How would I go about checking a hitTest from within a movie clip? http://www.geocities.com/MichaelGioffredi/hitTest.fla For example, two movie clips, b and c, are inside a movie clip named a on the main timeline. Also on the main timeline I have the following script which traces before t...more >>

how can i create an instance of a movieclip symbol in my library using actionscript?? thanks...more >>

Hi All, can someone tell me how to go about drawing a sine wave with actionscript. Also I want to take the amplitude and use it for drawing other items. Many thanks George ...more >>

How would I create a submit button to send an e-mail that contains information a USER put in some text fields. Thanks, Clayton...more >>

When I "switch pages" (gotoAndStop at new keyframe) can I make the Flash movie jump to the top of the page (Y position = 0)? My movie is 1100 pixels tall so it requires some scrolling, when I switch pages it stays in the same y position instead of jumping back up to the top (like an HTML page...more >>

Hello all, Project: I am wanting to have navigation buttons that, upon pressing, will move an object in a certain direction continuously. I have it set up to increment the _x or the _y when the appropriate directional button is pressed, but at the moment it only increments the _x or _y o...more >>

this works fine: eval("_root.myObject").myFunction(); but this doesn't: eval("_root.myObject.myFunction()"); any suggestions are appreciated....more >>

I put the following action on frame 1 of my movie, in reference to an MC called "mcPurp": mcPurp.gotoAndPlay(2); When the movie starts, the MC goes to frame 2 and stops. Just for the purposes of troubleshooting, I changed the 2 to a 6, and tested the movie again. Then the MC went to ...more >>

Okay here's what's going on: I'm doing a flash program that uses a php socket and I'm sending commands how I would in flash eg. _root.Furance.attachCoal(); but since everything is sent via XML it's send back (by the socket server) as a string. I've written a function that breaks ever...more >>

How can you have one movieclip follow anouther one? Like a enimey which only can only follow using the x-axies Thanks for your time Jimmy_milk...more >>

I am having problems with radio buttons in flash, i have tried over and over for days, been to numberous IRC channels and forums ands this really is my last resort, its a simple problem but no one will help me. I am begging please help me, the form works perfectly but the radio buttons won...more >>

Hi! I've just moved from Flash MX to Flash 8. I've found out that when publishing with Flash 8 my previous MX's working fla files, I get multiple errors. I've had a look at the Export publishing settings and I think they're all correct: - Exporting version: 8 - AS Version: 1.0 So, I...more >>

I have a set of three buttons 1, 2, and 3. Each of which loads a different swf into my main movie. My problem is this, If for example I press button 1 the movie loads in and plays, but if I re-press it rather than move onto the next button then it re-loads and replays the swf again. ...more >>

How can I ensure that my vars populated through "loadvariables" are never cache'd within any active flash player? ...more >>

Using the code: < my_mc._alpha = 20; > I initialize the alpha of one of my movie clips to 20%. This is plainly visible on screen. Then later I press a button which changes the alpha to 100. If I trace the _alpha value before and after setting it to 100% I get: my_mc._alpha: 19.921875 ...more >>

I have a Navigation menu on the right side of my flash that has a graphic that should follow the mouse as it moves inside the Navigation MC. I tried : onEnterFrame = function(){ mouse_over._y = _ymouse; updateAfterEvent(); } This works for having the MC (named mouse_over) follow the ...more >>

This is pretty frustrating for me, I need a button to be disabled while an swf file is playing. I am loading the swf file into another swf movie, problem is i do not want the user to press the button and load the movie again, so I am trying to disable the button if that movie is playing, here ...more >>

How do I go about linking selections within a combo box to different frames????? I am very confused and can't find help tuturial or doc anywhere, now that the parameters panel no longer has an event handler options. Need it to work for Flash 7/8 combobox component ...more >>

Hi dude, Any idea on this? I'm developing a video sharing website. User will upload a MPEG/AVI file and then they will view the video in Flash player. I understand, once user upload the AVI/MPEG file I need to encode the Video in FLV format at serverside. Is there any API or Engine avi...more >>

Printing an .AS file is easy. But how do I print the ActionScript in a .FLA file? I've looked everywhere for the answer. I have Flash MX 2004. When I select File..Print, it prints only the stage. ...more >>

hey dudes anyone knows how to stop a movie for 25 sec and then automaticaly starts the movie at the next frame ...more >>

Hi I have a form allowing my customers to upgrade their software for our products. When submitting a registration, I am trying to validate the product serial number. All our serial no's begin with a 2 or a 9 and are either 4 or 5 digits long. Is there a way to get flash to check to see if ...more >>

Hi guys My flash move has a button which called loadMovie like : loadMovie ("c:/flash/myMovie.swf",_root); this works in IE, but not Firefox. I thought the whole point of flash was to be browser independent for things like this?! Any ideas? Cheers in advance. ...more >>

I have a problem converting multi-line text input field string to array. It's like you can enter several e-mails (1 e-mail at a line). On clicking a button, i want to convert this to an array. I wrote a script like this ************* var myArray:Array = emailTo1.text.split("\n"); fo...more >>

Hey everyone, I have been building a drag/drop utility, similar to MS Visio. A Bunch of element on the Left when you click them, it adds them you your workspace, where you can drag them around, and when you are done it posted back to an ASP.NET Page that writes a csv of imgPath,x,y,h,w,d t...more >>

Hello, I have an array which for example is constructed like this... [ [ "cat" , "dog" [ 1 , 2 , 3] ] , [ "sheep" , "goat" [ 1 , 2 , 3] ] ] Is it possible to search this array for "sheep" for example and get myArray[1][0] returned? ...more >>

I have a movie clip that contains a flyout menu with three buttons, on my main timeline I have a rectangular movie clip that I want to use to load in external movie clips. The rectgular movie clip that I want to use as a loader as the instance name green Box On my main timeline I have thi...more >>

Hi, I am parsing an attribute from an xml doc, which is a string. My problem is that I have a text field on screen, which is waiting for this string. Within the XML attribute string, I?ve tried "\r" & "\n" to try and make it go to a new line. But it does not recognise this for some r...more >>

I'm having problems. I'm trying to set up an interval within an if statement that's inside a function. And I can do it, but the problem is, if I try passing along any variables into the function within the interval, the interval will only execute once. The whole movie goes something like: ...more >>

Dear Flash Guru's!! I have a a movie clip which plays at the end of scene one. Inside the movie clip it holds the buttons to navigate to the next scene. I have writing this code (see below) to go to the next scene, but it does not. Flash says there are no errors in the code. (sectionstart ...more >>

Anyone know a better way. I have loaded a swf into my main movie file by placing the following ActionScript in a keyframe on the timeline where I want it to appear/load into the movie. I used the following actionscript on the keyframe- this.createEmptyMovieClip("placeHolder",100); //...more >>

I have written a class and tring to load a xml data inside a function when the complete data is loaded i want to trigger a event. the code is working fine without error but i am unable to catch that event in my fla file. here is the code \ \***************************************************...more >>

movieClip2 is masked, the mask is 304px height, that makes it appear shorter, but the real height is 429px, still very confused =S...more >>

ok im using the menubar component for my site... i finally got it scripted with all the button's from live doc's and ive got a couple of question's... im still getting some error's when i preview it.... can someone please take a look at the code below and let me know what ive done wrong... ...more >>

When I load a movie I want the old file that I loadedmovie from to disappear and the loaded file to take a certain position on the screen. How do I do that?...more >>

Hello all. Adobe? Wondered where I was for a moment! I have this code: javascript:Launch('http://www.mydomain/popup.htm') , which is applied directly to text. I have the corresponding script in the HTM file and all works lovely. I now, however, need to run this script from the timeline...more >>

Okay I didn?t get a huge response to my previous problem, I think I needed to break it up into parts. Basically I have 10 movie clips containing the numbers 1-10. When clicked they load different messages. If number 1 is clicked I want that button to change its formatting e.g. the number 1...more >>

Anyone know of a data type or workaround to analyze and manipulate strings larger than 65k chars. I'm trying to bring in and parse and HTML document using SendAndLoad which is about 85k, and 1/3 of the HTML gets consequently stripped off. ...more >>

Alright, here's my situation. My root file (blindsndrapery.swf) has a button in it that I want to take me to another .swf file (blindspages.swf) Here is my code on the button that I want the loadMovie command to work on: on (press) { gotoAndStop(_root.createEmptyMovieClip("targetMC", ...more >>

Alright, here's my situation. My root file (blindsndrapery.swf) has a button in it that I want to take me to another .swf file (blindspages.swf) Here is my code on the button that I want the loadMovie command to work on: on (press) { gotoAndStop(_root.createEmptyMovieClip("targetMC", ...more >>