HI, I just sold some flash i had made, just letting everyone know about this site, i made some fast money.....more >>

Hi all, I am using the drawing API to draw lines into a movie clip. The _xscale and _yscale of the movie clip varies (a lot), but the thickness of the lines as they appear needs to stay constant. Here is the problem: If the movie clip is enlarged very much, say 800%, and the line should appe...more >>

I have several movieclips on the stage and each one has similar code. They move randomly and when two come within a certain proximity of each other i want them to react to this. Is there a way to say: If (anyOtherMC is close) { //REACT } Cheers, E1 ...more >>

I'd like to create a dynamic textfield using AS but the problem appears when I apply a mask on it, my text won't appear. Howerver, I turned the embedFonts property to true but it doesn't work. Any suggestion ? Thanx ...more >>

Can someone help me on this? I would like to display random characters from a length's text and then displayed the real text. Example: 2 or 3 seconds showing random chars and later the typewrite funcion displayed the real text. (I know how to make the typewrite effect script) Help will b...more >>

Hi, I'm very new to Flash MX and have a question for the more knowledgeable ones out there. Is it possible to use dynamic text with HTML in a movie clip and then apply alpha manipulations to the movie clip? If that doesn't make sense, here's what I'm trying to accomplish. I want to use d...more >>

I have a preloader that has worked fine for me on several occasions. However, in this circumstance I am having some trouble with it. It works, but for some reason the percentage complete and the status bar does not appear until it has reached about 90%. I've done some debugging. I have tw...more >>

I am working on a movie clip that has a button on its second frame and when clicked directs the parent movie to a specific frame. When I place the button on frame one of the movie clip it works like it should, but when it is in frame 2 it does not work. The only work around that I have so far ...more >>

I have a script that calls an MC from my library though the linkage properties. I just want to know if it's possible to apply a mask to this MC?!? Thanks....more >>

Hi all, I have several movies where I load images dynamically at runtime, using the old loadMovie([image path goes here],[target mc goes here]) command. This works everywhere except when I'm viewing it on AOL for Mac OS X. As anyone run into a similar problem? Is it a known bug? Or, on the ...more >>

G'day, Looking for info about how to get flash to pull info from a text file, Where can I find out how to do this and what is it called? Cheers ...more >>

ive put stops in on the frame, also heres the code but still the button wont work!!!! on (release) {gotoAndPlay(this.afzalbutton); ...more >>

Hey actionscript guru peeps... Here is the code, explanation below. if (getAudio01<>'') { import mx.controls.Button; // value setting....(typeof, 'btn name', ? ,{label:variablename}); createClassObject(Button, 'audio01_btn', 5, {label:'Get Audio'}); audio01_btn._x = 130; audio01_btn...more >>

I have created a dynamic text field and different text loads into it depending on which button the user clicks. Most of the these are pretty long and I need a scroll bar. But the UIScrollBar component is only for an imput text field??? ...more >>

I have a flash file on one system folder A and a jpg image file on another system folder B. I am trying to targeting the image file from the flash file. How to write the path to make it work. Please help. Dedong ...more >>

Does anyone know the actionscript to make a button on release open a webpage or a program?...more >>

Hi, I am looking for a component which allows to write Math equations. As we know math equations have some characters like square root, fraction bar etc. There are many components on net but no one is developed in flash. There are some links which give U the idea of what I m talking abo...more >>

I know that this is a simple question. How do you make an animation play in reverse on RollOut? Say, you have a button with an animation in it, and it plays, like a fade in or such, when you roll over it. When you roll out, you want it to play in reverse, perhaps fade back to 0 alpha. A...more >>

can anyone sort my problem. u ready? we start with "A.swf", when you click a button, it loads "B.swf" on top (covering it completely), when you click a button it loads "A.swf" on top (again covering it). how can i do this with only using 2 levels. i.e, "A.swf" is in level1, then "B...more >>

i have a loadmovie and function perfect, but how can load this movie, in a frame specific or label?...more >>

Hi everyone: I am a high school teacher that teaches a Web Development program. The kids learn the "design" aspect of Flash in the first course and they learn ActionScript and application development in the second part. We use Macromedia ActionScripting: Training from the Source as a b...more >>

I'd found these : tweenType = 'motion'; createMotionTween(1, 10); For the life of me I cannot figure out how to use them Where do I set the coordinates of the object? Which Frame? Looked all over the web for a tutorial on tweening this way and i found nothing. Any help is appreciated. ...more >>

Ok, in line 22 I'm setting the visibility of an MC to false. All I want to do now is that when the script is reexecuted, (ie: a new i is set) I want that MC's visibility to be set back to true. So in line 8 I've got the code set up to use iprev. I can't figure out where to set iprev, I thou...more >>

Is there a limit to the number of variables that Flash can accept via an URL or FlashVars parameter? I am running into a problem where I am trying to pass variables to a swf from an URL and it is dropping all but five of the variables. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Ashley...more >>

Playing aorund with trying to get the Screens/Presentation/Slides features in Flash MX 2004 Pro to work for me and I'm running into some troubles when it comes to making them 'dynamic' When i load my presentation it seems to load up ALL the slides in my project and play them at the same time....more >>

.. hi, i attach this movie: var mainMenuItem:Object = main_mc.mainMenu_mc.attachMovie("menuItem_mc", "menuItem_mc"+k, main_mc.mainMenu_mc.getNextHighestDepth()); later, i want to acess to this movies i attached. how can i do this?! i tryed something like: var movie:MovieClip=["...more >>

I have a plan with 4 buildings on it. I want to be able to click on a building to zoom into it, giving a closer and more detailed view of the building. i have tried the following code on an invisible button over one of the buildings on(release)[ mc1._xscale = 200; mc1._yscale = 200...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know a way to delay a sound from being played after using MySound.start() to trigger a sound? Or is there any other way? I could add some silence to the beginning of each sound file, but it would save a lot of time and effort if AS could delay it some way instead, t...more >>

I am using Flash MX and HTML in order to build a site. In my Flash-site I am using importing and exporting certain objects. I have three sound objects which I am importing during the play. I am trying to create a mute button to stop all sound (using the actionscript). When I push the button ...more >>

I am looking to display an elapsed time timer for a quiz that will start on the first question and end at the last. how do i do that?...more >>

In the FlashMX Pro 2004 book, pp462, shows how to place a text field dymanically with actionScript. After placing the code in a blank page and working correctly, I copy and paste the same code in a working form that contains 6 layers. The code is placed in the top most "actions" layer. ...more >>

Hi everyone. Ive got a banner add in which I have the following action: [code] this.onMouseDown = function() { getURL("http://www.site.com.au/banner.asp?ID=35", "_blank"); }; [/code] which we have on our background layer. and for all our testing works 100% OK in MSIE, Firefox, Netsc...more >>

I am trying to use onLoad to execute commands to do a loading page. I think I have the beginning set up Ok and know I have the gotoandstop, then the button working well. BUT in actionscripts the on and onLoad is unusable as they are both grey.:confused; You can check out what I have don...more >>

Hi, just wondering how to create a tool tip style when mouse over a hotspot. Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, anyone know whats going wrong with my code?? i am trying to fade a button in to 100 when its clicked out out to 50 when another button is clicked. // HOME home_btn.onPress=function(){ _root.home_mc.onEnterFrame=function(){ if(this._alpha<100){ this._alpha+=5; } if(...more >>

Why can't I use a "space" in the Column Headings? How do I need to write it so I don't get an error and it works. This is what I have and Start Date produces an error: myDG = new Array({Owner:"Bob", Project:"Project 1", Start Date:"December"}, {Owner:"Jay", Project:"Project 2", Start Date:"Oc...more >>

I have it: mcflash.loadMovie("http://www.aaa.com/movie.swf"); mcflash._width = 300; mcflash._height = 300; I can?t see the movie loaded. If I kill line 2 and 3 it show, but without width & height customized Somebody help me? Thanks. Edwin Gustavo Sou brasileiro e so desi...more >>

can u tell me how i can define idname placed in the library and how ican call that sound in a movie....more >>

:confused; Please can someone out there tell me how to add actions to a button that when pressed it will play the whole movie overriding all other stop actions present. The movie consists of three section/chapters 1, 2, and three. But now I want a button to play through all three. I wi...more >>

Hi I want to learnactionscript i have brief knowledge of it but really want to get into it, can anyone reconmend me any books to learn from please? thanx...more >>

Hi I have two .swfs, main.swf and demo.swf, so in main.swf I want to call demo.swf this should appear on a new/ separate window. if I use: on (press) { getURL("demo.swf","_blank"); } this appears on a web browser, want it to appear as a project in a flash player. Thanks in adv...more >>

Hi all, I have a movie that I am attaching from my library which I am dynamically loading an image into. Inside this movie I have a close button, but I want it to be higher that the dynamically loaded image. I am loading the movie via: _root.scene9_mc.attachMovie('picHolder','picHolder',1)...more >>

Hi I've a Movie which I load with loadMovie() when I push a Button. If the user is there for the first time everything works fine. But when the user navigates to another frame (it's a homepage) and returns the Movie doesn't play anymore?!? Any suggestion? Thanks Stefan ...more >>

Hi, I want to create a mask over image that can be drag by a mouse I will be very thankfull to a person that can help me. THANKS Nasir Khan...more >>

Hey all, i am trying to send data to a serverside script without popping a window. I just want to send the data from within flash. Here what I am doing: function submitForm () { myVars = new LoadVars(); myVars.vyour = vyour; myVars.vfriend = vfriend; myVars.vmessage = vmessage; myV...more >>

Hi. I've created a component that is creating a menu using the Menu and Menubar components (Flash MX 2004 Pro and AS2.0) . One of the properties of this component is an object that is being used to listen to the menu events. The listener object is picking up the menu clicks ok but I can't see...more >>

Hi, In Flash MX, we can make use of setScrollContent function of FScrollPane to assign an instance of mc to a scrollPane. How about in MX 2004? Can we do the same thing ? I want to dynamically load or attach any movieclip into an instance of movieclip, associate the movieclip to a scrollPane ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm having a problem where I want to click on a button object and have it's instance name stored into a variable, but button._name doesn't seem to be doing the job. Is there anything I'm missing or any help anyone can offer on this? Thanks TUUK ...more >>

plz help me i am trying to let a button make a movie got to a frame, say i have a movie called "main" i want the button to make tthat movie go to say fram 2 plz help me ...more >>

All forum users should read the guidelines for these forums. It is very important that you all understand what to do, and what not to do. That way, it saves other forum users time to tell them that's not what they're supposed. So, just read the guidelines, (takes about 1-5 minutes to read). He...more >>

I'm trying to loadMovie a swf into my swf right? well the swf I'm loading is from another domain. over the loaded swf I have a play pause button. here's the issue: the play/pause works when I run the swf from my localmachine, but when I play my swf of the server, the play/pause no longer w...more >>

Anyone experience this? When trying to an action to a button (see details below) for Win XP, Flash Professional ver 7.2 Steps to reproduce: 1. Add a keyframe to Frame 15 by pressing F6 and keep selected. 2. Go to Window > Development Panels > Actions so that the Actions toolbox and ...more >>

Is there a reason that you can't watch _global. I was trying to help somebody with _global here and I thought it would be a great idea to watch the variable and see when it was changing. I figured _global is an object and the variable is a property of it, but evidently not. I can create a _g...more >>