I'm working on a Radar that will dynamically place objects (spheres) at different places inside a circle with a couple inner rings depending on dates from a dB. We still have to iron out all the variables for placing them but for now it's date. So let's say the center of the radar is today's da...more >>

hello, In a movieclip instance on frame 5 the following event code is added: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { _root.i+=1; trace((_root.i+1)+" cur frame="+_root._currentframe); } The _root.i is just a counter initiated at frame 1 as ?0?. On frame 5 main timeline a stop() statement is ...more >>

hi i am using a flash form whats the quickest way to get it to send the info to an email address without using serverside, can you give me the script i need for the btn etc many thanks Craig...more >>

Hello, I've spent 2 days combing thousands of threads and after several million attempts, I'm stuck on this. I have simple play-stop button loop player, loading into my main movie. The player movie loads fine on its own, however loaded into the movie in an MC the buttons aren't functional. ...more >>

I have four check box functions that I want to position randomly based on four "y" coordinates. I can get them to move, however I can not keep them from overlapping, or rather, have the same "y" coordinate. //Checkbox Random Postioning Object(ycords=['150', '180', '210', '240']); aCo...more >>

I am a Flash newbie, and I'm trying to create a simple jukebox-like MP3 player that will load an MP3 on the fly and control its playback , including the start time. I began by placing this script in my first frame, which initializes the "song" sound object and stops the movie from looping...more >>

Hi, I can't use the new MovieClipLoader class but I want to (I'm using MX old version of Flash) know if 6 jpg images have finished loading. So I've six movieclips (m0.inner, m1.inner, m2.inner,...) loading six different jpgs. To verify if they have completely downloaded is it right to do th...more >>

I just would like the basics of creating a drop down menu. For instance, If I were to have Names = new Array('George', 'Mary','Frank') I would like to have a menu where you would select one of these names then click on a button like 'select' to select the name from the menu. I know it can't...more >>

Hi there, Thanks for checking my post out... In my Flash MX movie I have a movie clip with 5 frames with a stop action in the first. Each frame (including the first with the stop action) has a movie clip with a different dynamically loaded JPG background image. What actions would I have to ...more >>

This is my script for loading photos dynamically into a gallery. Everything is working fine except for re-positioning the photos into the centre of the screen. I have a listener to check if the photo is loaded which seems to be working from the trace and the fact that the fade is kicking in af...more >>

Can you create a button in flash that opens or links to an .exe file, and I need a really good source to learn how to pull information into flash from a text document. Step by step run down would be good. Shane ...more >>

iam using a main movie in that iam calling an external swf, in the main movie there is button i made it invisibel through setProperty, my problem is that what code i should write in the external swf to detect that the button is visible or not in the main movie. ...more >>

hello can u help me telling the way How can we pass data between two HTML pages with swf in them I want the data passed from one swf to be read and responded accordingly by another swf. where bot swf's are in two seperate HLML pages. Please Help ...more >>

Can more than two swfs talk to one another using "Local Connection? If yes, will there be performance issue with doing that? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, I create a movieClip on frame 1, layer 2 named " myClip". I expand the timeline by inserting 9 new keyframes getting automatically copies of frame 1 content. Next I use actionscript, layer 1 frame 1, to set alpha of movieClip to 50%. I would expect it to be valid for the whole tim...more >>

Hi, I am having some problems deleting values from the middle of an array. When I use the delete arrayName method, it leaves an undeefined value in the array. When I use splice function, I seem to get some odd characteristics. I want the splice to only delete one value but it seems not to...more >>

I want to learn ActionScript. Can yuo recommend a good online book for a begginer like me (preferably in pdf format and with latest flash mx version)? Thanky you....more >>

Hey, I have been getting better on these apps :) I am trying to do one where the kids have many colored circles on the left and two boxes on the right with a big circle in the bottom and a validate button. Once they drag and drop a colored circle to the square, the square changes colo...more >>

I have button on frame 1 layer 1 I have a MC called move frame 1 layer 2 I have a MC called out on frame 1 layer 3 I can't get the button action to go to the frame labels. Here's my code: on (rollOver){ _root.move.gotoAndPlay("start"); } on (rollOut){ _root.out.gotoAndPlay("en...more >>

i m facing problem while rotataing the dynamic text which contains externally callig the html text.. pls give alternate solution......more >>

I am trying to make 20 different movie clips appear on the stage in random positions within a certain constraint. This is the code I was trying to use: _root.onEnterFrame = function() { myRandomX = random(290); myRandomY = random(332); germany1_mc._x = myRandomX; germany1_mc._y = myRando...more >>

I am trying to get an actionscript to randomly select which content is visibly (A, B, or C). However it always selects "C". What am i doing wrong? var p = random(30); if (p=0) { Template_QuestionA._visible = true; Template_QuestionA._visible = false; Template_QuestionA._visi...more >>

:sun;Hello!:sun; I'm using AS2, planning to output my work through flash player 7: delete myReference is the same as myReference = null ? Thank you in advance, Anton ...more >>

Hi all, I am new to the XMLSocket world and I am sorry if this sounds remedial. I am trying to establish an XMLSocket connection locally on a single machine so that I can have potential programs written in PERL or C/C++ communicate with a standalone Flash EXE via the XMLSocket. I have done ...more >>