I am using the onEnterFrame event to animate objects and checkt he status of my movie. The problem is that I am getting a noticable lag in performance when I run my swf file. I monitor the CPU usage and it is at 100%. Does anyone know what my be causing this? I attribute it to the onEnterFrame...more >>

Hello, Came across this weird problem and wondering if theres a fix. I have a text field thats getting text from a loaded text file that has html code in it. Some of the code includes the src tag. The src tag works fine until I try to load an image that is about the same width as the text fie...more >>

Is it possible to take several different arrays, find similar items within each array, and return the results as a new array? For example, I have three different arrays: array1=["red", "yellow", "blue", "green"] array2=["orange", "purple", "red", "blue"] array3=["blue", "orange", "red"...more >>

Howdy - I'm a serious Flash newbie that's been thrown into the ActionScript waters at work... I'm trying to figure out how I would determine if I'm mousing over an irregular shape. The coordinates of said shape are provided by an xml file. Basically, I need to know if the current x/y of th...more >>

I'm trying to pass initialization values to a class i created that extends MovieClip, but when I do, the constructor for my class sees the incoming parameters as undefined. Any ideas? I have this in my timeline: this.attachMovie("mcEventNode", "node1_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_...more >>

I'm very new to Actionscript, and I would like to create an invisible shared object that upon the .swf loading, creates something that, when the page is revisited by the user a second time, points the movie to a different scene. I know enough to know this is fairly simple, but don't know the ...more >>

Is it possiblt to apply kerning to dynamic text? It doesn't look like there is. Is there a way to fake it? I only need a single line. TIA...more >>

I'm doing a tutorial on making the mouse positions x and y appear in dynamic text box's whose names are x_pos and y_pos.My probelm appears to be with my code...it says it contains syntax errors.Could somone please tell me whats wrong with it? Here's the code I'm using: x_pos = _roo...more >>

I have an interface in which I want to define some setters/getters to be implemented by the concrete class. But when I execute the movie the compiler issues an error stating setters and getters are not allow in interfaces. How should I go about structuring my code to enforce a contract with ...more >>

Okay, I have had success so far using these forums so here it goes again... The age old question: how do I load HTML into my Flash movie? I am useing Flash MX 2004, and I would like to be able to load a simplt HTML page that really has nothing on it except a custom token tag that calls a mo...more >>

Hi. I'm currently working on a Flash animation for TV. It's a bit of a South Park affair. This particular animation is of a girl waving a flag, which is one movie symbol. She is also blinking which is another movie symbol, there's a van driving around in the background (that has it's wheels s...more >>

hi - i have this book from peachtree that's teaching me F7. it's been a while since i've been using the program. i built a button and created all of its states. then i made it a symbol. i then created a 2-scene movie. i put the button on scene one and an action on another layer to stop ...more >>

Thanks so much for opening this. I would be thrilled if someone knows the answer to this...! I'm quite new to flash, and I'm making this website with a few different flash movies in it. One of them is a pop-up menu. Now I would like to link from the buttons in this menu, to another flash m...more >>

I've made a wordsearch game. As you push buttons the words are ticked off and a score goes up by one. on(release) { _root.score += 1; } That works fine. But the problem comes when I wan t the game to finish with a WELL DONE! To activate this I want to advance the needle to frame 2 to s...more >>

The variable YrHired should be determined by the value the user enters as input text. It is coming up as undefined. What do I need to do differently? function getYearsEmp () { var curDate:Date = new Date(); var curYear = curDate.getFullYear(); var YrHired = text.YrHired var Yrs...more >>

I'm trying to make a movie that displays a random word from a text file (words.txt) that contains the following:. wordList=word1,word2,word3,word4,word5,word6,word7 Here's my code: loadVariables("words.txt","_root"); wordArray=wordList.split(","); randomWord=random(wordArray.length);...more >>

OK, brainfog time again. Here's what I want to do. 1) dynamically create a bunch of checkboxes using createClassObject() 2) display them inside a ScrollPane component. Sounds simple enough. Step one requires me to create a movieclip MyOptions_mc, and loop through all items creating a checkbox...more >>

Hi There - please Help !! I'm making a presentation loop with slides, (screens) and everything is running smoothly but.......when I get to the last slide and has automatically go to slide 1 ( gotoSlide ('slide1') ) and start playing again nothing happens. It finds the 'slide1' but it will no...more >>

Hello, I am after a bit of actionscript help...it is probably simple, but I can't get it... I have my main stage and there is a button on it, as well as a symbol called 'fast'. In this symbol I have an animation, but at the first frame I have a stop action. My question is, can I click the butt...more >>

flash mx, actionscript 2.0 I'm trying to load in a photo onto an empty mc. _root["kaart"+i+k].foto.loadMovie("http://www.uvsv.nl/image/clubnet/pasfoto/klei n/" + _root.arrayMetFotos[randomNummer].value); When tracing trace(_root.arrayMetFotos[randomNummer].value); I get ...more >>

i kown how to call external images but there should be a fade in fade out effect to the images...more >>

Hi all I managed to load japanese text (SHIFT-JIS) from an XML file into a dynamic textfield (FONT=Arial) in flash. When I publish it everything looks fine. Now as soon as set the property of that dynamic textfield to include all japanese characters it doesn't display my text anymore. ...more >>

I have a movie which loads external mp3's and plays them. They're quite long and play once which is fine. However, if I want a short audio file to loop it doesn't ..............can streaming audio loop in MX 2004?? I'm using this code [it's for multiple mp3's - hence extended second line...more >>

I am trying to build a flash controller which changes out a background located inside a table inside of my html document. Currently I have the Flash trying change the background to my html file through javascript. In javascript, I am using document.write(' ' +args ' ') and having it co...more >>

There is something wrong with my script. I want to control a movie using three different buttons on main stage with two arrays like: btn=[bt1, bt2, bt3]; frm=[frm1, frm2, frm3]; for (i=0; i<3; i++) { btn.onRelease = function() { Movie.gotoAndPlay(frm); } } It does work i...more >>

I have two movies, movieA and MovieB in different layers. movieA sits on a layer on top of the layer of MovieB. Is there anyway to make movieB come to the front of MovieA, when clicking movieB? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm new to Flash, I'm using MX 2004, and I'm having a problem with buttons. I've read past posts and nothing has answered my question. I'm currently using Flash to make a .exe to autorun for a CDRom project...more >>

I am loading external MP3s into Flash with the sound object. Strangely, any MP3 that is saved at under 32Kbps is playing at high speed, sounding like chipmunks! Can anyone tell me why, and how I can play 16kbps MP3s loaded externally? Thanks Geoff ...more >>

Help please... I'm attempting to make a function that rearranges the values /positions in the array when you click on a btn with value 'arrayPos'. The rearranging would work like this... the btn or 'arrayPos' chosen would be pushed to the front of the array, or a new one, those values pre...more >>

I need a grass roots test to check if a Sound Object is playing or not. However, it seems the mySound.position variable is not refined enough to test within a single function. e.g this test is useless: marker1 = mySound.position; marker2 = mySound.position; marker 1 wil...more >>

OK, I am teaching myself flash, so forgive me for the simple terminology. Please try to respond the same way... (in other words... take me through a step by step process). I am trying to ceate a simple game in which the user finds a key. Once the key is found, I want the key to follow ...more >>

Hi, I am building a slideshow, 5 photos next each other (only the center one unmasked) would move to the left or right depending which of the two buttons was activated, when moved left I want to load new the rightest picture and unload the leftest picure and then rename all other movie clips w...more >>

Hi, I am going crazy trying to figure a way to create a new Object using the constructor function each time a for loop is run. My data is structured so that I need an associative array created from the Object. The Object is then pushed into a regular Array. Does anyone know how to dynam...more >>

I want to pass a text string from flash into a variable in javascript. Can anyone point me to the syntax on how to do this? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you. --j...more >>