Hey all, I had a post here that was discussing text turning invisible on device fonts. As soon as I specified the ranges in the edit character options and specified my uppercase, lowercase, numberals and punction ranges it fixed the problem. My only challenge now is to set these options/ra...more >>

hi, i am now starting to do design using just AS however so far stuck, i cant see anything wrong with the script but i still get thigs not loading, if anyone can help that would be great. The prob i have is it dont show when previewing the outline of the box called innerOutLineMC, but does loa...more >>

Here is my part of code, which is to achieve the URLs stored in a 2-D array : subButtonURL[x][y] ================================================================================ function showSubMenu(x, y, buttonNum, subbuttonNum) { hideSubMenu(); for (i=0; i<subbuttonNum; i++) { var tem...more >>

Flash seems to have trouble targeting the sound objects that I have created. I created a layer called "sound objects" and here's the code that I wrote in the main timeline. I've put the sound file in to an empty movie clip called "highdrum_mc" which is inside another movie clip called "Al...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a site that functions similarly to a QTVR moive: The user's mouse _x cooridinate is tracked & the graphics scroll accordingly. There are a number of buildings in the graphics that scroll across the stage, and I need to have each building play a specific sound as it appea...more >>

make something gradually increase rotation like helicopter propeller...more >>

i am having a problem with the submit action of my contact page using loadvars when i test the contact.swf locally it works perfectly but when i upload and try to use it online it fails to submit...i had a thread regarding this yesterday and someone had tipped me off to a problem with loadv...more >>

All- I am trying to develop a multi-choice quiz that will randomly choose questions but from certrain groups. For example: 100 Groups with 3 Questions each (300 Questions) Select one questions from each group to equal 100 questions. However, I can not get it to break up the questi...more >>

Ok, so I have the UI Object from the flash library on the station, named login_btn. 2 text boxes. Enter username in textbox 1 Enter password in textbox 2 Click login_btn with mouse, bingo...this works perfect.... The problem I have...not only do I want a user to be able to use the mouse, bu...more >>

I have stop(); on a frame but the playback head is not stopping on the frame. Why?? thanks, cj ...more >>

I have a dynamic loaded text field, which works fine. But when I try to apply some mask effect by using a mask layer on top of the dynamic text layer, the text doesn't show up at all. What's wrong? Please help!!! Dedong ...more >>

Any ideas how I can get this feature of Flash MX 2004 to work: 'The following example sets the frame rate to 25.5 frames per second:' fl.getDocumentDOM().frameRate = 25.5; ...more >>

Problem: Full-screen Flash projector on CD-ROM has a link to a web page. The window that pops up after clicking the link needs to appear IN FRONT of the projector, but doesn't. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Thanks for any help. ...more >>

How do I script the stage (or elements in the stage) to stay in the middle of the browser when the user resizes their browser? ex.http://www.manipulator.com...more >>

PLease who can hlp me creating a fla with a counter ASP based. ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to make a simple navigation in Flash using levels for each button. Loading and unloading each area. I'm trying to find a simple script to use. Can anyone help? For Example: I have a main flash movie to start with, I want to beable to ad the actionscript to each button that wil...more >>

I have a flash document with several scenes. I need a way to switch between each scene with Javascript. I've had a good search around, but havn't been able to find anything that enables me to switch scenes. Any help would be greatly aprecheated. Thanks, Dan ...more >>

Firstly to get an idea of whats going on, click on the characters feet to get it going then use the arrow keys and go through the door: http://www.iso-land.com/doortest1.swf In the next scene if you press an arrow key the character just automatically moves off diagonally. Why is this happe...more >>

Hello all, What would the best way to accomplish the following: I need to create a little flash piece for the web that will rotate some client testimonial text from a text file. I would need to set a delay time, and fade in and out the text. Any help or links to something like this where I...more >>

OK, what follows is a block of xml code I brilliantly drafted. As you can see, the data is of paramount global importance. Sorry in advance about the length of this post. In any event, as you can see, the tag 'subCat' has two attributes subCatName and subCatTitle. The real xml file will b...more >>

In order to rationalise the playing of a large movie, I have created a 'loader' swf which pre-loads futher movies. Whilst the loading has been successful, I have yet to discover how to stop the loaded movie from looping, even though each individual move has a stop() command at their final fram...more >>

Hey all, I've got a picture viewer that loads the picture in the window frame for the end user to see. I would like to add a link to the picture that is loaded in the window so that the user make click on the loaded picture to open a new windowwith the picture that they can see in full. If ...more >>

Flash MX Professional 2004 Slides-based application I am trying to create a command at runtime and execute it. It works fine if no parameters are involved - If there is a parameter, however, the effort fails: on (click) { var vWhichSlide = this._parent; var slideIndex = 0; ...more >>

Hi, I don't know what this flash is? and what's it's application, can anybody provide just a basic knowledge of it? if u have any suggestions regarding any resources which i can refer, please do inform me... Thanks :) ...more >>

here is a stupid but some-what important question for me; Why do we parse an XML ?? how should we explain it ?...more >>

Hi all, I am junior learner of flash, so i want to know where can i find good books or what is the best resource which best describes the actionscripts related to flash, if any body have any suggestions please do inform me Thank You :) ...more >>

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Hello Is there a posibility to include a java applet in a flash movie? If i use the textarea and set the text property to html and i write the < embed object of the applet could it work? I know that i can have an img tag in the textarea component and i can view it normaly like a html document...more >>

Hello all, I would like to have a back button in a site, I am currently working on. What I would like to know is, is it possible to have the actions of the IE back button with in flash. So wherever the user comes from they came return to. Maybe there is a way with the getURL command. Cheers...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a video project for the web, and we decided to use flv progressive video instead of movie clip (too long to wait for the video to start displaying). We have no problem with the play or pause button, but we can't find how to fast forward (or rewind) so that we can see the movi...more >>

I need to get Tamil(or any indian regional Lanugage) Character in Flash MX using external file(XML or notepad). I created the notepad text it contains a variable whose equivalent values are other language font. I loaded the txt file into Flash MX using loadVariables, but result is showing as '...more >>

I'm trying to set up a sitatuion where a user can click a button to insert something at the cursor location of a textbox. Any pointers on how I can found out how to do this?...more >>

This is my code. I have created a dynamic text out of stage as per intruction from the help file..... var my_mc:MovieClip = this; var my_ts:TextSnapshot = my_mc.getTextSnapshot(); my_mc.onMouseMove = function() { my_ts.setSelectColor(0xFFFFFF); // find which character the mouse pointer is ...more >>

Hi everyone, Can someone point me to a tutorial for MX 2004 Pro where it shows how to drag movie clips around a canvas at run time? My project requires me to to allow the user to arrange various images around a pre-defined 'canvas'. So the user should be able to move, resize, and rota...more >>

Hi all, I'm using the V2 Tree component from mx04 and have implemented a cell renderer that renders all nodes. I can't seem to set the text color of my labels properly. In the cell renderer's createChildren() function, I create a text field like this: txt_itemName = createLabel("txt_it...more >>

Hello guys, May I ask for you advice on this problem I am having. I tried to search for threads that are related to my problem but to no avail. I have a movie that loads external SWF on an empty container on my main scene. The problem comes when I made a SITEMAP for my FLASH SITE. I wanted ...more >>

hallo everybody, anybody know how to make the background of a textINput component transparent ?? please help me ??????????:confused;...more >>

hi i am using datagrid component to display a table of information. i am adding data using additem() of the datagrid. it displays correctly. but when the information is more and the scroll bar appears, it goes wrong... what is happening is that, when i scroll, some of the rows in the datagri...more >>

Hi! I come from flash5 and I have problems with buttons and actions. When I worked with flash5, if I wanted to go to a specified frame, I only had to create a button and associate this script: onRelease { gotoAndStop (1); } Now, in FlashMx; I tried to do the same, but it doesn't work; i can ...more >>

hello, i've got these soundclips that i've imported into the library and placed inside corresponding movieClips. they're all looped sounds and i've placed each movieClip on the timeline on one frame in sequential order. my question is this: i want to put a frame script in before the playback...more >>

Well, the topic summary basically says it all. I tried attaching clip events dynamically using a 'for' loop. And the problems that arose really baffled me. See for yourself : http://www.imaginesomethingelse.com/misc/attachclipevent.rar Basically in this demo just look at the code and t...more >>