Problem 1: Is it possible to have a link on a page that swaps a certain swf? Problem 2: Is there an easy to change a value (0-255) into hex (0xFF0000) format? Please state what problem you are addressing, links to other site are appriciated. Thanks! ...more >>

I'm importing 1 movie into another movie. Movie-A has a stop() function in the last frame. It works fine on it's own; however, when I import it into Movie-B, it will not heed the stop() command and keeps cycling through. How do I get this movie to acknowledge the stop() command? You ...more >>

Is this possible? I have all my dynamic text inside a movieclip and THAT movieclip is being masked and yet it still does not work. Hrmm...... Any ideas? Thx guys...more >>

I know who the MM team members are (gods in flesh :) lol) But what about the NG users?...more >>

I guess the Summary says it all. A very beginner question I know...but gotta start somewhere.lol Basically like to know if I have 2 or 3 scenes how could I pause for a couple of seconds between them therefore creating a comfortable viweing time....???? Thanks! ...more >>

I am creating a simulator. Given: 1.) From Frame 1, i click on a button that loads Frame 2 2.) Frame 2 has a small movie clip on it 3.) the small movie clip will contain several buttons. Conidtions: 1.) I cant use loadMovie or the like commands from an external source Issue: 1...more >>

Hi, Using some of the existing behaviors, I have linked a FLV video into an existing flash file. I am trying to link to another separate swf file from the end of the FLV file. I understand that I probably have to use the listening code, but I am uncertain how to tie these together. Can s...more >>

Hey there, I hope someone can take the time to help me with this. I'm trying to learn some flash for work. I have been given a looped movie and I have been asked to place this in another flash file in order to make it into a banner advert (that contains other logos) However, I can load t...more >>

I'm fairly new at actionscripting, so I do apologize. I have a file that will be used to show different rooms in a building. I decided to make each room its own file because there are so many (I didn't want the user to have to load a ton of things that they didn't care to see). So each butt...more >>

if i'm attachMovie clips function circlet() { for (var x=1; x<=6; x++) { var xoo:MovieClip = attachMovie("circle", "circlet:"+x, 20+x); xoo._x = 100 *x; xoo._y = 120; xoo._width = 20; xoo._height = 20; } clearInterval(ctimer7); xoo.grow(); // but i don't t...more >>

I believe this problem is a very big bug in Macromedia Flash MX 2004. If you would like to see my test example, please download from http://www.chrisinch.com/ClassConflict.zip that I put together. Here is what happens: Two flash projects are created. In my demo, file1.fla, and file2.fla. T...more >>

:o Hi Gents- I'm new to Flash and I want to Change the Color or Alpha characteristics of a Graphic image using Script is that possible? My goal is using if else test. pseodo code- If Var = 1 then Graphic Image Alpha = 100% else if Var =2 then Graphic Image Alpha = 100% ...more >>

Hi everyone! My name is Danny Miller. I'm a Flash Developer in Marietta. I'm giving a presentation this Tuesday at the Art Institute of Atlanta on Macromedia Flash and Flash gaming. Since you all program Flash, I thought anyone living in the Atlanta area may be interested in the talk. The...more >>

I must be missing something really basic here. All I want to do is move the play head a specific number of frames ahead or back. I have several needs for this. One example is; a slideshow that runs with fades and can be paused and restarted at will, without going through the fades. nextFrame()...more >>

hi , when i open my flash page in IE i get an error message as, "A script in this movie is causing Macromedia Flash Player to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the scripts?" any one please tell me to solve this. thank...more >>

I'm using actionscript to format dynamic text fields (embedded within movieclips) on mouse roll over and roll out. I used to use the following method on Flash MX 2004, but it now no longer works in Flash 8. The code is as follows... var optionDisable:TextFormat = new TextFormat("Verdana...more >>

Hi guys, I have got portfolio pages for a couple of dancers but I am having a problem with the loaders. there are 10 jpeg pictures on each girls page and when you click on one of the buttons to open one of the pics it loads normally(0% to 100%) which is great. But then when I click on the ...more >>

Hello, im making a website and on the contact page i have a png which is animated coming onto the stage, with blank input text fields on the stage and a submit button.My problem is how do iget the submit button to send the information in each field to my email addrress. Please help! i am q...more >>

I developed published tutorial on the net. How I can protect my swf files to be opned offline by the users? 10x ...more >>

I'm trying to use the tween class for the first time, and there isn't an explination (that I can understand) of how to tween the _x and _y coordinates at the same time. Where can I find help on this? ...more >>

How do i declare a 2 dimensional array?? I have started by just declaring it in the simplest way and adding values to it var gallery_ar; for (i = 1; i < 3; i++){ for (j = 0; j < 8; j++){ gallery_ar[j] = false; } } i then want to output these values but they are undefined ...more >>

Hi flashers In my movie I'm using the list component that loads the data provider from an external xml, the xml contains arabic text that needs to be right justified. Is there any way to do it?? Plus is it possible to put the scroll of the list on the left. Any help is highly appreciated...more >>

I am trying to load images from an external source into my Flash 8 application and then play them in a tweened sequence. So far I have managed to put a loader on to the tweened path and this works but no image has been displayed. Is there some way I can place an image into a scene with a start...more >>

hi all, i am new to flash. i need to get variables from aspx pages. i have written like, onClipEvent(load) { loadVariables("page1.aspx?var1_id=100") loadVariables("page2.aspx?var1_id=100") loadVariables("page3.aspx?var1_id=100") } is is right. ...more >>

Hello: I have one logo and I need to rotate in theY axis (360 degrees). Can you tell me how please? Thank you ...more >>

My company would like to have an interactive Org Chart where you can click on each level of the chart and it expands the next level. I have researched doing this with code, but have had no luck finding something that could create it, so now I'm trying it with Flash. Is this possible? I can'...more >>

Hello, I say ?sorry? for my poor English, because I?m from Spain. Now yes, this is the problem: I have a complete site with more than 100 pages. For the navigation I use a flash (?.swf? file) navigation bar. I need recover into the ?.swf? file the page name that contain it. For example...more >>

i'm working on this code to load an array of .swf movies. it works ok in the test environment but over the net it seems to have trouble when i have both onLoadProgress and onLoadComplete events. onLoadComplete is never called if an onLoadProgress action is defined. in local testing onLoadPr...more >>

I have this script where "n" represents the index of my array. I can't seem to get the value of "n" to change, however, when I click on the various movie clips in my document. I want it so when you click on movie clip 1, "n" =0, movieclip2, n=1, and so on. I thought if I used the following cod...more >>

:confused; Hi there, please help! I got a PHP File that embeds a variable to a .swf object. The variable it's an array. In to the swf, i assign the variable to a dinamic text, and it only returns "Array", textually. Then i try to extract de information from that array (My_Var...more >>

In the first frame I want to set the antiAliasType to advanced (my_text.antiAliasType = "advanced") for all textfields in the movie. How is it done? ...more >>

I call and load an external .jpg file with: myTarget.loadMovie(myPaths[myPos]); how do I refer to this after it is loaded (say to adjust alpha etc.)? Should this type of thing work? myTarget.[myPaths[myPost]]._alpha = 0; ...more >>

I have an swf that get's its info to display from data, including the filename of images it should display. A getURL() call grabs all the data and pulls it back into variables in the swf. This whole thing runs in a loop and cycles through the images. The problem I have is that it seems the...more >>

Hi, I have a pretty big menu listing (they are rooms of a school). I don't want to put everything into one .swf file because I didn't want the original file to get too big. I was hoping I could just open each new swf when it is clicked on. So if you clicked on "Art Room" the art.swf file would...more >>

I have a picture and when users click on a certain part of the picture I want a button to appear and it shows some text. I already know how to make the mouse pointer and have the text follow the mouse. My problem is how to make that as a movie and place it in a seperate movie. ...more >>

2 Simple Actionscript questions: A. What ActionScript do I use to make a button play starting from frame 50? (Ex: user presses button, and the animation starts playing from frame X) B. Also, how can I get the animation to pause on the frame with the button? (Ex: the animation runs unt...more >>

:beer; Is there a way to change links outside of flash, for example like a text file instead of writing getUrl inside of the movie?...more >>

hello, I've created 2 Classes attached to MovieClips, the first one Matrix, and the second one Slot. when in Matrix I try to create a Slot if I use a variable works, but if I try to put the movie into an array, fails. I am trying to do something like this: attachMovie ("Slot","_mvArray...more >>

when i am loading my flash page i get an error message. A script in this movie is causing macromedia flash player 7 to run slowly. it it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive . do you want to abort the script. any one help me. thanks in advance.. :confused; ...more >>

I've been trying to come up with a way to make a MovieClip rotate from its center point for days now, not wanting to just come out and ask without trying. But the truth is I don't really know Math all that well -- obviously my current problem. I wanted to know if anyone knows some ActionScript...more >>

Passing data to a php script - would love to pass an array but it does not appear that LoadVars will accept this. Also, would appreciate hearing out ther if anyone uses LoadVars objects as a general data holder. Where the data will ultimatly be passed to an external script, and was origin...more >>

Hi All, I have a movie in which i am calling an external MC in which i have placed a Scroll pane Component (I dont know wether i am doing it right) which is calling a MC which is the content to be placed inside the scrollpane. I am doing this to avoid the linkage thing because it delays the pr...more >>

this alpha contiues to 100...how can i get it to stop at 50? onClipEvent (enterframe) { if this._alpha<50; this._alpha -+ 5; }...more >>

Hi! Sorry for reposting, but I was advised to post it in this forum. Although I don't know much about Flash, I just can't see what I'm doing wrong here folks. What I'm trying to accomplish is a header with categories and subcategories. When you rollover the category, a subcategory appears in...more >>

I'm have trouble with a simple movie clip that is on my main timeline. I've added a script to count the number of loops that the clip does until it stops. The code is: counter++; if (counter>6) { gotoAndPlay (1);stop(); } Now what I want is that when the clip stops it goe...more >>

Is there a mouse event that can cause an action when the mouse moves outside the flash document? For example, I have made a drop down menu in flash for the web site at my work. When you mouse over the buttons too fast, the menus stick! If I could use a mouse event like this I could make the...more >>

Here is my dilemma. I want to make a Play/Pause button in flash. I can make the button work correctly, the only question I have is that is there a way that when I click the Play button, it turns into a Pause Button? Meaning, at first the button has the triangle play symbol on it, but once you ...more >>

I have a button I want to place 200 times on my movie (I'm making a sweet rollover effect)). Instead of placing it 200 times, I am trying to use script to generate and place the 200 movie clips. My math is accurate, however my script simply does not generate the movie clips. What you are looki...more >>