Hi So i now need to be able to use the object that was picked up (http://www.iso-land.com/isolandloader.swf (refresh the page if it doesn't work, it's still a bit glitchy). Say for example that the green block was a key, how can i tell it to only allow exit from the room if the user goes to...more >>

Hi, I have two comboboxes that load different external swfs into an empty mc on my stage. My first one works but I don't know how to change the code in my second combobox to load external swfs into the SAME empty movie clip. if anyone was up for helping, I would be grateful. TIA My...more >>

this is strage.. I'm working on a contact form that uses several comboboxes. This form is an external swf that gets loaded into a movieclip everytime the contact button is released. while testing the contact swf everything worked just fine, the thing is when I load the contact.swf file inside ...more >>

I'm looking for a tutorial or a piece of code that is able to calculate, in percentages, how much of a dynamically loaded jpg has been loaded. Basically a loading sequence for a dynamic jpg. Thanks for any help. ...more >>

I have dynamic text from txt file into my flash movie. I want to put buttons into it that when clicked, goes to a specific frame into my movie. How can I do this? There are tutorials that explain to do this in the same html file movie it is embebbed, but how can I do this from a txt file with ...more >>

I am trying to make hyperlinks to new movies. I am not good with action script. I successfully link to a new movie using the below script but it loads on top of the first movie. I need to unload the first movie somehow? Starting movie is: '39_1.swf' Here is my script for hyperlinking to the ...more >>

This should be easy.surely there is something missing. Just trying to tell a movieclip named George to go to frame 50 from a button on the same scene timeline.The movieclip is on layer 1 and the button on layer 2. It doesnt tell it or something is wrong.Help !:beer; ...more >>

I did a preloader the 'old-school' way...(i'm using flash mx 6.0) I made the 1st scene the loader. I used the depreciated action 'If frame loaded' PROBLEM: The loader plays on re-loads. I tried setting a variable in the first frame of scene2 loaded = 'yes'; Then on the 1st frame of the load...more >>

:confused; I am using String.fromCharCode(13) to place a carriage return in a variable to be displayed in a dynamic textbox. When I select the character options button on the textbox properties panel and select 'no characters' this works fine. But, when I select the 'Specifiy ranges' and cho...more >>

Is there any way that you can create anchor tags within the text field? Id like the link to be within the text field as well...any ideas folks? all help is appreciated!...more >>

When I put text in a Text Area Component I can't get paragraph breaks. Any lengthy text fields are hard to read and are not logically separated in terms of different thoughts. Does any one know how to get paragraph breaks in these places? Thanks, Al ...more >>

Hi, I have a very frustrating problem that seems like there should be a simple solution. I want to edit my completed movies so that I have some extra space on the left side. I need to increase the document size. For the life of me, I cant find a setting that aligns the existing contents to...more >>

I was jus wondering if there was a script that rewinds a swf, or a movie clip... and plays it in reverse on screen... perhaps one that goes to the previous frame, plays it, then on to the one before that, plays it etc... Help! Thankyou. Gav.:confused; ...more >>

I am developing an RPG, in-flash game as a personal project. I have a very smooth animation and movement for my character (called "char") , and my background terrain is ready to be added. My char's movement is scripted in such a way that up arrow moves it foreward, down moves it back, left...more >>

would any one be willing to look at my flash project and tell my why my scene jump won't work: //goes to main scene 32 MainMenu_btn.onRelease = function () { gotoAndPlay("MainMenu",32); } //stops movie stop(); The action was applied to the last scene and the button instance i...more >>

I am trying to set up the actionscript to allow 6 mcs to play on after the other. Currently, I can get one to play after the other, but the sound continues to play on the previous mc. Can you help?...more >>

ok, this will be kind of hard to explain but ill try and make it simple i have 3 scenes one is the home scene with a navigation bar with rolloevers ect, and the two other scenes are the art and about me page, both with several intro animations on them etc. now. i have stop set to th...more >>

I have a class that is nothing more than a library of related static methods: class EasingEquations { static function easeInQuad(/*params*/) { // code here } static function easeOutSine(/*params*/) { // code here } // ... } Now I wan...more >>

I've created a Submit button and a Help button (using the Button component) on my first frame. I want to be able to define a specific font format for the buttons. So, I pasted this into a script that is assigned to a layer called 'Script' (which runs throughout the entire movie). ButtonSty...more >>

I am loading an image to level 100 in my movie. I would like to have other things in front of the image. Can I do that? Thank you. Brian ...more >>

I need your help... I have a file (powerpoint addin file .ppa) that I want to save from a flash projector button (CD-ROM) into this folder location on the viewers harddrive: C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns --- Is it possible?. I checked out document.s...more >>

This is quite a basic question so I'll just ask. On the Toolbar for flash there's modify- transform- flip horizontal / vertical. Is there such thing as script which says this instead? E.g. tellTarget("/whatever") script for flip horizontal Thanks In advance Mike ...more >>

hi everybody i m trying to include a guestbook script in a movie clip. the script works perfectly if loaded as standalone, but when loaded on a another movie.. it doesn t work. i tryed to use the lockroot function without success. can anybody help me? this is the script http://www.mj...more >>

I am using the following AS to preload images into my main movie. I would like to make the whole thing run in flash player 6, but am not sure which part of the AS is new to AS 2 and is causing me having to export this for 7 to work. Thank you. Brian MovieClip.prototype.fadeIn = fu...more >>

Adding %3c to imported text file causes errors in text box rendered as HTML. Example: ...holding the button down for %3c1 second will blah blah... This should yield: holding the button down for <1 second when displayed. However, if the textbox is being rendered as HTML Flash will think that ...more >>

I'm making a dynamic scroll function and use attachMovie to load the relevant content into the scroller. This attached MovieClip contains a simple text paragraph with a height of 268.2. However, when I try to retrieve the _height from the attached MovieClip, it returns 259.15. The error seems ...more >>

Can Flash write and read varibles from .txt files like Director can with Buddy API? Thanks, Shane...more >>

Suppose I have a class, "Mover", that is used to animate movie clips. Then I want the class to trigger its own event, say "onMoveEnd" that indicates that the animation has ended, so that I can capture that event with code outside the class and have other code be triggered by it: myMover:Move...more >>

Hi I have a text file Im reading using loadVariablesNum: &amp;vara=1 &amp;varb=2 I can't get a value in Flash for varc=(vara+varb) simplified version but it shows the problem - is there something more I need to do? ...more >>

Hello! I need a little help. I'm working on a project, and I need to find out a way to get the current URL of a page using Flash, HTML, or CSS (pretty much anything except PHP, ASP, and Javascript!). Is there a function in Actionscript that will return the browsers current page? ...more >>

Hello, I would like to go randomly to a specified frame number, but in a predefined range, like: choose randomly only from the numbers 10, 22, 50, 72, 110, 144 So the script should choose one of this numbers and go there. Thank you for any hint, Walter ...more >>

Hello, i don't know if it is possible to do what i want but, i have seen in several pages (not in flash), that the page open a video o redirect you to the correct page according to the bandwith of the user. Somebody knows if exist any script (php, javascript, actionscript...) to do this?...more >>

Hi, Need the script for preloader 1 - 100% . will be thankfull if can be send the source file. Thanks in advance sk...more >>

hey gang, wondering is anyone else has run into this before. look at this url: http://www.woodsidegroupinc.com/ssi/Community_PageMN600.asp?Community=Cedar_Creek&State=MN&near=55301 in FF, you'll notice that is you select a plan style, then click on a plan a floor plan will show up. Now in ...more >>

My trusted scripture?s ? I have another problem. I want to set the moveSpeed of my character by clicking a button. On the stage there is a move clip and a button. The movie clip is my character, to which the whole moveSpeed script is assigned, and the button should change the moveSpeed when ...more >>

Hi, got a problem with my preloader. The following script works fine offline with the flash debugger but when I upload the swfs to the server it doesn't work anymore. Could anybody please tell me why? It's just a simple script where you see a percentage number counting up each time an ext...more >>

Hi Friends, In my project i have only one textfield. it containes 'You have choosen the correct answer!'. In the same field I need instead of lower case 'correct' to upper case 'CORRECT'. Final result should be 'You have choosen the CORRECT answer!'. Any one knows pls let me know. than...more >>

hello, right i have a mash that onlyshows howmany buttons its meant to according to a figure that is grabbed from an xml document. It all works fine but i really want to shorten the code so that in stead of writing if var == 0 tell target goto frame(1) else if var ==1 tell target goto frame ...more >>

Hi all !!, my question is next, is it posible to change layer order from actionscript so when I scale an square (for example) to make it bigger it doesn?t stay behind another which is over in the time-line ? Thx very much. ...more >>

Hi all !!, my question is next, is it posible to change layer order from actionscript so when I scale an square (for example) to make it bigger it doesn?t stay behind another which is over in the time-line ? Thx very much. ...more >>

Hi all, Do you have any idea how to play different SWF files on the main timeline? let say playing these files right after its end intro.swf -> chapter1.swf -> chapter2.swf -> chapter3.swf Any idea? I used the loadMovie("intro.swf",this); Any gread ideas? Thanks in advanc...more >>

I am working on a Flash Form Application and am setting the global styles of Label (or any other component) using the technique: if (_global.styles.Label == undefined) { _global.styles.Label = new mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration(); _global.styles.Label.setStyle('color', 0xFFFFFF); ...more >>

Does anyone know if it is possible to read an swf's stage color and pick it in a variable. Or simply how can we get stage color through action script? Thanks,...more >>

Hello, Flash Pro 2004 - Windows I am developing a Projector (.exe). I have a need to link to external png files which will be in a folder on the CD. I know this can be done with jpegs using LoadMovie(), but does not work for png's. Is there a way to do this? thanks.jim ...more >>

I am using a Flash object on asp page and the asp page is reloaded with different variables on clicking on a link. The variables then sent in flash, The problem is that on some PCs it works but on others it does not set the variables on reloaidng the page. what can be the possible reason...more >>

Hi, I am trying to play the next frame in a movie clip. I do not want to play a specific frame number as I want to be able to go backward and forward showing different views of a product e.g. front view then side view, then if the user pressed back it would show the front again. Does anyone kn...more >>

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hi, is there any way we can expand the entire tree. i want to show the entire tree in expanded form, whether it is a child or sub-child of any node. so that we can see all the nodes. regards Tejinder ...more >>

Hi all, I'm not a beginner so I feel a bit foolish asking this question, but I'm having issues getting gotoAndPlay to work in MX 2004 professional. All I'm trying to do is tell an MC on the stage to gotoAndPlay(x); from a button that is sitting inside the same clip. The mc has an i...more >>

Hi, can someone tell me if i want to remove a child node in tree on click of the button on the stage, how can i do it. for eq. if i want to remove 'Child Node1a' .. here, 'Child Node1a' is a sub-child of 'Child node1' and this is child node of 'Root Node'. all i want to do is when a user click...more >>

I have a flash quiz that I am trying to create. Its your basic quiz game where the data for the questions and answers come from a text file. But I've noticed the program does not run when I try to have commas, ampersands and apostrophes in the text file. I'm guessing they interfer with t...more >>

Hello, Can anyone help me with this unusual task. I am loading and .swf in another file on frame event, the .swf can have any frame rate, stage size and background color. Does any one know how we can change main movies settings according to the child (loaded) movie's properties? I am sure the...more >>

Hi I have site designed as described below in level0 I have a background movie where it constantly stays and with loadmovie & unloadmovie I load lets say the menus to level1. I couldn't find a way to pass a variable for example set in "mainmenu.swf" end then unload it and load "submenu.swf " a...more >>

I am new to flash and have done some basic Actionscripts that involve simple menu selections. I now have a need for something more complex. I want to create a form where by a user fills out information and the web page checks for required fields ect then if everything is okay, I want to emai...more >>

I'm really new to actionscript and I am attempting to make a game. I can make a object move around using the keyboard but I do not know how to make a object rotate when a key is pressed. I also need to have some type of gravity. So when I press right on the keyboard the object will stay on the...more >>

I am trying to create a duplicate dynamically on activating an event. I have written a test script but I cannot get it to work and I cannot see where the problem is. Removing the onMouseDown listener and the original is duplicated and loaded correctly. Include the event code and it does not...more >>

I am trying to append a function to a button onRelease. The function I want to append will be determined by which button was pressed. I have tried every combination of things I can think of without success. I can correctly reference the function in the onRollOver, I can append other functions ...more >>

I want a borderless tree menu instance and I've tried several ways to make it dissappear and none have worked. Below is the code I used to remove the scroll bar and to change the theme color. These work. myTree.vScrollPolicy = 'off'; myTree.setStyle('themeColor','haloOrange'); Below is the ...more >>