Hey all - I've bumped into a bit of a situation that I hope you can help me with. I'm trying to find a way to reverse the _y coords of the current startDrag (_x and _y would be acceptable as well). The catch however, is that I do not have the option of writting a function to handle my...more >>

The new security with Flash 8 player is causing us problems when we try to communicate with JavaScript using the FSCommand. Our problem is with network-share files. The user is presented with the ?Macromedia Flash Player Security? dialog where they can update their settings or click the OK but...more >>

hi everyone, okay, i'm having a simple actionscript/flash problem that's driving me nuts... I'm trying to create a very basic flash blog that loads info from a php file from a mysql database. I think that both the mysql database info and the php file are working correctly, and here is ...more >>

Anyone have any ideas or know how to put some type of focus border around a movieclip like you can with a text field? I want a user to know they are working with a particular "clip" if they are resizing or changing alpha properties etc. I created a function to basically draw a box aroun...more >>

Is there a way set an arry of expressions? At a point in my code I am checking numerous varibles at one time, and I need to check also if the _xmouse and _ymouse are within 1 of 8 different areas of the stage. As in this expression: var mousePressPoint:Number = _ymouse; "mousePressPoin...more >>

Im a beginner in flash, and i'm wondering how can i make a graphic in flash that acts as a 'wall'? such that the player cant walk through it, and bumping into the wall will stop the player's movement. do i need to do something like a collision detection? thanks. ...more >>

OK I'm going to have a series of 20 buttons that will all have the same functionality. How can I target these with just one function? They have instance names 'but_[1-20]' but when I do something like but_[x].onPress=function.... it doesn't work. How can I do something like this? Thanks! ...more >>

Ok, I have a class that I created in MX2004 Pro and I am attaching it to 2 different movieclips in my library. Then I am attaching and instance of each movie to the stage based on some if else statements. The problem is the second movie that gets attached seems to be without access to i...more >>

I'm making a login page where I send and object with username and pasword to php and once that has cleared I want to get an object back to flash. But I have no idea how exacly that works. here I make 2 Loadvars. in the first loadvar I can put different variables in with : send_lv.variable...more >>

hey, trying to get each btn to load in a simple library object (both have callers) hold_1 works but not hold_0... any idea? thanks for the input function createMC(newMC:MovieClip, amount:Number) { for (var i = 0; i<amount; i++) { var mc:MovieClip = newMC.createEmptyMovieClip("hole...more >>

I know how to do this directly in a Flash timeline but would like to do this using ActionScript: <15 fps and images are converted to movieclips. Dimensions of images are the same.> Image1 fade in for one second and hold for 5 seconds. Then, image2 fades in over image1, one second fade-in...more >>

Here's my question: I want to attach a movie AND send parameters to the constructor. As of now I cant... here's my setup: in my library i have m-Player1 and the linkage is setup as such: Identifier: m-Player1 AS 2.0 class: Player Linkage: Export for ActionScript, Export in firs...more >>

Hello, I use hscroll to scroll a text inside a textField onEnterFrame. This works fine when I am testing it on Flash Player 8, but when I use Player 7 a white background appears behind the text, as if I have it enabled. However I am not doing that (I also tried textField.background=false)...more >>

Hi, I have a parent or main swf file opening and then running additional swf files via loadMovieNum at different levels. I am trying to build a global navigation system for stop(); and go(); buttons that can reside at a higher level but then can control the movie or frames of a movie belo...more >>

I have the following Function that gets triggered everytime an MC from my library gets attached to my stage. // creates the onRelease handlers for our loaded swf's function setRelease(theBtn:MovieClip):Void{ this["loader"+theBtn].onRelease=function():Void{ trace("Clicked "+this); } t...more >>

Does a movie clip inherit size parameters from its children, or do the children inherit size parameters from the movie clip? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

trace("myNum:" + myNum); trace("total:" + totalRecords); trace(myNum > totalRecords); I get: myNum: 450 total: 400 undefined If I use >= instead of just > then I get true instead of undefined, but I don't want equality in there. Does this make any sense to anyone? If I do a simp...more >>

When I use code to add multiple movies clips and define funtions such as movieClip1.onMouseDown = function() {}; movieClip2.onMouseDown = function() {}; movieClip3.onMouseDown = function() {}; All movie clip funtions trigger no matter where I click the mouse. How to add mouse event handler...more >>

hi all, is any body Tell me that how i can restore delete event by delete statment.is it possible or not.. plz help me. thanking you all ...more >>

Ok, strike this on up for the record books.. http://www.deepmagicstudios.com/temp/Weird_flash.jpg I created a dynamic text field on my stage. 1) Set the Properties to Dynamic Text, and give it a var name "cover_date". Set the font to Arial. 2) Click on the BOLD and ITALIC setting....more >>

Hi, Can anybody help in in this: var o = new Object(); o.okButton = (flags & Alert.OK) ? true : false; I am confused in "(flags & Alert.OK) ? true : false" this statement. what is the function of "?" here, and how we are using it. flag is a param. ...more >>

Hi, all I've put together a slideshow using Macromedia's slideshow/xml tutorial... It works, including a small modification to bold some of the text captions in the xml file. However, I'm finding that the images don't show up when you view this on the mac platform - which is odd, because t...more >>

I need to detect and upgrade flash player from 6 to 8 from a cd in order to run updated presentations. I cannot count on users to have an internet connection. The flash detection Kit is focussed on detecting flash for internet use and anything I tried to detect flash from a cd out of a project...more >>

Hey, if I have a variable containing a number/word like.... A577GAHUS67 How do I target all of the "A" letters and remove or change them using actionscript? Also how would I target, for example, just the 3rd letter/number? Thanks ...more >>

If I create movie clip in code (rather than in the IDE) using createEmptyMovieClip, is there any way to add code to the newly created clip? If not, how can I add an event handler such as onMouseDown() to the newly created clip? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

Hi All, I am working with a flash movie that loads in a section of XML. Within my XML I have a tag called <mainText>, the contents of this tag are to be displayed inside a textArea component. I'd like to be able to use basic HTML such as , <b>, <i>, <ul>, etc inside my <mainText> tag. ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use CURL to provide variables to a movie for dynamic loading, but they are not available when the movie starts. Is there any sort of workaround that can be done, using CURL, to make this type of function work? Also, i've tried a "Location:" header redirect, but I...more >>

Is it possible to setFocus to an input text field without highlighting the text that is there? If so, how? ...more >>

When I say frames (in this question) I'm reffering to html frames... I want to have two frames (top & bottom) the top will have animation happening, the bottom, a flash enter button... when you press enter I want the top frame to continue (without reloading) and the bottom to trigger a preload...more >>

I'd appreciate the opinion of actionscript coders with more experience than me. I'm using the following function to import and display three movie clips: function featureLoader(newMovieName, FeatureMovieNum, xVal) { this.createEmptyMovieClip(newMovieName,this.getNextHighestDepth()); var ...more >>

Is there a way to do the following in MX or MX 2004? If there is no movement of the mouse/ cursor for 5 mins. (or whatever time you want) then the flash will go to a different screen....more >>

Can you not get the pixel data from a bitmap that lives on another server using BitmapData? Thanks, Bryan...more >>

Hello, For hours now, I have been using the following script to load a movie into a movie "place holder." I know the script is good, but the error message (also shown below) is driving me crazy. I'm running SYS 10.4.3 Mac and URL is giving me problems and I can't see the movie. on (relea...more >>

hi everybody I have a problem: I built a mc whose content height is variable. The mc is in a in a scrollpane. What I need to do is: when the mc resizes also the srollpane must change its scrolling proportion depending on the new height I could do it in flash mx, but I don't know how to do thi...more >>

Hi to all, i have a movie wich i try to load but my problem is that the preload begins from 60% of the movie. I read about this problem and a lot of peoplay say that's due to the usage of components or symbols linked from the library but i haven't understood how to fix it how can i ...more >>

Hi, Usually we use arrays set like this: image_Array("my image", "your_imege", "his_im", "her_im"); image_Array[0] = "bla_bla-bla"; image_Array[1] = "bla2_bla2-bla2"; but i used to use a bit different syntax(in PHP, JS, etc.): image_Array( im1 => "my img", im2 => "ur img", im3 => ...more >>

I need help...I'm working on a site and saw a techniques used on http://www.fantasy-interactive.com/firestormpc http://www.fantasy-interactive.com/firestormpc/ look at the nav at the top "back, forward, etc." as well as the four PC choices...as you rollover them you get a small text box that...more >>

I have two buttons, an "on" and an "off" button. This is to allow the user to turn on and off a graphic (roads) in a layer. The "on" button's actionscript is: on(release){ visroads(); _root.roads._visible=false; } The "off" button's actionscript is: on(release){ visroads()...more >>

I have a game that I'm making, but I accidently trashed the fla (I dont know how the hell it happened) and I still have the swf. Can I convert that into an fla file? Nick D...more >>

:confused; I have used this script to create a scrolling menu with a bounce-back effect when stopping. This script works fine in Flash Player 6 but now I want to update it to AS 2.0 and FP 8 and I have no idea how. It will not work in FP 8. I have checked that the instance names are all f...more >>

Hi, I want to scan a bitmap for a certain color (and offcourse not just that color, but a color range I can define). Now, I know there's a function called getPixel(), but how would I compare the result of that function? I mean how do I know if its in a certain range. How would I define suc...more >>

Hello I am coding an asteroids game in flash. Asteroids are deleted upon impact with a laser projectile. I am using the Actionscript 2.0. I have one base class which descibes general characteristics of an object. It defines things like the velocity, direction, acceleration. In the object c...more >>

My playHead is going from frame 1 to 205. When it hit the frame 204 or more its going back to frame 4 playing all the frame one by one backward. onClipEvent (load) { var backward = false; } onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (_currentFrame >= 204){ backward = true; } else { if (...more >>

Hi, I've been looking all over Flashkit.com, actionscript.org etc. and have found 'randomization' scripts, but what I really need is a script that will display content that is based on the date. For instance, if the date is the 1st, then content #1 will show, if the date is the 2nd, the c...more >>

how to open output panel when open a flash file?...more >>

I would like to ask if there exists a function in actionscript in order to make what sleep does in Java for example? Thank you in advance ...more >>

How create de file PDF with Action Script...more >>

I have seen many websites that contain databased content to use in flash and somehow their dynamic text is antialiased. How is this achieved? Is there a property or can the font be embeded? Please help. Thanks, ~Oni. ...more >>

I'm making a game for NG that need a movieclp to rotate when you press right or left. I'm using an on (keyPress"<right>") comand. can someone give me the code to make this happen? Thanks in advance! -Nick D. ...more >>

Okay week 2 battling it out on this contact form. Here is my situation. Running everything on a Mac G5 hobby server with unlimited client. When someone hits submit, the email gets received however none of the fields get inputted. Here is my PHP form: <?php $to = "info@mydomain.com"...more >>

Hi Everyone. I need to plot hundreds of points that I'm gettting from an XML file. I got everything worked out! It's amazing. I am drawing the vectors one line per frame with the moveTo() and drawTo() command. Now I'm trying to implement the unDraw() function which basically shou...more >>

Hi, Having problems validating my form. The email part of the validation works a treat, when it is invalid the textfield "email" receives the "invalid email" message. But the problem is with the fullname and enquiry variables. The textfields do not come up with the text "Please ente...more >>

I need to print in swf , a Movie clip and a level together, How do I do?...more >>

Hi, I am making a site where the user will be able to select their own background color via a color slider. The exact same thing has been used here: http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Horizons (Then go into a gallery, select a picture and press zoom & color tool) Can anybody suggest...more >>

Hi There - Have a hundred or so lines of code wrapped up in a listbox that I've dragged onto the stage from the components window and am reluctant to abandon it since I've spent so long on it. Have successfully set the style for everything in the component except am unable to access ...more >>

Hey I'm creating video players in flash and I'm hvaing some problems getting the video to show. The buttons work, and the sound comes through but I can't seem to get any picture. The video File works fine stand alone and plays with no problems. Code: var nc:NetConnection = new NetC...more >>