Hey, im trying to create a function that i can call on several buttons that will move images when a btn is pressed... however im doing something wrong... i think it might be the distX in my function but im not to sure function moveImage(clipName, xDist) { xDist = _x speed = 25; _...more >>

Hi There, I'm very much new to Flash and I'm following some tutorials in the "flash visual quickstart guide" and when following a tut about how to add frame actions, I get to the typing of the script, I click to get my insertion point in the script pane but typing has no effect the cursor ...more >>

Ok, this has got to be one of those...."can't believe I didn't see this" errors that we all love. Situation is I have a clip which is loading in 3 or more JPG's and placing them in different spots on the clip at different sizes, aspect ratio, etc. However when loading them via a loop and the...more >>

Hi there, are there any chances to apply a font to a textfield, where the the font was loaded from a swf file, which only embedds a font. If not, what could I do, to "pretend" it? Greets and thanks in advance Sukram ------------------------------------ My Flash: Flash Professio...more >>

attachSound (Sound.attachSound method) public attachSound(id:String) : Void Attaches the sound specified in the id parameter to the specified Sound object. The sound must be in the library of the current SWF file and specified for export in the Linkage Properties dialog box. You must call ...more >>

I've been appealing to everyone I can think of for a definitive answer to this question: - are there any undocumented methods or workarounds that would let you reliably seek intervals of less than one second in an .flv file? Ideally, I would like to be able to step ahead one frame at a t...more >>

this seems easy enough, so it's probably more of a simple solution than i realize. so i have a set of buttons arranged in a sort of gallery menu, such that each button is a link to a different set of pictures. the menu stays visible the whole time, while the corresponding pictures are loa...more >>

I am trying to hide my mouse, so that a mc that I have can follow my mouse in its place. Everything works great. Only problem is when I view the swf file back in firefox or IE the cursor follows my mc.(The cursor doesn't show up in just the swf file.) I am using //hide mouse onLoad ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to creat an animated button where when u hover over the button a picture around the button spins, but when I go to actions the actions scrfeen it says "current selection cannot have actions applied to it" can somebody please tell me what I do to get the picture to spin when ...more >>

I'm looking for the syntax to load a field dynamically: var FieldOne = "line one." +???? + "line two" + ???? + "line three"...more >>

When I create an instance of a class in scene #1 when I get to scene #2 I don't have access to any of the properties. Tried _root. & this. and still nothing. What can I do to make them visible across scenes? ...more >>

:Q I have a flash file with three scenes.... "main" - "photos" - "contact" and at the top of the scene i have 3 buttons one for the first one for the second and one for the third scene.... So... the action script on the second button is "on (release) { gotoAndPlay("photos", "1"); }"...more >>

After scripting until i was blue in the face on something that boiled down to such a simple script, I am listing the solution below for any who are having a problem with movement to specific locations on the page.^_^ //on the movie clip---------- onClipEvent (load) { _root.navyX = _x;...more >>

How do i disable tab navigation in flash7 or more? or how do i customize tab navigation?...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a flash game project that will be very similar to street fighter or mortal combat. The basic tutorial I am working from is here: http://www.video-animation.com/flash_06.shtml The biggest hangup I'm having is how to make a computer opponent fight me. I can make th...more >>

The tutorials talk about preloaders to load the main movie itself, or calling for an external asset (i.e. SWF or JPG) from the maintime to the maintimeline (or from the timline of a movieclip to the timeline of the movieclip). They do not talk about invoking the loading of an external asset i...more >>

hi there i am trying to get this very interesting new flash feature to work with an asp upload script in this case ASPsmartupload (http://www.aspsmart.com/lib/download/en/aspSmartUpload.zip) the script works perfectly from a html web form but keeps returning a http error 500 if access...more >>

Hello all, I have 2 SWFs: one is preloader and the other one is the actual content (test.swf). In the preloader movie, I'm creating a new empty mc at run time, with: this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1); Then using the loadCLip to load and track the progress of my test.SWF in...more >>

Okay, I have got it a lot closer to what I want but I am having a sync problem. When onRollOver is called for the first time everything operates properly. The movie plays 7 frames and stops when both the height and alpha reach 100. But the problem comes when onRollOut is called. The MC begins pla...more >>

I am working with Flash 8 and the new Flash Remoting (AS2) to retrieve data dynamically from a server with AMFPHP (Milestone 3) and a MySQL Database. When a remote service is called that returns a RecordSet, the result is stored in a DataSet that I would like to use to populate a DataGrid. I...more >>

This is how it looks when loading: _level0.myMCL.loadClip ("biography/biography.swf", 35); My problem is that it always start loading from scratch everytime I click the load button. To close this swf I use _visible = false, just so it shouldn't unload itself. How do I make it stay in cac...more >>

I am currently working on a flash map that pulls in xml to place house icons on a maps according to certain attributes. You can see what I have in progress here: http://www.meritagehomestexas.com/proof/flash_map/ I am trying to get the key on the right hand side to hide/show certain icons ...more >>

Hello. I am very new to flash and am attempting to put together a flash slide presentation. So the moral of the story is please keep the responses simple, because I am probably the newest newbie you've encountered. The presentation is about an hour and a half revolving around spoken audio f...more >>

I have swf's that will load movies as well as pictures, neither have been working on the UNIX/PC server, but it works on the MAC server. It works on this(MAC SERVER): http://www.interactcom.com/lcc/test/higherandhire.swf it doens't on this(PC SERVER): http://stagesrv.lcc.ctc.edu/hs ...more >>

Okay, I'm making a game I have a character that is supposed to be shooting bullets. The bullet I've already placed out ther and the character both move x+=3. I'm trying to figure out how to make it so if you press "0" it creates the bullet behind the character. The way I already have the bulle...more >>

Hi All, Is there a way to dynamically load a font into a flash movie once the movie is published? for instance getting a list of font from a server to be used withing the movie. Any help or pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Mark Redman ...more >>

Hi, iwhile working on a memory game my flash software started unusual behave. first of all some commands l\for navigation like gotoAndStop didnot execute when published, then movieclips when directed to move to certain frames moved to some other frames, to my dismay when i posted them to a ...more >>

hello, this is a simple question... im trying to use the telltarget command in an externally loaded swf to control the root movie using this... on (release) { gotoAndPlay(16); } on (release) { tellTarget ("/") { gotoAndPlay("next", 1); } } the problem i encoun...more >>

I use a code like this: function createLabel(mc:MovieClip,name:String,x:Number,y:Number,w:Number,t:String) { mc.createTextField(name,mc.getNextHighestDepth(),x,y,w,0); mc[name].type="dynamic"; mc[name].selectable=false; mc[name].wordWrap=true; mc[name].autoSize=true; mc[nam...more >>

I have checked this newsgroup for the answer, but the solutions don't seem to work in my case.... Flash 8 Pro, XP ------------------- I have a master movieclip which loads a lot of sub clips based on user interactions. In a space on the master clip, it is the intention to load differen...more >>

Is it possible to make a button, which will rewind back from the current frame, for examble I reached frame 100, and i click the rewind button, now the timeline is playes backwards in 2x time speed, ignoring all stop commands that must be on the way, and stop at frame 1. Thanks Peter ...more >>

I have a SWF called "intro.swf" All it contains is an audio track that is looped. I want to be able to load it and have the audio play. loadSound() didn't work neither did the loadMovie() followed by play(); Stumped in Wisconsin. ...more >>

Hi, I just want to switch a movieclip from one symbol to another. The aim is to reflect state changes like enable/disable, mouseover/mouseout.... I guess there is something around symbol, but I don't know how to change it dynamically from actionscript. Thanks! ...more >>

Hi! I have Flash 5 and 8... I am very intrestening to do a little "game". I am just a beginner. I wan't to press a button, and when I press that button, the button moves. Not in the timeline (frames), in Action Script! I have tryed a little with _x and _y but it doesn't work so good. ...more >>

I'm trying to use the script to make movie clips candle2 - candle10 visible. instead of write out, candle2._visible = true 9 times, i figured i could create a loop. i have other movie clips that i need to do the same with. but when i run this script, it's not making anything visible. i did a t...more >>

I know that there are many questions about this topic, but neither of them worked for me. As usual I try to make a sentence reading stuff, so where the script would play the words each after. Here's the code (this is a "working" solution from a previous question): function playsentence() {...more >>

I have created my site around a blank movie clip called container. The buttons and title remain throughout and all the content gets loaded into 'container' using this script: var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); myMCL.loadClip("images/image.jpg", "container"); That works ...more >>

Hi, is there any way i can fill in the email subject line and body text with my desired text by adding script onto the following code? on (release) { getURL("mailto:name@company.com"); } help much appreciated. cheers ...more >>

I've been using this code to open a window in one of my projects, created in Flash 8 Pro: on (release) { import mx.managers.PopUpManager; import mx.containers.Window; // Instantiate Window. var mywin:MovieClip = mx.managers.PopUpManager.createPopUp(_root, mx.containers.Win...more >>

hi... how i can do the exact result with a flash MX script? this script only works with flashplayer 7... i need to do the same script for flashplayer 6. what can i do for this? thanks, Gustavo script: var container:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", this.getNextHig...more >>

Hi, I have a movie clip that i want to attach to the stage and then move...I can attach it but i cant get it to move....Here is the script i used. Any ideas? I have the code in a movie clip on the stage. I have tried using..........this._x += xmov ..............but find everything els...more >>

Well, we need some help out here. We have a movie with an actionscript to preload it. We used the follow script: var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); connection_nc.connect(null); var stream_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc); my_video.attachVideo(stream_ns); ...more >>

Im really confused about the follow thing. I have a timeline with about 200 frames and several layers. First of all I have a action layer, which has a keyframe for every 20 frames with an action to stop the timeline from playing (works fine) now when the timeline stops different button app...more >>

Is there any way of making a textField carat visible when I use Selection.setFocus(textField) ? The setFocus() is made correctly, but there is no visual indication !!!!!! Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks. Simon.:confused; ...more >>

Hi Anyone can help me in making a preloader for external jpegs like the one in the site http://www.fredperry.com/index.html Visit the shop section and say foot wear for example. When you get in the shopping section you see that the shoes are loaded one by one with a preloader. I need...more >>

Hi, How would be easiest way to implement a turnable button in flash? Like old volume buttons on an old radio, but I need it to be turnable by mouse cursor dragging(or something similar) and to have about 6 different functions in different positions.. I'm quite a newbie in flash, and i di...more >>

Well this time i tryed to load some images into Flash through XML. I did it. Now I have another problem. How can i acces them and give them actions? Here's the script i wrote http://player.evonet.ro/script.txt ...more >>

I've got various layers: actionscript base background In the action script layer I have: loadMovie (background_01.swf, mvc_bg); And in the background layer I have mvc_bg with an instance name of mvc_bg The problem here being that background_01.swf isn't loading at all. I...more >>

I am not sure if you understand what I am doing. I can't just remove that code, or else my pen will never stop drawing. When I change onMouseUp=function(){onMouseMove=null;} to onMouseUp=function(){onMouseDown =null;} My pen keeps drawing. So is there a way to fix onMouseUp=function()...more >>

Hey gang. I'm looking for a really low-tech (ie: low cost) way of sending captured data back to the server. I'm doing a series of small training modules and so here's the scenario: 1: The .swf file sits on a remote server somewhere. 2: The user access the web site and the .swf runs....more >>

I have a button inside a movie clip. Here's the flow: Main stage/timeline > mvc_changebg > mvc_bgphoto > btn_changephoto I'm trying to do loadMovie to a movieclip on the main stage (i guess that's root?). Inside mvc_bgphoto I've got this: btn_changephoto.onRelease = function() { _...more >>

Hi all, maybe this is something that is too easy, but I wondered if there is a way to reverse timeline effects, such as making an object blur in rather than out. Any experience with this? I should note that I've already tried to edit the effect by hand by reversing each of the layers in the ef...more >>

How in the world do you convert longitutional and latitutional values into x and y coordinates? If it matters, the map i'm using is a Behrmann Cylindrical Equal-Area Projection Map. Any ideas are welcome ...more >>

Hello! I have a movie that loads another SWF into it. In the loaded movie, I have a text field created with AS which is supposed to load an external .txt file. Well, it works locally but does not when loaded to the server. I read in the help file for Flash that it's not a good idea to load co...more >>

I know that you can hide all of the buttons in the FlashPaper toolbar by using the code below but my boss doesn't want the bar on one of my application pages, so is there any way to hide the entire gray toolbar and not just the buttons in the toolbar? fp.showUIElement("PrevNext", false); ...more >>

i have kinda a stupid question-- on my site i have 15 button's which represent 15 different football team's... i was thinking about recording their name and placing it on each button... im ok to do that right...just create a layer within the button and drag and drop the sound file to that late...more >>

I'm doing a load from a page and getting back ASCII, any easy way of converting it to standard characters? Like 38%20YEARS to 38 YEARS Other than parsing over everything because the strings are loooooong. Not sure why they are coming back as ASCII anyway. ...more >>