want to translate this code: <FORM Method=POST ACTION="http://www.lastchancerecords.com/mailman/subscribe/afxdfans_afxd.com" target="_blank"> <INPUT name="email" type="Text" value="Your Email" size="20" onFocus="this.value=''"> <INPUT type="hidden" nam...more >>

Hi!. I have a movie clip in a layer in my movie and i want to stop it in a specific frame. How can i do that?. I tried the Stop buts its stop all the movie and i just want to stop the movie clip. Thanks Daniele:confused; ...more >>

I'll try to explain this the best I can. I'm making a site that is comprised of layers (not sure if this is what's making it more complicated). I have a base movie and it loads the external movie FineartO. (which can be found here www.marazita.com/finearto.fla) That is a gallery that I...more >>

I fixed my date problem posted here.... I had text as symbol When I created text block - dynamic text with variable name (not as synbol) it works......if I convert date to symbol, date doesn't show up in movie. Why would this be? thanks! g ...more >>

Hi, is there any action script equivalent to regular expression, or any way to look and match patterns? I 'd like to write a script that would do something like that: if myMC's instance name matches the pattern: "shape"+[0-9] then apply such and such functions to it. (for clarity, t...more >>

I the script to make a movie clip appear when a key is pressed. E.g when the up arrow is pressed down i want a movie clip to appear, when the user lets go of the key i want the movie clip to disappear. Thanks ...more >>

I have made a flash application that is quite large. It has a lot of movieclips with motiontweens that runs at the same time. My application is not supposed to be used over the internet, therefor I choosed a high framerate because I thougt that wouldn't make any diffrent if I just run the pr...more >>

Spec calls for something I expected to be easy ... movie embedded in html to change visual appearance when the mouse enters the movie and revert when it leaves. Rollover events only apply to buttons; mouseMove events stop coming when the mouse leaves the movie; _x/ymouse stop updating when it...more >>

Yes I am being lazy here, however I have spent quite a bit of time looking in Flash books and on online tutorials, but I'm sure someone can answer the following quckly??? 1. Registration points - When objects are place on the stage or in buttons etc. How do you get the cross/registration poin...more >>

I am trying to call a function on an embedded movie clip named MC from the main timeline _root. I am using dot notation but its not working. I call the function with _root.MC.function(). Is there something in addition that I am supposed to do to with the movie clip to be able to call its actio...more >>

Hello everyone, Well I have seemed to reach two problems with a project I am workin gon using dyanmic text. I was wondering if anyone out there could lend me a hand. Let me first start off by telling you the project. Have you ever been in a plane and fooled around with any of the ...more >>

I don't understand: I have a global variable: _global.mytarget = whatever; I have a bunch of MCs, and they become "mytarget" when they are pressed on with the mouse. Then I use the variable mytarget in 5 different functions and it works fine. suddenly, I try to use it in: myKeyListener...more >>

Hi, I'm using the following code as date routine......created dynamic text with as variable.........trace gives correct date...... but date not appearing in movie (black text on white background). Other than setting textdate variable is there something I'm missing? (I've used several, ...more >>

Hi there, I'm new to Flash and try to make a preloader for an external swf-file. I thought that I was clear about how to do this, but there must be something I missunderstand, so maybe someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. First I create an empty movieclip and use it as a container f...more >>

Hi, I am having truouble trying to link a webpage to an iFram from another page in get url. For ex: on (release) { getURL("http://www.yahoo.com", main); } "main" being the name of an iframe. Everytime i try it opens up in a new window not in the iframe. Can anyone pleeeaseeee ...more >>

I've put :- on(press){ gotoAndPlay('10') } On my button which works, but I want it to go to a new scene. I tried adding the name of my scene and then the frame but this doesn't work. I have also lablled the first frame main in case the button doesn't recognise the scene. on(press){ gotoAn...more >>

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I have written a _global.Play_Audio function that basically plays an external audio file and then navigates to a specific marker / label. When I have everything on one timeline, everything works fine however I have attempted to tidy things up and encapsulate each sub-section in a separate mov...more >>

Hi there I have the following code that does not work and would really appreciate some help with the syntax. passed_Section_Mc.gotoAndStop(passed_Destination); Basically I have a function that I call and pass it the parameters: passed_Section_Mc passed_Destination And I would like to na...more >>

Hi there I have the following code that does not work and would really appreciate some help with the syntax. passed_Section_Mc.gotoAndStop(passed_Destination); Basically I have a function that I call and pass it the parameters: passed_Section_Mc passed_Destination And I would like to na...more >>

I needed help to create an XML element inside a node already written in a xml file with the XML class, such as: <Books> <Book name="ABC"/> <Book name="DEF"/> I need one to be created here. </Books> XML.insertBefore seems to only create nodes outside <Books> tag. Please help. a ...more >>

2 questions: #1 - is there a limit to the amount of text one cell can hold, whether it shows it all or not (depending on the size of the column)? #2 - var pressForm = new Object(); pressForm.cellPress = function(event) { clickedCell = myDataGrid.getItemAt(event.itemIndex)[myDataG...more >>

Is there a way to display/print all actionscript in a .fla file at once? For example, I'm looking for something that will show a heading for each item, followed by its associated script. I'd just like to view all the program logic at once rather than have to click on each item and see only i...more >>

I have problem with alert pop-up when I create a link from flash projector that linked to zip file, the pop-up display at behind of flash projector, how to make it display properly, not behind flash projector? thx for your help. ...more >>

Hi. I'm very new to using Flash MX 2004. I finally figured out my progressBar and loader issues, and they work fine. It pulls up the loader, then the loader points to and starts my actual site intro. What I want to do is have it go to my secondary page when the main intro movie completes. ...more >>

:o Sorry...but I'm doing something wrong in getting date......found plenty of examples.....and output looks good in trace....but doesn't appear in movie (yes, text is black). I 'm using dynamic text and variable name is correct........but date not getting to variable. I must be missing a ...more >>

Soemthing that easy to understand for a beginner with tutorials and explanations....more >>

I am new to Flash and are not yet familiar with use of Components. I dowloaded the Loading Circle component but are not sure about the action script I need to use with it to use it as a preloader. I have read several Preloader tutorials and they all seem slightly different. Some work, some do...more >>

Hello, I had to reinstall flash MX 2004 Pro and now after opening the program I get : *** XML Parsing Errors *** D:\Documents and Settings\Henri\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\Configuration\ActionsPanel\CustomActions\Form.xml: Line 3: The tiptext attribute ...more >>