I have a layer that continually loops, but I would like it to stop after five or so times. Not just after one time. What would be the code to do this. The loop is just squares going across the screen. It is nice a few times,but.. ...more >>

yo guys, why did you take the normal mode in actionscripts out on the new flash versions ?!?!?!? .... im very frustrated, man that was a big help for those who dont know the 'expert' mode, you can possibly do a extension or something, thats real sad :( ...more >>

Hi guys, Im trying to manipulate the size of a mmovie clip based on the size of another. movie clip "a" uses a default size of 100x100 this click is tweened and rezized at various areas of the movie. basically what I want to do is to manipulate the size of movie clip "b" as the size of clip...more >>

Hi folks, I have a swf that loads in a place holder once a buttons is clicked. Can I tell it to go to a certain frame? Syntax? Much thanks. ...more >>

Hello... I'm biulding a content management system. I've got to the pioint where a user can type a link address into a text box and the lick text into another box, click a button and have this populate the "copy" dynamic text box. Only trouble is, I can only put the new text either at the e...more >>

I am using the following script to produce random rainfall -- problem is, I'm trying to reverse the vertical movement so that it appears to be rising instead of falling. I've made several attempts to guess at this, but each time I try something, the 'height' variable is lost and the rain seem...more >>

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Hi there, I have found this nice upload tool which uses flash, html and Javascript. But I really don't know any of JavaScript, so I was hoping someone help me whith this: This works on Internet Explorer in PC, but doesn't work in Netscape PC or any Mac browser. this is the code ...more >>

is it possible to make a button in flash that replicates this html button <FORM METHOD = "post" ACTION = "http://URL"> <TD ALIGN = "left" VALIGN = "top"> <INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "Action" VALUE = "submit"> <INPUT TYPE = "submit" VALUE = "submit "> </FORM> ...more >>

anyone have any ideas what the current saturation rate of the mx04 player is? is there a place that I can check to see current estimates? For most of my clients the chief concern is that everyone (ok, relatively everyone) can see the site without plugin download, ie. 95% ish. I would love to s...more >>

Within my flash movie I have a button that launches a pdf file through the browser using getURL . It works great on a Mac but on a PC the pdf is launched within the same browser window as my swf. How do I get it to launch in a new window or automatically launch Acrobat Reader. ...more >>

Im trying to trigger some sound when movies collide (for a very basic game im doing for my 5 year old son). I have created a movie clip of an animated man walking. Inside of this movie clip i have created another clip which i intend to use as the hot spot for triggering sounds. This is all wel...more >>

Can anyone explain why no movieclip is attached with this simple statement in MXPro2004 7.2:- lvl = parseInt("456.987"); attachMovie("lb_mc", "my_mc", lvl); trace(lvl); // traces 456 to output window trace(typeof lvl); // evaluates to 'number' but no movieclip is attached trace(my_mc) // t...more >>

I've built a scrolling menu of buttons within a masked area. I want to assign mouse actions onto the buttons to play (Goto) a frame in the scene (there is only 1 scene), but even if I name the frame rather than address a frame number, it will not play it. I called the 'scene' instruction in ...more >>

I was wondering if and how possible you can make a button so when you click it, the browser window the flash movie is in minimizes. Any comments are greatly appreciated....more >>

I'm using Flash MX on a MAC. I created a dynamic text field which imports a text file which has HTML tags. I was wondering if there is a way where you can create a link that when you import the html to flash it can link to a certain area in Flash. For example, in the html file I would have <...more >>

I have 3 simple scenes with 2 active movie clips. .except for the first introduction scene, every one of the scenes has a "stop" action applied to it on it's own layer. But when i test movie it doesn't follow the order to which it is in the scene pallette, nor does it follow the action scripts...more >>

I am developing this application where a user goes online and creates there own design. They have text, shapes, etc... and are able to change colors of these elements. Every element is treated equally and has a variable called "eColor". Now, at the end, when they are finished, I need t...more >>

My previous post did not get a helpful reply so here's my last try; I'm tryin' to add a preloader or even a text notifying that tha imae's being loaded, in the empty movieclip I created to load images into. if it helps, the FLA file is attached. ANY comments appreciated. Thanks ...more >>

I am develping this for an eLearning project which contains 35+ swf files. I want to pre cache them. Could someone help me to solve my problem? thanks JNS...more >>

hi, I have a problem with a variable. I have my master fla. Insiside i load in a dropzone travaux.swf. Inside this clip there is a variable which load other clip. When i launch just travaux.swf, everything is working fine, the variable works and i can load voln, voln+1,... But when i ...more >>

Hi everyone! I imported a flash animation into the library and I inserted that animation on to the stage with a single frame. It was playing fine until I added some other frames to the animation. Now it plays those other frames, but when it reaches the frame that contains the movie clip object...more >>

Hi all, I am facing this mysterious problem: I have a movie clip "row" inside which I have 3 buttons. Now, in the class of the parent of "row", I write event handling functions such as row.onRollOver, row.onPress etc. Each of the 3 buttons also have onPress function attached to them (t...more >>

I'm trying to loop a Flv movie. What i did is: i went to my Library and in the options i chose new movie i dragged this from the Library to the stage and gave it an instance:my_movie and here's the code that i have on my first frame: var netConn:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); net...more >>

How can I open a new browser window using Actionscript? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

When you use loadmovie command than are things like sounds loaded from the movie that loaded the new movie or the new movie?...more >>

you can open a word document using getURL is it possible to open a word document in a window in Flash? so that word appears in the swf? using getURL opens word in a browser, so really its a matter of displaying a browser window in Flash? any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, I have one swf that will sit on the company website but some people will have it on their harddrives. I have one swf to do both, but i want the online version to go to slightly different pages. How can i do a check that its running online then use that result to jump to a different page?...more >>

Hi all I need to know how to make a script that will switch between screens after end of my animation. In screen one I have a normal tweenng session an after it ends I would like to go to the next screen automatically and play a animation there. Default I have to hit the keyboard to go to ...more >>

Hi, i have two frames. In first one i put my menu.swf in. The second one represent the content. In the conent i have some kind of flash banner with some labels that are filled with variables from the menu elements in frame 1. Now i have the problem: Click on menuelement->varaibles se...more >>

If i horizontally scale a drawn line manually while it is simply a shape it does exactly that...scale horizontally. If I put the line shape in any sort of symbol, MC or graphic, and then manually or dynamically HORIZONTALLY scale (or for that matter just change the width) the line scales both ...more >>

I'm doing a simple jigsaw for a client and am using the script below to move the pieces around... But i need to bring the piece being controlled by the mouse to the top of the other pieces while its being draged... I guess there is a simple script to control this... But I cant find it... (...more >>

Hey all, This sounds like a simple problem, but it's turning out not to be. I have two buttons in my Flash project. Each button plays an MP3 file no problem when clicked. The problem is overlap. When I click button 1 the sound plays. If I click button2, I want the sound generated by butto...more >>

I have read over a lot of the other loadmovie questions but none of them seem to help me in this situation. I have a move that plays time the first time round but doest work when its reloaded my movie works like this scene1: display button for drag and drop scene2: click on button ...more >>

Hi Everybody, I'm working in something like a contacts list with the ListBox comp., so my doubt it's about spaces, because every line of any contact is a straight line of information, and I need the info in this style: Example: Name Telephone Location Email but I don't know what ...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to upload files to my server, using my flash app, but flash doesn't allow us to make uploads. So, I'm trying to make my upload using one html form, but I need to pass the name of the file I will upload to flash. How do I do that? I press in the html browse butto...more >>

I am creating an array of objects, using duplicateMovieClip. The problem I am having is trying to mask them, I have tried the following code using setMask. for (index=0; index<5; index++) { duplicateMovieClip(object, "object"+index, index); objectArray[index] = _root["object"+index...more >>

Hi All, I'm at lost with this one. I have been trying to make a virtual keboard in flash. Have looked everywhere.... Could anyone point me to an fla file for a Touch-Screen Keyboard. Many thanks ...more >>

Sorry , the ver. is MX 2004 Many THX ...more >>

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