I neeed a good engine for games to use shared objects. Please post and link and download. Thanks. My currenbt engine has problems...more >>

Okay, what silly thing am I forgetting? I have a dynamic text field named mainHeader. Basically I load the settings from an external source (theSettings) and then apply them to the textfield. Everything except the border is working just fine. And the border setting is coming through. ...more >>

on my main timeline i have movieclips (with instance names) which set a choice when clicked. on a seperate AS layer in the main timeline i have: MCbutton1.choice = 0; MCbutton2.choice = 1; they work fine. now i want to have a new MC called "Container" which holds another MC with an...more >>

Hi, I have made this game in which in every level I use mcl.loadClip to load a jpg image. Everything works fine but sometimes the image wont show up although it's loaded (trace(mcl.loadClip("images/" + level + ".jpg", this.imaginaryMC)); says true). Weird thing is that the listeners like l...more >>

Hey people, wassup? Ok, I have an interactive navigation bar for my future website. Unfortunatly, I have a problem with something. Maybe you guys can help. Well, you see a bunch of skyscrapers in the distance. Your cursor is actually a sniper scope with zoom. And one of the hidden things t...more >>

Can I load boolean variables directly from textfiles? Something like x=true doesn't make x receive the truth value, instead x receives the string value "true";...more >>

I'm pretty new to ActionScript having come from Lingo and I have duplicated an mc by referencing it as follows: iNum = iNum++ myTargetMc = scollPane.scrollContent.scrollItem; duplicateMovieClip (myTargetMc,"myTargetMc"+iNum,iNum); myNewTargetMc = eval("myTargetMc"+iNum); trace(scollPan...more >>

Is there any way to make onMouseMove invoke less often? Like, every other mouse movement instead of every mouse movements? Right now it's taking up way too much CPU time, it's a total waste, and I don't need it to update so fast. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, I've been working on learning the Tween class, and I'd like to figure out how to define or make available additional properties. Specifically, I'm interested in changing the color of a clip, but other things may come out of this. There didn't seem to be a ready-made answer from a Google...more >>

All I want to do is have a simple quiz that will hold a variable and then calculate a score at the end. It's all multiple choice and I know PHP but have zero skill at this flash thing. just trying to get flash to go to the next keyframe is becoming a problem and I'm at the remdial stage and ...more >>

hello all! (this is my first post here) If (like me) you can't be arsed reading all the ins and outs of the problem, here are the my questions. If they are too simplified, the details are below. Q1: In actionScript (OOP), why should it make so much improvement to overall performance by s...more >>

In the documentation under : Using Components | Working with Components | Creating custom focus navigation, it states that "The FocusManager class overrides the default Flash Player focus rectangle and draws a custom focus rectangle with rounded corners." I can't seem to make this work...more >>

I am using a global variable. how do I use it in the gotandplay action. ex: using the variable as a name of a scene Thank you...more >>

Hi guys, gotta question for ya. I thought i had this script right, but it's still not running yet. Here's what im trying to do. In flash (using mx) i have a dynamic text field named "title". and attached to the frame of this text field i have the following script: loadVariables("title.php...more >>

is there an easy way (ie a one line actionscript command) to close the browser window that is housing your flash movie? our project has an exit button and when run locally, we use the fscommand to do fullscreen and quit. that doesn't work in the browser environment however. the fullscre...more >>

could someone turn this into a tutorial? i'm not sure how to do it either because its a project for college. i've only been learning vb so far and if i dont finsh this project of in flash i wont be able to pass my course :( i also have to hand it in soon. would be greatful for any replies ...more >>

I have a Flash movie in an HMTL page. the Flash movie communicates with an LMS. Is there a way of sending an event to Flash when the user of the movie closes the HTML page (onunload) that allows me to execute a number of actionscript commands - namely sending data back to the LMS - before the ...more >>

i developed a standalone demo for a client. the projector file for PC works perfectly fine using my loadMovie commands. the Projector for Mac works fine on the Mac, but as soon as i copy the Projector file created on the Mac to a USB Drive connected on the Mac, the loadMovie functions fail a...more >>

I'm a real novice at XML and need to know how would I go about appending an xml object that looks like the following: <dataList> <data id="1"> <title>myTitle</title> </data> </dataList> All I need to do is add a 2nd child with an id of 2 after the 1st that has an id o...more >>

i'm trying to create a button with a rollout animation - are you supposed to do this with just movie clips? i know you can create a movie clip and insert it with in the "over" state of a button - but i wasn't sure on the rollout. i've tried various bits of script and have been gettting errors....more >>

Hello people, i have a small problem ... I load a dinamyc content to tree component, some folders with childs (with some folders too and then) like to explorer (windows), my real problem is move into these structure, nextSibling doesn't Work because is only for the visible node, i need som...more >>

My movie clip keep repeating itself, even though I have a stop action at the end. If I put a STOP in the main timeline, the movie clips stops, but if I ad a "go to and play", the movie clip starts up again. Help? ...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to use the scrollpane to display a list of items that is assembled dynamically. Basically, at any point, there could be 1 item (no need for scrolling), or 50 items stacked atop each other (show scrollbar). There doesn't appear to be a clear way to do this, it's as if all...more >>

Does anybody know what the earliest version of Flash player that supports css is? Many thanks Scott...more >>

Hi Using Selection.setselection(), I am selecting the text in a text field through ActionScript. The selection is in a black highlight color. I would like to change the selection color to Dark Blue. Is there any way to do this? Please help. Thanks a lot, Jai ...more >>

I have a form app with each screen triggering a preloader/loader on reveal. on (reveal){ myLoader.load(); } The problem is (obviously) each time the screen is revealed, the movie clip loads..I need it to load once and 'stick'...any thoughts? something like : if (isNotLoaded){ ...more >>

I'm currently making a splash window for a CD-ROM that links to executables etc. on the CD ROM. ( a front end if you will...) I want to: 1) run a .exe from the CDROM... I tried the 'get url' but that brings up the "would you like to open or save to disk..." dialog and I don't want that to ...more >>

Hello I am dowloading images using the MovieClipLoader. no problem. the images are going in to a movie clips. But how do I insert those images to another movie clip. This MC should do some animation using the images (like fading..) attachMovie is working only with MC in the libary! ...more >>

Hi! I am trying to make an interactive simulation. This is an abacus simulation using flash2004. I have a problem with setting the numbers or the bead value. The CalculateValue function which is called on Bead MC does't work. I have the sample that you can see. Would you help me please cause I...more >>

Hi, All I'm trying to achieve at present is to send today's date to a text file (called, surprisinly, date.txt). I've been using the LoadVars.send() and LoadVars.sendAndLoad() methods, but with no success. The following are bits of the code. The date object will display the current time, the...more >>

Now , i have a problem like this: How can i make the .swf file save itselt to .gif / .jpg file when it is running????...more >>

Evening all, I'm loading a saved array from ASP in the form 1,45,3,67,23,8,45,12 or suchlike. To turn this back into a proper Flash array I use the code below to end up with _root.new_obstacles_array[0] = 1; _root.new_obstacles_array[1] = 45; _root.new_obstacles_array[2] = 3; _root.new_o...more >>

This is down right strange. development server is win2k and IIS5 production server is win2003 webserver and IIS6 i have a listBox that is populated from a database of image names. when you click on a image name it loads it into a scrollPane. This works 100% of the time in the developme...more >>

Hi, i ave this problem. I would want to format, with XMLconnector, XML data like under: <Scheda> <Cognome>Scartabelli</Cognome> <Nome>Andrea</Nome> <Indirizzo></Indirizzo> <Citta>Bologna</Citta> <Provincia>BOLOGNA</Provincia> <Ca...more >>

Probably a silly question but here it comes. I can mark a part of a text field (ie a single word) and link it to an URL using the field URL-link in the properties. Would it be possible to link to another frame in the same flash file instead of linking to an URL ? Thanks in advance, Sk...more >>

I work for an organisation which develops flash peices for e-learning. Is there any way to control the colour / tint of movieclips within a swf from an external AS file? We currently only support player 6. I know there are Identifiers and AS 2.0 Classes, but not sure about any of this...more >>

is there a flash guru out there who can help me work out the actionscript for real digital time plus or minus 7 minutes. i am able to get the correct time in digital format, but how do i go about adding or reducing the minutes??? thanks in advance, Kel ...more >>

Hi All! Please tell the ways of dinamicly loading components/movieclips upon first request in AS2. For example: site have a button which fills background with stars. But we dont know, will user press this button or not. So if user press button star component(with linked class) s...more >>

Pls help. In my flash file, i have a button to popup a window to set my flash text on/off, all the text call from XML and by default the text is ON. In that popup window, I have 2 radio buttons, one is <b>TEXT ON</b>, another one is <b>TEXT OFF</b>, when I selected <b>TEXT OFF</b> button, ...more >>

myArray = new Array("a", "b", "c", "a", "a", "c"); I need to find out the total number of "a" , "b" ... in the array , so the result is displayed number of a=3 number of b=1 number of c=2 how can i do that ...more >>

Hi all, I have my variables setup on the first frame of my main movie clip. eg. variable1 = "first" variable2 ="second" Inside another movie clip I have a variable "my_text" which is assigned the value of those variables back on the back on _root. eg. my_text = _root.variable1 N...more >>

Hi all. Have been helped out and given some code to do something beyond my knowledge as I'm still very much a novice, the code is great but doesn't do exactly what I want.. I would like to use duplicatemovie (command) to make a copy of a moviesymbol when the viewer clicks on the symbol...more >>

hi, i need help in Xml socket , how does the XML SOCKET connect to the server, i only know this, creating a instance of XML socket, and using the instance ..connect function with IP and Port NO, we can connect, regards, vasanth. if connected, using On Connect function we ca...more >>

Now ,i have many MovieClips duplicated,and i want to align them , how can i do it????? I need your help!...more >>

wondering if I can get a little help. I need to add a form element to my site in flash where the user would only input there email address and click submit and send to my inbox. I really dont know anything when it comes to flash forms and PHP. Is there any way someone can please point me in th...more >>

What I want to do is dynamicaly create a movie Clip object ( movNewMovie = new MovieClip ) then assign a function to the onData event ( movNewMovie.onData = function () { ... } ) then load an external .swf ( movNewMovie.loadMovie ( "url/movie.swf" ) ) When the movie is fully loaded the ...more >>