I am using Flash MX. The set up... I have a main swf file that I am loading and unloading other external swf files into a blank MC for the placement. What I am having trouble with is loading and unloading a swf to the blanc MC on the main stage from inside a MC that has buttons. It i...more >>

Hello, I have a main timeline with 2 symbols as movie clips. The first movie clip can switch to the second movie clip and vice versa. In the first clip I made a fadeing with the following code: mcMenuOptions._alpha = 0; var nAlpha:Number = 0; function fadeInAlpha():Void { mcMenuOp...more >>

var calendar:mx.controls.TextArea Selection.setFocus(calendar); listenerObject = new Object(); listenerObject.focusOut = function(eventObject){ eventObject.target.text.setSelection(null); } calendar.addEventListener("focusOut", listenerObject) Why will this not work. I need a...more >>

Not sure if I'm posting in the right area but here goes nothing. I'm finishing this site and I have found that the preloader I used doesn't show up when opened in Internet Explorer. Site:: http://www.desertacoustics.com/ It works great in Firefox and Netscape. I'm just trying to figure out if...more >>

hello, i have generated an array on click of a button. i want to pass this array to director. how do i do this. i have tried ( getURL("Lingo: myArray=[value1,value2...]. but in director it is not receiving the array. help me out. thanx ...more >>

I have the following code attached to a mc on(rollOver){ this._alpha = 100; } on(rollOut) { this._alpha = 35; } How would I make the alpha transition smooth, taking about 1/2 to 1 second to go from 35% to 100% and back? stillwaiting...more >>

hi - another newbie question: i publish a movie with "debugging permitted." per instructions, i open the published html file in a web browser and right-click on the flash movie. in the menu that appears, there is no "debugger" selection. thanks for your help. bob ...more >>

ok, in my root i have something like this linker.loadSWF('layout/background.swf', _root.motor.bg, 'background'); linker.loadSWF('layout/topper.swf', _root.motor.topper, 'header'); linker.loadSWF('layout/menu.swf', _root.motor.lmenu, 'main menu'); stop(); the problem is i only want ...more >>

Here is a weird question. I have a button that has a ton of script on it checking and verifying a form. I noticed that if I sit and click it over and over again, it won't rerun the script. Then for no reason, it will just work. After some troubleshooting, I figured out that it was when I m...more >>

I'm using flash 7 and I created a program that I'm going to run on a cd-rom. I want to open a pdf file when you click a button and the script that I have is: getURL("pdfs/myFile.pdf") but nothing happends. How can I make flash open acrobat reader and open the file. Thanks! Brend...more >>

It is amazing, but nowhere can I find a way to actually remove focs from a textArea component. You can setFocus, you can tell when focus has been set, and you can tell when the focus has been killed, alas there is no way to manually kill the focus. I cant find it in any documentation on the ...more >>

Hi all, I've been on thsi for hours and If I had any hair I'd have pulled it out by now. Can anyone help... Situation is this...I've got some spellcheck software that runs in the web page and I want to access it via Flash. OK, no prob - got that working,using fscommand - However, f...more >>

I wonder if there is actionscript solution for doing a similar picture like in StarWars. :-D You know when captain "Han Solo" going into "Hyperspeed" with his ship Falcon and the space ans stars surround the ship turns into lines wth blur. :-) A appreciate every idea of doing this. :) ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to call a function once after 1 second. I have been trying this script, but it doesn't work. The interval keeps on calling the function Controle(). And after a while my whole movieclip disappears. Can anyone help me? function CheckMatch(){ intervalID = setInter...more >>

Hi there. =20 In this game I'm doing I've created many intervals. There is this = one moment when the game ends that I need to remove all intervals = created. I know that in a trace any kind of name given to an interval will be = returned a number. =20 I've created ...more >>

I have a movie where I want to change the background depending on the button pressed. The image for the background will load into a mc, "background". The image files are located in folders with the path "images/NAME OF THE BUTTON/background.jpg." I would like to set up one place of actionSc...more >>

I have a very basic structure MAIN is the base screen Screen1 and Screen2 are child screens Under Screen1 I have Screen11. So the normal flow is to go into Screen1 down to Screen11. Then make a selection and that takes you to Screen2 where info is displayed. Here comes the problem....more >>

Hi, I dug out a tutorial and followed it for launching a pps file and I'm having trouble... This does not seem to work, mostly because I can't do step 4 in windows XP... Any ideas? Thanks, clifff Tutorial below: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Launch-a-PowerPoint-Slide-Show-from...more >>

Hi! Can I control layers in a htmldocument from flash? I want to control visibilty and layerorder etc, any good resources or possibilities on that? cheers!...more >>

I'm using duplicateMovieClip() to copy a movieclip and after that I use eval() to get a reference to the new movieclip. This works fine, but when I want to copy a movieclip inside another one I can't get to it with eval(). works fine: duplicateMovieClip(baseMovie, newMovie, depthCount); ...more >>

I was directed by someone yesterday to use setInterval instead of an onEnterFrame. But I am having some problems, below is my code. Basically it works in that when the button is pressed my mc "mov_city" waits until the -x value is = to 2280 then jumps there. But it doesn't move over in incremen...more >>

Pretty new to this.......how can I loop a scene in Flash 5??? Thanx...more >>

Yep...think the summary text sums up the question... I want to call a javascript function in the web page using fscommand, but want to pass 2 variables...can I and if so how? I want to pass the content of my text box and the Instance name. I tried comma seperating, but it is taken in ja...more >>

Hello again. I've been using this script for a while to make interactive tasks for my students: On the stage I have a stack with seven card and two bulletin boards. The idea is to drag each of the cards to the right board and get a "congratulations" message when the task is s...more >>

:D:rose; i'm green user, pls let ,me know. Thx....more >>

If I load a video and am playing it, can I have another video loading in the background? Any suggestions or recommended reading? Thanks, Jason ...more >>

hi there... i want one solution for toggling between 2 voiceover in same movie... For Example: I will place a audio clip "sound01" in Frame1 and "sound02" in Frame2, in same movie, and i will create a toggling button "VOChange[name of button]".. where i can control the sound01 and sound02...more >>

Hi! Have a problem =(. I would like to create movie clip dynamically with AS to load there streem of photos. Automatic find How many photos we have 1,2,3...n. ...more >>

When i try this code: getURL(http://www.mysite.com), it appears that anything after the // are taken as comment. How to fix that?...more >>

inv_btn.onRelease = function { getURL(www.worldtel.ca/fr); } Flash says "function name expected"!...more >>

Hi, I can i make it that my clip changes color randomly by itself. Thanks...more >>

to='_root.movie.var'; and this works: this[to]=value; is there anyway to do this: to='_root.movie'; this[to].loadMovie(url); the problem is im doing a loader, for a a flash based site and i want to be able to load anything to anywhere according to values i collect from my...more >>

I'm using eval to dynamically fill a movie with a bitmap and then apply a mask. This code works in the Movie3. When I start at Movie2 and load Movie3 the BitmapFill works, but the mask does not get applied. When I click the button in Movie3 I get this trace: _level0.section2_mc _...more >>

Does anyone know if I can have Flash load a random image from a folder? I'm using Flash MX and am a relatively new user. I know this can be done in html but I'm looking for a way to do it within a Flash file. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! ...more >>

Hello everyone. For quite some time now I have been messing around with the idea of programically exporting an image to the clients file system from the flash movie. Ideally this image would be a snapshot of a movieclip on the stage at the time. I wasn't able to find an easy solution t...more >>

Hello, I have an interesting problem to solve. Lets assume the followinng scenario: 1. I load an external swf or jpg to a movieclip using movieClipLoader class. 2. After some time, I want to reload the same file in the same Mc, but the load is unsuccessfull due to network problem, server ...more >>

Hello everyone, The thing is, Is it possible to create some actionscript that gets the content of a folder en puts it by name inside an swf... For example, if there is a folder called 'images'. The swf should look inside this folder, get al the names of the files inside an make a menu ou...more >>

Basicaly I want to load up a streaming video which I can do with the mediacomponent but I want Flash to check when the video is finished then play another or load another video or go to another frame. Is it posible I think it might have something to do with NetStream.btesTotal not sute don't k...more >>

I am trying to create a text box dynamically using createTextField () in Flash 8 and I want make the line type input. In MX 2004 I did type ="input" but type isn't being recognized. Same thing for multiline = true; Anybody know how do to do it in Flash 8? ...more >>

I have multiple external swfs that preload into a main movie. I loading them into levels and then are made to begin playing one at a time in sequence, once the previous clip finshes playing. All external movies are loaded by using the tellTarget (_root), loadmovie num and then played with _l...more >>

Hi -- I'm getting despearate with this problem. I can't do the job and can't get paid unless I figure this out, and I am not rich so the money is needed. I would really appreciate any guidance! Thanks. You can email me at info AT jumpingmandesign.com. I have a client with an scrol...more >>

I can't be the only one who uses this or has tried to solve this problem. Please help. I'm just trying to add to this code, a standard jpg if the item.id one is not available. You help is appreciated! Thanks!!! class ImageRenderer extends MovieClip { private var imageID:Number; ...more >>

Hi, I created a SWF file that runs a FLV movie file by using the "Media Playback" component. The FLV movie wont run from a HTTP address. I tried understanding the help file but got confused. does anyone have an experience with running an external FLV movie, or a sample scripted I can ...more >>

if i have a class that extends the movieclip class theTable = attachMovie("table","theTable",nDepth); when i create the movieclip how do i reference the new movieclip's class? i know you can reference whats in the class just like "theTable.whatever", but i want to get the pointer to ...more >>

I have several (9) MC's on layer 1. (although I'd like to have them on separate layers, if I can get a script that'll work) Think of like 9 photos set up like a brady bunch grid. I have a "hit test" type script on each one that enlarges whichever MC (photo) the user is on. (Portfolio type se...more >>