I have a movie that gets pre loaded this works fine no probs at all but when I have sounds in I dont want them to be loaded in the begginning as this greatly increases the amount of time needed to preload the movie but have them loaded on demand I kow it is def possible Ive seen it all ove...more >>

Newbie. I would like to read a jpeg from disk and display it on screen. Thanks....more >>

Guess this will solve my problem from a post that didn?t receive answers becouse of its complexity... I just want to detect if the mouse is going UP or DOWN in the Y axis... I tried checking the value of _ymouse with an temp variable that holded the last _ymouse and seeing if it was greater bu...more >>

Hi all, Would be nice if anyone can explain me why i can't get this setInterval code working: stop(); function myFunction {play(); } ID = setInterval (myFunction, 3*1000) clearInterval(ID); This goes on frame 50 on main timeline. I want thi...more >>

Sorry for the urgent tag, but this one is... I am building my first Flash slide presentation and I would like a set of slides to automatically switch to the next slide when that one is finished. I have the following layout: Presentation title contentHeader 1_slide 2_slid...more >>

hi! I am trying to make a program in which the user can print only a portion of what is on the screen. I tried: print("myMovie","bmovie"); but so all the screen is printed. how can I print only portions of the screen? thank you, Andrei ...more >>

I have a problem. It seems that in all my games i have made where there is Physics and Bounce involved, my player always seems to slide left very slowly. this is very annoying when it comes to percise slope colision. I have checked my code and there werent any _x mis-coordinations or mistake...more >>

Hello, I am developing a site news slide show. Each slide is a movie clip with links within it. The slide show should loop automatically and each movie clip will come up on the screen waits for 10 seconds and loops again. In addition my movie clip has bulletted links at the bottom to other...more >>

When working on AS2.0 classes, orgainsed into packages, is it possible to set a local classpath for the compiler to use when checking syntax within an AS file? The classes cannot be located in a fixed global location (as the entire project and all files will be moved around during its lifeti...more >>

I tried to experiment with #include directive In a fla file I have a function my_function(). I copied it into Notepad and saved as my_function.as in the same folder as the original fla file. Before replacing my_function definition with #include "my_function.as in the original fla file I run it...more >>

Hi all, apologies for my newbiety (the property of being such a "newbie")! I'm trying to build a web-based hotel map" manager with a flash interface. Basically, clicking on a specific point of a city map, a small empty form should "pop" out, allowing the user to fill basic hotel information, ...more >>

I can't how wierd this action script works. Either my system is hosed or Acitonscript works like no other language. Sample movie, code and details: http://arraymedia.com/FF/WTF.html...more >>

hi , i have 3 elements placed on the screen. 1) movieclip named "ball" 2) input variable named "angle" 3) a play button to execute the parabolic motion Lets say the speed of the motion is 5 (constant) and its pre-set. After we enter an angle for the ball to follow, and click on the play butt...more >>

hi, i have some scrolling text in my project. i'd like it to scroll up and down continuously when you click and hold on the up or down scrollers, but at the moment you have to click click click to scroll. is there a command that will force the text to scroll while the mouse is held down? ...more >>

I'm trying to get a format like this: 2005-06-25 8:42:10 or YYYY-MM-DD H:M:S So I guessing I need to do a search for the Date() Class? Thanks -Richard...more >>

I have two movieClip. in first movieClip I wrote the below actionscript and another movie clip with name "look". i want to do when mouse pressed on first movie clip, it will start to Drag and when it come over "look" movie clip on that time look movie clip gotoAndStop(2). code of first cli...more >>

Can someone help me with this.For example I want to create right click menu with Menuitems "Start" and "Stop" . How can I do that ? Please help me! Thanks for help!...more >>

Hi, Can someone help me with flash classes.I couldn't figure out syntax.Is it like C/C++ ? In C/C++ class are making like this` //Creating class name SomeClass class SomeClass{ public: char someName; SomeClass(char someName){ cout<<<"This is the class nam...more >>

First, thanks to everyone who reads my post and offers any helpful comments... So far in my Flash MX experience I've only used the timeline and motion tweening to create interactivity with my users. But I've come to realize that if I want to create more advanced interaction I'm going to hav...more >>

This can't show each step in the animation or I'm doing something wrong: for(i=0; i<10; i++) { myMC._x++; } The sreen isn't refreshed until the loop is exited. Is that just how it is?...more >>

I've got a media player that pulls in info from an external XML file In the FLA, the location of the XML file is done like this: _global.serverPath = "http://www.website.com/audio/"; mySounds.sound_xml.load(serverPath+"playlist.xml?cacheKiller="+my_date.getTime() ); But if I try t...more >>

Hey All I'm working on a website at the moment and there's a lot of text to display in a small window. Originally, I was going to use a scrollpane component to display the information in a kind of Flash equivalent iframe, but it didn't look or feel right. Now, I've got the text in a mask...more >>