:beer; I am really softening my frustration with Bacardi but beer was the only selection. I am attempting to get text to fall onto an existing image in my page. I understand flash will do it and I have Flash MX in my Dreamweaver. Could I implore someone for assistance so that I can get on...more >>

Hi, Here is my problem, it is for a client and needs to be done asap! Sorry if this has already been answered somehere, but i couldn't find a similair topic: I am trying to make 6 movie clips stay butted up against one another while they resize and move. Basically these movieclips will stret...more >>

it took me forever to write a function that I might not even be able to do- I'm loading an image into a movieclip, and I want to then resize the movieclip (and image) to be the right size. But I don't know that I can get the image dimensions- when I go picture_mc._width I just get the wi...more >>

This is the situation :P I've loaded variables from an external source into seperate MovieClips and I want to combine these MovieClips to make new movieclips that have all these variables. I was wondering can this be done? If it can't be done with MovieClips do I have to Objects or somethi...more >>

I am creating a flash based form to send an email to my company through our website and I am having problems getting the email to send. I posted my code below, could anyone give me some ideas as to what the problem may be? thanks *****AS 2.0**** on (release) { if (!Email.length || ...more >>

I have scroll pane that the content mc is just a list of buttons that load external swfs with sounds. (thats why they have to be external, cause they are quite heavy). in each swf with a sound there is a countdown timer that I want to place next to the specific button that loads the swf inside...more >>

I have an external actionscript file that I need to attached to a button inside my movie (the script is for login and password) I would like to have the external file rather than using it directly on the button for easy edits. Can I write an actionscript for the button that would run the exter...more >>

I've developed a peice of AICC based elearning in Flash. Developed in Flash 8 but output to Flash 7 and AS2. It has an fscommand that runs and requests the URL of the parent window so that it can parse out the url and session id. the first time, and ONLY the first time the course is run, this ...more >>

Hi ! Here is my problem. I load a txt using loadvar(on first frame) _root.createEmptyMovieClip("dataHolder", 1); _root.dataHolder.loadVariables("txt/album.txt"); Then, I want to asign some text depending on the instance of the mc. Like this: this.onRelease = function(){ _root.photo =...more >>

I am using Flash 8. I am working on a Flash Intro that will play when people come to my company's website. This is how I want it to work - the person will type in our URL, then the Flash Intro will pop up and play. When the Flash Intro is done, that window will close, and the window for our We...more >>

I placed a List Component in my App, and I want to alter the colors. Does anyone have a complete list of all the different .setStyle methods? These are the ones I've found so far.. -------------------------------------------------------------------- if (_global.styles.List == undef...more >>

I'm trying to create a live preview for a fountain component. It needs to know what angle to draw the fountain at, but I can't find out how much the user has rotated the component on the stage, because there is no such thing as Stage.rotation. Does anyone know a way to discover the rotati...more >>

I'm trying to create a live preview for a fountain component. It needs to know what angle to draw the fountain at, but I can't find out how much the user has rotated the component on the stage, because there is no such thing as Stage.rotation. Does anyone know a way to discover the rotati...more >>

I have this event handler such as the following in a class: _root.myButton.onPress = function() { aFunctionName(somevariables); } private Function aFunctionName(){ //do stuff } or _root.myButton.onPress = aFunctionName; private function aPublicName ():void { //do stuff ...more >>

I have a targetMC loading an external .swf. How can I put a close button that closes that .swf on that .swf file. I want a help box (swf file) to pop up and have a close button on it to close it. Any Help? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I have a project that requires me to create a file requester in Flash MX - whilst i can get hold of the file data via javascript on a microsoft system with IE 5.5+ installed. I also need to support Mozilla on Windows XP and Mozilla on any recent Mac machine... *shudder*. So i was w...more >>

I'm developing an app using the MVC design pattern. I read somewhere(can't remember where) that a "view" should subclass MovieClip. However, I don't understand why or the benefits of doing so. This is my approach: 1. create a MovieClip that represents the view in the library. 2. create a ...more >>

has anyone mangaed to get round the noticeable decrease in performance of event objects in swfs loaded into another. Things like MouseMoves etc seem to be almost half as fast. I've checked out everything i can think of from frame rates to event declaration. ...more >>

I'm trying to make a mc move -1 on x axis WHEN another mc is moveing +1 on x axis ex. when I move a mc more to the bottom , the other one moves more to the top can someone help me?...more >>

If I initiate a variable like this.. var myArray:Array = new Array(); do this.. myArray.push(someDumbStuffHere01); myArray.push(someDumbStuffHere01); myArray.push(someDumbStuffHere01); myArray.push(someDumbStuffHere01); myArray.push(someDumbStuffHere01); what would happen if I do thi...more >>

Hello, We have a filereference upload setup and working uploading to PHP script on an apache server. The file upload works well using Win XP (IE, Firefox, Opera). On the Mac (safari, Firefox), we get IOErrors, the files won't upload. There is no authentication necessary, nor are there any r...more >>

How do I use 4 channels? When I try and play more than one sound at a time, it stops the sound that is already playing. Is there a way to set sounds to particular channels? Or is there another easier way? Please help. Thanks, ~Oni. ...more >>

I used: on(press){ startDrag(""); drag=true; } on(release, releaseOutside){ stopDrag(); drag=false; } to drag a mc on mouse press but how can I drag a mc or button only on y axis , (up and down)? ...more >>

I've loaded a text file into a movie successfully but any '&' in the body of the textfile stops the rest being read. Putting a backslash in front of any '&' doesn't work - and some sentences simply have to have an '&' in them. Any idea what escape character to use? Thanks for any help offe...more >>

Hi, I have an application with a form . In the form I got an OK button and an image on top of it. What I am trying to do is when the user moves the cursor onto this OK button image, the hand cursor should appear. For that I have added the following code _root.Main.Input.okBtn.onRol...more >>

Hi all, I've got a 2d array being generated by my Coldfusion component, which when passed to Flash which gives me this... Result (object #2) .....[0] (object #3) ..........[0]: "Phil Ashby : F2F Accompaniment Report" ..........[1]: 1 ..........[2]: 5 .....[1] (object #4) .........more >>

Hey I'm making a sort of Defender-clone shoot em up using the following script attached to the mc that is my laser to detect hits: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (this.hitTest( _root.enemy1)){ _root.score+=100; _root.enemy1.gotoAndPlay(2); } ...more >>

Hi, This might be a simple problem, but I need to find a way of making one end of a line/shape to follow the mouse or object, while the other end doesn't move. But I haven?t found any good way of doing this. Someone who can give me a simple solution to this problem? ...more >>

Is is possible to fade a sound in on rollOver and fade a sound out on rollOut? This is the script I've made on a movieClip to start, loop and stop the sound: on (rollOver) { var btn_trance:Sound = new Sound(); btn_trance.attachSound("Trance_Button_Loop.wav"); btn_trance.start(); ...more >>

hi everyone, i just made a project its all right but a want to put let?s just say a little fx, i have a button and i want when the user clicks on it make a little lightning effect i have the movie with id inimov and the button with an instance of inibtn but i can?t get the movie to show i used...more >>

Can anyone tell me why this script does not wait for 100% to load before moving to the next frame? onClipEvent(load) { total=_root.getBytesTotal(); } onClipEvent(enterFrame) { loadB=_root.getBytesLoaded(); pers=loadB/total*100; trace(pers); _level0:persa = Math.roun...more >>

Building a church website. Want to make a simple "player" for the sermons using flash. These are obviously farily large files so I'd rather not load them into Flash directly. What action script would I attach to the Play, Pause & Stop buttons to get the player to call up the .mp3 that is on...more >>

Dear Friends, Have a problem... i have a simple little movie clip which allows website viewers to view my clients projects... they click forward to go to then next project. How do make the back button work so that the frames are simply played backward to the previous project... here i...more >>

Dear Friends, Have a problem... i have a simple little movie clip which allows website viewers to view my clients projects... they click forward to go to then next project. How do make the back button work so that the frames are simply played backward to the previous project... here i...more >>

heya everyone, long time no see. I was wondering what's wrong with this actionscript. it get's a random number and then depending on which one one of 3 movieclips becomes visible while the others become invisible. can anyone help loadnuber = random(3); if (loadnuber == 1) { _root.loadin...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to use "loadMovie" to load a screen based swf. The movie loads but the sound does not play. Loading the same swf directly plays the sound. This is the command I am using to call the movie loadMovie(_root.myVariable, _root.myExternallyLoadedSWFMovieHolder); Any h...more >>

I hope someone out there can help me. I have a project that I need to load 3 external movies (.swf) on-demand. I have created an interface that loads the movies into a container upon mouse click- For example, the doorway on the left in this scene - http://www.theinsomniagroup.com/officete...more >>

hi: any trick to keep the content on a MC visible until the new content loaded with container.loadMovie("x.swf") is available? tia, jdoe...more >>

I heared that some SWF files made in Flash-8 run faster than same compiled with Flash MX2004 - is this the case? ...more >>

Has anybody tried to convert an SWF into a stand-alone executable using swf2exe (SWF Studio). Does it offer any advantage in term of the performance? ...more >>

Hi, and thanks for taking the time to help me out. I made a counter, for example, count from XX to XXXXXXX in 10 secs... It works fine. The numbers will be generated in a txt-file, like this: oudnummer=1000&nieuwnummer=200000000 Also works great. But my problem is that my boss wants the ...more >>

I am trying to load an external text file. When I preview my movie the text box comes up undefined. I've seen this addressed in other forums but can't figure it out. I am simulating a google search for a tv series and the external text file contains the "results" of the search. The static ...more >>

I want to { define VarA VarB = VarA + some stuff this.gotoAndPlay(VarB); } of course this is sudo-code, but isn't it looking to go to a frame labled "VarB"? If so, what is the proper format to include a variable in the gotoAndPlay(); function? thanks, Mr. Helpy. ...more >>

Hi ! This is a logistic problem. I dont know how to achieve what I want. There is my problem. I got a mc (no ?!? serious !?!) here is the code inside: this.onRelease = function(){ _root.photo = _name; //_root.info = _name; _root.gotoAndStop(12); } I load a specific jpg with the...more >>

I am creating a movie where external swfs load in an empty movie clip using this script: this.createEmptyMovieClip("Moonshine", 10); Moonshine.loadMovie("The Deadbeats/moonshine.swf"); I want to add a progress bar that shows the progress of this loading file, which is about 1.5-2MB. ...more >>

I have setup everything nicely with xml connector and the components I need. Images and texts appear as they are set thru xml file. But I can't seem to getURL when I hit any of the three buttons I have setup. I don't really know how to explain it as I'm not sure how to use event listeners. A...more >>

Hi There I am trying to add some radio buttons to a simple flash/php mailform I have created from various templates I have found, but don't really know what I should be doing do achieve this. Could someone point me in the right direction. I am pretty new to using flash. Thanks stev...more >>

I've followed a tutorial and made a preloader. The actual function of the preloader works...but the progress bar and percentage numbers arent changing - all its doing is staying on zero. WHY?! it works on the tutorial files...but once I apply it to my own movie...it it wont show the loading pr...more >>

How do you get Flash to morph images into another image? It tries to morph the box of the image into the other box creating a mess. Adding hints did not help either....more >>