hi... i just made a flash form for my site with php, but i would like to create some rules for it. For example, when someone doesn't fill the name form flash shows an error, or when the @ is missing from the mail form, etc...etc... Can anyone help me how to do this in flash?? ...more >>

can u issues a layer to be a mask, but have that layer also show its contents. The purpose being to cut down on duplicate MCs. Say for example u had a body constructed from several MCs, and you wanted to impose other MCs over the body, but have them not show beyond the outline of that body...more >>

hi there i'm a newbe...... and am making a car game, one that you look over the track and screem around in a car, u know the ones, if you don't do to the following site. (http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/action/gallery?navid=8){sorry not gunna make a hyperlink, going to have to type it ...more >>

Hi, What's the best way to go about making a multiple choice Flash MX quiz with randomly generated questions? many thanks- Leo...more >>

Hi guys, i was wondering if i can set in actionscript the lineSpacing for a text field which i added dynamically to the main timeline? Thanks so much. Cheers...more >>

Hello, I think my title is clear!! What I want to do is to use a menubar with submenus, but not whit thoose shown in tutorials. I'd like to use the same submenubar as Macromedia.com!!! I don't know how they did it!! Is it a component or just a movie clip loaded on a clip event?? Than...more >>

I'm loading an external swf into a blank mc on stage via button on release. To load and play the first time I have to double click the button. Once it's loaded, it can be single clicked. Is there a fix? on (release) { moviebutton1.onRelease = function() { loadMovie("http://www.myurl.c...more >>

A newbie question here : i attached this code to the .fla and it works fine. onClipEvent (mouseMove) { this._y = _root._ymouse; updateAfterEvent(); } the only thing i would like to happen is that the mc follows the cursor at a slower pace, so thats its not so fast, i am looking for m...more >>

Hi All, This is what one of my XML node looks like: <title><![CDATA[<b>mobile</b>banking]]></title> All I want is the first word of this block to be bold. The problem I face is that, in Flash my text box displays the text as "bmobilebbanking" stripping out the <> brackets. What cou...more >>

Hi Is there a way to globally stop/pause all movieclips running, that is built into flash? Cheers Shaun ...more >>

Hi can anybody explain me how to use in ActionScript a group with 2 radio buttons(rdBtn1 and rdBtn2)? I have named the group with the same name:radioGr I want to write something like: i=0; if(rd.Btn1==true) {_root.createTextField("txt1",i,100,100,50,50); i++; txt1.text="hi there!";} ...more >>

Hi, I am building a site for a photographer that has a scrolling reel of photos on the right hand side. The first few get loaded in when the movie loads, and more are then loaded in randomly. This works fine in IE, but not in Firefox. Firefox sometimes only loads the first set of images and so...more >>

Hello guys I have a website to make soon and i need to make some research on how to tackle some funtionalities in the site. Well the website is about clothing. People visiting the website will be able to select a cloth of his/her choice and then add a logo or graphic or a line of text, ...more >>

Hi ! I wanna to send the variables to php or update php's variables while a php file contains the swf . Thank u :...more >>

Hallo .... First sorry for my bad English.... My Problem is. I have a offline cd-rom pr?sentation. There is one mein swf with one Backround music file that i can start or stop with a button. In this main swf i`m loading many other swfs...one after one....this are the movie files....eac...more >>

I am working in a site for a photographer, and have created some nice fading images for several slide shows of his work using Flash MX. He has now asked me if ttere is an easy way he can update his images (fair enough) and I know jpegs can be loaded dynamically into a swf. Is there a simple ...more >>

I am trying to get this www.wolfdesign.com.au/work.fla when the portfolio button is clicked. sounds easy but i have tried an absolute myriad of scripts. the movie should preload so it opens even if the user is navigating to the last value "resume". complete scripts would be great!!! ...more >>

Hi all, I have a 3 minute online product presentation that's about 110K with a preloader that currently waits until the entire movie is loaded before it begins to play. I'd like it to begin to play after about 60% of the movie is loaded, and allow the rest of the content to continue to lo...more >>

Hi, is there any way to prevent a TextInput from getting focus when tab is pressed??? ...more >>

I am still a little confused about the event handler and the event itself. For my loadMovie action script I have this code loading "identity_movie" inside the movie clip "identityM" (see below). Do I need to add an action or is that all the code I will need? on (release) { identity.o...more >>

I'm trying out scrollbars on dynamic text boxes right now, yet I want to have a movie clip with some stuff in it to sit on the stage and have a scrollbar scroll down the movie clip (and scroll it back up of course). There are a couple of problems. I've created some dynamic text boxes that have...more >>

I've read just about every preloader tutorial under the sun over the last 6 days and still have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Sorry to bring this up again as I know its been covered a million times but I'm a graphic artist, not a coder and this stuff is doing my head in. Many many thanks if...more >>

Hello all. I have an image scroller that has been previously scripted to open the selected image when clicked. I want this to open a URL when clicked instead. I can't seem to determine where to manipulate the script in flash. I have placed a zip file here for downloadhttp://www.mullinss...more >>

hi i created a SAVE button for my flash but i do not know how to go about inserting actionscript to make the button works. Anybody can help me? I want to add a actionscript to the button which enable the users to click and save the last frame as JPEG/BITMAP/whatever format. ...more >>

Hi, I'm using loadmovie() to load an swf with document size 645x85 into a movie clip of wdth 645x85 and when i play it the loaded clip is below where it should be... Any suggestions?...more >>

how do i send a movie symbol to the back thorugh ction script.....?? i have an movie symbol that is suppoised to be an background image and i want to drag and drop images onto that background problem is the images keep going behind it...?? so how do i set it to go to the back through the sc...more >>

What I want to do: enable movie to zoom in 3 times only. Problem: movie zooms (scales up) fine, but doesn't stop. On frame 1 I set the variable "zoom": // zoom = (0); zoom = Number(zoom); // on the zoom button (frame 2), I placed this script: // on (release){ zoom = Numb...more >>

Hi, I am building a video player that loads an FLV file and allows the user to play/pause and scrub through the video using a slider bar. It works okay, but for some reason it will only catch every 5 seconds. Once I press the slider button it snaps to the nearest 5 second mark like 5, 10, ...more >>

Sir We crated a flash chat client, that uses an XML Socket Server developed in C++ as the sever. But the chat movie connot connect to the chatserver if there is a firewall in the client side. If there is no firewall the flash movie can communicate with the sever (used crossdomain.xml file)....more >>

I've just spent 2 hours trying to figure out why a damn LoadVars script wasn't working... Found the problem: It seems that if your script processing the informations sent by flash returns stuff like: &var1=true&var2=false falsh can't handle them. If they are returned as &var1=ok&var2=b...more >>

Hi, I am trying to het a volume control to work on my streaming music page but can't figure it out?? I have gone to behaviours, used the linkage but that won't do it. Can anyone help me?? Thanks Rick ...more >>

How do i tell the movie to download a certain amount before it starts streaming, as when viewed on a pc with a low connection spped the movie jolts?...more >>

To All It has been 2 flash programs ago since I built a basic if then preloader. I am trying to build one now in Flash MX 2004 and I am having difficulty doing so. Can someone please help me and refresh my memory? Thank you ...more >>

Check out http://www.nike.com/nikevision/main.html and click on USA as an example of what I'm talking about here. What I like about the site is the way that no matter what size you browser width is, the flash animation will perform end to end without limit. Yet the main body of the site f...more >>