hi all, i have a holder MC called 'thumbholder' into which the user can load several different sets of thumbnail images. these sets of images are individual movie clips, and are loaded into 'thumbholder' via attachMovie. there is a script i put directly on 'thumbholder' to limit the up o...more >>

Hi, I can't get Flash 5 to start a sound at a specified time. I have a Play/Pause button combo, and a script that times the total time so that when Play is clicked, the sound will restart at the total time. Sounds good, right? Problem is, the sound seems to always restart about 5 secon...more >>

whats wrong with this script? on(release) { if( _currentframe == 1 ) { gotoAndPlay(3); } else { gotoAndPlay( _currentframe - 1 ); } } btw theres 2 scenes, this is in the movie, the movie scene is after the opening scene. when the opening scene is before the movie scen...more >>

i'm a newbie to as, but am really diggin' it. i'm told there is an undocumented (by macromedia) tween class that i can hook into using as2.0. can ayone point to a site where i can find more about the tween class. i'm looking for syntax, examples, etc. thx -Houston, TX ...more >>

I'm trying to use PHPObject to communicate with a mySQL database, hopefully it will work. In the read me it says i need to install the PHPObject_AS1.mxp or PHPObject_AS2.mxp files, I dont understand how to accomplish that, can someone explain this step to me, thanks. I really need to mak...more >>

Hi all using PHP, I know how to index the content of a folder and return a list of file names. So I can do that to list the images contained in a folder. Now, how would I then get the PHP generated list of files into the flash movie at run time? and how would I use that list to tell flash th...more >>

see this link http://Skid.go.ro/Enter.swf , go to "Animations" there's the problem , I want to make all those buttons from the left side to open different aniamtion in the right square pls help me with this ...more >>

I'm having some trouble with this script probably becuase I'm not completely sure of how it works. Could someone please help me out.? ecz1.start(0, 999); ecz1.onSoundComplete = play(); it is being stopped in that frame btw. but is what its doing is simply going strait to the play(); ...more >>

Sorry if this is a stupid newbie question, but I'm a stupid newbie. Tried searching... If you want to do something like this, in every frame of a movie clip: stop(); this.my_clip_mc._visible = false; ...is the only way to put this action script in every single frame of the clip? An...more >>

I was hoping someone would be able to help me out with a little something that has me stumped. I have 5 horizontal movie clips that are all buttons. When one is clicked it expands and pushes all below it down to make room for its expansion. Now what I want is to include something to each m...more >>

How should the code look like if I would like this tweening (after it is finished/done) go to next frame 2 by itself. (automatic) Here?s the scripted tweening in frame 1: #include "lmc_tween.as" customEasing = {}; customEasing.pts = [{Mx:0,My:0,Nx:6,Ny:-136,Px:23,Py:23},{Mx:29,My:-...more >>

Hi there, I have a swf, that references my sound files by this line of code: myAudio.loadSound("loops/greenday.mp3", true); When i test this on my local pc, it is fine, it finds the file - but when i upload the file and view on my page: http://www.tickleyfeet.com/gallery/html/lagan/inde...more >>

I am trying to make my 3 tweenings(the classical example with a dot and a path: the dot is a movie clip in a guided layer) to disappear in turns by using 3 buttons. I used the following lines for the buttons on (release) {gotoAndPlay(1); setProperty("dot1", _alpha, "0"); setProperty("do...more >>

I'm building myself a desktop in flash !! Everything goes allright but I have a problem ! How can I link my button with my applications !? I search the web a lot for this and I found nothing working! thank you pros ! :) ...more >>

I am programming a Flash element to go at the top of a webpage. The Flash element has submenus in it. To get a submenu to popup or disappear, you roll over a big invisible button. Behind the invisible button are 4 or 5 small buttons forming the actual submenu, just one word of text each. The s...more >>

Hello all! A quick question, this first bit of code works fine but why doesn't the second? ============================ var var1="about" if (var1 == "about") { setProperty("movie-4", _visible, "1"); } ============================ loadVariables("vars.txt",GET); if (var1 == "abo...more >>

Hi I need help on creating objects particularly text buttons which seem to float on the screen and when a user passes over them they reveal submenus. Its mainly like this site here where you can find the idea, can anyone help me with this one? The site is detremmerie.be and the menu is on the ...more >>

I'm using 'loadmovienum' and I'd like to know if there is a way to determine the coordinates (where it goes on the page) in a simple way. I'm not a programmer and only know rudimentary ActionScript. I don't need it to move around the screen or anything - I just want to control the placement ...more >>

Hi, i'm creating a website using flash and i a animated nav bar on the left and some corresponding background animation on the right. leaving a nice space in the middle of my screen, for displaying the information. My plan is to load the information in via the Loadmovie action but i'm having...more >>

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Hi, I've a problem..... I've made a quiz through the template, which works fine. The I wanted to put this into a scene on another movie. So I presumed I could simply copy and paste the frames over, but as when I do this and get to the quiz scene, the next button doesn't work. The next b...more >>

There is an inconsistency in the behaviour of Slide.rootSlide() between a flash movie played as test movie, or in a browser (Safari in this case) and a movie played using Flash player, or a projector. It arises when you load a slide based movie into another slide based movie which is being use...more >>