I got a sound object loading an mp3 file... and the code is like this: loadSound(folder/sound.mp3) so it work on my mac... but once i upload the sfw file to a serve (and the mp3 file inside a folder with the same name as on my mac) it doesnt... i've tried using both absolute and relat...more >>

I'm no a pro at actionScript & I'm making a game. Basically I want to know how to make it so if one movie clip was hit by an other movie clip the clip that got hit would react or dissapear. I've tried every thing!!! Help!!! :Q ...more >>

I'm wondering if there is a way to manually (i.e., progamatically) invoke an event handler. I wanted to invoke an onRelease handler for a specific movie clip in the swf after the movie has totally loaded. Is this even possible? Thanks very much! Craig ...more >>

Greetings all, I'm developing a math activity where a user inputs a number and actionscript determines if it is correct or incorrect and responds accordingly. However there is a problem when the number/correct answer is "4.15" Flash will not recogize it as a correct answer. After doing a l...more >>

Hello. I have a movie clip that is instantiated a lot of times on one frame. This movie clip has 3 frames (much like a button with 3 states). There is a button on the frame that when it is clicked should change the state of a particular instance of that movie clip. So lets say that mc_in...more >>

I am creating a feature where I load a movie at level5, and let the user click a button labelled "Next picture" to see pictures in the newlyu loaded movie. When they click the button after having seen the last picture, I want the movie to unlad, so that they go back to the root movie. Cou...more >>

I'm having a small problem, I'm a relative newbie when it comes to Flash development but through a series of tutorials I was able to create a basic site. For the navigation of the site I used the loadMovie function and thus far it works flawlessly. My problem occurs when I create another swf...more >>

I have a clip that is a long list of text. I'd like it to scroll downward vertically in a continuous, repeating loop such that before the top end of the text list is visible past the mask, the clip is duplicated and continues scrolling seamlessly. The dimensions of the visible area are 434 x 2...more >>

I want to change the visible property of a group of mcs all at once (photo1_mc - photo2_mc). I was thinking I could put all the instance names in an array, and loop through it changing each one's property. But I can't get it to work. Is this possible? Could somebody help me with the actionscri...more >>

I have a link on my site, and I want it to do something when the user clicks it(besides opening up a window to the link). Is there any way Flash can tell if a hyperlink was clicked? And if so how do you do it? ...more >>

Background: I am parsing and XML file to an Array, then based on user input I want to display a sub-set of this Array into a DataGrid component. All documentation I can find has the dataProvider for the DataGrid in this format: myDP = new Array({name:"Chris", price:"Priceless"}, {name:"Ni...more >>

HI, I'm sure someone here can tell me what is wrong here. I've attached the action script below. I have a photo album that displays pictures designated from an array. The problem I am having is that I want to have the pictures fade in and fade out. I've tried so many different ways of doin...more >>

Hello, I would like to have a timer in my application and every 10 minutes I would like a small animation to happen on all frames of the movie. How can I do this? thanks ...more >>

Hello. I would like to show on screen the current time in a text field and the current date in a different text field. I would like it to update itself every few minutes. Does anyone know how? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi all, I've got a function that moves my mc. What I'm trying to do is tell it to fire another function that will tell a movie clip to fade in over top once that destination is acheived. This will load a different mc for all my buttons. I'm not quite sure how to approach it. I've tried the i...more >>

hello. I have a fairly easy problem, but I haven't worked with flash in a very long time and I have hardly any experience with action script so I need a little bit of help. I have a flash animation with just a few frames. I want to have a global variable initialized to 0 on the first frame. ...more >>

I have a Flash presentation which will be displayed on the web as well as on CD-ROM. On the CD, this will be a stand-alone application for both Windows and Mac. The presentation currently as a "QUIT" button. On the web version, this merely closes the window in which the presentation appear...more >>

I have a guestbook in flash, which uses php to communicate with a database. Whenever someone types a plus character, it shows up fine in the database and in the php page, but in Flash it is replaces with a space. Code sample: var gbLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); var url:String = "http://son...more >>

Hi Guys, I have a little issue with loading in external text. I want to switch this internal html to a external text file can anyone please help. Code: //Create a new style sheet object var myCSS = new TextField.StyleSheet(); //Specify the location of the CSS file that you cr...more >>

Hello, I need a little help to create a pause on a loopsound event My movie has a MC called "sonar" that at the end has this script to create a pause: stop(); pauseI=setInterval(pauseF,0.5*1000); function pauseF(){ clearInterval(pauseI); play(); } On the first frame of my ...more >>

hi all, ive been tearing my hair out trying to change the links within my flash menu which i downloaded as part of a website template. ive tried editing the action scripts for the buttons but somewhere its still giving the link as /index.html , what i want to change it to is http://www.hack-...more >>

Hi there, I want to generate a list of dynamic buttons whose names are loaded from an array at run time. I figure that I have a generic button in my library, is there some way of instantiating a button and specifying the text it should display inside maybe a dynamic text instance?? Doe...more >>

ok - i have a flash file and i'm not a big actionscriptor - i don't really want to do much with the xml - so heres the story i have 4 buttons - so on release - i want to get url from an xml file - as the url's will need to be updated regularly - please if someone knows the easiest way of doing...more >>

I have two buttons which on press load an external swf menu. rolling over that menu keeps it visible, but that means rolling from the button to the swf menu needs to be seamless. This works if the swf loads into a space that completely covers the button, but I want the buttons to appear like t...more >>

I have an mc with a list of buttons, and on the main timeline script that scrolls this "contentd_mc" but it only will scroll starting three lines into my list of buttons. Any ideas? Also, there seems to be an unecessary amount of empty space at the end of the scroll pane. ...more >>

I have tested my flash project in Firefox and it breaks every time but not in IE. The problem is that if the web site is larger than the browser window and the user scrolls down to the bottom of the page, and back to the top of the page the buttons "hot area" stays as if the user was still scr...more >>

hello, i am desperate for guidence because i am trying to do something and i think i am doing it a little too complicted and i need help or guidence on how i should do it or where to look the project is an interactive story maker.. basically the user drags and drops the images on to the st...more >>

I am using the following code to load from a .txt file into my flash movie: myText = new LoadVars(); myText.onLoad = function() { _root.fader_mc.bio_txt.htmlText = this.content; _root.fader_mc.gotoAndPlay(10); }; myText.load("bio.txt"); When I click on the button this code ...more >>

I want to print the content (only text) of a scrollpane in Flash MX. If anyone has attempted this kind of a functionality, please let me know the code. MVN...more >>

Ok, I hope this makes sense. I'm altering an existing Flash website. It has several buttons that are animated (movies). When I try to hyper link the button, the animation stops to work. This is what code I'm using: on (release) { getURL("mailto:info@marycourtneyrealestate.com"); ...more >>

Hi. Im having problems creating a simple gallery grid. I want to do this entirely in actionscript. So far Ive created a emptyMovieClip and added linestyles to create a simple box (150, 150). Now what I want to do is duplicate this movie to form a grid, (4 horizontal and 4 vertical), I w...more >>

Greetings... I am working in Flash 6 legacy code of another programmer. I find that there are many times in which I have a variable and need to find out where it is being passed from. However, it seems that Flash is incapable of globally searching a .FLA for code in ActionScript. (i...more >>

I am trying to add an item to a listbox. I want the item to be on seperate lines, but when you click on the item it acts as a single item. The code I tried was: lbox2.additem = [variabel_firstline]+"\n"+[variable_secondline]; doesn't work. Anyone know if this is possible? ...more >>

i have a flash site with three main buttons that should always remain in FRONT. However, I am doing a lot of loading external swf's or flv's which means I'm messing with the _levels a lot. I have grouped the three main buttons into an mc for cleanliness, and want to designate the highest depth...more >>

I am trying to call some basic functions on _mc's, but the actions of the function are applied to the entire main movie and all clips. Here is what I have - On a actions layer in the main movie. function doSomething () { this._xscale = 65; this._yscale = 150; this._x += 10; ...more >>

Dazed and :confused; Hello Fellow Flashers. Am I doing something wrong or is there a glitch with Flash and multiple dynamic text fields. I place one dynamic text box on layer " box A", one dynamic text box on layer " box B". I'm attempting to load the dynamic text boxes with data from extern...more >>

Hi, I'm loading an external movieclip into my document with the MovieClipLoader.loadClip() method which works fine. I then use a function for an onPress on the loaded clip to try to effectively duplicate the movieclip and make it immediately dragable so the user can click on the original a...more >>

anyone know how to batch publish flash mx files? ive been told the best way is to write my own script for it. any ideas where to get started ??? ...more >>

I am using the moveTo and lineTo code to draw a line in my flash movie and I want to know if there is a way to slow down the appearance of the line on the screen using these commands. I want the line to be drawn across the screen like an animated line, not just to appear on the screen suddenl...more >>

Hi, I need to create a horizontal menu....when you rollover one button, that button will enlarge while others will shrink, so it will sort of create a wave like effect when you move your mouse across the buttons. Can anyone point me to a place where I can download the fla. Any help a...more >>

ok, right now i have a ship with velocity but i want to add gravity but have no idea how to do that. i have two frames, on the first i have the code : _root.speedX = 0; _root.speedY = 0; and on the second frame i have the code : stop(); ok, inside the second frame i have four butto...more >>

if (Val1+Val2+Val3+Val4+Val5+Val6+Val7+Val8+Val9+Val10+Val11+Val12 <16){ gotoAndStop(10); }else if (Val1+Val2+Val3+Val4+Val5+Val6+Val7+Val8+Val9+Val10+Val11+Val12 >=17 <=21){ gotoAndStop(15); The above is a small part of the script I am trying to write. I am totalling 12 values and h...more >>

Hi There, I am a beginner when it comes to actionscript and I am trying to use flashvars to load variables from an asp page. I have the following code in my flashmap file: onframe(1) { if(vars_loaded=="ok") { gotoandplay(3); } } onframe(2) { prevframeandplay(); } onframe(3) { map._x...more >>

I am not very good with acionscript, but I want to make a movieclip move with the arrow keys. I have a 2005 handbook but the actionscript it gives me doesn't work. Please post the code I should use to do this. ...more >>

I'm trying to write a class that creates a forest out of many tree movie clips. Everything seems to be working alright, but when i duplicate the tree clip and push it into an array i lose the refference and the clip disapears. I can not figure out for the life of me why this would happen. Her...more >>

I am using a template I am trying to modify. It is a newsletter sign up box and subscribe button. I want to have this form send me the person's email address to my email address so I can add them to the newsletter list. I can only find code for the subscribe button. on (rollOver) { ...more >>