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 >>