hi - thank you very much in advance. I want to be able to drag a symbol, much larger in width and height than the stage, around on the stage. I'm using startDrag and that works fine. My problem is that whenever a user does a mouse down, the image jumps so that it's center is on the cursor. I...more >>

Ok, I have been strugging with this for days! I have an actionscripted animation, a sort of "matrix numbers" effect. Now I need to animate a logo and tagling on top of this actionscripted animation. The script lives in the first three frames of my document, so I tried to create my other anim...more >>

i am attaching a movie clip with following code this.attachMovie("theActivityParam", "theActivityParam"+i, i); where 'theActivityParam' is ID of the movie clip. Now the movie clip contains some more movieclips say p1, p2, p3,p4 etc. each movie clipt is an instance of same movieclip whic...more >>

I have a quick question on this slideshow thing. On my Main .SWF file I have a ScrollPane on the the left that loads up Thumbnails.swf to have the Thumbnails in ScrollPane and on the right I have a ScrollPane that puts the picture up that they select. My question is, what code to I put on each...more >>

I have a page of 20 sounds. I want someone to be able to select 2 of these sounds. Once two are picked, I want the visitor to go to a new window and see both the sounds, be able to play them or delete one (if one is deleted they should go back to the main page to pick another sound) and also h...more >>

While using Flash 4 I am attempting to set up the "getURL" and attach it to a banner ad for tracking purposes. I have followed the Macromedia Tech Note on this procedure, but it appears that the Flash functionality, itself, simply is preventing this script from working properly. The Instance P...more >>

I've got a button within a MC that I am trying to use to control that mc. I placed the following script on frame 1 of the main time line with the rest of my scripts. mcName.buttonName.onRelease = function() { trace("foo"); } For some reason, it only executes the first time I click th...more >>

First, i'm apologize for mi english, i'm from Chile. ok the problem is this: I'm using CreateEmpyMovieClip to create one clip inside another. The things goes ok, it's load without problem but when I load another clip over the previus one I realize that the swf is beggining more slow everyti...more >>

I am trying to have a button to download a pdf from flash. Is there a better option or how do I go about this. Ryan...more >>

String.prototype.replace = function (from, to){ return this.split(from).join(to); } for (i=myStartItemNums; i<myEndItemNums; i++){ imageItem[i] = myProductsList[i].childNodes[3].childNodes; var str = imageItem[i]; trace(str.replace("_TH", "_ZM")); } trace results in undefined. W...more >>

Hello: I need to pause my movie to play a scene, then resume the movie. How would I do that? Zebra...more >>

I am using the code below (along with two arrow buttons) to move from slide to slide (label to label) in my main timeline. It work's fine with both, actionScript 1 and 2. From "slide 2": on (release, keyPress "<PageDown>") { gotoAndPlay("label3"); } on (release, keyPress "<PageU...more >>

Hey guys, grils I'm having this little problem with the Loader Component... It's not a problem to load something into it and to manipulate the content but... The only thing that isn't working for me is to 'unload' the loaded swf-file in the loader.content It seems not to be as easy a...more >>

In order to do some standaloone debugging of a movie that is normally loaded into a main document I've added temporary Start and Stop buttons. Everything works as expected providing the buttons are pressed alternately - and under the control of code on the main timeline that is what happens. B...more >>

Ok, here?s the deal: I?m trying to load 3 swf?s into a level, using loadMovieNum("myFile_a.swf",1); Right now I have a base swf that has a long time line that plays and hits a the code above, the base continues to play and loads the next one in the same level. I does this loading one the...more >>

I've installed a demo version of Jaws to test accessibility on my system and ran a simple test from FlashMX2004Pro help trace(System.capabilities.hasAccessibility); if (Accessibility.isActive()) { trace ("An accessibility aid is currently active"); } else { trace ("There is currently no...more >>

I just started to place items in my movie at with code, rather then draging them out of the library. What is the benefit of doing this? Are there times when one is better then the other? I am using the following AS. Is this a good way of doing this, or are there better ways? this.attachM...more >>

Hi, I've created a slideshow in Flash MX 2004. Each of the 20 or so images as well as their descriptions are on different frames - the images are on one layer and the descriptions are on a separate layer also. I've got a a couple of buttons controlling the navigation back and forth betwee...more >>

I?ve made some buttons in flash, which are part of an animated window. This window will be the navigation for my site, but I can?t get these buttons to change the actual html window such as between an index page and a contact page. How is this done? Cheers, Shane ...more >>

Hi there I have an array which has list of Countries: var country_array = new Array("USA","USA","Australia","USA","USA","Italy","USA","USA","Argentina","Franc e","USA","South Africa","Italy","Spain"); I'm assigning this to a combo box placed on the stage: countryType_cmb.dataProvider ...more >>

I have a Quit Button on my application. What function is available to allow this to happen. I think I have searched them all and did a search on the spport sight and can't find anything applicable. Thanks!:confused; ...more >>

Hi there! I need to make jsfl program that goes thru all movieclips on the main timeline, and thru all movieclips inside those movieclips and etc, recursively. Everything fine, but how do I access TimeLine object of the Element object? Say, I have found Element which is a MovieClip on the ...more >>

I'm attaching movieclips dynamically from my libary onto the stage, with randomly generated x and y positions. As this happens, the movie clips can overlap each other (ie. same x and y positions). 1.How can I check to see if a movieclip already occupies a position? and 2.How can I ...more >>

Hello Trying to explain whats happening in a movie can often sound quite confusing but i will try to explain what i want as straight forward as i can. http://www.scissorsisters.com/main.php Anyway if you have made it to here i hope not to have confused you too much :P Hope to h...more >>

We need a developer to build a video chat site on www.ready2chat .com Earn $10,000.00 plus 15% of site sales. Only developers with active video chat sites need apply. Contact Worldclassvideo@aol.com ...more >>

I am new in Database and I would like to create a login function from Flash. Any people have examples from site? Or any comments for me? Thanks a lot. ...more >>

Okay, I'm wondering if anyone has run into this problem before. I am using loadMovie to load external JPEGs into dynamically-genrated empty movie clips. The pix are being found by Flash, and Flash is not giving me the "File Cannot Be Found" error, rather the file just never loads. What makes t...more >>

Does anybody have a code that I can use that will allow me to connect two .SWF together? After searching AOL, Google, and FlashKit all I can find is a way to create a Input Box in one .SWF that when I type something in it, it goes and puts it in another other .SWF file. Its pretty much worthle...more >>

Hi- I'm not fluent with actionscript, but I would like to get better at it. I have tried to simplify this function by getting rid of all the if/else statements, but I can't get it to work. Seems like it should be simple, but it's giving me a headache. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks...more >>

For some reason the "wpos" returns 0? //MAKE CURRENT NODE NUMBER = 0 var newNode:Number = 0; var lastNode:Number = 0; //MAKE BACK BUTTON INVISABLE test_back_btn._visible = false; //LOAD THE XML var xmlData = new XML(); xmlData.ignoreWhite = true; xmlData.onLoad = processXMLDa...more >>

Hey i'm trying to get this to work but im not quite sure what to do, but if you can help me out i would like to make a movieclip called "bhole" that when you click it goes to the mouses x and y, but i want it to be able to duplicate it and have the duplicates go to where ever you click, so tha...more >>

I am new to flash. I need users to be able to click "play" on a movie and when the movie is stopped or ends I need the "play" functionality gone. The user can only view the movie once. The user will be logged in so I am able to track them through a back-end database. I just need help figuring ...more >>

loadVariablesNum("text.txt", 0); I am trying to get "imageurl1" from the text.txt file. I have been using the above to load the text.txt file. It works, except that I need some variables that are apparently not getting loaded before they are needed. I think I am supposed to use l...more >>

a pretty simple question I am guessing. How do I call a frame label inside a movie clip with gotoAndPlay? I tried: gotoAndPlay("movieclipname.framelabel"); but got no results. Thanks....more >>

I'm somewhat new to Flash-- I'm trying to make a button that causes a scrollpane to scroll up or down, and while I know how to do this with single clicks, I'm not sure how to make it scroll continuously while the button is held down. Is there any easy way to do this? ...more >>

Does anyone have a code that can make it where when you select the thumbnail on the left that it comes up on the right? The section on the left has all the thumbnails in a ScrollPane also. I here is a link of a screenshot of what I have now. The only problem is when I click the thumbnail s...more >>

I think I have figured out how to do a relative link in Dreamweaver, but how do I set up a relative link using flash. I have an index on my portfolio CD that is done in Flash and I'm trying to figure out how to load up a html file on the same CD using the Flash index when clicking a button. Co...more >>

I have a movie consisting of three frames on the root with a simple preloader on frame 1. The preloader is just a text box displaying the bytes loaded in percentage form on top of a single colour background. My problem is that the preloader screen isn't displayed until it reaches 65% and ins...more >>

I have this animation here: http://www.studioazul.com/new and everything works fine except for the last thumbnail (the bridge painting) doesn't rollover the first thumbnail when it loops around. The animation is a basic tween, nothing dynamic. Each thumbnail is a MC placed on it's own layer in...more >>

Hi All, I'm taxing my small designer's brain trying to work out if it is possible to make a 2-4 user very simple chat application with only Flash, one txt file that holds the latest "post" and one perl script to renew and rewrite that file. I've got 98% of the way there and hit a cache i...more >>