I currently have a movie clip that is draggable. I would like the cursur to change to a 4 pointed arrow curser to let the user know the clip is draggable. The problem is that I am already using the start drag method to make the clip draggable. Is there another way to replace the curser? Thanks...more >>

I'm not a rookie, but I'm confused about something with Flash that I hope someone can help me with. I have a site which loads the content of each section as an external swf file going into _level1. What I tried was having a routine on the main timeline of the site which did a loadMovieNum to...more >>

I want to set up a simple dynamic text field. When you click on a button it will pass new text to a text field in the parent movie. For instance.. If the original text said 'cat' when you clicked on button 'dog' the parent movie text field will change to say 'dog' This really easy stuf...more >>

I want to set up a simple dynamic text field. When you click on a button it will pass new text to a text field in the parent movie. For instance.. If the original text said 'cat' when you clicked on button 'dog' the parent movie text field will change to say 'dog' This really easy stuf...more >>

Hi, most of users that already use the F9 panel to programaticly do yours scripts as well. In a form to help to the next evolution of Flash we appreciate your problems and your wish to the actionscript editor and what is better and what couldn't not be appreciate. This will help us to get m...more >>

hi I have created to file parent.swf and child.swf.Now i want to call function defined in parent.swf to child.swf.and get value return by the function....more >>

http://users.skynet.be/fa311748/Flash/test/index.html How can i make my menu disappear when i click on the aviation logo? i figured out i have to check if the menu is up or down, but how can i adress the diffrent menu items? I would like to use a function MoveMenuUp and MoveMenuDown, in...more >>

I have multiple movie clips that contain one text field each. What I am trying to do I'm sure is very easy but can't figure out. Once each movie clip is selected, I have created a global variable defining which movie is selected. Can the setTextFormat be setup to include that variable: i.e...more >>

HI! I am creating a menu in FLASH. I am doing a menu by using actionscript and xml instead of creating 4,000 buttons. my problem is when the user rolls out of the flash onto the html page the menu is still there! I want it where when a user goes outside the boundary of the FORM that the...more >>

I'm working on an online portfolio and loading SWFs for each item as needed. I load empty movieclips that are used to house the SWFs. I also created a function that I call later to load the SWFs into the empty placeholders. This works fine working locally but after pushing online I run into pr...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to load a jpg ("myimage.jpg") from an MS access file and I'm having problems with it. I'll systematically say what's going on; When I use dynamic text to display the path to the image in a textbox, the path is correctly displayed."myimage.jpg" is declared as an "image...more >>

I am loading multiple swf files in sequence one after another in my timeline. I load the first movie: loadMovieNum("DAA.swf",2); and then load my second movie: loadMovieNum("Reschedule.swf",3); The first movie plays fine with both audio and video, but when the second movie begins to pla...more >>

I want people to play about with shapes in my flash movie then at the click of a button it converts the composition into a jpg - can this be done?? or something similar...more >>

Hi all!! I'm hoping that you can help me as I'm finding it impossible to figure this out on my own.............. OK. This is what I have so far. When you press play, there is a tweened text presentation. Then a series of 10 buttons appear in the scene. What I need to do is stop the t...more >>

I have a long rectangluar movieclip that I will add and take content away from, so the length of the rectangle is never constant... The movieclip is always 100 heigh and the canvas is 553 pixels... I need script to make the movieclip to start at x = 0 and scroll slowly from right to left ...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a concept - is it possible to get the flash engine to create new, permanent swf files ? Say I had a DB driven flash presentation with content from a mySQL db - what if i wanted to make that presentation axccessible from a cd - so i would like to create a new swf file w...more >>

Hi all Does anyone know if there is any way of removing the window from an exe file when you publish an swf from flash? I know that it is possible to remove the window when using director but not sure if it can be done in flash. I want the user to be able to run a windowless exe with...more >>

Hi there, i have a problem creating my flash/php-forum. Registerung etc works fine the only problem i still have is a funtion called viewthread(); This is the code: function viewThread (threadID) { // Create random number to append to URL randNum = Math.random()*1000000000; var my_lv:L...more >>

hi, I want html text into flash text field, I try this one, but flash coul not take in table tag, any solution to there I sure want to table format...more >>

I can not figure out how to load a images into the dublicateMovie. I am getting the variables fra an asp page and the variable jjpg is : image/image.jpg for(i=1;i<=_root.numopts;i++){ duplicateMovieClip(_root.event,'event' + i,i+10) set('_root.event' + i + '.strToptxt',eval(['_root.ttx...more >>

I am using a loader component to load swf files. I now want to use new swf files but they happen to be to large, so I would like to scale them to the size of the loader component. I thought I could do this by setting the "scaleContent parameter to true, but for some reason it just will not s...more >>

Hi, The problem I am facing is that when my flash movie is playing, the sound does not stop when the Stop button is clicked. Many voices end up playing simultaneously. In short, the sound would be mixed together with other music. My question is, how do I stop "selected voices (wave file...more >>

I haven't found a solution to this anywhere -- even after googling for over an hour. Hopefully someone here can help. I have two movie clips which are nested in separate movie clips. For example: _root.vegatable.corn and _root.fruit.apple I need to be able to tell apple where corn's x and y...more >>

Im newbie, so....:o In the host movie(movie A), there is button that have the loadMovieNum to load another movie(movie b) into a empty field of A. There are already a few buttons in A that have the action like this: on(release){ _root.go=2495; _root.sub=2; } it's a pictures...more >>

I have a site that uses multiple movie clips. The script that I am using to load these clips is below. This works 75% of the time. However the other times it moves the frame in the parent movie but fails to load the new movie clip... Is there a better way for me to code this and or has any...more >>

I'm having trouble reading in the values of a shared object into my swf file. The values are being saved properly to the hard drive, but I can't seem to then access them. Right now my code in the swf for looping through the object is: for (var x in userData_so.data){ trace(x+":"+userData_s...more >>

Can't get it to let me add custom items. Code from the examples in help doesn't work, and some of the descriptions of what should work conflicts on various help topic pages. Is there a secret to this? (Actionscript 2, Player 7, Flash MX pro 2004, XP SP2) ...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a problem where I want to control one movie clip from another. Here's the scenerio: I have the main Movie and I have attached a button that goes to a different scene. When that scene is entered the loadMovie function loads a movie into a placer movie clip. ...more >>