I am attempting to make a game in Flash, as, I am sure, many other people have. As part of my implementation, I am using a generic movieclip, called "Hitbox_mc", to act as the functional target area for all objects. "Hitbox_mc" is a black square 25 pixels wide and 25 pixels tall. I attach a co...more >>

I developed a pretty nice website for one of my clients : https://www.chirocurrent.com/indexSSL.php This site works fine in FireFox, returning data from a database with no problem. When I try to view the page with Internet Explorer everything comes back as "undefined". Any idea why?? Thank...more >>

I have a movieclip that catches onPress events. In the onPress function I like to draw lines and curves. The lines and curves are drawn underneath the contents of the movieclip. I need the contents to catch the mouse click. the only way it works is to make the contents partly transparent, so t...more >>

well...l have a flash and I want to make a link to other with a button in a new window,how do l do it!!...more >>

I have a component that I have used in one of my projects, but if I save the movie for version 7 the component's code fails. I have to save it for version 6 to get the desired result. The component was created a few years ago, but I would like to understand why it doesn't work in version 7 a...more >>

I am developing an interactive training application. In doing so, I want to have a tree view of buttons/links that the user can select down the left hand side of the app. When the user clicks on one of the topics or sub-topics (i've got this part down), I'll need to load a web link... I want t...more >>

I want the user to move a slider and as they move the slider to the right the slider forces a movieclip (also on the stage) to go forward one frame at a time through it's timeline. I've got the slider set up and I'm pretty sure I know how to work it, but I don't know how to tell it to move th...more >>

What am I doing wrong. I know there has to be a way to do this...I just don't know how. This is a dumbed down version of what I'm trying to do, but if I can get this to work then I can get my other code to work. I would like the traced to display its value when it was created not after th...more >>

I can't seem to get this code to work and pass the variable correctly. Please help!! Here is what I have done so far. 1 - I created two input text fields. The first input field I put in the 'var:' box "sendEmail", in the second field I put in the 'var:' box "sendPassword". 2 - On the sa...more >>

Thanks for reading my message. I have the code below that I'm trying to use to check an input field for invalid characters. I can't get this to work. Can anyone tell me what to change. I just want it to check for the character * for now and if it contains it, send a message. If not the send th...more >>

I've written a FlashComm application that updates a list control at intervals. It works absolutely fine when it is the _root, but something odd happens when it is loaded into another movie (using MovieClipLoader). After initially updating the list control, further updates aren't applied. I...more >>

I just changed the following in my code and now I just got a bunch of other problems: //onLoadInit for the thumbs thumb_loader_mclListener.onLoadInit=function(target:MovieClip):Void{ // position the swf based on info from the sfw_array target._x=swf_array[loader_number].x; target._y=swf_...more >>

how would I get the color of a Rectangle in actionscript? I have no idea what to write. this would greatly improve my flash...more >>

I'm trying to make a Flash application that allows the user to choose a hexidecimal code, enter it into a text input box, and from that text input box, the object will automatically change to that color (without the need to press a button). What I don't know is how to get the data from an ...more >>

Hi there and thanks for reading this. I?m pretty new to working with classes. What I think I got quite well already is the logoc behind it. But now I want to do something visible with it. So I want to create a class which extends the built-in MovieClip-Class, to get a MC that has spacial...more >>

I have tried for two days to get this code to work with no luck! Will you please help me!! I created two input fields, called the first one "sendEmail" and called the second one "sendPassword". All I am trying to do is to get the information entered into these fields sent to my PHP page. If...more >>

hey all. Can any one help me with this problem? I am building a online mp3 store..and i have user to hear the songs before buying, for this i have a mp3 play btn near the buy now btn. So my Question is I want the song to play for just 30 secs. as a demo from the full length( 3 min appx. ) ...more >>

Heres the situation. On the main timeline I have a movie clip called menu_mc . Inside the movie clip I have a button in the first frame titled home_btn - just a blue rectangle with some text. The frame is labeled "default", and has a stop(); on it. On the 10th layer I have a rectangle that...more >>

I have an input form. I'm getting the email address and I want to check the input text for certain chars. I have the script at home but I'm needing it at work. I want to take the input text (the array) check each character for a specific character. If the string doesn't contain the character t...more >>

Hi there, I know how to resize the stage if the window is resized, but how on earth do you do this: http://64.9.133.219/main.htm It seems the background becomes a certain size (screen res?) then when the window is resized, it moves centrally in the background. Also how do you keep ...more >>

Xpath should allow //*[@phone] to retrieve all nodes with an attribute of phone, no matter where they sit in the node's descendents... but it doesn't seem to work in Actionscript (XMLSpy retrieves them from the same file using that path). Most of my meshid attributes sit within a particula...more >>

Hi: I know this is probably an easy question, but I can't figure it out. I have a movie clip (mcCapture) that is playing inside the root. I need to setup hitTest so when the user clicks an incorrect area within that movieclip (not in the root), a warning displays. The mcCapture mo...more >>

How can we do something like this in Actionscript? I have three MCs, cpBtn1, cpBtn2, cpBtn3 and i want to give the play(); action to each one, but just writing one code procedure, something like this: for(i=1;i<=3;i++){ _root.cpBtn + i .onRollOver=function(){ play(); } } The ide...more >>

HI guys I think I'm too tired to think because I'm not getting anywhere with my problem. Hope somebody can help me I developped some kind of keyboard. if the user presses a button it automatically detects if the combination fits one of the words in my array onClipEvent (enterFram...more >>

Hi im making a game and want to have a built in cheat where when some keys eg the letters "y" and "u" are pressed the score it made to equal a high number so far i have on (keyPress "y") { score = "167" } which works fine, however i want it to the be when the y and u keys are pr...more >>

The LoadVars code below retreives variables from the mcomp.txt file.// This works The onLoad function fires after parsing the data. // This works The for-in-loop works, i can view the data in the trace window. However, I'm having trouble passing the data from the for-in-loop to a dynami...more >>

Hi there! could someone help me out? I'm busy with some SO's, but somehow it just fails to work.... I'm trying to generate SO's for each device I'm running, in the SO is an ID, status and dimvalue stored. Or at least, that's what I'm trying to do... but I just can't figure out, what's ...more >>

Is it possible to make a script to load text from a online .txt file? And what kind of script do I need to use?? Wouter...more >>

hello I have a button, and when the user rolls over the button it sets the alpha of a movie clip. so for instance: on (rollOver) { setProperty("dot1", _alpha, "100"); } on (rollOut) { setProperty("dot1", _alpha, "0"); } Could someone please advise me on what I need to do ...more >>

Hi, wot I want to do is identify which library object an instance comes from ... but I don't know wot the library objects are. Or perhaps I want a list of library object names from a particular library folder - that sounds better. // this would do nicely var lib_name = getLibraryObjectN...more >>

Hi i've had a problem assigning values to an array and it's driving me nuts. usually you can assing a value like this: myArray[someVariable] = someData i'm doing it to "convert" a XML objet to an array. It works fine the first time, but if I try to use it again it's not assigning values. T...more >>

helloz i use this command to load an external movie to my project : stop(); loadMovieNum("video.swf", 1) once this movie "video.swf" come to the end i want it to tell my project to move one frame next how can i do that ...more >>

Hi, I need to create a list from a xml file. About the xml datas I have no problem. But for the list, I don't know how to do it. It has to look like the datagrid component, but for each record, I have 2 parts with 2 different background colors. (I ve uploaded an example of my needs at ...more >>

I'm not experienced in Actionscript but I'm working on a CD-R project that loads JPGs into movieclips so that my client can update the content themselves. I'm using loadMovie (on frame 1 of the movie) to get JPGs into a mc that is in another movieclip that's funtioning as a button. But whene...more >>

Is it possible to do this? I would like to create a new MC and then set it's properties all in one go. I think I have done this before, but now it does not seem to work and I can't find anything about this in the documentation? this.createEmptyMovieClip("mainContent", this.getNextHighestDep...more >>

i am using Flash mX 2004. how to connect Flash to Ms-Access? Any build in functions there in flash? i don't like use middle server side like ASP,COLDFUSTION,....and other. Any sources available in flash? regards, M.Mathi ...more >>

Hey all, I've got a fla with 2 scenes - a login and the gallery. In the login scene, I've got some components (TextInputs and Buttons). Dont worry, the database-Flash integration is working fine =) The problem is, When the user passes the login scene, they are sent to the gallery scene...more >>

I am having problems getting data to my PHP page to process. I develped a movie with two input text boxes in frame one called "_global.loginEmail" and "_global.loginPassword". Once information is entered, you click on the "submit" button which takes you to frame two that executes this code: ...more >>

I have been searching on many forms but I did'nt find the solution. Is there a way to duplicate dynamicaly loaded image? if yes then how? Please tell me if somebody knows. Thanks ...more >>

can flash get id from url? eg..flash get "www.yahoo.com?id=1234"...more >>

The snowflakes are duplicating nicely and falling on the stage. Just need some direction on how to keep it looping but in a seamless way - yes much like real falling snow! Thanks for any help. KGlad, I know you know the answer .... Here is the fla: http://www.bc-design.com/dup.zip ...more >>

I have this code in actionscript 1 and there are no syntax errors but when it is changed to actionscript 2 there are syntax errors that i cant seem to fix. Could you please advise on how to convert to actionscript 2 for this script? on (release) { getURL(javascript:openNewWindow('Popup1.s...more >>

:confused; I have no clue how to do any movement with anything other than drag and drop with the mouse. What I want to know is how to make a side scrolling game where you can move, jump, and shoot. And knowing how to add AI (Artificial Intelligence) with some objects instead of just set path...more >>

i'm making a game that needs to have gravity on an MC and have it interact with another so that when it the first mc goes on a slide (2nd mc) it stays on it and falls on it's curve. I also need the first mc to rotate when the slide comes to a curve in it's surface. is this possible? Thanks in ...more >>

Hi guys, I'm having a problem detecting what seems to be the problem in my code. The close button does not work at all. What I want to do is to have a movie clip which is clickable and once clicked a popup window will appear, however as I try to click the close button the code does not...more >>

When I export my flash movie as an AVI file - I get an error message. I believe it's because of the sound files imported. Can anyone explain this? Can you export flash files as avi files with sound files (WAV or MP3)? ...more >>

In most products, its is extremely simple to change the background color of text, but for the life of me, I cannot get it to work in my Flash 8 Form document. I have tried these objects: button, label, dynamic text - using CSS style, html, and the object parameters. Nothing works. And I canno...more >>

I have the following AS for a dynamically loaded portfolio. It loads in thumbnails, a caption when you mouseover the thumb, a large image when you click on the thumb and a description. I have everything loading and working as it's supposed to from a tutorial I followed. What I want to do is ma...more >>