Hi: I create dinamically (attachMovie) some instances from a library symbol. That symbol has inside a MC to allow drag & drop the whole instance: inst.onPress = function() { this._parent.startDrag(); } How can I avoid that MC changing cursor and responding to events when there's...more >>

I kinda bought a template online and in the flash header it has the links as a movieclip and whenever I try to insert this actionscript and I play the animation, when you put the mouse over the button it does not play the animation. Below is the script I am using, any help over this would be g...more >>

current code: for (var i = 0; i < nCount; i++) {// where nCount is determined by xml.childNodes.length. var iPlus:Number = i + 1; var clip1 = createEmptyMovieClip(["clipHolder" + iPlus], this.getNextHighestDepth()); } trace(clip1);// returns: _level0.clipHolder1 _level0.clipHolder...more >>

I am having a problem with having my movie navigate the timeline correctly. I am pretty new to actionscripting and the solution is probably very very simple but I can't seem to get it to work correctly. Summary -- I have a movie that plays on a button click. This movie take up the entire...more >>

Hi, I have a data grid with some editable columns which I only want to have numbers input into. I have tried the code below with no luck. Any ideas? myDataGrid.getColumnAt(4).restrict = "0-9";...more >>

I have a series of menu buttons on the first frame that move the main timeline to various spots to effectively move between site pages (using the "on release (gotoandStop(x)) command. On several of these "pages" an embedded movie runs automatically and stops at the end. The original menu it...more >>

I am very new to this...so bear with me... I am trying to write a small flash app that consists of buttons. These buttons, when clicked - will copy the appropriate email address to the clipboard, so that it can be easily pasted into another application (outlook, for example) I do not wan...more >>

Hi, Just created a menu for my new site ... which worked as aspected. I wanted to add a preloader but then something went wrong ... the movie clips inside the buttons didn't work anymore. When removing the preloader again the problem is solved, so there must be something wrong with the...more >>

Hi Guys I have a dynamic text box that displays the name from the database correctly but I cannot get it to work with a link here is the code and says it isnt properly terminated. name.htmlText +="<A HREF='http://axiom.clan-web.com/eqdkp/viewmember.php?name="+this["name"+i]+" '> "+this["na...more >>

Special thanks to Maffe from Sephorit forums and Kglad from Macromedia forums. You are both legends and your help has been greatly appreciated. I thought I had tried every way of moving round the code to make it work, but Kglad you were right by simply moving the makeTextFields(); it popul...more >>

I have code that bounces a bottle around the room. The code I managed to get asks about the size of the frame so it bounces off these corners. I want it however to bonce off objects in the frame, I.e. a tv and a seat. I tryed to do it and it almost works; apart from it usally sticks to the obj...more >>

Hai, After installing flash player 8 when i tried to open swf file created using flash 5 i got some security warnings which is prompting to change the flash player settings. My swf file contains GetURL script.The same happening in my published file too. Please help me how i can override thi...more >>

I am loading menu labels from an xml doc. I am creating movieClips and textFields dynamically using a for statement that uses the .length property of xmlNode.childNodes. All of this is going great until I try to assign events to the clips, specifically I would like to make the text change c...more >>

hey guys and girls i would really appreciate it if someone could give me an actionscript which would allow me to go to the next scene if i bushed a key. For example, if i pushed Y on the keyboard it would go to the next scene Thanks a lot ...more >>

Hi, i have been looking through to forum topics about how to link a button to a url but i didn't got it to work :( So i wonder if some one could do it for me? Please Project: http://www.ezupload.org/?w=download&id=9288&name=menu.fla Then i will look at the code and learn how to do it :...more >>

movie 2: On frame two of movie 2 I ahve this script this._lockroot = true; if (_root.getBytesLoaded() != _root.getBytesTotal()) { var lbytes var tbytes lbytes = _root.getBytesLoaded(); bar._xscale = Math.floor((lbytes/tbytes)*100); loadtext.text = Math.floor(percentLoaded)+...more >>

* This may be considered a cross post, but my post in general received no replies and this post contains more info * The Flash Documentation specifically states HTTP and HTTPS are valid protocols for FileReference.upload, however this is not my experience. My application works perfectly o...more >>

I'm in the processes of writing a dynamically generated question set display in Flash MX2004 (Pro). So far everything works as expected, except on screens that have multiple radio button groups (using the radio button component). On these screens, when you click the radio button and move y...more >>

I want to loop through a number of these and do them dymanically to save code. In JavaScript I would do a for loop and just add the variable: for (i=0...etc.) eval( ' panel' + i + '._visible = true'); How can I do this in ActionScript? Thanks! ...more >>

Ok, have created this swf navbar with rollover action script sounds. It's already up on the web page. Is there a way to add an on/off button as a seperate file on the page to control this on/off if visitors don't want to listen? ...more >>

I'm trying to center dynamically loaded jpgs within a movie clip, but can't do so without height and width props. I've been having trouble accessing the width and height -- always returns '0'. I suspect the part of the code set to trace these properties is being executed before the jpg full...more >>

Making a simple volume slider for a sound... my slider slides good and returns a volume value between 0 and 100. However The setVolume doesn't work and a getVolume trace display undefined. bplay.onPress = function() { var sound:Sound = new Sound(); sound.attachSound("rtechaudio"); ...more >>

In previous versions of flash you could not use XMLsocket to connect to a server if it was not on the same domain. Hosting a swf on "webserver.com" would not allow me to connect to "homeserver.com". I have written a server to send data to flash but I am afraid I will have to run that ...more >>