Hi! I got a strange problem: when i add a Flash MX 2004 Button Component to my Flash Movie, it looks just right. I can edit it and add event handlers. But when i publish the flash movie (or go to "test movie"), only a white square shows up (see screenshot). The mysterious part is that i ca...more >>

Hi all I'd like to know how to apply the equivalent of a tint AND alpha tween to a symbol, but using only action script. I know how to change a symbol alpha or color (although somehow "Color" seems more complicated to change than _alpha, for reasons I don't understand), but I don't know ho...more >>

hello, i have a variable declared as: _root.var = 2300; when i do this: _root.var += 100; trace("_root.var: "+_root.var); i get _root.var: 2300100; is there something i am doing wrong or a workaround for what i really want to do, which is to treat _root.var as a number, not a...more >>

Is it possible to control a movie clip from a button which is part of another movie clip? For example: If I wanted movie clip X to goto frame 5 and play when a button in movie clip Y is pressed. Leaving both movie clip Y timeline and the main timeline static. ...more >>

Here is the problem again. var a=dataGridHeader; array.push({a: data}); ...problem is that in my dataGrid header is display "a" and not "dataGridHeader". I try something with eval( ), but it didn't work. PROBLEM 2 I need to replace data in only one cell in dataGrid. When I use...more >>

Hello, help please!!! I'm being mad, I need to assign one image to each button I have in stage (12 in total) I've made some lops, in order to create the butons and to load the images from hd, but I get the same image in the buttons, so my loops aren't ok could you please have a lo...more >>

Hi, I am building a form that uses the build-in Radion Button component. how can I change the default font? do I need to build a new class object (.as)? thanks Mic...more >>

I have a .swf published in html with Flash MX 2004 Pro that will not display without a page refresh or right clicking and selecting forward. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Url - http://www.virtualmedia.tv/x Code below: <P align=center><BR> <OBJECT id=VTVLive codeBase=h...more >>

Hi all, Im a newbie to flash and recently im on a project. I need to load my flash files into a swf but i dunno how? im thinkin of doing one preloader on a swf, den everytime i need this preloader, i will call for it but i dunno how? can anyone teach me? or tell me read up on which actio...more >>

Hi There! How can I load a random background image (from external file) in my Flash movie, every time it loads on the web page? What ActionScript function do I use for that? Thanks in advance! Don ...more >>

When i drag an instance of my component on to the stage my custom made live preview works fine, but when i drag another instance on to the stage they seem to share the xch instance, why is this? My live preview code looks like this.. stop(); Stage.scaleMode = "noScale"; Stage.a...more >>

Ok....I made the appropriate additions to the spaces commented and this is what I got now: currentDate = new Date; today = currentDate.getDate()+"/"+currentDate.getMonth()+"/"+currentDate.getYear(); cookie = sharedObject.getLocal("date"); if (cookie.data.expire == undefined) { cookie.dat...more >>

I have so far [Code] "Login.php?Name="+Name+"&R="+random(999) and "Register.php?RegName="+RegName+"&"+random(999) [/Code] and i'm trying to make it where it will add a reg name AND PASSWORD, but I cannot figure out how to add the add password line into the above lines, if you'd like...more >>

Here is the problem: dataGrid.getItemAt(dataGrid.selectedIndex).headerName; this works fine. But, var a = headerName; dataGrid.getItemAt(dataGrid.selectedIndex).a; won't work. Can anyone tell me where is the problem? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, Sorry i'm so stupid, but i cant find out a thing... I want to link a button with actionscript.. I know i've got to take 'get url'.. But then i've got to fill in url, window and method. Url is obvious, but window and method are not. I tried to fill in _parent and get. But i allways...more >>

I am having trouble binding the "results" of the XMLConnector with the "dataProvider" property of DataSet using only Actionsript. Workflow: I create an XMLConnector and a DataSet in Frame 1 using Actionscript. I then set all the propoerties of the components, such as the URL in the XMLCon...more >>

hi, i've made a program to test a rewind function on a movieclip. The movieclip is a simple plenty ring wich grow up with a motion tween on 24 frames.On the 24th frame i've made a stop() action. Then i put the movieclip on a scene which contain 1 frame. The goal is to make the rin...more >>

I've seen a few other threads related to this, but no one answered it yet.... In MX, we had the changehandler, so I could set a list, and use: function menu() { gotoAndStop(Condition.getSelectedItem().data); } where "menu" is the changehandler, to make a menu. So, How do I d...more >>

Ok I have made a website for a group of architects but it has become way to complicated due to the fact that I have not used very good actionscript. It works but is extremely hard to modify and ad new content. www.mcsaia.com Once there click a few buttons and wait untill when you clic...more >>

Using examples provided in a Peach Pit manual, as well as this sites User Support links, nothing I input produces a workable date or time for my Flash project. Does someone have a workable script that produces a date and time? Perhaps there is a step I'm missing, but I'm typing and cut...more >>

im not 100% sure if this is action script or not but does some one know how to get the start of your site load with a progress bar??? please help....more >>

I don?t know how I can be getting this wrong, but why is it that when I load a movie into my main scene (loadMovie) which makes use of a pre-loader..the main scene in which its displayed reckons its fully loaded?but when tested on the net, it definitely doesn?t completely load before playing- ...more >>

I have tried to set cuepoint navigation. I follow the tutorial all the way. I test every step to make sure it is still working....it works every step of the way until i set the slide cue point navigation. I select the media display component in the presentation slide. go to behaviors - me...more >>

Hi there, I use the following code to build a message and start the email programm with this message. It works perfect from the flesh editor and when I start the .swf from the flash player. BUT when I use the generated .html file with the flash movie, all new line comands (\n) disappe...more >>