Hi, i m facing problem when my dynamic text is in Movieclip and setting the mask for that is not shown in swf... here i m calling the values externally from ..txt file. Pls help me to show correctly withinthe mask... Thanx ...more >>

In my actionscript, I want to get all the parameters passed in FlashVars. The problem is that I don't know the name of these parameters, so I cannot access them directly. I want to get all these parameters in some kind of array, so that I can iterate over them and use them. Thanks in Advan...more >>

:confused; Hi, I am trying to do something that should be simple. I have a movie that is too long to play as a single swf so I split it up into many. I need to play one right after the other seamlessly as if the movie was never split up. To try out my algorithm, I took just two movies and...more >>

I am creating a texas hold'em game, no server-side crap needed, just a fun flashlet thing. Anyway... I don't know how arrays work because my A.D.D. kicks in everytime I crack open my as2 books. ok, maybe I'm just lazy. Here is what I would like to do... without the context errors... ...more >>

I'm trying to create a menu in flash, and I was able to with help from the user kglad. Although I still do not fully how he converted my file into what I have now. But anyway I have created a menu in flash, and I created a rollover effect with a masked. How would I make this a rollover, and ma...more >>

I have looked all over and cannot find a tutorial on how to protect my flash movie. Can someone please tell me the actionscript required to protect it or direct me to a suitable tutorial? It would be greatly appreciated as I dont want any of my work to be stolen. Thank you. ...more >>

I have a question about the onEnterfreme vs the setInterval. CPU question. If we use the same number of MC for exemple 20 on each swf. Each MC of one swf as a setInterval(myFunction, 100). The other swf has the same number of MC and the call the same function (myFunction) usign the onEnterFr...more >>

Hello everybody, i'm quite new in flash and probably the question that i'll place is quite simple....Well, I've designed a quiz with multiple answers. What i would like is every time the user enters the game the answers to be placed on a different random position...Is this possible? ...more >>

a sorting problem -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good day folks, I've got two arrays: my_numbers[333, 456, 897, 213]; my_names[cow, goat, chicken, hamster]; the idea here is, i'd like to sort the my_numbers but i want the ad...more >>

I've tried almost every single open-sourced Flash Mp3 player online, but the problem with all of them is, they don't work all the time, sometimes they can't even load local songs, sometimes they load the song for too long. I wonder if anyone knows how to make a good mp3 player that will have.....more >>

i want to make one button which will stop my flashmovie at the first press and play at the second press can someone give me the actionscript?? thank you alot!!!...more >>

I need to test whether I am on a specific frame, in order to take further action. The only thing I have been able to find is MovieClip._currentframe, which returns the number of the current frame. But if you use this, and insert frames later, you're screwed. I have frame labels in a top la...more >>

Greetings, I have been trying to make an object rotate using actionscript, and have a variable number I can change onClick to adjust the speed of the rotation. Right now, just have a simple timeline animation. When you click the button to slow down it simply add frames so it takes longe...more >>

I need help defining the width of my movie clip so that when you scroll to the left and right you will not see white space. The width of my movie clip is 1412. The swf can be seen at http://www.smashingdesigns.com/pic_slider Here is the code on my movie clip: onClipEvent (load) { stage...more >>

I am using XML to load in Headlines and Articles for a "Press Release" section of a site. the way i currently have it set up in the XML: the articles are in a tag like this: <item article="this is the article copy" > </item> the problem is that many of the articles have quotes in them. ...more >>

the help file is entitled: TextArea class amongst its many and varied features it boasts: Events inherited from the UIComponent class: UIComponent.focusOut so we create just such an object [using the code pasted at the end of this post] and what do we get? this unexpected result:...more >>

I'm working on my webpage in dreamweaver and I know that when you are linking pages together you either use the drag and drop mention or type out the address of the page location within your project. Well does this apply to flash also, or do have to type out the url where it will be once the ...more >>

Using the scroll bar component to create scrolling text seems easy enough, but how would I incorporate images within the text so that the images scroll as well (as opposed to remaining static as the text scrolls over them)? Thanks, Paul ...more >>

I read the article about 3d animation in flash and i made some nice animations including a cube from 6 square surfaces. My problem is that when the surfaces start rotating some of them get bigger and some smaller because of the way I move the mouse. Does anybody know a script for the 3 Matrix ...more >>

I have been doing this game on both Mac and PC. I brought my work from the PC to Mac and when I played the .swf some of my actionscript wont work but was working earlier today on my PC. I sent a friend the file from my Mac to his PC and it worked fine. This is the actionscript that isnt workin...more >>

I am trying to load a variable containing many mp3 URLs so I can dynamically update my mp3 jukebox.... my .txt document contains... myTracks='http://www.viswhiz.com/music/chill%20rock/chillmp3-0.mp3', 'http://www.viswhiz.com/music/chill%20rock/311_-_All_Mixed_Up.mp3', 'http://www.viswhiz...more >>

I've embedded a button in a movie clip. It visually responds to up, over and down events as it should. However, I need to add actionscript to handle these events. For a test, I added In level1, frame1 of the movieclipt: my_btn.onRollOver = function() { trace("ROLLOVER"); } I...more >>

Im trying to figure out the code to make an input text box invisble so the user can't eneter text into it until a specific point during the movie. If anyone could help me with the code to make a textbox invisble and then visible again. ...more >>

Is there any way to get the name of the movieclip in the Live Preview of a component instance placed on the stage? I am creating a component that need to set itself based on another component instance on the stage. I am using local connection to communicate, I have a work around but it req...more >>

Hi (I emailed the file to you, did you get it?) I've done it so you can pick up all the items, i got some problems with using the items (ive done most of them). The latest problem is that i dont know how to say if a couple of items are clicked or collected then do a certain thing. At the m...more >>

hi, I need to know how to populate multiple text fields with one XML doc. It's for a band website so the fields in this case would be "date" "venue" "bands" "time" "venue website" or something like that. I'd like to be able to add as many shows as possible without having to open the FLA. C...more >>

Can someone please help me fine tune my action script. I am so close, the only thing wrong with my script is that I am having trouble defining the width of the movie clip with the pictures on it. When you scroll to the left and right you can see white space. The swf can be seen at http://www...more >>

Hello all I have done many loadMovie function calls in flash before to load in dynamic ..jpgs and such but I am working with a new company and the .jpgs they are sending me look fine when I preview them in paint, for example, but when I attempt to load them into my .swf via the loadMovie f...more >>

I have created a presenation that contains audio. The problem that I have is when the next button is pressed the audio from the previous scene does not stop and plays along with the new audio. Pressing the forward and backward buttons again only makes more audio tracks play on top of each othe...more >>

Hi there, I have a flash movie that retrieves text data from an xml document and displays it in the movie. But I would like to add some animation to the text data once retrieved into the flash movie. Any ideas how i could do that? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi there, I have created a form that a user would fill in on a website. I was just wondering where I could find information on how to get the details a user filled into a form, sent directly to an email account. Thanks ...more >>

Please help me! My boss has really dropped me in it by promising a client that I will be able to make them a mouse tracker just like this one but with a dinosaur in a day! I know how to make an object track the mouse but does anyone have any ideas how I start to make the creature's body mov...more >>

Dear guys I need to know when I make a flash site in an " .html" page to display in fullscreen, is this actionscript in the flash or is it a JavaScript in the html. please answer me as soon as possible and provide me either the action or the java. thank you in advance -- Essam R. Maccar ...more >>