i'm about to throw in the towel. i have a flash file with a button (black text over an orange button) and a small movie clip (a black square that starts at alpha=0, fades in to alpha=100 and fades back to 0). and i'm trying to set it up so that when you click the button, the black square movi...more >>

i'm about to throw in the towel. i have a flash file with a button (black text over an orange button) and a small movie clip (a black square that starts at alpha=0, fades in to alpha=100 and fades back to 0). and i'm trying to set it up so that when you click the button, the black square movi...more >>

Hi, I need help on how to load a movie-clip in my library when I press a spesific button. I've tried searching the web for tutorials on how to do that, but that didn't work out... So I was wondering if anybody could explain to me how to do this? Help would be appreciated... ...more >>

Hey all - Can anyone tell me if it's possible to have Flash pull variables from the current URL? i.e. If my SWF is on the page www.mydomain.com/mypage.html, can I call www.mydomain.com/mypage.php?var=value and have Flash obtain the var variable from that URL somehow? I'm lookng ...more >>

Hi! Im developing a new chat application. Is a one to one chat, so just two people are gonna be connected. One of the users must know the user_id of the other user. So, what Im doing is this: 1. I send to the swf file a parameter with the user_id. <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="one...more >>

Ok, first off Im a designer not a big developer/coder so forgive my knowledge. It seems to me that Macromedia hasn't done a great job on describing how to use the Check Box component (at least that I've found). I have a simple mail form that gets sent using PHP works like a champ. at the botto...more >>

I would like the Flash movie (NavBar) to play once when user opens up browser during the day. The NavBar is in an Intranet so users will open the site up several times per day so I don't want the movie to play twice (unless on reboot). I can't seem to find an example anywhere. I believe tha...more >>

I need some help on getting my preloader to load multiple swfs at once, ie Nav.swf and Main.swf. It works fine of the hardrive but when I upoad it to the server it's all messed up. Please help!...more >>

Hi, I am doing a presentation that is build like this. 50 frames on the timeline. about 10 layers for deferent MCs. one for the navigation, one for the slide MC, one for sound clips etc... my problem is which the sound MC. I need to create a sound MC that has 2 buttons to Pause and Resu...more >>

HI, I am relatively new to the component and action scripting of Flash MX 2004. I foolwoed an example to create a menu bar for my site. I formatted some aspects but need some help on others. I have some questions: 1. Can you have a transparent background for the menu bar so you can see t...more >>

OK - there are a lot of tutorials (including on this forum - big thanks urami_* for one of the best of them) describing how to make a tsunami.http://www.fluid.nl/shockwave/index.html What I want is the elements of the menu to push each other sideways as they grow when the mouse is near them. ...more >>

I am new to actionscript and I'm trying to do more than I can handle. Could anyone help with the following: I am trying to create an array by clicking various buttons, the buttons will be either on or off and when I click a 'play ' button it will then play the corresponding movie clips in...more >>

I have a dynamic text field linked to a variable (and it correctly displayes it) and it is nested in a movie clip. On frame one of the movie clip i specify: this._alpha = 0; and the second frame has stop(); If the text is static then its invisible when i run it, if the text is dynamic and l...more >>

hi again, i got an empty movieclip on my main stage calles "empty" with the following script on keyframe1: stop (); on key frame 2 the following: loadMovieNum ("sport.swf", 2); in another movieclip on the stage a button with the following script: on (release) { tellTarget ("../empt...more >>

a flash (MX 6) "main" movie loads external SWF movie via loadMovie or Linkage (optional): this is common technique in flash. Is it still impossible to embed all this files in a single Director projector? (keeping the external SWF in the same directory wouldn't be enough) Olivier Bess...more >>

Hi, I need to create a button that will "pause" a timeline when pressed, and resume from the same point when pressed again. I did this but it didn't work. on (press) { this.pause () } thanks Mic...more >>

I've been puzzled by swapDepths() for a better half of the day. I have an animation that looks visually correct the first time it plays, but when replaying the animation the depths get messed up. I've pasted my output below. Can anyone tell me why my first three _mc's with depths of 100,50...more >>

HOW DO I INSERT MUSIC ?!...more >>

Hello, I currently have a problem in Flash MX's Actionscript: whenever I place a function inside of a loop, it only performs the contents of the function once. SO, the duplicateMovie only performs once as do the position and size portions of the code. Also, instead of staying at 5, once ...more >>

Hi Everybody, Is it possible to restrict characters to numbers only in Flash 2004 Pro DataGrid editable column and how? Thank you. D ...more >>

Can someone help a novice I have a button called 'Tier1' when I click it I want it to to move the playhead to a marker 'playme' on a seperate movie clip called 'radio' but if its clicked again it jumps to a marker called 'dontplayme' on 'radio'. I guess I need an if statement to detect wha...more >>

I want people to be able to add numbers only into an input box. Is this possible? ...more >>

i have a flash file, and in it are some navigation buttons linked to pages that are under construction. when someone clicks on a button, i want a little 'under constructon' movie clip to flash nearby on the screen. i've created the 'under construction' movie clip (a graphic that fades in and...more >>

Hi guys/ladies, I'm racking my brain trying to get a textbox value into a variable, and then to another function as a parameter. I'll paste the code as as you can see, I have working, all of the 6 textfields where I did something very similar. I passed the value of the textfields to ...more >>

Is there any sctipt that can detect if the mouse stopped moving? I think there is a code for detecting if it is moving, but I need one that detects if it is not. Thanks!...more >>

I have built a Flash 7.2 opening animation for a Dreamweaver 7.0.1 web site on a G5 Mac. What I want to happen is for the animation, which is placed as part of the index.htm, page to play to it?s end and then automatically open the home page of my site in the same browser window. I plac...more >>

This is driving me insane...someone please help!? Ok...I'm using MX. I've got a Scrollpane (pane1) that has scrollcontent of a mc called Progress_loader. Progress_loader has an mc in it called progressmaster0. progress_loader then use flashremoting to access a SQL database and on th...more >>

I have a project which loads multiple instances of the same.swf file onto the stage, it works perfectly.. each instance of the swf movie loaded needs to be draggable and removable (by hitting Space). So far I have succeeded in getting the project to load multiple instances and each instance...more >>

Hello all, I am experiencing some problems with streaming video and the Playback media component. Here is my situation: My flash movie has instances of the media playback component that are attached via an onload behavior to a file on my streaming service provider. I need a way to ma...more >>

Hi All, Can someone explain to me what is the difference between these 2 commands?why both of the commands exsist?what is the purpose of each? Thanks Maya...more >>

Hi all what would be the best place to learn how to build animations via action script? I have a project where I need to have a half circle turn around a disc, with lines connected to some points on the disc's circumference, and the whole thing should follow the mouse in an elastic, smooth a...more >>

Hello all- Trying to simplify the code of setting up an MC button by using the WITH statement, but it doesn't work with setting the onRelease function... with (this.button_mc) { onRelease = function () { trace("1"); }; //onRollOver... //onDragOut... } //this.button_mc.onReleas...more >>

Hi, i"m using Flash MX 2004, The problem is There's a movie clip (instance name : planemotion ) (30 frames, AS: frame 1--stop();, Frame 16--stop(); frame 30--gotoAndPlay(1);) i put it in the scene with AS:frame 1--stop(); Now i want to use keyboard to control it, the main aim that i wa...more >>

hi everyone, i am new in here and new in flash as well. let me start explaining my problem: i have the main stage with 5 movie clips and 5 buttons. every button makes one movie clip start. button 1 makes movieclip1 start, button2 makes movieclip2 start,.....and so on and so on. ...more >>

Hello, I would like to set up auto detect on my website, where by if a visitor doesn't have Flash installed they are automatically redirected to a non flash page. All other Flash visitors get the page with the Flash movie. Is Macromedia Flash Dispatcher the best way to do this? I am look...more >>

im trying to load an mp3 on a button press, i have 10 buttons. each button has a caption displaying the song name. im trying to load a seperate mp3 for each button pressed, its a little more complicated than i thought ...more >>

Hi! I have an application which must send values to a servlet.That servlet assume that value which is a string and retrive them into a txt file,and then my movie load that string into a object.My problem is that I can't send that string to the servlet,I mean my servlet do not get them.Ca...more >>

I have one function where I want to duplicate 2 different movieclips. But it seems only the last one does the thing. When I change the order of which one is first, the other one will be duplicated.... I think I need a kind of wait function???? What to do? Here's my line of code duplica...more >>

Hello -- we have used the following method to play background music across multiple scenes: on an initialize scene: -- backingTrack = new Sound(); backingTrack.attachSound("music"); on frame 1 of the animation: -- backingTrack.setVolume(100); backingTrack.start(0, 1); Using this m...more >>

I use this code when a button is clicked on (release) { getURL("javascript:openNewWindow('main.html','thewin','fullscreen=yes,toolbar=n o,scrollbars=no') "); } and a code in the html page <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript> function openNewWindow(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures) {...more >>

at the end of my movie on the the main timeline i have a dynamic text field which is constructed by the variables of other dynamic and input text fields which appear in the movie. the code is like this answer1 = inputText1 + dynamText1 + dynamText2; i used this in some other movies and i...more >>

Can someone lead me to a good explanation of this? ...more >>

hello friends i have a input text box, now i want the user to type "sam josaph" in it and nothing else, if he types something else while typing, then a error appers on screen and the text in the text box gets blank. thanks in advance ...more >>

A few things. The examples that I use are from the 7.2 updater's "Examples" folder. The url is http://www.havelockramsreunion.net/1994/images/flash/gallery/gallery.htm How can I make the pictures in the top example stay "up" and can I have a "Save As ..." option for the pictures? Also ca...more >>

how can I create an event trigger similar to the enterFrame event, only on the main timeline, not in a movie clip? I am attempting to play a series of frames, then when those frames have played, skip ahead to a second set of frames and play those. my current conditional statement just skips ...more >>

Hi, I facing one problem! Let say i got three movie clips..The first movie clip is called 'T1', The second movie clip is a layer of first movie clip, it called 'Tsurf_1'... thus when i double clip the first movie clip at the main form, it will display the second movie clip(Layer)! Under seco...more >>

I'm in the proccess of making a flash first person shooter game that includes a lot fo script being executed at once. I have noticed that someitmes some actinons seem to not execute at random. When I restart the movie, they work fine, then a couple of tests later another action doesn't execute...more >>

Hello everyone, I'm sure this is quite simple but I just can't get it. I'm trying to set a variable with from a button then the movie plays a little animation and then open an url based on the variable. In the debugger it the variable always comes back undefined. I have tried about 150 dif...more >>

Hi - does anyone know why i get some very quirky behaviour when i have input text boxes using embedded fonts? I'm creating a bunch of input text fields with action script, and using a font format object and setting the font used to be a nice oldy worldy style one - (matches with the rest of t...more >>