Hi, Wondering how in a regular text box one gets a text rollover to send an event so another text box "answer" can pop up on the rollover and then when the word is clicked to do something else "value" driven happens. In short how do I get messages from word rollovers and click on a wor...more >>

If I have two frames and want the top frame to continue it's movie while the bottom preloads the site and the opens into a single frame how is this scripted? Thanx...more >>

I am using kglad's "reverse" script for a menu movie to reverse the animation upon clicking the "close" box. The script is working perfectly for that (and thanks for posting it). My challenge is when the menu movie reverses back to frame 1 I would like to tell the parent movie to gotoAndPlay...more >>

I have an MC on my stage called "lines", which I would like to have in the highest level at all times. I am attaching several MCs over time, and need to make sure that everytime I attach a new MC, that I also move my "lines" MC back to the very top. I was trying to do something like this, but...more >>

Say I have an mp3 called "Rockin.mp3" in the "sounds" directory on my server. And I have a flash movie in the root of that website with a button labeled "Play" My question, quite simply is can I? And How do I get that play button to start playing "Rockin.mp3" on release? ...more >>

I've seen tons of different ways to create a slide show in Flash 8... placing images on the timeline, using the slide show template, creating it dynamically and loading external files with actionscript and with XML. Which way is best and easiest to update? It seems from what I've found th...more >>

Hello, I need regular expression to do some stuff, or i have to continue use (indexOf, substring) to cut and search, I tought they implemented regular expression in the new version ???? Another thing that I want to check if any charater is a number, they dont have any function called (...more >>

I'm trying to do something fairly simple in straight AS, but I'm running into a problem trying to do the same thing from an xml menu. I just need help with what should be simple xml syntax for AS load movie into level: I'm trying to modify adrianTNT's XML menus and this command works to load a...more >>

What area of the stage responds to mouse events for a movieclip with no content? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

I have to run flash (swf) locally, which in my case means a CD. What I want to do is allow the user to have a browse (local) function and pick an image from his hard disk and use that image to see a flash movie (swf) with his/her selected image in it! Then after the user watched the movi...more >>

When using cacheAsBitmap, animating a series of vector images dramatically increases the playback rate but only after the those vector images have been rendered. For example, say you have a movieClip that contains a 10 frame animtion that cycles and displays vector images of number 1 to 10. ...more >>

Ok this is my code it kinda does what I want. Clicking on the flash screen makes a TextInput. Problem being, if I do it again, the other one disappers. IE I can only have one at a time. I thought I did a good job of following the drawingapi example, but I'm missing something. Thanks ...more >>

on(keyPress "a") { _x+=10 } Whats wrong with this code?...more >>

Alright.. I have a movieClip on the stage that's calling in an external swf file when it's released. The movieClip has a simple sound attached to it. Now, when it loads in the video everything works fine, but.... The video has no audio.. I am assuming it's because onRollOut of the mouse ...more >>

I am building a site, it has one main timeline, and each movie on its own layer with a navigation button to play each movie. Everything works fine except if i click one movie to play then click another button the second movie plays while the first is still going. So my question is how can i se...more >>

I'm working on this: http://www.globalmediaproductions.org/testheader/header4.swf All I want to do is position the videos behind the text, but no matter where I place the action script: loadMovieNum("videoheader.swf", 1) the videos appear in front of every layer. what am I doin...more >>

I'm trying to insert a record into my database in mysql. I've made a simple form in flash. But when I submit it doesn't do anything. As you can see in my code I trace send_lv and everything in there is ok. this is my php code: <? header("Content-type:text/xml"); // require "db.php"; ...more >>

Im having a problem with a form when I use attachmovie in action script. I have several input text boxes on a movie clip, and when I test the movie clip regularly, the text boxes work. But when I use attachmovie to display the movie clip, the text boxes disappear. I know they are still ther...more >>

Ok the attached code works all day long on my laptop. I don't use my laptop at home, so started a new flash doc and put this in. Now it doesn't work and I'm tearing out my hair trying to figure out why. I'm running flash pro 8 trial on both computers. Both flash documents are blank except ...more >>

Hello, I'm having a very tough time. I'm using Flash 8 with PHP and when trying to load into Flash... var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); my_lv.load("filename.php"); my_lv.onLoad = function(){ myvar_txt.text = this.myvar; }; When testing the movie, it tells me "undefined". Which ...more >>

What is the actionscript to make a sound play? I ahve two sounds that are in ..WAV format and imported to the library. Do I leave them in the library, or put them into a movieclip? Is there a way to have both play at the same time? ...more >>

I have a preloader that I am making and I need some help. :confused; I have a movie clip that has a movie and a play button in it. I need to know how to make that play button play the movie that is in the same movie clip that it is in. I am thinking something along the lines of this.play()...more >>