Hi, I have a site im trying to do the index page was done in dreamwever (its just a basic html page saying site best viewed at and flash player 7 or higher required) what im trying to do is have a button on it to open a flash based movie that is the same size as my flash movie. can anybody hel...more >>

Hi all, I am setting up a Email Newsletter that has links in it, I want these links to go to certain parts of my all Flash site. I basically want each link to go to a different section of the site. Can you help? I saw another one similar to this on the list but it was not spelled out en...more >>

Hi, thanks in advance for any help - probably a stupid problem. I am very new to Flash and as such started out tinkering with a template. My problem is this - The buttons on the template are animated MC's typical rollover stuff but if I try to add the get url behavior the link works bu...more >>

I can't believe how many hours I've wasted on this stupid thing. Flash seems so ridiculous sometimes. I could do this in Director is 10 seconds. Urgh! I've got these 16 circle movie clips that have tiny embedded video thumbnails that play the full video when clicked. I just need to add two d...more >>

Hi there friends, Is it possible to change the border color of an Input Text box in Flash MX 2004? Please advise, Thanks alot!...more >>

Hi all, I use a dynamic text with autosize = true and works fine. I want to draw a pointer dynamically whitch always points to the last character of the text. How can I get the x,y coordinates? Thanks in advance for any help. ...more >>

Hi I have an outro which i have hidden using visible= false at the start of a long timeline. When i get to a certain point and press a button i have set it so visible=true. The outro is made of a movie clip, inside is another long timeline with a stop on the final frame. I have to make...more >>

Hi, I've been reading the forum and nothing I found worked. So I guess I must be doing something wrong. I'm having a checkbox named location, all I want is when the user check on it a form named "Loc" appear: I figure the code should look something like: on (click){ if (location.tr...more >>

I got http://www.codepaste.net/71 from a friend for pulling info into a scrolling text area from an external file. My problem is that I'd like to use it multiple times in my flash document but am not having any luck. I'm assuming it's the _global that's causing some issues. I tried changing AL...more >>

For some reason, http://www.codepaste.net/72 wouldn't do the "gotoAndStop" that I've coded? It just plain doesn't do it. Any ideas? The field itself has an instance name of "EMail" and a Var of "EMail" ...more >>

Is there a way that I can control a flash movie from another window or from a popup?...more >>

I am building a portfolio site where I need to play Quicktime movies. How can I link quicktime movie files to my flash site? How can I play it within the site? What are the loading time issues? Is it better to play it in a separate window? How can I do that? Please help me. I'm desparate!!!...more >>

I am building a portfolio site where I need to play Quicktime movies. How caI link quicktime movie files to my flash site? How can I play it within the site? What are the loading time issues? Is it better to play it in a separate window? How can I do that? Please help me. I'm desparate!!! ...more >>

I have a movie (My_Movie) with a little animation that will load on _root with a menu (button A, B, C) I need to reverse this movie (animation) when any of the buttons is clicked, like this: Timeline: First frame: My_Movie (with buttons A, B, C) Button A: When clicked will reverse My_mov...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash Professional 2004 (with remote service) and Colfusion 6.1. I'm trying to get my cfc outputting query results according to 2 Arguments only if they are defined. Meaning that if the arguments are not defined then all the records should be displayed. The function I'm...more >>

Hi all, What is Window.content referencing really? You can change and retrieve text from text fields for example but you cannot disable and enable buttons in the content still you can for example resize them. Why is that? Being an old-school OO programmer AS often makes no sense to me. ...more >>

i need charge the pics in format .jpg and .bmp . and i will use loadMovie() for charge it. its ok for the format .bmp but he cant charge the .bmp file. what i must to do?...more >>

Hi guys, I am developing a form using flash. There will be around 10,12 fileds will be there on the form like firstname ,lastname .. etc.. at the last of the of the form.. user needs to send one word document along with the other information. We will send these informaton to the php and p...more >>

Hi all I am having trouble with html in my textarea. i have dynamically created a textarea in one swf which is then loaded into a _root swf. I am applying html tags to the textarea however my <br> tags dont seem to work. i have edited the font size, face and color and this all works but i...more >>

When using the 'standard' method for custom cursors (hide the standard cursor and use a mouse listener to move a custom movie clip) performance is really poor - even in an otherwise empty movie and on a reasonable spec computer. A huge improvement is made when the mouse listener is bypassed an...more >>

Ok the scenario is as such... I've got some symbols inside my Flash, which I would like to show/hide on different occasions. How am I able to pass a variable from the HTML page to "instruct" Flash whether to show/hide certain symbols? All the kind souls please help...thanks! :) ...more >>

Hi there! I'm kind'a new in Actionscript 2.0 so bare with me. I would like to know how I could destroy an instance of a class object that I created. Is there a method or a specific statement to do the job? ...more >>

I have 2 movie clips (videos) running at the same time. After completing, they both cycle through again. The first video replays with the audio however, the second video only plays the video but the sound is cut off. I can't seem to figure out how to get the second video to play continousl...more >>

Dear all, I am making a map in which i am using a xml to load data in the xml. a sample xml is <XML> <node id="0" x="255" y="205" caption="KKcrossing" ref="0" type="Cinema" linkTo="1_3"/> <node id="1" x="330" y="220" caption="Sony Outlet" ref="2" linkTo="0_2" /> <node id="2" x="41...more >>

Hi everyone, im trying to build a chat client using flash. I have already written a server in JAVA and its working propery..now, i succeeded in sending messages from the flash client to the server,the server is able to display the messages sent by the flash client...now if i try to send a ...more >>

Hi, I am a Multimedia Designer. I am interested in doing actionscript, but i am not a programmer. what languages i need to learn to become perfece in actionscript. Please suggest me. Regards, balaji ...more >>

hi, i am doing a flash clip to be broadcasted 24/24h on an internal tv circuit. as a part of it's background, a series of lines and columns of squares (made with lineTo) slide regularly from one corner of the stage to the other (left to right and top to bottom). when a line or a column o...more >>

doing a site for a photographer... on start i have a mc on the stage that uses attachMovie to create 50 instances of another movie clip in the library. Then loads 2 jpegs using MovieClipLoader into each of those 50 clips. so 100 jpgs in 50 movie clips all invisble. Total diskspace taken...more >>

Hi there, I have looked over the forum and viewed a lot of the inquiries?. I have also reviewed the steps to make a flash button open up a page in an html page. Unfortunately, my actions up to this point have not proven successful. I am trying to make a button link on a flash header which is o...more >>

I have this problem when the user clicks a button that is located at the bottom of my page, the viewer is taken to the bottom of frame 59. But I?d like for the viewer to be taken to the top of frame 59 instead. I was wondering if anybody knew the actionscript that would position the screen o...more >>

I'm using the following code on the first frame of my _level1 movie to preload. It's working well, but I'd like to modify this code so that it will begin movie playback after only a portion of all frames has loaded instead of total frames. Any suggestions?? stop(); _level1.onEnterFra...more >>

Is it possible to have two listeners available? I'm having a problem where the one listener I have does not loo good with a few of the pages - I'd like to ideally have two choices of listeners. I tried adding another one, but I can't get it to work. ...more >>

I created a CD-ROM that has a series of swf files that the main sfw file loads. When the user comes to playing the third .swf file, the computer lags and play back is off. But by opening each file, not playing it, closing it and going onto the next file, playback is fine. I would like to pr...more >>

I've built a small website entirely from Flash which works without problems, except that I find that the site begins a mad looping pattern when users double click on buttons OR when an external SWF is clicked to be loaded while on is already loading. YES, I am aware of the stop () script...more >>

Hi there, I have loaded a movie, swf with the loadmovie script into a new fla file. And created a movieclip controller/ slider that drags to control the playing of the movieclip. . . however, the sound that is in my swf is not affected by the movie controller/ slider. How should I cont...more >>

Hey everyone, I visited a site lately that had a neat little function. After a button was clicked, the whole screen shook (not just the movie but the window as well). Does anyone know what code allows this?? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hey all. I'm running into a strange issue. I'm making a small photo flipper SWF file for a web site. By default, it loads image #1 and you can flip to the next image or the previous image by clicking buttons. I am having a hard time getting the initial image to load and function properly. ...more >>

:confused;:disgust; Hello i'm new to flash and i'm using flash mx 2004 pro i need help on this: a scrip for a button to exit the aplication and i want to know how to make an ..exe so that the aplication does not shows the menu bar while it's running. gratefull ...more >>

When you load a movie, can you have it go to a specific frame? For Example: I have : loadMovie("logo_movie.swf",1); loadMovie("nav.swf",2); Can I have the second one go to frame 21? Or can I only do that with Clip events? Thank you Ruth ...more >>

Hi I am creating a scroller class that pulls in xhtml, so i need to use html = true here. The font is embedded and linked, but when I use htmlText nothing displays, when I choose not to embed the font and use htmlText its all visable, or when i just use text its all embedded and visible, the f...more >>

I have a movieclip that contains a button. I placed this movieclip on the screen, however, the button doesn't respond to button events. Object type is a button. Linkage is: next_btn Instance name is: next_btn The following script is inside the movieclip: next_btn.onPress = funct...more >>

Hello, I have a sound object problem in my little animation. The sound object is declared in the first frame of the main timeline I have 2 btns, Play btn and ReStart Btn After pressing Play and then choosing to ReStart, I get multiple voice-overs playing in the background. The ...more >>

is this possible, the text box is dynamically created? cheers MaTT...more >>

I'm trying to make a dynamic text field increment (from 0 to 100) and all I'm seeing is the final number (100). Here's what I'm doing: I have a single frame movie with a dynamic text field that has a variable name of 'mydigits'. The actionscript is pretty simple (too simple, evidently.....more >>

Hello! Can any one find why fscommand is not working when used with javascript and swf in HTML page. The same is working fine in IE. Any idea, reply me asap. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

If mouseOut Here is my problem. I have a SWF object embedded into an HTML page. The SWF rolls itself out onto the HTML content when mouse?d over. When mouse?d out I would want the content to pop back where it belongs. Unfortunately the _xmouse and _ymouse properties aren?t very exact. Sc...more >>

If in a game I have an movie clip which travels outside the screen for good, do I have to destroy this clip manually or Flash does this automatically? If neither is done, these objects will be clogging the memory, will they not? ...more >>

Im newish to flash and am trying to make a feedback form that just simply has 3 text fields that will be simple sint to my emma account and not rely on their mail clients. I know I need to use some kind of server script. Could someone be kind enough to just produce a step by step guide...more >>

My web page is longer that it is wider (just as any other web site) so it requires a vertical scroll bar on the right side of my web browser. Having said that? I have this problem when the user clicks a button that is located at the very bottom of my page, the viewer is taken to the bottom o...more >>

Hi, I tried to find in the web a good tutorial, but i couldn't find any that works fine. I need a Horizontal Scrolling Menu in flash. I want it to loop smoothily always, but when the user mouseover it stop. When the mouse go to the left, the mc scroll to left, and if the mouse is p...more >>