Hi, I'm looking for a way to save XML files using the projector (not web-based) flash player 7. While on the web, I managed to save my files using PHP as a middleware. However this approach is not valid to stand-alone versions of the software, running locally at the client's computer... Is the...more >>

Has anyone run into a 'new' operator or obj.attachMovie() not returning a reference, even though the object is successfully created? I can see the MC on the screen, or the effects of the object, and yet the vars into which I stored the references are tracing as 'null' (which is the value to wh...more >>

i have a flash movie which shows certain content, i want to have a button in the movie, by pressing which the flash screen ( or pre-specified part of the screen ) gets exported/saved as a JPG/GIF image and gets stored on a pre-defined folder on server. would really appreciate quick tip on this...more >>

Hi! I have once made myself a circular preloader and am now trying to reuse it... When I test it on the old fla file it works fine, but as soon as i copy / paste frames into the new preloader scene, it flashes really quickly (but flashes empty as if it had not even started to load) and goes di...more >>

It is with a heavy heart I must admit my inability to understand what's going on here - The following code causes the intervalID's to skip 8, or 10, or 11 increments when a row in the datagrid is clicked. Why? And how can I prevent this? - my movie relies on predictably incrementing in...more >>

HELP!! I have been searching for hours through half a dozen books and this web site, and cannot find either ActionScript or a Behavior that will stop the playback of a LINEAR movie clip. I am quite sure this is simple, and I have tried various code examples and procedures, but nothing is wor...more >>

I need to tell a movie to jump a particular label, problem is i want to target a swf that is in another frame in my frameset, any help, pointers or directions would be appreciated. Below is my current button script which I know is not complete. Not sure what other info you all need to know so ...more >>

Hello, I need to know if someone have been gotten troubles with the Flash Preloaders in sites that have many access, for example in our site, for each 100 access - 1 stops in 98%, but this represent more of 1 000 users! We tried five different preloaders, one using Scenes, another using LoadM...more >>

Hi... I am new to Flash, and have come against a problem which is frustrating me... I am writing a Class file to wrap up the loading of either a LoadVars or XML object... but from the onLoad function I can;t access the Class variables. as Class clsMyExternalData { function cl...more >>

Hello again - my fellow flash userz........ I'm guessing that actionscript can do the following but i might be wrong, ok... is it possible to mask part of a movieclip with another different movieclip(the mask itself) that is on a different level to the movieclip that you actually want to mas...more >>

Hi! I would like, that flash would load images (not only one, but more) from directory to a movie clip when user click on the button. Is this possible and how can I do that. Can someone give me the code or the procedure how to do this. I also want, after the images are loaded to a movie c...more >>

Is it possible to load a .txt file into a movie then load that movie into a scrollpane. I have done it but the .txt doesnt show up in the movie. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...more >>

Hi i have a dynamic text field, on release i want to fade the textfield out before loading the new text (which has a scripted fade in), trouble is, the alpha script only runs once (i.e it only depletes by 10, as opposed to repeatedly, 10, 20, 30 etc...) what am i doing wrong? onRelease =...more >>

Hi to all, my problem is as follows, i have an empty movie clip and i'm loading an jpeg image into it, i want to find out the resolution of the jpeg, so if in onLoadComplete i try to trace the _height and _width of the movie clip, it returns '0' but if i click on a button in the scene, which i...more >>

I converted a html form to flash. The back end is built in php and works fine. However i have a few questions i believe that th hidden field should look like this secret = "contact form"; i want to give the txt fields varible names which i presume is not the same as instance names wou...more >>

Is it possible to load with getURL a html into a movie clip? I place a MovieClip on the stage, lets say 400x300 and now I want, that this MC loads with getURL("myHtmlPage.html") into itself. Many thanks for your help. Luciewong ...more >>

I'm having trouble with levels! http://www.jennottingham.co.uk/bubble/main.ziphttp://www.jennottingham.co.uk/bub ble/main.zip Secondly, does anyone have any ideas of how i can make my drop down menu work better? I have tried adjusting the hit area but I still find the the drops downs stay...more >>

Hi guys, i have a problem, i'm trying to call a method from an 'onLoadComplete' event and it doesn't work, is this normal? Thanks...more >>

Everything works fine on my site, except a scroll pane allows the user to scroll vertically with scroll wheel mice when hovering over an object within the scroll pane. I have three other scrollpanes in this site that don't allow this, and one that does, but they all have the same properties. ...more >>

onEnterFrame = function() { _root._alpha -= 10; trace(_root._alpha); } anyone of you tried this? you would be surprised to see the resuts, i sure was when i saw the numbers.. 100 89.84375 79.6875 69.53125 59.375 49.21875 ps: using flash mx 2004 pro, 7.2 not th...more >>

I just spent the whole day working on this problem and I can't understand what the heck is wrong with the following instructions. I tried all kinds of variations... _______________________________ GL // Create a LoadVars to communicate with the php page // where a variable between ...more >>

This is a iPod with the mp3 player! Great communication between swf, XML and mp3 files on a server! Full action script and iPod image is totally draw vectors on Flash! http://www.brainoftheweb.com/ipod.swf All comments Very Welcome! ...more >>

I have a button I need to apply two on (press) actions to, and it works fine in Firefox, but not in IE. Here's the code: on (press) { getURL("javascript:openWindow('http://www.mymovie.swf','newWindow','toolbar=0,lo cation=0,directries=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=7...more >>

Hey Flash Gurus I have a tree component that I using for the navigation of my site loading remote swf files. I just want to no how I can control the tree from other buttons not in the tree. Regs, Jacko331 ...more >>

well ... i have a game that i develope and i want to play a specific button click sound for any button in the movie, is there a way to make all the button instances play that sound rather than just putting on event on every buttn? i used that code .. but it didnt work Mouse.prototype.onR...more >>

Hi... I am new to Flash... I am writing a Class file for loading external data through either LoadVars or XML, but I am having trouble accessing the class variables from the LoadVars .onLoad handler ... my code goes something like: class clsMyExternalData { ???private var _someData:...more >>

Is it possible to turn the visibility on and off of an entire level which has been loaded via a MovieClipLoader object? I'm not having any luck doing it like this: var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); myMCL.loadClip("player.swf", 25); _level25._visible = false; Any help...more >>

I have an invisible button over text which says "visit the site." My code is as follows. But it only works on a double click, doesn't open in a blank page. Please help! on (release) { gotoHeart.onRelease = function() { getURL("http://www.thrivingcouples.com", _blank); }...more >>

I have an swf file to control loading of "mods", or other .swf's through a scrollpane. The mods load fine by themselves, but not through the master swf. It only loads partway, like shows buttons, but not the text on the button. Also shows some text but not other text. This is really a...more >>

Hello all. Is there a way to convert the code below to gotoAndPlay a scene rather than getURL? Please note that the navigation this is in, is a loaded movie placed in the main scene (which I think is why there is a problem). I have tried root.gotoAndStop("scene_name"); on line 29, bu...more >>

Hi I have the following code to play a sound that is in the library: on (rollOver) { bee_sound = new Sound(); bee_sound.attachSound("bee"); bee_sound.start(); _parent.arrow_games.gotoAndPlay("over"); this.bee.thebee.play(); this.bee.thebee.flybe.wings.play(); } the file works f...more >>

Can someone please tell me why this doesn't work??? menuButtonContainer[ButtonNo]=createEmptyMovieClip("myButton",20); menuButtonContainer[ButtonNo]._x = 400; menuButtonContainer[ButtonNo]._y = 400; loadMovie("myButton.swf","myButton"); menuButtonContainer[ButtonNo].onPress = function(){...more >>