Hello !! It's serveral hours that I try to bind my DataSet to a TextInput for example, but no way... I don't know how to bind the column... I have tried in this way : var src = new EndPoint(); src.component = ds; src.property = "textval"; src.event = "change"; var dest= new E...more >>

Making a flash movie to play several external .swf's with the help of pressing buttons. It's broken down into catagories which span over a few frames (main timeline stops at each frame), so I thought it'd be handy to have the player the clips load into on a separate layer which spans these fr...more >>

Hi, my name is Dave Birch. I'm working on a flash training website which consists of a series of html pages with flash embedded. We are trying to save where the user is in progress by using ASP. The idea is that flash interacts with ASP, with a "Continue where I left off" function that will ta...more >>

Hi, my name is Dave Birch. I'm working on a flash training website which consists of a series of html pages with flash embedded. We are trying to save where the user is in progress by using ASP. The idea is that flash interacts with ASP, with a "Continue where I left off" function that will ta...more >>

I?m using SE|PY and MTASC compiler to write and debug my scripts. It seems that each compiler (MMC and MTASC) sees the code differently - for example - this code, which is a technique I use to access the class itself withint deep focus compiles and works OK with MMC but throws a "Cannot access...more >>

Let me start by saying I'm new to Actionscript. So having my movie go to a random frame everytime the page is refreshed was new to me 4 days ago. I've found numerous ways to do it this past week...and I don't know which is the best. BUT the problem I'm having is even though I can get it work...more >>

I have two arrays, one called origcomm the other dispcomm. I plan to use dispcomm to hold filtered results. I am using flash remoting to load origcomm that I do not want to reload filtered results due to the time delay in calling a CFC from the server. I just want to load origcomm, copy its...more >>

I re-installed Flash MX, and now I can't find my behavior panel. Wherever you go, it states that you need to go to Window --> Development Panels --> Behaviors in order to open the panel, however the behavior panel is still no where to be found. Can anyone help me? ...more >>

Can anyone recommend a web site that has a good tutorial on building preloaders? I'm fairly new to Flash. Just built my first slide show using MX 2004 Prof, and it works quite well. But it's about 600K and needs a preloader. I can't seem to find much in the Flash documentation I purchased ...more >>

I made a static preloader for my homepage but I cant seem to figure this out. The problem is that my homepage consists of 4 layers, all 1 frame long as each layer consists of a movie clip. I moved these frames in each layer over so I could put the code and preloader in the frames before the...more >>

I'm having some trouble out of SharedObject. Basically I want to write a value to a variable with a dynamic name. Any idea why this code isn't working? For some reason I get "undefined" every time. Thanks for any help anyone can offer. ActionScript: ----------------------------------...more >>

Does anyone know if it is possible to have a shape (dynamic shape drawn with AS) create an "overlay" effect? Similar to Photoshop's Layer Overlay Mode? I have a portrait placed within Flash and would like a "lip" shape to "overlay" the photo below, so I can change the tint of the shape... the ...more >>

Hello reader, I'm getting a little confused here. What's going on? When initializing a Private Array within a Class it seems that the Array behaves like a Static Variable. Here's a little example: - - - - < CLASS FILE > - - - - class Chapter { private var arrLessons:Array = n...more >>

Here's an irritating problem, does anyone else suffer?! My Flash and .swf files are in a sub-directory called "flash". I have a file main.swf which sits in an HTML table and loads menu.swf like this: loadMovie("../flash/menu.swf",this.menu_mc); Dreamweaver loads the main file from with...more >>

Hello, I have the following movie : http://users.panafonet.gr/amp2003/test.zip I have difficulty in making the playback head target 'scene_2', 'frame_2' from a button in 'scene_3" if anyone can suggest any ideas...that would be great! ...more >>

I have a preloader code looking like this; ----- var myListener:Object = new Object(); myMCL.addListener(myListener); myListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc, loadedBytes, totalBytes) { _level50._visible = true; var preloadPercent:Number = Math.round((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100...more >>

I'm trying to trigger an event, but it says "There is no method with the name 'dispatchEvent'.". So, do I need to implement some interface or extend some class or something?? Not very clear, (this one is short!) Nacho ...more >>

Well, 1- I know that, in a good OO design, you shouldn't need to ask or know which class an object is an instance of (mainly to avoid coupling), but I surely would find handy if there's some operator which would let me know what class an object is instance of, or better yer, if thisObject ...more >>

I have a scrollPane component on my stage with the content path set to "container_mc". In my library I have a movieclip with a linkage of "container_mc". In the movieclip I have this code: The problem the scrollPane doesn't display the scroll bars. Whats wrong with my approach? MyLoadVars...more >>

DataGridColumn.setStyle does not work...more >>

I need help with actionscripting how to load numbers from 2 different text files and multiplying the numbers from those 2 text files. I can load and display each of the text files but once I trace their variables I get undefined or NaN. Can you help me out with this problem? ...more >>

Apparently, I seem to be having some kind of conflict with dynamic text displaying. My dynamic text displays fine if the moviclip with the dynamic text is loaded right into my main movie frame. However, the clip with my dynamic text does not load the dynamic text if the movie clip is being p...more >>

I'm a newbie in Flash... just 4o 5 months... I would like to ask you for a favor about action scripts. I?m trying to reverse a Movie Clip the same way that it appears in the stage when I click a button from the menu. (Example, those movies are 'Contents' from the buttons). I put the script...more >>

Hello, and thanks for reading. I will cross post this for better exposure, sorry about that. I create a new "Flash Presentation" without a template, just a blank file. But it comes with an auto-advance slide feature every 15 seconds or so. Is it possible to disable this??? I have looke...more >>

I have a number of flash .swf files I would like to publish in 1 media player and I'm using Flash MX Pro but I only see a solution for working with mp3 and ..flv files. Can someone please offer some advise. Any assistance is apprciated in advance. Regards dan ...more >>

I have name tags that I drag onto a grid. What I want to do is have a dynamic text file open when I drag a name tag onto that rectangle in my grid and disappear when the cursor moves into another rectangle on my grid. The nametag remains but the details of that person which appeared in a dyn...more >>

So I've been trying to load two .exe files which are in their own folder within the fscommand folder. Through research, I find that MX does not support directories. So there is no way for me to peek inside these folder to and get what I need. Is there any solution to combat this. I'm running o...more >>

ok, I now _level won't work, that's silly; but is there a way to name a level in an equasion inside a for-i loop like I've tried to do with the variable "already" below? loadedComps is an array with the numbers of the levels that have been loaded. nexLvl is the number of the level that the...more >>

Hello, How can we preload several Sounds (.mp3s) before we actually start playing them Specially when this all on NET .And a progress bar showing \Sound download progress while any backround animation plays meanwhile. ...more >>

:confused; newbie to actionscript Please Help! The URL below will give you an idea of what I am trying to do http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/earth_sun_moon.shtml I have just created a fla movie that has 3 vector graphic placed on stage. Sun , Earth , Moon...more >>

Hey guys! First of all: I can't see my scrollbars. Anyone had this before? I can (kind of) use them clicking and dragging in it's general direction. But users will never find that. But what I'm actually trying to do is have two textfields with scrollbar (both the same contents, dif...more >>

I got some helpful code from http://www.smartwebby.com/Flash/sound_button.asp. It got me going in the right direction, but I can't get it to work properly. On top of what they are doing here, they suggest that you can use the same bit of code with the buttons in a movie clip. I can get the mus...more >>

I want to make a stoped movie clip play after say 30 seconds. I was told the setInterval script with do this. Anyone have more insight on how this script might accomplish this?...more >>

this is probably easy to solve. i'm new to AS2 classes, so i may have a simple error. and i'll post the code that i think i relevant to the issue. setup: i've got 3 classes: Couse, Objective, and Interaction. Course has a array to contain Objectives. Objectives has an array to contain In...more >>

Is it possible to load text data into global variables in Flash? The "trace" works fine inside the function, but if I want to access the global variable from anywhere else in the flash document, I get undefined errors in my output. myLV = new LoadVars(); myLV.load("mydata.txt"); myLV.on...more >>

Hey all, I have a problem. I have a "onMouseMove" function running. Now I want to delete this function on button press. That's no problem but i want to assign the function again on another button press. delete, assign, delete and so on =) Anybody an idea how i can do this? sorry ...more >>

Hi everyone, I need to change the properties of a movie clip instance by means of storing the values on mysql , those anybody have a feedback on this. ?? thanks....more >>

Hi there, I have a movieclip attached the following script: movieclip.onPress = function(){trace("click");} I have a button Inside this movieclip doesn't work because of the above statement. The button script only works when I remove the above statement. Please tell me if it is possible ...more >>