Hi, I'm fairly new to Flash. Is it possible to scale a JPG or any other type of bitmap in flash and it be anti-aliased? Right now when I scale it to make it bigger, I get really bad pixelation artifacts. Is there anything that can be done about this? Thanks. ...more >>

does anyone know all the properties available to an instance of the mediaplayback component? i'm trying to monitor the passage of time of a video clip. in case anyone is familiar with Lingo (Director's scripting language), i'm looking for properties akin to myObject.currentTime and myObject.du...more >>

Is there any way to simulate a keypress with actionscript? for example, when I click a button, I want the computer to _think_ that I hit the spacebar? Any ideas? Chris...more >>

I downloaded the new FlashMX2004 update. As flash opens...I am getting the following errors. *** XML Parsing Errors *** C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\Configuration\ActionsPanel\CustomActions\InsertDateTimeWin.xml: Line 4: The...more >>

We are working on a quiz in Flash and we are wanting to get the results emailed to the instructor of the class? How would we get that to work and what would the coding be behind it all? Thanks....more >>

Hey all, i'v searched the whole internet for a tut for this kind of mask :: http://www.agentedesign.com/usa/ (in content is mask!) I really need help!! thnxx rida...more >>

i made a preloader and when i upload the file, it wont show the page. It stays white untill all of the swf is loaded and then it flashes the preloader and goes on to the rest of the video. I have tried 56 different methods and nothing works. what do i do? im going insane! ...more >>

Hello I try to mix some simple drawing using moveTo and lineTo with a small movie clip added from the library. I create a loop for my drawing with the setInterval method. i draw a line repeteadly inside the loop. i add a movie clip to the layer , it's a small wheel that turn . I use goto...more >>

I set a variable before I load my movie like this _level20.Color = 3; Then I load my new swf like so loadMovieNum("Beta.swf",0)[ And in that new swf (beta) I trace(_level20.Color) and I get an undefigned value? Is there a way to pass it to the next swf like that? ...more >>

I'm a real novice with Flash so bear with me. I'm trying to hide graphics (movie clips) when my movie starts and then show them when the user selects a button. But I can't figure out how to hide them initially. If you could include the full script that would be great. I feel like I've been...more >>

I need to find a way to launch acrobat, excel and project from within Project. I will be deliverying my app on a CD, but the option to work inside of a stand-alone exe or browser is up to me. Will Flash launch external apps on a users hard-drive from within my application running on a CD? If s...more >>

Hi, I have a level 0 movie which reads a variable from a text file and uses it through the rest of the project: _global.changeTime=new LoadVars(); changeTime.load("dppTime.txt"); changeTime.onLoad = function(success){ if (success){ changeTime = ...more >>

hi guys, i'm new to the forums here.. i was wondering if any of you knew of a way to return a list of all objects that are colliding with a given object? or is that going to have to be a custom function? thanks in advance. ...more >>

When using the slider component on Text boxes how do you change the style of the slider. I see in the folder that there are several different styles associated with the slider. Thanks, Tom...more >>

I am struggling with getting buttons to launch documents in Word, Powerpoint, and Acrobat. Currently, they are loading in Internet Explorer and the documents can be viewed in the IE window. I need this to work cross-platform as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lisa ...more >>

I am using the following code as a preloader: function loadContent(mc, fileName){ mc.loadMovie(fileName); myLoop = setInterval(checkLoaded,500, mc); } function checkLoaded(mc){ myTotal = mc.getBytesTotal(); trace ("MyTotal = " + MyTotal); myLoaded = mc.getBytesLoaded(); trace ("M...more >>

Help! I need to dynamically set the text color of a Tree node's text. Can someone explain how to do that? I don't need to set a 'global' color or style; As I am populating the Tree component for display, I want to change the color of the text for that node to signify a status. Please h...more >>

It was working but I must have changed something :(! thumbHolder.release = function() { _parent.loader.loadMovie(this.main); _parent.title_txt.text = this.title; }; ...more >>

I hate action scripting but now that i am getting better at making websites in flash i have decided i need to get complicated and go past just using the go to and stop action scripts. I really need a random frame generator for this purpose:- Ok there are 3 groups of 5 frames animations eac...more >>

I have a movie, and I want to use the keyboard arrow keys to jump to next or previous frame. How do I write the code so it works where ever you are? I guess I would have it on the first frame? ...more >>

I have a scrollpane on the stage displaying mc1. In some event handler, I want to modify the content to be mc2. I have tried the following: _root.scrollpane-instance.contentPath = "mc2"; //here I have tried scrollpane-instance.refreshPane(), to no avail Also, I have tried modifying...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to get to grips with as2, but I'm having problems with setInterval. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Help appreciated, thanks. //Class class Test { private var intervalID:Number; function Test() { loadFile(); } private function loadFile...more >>

Here is what I'm trying to do My Stage is 550x400 and I have a picture that is 790x600 and centered on the stage. I also have 5 button on the stage. When a user presses button 1 I want the picture to move across the stage so you can see one of the corners that you could not see before. and wh...more >>

I am looking for a DataGrid component that can expand and collapse rows. In other, I would like a component that would allow me to display table type data that can expand a row to show detail about the row item (grid in a grid). any suggestions. -- Jim Fee Viking Electronic Services jf...more >>

I'm a newbie to Flash & want to be able to load a jpg of variable size, resize it to fit a portion of the screen and then fit a frame to it. I can loadMovie the jpegs into a movie clip and resize it, but in order to manage it more efficiently, I think I need to be able to get the jpg width and...more >>

A project I'm working on consists of a swf that contains the menu and several other files that it loads for each of the demo movies. I currently have control set up for Play / Pause, and Forward and Rewind so it can jump to and from scenes, but I need to add a slider bar to control the frame i...more >>

Hi! I have a dynamic text field which loads in an an external html formatted text. Inside the text there are several word links to paragraphs further down the page. Creating these bokkmarks is very easy in HTML but how I can make this work with a loaded text file so when the word link is pre...more >>

Hi there : ] I'm wondering if anyone could help me with this one: I have no background in actionscripting ... and I'm wondering if there's a script that makes a movie projector play for 30 days and it plays a different projector as soon as the first 30 days have expired ... and that will g...more >>

You could say im a actionscript beginner, which is true... Im putting a flash presentation together, and i want to be able to use a scroller, not a Scroll Bar, just 2 buttons, (up and down arrow) and on rollOver the text will scroll on which arrow you roll over. I've searched all over go...more >>

my client needs me to make a menu like this http://toothandnail.com/ but my buttons arn't springy enough :) whats the script for that?...more >>

I have a flash movie that acts as a holder for external swf's (these swf's are are also pulling xml) but non of the swf's that im loading into the holder are caching, I need to know how to cache these swf's so the next time a user logs in the download time is quicker - PLEASE HELP ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to get Flash to draw lines ONLY when the mouse button is down, with the following code, (which isn't working)?could somebody please let me know what I'm doing wrong?? Thank you:) NK //code for line colour: function pencil() { _root.lineStyle(2, 0xCC3300, 85);...more >>

I included an external AS-file, and while testing the movie, I had an error-output. after some debugging, I discovered that I include the wrong AS-file. so I changed #include "nameOfFile.as" into #include "newFile.as" However while testing the movie it keeps giving me the sa...more >>

I'm trying to modify attached sounds using buttons within an embeded movie clip. I've never had trouble with this in the past, and I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here On the root timeline, I've loaded a sound and it's playing: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("soundmovie1_mc", 1)...more >>

This does not work. The button is tied to the input box but cannot get the script to work at all, though it worked in an earlier version of flash. Any ideas. Vicki on(release) { if (TextField1 = "PSARQ") { getURL("p4.asp"); } else { gotoAndStop(19); } } ...more >>

Hi! I've got this line of code which loads variables into Flash: loadVariables("traitement.asp?sondage=age", "_root.mc_age"); It works fine. The only thing is that when I run this action again (go back to the frame with this action on) it doesn't load the variables again, it keeps the values...more >>

Why are x, y, width, alpha, etc. all properties, but depth has to be accessed through a method getDepth();? Can anybody explain the logic behind that?...more >>

I am pulling my hair out trying to accomplish this. On rollover I want to fade an instance on stage or turn off the layer it is on I have tried on (rollOver) { house.setFadeRate(0); } That does nothing. How do I make an instance or a layer disappear on a rollover? thanks cj ...more >>

I have a class called Ball it looks like this: class Ball extends MovieClip{ static var ballArray; function Ball(){ ballArray.push(this); } } now if there are 5 movie clips on stage who belong to the Ball class, will t...more >>

Before I reinvent the wheel, here: does anyone have some code snips or (better yet) a set of pre-built functions for creating "Ken Burns" style pans and zooms into photos? I'm aware that there are third-party tools to create these effects interactively, but I want to be building my galleries...more >>

Guys plz help...i am trying 2 make a scroll box in wich are going 2 be 28 images....the problem is i dont see no image...i am using html and action script like <img src.....(have activated html content) I have the latest flash version 7.2 and latest flash player!Action script verion is 2.0! ...more >>

I have a slab of code that sits in the time line of a level1 (I think) movie clip. It is an onEnterFrame function that is to be reused on 15 seperate movie clips. It relies on the onEnterFrame looping for a whole lot of stuff ie movement and timing of elements in the clip. I don't really w...more >>

How can I delay execution of AS until a specified statement is true. I have tried infinite while loop with a break statement when the statement becomes true but that hangs the application. Is there another way to delay execution of AS for a statement? ...more >>

Has anyone had problems with using attachmovie() to duplicate/attach a large amount of movie clips? I am duplicating an MC which contains a fair amount of code (including quite a few loops that look through an XML file) up to approximately sixty times, at which point the movie will crash ...more >>

I have a flash movie that acts as a holder for external swf's (these swf's are are also pulling xml) but non of the swf's that im loading into the holder are caching, I need to know how to cache these swf's so the next time a user logs in the download time is quicker - PLEASE HELP ...more >>

I am duplicating a series of mc's based around the number of childnodes in an xml document. Each mc once generated will behave in exactly the same way but will have certain properties e.g title name, colour of text etc. that can be set and changed at any point during runtime.What I would like ...more >>

Hi there, I know I can change the symbol of an instance using the propertie window. Now I was wondering if there is an ActionScript comand that does the same ? So I could swap the instance of the movieclip "MyClip1" to the movieclip "MyClip2". Thanks in advance. Sky ...more >>

What am I doing wrong! CONTAINERS: I have a movie that loads external swf?s into a container into my main movie but whenever the movie loads, the container loads offstage. Why? I have looked at a sample movie with a container and mine is exactly like this sample movie. I am quite...more >>

Hi I've created a movie that displays with sliding doors. When the user clicks on the doors, they slide open. What I need help with now is I need the next scene to zoom through the doors as they open and display scene2. Can anybody help me this? Thanx Danielle ...more >>

I need to produce a small powerpoint style presentation in Flash, but I don't know the first thing! Please can someone kind provide me with some example or template to do this? Just a few screens and some buttons linking them together? I have FlashMX 2004 Professional. any help / advice ...more >>

Is it possible to write variables to the sharedObject dynamically. For example a standard way to write data is: so.data.userName = currentUserName; but I want to instead of using "userName" ... write out dynamic variable names. something like "so.data."+user22 = curren...more >>

Is it possible to create new Key constants... Flash MX has many ie. Key.ENTER, Key.UP... I have tried Key.prototype.F11 = new Number(122); My reasoning being that a trace of Key.ENTER returns 13, a trace of typeof(Key.ENTER) returns number... the natural progression is to the ...more >>

I'm building a Flash form to add an item to PayPal's shopping cart. One of the required "hidden" variables going to PayPal is "add" (indicating the quantity of items to add to the cart). Unfortunately, "add" is an Actionscript reserved word. Is there a way I can pass the required variabl...more >>

Is there ANY way to make the computer use video hardware acceleration to perform the flash drawing? Do you know how smooth complex animations would be with hardware acceleration? maybe 3rd party software can do it? Thx Sky Strider ...more >>

hello, i was wondering if someone could help me out, i just bought the flash mx 2004 actionscript book training from the source and the first part tells me to go to file>new and choose .as file from the menu, to bring up the actionscript editor to create an .as file, however the only thing sho...more >>

How can a set up a component so that as I increase or decrease it's size it maintains it's aspect ratio? ...more >>

Hi all, Is there somebody who can help me witht he following; i recently switched to flash mx 2004, the problem is that i have an old file wich i currently started working on and updating again, this file is an old flash 5 file and everytime i save the file and close it, it is completely usele...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to improve Flash MX's interperetation of HTML formatted text. I have a function that wraps all anchor tags with color and underline formatting so now my hyperlinks look like hyperlinks, but I would like to simulate hyperlink mouseover effects as well (changing the hyp...more >>