Hello to all. I am in need of expert advice regarding a programming project I am facing. I need to build a web based drawing tool that gives me the ability to draw shapes, images, text, etc. based on (server side) data driven co-ordinates. The following technologies seem appealing: Java: Jav...more >>

I am creating a projector application, utilizing full screen. I have an exit button in the app that will close it out. Now I need to figure a way to provide a minimize button so users can minimize the app without having to close it. I know I could just turn off full screen and automatically...more >>

Hi, I need to program a button so that it jumps from a loaded movie into the main swf. I know this must be possible but can't figure out how to do it. The button is called get_print_bt and I want it to go to a Frame Label called form in the main swf and not its own swf. Can someone explain ...more >>

I am having trouble loading a movieclip and making it use one of the easing transitions. The order I?d like things to go in is 1. Use licks on ?Gardener_btn? 2. This then makes the various tweens occur: tweenGardener2 tweenGardener tweenHunter ...etc This all works fine. 3.What I then wa...more >>

hi there, i am trying to make a photo gallery in flash mx. i have for frames. on my third frame i have this: i applogise for this, but for some reason function to attach code is not working with me so i will paste the script here ! code: ---------------- picAmount = 10; picNum =...more >>

I know i can do a <!--#echo var='REMOTE_ADDR' --> in a SHTML file to display a user ip address but what is the equivalent command in flash. I looked through all the commands i could find in flash MX and could not find anything. I then tried to use a TXT file and use the IP=ip give a text fiels...more >>

Hi! I'm pretty new to flash and thought i new how to use a little action scripting to make the first frame of this movie to stay stopped until i rollover it, but i can't seem to make it work. www.jaggery.org/new2.html it has many many of layers which i could make into groups i guess if that...more >>

is it possible? I have a stage (_root) and a movieclip(movie_mc). if I create a variable(var someThing:Boolean = false) on framenumber 1 in _root, is there a way to in for example refer to the variable in frame 10 of "movie_mc". For short I want to create a _global variable. I know...more >>

I'm bringing in a catalog of clips and images using xml. The info is coming in just fine, except one problem. I can't get the text in the <description>. If there are html tags in the description text ? something I want ? they are interpreted as additional nodes. I first thought I could just ...more >>

Can anybody tell me if is posible to use casual preloading progress bar (_xscale property managed) while reading an external .jpg file? Or better said if there is a way how to read the size of external .jpg (getBytesTotal function)? ... I checked flashkit.com and stuff but I have not found any...more >>

Hi. Im working on a 'game' with drag and drop mc's. When they are are dragged to MC2, their properties are set to invisible. When all eight objects are dragged to MC2, the movie jumps to keyframe2 where there is a play again button. This all works fine. But when this button is pressed, I...more >>

OK. So I have gotten several different loading bars from flashkit, but I don't understand how to get them to work. Where to I put my movie that I want pre-loaded, and what code do I need to put along with it, and where do I put that code? I couldn't find any that really talked about this. ...more >>

Hello World Is it possible to use a Flash Listener that will react to Javascript changing the value of a variable in the Flash timeline. If not what would be the recommended way of reacting to a change in a timeline variable from Javascript (call to Javascript being made from an unspecif...more >>

Does anyone here know how wrap the extra text that is not displayed in one textbox to another? Like, the text you would normaly have to scroll down to see. I'm try to get dynamic text to wrap to multiple pags in http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000352.php. ...more >>

I have an SWF that when run within the authoring environ, or from my local drive works perfect. It connects to a web service and grabs a list of song files, in XML format. Also, when viewed within Firefox locally it works fine. When I upload it to my server and view it online it does not work,...more >>

i have a form that has many fields ( TextInput and ComboBoxs) the question is, how can i loop among the instances and gather the information entered ( after hitting the submit button) and store them in array other than calling each instance with its name? what is the script (AS2.0) that can ...more >>

hi all, I am new to actionscripts. There's one textfile like following.. /////////// employee1name = "A"; employee1add = "NY"; employee1age = 25; employee2name = "B"; employee2add = "NY"; employee2age = 30; customer1Age = 21; customer1name= "C" ////////// Now i want to ...more >>

I needed something that would return the position of a value in an array. So I wrote my own indexOf prototype. (attached below). But this changed how I was able to work through my XML file. I was using a for(i in myXML.childNodes) to work through the nodes in my xml, but adding the prototype ...more >>

How can I make a layer invisible until mouse cursor's on it? I got a background picture, so I just need to get the layer behind the background or something like that.. I don't care what it takes. I believe someone could answer this rather easy question. ...more >>

Can anyone help me? I found a template for a menu at an exchange site. It was originally written in German. I was able to change the font and text, so that the menu looks and works the way I want it to. The problem is setting the code to the button to on (release) {getURL("http://www.blabla...more >>

what i have is a button that sets a variable and calls a function. The function looks something like this: this.clip_mc.onEnterFrame = function { if(button) { this.nextFrame(); } so what happens is the button sets the variable of "button" to be true and then that functi...more >>

hi all, i am trying to make an mp3 player. so far done it all. but got stuck at very important part of mp3 player. i was wondering if you can please show me how to access mp3 file with slider ! What i want is to have one mp3 file ( once loaded, and stars playing ) with this slider move b...more >>

I am using Flash 7.2. According to the Help, jpg images can be embeded in the text field using the <img> tag. It also says that text automatically flows around images you embed in text fields or components. However, when I use the <img> tag, the image just 'sits' on top of the text. The text ...more >>

I have several mp3's to play as soon as a master (parent) swf finishes loading the main (child) swf. I obviously don't want to put the mp3s in the parent movie or else that would defeat the purpose of the load sequence. But, for some reason, even though all the script to load and play the mp...more >>

Okay, I need to set the width and height of a MovieClip I create using createMovieClipControl. _width is a read-only property, so what do I do?...more >>

i have a lottery type game i'm working on. when someone enters their number, i want to display one of about 6 scenes for 5 seconds, and then return to the game. the way i've accomplished this is pretty simple: function myfunction() { clearInterval(myInterval); resetSwipeStatus()...more >>

I'm trying to get a pre-loader to work with a music player I made to play sample music for a friends band. I have the music in the library and I can't get the pre-loader to work without not exporting them in the first frame, and even then the preloader doesn't even load until 85% of what's lef...more >>

Racking my brain trying to come up with just the right action scripting for this procedure. I have a rather large screen-based slide presentation (the .fla file is 50+mb) and am trying to figure out how to attach a preloader to it. The only instruction I get from the user manual (FlashMX2004Pr...more >>