Using this script to provide a auto scrolling interface. Need an area in the center that does not scroll. Also wanted to add the _ymouse scroll too. onClipEvent (enterFrame) { shift = ((400-_root._xmouse)/20); if (((this._x>=1300) && (shift>0)) || ((this._x<=-500) && (shift<0))) { shift ...more >>

I can't get trace actions of any kind to work ever in flash MX 2004! I made sure the omit trace actions button was not pressed. I made a new file, and put a trace in it, still nothing. Has anyone else had this problem? I did a search and somebody had this problem with the trial, but I have the...more >>

I am an Action Script newbie trying to create an interactive flowchart in Flash MX. Each of the steps in the flowchart is a movie clip with a unique instance name. I am trying to create a function that will run when a step is clicked. I want the function to take the instance name of the clicke...more >>

Hi - I have a movie that plays a progressive video. When certain cue point comes it changes a slide (powerpoint graphic). I have the exact same video on a different movie with closed captions. They both work fine when the cue points are listening to one broadcaster, but when I try...more >>

I am currently loading an external jpeg image into an empty movie clip by using the below script: this.createEmptyMovieClip("myImage", 0); myImage.loadMovie("images/main_image.jpg"); The problem is when I view the movie the jpg image is very small. My question: Is there a way to create...more >>

Hi, I need to have a button move the timeline not to the next frame but at least two frames ahead and I can't use labels or specify frame numbers. Is there any way to do this with actions script? here's what i need to do (but move it ahead more than one frame): on (rollOut){ this.myMovieCl...more >>

I have a Flash Nav Bar on my intranet home page with music added as well as a skip/replay button. Since it's an intranet, employees will close and open the browser several times a day. I would like the Flash movie/music to play once per day without having the employee click on the skip butto...more >>

I'm using the following actionscript in a flash movie: getURL("help/help" + helpFileNum + ".html", "helpWindow"); It opens the browser and loads the file correctly, depending on the value of helpFileNum, but opens a fresh window with each new instance of helpFileNum. That is, it will ope...more >>

hey guys, I am using a standard date/time component that I found. I want to be able to have 2 dates displayed. the fiirst being the current date. and the second date being 6 weeks from the current date. Any ideas on where to find info on how to do this?? Thanks board ! ...more >>

I want to develop a modular Flash Presentation where I have a main slide presentation that loads and runs external presentations. So the main presentation is pretty much just a menu. When you click a menu item, an external presentation is loaded and run (loadMovie). But I have a couple of ...more >>

OK, I've got a "Download PDF" button on the stage with no action assigned to it. I've got a pdf called "Instructions.pdf" located in the same folder as all of my site files. In the final website, I want the end user to click on the button and have the file automatically be downloaded to the th...more >>

Hi. A newbie question. I want music to play on load. Which I can set up without actionscript. I also want a play and a stop button viewable at all times. I can get the stop button to work with: on (press, release) { stopAllSounds(); }. But I can not get the play button to play...more >>

Ok.Here is my problem: Let's just say i have in flah mx 2004 a dynamic text (with the variable named "txt") and a movieclip (with the instance name "my_mov").This movie clip is loading an image and in the same time i want the dynamic text to show the percentage of the movie clip that is loa...more >>

I am having difficulty controlling a clip that is generated using attachMovie(). To better understand this, I built a simple flash doc with 3 buttons labeled red_btn, blue_btn and green_btn. Each of these calls the playButton() function and passes the name of a movie clip. There are also STOP an...more >>

I've created an empty movie clip with a jpeg in it, so that I can manipulate the movie clip/image as a movie clip button. However, when I try to duplicate it, it doesn't work. Here's the code... The last line duplicates the movie clip but doesn't include the image in it. Could anyone help? ...more >>

How can I totally obliterate and exterminate this Frankenstein I have created in one frame? this.createEmptyMovieClip("bookhere_mc", 1); loadMovie("pageflip_v2.swf", "bookhere_mc"); ...more >>

I am trying to use textformat.bold to make text bold when it is rolled over. Here is my actionscript but i'm not sure how to add the bold part: portfolio_mc.onRollOver = all_mc.onRollOver = software_mc.onRollOver = market_mc.onRollOver = recruit_mc.onRollOver = publish_mc.onRollOver = edu...more >>

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Work Area, frame=1:Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler gotoAndPlay(15); Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 I just have this one button on the screen. I actully going though the flash lession for creating buttons and im get...more >>

Thats all guys i need to do a button instance and when a user do click over, start to download a file from the server, any ideas, comments will be appreciate ...more >>

I have a project which loads a .swf file into the stage, this works perfectly. So you click on a certain symbol and flash loads sun1.swf into the project... sun1.swf - which I created has the start & stop drag feature succesfully scripted into it and it works fine, I want to add the feature ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to get flash to respond to presses of specific keys, by selecting the first frame of the Main Timeline, and ActionScripting (for example) " if (Key.isDown (Key.SPACE)) {gotoAndPlay (2) } " According to my (very limited) knowledge, this should produce the desired r...more >>

I am using a text box in my flash movie as a tooltip-like movie clip. The problem I'm having is that because the tooltip textbox is in the _root level, it appears below some of the movie clips I've attached the tooltip code to. Is there a way to set the depth of the textbox or, if I have the...more >>

Hello Flash Folks! Please come to the rescue of a graphic designer playing around with Flash Actionscript! I have created six scenes and want a navigation button to sequence through the scenes one by one. I have two buttons (next) and (previous) and have added a frame label to the ope...more >>

I have HTML text formatted in an external XML file. When I parse the XML nodes and assign the HTML formatted text a text field generated with createTextField, some of the HTML tags are changed. For example, one nodes contains the following: <p><b>The Task List Text Box</b></p> <br />...more >>

when a character entered in a textfield, i do some formatting operations but i want the cursor always stay at the right of the last character, at the end of the word entered. how do i handle? because after formatting cursor stays somewhere in the middle of the word entered. ...more >>

Hi All, I'm facing a big problems which need your helping hands. Let me explain...upon clicking the Menu, the subtitle will be shown. The table line shown bold border with 1 pixel gap in between. Below are my Actionscript, if my eplanation is confusing plz refer my attached file. Thank you ...more >>

Please can you help? I'm working on a flash site and have created a dragable menu (a movie clip that has a button with a startDrag/stopDrag command). Want I would like is when somebody clicks and drags the menu it is 100% visible, but there's a duplicate underneath that gradually get fainter; ...more >>

Hi, I got a simple problem for u guys, I created a menu bar in flash, however, i want to open the new link in the frame below the one containg the flash-menu, can anyone help me with this, this is for my dissertation.. I hope someone outhere can help.. the link at the bottom is to what i h...more >>

I am trying to load a text file into a dynamic text box in Flash MX. I can get this to work on the timeline, but i need it to work from within a movie clip. Here is my code taken from Laiverd.com tutorial - // create a new loadVars object mySimpleText = new LoadVars(); // use the loadVar...more >>

I've got a function that load a movie clip. I don't want the clip to play until an event calls it. I've tried putting the stop() on the first frame of the attached movie and putting gotoAndPlay(2) on my event trigger. I took the stop() off the clip and tried telling it to stop when it loads. T...more >>

Hi, Anverc kindly provided some feedback from my earlier post, would anyone have feedback why this might be causing errors? I have subsituted the "symbol" for the name of my symbol and have placed this script on the first frame of my movie. See error and earlier post below. Thanks, Cliff ...more >>

Hi, This is reagrding Flash and XML. I have a flash application which requests some information (XML data) from a remote server and presents the data after processing the xml data. I have managed to get the data and process it and got it working in Flash. After publishing, when I tried th...more >>

Can anyone to tell me how to load varibles from a servlet on server Tomcat4.0...more >>

Hi guys, I need to download files from flash, any can give me some ideas how to do this, or refer webpages.... Tx Germán Fonseca P. ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to stop a series of duplicated movie clips playing. The movie clips are duplicated using this A/S: if (i<10 && _root.stopmovie != 2) { duplicateMovieClip("fl", "fl" add i, i); setProperty("fl" add i, _alpha, i*8); setProperty("fl" add i, _x, random(3)+xx); i = i+1; } ...more >>

I have a move-symbol which is draggable, I would like it to be removable I thought the below script would do it but obviously not - any ideas anyone? - The dragging all works, it's just the removing that is faulty on (press) { startDrag(""); } on (release) { stopDrag(); } on (k...more >>

Hi everybody! How is possible to send data to a file?I try to load data from a file,process it and theb send it to the same file.My problem is that I can't save data. Here is my code: myURL = "D:/wrk/lorc/Flash/Aplicatii/Joc/variabile.txt"; myObject = new LoadVars(); myObject.load(m...more >>

Dear gurus/ members, I am very new in actionscript and internet security members. I would like to know whether is it posible that Actionscript launch OCX/Dll files that is stored in the user's computer, from my website? I have a button on my website that will launch an application that is ...more >>

Hello there! i am new to action script with a poor background of scripting :) i need to do simple scoring for 3 questions each on different frame given with multiple answers with total score to be showed on another new frame.how can i do that? plz plz help me any help would be appreciata...more >>

I'm busy making a site with Flash pieces and then in dreamwaver, I've made my buttons etc. in flash, but how should I do the linking, if I import them to dreamwaver and place them uppon mly site, my lay-out seems nice, (For me ;)) but now the linking thing won't work. Should I do that linkning...more >>

Hi all, Please help me with this..as am badly stuck up... understand this... i have different swf files which i want to invoke it internally. so what parameters should i pass so it makes my movie executable? Pls help me as it is very very urgent lol tanvi ...more >>

Hi there, I am well underway on a project that loads data from external XML files into Flash templates. It works well, and does everything I need from loading images and text to creating buttons and menus. However I am a bit concerned about the speed of loading the data. My XML files are a...more >>

how do I dynamically change part of this statement: _root.mClip1._alpha += 5; //I want to dynamically change just mclip1 to say mClip2, etc. I have the following: movie instances named mClip1, mClip2. onClipEvent(load){ clipNo = (Math.floor(Math.random()*2+1)); th...more >>

How do you do a number sort in a datagrid? (everything is taken as a string). I've done a research around and found http://oddhammer.com/blog/comments.php?id=82_0_1_0_C , but don't really understand the algorithm. Any one else has any solution? It's kinda annoying when 3500 51 80000...more >>

I would like to play a movie clip (one that's in my library) when a button on the stage is clicked. I originally had simply placed this movie clip in the Down state for the button, but I actually want the clip to play when the button is clicked, not when the mouse is held down on the button. ...more >>

I can't make duplicate my bullet! The bullet name is "normbullet". It is in the "_root" area. "this.barrel" is the shooting thing for the tank. If you can help me thanks. Here is the code: onClipEvent(load) { speed=0 n=0 thisx=0 thisy=0 rotat=0 } onClipEvent(enterFra...more >>

Hi m8s! Need help with creating an fade-in and out effect when you press a link, on(release). But, the fade is not gonna look normal. It shall fade-out different pixels (more like cubes with different measurements) at different times. So the whole page doesn't fade at the same time, but di...more >>

Can anyone in here make sense out of this error message? Target not found: Target="mc_glossary" Base="_level0.instance2" What is the _level0.instance2 in reference to? Thanks in advance for your help - Sincerely, Kevin McKinney, TX ...more >>