How do you change the color of the menubar component? I have the standard grey on my slide... Thank you, Dario...more >>

greetings all, i am trying to configure a very simple .mp3 player which uses an xml playlist and randomly selects a track when the play button is clicked...i am a newbie when it comes to scripting and got the code from some tutorials on the web and so far its all good and working... what i w...more >>

sorry for asking for such a lame question, but in the action script for a frame, where is the little thing that lets me type in a code freely? In MX ...more >>

I have a movie clip that is much taller than the stage. It has a mask in front of it. I want it to scroll up and down with the mouse. That's the easy part. The hard part is that I want it to stop scrolling when the bottom of the movie clips collides with the bottom of the mask, or when the top...more >>

I am using this code of frame 5 of my movie to communicate with javascript on my html page. That javascript talks to a learning management system. I can send data just fine. My problem is when I try to retieve date. Below is what I have in Flash var myName = getURL('javascript:doLMSGetV...more >>

Hi I am trying to get my data into flash here: http://www.tinde.no/pl/47/property_rss.pl?ClientRefPARENT=T8000&amp;_order=Creat ed+DESC&amp;_limit=3 What I need is to get each <item> for (var i = 1; i < 6; i++) { trace(XmlObj.firstChild.childNodes.childNodes[0]) trace(XmlObj.firstChild.c...more >>

I'm trying to get a very basic alert to come appear when a user clicks on a link that leaves our site (all of our pages are in flash). I've followed every instruction on the matter I can dig up, and everything I've tried results in either a syntax error or nothing happening. Strangely the im...more >>

Hello, me and some fellow classmates are currently making a target shooter Flash game. The problem is we are having a trouble with the scoring. When you hit the objects the points don't increase and instead "1.#QNA" is displayed where the score should be. We have a dynamic text box that ...more >>

can any one help i am making a car game and need to be abl to put walls in and stuff like that, so could anyone please help with a script so when the car hits it, it will stop or bounce of slightly and then halt thanks. ...more >>

i have a .fla with two buttons that allow the user to toggle the contents of a dynamic text field between two external .txt files on the server. currently, when the .swf loads, the dynamic text field is empty, but i would like to set it up so that the first text automatically loads when the ....more >>

How do u change the color of a menubar? Thank you, Dario...more >>

How do u change the color of a menubar? Thank you, Dario...more >>

I've been trying for weeks to control a group of external FLVs by way of custom made buttons. I can get the video to load by any one of several methods, but I can't control it (stop, play, fast forward, volume, etc.). I've used code from several different sources and have also tried the Behavi...more >>

Does anybody know what code would be used so that when my flash movie plays online, there are no toolbars in the window? I'm sure it's probably something simple, I just haven't been able to find a tutorial or anything about it yet. Thanks! ...more >>

I have a .exe that creates a shared object on the users machine when installed. The programme then checks to see if so exists and allows user to access if it does. I want to prevent users from being able to copy the so to another machine. Is there anyway i can force it to be read only or prev...more >>

I am new to flash so please humor me on this one... I am having a problem with http://207.97.202.176/flashstuff/loadMovieTest.swf movie. There are 2 layers: the top layer has a border that i created and the bottom layer holds the empty movie clip instance. No matter what, the loaded ..swf...more >>

Hi everyone, i hope someone here can help me with 2 little flash problems I have. First off, i would like to know if there's a way to find out which frame number the playhead of a movieclip is currently sitting on. Secondly, I would like to know if there's a way in actionscript to play a rang...more >>

I'm trying to make a menu that will not allow the button (that would take you to the current page) to do anything. But, I can't seem to find a function to grab that for me. I'd rather not use frames and the same flash file is used at the top of all the pages on that site. ...more >>

hello Guys.. well, I would like how to use correctry the loadVariables... I?m using it: frame 1 var x; page="page.asp?id=9" loadVariables(page); // where set var x trace(x); if I not to put frame 2 with this code, the var "x" come undefined, so I make this in the frame 2 ...more >>

Hello I have a flash movie calling in some variables from an ASP file. The variables load fine. One of those variables is called "Style" and will equal a small code like "A1" I need to load a jpg file into a movie clip, but the file I load is dependant on what the above code is as it ...more >>

Hi Below is an example of a menu i need to make. http://alienworkers.com/client-preview/drawn-example.swf Can anyone please help me out with it. In the example the menu is in images with all the possible positions. The first position in the example is when the menu is at its normal state. ...more >>

I'm trying to make a dartboard in Flash, and one of the problems I ran into is the fact that a hitTest let a movieclip hit on a square area around an other movieclip. I want to hit and area with a diffent shape. How can I make that happen? Is there an alternative for the hitTest that will mak...more >>

Can you create group objects using Actionscript? For example, I am dynamically loading some jpgs into movie clips from an xml file. Once they are all on the stage, i want to group them as one object so that I can move them together by changing the ._x value of that one object. Is tha...more >>

Hi can anyone help me? In a recently developed flash movie, I use dynamic text from a text file. In IE everything works fine, only in FireFox it doesn't. The text doesn't show, or is not even loaded. Can anyone tell me if this is normal within FireFox or does anyone has a solution for me? ...more >>

I need to write a good flash detector for my which I have been creating components for in MX ... Does anyone have any idea where I might find an example of a good detector? ...more >>

Although I've been using Flash for awhile for animation, this is the first attempt at a scrolling text box. I've combed through the posts here trying different code that people have posted and nothing is working for me yet. What I'm trying to acomplish is to have a scrolling text box activat...more >>

I have a nav menu with 6 sections. I am passing a varible to the swf file on ASP pages like this fliename.swf?LabeltoLoad=<%=strLabel%>. The first frame of the swf has this script to tell the movie which label to go to. gotoAndPlay(LabeltoLoad);. for some reason it will work for some label ...more >>

I have a page that has a splash swf on it. it's a welcome thing, with audio in it. Plays automatically when the user gets to the page. If they click on a 'tour' link, another swf opens in a new window. For some reason, the tour swf's audio cuts out. different places each time. Any ideas on...more >>

I need advice on how to reduce the number of iterations required for convergence for a mathematically defined process. Is a differential equation a possible solution? Background: Centrifugal pump performance can be predicted at different rotational speeds based on some mathematical rules. Th...more >>

I have a movie clip that plays as part of an intro. I have the timeline stop when the movie begins and the movie then plays and at the end of the movie I have a hidden movie clip to re-initiate the main time line. This isn't working. So I need to know how to re-start the main timeline after th...more >>

I have a flash movie into which I want to load another movie on a given frame. I have a action layer where I write the code. I have a portefolio layer where I have my MC container. I simply want the movie to load in the container. 'contenant' is the name of my container. 'diapo.swf' is the mo...more >>

....have two or more visual styles within the same swf?...more >>

I'm working on creating a component in Flash MX Pro 2004. Everything's going great, except that when I save the .as file it doesn't (usually) have an effect. Even if I delete the component from the stage and add a new instance, it still won't update. It seems that it will only update if I rebo...more >>

i have a dynamic text box in a movie - how do i dynamically fill it using a txt file. The file is called message.txt and the dynamic text box is called receivedMsg_txt. thanks ...more >>

Hi, I've made a simple dynamic menu with ActionScripting. I just read menuitems from an XML file, and put them in movieclips (the buttons) wich I place on the scene. Now when I run the swf file, the menu is not centered. I can only see the right bottom of it. How can I center my ...more >>

I am passing variables from Flash to HTML via query string with the following command: getUrl('html\process.htm?username=jenny', '_blank'); This opens correctly if no browser window is previously open. The complete url shown in thebrowser window is : file:///D:/projects/html/process.htm?user...more >>

basically i need this on a layer in a movieclip: xmlName= "menu2.xml"; dbXML.load(xmlName); BUT I want to construct hte xmlName like so; xmlName = "menu+_root.xmlNum+.xml"; Amy ideas?...more >>

I have a splasg swf that plays when the user gets to the home page. it has audio - a voice welcome. I want to be able to have the sound muted when the user comes back to the home page. What are some suggestions to do this? I thought about setting a variable, but wasn't sure if it would be ...more >>

anyone know how i can make a context menu in flash with icons and sub menu (like right button on windows) ? please send me example to marco.sottana@q-web.it ...more >>

I have created a small animation, 180 frames long and exported to both GIF and PNG. The overall size of the animation usung GIF's is smaller however when I import into Flash and test the movie the movie size is almost double that of the movie containing PNG files. Can someone please explain. ...more >>

I need a .swf decompiler and am wondering which one to get... I'm looking at the action script viewer from buraks.com and also flash decompiler from eltima. Anyone have any thoughts on which is better? I need this to avoid losing 4 days of work... this morning I went to save my file (to a netw...more >>

Has anyone out there got a function that will let me drag more than one MC at a time? I have a set of MCs that can be selected by clicking on them... then they can be dragged around the stage. You can SHIFT-click to select more than one MC; now, what I would like to do is have all the select...more >>

i have been reading through most posts here in action script but cant find exactly what im looking for, im trying to link text or a symbol to a scene in a movie on(release){ gotoAndPlay("sp6")}; ...more >>

I have a question. Can you animate based on sound? I would like to create a sort of music player. This will load an mp3 and so on. I would like to create much more like in winamp and many other media players, the bar animation that is created based on the sound that plays. Anyone know of a way...more >>

How do you delete a movie clip that was generated using createEmptyMovieClip? Thanks...more >>

I need help loading a PHP page into an iframe from a flash button. I can do it with a HTML page but not a PHP page. Shouldn't it be the same ActionScript for both. This is the what I'm putting on the button instance: on(release) { getURL(web.php, 'main'); } I'm trying to load web.php in...more >>

I just created a flash ui components text field and i created a standard button within my flash movie i am using getURL with the post method to post the data from the textfield to an external php script but i also noticed its not only is it posting the variable in the text field its also posti...more >>

I have place an accordion in my project. Instead of haviing it so the bars are horizontal, I would like vertical, but when I rotate the accordion, the lables are place to far down and cant be seen. I have tried to resize, but the object becomes to small.Can anyone help? Dave ...more >>

Now I have a CSV file in C:/test.csv.How to read its text to my swf file,and put the text into a TextArea? I have studied the help file of flash,but can't find any functions to support this application. Is there any functions or objects to support this application in Flash MX Professio...more >>

Hi, I guess this should be easy but being a newbie I've got lost ... I have an fla with 2 frames and 2 layers. layer 1 has 2 'Dynamic Text' things created with the Text Tool: a) Var: bodyText, Instance Name: bodyTextField b) Var: titleText, Instance Name: titleTextField - (but they are not s...more >>

I would like for visitors to my site to watch a short intro (it's about 30 seconds long) before the viewing the rest of the site. I would like to load the rest of the site to their browsers while the intro movie is playing. If the rest of the site is not loaded by the time the intro movie is f...more >>