Hi, i'm currently doing items to pickup for the isometric game (www.iso-land.com) and have come across a few problems. Firstly i've created an item (pickup) and just set a tile (3) to recognise that the character can pick it up. How do i make it so the character can only pick it up when he's f...more >>

I have two flash movies that I want to randomly appear each time an html page refreshes. I have this code that I found on another site that works perfectly when viewing the file outside of html, but when I load the file onto an html page, all I get is a blank screen where the movie should be. ...more >>

I?ve set a movieclip to be dragable using a Behavior (Flash MX Pro 2004) startDrag(this); and it works fine, but buttons placed on the movieclip won?t work. I?m kind of an ActionScript newbie. Thanks wally ...more >>

i have a fade out, load jpeg, fade in type code section. how can i check to see if the jpeg is loaded before fading it in? on (release) { if (picnum<=20) { picnum += 1; fadeout = true; fadein = false; } else { picnum = 1; fadeout = ...more >>

How'd I exclude an object from an array. Like in this case obj=["a", "b", "c", "d"] exd="three"; if(exd=="three") { // actions to make to be ["a", "b", "d"]; } ...more >>

I have been developing an app for the governement for the past two years. I can not post any code but I think my question can be answered without it. The app draws family trees pretty much. I have connection lines which link the children and parent "nodes". 95% of the time it works fine....more >>

don't know why 4 replies are posted... sorry for that...more >>

Hey all, I have an mc in my movie which plays automatically when loaded. If you happened to read my other thread (which is around here somewhere but isn't important any more), I was making a little dialog window with help information in it. I've finally got most of it working, but I have one...more >>

Hello. I am curious as to why the Movieclip.prototype class doesn't work (AT ALL) when published to Flash Player 7 with AS 2.0?? If published to the Flash Player 6 with AS 2.0 it works!! But Not in v.7.0??? Any ideas as to why? I have researched this exhaustively and have found NO documentatio...more >>

First, thanks for reading. Flash MX (NOT 04!) I've started writing code to experiment with quiz type questions. In the code I've built a Question Class and defined the properties of that class. I am loading variables from an external .TXT file and have written a function to populate my new ...more >>

Greetings, I am trying to create a website with a bunch of polaroid style photos down the side that are dynamicly loaded from an xml file. Im using the tecnique outlined in the kirupa.com XML photo galley tutorial. http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_flash_photogallery.htm I...more >>

Hi, I know there are two main solutions for loading a movie. attachMovie and loadMovie. loadMovie can load an external flash file in my container. But I need an instance pointing to it in order to be able to edit its internal defined variables (properties) . in contrast with attachMovie, c...more >>

Hello, When I publish a Flash movie I get this line in my HTML file: <object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" height="180" width="740" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> Can someone tell me what is the cla...more >>

OK.... Can this be done with the following code? I need a button to load an external SWF movie into the same window, and when I am loading that movie, have it jump to a specific scene, and frame label within that scene. (in the newly loaded external SWF). on (release) { loadMovieNum(...more >>

i have actions in a frame, its an enterframe function that changes the alpha of some objects, fades out some and fades in some. for some reason, its very slow, when i click the 'contact' button, its supposed to set the alpha of the contents of the 'gallery' button to '0' but, it will happen so...more >>

Could someone please tell me (in layman's language please) if it is possible to apply effects to placeholder images in a dynamic Flash movie (such as tinting, blurring, lightening, etc.) and have those same effects be automatically applied to "dynamically inserted" images that replace the plac...more >>

Hey there everyone, I'm hoping this is an easy question for some of you gurus out there...I have a FLV playing in a MediaPlayback component (progressive download, not streaming) and I'm having a small issue when I view the SWF over a slow Cxn. Basically, the FLV will play faster than it is d...more >>

Is there a simple function within the Array object that will search through the array and return true or false for whether the value is within the array? For some reason, I seem to remember a function like this, but I can't find anything about it. Perhaps I'm thinking of a different programm...more >>

Hi, thanks nfor reading my post. I want to be able to reference a sound object by using a string value followed by a number held in a variable example: I have 30 sound objects already generated named Assigned_s1 - Assigned_s30 num = 23 "Assigned_s" + num.start(); //if I use...more >>

I am trying to figure out how to call a movie based on a var value. movieName = var1 + var2; loadMovie("movieName.swf"); So I am wanting to open movie var1var2.swf not movieName.swf Does anyone have any ideas how to do this? Thanks ...more >>

Hey guys just wondering if this was the case. I just got the trial version of flash mx 2004 professional and when i try to open my mx file is says its unable to open file whats with that i thought i should be able to open them? ...more >>

I have a main timeline that contains a dynamic textbox(textScroll). I have set up my movie to load external .swf files. Each externally loaded swf is related to a txt file (stored locally) that needs to be loaded into the dynamic text file(textScroll). The issue is this, how can I match t...more >>

Ok I will try to plead my case again..I have a flash template for a site I'm using, but the layers are kind of confusing anyhow, the buttons are movie clips, when you put your mouse over, it wants to click it..ok so my problem when I open the fla and double click one of the buttons it takes me...more >>

I'm just trying to pull a single variable into Flash from ASP, something I've done many many times. This time Flash is losing its mind, and taking mine with it. Here is the ASP: <%@language='javascript' codepage='1252'%> <% Response.Buffer = true %> <!--#include virtual='connString.asp'-->...more >>

All, I am in desperate need of some code. I am attempting to trace an instance name. I have done it before but I can't find the fla I did it in... I have a combobox with an instance name of source_dd, I would like to get JUST that property. I would want to do something like: v...more >>

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Hi, I'm a newbie to falsh MX 2004. Can anyone guide me to make a FLV. Thanks ...more >>

my getBytesTotal() calls seem to be returning erroneous values. The exact error is differing between movies but ranges up to about 40% off actual size. I'm exporting as flash 6 with actionscript 1.0 Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? [on sudden thought, looks at online docs] Wha...more >>

:beer; Hi I am new so pleas I need help fast I have a prject to submet very soon. I made a flash project and I want to burn it to a CD the problem is that inside the project I want to load a swf file from adirectory . I know how to do that but what is the path for the loaded movies if I...more >>

Every time I make a change to my SWF and FTP it to our site we have to open and close a browser at least twice if not three times before the updated SWF appears. What can I do to prevent a SWF from being cached? ...more >>

Is there a way to read data (string) from file, like in C with fopen, fread, fclose etc ...? I've tried loadVariables and the LoadVars class, but they read files in a specific format (var1=value1&var2=value2 etc...). How can I read from a file and put the read data into arrays, like array[line...more >>

Hi Guys, At the moment I am having problems with getting the dimensions of a movie clip from within itself. What I have is a base movie clip that has been made at 700x500 pixels but its then stretched to fit the browser window. This base clip should then be able to tell what size it is and th...more >>

I've noticed a lot of people struggling recently with getting PHP to email the content of Flash forms, and I've managed to help some of you individually. I'm pleased to announce that friends of ED has made available for download a PDF version of Chapter 2 of "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash", whi...more >>

hi, im creating TextFields but dont know the data to populate the field, i need to space the text evenly [like say with a 5pxl gap between each]. Problem I have is that you have to define the width as part of the _root.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,200,100); Is there a way of...more >>

i'm trying to import mx.utils.Delegate; and use this class to Delegate the scope of the .onLoad event function inside a class, but I can't use Delegate.create(this, onLoadFunction); it seems i can't import the class correctly. What is wrong? ...more >>

I am currently designing an animated menu for a website. On certain buttons clicks, all the colors must change. So I entered the following statement in the button actions: on (release) { to_orange(); } In the first frame of the animation, I entered that: function to_orange() { ...more >>

I create a button which is located inside a drag & drop-able "objectA" so that it moves along with the object above. I want to make this button to be clickable for trigering some actions. But, it seems like this button will be considered to be a part of the "objectA". How'd I make th...more >>

so i guess this may seem rather elementary.... but i cant get it to work. I have a form on a web page and blah blah it has several fileds and some of the fields are actually in other movie clips the reason for this is AMFPHP stuff and i am checking things off the database based on what they ...more >>

I know this has been discussed before on this forum, but I thought I'd ask again, especially considering the latest versions of Director and Flash. We have two products in Director that use many advanced features and third party xtras. But we realize that the Flash player is available almost...more >>

Hi, Could anyone tell me how can I get sent parameters to movie (swf file) called by loadMovie... Thanx...more >>

I've developed a full movie with lots of tweens and buttons. Now I want to use the part of the movie over and over again,but with a slightly different ending each time. I think breaking my whole movie up into movie clip instances should help with this. How do I do this? ...more >>

Hi guys This is really doing my head in, the problem sounds simple enough but It's just not working. I have a flash movie embedded in a php page. The flash movie is pulling in data from that same php page. This works fine. eg. When the data below is added to the php page, the data is loa...more >>

So, I'm trying to make a clock (or I will) and I don't know how I would go about retrieving the data from the system. As in run the program off of the system's clock. Anyone have any brilliant ideas? (And brilliant they will be) -Scooter_X ...more >>

My first flash creation is a small project for school, a little puzzle. It has a small dialog box with the instructions in it. I made it so the top can be clicked and dragged around, then I decided to add a minimize and close button. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be working. I have attache...more >>