I have a scrollpane that loads a movieclip. This movieclip has a textfield that is loaded from a .txt file. If i have static text the scrollpane works perfectly but if i have dynamic text it doesn't seem to load. I tried pulling the dynamically loaded text movieclip right onto the stag...more >>

I have this launch movie that loads the portfolio movie. The port movie has these circles that are supposed to play a sound on rollover and release. They work fine if I just play them in the port movie, but once they are loaded on top of the launch movie they no longer play the sound ? but the...more >>

I have a baseball bat shaped object and I want to detect a reasonably accurate collision between the moving bat and an another irregular shaped moving object (a fish). I've done a lot of reading and tried various techniques of collision but I'm quite confused and perplexed over what's an accu...more >>

I think I'm missing something fundamental here but for the life of me I can't see what. stop(); delayDone = false; delayID = setInterval(delay, 5000); while (!delayDone) { } trace("Done") function delay() { clearInterval(delayID); delayDone = true; } ...more >>

I cant for the life of me figure out how to assign a button with the capability to both jump to a point on the timeline, and execute an action script - both with the same click. I tried using two-different, overlapping buttons, but it seems as thouh the one on the higher layer prevents the lo...more >>

+ - The Problem - + I need to create a line that has a set length, between two points. One point will stay fixed while the other I would like to move using actionscript or attach to a movieclip. If the two points are not the maximum distance apart the line would droop because of gravity. ...more >>

Hello all, I am working on a simple preloader for the beginning of a 150kb movie. Although I have tried numerous things, I cannot seem to get the preloader (which is located on the 1st and 2nd frames of the video) to appear before 80% of the video is loaded. I have: Removed the "exp...more >>

I have two videos I want to play, one video will always play and the other will play depending on the time. I would like to store the time information in an external file. I'd to have it setup so It will play from 9:00am to 9:30am then after 9:30 it will go back to the default or main video. ...more >>

Hello there, here it goes: I'm having problems with tabIndex In my flash I have following hierarchy: tabEnabled true = T tabEnabled false= -T tabChildren true= C tabChildren false= -C tabIndex declared= Tn (tab number) ...more >>

I have a little form I made to order things from a distributor. It's not fancy, I just print out the page when I'm done and fax it over, no digital saved copy or anything. Anyways, I have 12 rows and each row has 2 calculator buttons Each_1 = ((Retail_Price_1)*(1-Discount_1)); So, onc...more >>

Is there a way in flash to have the flash movie to jump to a director file when finished playing? thanks. j...more >>

Just noticed something strange about how Flash handles booleans returned by getter functions.. function returnTrue(){ return true; } function returnFalse(){ return false; } graphic_mc._visible = returnFalse() || returnTrue(); That works fine - Flash compares the t...more >>

Ive made a banner in Flash MX 2004 and i now need to place it in dreamweaver as a SWF and i want it to go to a web address when it is clicked. I just cant get it to go to a website when i click on it, can someone give me steps on how to do this. Cheers ...more >>

instead of tracing my debug information, i send it to a text field, so i have something like... when blah blah blah debugstatus.text = (debugstatus.text + "blah blah blah code activated"); the problem is, i want it to take a new line after each output. i tried... debugstatus.text = (...more >>

hey gang I have the following in an xml doc: <![CDATA[ "<a href='http://www.my link.com' >Go</a>" ]]> Now I want to be able to bring that href into a html text box in Flash. However, it just pulls the text. is there a work around somewhere that you've used? thanks -- Dan Mode...more >>

Got a slight problem with importing one AS2 class into another. I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong, or just trying something which isn't going to work. For this particular project, all my classes are in a sub folder, local to the FLAs, not in a fixed location that can be accessed from the ro...more >>

I had a problem facing in duplicating of menus, i duplicated "cont" movieClip with an array that suppose to 10 items in an array and Movie Clip Instance name is "cont" Create button and put Dynamic Text Box Variable is "itm" frame Code is: var items = ["About us", "Process", "Ou...more >>

:frown; I have a problem with setting the enabled property for a button when the button is masked. If I set the buttons enabled property to false in active script and then continue the movie the button remains disabled; as required. If however I do the same but add a mask layer and a mask ...more >>

Hello Gurus, I have an array that has successfully been created and loaded with thumbnail images. After the array has been successfully created, it calls the following function. I want this function to take those thumbnail images from the array and load them into movie clip instances that ...more >>

you can change alpha, but can you change tint, Brightness or contrast on an image with action script? I can do work arounds, but there should be easier ways to achieve this....more >>

hi everyone, Just upgraded my app. to mx2004. The old skool component cleared her content with componentname.refreshPane() but this is not the case with 2004components. apparently in 2004 it refreshes her content... I am using a scollpane to load dynamic content with attach and ...more >>

hi I have a movie clip "myCircle" on the first frame of the stage, inside this movie clip i have given motion tween. i have set swLiveConnect=true ID="test" in the PARAM tag. now i want to play this movie clip through javascript only. Regards Tejinder Singh ...more >>

Hi, I have to trap the combination keys in browser which is a part of simulation. the flash app can trap ctrl+ k but not ctrl + s just because it is a shortcut key for saving and is associated with browser. is there any work around for this. ...more >>

hi guys Here is an issue i cant handle ..am going nuts with that. Let me describe Well i have my MAIN SWF :-- which have AS that creates empty movies clips and loads images in it and have the images masked. On a button click, my MAIN SWF loads my SECONDARY SWF which have the same AS a...more >>

Hi, I wanted put this topic out to see if anyone has any ideas. Lately I have been working with some pretty beefy SWFs, some upwards of 20 MBs. In the past I used the SWF Report generated at publish time to calculate the sizes of scenes. Then I could check to make sure enough of the SWF...more >>

Hi All, i am calling my text values externally from the .txt file, Here i have to secure the .txt file by doing encrption and decryption, Is there any body who can help me out how to make my txt file as encrypted and then decrypted to read it?? Thanx and Regards Yojana ...more >>

If I have a button on frame 10 and my code on frame 10 the button works: myButton_btn.onRelease = function () { yada yada }; If I move the code to frame one and keep the button on frame 10, the button doesn't work. How can I make the function work from frame 1? I want to keep all ...more >>

I was wondering if it was possible to export text field information into a ..txt. I am trying to create a small inventory application. I want to be able to put the quantity of an item into a text field, once submitted it would be exported to a txt. which would then be recalled, and loade...more >>

I have a dynamic text field that reads from a txt file this works fine when i run it from flash but when its online it says undefined in stead of the text that is in the file??? does any one know why this? ...more >>

I am using this AS to check for pressed buttons...and when pressed I want them to dim (alpha set tp 50). But it does not work, can anyone tell me whay? function checkButton(thisButton) { // "thisButton" refers to the button being pressed if (!thisButton.pressed) { thisButton.press...more >>

Hi I am attempting to create a large flash movie and everytime I go to do this I get the error that there is not enough memory available to do this. I just added 512gb more of ram so I don't think this is the problem can someone help me. Denise ...more >>

Can anyone post a very straightforward ActionsScript that would allow me to setup a Mute button to turn off all sounds and then if pressed again turns on all sounds? I have voice and music and video in the piece I am working on. All the examples I have seen work for just one sound. Thanks...more >>

Hi All, I'm making an online T-shirt application in flash. I have to make outer and inner outlines of dynamic text. User can select whether he wants only outer outline or both(outer and inner) outlines. My problem is I don't know how to make dynamic outlines of text through action script. ...more >>

Hello. I have a main swf that dynamically loads <n> jpgs into it, and then loads each into an associated class instance that dynamically performs transformations on the loaded jpg. All loading and processing is done dynamically. The class instance moves and rotates the jpg. My problem ...more >>

I have a repeated problem where I need to check what "state" an object on the stage is in. Is it off or on? Or in this case is it up or down? Below is my code that does not work but portrays what I'm trying to do. Im trying to set a variable to tell if my object is in an up or down state. Is ...more >>

Can anyone tell me if thereis a way of Dynamically referencing MovieClips? If for instance I want to trace the X location of 10 movieClips with instance names myClip1_mc thru myClip10_mc I should be able to use a for loop like below: for(var i=1; i<11;i++) { myClip = "myClip"+ i +"_mc"...more >>

I need to create a simple unsecure form. I want to enter a username and password and use actionscript to redirect me to the proper page depedning on the login. Here is my actionscript that does not work.... Please help on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") { if (username.text == "admin") { ...more >>

{loadText = new LoadVars(); loadText.load("http://www.djnow.co.uk/~newsite/data.txt"); loadText.onLoad = function() { test.infoa.text = this.infoa; }; this is the text I used would some one be able to explain why this doesnt work and comes back un defined when in a previous version it...more >>

Hi i am trying to do a flash website which looks different at different time of the day, say morning, afternoons & nite. I have an asp page which send me the value of 1/2/3. Now i load this value in flash, but I am unable to shift the control to the respective frame, I think my if statemen...more >>

Thanks to everyone who is taking the time to read my question ( especially you kglad ) There are two times within my site where I get information from my user and send it to a database. One time when I get a "presentation code" and another time when I get a "password". Each time I get th...more >>

This should be pretty simple i am having a brain-fart at the moment. I have 2 swf's inside index.html. One is nav.swf, the other is content.swf. When someone clicks a button in nav.swf, i need content.swf to gotoAndPlay() or whatever. These swf's are in different row's within the index....more >>

I know there are complex Actionscript methods for manipulating external swf's but I'm hoping there is an easy way to load an external swf into a movie clip container and specify playback from the beginning of that external clip each time the root page (or slide in this case) is loaded. Th...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash Professional 2004 with Flash Remoting services, Coldfusion 6.1 and Access XP. My Flash application displays the database results through a Datagrid. Now, I very much would like to print some of these results into an already existing form (right now a cfm page). By...more >>

I have text file on line that inputs the text into the movie and it worked fine until it went onlinenow it comes back un defined??? This is the code used loadText = new LoadVars(); loadText.load("http://www.djnow.co.uk/~newsite/data.txt"); loadText.onLoad = function() { test.infoa.te...more >>

I am trying to implement a basic protection system requested by the client for a projector application that is installed on the users hard drive. Basically the application and all its media files are installed to the users hard drive. Then every time the user launches the application, it mus...more >>

I've tired making a button change a variable on press and return to original value on release and then a movieclip that performs things on enterframe depending on the condition of that variable. It doesn't seem to be working. Is there an easier way to do this or could you give me an alterna...more >>

Hi All, I want to know the distance between characters in input textfield. Please help me out. Thanks Harmeet Singh...more >>

hi, i'm a flash application developer.i found this bug in my script when i placed a component in my stage.the removeMovieClip() is not working and it's also affecting my array objects.when i delete the component from my library and everything is working fine.can anyone help me how to fix ...more >>

Hi all, I'd like to play audio externally from a cd which i don't have a problem with. However that code would only work if they had the cd in the drive with the same letter as what the code says. Is there a way to detect what the cd drives on someones pc are and save that to a variab...more >>