Basically I have data in 5 arrays called TTArray1 - TTArray5. I want to take the first piece of data from each of these arrays and it into a new array. I then want to take the second piece of data from each of these arrays and place that into antoher new array and so on, untill I have extracte...more >>

Hi, Please excuse my "technical terms",but I am trying to use the mouse over effect for my text links and I am using symbols. I'm not sure if this is correct? What is happening is on my stage, everything is working fine. The mouse over effect is working. But when I go to test the movie, the ...more >>

Hello all! Does anyone know how to make four Sound on/off buttons (side by side, each with its own sound) that can be played all at the same time, two together, one by one, none etc. I have tried so many different versions of on/off sound buttons and am about to give up. There must be a geni...more >>

Hello! I'm going out of my mind trying to solve this problem I'm having. Basically I'm making a tile based game using a custom class to store info about the tiles and a custom class to store info about the map. In the map class is a 2-dimentional array that stores all the tile objects. Each ti...more >>

When I type in var hello_txt:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); hello_txt.onLoad = onText; hello_txt.load("hellowho.txt"); function onText(success:Boolean) { if (success) { hello_txtbx = hello_txt.hellowho; } else { hello_txtbx = "unable to load text file."; }...more >>

hey i created a blank MC and want to set its XY... i did this but no dice... any other suggestions this.createEmptyMovieClip("blank", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:300, _y:300});...more >>

On these two session CDs (play the audio in a car stereo and play the PC application in a computer) . I have a button in my flash app that says "Play CD". What scripting or method do I use to access the audio side of the CD and play it? ...more >>

I was thinking about creating a program that can basically take a screen shot of the swf. So far, I discovered I can use BitmapData to determine the colors of any given pixel on the Stage. Now, I'm wondering if I wrote it correctly, (as a 24 BMP) I could use something like JSave (from FlashJes...more >>

I'm trying to add a listener to my Combo Box component which is on stage and has instance name "comboBox1". The listener should detect changes of selected items in comboBox1 and trace its values. These actions are placed in root's timeline in a frame in which is also placed comboBox1. But it doe...more >>

This topic was covered once before but the final working solution wasn't posted. I'm fairly new to AS 2.0 but pretty familiar with javascript so I may need specific examples, with explanation, if you happen to anwer this. The question is how does one add custom buttons/ movieclips, that are ...more >>

Hello! I'm creating a stage plot creator for musicians to create and send to booking professionals. The draggable objects part of it is easy and I have no problems with any of that. What I'm trying to find out is if there is a way to save the changes. In other words, after the enduse...more >>

I'm trying to load mp3's dynamically from a folder called Music; Here's what I have. on(load){ var Track1:Sound = new Sound(); var Track2:Sound = new Sound(); var Track3:Sound = new Sound(); var Track4:Sound = new Sound(); var Track5:Sound = new Sound(); var Track6:Sound = ne...more >>

am pretty much an ameture at flash and php. based on the save movie position tutorial that some of you have may have seen, i have created 2 php files that gets data from the mysql files and inserts it into a flash file, well, trying to anyway its a very simple file i am basically askin...more >>

I am getting problem to connect UI ScrollBar Component with a MOVIECLIP. if anyone know, that would be great. Thanks ...more >>

there are 3 seperate movies mainMovie.swf, submovie1.sfw, submovie2.sfw...when mainMovie.swf is launched the 2 submovies load, but only the static text, not the dynamic text that was loaded. are my scripts wrong?...am i going about this the wrong way? mainMovie.sfw contains: _root.crea...more >>

According to Flash8 Help, all of the following examples should create a component; however, none of them work for me. //The following code imports the assets of the Button component and then makes a subobject of the Button component: import mx.controls.Button; createClassObject(Button,"bu...more >>

I've got a FLV file in this piece. There are 3 cue points. The second one has code to pause the FLV file. However, even when the video is paused, the third cue point happens anyway. I don't want the third cue point to fire until the video actually GETS to that cue point -- seems like tha...more >>

I am trying a crossword puzzle in flash 8. I want to change the letterspacing to 15. But when i run swf the letterspacing in still 0. :Q plz help me !! UmeshK this.createTextField("txtin", 99, -300, -300, 300, 20); txtin.border = true; txtin.type = "input"; txtin.maxChars = 5; ...more >>

Hello! I'm trying to download a large file (around 80MB) using FileReference. When tested in the browser, I get the "script is causing flash to run slow" warning. If I choose not to abort the script, the file is downloaded correctly, but the warning is displayed 2 or 3 more times during th...more >>

Hello, My flash remoting (with Coldfusion) website doesn't work anymore when I read it with Flash 8 and tested it there. I get the following error. **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 2: Error opening include file NetServices.as: File not found. #include "NetSer...more >>

I Want to Save text as .txt or .xml how to use script to do this.Plz Don't refer third party Components....more >>

I haven't experienced this but apparently the component scroll bar on my site disappears when other people view it? I have tried this on a number of machines at different resolutions and have not managed to replicate the problem. Anyone have any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, you guys have helped me many times before, so here I ask you to help me again. I've created a slider and I'm using mask to show just one part of the slider. In a MC slider there are MC's with loadMovie function, buttons and text boxes (dynamic text). I want this to happen. When the use...more >>

How can you tell Flash to do something based on if the mouse is in the stage bounds or not? I don't want to make a large button in the background that fills the whole stage because then the cursor is a hand all the time. Thanks to anyone who can help me out. ...more >>

What I want to do is as follows: Create a menu clip that dynamically gets movie files from an array and populate the menu. My approach was to create an empty movie clip, check the array length, in the loop take a movie clip from array and load it to empty movie clip. Here is the code I ha...more >>

Hi there! I'm trying to use this function without success: loadVariablesNum("test.txt",0); It was suppose to load the variables so I could use them right? But that's not what's happening. Should I write the variables in a special way in the txt file? What should I do? Waiting...more >>

I was wondering if anyone has done a function to scale an object while constraining the proportions. I suck in math so this has got me stumped. thanks for your help. ...more >>

Hi Many of you must be familliar to ImageVue. http://imagevuex.com/ They have a nice gallery component. Check the demos. What am stuck with, is they have this menu at the bottom of the gallery which is like this < 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 > . Any ...more >>

I'm trying to make a chat section in this game that I'm making, and I just want a simple chat section that people can chat with on that sertain web adress. Is this possible? Please respond! Thanks in advance! Nick D.:P ...more >>

This is part of my overall code. I'm trying to load the .jpg, which is does, but delay it starting for 10 second but it just pops on (no fade either. I"m not sure what I'm missing here. Thanks a lot, -Scott _root.createEmptyMovieClip("photo2_mc", 6); photo2_mc._x = 70 photo2_mc....more >>

How the Heck do you target layers in a flash movie with actionscript (The same way you target movieclips)? Can you make new ones (at runtime)?...more >>

i just can?t figure out why tha hell it don?t work at the internet explorer browser i seems that the mp3 is loaded, but the sound doens plays. im using external mp3 loop files anyone know some other way to load external mp3 files? more efficient at least *im also using flash8. h...more >>

I am trying to send variables to a PHP page. i can send them using LoadVars using the send command, as long as I supply "_blank" or "_self" as the method. SendAndLoad doesnt apper to do anything or even try to do anything no error message when i send it to wrong pages, nothing at all. I e...more >>

I have created an mp3 player with a volume slider, here is the script for the volume slider: mySong = new Sound(this); mySong.start(); slider.control._y = -50; slider.control.onEnterFrame = function() { mySong.setVolume(0-this._y); } slider.control.onPress = function() { startD...more >>

HI, I have a flash application that customers use to place ads online. Is there a way to get the user's computer's IP address through actionscript or any other way? Thanks heaps, Mad Dogg...more >>

I'm making a swf where i load swfs into a movieclip using the loadMovie() action. After testing it out, though, the buttons in the loaded swf don't work! In fact, some of the scripts don't work! I tested the swf separately and it works perfectly. What's even weirder is that its almost-equivale...more >>

I'm having trouble with a login flash movie (I know it's insecure, but it doesn't need to be). If you could take a look at my fla here and let me know what's wrong, it would be very helpful. Thanks. http://www.meierk.com/flashhelp.html ...more >>

i understand how the attached code works (below, end of message). The idea in this was to learn how to individually refrence each instance in the array, without having to write m[0],m[1],m[2]...etc , 30 times for each action. I also wanted to learn how to duplicate clips with a for loop..It ma...more >>

I have a .swf file that loads into my _root time line, which in turn loads another .swf into itself. The attached code works if placed on the _root timeline,(I have used it on another project) its basically what is in the Flash help menu. However this code is on the timeline of the second .swf...more >>

I need to tell a movie on level1 to go to a certain scene from a button on level0 Can someone help me? I need the button to pass a var to the level1 movie and go to a specific scene based on that var. ...more >>

what i want to do is use a button to assign an action to a frame let's say my button is on keyframe 1 and when it's pressed i want it to assign an action to keyframe 30 so that when movie reaches frame 30 the action will be triggered i came up with this but then realised tha tell target...more >>

I have a large number of movie clips that need a pause action script for the first frame of each movie. I would like the pause to occur for a few seconds before playing the movie. I was wondering what actionscript I should use? Thanks ...more >>

Please help me, Is it a way to scroll MC with UI ScrollBar Component. Please let me know is it any code for that or know. Thanks...more >>

I have made a working mp3 player where each track is an .swf. It all works fine and each track has script on the last frame that tells it to play the next track: _root.mySong.loadMovie("Music/Track2.swf"); This works fine, however I have turned it all into a movie clip so I can have it...more >>

I'm trying to send vars from flash to a server and i'm using this code: this["00N20000000mXO0"] = "name"; if (this["00N20000000mXO0"] != null) { loadVariablesNum ("http://www.webserv.com/serv/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8", 0, "POST"); } The vars names were given to me to send th...more >>

i understand how the attached code works (below, end of message). The idea in this was to learn how to individually refrence each instance in the array, without having to write m[0],m[1],m[2]...etc , 30 times for each action. I also wanted to learn how to duplicate clips with a for loop..It ma...more >>

Dear Developers, I am currently thinking about creating a 2d engine using flash, i would like to think it's the ultimate tool in web graphics creation. For my project I have a movie clip which in it contains mini slices of a larger image, I am using ActionScript exclusively to manipulate (m...more >>

I open a new flash document from within flash pro 8 in the first frame in the root timeline I create a shape box. Then select it and make in to a MC call this instants testHolder for i.e. Double click on testHolder and in frame 1 of its timeline select the box once more and press F8 and turn i...more >>

Hi friends!! I want to pickup the current server when i click on a button on the flash file. for Example, my script : on (release) { getURL("http://FH5200-DEV.com/news/news.nsf/Region!OpenForm&area=SA"); } In the above script "FH5200-DEV.com" is my server name. I want to r...more >>

Hello there. Im devolopeing a website for a local band, and well the site has just got huge. The site was origanly created in all html and javascript. Now im redoing it for them and after the things i have go done, i need a preloader. im not too much a fan of them unless there nessiary, yes ...more >>