When I load an external .txt file into a dynamic textbox via Loadvariablesnum the special characters like ?, ? and so on don't display. How can I make them visible?...more >>

I want the up arrow to change from white to red when the keyboard up arrow is pressed, and then change back to white when the keyboard arrow is not pressed. I also want the same to apply to right, down, left. Thanks ...more >>

Why when you edit one word in the forum does it then include all of the codes all the way through? Is anybody trying to fix this? It's not just my posts, edit any post and then look at it afterwards.... it's rampant with codes. ...more >>

I have a site in which a number of persons' email addresses are included. I use a movie clip as a button that is supposed to execute the getURL(mailto . . .. ) method. It takes a long time for the email to pop up on the screen on its own. One thing I did notice however, is that after I cli...more >>

I want to load images from the XML below, which is on the server. In XML file, the image is a URL link. Here is my XML: <download> - <boxshot> - <![CDATA[ http://media.gigex.com/imgtag.asp?w=70&img_src=..\media.gigex.com\bs\xbox\3352.j pg]> </boxshot> </download> I tried but it l...more >>

I have a swf file that allows a user to choose colors for his/her product. Once the colors are chosen I'd like to either capture the swf file or convert it to bitmap/jpg/pdf and upload it to the server. I'm currently using Flash Remoting to save all the product colors chosen but I'd also ...more >>

I'd like to add a progressive preloader to a movie I previously created (you can see this movie at www.allurephoto.com/weddings and click on Si Yun &amp; Jay). I've tried numerous tutorials and for some reason cannot seem to get the preloader to work properly. I'm sure it's something simple...more >>

I've made a couple of animated button MCs and put them in a external.swf. Then I have a button on the maintimeline that loads the external.swf in a holder_mc. Now.... i can get the buttons in in the external.swf to animate on rollOver and I get the finger but I can't get the button to load...more >>

I have created many a preloader, but not with sounds. The distinction is that this is for a sound and it is triggered by a button being pressed. I managed to figure out the basics of it, and it should work, but does not. The code on the first key frame of the movie clip holding the control b...more >>

I am using Flash MX at work every day, and we are getting ready to upgrade to MX 2004. Is there a training class (preferable located in So-Cal) that goes over the new featuers of MX 2004, and also introduces Actionscripting? ...more >>

Hi. I want to create a pop-up showing a movieclip called "mcTest" whenever a button instance named "btButton" is released. How can i do that using a window component? I tried this code, but it doesn't work import mx.containers.Window; import mx.managers.PopUpManager; btButton.onRelease...more >>

hey everybody! :) simple enough, sending out a LoadVars obj to a php page to do a login. on a successful login the php page echos: userID=1&amp;userName=a&amp;success=1&amp;onLoad=[type Function]&amp;method=login only not quite. trace LoadVars.toString() and it actually looks like this: ...more >>

in Flash MX how do you navigate a loaded movie clip from a menu in the main timeline?...more >>

The help shows examples of actionscripts that will fail but doesn't show examples that will work. For example, if the slide hierarchy is as follows: Presentation Slide 1 Slide1_1 Slide1_2 Slide 2 Slide2_1 Slide2_2 How can you go from Slide2...more >>

Hi for all in forum. Is possible use the scrollbar in mc?...more >>

hey everybody i got this class see, declared so: class com.domain.package.ClassName extends MovieClip implements someInterface then i got this subclass, see: class com.domain.package.SubClassName extends ClassName as i'm subclassing MovieClip i use init() and not ClassName(). however, w...more >>

i need help with traying to load external pictures into my movie when someone clicks on a thumbnail button instead of having the loader load the bigger pics automaticly. is there a way to do this? thanks ...more >>

I am having problem to load image with mask movie clip. I am trying to preload image and show the image with mask effect. the mask is a movie clip of 25 frames long with stop action at both the first frame and end frame. The preloading is successful and the mask movie is triggered to play wi...more >>

I am creating an emulator in for the BIOS and RAID creation screens and need to use keyCodes to load the next movie clip. I want the user to access the next movie by pressing CTRL+I but cannot seem to find a way to make that work. I currently have it working by pressing spacebar (there is a...more >>

I am trying to preload dynamic swf file in my engine(based on AS2.0 architecture, 7.2 authoring tool), but whenever i run my engine, it skips 2nd , 3rd &amp; 4th file from preloading. I am preloading 15 files at once. I have tried all my understanding .......... Although preloader shows the...more >>

I've run into a situation where I'm needing to execute a command stored in a string. Is there any way to do this?? Simplified example: var execString = "myTree_cmp.getTreeNodeAt(0).getTreeNodeAt(2)"; do(execString) //this bit needs to execute actual code.. ...more >>

I'm useing these scripts to pull a image dynamcly onto my flash file now what I want to do is have the images rotate after 30 sec. or so.. now how would I do this? I am so lost......... the flash: slides_xml = new XML(); slides_xml.onLoad = startSlideShow; slides_xml.load("slides.x...more >>

The goal:[/b I'm building an entire site in flash. There is a master shell movie (master.swf). When first opened, the master shell loads in the shared library, the intro movie (intro.swf), and a nav movie (nav.swf). The user will have three nav options. When the user selects a nav option, I...more >>

Hi, I have a mc that is basically a rectangle that you can drage along the x axis with fixed right and left boundaries. I would like to somehow attach a second movie clip (saw for example a circle) so that when I drag the rectangle the circle gets pulled along as well. I don¹t want to just co...more >>

In Director there are options as to how a window will look in a projector. Can you do the same thing in FLASH MX 2004? Such as not have the windows tool bar on the window and use your own exit button instead? thanks cj ...more >>

is there any way for me to update the UI inside a long actionscript loop? I want to display all of the values 0 to 10 in the movie. It apppears that it doesn't get updated until the very end. thanks in advance- for( var i = 0; i < 10; i ++ ) { // some slowing-down code _...more >>

Hi, i am loading in a external swf file onto my stage using this method: _root.main.empty.loadMovie("news_update.swf"); it displays the news_update.swf fine however the actionsciprt no longer works (the AS in news_update.swf ) any ideas why this is happening everything works fine ...more >>

I have the following function to set different menu to a certain place on my stage. It looks like this: function menuPos(whichMenu){ whichMenu._x = 425; whichMenu._y = 59; }; Depening on certain other things various menus get place at the above x and y cordinates. For example: i...more >>

ok i have made my button and i need to know how to make the button go to a new sceen and frame for one and just a new frame for 1 could some1 plz give me the code the buttton name is symbol 11 and the scene is scene 2 and frame 45 plz plz plz plz help me ...more >>

Ok, I've created a rollover menu where once the button is activated the menu items fade in in a horizontal line below. Following a tutorial, I've managed the action script and the layers etc... Only problem is when I scroll down from the top botton to the menu items the menu will disappear...more >>

Ok, I have a slide show that consist of a master.swf that within this loads a work.swf. and within this the slides (work0.swf, work1.swf, work2.swf, work4.swf, etc.). Now the flash playes just fine (seen here: http://www.rdesigncreative.com/test/rdesignTest/level2/rwork.htm ) It freezes up. ...more >>

I have a movieclip containing multiple input text fields. When I attach a onRollOver to it (or some other event) I suddenly cannot select any of the input fields anymore... any workaround? gr... Sjeiti...more >>

I want my swf to open in a Front Page web page. Could someone please send me sample html code for this? Can swfs be put into tables? Thanks in advance....more >>

Hi, OK I have worked out how to make the sliders with a min and max slider and they look pretty slick. I am sure the could be made more efficiently. However I need to prevent the max slider from being able to cross over the min slider. http://www.phoenixlondon.co.uk/downloads/sitepoint/sli...more >>

i am using a dynamic text box and on the run time with a button iam displaying a string , its working but when i go to the text area my cursor changes to a selection cursor how can i prevent this ....more >>

Hi all I am using "random" to generate lines on the stage by using ; onClipEvent(enterFrame) { _y = random(300); } This works fine but I need the random lines to be generated in a particular area of the stage, for example _y >= 200 & _y<=400 Thanks. Enoch ...more >>

Hi I've an external Movie with a combobox on it, which i load into a MoviClipSymbol with loadMovie. This comobox parses an XML file to enter data. When i play this movie directly everything works fine but when i play it into another movieclip, i cannot access the combobox. what do i wrong...more >>

I am creating a CD project with FLASH MX 2004 (win XP pro). I have done an extensive search to find options for opening a PDF in Acrobat (not browser) I have found 2. 1) create a .Bat file I did this and put in it: @echo off start test.pdf exit and saved it as start.bat Wh...more >>

Hi I am making a multimedia standalone application using Flash MX 2004 Professional. The module is basically a presentation of a biography of a historical figure. It presents information on the person but after each section it gives the user choice whether to view more detailed information...more >>

I have a seies of photographs I want to show at an interval of 3 seconds. I would like for the photographs to loop. I am just beginning to understand action script and would like to know why my script only works on the first loop of the images.(the second loop doesnt acknowledge the script at ...more >>

I have a movie clip and want it to load after some text fades in, i dont want to have a bunch of blank frames leading up to it though, they are both in seperate symbols though, any idea how to script this? ...more >>

Partial script (Not including the load actions) onClipEvent(enterFrame){ if(enHeliNum <= 3){ _root.enHeliActions.attachMovie("enHeli1","enHeli"+ enHeliNum, enHeliNum) setProperty("enHeli" +enHeliNum, _x, 400) setProperty("enHeli" +enHeliNum, _y, enHeliNum*100) setProperty("enHel...more >>

got a problem, there seems no documented way of making a global function in a class...hope the code is selfexplanatorie tryed var _global.asdf:Function; and any cocivable variation, but just prodeces errors...didnt find any documentation about this...wired btw this code dont produce errors ...more >>

hi, i am using my actionscripts in an external .as file and including in my .fla file...I am using application and forms in mx 2004. i an using "#include" statement in each form's first frame, since i am using a single function in all the forms. i want to know, how to use the "#include" stat...more >>

Greetings, I currently have a url verification script that works good. It pretty much verifies the current url of the swf movie and then says if on the right url. Go to next function, but if not, go to a frame with an error message on it. Here is my script. // URL verification var setUR...more >>

A swf file that I am importing with an html formated text file into a dynamic text box distorts. It loads perfect with the text into the dynamic text box. But then it is not the exact size I specified, which makes it look vertically scaled down. It is a swf file that is 78 pixels wide ...more >>

Hey guys and girls, I'm new to this actionscript thing and have used various other languages. All I want to do is find the last character in a string and delete it. Essentially what the backspace key does. But I can't work this out using the string class. Do I have to convert to an array? th...more >>

I think this is an easy one, and its kinda sad i dont know it but anyway heres my problem. how do you make something speed up gradually and then slow down gradually?...more >>

I am having some problems creating drop down menus......more >>

OK, I am new to using MySQL with Flash. I need major help because I not quite understanding how I must do things. All I want to do is for the movie to grab the info out of the DB. I have already named my dynamic text fields in the movie. I have a PHP... <?php mysql_pconnect ("localh...more >>

Hi, i've got a scrollPane instance on the stage, named cspScroll. I want to dinamically attach movieclips to that scrollpane when the user clicks a button, so i used this action: cspScroll.contentPath="mymovieclip"; but nothing happens, the scrollpane does not show anything. Note: I ha...more >>

Help? Am using several comboboxes on one page. Would like the user to select an option from several combobox lists available (5 in all). Also would like to have their choice show up after selected it (right now the field turns blue - no text). And stay visible while they make another selection...more >>