hey, im trying to load a seperate flash movie within the same window, whilst unloading the old movie, i seem to only be able to open an html version of the swf file, and cant seem to work out whats wrong....please could some one help....thanks ...more >>

Hi, I'm a flash newbie. MYBUTTON_btn.onRelease=function () { gotoAndStop(1399) }; I type this into a key frame. I refer to the instance of the button at the beginning of the script. I then Put another keyframe out at a distance down the line in the same layer. The Action scr...more >>

In the same game that I mentioned in my other post (Multiple Controls...) I also hope to have each weapon follow the mouse, aka the barrel points at where the mouse is. A good example of this is in the game Penguin Arcade on the MiniClips site, http://miniclip.com. All help is welcome......more >>

I am making a shoot-the-target game, in which I have several weapons to choose from. Some weapons are unlocked when your score reaches a certain point. The thing is that I want to be able to have different cursors for these weapons, along with different sounds when the mouse is clicked, and ...more >>

I was wondering if its possible to use Actionscript to, for example, allow you to make a multiplayer online game where 2 people can play together and their PC's are sending data to each other?...more >>

I am re-creating an instructional movie with images and sound. I have external swfs that i need to play on after the other. i got the first swf to play by using: loadMovieNum("intro.swf",1); the first swf plays fine but i need help with adding the additional swf files to play. these fi...more >>

Hi! I have a Flash MX movie with about 6 scenes in it. In the first scene (Scene1) I have a Symbol who's instance is defined as F1. The symbol is of type "Movie" and first appears in frame1. Later in Scene 1 (frame 122) I have a blank keyframe that is supposed to F1.gotoAndPlay(2) . If I ...more >>

I am not too skilled with Flash as you can tell by this question, in simple terms but with good detail, please help! I have outputted two seperate swf files. I need to then create a flash file that will allow me to import both of these.... and on the timeline, play through the first one (S...more >>

Anyone help with this wee problem. Using a tutorial in a mag I created a mp3 player to play streaming files on my website. Can do everything on it except get it to play. The mag shows how to you php to grab the filelist (which I was planning to use) but I cant get it to work. Even ha...more >>

Hi there! Thank you for the interest in my post! I've been searching and searching on search engines and on old forum posts to see how I can load an external jpeg into my Flash MX movie but haven't found what I'm looking for as all the tutorials I find are for slide shows and/or use fa...more >>

How do I rename the instance of a duplicated movieClip?...more >>

Hi there, Could somebody please tell me, what I am doing wrong? I tried to include html-Text into a flash file, but the dynamic textfield doesn't show any Text, even if I set html "false". This is what the script looks like at the moment: //including the Text file: #include "footynews....more >>

Hi, I want to know if some of my requirements are possible in Flash. -Load .bmp files and set a transparent color? -have one main program conrtol several images (or do I have to provide a script for each individual object?) -Draw Lines, Sure that will work, right? -Draw textured triang...more >>

if you visit this guys site, you will see that the pages rescale to different sizes. I cannot figure it out: http://www.pimago.de/flash_en.html I'm sure this has been asked here before but I'm not sure what to type in the search option. I use flash mx6 not 2004. Thank you and I h...more >>

I'm sending out a Flash based email that has a button using the mailto: command in it. It opens up the user's email program like it's suppose so that part of it works. The problem is that it also opens up a browser window that doesn't do anything confusing the end user. Any ideas what can stop...more >>

hi guys, i got a problem working in flash 5 loding with a button click: on (release) { tellTarget ("../empty") { gotoAndPlay (2); } } the mc in the mc on the first keyframe a stop (); on the second keyframe: loadMovie ("sport.swf", "../empty"); setProperty ("...more >>

Greetings list, Attached should be a zip file (barsBugged.zip) of the .fla and .xml file so you can see what I'm trying to talk about. Basically, I've got a set of data that is being loaded in to my movie to drive the values for the height of "statistic bars". My problem is that I'm tr...more >>

Anybody knows why that the for lus in the function recursie is interupted after the functie recursie is called in the for lus? _global.j = 0 menuXml = new XML(); menuXml.ignoreWhite = true; menuXml.onLoad = function(success) { if (success) { recursie(this.firstChild.childNodes[...more >>

For some reason my parseXML() method won't let me call any other functions in my actionscript. Can anyone help with this? Here's the code: First, 3 gets printed out because it's the action type...1 gets printed and then 3. 2 never gets printed...any ideas? /** * @Author - T...more >>

I am dynamically calling an image which seems to always appear on top of everything. The call is activated by a button on stage. The button also calls a dynamic tooltip. The problem is that the image always covers the tooltip. Can dynamically called images be instructed to appear behind anot...more >>

I am working on a project in which users will move things from one window to another. If the user gets an error when they place something, though, I want that window to resynch itself back to the state before they added the new item. When they place something into one of the windows, I am ad...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a button in flash that will advance the powerpoint slide it's embedded in to the next slide. I've been trying fscommand and a VB script in the slide itself but it doen't seem to be working. I've got a deadline ! CAn anyone help please ? Thanks in advance, MA...more >>

How to save in file. (myVariable="This's text" .) Maybe some ideas. Waiting =) ...more >>

Hi friends, Following is the code snippet. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _root.awmmovie1.loadMovie("../seeview/seeview.swf"); _root.awmmovie1._lockroot = true; trace("test string is : " + _root.awmmovie1.teststr); --------------------------------...more >>

is there a way for Flash to include all classes in a specified sub dierectory? without having to name it in the class path prefernces? so if i have ac.uk.mydomain ? folder1 ? classes ? someclasses ? folder2 ? classes ? someclasses ...more >>

Hi All, I got a problem with TextArea component. I am having 2 files say stub and component. I am attaching a TextArea component in stage on runtime in component file. When I do that I works fine. But when I run the same file after linking it to the stub, the textarea component is maki...more >>

I am trying to preload my main movie. My main movie is a screen/slides based movie and fairly large. I would like to preload the whole thing. I have in the past preloaded many movie, but this is different since I can't move the content to a later frame and put a preloader and it's AS in the...more >>

Is there a way for me to create my ownbutton templates for use in dreamweaver? I also want to know if it is possible to pass information to a flash button (like the url it should link to) from the HTML document in which it is contained. The idea is that I want to create one button that can be ...more >>

Hi, I have this media player I built in flash done and it basically loads a video movie and plays it easy enough. The video movie that gets loaded also loads into the player a subtitles movie that get played along with the video movie. I did it that way so I could keep the timing on both t...more >>

hi all, in a frame, i have 3 lines of code. .in the first line i create an object of a class .in the second line i call a method of the class .in the third line i call an another method of the class, which i pass the result of the method call in the second line as a parameter but t...more >>

I am interested in creating a wallpaper generator like the ones at http://starskyandhutchmovie.warnerbros.com/flash.html. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to export the image on the stage to a .jpg file like these ones do. All comments welcome. Thanks Mat ...more >>

Hi ... I am putting together a little game in which users must make a selection with-in a short space of time. I was hoping someone could give me a prod in the right direction with regards to how I go about making this timer. I figure I get a loop going and subtract one from a variable wit...more >>

If I call a function on the _root timeline (_root.dragMe()) from inside an movieClip instance (library_mc) on the stage that contains an attachMovie script, will this attach the target mc to the _root timeline or the 'library_mc's' timeline? If it attaches it to the 'library_mc's' timeline ho...more >>

Hello, Can someone tell me if it is possible to have an external text document with html tags in it (only <b> in my case), which is then loaded in a dynamic field / scroll pane my current code looks like this: // embeded text format myTextFormat = new TextFormat(); myTextFormat.font...more >>

Hey I've made a for loop but i need each set of iteration to wait for a short period for the commands to be processed before the loop carries on to the next iteration. Is there a wait function or anything like that i could use? Cheers E1 ...more >>

is there a way to disable a button after it has been clicked three time by just using action script or is tthe only way to do this is by making a button disabled in the foorth frame of a movie clip...more >>

Hello Fellas, I have a a small problem . I am using loadVaraible to load text from and extersource in a text box. The variavle name is uk. And the text in the txt file is &uk=I need help solving this problem & need it really fast. Now the prob is i get the text only till problem and i m...more >>

how do i click on a button n change a movie clip level. pls reply. urgent. thx a million...more >>

i want to open a html page in a specific frame of a html page when i ckick a flash button.what'd i do!!!...more >>

Hi there, I urgently need help on this issue, but to avoid cross-posting, please review the problem in question here: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&thre adid=875662 Thanks! Scott ...more >>

If I want to open a PDF file fron a flash projector, whac can I use to make it open i Acrobat Reader. I have tried URL, but then the PDF file opens in iexplore....more >>

Hi guys, I have been trying to figure out how to dynamicaly target levels, but I just can't get it! A function I have is given a variable that has a number in it. I then need the function to tell the level that corisponds to that number to do something, but I can't get it to! I have ...more >>

I have been having problems with moving from one file to another. I use loadMovieNum("whatever.swf", 0); and when I move from one file to another i can see the previous swf in the background. I tried using unloadMovieNum but I can not seem to get it working correctly. How can I get it to load ...more >>

I have a movie with a form that must be filled out. I would be calling the movie from another application and would like to be able to pass some of the values from the calling aplication to the movie in the URL string. Is this possible? IE: http://www.mysite.com/mymovie.htm?lname=Frank&fna...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to set the pop up window size thru flash. Can I enter width and height into the brackets below somewhere? e.g width=300 height =200 I just want to click on a button and when the new url is called it opens in a smaller window. I want to see my main window behind the...more >>

I'm just having a little problem with a Flash form application. I have an array that contains the names of all of the screens in the order I want them to appear. On the application screen I have a PushButton component, and in the properties inspector I set the click handler to a function that ...more >>

i have a text field that i want to scroll using a couple of buttons and the instName.scroll script. currently the button actions look like this on (press) { textField.scroll +=1; //the bottom button does a textField.scroll -=1; } problem is, the user has to keep clicking the mo...more >>

I'm using loadSound to import an mp3 dynamically which works great but when the mp3 plays it sounds like a 33 lp record playing at 45 speed. Locally it works fine. It only does this on-line. Any idea what this might be. Thanks for any help. ...more >>