hi, i'm trying to create an offline application wich should store data on the user hard drive. the first way i take was to create .sol files using the sharedObject, but as i'm reading about it in a few articles it seems not to be the right way for several reasons first i would like to ...more >>

this code is frustrating me, on (rollOver) { gotoAndPlay(2); } on (releaseOutside, rollOut) { gotoAndPlay(7); } on (release) { _parent.t1,t2,t3.getURL("contact.php","_blank","GET"); } i have the fla file loaded if someone wants to take a look at it, please let me kno...more >>

hello everyone, I have an ecommerce site i'm working on which requires a way to uniquely identify a user as they 'shop'... My idea was/is to get a hold of the users MAC address and use it as a unique-id so when user adds an item to shopping cart, I have a way to make a database item en...more >>

Hi there I have been migating some older AS 1.0 code to AS 2.0 but it wont display how it should when published in flash 7 Have I missed something here, I've strict typed my variables with no apparent error. I would be grateful for any help on this. BTW the variables frenata and...more >>

Hey everyone... I have a swf that is not working in Internet Explorer and IS working in Firefox. On the link below there are two swf's on the same page. Compare between IE and Firefox and notice the difference. Please help with ANY suggestions. http://www.frunder.com/clients/dolbex/ ...more >>

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hi everyone i could not manage to insert an image into my html text. here is the code: this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 100, 200, 222); my_txt.html = true; my_txt.border = true my_txt.multiline = true my_txt.wordWrap= true //Creates column headers, formatt...more >>

Can the following actionscript work if it's placed in a movie clip? loadPercent = (Math.floor (_root.getBytesLoaded() / _root.getBytesTotal() * 100) + "%"); loadBytes = (Math.round((_root.getBytesLoaded() / 1024) * 1000) / 1000 + " Kb of " + Math.round((_root.getBytesTotal() / 1024)...more >>

Is it possible to export a movie to an image/jpeg using ActionScript or some other mechanism?...more >>

Here's a piece of code I picked up: out = false; speed = 1; snd = new Sound(this); snd.attachSound("Fuel Loop.aif"); snd.setVolume(100); snd.start(0, 2); _root.onEnterFrame = function() { if (out) { snd.setVolume(snd.getVolume()-speed); if (snd.getVolume()-speed<=0) { snd.sto...more >>

Hi I know that Flash can load and play in same time. I know that Flv too. I have a big video. With cable modem or more, there is no problem. The clip can play and load and the clip finish loading before the video stop. If I test on a 56k modem, the clip does not load enough and start to play...more >>

I?m playing around with the tree component and I can achieve to add an element on the root, but I can?t find the way to do it inside the selected element by the user. Can someone tell me if this is possible? Greetings. ...more >>

so i've created three dynamic buttons. i want each of them to go to a different url or perhpaps load some new text into a dynamic text box. how do i refer to them to get them to 'perform'? here's the code creating the buttons (about tour, map, close): buttonLevels = 1; createButton("Ab...more >>

I have a rather cool dragable navigational menu that I've incorperated into my project. Unfortunately I cant drag it around the screen, it justs sits there looking rather redundant. It will play fine when published in the old Flash 6 AS 1.0 so I feel there's a code compatibility issue here. ...more >>

I have a problem and here it is... i have a button when clicked plays a movie, when the movie stops playing i want it to jump to the next frame having problems with the last part... any help would be really cool ...more >>

Hi. I can't find any syntax to change the brightness of a MC in actionscript. Is that even possible? /Andreas...more >>

Does anyone know of any online tutorials or tips for creating the following kind of situation: Basically I want to create a main movieclip that only show about 1/4 of itself on the screen. Then when a say button A is pressed the whole clip slides over to the second quarter of the site then sa...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to find out if it's possible to break apart text with actionscript. I have some dynamic content that i'm embedding in the movie as it's published severside using PHPTurbine7 (however, this is not a Turbine7 question). The dynamic content fills a textField on the sta...more >>

Hi, I created a mailform with the common textfields and also 7checkboxes. Since I want the visitor to at least check 1 box of the 7, I need a script to execute a checkbox count during the validation of the form to alert the visitor if none is checked. I would be very pleased if anyone ...more >>

hi, sorry for my english first. I have one problem with actionscript 2.0 I have Flash MX professional 2004. I opened old project a inserted new script. But flash dosnt see it. For example: var Count:Number = Number("98"); trace(Count); ..... but it writes me "undefined". If I ins...more >>

I have a swf file(1a.swf) which is in the form of a transparent button in which only the ouline of the button can be seen. This swf file is in the form of a rotating button which stops the moment I click on it. I am loading 1a.swf in another fla file(button.fla). Now i am loading this 1a.swf f...more >>

hi is there any site where i can get reference or sample about the accessible template for multiple choice questions and fill in the blanks thanks...more >>

Hi all, a quick, and more than likely easy one, i need the action script that tells flash to open linked URLs in a new window. The script i am using at the moment is listed below. Obviously the problem is that, when clicked, the linked URL loads in the browser window already open, whi...more >>

I have a splash screen on my website (not yet online), and would like visitors to be able to skip it by selecting a checkbox during the preloading. What i want is to be able to have a checkbox that when clicked, and the movie is loaded, the movie automatically skips to frame 3 rather than ...more >>

:confused; I'm learning to animate using AS but the file I've been told I need for it all to work is not found by Flash MX 2004. It's called the lmc_tween.as but I have no idea where I would find it. If anyone can help then it'd be appreciated very much! Thanks Rich Hampson ...more >>

Ok, so I have created a buttonless scroller. It is a series of pictures that slide to left or right based on where the mouse is, but these pictures are buttons themselves, and I need to be able to click on one of these thumbnails and get it to move to a frame with a larger picture centered abo...more >>

I am trying to make a button, sitting all by it's lonesome on a layer, tell a movie clip, sitting alone on it's layer, to play. The movie clip's frame 1 is empty, with a stop action on it, and frames 2 through 10 have a tween, frame two is labeled "Play". Here's the code I have set up for ...more >>

This script works fine when dubugging at 1.2kbs and the image loads. But when I upload to the server to test, the image does not load unless I refresh two times. The connection is broadband. Hopefully someone could shead some light on this script? The script is on frame one of the _root timeli...more >>

I have a movie clip that I would like to slide to the right or left depending on which button the user clicks. When I test the movie and click on the buttons, the target movie clip only moves one pixel. I want it to slide into place. What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance for your ...more >>

I know that template609had a similar question regarding pop-ups and I tried to figure out my problem from their question, but I'm still having issues. This is my code: on (release) { getURL("http://modubuilt.com/Showcase%20Pages/Army.htm","_blank"); } That part works just fine, but...more >>

Hi, I have a class called Objet, which extends MovieClip. I have another class called Element, which extends Objet. And a few classes extend Element, for exemple Coude. Every time I use attachMovie to create an instance of Coude, its contructior is normally called once. But Element's c...more >>

Ok, simple exaple with code. Why is the output "Thats unidenfied that im noob" ? Scoping problem, yes? If i would trace _iAmNoob in constructor it would output "True", if i would try to in constructor var $s=_iAmNoob and onEnterFrame trace($s) output would be unindefied. WTF :'( class iAmN...more >>

is it possible to create an input text field at runtime that let users highlight a word to make it italic? or better yet.. how to provide them options to bold, italics, underline like you have here?...more >>

How would i go about making one preloader load in what ever swf that is passed to it. so performLoad("main"); will load the main swf into the core swf. But also how do i get the loaded properties of an external swf. Without making a actual preloader in the main.swf. Sort of like a dynam...more >>

Quick question... I'm trying to make a slideshow that loads jpg's from a directory into empty movie clips. Additionally I want the individual movieclips to displayed for a preset amount of seconds that I determine. I'm sure there's a way to do in thru actionscript, but right now i'm stumped. ...more >>

I have a combobox (named 'dropdowns' with labels consisting of neighborhoods in our area and I want to load an external swf with info about the user-selected neighborhood. here's my as: function handler() { loadMovieNum(_root.dropdown.getSelectedItem().label+".swf", 3); } But it...more >>

All, I extend a TextInput to create a new one component. But when I add some components on Stage and create a new symbol (Movie Clip) the tab order doesn?t work. Do you have idea why this is happening? thanks, Affonso ...more >>

Hello- I have a problem that I need to overcome to correctly show the real size of photographs in my site. I have a square box, located in the base.swf file (level 0), that serves as the picture box. Some photos are 600 x 400, and some are 400 x 600. The problem is that the picture box...more >>

Hi guys Here's my movie http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~jtp/temp/titleLong.swf My little dudes are meant to die after a certain amount of time, which they happily do on flash player 7 or 8, however on flash 6 they don't. They shrink (as they're supposed to) but the removeMovieClip(this) ...more >>