I'm nes at this & i'm having a problem with a movie clip. I'm not sure hich level i'm in, but I only have 1 scene. and my Movie clip, timline ends and a new one starts. I'd like to tell it at the end of the timeline to go back to the previous timeline movie clip and play from labeled field "re...more >>

Hi all, im wondering if anybody can help me with this, its had me stumped for nearly 2 days now and i've ran out of possible solutions to try... I have 2 movie clips, main_movie.swf & included_movie.swf Basically I load "main_movie.swf" in my browser, then "included_movie.swf" is include...more >>

The idea:is it possible the visitors of my site to leave me an audio message using flash and if yes - how? if not - why not? my host provider company allows only php and mysql, no coldfusion,no asp, no jsp. 10x, Georgiev ...more >>

Can changing the framerate cause a glich with swfs? I have a master.swf which contains all the load code for the movies within a website: header, buttons, about, services etc.. and everything was working great but now my doesn't load the elements, it's stuck on the 1st frame (2 frames in movie...more >>

Hello, Just wondering if it's possible to have an item inside the ComboBox component capable of being displayed on two (or more lines). I have a comboBox that has to be at a fixed width, but I have a few items in the component that are longer than this width and was hoping to have these items...more >>

I have a file that will be run locally. There are a series of actions that happen before the '.AVI' movie should be loaded. On the frame where I would like the movie to load there is an empty movie clip and I want the .AVI to load into it. What code do I need? I have: empty1_mc.loadMovi...more >>

Hi I am making a quiz and need some help. Here is my situation I have one question and for this question I need 10 fill in the blanks. The user will then fill in each fill in the blank and order will matter. So when it is being checked there is only one correct answer for each blank and the...more >>

If I had a SO created in a user.swf which held user info, on completion of the user filling in the form the info gets flushed to the SO and then the index.swf loads a new movie titled main.swf. How would i send info from the main.swf to the SO created by the user.swf? i.e. how would i referen...more >>

I'm trying to use a movieclip as a mask for another movieclip, the problem is that the clip i'm using as a mask contains different shapes. This causes big problems when using setMask. The result is a broken image with random masking. The strange thing is, if i do the mask manually on the layer...more >>

I have a dynamic calculator, which contains several columns each with a comboBox along with textFields and calculations are dynamic text fields. The calculator is working correctly except if a user wants to change a variable from a drop-down after an inital calculation. It's not re-calculating...more >>

I am trying to get the height of a newly attached movie. Each time I reference the height it is the same for each movie clip. What I am doing is I have a scroll pane that I am attaching movies into. The attached movie clip contains dynamic text fields that are populated by an XML file. Th...more >>

I have a drop down menu and I would like it to close after a number of seconds. I would like to paste an action on a button that, after mouseOut, then it would count a number of seconds and then close. I don't know much about the timer function. Can anyone help? ...more >>

This is the output error that shows up when I test my Flash website: **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actionscript, frame=1:Line 1: Error opening include file string_fieldIsNotEmpty.as: File not found. #include "string_fieldIsNotEmpty.as" **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actionscript, fra...more >>

This is the output error that shows up when I test my Flash website: **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actionscript, frame=1:Line 1: Error opening include file string_fieldIsNotEmpty.as: File not found. #include "string_fieldIsNotEmpty.as" **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actionscript, fra...more >>

I'm trying to link my email on a portfolio I'm working on. Following is the action scrip I used but it won't work. Help!!! on (release) { getURL("mailto:esidejams@hotmail.com"); //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL("www.esidejams@hotmail.com", "_self"); //End Behavior } ...more >>

Hi, I'm making a flash presentation on a topic, and it is somewhat interactive meaning it will have a few buttons. My problem is that when I publish my work to any place on my computer the whole presentation just keeps looping. Ideally i would like it to play once and stop on the last frame wh...more >>

I've got an odd one. I've got a movie clip that is empty. I then attach using attachMovie several movie clips that have dynamic text fields. I then populate those fields. If I don't have a mask over the host movie clip I can see the text and their backgrounds fine. If I have a mask over t...more >>

Hi guys, Here's my problem. I wrote this script to dupe a movieclip and rotate them all about the y axis in orbits with perspective. It works great in Flashplayer 7, but if I export for 5, nothing moves at all. If I export for 6, the clip is only duped once, or the 3rd and higher orbits ar...more >>

Hey, I know there is a method to save a users data to an SO and resume from the last frame they were on BUT is there a method to resume from the last question they were on as I am not using a frame method of quiz (q's being sent to a flash movie from xml) ? Thankyou Simon ...more >>

Hi can anyone help? I am creating a flash movie in which the user types some text into an input text box "this is my text". The flash movie constructs a new XML object and saves this text into a new childNode e.g. <firstChild> <textNode>this is my text</textNode> </firstChi...more >>

Greetings, I am trying to script a command that will fade a movie clip to invisibility, and have achieved nothing but hours of frustration. I have Flash MX 2004 Professional, and in a new document file I created a test movie clip: It's just a simple graphic-- a red oval, which I converted t...more >>

Hello Guys, Please, please please help, I have just upgraded my flash mx to flash mx 2004 professional and now I wish I didn?t. After opening an flash mx file (mx fla) onto mx 2004 professional named it as doc 1 . I wanted to add a simple url link by creating a button and typing the scri...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a problem with making a movieclip scroll. I have a movie clip that has to be larger than the required dimensions of my movie. I have put a mask inside the movieclip to only reveal the required amount of it. Is there anyway I can make the movie clip scroll up and d...more >>

I have 'Name', 'Email' and 'Message' input text boxes for a Contact Form. The boxes all have text in them already to tell the user what to type (i.e Enter Your Email). When the user inserts the cursor into the text box the text should dissapear and then if they dont type anything and click els...more >>

Is there any way to get the frame number of a label without sending the play head to that point? I'm having some trouble as described in my other post, and just need this to help debug. Speaking of de-buggers, anyone know of a good one for flash? ...more >>

Hi all. Check out the following link: http://horlicks.co.uk/main.html How do I make that cute trail when the mouse moves? I want to do something similar on my site... Thanx!...more >>

I have an array of movie clips that are currently on screen i.e this.List_Of_Active_Objects An example value is _level0.game_mc.cow_mc, _level0.game_mc.cow2_mc whereby the array has two elements I have a handler that loops through each element and checks the _y position to determine if it ...more >>

In the next link: http://horlicks.co.uk/main.html the moon's eye follows the mouse when it goes near. How did they do that?...more >>

Hi, I design in flash, but I don't know the programming that well.. i wanna make a portfolio of my work, in which flash movies would be loaded and displayed in a separate window (with buttons like stop, play etc.). so far, i turned my movies to movie clips and made them play at a certain ta...more >>

I am having some problems using the Flash MX Pro Loader Component. It seems to be hiding certain elements of the swf file it is loading. Here is the http://www.brokenwarriorfilms.com/ProgressBarTest2.html. As you'll notice the movie title captions that appear in the original flash swf do...more >>

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction I'm experiencing a problem where the preloader at the beginning of my movie does not appear until the movie itself is fully (or almost fully) loaded. After researching this issue I've learned that this is often caused in cases ...more >>

First of all, sorry for my poor english, I'm from the Netherlands... ?'ve ran into a little problem wich I will explain with the following piece of code: word1= 'hello'; greeting = 'word'+1; trace(greeting); Instead of pointing to the var 'word1', wich is filled with the string 'hello' the ...more >>

hi, i'm using flash 6 and am trying to display stuff in the movie based on the xml file loaded. the problem is the xml is loaded after the lines to that set the color of the movie. how do i fix this problem? thanks for any replies jigen3 // to load xml file for movie info Movi...more >>

Dear flash people, I do not know anything about the script and I have created a large application= about 30MB. Suddenly a message appeared that the script or language or action script is causing the flash player to run slow- when the movie is exported and asking if I wish to abort the script...more >>

I'm using the code below to print all the pages in my Flash Presentation (I'm using the Slide Presentation feature in MX 2004 Pro). All the pages print fine, the only problem is, they don't scale to fit the printed page size. When I use this code outside the MX 2004 Pro Slide Presentation f...more >>

In the code below I'm creating a text field with a left and right margin. It seems the left margin works but it only pushes the text outside the box to the right and the right margin doesn't work at all. Can anyone help me out with this? function showLinks() { _root.createEmptyMovie...more >>

Hello all, I want to send parameters to flash with GET method such way: http://www.someurl.com/myflash.swf?param1=value1&param2=value2 Can I read this parameters from myflash.swf some way? Thanks ...more >>

I have a movie that has a gleaming effect on it. I want to play this randomly. Here's what I have so far... onClipEvent (load){ timer = Math.round(random(10)*1); if (timer = 1){ logo_anim.gotoandPlay(1); } } I know the first problem is that it only executes on load. How d...more >>

Hey Dudzzz???! basically ... the tile game ive done has this code to make it work and i need you to help me make more sense of this code could you put (//) comments in this code to let me know what each line does???? thanks and i look forward to ure response man!! Heres the cod...more >>

hi there i have a phone files in my application and i want to restric the fied only with numbers 9 to 0 and '-' i used: t1_txt.restrict ="9-0-" but i'm not able to type '-' in the text box can any one help me ...more >>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi All, I have developed an application in flash which will retrieve some text from database and ill display it in a text box. As the same i want to make an image to speak the text which is coming from database....more >>

I have a loveMovie in a dynamic box on the first scene of my movie (and the scenes set to stop). When this movie reaches the end, how do I get it to move to the next frame in the main Movie. Any Iteas, Flashers. I've tried alot of things but getting nowhere Shane ...more >>

What an cause a swf to drag down a server ---- an undeleted onEnterFrame ?? everything runs fine on my PC and runs on with no errors during test movie.... but the people who run my server swears it bogs them down..........is this possible and if so what causes this............ ...more >>

I am importing a few SWFs using the loadClip method. These movies could be greater or lesser in size and I would like for the entire canvas to be the same size as the imported movie. The canvas size will be the same for HTML embedding. The size will just change depending on the HTML page. So I...more >>