Help !!! I have form using the actionscript attached to this topic. The form functions correctly inside of Flash but when it is uploaded and run in a browser it doesnt work. The form connects to my database to deposit the information and then the php page returns OK if it was successful ...more >>

Hi All, How can I get the slider bar to land over the main menu button when that page loads in the browser? Below is a link for the current page I am working on, but the same problem is with every page in the site. http://www.innova-techsolutions.com/blacknwhite_image.htm Below i...more >>

I'm slogging my way through Lynda's Flash MX 2004: Beyond The Basics: Hands-On Training Manual and have run across a few moments where the tutorials (and the actionscript I've used to complete them,) do not act like they're supposed to. I don't know if it's my fault, the book's or a bug in Fla...more >>

I have attached the below link below if anyone can help me. On each of my bullets they are coming in to fast. How do I get them to stop for about 5 seconds (enough time for any employee to read one) and then the next one comes in, etc. can anyone help me please.:confused Deb http...more >>

Hi, i need to clean a onRollOver status from a movie clip, in order to let childs movie clip use an rollOver status of their own. Please Help me!!!...more >>

Does ANYBODY have a simple example of how to add instances of a movieclip using the depthManager? Previously I added clips like this: someMovieHolder.attachMovie("instanceName",newName,nextDepth,{_x:0,_y:0}); where newName and nextDepth are variables holding the new instance name and n...more >>

Here's the situation: I'm trying to do a card game that was done in c++. In the c++ version, the Deck object held multiple Card objects. How do I do this in flash? Here's my Deck.as so far. class Deck { var cards:Array; function Deck() { } function addCard(Card) { ...more >>

I have a string returning in an array. I'm sending the contents of that string to a function to test if the string contains a letter. If the string only contains one letter it works fine. I can't get it to work if it contains more than one. Please help... function convertConstruction (temp...more >>

Hey Everyone. I just upgrade to Actionscript 2.0 and was trying to make my script compatible with Actionscript 2. When I publish my file with AS 1 Version 5 the movie works great, when I publish it with AS2 Version 7 no go. Can anyone help me out? I'm trying to figure what changed. A...more >>

If I load an external MC (swf) into an empty container MC on my main timeline, then the path to reference say, an embeded MC from within the externaly loaded MC would take the form of: _root.EmptyMC.EmbededMC ?? So no matter where i use the actionscript, even within multiple embeded MCs ...more >>

Hi Any ideas on how you change the color of the text border color - and the actual fill color? thanx dirk...more >>

hi all, if i load an external file using ProgressBar and loader components, the combobox is not working in main file. in external file it is working fine. if anyone knows the solution plz tell me. thx, ramana. ...more >>

Hi Im having trouble using Flash 8, I have bought a few books but still cant work it out. I just have a really simple screen, it has 2 text boxes and one button. What I want to happen is you type a string into textbox 1, then click the button and it displays the content of textbox 1 in tex...more >>

hello, I am making this site.Where I have a splash page and then its followed by my photogallery.As there is no menu, how can I make my content show after the splash Page?slpash Page is an external swf that I am loading into master.swf. ...more >>

Hi, Can anyone please help I am having a problem with a contact page in Flash. I am using cgi-bin/formmail.pl to return the data so that recipients recieve it via e-mail. The form and script works well with html. The actionscript I am using appears ok -- if I use send rather than sendAndLo...more >>

hi all, i have a problem with ProgressBar component. i am using XML connectors in my files. those files are working fine. but when i load these file in preloader, the xml data is not coming in that file . if anyone knows plz help. myxml.swf is working fine. but this file i loaded int...more >>

im making a lil game and i need an if statment to run only if a varuble has changed.... I have it setup liek this you type in an iput when you press enter it changed _root.InputL to _root.Input.text to "; And then i have in a movie clip on there when InputL = yess do this and i cant have...more >>

ok i need a bit of help. I need a timer, a backwords timer. I mean i wanna put a certain time (ex: 1h 11m 11s) and then start counting backwords. I don't think that is too hard to make. It doesn't have to have style or what ever.. i just need the timer. if you can make it swf directly it ...more >>

I have set up an swf where I have an external flv loaded in a new video object, the script is from the flash help section, and when previewed it is fine, however when I try and test it in my web browser the .flv doesn't load, the rest of the page loads up fine, but the movie doesn't appear. I ...more >>

hi: i'm creating some MC's dinamically: for (i=0; i<rows; i++) { for (j=0; j<cols; j++) { idx = i*cols+j; if (idx < n) { tnRef = this.createEmptyMovieClip("tn"+idx,this.getNextHighestDepth()); } } how can i add onRelease event handlers to them? i've trie...more >>

I'm calling a web service that returns an array. I have a function that just displays the result returned. I'm getting [object, object] when I trace the result. How do I pull a variable returned from the array like city? I've tried; details.onResult=function(result){ trace(result.cit...more >>

:confused; I am duplicating a movie which contains dynamic text fields and need to then reference that movie in the following statement to update the text field in the duplicted movie and control its functions. all I get are errors when I try it. i've tried [ ] ( ) surrounding the element on...more >>

Is it possible to put a script on a button that when pressed will increase the frames per second? I need to press the button and double the frame rate to sort of fast-forward through the movie....more >>

I have a class called NewsReader and inside I have two functions. One is called loadFeed and the other is called finish... I want finish() to be called once the feed loads in the loadFeed function. Here's the code: ... private function loadFeed(feedUrl:String, storyText_txt:TextField):V...more >>

Does anyone have any advice on how to debug something that works in the test player, but not in the browser? It seems simple enough. I'm passing a button object to a loaded movie clip. This movie clip calls the button's onRelease action. When I call expandbtn.onRelease() from the main time...more >>

I am looking for a solution that will resize the monitor from flash. I don't want to use the fscommand because it stretches the flash presentation and if you use fscommand no scale property then your left with two large blank spaces on either side of your presentation. So I am looking for...more >>

Launch projector limited amount of times ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is there a script that counts how many time a projector has been open? I'm looking to make a demo projector that can only open a project 1, 2 or 3 times. ...more >>

This is the situation ON THE STAGE: - a textField that loads an external .txt file with some CSS formatted text containing href tags that call a function declared in the main timeline or in some class through the asfunction protocol; - a scrollBar component (or every other kind of Flash...more >>

Greetings All. I'm fairly new to the AS 2.0 world and need some assistance with a script. The abridged version, I constructed a script that will change the .._visible property of movie clips on a stage, based on the onRollOver and on RollOut function. But as I add more images to the movie, the...more >>

Is there a way to wrap the text in datagrid header or column text?...more >>

Hello All. I am working with an accordion component in which i create a scroll pane. The information with in this scrollpane needs to be deleted and created from scratch as it appears in 4 different configurations. To delete all the information within the scrollpane i actually delete the ...more >>

hey i found this image liquifier that i really want to use - however it's been created in flash 4 and when i open it in mx2004 it doesn't work properly. flash automatically updates the actionscript when you open it. i've gone through the code and the components again and again and i can't fo...more >>

I'm trying to create a URL link for a button nested in a symbol. This is the action script I used for the button in the symbol: getURL(http://www.timberlake.com, _blank); I keep getting an error message saying: **Error** Symbol=Panel4, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 1: ')' or ',' expected ...more >>

Hi everyone, I wanted to know is there any differences in flash mx and flash mx 2004 - when it come's to actionscript? Plus can I just copy all my actionscript from flash mx into flash mx 2004. Will my coding work fine in both version? Thanks so much!! ...more >>

Ok here is what I would like to happoen but Im not sure how to do it: -I have 3 buttons -When you click ANY of the buttons, they all play the SAME animation that leads to a box. -Depending on which button you push will display certain text displayed in the box -Once the box is filled w...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to learn ActionScript and have worked out a lot... but, facing a deadline, have to resort to bothering everyone on here, so apologies! I've got a site with four pages of picture thumbnails. On clicking a thumbnail, up pops a full screen picture. The pictures are num...more >>

I found this actionscript code thing on another website. I put it into my flash animation... Everything is working fine, except I don't want it to run forever... I want the snow to stop at a certain point... What do I do? The following is the script I got... var swidth = 550; v...more >>

This was possible in Flash Player 7, but seems to have been changed in Flash Player 8. I built an asp.net app that allows the user to select a file from the user's hard drive [.jpeg] and then pass via flashvars the URI to the flash movie for preview before uploading to the server. The applic...more >>

Hi ! I am wondering how to sort Arrays based on the date ? I have some XML data that looks like this: <news> <date>10-27-2005</date> <title>Some title here</title> <link>http://...</link> </news> <news> <date>10-30-2005</date> <title>Some other title here</title> ...more >>

I have a chunk of code that is on the first frame and using a button "th1_hit" that when released, loads an image into a placeholder movie clip on the stage, I've used this several times before but can't get it to work in this application for some reaason. ny help? th1_hit.onRelease = func...more >>

Hi group I'm duplicating an mc and placing them in rows, at the moment I have an if statement that set's them out in 2 columns running down the page, what I'm trying to achieve or understand is how to get them to duplicate in which ever way i want i.e 3 or 4 columns, also to achieve some kind o...more >>

hi I am making a text rpg and i wana display the date like this The date is Min>hour>day>month>year so or example gametxt.text = "hi, the dare right now it " + Min +":"+ hour ..... and so on.. how do i do this :D? ...more >>

Hi, I have a move clip called "Volume_Button". The clip has 10 frames, and what I want to do, is when a button is pushed, for the Volume_Button movie clip to go to frame 10 and stop. Heres what I have: Code: on (release){ with (Volume_Button){ gotoAndStop(5); } } And it doesn't see...more >>

I try to make a class there I import an XML file with configuration data. After this import I will use the class form an flash animation. My problem is this. The xml-file is not loaded before the master script call a new method from the class. The obvious solution is to use an eventlistener an...more >>

I would like to know, how to create a popup in flash?...more >>

Hi I'd like to make a randomly changing background image for my flash site. The idea would be that the background image changes every 30 seconds. The images would probably be individual swf movies that load into a movie holder on the main timeline Any ideas on the best way to achie...more >>

Hey there groovers :O) just a quicky i'm sure someone can answer. When i trace( this ); it returns - '_level0.subnav_mc.sub_people.sub_btn_0' When i trace( typeof ( this ) ); it returns - 'movieclip' the thing is; if( this == "_level0.subnav_mc.sub_people.sub_btn_0"); retur...more >>

Hello, Im building a site for my sisters reptile shop. On each page im loading a picture which displays at the top of the page. just below this i have 5 thumbnails which, when released, load a different picture into the space. What i would like to do is have a random picture (anyone of the...more >>

Hey all, I have this problem moving an object along a specific path. It is easy to move by using coordinates but I really want to follow a path. The path is not a curve but a line with vertical and horizontal directions. The direction can be (left, right, up, down): mc._x += speed; or ...more >>

I'm working on an application that has a tv and a remote control. There is nothing on the stage. Everythin will be rendered during runtime. The remote is going to have a couple of buttons that would turn the tv on or off and change the channels. i created a class for the remote. In the cl...more >>