I was able to create my pause button but I can't seem to get my music files (.WAVs) to pause with the rest of the demo. I'm not sure if I'm going about this the right way - I've created movie files that only contain the WAVs and added those movie files into the script to pause, but that isn't ...more >>

I know about http://www.actionscript.org, but are there any other places? I'm a total newbie at the moment and want to make sure I find the "legitimate" sites. Oh, sure, a Geocities site with the same information would be great, too, but I'd rather do this the right way and not the wrong way...more >>

I'm attaching movieClips to a parent movieClip, and I'm incrementing the depth at which the movieClips are attached. When I try to use the rollOver methods of the children movie classes, they are unresponsive. I know that they're being correctly set, because when I execute a call to _level...more >>

This is strange. When I export the project directly from flash (test movie) the key listeners work. I hit the "0" key and something happens... When I target the .swf file and launch iit in the flash player or in the browser, the keylisteners seem to be disabled. Any ideas? ...more >>

I am building a zoomable flash map that populates a map dynamically by attaching houses(movieclips), using xml. I am then attaching small info bubbles to the houses with the initial visiblility of the bubble to false, then when you mouseover a house it toggles the visibility. I am attaching a ...more >>

Hello, On my stage I have a plain button and a dynamic text box with the variable of 'score'. Each time the button is clicked the score goes up 7 and one the score reaches 105 the game ends. What I need to know is how can I get multiple buttons to ramdomly appear and dissapear on the stage? Th...more >>

Hi, I have a page where u can move items around to make a picture. Is there any code that could be put on a button so the user can save thier custom picture into a jpg. I know you could just print the screen, but is there a more profssional way Thanks for your time Jimmy_milk ...more >>

Hi, I just have a simple problem. I want several buttons to trigger seperate movieclips on rollover and rollout. I attached the code of what I have now and it doesn't look good cause it triggers actions even if they don't need to be triggered. I just want to add an If statement so that...more >>

I have a scrollpane instance called "newsPane_sp" which contains a movieclip. That movieclip contains 3 text fields: "date_txt", "headline_txt" and "body_txt". The idea is that these three fields will change based on the news item a user selects. I am trying to update the fields by using...more >>

Dear Developers, I have had a great response here first time, We are stuck again. I have created a movie that draws a few rectangles, text and images on the screen. It's nice and easy. I am trying to load the movie dynamically, and move it around the screen, all in actionScript (Amen, and p...more >>

hey guys...just curious, but does it matter what order scripts are written in AS. For example, if i have a function that calls another function, that calls other functions, does it really matter at author time which one i write first? funciton doThis(arg){ arg.onRollOver=function(){ ...more >>

Hello, I am generating PDF's dynamically and saving them to the server. I then want flash to download the file to the users computer. Everything seems to work however the download doesn't complete and I get an error message in the safari activity monitor which says.. plug-in cancelled ...more >>

I have several dozens of read-only dynamic texts in my movie. I need to know if user clicked on it. I cannot associate a onRelease method to a text and I do not want to create a movieclip for each text, since they had been created by actionscript. hitTest is of no use because I cannot continuosly...more >>

Hello, this is my first post but i am an avid reader of these forums. I am currently working on a site for a friends small business, i have created a movie with 7 scenes in total, everything works fine as intended across a few different browsers. My problem is i want music on the site, th...more >>

Hello. I have a code for a menu, around 320 lines. I had to change publish settigns from 6 to 7 so I can use aliass text. Without changing the code, I get that error that says the script is slowing down the computer when I puclish the file. I think is because of the loops, I have some lo...more >>

Ok, so i had a previous thread http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288&thre adid=1086418 about this problem but I think it all boils down to something rather simple. I think I have misunderstood how the movie clip hierarchy works. My flash project is la...more >>

Hi I've created a kind of CMS in PHP5 where the user can write some text etc. All data will be utf8_encode saved in a XMl file When I want to read the data back into flash I get all the html notations for the accents. For that I have found a solution EXCEPT for the " and the ' It isn...more >>

I am getting numerical values from a database looking like this: 136.9357745 or 124.1254 (various amounts of decimal points). When I try to cast those values into Numbers it fails. xCoord = Number(xCoordXML.childNodes[11].childNodes) //this is the xml node containing the numercial val...more >>

I'm loading several swf's into my main flash player and they seem to slow down my main flash player (fps 35). Does anyone know why the player slows down in the orginal timline of the movie. Would reading the swf's with XML help the player to run faster or is their some actionscript that can bo...more >>

Hi all I needed to create a gallery consisting of thumbnails which you then could click on and they would open a new window with the actual img. I decided to load the thumbnails dynamically and place them and the MCs they're supposed to be loaded into using actionscript. I've ran into a pr...more >>

I am using Flash MX with the new screens method ? automatically creating a presentation. The problem is that all of the screens are at frame 1 and the movie that I put in one of the screens continues to run even if I leave that screen. At first, I loaded the movie at startup but the m...more >>

hey guys...once again, the FOR loop is getting me bad. Sorry my code is a bit rough-I am trying to refrence instances on the stage, via an external text file. The file looks as such: &menuVar=Sample1,,Sample2,,Sample3& --- except consider that there are 20+ samples. Ok, the instance names ...more >>

Twofold question: 1. how to get the version number of a component? I tried trace(myComponentIstanceID.version) but it does not work. I also tried to get it while debugging, but I cannot find it? 2. how to get the latest version of a component from Macromedia site. I cannot find the palce to...more >>

Hi all, We specify the name of the new MovieClip when we duplicate or attach it. Unfortunately attach movie is usefull for movies that inside the Library. but we can't duplicate a movie to a specific target mc. (i.e) We can't duplicate a movie source_mc to duplicated_mc.source_mc That me...more >>

Hi, I've got a button in a movie clip, but how do i get that button (whilst in the Over state) to control the movie clip it is in? any ideas guys. I keep coming up with alternative ideas for what im trying to acheive but still no closer to an answer. Check the link, the buttons need to ...more >>

Hey guys, how ya doing? I have a bit of a problem, I am a Flash MX 2004 Pro user and I need a bit of help, and I don't know how to fix it. I am trying to link a button to a PDF file, I have looked about for the bit of code to do it and come up with the following, TRITON_btn.onRelea...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to reference a graphics file name. Basically I have a movieclip in my library and on each of it's frames is a .gif image. I wan't to be able to say "if the graphic on a particular frame has the word 'tree' in the file name then do this..." Is this is ...more >>

hi, got this problem: I want to assigne a value to a variable contained in a mc. the name of the mc if prefixxed as "g" followed by a number. for example: the mc "g4" contains the variable "variable1" on (release) { active = 4 set("g"+active/:variable1,"pippo...more >>

I want to load an image from an URL when a button is clicked. There is a gray-colored placeholder movie clip in the stage called "prueba_mc", a button called: "boton_btn". This is the code on frame 1: boton_btn.onPress = function(){ trace("working"); loadMovie("http://www.jarclos.com/...more >>

Hello and thank you for anyone would help me : ) I have a problem with the dynamic text ...it is not displayed. the text box has a scroll bar beside and it's displayed. I followed this http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16142 then not working.... please some...more >>

Hi, i am creating a banner that has a link on iot to a .swf file. on (release) { getURL ("logo.swf", "_blank"); } the file opens itself in a new window, but i want it to be a regular window, not iexplorer window. how do i do that????? ...more >>

How do I endlessly "loop" a sequence of individual .swf files if each one is on a separate level? (Plus, I want to avoid any delay or visual gap in the sequence between the end of the top level and the beginning of the root level.) So far I have tried this approach: Once my root file has l...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a vertical menu that when you click on a button the sub menu's slide down, and then retract when you click another button (i think they're called tree/ accordion menus) I don't really know actionscript .. so could someone please point me in the right direction.. ...more >>

Hi all, I have created a simple MP3 player for a website I am working on http://www.shawnhaussler.com The standard Macromedia component was 68 KB which is too much for modem users, so I wanted something lighter. I created one that is only 7 KB and got everything working fine using this basic...more >>

Right here we go... I'm making an interactive "world" type experience which is basic point and click stuff. I am using the following actionscript code which is inside a movieclip on the last frame: _level0.gotoAndPlay("player"); The idea being that when the movieclip is done play...more >>

I am using MX2004 7.01 and I'm really struggling to try to get scene 1 to loop until scene 2 is loaded. Nick suggested this: "copy all the frames in the first scene, then paste them in a movie clip and then delete all frames exept for the first and put the movie clip in that frame. Open th...more >>

I load SWFs and attach library movieClips and assign depths according to desired stacking, but no matter, the SWFs alway show on top of the attached libary MovieClips. I don' t understand why....more >>

Hi All, if anyone has any clues on this please help. I have a host movie which controls the whole page..into this is loaded a variety of external swfs depending on the navigation selection. The problem I am facing is the swf files work 100% when tested individually however when loaded into t...more >>

hey guys! I have a movie clip that slides a control panel out. When it's hidden, I have a bar at the end of it visible. The user clicks on this bar and the movieclip is played, showing the control panel sliding out. The user clicks on the same bar, and the control panel slides into hid...more >>

scene 1 is a preload. The music (frame label sound1) begins playing on frame 1 scene 2. It plays through and ends on scene 5, last frame. This is the ending of the intro. I tried setting the sync to start, event, stream. It seems to not make a difference except that it wont play thr...more >>

What is the script for placing a loaded movie at a specific x/y coordinate. I am using this script; on (release) { loadMovieNum("lighting_master.swf","1"); } Question is how to locate the clip at a specific place on the stage... Say for example x=0 y=238 ...more >>

Have got an SWF that I must load due to size. I need to get it out of the way at various time and am currently stuck with reloading it. Is it possible to set a visible property on a loaded SWF (as with an attached movieClip from Library) so I only need to load once? Thanks. ...more >>

I'm creating a calendar for our church and my concept is to simply have all the months as text buttons and as you mouse over them the appropriate information for that month appears to the side. I want to make each month's events a movie symbol so it can appear in a strange or unusual way. ...more >>

Ok. I have a button. I want to have that button bookmark that page in a person's favorites when they click on it. It's not working. Easy enough to understand? Cool! I have THIS for script so far but can't figure out how to get it to work... on (release) { getURL("javascript:windo...more >>