Does anyone have a simple script to contol the fps in a movie. A movie with a different frame rate then my main movir timeline. ...more >>

I have datefield inside a form based Movie Clip which works, but when I call the same MC from another form based Movie Clip app the datefield does not work. Anyone know why?...more >>

on frame 1 i have a script: so = sharedobject.getlocal("Menu"); if (so.data.frame != undefined) { this.gotoAndStop(so.data.frame); } else { this.gotoAndStop("Closed") } There are 2 frame labels, Closed and Open and on those frames i have: function rememberme() { so.d...more >>

Hi I'm working with XMLSOCKECT and i'm getting large strings that i have to parse. Is there any proplem to parse large string in flash? What is the best way? And what the best way for later Manipulation like order by date,name ETC? ...more >>

Hi, I am creating news ticker, text from external txt file is loaded into text box and then the box as a symbol is moved to the left, everything works great, except I just cannot get the correct length of the txt string I am loading from txt file (i need it to start ticker over and over), the ...more >>

I want to go to a particular frame in a movie clip by clicking a button, I have this code, can I alter it to do this? on (press) { gotoAndStop("---")} I want to go to the frame name 'info_off' in a movie clip called 'abstract1_m' ...more >>

Thank you for your previous answer. May be i should refresh my question, i?m looking for some event to call a function while mouse is down and keep happenning during it, like the scroll bar arrow button. Thanks again. ...more >>

:confused; I have a Flash MX Intro movie posted and it has been working just fine with IE6 on my old Win98 machine. However, in my XP machine - also with IE6 - the main site page does not open at the end of the Intro - using the "Get URL" command in the action script. Anyone familiar with ...more >>

Hi, Im re hashing some code from an article on this site to create dynamic preloader instances from another class using the other class as a listener (event dispatcher), however target_mc loses scope outside the startPreload function, can anyone see wy this would be happening?? cheers MaTT...more >>

How do we get Kanji into a dynamic text field please? Thanks to kglad I am using this script for my textfield fades. Is it possible to also show up kanji using the same script in any way please? I have pasted some kanji in via the actionscript panel and tried embedding it also. Am ...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to get the caption of a picture file into a dynamic textfield in flash please? Thank you sooooo much! Jurgen...more >>

Hi there, I'm trying to reference an instance of a movie clip without using the exact name. This is hard to explain so I'll give you the example: I have 6 movie clips: (mc_movie1, mc_movie2, mc_movie3...etc) I also have 6 buttons. when I press button two for example variable 'button_p...more >>

Hi, I'm fairly new at AS so please bare with me. I have a movie clip in library named box_mc. It has a label in it with the instance name title_txt. I drag box_mc to stage and give the instance name stagebox_mc. I then do this in AS stagebox_mc.title_txt.text = 'stagebox text'; ...more >>

if I have a function: function f(arg:Number) { if (arg == 13) { // do stuff } else if (arg == "w") { // do different stuff } } when I pass "w" as the argument the compiler will throw an error, because I strongtyped arg to the Number datatype. What if I want it to accept bot...more >>

I am new to Flash MX 04 and XML. I downloaded this FLA off the web for use. I am loading the SWF into level 2 of my Flash movie and I only get the thumbnails to show not the full size image when the thumbnail is clicked. If I load the SWF into level 0 all works fine, but I need to load the SWF...more >>

Hi, I appreciate if someone could help me see what is wrong the code below. I wanted to create a text field for every record returned from database and place the text from the variable called TITLE in each text field. This worked fine. Next, I wanted to add a onPress event to each movieclip t...more >>

Hi, I have a flash app (via a browser) that uses XML heavily. The data that is sent from the server is parsed and presented in movie clip objects (about 30 of them). Data keeps streaming to the client. The problem is that after a while the application becomes slow, very slow to react....more >>

Does anyone here know how to use the timeline looping instead of the onEnterFrame funtion? I mean if I have : thanx Forum Posted via DevelopmentNow.com Groups http://www.developmentnow.com...more >>

Hi, I used the code below for making and assigning a mask layer for a movie clip. But it didn't work right. Would you pls let me know where I was wrong? Thanx, var maskMovieClip; this.attachMovie("myMask", "myMask", this.getNextHighestDepth()); maskMovieClip = this["myMask"]; ...more >>

wuts the line that u put on a button and u press it and let it play the clip?...more >>

i need the easiest and the surest way of sending 2 image names to my flash movie.... which it will load (images:jpg), ( and this should go into 2 variables, as both images are loaded in diffrent frames...) i was looking at swLiveConnect, but is there any other way... ...more >>

I have an empty movie clip in stage that I want to load an .swf into. It seems to load but it doesn't play. I have a button on the stage that contains the loading and playing code: the "loading.." trace is never displayed and the movie clip doesn't play. If I move the "loadMovie" call o...more >>

Hi, I'm one of the old flash developers that has found they need to relearn (& unlearn) everything over again with MX. Movie clip in Scene 2 --> Button in movie clip --> _parent.gotoandplay("Scene 2",2); does not work, nothing happens. _parent.gotoandplay(X); sends it to Sce...more >>

try on 1 frame var i:Number = 1; on frame 2... i++; if (1<=200){ gotoAndPlay(_currentframe-1) }...more >>

This is probably a simple question, but I can't figure it out. I need to assign a variable name to an item in my Array. When I define trackNum, it returns '_parent.musicLib[bar3].trackThree' , what I want is to get 'mytrack.mp3' any ideas? thx here's what I've got: on (release) { var tra...more >>