I have a text box that I am dynacially populating (using flash remoting). It populates just fine when the text box is horizontal and reads from left to right. However if the text box is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, the text box is not populated. Is this a bug - any one know of a w...more >>

I'm building a streaming mp3 player. Everything works great in Mozilla, Desktop player, and authoring environment. IE Explorer, however, does not play the sound. While developing, the one change that is correlated with IE Explorer not working correctly is that the mp3 files are now being...more >>

HI there, Does anyone how if there are any xml/php/mx2004 cms-systems around for flashsite's? cheers, vincent ...more >>

How can I automatically reposition dynamically loaded images so that when they are displayed they are automatically centered within an area? Right now they are always positioned in the upper left of the area. The images are mostly the same size and will all fit inside the defined area, i just n...more >>

Hello, I wanted a standalone non-internet Flash app that uses a database. Is this possible with Flash? Everything I search for regarding databases uses online examples so I'm not sure what I can and can't do here. Thanks for your help! Jeremy ...more >>

Hi all, I have a movie clip, there are a clip with a little animation, inside this clip is another one that contains a tree component, i call it "treeClip", the action script in the first frame of "treeClip" populates the tree nodes readin data from an xml file. At the second frame of _r...more >>

I posted a question, and forum member answered with zipped fla in attachment in his message. Is there any possible way for me to see the attached file? I'm accessing the forum through NNTP (newsreader) - Outlook Express. Thanks Luka ...more >>

Hello All, I have a "tabbed" roll over nav bar that I'm working on. I'd like to have the tab that's behind the current active button to move with the mouse. I don't know where to begin with this. Can someone halp me get started? There is a more detailed explanation here at my site alo...more >>

Okay, this is a follow up (I just can't seem to get it figured out) to my previous thread today... I've created a short swf movie that is a nav banner (with motion) in for a HTML site... I've managed to get each of the buttons to open up the right pages that they match, but they open entir...more >>

I cant get another movie into the main movie at the right position. loadMovieNum("My_Movie.swf", 5); I want to give it the position i want it to be....but it stays always on the top... Another problem is that I want it between some layers to hide some parts what comes out at the bottom...more >>

I have a movie with a sound inside its library that works perfectly (sound and all) when played by itself. The sound is not on the timeline, but is completely controlled through ActionScript. However, when I use this movie as an embedded movie clip inside a shell movie, the movie loads compl...more >>

Hi, when you create a XML object and construct a whole virtual xml file through the functions available in flash, and then send it to a php parser to analyse it, what is the "object" you have to manipulate in the php file ? The FLASH help file says the xml is sent by a "POST" protocole, b...more >>

Hey all! I have a bit of a situation that I could use some help on. It should be easier for those of you with more experience (read: any experience) with event listeners than I do. Here is the basic question: I know it is possible to know when a certain key is pressed down (see below),...more >>

Is there a way to grab the data object from a clicked node in the tree component? ...more >>

Is it possible to hide a layer with actionscript? I'm used to Lingo where I can do this: sprite(1).visibility = 0 Is something similar possible with Flash layers? I've searched the help files & the web without finding this info. Thanks for any input. Kind regards, thomas ...more >>

I have a main movie with buttons that I'm loading external swfs into. In the first frame of each external swf, there needs to be some script that tells the corresponding button in the main movie to change to a graphic and stop at single frame 3. Please help. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi! Is it possible to store an instance of a class in an array? Like.... var person_1:Person = new Person("Andy"); var myArray:Array = new Array(); myArray.push(person_1); Thanx!! ...more >>

I figured out how to make Flash and Javascript open a new window, and the Flash movie temporarily stops moving around while the new window is open. Now, when the user closes the new window, I want to send a message back to the original window and tell my Flash movie to start moving again. An...more >>

i am trying to render html formatted text. works fine when i don't embed the fonts. as soon as i do it doesn't render the text within html tags. example: display_txt.html = true; display_txt.htmlText = "outside (b) indside (/b) blah blah blah "; //...(b) represents a <b>b</b> tag /...more >>

Is there a way, with Flash MX, to check the URL of the current page? What I'm wanting to do is embed the same Flash movie on several pages and make it jump to a certain frame depending on what page it's on. Ex: if(URL == "thisPage.htm"){ gotoAndStop("thisFrame"); }else{ gotoAndStop...more >>

I'm sure this is easy but I'm new to Flash. I am able to display a simple date and time on the screen but would like to display tomorrow's date instead. I am using code which gets the system date/time directly from the pc it is running on. I tried to increment the date which at first see...more >>

I imagine that this is a pretty basic action, but I've spent hours trying to figure out how to do this... oh, and I'm not a coder (obviously): I've created a navigation banner with a small movie that plays (12 frames) when you click on any of the nav buttons (home, who we are?, etc.). Howeve...more >>

Im using the progress bar and the loader components to load an external swf... my prob is that the swf is already loaded when the progress bar reaches 80% and starts playing in the background but instead of seeing the movie i still see the prog bar loading until it reaches 100% is there ...more >>

I am having problems with the Loader.content property in my movie. For some reason it does not know what the content is. I am using the following AS: myMCL.onLoadComplete = function(loader){ rootSlide.regTemplate.nav.loadBar_both._alpha = 0; trace(loader.content); loader.c...more >>

Hi How do I invoke the Enter/Return key on a keyboard, so that it will trigger a button? At the moment my buttons only work when you actually click the mouse. I am aware of this piece of Actionscript: on (keyPress "<Enter>") { } But I am not too clear on how to invoke such an a...more >>

Hi, i'm sure this question would have been asked before, but the search feature doesn't work at the moment. Can anyone help to write a text file from an swf online to the users c-drive!! A link to a good web site or any script would be great, Thanks in advance for any help, Guy ...more >>

Hi Guys This is bound to be really easy for someone. I'm using an effect I found on the net which moves clips around randomly, works really nicely, however, Im having a problem with it when it's put inside another MC. I have a site setup that uses a navigation section which loads the...more >>

Hi! I have this situation: In the move loaded in level1, I have a button that is supposed to load another swf called "00.swf" into level1 and jump on frame labeled "00_ki5": unloadMovieNum(1); loadMovieNum("00.swf", 1); _level1.gotoAndPlay("00_ki5"); When that button is pressed, app...more >>

I have a Loader component loading several movies. I need to be able to communicate to the loaded movie and tell it to play, stop, etc. How can I do that, since the names of the movies are different each time. All the movies I am loading into the loader have a stop action on the first frame. ...more >>

I'm building a three-part movie....one is a menu, one is the main animation, and one is just has a few blank movie clips that loads in the other two. My problems are twofold...and if anybody can answer either I'd be extremely grateful. 1) When I load in the animation, none of my actionscript...more >>

loader.autoLoad = false; loader.content = "intro.swf"; pBar.source = loader; loader.load(); Ok... i have this code a loader a progress bar and 2 probs: My first prob is that the movie in the loader starts playing before the progress is completed resulting not to able to see what is p...more >>

Hi, I'm having trouble trying to randomly load .swf files into a table both initially and then after a given timeframe and would appreciate some help doing this. There is a site that's doing this quite well (www.Fashion.net - the left side 1/3 page tower) however I can't seem to emula...more >>

I'm a begginer in development and I would like to know how to include scripts from ActionScript in HTML page... PS: I m french so escuse me for the mistakes !!!And please use easy vocabulary !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me! I have a simple rollover button with an animation and an invisible button surrounding the animation so that when the user rolls over the invisible button, the movie returns to it's original state. This is my problem: When you move the mous...more >>

for some reason i can only get the text to show up in the first 2 textfields.... here is the code im using.Any help on this would be helpfull. webNames = ["Vidal Sassoon", "Credit Lyonnais", "Krups", "Pantene", "Deutschbank", "Club Medical", "M.Propre", "B2P", "France Telecom", "Siemens", ...more >>

Hi everyone, I want to place a sound file on the timeline and still have control over it. I need to able to play, pause and bring it back to the beginning of the sound. I used to do this with a sound object, but that way it was not in sync with the animation on the timeline. So someone on her...more >>

im having trouble with a simple email script. It worked fine when I was using one .swf file, but now that my website has grown, and im calling that swf file from an empty movieclip container in a bigger swf file, it doesnt seem to work at all. I have looked at my safari log, and have notic...more >>

Can flash read the a viewers screen resolution....and if so is there a way to make my movie scale down or up according to the screen res?...more >>

Hello, I am working in Flash MX currently; I have just started learning Acrion Script in depth so I am not very good at it. I extremely need your help. My project is to make a simple flash file with 4 buttons each opening a link. The client wants to be able to edit/update the links from ...more >>

Hello. I want to duplicate a movie clip at runtime several diffwerent times. And I want to attach a different movie clip/object to the duplicated movieclip after it is formed. which object will be attached is decided at runtime by random method. but I'm not having success. if I give hardcod...more >>

I am using getbounds to find the edge of a dynamically loaded image and create text field to create text that is aligned under it. It is working fine except the images are different sizes and the text field is created before the image fully loads so the text ends up aligning under the origina...more >>

I have a form with multiple input boxes each with the value of 0 initially to start. On textfield.killFocus for each input box, the entered amount in the input box is added to a final total box at the bottom of the column. There are 26 input boxes total and once the user has entered a numbe...more >>

i want to make a small form where the user can type in a word, press a button, and then it displays some corresponding text... like an electronic dictionary. where u type a word, and find the definition. I've seen a similar application on the internet. it's like a mini word processor, but ...more >>

I am dynamically loading JPEGs, and in order to center the images on the screen, I need to know the dimensions of the JPEG that gets loaded. Something like image._width only gets me the width of the movie clip. Perhaps there is a different method of centering an image I am not aware of? I ...more >>

What is the actionscript to make the menus work at the top like they do on this page......http://www.bluetooth.com/about/ I can create the graphics and be able to choose one and have the other set go down while one is up, but i dont know the code to leave it up besided just setting it to 3 ...more >>

my outcome is to have a bar of pictures that are also buttons that move when the mouse moves- from left to right. When you mouse over a picture (button) is slows down. Then you can click on the picture/button and it will enlarge. I created a movie clip that moves the pictures from lef...more >>

Can someone suggest a precise way to calculate the dimensions of a text field needed for a given string, font, and point size? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

I have several arrays on my stage: Item0, Item1, Item2, Item3... And depending on quantity of the arrays, movie clip called "holder" is duplicated on the stage. Mc "holder has two txt fields: "a" and "b". With the following script which is part of the duplication script, i've managed to assign e...more >>

I am relying on the draw methods i.e line,curve to create a movie. But the things I draw do not appear in the correct place. i.e. i draw a rectangle starting at 0,0 and it appears in the middle of the entire document when I run it. I beleive this may be as it is drawing it relelvant to the mov...more >>

I am trying to create a secure login system that has password verification. I experiemented with a Flash TechNote "How to create password verification" but it states in the introduction that this way of setting it up does not provide a high level of security. It states that a truly secure pass...more >>

Is there a way to call Windows API methods using Actionscript? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

Using a variable to suppy the name of a dynamically created text field, as in: variableContainingTextFieldName = "myText"; _root.createTextField(variableContainingTextFieldName, 1,50,50,200,100); How can I use an indirect reference to set the text field properties? (It seems that properti...more >>