I have a list that I would like the user to be able to double-click an item and have an event occur. Has anyone ever tried to do this or know of any tutorials? Thanks! ...more >>

I am totally new to Flash having just been using DreamWeaver for the last couple of years. I had someone make up a flash piece for me and I have used their flash piece which is quite nice, but I want to try and fiddle around with it and create some additions to what they have done. I would lik...more >>

I'm having a problem dynamically adding a view to an accordian pane when the form is tied to an AS class. var child1 = Report_ACO.createChild(mx.core.View, "reportScreen1", {label: "Report Screen 1"}); works if you do it from a onClipEvent(load) on the form. But if you move it to the ...more >>

I want transfer a object data to array. I trasfer to mycombo from UI XML connector binding a XML data The debug panel trace in level0.mycombo a object named __dataprovider. When i trace(this.parent.mycombo.__dataprovider) the result is [object] [Object].... Help... ...more >>

Is anyone aware of any documentation for the Pocket PC components provided by Macromedia? I'm attempting to adapt a flash application I developed with Flash MX 2004 for use on the Pocket PC. I'm having some trouble though since it appears that the Pocket PC components provided by Macromedia ...more >>

Hello NG, i want to write a function, which returns a part of a textfile which the function should load. But i have massive problems in timing. Example: function getmytext(pathtofile){ mytext = new LoadVars(); mytext.load(pathtofile); mytext.onLoad = function (loaded) { if(lo...more >>

Hi All, Can I get a dynamic text in 90 degrees rotated? (not animated but static) I get a blank if it is anything but straight.. (F MX 2004 PRO) Thanks Ron (tg-1)...more >>

I've posted this question a couple of times on this forum but I've never received an exact response. I'm loading a jpg dynamically into a movie clip using loadMovie. I'm trying to show the amount of the jpg that has loaded via the xscale of a movie clip. Is this possible or does the jpg have to ...more >>

i am a begineer in using flash scripts ... i recently came across a web site with a scrolling images, which facinated me.... can any one give me the script to replicate the same and explain it to me..... the site is http://www.calatrava.com/ click on the link "slide show" and mov...more >>

How do I access buttons I have used in other movies? ...more >>

I am creating a drop down menu. I've set up the movie clip for the drop down menu, when i preview the file, and press on one of the buttons included in the drop down menu, nothing happens. I have the buttons linking to a separate movie clip on certain frame areas. Why wouldn't these buttons...more >>

Hi, Im building a website and I have a little problem with the menu. This is the figure: I have a movie1(lolo.swf)and I have a movie2(pepe.swf). I want to load pepe.swf into rolo.swf. When i preview the pepe.swf by itself looks and work great, but when i loaded into rolo.swf, pepe.swf do...more >>

The context is pretty standard, i should think. i've created navigation buttons containing the script: on (release) { navButtonAbout.onRelease = function() { gotoAndPlay(10); }; } hence, when the button (navButtonAbout) is clicked, the movie advances to frame 10 and plays th...more >>

I'm duplicating a linked MC from the library that contains various other settings the user can than play around with. One of those options is to delete the targeted duplicated MC. After the user deletes that MC, other MC's that come after it are moved to fill in the gap left after the deletion. ...more >>

this has probly been answered b4 but i cant find a forum that answers this question say i have 2 movie clips "guy" , "wall" using the arrow keys you can move guy around the screen( i alrdy kno this code).. if i put wall sumwhere in the middle ...what AS would i use to stop guy from ...more >>

I've create a movie clip with createMovieClip action and have loaded a jpg image inside of that clip. Now I need the user to be able to click on that movieclip and go to a specific frame of my main movie. How do i make the dynamic clip or the image inside the clip clickable? Please help....more >>

ok. i have no idea whether this can be done. I want to use the following code: <html> <A HREF="#head" onClick="javascript:window.open('javascript:document.write(\'<html>I like instructions<br>heheh\');','heh','width=200,height=200,location=no,menubar=no,sc rollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no...more >>

When I am looking at my page in the work area the buttons work fine, but when I test the movie and roll over them they do not work. They are the same buttons I used on all my other pages and work fine on those except this one page. What should I do? ...more >>

this is probably the easiest thing you could do in flash, but I need help anyway. How do you make a symbol appear next to a button when you roll over the button?...more >>

Hello, Does this PHP code look correct to you guys? PHP File <? // Enter your email address here $adminaddress = "myemailaddy@yahoo.com"; // Enter the address of your website here MUST include http://www. $siteaddress ="http://www.mywebpage.com"; // Enter your company n...more >>

Hi All, I have a problem with getting info across parent movie clip and child. I have a set of buttons that loads a movie into a loader. that movie has a "this._lockroot = true;" but I want the button to tell the movie clip that a text filed should be a certain name: on (press) { ...more >>

I have customised an intro template, but for some reason is looping all the time. can you tell me how to publish it with only playing once the movie? Thank you...more >>

Hi, I need to know how to send the movie after is done to a web page automatically. Can you help me? Thank you...more >>

Help! I can't find anyway to stop this thing. The clipevent moves the movieclip which is named mymovie_mc (instance) right of the bottom of the stage and keeps going. I have tried all the items following the // but none of the have any effect on stopping this thing. How do I stop this ...more >>

Hey all, I'm not sure if I totally went the wrong route, but slowly thinking I did. I've been creating a cbt for my client that wants pretty much all of the bells and whistles. I'm running into some serious problems like Bookmarking, Printing and logging in with a shared object. I was...more >>

I am using if statements to check to see if a variable has a specific value. I keep getting errors because we arent putting a value and the variable in quotes. However when we put them in quotes they become treated as a string which is not what I want. I are wondering if I am using the proper ...more >>

Ok, i'm pretty sure that this topic has been covered, but since i don't know what this action is, i don't know how to search for it. Hopefully you can help! I'm creating a web site, and i need to have an action happen when i roll the mouse over a picture. so, i made a movie in flash where ...more >>

How would you pause the timeline by clicking on the "Pause" button of the MediaController component....more >>

This is the end result that I?m trying to get to. http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/tln/execnet/index.html --- click on any of the presentations on that site. What I have: 1. I have a Digital move formatted as .FLV 2. I have a interactive presentation that I have made to go with the .f...more >>

Is it possible to open a website within a .swf? I have only just started using components (as our organisation has only just started to support player 6) so I am looking at the window component - is this the right path to be taking? ...more >>

Hi, I hope someone can help this is driving me nuts. I'm usinf Flash MX (Actionscript 1). This is just a test I'm showing you here; if I understand the test I'll be able to understand the actual program I'm working on. I have a single frame movie with two layers. On the top layer I have set a ...more >>

I'm using the quiz templates found in Flash MX to build an interactive drag'n'drop quiz. I used to make these using Dreamweaver (Coursebuilder extension) and javascript, but I'm now moving to flash for many reasons. Using the ActionManager that comes with Coursebulilder, I could easily add n...more >>

I'm pretty sure that this question has an easy answer. I would like for my buttons in my movie to remain in their hit stage until another button is clicked. I know that the buttons need to be a movieclip. How do I write the actionscript? Does anyone know of any tutorials that would help me? T...more >>

I need to print from flash without the dialogue box popping up? Is there a way to hardcode it? Please help...more >>

Hello. I am pretty comfortable with the basics of flash but am just getting to grips with actionscript and was hoping that somebody could help me. I would like to tween an object dynamically. I am planning on firing in a variable that tells the animation where to end so, the higher the number ...more >>

Hi! I am a flash/actionscript newbie looking for beginners tutorials/advice. Basically, I want to create a scrolling text editor in a flash movie. I want the user to be able to type text into a text field and see it scroll along the bottom of the movie. The user should then be able to select...more >>

Using a button I load a movieclip into a blank mc. How can I make this action make the loaded movie to a different frame? ...more >>

I can't figure out why test = 24.5; trace(math.round(24.5)); trace(math.round(test)); outputs this: 25 undefined It was working fine in one Flash document, then I created a new one and Math won't work on variables. Kooky. ...more >>

Hi all! Here is a little question for you experts (I badly need help...): I need to draw some Kaplan-Meier graphs (survival charts, that is) using Flash. Has anyone some experience in such a thing? Does it sound possible to do it in Flash (maybe some maths functions missing)? Any suggestion app...more >>

Which third party tools offers more Multimedia (mdm) Jugglor or Northcode? ...more >>

Hi (again) Can anyone tell me how i can duplicate a movie clip and place it at random places along the 'x' axis so that they then fall to the bottom of the screen individually of each other (i know how to make them fall). I use this script (below) to duplicate the movie clip but the movie c...more >>

Hi I'm working on an e-learning project. I'm creating an application using Flash and ActionScript. I've adapated some code which processes the amount of correct question answered as well as dynamically moving the user onto the next question. When I run the code there is no error me...more >>

does anyone know of an example of a flash app where that a user can sort through a number of jpegs, select the appropriate ones that they would like to see in a slide show, sort the order of the slides and then hit "create slideshow" and watch their custom show play ? ...more >>

How can i do it? Im simple terms please. Basically i want flash to generate links based on an xml file. The links will be pictures rather than text based. Any ideas on how to do this?...more >>

Hi Do u know where i can download/view the ActionScript 2.0 Coding Standards" document? Thx in advance Natalie...more >>

Hi, how to use flash mx components? say i dragged a button component on the screen and now i want to say to gotoandplay(5) how can i say that :( please help me out ...more >>

I have big problem with comboBox. I made FORM with Flash components, than I load that FORM in another SWF in empty movieClip, and I can see combo but when I click on him nothing happens, he doesn't open ?!? Anyone know why ? PS try to make one empty SWF and load in another SWF with co...more >>

heya ll, I am trying to play a frame label that is inside a movie clip i.e. _root.movie_mc.2nd_mc.myframelabel.play(); Obviously dot notation isnt correct for that object, could someone please show me the correct way. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi forum, Can i have a simple code for the flash- java script communication Thanking you MVN...more >>

message="<p align='center'><p align='center'><font size='25' face='anna' color='#FFFFFF'>doobie</font><br>adsad<br>dsasdasd</p>"; where message is the name of a dynamic text box w/ html. instead of: doobie adsad dsasdasd it displays something like: doobie adsad dsasda...more >>

Hello partie people in the place to be...:) This is a very basic question, and I should know the answer. I have a small app that I am working on and I would like to have an mp3 application loaded into one of the scenes. How can I tell it where to be placed on the stage, instead of the defau...more >>

Hi, Is there any way to find out how deep into the tree a particular movie clip is? I.e., how far away from _root it is? Thanks Rob ...more >>

I'm going totally crazy; On the parent site I load a SWF into empty mc with loadMovie action. The swf contains a lot of buttons (accually it is a MC). The code for a MC is; this.myMC01.onRelease=function(){ _parent.empty.unloadMovie("SWF"); } Works fine. But, I've got a lot of bu...more >>

Hi, Im building a website and I have a little problem with the menu. This is the figure: I have a movie1(lolo.swf)and I have a movie2(pepe.swf). I want to load pepe.swf into rolo.swf. When i preview the pepe.swf by itself looks and work great, but when i loaded into rolo.swf, pepe.swf do...more >>