Ok. I've been working in this company for some time now but till now I've been working on HTML basicly. Now I have worked with Flash before but I can't say that I know even half of it. So the thing is I want to make a preloader for a flash project (i think this is a cleaner way of loading th...more >>

I'm trying to assign coordinates to multiple MC's randomly around the circumference of a circle. Radius, Circumference are givens. Any help with this math problem? Dan...more >>

I did this tutorial on how to create a pull down menu in Macromedia Flash MX. I tested the movie andthe pull down menu works, but now Im trying to get the buttons in the pull down menu to navigate to the appropriate frame in the timeline. I went into the movie clip that I created for the pull ...more >>

Please see this link: https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/ They do something really nice by slowly zooming in until the face is enlarged to 108% I want to do the same, but everything I do ends up looking very pixely as it enlarges any ideas / actionscript / etc. on how to do th...more >>

hi all I have an input text field created at runtime, and I want to change the font of that text field at runtime, with a choice of 4 different, uncommon fonts. So I created 4 other dynamic textfields, and embedded one of the fonts for each, thinking that as a result these embedded fonts wou...more >>

Hello guys, I hope this time someone will help me out.I am on this preloader since weeks. Well I have built my preloader in form of a ring which (should) gradually increase as more & more of external swf is loaded.But what happens is that the preloaders plays the whole thing and it finishe...more >>

Hi all Would appreciate if someone could help me with a problem I've got: Let's say I've got 50 instances of a MC on my stage, without any instance names. What I want to do is to give each of these MCs an instance names, for example: mc_001, mc_002 etc. Is this possible using actio...more >>

I want to make a slideshow type presentation with audio, and I want different points in that audio to trigger the main timeline to play. I worked when exactly (in seconds) I want the timeline to play, and I put all those times into an array. I also defined some variables for sound.position a...more >>

:| I have done once in FlashMX and it's work probably; But when I open it in Flash8, I try to use the same script with the new built-in combobox and it's failed. comboBox.addEventListener("choice", this); function choice(){ loadMovie(comboBox.getSelectedItem().data,_root.load01) } C...more >>

I have created a button using movie clips for different states of button. In those movie clips I have also used a Text Box, and I m tweening Text upwards on mouseOver,. Hit area is working fine but if mouse goes over the Text box area then it stops showing the HAND sign and is not clickable ...more >>

I cant figure this out... can anyone help a newbie? <code> var myArray = []; function loadXML(loaded) { if (loaded) { for (i=0; i<this.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) { if (this.firstChild.childNodes.firstChild="Mars") { myArray.push("ItsMars"); } else { myA...more >>

Loading a swf into a target. The swf I'm loading uses _root in its AS. From searching this forum, I learned that putting: this._lockroot=1; on frame 1 of the external swf would resolve the issues of having _root's. I don't think it worked though, because my exteral swf plays fine by i...more >>

Hi there I have a class with a private method in it that essentially assigns a recordset to a datagrid. Datagrid is something like "myGrid". Now that name is passed to the class as an argument (so I can reuse this class with multiple instances of a datagrid). So for example I would use the...more >>

Confusion with filters :( I am using Blurfilter for my example: this works line 01: var $blurFilter:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(_blurStartF, _blurStartF, _filtersQuality); line 02: _mc.filters = new Array($blurFilter); line 03: var $bf:BlurFilter = _mc.filters[0]; // IT GETS ALL THE OBJ...more >>

I've run into this problem before... wondering if anyone is farmiliar with it. I have the same SWF embedded twice in my HTML page(see code below), but when the page is first viewed only the first SWF loads(second one gives the dreaded "Movie not loaded" right-clickette). However, on refresh,...more >>

I am attempting to make a simple flashCart to plug into paypal. I planned to simply use flash buttons and the Shared Object to handle the cart. But I think I am confused as to how the Shared Object is handled with multiple SWFs accessing it. Here's what I have [addToCart.swf] _root.onEnt...more >>

Hi I'm trying to add an action to a button in a panel. i want it to work like this: click an element on the stage, click the button, the button gets the element's corresponding symbol in the library and displays its NAME (not the "object SymbolItem" stuff) in a text box. Hope you ca...more >>

Hi, I have a picture of a bottle, but how can i do it so the user can fling it around and will also ping off objects? Thanks for your time Jason ...more >>

i divide mathematically with a for statement my screen but the movieClips wil not load. only one loads in the right under corner. Can someone help ?:confused; var hHeight:Number = (Stage.height/6); var hUpdate:Number = hHeight*2 var wWidth:Number = (Stage.width/20); var wUpdate:Numbe...more >>