//Math.ceil(Math.random()*365)+1; //above is needed for main version Math.ceil(Math.random()); //demo version to get 1 load movie loads external files yet I want to load internal files (graphic symbol number 01-366) so that I have a less chance of having my images stolen (you'd be surp...more >>

I have a button which I placed into a mc. The instance name of this button is blog_btn. Upon release of this button I want to provide the index page at http://www.formsonline.com/blog. I created a separate layer in this mc to contain this actionscript but the actionscript fails to work. bl...more >>

I am creating a table of contents page in Flash MX 2004. Each entry in the table of contents will load a different swf (chapter) when clicked. I may need to create hundreds of these text buttons. All I really want the "buttons" to do is change the text color on mouseover and click. In the p...more >>

i created a quiz that should run in three languages. i use labels 'g'+1 [to 30] to navigate to the German questions. for the French and Italian version i duplicated the German scene. the quiz runs fine but i get a warning that i use duplicate labels. i then changed the French an Italian labels...more >>

Hello. I have a matching game with some drag and drop clips. When all the mc's are matched up correctly, the movie goes to the next frame where there is a play again button. When this button is clicked the movie returns to the first frame. The actionsript on this button , I set the set up...more >>

(sorry if this post is a dupe, I tried posting last night but it seems to have disappeared) I've been struggling with what ought to be a pretty simple event handler... I have a Flash file with several buttons (named button1, button2, button3, etc..); there are an equal number of moviecli...more >>

Now here is something I could have sworn I would find in the help file for _level, but of course, it wasn't there. I have a random number of movie clips loaded, each at different depths. Basically, for placement purposes, I need to reference the last item i just place to recover its y posi...more >>

Alright, so I'm making an imageviewer application that loads pictures into dynamically created movieclips. Captions underneath each image are also created dynamically using the createTextField(); command. The caption's content is going to be loaded in from a data base compiled with perl. So wh...more >>

Is there a better way to write the below statement. on (release) { for (i=0; i<=12; i++) { rClip = this['w'+i]; if (rClip._currentframe == (2)) { rClip.gotoAndStop(1); break; } } w2.gotoAndStop(2); } ...more >>

I am having trouble splitting a windows path name at the delimiter "\" because \ is a special character it just makes a line break if you use split("\") I have tried these things with no luck split("\\"); split("\\\\"); split('\"'); split(\u005C); split("%5C"); but they dont...more >>

Here's my code: var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); my_fmt.align = "center"; my_fmt.font = "Andale Mono"; this["Text"+clipCounter].setTextFormat(my_fmt); the this["Text"+clipCounter] is just the name of the textfield that is created. I wrote the above script based on the Action...more >>

Alright. Here we go. I have a problem with the frame movement. I am trying to use buttons to go from frame to frame. In each frame, I have put a movie clip symbol. It goes from frame 1 to frame 5. Each movie clip is in a different layer. When I click the buttons, I want it to go to...more >>

HI! I'm new in Flash and Dreamweaver, and my question is very basic one but I don't know how to do it. I want to build a page with 3 frames: one for the tittle, one for the menu and one for the contents. I want to do the menu as a toolbar made in Flash where every button open a web pag...more >>

Hi, a little syntax problem. How can I declare a class var in a function, example: class myClass() { myFun() { 'global' var myVar:Type } } how can I write global in AS2? Thanks! ...more >>

:confused; How do I script a button in Flash to open a file (prodphoto_list1.htm) not in the _parent, but in the Frameset enititled _mainFrame. I tried: on (release) { getURL("prodphoto_list1.htm","_parent._parent._mainFrame"); } This opened the correct file, but did it in a bla...more >>

Hi, can someone please help me. I need to know how to let the user print an area of the page thay are looking at. It is for a kids cd, and they click through a series of pictures (black outlines) and when they are at the one they want, they click the button to print that one, so they can then ...more >>

i need to know how to send data to a URL and load the page. what i need is like a flash login page, where you send a username and password to a *.ASP page to login. thanks, please post any infomation you have, at the moment i am lost. and if you can post an actionscript ...more >>

Another question. How do you do a zoom effect? I have a circle of white dots ( outer space) and a picture of earth that I want to start zoomed in on. When the movie clip is activated, I want the clip to zoom out of earth and show space, very fluidly. Any ideas? ...more >>

Is it possibble to make a socket based communication between two or more swf applications running on differents machines within the same intranet ? Localconnection class provides communication on the same machine only. ...more >>