Hiya, Am very rough on Actionscript - trying to make a system where my movie remembers whether to play or stop from page to page. So far I've got: Frame 1: local_data = SharedObject.getLocal("moviecontrol"); if (local_data.animate="off") { gotoAndStop(360); } then a button...more >>

Okay, so I'm attempting to attach 3 movies. 2 start at the same time and I can get those to work fine. The third I am wanting to attach after those first 2 play. I tried doing attachMovie at the end of one of the other clips I attached but had no luck. Is there a way to attach a movie after so...more >>

HI: I just created my first PHP-MySQL-Flash application. The problem is that when I access the app from my browser it the dynamic content (variables generated by php file) aren't showing up. Everything is fine in the testing stage. I can even access it if I goto http://localhost/myfile.swf B...more >>

Hi... anyone know how to do this ? an input text box. The user starts typing and the movie checks to see when he has stopped. So I'm guessing this: an invisible button under the text field that starts a MC on roll over. This MC eveluates the value of the text field every half second or so ...more >>

hi. im making a pre loader bar i want the bar to look like its expanding left.. 2 right this is my code in the first frame iStatus=0; setProperty("pBar",_xscale,0); the second frame setProperty("pBar", _xscale, iBytes); text=iBytes add "%"; third frame if (iBytes<100) { ...more >>

Hi I have this code: var myvar = new LoadVars(); myvar.action = "getSlides"; my problem is that I need to set variables for the LoadVars object dinamically, like for example var mytestvar = "action"; var myvar = new LoadVars(); myvar["mytestvar"] = "getSlides"; I thougth the ...more >>

Is there a way to build a pdf-file from within flash? I have different data that I can presented in a nice paper-like way with flash. My users however expect a pdf-file?...more >>

I have an acoordion on the stage. The first child is added by default, other childs the viewer can add childs dynamicaly. The actionscript in the movie that is presented in the childs is run immediately when the new child is created. I have tried the following : var ChildIndex_nbr:Numb...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm building a dynamic gallery in MX 2004 w/ AS2. As part of my transitions when a clip loads, I need 4 copies of the loaded jpg (the effect is going to be something like the galleries at www.eccentris.com). I don't want to eat up four times the bandwidth though. I w...more >>

I just upgraded from Flash5 and I have a dyanamic text field mc in an animated mc and am using: loadVariables("text.txt", "/my_tf_clip"); But it isn't working...how do i get the variables sent to the clip? I think i have a brain-cramp ;-) Thanx in advance..... Matt ...more >>

has anyone any ideas as to the way that one connects 2 computers so that flash movies can communicate with each other.By this i mean on a LAN not the internet.I can get 2 movies to interact when they are on the same pc but not when i network 2 together using windowsxp network. Any help would...more >>

I am trying to trigger a screen with a selection made from a combo box. The name of the screen with the combo box is DanceClasses. Right now, the combo box has the following selections available: Florida & California. I am trying to figure out California right now. I have created ...more >>

Is that possible to script something that dynamicly create a circle or a square of color. This shape of color allow the user to pass the cursor over it an choose a color just like any software (Flash, photoshop, illustrator). I want to do it in ActionScript. Se this site : http://www.inany...more >>

Hello, When I pass the value "chevroletinstance" to the myinstance parameter in this function, the function doesn't recognize it with the event handler methods: myinstance.onRollOver = function() { ... The first four lines inside the function work well -- that is, when I use attachMovi...more >>

Hi everybody I've got a flash site with an email form which calls a php script. Up until recently it worked fine. I changed the php script slightly and it stopped working - so I reverted back to the original script, but it seems to remain broken. The odd thing is that I have a dynamic text...more >>

Can variable control alpha or color of a movie clip? ...more >>

Can variable control alpha or color of a movie clip? ...more >>

I have a SWF loading into an Empty Movie Clip on my main timeline that appears towards bottom-right of screen, along with the content within the SWF off-center from the background The SWF itself, when in Test Movie mode, appears fine on screen The other puzzling thing, is when other SWFs...more >>

how do i find what level in a tree i've selected?...more >>

I am trying to change the menubar component color via actionscript. You can do this currently by changing the tint in the inspector but it seems to be impossible to change it via actionscript. This makes it really hard to make different themes for a website when you can only leave the menubar ...more >>

hi, i have an issue in flash.. see if you can tell me any solution. i have a rectangle movieclip of size 200 x 200 (but size can change) and i have to plot variable number(sometimes 10 or 15 or 18 or anynumber) of smaller rectangle movieclips(of different sizes like 30 x 40 or 50 x 35) on that...more >>

Dear list I need to display 150 thumbnails and the according big images in a flash movie. There's a loader scene where all the other content is loaded in as a preloader. After that there's the main scene where the navigation for all the other pages appears. The gallery page will consist...more >>

I'm having a repeat problem I experienced when I upgraded from Flash player 5 to 6 now with 6 to 7: I am using the following action script below to avoid my intro movie repeating itself each time the movie is loaded ifFrameLoaded ("home") { _root.gotoAndPlay("Second"); } This wo...more >>

I put some code in a "for" loop to adjust the alpha levels of a certain amount of movie clips whose current alpha levels are set to "0". Here is what the code looks like... for (var y = 3; y<7; y++) { this.current_clip = "blank"+(y+1); this.current_clip._alpha = 100; } ...more >>

i am trying to scroll some images accross the screen. with my simple try to just increase the xposition by some pixels the motion is not smooth. can anyone point me to a bit of code that will move images nice and smooth? thanx in advance for your help! judith. ...more >>

Hi, I need very basic help. I have a sombo box on the stage. I have entered my labels (0-Florida, 1-California). I'm not too sure what to enter in the data. For California, I want it to go to the scene Classes_cali. How do I do this? I have no action script in yet. I'm very new to ac...more >>

I'm having a problem getting this Audio Object fade in code to work. Movie Clip name: teaseraudioMC Linkage ID: teaseraudioID Instance Name: teaseraudio1 on frame 1 of main timeline I place: A frame containing the linking Movie Clip and this code in a keyframe in a separate track: te...more >>

I am trying to build a graphically interface for a course booking system. I have created a buton called EmptyChair, and using a loop command have got it to replicate the number of times I want. The problem I am having is that despite the mouse changing to a hand over the image, the events that I ...more >>

Hi ALL, What are the names given to this XML File hierchy? in AS2 ? WITH MX2004 PRO? ------------------------------------------------------------- function sortData(node) { if (node.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nodeName == "galleryname" || node.firstChild.firstChild.n...more >>

i have these sheep that are going to be put randomly off the lefts side of stage but i want them to decrease in size the further they get away(higher) this is what i thought but it doesnt work sheep._x = -sheep._width; sheep._y = Math.random() * stage_height; sheep.size = sheep.size/...more >>

Is there a way to force a negative result/number to be positive? I have the code: this._x = ((_root.MCdoobie._x) + 100) * ((_root.MCdoobie._xscale) / 100) ..I want "this" MC to get its _x value from another MC. The MCdoobie is changing position and scale through a menu-system, but I just...more >>

Hello, I am trying to make a load a set of images into a Scrolling MovieClip and make each individual image into a button using ONLY ActionScript. So far I have loaded the images with no problems using a for loop and createEmptyMovieClip, but am having trouble with adding the action onPress ...more >>

hello, i've created a photo album (is a flash exe), which can load extenal picture and also allow user the add on some effect to the picture. but is it possible that after i add the effect to the picture, i save the picture as another file name and sent it to other user? Thank you. ...more >>

Hi All, I have class called myButton.as which extends MovieClip with onPress function in it. class myButton extends MovieClip { function myButton() {} function onPress() { trace("inside class onPress"); } } In my fla file, I created a MovieClip (mc1) and in AS2 Class of Linka...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to use a loop to show an array of text in various text boxes, the only way I can see of doing this is setProperty using for (i= 3; i < 17; i++) setProperty('shift' + (i), text, shifted_signal); However it would seem I'm not allowed to use text as a property in ...more >>

i have added "arama.swf" into _level0 with loadMovieNum("arama.swf",1); with an event in the arama.swf i want to load "kayit.swf" into _level0. can i do it with these codes :(in arama.swf) ? because it does not work and nothing added on 2nd level. not working code in level1(arama.swf)...more >>

Hi all, I am creating dynamic textfields into a MC using a for loop: for example: for(i=0; i<100; i++){ createTextField("data"+i, i+100, 10, 10, 100, 20); this["data"+i].text="" //data fetched from XML file; } Now I want to access the values inside these MC ie which are their in...more >>

Hi, I create an ASP page to retrive images name from database. How can I pass the images name/variable into Flash? so that i can use the loadMovieNum("DynamicImage", MovieClip); Jackson ...more >>

Hi there. I spent some nights on finding out how to access a variable which is used in an other .swf file, without any luck :( What I wanna realise is setting a variable on true if file2.swf is loaded and checking in file1.swf if the variable in file2.swf is true and if so loading a movi...more >>

Hi everyone I have attached FLA file. I want to be moving this two line continuously. one line(ln1) should be coming from up. and line(ln2) should be coming from down. when both line touch to each other.both must be gone back. this all work must be continuing. Please help me wait...more >>

Im basically trying to make and array global. I have made the array in the frist frame of the main timeline and Im trying to use it through a movieClip script aswell...but with no luck. Is there a way to make an array global so that everything can refer to it....or is there some other way?...more >>

How can I validate an Input box to only accept Numbers, so as to avoid the Nan response coming up ? I thought that setting the character to Numerals would do the trick but unfortunately it only works when I test the scene, but if I export the swf, it stops working. Am I missing somet...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to learn a little flash and have a movie with 3 graphics in it that fade in and out and have links on each graphic. Whenever you put your cursor over the graphics to click the cursor doesn't change to a hand so it's hard to know if these are really links without putting ...more >>

I have a symbol that, when the movie enters frame "x", the symbol moves on the y axis 2 additional pixels. In Director, I use something like symbol.locv= symbol.locv + 2 -- this would continually add 2 pixels to the vertical location regardless of the playhead location after entering frame "x"...more >>