How can you set the window size and other attibutes of a new blank window using the getURL method? I am using the following basic code: on (release) { getURL(http://www.myURL.com, "_blank"); } Is there an ActionScript method that allows you to insert width and height variables ...more >>

I'm writing a game - a space ship dodging asteroids. The ship and asteroid are movie clips. I randomly scale and then randomly move four instances of asteroid across the screen toward the ship, and use a hit test in the asteroid clip to detect collision with the ship. I have a variable ca...more >>

I'm looking for any help that could be provided. I have currently set up a webpage for a new start up company. I created a contact form with 3 fields for the user to insert text. The three fields are their name, their email address, and their message. I have created two buttons "reset" an...more >>

My loaded .swf (with loadMovie()) has action script that calls upon previously creates _global.var. It appears not to se this. When I change the _global var to a regularly declared var (so it is now on the _root or _level0 timeline - no problem. The threads all say - global variables and a ...more >>

hi there i have been asked to create a flash file that loads a database of different addresses into a text box when the user clicks on a map of the UK. If, for instance, the user clicks on the south of england, the database only shows the addresses in the south of england (i will be suppli...more >>

Hi I'm trying to create an IF statement that looks to see if a radio button is selected, and if it is - move on. I want to do this using a button. It's set up like a question e.g. what comes after A in alphabet? possible answers - B, D, I, K (each answer presented as radio button) ...more >>

Hello Everyone. I am right now working on a project that reads in an XML file - alters it in some way and then writes out the altered content. But i have run into the problem that when i read in the file i set ignoreWhite = true and then write that file out - my file comes out in one line....more >>

loadMovie([videoList.getItemAt(videoList.selectedIndex).data], "this.jp"); Can anyone tell me why this script isn't working? If I trace "(videoList.getItemAt(videoList.selectedIndex).data) it comes back with the desired URL for the movie I want to load. The load location I know to be valid ...more >>

How do you get a offline projector application to load content from the same folder. That is how is it possible without publishing in flash mx 2004. I am trying to simply load a FLV into one of the new video components. using the swf it loads just fine. Using the exe (because not all users ...more >>

What is the most efficient way to fade out a movie clip using code? In other words, I want to use code to decrease the alpha setting of myMovieClip over 20 frames until it reaches zero. Any pointers would be much appreciated. Bill ...more >>

hi guys, i'm trying to work out a contact form for flash these are the fields in my 'contact' section: Name: Email: Website(Optional): Message: i've been looking at a couple of tutorials on working with php, but i don't really get them.. can anyone help? ...more >>

I have a script that creates a movie then loads a movie into it. I have a button in that movie that I want to unload the created movie. My tries have been failures any help woudl be greatly appreciated. Here is the code I used to create the movies : on (release) { this.createEmptyMov...more >>

Hi What actionscript do i put on a button in flash to make a new window open up in the browser? The button is in a window that is already a popup and i want several different popups coming from this window. Goto www.iso-land.com/interactive.html and press the play the game button, that...more >>

Is ther a way to evaluate the last character of a text feild? I need to control the script to react differently to vairous file extensions and reading the last letter of the linkage string and evaluating the value seems to be a good way to do it, but I don't know if it can be done. ...more >>

I am a total newb so please bear with me. I have a client who wants a flash file to play upon entry to their site but not any other time. If someone clicks to another page and then back to the homepage, they don't want it to play. Can someone help me with the param I need? I tried <param n...more >>

I am trying to create a text ticker that will display different messages at different stages of a movie. At the moment I am just testing fonts etc. so I have created a new format, created a string, created a TextField, assigned the string as the text of the text field and then apply the format...more >>

Can anyone tell me why this code won't work publishing under flash 6.0 and what the correct code might be. I'd like the video to open in a new window and be the correct size. on (Reslease) { GetURL("npvideo.html", "_blank"); } Much appreciated! ...more >>

In my .as file, I have: function onPress() { for (element in this._parent) { if (this._parent[element] != this) { if (expanded) { this._parent[element]._visible = true; } else { this._parent[element]._visible = false; } ...more >>

I have created a Flash animation as a short intro to my mini site. What script do I put at the end of it to load a different page? I have it set up in HTML but I want it to access another file in the same folder. I am working on a Media Kit and I want it to run independantly from the web. All ...more >>

Hi, I have a little nagging problem when using loadVars to write data to a text file using PHP. It seems (flashplayer?) is opening a new browser when the php script runs. Is there any way to get rid of this? I've seen this problem in other forums with no results that work for me. ...more >>

I'm writing a game - a space ship dodging asteroids. The ship and asteroid are movie clips. I randomly scale and then randomly move four instances of asteroid across the screen toward the ship, and use a hit test in the asteroid clip to detect collision with the ship. I'm trying to count ...more >>

How can I set the browser to scroll if the flash movie has "focus" within the browser. Meaning I have clicked within the flash movie now the scroll wheel only interacts with the flash movie and not the actually browser scrollbar. My RIA is of varing Stage Height based on which section of the a...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for a vertical newsticker with xml. Anyone some ? thanks ...more >>

Hi Guys, I am having some problems controlling the sound in my movie. The movie is a presentation to be given to a group of children, with an introduction featuring music. The movie starts, and plays the opening scene for 140 frames with sound. Then the movie stops, and requires the us...more >>

Has anyone ever managed to actually remove the focus from a text field? var mListener = new Object(); mListener.onMouseUp = function(){ Selection.setFocus("null"); Selection.setFocus(null); Selection.setFocus(); Selection.setFocus("another_txt"); } Mouse.addListene...more >>

print problems or not? Hi, I have a movie with some MC and i want print all MC's at same time, i use this code: on (release) { print("_rootMC1", "bframe"); print("_rootMC2", "bframe"); print("_rootMC3", "bframe"); } and i dont have any problem work fine, but ... always a but...more >>

Hi, Im trying to load a movie into a movie and that works fine with me but when I try to load a xml file to a textarea comp. in the second movie it doesn't show the text,only the picture is loaded can anybody help me pls pls pls pls pls thanks in advance for thoes who will help me! ...more >>

Hi all, got this code _global.sr_array.sortOn("persname") sr_dg.setDataProvider(_global.sr_array); sr_dg.removeAllColumns(); sr_dg.columnNames=["persname"]; sr_dg.showHeaders = false which populates a datagrid sr_dg. If I push new data into _global.sr_array I want the datagrid to...more >>

I'm writing a program in Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, but I need the code run with Actionscript 1.0, so I go to the main clip and click in "Configuration..." in the property panel. Then I select Actionscript 1.0 and Flash Player 6. Problems come when I try to use some functions a...more >>

I wrote: everytime I dynamically create a textField from the main timeline and fill it with data from xml and then use html text to make it into a url it masks the movieClip it's sitting on and keeps that clip from seeing my mouseOver. Have tried several work arounds to no avail including cr...more >>

hi guys, i have 110 thumbnails which i wanna put them under my 'gallery' section, is there are shorter way of putting them up, instead of the 'manual' way by putting them up one by one?...more >>

I am using a flash clock movie clip which uses the Actionscipt: time=new Date(); var seconds = time.getSeconds() var minutes = time.getMinutes() var hours = time.getHours() if (hours<12) { ampm = "am"; } else{ ampm = "pm"; } while(hours >12){ hours = hours - 12; } if(h...more >>

Here is what I have done: - using flash mx 2004 - create submit button by clicking on 'Button' in Components panel and drag to the stage - on the components inspector, change the label to 'Submit' - nothing has been changed on the 'Schema' tab on the component inspector - making sure t...more >>

an HTML text in Flash (or maybe in general) can have: <FONT FACE="Arial" Size="27" COLOR="#000000"> This is 27 pixel size <FONT SIZE="44"> but this is 44</FONT> and 27 again </FONT> What I would like is something complete like: <FONT FACE="Arial" Size="27" COLOR="#000000"> This is 27 pixel...more >>

This is killing me. I have a mc that I want to be moving around in the background following the _xmouse, but when you mouseover a menu header, I want that moving background to stop. This is the code so far that I've come up with that works. I want to make it loop because I am going to build it...more >>

Hi, I have been having loads of problems with a simple pre-loader to load (relatively) small flash movies - when viewed live the preloader is very slow and takes a long time to even appear. Here is the actionscript I am using, placed on an instance of a movie clip with a dynamic text f...more >>

Hi...I'm new to actionscripting and am having trouble controlling movie clips from the main timeline. I have a series of 47 movie clips in the main timeline with instance names of "clip 1, clip2, clip3"...etc I have a button instance which I've assigned the following script... on(rel...more >>

everytime I dynamically create a textField from the main timeline and fill it with data from xml and then use html text to make it into a url it masks the movieClip it's sitting on and keeps that clip from seeing my mouseOver. Have tried several work arounds to no avail including creating a ...more >>

I've created a movie clip on frame 1 of my timeline. On frame 1 of the timeline, I've attached stop so that the movieclip can play through. Now, at the end of the movieclip (last frame) I am trying to attach an actionscript that will direct Flash to go to frame 10 of the main timeline and play...more >>

Hey again guys. I've recently changed my loadMovies to loadClips, and it works for half of my external swfs and jpegs that i load into gallery, but for some reason it doesn't like to load some of them... I'm sure my path is correct, since if i change the loadClip to getURL, it opens the ...more >>

hi, i am using var menu_tree:mx.controls.Tree; to enable keyboard support for my TreeMenu. All in all my Flash Movie is something similar to a Powerpoint Presentation. I have some <slides> in different <directories> I need button function to jump to the first | prev | next | ...more >>

I have a clock running on my site. I require a movie to be called and loaded onto the stage every hour. For example, when clock displays 17:00:00, '17.swf' will load on the stage, when clock displays 18:00:00, '18.swf' will load onto stage etc... I have been unsucessful in my previous atte...more >>

can anyone advise on streamming flvs into a fla im having problems when it come to publishing the fla...it seems it cant find the flv....works ok in testing when using the media component....much appreciated jamil ...more >>

Hi guys.. This works : trace (this._x); function myFunction() { do some stuff... } This DOESNT work (traces "undefined") : function myFunction() { trace (this._x); do some stuff... } note, i am calling this function on an interval.. any ideas?! cheers ...more >>

Okay, here is the situation: I have this movie clip: Content_mc which contains a bunch of named frames for me to link to them to change Content_mc from buttons. Well, when I proceeded to make slideout buttons on the original buttons, I made the originals movie clips and had the slideouts ...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for some help with flash. The technique I am trying to work out can be found at www.alexandermcqueen.com I cannot get the gradient to fill the screen and have my main movie to stay in the center of the screen at the same time. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hello. I have a dynamic text box that loads html text from a text file. This part works okay. I'm using UIScrollBar with the text box. When I open the html page, the swf loads but there is only an empty white scroll bar. If I go to another named keyframe, and then back to the named keyfr...more >>