I have a swf that loads in external swf's, is there some script that will tell the loader swf to goto the next frame label from the swf that was loaded in? In other words is there some kind of global script that will talk to the loader swf from inside the loaded swf? I need it to be under this...more >>

Hi, I have a form with dynamic text boxes that retrieve info from an asp file called book.asp that in turn retrieves its info from an access database. When i test it locally, my browser just displays "waiting for local host..." in the status bar and nothing happens so i dont know which is wr...more >>

I'm extending the MediaPlayback component and want to assign the contentPath from a variable that I set in the HTML Object tag. When I try to assign contentPath to this value, the Flash player crashes. This happens in all browsers. The MediaPlayback class has a setter method named set media...more >>

thanks for reading my post. I have 12 targets that I want to use setRGB on. I each taget is named hp1 - 12 I then want to associate a color object for each target named colorset1 - colorset12 Thought a for loop woulid be a great way to do this, but doesnt seem to work. Am I doing ...more >>

I am loading .mp3 files at different points in a long presentation so that the sound stays in sync. Each .mp3 file is named 'VO' (for 'voice over') plus a number and they are loaded as needed sequentially as the presentation moves along. Since the presentation is long, I have a 'skip forward...more >>

Hey- When I export my fla to swf file, my export time is ridiculously long (over 5 minutes!). The file is not large, and I have trouble shooted to rule out the images or fonts etc as the problem. Would having a component like a scroll pane cause this delay? I am using Flash 7, AS 2. Tha...more >>

Below is my code. I am trying to load a swf into level 5 and then have that swf start playing at a certain frame ('about') However, when the clip loads it doesn't go anywhere (I have a stop on the first frame of my swf, before the 'about' frame') Any help is really appreciated. var myMCL:Mo...more >>

Hi all, I have a little problem with the tree component. I explain: I made a small editor in flash mx 2004 and the user can import some external object by using a tree view. The tree data come from a jsp that return an xml file, so, that works perfectly. The problem is when I place the t...more >>

need help. I'm trying to create motion using a while loop - but it increments so fast the motion is invisible.. I'd like to slow it down and even add some inertia if possible - but I don't want to use keyframes. Possible? Sample: function(){ this._parent.play(); trace("this is w...more >>

I am in a bit of a pickle with my rollovers. Basically I have a movie clp 'clip1_mc' that I have a rollover action associated with it. The rollover code tells it to gotoAndPlay('rollover_label') The movie clip has an image movie clip inside it. which is rotated at the 'rollover_label' Prob...more >>

Hi all - I'm not a Flash programmer, so please forgive me if the answer to this question is obvious... I have created a web service that I'm consuming from Flash ActionScript. How do I make the WSDL for that web service a parameter so that I can move the web service and not have to recomp...more >>

I have about 5 movies in my flash. I want one of them to load when the flash is done preloading automatically. All the examples that are using some type of onload are loading external .swf files though. How do I load one without making these external swf files? Thanks! ...more >>

Can you use CSS styles (particularly color styles) to alter anything beyond text fields?...more >>

Hey guys, I'm building some Flash movie vinettes for our sales team. I've created a flash movie that is serving as my main movie. Within the main movie I have a Library Movie Clip that when it completes playing I want to Load a submovie to play right after (no user action required). I've pu...more >>

All right, so, I am a bit new to flash and action scripting and don't quite know what my limits are. I did have an idea though and I would like to get some input before I try... So I was reading up on some ways to disable the "print screen" button within the web browser. Well, all the known me...more >>

Hi, I have one dynamic text field and 4 buttons on the stage. Each button should load in it's own text only and therefore replace the text from any of the other buttons before it. However, ideally the text should fade in and out. (maybe one second for the whole fade in and out together) (to ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to create a menu based flash movie. when a user clicks on a button a pop-up window will appear which can be dragged by the user. inside this movie clip is a scrollpane. If the user clicks on another button then the content of the scrollpane will change to match. Unfor...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know the name of the very common game you see for kids on websites where you have numbered dots in a movie and the user has to click on them one at a time in order to form a picture of something? I need to know the name so I can look for a tutorial on how to construct it w...more >>

Hi, I have a problem in importing mx.graphics library. Since I need some classes such as Point, Rect , etc. I need this library. But apparently it is not integrated with Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Because the library (or folder of the name graphics) does not exist in the library path. How can...more >>

I keep getting this syntax error! I'm trying to change the color of a 'cd' movieclip dynamically. I've made a cd movieclip that contains a 'color' movieclip. I' trying to uesr onEnterFrame on the main timeline to tell the movieclip to set its color, using this though: Main timeline: a frame...more >>

Ok to start i'm no great programmer. I'm fairly old school. And i'm not asking for someone to do it for me kinda thing. I have to build a image "navigator" tool. It's made up of a set of tools. It has a large image with a small image (23% smaller) with a rectangle acting like the image ...more >>

Hi I'm working on a cd where several installers are on. Now I want to have a button that makes it possible to make open a certain folder on my CD in a windows explorer window to show the files to the user that are in that specific folder. Is this possble to make this also happen for Mac...more >>

My root movie loads three other movies into three different MCs on the root timeline. I want to be able to check from within the child movies what variable in the other child movies are and somehow that is giving a hard time. Right now I am trying to do it the following way, where "whereI...more >>

I've created a WebService that accepts one input parameter, and then passes back an XML document (contained within a String). Ideally I would like to bind the results of the WebServiceConnector component to a DataSet component's dataProvider. I then want to bind the DataSet component's dataProvi...more >>

I actually created several textbox called" name_txt companyname_txt telephone_txt email_txt message_tx I have written this code: getURL("mailto:chris_nrrs@yahoo.com" + "?subject=Norris_Associates_Business_Consultants_Inquiry" + "&body=" + message_txt + "Name=" + name_txt); ...more >>

can the on(KeyPress "<>")... hold the value of Enter? ("<Enter>") Just trying to make this happen.. thanks...more >>

I am curious as how to create an effect that I saw at this website, http://www.exopolis.com/site/. When you enter the site, two panels come up, they have teardrop shapes in all different sizes, and when they are rolled over, they shuffle. I was wondering if someone knew the actionscript or co...more >>

Hey people. I have a photo gallery with a corresponding set of buttons for each image along with a forward and back button. Now I currently have an animation per image that will fade in and out. I would like to get rid of the animation all together and just have the opacity fade in/out based ...more >>

I have a custom preloader component for which I'd like ot set background color using property inspector. I've included [Inspectable] in get/set method of this property so it shows up in the Parameters tab of Property Inspector, but color isn't being set (works fine if I hard-code color in the...more >>