy.. oh wait, the symbols are not in the library! I ne...more >>

I would like to use a movie clip for a button, and be able to jump to specifc frames when rolled over. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it so that my cursor behaves properly as if the clip was a button? Thanks. Geoff ...more >>

<< tried to post previously, but didn't seem to post >> All, I have tried researching this problem and have found no solution. Question is, is there a way to get the path of a button (or movie clip) from _root? eg. _level0.movie1.MovieClip2.MC3.button . I am working with arrow key navi...more >>

I made this video player. I want it to work pretty much like an embedded QuickTime player. The problems: It makes a chirping sound when on pause and it loads all at once instead of popping up and showing the load bar. To see the files, please go to http://www.jugglegood.com/outside/video_lo...more >>

All, I have tried to research this but I have not gotten anywhere. Question: is there a way to determine the path to a button that is within a series of movieclips on a stage (eg. _root.Movie1.movie_1.mc123.targetButton) from the _root? I am working on arrow key navigation where the butt...more >>

Hi folks, I'd be very glad if someone could enlighten me on this eval-issue: I've got clips (named aa, ab, ac, ba, bb, bc, ca...) inside a clip called zitate_matrix. From _root I want to call "gotoAndStop(1)" for these nested clips. When I hardcode it like _root.zitate_matrix.aa...more >>

Hello, How can I get the width or height of the dyanamically loaded JPG file? I am using loadMovie Thanks Naseem...more >>

Hello, I am having problems with dynamically generated movie clips in which, besides other items I placed a button For some reason that I am not aware of, the button's event handler is being superseeded by the movie clip onRollOver and onRollOut events. The buttons have different colors for ...more >>

Hi, I am dynamically loading a jpg in a MovieClip, How can I get the _height and _width of the JPG file? Currently it is showing the widht which is of the MovieClip Size (not of JPG). Thanks...more >>

Hey all! wondering if there is an alternative for the following: I have a menu with 6 buttons from where you can choose between 6 different games, each with: on (release) { //sets a variable so that in the end of the animation it'll go to the frame where the chosen game is game=5; tell...more >>