Hi there -- I am in need of some help with this one.. I have am using createEmptyMovieClip to create a blank MC in _level0, and I would like to assign the following to its onEnterFrame and onLoad event... onClipEvent(load){ //set the value of newX equal to its current x position //ne...more >>

I'm trying to create a basic login with my flash app. For some reason I cant seem to get it to pass in POST data. Heres what I have for my actionscript this.createEmptyMovieClip("submit_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth()); var submit_mc.username:String = username_txt; var submit_mc.passwd:Str...more >>

is there a way to kill all the children of a movieclip using actionscript? I have a movieClip holding all the shots I fire and when all the enemies have been killed, I want all the bullets to disappear too. sam...more >>

hi all, i have a swf called 'weddings' that loads thumbs into a holder mc, and it works fine on its own. but when the 'weddings' swf is loaded into a holder in my index.swf, the thumb loading scripts stop working. i am guessing it has something to do with the heirarchy of the swfs. h...more >>

i'm having trouble getting a holder mc to return to its original x and y positions when i load new mcs into it. kglad recommended the following onClipEvent(load){ // <-- attached to thumbholder initX=this._x; initY=this._y; } and any time you use thumbholder.loadMovie(); also execu...more >>

Hi All, I'm working on tree component & created a menu by loading a xml file into it. Also I've given the open folder functionality onclicking of any parent node. and I want to remove the node opening functionality from the black arrow, how to do that, please help ...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to have a proper indentation for the XML files created by Actionscript. I use XML class; createElement, createTextNode, etc. However, I could not find a way to create a XML like <a> <b> <c/> </b> </a> What it does is <a><b><c/><...more >>

I have the following actionscript on a button: on (press) {gotoAndPlay("two"); } on (release) { _root.button_visited_video.gotoAndPlay("visited_videoinfo"); } Basically what happens is that the blue button whe pressed goes to frame label "two" and then changes to grey, which is e...more >>

Hi - Im fining it impossible to remove a duplicated movie clip. Ive placed the small fla at the link below if someone would be so kind as to take a look www.contrastmedia.co.uk/test.fla at the end of the shot animation (the black circle) I want it to delete itself many thanks for your ...more >>

Good Morning all, I?m trying to get the _x and _y of a movieclip relative to the stage where said movieclip is nested inside several others, which have been dynamically rotated. I?m hoping there is an easy way to get this rather then taking the route of reverse engineering the positio...more >>

Good morning all, What I am trying to accomplish is a Drop down Menu in flash powered by XML. I want to it be fully customizable from a xml text file. can anyone help. thank you...more >>

I have a dynamic text field that gets the mouse location to sisplay on screen but it comes back undefined onClipEvent (enterFrame){ xval=_root.xmouse; yval=_root.ymouse; } this is the code that am using does any one know wha tis wrong or a better way of doing it?? ...more >>

Hi I'm trying to use scrollpane component Do you know how to make its background transparent using actionscript? Thanks ...more >>

I am importing a number of swf's which have been created by other people. Obviously I don't want anyone to include code which might interfere with my movie, so I was wondering if there is an effective way to disable actionscript in an imported clip. Ideally I'd like to disable buttons, cod...more >>

Problem, I have a text editor in flash just like this which i typed my message. User can format the text ( Bold, I,etc).After that user can save the page.When other users logs in they should see the changed contents.The Applications are running in a server and ASP is my server side ...more >>

Is is possible to make it so itplays the first frame but not the second?...more >>

Hello, When creating an e mail form in flash, where do you writ the PHP script? I know its probably something simple, but I can't figure it out! Cheers....more >>

Okay, so I'm calling an actionscript function from an HTML file, that I called displayImage (guess what it does!). here is the function: function displayImage(imageName){ _root.introMovie.siteMovie.imageName._visible=1; } and I call it from the HTML using this code: <a HREF="asfu...more >>

I added an mc with identifier "GraphCom" and wrote following code on its first frame. but its drawGraph method is not executing.. GraphClass = function () { }; GraphClass = new MovieClip(); //================================ GraphClass.prototype.drawGraph = function() { trace("call...more >>

Hi .I had a problem but my last forum solved it.Now i want to open mplayer2.exe and parameter avseq01.dat. In Flash Mx ,how can be it possible? ===========AGE LEAVES YOU SOON ============================= ...more >>

I'm looking for examples, tutorials or samples of how to creating captions with ActionScript and XML like what you would see in Macromedia Captivate. I've made some attempt at this myself with noluck... What I had tried was to create a dynamic text box and place it inside a movieclip, i...more >>

So far, the most reliable means of using the combobox, has been to make it editable -- but restrict the box to just 'enter' ..and then I can reliably listen to the 'Enter' event. The RollOver // RollOut events are too sensitive. They trigger far too often ...and unfortunately the 'change'...more >>

Red Newbie Alert! Here?s what I have wrought thus far: 1. I have a Flash menu file. It contains four buttons that serve as hyperlinked icons. 2. The rollover state for each button is an imported Flash movie. (The reason for this is that I have created ?magnification? effects for each ...more >>

Hello, I have created a small app to allow the user to add a textfield to their preferred position on the screen. At the moment I can't workout how to give each textfield added a new name, and the code only allows one textfield to be added. Is it possible to use a variable name instead o...more >>

I?m importing some data from a PHP script, and with onData handler the raw string is initServerSideSiteData=&reformatingOfOriginalImagesComplete=&initServerSideSiteD ataStarted= In the PHP these three variables hold boolean values, in this case 'false', indicates by empty strings... Whe...more >>

Im trying to get a mc to rotate towards another mc. Kinda like when a mc rotates towards your mouse. But I want the mc to rotate towards another mc instead. The code to have a mc rotate towards your mouse is... _global.radiansToDegrees = function(radians) { return (radians/Math.PI)*180; }...more >>

Hey, when i use attachMovie function or duplicateMovieClip i get the reference and change the custom properties that i added to the MC, however the changes never take effect. Why is this? Am I only causing properties with the same name to be created for the temporary pointer object? this is ...more >>

I took a class in flash MX when it first came out but my teacher was a programmer not a designer so most of what he taught was directed toward programmers. Im not at all programmer literate but i have been a designer for 10 years now and i have a problem. The only way i know how to make an ani...more >>

Hi all, I dragged and dropped a window component to my Flash stage, and its curently moveable, my quesiton is how can I make this window component sticks to my desired position, making it unmoveable? Is this possible? Thanks a lot. ...more >>

I need to control the content movie clip of a scroll pane with buttons on the root time line. ex. scrollPane instance = my_sp scrollpane content MC = my_mc (do i need to give this MC an instance name? and if so, where do i do that at?) script on button on the root timeline. ...more >>

can I set up a instance name for an item that is only in the library? for example , a sound, I cant put it on stage and I want to use : instanceName.attachSound()...more >>

I'm trying to put together a Product Photo Library which will be distributed on CDROM only. I had the idea to use the scroll pane component to display a long list of thumbnails of the various products, which I can do. Each thumbnail will in fact be a button with which I would like to be able...more >>

Hey all, I have a problem ocncerning the onEnterFrame events. I have several onEnterFrame events running (preloader, animations etc.) and this slows down my movie's framerate. My quaestion is.: Is it possible to remove onEnterFrame events when its not needed anymore and if how does thi...more >>

would someone here knows how can i incorporating pdf file from flash. i mean opening pdf files through flash... i used the getURL() but silly me, it doesn't work.... how can i do it?:confused;...more >>