Hi Im trying to do a drang and drop with limits so it cant be dragged off the stage, can someone tell me why this dosent work, it just locks the image to the top left corner of the stage and wont move it. It is supposed to be dragable all over the stage but you shouldnt be able to drag...more >>

I have been searching online for hours. I figured it was something that was possible, but who knows. I can't find anything! Is there any way to have playback controls for a loaded movie? I have loaded an external SWF into a movie clip with loadMovie(). Can I make that movie pause and resta...more >>

I have one swf (A) loading another swf (B) into itself. I am able to pause and replay B by using tellTarget. I have a volume slider in A that I would like to control the volume of B. It's a slider, not buttons. I am having such a hard time trying to figure this out. Does anyone know how to g...more >>

When we create a localConnection, does many movie can communicate by that connection, or it's just between 2 movie? var oDynamicMenu_lc = new LocalConnection();...more >>

I'm fairly new at Flash, but learning things as I go. One of the things I haven't been able to figure out is how to link a button to a new scene. (if this is even possible) I've set up two scenes: The first one has all of my buttons, making up a navigation menu. All of the buttons hav...more >>

Passing arguments into .swf movie is very useful. I wasted some time today in trying to pass a .jpg filename into a movie because it kept 'crashing' (big white screen with black border). After some investigation it appears that when you pass an argument to a .swf movie (...testing.swf?filena...more >>

I'm trying to have a user press F4 to advance to the next frame of a swf that is embedded inside a web page. When I press F4, Internet Explorer pulls up the Address Bar. I tried putting in a trapallkeys, but that didn't change the behavior. I'm pretty sure there's a simple way to do this. I ha...more >>

I just need the buttons in my menu to perform two actions on release, is there any way I could do that?...more >>

This can't be as difficult as it seems. I want to toggle all sounds on/off. Sweet and simple. A mute button if you will. I have seen all kinds of explanations of how to load and turn on/off a single sound. But I have sounds on my buttons and sounds on movies, etc. I am not really looking for...more >>

I like to use this.property or this.function() in my classes. Is there any performance difference between using this.my_prop or this['my_prop'] ? Which is better to use if either?...more >>

Please help if you can: I would like to load a swf movie into a target area using a button. I have already created an instance of a movie symbol (& named the Instance) on the main movie (this serves as the target area). I am able to load a new swf movie into another level & I am even able t...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to stro data in a 3-dimentsiona array. By following help, I found an example that, converted to a 3-dimensional case, would become: ticTacToe = [[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]],[[10,11,12],[13,14,15],[16,17,18]]]; If I add a trace for ticTacToe[0][0][2], I get 3 in return as expec...more >>

im trying to make multiple buttons with animation that change the look of the button when mouse over. this is workin fine now i also what the animation to reverse when when the mouse goes away "rollout" at the current frame this is also workin also i wanted if you moused back over the image ...more >>

I am using a mailform I found on flashkit. It works with php. mail.swf is loaded into the main movie on level 1. It was working great until I put a second one in called mail2.swf. I also created mail2.php. Now neither of them work. Other than ajusting the file names and their references,...more >>

Does anyone have a link to a Flash ActionScript class reference similar to the Java API docs? I need something that provides a detailed list of all the packages, classes and methods. I have found the URL below but it does not include Flash Pro classes such as DataSet and WebServicesConnec...more >>

I am trying to send a Varible from flash to a PHP page then this runs a query with the Var sent then echo's XML that contains the query results back to flash Does anyone know a way to sendAndLoad a Variable and return XML. Without having to send XML to load XML ...more >>

David, you have been a big help in helping me dig through this seaminly simple actionscript, THANK YOU! I did a little digging around and did find out that the "on handler" issue was a result of assigning the actionscript to the button instance versus the frame. I am working on moving the ac...more >>

Hi, http://runmad.web.surftown.dk/flashtest/Untitled-2.htm When going to HOME and PHOTOGRAPHY pages I have a fade-in using the following code: onClipEvent(load){ this._alpha = 0; } onClipEvent(enterFrame){ if(this._alpha < 100) this.alpha +=10; } Now wouldnt there be an...more >>

Hi folks! I have a movie that programatically scales some elements if chosen by the user. Problem is obvious if you look at the swf I've attached. Click on the 'movie' icon and watch what happens. I want the 'movie' square to scale while the stroke size on the rectangle stays the same size...more >>

I creat one project which consist of 70 scene , I can't publish exe or swf file when I reach 50 scene .Are there limited maximum scene in mx 2004 version .How to solve this problem.I need your help this fla file only 40 MB. ...more >>

Greetings! I have a game im making that has the letter keys as commands. For example instead of using the arrow keys to move, you would us A,S,D,W. I remeber looking through the Flash Help and finding it a little while ago, but now i can't remeber how to do it. I think that each one has a Num...more >>

Hi all, Im desperate! Is there a way, that i can can tell flash movie A to load in Flash Movie B (which contains a bunch of linked fonts) So that flash movie A can then access those fonts using the embed method Basically looking to load font libaries dynamically, any ideas? Ch...more >>

I have a training program in which we load separate swfs into an empty movie clip on the stage called sceneContainer. If the user performs an error, we load an error.swf file into layer 1000, thus over the sceneContainer movieclip, and fade the scene behind the error. However, when the error...more >>

Hello all, I posted a msg. --- I have this complicated animation (b/c it been requested to include a bunch of jpeg's :( ) So its broken down into 4 parts &amp; optimized the best I know (jpeg compression, reused symbols as much as possible, etc). There's gotta be a better way though. the f...more >>

Hi All, i'm trying to create a Image Preload, in the past i've tried all kinds of things like onData etc. etc.... wich doesn't work... anyway iv'e come across this below from flashGuru: This works fine, except for the on enterframeEvent 'deletion' mclip.createEmptyMovieClip('pic_container',...more >>

I'm new to Flash scripting but have some background with Lingo. I have a movie clip (animated face). When I put that in my main timeline and add a sound file ....how do I have the clip continue to animate until the sound file ends? I found onsoundcomplete but have no idea how to start. thank...more >>

Hello All, I have a simple program that randomly creates a shape, along with a starting x,y position, a speed(a number which will be added to x every frame), and a rotation to be added each frame as well. I'm hoping to have the shapes move from left to right across the stage while spinning. ...more >>

Hi, I have a dynamic text field in which i want to give maximum 2 line word wrap functionality. In short i want to restrict displaying data more than 2 line...anyone had any success with it....!! -------- aShIsH ...more >>

while (true){ //do something //sleep ------>How to do that? } How to sleep a fews seconds in ActionScript? Many thanks!...more >>

I've double checked the Instance Box and the script of both frames to no avail. Any help is appreciated. Frame (16) THIS WORKS setProperty ("/check001", _visible, false); setProperty ("/check002", _visible, false); setProperty ("/check003", _visible, false); setProperty ("/check004"...more >>

Hi Guys, I have a list, var soundsToPlay = new Array("Author", "boy", "camp"); I have three buttons, which have instance name as Author, boy, and Camp what I like to do is once the user have clicked the button Author, the Author should be removed from the list. Then I have a next butto...more >>

Hi, new user so hope my etiqutte is ok. I am creating a flash MX projector on CD for Windows. The client wants to be able to customise parts of the text on the CD, so I am using dynamic text-fields to read plaintext files. The client can therefore alter the text-files and reburn a new CD - v...more >>

I'm looking for a way to get flash to lookup the number of swf files in an external folder in order to use that as a variable in a loadMovie loop that loads them into seperate targets. I know how to do it in lingo but I'm unfamiliar with the syntax in flash. If anybody knows, I'd very much a...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem using maxscroll. When I use maxscroll with text that already is inside Flash, it works fine. I get maxscroll values of 2,3,... But when I use maxscroll with text that is imported from a .txt file, I only get the value of 1 for maxscroll. The text appears, there's more...more >>

hi friends.... i want open pps file feom flash mx.....so pls help me ty guru ...more >>

Hi experts ! I'm just working on an emulation of a windows console in flash mx. The style should be as close as possible on the original windows style. Because of that I decided to make some vector graphics for each neaded character. They are stored in the library and have identifier to im...more >>

Hi everybody... i created an swf that loads an external jpg... my problem is... the jpg is very big... so i wanna make a preloader... is it possible to do? how? thank a lot... Mirko Netit :-) ...more >>

hi i'm trying to get to grips with action scrip in flash - done some tutorials but can't seem to grasp the essentials , i'm try to get a hand cursor appear when the user rollsover my button called CLICK2START , just keep getting syntax errors also would like the user to be directed to frame 80...more >>

Hi, I m looking to design a similar transtion effect as in dentsu.com which is controlled thru mouse movement.....can u plz guide me for this? Thanks...more >>

I currently have a button on the first frame of my scene and I set the alpha to 0%. I am trying to disable it until the next frame. what is the code for disabling a button. I tried this. prevTrackBtn.onLoad=function(){ this.enabled=0; }; ...more >>

I am having a problem when trying to load a movie, it is starting up but in a new window not in the same window where is should be. I want to click a button and load a seperate swf file on layer 3, here is my code. on (release) { loadMovie('portfolio/slideshow_as1.swf','_level3'); } I thou...more >>

:confused; I imagine this is very simple but it's got me stumped. I'm building a site where the nav bar is a movie clip. I can't get the buttons to make anything happen in the main scene. Through the actions window, I assign the button the action that says, go to main scene, then go to and...more >>

HI! I am having trouble unstanding what the docs are saying here. they mention that you can spicify other folders below the fscommand folder ( or am I wrong) in the bottom on this post. I have tried numersous options and cant get it to work with sub folders underneth the fscommand folder. ...more >>