how do i load a movie clip after a certain amount of time has elapsed? i have been playing with onEnterFrame and setInterval with no results. basically i want to attach a movie in certain location after about a half-second upon loading of a frame. thanks > mark ...more >>

This is the situation: I have a navigation bar with a next button that users can press to navigate through the frames. When a frame with a List component is shown, it received focus when it get populated. Problem: if a user is going forward pressing the Next button without moving th...more >>

I have a weird issue. I am adding some radio buttons using actionscript and everything is great. My problem is the first time the option button is selected and then you mouse over the selected radio button it disappears. If you select another radio button it comes back. The problem is not repe...more >>

Hello everyone, Is there a way to check to see if two objects are overlapping using ActionScript? It seems to me that there should be a way to do this, since buttons have a hit area...shouldn't there be some sort of way to see if two movie clips' "hit" areas intersect? In case anyone...more >>

I work for a non-profit organization and we have many branches. Each branch has a separate page. Each one constantly needing to change it's slide show. I'm trying to create a slide show that will create itself. I know that I can read data from .txt files. That isn't a problem, or somet...more >>

I have a movie clip that contains a movieclip. The clip tweens the sub clips width from 1 to 131 over 5 frames. (its a rollover) When I change the height of that 'Sub' clip with script it just stops working. Is it possible that changing the height of the mc breaks the tween? The t...more >>

I have a flash movie that resides on an asp page. Is it possible to call an ASP function on that same page from the flash movie that resides on the same page without having to reload the page???...more >>

I am using a book style page flipping script that I picked up on the web and am modifying it so that I can load external text files into each of the pages. However I amhaving difficulty determining the absolute path to my first dynamic text field. Once I have one I can work out the others easi...more >>

Is there a built in function that will convert a text string to a number ie. "26" - 26.0 Or is there some way easier than writing my own function?...more >>

Is there a simple control for clearing a screen of ALL "Attached" movie clips. I have tried the following but cannot understand why the "removeMovieclip()" doesn't work Actions for Frame 1 (in main timeline) /*The following lines are inside a 'for loop' which writes upto 30 movie clips ...more >>

I've got a button with a print function on it so that when somebody clicks it part of the movie disappears and other parts are enlarged and moved (I used _root.movieclipname._alpha = 0; _root.movieclipname._xscale = 140; _root.movieclipname._yscale = 140; _root.movieclipname._x = 400; _root...more >>

Hi thank you for reading my post Very strange , I pass parameter to my swf , it works in fireFox and not works in IE . I used variable passing to my flash movie like this : .... <embed src="APG.swf?currentName=Mynamevalue&currentModel=Mymodelvalue" quality="high" pluginspage="http://w...more >>

I have a dynamic text box. I am loading variables from an asp page, then populating the text box with one of the variables. This all works fine. For example, my variable is varText with a value of "this is a test." My text object is txtDyn. If I say: txtDyn.htmlText = varText //this w...more >>

Hi, I am trying to pass variables to a movie in a query string that looks like this: flash/chart_v01.swf?var0=115&var1=116&var2=117 I know that these variables are loaded automatically in the _root and are available there. I can also set the value of a variable to a textfield in the ...more >>

Has anyone had any luck with this? Do I need to serve my policy file from a SOCKET SERVER to be able to communicate with sockets below 1024? Or, can I just load a policy as shown below, with to-ports="88" specified in my file? System.security["loadPolicyFile"]("http://www.domain.com/policyx...more >>

Greets, I'm loading data from a php/mysql script to fill a "table" (using textfields in flash). I can only load 8 datasets per page, so I need to have a previous/next set of buttons. (My php script is set so that it will accept a LIMIT & an OFFSET for the SQL query). The ActionScript...more >>

I have a single flash file that contains 13 scenes (some lengthy animation). There are buttons which are supposed to make the movie jump to a specific frame whithin the same scene that I labeled uniquely, using this code on the onRelease handler: // in an external .as fi...more >>

Is there any way to get the frame label in script? Thx Ravi:confused;...more >>

Greets, I need help with the following (being the actionscript noob that i am). In the code below, I'm calling a string from a php script to set up variables... as I haven't understood yet as to how I create instances of a textfield using script, I have created those manualy, and am fillin...more >>

hello i have run into a problem: on the scene i attace a textarea component and made it .html=true; when i use <img src="img.jpg" width="10" height="0"> the textarea does not display the image. i reqad the help, i put a text in front of the picture but does not work either. but the <...more >>

I am trying to set the rgb value of a mc via a variable. Code so far as follows, but all I am getting is black colour? The picture_bg variable contains ff0000 via an xml script that works fine. The mc is titled backgroundpic. The colour is not changing. The commented out line at the bottom wor...more >>

Hi folks, I am new to action script. I am attepting to create a movie clip of a rotating star using only actionscript. So Far I have done this _root.createEmptyMovieClip("shape_mc", 0); with (shape_mc) { shape_mc.lineStyle(1, 0x000000, 100); shape_mc.moveTo(50, 0); shape_mc.lineTo(5...more >>

Say I have MC's named Strip1, Strip2, Strip3, etc. Inside each Strip# MC I have multiple instances of another MC named 'Thumb'. Is there a method I can use to retrieve the total number of Thumb instances in a certain Strip# MC?? Thanks! ...more >>

Greetings, all. In some languages, I think it is possible to use the contents of a string variable as if it was part of the command line Something like: var instance = "InstanceName"; trace(instance._rotation); That particular code doesn't work in flash, but is there a way to indicat...more >>

I' ve just started using flash and I have a stupid question: After some animation I want to stop on frame 50. It is easy: on frame 50 add the following command: stop (); On this same frame I have 4 buttons and I want that when I hit a button, it sends to specified frame, example: frame 51. ...more >>

Preloaders are easy when you know the size of the file. But what about for dynamic files? What I am doing is using one frame to load data files then it moves to the next frame. This doesn't seem to be the best way to do it, tho maybe it is. How else can I be sure that all the data has l...more >>

I am working on a custom login for a project I am working. And I am having a little trouble with the login. I am using coldfusion to pull the data from my database. when I test the login, it completly ignores the start of my if statement, and goes right to the last else statment. I have attach...more >>

i'm working on a thing here: http://www.audiosport.ee/nu/main.html see the blue area there and roll over it. when you do it, the bottom edge of it will bounce. i would like it to bounce only when you cross the bottom edge of that blue area not left, right nor top. can this be done? som...more >>

How can flash save file(s) to a folder on the hard drive?...more >>

Hi I am trying to get the Datechooser component to output multiple dates into a textbox/s, according to the user selections (say for example they were choosing two hotel booking dates), but I can't get the dates to display in a textbox . So far I have used an event listener to trace the da...more >>

I have a movie and I call a other movie How can I give the command to go to a specific frame? Now I use this script, Ineed to load product_1a and get frame 10 loadMovie("external_movies/product_1a.swf", "shop_content_loader"); Thanks for all help Hugo ...more >>

hi ppl, i'm making a sniper game, where instead of having the scope move with the mouse(i.e converting the scope into the mouse pointer via AS) and the background stays stationery, i have made it so when you press the Ctrl key - the background moves in regards to the mouse that is currently ...more >>

I am trying to create a slide show using the scrollpane. I created a movie called mc_gallery that has a scrollpane on the left side of the screen. I added a movie clip inside the scrollpane (called navVertical) that consists of 10 buttons stacked vertically. When the user clicks one of th...more >>

Hi, I've been trying to solve this in many ways but it only gets weirder. Problem: I've got an swf (say "info.swf") wich dinamically loads XML content into a textArea. When tryed by itself, no problems. But when I call it from a loader component in another swf (say "main.swf") the content...more >>

Hi Im trying to create scrollpanes as children of an accordion component, then create empty movie clips to which content is added and then set the movie to be the content of the scrollpane Now the movie gets created and appears in the right spot if I create the movie as a child of the scr...more >>

Does anyone know if you can use actionScript to modify the width of the dropDown list of the ComboBox component using MX 2004 PRO? The ComboBox component needs to stay the same fixed width, but when you click the dropDown list...I'd like the drop down list to either have a horizontal scroll b...more >>

Can Flash send an email? And if so can someone please tell me how?...more >>

hi guys i have an issue with printing in flash i have a button which says on (release) { print('#p','bframe'); } well actually when i click the button it will print all the frames that have the '#p'. Is there a way to be able to print selected frames only. thanks ...more >>

Hi guys, I am trying to make my variables global so that when i load in another swf into a mc the variables are available I have tried this but it does not seem to work any ideas? thanks _global.next = next; my loaded in .swf is called nav.swf and it is loaded into navholder ...more >>

Hi there, I have a graphic drawn in flash mx pro that comprises of a number of layers that i want to mask with a circle so that it appears gradually on screen. how do you mask multiple layers??? I have a file with it done but when i take the mask off to see how its done, im back to sqar...more >>

Hello. I create an empty MovieClip on _root. This MC is my container then. In this container I create an empty MC for my MainMenu. In this MenuMovieClip I create a MenuBar and add Menu Components to it. Later I create another MC, let?s call it BlackClip that is below my MenuMovieClip c...more >>

Hi! I am having an intermittant problem with the following code: if (choice2text == undefined) { Choice2.visible = false; } else { Choice2.visible = true; } Choice2 is the instance name of a radio button. This code is attached to the frame where the radio buttons first appe...more >>

:confused; If I put a button component intance called myButton into a flash movie and add a listener event I can get it to work. myListener = new Object(); myListener.click = function(evt){ trace(evt.type + " triggered"); } myButton.addEventListener("click", myListener); If I...more >>

i am creating a course in flash. i will have several scene. each scene will be another topic. i have a dynamic txt box that will show what page the person is on out of how many pages there are. e.g. page 4 of 23. I need the total page number to change with each scene. e.g. scene01 - page 4 o...more >>

This is a very basic question, and I can kind of get it to work, but not very well. I am trying to get the player to detect keys other then the normal ones. However I can't seem to get it to do a repeat or for some keys to be detected. I am using ascII as the method right now, does anyone have...more >>

hi all, I am relatively new to the process of combining flash web applications with php/asp and a database. I have a flash form that takes in a few values that the user inputs into text boxes, i can get these values out of flash and then store these variables in a mysql database using php. ...more >>