Here Is what the ASP page is looking for: rows ? the number of rows in the image cols ? the number of colums in the image row_n ? a comma-separated list of decimal values for the pixels in the row The first two are easy. I'm trying to getpixel to create a string for each row, and its...more >>

I'm sure there are better ways to script it than I was trying, but my idea was kind of like being in the middle of a room with 4 walls.The stage would be like a static camera facing one wall. The room starts to revolve slowly picking up speed. The room continues to spin at it's max speed for a...more >>

Hi, I have a variable "flv" that is at the _root level. Is there any way for me to get that information from the variable to a movie clip at one level higher? Thanks....more >>

Hello, I have a bunch of images which are each contained within their own movie clip named thumb1, thumb2 etc They are all set to alpha=0 and when I rollover my list component I want the thumb relavent to the index of the list item rolled over to become visible. At the moment I have: ...more >>

I've been researching this for a couple days. Not real code savvy. I basically want to imitate this setup shown here of a large background image on some pages that expands/collapses proportionally based on window size. While at the same time, the buttons or other images stay the same size. Exa...more >>

I have provided an FLA file so you guys can tell me what is wrong. I think it is a problem with the actionscripting. Click maxwellp5@frontiernet.net to e-mail me. Thanx for looking!...more >>

I'm loading a transparent gif into a bitmap data class. This was causing Flash to crash when I Test Movie. Ironically, the swf created before the crash works fine in Flash Player. This is original code that cause Flash to crash. var pat2:BitmapData = BitmapData.loadBitmap(pattern11); ...more >>

Whenever i dynamically load text either through xml or an external txt file it shows up as numbers...more >>

I'm a flash beginner... my goal is to put all/most of my actionscript on frame 1 of main timeline i have a movie clip with buttons, but the buttons dont exist on frame 1 of that movie clip. If I try to use the following in the main timeline to control a button, it doesnt work: mc_nam...more >>

I have developed a Flash website with a contact us form. Does anyone know a way to submit the form and send the information to a PHP page WITHOUT leaving the current page that contains the Flash file? Or do I have to write a page that recieves the information and then sends them back to the F...more >>

http://www.endured.com I'll try to make this short. For some time, I have been trying to self-publish my ebook. I typically start with Acrobat and inevitably get fed up with its limitations and put the project aside for a few months. This time, I opted to make my ebook in Flash. Now that i...more >>

I am using a script I found on FlashKit for scrolling text. It uses a static text box with a mask and a bar the slides next to it. The static text box is in a symbol named 'text'. The handle that is used to slide the text is named 'Scrollbar' with AS. and inside 'Scrollbar' is another symb...more >>

Can anyone point me to some coding examples for streaming live sound from the client to the server ? any pointers much appreciated David...more >>

I have created a website entirely in Flash. I need to add one of paypal's premade buttons that contains the following code: <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="jojam...more >>

Is there a way to make the text justify right in a TextInput Component? Thanks -Richard...more >>

I have a javascript function that changes the movie in the <object> tag and plays the movie in IE, but when I change the "src" in the <embed> tag the movie doesn't play. Below is the javascript. function videoStart(){ if (bWin32IE == true) { document.objMovie.movie = videoFile;...more >>

Hello Guys, I want your expertise help from you if you can just help me !! i am loading a external image into a movie clip and and i m tring to drag the movie cip its not working .... but when instead of loadMovie i use attachMovie to load clip from the library it works why ??? class...more >>

Hi, I want to send the value of a flash text field back to the html the swf is embbeded in by calling a javascript function from actionscript's getURL method: getURL("javascript:updateValue('" + str + "');"); But it seems that there is a maximum number of characters that can be send as...more >>

From testing, it appears that movieclip _height and _width parameters are read only. Movie clips seem to grow to match the size of their contents. Is this the way it works? If so, it would be good to state in the documentation that these parameters are read only. Thanks, Keith ...more >>

The following function creates a grid of attached movie clips. I got this from Pluda. He build it so the grid goes from top to bottom first and then left to right. So if I have a 4 by 4 grid, number 4 will be in the bottom left. I would like to have it where the numbers build left to right, ...more >>

Hi I wanted to create a button which blink when you roll over it. SO i created an up state and over state. In the over state is a movie, frame go goes to frame 2 and frame 2 goes to frame 1, to make it repeat. BUT, I got a problem, the first 3 seconds, the player waits and then gives an ...more >>

I am working on an xml based quiz where option will be displayed in the radiobuttons. evrything is fine. The problem comes when some long amount of text is coming in the radioButton.although i have set its width property to 700 by using setwidth method. bt the problem still comes. is there any...more >>

Hi everybody Can anyone help me .... i need the action script in flash 8 to create a new window with defined height and width the one i did in flash 7 is not working in flash 8 here it is : on(press){ _root.sender.send("myConnection","doAction",2); } on (release) { get...more >>

Please point me to a tutorial, or an answer on how to do the following (if its possible). in your head, pretend you just made a motion tween with a box that moves from left to right, spanning 50 frames. Is it possible to move that second keyframe using actionscript, either while or bef...more >>

I have one password that works if this is added to a button. How do I allow multiple passwords to be excepted? this works for one password... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") { if (pass eq "jonsmith")...more >>

I've got a really weird problem here, and I'm hoping that someone can provide a simple (if weird) answer/solution. I have an input text box. Okay so far. I have a variable at _root level assigned to that box. Still okay. I want to take that variable (which is supposed to be a user-inputt...more >>

What's wrong with this piece of code (myMenuBar is the ID of a menuBar component in frame 1)? myMenuBar.gotoUrl = function(evt) { getURL(evt.menuItem.attributes["data"]) ; } var myMenuBarDP = new XML() ; myMenuBarDP.ignoreWhite = true ; myMenuBarDP.load("MenuBarExample.mxml") ; myMe...more >>

HI!! in my current project read and write to the DB all the time and I don't want to create a function for every LoadVars Object I try to work in a function that create dynamic LoadVars Objects to send data to PHP without successful . Any idea... Thks ;-D gLoadToServer ...more >>

I am making a typing program. As you type in a letter into the input textbox(String1) the next letter you need to type in the dynamic text box(String2) is underlined....more >>

Can anyone please point me in the right direction with this? I am trying to create a rotating knob that will control volume eventually. I need to set limits as to how far it can rotate like a normal volume knob on a stereo. Most of this is taken from a tutorial. this is where i am at right now...more >>

Hi Is there an action script for swap, as simple as that? I want a graphic symbol with some animation to be swapped with another similar graphic symbol at a random mouse click, the earlier trick is doing great when i have no animation running between the symbols, but what I want to do is o...more >>

hi, im trying to figure out how to use the encrypted "buy now" button code that paypal provides. im using flash MX (v6, pre-2004...yeah, i know im out of date...i just dont use flash too often) and im unfortunately, for all practical purposes, a newbie with action scripting and javascript....more >>

Hello, I am trying to get a for loop to load a bunch of images into empty movie clips and then destroy them so that they are in the users cache and can be used with a rollover action (the images must be externally imported) Currently I think the for loop going back to the start of the loop...more >>

I have a flash banner inside a DIV tag at my site. I wanted to make a "Close" button inside this flash. This button calls a javascript that hide the DIV tag, but flash sends me an alert saying that this call is a "...potential unsafe operation". I have got this menssage many times when using...more >>

I'm trying to use a function to determine the location of a movie clip, and then affect the function(#,#) with variables taken from php and/or determined by other equations. I've read somewhere that you can't use variables in a function? If so, can anyone suggest the best way to get this kind...more >>

As the title says... Thanks a lot....more >>

I'm trying to prevent the user from changing the text box focus using the mouse. I only want to allow them to tab sequentially in one direction. I got the second part to work but I can't seem to get the clicking thing worked out. I tried creating a button with only a hit frame but it appea...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to set WHEN a clip starts using the TransitionManager and Tween class? For example i want clip1 to start animate at frame 5, and clip2 at frame 8, clip3 at frame 11, and so forth. Normally i would simply add them on timeline at respective frames and extend frames ti...more >>

have a movie, it has a "show area" that has is an instance, let's call it mov_show mov_show has 5 labels every 10 keyframes (10, 20, 30...etc.) At each of these frames, I have a movie instance (mov_Ad_1, mov_Ad_2...etc) placed with an action of "stop". Here is how I intend for this to...more >>

Hi all, I have been using this script on a button succesfully on (release) { _root.prevFrame() } Now I need to make the button go to the root movie but not prevFrame, rather a marker on the root movie. Any way to do this easily? Im not an action scripter, so I hope this is an...more >>

Hi Again, Thanks for the previous response that got me on (release) { _root.gotoAndPlay("slide2"); } I just realized that there are movies embedded in movies where Im using this script. So I would like to substitute the term _root with a more exact location for the button script....more >>

A portion of my site will be password protected soon. I was going to allow clients to pick their own passwords and usernames. Both will have a restriction on quantity of characters, and on character types. When they enter the site, the client enters password and username, it's validated, an...more >>

I want to put a UIComponent menu item in a Flash Slide Presentation (MX 2004 Professional) I followed the instructions in a Help page (search for "CommandBtn" to find the help page I used. ) The only difference is that my file is a Screen, not a normal Flash file. The help page includes...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me with what should be a simple piece of coding. What I'm going for is a modified version of a navigation bar like macromedia.com has. And so far I thought I had the concept broken down enough to try to make my own; however, I have yet to get...more >>

Hi, I have a little problem. I have read that it is possible to pass a variable from javascript into flash. But I am using frames on my web site (Frame 1 and Frame 2). I have placed a link on frame 1, that should trigger a javascript function. I want this function to pass the variable into...more >>

Greetings yall, |--The Lowdown-------------------------------| Here is the thing. I am new to the world of drag and drop, and as allways I cant do anything the easy way. :) This is what I need to do. I have 4 squares that I need to be able to drag and drop. I need to be able to drop any on...more >>

Hi everyone, I am trying to incorporate a very large background in my flash doc., the background is about 2000px x 2700px (trying to cater to all screen resolution), the goal is to have my flash document, which is 800 x 800, imported it into dreamweaver and somehow have the background to displ...more >>

I'm wrapping a project for our maintenance department that will allow them to collect information about tasks performed (mowing, watering, etc) on a handheld device. When reconnected at a PC, the application uploads an xml object (saved as a shared object) to our webserver for processing. ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to find a tutorial (or help) on how to create an audio on/off button that, depending on the state of the audio (volume set to 0 or volume set to 100) will update the button with the correct graphic (on or off state). I hope that made sense? I know I have seen this code be...more >>

Hello, I'm building a game in Flash MX and am using attachMovie() to put instances of a movie clip on the stage. In the code below, everything works perfectly except for the rotation segment. A couple things I've tried: 1. If I call the flies without using an array (ex.: Fly0._rotation="18...more >>

How can I get a button within a component scroll to open and play an animation in within the timeline? I am currently using the following on my buttons, but this doesn't work when I add it to the scroll. on (release) { gotoAndStop("myframe"); // update state _level0.setStateVar(...more >>

:beer; Dear all; I am new to the actionscript scene, but my boss has come up with developing an advent calendar in flash for christmas. I have completed the calendar with some fancy movies in it. That wasn't a problem, the problem I have is this, I want some one to help me out with a...more >>

Can anyone tell me if actionscript 2 supports them?...more >>

Hello all, I asked this question in a slightly different form about a month ago and got no response. I am hoping this might fetch some help. My page is here: http://test.hinshawdesign.com/cc/shoe_v3.html In PC browsers, the various hyperlinks on the page will change the colors of the parts of...more >>

:confused; I use Flash 8 on Mac OSX 10.4.3. this is a code that I use to create a simple input text field - var fTextFormat:TextFormat=new TextFormat(); with (fTextFormat){ font="verdana" size=8 color=0xFFFFFF; } this.createTextField("name_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 1...more >>