I am doing a site for a photographer and I am loading in all of his images dynamically. I was curious if anyone knew how to have the dynamic image fade in. Below if the code that I am using to call the image. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks //code used to call the image ...more >>

How to control the volume of a flashtrack file ? I have a player that loads an flashtrack swf file and starts to play it. How can I control the volume of this file ?...more >>

I created a top simple navigation menu inside a htm web. I want once you clic and got to the others html pages a "home" botton appear. How can I do that only with one movie as navigation inside all the html pages? Thanks, Olmo ...more >>

I had this code that I've used a million times for motion set as a movieclip function. MovieClip.prototype.moveit = function (centerx, centery, inertia, k) { //trace(centerx+","+ centery+","+ inertia+","+ k) this.x = -this._x+centerx; this.y = -this._y+centery; this.xp = this.x...more >>

I am just trying to feed a numeric value into a dynamic text field and I am figuring it ain't working because the text field only accepts strings...how can I quickly convert a number to string? something like... num = 7 myText_txt.text = num // not working myText_txt.text = string(n...more >>

Hey all, I know this topic has been covered before but I couldn't seem to get a straight answer from previous posts. I am interested in uploading an image to a Flash movie. I was hoping to use PHP since I don't have ColdFusion technology running on my server. I have gathered enough info...more >>

Hi all, can someone please rewrite this script for me so it actually lunches the url mentioned. I am having problems doing this. Here is the script; onRelease getURL("http://www.anshen.com/US/dialogue/dia.ann.html" , "_self"); right now it says there is a syntex error: ( Line 1: Syntax erro...more >>

i made a website in flash and then put it into dreamweaver. when i test the ..swf file and the dreamweaver file, the 3 buttons i have (in flash) that link you to other websites work. but after we got the website up and running, the files do not work online...they still work in the .swf and d...more >>

I have about 20 movieclips on stage which Inchange the colour of when toe mouse goes over them using my_mc.onRollover. I would then like that movie clip to respond to key presses but I can't seem to make the my_mc.onkeydown work I have the following code on the first frame of each movie clip...more >>

Hello, I am trying the following code: ******************************************************************************** ************************** var disconnect_lv = new LoadVars (); var diconnect_cnf = new LoadVars(); var disconnect_chk = new LoadVars(); var disconnect_final =...more >>

Hi , doing my preloader I got a bit confused with depth and levels. I am downloading my preloder in container_mc5 which exsist at depth level 5 on _level0.And at the same depth level I am loading another swf calledAccueil.Now for my preloader to work should I put it at a lower depth say 3 and ...more >>

For validation an e-mail address I have the following as part of it: if (email_ti.text.lastIndexOf(".")<=(email_ti.text.indexOf("@")+2)) { errors.push(""); } That code works perfectly fine as for their can only be 1 @ symbol in an e-mail address. Then I have: if (email_ti.te...more >>

Hello I am running a flash exe file for a Kiosk and my client would like the program to record what pages have been viewed and how many times so they know what information is being accessed and at what rate. I can gather all of this information in flash, but ideally would like it to writ...more >>

I've been thinking about this for a while and i need to know if there is a way in flash mx 2004 to create a 100% acurate hittest in terms of the exact shape of two objects (not the bounding boxes of one object versus the shape of another). i mean that two curvy shapes would only return a hit i...more >>

I am making a fighting game and i need to make 2 variables interact.. here is the progress: http://adamsodyssey.com/small.html With the help of mandingo, this is the code i am now using: The main functional code: stop() this.attack = function(attackType){ switch(attackTyp...more >>

Hi all, Im a bit of a newbee and have been banging my head upagainst a brick wall trying to solve an actionscript problem and I just cant! so im asking for someones help if possible. ok im trying to scroll/scan through an MC. So what you end up with, when you jump pages if the whole thing w...more >>

I have this flash file with some audio files in it which I think is bumping up the file size quite a bit. At the moment its nearly 2 gigs big and I really don't think this is necessary. I've tried deleting some of the things in the library, but it keeps on crashing when I try to save it, so ...more >>

Hi I've come across a sentence like 'The new instance is placed directly above the parent instance, at a specified depth. eg. timeline.createEmptyMovieClip(new name*,depth); can anyone tell me what 'depth' means? Thanks Jaya ...more >>

Hello, I want to know can we keep preloader external.To be more clear I am loading into my target_mc preloader.swf .I want this preloader_swf to check the preload of another swf called home.swf which will be loaded into the same target_mc.All this is done thru MovieClipLoader() What I ...more >>

I am Creating Dynamic Mc in the root at (Frame 1), I want to add mouse events to that Mc, Where to code the script in Frame (with sample Plz.)...more >>

Hi Friends, I want to change frame rate on click. HOW???? i m waiting...........more >>

why does the dynamic field doesnt look as smooth as the static field (anti-alias I think) and I use arial... thank you...more >>

im makin a little menu bar for my game and can i have the AS for when the mouse goes over it,it drops down with selections...more >>

Hi Everyone - I hope you can help. I am still learning Flash but have a very simple yet challenging task. Scenario ------------- I have a small video playing inside my movie clip called mvImagine. mvImagine is playing on its own layer on the main timeline. Goal ------- When i...more >>

So either I'm just being a complete moron or Macromedia changed the pathing behavior. Everytime I tween a movie clip, Flash loses complete sight of it and doing a trace reveals that the said MC is undefined - even though it's sitting there on the stage staring at me. But remove the tween and c...more >>

Can someone direct me to the list of all differnces between AS1 and AS2? Thanks Luka ...more >>

on doing the following... onPress = function(){ getURL("http://www.yahoo.com"); } and my_button.onPress = function(){ getURL("http://www.yahoo.com"); } and pretty much any variation there of produces an error upon publishing and doenst work in the published movie... any...more >>

Bascally I hav some stuff in a movieclip which then moves into anouther movieclip. How do u do it so when you click a button in this second movieclip, it goes to frame 10 in the prevous movieclip? Thanks for your time Jason ...more >>

This should be easy, but of course nothing is as it seems. loadMovieNum("/15x15002.swf",6); _level6._x = 800; _level6._y = 800; It seems that I should be able to move the whole layer to position this .swf Im going through hell getting the code and everything in this .swf to come in c...more >>

Hi, new to all this flash malarky but straight in at the deep end creating a graph using xml and pure actionscript. I've got the graph drawn no problem but I'm really struggling to find a simple explanation of how to create text fields on the fly (dynamic text?). Basically, I have my tex...more >>

I am coming from Director land where one can simply "startTimer" at any point and then check time from that point forward and trigger events based on how many "ticks" have elapsed. How does one do this in Flash? I have spent some time looking at the date object, but I don't want to work with...more >>

How can i do this in loop? var sound_1 = new Sound(x1); var sound_2 = new Sound(x2); var sound_3 = new Sound(x3); var sound_4 = new Sound(x4); var sound_5 = new Sound(x5); var sound_6 = new Sound(x6); var sound_7 = new Sound(x7); var sound_8 = new Sound(x8); var sound_9 = ne...more >>

Hello all, My album system uses a simple PHP script to generate the different image sizes on the fly, at runtime... the script URL plus the image dir is sent as the URL param of the loadMovie() of the container MovieClip. This script uses GD to manipulate the image (set its size) and then ...more >>

I am making a flash presentation that is 4 minutes long. My client is not quite sure how she wants the presentation to flow, so I thought it would be easiest to make little movie clips of each section, and then put that movie clip into a single frame, and so on. That way when we want to move t...more >>

Is there any way to determine if a variable is an object or an array? the typeof() function returns object for both types. ...more >>

Just a general question that I was just hoping someone might be able to shed some light on this. I'm engaged in looking on the MM website for changes to Flash 8 Player when it comes to how streaming sounds are now streamed, but the more feedback the better. I'm an electronic musician and a dru...more >>

I built a scrolling image bar. I am having problems with posting in on the internet because it is too big. When you click one of the images on the bar...it loads the image to the left that is bigger. I was wondering if anyone could help me with loading the pictures from an external source? ...more >>

Hi, I have a sound that I use in a game that I am doing. It is loaded in frame 31 which is the frame where you start to play it. At the end of the game you are sent to frame 54 where a Play Again button resides. When I press the Play Again button I am sent back to frame 31 to play again....more >>

I thought I was getting functions down pat, but I can't seem to get this to work right. Any help or advice would be appreciated. I'm trying to make a function to control a bunch of small mc's -- this works fine, but I don't want to repeat it 50 times. lr_mc.sp1_mc.onRollOver = function (...more >>

Hi there im looking for playing a movie clip thats inside another movieclip. I tried, but I cant find a way for makin it play. its a map that zoom in and out and to this map its attached a movie clip that I want to make flick. I know that its a root problem but i cant figured out !!!slike it...more >>

hi, I just beginng a project in flash for college, a game. I created a class to make "infantry" in an as file. It compiles fine. When I try to instansiate the class in the fla file(not sure if the terminology is right) I get this error. "Type mismatch in assignment statement: found Stri...more >>

Help! I have created a Flash intro with buttons that I am trying to direct to the pages in my Dreamweaver site. I can't get the down state to link to the pages. I have been adding the link to the entire url address with / and the page addresses. Each time it disables the rollover states and le...more >>

Hi, i have a gallery with "undefined" images that loads in it. I want to attribute to each image a progressive number. I use this: myTits =(i+1); and the associated dynamic text field return : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 .... but i need something like: 001, 002, 003, 004, 005... 039, 040, 0...more >>