Hey there, I'm working on a app that loads some data over xml-rpc and creates a movieclip for each piece of data. Within this movieclip, I've created a button that needs to have an onClick handeler assigned to it. For example, say there are 2 peices of data. The script will create 2 inst...more >>

is there a function or procedure to know if an instance name is already taken?? thank you...more >>

I hav been working on several projects written by a former employee who i haven't met, and pretty much all of his flash movies are having problems. Whether he is loading data using remoting or loading external swf's he has usd the following logic. function myFunction{ If (something != 1)...more >>

hi, im trying to do a simple text sharing app.... i want peepz to change background of their text.... just like a DIV STYLE="background-color:'SOME COLOR';" but in fact flash tell me this is an error var styles:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet(); styles.setStyle(...more >>

I am an idiot when it comes to actionscript so if this is totally obvious, sorry. I am creating a request form where people can order tapes through this website i am working on. The form will send all the information to me, so that part is working. What I don't understand is why when I pres...more >>

I've built a web site in flash mx and duplicated it in version 8. The nav system is inside of a movie clip and the site is built with each page being a scene. When I use the normal code to go to a different scene it doesn't work. Do I need to reference the root movie? Please help. Thanks ...more >>

Hi there, I'd like to control a movie clip by Y cordinants. Got this far... but it's not quite right. Instead of the "&&"s I need something like "but not". Essentially, I need the MC to be triggered when the mouse is over a specific Y point. Please help. var xmouse = _root._xmouse;...more >>

Hi there, I'd like to control a movie clip by Y cordinants. Got this far... but it's not quite right. Instead of the "&&"s I need something like "but not". Essentially, I need the MC to be triggered when the mouse is over a specific Y point. Please help. var xmouse = _root._xmouse;...more >>

I am working with a couple of math demos where there is a parent SWF with a number of buttons on it that, when clicked, should use loadMovie to grab another SWF. The animation works fine when building in Flash, but dies when I put it onto the web. I have a PHP page that takes the path to the S...more >>

In a flash 8 project that consists of several action script files and a flash file I get the error "class flash.geom.Point can not be loaded " when I run the flash file. The Point class is used in the action script files. Checking the as files does not result in an error while I ues the import...more >>

I'm building a 20 Scene Slideshow. Is the actionscript is there a script I can insert once that when a button is clicked it will goto and PLAY the next scene. This way I can just copy the button and code with out having to specify a scene name. Thanks ...more >>

Hi This problem has bothered me since the release of AS2.0: I have a class ExtendedClass that extends SuperClass . Then in a completely different class OtherClass I have the method returnASuperClass():SuperClass that returns an object of SuperClass. Then in a new class SecondOtherClass I...more >>

I am trying to create a flash site in Flash 8 that involves the use of .flv files. Right now I have a .fla file that has two frames. The first frame consists of a FlvPlayback object that is calling a .flv file that lives on a server. My goal is to have the video w/controls disappear after pla...more >>

I'm trying to reset a color when I exit a frame. Is there an equilavant to the onExitFame in Director. If not can someone tell me how to reset the color after I exit a frame....more >>

Hi There is something weird with the ScrollPane Component. When I load content, sometimes the mask desapear. So you can see the content scolling, but you can see it outside of the Pan. It's like the mask does not woks. Does anybody alreay had this problem or knows how to fix it or knows ...more >>

Aloha, I am running MX (Flash 6) on a Mac. I am trying to get an external file "B" to load correctly into an empty movie clip on main file "A." For the most part, it's fine. But, file B has some of it's own interactivity, buttons and stuff. Here's the thing: -When I load B into one of...more >>

Aloha, I am running MX (Flash 6) on a Mac. I am trying to get an external file "B" to load correctly into an empty movie clip on main file "A." For the most part, it's fine. But, file B has some of it's own interactivity, buttons and stuff. Here's the thing: -When I load B into one of...more >>

Hey, I'm seeing this everywhere and wondering how they are achieving this effect... It's the one where you have a static picture and then when you click on it, it zooms into a new end picture. I can do everything else I want, but I was wondering if there is like a photoshop effect or a fl...more >>

Dear valued poeple of the US, I am just a poor lonley student at the Elf Academy. Now latley Santa has been slacking technologywise so I bought this super cool book to teach me actionscript. It didn't work. So I would liek to know how to add a bulldog to a pacman type game. Here'...more >>

Hello- I have created a rollover drop down menu 1) Created 3 separate buttons titled (SAP_BTN, PSFT_BTN, JDE_BTN) and defined the Instance Names 2) Created a MC called Competitors_MCand attached the following Action Script: onClipEvent(load){ previouslyOver=FALSE } onClipEvent(...more >>

Im making a search engine (input text box) that reads XML and displays the data in four separate dynamic text boxes on the stage Bascially, the user types in a movie title and the XML is searched for a match. This returns text in each dynamic box I've got some actionscript here but im no...more >>

I've been working on a project that makes heavy use of attachMovie. the project is going well, but an oddity came up today that i can't figure out. I made a panel in which i placed all of its parts. one of the parts is a titlebar. For some reason, if i use this titlebar by dropping it in the d...more >>

Anyone know where I can find info on how to convert my current slideshow (www.gcstulsa.com) to an XML/external jpg loading version that automatically transitions between images after a certain amount of time. I need to be able to change the order and add/remove images more easily than the c...more >>

It seems I just can't get to an end. After every solution there's another problem. Here 's the last one. Is it possible to make a word wrap in a List component? I'm loading from xml list of the articles and some titles are longer than the width of the list component is. I did search in actions...more >>

I have a flash video file and at the end of the video I would like to to go to a web-page. how would I go about dong this??...more >>

Hi, i want to create a swf page, where the page displays the name of some files in a folder on the page. so i have a page. and a folder uploaded to my website, where i can just drop jpegs or movs into it, and on the swf page it displays the names of the files dynamically. cheers ...more >>

This is really odd. I am dynamically creating textboxes and for some reason, only the last one shows up. The others are created because you can trace a reference to them. What gives? import mx.controls.RadioButton; var x:Number,y:Number; x=80; y=110; for (var i:Number = 0; i...more >>

Hello, i have posted here a few times before and the help was outstanding, im hoping for some ideas for this as well. What im trying to do is use this scroll script to have a number of images scroll to the left or right depending on mouse position as well as when the user does nothing (when ...more >>

Hi! Im creating this little news thing and I want to create 10 buttons that have their title set by a xml document. But the thing is; When the documents number of children pass 10, I still want to only have ten buttons (the 10 latest news) and then I want to have a next and previous butto...more >>

I have an array of dynamic text fields that are dynamically created and positioned on stage at run time. I wish to intercept a click event on each of them, but how? It looks like no clip event can be activated on text, just movie clips. Help appreciated. Thank you in advance. -- Dario de Jud...more >>

Hallo, Is it possibe to control an instance of a movieclip with the alfabetical keys (a,b,c, ...) on the keyboard? If so, how does it works? Thanx...more >>

Using Flash 8, but publishing as Flash 7, AS2 What's wrong with this line? (this is within a "for" loop) this.createObject("mx.controls.RadioButton", "distractor" + i + "_rb" , this.getNextHighestDepth); I just want to create a set of RadioButtons with incremental names like this: ...more >>

Hei everyone iam trying to create an application for some font encoding, how do i create a resizable windows similar to that of our os windows with minimize , maximize and close buttons and a resizable frame in the window....I have done it using vb. I have knowledge in C. How do i do the same ...more >>

Does anyone know why, when I test the scene my scene works fine, however when I test the complete movie 2 of my scenes do not play?...more >>

ok here is the problem. i am using attachMovie to place a movie clip onto the main stage. on the main stage i have three buttons rotate, scale and alpha. i am trying to target the attached movie so that the buttons affect it once its on the main stage. what i dont understand is how to target t...more >>

here in my code why eval doesn't work out in the below code at 12th line? I wnat to change the properties of the last movieclip which was created. var myXml:XML = new XML(); myXml.ignoreWhite = true; myXml.onLoad = function(success) { var myLength = this.firstChild.childNodes.length; ...more >>

i have created a swf file that include a link to another URL, but when I test it the URL opens in the current one. e.g. Lets say the current URL is www.busyco.co.za, the the target URL will open like www.busyco.co.za\www.targetURL.co.za. ...more >>