I have a movie clip on the MAIN page. After the movie clip ends I want frame 1 in Scene 2 (which is named ?portfolio1?) to play. What is happening is that at the end of the movie clip it repeats the clip, and does not go to scene 2 frame 1. This is my action script with (_root) { ...more >>

I can't figure out how to reference a component without actually applying ActionScript directly to the component and using the this.whatever notation. There has to be a way that I can name a component something like comboBox1, and then refer to it like comboBox1.whatever. Any ideas? ...more >>

I want to create a dynamic text member ( "text1_txt" ) that I have on my stage and when I press a button, the text that I have in another text member ( "text2_txt" ) stored in my libraryt starts filling up my "text1_txt" letter by letter but pretty quickly. How can I do this? Thanks for an...more >>

Hi All, i got a problem working with some as files, i have an application that shows some html like content, it reads an specific node of an xml file, each xml node has an "asFile" attribute that specifies where the needed as file is located, i tried to include the as files dynamically, now i ...more >>

Hi I am a young(19) flash designer I have been using it for 3 years and lastly I started to learn XML. I haven't got any troubles with loading parsing or editing XML document the thing is about saving it. Flash has two procedures send and sendAndLoad. I have been trying to use them but it...more >>

Can i load a movie with a scene specification? Thanks! Chris...more >>

Hi, I am still muddling through Flash MX 2004 Professional, and I am attempting to: Have a graphic on screen, say a box, on rollover, have an image appear. Then on the next rollover, have a different image appear (maybe up to five different images.) Is there a simple script out there t...more >>

I was wondering which takes more CPU for Flash to execute: if(mc1.hitTest(mc2._x, mc2._y, true)){ //hit } or using Math to detect distance between two objects: delta_x = mc2_x-_root.mc1._x; delta_y = mc2_y-_root.mc1._y; distance = Math.sqrt((delta_x*delta_x)+(delta_y*delta_y)); ...more >>

And I am not talking about how to alternate row colors, I know that one, but how can I set a color to a specific row in a Datagrid Component? For example, I have 8 rows and I want the first 4 to be red, the next 2 to be orange and the last 2 to be yellow. Is this possible? I have looked...more >>

Similar question to the one i had previously posted. what I need is that when a button is in the rollover state it loads another ..swf movie (in this case on level6) and goes to a specified frame. So lets say I have 3 buttons. When button 1 is on rollOver state it goes to frame 1 of the...more >>

How can I add the Scrollbar component to a dynamic text field?...more >>

I'm really pulling my hair out over this seemingly simple task. I have frame labels in my timeline ("Slide1", "Slide2", etc.) and a button that, when released, should send the playhead to the next consecutive label (i.e. if I'm playing "Slide3" and click the next button I want to jump to the f...more >>

We are using a flash head and have out links with in the flash. We are trying to get the links to target a data cell that we have designated as our main loading cell. We are using this CFML script to load pages outside of the main page... Here is the code we are using: We are getti...more >>

Hi, I am using this scrip to load an external SWF. extSWF.loadMovie("highLights/HighLights.swf", 4); when I preview the movie in Flash (Ctrl+Enter) I receive this error message, but the movie works fine. what does this mean? what handler should I put? **Error** Symbol=NavWords, layer...more >>

Simple question. I want a few buttons when on the rollOver state to play a certain fram in a movie clip. For example when the first button is in the rollOver state it plays frame 2 of a movie clip. And when another button is in the rollOver state i want it to play fram 3 of the same movie ...more >>

I'm building an app. with v2 components. When I place only one instance on the Stage, everything works fine (see http://users.pandora.be/eani/source.fla.zip ) ...more >>

Hi, I'm using _root.createEmptyMovieClip("PStage",0); _root.PStage.loadMovie("c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Pictures\images\covers\Cover2.jpg"); to create a movie clip and to load a JPG to it. The absolute path is just there for testing. When I test the fla, I get this: Error opening URL "...more >>

I am using some variables from a .txt file to read the values through actionscript (loadvariable) I futher want to store the changes made in this values in a the .txt file. Simply to say I want to write in a .txt file. I know it can be done through asp but is there any oter method through which ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to get this code to control the scrolling of a list of buttons but it wont work.. // --------------------------------------------- // Speed is INVERSE // --------------------------------------------- speed = 20; drag = "dragControl"; h = (this._height); trace(h)...more >>

I have a movie that uses dynamic text to simulate filling out a form. I've also added a replay button but when I press the replay button there is a split second where you can see the form filled out before it resets and starts filling out the form again. Is there a way for me to reset these fi...more >>

Is there a way to drop in dynamic content with load movie and get it to resize automaticly? say for example i want to get a folder ful of images resized with max constraints but not the same dementions. I want Flash to handle the size differeance nessicary on the fly. I could use suggesti...more >>

Here's another one. I'd like to move from one URL that contains a Flash movie to another URL with a Flash movie in it. Moving from URl to URL is easy to do, but I'd like to go to a specific location in the new URL. Something like ... from: test.html (which has flash movie) to: whoopdiedo...more >>

I have several movie clips that I want to play one after another - instead of placing them all on the timeline, leaving enough space for each clip to play, can I say in the script "once this movie ends, play this movie" and so forth through all of my movies? How do I do this? Do I need to prel...more >>

Ok you're gonna think this is weird but, here goes... I have a digital photo of a friend of mine and I have all the limbs in seperate images (legs, foot, arm, hand, head, torso *just the picture, not my friend heh heh*). I want to have all these limbs attached with a spring effect and have e...more >>

Hi there. I have a textfield with a size of 450 x 42. The textfield is linked to a variable named "AText". After putting a text to the variable I want to resize the textfield size to the size of the text. So I tought using .autoSize should be the solution for it, but unfortunatley it does...more >>

Anyone aware on an online tutorial that discusses a disjointed rollover effect? I have an interface that is divided into blocks, and I'd like to have blocks appear/disappear when you click one of the blocks. Clicking a block would reveal another block, at the same time hiding any others tha...more >>

I'm a using Flash MX 2004, player 7. I have a textfield with htmlText = '<P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="72" COLOR="#000000">a<U> </U>b</FONT></P>'. First the display looks good. But if i use the code : "var txt:String = _global.current.htmlText; _global.current.htmlText...more >>

Hi I am experiencing this problem: I have MX , and my working partner have 2004 installed When I create a file and drop some dynamic text boxes (embedded), I have no problem seeing scandinavian characters and so on. When I send the file to my partner, he says these characters won't displ...more >>

Is there a way to compress/decompress data (e.g. plain Strings) inside the Flash client with Actionscript? Thx! -Toddy -- Toddy Marx (my email contains no z)...more >>

Anyway to load a new movie at a specific frame? this is the code i have that doesnt work! on (release) { if (_root.loadedString !="about") { _root.movieHolder.loadMovie('about.swf','whereFrame');} } ...more >>

I have this problem: I have an Access database containig two fields: they are the coordinates (x and y) that I have to transmit to a movieclip into an swf file. In the first frame of the swf, I have wroten this code: red.loadVariables("http://localhost/asp2flash/red.asp"); where red ...more >>

I have this problem: I have an Access database containig two fields: they are the coordinates (x and y) that I have to transmit to a movieclip into an swf file. In the first frame of the swf, I have wroten this code: red.loadVariables("http://localhost/asp2flash/red.asp"); where red ...more >>

Does anybody know how to autosize the label field in a checkbox component? I duplicate the checkboxes with a loop and want xml to fill the label properties......more >>

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to insert the value of one variable into the middle of another variable?...more >>

HI I have a doubt I am able to read text from a text file and I am able to asign that text to a text box also. But here I am unable to asign loaded text to a variable why following is my code. var clnts="" var objTxtFile = new loadVars(); objTxtFile.load("clients.txt"); objTxt...more >>

After looking for help trying to figure out why my JS cookie was not working I found about the Server Object Cookies and a poster at Flashkit posted the following AS: Now = new Date(); Today = Now.getDate() + "/" + Now.getMonth() + "/" + Now.getYear(); Cookie = sharedObject.getLocal("Date"); ...more >>

I have a movie in which i want to record and playback user interactions. So far I have the mouse movments recording ok into arrays and the arrays beign applied to a "cursor" mc in play back - fairly straight forward. I also have arrays tracking when a user clicks by scaling the "cursor" mc up...more >>

I have a button issue, I have set up a sub menu and the buttons need to work as follows; on the off state and out state they are green(frame2) and on over and press they are orange(frame 3). I have used the following code but when you roll out it stays orange. When I added the roll out comma...more >>

any clues on how they coded this http://www.spanishfirst.com/en/1_2metodo.jsp you have to click on see demo(spanish lessons) and go forward three exercices to the one where you have to match the countries traditonal food. i could only work out it's a load of movieclips with a load of ...more >>

Hello, Question is there a way to load new data every 2 min. into a flash file whitout to refresh the page ? Thanks, Marco ...more >>

Hi, I can't find any posting that corresponds to this, so I hope I'm not cross-posting. I've created a movie that allows the user to click on different buttons to perform actions on a character's account. For example, the character in the film has an opening balance of X. If they top-up ...more >>

I'd recommend you to read this :-) http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flashmx2004/skinning.php ...more >>

Im trying to create a movieclip with a linked external class that extends the MovieClip class. It sort of works but I cant refer to the movieclips instances and variables. First I made a movieclip with 2 textField instances with I called "title" and "description". then i marked the clip av...more >>

I am using some live text in Flash, but I am having trouble with some special characters. I need to use a degree sign ? (i.e. 20?C) I have tried using &deg; but this does not work (I use &quot; for " and that works fine) Does anyone have any ideas why the &deg; is not working or what I should ...more >>

I guess many people could use this if someone knows how to do it. I have a while loop that that tells an animation to play one frame each time it loops. I need the simplest way to get the loop to pause for x seconds between loops, any ideas? Thanks B.Singh ...more >>

hello, i am very, very new to flash and i guess my problem is very easy to solve, so i am sorry to bother. but i just don't get on myselfe. i want to start a movieclip on release and stop it on next release of a button. i tried it the "visible" way but my "if-else" won't work. stop(); th...more >>

Here is my question. I am trying to pass a variable from php to flash in order to generate a URL. The flash code is imbeded on the PHP page. The URL address is comprised of a variable located in PHP page and the rest of the URL is hard coded in my flash script. I tried to String Concat in F...more >>

I can use .selectableRange() to set only once, can I set multiple day selectable,ex.1,5,8,25...?...more >>

that link does not answer his issue.......more >>

attachMovie();...more >>

Hi There! Here's my script... var varIntervalID; function continueMovie() { clearInterval(varIntervalID); play(); } if (i == 5) { stop(); varIntervalID = setInterval(continueMovie,5000,"") } I recorded the Interval in varIntervalID but when I tried to clear the Interval us...more >>