Hi, For some reason this always gets me. I would appreciate it if anyone can sum up what to do here: I need to call a parent function using a variable name for the function. I thought this would work, but I guess not: var goToLoc = "myFunction()"; _parent[goToLoc]; Thanks! ...more >>

I'm using the following script on my flash movies to load swf movies into levels: but1_btn.onRelease = function() { loadMovieNum("letterB.swf", 1); }; unbut1_btn.onRelease = function() { unloadMovieNum(1); }; stop(); This script works fine on the first movie load but on the sec...more >>

I'm sure this is easy, just haven't found how to do it. Say you have 4000 instances of a particular button used in a movie, and you want to disable all of them from being clicked based on some other button. How can you do this? ...more >>

Hello Guys. I have made a flash banner, that is related to jobs, and i want some kind of animation like a man walking through the screen carrying a bag in his hand, but not a cartoon image, i need a real image, can somebody help me out of this, or give me some solution for this. Is th...more >>

Greetings, I am atempting to create a website that is one long image, but only part of the image displays. I have 6 "pannels" that create the image I want to creat a menu that when you click it will scroll over to the selected pannel. Example. You are viewing panel 1 and want to g...more >>

How do you make a button change color after it has been clicked to show the user that it have been clicked. This is different from a button hit state. It needs to stay the changed color after clicked....more >>

Hi. I'm trying to load XML into a Dynamic TextBox and nothing happens. I have a frame that has a movie clip named "containerMC". In that clip there is a Dynamic TextBox. That textbox is associated with a variable named "daTextBox". Associated with this movie "containerMC" there are this ac...more >>

Hi I'd like to move the registration point to a different position within a movieclip for ease of position calculations and so that scaling occurs around the specific point within the clip. I can't figure out how to do it. I thought you just dragged the white circle that appears when u...more >>

I am doing a project where I need information to display when I roll over a certain element in the movie. The information to be displayed is in various text files, one for each element in the movie. My idea was to make a custom cursor that would display the information when the mouse was ove...more >>

i made a buttonmovie with two frames and a button on each frame. frame1: pausebutton frame2:playbutton ok so i put this code on my root buttonmovie action: onClipEvent (load) { pausedSymbol._visible = false; playSymbol._visible = true; _root.play(); } onClipEvent (mouseDown) { ...more >>

The problem i'm having is that i'm building call center systems in flash to use in online training. I can get these to work and do what i want except for one thing, this is switching the focus of the text field once it contains the right amount of characters for that field as it would do in th...more >>

Hi all, In my FLA I have a menu and main content inside a MC. The menu is in a layer that is higher than the content. In my menu I am loading a submenu like this.attachMovie("topnav_menu2_4", "topnav_menu2_4_mc", 1); And the content I am loading is like this.attachMovie("book1", "boo...more >>

Hello, I am building a site that is made up of several movie clips that will lay on a background. When the visitor click the "About us" button on the navigtionbar I want the content to load in the middle frame (graphic) and when the visitor click the contact on the button on the navigati...more >>

Hello all, I am having huge troubbles loading and external swf into a movieclip. Onace i get that to work I need to be able to define the size the loaded swf displays can anyone help??? -redLetter ...more >>

I'm working on somebody else's Actionscript software which includes the following line: if (/Input:end ne "1") I've never seen this syntax with the leading "/" -- then a variable -- then the ":end". What does it mean? Thanks much, Eddie ...more >>

I am trying to open a html browser window from flash. I want to open it without the address/status etc bars so it is just a borderless window. Any ideas luke@cinchinteractive.com...more >>

I'm trying to pass simple variables from flash to php and vice versa. I have come accross so many different ways that i don't know which one to use. I have a flash movie and i have a php script. I want variables to pass to the script a few times a second, then the php script sends the values...more >>

hey everybody! :) i'm creating a textfield like this: _container.createTextField("_textfield", 0, 0, 0, 100, 100); _textfield.type = "input"; then reassigning a few of its props: _textfield.onSetFocus = function() { trace("set") }; _textfield.onKillFocus = function() { trace("ki...more >>

Hi all I am trying to remove 2 mc son the one press, but it will only remove which ever mc I put first. Could someone please show me how to program to remove both. on (press) { _root.content_mc.mwepp.book1.removeMovieClip(); _root.content_mc.mwepp.disable2_mc.removeMovieClip(); } ...more >>

Hey all, Im an authorware programmer, learning flash and trying to get to grips with the different syntax. I need to test the radio buttons to see if any are selected if they are then I need to jump them to another frame, this is the code I have at the moment. it doesnt seem to work, how...more >>

I'm attempting to use NetStream ActionScript to display video in the mediaDisplay component. I am no able to see the FLV file being played but I can hear it. My publish settings are set to Flash Player 7 with ActionScript 2.0. All my attempts with the NetStream code has resulted in no ...more >>

Can script be created at runtime like the eval() function in php, for example? The Flash eval() function cannot do that, but is there other way? -- Blade hails you......more >>

Hello all, can anyone tell me, if is possible, how manage the timeline of an swf file using javascript ? ...more >>

I'm trying to use window transparent option to make the background of a swf transparent, it wont work, tell me more please. The goal it's to visualize the table background, across the swf background. Thanks ...more >>

I am having a problem with moving between frame labels in different movieclips. I have one movieclip called practice that contains 4 frame labels. I have another movieclip called attorneys that has 6 frame labels. I want to click on a button from the attorneys movieclip and have it take me to...more >>

Is it possible to load and keep the framefrate from one move to another? Ex: my main movie have 30fps and the movie i want to run with loadMovie are 100fps and i want to keep the framerate on the imported movie inside the 30fps movie ...more >>

Hi, smart and helpful people! I'm looking for advice on how to handle keydown/keyup functions. I've been using "key listeners" for my current projects, and i'm somewhat unsatisfied. specifically, i don't like how if you hold down a particular key, it will keep sending that key over and over...more >>

Flash MX (NOT 2004) heh, ya sorry. i just KNOW there is a simple explanation.. but in the actionscript dictionary, I'm having a hard time "getting" it. no clear example, as least to how i THINK the process is. basically, i just want to updated a text property on a mouse event. from re...more >>

I want a css styled page be controlled by a groovy flash menu. The menu is dynamic and I want the menu items stay open when a new page is loaded. I also want the flash menu only load once, because it's graphically quite heavy. Further I wish to have no javascript and if possible no iframe. I d...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if any flash savy people could help me out... At school, in my flash class, I type the following code into the educational version of flash.. .... if ( Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) and (bullet_mc._x>550) ) { bullettimeconstant=0; _root.attachMovie(bullet_mc,2); bullet_m...more >>

Can Flash open director files or HTML window inside flash? I want to put 3d object (java or shokwave) inside flash, in a little inside window, can i do that??? thanks. ...more >>

Hi all, Just wondering if it is okay to leave all of my debug traces in the final swf. Or are they taken out automatically etc, as they obviously dont appear. ???...more >>

I'm having a little difficult with a process that I think should be simple and I was hoping you could give me some advice. Here's my situation (I'll try to keep this basic): I am building an interactive CD and I would like Frame 1 to represent Page 1, Frame 2 to be Page 2 and Frame 3 to be pa...more >>

I'm on building a site intro and I have a basic understanding of how to attach an MP3 file using Actionscript. What I need is a way of loading the music in and once the music has fully loaded in, it plays the animation. I've had a go myself but the music starts playing halfway through the am...more >>

anybody know why I'm not able to connect to anywhere but my desktop using netConncet? here's my code: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ var netConn:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); netConn.connect(null); var netStream:NetStream = new Net...more >>

I have a 3 button menu bar that's suppose to open and close when the user clicks. it works fine the first round, but after the buttons are pressed once, the bar freezes. Can anyone tell me what I need to change? Here's the code I'm using: ------------------------------------------------...more >>

:wine; howd u make a preloader???...more >>

I am looking for some help with separate live preview swfs for the V2 components. I came across a problem after compilng my component. Before that I could change my properties on each individual component from the property panel and they would update individually just fine. After compiling whe...more >>

Is there a way to take an entered number in the text input component and have the timeline jump to a specific point and stop. i.e. picking the page they want and going to it. Thanks...more >>

My file contains a box which I can drag. I've set the dragging boundaries to be the edges of a particular movieclip. The movie clip contains an image which I have placed there using the import feature. When I drag the box, everything is fine - and it is constrained to the inside of the moviecl...more >>