My issues that I am loading in text from a text file... everything works fine. I publish my .swf and I can see the text in the .swf file when I double click on the .swf. My issue is when I try to embed the .swf in a html file that is not in the same directory as the .txt file and .swf file.....more >>

Hello there, Thank you for reading this. I have an .fla of my Flash MX movie where I am trying to scroll a dynamic text box with a non-stretchable tracker down the side. After many attempts at trying to make it work, it has all come to nothing and I'm nearing my deadline so I was wondering ...more >>

Hi there, I need that an arrow point to one of the four buttons that I have created around a circle, when the cursor move over one of the buttons, the arrow must be between the circle and the buttons, I hope you to understand me.:moon;:music; ...more >>

This script wont work for a phpbb2 forum login from flash. got any ideas ? I got 2 text boxes on the mid left and a submit button. on (release) { //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL("Login.php?username="+username +"&password=" +password); //End Behavior } Whats my mi...more >>

This script wont work for a phpbb2 forum login from flash. got any ideas ? I got 2 text boxes on the mid left and a submit button. on (release) { //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL("Login.php?username="+username +"&password=" +password); //End Behavior } Whats my mi...more >>

My code takes the text froma TextField, gets font metrics data for character from an external Adobe Font Metric file (because flash's font metric methods are inaccurate), then it does line/word breaking and rebuilds the paragraph using individual movie clips for each word. The words line up p...more >>

I want to the movie clip to fade in gradually when the user clicks on the button. What I have so far is just increasing the alpha every time when the user clicks on the button. Can anyone help me? stop(); mc1._alpha=0; function fade() { var nFadeSpeed = 15; mc1._alpha += nFadeSpe...more >>

An example of this is here: http://www.iso-land.com/newtest1.swf Theres two copies of the bed and wardrobe, they are set to either: visible true or false One copy is above the character and one below so that it looks like he's going behind and in front of them. The two copies have double...more >>

I was wondering how to have a movie Clip fade away as the flash document loaded. So like when it was at 50% loaded, the alpha would be 50%. Does anyone know how to do this? (I'm so bad at this actionscript) ANyway if anyone could help it'd be greatly appreciated! ...more >>

Hi, I'm creating a site that when a user visits for the first time, they are asked to enter a name before they enter the site. I would like to make it so that on subsequent visits, they are already recognized. and skip the user name step. The code to drop the SO follows: // ...more >>

OK, so I was going through Moock's recent post about skinning components (yeah I'm a little behind with that... I've always just rolled-my-own but am trying to move to the v2 components for rapid prototyping). He briefly mentions at the end about using CustomButton to create custom skins for b...more >>

How do I pause 1 frame for five second then go to another?...more >>

I have an isometric game that contains many scenes, my current preloader loads all the scene's at once. How do i make the preloader load each scene separate? It should be layed out like this: preloader 1 scene 1 preloader 2 scene 2 preloader 3 scene 3 I want it to only preload scene 1 and w...more >>

Hello all, I am not new to flash, but newer to some of its more advanced actionScript functions. I am trying to create a presentation that utilizes a voice-over narration for a slide show. But I want to be able to pause the audio. I know how to create sound objects and manipulate them i...more >>

Hi, I can't figure out what my problem is here. This code exists on frame 1 of _root and it sets up onRelease() functions for 4 buttons that exist in the movie. The part of this code that's NOT working is the lines: this._parent._parent.statusObject.screenState = this._parent._p...more >>

I' have a dynamic textbox with a variable name, which I load text into via the loadVariables() function when my .swf loads. I'm trying to attach a UIScrollBar to the textbox in typical fashion (drop the UIScrollBar component into the textbox). My text will display properly, and it is nearly ...more >>

Hi I have a drag function, with 2 variables: 'myMC', and 'obstacles'. 'myMC' is the MC to be dragged, and 'obstacles' are the MCs that the dragged MC shouldn't be dragged on top off. So the function checks for 'obstacles' hitTests, and if it encounters a hitTest, it stops the dragging. Her...more >>

This is my first Flash project, please pardon if this is stupid. I'm building a CD with buttons that load content into a main box. I created separate layers each with a Movie symbol. That movie then will do what it needs to do, be it load text into a textbox or display a table of PowerPoint...more >>

ok... trying to create a dateChooser Component, that when certain dates are selected, certain text would appear in a textbox. here is the code so far... the code that is comented is just some options i was also trying. I could really use help on this. I am not a beginner, yet am not quite ...more >>

ok then.... basically i have a collection of 16 movie clips (not different instances of the same clip) named tile1-tile16. Each tile has a differnt amount of coins on it and the tiles shuffle position randomly every time the application loads up. Ok...... each tile movieclip has two fra...more >>

I am creating a short presentation in Flash that will be published to an .exe and burned to CD to send to customers. I have incorporated buttons for them to move through the CD (between .swf movies) but have also included an Exit button that I'd like them to be able to use when they want to ex...more >>

I have a root movie, into which I would like to load a movieA. Once MovieA is done, it will tell the root movie to load the next movie, movieB into the next level above movieA. Then the same will happen with another movie, movieC. When movieC is done, it will load movieA again into the next ...more >>

Hello anybody, I am designing a game that stores a number of variables, then if you get it wrong in the game it goes back to the previous frames to start again... the only problem is that the original variables remain stored! I was wondering if there is a to clear them like in director mx o...more >>

Hi all I am duplicating MCs at runtime and each time the MC duplicates, I incrmemnt the value of a variable: sb_num = 1; sb.duplicateMovieClip("sb"+sb_num, sb_num); sb_num++; so now I want to see the value of sb_num in a dynamic textfield, at anytime. So I created a dynamic textf...more >>

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with loading variables into Flash from a PHP page. I have seen this topic on the forums and most deal with loading text files and examples so far haven't helped. Here's the (very basic) situation. I have two PHP pages, one with a form, submitting the...more >>

Apologies for the newbie post! I'm wondering if and how I can insert "onMotionfinished" into this script. What I really want is : After the first two changeClip actions are finished, I want the third changeClip to happen. Any ideas? THANKS! :o bprevention.onPress = function () {...more >>

Apologies for the newbie post! I'm wondering if and how I can insert "onMotionfinished" into this script. What I really want is : After the first two changeClip actions are finished, I want the third changeClip to happen. Any ideas? THANKS! bprevention.onPress = function () { var b...more >>

I have my students creating an operating system in Flash (well, at least the design of one!) and they click on the Display properties window and another movie clip is loaded into Level 1 which lets them change the display color of the background. When they click the X to close the window, ...more >>

I need to open a browser from Flash, but I'm doing something wrong evidently. In Flash, I have a movie clip named picButton. Then I have this in a frame script: picButton.onRelease = function(){ getURL("javascript:launchwin('map.htm' , 'newwindow' , 'height=150,width=300'"); } ...more >>

If I have the name of a function I wish to call in a string who can I use it to call the function. I have tried this but it does not work aFunc='myFunc' _root.eval(aFunc+'()') TIA Kevin ...more >>

Hi. I'm working on a multiple choice quiz and have a variable defined to hold the correct option. The variable is called 'correctAnswer'. What I'm trying to say, via actionscript, is that 'correctAnswer can equal option[1], option[2], OR option[3].' (i.e., any of those 3 selections would be c...more >>

I thought I understood that a local variable (either with or without the var keyword) were lost after the handler exited. However, when I was demonstrating this idea, I found out that this didn't seem to be the case. Perhaps my example was just wrong...so I'll post here what I did and let yo...more >>

Hi there- hope someone can help. I have a movie clip that when you rollover an animation plays. When you rollout the animation reverses. This works fine but I want the entire rollover animation to play in full before it rolls out. Here is the code. my_mc.onEnterFrame = function() { if (th...more >>

So I have a textbox, a button, and a movieclip. I want the user to have to enter something in the text box to activate the button, which upon press of said button, will then play the movie clip. FOr the life of me I cannot figure this out. So far in the root timeline I have this... stop();...more >>

I work for a travel company and I'm building an interactive hotel map, it's got a list box and when you select a hotel and it shows you where it is on the map.. pretty basic I guess.. Each hotel is on it's own frame of a movie clip when you select one it just jumps to that frame. I was goi...more >>

Is it possible to mask a text field to a determined format? Example: ssn(xxx-xx-xxx)...more >>

Hi, I m designing a FLASH website & trying to drop an effect like dentsu.com website's home page. I want transition effect similar like that which is controlled by mouse movement. Thanks in advance :) ...more >>

The ultimate goal here is to be able to load a variable from a php file that is the name of a jpg, let's say "test.jpg." Then, I'd like to use this variable in the loadMovie function to fill in the url argument. For the sake of simplicity, I'm using a txt file for now. Text file has the fo...more >>

On my site http://http://club.hattrick.org/rdrt but when u click around in the site the banner relode in every page, is ther anything i can do to make it stopp doing that?...more >>

My banner dosen`t work in firefox so i need some help fixing it. My code right now is: (object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve rsion=7,0,0,0" width="880" height="170" id="banner" align="m...more >>

Hello all, I've now spent FAR too much time trying to troubleshoot this issue, with absolutely no success. I have Flash MX 2004 Pro 7.2 installed. Here's the problem: I'm loading data into a template using an XML document. This works great. No problems there. The problem lies in the UISc...more >>

Hi Just wondered if anyone knew what the actionscript term 'move' does/is? If you type this into the Actionscript window it turns blue so the code recognizes it. However there is no mention of it in the actionscript dictionary or the online actionscript dictionary. It may be a proper...more >>

Anybody knows how to generate this great fx with AS? (Theres some sample code but..) http://yugop.com/ver3/index.asp?id=26 Thanks, Oliver...more >>

Scripts within move clips don't work I have a menu which is within a movie clip I have added actios to the button within one movie clip and I want it to set the frame of another on (release){ _root.main_mc.gotoAndStop("n_frame"); } Help. ...more >>

Hello. I am creating an animated slideshow of multiple images. The animation has about 4000frames. When loaded it plays automatically. I have four buttons: previous, play, stop, and next. The problem im having is the play button. I would like for the animation to play continuously after it has...more >>

I have a bit of a problem. I am developing an app in Flash MX 2004 that runs alongside another executable. Basically the other executable has been created by another party and all this other executable can do is launch another executable. Basically this other executable has some buttons in i...more >>

I am using an asfunction on text to call a function - works great. What i want to know is if there is a way for the text that was clicked on to be changed (ie underlined - changed to bold- etc) after it has been clicked on. Below is a stripped down version with just the basices. _globa...more >>

I've got some learning content thats pretty lengthy, and the client wants to create a rewind/fast fwd function (yes, I tried to convince them to shorten the content...alas) The concern is that the content uses scenes. I can create a rewind based on gotoAndPlay (-x from the current) but what ...more >>

why is he not doing the button settings alpha and enabled in the on = (press) AS ? this is the AS I have in the button : on (press) { naam =3D "Nadine"; geboren=3D"22 november 1918"; overleden=3D"2 februari 2005"; echtgenoot=3D"weduwe van de heer pds"; uitvaartdat=3D"zaterda...more >>

Please help me to display the html content in flash, I know only few html tags are supported in Flash, Is there any way to read <table> tag and display table in flash, Please tell me also if any third party component is available for this.:confused; ...more >>

Hi. I've been using a custom-made Drag-n-drop app built in Flash MX as a template to create many apps. Have just upgraded to a new machine with Flash MX 2004, but found that the template and created apps that I need to edit now do not run the same (eg. skips frames, movie clip behaviour...more >>

Good Evening, am having trouble figuring out the very basic paths. This is what I have: A main movie that is loading external .swf's one after another in succession (my shell). With one of my external .swf's, I have a Flash MX ScrollPane component loading a movie clip stored in the library...more >>

I have a movie inside a Scrollpane that I want to stop playing when a user clicks on it. My movie has 100 frames and I want it to stop on whichever frame is currently being played. I made an invisible button overtop of the scrollpane and added the following code: on (release) { BigScro...more >>

Our application was developed with a Flash front end, .NET and C# interactions to a SQLServer Database. The application works perfectly in a windows environment on any browser. Just recently when users login using a Mac (OSX & Netscape) the system gives and error saying the system is slow...more >>

Hi, I have several JSFL's that I need to obfuscate the same way that Macromedia does to protect MY intellectual property. Can someone at Macromedia or elsewhere tell me how to obfuscate these the same way that Macromedia has obfuscated theirs. Is there already a Macromedia tool for this or...more >>

im doing a site for my brother and im new to flash and wondering what i should write in the actionscript to have the client's email service pop-up when they click on the button...more >>

I have a website that uses lots of video. I already use Sorenson Squeeze to compress my videos, but to cater to my audience with dial-up connection, I want to distribute the videos onto a CD-ROM, and be able to load the videos into my swf files on my website. Is this possible? If so, how do I...more >>

Is there action script that can capture the url in the browsers address bar? I'd like to give a user a link that had a variable at the end, like www.website.com?variable Thanks....more >>

Hi all, I would like to build a site where the first time a user visits, it prompts them to enter their desired user name. (No password needed) Then when the user returns after that, the site recognizes them and puts their user name in a text box for personalization purposes. (Ideal...more >>