Help please. I know nothing, Im trying to minipulate a var outside of a function. I have a function that onRelease dose this... and outside of the function I would like to compaire the var between two similar functions to do that.. what am I missing? many thanks s...more >>

Please verify this: this.aro_mc.aroinvisible.aroa_btn.onRelease = function() { _root.gotoAndPlay("primera"); } this.aro_mc.aroinvisible.arob_btn.onRelease = function() { _root.gotoAndStop("segunda"); } Why doesnt this control my main timeline? ...more >>

Hi all, I have a bit of actionscript that will load different swf movies using the loadmovie command into a movie clip. I'd like to scale them to fit into the Movie Clip, but in order to scale them I need to find out what size the swf movies are. Is there a way to find out the size of an ...more >>

ok i want to set a variable from one movie to the next, and the value of that variable to be called upon from another movie as the frame to go to in a "gotoAndStop" action. is this possible...to put this variable as a frame location? ...more >>

Ok, this is the last part of the project I have left to figure out. I'm at frame 163 in my scene, and at that scene, a movie clip plays. It goes through the clip, and when it gets to the end, there's a stop action. I need this so the person can advance if they want, or watch the clip again. So...more >>

I have created a custom Component but none of the properties show up in the property inspector. Here's some sample code: [Inspectable(defaultValue="")] [Bindable] public function get MinValue():Number { return(minValue); } Anyone know if this is the right code?...more >>

Hi, I have two embedded swf files in an html page. One swf displays the navigation bar, and the other swf contains several scenes, each scene is for one of the buttons on the navigation bar. I would like the 2 swf files to communicate with each other so that if I click, let's say, the "hom...more >>

I'm tryin to create a rotation of the movie clip which represents the mouse on the stage. But, a rotation like on the Colin Moock's web site in the "action script the definitive guide" section. If you dont know what i mean: the triangle represents the mouse, and depending in which direction you'r...more >>

Is there a way where i can use an external html link to target an external .swf in the root of the movie? ...more >>

is there an actionscript alternative to the 'if () else' statement like lingo has the 'case()' syntax to avoid lengthy lines of 'if else' code?...more >>

I'm importing dynamic text from MySQL into an html textfield in flash. In the translation I'm having php addslashes() as well as stripslashes() when it's read into flash. It works perfectly in html, but flash will not display certain punctuation marks such as '..." The textfield has the en...more >>

Hi, I have asked this on july 16th but I was out of town after and didn't follow up with it. Thank you for all the people who helped. I still could not sovle it completely. The problem is that I have created a symbol with a "glint text" in it. It displays properly on the library preview ...more >>

I am trying to load an external jpg into my movie using loadMovie. But it is only working on certain jpg?s. All the files I?m using are jpg?s and I can?t figure out why one will load and the other will not. pic_mc.loadMovie(picArray[random(picArray.length)]); This is the code I?m using a...more >>

hi, i have a HTML page with a .swf banner embedded in it. The banner has a nav. menu. Is it possible to take part of the HTML code in the page & replace it depending on which menu button is pressed? I'm thinking that instead of having a sep. page to correspond with each menu ite...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to make my own upload system using Flash as front end. I've all working good, but it need to use popups and I don't like it. So, what I want is know is if someone could code me a javascript to browse files in my mac (or pc). Yamzbrowser only works in Internet Explor...more >>

Dear All, I have been teaching myself Action script and I was wondering if someone could give me a more efficient way to do the following I have done a little drag and drop application on one time line with the following code: this.DragObj1.onRelease = function () { this.stopDrag(); ...more >>

okay, i have a movie clip in the library that I am using as a button. In the library its named MyMovie. The instance name is MyMove_mc. Yet, when I add an onRelease it only acts as a button if I use the name that is in the library, it will not work if I use the Instance name. Is that right...more >>

Hi, This problem has just come back to haunt me... Is there any way of turning the ugly yellow focus rectangle off whilst maintaing the functionality of being able to select buttons using the space and enter keys? Setting '_root._focusrect = false' still allows you to navigate around th...more >>

I'm writing a flash preview app that takes in dynamic variables passed to it via Visual Basic. From those variables it loads up a particular image. It loads up fine and variables work great, but my problem lies with the load time of these images (it's loading them using loadMovie). This ...more >>

hi ng, im developing a little flash game for long jumping. im stuck by calculating the "jumping curve" (hope you understand what i mean). the angle doesnt matter, only the running speed before the jump. i have a timer (100ms) which should calculate the coordinates for the curve. so i need a f...more >>

hi, I had made a movie that has a main_picture.jpg which is used as background and has its own effects so I wanted to know if I can use a button which imports an external picture as background and replace the pictures with each other and nothing happens to my movie and this new picture has...more >>

sigh... I'm trying to find a way to dynamically change the appearance of my application, using .swf as source files for the appearance of my buttons for exemple. I'd like to duplicate my base button once it is loaded, yet it seems that duplicateMovieClip won't duplicate loaded Clips... Is...more >>

Hi,, I need help coz i am building a rich text editor with flash, i found some components, but i need an open source example coz i want to make my custom editor, i didin,t find anything useful plz help..! ;) ...more >>

I have a web page with a flash movie loaded on it. I want to be able to click a link that passes a value to the movie and kicks off a function that will load a document. At the moment I have the value passing part working. I can pass a value from a link into the flash movie. I have test...more >>

ive got this situation where i want to my low file size movie to load first and then while it is playing to load my other .swf file which is much larger. the problem is i'd like my lower file size movie to visually be on top of the other movie. as far as i know it is impossible because the fir...more >>

I'm working on a flash demo for my company, and there is just one long scene that goes through all the steps to filling out this online form. I created a button, and I want the button to go to the previous 'section' of the scene, so what I'd end up doing is just having it jump back to a certai...more >>

I'm fairly new to Flash, but I've been a programmer for a long time. Basically, what I'm trying to do is use the Flash XMLSocket component to communicate with a remote server using a binary protocol. I've run into several problems in attempting to do this. First of all, Flash appends a null...more >>

flash MX2004 Professional is the version I'm working with. I'm pretty new to flash. ...bet you never hear that one :) and I'm working on a website that's all flash. I have 2 files right now... my main site consists of a few animations and a button which is a movie clip http://www.grimange...more >>

Is it possible to initiate the browser back button to go back to a previous scene with the flash movie??...more >>

Hello, Can anyone tell me the following; 1) pass a color parameter within a movie clip. I have a MC_fireworks and I want to manipulate the color from the main timeline rather then have to create individuale movie clips (ie. fireworks_white? fireworks_blue). I tried setting up a global vari...more >>

Hello. I've got a problem with a loading progress bar. I've a usual 100 frame movie that relates to what percentage has loaded. When I test it on it's own it works fine, however I need it to load within another flash movie. The external movieclip is targetted to load into an existing m...more >>

below is my code for displaying an xml file on the movie. I can successfully pull off the amount of countries in my xml file a loop through and display the first tags attributes of each country. However i want to display all of the attributes from the tags so the currency and images, etc. will...more >>

the problem... On click of a button, load an external swf (pics.swf) into target movieclip named "myloadmovie" placed in the root of main flash file. Needed is the Percentage loaded of external swf.. i have already placed the percentage loading using bytesloaded/bytestotal in the external swf...more >>

I want to call the following function in which I am trying to alse send it the mc I am trying to do this to (theMovie). The function works fine, but when I use "theMovie" it does not work anymore. Is there a way that I can do this, so I can re-use this function for several different MCs in m...more >>

I have a simple command on a button (release) that should work. If i assign that javascript function to the onClick event of an element in the html code, it works fine, but if i click on the button in the flash element, I get a "Object expected" javascript error. Any ideas? The code looks ...more >>

I have created an intro movie for a CD project. I do not know how to get the movie to play when you load the CD. I am trying to use the action scripts in the first key frame to get the thing to load and play when you drop in the cd. I am burning up a bunch of CDs. Help! ...more >>

is it possible in flash to trace the client machine "IPADDRESS"...more >>

I have a string that I can search and replace a particular word no problem, using the sode below: //**********Code*********** CheckWords.onRelease = function() {//Button name ii = 0; if (_root.TraceWord != undefined) { Word = new String(_root.TraceWord); ContainerWord = Word.sp...more >>

I've tried object._name and object.toString() but at best I get [object object] back and I have no idea what that means. It's got to be something simply surely? Thanks...more >>

I want to show the images randumly which are kept in the library of one flash file on click on one button the images have to come randumly in the swf ...more >>

I seem to have a problem. I am reading in an XML nodename. It's format is <name.name.name> I use it to create a number of objects withing objects but that's not important here. The problem is simple, the string (name.name.name) needs to be cast as an object so it can have it's properties ...more >>

hi all am creating some movieClips , and i want to add some event to this dynamicly created movie i created the MCs thru this: clip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("slide"+SlideNum, 1); now how can i add an event , or let the MC calls a function when its loaded? ...more >>

Hii guys have developed a sample for disabling right click menu (context menu) when swf is played in browser. can be useful only for when there are user intervention required (like in case of intros). I m not sure that this will work fine or not on different OS configs or browser versions. Upl...more >>

Hello all, I am trying to set the color of a textField with a value from an XML. It is reading in fine but not changing the color. This is how i am doing it: function loadProject(project) { with (content_mc) { trace("xml color:" + project.attributes.color); sub_txt.textCol...more >>

some one knows the script for download the file from swf...more >>

Hello, I'm created a dynamic button using only actions scriipt and have loaded a image as a SWF format to retain the alpha transparency layer. The problem is that I cannot attach any actions to it. Here's my code //************************************ function onLoad() { _root.crea...more >>

Is there any way that a flash application can access cookies on the client machine? I need to look at a cookie created by the browser. This has probably been asked already but the search function is not working at the moment. Thanks ...more >>

Hi everyone.. I have Xml Problem in flash , Xml like this <!--sData.xml--> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="big5"?> <ADDatas> <ADData> <Name>Img1</Name> <IMG>02_live_button.jpg</IMG> </ADData> <ADData> <Name>Img2</Name> <IMG>02_live_button.jpg</IMG> </ADData> </ADDatas> ...more >>

Hi all I am wondering what options i may have for detecting if a user has the flash plugin behind the scenes and if they dont it will display an error page showing them where to get it. Any help in this matter would be great Thanks Pixelmagik ...more >>

Hi, hope it's not the wrong forum for my questions, but actually Idon't know where my mistake may be. I've trouble with loading a quiz (built with the template) into a swf. I've got a navigation bar with a button for a quiz and wanna load this quiz into this main movie by pressing the butt...more >>

on click i want to open another swf in the new flash player window...more >>

Hi, Am trying my hands over the XML connector component. I have refered to the tutorial given at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/xmlconnector.html I manage to replicate the tutorial successfully but when I tried with myself found peoblems. Here is the things that ...more >>

Okay i know im a newbie at this and well yeah. Basically i want it to display what ever quarter it is. For example if its Quarter 1. I want it to display Q1. I have a global variable that keeps track of what ever quarter it is. And now i basically want want to add a Q to the front of wh...more >>

Hello, I have a movie with the main content in scene 2, called "main", I have a preloader in scene 1, called "loader". In the loader scene I have this code: loadedbytes=_root.getBytesLoaded(); totalbytes=_root.getBytesTotal(); loadedkbytes=Math.ceil (loadedbytes/1024); totalkbytes=Ma...more >>

I have a scroll pane, with a movieclip insie, the clip contains a square that will grow to the left 1px every 1frame. I want the scrollpanes scroll bar to update and allow me to scroll the complete distance of the newly expanded movie clip. I have tried the refreshPane() but that does not ...more >>

//1st frame attachMovie("mcA", "mcA", 10) ; mcA._visible = false; stop(); When I run the timeline, the movie is succesfully attached and the visibility is zero. Then I add a button, to go to frame 5. At frame 5, I have a button to back to frame 1. When initially at frame 1, then...more >>

The problem boils down to the fact that I'm finding I have to depend on _global assignments & references to get one class to refer to methods in another instead of passing references of themselves via thier constructors. I'm trying to implement a multi-class pattern (MVC) where one class has...more >>