Hi, I have successfully made a Preloader when my main SWF movie loads I don't know how to repeat this Preloader, each time a new SWF loads into an empy movie clip on my main SWF stage, called "screen_mc" All SWFs are loaded when a button is pressed in another empty movieclip on the main SWF ...more >>

How do you set up keyframes and/or just plain old frames in pure actionscript? Thanks. krl...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to do a dynamic "3D rotation" feature for products. The "3D rotation" is actually a movieclip made up of 8 frames, each containing a picture of the product at a different angle. Because I want this to be dynamic, I want to use 8 movieclips instead of pictures so I can lo...more >>

Hello All, I am using the MX components. How do you validate the value of a comboBox in a form. I have4 textboxes and 4 comboboxes. I want the user to select either 2 of the four comboboxes before the form can proceed to the the next part of the form on the next frame. In the validation c...more >>

I am making a mp3 player. There also will be speakers that come out when the mp3 player comes out. I want it to where when someone clicks "play" on the mp3 player, the speakers (which will be on a different layer than the mp3 player) will start their animation. When someone presses stop or pau...more >>

I'm trying to accomplish an effect that is like this: five or six photos one next tothe other, when I roll over one, it expands and the others contract and so on with each one, the perfect example of what I want is located at: http://www.thinknoodles.com and click "the space", you'll see there...more >>

ok i'd say i'm almost a senior-beginner level actionscripter. I'm about to try and tackle an incredibly diffcult task for myself. i can get xml to display. but i have three xml files. one has basically five rows of items. one has 8 rows and one has just 3 rows. three movie clips each one...more >>

Hi, I have an action that loads moviea.swf into the timeline of mainmovie.swf. Inside of moviea.swf I have a button. I want this button to "play" frame 5 of mainmovie.swf.; Is it possible? Could you tell me what action script I need to trigger this function? Any help is trully apprecia...more >>

I have a mainmovie.swf and load homepage.sfw into a container in mainmovie.swf. E.G. Action Script in mainmovie.swf: loadMovie("homepage.swf", "container"); I want a button in homepage.swf to be able to control mainmovie.swf. I have not been successful in getting the action script in hom...more >>

I have created a button in my library - I would like to add an action that would turn certain level in my main scene on & off (ie level 1 & 3 off and level 2 on). Can this be done? I'm using levels 1-3 as my main base level images... ...more >>

There seems some difficulty in sound playing in a exact time. I see someone say even loop a sound in a flash gotsome gap between replay the sound due to sampling problem (I don't exactly know what is the sampling problem). my question is , i want to trigger a sound every 0.1 second , i.e. ...more >>

I am using the treeview component and im trying to change the background color of the treeview from white to a diff color. I know that using the themes you can modify the look of it but the only things there are the arrows and the icons. How can I change the actual background? Thanks ...more >>

Hi - I'm on Flash Mx 04, and I'm using a dynamic text field. I've set it with a text variable correlated with an external text file and all works fine. I'm still kinda a newbie and so I did this by following a tutorial. I made a background canvas for the text etc and I'm satisfied with the who...more >>

I am going to be laying a series of swfs on top of my main navigation in levels 1-5. They will all have drag and drop components. Is there a way to lock inactive levels so that the user doesn't drag and drop a bunch of components they've already positioned in other levels? Would changing f...more >>

I've got a site. it loads the main.swf. inside the main.swf other swf's load when you hit the appropriate button. in this case i'm trying to load the register.swf which has an input box to register your email address. THe problem is the register.swf looks fine if i load it by itself, but w...more >>

Sorry if this is a repost. I am using the loader component with Flash MX 2004 Pro. I placed the component into a movieclip and placed the movieclip on the stage. the movieclip load a background swf file. When i click on a button that is on the stage, i have it load a movieclip and i also ne...more >>

my company would like a slot machine or roulette machine on the homepage of our site where customers could "spin to win" for free tickets etc.... I don't know Flash well enough to build myself. But would like to pointed in the right direction where we could pay someone to build for us or revis...more >>

I'm having trouble with my web site. I have a component that is dependent on a sub component(scroll pane uses scroll bar). How do I make sure the scroll bar class loads before the scroll pane class? I tried #initclip, but it doesn't work in class files. I have no idea what else to do. tha...more >>

here is what I wish to do I am drawing lines via the drawing api and my action script looks like this: this.grp2.moveTo(0, 123); this.grp2.lineTo(22, 123); this.grp2.lineTo(33, 130); this.grp2.lineTo(44, 145); this.grp2.lineTo(55, 160); this.grp2.lineTo(66, 175); this.grp2.lineTo(77,...more >>

hey...is there anyway to stop a movie clip from reloading when it reaches a keyframe in an animation sequence? ...more >>

Hi All, i have a problem with a dynamic text field: I got a list component that each item is loaded from an xml file, when i click an item it loads an as file that reads another xml file that contains a list of images stored in an especific directory, the as file generates the html code to ...more >>

Hello all, I am trying to (all in one frame of actionscript) load a movie and set it to do something when finished loading... I am experimenting with this setup (using onEnterFrame because onLoad wasn't working): function loadProject(project) { proj_mc.loadMovie("media/splash/" + proje...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to do the following (with Flash MX 2004 Prof.): I have a standalone Flash-Projector which generates a lengthy report from the user's input which I want to present as HTML-Page in a dedicated Browser Window (to take full advantage of CSS for Branding and Printing there). The P...more >>

Here is my code: on (press) { getURL("research.html#ult"); } The link works fine, but it ignores the anchor. I've tried it with all the anchors on the site, and none of them work. I know that the anchors themselves are ok though since i can link to them in dreamweaver. ...more >>

I have setup a movie to be 1600x800 i need it to project across a dual monitor setup. When i set it to full screen it only files the main screen and not the other. If i take fullscreen off the projector will span the two, but i get the frame around the movie as well as the menu at the top. Thi...more >>

hi everybody - I could really use some help. I have an application where I load multiple SWF files into a scroll pane. However, I want the SWF's that are loaded into the scroll pane to be able to control that scroll pane that is in the original file. This way I can have links within the co...more >>

I'm working on a presentation for a CD that will only play on windows. I have a media display and media controller that play and flv file. The problem is when I click on one of the 11 navigation buttons then return to the frame with the media it does not play again and the media controller do...more >>

Hi All, This is probably something simple. How can I set the size of an alert message box? I try this but it doesn't work, when I have a long message it looks horrible. var myAlert:Alert; myAlert.setSize(250, 150); myAlert= Alert.show("This is a Test... This is a Test... This is a Test... Th...more >>

i'm loading exteral text file (txt) into dynamic text field. the swf working well on my PC. however when i upload it on web togther with txt file then it doesn't work. text isn't loaded. can anyone help? ...more >>

i'm making a game... and need that if the score is <= 0, then the text would be red, but if score is >= 0, then blue. it goes like this: when a right answer is pressed, then button sends +5 into dynamicTextField, (false answer sends -3). the dynamicTextfields instance name is "asd1", and...more >>

I am interested in hearing about enyone who is using some sort of actionscrip obfuscator, to protect their actionscript from prying eyes. What is the latest versions of obfuscator-software outthere today, is enyone using it, thinking of using it? etc. Thank you for your input, thoughts and a...more >>

Is there a definitive solution yet to the problem of not being able to have effective meta tags / keywords across a Flash website? I understand it is possible to separate each Flash page onto it's own HTML page, but that is far too unwieldy. If I can set up anchors for specific pages in a Fl...more >>

I am creating an example of how an e-mail system works. One of the menus is accessable by right-clicking the desktop. How do I create a button that will react only to the right click of the mouse?...more >>

Hi there, I'm running a site that has some MP3 streams available through a flash player interface. Recently we noticed that our bandwidth consumption soared to 9 Gig... ...A DAY! Tracking this back through stats, it became clear that someone had posted a message on a message board direc...more >>

how do you call a function in a movie clip from another movie clip? ...more >>

i have the following code which works fine. However i can only get the first two tags of the xml file and i would like to be able to display all of the tags in different text fields. geoXML = new XML(); geoXML.load("data/country info.xml"); geoXML.ignoreWhite = true; geoXML.onLoad ...more >>

Is there any way to recognize the cue points already embedded in a video (.avi) by premiere ,in Flash Mx2004 pro? Dont want " Media.addCuePoint()", the idea is to recoznise already embedded cue points in a video file by using adobe premiere. Will be grateful to anybody throwing some light i...more >>

I've a problem with xml tag: each time I close a xml tag, flash put a "," after the text.. for example. <line>this <b>is </b>my text</line> will appear--> this is, my text, is there someone can help me? tnx matteo ;O) ...more >>

I'm trying to let a flash standalone application load an xml file located on the internet. The problem is that the standalone app is running in a company network, which only allows Internet traffic trough a proxy server. Anyone knows how to solve this problem? Please help me out here. Than...more >>

There seems some difficulty in sound playing in a exact time. I see someone say even loop a sound in a flash gotsome gap between replay the sound due to sampling problem (I don't exactly know what is the sampling problem). my question is , i want to trigger a sound every 0.1 second , i.e. ...more >>

I've got a .fla with a MovieClip, myFoo, which is linked with the myFoo.as class file. myFoo has an instance of an XMLConnector in it, named myXMLConnector. In the constructor myFoo(), I want to set myXMLConnector.URL and call myXMLConnector.trigger(). What is happening, is XMLConnec...more >>

Im having trouble with the FScrollBar. It works fine when I type in the text myself...but when I load the text from a txt file, it doesnt scroll. I think its because it determines the scroll length before the txt file is loaded?? not sure. Please help. ...more >>

Hello... At first, I just wanna make Button with getURL function. Then I type this on Action- Button: next_btn.onRelease = function () { getURL(http://www.google.com,_blank); } Then I want to review them, then i got these on Output Window: **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, f...more >>

i tryed unsuccessfuly to make the hit area of a button controled dinamicaly i wanted to make a buttonthat initialy have a hit area and after a rollover event to change the hit area, is it possible? i tryed to make a movieclip in the hit frame(that is present from the first frame of the but...more >>

i designed a movie clip in such a way that one movie clip contain another movie clip(it was necessay due to the requiremnet). but the problem i am facing is when i change the width or height of the parent movie clip then the respective width and height of the child movie clip is also changed. ...more >>

Hello, there. I'm newbie in Flash. Recently I tried to build ActionScript with Flash MX 2004 Proffesional. One thing that I wanna ask is How to make the ActionScript toolbar looked like previous Flash MX ? I mean there's no row in ActionScript toolbar that is just needed to be filled to make...more >>

Hi , I have created a flash file that demonstrates this memory leak. I have a button that calls the onClick handler. This then calls the doXml function. This function reads a file and when successful will process the xml data. Once that is complete it will call anotherFunction(). What I ha...more >>

Hello guys, first post here I have a preloader, which works fine exept for the fact that the total bytes that it shows is highly exaggerated. My final swf file is 262 kbytes, but in the preloader it says 1784. Also, as those are not the actual total kbytes, the progress bar jumps from 100 ...more >>

Hi, I have a frame that is stopped. It needs to load many emptyclips then fill them with my MCs. My problem is after the first clip is loaded, the second one's gotoAndstop command doesnt work. Here's the script. The frame AS: stop(); _root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc1",1); mc1._x=138; ...more >>

i have a MC that rotates using a script--- FIRST FRAME i = i+1; setProperty("_root.my_mc", _rotation, i); my_mc.onPress = function() { setProperty("_root.my_mc", _rotation, 0); }; SECOND FRAME gotoandplay(1); i want when you click my_mc..for the rotation to stop, it does this ...more >>

I'm trying to make a gradient that resizes to fit a browsers width. How do I catch the browser width? Plus, how often do onResize functions fire? Thanks krl...more >>