ok i have a navigation type box. it has 9 buttons/links under it there's an MC that has a fade in fade out effect stoped on 1 and stoped before the fade out. i'm wandering if ther's anyway to control an MC with the mouse being present on the movie, ok so... if (mouse is on the movi...more >>

hi. I've had plenty of experience with loadin g xml to creat stuff, but I seem to have hit a problem with password protected xml. I ultimately do a load xml on http://username:password@www.thesecurebitofhtesite.com/securebit/myfile.xml but it always throws and error, when publishing in FMX2...more >>

Hope I can explain this clearly. I have an array with 3 elements. I also have 3 variables , one for each of the elements. I am seacrhing the array for the index number of one of the variables, in this case it is "blue" I then want to update the poscorrect variable that is associated wit...more >>

I have been learning action scripting with tutorials for a few days my friend taught ne how to make a counter in the corner when i click it decresses but when the clip read zero i can still shoot kills stuff and gain points so i need some help Thanx Spartan_177 ...more >>

I need to have a new window popup with a URL that I specirfy, to a specific size, say 600x400. I can get it to popup the window with the _blank in the getURL statement, but I can't seem to have it resize to the specific size. I have searched the forum and tried various actionscript/javascri...more >>

I am using the GetURL command on a back button to open a HTML file with a named anchor. I also added the StopAllSounds command and it's not working. Does anyone know why? It's driving me nuts! Here's the code I'm using: on (release) { stopAllSounds(); getURL("javascript:window....more >>

The web site I am building has a preloader in the beginning when loading the home page body. It also has a preloader when it loads the Contact page. Both of these work perfectly. But when I use the exact same preloader to load my Virtual Tour page, the percentage loaded and status bar doesn...more >>

I'm trying to build a photo editing tool, in it you can zoom in and out, move the picture around, rotate the picture and flip it around. I use _xscale and _yscale to do the flipping, but if i then go to scale it...the movie gets reset back to its original orientation (i'm only using the _...more >>

ok basically, I made a flash movie with some buttons (the MX 04 component buttons) and it all worked great. Then I decided I wanted a progress bar component, so I set that up exactly the way the example in the help files showed using the loader component and putting the URL in .. that works gr...more >>

I am loading an external XML file (with html formatting) into a TextArea component to display content (html formatted text and images) inside Flash. It works fine, except when I have a large image and a small amount of text (e.g one sentence followed by a large image, with no text after the i...more >>

Hi. Here's the deal. I've got a music (5 seconds) that plays (looping) when the page is opened and play-stop buttons. It works perfectly. The problem is, when that short clip comes to end it makes a short pause before playing (looping) again. How can I get rid of this so it looks like it's pla...more >>

Flash 2004 MX Professional - building a slides (screen) -based application... In file 1, I have three placeholder slides, A, B, and C. All three placeholder slides' content paths point to swf's that contain 5 slides each. So at runtime my file would have a total of 18 slides: A, B, C, plus ...more >>

I am loading a bunch of text from an XML file into my movie. No matter how I format the punctuation it either scrambles the file or appears as HMTL encoding ie. "'" or "'". I have tried character codes of various types I have tried setting the encoding to various things (at the moment its...more >>

Using ActionScript 2.0, how can I manipulate a list of items? For example, var vList = ("mary,sue,bob") I am looking to do the equivalent of: push "sally" onto end of vList and pop item 1 of vList Is there an equivalent in ActionScript? Thanks. Chris ...more >>

My vulnerable assumption is that ActionScript Scope Chaining operates in a similar manner to JavaScript from which it is based (Exceptions included below). If correct the unresolved variables and functions at the current level should proceed to the Parent. However Example 1 appears to invalid...more >>

Is this possible? endResult and bgColorResult are string variables, can I use these strings to represent mc instance names on the _root? winColor = new Color(endResult); if (bgColorResult=="team1") { } The strings are being created so they are the same (output) as if I were...more >>

Here's my site layout (multiple swf's): 1.Main.swf - Has 4 main navigation buttons with tracking - loads 4 seperate external swf files into an "emptyMC" a.Movie1 1."emptyMC" on main timeline which has multiple labels with content in each b.Movie2 1."emptyMC" on main timeline which ...more >>

The following code creates a local shared object, and the code works: var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("fool"); so.data.test = "xxx"; myButton.onPress = function() { myData = so.data.test; }; I can't find the file containing my local shared object. I've search everywhere on m...more >>

Hi, I have a button that has the following action on it: on (rollOver) { gotoAndPlay(2); } on (rollOut) { gotoAndPlay(16); } on (release) { _root.pressed_link = 2; _root.gotoAndPlay('dissappear'); } When I try to link to the URL by using: on (release) { getURL('a_About.htm', '_self'); } ...more >>

We need our students to take a survey. There would be two answers to choose from, an (a) or (b) radio button to click on, they would choose only one, neither is right or wrong. I would then like the clicked radio button to be complied into two columns. All of the (a)'s selected by the stud...more >>

Hi, This is doing my head in! I have a main mc filled with 16 square objects named pos1 - 16. I have created variables to represent their x and y positions. Later in the clip I want to attach a new MC and have it sit on one of the square (depending on certain criteria which square it ...more >>

I am trying to enable the browser's back button to control my fully flash site. There is a way to do it, but I don't understand AS too well...that's the problem. Here is a link to one of the people who figured it out. http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/intermediate/Enabling_a_back_butto...more >>

PROBLEM: The single frame preloader does not start until 82%. BACKGROUND: I have a single frame preloader in frame 1 of a 6 frame SWF that is the navigation container for other SWFs. I have removed ALL action script and ALL graphics that I can find from frame 1 but the size report...more >>

Hi! First of all I?m a complete beginner in Flash so this might be a really silly question, but here it comes... Is there a way of sorting cuepoints by time? I?m adding a new cuepoint at runtime and then I want to sort all the cuepoints, including the new one, by time. The only thing I?ve ma...more >>

Hi Guys, I am a novice when it comes to Flash. I have someone who wants me to create a Flash file as a presentation and do some things I'm not sure how to do. There are going to be about 25 buttons on the first frame. I want to make it so when someone clicks on one of the buttons it fades al...more >>

Hi, is there any way I can search an array for a value, and then have it return the index number of where that value resides in the array. for example, say I have this array: var colors = ["red"], ["blue"], ["green"]; Say I need to find the index of element "blue" and have the value...more >>

I am sure this is basic but, I have not been able to find this anywhere or figure it out. If I have a movie clip which contains a button object. If I etup and event handler for onRollOut of the clip, the events for the button are hidden. How do I create composite clips in which I can track ...more >>

I am trying to use the same code that I have that loads and transitions an externally linked jpg, to now control movie clips in my project. can you tell me what is wrong with this code? thanks this.createEmptyMovieClip("preloader", 1000); container._x = 506; container._y = 2...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a menu like this site http://www.collider.com.au. Thanx Raphael...more >>

var my_so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal('foo','/'); my_so.data.favs = this.__favourites; my_so.flush(); the above is the code i have had to comment out of my code at present - this code is used to store the users favourite selections, this.__favoutires is a 2D array of items with item ...more >>

Hi guys I have a v2 Text Componet on a website with some text defined inside the AS of the movie.. Its prettyl long text. When connected to a 56K or less connection the text takes some time to appear in the TextArea component. Is there a way to add some text that says 'Now loading ...please w...more >>

I am using the loader component to load external .swf files into a base file. In its progress event, I am trying to track the percent loaded. The code is as below: loaderListener = new Object(); loaderListener.progress = function(evtObj) { loadPercent_txt.text = 'loading... '+Math.roun...more >>

On release of a button, how can i open the local file test.htm? ...more >>

hi, window component of macromedia is fat.. where i can find a better window component ? ...more >>

I am loading many large xml files in my appliaction. Then I need to display the result in flash relating the different xml on the basis of some common node, like we use SQL queries to get result from different tables. Currently i am loding the xml files, storing the nodeValues in arrays an...more >>

I want to find the dimensions of a loaded bitmap. I have a small piece of actionscript that I'm trying to use to work out the width of a bitmap loaded into a masterclip, but I can't get it to work and can't see why not. Below is a test example. In the first part of the code I load the bitmap...more >>

I see there's a way to add color to an entire column but is there a way to add color to a row. In my case each row is a line of data separated by, project owner | project name | date | etc. How can I give each "Owner" a different color row? So all rows relating to Jim's project is Blue and Su...more >>

Hey all, Just trying to post some varialbes to an ASP server side script but I just cant get the variables into the http url. This is my function. function submitForm () { myVars = new LoadVars(); myVars.vyour myVars.vfriend myVars.vmessage myVars.send('http://localhost/email_sender....more >>

Hello, How do you do the AS for this one? I want that my button, when clicked, downloads an external file. I tried to use the AS on (release) { getURL('download/map.pdf'); } It works that way, but I want that when clicked, it will prompt the user to DOWNLOAD or OPEN the file. Thanks ...more >>

How can I code a button to stop a sound that's loaded by the stream mp3 behavior? I'm using mx 04 pro. been trying for quite a while. no luck. I can stoo the sound if I load it differently but not if I stream it. dont want to stop all sounds either. ...more >>

I need some advice please. I am learning how to use 'loadVars' and have constructed a small fla/swf file that permits the loading of movie clips into 'empty' movie clips. The sequence starts with a 'loading assets' (preloader), which flows to a sort of home page with various menu options. The...more >>

Maybe I am missing something but... If I use the PopUpManager to call the Window UI Component, it only accepts Linkage names for movies that are in the _root folder. In other words, I cannot have content to linakages in upper level movies - PopUpManager looks only at the "Linkage" names i...more >>

Hi all, I was wondering whether anyone could shead some light on this problem, here goes - I'm currently trying to load some external jpg's into a moveclip using the MovieClipLoader, but whenever I try to add an instance name to the movie clip that I want to load the jpg's into it disappears...more >>