Hi, hopefully someone can help. I'm searching for a way to add a separator element to a listbox component, so that particular cell is not selectable and has no rollover action associated with it. There must be a way to do this :-). I just want to be able to separate certain parts of my list wi...more >>

OK, I am stumped. I have three scenes in my movie. Scene 1 is a simple intro animation. Scenes 2 and 3 each contain mediadisplay components that play external FLV files. I am able to get flash to jump from scene 1 to scene 2 without problem. I am also able to get scene 2 jump to scene 3 u...more >>

I'm new to this king of logic. I want to create an object (Mc) that can move alone inside a defined area. Like a bug in my screen. This is to create a small game. Any idea or tutorial or... Tanx in advanced ...more >>

I need help I don't know how to call an Action script File.. Also when you set varubles in an Action Script File will it change the varybles in the movie it was called in?...more >>

Can flash process its own form with action scripting or anything else. I need 1st and last name, email, phone number, and comments (mabey more later)....more >>

i am in trouble with writing something to draggable movie clips. make a movie clip..say its name "a_mc" place a textinput component on it. and write in maintimeline frame: a_mc.onPress = null then see that textinput does not take focus..any help will be... ...more >>

I've got a scroll pane loading a swf. the swf's stage is the same size as the scroll pane, but some elements off the movie lie off the stage when the movie starts. I'm setting my scroll pane's vScrollPolicity = "off"; this works great for turning the scroll bars off, but in internet explor...more >>

Hello, I've got code that takes text from an array and places it into a textbox. The first spot in the array is supposed to be null, or blank (please don't focus on the null aspect of this, a lot of people get hung up on null...you'll see why later, but i'm positive it has nothing to do with...more >>

Hello, I've got code that takes text from an array and places it into a textbox. The first spot in the array is supposed to be null, or blank (please don't focus on the null aspect of this, a lot of people get hung up on null...you'll see why later, but i'm positive it has nothing to do with...more >>

I need to send some variables from a input textfield in Flash to an Access DB. If my viables are defined in my script like: emailVar='my@email.com', Flash sends the variable correctly througt an asp-page to my db, but if the variable are sent from an Inout textfield, nothing happens! Can anyon...more >>

Trying to move an image that was dynamically loaded so that when you hold down the mouse on a button, it keeps moving automatically in one direction here is a code where I load an image: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("CarImage2", 1); CarImage2.loadMovie(imageFilename); and this is a but...more >>

Hi! I'm trying to attach a listener to a movie clip. Would anybody know why this code doesn't work? var myListener = new Object; myListener.onRelease = function(){ trace('release'); } myMovieClip.addListener(myListener); Thanks ...more >>

If I load an image into an MC...its registration is the top left corner 0,0 If I go to rotate this MC..it will spin the object on that corner as opposed to the center of the image. The result is the image is way off from where it should be. This could be resolved by moving the registration ...more >>

I have a file with 3 movie clips each with different lengths of frames (1-200, 2-100, 3-1000). I need to play the file once and have it go away and load either a new swf or a static jpg file on the banner of my site. ...more >>

Please recommend Action Script books, CDs, tutorials and the like for beginners only. I know next to nothing about the AS 2.0. I really prefer CD tutorials if you know of any good ones. Thanks for your help in advance. DJ ...more >>

Does anyone about auto starting a flash presentation off a cd after you insert it into a drive. so that you would not have to double click on the flash presentation icon itself? thanks fatguy13...more >>

Hi all, Im developing a simple web page and Im new to ASP. I want to save the current date and time in my MS ACCESS table I have a field in MS ACCESS and the data type is Date/Time is this correct or do I have to have it in Text??? what should be the code here??? adoRecordset....more >>

We've tried using the Try/Catch commands to trap errors in flash, but to no avail. In fact on our data entry form, we can't get Flash to display any errors. Not displaying errors is fine for animations, but unforgivable for data entry. I don't want my users to click the Save button and thin...more >>

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has an example of loading XML in Flash, modifying it then saving the changes back to the XML file? Or if anyone could point me in the right direction? I would like to be able to use the DataGrid component. thank-you in advance. ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to work out a way when the movie loads it either makes some text invisible or makes the alpha channel 0, but when a user rolls over a button the text becomes visible. I have made a static text box a mc and called it rollover_txt. I have the following code on my button: ...more >>

Hi, I have a multiple frame SWF file loading into a scrollpane contained within another SFW ? Does anyone know how to print the scrollpane contained SFW. I've tried using the print() command, but this only prints the main movie not the scollpane. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

Hi, I'm new around here...with a question. For my portfolio with some flash-animations I have something like 6 swf's dat I have to load in my flashMX engine in an empty movieclip called "content". The http://www.coniglio.be excists in portfolio > animatie. I want to use my arrows to...more >>

I'm building a form application. I have subclassed the 'application' form top level form) and in that class file I am setting some public properties with configuration parameters from an XML file on the server. I want to be able to reference these public properties from other form subclasses...more >>

there are a lot of actionscripts avaiable online to make a bullet go after your cursor whenever you move it. but i need one that makes the oposite. i need my images to be reppeled whenever the cursor moves closer to them - can this be done?? thank you! obrigada! joana, lisboa. ...more >>

Is it possible to display the trade mark symbol in a dynamic text field by using the chr(99) function? It doesn't seem to be working for me. Thanks....more >>

I want to create a quiz game in flash that, at the end, asks for the person's name in a form input and posts the, say, 10 highest scores. Any thoughts on this? ...more >>

Ey! How can I update my textfile when I refresh my page? It is probable cathed somewhere.. Below is the script I'm using. // extern text file plus stylesheet _level0.fotobar.TextHolder.depthChild0._alpha=0 myStyle = new TextField.StyleSheet(); myStyle.load("textedit/websitestyle.css...more >>

Hi, I have a scrollable text field that has a UIScrollBar component to scroll it. The content of the text field is a list that is dynamically created by the user. As the list grows beyond the size of the text field, the scroll bar fails to 'wake up' and offer scrolling. Anyone know of a solu...more >>

Is there a way to pause the movie for a prescribed amount of time, in Director it is: "hold on current frame for (x) seconds". Would like to allow the viewer an amount of time to read some copy before the movie continues. The only way I can see is to extend the time line for a bunch of frames...more >>

Hi, Use PrintJob Class will solve ur problem. Here is giving pseudo code: var myPJ:PrintJob = new PrintJob(); if ( myPJ.start () ) { x = printPage._xscale; y = printPage._yscale; // if condition to check the orientation selected at the time of printing (portrait or landsca...more >>

Hi, Im doing this online ezine thing which is fed content from a cms via xml, there are a number of templates which will require the text to run into mutiple fields, and also require paging, YAY! hmm, anyways Ive built a method to do this just as a prototype, however somewhere in the loop, eit...more >>

hey everybody! :) simple question. i don't know whether the answer is as simple though: how do you get classes to destroy themselves? the code beneath fails. i know why because i've read http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288& threadid=901166&hig...more >>

Hi, I want to load an image in a dynamic textfield from xml. The problem is, when i execute the flash file i can see the image getting displayed. But when i publish and make an html, i cant see the image getting loaded in the browser (IE 6.0) but other text without the image is getting displ...more >>

Hi, When the connection falls out during play a movieclip and i want to load some Vars with LoadVars, i get "Error Opening URL" in the output window. But how can i catch this message, to do another action? Try..catch.. doesn't seem to work. I've tried the messages @ the forum here also, bu...more >>

Ok, Im pretty new to all this, in fact its been a while since I even looked at flash. What I want to do is basically be able to update content in a a scene (or an individual page if we think about pure html). From looking over the forums a bit, It looks like it involves VarLoad. The idea here ...more >>