I'm having some browser problems with a Javascript issue communicating with a Flash swf. It works with IE but not with Netscape. The embedded Flash file does have the appropriate "ID tag" and "swLiveconnect=true" for Netscape. If there are any Flash users who are well versed with javascript,...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if theres anyway to change the framerate during a movie? if there is pease tell me, I would be very gratfull ^^...more >>

Hi all, I use the code below to creat an inctance of sound object, load a mp3 file and start to play it. var mySound=new sound(); mySound.loadSound("somthing.mp3",true); mySound.start(); The code above works good in AS 2.0 but in AS 1.0 does not respond or even triggers an error....more >>

Flash isn't giving me real values when using sine, cosine, ect. In basic you use # on variables, and I tired Math.abs( ), but didnt help. Any idea.why(?)...more >>

Is there a way to create and empty movie clip that loads a graphic symbol from the library? I can only find instructions on how to load an external .swf file or jpegs into and empty movie clip? Any information would help. ...more >>

Greetings! I have a question regarding preloading a swf file. It's quite different from your tutorial though can't get what should I've done in this case. Here's what I'm doing. I have the main time line that controls all the preloding. In this main time line, I have a window UI compon...more >>

Hi I am trying to use a custom cusor on my site it all seems to work fine except for when u right click the origonal cursor comes back and overlaps the custom one is the any way to avoid this ? The code im using is: // stop (); Mouse.hide(); startDrag ("cursor_mc", true); // ...more >>

Hey, When inserting text to a TextField from a database the paragraphs are interspaced with "double space": This is a paragraph This is another paragraph ... turns out like This is a paragraph This is another paragraph How can I avoid this? Thanks. Peter ...more >>

Okay, another question for everyone out there: I am attempting to fake a registration point, but even with all the research I've done, I can't quite make it work. Someone in this forum posted this code: imageArray = ['i.jpg','j.jpg','k.jpg']; createEmptyMovieClip('frame',1); frame.cre...more >>

Hi, I am new to actionscript. I am now working on my first frash website. I have created several separate .swf movie which will load to the main movie when buttons are clicked. Although the moive was loaded properly, nothing happened when I clicked the buttons inside it. All the butto...more >>

Hello Guys. Can anybody tell me where can I get a free trial version of Swift 3D, from which websites, help me....more >>

I don't know if this is a known bug, so I'm reporting it here for your comment. The function pasted below is my (clumsy attempt) at filling in trailing zeroes in converting a number (with an expected number of significant figures) to a string. Notice that the number in the first trace - not ...more >>

Hello guys! I am a beginner in Flash and i need to know how can i play a swf movie from another swf movie what is the command and the parameters.This is very important to me,if you can help me i'd be very happy. deleriumspeck@yahoo.com if you want to know more details ...more >>

I have an action script that looks at year, month and day entries, some of which may be chosen from Combo Boxes. The first time the script calls month.getSelectedIndex() the correct index of a selected entry is returned. Further calls return nothing (null string), whether the user has changed ...more >>

hi all, i'm having trouble figuring out where to place a script for scrolling a movie clip behind a mask. i know how to make a pair of buttons scroll a movie clip up and down behind a mask if they're all on the main stage. but in this case, both the buttons and the clip that i want to sc...more >>

I'm using the Function.apply() method to send a dynamic number of arguments to another function, and i'm running into much frustration.... it seems, whenever I send an argument, it will trace the argument, but execute nothing else inside the function, but... if the argument is Undefined, every...more >>

Hello, My main movie clip has a frame script in its _root timeline that loads an external flash movie into an empty mc which is also on the _root timeline. I have a button that is nested inside of a menu movie clip which is also on the _root timeline, and has the following code: ...more >>

I edit a free web flash deploying menu to fit my web site. I have some problem with action script. On the first button, I try to put an action script geturl so when the user click on it, it loads a webpage in a new window. I select the button instance on the right keyframe and go to t...more >>

Hi, for some reason, I can only read variables which are on the first line of the text file but I can't get the ones on the second line. is there any way I can point out to the second line of text file? I'd appreciate your help. ...more >>

I have one flash movie which i have embeded inside a html pages. This flash has four buttons in it and on clik on each button it takes to the coressponding HTML page, but i want that when i click on button it should be highlited in the coressponding HTML page page as every page has that flash e...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to preload external swf files that contain only images (one image per file), they are being inserted on a empty movie clip, but I need to make a fade in and out to make them look nice, how could I make the effect since the movie clip where they are being loaded is empty. ...more >>

im totally fricken lost. i have no clue what to do. all i know how to do is draw and move things around but how do i do the rest. can someone give me the link to the tutorial for it or some how teach me.. please ...more >>

Hi: how can I duplicate an existing array? If I do: bufferTmp = buffer; being buffer an array, bufferTmp contains a reference to the same array not a copy TIA, David P....more >>

OK, here's the deal. I'm way more of a designer than programmer, so I'm totally new to the LoadConnection deal, and I need some help. I've searched theses forums and others, and I still need help. All I'm trying to do is have one SWF trigger two other SWFs on the same HTML page to begin pl...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to load Flash Paper .swf's and hide the toolbar icons? Any help would be greatly appreciated :)...more >>

I need to load a song so that its not loaded when the actual swf is loaded. So u dont gotta wait a million years while the website loads just cus theres a bunch of songs in it. What would be the actionscript for that? ...more >>

I am making a xml menu that can determine how many button it will have and get the url, button label and target data from the xml file. But i am having a problem with passing the xml data to the onRelease function. Tracing the values wthin the function outputs nothing. I know functions doesnt ...more >>

When I ues the following code in Flash, a = 54.64 trace(a-Math.floor(a)); I get the following output: 0.640000000000001 Where is this extra .000000000000001 coming from? This causes a lot of problems when checking for equalities/inequalities and greater/lesser than? Can any one p...more >>

How do I open an swf from another swf? any ideas? thanks Tim...more >>

I'm trying to figure out how to declare an associative array. Does anyone know how to declare one without having to type each element separately? For example, something like myArray=(size:"Large", color:"red", shape:"circle"). Chris ...more >>

What is tha ActionScript to have an external FLV? thanks ...more >>

Hello Does Any one know how to expand all nodes of a tree component when the component is loaded??? Pleas let me know Adrian...more >>

i want to randomly genorate letters from numbers i figured it would be easy with if (count == 1, true) { count = a; } then repeat for the rest of the alphabet but it doesnt work it returns in the txt box "UNDEF" please fix and please i already know i spell bad ...more >>

I have a movie clip that moves acroo the screen and stops when mouse hovers over the middle of the movie. I want to be able to link to various urls from within the clip but when I attach actions to buttons inside the clip it doesn't work. How I put several geturls inside a single frame movie c...more >>

I have a grid thats linked to a xml file. one for the columns is a currency of numbers. I'd like to format these so there are commas after representing thousands, million etc. like 5000000 into $5,000,000 I tried the compose strint with $<.> , but i cant get the commas. Anyone please advise....more >>

I have an array of arguments that I want to send as parameters to a function.... how would I go about doing this? Its always a different function, so the number of parameters varies. An example would be: myArray = ["param1","param2","param3"]; Function1 (ParamsFromArray); myAr...more >>

Hello, I currently have a flash file that loads and XML file with the following Actionscript code. contentXML = new XML(); contentXML.ignoreWhite = true; contentXML.load("XMLmenu.xml"); contentXML.onLoad = function(){ contentArray = contentXML.firstChild.childNodes; contentGene...more >>

ok so i have this media player. with 10 buttons and blah blah blah. how i got it to work ; 10 frams with frame lables, 1st frame was called "one" and had the first song selected to play when brought to that frame from the first (nuetral) frame...etc then when you click stop it takes yo...more >>

Hello. I have a number of buttons that open PDF documents. I have the following code entered for these buttons: on (release) { //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL("folder/filename.pdf","_blank"); //End Behavior } When I load the web page(s) the PDF's don't open on my machine. ...more >>

I'm using this code: b = bigBox.getBounds(_root); smallBox.startDrag(true, b.xMin, b.yMax, b.xMax, b.yMin); My question is: How do you make 'smallBox' ease when following the mouse, or slow down. ...more >>

Can anybody help me out? I am running some tests before implement the video in flash. It turns out that it worked when I uploaded the files to a server (linux), but it didn't work out in another server (windows). Is it the problem or is there any other reason? I thank any reply in adva...more >>

hey everybody! :) i've got a loop that receives objects due for destruction. the objects may be of type anyType. so i've got the below code running against them. tell me: would you do it this way? or do you know of anything that needs to be added? or just: what do you think? ...more >>

Hi Forum, Anyone knows how do i find it out the width and height of the image loaded inside a movie clip. And how i can restrict the user of loading image having a specific size say 300px width and 200px height. Right now i am unable to have control and the whole page is getting covered ...more >>

Hey all, I have a movie clip, with a named instance of content_mc inside I have some navigation movieclips. All I want to do is be able to go forward 1 frame in the timeline (in the content_mc) for the Forward button and go -1 frame backward for the Backward button. So I thought I wo...more >>

Hi Very strange things happens here. At startup I duplicated a movieclip several times. the on(press) action on the original movieclip asks again to duplicate the movieclip. What happens is that alle those movieclips dissapear. Here's what I've done Create a f.ex a square on the ...more >>

hi, i m having set1 to set50 variables which i have to assign in new Array.. this all sets are differ from each other.. for every things i have to assign in single single time... Is i can't have my array like.. for(i=0; i<=50; i++){ eval("set"+i) = new Array } or tell me ultimate ...more >>

I am using A DataGrid with MM's MxCheckCell renderer, for some reason it will only render check boxes for the first two rows (of 30 rows) in the table. If I scroll only the first two visible columns have checkboxes visible. Checking the boxes does hold its state, meaning if I scroll the list...more >>

How can i embed a font which user probably doesn't have on his computer, so he could see that font which will be displayed in dynamic txt field? Does "embed font outline" helps, and in which versions of Flash is this possible? I know using _sans, and _serif will solve thiss problem because ever...more >>

after launching our new website we are now trying to implement a racing facility, but we need a little bit of help detecting joypads and capturing the commands from the pad. any clues?...more >>

I've created a movieclip with 8 frames called "pictureframeMC". Frame 1 has a stop(); command, frame 2 has a gotoAndStop(1); command and frames 3-8 have small animation and stop(); at the end. Simple so far? I also have a variable which is called at the beginning of the movie: var pictur...more >>