Hello all, I am running into a bit of a problem. I have a client that has a flash driven web site and wants to be able to put some Microsoft Excel documents on the site. He wants it so that a user will go to the page and click on the link for the Excel document and it will load into a new page...more >>

Hi All, Please bear with me while I try to describe my problem. I want to have a really wide block of content that may be five or six screens wide. I will have some navigation buttons that will control the content. When a button is click the content mc will slide nicely from it's current ...more >>

Created my button. Set the up, over, down and hit states. When user clicks I want the button to take them to a url. SO - I click on the frame with the button, go to action panel and see below (get this error message) Scene=Scene 1, Layer=arbor, Frame=15: Line 1: Statement must appear ...more >>

When I enter the following code and test the movie, I get an undefined. It's straight outta the book I have. Do I have some setting wrong within the program? I'm getting the same kind of problem when I use trace to retrieve a specific element. I'm using Flash MX. myArray = new Array("S...more >>

Hello All, Is there a way to take 55, which is in a Number variable, and split it into 2 strings '5' and '5'? How can I accomplish this? Thank you for your help. ...more >>

Hello everyone, my problem maybe easy to solve, however I'm newish to Actionscript and need some help. Basically I've created a button from which I want it to call a quick time movie file. If anyone knows how to do this please let me know. Thank you. ...more >>

Does anybody know how I could get a car to be able to have skid marks like the one in this game? http://www.markfennell.com/flash/...more >>

I do not understand this. If I execute this code I will get an undefined value for x: var x:Number; function setX( y:Number ) { y = 100; } setX( x ); trace( x ); Why is this so? I would rather pass variables into a function than set them as returned values, so ...more >>

On a preloader, how can I check to see if a certain amount of frames are loaded instead of bytes (bytes_total)?...more >>

i'm loading an external swf into a window component. the external swf contains a menubar component with a menu component. when i test this movieclip localy it works all right but when i test it uploaded in the server the menu component doesnt apear. what could be wrong. also if i load only the...more >>

I'm having another problem. I need to render the & character from an externaly loaded .txt file using LoadVars(). If I just put a & in the file, anthying after the & will not render in the swf. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, I am creating five buttons that are in close proximity of each other. I want the selected button (when rolled over) to grow 200% and be on the top layer (over its neighbors). Right now each selection is overlapped by its neighbors. I think I have to use duplicateMovieClip, but after...more >>

Hi scripters, I am currently working on an advanced preloader, with a preloading animation. It has the following structure: -Animation in (preloader shows up) -Preloading of items in queue(the actual preload of the items) -Animation out (preloader disappears) The problem is as foll...more >>

I need to fade a movie clip in on rollover of a small portion of it. basically i want to reduce the area causing the fade so that when a user rolls over a portion of the picture, the rest will alpha fade in. here is the code im using inserted into the movie clip. onClipEvent (load) { ...more >>

Hi! I would like to make a slideshow in Flash and I want that the photos will be loaded in from the external folder. So I would like to know if the slideshow will read the photos from this folder? I will name them as frame1, frame2 and so on. If I write in actionscript (just the row where...more >>

Is there anybody who can help me! I need a manual of actionscript in spanish! Thanks! ...more >>

I'm using the LoadVars() method to set a dynamically created text field's variable to the variable in the .txt document. I have this variable set to render htmlText. When I create a series of links (ie. <a href="link1.html>link 1</a> <a href="link2.html>link 2</a> <a href="link3.html>li...more >>

the objective is to have a set of navigation reside in the middle, and upon rollover, a different background fades in for each button. I need to limit the active area for each button to only part of the image , and when i say button,. i really mean movie clip object. ...more >>

Basically, I have a shockwave movie which, upon reaching the last frame, opens up a web-page in a different internet browser window. I was wondering whether there is there any way that, upon reaching this last frame, I could use ActionScript to 'detect' whether the page is already open in the ...more >>

Hi all My prolem is this I need to open various pdf's from a local standalone player it will eventually be on a CD I have tried the FScommand line but to no avail any ideas? I'm using MX 2004 as well ...more >>

Does anyone know if there's a way to trigger an event simply by moving your mouse onto the flash canvas.. I don't mean by a Rollover, but more like a hitTest.. But I don't have 2 objects.. I just want a menu to "roll up" apon the mouse being on the canvas.. The menu has to have buttons ...more >>

I have this code: stop(); var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var myListener:Object = new Object(); myMCL.addListener(myListener); //myMCL.loadClip ('trigger.swf',5); myMCL.loadClip ('mainbuttons.swf', this.buttonLoader, 3); myMCL.loadClip ('background.swf', 1); myMCL.load...more >>

I like to know how Macromedia developed their navigation bar for their site! I'm trying to do the samething! ANYONE have any idea please assist. Thanks...more >>

I know this is a really basic question and probably has a really basic answer but i need to know it!! I have an animation with 4 scenes, and i need to know how to use a button to get back to the second frame on scene one. I changed the frame label of the frame i want to go to, to "begin" and t...more >>

have set up a flash quiz and this works fine. However, at the end of the quiz I want to use the total score to determine what page will be loaded next. For example I want a button on the final page of the quiz to lead to another page. If the score is 100% it should lead to one page and if it ...more >>

I have looked everywhere for what should be a simple answer: I have a set of buttons on a nav bar, for each button I would like to pass a querystring that would be read by ASP.NET that will than pull a particular page or user control. For example: mypage.aspx?x=1 (this would be the code on the...more >>

Hello everybody, i'm french... sorry for my english. I've just seen a lesson in th "livedocs" about controlling the Flash Component "MediaPlayback". It was about Playing back a video with the functions "attachVideo" and "netStream", etc... (see the code attached to this topic) But,...more >>

Hi. Im adding items into a combobox like this : myCombobox.addItem(var1) , where var1 is constantly changing. What i need to do is add data to that item in the combobox. How can I do that? Thanks...more >>

hi, i needs to load variables from a file. The file includes for example "company=Macromedia&address=600+Townsend&city=San+Francisco&zip=94103". the name of file is "TestVars.txt", the array ist named "recArray". Is there a way to do it? I.ve try it by loadVariables("TestVars.tx...more >>

Hi Please Help me! I want to create a Runtime bar that shows the user how far into the swf movie they are when it is playing and therefore how much more of the movie there is left before it will finish playing. A coloured line will advance along the bottom of the screen depending on how ...more >>

had multiple action scripts running at 'intro page flash' but i need to stop 1 of the action scripts at mid of the flash. tried the stop script but it jus stop everything instead of that particular action. wat shld be the correct script?? below is that particular script i am using... ...more >>

Ok its been 42 hours now I need help. I have a main movie clip which have buttons that when released an external movie gets loaded into an empty mc symbol. all the movies work except one, but it works 100 percent independently only when it is loaded into the main movie clip it doesnt work a...more >>

Hi, I wan't to condition the trace function in my movie. The easyiest way I can think of is to inheritate the functon with the prototype method. But I don't know the exact syntax. Or is it not possible? My first try looked like this: oldTrace = trace; Function.prototype.trace = funct...more >>

I am building a preloader for a multimedia presentation that uses multiple swfs. The problem is that my preloader works beautifully when I run my animation in flash (test movie window). (the loader starts at 0 and then grows to 100) But when I upload to a server I get nothing untill all of the...more >>

Hi... I've created this isometric walk around for one of my uni projects... all is good to date... movement via arrow keys is set up and depths are near enough completed. http://www.nicholaswood.me.uk/textbed.htm // sorry.. no preloader however.... I need to create a hit test that will wo...more >>

Need some help here. Jus started meddling wif flash & need some help here. First...i had create a button 'close window button' but can't seems to find the script for it anyway. Can anyone help me on this? Second...i did an action script that starts from 1st frame but i want it to stop at...more >>

Hi, My maths is letting me down here and I was wondering if anyone could give me an actionscript biased tutorial on how to work out a point of intersection. Or, more accurately, I need to know how close a point is to a line. I think I'm right in saying that by taking a line at right angles to...more >>

Hi all, How can I create a bar which increases its height? I want the bar to increase upward (not downward), and I want the base of the rectangle to remain on its position as the height increases (upward). I know this is very simple, but I cant make it myself. I know how to draw a re...more >>

Hi :) I am new to Actionscript but am learning very fast as i code PHP i have created this script but am having some problems the script is below could anyone correct anything that is wrong // // Specify Servers in Use // scriptserver="http://home.exetel.com.au/extreme43/sw.php";...more >>

Hello guys! Does anyone know how to make it so that when you right click on a frame in the swf, the forward, back and rewind options are dezactivated? Thanks a lot, cretzu...more >>

how do i give a link from items in a list component to pdf files in the hdd / server?...more >>

Hi, I wanted to know the current rotation of a mc, whose direction is changinf frequently. So, I created a textfield (say, statTxt) to display the current rotation of the mc. I rotate the mc using: rotateMc = function(direction:Number, incr:Number) { // direction is left when 1 a...more >>

I have a function I run with setInterval. The function makes some calculations and moves some MovieClips around on the stage. It runs a game. I want the function to execute as many times per second as possible. When I set the interval to 0, the function executes around 30 times per second....more >>

I have two errors with this flash file. There are two things I can't figure out why they aren't working. 1) When scene one - titled intro1 is finished, it does not go to the next scene, despite the fact there is no stop() script in the last frame 2) The preloaded on scene two - titled intro...more >>

Hello everybody, i'm french... sorry for my english. I've just seen a lesson in th "livedocs" about controlling the Flash Component "MediaPlayback". It was about Playing back a video with the functions "attachVideo" and "netStream", etc... But, I don't want to "Play back" a video in ...more >>

Ok so this is the actionscript i used to make the random number generator root.onMouseUp = function() { function randRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number { var randomNum:Number = Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min))+min; return randomNum; } for (var i = 0; i<1; i++) { trace(rand...more >>