is there any way to preload embed fonts? I have tried preloading an swf with embed fonts but without results also exporting and importing fonts for runtime sharing comes with no result...more >>

hi, i'm using my good ol' friend, setInterval in my flash movie. i have a rollover to activate a function that has setInterval running something every 2 seconds. setInterval works just fine with the first rollover but consecutive rollovers have setInterval speeding up...can anyone help? /...more >>

I am having an absolutely awful time trying to get externalally loaded text to scroll. I am building a website, everything works fine on the 'news' page. the scrolling is perfect. however on the 'releases' or 'artists' pages I have the same code, same instance names, etc. but nothing I try is ...more >>

Okay, I hate to ask this.. but I've been using flash for years, from asthetic site design to dynamic displays driven by XML data over sockets.. and I've never used it. I hate to sound stupid, but I also don't want to be missing out on something useful. I just can't find a good description of ...more >>

Once you delete an event can you start it back up. How do write this???? Is there an opposite method to delete?? my_mc.onRelease = function () { // do stuff delete(this.onRelease); } my_mc.onRelease = function; ...more >>

I have this movie that calls ina nother movie that was working fine until just recently when i now start to get this error in the output: 256 levels of recursion were exceeded in one action list. This is probably an infinite loop. Further execution of actions has been disabled in this movie. ...more >>

OK...this is going to make me sound really stupid but I just cannot get this to work and its frustrating me to no end. For testing purposes i have a 10 frame movie clip sitting on the stage (movTest) that has a stop() command in frame 1 and frame 10. In the main timeline I have the command mo...more >>

I want to make a movie in wich you have a point and when you press elsewhere on the stage the point doesnt move directly to that place but it should move on the stage to the place where I press. Basically i need a function which moves the point with 20 pixels every half a second without using...more >>

I have a flash menu in an html page. If the user goes out the Flash Movie I want to call a function. I try the hitTest, but if the MC is the size of the scene (This is what I need), it does not works. Any idea. ...more >>

Is it possible to stop the browser shortkeys from overriding flash web app use? When pressing F3 in flash web app it causes browser short key to bring up search. userKey = new Object(); userKey.onKeyDown = function() { if (key.getCode() == 114) { Key.removeListener(UserKey); gotoAndPlay...more >>

I'm having a weird problem. I use the following code to place a couple of objects in my flash file: for (var j:Number=1; j<=30; j++) { var buttonDate=this.attachMovie("bDate", ["button"+j], this.getNextHighestDepth()); buttonDate._x=(10+5*j); buttonDate._y=(10+5*j); buttonDate.showNumb...more >>

Hi Can anyone explain what is going on here: http://www.threadless.com/?streetteam=friedster Right click on the main Flash menu(under the logo) and check the menu thanks in advance, best regards Thomas A ...more >>

I am having a problem with preloaders in my .swf. I have created a preloader that shows up before the movie that is in the file. When I test this locally, the preloader shows up and then when loaded the movie plays. The movie is a link off of a website. When on the web, there is a blank white ...more >>

hi all, does anyone know how to share a SharedObject between two different flash movies on one machine? i've tried using the second parameter in the SharedObject.setLocal("myVariables"["localPath"]); but to no avail, any help would be much appreciated, many thanks dr_ross ...more >>

I have created a calenda for a news section and all dates are set out etc. each number of the date is a button is there a way of adding text to the on rollover instance bad example (attached code) this will allow me to say the on march 17th if you release this button you will goto whatever ...more >>

I used a tutorial to make this audio controller. {can be found here} http://marazita.com/audiocontroller.fla I just want the time progress to go in reverse to show time remaining instead of time elapsed? Also I want it to Auto play on load. I tried using playSong(); in the scripting, but i...more >>

Evening all, I'm working on extending the Asteroids sample game you can find here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/asteroids.html Unfortunately the ship movement code refuses to execute when the file is exported as version 7. Setting the file to Actionscript 1.0 or 2.0 ...more >>

Hi I am working on a hybrid CD ROM Project developped with flash MX 2004. Things are going well, the projectors work so far. Lately I came across the http://www.multidmedia.com/ site which is also linked from the macromedia.com site and sells the Flash Studio Pro Software. They say: ' No other...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create page breaks in an article viewer I am making. My question is: Is there a function that would break the text up into an array, but keep the words whole? Maybe like every 250 chracters, adding the entry into the array, with the next blank space after the 250 being the ...more >>

I got this variable: "id". I want to send it to a popup. Normally I would use: on (release) { getURL ("whatever.php?="+id); } ...which works: it parses the value of variabele 'id' to "whatever.php". However, if i want to open "whatever.php" in a popup, i use some JS on my html-pag...more >>

Hi everybody, i have a problem with an actionscript. I have to read x records (name,surname,id) from a DB, parse them, put them into 3 arrays and create a movie clip for each of those elements. Every clip contains a textbox, where i put the text red from the db (name + surname), and a button p...more >>

I want to pass multiple variables from my embed tag to my flash movie. According to some things I've read around it should look like this: 'movie.swf?url=firsturl?xurl=secondurl' I want to create 2 different url-variables here so the html develloper can change location of swf files and xml...more >>

good evening, i'm trying to simulate a javascript field basically. a specific number needs to be typed in ex: 555-55-55. when the first three numbers are typed in, a dash shows up then access to the second second set of numbers is given. i tried using the code below, which works well if you c...more >>

I'm kinda new to actionscript and I'm trying to get this dynamic text box to work (it's supposed to resemble the adultswim animations in between commercials). The text is supposed to change at the same interval but I've got something wrong in the code and it will not get beyond the first line....more >>

Can someone recommend a good FlashMX ActionScript book? Something with good examples. The Macromedia Documentation is not penetrating......more >>

Lately I have noticed a fair amount of work going into KEY events, methods and so on by various folks, so I thought I would add a question into the mix, that hopefully someone may be able to shed some light on... Key codes seem to start at 1 (left mouse click?!?) and go to around 300 ish.....more >>

Functions introduced in the first frame of the actions layer of the time line are only available to objects that are also placed in the first frame. How do I keep the code in one place and not have to have objects in frame one? Thanks ...more >>

I have this MP3 player that will not work in IE but works fine in firefox. I have done some testing and have no idea why this is. It has been tested on several Pc's so far, could you please see if this works in IE on your pc, and also look at the source code and let me know why this wouldn't w...more >>

Hello! I have a gallery (http://www.InstitutoPueblaValsequillo.com under 'Galeria'), the problem is that my target audience is under a 56k connection so it takes quite long to load every picture. I load the JPGs onto a movieClip this way: loadMovie(whichPic+'.jpg', 'square'); I want to make ...more >>

Hello! I found a pretty cool movie, the problem is that it was programmed long time ago using Flash 4. I have been working all day to change it so it can work under Flash 7, but I could not get it to work. I changed many of the programming and I got it to work for Flash 6, but not for Flash 7 ...more >>

Hi, I am using Flash MX 2004 Pro for my application. I have an ArrayList, from which I need to add/remove elements. How do I get this done ? Is there any site which gives an API for the Actionscript objects, listing their methods and parameters etc.. ? Thanks, RafiSM ...more >>