hi, i am a new user of action script. i am trying to get the value of the checkbox how ever i failed. Below is my code: on(click){ if(use_surfSelection_cb.selected=true){ trace("checked!"); } else{ trace("unchecked"); } } the output always shows "checked!" even thoug...more >>

I?m trying to watch or onchanged a movie's frame location. Other than having an onenterframe function running continually, which will needlessly hammer the processor, I need to have a function that will tell me when a movie moves on a frame. Has anyone any ideas. :D ...more >>

Hi, everyone. Thanks for all the help that you all have given me on my function. However, my problem still persists. I have this function (see below), that just seems to stall out at a certain point. It's not entering an endless loop; i know this because i put a trace command in all my ...more >>

I have a noticable studder in my music loop when it repeats. I know my loop is good as I have heard it on another site and it works fine, unfortunately, i do not have access to that code. I assume there are different ways to code the action script. Can someone point me in the right direc...more >>

I am trying to iterate thru an array using action script. I have labels with instance names of time0 thru time6. Here is my for loop: for (x= 0; x<8; ++x) {[ time[x].text = intTime[x]; } intTime is an array that holds the time values. however, this fails and the labels never get la...more >>

Is it possible to refresh the scroll bar of a scroll pane without refreshing the content of the scroll pane? Or is it something else that is wrong in my movie: I've made an swf in wich i load data from an xml-file This swf is loaded into a scroll pane. In firefix most of the time everyth...more >>

Hi all, I have a menu with 2 options. Each are seperate mc's and inside them I have 2 states/label names "on" and "off". All I want to have happen is when I roll my mouse over the menu option, the mc is to go to the "on" state on the option I have just selected and then for the other...more >>

Hi. I have a movie clip in Flash (say "movie1.swf"). In this movie i call another one with "LoadMovieNum" (say "movie2.swf"). This "movie2.swf" has some buttons. When i click those buttons i want to goback to a frame on "movie1.swf". I can't seem to make this work. How can i do it? Can...more >>

Ok, so I am writing code. I publish the movie. All works fine. I save and close the file. Next time I open the file, the last 4 or 5 scripts I wrote are no longer there. I re-write them, publish, save, close and re-open and only a few of the scripts that I replaced are still there...this is ...more >>

Hi Want to create a small searchfunction in flash which send a variable to PHP and PHP does the rest. Now waht I just want is to pass the var to PHP and echo it for testing What I have done but what is not working..... searchText is the variable put on an input textfield... Here'...more >>

I have 6 buttons (mc) each one with the labels UP, OVER, FADEOUT and HIT When I clicked on one button (in the HIT label) - all buttons who is clicked before (Hit label) should play a CLOSING animation. BUT here comes the problem: Only the latest clicked button should even play + ONE MORE a...more >>

Lately, I have had ideas for a game I once designed, but never really made in a playable format and thought about making it in Flash. It will be an adventure/puzzle game of sorts, played in top-down view (like a map) and involve the hero running around finding objects to help him in his quest,...more >>

Is it possible to send a "release()" message to a movieclip not by releasing the mouse, but through actionscript? My goal is to invoke an "on (release)" handler within the MC from a centralized actionscript section which is listening for the user to press the "Enter" key (instead of a mouse). ...more >>

Hello everyone! Could someone please tell me how to manipulate a movie clips height via actions script? I am creating a bar graph from a text file and I would like to extend the movie clips height depending on the value. Also, I will have around 30 bars on my graph. Thank you in advance fo...more >>

OK, I have a project where I'm animating alongside video. I import the video using the wizard and I import it into the Library with the audio integrated. This is now a movie clip. I go into the movie clip and I put graphics on the screen at certain points. I then place this movie clip ...more >>

I have a rather large 3-D rendered animation that consists of several frames of bitmap images. I used a standard preloader that I've used a bunch of times, but when the animation begins to play - it's really choppy. Once the animation is done (and there are going to be several of these littl...more >>

Simple project: 1. A 14 minute video playing in Flash 2. PowerPoint slides come up at specific points during the video. I've never used video in Flash and I've read the "Working with Video". It seems that video is applied to your timeline in Flash, which means with a 14 minute video at...more >>

Hi I have 2 methods I am using to display a progress bar, one is called using setInterval, when I try and trace "this", its undefined when the function is triggered using setInterval, but when its just triggered with a normal method call its defined as the right clip. Does anyone know why, I h...more >>

How can I get my Flash movie's file name as a variable -- without hardcoding it? I.e. something like MyMovieFileName = getMyMovieName()? NOT MyMovieFileName = "myfirstmovie.fla" Thanks Neil...more >>

I am almost finished with a hugh CD-ROM project that involves loading pdf files when buttons are clicked. I am having trouble getting this to work. Anyone know what functions and code I need to put into place to make this happen. PLEASE HELP! ...more >>

A previous programmer imbedded avi files in our flash programs that took up the entire stage (when only 1 switch was animated). Since he left we have gone back and fixed the .fla. The .fla was 94Meg in size. After we changed it, it should have been about 30k but the XP window still says 94...more >>

i want to call a function when my loader loads a movie. All the examples define the function as part of the code setting it. Like this: myListener2.onLoadComplete = function(target_mc:MovieClip) { trace("*********Second my_mcl instance*********"); } i want to call a function i define...more >>

email client issues etc. Sandbox restrictions, embedding flash? or point me to a good resource ta MaTT...more >>

Hello, The problem I am encountering is as follows: Using a flash back end, we are dynamically entering content into html divs using a getURL call to a java script function. The problem is when we call the function twice in a row to write to two seperate div's on the page, the first ...more >>

Does anyone know how to randomly load an swf from a group of swf files in a folder?...more >>

Hi all, I just have a flash movie embeded in a html page, which I execute a on mouse event such as: on(press){ getURL("http://www.website.com", "_blank", "GET"); } Instead of loading up a new window with the "_blank" or in the current window, I need to be able to open link...more >>

:confused; I have been trying to do something I have seen a number of posts on this forum discussing. I am loading in a series of .swf movies, one after the other as each one ends. I have been trying to use loadMovie, movieclip.loadMovie, loadMovieNum etc. Problem seems to be that after l...more >>

Hi I need to encode special characters to be read in Flash 6. The problem is that the text file is encode using ASP. If I take a look at the URLencode for Flash, http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14143 There is some difference with ASP. For exemple, a SPACE in ...more >>

Is there a way to turn off or override the yellow focus rectangle? I have a custom clip class and I want to display a custom focused state image when the clip has input focus. The clip does not have any input text boxes or other components in it. I'm able to use onSetFocus to display the fo...more >>

Hi all, This is what I am trying to do: I'm trying to make a photo gallery using XML and PHP/MySQL. I have a menu bar with menu items: "Australia", "New Zealand", "Portraits". What I need to do is- when I click on say "Australia", it should invoke a function in my php file and return me ...more >>

We have a project where we are supposed to load html content inside flash interface. I have searched alot and I know it is possible to achieve this I even had a code in past through which I had done it in past, but I have lost it now :( After a lot of research about this topic I have fo...more >>

Hello, here is my "problem" : On a web site, I have some objects on the stage representing the area the user is currently visiting. I want them to move from a position to an other (I use _rotation, _y_ and _x) when the user changes "pages". I usually create a movieclip with three frames ...more >>

I am trying to create a puzzle where the user can select the instances of a duplicated mc (example: object1_mc throught object4_mc) and drag them simultaneously, as well as rotate them around a single point. I do not want the user to be able to drag the objects outside a specific area. Any tho...more >>

Is there still a problem with using the fullscreen command and linking to different swf files in Flash MX 2004? I have heard that when an external movie is called is doesn't open it in the full window. If designing on a Mac but you want to cater for many different users, is it possible jus...more >>

Im trying to learn about variables so please help me. I got a problem with the ' if( ) ' command in AS. I got two buttons when u press button 1 a dynamic text box increases the number by 1and button 2 makes 1 decrease. I just want to know how to use this script on the right way: if(hea...more >>

I have an MC (aListHold) that contains a Loader component (articleBlurbImg). I also have a For loop that duplicates this MC a number of times (aListHold01, ....02, ...03). Currently, to insert an external JPG into the Loader, I have the following actionscript: this["aListHold0"+i].articleb...more >>

Hi! You can call a function in Flash movie from a link in a dinamic text field this way: <a href="asfunction:functionName">link</a> My question is: how can I pass a parameter to that function? Expression of the kind: <a href="asfunction:functionName(param)">link</a> doesn't work! -- Bla...more >>

I am calling a javascript link, that calls a cue point in the video, to my .flv file and I am getting an error that says Error: document.ent_video_controller.SetVariable is not a function The code works fine in Firfox and IE on windows but is not working on the Mac. Any ideas? I have fla...more >>

I?m loading a window with this code But how do I remove it import mx.managers.PopUpManager import mx.containers.Window open_btnListener = new Object(); open_btnListener.click = function(){ var myTW:MovieClip = PopUpManager.createPopUp(_root,Window, true, {closeButton: t...more >>

I have a series of external .swf's that I need to load into my main .swf for my web site. I want to load the second .swf in the background while the first .swf is playing. So I've got a loadmovie command on the first few frames of the first .swf to tell the browser to load the second .swf. In ...more >>

I want to import a javascript into flash en export it as .swf can you please help me <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- ; // numberguess by Galiel A. - written 9 Mei 2005 // leerling_17962@hotmail.com var guessme=Math.round(1888); var speech='Raad de levensloop'; functi...more >>

Is there a Flash function/method that will remove all existing movieclips on the stage without tracking .... something like removeAllMovieClips() thanks, Brian...more >>

Hi, I'm currently developping an application on flash using forms and I have serious trouble with loading. It seems that the first frame of the rootForm screen is not loaded directly. How can I solve this problem please ? I tried to create a progress bar but I have to wait like 10 seconds...more >>

Im trying to learn about variables so please help me. I got a problem with the ' if( ) ' command in AS. I got two buttons when u press button 1 a dynamic text box increases the number by 1and button 2 makes 1 decrease. I just want to know how to use this script on the right way: if(hea...more >>

I have several similar Flash programs, done as Flash Form Applications. I am using some Buttons adapted from the Flash components. In two of the programs, when I am in the designer I can click on a button that is on the stage, and it is selected, so I can move it around, look at its Action S...more >>

I have created an online portfolio site for my design company and am having one problem with my portfolio section. Currently when you hit portfolio a scrolling pane with all my work appears in a masked area, and when you roll over the pictures the scrolling action stops and you can see a biger...more >>

I'm really sad whit this issue... Macromedia team made a nice work whit the halo themes... but why they dont let us made or aow themes??? in the way we want!!! ;) I just made some changes in StyleManager. as and CSSSetStyle.as files, (ad add some lines to have a new color in order to create ...more >>

I'm loading different flash movies in to the main flash animation of mine, I want to load in three movies. I want them all to appear in the same place in the main screen as they will only appear on at a time depending on what button is pressed. This i have achieved by loading them on t...more >>

Is there an easy way to create the actionscript equivalent of a jar file? What I want to be able to do is just package up a set of compiled actionscript classes and allow them to be included on someone else's classpath. I don't want them to see or use my source actionscript directly. ...more >>

I would really appreciate any help on this. I am using actionscript to load movies containing images from an external file. The code looks like this: animator.createEmptyMovieClip("slide", 0); loadMovie(_global.slideFolder +_global.SlideNum+".jpg", animator.slide); I would like to have...more >>