hello, is there an easy way to have a one of 10 pictures randomly load when you visit the site ? ive seen this on many pages and im wondering how its done. here is an example http://www.tammyeckenswiller.com thanks, boomtown ...more >>

Hi. I'm using Flash MX. I dunno whether its possible to achieve what I want - when user click on the link in html page preloader is shown on the same page - at defined position. Preloader is preload.swf and it shows loading of main.swf. At the moment my main problem is to get preloader ...more >>

Hey, Is there a script in flash that makes a website be set as the homepage? Thanks, P3m...more >>

Hi, I want to write the attached code with an array, don't know if it's possible... Only the numbers change. Now the numbers go from 00 to 99, is this possible with flash or do i need to use 1 to 99. I need to do this for +80 buttons, so I was wondering if there is a way with an array I can...more >>

HI I need help but don't know how to explain what I need, so I'll describe the goal: So it's like a game, almost like tetris, except that the boxes/shapes don't fall and appear by themsleves, instead, one of each shape is available on a shelf for the user to drag and drop on a grid. S...more >>

Hi would like some help, I am trying to make a form that will save to txt file which can then be dynamically loaded into another flash site. var header_var:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); function sendForm(){ header_var._value("text/Test.txt"); } this.Submit.onRelease = function (){ se...more >>

To make things clear, I want to know how to connect to a live radio feed, maybe from http://www.live-radio.net, but I need a script which will still work while my game is running. My aim is to have a controllable radio feature, where the user can choose which station (if there is a way), con...more >>

Greetings: I sure can't figure out why this is not working. I can get this to work when I put the command on an anchor tag on the page but just can't get this passed out of Flash. HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED! What I want to do is cause a timeline playing on the page to skip to the end. Here is w...more >>

I have a problem. i have a dynamic text field which retrives data from XML document - everything works fine. I have another layer containg some kind of animation which i want to mask with it the other layers (hope that's clear...), once the text field is under the layer mask, it doesn't show t...more >>

Hi, My Valentine has been teaching Flash for approx. 6 years. Last week he gave a training session on Flash MX 2005 Actionscript and althought he did great he was not pleased with himself (his goal is to know everything there is to know on that!!). I would like to buy him a book for Vale...more >>

My preloader has been created in a scene called intro, my main movie is in scene main. There is an animated image in the preloader and the on frame 1:- ifFrameLoaded ('main', 5) gotoAndPlay ('main', 1); Frame 2 gotoAndPlay('intro', 1); When I put my movie into DWMX and upload it, all i g...more >>

HI, I have this code: small_box.onEnterFrame = function() { trace (this._droptarget); if(this.hitTest(long_box)) { this.stopDrag(); } } it detects a collision between two MCs, but it is too slow (even though my movie is 25 fps). So I think I should use the setInteravl function ...more >>

I have a column of dates in the data grid and need it to sort chronologically. By default it does it Alphabetically. What do I need to do to make it show the way I need it? thanks ...more >>

i am trying to load jpeg urls from xml into an array then when a movie clip loads load a random jpeg from the array. Doesn't seem to be working. var xmllist = new XML(); //setup a variable to hold the XML xmllist.ignoreWhite = true; xmllist.load( "heade...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a situation where I will have several hundred swfs loading into a main swf. I'll describe my layout first. - I have a main folder that contains my main swf. Then I have many subfolders that contain swfs that are loaded into the main swf. These subfolders contain...more >>

hi all i wrote following code in first frame of my flash file :- this.onKeyUP=function(){ trace("KEYUP") } now i expected it to trace KEYUP every-time a key is released. but unfortunatly nothing happened. i created a MC and wrote over it onClipEvent(KeyUP){ trace("KEYUP") }...more >>

I have 5 text buttons. When one of them is clicked on, I want a MC to slide up from behind another panel on another layer, and stop. I can do this. But, when another button is clicked on, I want the info that previously slid out to slide back and the new buttons info/panel to slide up. So fort...more >>

I have an AS2.0 class that makes a bunch of movieclips, programmatically in a loop. I want to sink an event on all of those movieclips so that when clicked, they all run the same function of the class. Apparently I can't do: newmovieclip.addEventListener('onPress', this); and within the...more >>

im feeling very unarticulate tonight...i cannot explain what im trying to ask, but i'll try. say you click button1 i need to set a variable that says something like on (release) { myDestination = ('One', 1); } then on the next screen when you click another button i need it to recall that v...more >>

Can somebody help me, please!!! I have an horizontal menu, when I click on a button, I want that a movie clip go to the x position that I click, when I click another place, the movie clip start from the last x click, and go to the new x click. Thanks ...more >>

Can anyone suggest other places where one can go to get ActionScript questions answered? I'd love to get the question answered here (my other questions have always been answered here quickly and accurately, and I appreciate that), but after multiple posts here over a couple days, it looks ...more >>

How do I change the font size of the Help pages? The font size of the Help in flash mx pro 7.2 is like absurd-small. I'm sure it has something to do with my Internet Explorer settings (becase Help uses the IE WebBrowser object), but I tried upping the font size in IE and then going back int...more >>

Hi, I was just wondering if it is possible to define operators for my object. So far, I have made a constructor function for gausian integers. I have made methods for the guassian integer, like addWith(),subtract(),multiply(),divideBy(),conjugate()... Now what I'm wondering is if I can repla...more >>

Hi all, I have use the loadMovie("swf1.swf) in my _root timeline, however the position is not aligned to what I want it to be positioned. How can I dynamically assigned the position of this loaded SWF Thanks. ...more >>