I am trying to build a form that will use FLASH and PHP but I am willing to use another backend integration if you know of a better way to do this. The form consist of three fields, "to", "from" and "message". I want to be able to forward the URL, a pre-made message of my choice as well as al...more >>

Hi, i'm kind of newbie in this programation thing and i'm even newbier about actionscript, so you'll have to give me a disccount! I'm trying to build an application to run in the desktop and the question is: is it possible to use actionscript to built the interface and than use C++ to make it...more >>

I've been going crazy trying to figure out how to get a series of buttons in one column of a datagrid I am populating. I have seen in a bunch of places that I need to use the CellRenderer API and write a few classes to get this to work, but I am having trouble understanding the few examples I...more >>

I found another person with the same problem who posted back in Nov 04 but there were no replies. All my content is located within a movieclip within the scrollpane. There are several frames within that movieclip that can be selected by clicking the appropriate button. The problem is whe...more >>

Is there some comand which will clear (delete all content) on a specific level. What I am doing is laoding one menu option to a specific level, however different menu option is going to be in a higher level, and I need to get rid of the text and pictures which are in the level below. (I hav...more >>

:confused; First of all I am new at FLASH. I've created two very simple scenes. I created a PLAY button to link from scene1 to scene2. At the end of scene1 I added the following action to the button: gotoAndPlay(scene2). When I view in the test mode the movie does not stop at the end ...more >>

Hi, I would like to get a good tutorial about ActionScript form the begining, step by step, I have learnt all about Flash Mx 2004 but, I don't kown Action script quite well, could someone please help me? I will be very gratefull with your support. Thanks ...more >>

How would I create a test to see if two images that were loaded into movieclips were the same or not?...more >>

Is there a property or function to determine (programatically) if a movie is actually playing or stopped? ...more >>

Hello, I am having a bizarre issue today with the MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip( ) method. The first time I make the call it works just fine, but the second time the compilers says "There is no method with the name 'createEmtpyMovieClip' ". I am calling it from within a class which exte...more >>

Hi, I am trying to architect a Flash application with Screens and understand how to toggle visibility on and off in property inspector What I don't understand is how to have User Buttons drive this Screen visibility parameter? Are screens a class of their own Please help, thank you ...more >>

Okay I'm using a mediaDisplay componet and a mediaControler component.. I have an mc with an image in it that I want to be displayed before the video is played (starts paused) and after the video has ended. So far it's showing up fine before I press Play, but once the video is complete the...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to add methods/functions to the default MovieClip class in Actionscript 2? Can it be done without creating a new class?...more >>

Is it possible to have an action on the timeline referencing a button instance and apply an action to the button instance at the same time?...more >>

I've got a simple movie set up to play when a link is clicked. The movie dispays a random photo (one of 21) via this actionscript in the first frame: gotoAndStop(random(21)+1); The problem is that the client doesn't feel the movie is representing all 21 photos equally. He feels as if he se...more >>

Here is my situation, I have two scroll panes on the stage. One scroll pane is called "thumbs", contentPath = "Container_mc", a blank movie clip in the library. The second scroll pane is called "myScrollPane", contentPath specified in onRelease function. A oval button from the common librarie...more >>

Hi! After some (lot of) time of great thinking and study, I came with a possible solution for my project but its not clear in my mind yet, so I would like your help to clarify it if possible I thought in a really flexible, clean and object oriented architecture so changes to the system...more >>

I'm creating a CD-ROM which has all of the text pulled from external text documents. Upon testing the projector, I've noticed that if the user opens a web page with IE and does not close IE before returning to the projector, any additional web pages opened from the projector will open in a ne...more >>

Is there a way to use a global variable to pass information between 2 SWF files in real-time? In other words, have two seperate flash movies running, and be able to pass a varaible from one to the other. Normally I would use the URL line, but this needs to be done without reloading the page....more >>

Hi there, I've got a strange problem here maybe some1 can help me with... I'm using the following code to add text from a text file dynamically: ============================== loadText = new LoadVars(); loadText.load("loc.txt"); loadText.onLoad = function(success) { ...more >>

I hope someone here can help me with this one. I've asked this on a few boards and searched the net for some info, so far with no real answer. I will need to distribute a large class library which will be used by other developers. My company would not like to fully expose the code inside...more >>

can someone PLEASE givbe me the actionscript code for walls(so u dont walk past them)...more >>

Does anybody know how to check if file I'm trying to load by loadMovie exists? It would be even better if I'd check if movie has loaded correctly (because of possible connection problems). thx...more >>

:confused; I've been using Flash for the past 5 years or so.... I started with 4.0, then 5.0, then MX and now I just upgraded to Flash MX 2004 Professional. I'm no expert but I could do fairly simple interactive SWFs. I was accustomed to the action window that would show your paremeters af...more >>

Hello all....hope someone can help me... I have a Flash application that runs locally and uses sharedobjects to store information. Over a period of time my application stops responding to any input (mouse or keyboard). When it is in this non responding state and I right->click to view ...more >>

hi all, has anyone seen a good way to get the x/y co-ords of a certain character within a text field, i've tried using the textFormat class's getTextExtent method which is easy for single lines, but with multiple lines as it tests the string not how it appears in the textField it doesn't co...more >>

i used createEmptyMovieClip in a loop to show images from external file. My problem right now is how do i make each new movieclip clickable so that i can call external file into flash? this is something i did to test its functionality..please correct me if i'm wrong : onClipEvent (...more >>

Hi there, I am making a CD ROM with everything made in Flash MX and bringing the finished files into Director MX. In flash I have developed a hotspot area with an arrow and the word "back" with the following action scrip applied to it: on (rollOver){ _root.back_inst.gotoAndPlay("...more >>

I'm having some trouble. I have a scene with 12 buttons on it, I want each button to point to a different frame in a separet window. So when the user clicks on a button a smaller window pops up with the image for that button. Within' this new window there will be next and previous buttons to...more >>

Hi! I?m developing a component and separating its parts in other class files. This component has two subparts, a container for the thumbs and a container for the controls (buttons etc) both extending the MovieClip Class. I understand that MovieClip is a unique class that its objects cannot...more >>

I been struggle with this mask problem for while now.:( Layer1:_root with one mcButton that execute the mask tweening in _root timeline I Layer2: _root with 2 mc which mc1 is a black and white picture and mc2 is a colored picture with a tweening mask. When mc2 runs it l...more >>

Hello everyone, I've just recently got flash pretty much down. I'm building my new website in it, and I want it to be all one file. Basically I have a homepage in flash that links to all the other parts of my site by buttons and scenes. The buttons are SUPPOSED to work in this fashion: You...more >>