I am building a portfolio site with audio and video. There is a main movie and then small movies that load into it. Basically my main movie loads portfolio1.swf via function loadFile() { _root.holder.loadMovie("http://www.viswiz.biz/files/portfolio"+mymovie+".swf"); } Inside po...more >>

Hi Everyone. I am trying to wrap my head around the classes and the OOP concepts. Please take a look at the code below. I tried to clean it up to the bare essentials and I marked out the two main questions I ran into. They are marked as comments next to the critical lines... Any he...more >>

There is no TWEENS or EASING component in my Flash MX2004Pro components directory. Is there supposed to be one? The tutorial script I copied to study and examine does not work, and it would appear that an mx control is needed in my library. Is that correct? If so, where do I get them? Tha...more >>

I have the following code set in a movie. var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var myListener: Object = new Object(); myMCL.addListener(myListener); myListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number, bytesTotal:Number) { var loaded:Numb...more >>

I'm basically doing a custom image gallery. I have a single movie clip (symbol) where each instance should have a different thumbnail. I'm using a common movie clip because I want it to do certain things the same way for each thumbnail. buttons_mc - this is my gallery movie buttons...more >>

I have a swf that loads a swf. The child spins out a moveclip for screen elements. I am attempting to address, based upon user selection, an array element located at: _root.mc_StickerHolder.sticker1Line[1][6] No matter how I iterate eval() or this[] I cant get it. I finally constructe...more >>

I have a number of sounds that I am wanting to play in a user customized sequence. How do I check to see if one sound has finished playing before I start the next sound playing? The sounds are all pre-loaded. I am using Flash MX2004 Thanks, -Matt ...more >>

so that my slideshow can play and show the images, inside of me having to manually adding "Next" where viewers will have to click "next" to view each image. I want my slideshow to show images set a specific time and run until the action stop () ...more >>

Hello. I see alot of questions on here about slideshows that run through a series of images, fading in and out. But I would like to do a slideshow that uses thumbnails as buttons. When the buttons are pressed, I would like the image to fade in and then fade out when the next thumbnail (bu...more >>

So, I've got this script that is in a movie, nav.swf. It's loaded in a movie clip in base.swf, along with two other movie clips, 6k4 and CG (two aspects of a business). There'll be more movie clips later, which is why I don't just hardcode everything. When you click on a button in the na...more >>

BitmapData object does not print even when attached to a movieclip object; anyone have any suggestions on how to work around this?! my assumption was that since it is attached to a movieclip object, sending that movieclip object to the printJob.addPage would accomidate it; i get everything exc...more >>

onClipEvent (mouseDown) { _root.ode.play (2); } This will play a MC on mouse Down. What is syntax for play on rollOver? does anyone know?...more >>

The following example from Flash Help is unclear: "The following ActionScript uses POST to send variables in the HTTP header. Make sure you test your documents in a browser window, because otherwise your variables are sent using GET: var firstName:String = "Gus"; var lastName:String = "Rich...more >>

Hi, When making a textfield with dynamic text, you never now how long the text that will be loaded is going to be. Problem is, in Flash you need to draw the textfield with fixed dimensions. When loading a long text in that textfield, all text that doesn't fit in the textfield is not displa...more >>

Hi Im kind of new to writing funtions. I have written a bit of code that randomly shifts a movie clip about when a button is pressed. I then copy and pasted the same code lots of times to make lots of different movie clips move when the same button is pressed. This is very well but lot...more >>

Please could someone tell me how to make an item move on-screen and gradually decelerate using scripting. I am a beginner at this, and I am sure it is very very easy for 99.9% of the people who read this. I thought it would work if I wrote the following script: on (release) { counter ...more >>

Hi, I made a website entirely in Flash. During intialization, the flash-program downloads an external xml-file containing all the text of he different sections of the site. This way, content and UI is nicely seperated and a user can switch easily between different languages. All data i...more >>

I cannot accede to the movie clip contained in the component "window". I try to do something like this: newWindow = mx.managers.PopUpManager.createPopUp(_root, Window, true, {title:"Window", contentPath:"TheMovieClip", closeButton:true}); newWindow.content.variable="something"; But whe...more >>

Hello all, I need to make buttons that let me change the font to bold, Italic and/or bold just like a chatroom/instant messenger. I already have a combo box to change font but now I need a scriptt to change to bold etc. oh and also if possible change font size. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

HI, for a while now i've being trying to dynamically assign names to an object : Object. for example: dynamicName ="mc1" dynamicName : Object=new Object()// I want this object to be named "mc1" Basically i have this in a loop where dynamicName should have the value, "mc1", "mc2",...more >>

hi, what is the difference between dynamic text and normal text field ?. Any one plz explain me. which is the better to use? thanks......more >>

I can't seem to get it right! I am trying to set a button to launch Acrobat reader and a specific PDF doc. Any and all help is appreciated. Presentation tomorrow and it's going to be a long night. ...more >>

I have rendered some uncompressed AVI's out of Premeire. Three of them. Drug them into Squeeze and created FLVs. No problem. I used Lee Brimelows tutorials on Flash Video- very good videos. I made a SWF pointing to the FLVs and all works great. When the video is selected on the web page, ...more >>

i have a bunch of flv videos. from actionscript i want to move to a specified index in the flv, capture the jpg, and save the jpg to disk. does anyone know how to programmically automate the creation of dynamic .jpg thumbnails from a ..flv.? ...more >>

Hi all, I ran into a strange problem. I don't know if it's a bug but seeing that I'm new at this, I'm going to assume it's me. I have a textfield that is controlled by a scrollbar (Flash component). The textfield shows a part of my XML document. Below is my code. My xml document is so...more >>

Whenever I try to put a gotoAndPlay action in a button I get an error saying "Statement must appear within on handler" Please help me....more >>

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...hey yo, i tried for several times to complete this part but couldnt manage it. the problem is that i include a flash in my site and i read some values with loadVars() ill try to explain it. on every page some mouse-data shouls be shown, the mousedate comes from an other flash ...more >>

Hi. I have a movie clip that contains a dynamic text field. The parent clip has a loop script to send the text (from an array) into the dynamic text field. The problem is that the text only appears in the text field IF the text field is on the first frame of the clip. As soon as I move the ke...more >>

When the fs command "allow scale" is used in a Flash movie for web delivery, it works fine in IE, but in Firefox, it turns the movie into a very small thumbnail. Has anyone else solved this problem? I'd appreciate your ideas. Thanks ...more >>

I'm having difficulties know what I'm doing wrong here. While setting up my parameters I store them into a local variable so I can manipulate them inside my drawSquare method. All work except the x and y coordinates. Hopefully someone here can see what I am missing or doing wrong. var mHei...more >>

Hello, I want to be able to access the scroll property of dynamic text fields between movies clips, but I can't seem to figure out the appropriate paths. There are many examples of placing a dymanic textfield on the main stage, assigning to it a textField instance name "blah_txt" and the...more >>

I'm completely new to flash and downloaded the trial version last night. i did the basic tutorial but the AS code I copied from the tutorial is not working. It's supposed to show pictures as I click the next button. Any help with this code. I want to soee this work b4 I buy the products. L...more >>

I'm trying to mask an external image var moo:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip("photo", 32); loadMovie("images/2.jpg", moo); createEmptyMovieClip("too"); too = attachMovie("tmask", "tmask", 33); too.setMask(moo); ...more >>

I'm completely new to flash and downloaded the trial version last night. I did the basic tutorial but the AS code I copied from the tutorial is not working. It's supposed to show pictures as I click the next button. Any help with this code. I want to see this work b4 I buy the products. LA...more >>