Hi there, I'm trying to load an image (as a movie clip) into a duplicate of another movie clip. I have one movie clip on my stage which is a template movie clip. I want to duplicate this movie clip, and load my image into it. The problem I'm running into is that I don't seem to be able to a...more >>

Hi all, this should be so simple but I can't get it to work. That's a noob for you. I have a datagrid component (instance 'UserGrid') and a dynamic text field (instance 'UserName'). I'm trying to get the row information from the datagrid but cannot get anything out of the mouse at all. G...more >>

I need a little help. I've built my buttons as movieClips with (_up, _over and _down) labels, but I've also added a "static" label. I want to use as a "static" label (frame 25) - as you are here marking, keeps the button on. I want to be the move the main timeline playhead back and fort...more >>

Hi, guys... I have this script for buttons: btn.onPress = function() { MC_Ball.play(); }; for (var i = 1; i<=5; i++) { btn = _root["btn"+i]; btn.ivar = i; prevMC = null; btn.onPress = function() { trace(this.ivar); clearInterval(reverseI); reverseI = setInterva...more >>

Hi all, I'm building a very simple slide show with Flash MX 2004. I'm trying to duplicate the slide show with controls at http://www.marcbaptiste.com. I have created 3 scenes. Each scene has 2 photos, each on it's own layer. I have another layer containing forward and back buttons. I'm h...more >>

If you visit http://allvolume.com/poker/load_stuff.swf, after 3 seconds an image of a card will show up and the html that is being parsed to display that image will show to the right of it. This image is being pulled from the database, and I am using setInterval to check the database every 3 s...more >>

Hi, I would like to have a curtain like effect on the stage. The stage is 780 x 504, I would like a semi-transparent 780 x 504 symbol to scroll from full coverage smoothly to the left, and then return approx at 100 pixels to act as a menu background. Can someone please help me with this, as I ...more >>

I want to load a random movie clip - all movie clips are in a folder named 'bgrounds'. On the last frame of a movie clip I want to call another random movie from 'bgrounds' folder to replace the existing one. There are 100 different movies in the folder. What is the best way to do this? ...more >>

I'm just trying to add a little modification to that script you done for me a while back. What I want to do is to add an option to play all the sound clips in a continuous sequence (from whichever is playing currently up to sound27 and back to sound1 continuing on 1 through 27 again, etc.). ...more >>

have a little problem loading an external .txt file to my movie using a var name. I have a text field and its dynamic with var name button1 on the first frame it loads the loading document ok to set the value of button1, on frame 2 i have want it to load the file name of what i called butt...more >>

I wrote up some code to create a subtle snow effect in my Flash Movie (great with those new Blending effects, thanks Macromedia!). Basically it create 10 snowflake MovieClips using an onEnterFrame loop. It works fine. Looks great, all that stuff. The performance, at first, runs smooth and grea...more >>

Hi, I just started using Flash within the past week and I'm having some confusion issues here... I have a movie that uses animated buttons for navigation. I'm trying to get the button to stay in a "mousedown" state once the user visits that page. I've been reading stuff re: setting v...more >>

I want to load a movie at random into my page. At the moment my code loads movies sequentially. How do I make the movies random? Thanks loadMovieNum("menu.swf", 10); loadMovieNum("grid.swf", 1); var myClips:Array = new Array("1.jpg", "2.jpg", "3.jpg", "4.jpg", "5.jpg", "6.jpg", "...more >>

Can anyone tell me how can the distortion effect on Doomkounty.com (section "ammunition") can be simulated? The effect only occurs when you roll over the image with mouse... and for ones who dont wanna visit the site: the image enlarges the area (but not with fish eye effect) on which is mouse...more >>

OK, im trying to get it to play "http://www.oncall.cc/Disney-It's_A Small_World_Techno_Remix.mp3". Buuut, i cant get the script thing right, as of now i have the following: myMedia.setMedia("http://www.oncall.cc/Disney-It's_A Small_World_Techno_Remix.mp3", "MP3"); However when i try and ru...more >>

I have a website that has a biography page. There are 5 buttons to view biographies of different people. On each button, there is the code below (with the exception of "jenbio.swf" being a different name for each biography button of course): on (release) { _root.contents2.loadMovie("jenb...more >>

I have a Guest (check code below) Since I would have many instances of Guest created dynamically, I am iterating througha for loop to make life easier (check code below) When a guest instance is clicked, I would like it to identify itself, that is perhaps return the guestName that I set ...more >>

2m, I guess that's where I am getting lost. How do I add a mouse handler to the movie clip? Within the movie clip itself or in the class Guest....more >>