I'm relatively new to Flash and actionscripting, so forgive me if this is a newb question. Is it possible to use a list component to play certain frames of a movie when the user clicks on a specific list item? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. ...more >>

Greets... I know this is recreating the wheel... The idea is to have a PHP/mySQL backend to our web portfolio. I created the backend and it works as expected. I call the backend with a LoadVars.sendAndLoad to getdata.php and that works as expected. I duplicateMovieClip() with a new ins...more >>

Hello Helpful Scripters! Two questions to which I cannot find the answers: (1) I would like to be able to "grab" the current frame (as an integer) that the timeline is currently playing as the SWF plays and use it as a variable:Number. Is this possible? Alternately, it could be how many ...more >>

How can I create that cool burn effect (blend) with fade between one picture and another (in nextFrame) picture in my gallery. Alternative 1: Here?s the code in the first frame: var my_color:Color = new Color(mcPicture1); var myColorTransform: Object = { ra: 100, ga: 100, ba: 100, ...more >>

I am working on a site that i have created a Vector map of the US for a store locator. When you roll over the states that have a store i have a hover caption pop up that has the state name in it. If you click one say North Carolina then i have an external SWF file that loads and in an empty ...more >>

though i've programmed in other languages before, i'm new to actionscript, so i'm having a little trouble. i have a TextInput object and a Button object on the stage, and the attached code. when i click the button, nothing happens. any help would be appreciated. thanks, matt on ...more >>

I have been searching high and low for info/instructions on how to work with checkboxes or the checkbox component to pass data from Flash MX 2004 to a PHP file, but with no success. I need to convert an HTML form to Flash that allows people to select multiple checkboxes, but I can't find a tu...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to disable the current day and all previous dates in a dateField component? Thanks for your help, Scott ...more >>

I want text to appear when the user rolls over a button but when I put it as part of the button the user can select the button from the text which is on the other side of the screen what would be the best way to do this? thanks ...more >>

ok, the tellTarget thing worked great mandigo, but that just brought up another problem. What i am trying to do is when the frame is played, this actionscript plays, or initiates, or whatever actionscript does. anyway, heres what i have as the code: _root.focusbar.bar.gotoAndStop(_currentf...more >>

this method is inside an Armada class. the trace returns _root.armada[mc] as undefined over and over and over again. why does it do this when clearly to get to the trace, it has to be there, correct? function moveAround(speed){ var temp_armada:Armada = this _root.armada.onEnterFrame = funct...more >>

Hi I'm trying to load a FLV and all I'm getting is the audio without the video. nc = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); // ns = new NetStream(nc); my_video.attachVideo(ns); // ns.setBufferTime(5); ns.play("test.flv"); I have a movie clip called my_video on the stage. I as...more >>

I'm working on a language proyect (English-Spanish) I'm using SWFs to play the entire proyect. I have some SWFs with English-Spanish content in them. The SWF NpShovelsEng.swf has 12 labels in it; the first six labels esh1...esh6 are for English content and from Ssh1...Ssh6 are for Spanish. ...more >>

I want the trace to show "SuperDuperMachine", but it doesn't. var machine1:String = ""; var machine2:String = ""; var machine3:String = ""; var machineVariables:Array = [machine1, machine2, machine3]; machineVariables[1] = "SuperDuperMachine"; trace(machine2); I've been working on ...more >>

I was making this mini game to practice some action script, and I made an Input Text where the score will be updated while the player is playing the game. this is a sniplet of code in a movie clip instance on the stage. scorebar=_global.score1 ; //the variable name of the Input Text is s...more >>

Hi With the following code I am trying to load redPic jpeg into the second frame of a movie called content. content has 2 key frames the firsts contains a graphic and the second is empty and waiting for redPic. when I play the movie redpic loads and my moviclip plays with red pic static as ...more >>

Hello again Gurus, I have 36 buttons on my stage that are named [thumbBut0, thumbBut1, thumbBut2,..., thumbBut35]. Each button is a thumbnail image. I want to have it so that when the user clicks on a given thumbnail, the full-sized image corresponding to the thumbnail gets loaded and view...more >>

Hi I have a project whereby I want to use linkage to link a class to a movieclip, the movieclip exists only in the second frame of the swf that is loaded in, ie it only plays after its preloaded. I need to dispatch an event to another class which is not attached to any clips. Is there a way to...more >>

I'm trying to assign one object to another temporary object ..but all I ever get is a reference. I want to be able to change the temp object, without permanently affecting the original. Is this even possible? ...more >>

I have a component button and I am wanting to be able to retrieve the instance name or the button name (textfield) on click or release. Is there a way to do this? Anyone have any ideas? Please. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi... In an MC we have 12 text fields whose values are people's name: John, Janet, David etc.. These boxes have variabe names of name1, name2, name 3 etc., Each box has a button next to it. On the main timeline we have 12 dynamic text boxes whose variable names are also name1, name2, nam...more >>

I'm working for the first time with Screens using the "Sharp Slide Presentation Template". I need keyboard navigation the project and have been able to get it to work perfectly with "AutoKeyNav", but this is using the arrow left and right keys. I need it to work with the Page Up and Page Down ...more >>

Hi, a frequent Flash user here. I tried to make a navigation button, where when you roll over a symbol the links apear and stay there so you can klick on them, but disapear when you roll out of the area again. would there be a button over another button? and how do i make the link from t...more >>