hi, I've got a colortransform in a for loop dat loops 4 object giving them a different color. Now it seems that It never does the first object. all the rest are fine and do the colorchange. I've checked name and depth and thats all fine. also when I click on another color It seems that the fir...more >>

hi everyone!! sooooo.... i am working on an intro (i know, intros should have died years ago..unless of course they are REALLY cool).. i am trying to reproduce with AS the effect of lines drawing themselves kind of like in this http://superchafa.com/fotos/wavy-lines.jpg, i've been toying ...more >>

Hello, thanks to anyone who can help. I built a video presentation in slide format from a tutorial. I'm trying to make a seperate pre-loader movie (so it can be used more than once) that loads the entire presentation swf before it starts playing and loads it. I think I just need to define the ...more >>

I can load an XML file from my hard drive into my Flash app, no prob: myXML1.load("myFile1.xml"); But I also need to save XML data created within my Flash app to a file on my hard drive. This code doesn't work: myXML2.send("myFile2.xml"); It seems simple enough ... not sure what I'm d...more >>

please tell me the easiest way of attaching more than one task on one click. eg. i want that when user click on the button then first mc_A then mc_b then mc_c play, sequentially.....more >>

In javascript I would write: document.formName.inputName.focus(); document.formName.inputName.select(); How do I write that in actionscript. The input I want to give focus to and highlight is in a tabnavigator form. Doug...more >>

I have a script in ASP.NET that works fine from simple HTML form and returns acknowledgement page. But when I call from Flash ActionScript code, it does not return control (sending back response "return=ok") and Flash movie hangs. In fact, none of my server side scripts in ASP.NET are workin...more >>

I create a text field on the main timeline.--- Scene : Payload, actions layer. Frame 1 this.createTextField("tPayload", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 34, 392, 629, 123); Then in a nested clip a button is used to navigate to the next section. the buttons(movieclip) path is : this.mc...more >>

Hello, I have created a custom combo box widget mc (cmbx_wdgt). In this widget are two dynamic text fields (label_txt, value_txt) and two MCs (up_btn, dn_btn) I have created a class file for this widget (CMBXWidget.as) and linked cmbx_wdgt to it. // CMBXWidget.as class CMBXWidget...more >>

I distilled a simple movie script and jsfl file that can crash the flash application. It is repeatable on different computers. Create a simple one frame flash file with one movie clip component on the stage. Give the component one blank parameter. Then make a jsfl file containing this: ...more >>

Hello there... I need some help passing some ASP variables into dynamic text fields in Flash... Any ideas?...more >>

I am using a pretty common snow falling routine found here: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/snow.htm I want the snow to fall behind some text that is on the screen. I have my snow layer below my text layer, but the snow is still appearing in front of the text. Here is the code...more >>

Hi Is there any way to listen for when the user double clicks on something, like a MovieClip or DataGrid? Any ideas of something similar to a double click would also be appreciated. Thanks...more >>

Hi, I'm not a great coder but i'm trying to learn. I've spent a bunch of time reasearching how to correctly make cue points and call them to trigger an action, I'm still having issues understanding this correctly. I have a video that plays, and at certain cuepoints I want it to trigger some an...more >>

So, how to mirror MC. I can do it replacing(MC.loadMovie();) MC with mirrored one, but is there another way to do it?...more >>

Hi people, i am a beginner in flash and am creating my first site. What i need help with is this: i have a logo and menu bar on my page,. now i want these to stay where they are but depending on which option i choose for that to load up in the center . so if i click the "contact ...more >>

Can sum1 link me to a tutorial or .fla that shows through a slider bar the progress of the animation within the scene....more >>

I have two different MovieClipLoaders in my movie, and would like to have seperate onLoadInit and onLoadProgress actions depending on what MovieClipLoader I am using. My MovieClipLoaders are called: main_loader_mcl and thumb_loader_mcl So I am wondering if I can do something with like t...more >>

Hey guyz. Well i really need to know how when i hold a button the animation will fast forward. This is the movie http://media.putfile.com/Jim_Meets_Alien and also tell me what you think of it....more >>

Is there any way to have a swf file load a flash 7 file when it is accessed by a browser that has flash 7 installed, and load a flash 8 file when accessed by a browser that has flash 8 installed? Thanks, Mike Adobe. ...more >>

when loading a swf into an existing holder clip using MovieClipLoader, i am using the onLoadProgress and onLoadStart event handlers to tell the holder clip to be invisible and gotoAndStop(1).. other wise the media is appearing while loading. it seems to work fine on on my personal site over h...more >>

i'm using the code below to send out variable for an email form, and check a response. However in the "myData.onLoad = function(){" the gotoAndStop simply will not work, the trace displays fine, any other code (i've tried disabling buttins hiding clips etc, will not action.. Any ideas muc...more >>

_top ,opens the linked document in the current browser window, replacing all frames, from dream weaver we can acheive this but my problem is iam using flash button and i have to open the link in the current browser window replacing all frames. when i use getURL("filename.html",_top); iam u...more >>

i have a very "difficult" cliente who asked me to create a catalog of his products in Flash in a way he could always add more products and images. That project is done. I created a very simple movie with just the design and all the information is call with actionscript from text files with v...more >>

Hi all, I drag and drop a window component on my stage and name it as myWindow. I also set the close button to true, however I dont know what's the code for the close. thanks.......more >>

Hi, 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 certain frame number (animation is in the movie clip). I tried for : ..........more >>

I have looked for a way to get the user to input information into input text fields and have it come up into the users email program. Is this possible? I've tried: on (release){ getURL ("mailto:who@where.com"+ "?subject=" + regarding.text+ "&body=" + fullName.text + telephone.text + email....more >>

Hi all, Can anyone show me some examples of writting this syntax? I read a few articles but couldn figure out how. Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I've been playing with ResHacker to fix up projector files, (deleting right click menu, other menus, etc)... and I noticed that a menu item looks like this: MENUITEM "ITEM NAME GOES HERE", ##### And in place of ##### is some number that represents an action that is called. So, I...more >>

Hi all, I need some help in this command. I tried to direct to the timeline of a mc within the _root. For example, My _root timeline consist of only a frame. My mine animation is the second level. So the command is something like _root.test._currentframe == 10... blah blah.. It actually wo...more >>

I have yet another challenge. I have to create another slider and this one as it is being pulled across the screen and back has to update a text box with a numeric value of 0-500. Being such a rookie I have no clue how to pass information from a slider to a text box and then use that value...more >>

I downloaded a falling snow movie which I really want to use, but I have one problem. the way the script is now writen the snow starts from the left edge of the document. You can change the snow coverage for the width, but there is nothing in the script to change as to placement (where you ...more >>

Hi guys, I need an action that will go to some url, for instance 'http://mysite.com/status.txt' and check some variables for true or false. For example:Every time you open that exe or swf from your computer, it goes to that url automatically and checks for variable "status", and if that ...more >>

Just before I got your e-mail It came to me as I can see from you were thinking ofthe same thing. I was keeping all the animation and masking on it's own timeline not to disturb the maintimeline, but I can do all of the animation of the mcSlider on the main movie clip rather than within itself...more >>

I have a set of buttons that I want to go a set of corresponding frame labels onRelease. I hand-coded them (there are only 6 of them) and everything works fine. But I feel that I should be able to set up an array and a for loop instead, to shorten the code and so that I can add or subtract bu...more >>