I'm making a dynamic movie loader that first creates an empty movie clip and then loads and external movie clip w/ a dynamic text field. Here's the code I'm using to load the movie: _root.creatEmptyMovieClip( "clip_name", 10 ); _root["clip_name"].loadMovie("movie_to_be_loaded.swf"); ...more >>

Is it possible to stagger transitions (zoom, wipe, fly, iris, etc.); for example, attach a movie that appears on stage with a wipe effect, and when transition is complete, attach a second movie that appears on stage with a transition, and so forth. The tween class has onMotionFinished. Is ther...more >>

Dear all, I'm an Italian industrial designer that needs a little information. I'm actually working on a site made by an intro - .swf - file that, on the last frame, have an action that load another .swf into the main stage. This ..swf contain a menu bar with 100 buttons (approx) Each butt...more >>

When I try to change a nested MCs property from the main timeline, I get no response. I can run the same code inside the MC and I have no problem. Is it possible to target a nested clip to change its properties? ...more >>

what is wrong in this script (can't see the text)? **Warning** Symbol=Symbol 551, layer=Layer 5, frame=2:Line 10: Case-insensitive identifier 'loadVars' will obscure built-in object 'LoadVars'. test = new loadVars(); Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 ...more >>

hi guys, i want to do something pretty easy.... everybody knows that we can create capture wih flash 8... the thing im trying to do is: take a snapshot from the webcam , resize it and grab pixel to send to php there is no problem taking snapshot, and passing it through php but HOW ...more >>

is it possible to assign a motion guide via actionscript? in other words, could one use the drawing api to create the path, then assign it as a motion guide for a movie clip? ...more >>

Hello How can I display special characters that I'm loading in through xml / php / mysql. Characters like : ' & " appear as "&apos" What's the best way to solve this. Thanks stephan ...more >>

Hi. I'm new to using XML in FLash. To be honest i'm new to XML at all. I used AS help and found out how to perform basic operation with XML. But the problem is hot to access a value of a particular node. All tutorials i read before was referencing to childNode. For example, i have XML file rea...more >>

please help me! I have MovieClip larger than movie size, how can i make it scroll, and it must stop in the end!...more >>

This code, which I've copied and pasted from the actionscript dicitonary on this webpage doesn't seem to work, or more likely than that, I just don't understand what's happening. _root.createEmptyMovieClip ("triangle", 1); with (_root.triangle){ beginFill (0x0000FF, 50); ...more >>

Well, for a game I'm doing, I have a dynamic textbox with the var name 'score', which obviously displays the score. Problem is, I need the score to be displayed with 4 digits, like 0000, 0010, 0125, etc. When I enter _root.score = 0000, and test it, it just displays '0', any help please ? ...more >>

I am having a hard time figuring out why I cant target correctly anymore without having to use absolute paths. The set up is three MC's on the stage named:one_mc , two_mc and p4. Both one_mc & two_mc contains an MC with an instance name of trigger_mc inside of them. I am trying to target ...more >>

Hi all, I have been racking my brain trying to figure this one out, and have posted on a few other boards with limited success: I am trying to stream externally loaded mp3's randomly so that once and mp3 is played it is removed from the playlist (thus eliminating repeats). I'm having p...more >>

Wow all because I forgot a pair of parenthesis. Jesus...I feel stupid. lol. Thank you for the help LuigiL. Works perfectly now. --Mike...more >>

I have series of variable that will be the captions for my hover captions. They look something like this: theCap_1 = "Portfolio 01" theCap_2 = "Portfolio 02" theCap_3 = "Portfolio 03" .. .. .. theCap_16 = "Portfolio 16" These should go into a function setting the roll over and out ac...more >>

I have a class that extends movieclip I am trying to open a file selection box using: var FileURL = fl.browseForFileURL("open", "Select file"); The error I am receiving is: There is no method with the name 'fl'. var fileURL = fl.browseForFileURL("open", "Select file"); It s...more >>

I currently have a 1 frame file with 2 layers. Layer 1 is my actionscript and layer 2 is my movie clip. Here is my ation script.. ******************************************** //set counter i=1 //set number of pictures pictures=5 //set function function pictureloader(){ ...more >>

Hello, http://www.2n2media.de/V2/2N2.html I need your help guys, im wondering how he does this, by moving the mouse to the left - the movie move to the left, the more you move your mouse to the left - the faster the movie moves to left ? //Jamal ...more >>

First off, I am using MS 2K4.... I am in the process of making an e-learning module (teaching a process, and then quizzing the user at the end) -- and I'm running into trouble with the last section. I have created my main file which has the course content, and my quiz for this content is t...more >>

I would like my flash to open up a file (.doc) outside of flash....what would be the code for it? on (release){ //Open up resume.doc }...more >>

Is there a command that will start a flash movie at a different random point on the timeline everytime it is loaded? I have a .swf file that has 4 movie cips in it, each movie clip is on a seperate frame. When this .swf file loads on a website, I want it to start a different one of those 4 mov...more >>

Three frames of actionscript copied below: This code is only an example stripped from my larger app' of various layered mc's etc Basically i want to hide all duplicate mc's until i have tested that they have all been populated properly. When the test is true, i then want to un-hide (make visi...more >>

Hi Guys, I just want a button that's on a timeline (spining around) to reduce speed whilst in mouseover, i've seen this done tones of times, but finding it impossible to achieve. Here's my flash: http://www.soulcalibur-3.com/en_GB/index.html ...more >>

Hi All, I've created an application which places data records into a dataGrid component called my_grid. I would like to extract the data for a specific column in that record. So I created an object called myRow which references a particular item in the dataGrid. var myRow:Object ...more >>

Hi there I want to load in a game flash movie into a main flash file which is acting as the games interface/holder. The problem is that the loaded movie is smaller than the main movie and has to be kept to the exact height and width for the game to work. e.g. main movie = 800x600, game...more >>

I have a question about the loadMovie function. When I open the movie on my site how can I position it where I want it to play on my page. The movie opens up in the top left corner when I want it to open on the right of the page. ...more >>

:( ~~~ This is killin me yall! I am new to Flash, so go easy if this is a rookie maneuver. I am creating slideshow within movie clips on a timeline (scene). I have a button linked wiith script to take me into one of the layers. The problem is that the button isn't taking me into the layer....more >>

Hi! I need to create a empty movie clip but this return undefined my_listener.onLoadStart = function(target_mc:MovieClip){ holder = eval("holder_"+target_mc._name); // <----- this preloader = "preloader_"+target_mc._name; // <---- this.... _root.createEmptyMovieCl...more >>

Here's the fla: http://www.nictitatingrabbit.com/downloads/info_file.txt Please help me with this one! I've already made a countdown, but I'm converting it to read from a text file. Please help! ...more >>

I was reffering to the functions of the class FLfile, FLfile.listfolder() to be precise. They are in the help files from within Flash 8! However, and this shattered me, they did not work! I found out later they were from the Javascript API, and did not work in Actionscript Ran them from within...more >>

Hi all, I believe I need help with a listener object I created for the movieClipLoader() class. What is happening is when the movie loads a button gets clicked and tells this code to run, everything works fine the first time around. But if you tell this code to run a second time it see...more >>

Is there a way to modify scripts in movies via another script? I have 300 narrated slideshows to make, each one with different sized sets of pictures. Thus, the shape of the stage, and the position and size of the timeline and controls is different for each one. It would be nice to be able t...more >>

Hi all ! This is my post as i have switched to flash just 2 days before. I am new to flah and trying to learn flash. I have a button called "submit" on click of this i want focus to be on textfield(dynamic) textfield name is feedback. Does anyone has the solution... Thanks... ...more >>

how can i get the coordinates of a mouse click inside a movieclip or inside the main movie?? thank you...more >>

I want to take this very simple, stock, but slightly modified script and add one more element to it. It works now except for I want to do something like this---- onmousedown move cursor to xmouse=320, ymouse=240 (center of the screen) Is there ANY way to do this. thanks Mike ...more >>

Hi, can a EventListener function return any variable. If no then, is there any way out for this. Like this : // this code is not returning anything. var myXml:Xml = new XML() myXml.load(url); myXml.onLoad=function(success){ myXmlVar = this.firstChild return ...more >>