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Very urgent. Muy urgente...
Posted by LucasBil NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 11/1/2005 11:51:59 PM
Hello to all, I have an application that I get off internet and I am not able to adapt it. I need to change the numbers for another text. As I can make it. Thank you. http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Interfaces/Menus/Zoom_wit-Zero-7192/index.php ...more >>

_alpha decimals?
Posted by radiomouse at 11/1/2005 11:10:58 PM
Does anyone know why any increments or decrements to a movieclip's _alpha property results in a decimal rather than a whole number? Up until now I've had no problem with this, but I just ran a test and am definitely getting decimals. simple code: blub.onEnterFrame = function(){ trace...more >>

Streaming Flv Problem with FCS
Posted by cybercop at 11/1/2005 11:01:09 PM
Dear Friends, I am developing flv player, using Flash Communication Server and Flash MX 2004 Professional, without using the built-in components. It's almost finished now but I am facing one problem in it. The problem is discussed below: I've three flv files on the Server with the n...more >>

Playing linked MP3
Posted by wdmck at 11/1/2005 10:56:43 PM
I have a linked MP3 that I have set up to play with "sndAudio.loadSound". It play when I open the swf in the flash player but when I generate the html and then load it into IE, it doesn't play when the movie starts ...more >>

unusual load/unload movie?
Posted by roroarro at 11/1/2005 10:35:21 PM
Hi all from Buenos Aires. I have vary basic knowledge of Action scripting but I have to work on a site. I would need some help. Basic I'd like to know this: I have a movie "A" that loads a movie "B". The movie "B" can order to the movie "A" to unload movie "B" and load movie "C"??? Wha...more >>

creating a 3D sky box (Cubic VR)
Posted by gpimpler at 11/1/2005 9:28:54 PM
Hi all, I'm attempting to make a basic flight sim type application in flash. I'm trying to find tutorials on creating a basic sky box (also called cubic VR) to make a fully 3D rotating environment. Do any of you know some tutorials or places I can look for information on creating this ef...more >>

class/object issues
Posted by ofeet at 11/1/2005 9:19:09 PM
First of all, thanks for looking at this... Here's the skinny: I'm making a card game and so far it has Card, Deck and Player classes. the Deck holds an array of Cards the Player also holds an array of Cards HERES THE PROBLEM I have 4 player objects (player1, player2, player3...more >>

Flash 8 Debugger does not list array indexes?
Posted by Eric Reichle at 11/1/2005 8:51:10 PM
I have upgraded to Flash 8 Professional. When using the actionscript debugger, I cannot see the contents of an array in the debug window. Example: I create a new Flash 8 document. In the first frame I declare my array: var testArray = new Array("item1","item2","item3"); If I do: ...more >>



addEventListener onRollover
Posted by cadflash2 at 11/1/2005 8:23:47 PM
I have the following which creates movie clips and draw some rectangles. When mouse is over each one I need to fill that movie clip with some color. But code is not going to the function RollOverHandler. What am I doing wrong? var intTimes:Number = 0; _root.lineStyle(1, 0x0000FF, 100); fo...more >>

DepthManager with createEmptyMovieClip
Posted by Moss Collum at 11/1/2005 8:19:49 PM
I'm trying to create an empty movie clip at the highest available depth. I was using code like this: mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip("new_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth()); but I'm also using version 2 components in my movie, and the http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhim...more >>

createTextField used inside a function does not work
Posted by keithb at 11/1/2005 5:05:33 PM
I use createTextField in a movie clip and it works; however, if I put my code in a function and call the function from the same movie clip it does not work. I have tried including the full path from the root, but that makes no difference. Any ideas? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

this.createTextField doesn't work
Posted by keithb at 11/1/2005 5:01:51 PM
The help example shows: this.createTextField("my_txt", 1, 100, 100, 300, 100); however, it does not work, unless I remove the "this." prefix. Anyone know why? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

Cell Renderer ???
Posted by C-Rock at 11/1/2005 12:13:59 PM
I'm call the cell renderer to display a picture in my data grid. I'm trying to display a standard picture if one is not available. The pictures are based on a number from the database. Sometimes the number won't have a picture. Here is my code; any idea what i'm missing? class ImageRe...more >>

FileReference Not Posting?
Posted by phil ashby at 11/1/2005 9:42:45 AM
Hi all, using MM's script example script (shown) to play with uploading. I've got a coldfusion page receiving the post which simply contains <cffile action="upload" filefield="FILEDATA" destination="D:\inetpub\wwwroot\stz3z\uploads\#FORM.FILENAME#" nameconflict="overwrite"> But ...more >>

File size changes?
Posted by Brian at 11/1/2005 9:41:03 AM
I just saw this page and was wondering if anyone knew how that was done? I would like to also be able to change the size of my flash file. This is the page, have a look at the flash navigation at the top. When it opens, the scroller gets longer. How is that done? http://www.shauninman.com ...more >>

Test Movie siezures... can't figure it out.
Posted by teddiD at 11/1/2005 1:08:32 AM
Hey! it's me again... I've been struggling with this for A WEEK! I'm trying to link a button on Scene 1 to Scene 2. I made sure that ALL of the script that I put in the wrong place in the ACTIONS panel was deleted, but when I Test Movie with everything where it should be, the scenes are flash...more >>

loading jpgs - 2nd loop problems
Posted by dirkness at 11/1/2005 1:07:12 AM
Hi I'm building a simple background slideshow for my personal site: http://www.dirksmith.com/index_v2.htm The idea is that jpgs are continuously loading in the background - and loading into holding mcs on sequentially lower layers in a movie off the main timeline - with the layers ste...more >>

Load gif image
Posted by OniLink at 11/1/2005 1:04:41 AM
How do you load a gif image? I'm using the following code, but it doesnt work because I'm pretty sure it only supports JPEG format: shell.loadMovie("/subtitles/" + lang + "/Tip" + tip + "/line" + line + ".gif"); Please help, ~Oni. ...more >>

Game background
Posted by JF213 at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
I am attempting to create an interactive game for my own entertainment. I want the user to walk around the environment by either using the keyboard or the mouse. I designed an oversized movie clip that I want to be able to slide across the stage in any direction (reacting to the keyboard or ...more >>

Creating names based on a for loop
Posted by Gerrard at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi Everybody! I need some assistance from the proffesionals. I need to make several Arrays and I want to speed up the process by doing this in a loop. But I'm not able to make the names of the Arrays uniqe in the loop. Take a look: for (i=0; i<10; i++) { var a:Array = i } trace(a1...more >>

[object Object] problem,
Posted by crazyjoe_00 at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi guys, I was hoping I could get some help from some of you more experienced veterans. I made a global constructor function that assigns properties to get some basic parameters from an object within the scene. The object is passed to a variable that is assigned to the global constructor f...more >>

drawing background
Posted by cadflash2 at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
I have an autocad drawing that need to show in the flash. I'm able to convert the drawing to gif and show on the flash. But I need to show the background color of drawing differently. How can I do that? ...more >>

ActionScript Code Wanted for "Flash Cards"
Posted by BSquared18 at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Let's say on one layer I have four frames, each containing different content. On another layer, I have a button. Each time the user presses the button, I want them to be taken randomly to one of the four frames. The next button push, they are randomly taken to another frame, without repeating ...more >>

Basic Flashvar image loader works in IE but not FF or Netscape?
Posted by mcjimbo at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi guys and girls, I'm quite a novice when it comes to flash so bare with me. I have a site i'm developing, on the homepage I created with ASP a image randomizer. Nothing complicated it just reads from a folder, then displays an image. This was working great, then i though it would look ni...more >>

TextArea + Editable + Stylesheet becomes uneditable?
Posted by unAbacus at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi Guys, For some reason whenever i turn on .editable and .html of a dynamically created TextArea component, and then apply a stylesheet via obj.styleSheet = css.obj; The area then becomes uneditable but has nice style, i've tried switching the order i set the attributes to see if i...more >>

Reset Movie
Posted by Jpmon1 at 11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Group: I have a bunch of empyt movie clips that are just off my stage, and when my main movie starts, the clips dynamically load a picture and moves and resizes itself to make all of the pics fit proportionally in my stage. The information about what pic to load, and what size it is, is s...more >>


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