I'm writing a simple shooting game of a man that point a gun and shoot on birds. the gun barrel is pointing in the cursor direction, and when ever i move the cursor, the gun's barrel should point to the new postion. how can i do it? i tried to calculate the degrees difference between the ol...more >>

How do I pop-up gloss.html in a new window that is 800x400. This does not work: getURL("javascript:window.open('gloss.html','','width=800,height=400')","_blank");...more >>

I need a way to be able to incease and decrease the volume of my background music with a dragging bar. can anyone help? Actualy... is that posible?:confused; I will apreciate all replys. Thak you, -Nick Debergue :) ...more >>

I am creating an application that creates many combo box components based on a database table. I can create and use the dynamic combo boxes without a problem. The problem is when I want to tell the application to creat more combo boxes, again based off of a database table, I can not destroy...more >>

is there a way to clear action script from a movie. I have some code on frame 1 of a movie. on frame 2 of the movie I do not have this code, but the movie still executes the code. this is an example of my code. stop(); aboutUs.onEnterFrame = function() { if (aboutUs.hitAreaMenuAb...more >>

Glad to help. I usually just have problems so it was nice to have a solution for someone. Know anything about using MovieClipLoader to preload a swf?...more >>

Does anyone know if you can use the Array.Sort() method to randomly sort the array and how to do it? Thanks, JD ...more >>

I have an email form with imput text boxes, the boxes varibles are named: Sname Saddress (1) Saddress (2) Scity Sstate Szip Semail There is a "clear" button, and a "send" button here is the link to what it looks like.... www.lancekorsun.com/FTF/freebibletext.html I not ...more >>

I am trying to use the flash detection now built in with Flash 8. However when I do so and publish (following the tutorials on this site) and view the html file, the swf loops at the beginning part and never completely finishes the duration of the swf. When I publish without the detection the ...more >>

ok i will try to explain as best i can, i have a movie clip which is the image of a cloud, i want this cloud to move left or right, when it reaches the edge of my flash (going either left or right) file i want the scenery (content) in the background to start scrolling to follow the direction o...more >>

How would this translate into OOP actionscript? newListener = new Object(); newListener.click = function(evt){ } Thanks! Brian...more >>

Hey guys My problem is I have mutliple buttons inside an mc that controls other mcs. what i want to do is when the button is clicked it plays and mc on the timeline and stops, when another button is pressed it checks to see if that mc has played and if it has and stopped then if will jump a...more >>

i have load variable num form a txt which have p1=num1, p2=num3, p3=num2 in my flash i have 3 input box name num1, num2 and num3 the trick is to call in different value for differnt postion if num1 is p1 it will have random number from 10 - 20; if num1 is p2 it will have randome from 20...more >>

Hello, Guys Does anyone know (or know of) a tutorial which will instruct on how to create a Web site putting in separate SWF files? I think that would be a great help with the loading speed and the functionality of the site. Is this correct, or am I mistaken? Thanks in advance G ...more >>

Hi everyone - I'm a bit of a newbie, so please go easy on me. I am creating a site that loads each section as a LoadMovieNum command. Some questions: 1. When the site initially loads, it seems to need a mouse click just to get "working" - prior to a mouse click none of the buttons wo...more >>

I currently have a swf loading another swf. Here is the script: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ onClipEvent (load) { //_parent.loadVariables(_root.globe.fullPath); this.createEmptyMovieClip("earl", 1); //earl._x = 0; //earl._y = 0; loadMovi...more >>

I have a button created and when the button is clicked I would like there to be two more buttons a user can click on. Is this possible?...more >>

hi guys, i'm working on a preloader, i have a movieclip sitting on the 1st frame of my fla with another action layer sitting on the same frame, what i'm trying to do is to move my movieclip towards the left until 'bytesloaded' equals to 'bytestotal' and then plays scene 2, can anyone help me w...more >>

Hi, I have created a movie clip for a character "RAChar" that is associated with an ActionScript class object. The character movie clip contains two other movie clips for the left and the right eye. The eye symbol is also a movie clip that is animated to "blink" and is also linked to a cla...more >>

Not sure is this is an actionscript problem or a component problem, so I'll post it in here, too... In my library, I have the compiled clip "FLVPlayback", and a movieClip named "videoHolder_mc". On the stage in frame 1, I have an instance of "FLVPlayback" named "my_FLVPlybk3". and an insta...more >>

I'm using getURL("mailto:smurphy@dslextreme.com", "_blank"); to open a new e-mail window to contact me. When the e-mail opens, I also get a blank browser window, too. Any ideas? I've taken the "_blank" out...still not working. What's funny is that I don't get the problem in Firefox, I do g...more >>

I put the following in the actions panel for a button with the instance name "clip_btn" clip_btn.onRelease = function() { getURL("clip.html", "_self"); }; and it keeps givng me an error : **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=clear, frame=1:Line 1: Statement must appear within on hand...more >>

I have code that looks like this: var XMLFile:String = testID + ".xml"; testXML.load(XMLFile); which sucessfully loads the xml file. The xml file is in the same directory as the .swf file which loads the .xml. the problem is, when I put these files on a web server, the xml file i...more >>

As briefly as possible, I will tell you what it says: 1. in Scene 1 (top in hierarchy and made for preloader) keyframe on frame 1 siteLoaded = "0"; _root.bar_mc._xscale = "siteLoaded"; 2. in Scene 1, keyframe on frame 2 _root.bar._xscale = "siteLoaded"; siteLoaded = (_root.getBytesLo...more >>

I have a flash movie that I need to load into my new movie and then layer some new buttons and such on top. All the new functions are in a seperate movie. I can make it work by using createEmptyMovieClip and loadMovie for both and put them on different levels. But I need to load the origina...more >>

Hi, Have two questions: 1. I'm using Flash MX, can I load mp3 file use loadMovie() function? 2. how to use Sound object to play swf file? mSound = new Sound(this); mSound.loadSound("mysong.swf", true); Thanks in advance. ...more >>

:D Hi All, How do I get my drop down menu for "Galleries" when the user mouse's over/rollover, so that not only does the drop down submenu work, but also so the slider bar works just like the rest of the 6 main menu buttons? I am real new to Flash, (first flash site n customer, and it h...more >>

Hi. My name is.. I need to have objects that are acctually lines that can have little arrows going along them. The problem is that the arrows need to have according speed to some variable. The only way I thought of was to dynamicly put the needed number of frames inside the motion tween, b...more >>

Hello all, I have and interesting problem this time around. I have created a PrintJob() object which currently prints out 4 pages of information for the end user of my program. The whole process works fine except that, once you press "OK" in the default print dialog (the result of cal...more >>

Hi all, I'm working on this http://www.bi03.co.uk/couture , and I'd like to make the bar "snap to" certain points along the line. Does anyone know how to do that? p.s.... yeah i know I need a preloader! :) ...more >>

Hey guys, I was just wondering... When I make static text into a button, the clickable area is like, ONLY on the letters, which is really thin, so if you have a thin font (or, anything that's not really BOLD), it's really hard to click on. Is making-a-transparent-box-and-grouping-it-w...more >>

I'm currently using Director MX and a 3rd party tool (Buddy API) to copy file from Cdrom to another location ( disk, network location etc). 1. I was wondering whether Flash has the possiblity to copy files without any 3rd party tool? In flash documentation I've encountered the following: F...more >>

:confused; As per my knowledge goes i know that progressive jpgs are not supported in Flash LoadMovie action. But sometimes it just not happening. There are some Exceptions. And specially in Flash Player 8. Does any one have any clue? ...more >>

Is there a way to change the delimiters in an array to be semi-colon instead of comma? i know the unicode char is \u003b and was thinking there was a funciton or command to change it....more >>

I have been recieving some help here but keep getting stuck because what I expect to happen does not happen. Please visit the following page to see the movie and the code: http://oc.bfrd.biz/map/map.html If you would like to view the data source: http://oc.bfrd.biz/map/xmlMapData.xml I ...more >>

Is there a way to track usage of a video? Specifically, I want to know how much of a video a user has watched before navigating away keeping in mind that at some point they might pause and then continue playing the video. ...more >>

Perhaps this is more than a question of coding and perhaps it's a memory/resource issue? It appears that if I use the: //Button onDragOut for (ivar=1; ivar<=11; ivar++) { this["btn"+ivar+"_btn"].onDragOut = function() { this.gotoAndPlay("play"); }; } ....scripts, flash seems a bi...more >>

Hi, I have everything working but as per a previous post, I still can't get the buttonPress#(); function to work.... can you see something wrong with this code? //Button onPress for (ivar=1; ivar<=11; ivar++) { this["btn"+ivar+"_btn"].onPress = function() { this["buttonPress"+ivar](); ...more >>

Here's the situation. I am creating an interactive portfolio in Flash MX2004. I have certain buttons that link to .swf files that are on a server. Currently, the links work fine, but my problem is that the swf files open up in a full browser window. I want them to open in minimized windows...more >>