i have a movieclip called 'window' i have a button, when you press it, it creates a new movieclip and attaches the window movieclip to it the button then calls a function, which loads a picture into it. _root.createEmptyMovieClip("two",_root.getNextHighestDepth()); two.attachMovie("wind...more >>

Hi, I plan to distribute projector files (PC and Mac) on a hybrid CD burned from the MacOSX Finder. I'd like for a button in my Projector to launch a PDF file in whatever app. I found a free solution called "Proxy" developed by Northcode. Northcode developed an exe file that looks at i...more >>

Ok, this is probably a stupid question, but I'm pulling my hair out. I have a movie that's loading images through an xml file. When I test it on a local PC in the flash environment, it works fine. On my mac, it gives me a failed to load (image name) message in the ouput dialog box. When I test...more >>

I am trying to use this code on a button in a MC in a scrollpane. I want the button to send the user to a totally different scene in the site. [I need the button to send outside of pane] What can I put in the parentheses that will make it do this? ("Scene" , frame); doesn't work at all and i...more >>

Hi, My problem is simple but I don't have any solution. I create a scrollpane and I attach a movie inside named test1: mc_scrollPane.spContentHolder.attachMovie("test", "test1", 3); It's working, I see the scrollbar. After that I move the MovieClip test1: mc_scrollPane.spCont...more >>

I'm trying to understand setting Cue points for a flv. I have a question when encoding a flv with cue points ( progressive download) I basically have a 3min flv with 4 event cue points, I gave it a name, time, and "event" type. When each cue point is reached it will trigger (gotoAndPlay a ...more >>

Here's what I 'm trying to do. I am using Flash MX. I have a kiosk which I want users to type in their information. Problem? There is no keyboard. This is all touch screen. I am trying to create buttons to represent the keyboard and when pressed that letter will display in the input text fie...more >>

I am running an app both locally and across the net. It involves loading movies in and out of a level, an monitoring them with onLoadInit. The second time I load a movie across the net, onLoadInit fails completely. It's fine on my local machine. this.movieClipLoader.loadClip (this.required...more >>

Is there any notion of a deconstructor that you can override for a class in AS 2.0? I looked through the help documentation but didn't find anything specifically mentioned about it....more >>

I want to put a var in teste_0(var)._alpha=0, anybory How I do this. var cont1 = 0; while (cont1 <= 10){ teste_0cont1._alpha=0; cont1 = cont1 +1; } thanks....more >>

Hi I'm have a collection of movieClips that are used as buttons. The movieClips are spread over several Flash _levels. I find that in Flash 8 the focus does not return to the address bar in the browser after the last tabIndex in the movieClip. Does anyone know how the tabIndex can ...more >>

I have a movieclip that after 10 secs it will play a sound if the mouse is rolled over it. what code is used so if the mouse is all ready rolled over, it plays the sound anyway? mouseEnter?? Because at the moment if the mouse is aready on it and it gets to the key point, the user has t...more >>

I?m setting a page that is always checking for an update on a mySQL server so i have a php page that delivers the info to flash through loadVars. Everything works fine the first time BUT if the information on MySQL is updated it never changes in Flash... The strangest part is that in "test mov...more >>

I'm an experienced developer so have tried the obvious. I'm trying to create a component that essentially consists of a TextField instance that contains anchor tags in htmlText... ie, there are hyperlinks in the text. It also needs to be draggable, and detect RollOver and Rollout events. The ...more >>

hi i have big problem and i cant solve it myself please help i have something like this : var myXml:XML = new XML(); var newXml:XML = new XML(); myXml.onLoad = function(){ for(j=0;j<myXml.firstChild.childNodes.length;j++){ var element1:XMLNode = myXml.firstChild.childNodes[j]; newXm...more >>

I have included this script to load an external mp3. on (load) { mySound = new Sound() mySound.loadSound("http://www.bertmoniz.com/music.mp3", true); } The sound plays fine. I have created one button to toggle the sound on and off. What script do I use to do this. I want the song ...more >>

Hi I'd like to recreate the vertical scroll movement on the previous / next button here: http://www.stewartmcmillan.co.uk/ I've used 2 different movies for the mouse over / out states - and inserted them in the over / down button states - but it's not working as it should. Any i...more >>

I have the following function to run my hover captions: captionFN = function (showCaption, captionText, bName) { if (showCaption) { this.attachMovie("caption", "cap", this.getNextHighestDepth(),{_visible:false}); this.createEmptyMovieClip("hoverCaption", this.getNextHighestDepth()); ...more >>

I have a problem with a movie that I am making. I am importing html text and placing on the stage with getNextHighestDepth. I run into a problem where I need another movie that is already placed on the stage to be at a higher depth than the text so that when it shows up it slides over part of...more >>

Hi, There is a problem in gotoAndPlay script:... In my file there is two scenes. each scene animation in the movie clip so u can see in the scene only one frame but there is problem when i click a button in the Scene1 it should play the Scene2 animation(animation is in the movie clip...more >>

For some reason I have to hit stat5 button 3 times before it kicks in. Once it has kicked in as it were, you only have to hit it once to toggle between the 2 states. I thought that this might be because it was having to fire up a few times for the load Vars. However it appears to be because o...more >>

Hello, How to set embedFonts property for all of the TextFields at the same time? Regards, Parham...more >>

Hi, I just can't figure out how to display records from a MySql database into Flash. This is the code I use to display the records in a .php page : <?php while($rij = mysql_fetch_array($rs)) { echo ($rij[name]);?> - <?php echo ($rij[role]);?></td> echo "<a href=\"mailt...more >>

Hi! I am designing some AS2 classes, and two of them are XMLReader and XMLWriter. By design I want to seperate the data layer from the presentation layer. I have tried to access the XML data in the XMLReader class successfully, but when i try to send back the data to the "model" class it c...more >>

I would like to have two MovieClipLoaders in my movie, because I want the onLoadInit and onLoadProgress actions to be different based on what is loading. I have the following in the beginning of my AS: // new moviecliploader to load our thumbs var thumb_loader_mcl:MovieClipLoader=new MovieCl...more >>

hi i m trying to load an external swf with loadmovieNum("mymovie.swf", 1) ones the movie is loaded it appears on top of my menu and lings my question is how to load the movie at a specific layer . ...more >>

i am making a movie clip i need 2 postion the mouse in some x value and y value in the movie clip while the mouse is hidden "Mouse,hide()" any idea on how doing this?...more >>

Hello, I will explain the sitiusion: I am working on a scool project, we are working with Java, trou the LPT port, with buttons from outsite. Zo whit REAL buttons you can touch, in Java it is possible (afcourse). Bud I know that you can give the buttons in Flash to react on key press.....more >>

hi i have flash7 and i need to save text from flash to text file i read that JSave can help me but i can not use it i work in windows Environment can any one help me...more >>

Earlier I asked for help on having a scroll bar snap to "X" amount of positions and have that control a movie going frame by frame and thanks to kglad and charlie656 I was able to make it work for my movie. Now after I got that going I ended up taking the snapping off atleast I hope I commente...more >>

I have afew buttons that use: this._parent.attachMovie("myMC", "myMC_mc", 1); to place different mc at the same depth (as to kick the last selection out and replace with the new one) What I am having trouble doing is keeping an mc thats already on my main timeline always higher than z-ind...more >>

Hi everyone. I can use some help from an experienced developer who can take a quick look at my methods and say if I am doing something stupidly that makes my app run slowly, or if the code is decent and I am just making poor Flash try to do the impossible. To start with, imagine that on my...more >>

Basically I want to move an object with a button. So if the user keeps the button pressed, the object keeps moving. Is there a "while button pressed" type of command I can use or do I need to do the clunky method of an event listener for the button pressed and then another for button rele...more >>

Version Info: Flash 8 Proffesional / Actionscript 2.0 Issue: Importing classes from the mx package causes a compile error (1141) : The name of this class, '<A.B.C>', conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded, '<A.B>'. Details: For a specific example, I attempted to...more >>

Hi to all, I used the fscommand("fullscreen",true) in my application to make it fullscreen. However when the user presses the Escape key, the window goes into the normal view. Is there any way of disabling the Escape key to make my movie in fullscreen all the time? and the only way to quit...more >>