Hi flashers,
I, ve been using the dinamic text fields to display diferent kinds of things
like numbers or song titles dinamicaly loaded, but when I see those works in
a pc different to mine the dinamic text fields are displayed in their
default pc fonts. Why this happend?, how can I embeb...
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Stop Cache
Posted by imanru at 2/24/2005 9:11:22 PM
I got a question, are you able to stop the site user from storing the swf file? any help is welcome thanks....
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can you distort/transform shapes with actionscript
Posted by Budonk at 2/24/2005 9:05:29 PM
Put simply, I am trying to create a movie in which a series of rectangles move
around the screen and are distorted to random shapes and then back to the
original. I know I can do this with tweening in the timeline, but the shapes
will represent dynamic content, so it must be done through AS. ...
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textArea - making background transparent?
Posted by smplgy at 2/24/2005 8:31:41 PM
I am trying to make the background of the textArea component transparent. Does
anyone know the property I can call to do this? Here is what I have so far...
_______________________________ this.createObject ('TextArea',
'body', depth++,{_x: 187.3, _y: 192.3, _width: 491.9, _height...
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Create dynamic textfield and set value to them
Posted by sadeghi.reza at 2/24/2005 8:10:40 PM
Hi ,
I want to get an array from external source such as DB or Text File or Mail
Server and show them into a table that i have access to all rows and columns ,
In fact i want to create some text field and then set the ._x , . _y and .text
properties for each text field,
Thanks ,
...
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embed actionscript in a string and then execute it?
Posted by grayooze at 2/24/2005 7:38:40 PM
Is there a way to embed actionscript in a string and then execute it? I want to
do something like this:
var script = "function foo(){var x=10; trace('foo '+x); return x;}; foo();";
eval(script);
...
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Media components audio
Posted by Action B. at 2/24/2005 7:20:24 PM
Are flv files supposed to have audio?
Using 2004 Pro with Media Display, or Media Playback -
I went through the motions of importing an mpeg, embedded and then exported
the file as an flv. The video is conveniently located outside the swf for a
small projector size.
When the proje...
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drop down menu. pulling my hair out!
Posted by Kay Poe at 2/24/2005 6:48:17 PM
I am trying to create a drop down menu from a tutorial. In fact, I've tried
several tutorials (and samples .flas) and am getting nowhere. This menu should
read: 'Menu' Upon rollover, each drop down item should appear and each has a
rollover color. I have not applied script to go to new fr...
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Cant call my class methods
Posted by shadysamir at 2/24/2005 6:36:48 PM
I created a class with MX 2004. This is only part of the code:
function VideoList() {
init();
}
private function init(Void):Void {
loadData();
changeMode("video");
}
In the FLA document containg the class symbol itself, i can drag this
symbol to the stage and call the methods inside ...
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How to load a SWF file from inside a Movie Clip ?
Posted by Nieckarz at 2/24/2005 6:07:09 PM
I got this website, and it is inside a movie clip, and i have to do a PHPform,
soh i create another swf file, to put the comands etc, but now i have to load
this swf file into the website, witch is inside a movie clip... there is any
hope for me ??
...
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Open pdf's in Macintosh
Posted by Bruno Patricio at 2/24/2005 5:48:28 PM
I use this code:
on (release) {
if (_global.gOS == "Macintosh") {
getURL("pdf:ocular.pdf", "_blank"); // to Macintosh
} else {
getURL("pdf/ocular.pdf", "_blank"); // to PC
}
}
In the PC run ok
But on the Macintosh, I can't open de pdf file.
...
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external file keeps runing after unload
Posted by Naughty_Boy at 2/24/2005 5:45:44 PM
I am having a problem with an external file that keeps running after its swf
has been unloaded. My main movie calls a .swf and places it on a layer (I have
also placed it in a movieclip on a layer). The swf that is placed in my main
movie is a slide show that calls upon an XML doc to get the...
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Flash Form to ASP
Posted by chabian at 2/24/2005 5:32:14 PM
I am trying to build a simple form in Flash that sends info to an ASP page. I
know ASP really well, but getting the info to POST to the flash page is giving
me all kinds of trouble. Does anyone have a good, simple tutorial that can help
me with this? I am really struggling with this concept. ...
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mediaPlayback component fullscreen button
Posted by NJHPP at 2/24/2005 5:18:47 PM
Is there a way to disable the full screen button in the mediaPlayback
componnent? (the little triange in the upper right corrner) I can remove its
fuction by placing an invisible button with no fuction over the corner, but on
rollover the cursor changes to a hand.
...
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& does not show text in a textfield
Posted by Xccelerant2 at 2/24/2005 5:12:40 PM
Hello, Created a CMS that reads and writes to .txt files, that are displayed
in a Flash site. Problem is I put variables through out the text files and now
when I go to load the full .txt files into the CMS, the read part only shows
the first variable, every other variable that starts with &...
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AS2: Data Bind SQL Query Data to ComboBox
Posted by jtehonica at 2/24/2005 5:08:13 PM
Can anyone point me in the right direction - I'm using Flash remoting with CFCs
and I'm trying to pull query data from SQL and populate a ComboBox with AS2
components.
I have a CFC called "states.cfm" and Flash Remoting is set up and connecting
properly (AS2 components). It's pulling 2 col...
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Extrenal variable. & as part of value
Posted by epnormann at 2/24/2005 4:47:45 PM
I am loading external variables and am wondering how to make an ampersand (
& ) part of the value of the variable. For eg. if the external file's has
the following: &message=I bought apples & oranges& Flash would
import the variable as message='I bought apples ' So is there ...
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How long is my FLV?
Posted by eSpeed at 2/24/2005 4:32:24 PM
I can load it, check the byte length, get the head position in seconds but I
cannot get the video total length in seconds. Sure, I can seek a specific
position (in seconds) but that's of limited use as I have to know how long each
video is in advance in order to use it fully. I want to create ...
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event question: button not working anymore
Posted by josp at 2/24/2005 4:13:05 PM
hello,
a beginner question:
I have a dynamicly created mc with:
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver = function(){
_root.testText.text = this.itemname.text;
};
This works, but the button in the mc doesn't change it's color anymore.
Do I have to 'pass' somehow the onRollOver, onDr...
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load swf and play at frame 40
Posted by Alikat at 2/24/2005 4:05:04 PM
I want to load a swf and play it at frame 40
I think it's something along the lines of:
{
loadMovieNum('thecloser_animation.swf',4);
gotoAndStop(40);
}
but that is playing it at the first frame....
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assigning scripts to dynamicallly generated mcs
Posted by Stephan alias Holden at 2/24/2005 3:25:29 PM
Hi there,
like the message-title suggests I'm trying to add some event-handlers to
dynamically -generated movie-clips containing jpgs.
My first guess was that it might have something to do with those lines of code
being executed before flash has loaded the whole jpg into the movie cli...
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SetVariable not working with NN6
Posted by karuna at 2/24/2005 3:11:12 PM
window.document.flashmovie.SetVariable("varname","varvalue");.
... this js code doesn't get executed in NN6. It wors well with IE and NN4.7.
i have set the "NAME=flashmovie" and "SWLIVECONNECT=true" attributes in the
embd tags!
bye,
>>> karuna >>>
...
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Variables inside frame label quotation marks???
Posted by blondeh at 2/24/2005 2:41:34 PM
Hi everyone,
Really urgently need some help here!
I'm basically trying to build an incredibly simple slideshow function with
actionscript.
I have frame labels at the start of each new slide (called "1", "2", "3"
etc...etc...). Also, for each new slide, the variable "_global.slideC...
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loading and seeing vars while testing movie
Posted by Mark.P. at 2/24/2005 1:45:24 PM
I'm pulling info from an access dB using ASP. The Flash is pretty simple, at
this point it doesn't do much more than show the content in the movie. It
works pretty well when I view the SWF in a browser, but nothing will display
when I test the movie so I can't write any trace scripts. Shoul...
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Detect the Mediacontroller scrubbing
Posted by Jovvan at 2/24/2005 12:01:41 PM
How can I trace if the user is moving the thumb of the MediaController?
The line "trace(_root.presentation.controller.isScrubbing);" generates "[type
Function]" to the output window (which I don?t know what it means).
Have a nice day
...
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Flash7- slow SWF output
Posted by walahe at 2/24/2005 11:52:36 AM
Hi
I hope you can help me with this guys:
In our latest job, we like to stack MC's on top of each other using
GetNextHighestDepth, which is new to MX2004 and only works when movie is
published for Flash 7. We have 6 buttons on the original design with 6 MC's all
have heavy jpegs. Here ...
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Fill mc with gradient dynamically
Posted by Josh Rolfe at 2/24/2005 11:27:03 AM
I am using setRGB to change the color of one of my movie clips. I am
wondering if rather than simply change the color if there is a way to use a
gradient fill. I have looked at MovieClip.beginGradientFill but the problem
is that I already have a predefined movie clip that is not a very
str...
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To show selection whiledragging mouse
Posted by Manoj vn at 2/24/2005 11:25:15 AM
Hi forum, I have mcs ( one mc on stage and duplicating it 10X10 times) aligned
in rows and coloums, each having a letter in dynamic textboxes. My intension is
to select the letters, once i drag the mouse. Cliking on any mc, a mc(circle)
from library is to be attach on it. And when i drag the...
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Buttons inside MovieClips
Posted by Russ at 2/24/2005 10:31:49 AM
Hello I have a moviclip as a menu with buttons inside it I have this script
attached to one of the buttons But It will not take me to the scene first
frame what am I doing wrong
on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop("About us", 1);
}
Regards
P.s I know this sounds like a simple problem i...
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Countdown loader
Posted by sheedy at 2/24/2005 10:19:07 AM
Does anyone know how to get a MC (say a square for example) to resize it's
height in relation to a countdown? I want to be able to have a countdown from
say 7 days displaying days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining. At the same
time I want a square MC to scale on the y axis. Basically I wan...
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Tree Directory
Posted by Ashish123 at 2/24/2005 10:18:58 AM
Hi I want to create a dynamic tree directory .. similar to windows explorer
navigation wise.... I am using mx 2004 and not professional..so can not use
Tree Component.. :( If u can provide any inputs/links on it..that would be
really greatfull Thanks in adv ------------- aShIsH
...
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Loading .png images
Posted by chappidi at 2/24/2005 9:48:51 AM
Hi All,
I have a query!! Does Flash support loading of .png images on fly?? this works
with .jpg images but i cant see my images if i try this with .png images. i
have user loadMovie only.
Any alternates to show .png images on fly??
Thanks in advance
Roopesh
...
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Text formatting
Posted by gongati at 2/24/2005 9:35:33 AM
Hi,
I have a problem in my chat application, I have two text fields one is for
message input and other is for message display, here I am giving the user the
facility to send formatted text so I have attached bold,italic and underline
buttons and color as well.
so, when the user select...
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Please help me out its URGENT
Posted by Harmeet S. Vohra at 2/24/2005 8:40:59 AM
Hi All,
I have to make an uploader using flash which can be upload any file from
user's computer to server. File size may be 1Mb to 100Mb. As far as I know if
we use POST method after 2Mb it will show the error message. Please provide me
some details on this topic. It's Urgent.
Thanks
...
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The Lost Path
Posted by meeesta at 2/24/2005 8:14:00 AM
Hello. I have a problem accessing movieclips after using attachMovie. I've
got the main movie, and within this is an mc with an instance name of holdAll.
Into this are loaded a wide variety of clips. All are built the same. The
problem starts here in the fact that these movies access all th...
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Detect client connection speed?
Posted by Shayne Jackson at 2/24/2005 7:09:19 AM
I'm wondering if there is a way in flash to detect the connection speed of the client?...
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movie clip
Posted by microes at 2/24/2005 6:58:05 AM
my desire is to trigger the _down state of my movie clip button onRelease and
keep it in _down state whereby my movie clip button plays without being
disrupted by its _up state when mouse is released rather than having to hold
down my mouse just to see the down state of movie clip button anima...
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LoadVars limit
Posted by maulia at 2/24/2005 5:50:20 AM
Is there any limit when passing texts through a LoadVars parameter? I have a
lv = new LoadVars(); lv.MYTEXT = myString; // my String say contains 2000
characters lv.sendAndLoad([a_script],lv, 'GET'); It worked only if I reduce
the texts that's going to be passed. Is there any limit in loadV...
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URGENT ScrollPane problem (flash mx 2004 pro)
Posted by OniLink at 2/24/2005 5:19:17 AM
Hi, I have a scrollPane in my main .swf that loads an external .swf into it. I
have made it so that when the external .swf is loaded it sets the vScrollPolicy
to 'auto'. All that works fine...the content loads, the scroll bar is set to
the right amount....but for some reason the content can b...
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movie not 100% of viewport height in IE Mac
Posted by dhandshark at 2/24/2005 4:32:24 AM
I have a movie on top of my home page which fades to reveal the page below. My
problem is that in IE on the Mac the movie doesn't grow to 100% the height of
the viewport, so a bit of the underlyhing page is visible. Here is the
page:http://www.wildturkeyfarm.com/staging/home_with_flash8a.php4 ...
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Javascript call w/o using getURL?
Posted by dhandshark at 2/24/2005 4:25:26 AM
I am calling a couple of JavaScript functions from my Flash movie via getURL.
The problem is that when the calls are executed in the movie they also trigger
that annoying system click that IE employs when a hyperlink is clicked. I can
turn it off on my system, but others won't have it turned...
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Rotated Dynamic Text - non-populated
Posted by t8ddw at 2/24/2005 3:33:26 AM
Hi All,
Does anyone know why when Dynamic Text is rotated that it doesn't display on screen?
What is way around this?
Thanks,
Todd...
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Migrating AS1.0 to AS2.0
Posted by denizengt at 2/24/2005 1:48:52 AM
Hmm, I've never used AS2.0. I've moved to mx2004, and now my older program now
fails to operate properly, so I've been trying to convert my older AS into the
2.0 class structure. (I'm guessing that's the issue). I've hit a snag in the
form of this MovieClip.prototype.move = function (raceTr...
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Communicating with loaded swf
Posted by mcam at 2/24/2005 1:43:48 AM
Hi, I have a project that has 14 narriated steps. All of the steps together
as one file is 10.5 megs so I split them up into individual swf files that load
when you click on that step. Is there a way to have the main time line advance
to the next step when the loaded swf file stops or reach...
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Date constructor odd problem???????
Posted by C#Newbie at 2/24/2005 1:26:16 AM
Does anyone know why the following happens?
when i do :
trace(new Date(1999,2,2));
output:
Tue Mar 2 00:00:00 GMT-0800 1999
please notice that the date has been changed to March 2, 1999 (it should be
Feb 2, 1999) for no reason.
Thanks in advance
...
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Compiling Classes
Posted by Ryan Jennings at 2/24/2005 12:42:31 AM
If a class isn't imported at compile time like this: import classes.MyClass
But you create an object of that class within your code, like this: var
newClass:MyClass = new MyClass(); How does Flash know to compile that class? I
recently took over another developer's project and he's instant...
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mouse drag eraser effect?????????
Posted by ToffeeCrisp at 2/24/2005 12:34:43 AM
right i have been searching all over on a tutorial on how to do this and i cant
find one. the best example of what I am trying to achieve is to point you to
this site: http://www.kazsh.com if you enter it and click on eraser that is the
effect i want to achieve.
so if anyone could point m...
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