Heya, I have a flash button that I want to open an external html document into a new frame, but I deleted my files that showed me how to do it, can anyone help? Thanks! -spence...more >>

Hey guys, I've been working on my new application and I am finding a problem here I have run into before. When I have multiple movieclips open, my mouse will interact with object behind the movieclip in the foreground. I know you can fix this by making the containing movieclip a button so th...more >>

How can I dyamically resize the stage? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

i have various sound effects in my flash site and i want to give the user the option to turn the sound on and off.... anyone know how to do that?? thanks...more >>

Okay, easy question. I have a movieclip that i want to act as a button. this movieclip just contains text and i want to create a "hit" area so the user doesnt have to be really precise to click on the text. but so far, I'm having troubles recreating this. I have created in this movieclip a...more >>

I need a help. I've created a 5 min flash movie and need to add a pause, play, rewind buttons for the viewer's control. I read many posts here and the Flash help, but they all talk about embeded video clips like mov or alike. I tried to save my flash video as swf and then import it to libr...more >>

I have a C++ project with a dialog box containing a Shockwave Flash Object and I am loading a shockwave file into the Active X control. I am trying to use ExternalInterface.addCallback and ExternalInterface.call to access functions in the C++ project (and vise versa). From the C++ project I...more >>

I am attempting to create a set of buttons like the following http://www.braingiants.com/photo/photography.html. Open the Gallery and you will see how the images fade up slowly and back slowly while being above the others not being rolled over. Do I need to keep these movie clips/buttons on ...more >>

Usually I just use the library and name each button instance myself, but making dozens can be tedious. Is there a way to create new instances of a button (one already in the library) using actionscript? ...more >>

Hi. I'm relatively new to Flash/Actionscript (6 months) and am looking for a way to copy the contents of one clip to another (empty) clip. For example: 1. create empty clip A. 2. loadMovie() into clip A. 3. create empty clip B. 4. copy (somehow) contents of clip A to clip B. Th...more >>

Hello, I am trying to get an object (graphic symbol) to rotate (spin) around it's center point. I tried creating a motion tween and just choosing rotate, which does spin the object, but not around it's center point. Is there a way I can use actionscript to rotate an object? Thank you. ...more >>

I have two SWF files that reside on the same page. I want one to start the other when it is finished. I was told to use localConnection to do this, but don't know anything beyond that. Any help would be appreciated. -Kirk...more >>

i'm trying to get database results, but current database alows nulls, which means that nodes are not always in the same place ( childNodes[2] is not always the event name but might be something else, like 'date for event' ), is there a way to call the node by name instead of number? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello all, I'm new to actionscript and I'm trying to monitor the current frame number in a movie clip. What I want is using a the slide class of a screen have the clip play until a frame number has been reached and then go to the next slide. Thanks for your time! ...more >>

Im working on a project for Lenovo and have run across a little bug that is turning out to be a real pain in the arse. I'm loading XML containing HTML into a TeaxArea and everything is working fine. When the HTML text contains Image tags the scrollBar instance does not represent the maxim...more >>

No doubt I'm being a dunce with this, but I SUCK at scripting! I have a movie clip on the timeline (called R&D Buttons Clip) and within that are 10 more movie clips ( which contain buttons). One of these 10 movie clips needs to control the timeline of the movieclip thats its placed within. I...more >>

Maybe the Accordion isn't the way to go with this.. But basically I'd like to have them fill out a form in order, so when they are done with the first panel of an Accordion they can click "next" and it will take them to the next panel of the Accordion.... the way it is now they can go to any p...more >>

Hello, I am trying this slideshow.Pretty simple though, but I am not able to get the elastic effet.What I am getting is an easing effet where the movie clip smoothly eases in(people are never happy , I guess:frown;).What I wanted was the spring effet.Where am I going wrong .My code M...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm using Flash 8. I try to reuse some classes from a recent project in which I make use of objects that extends View, UIComponent and other UIObject. In my class that is the View part of an MVC pattern, I have this method: (where __root == _level0 and StageGroupUI extends...more >>

About a year ago, I found a file that someone had created that spits back to you the tree locations (childNode[ ], etc) of an entered XML file. For the life of me, I cannot locate the file and swear I found it on the exchange, but all searches, internet and here, find nothing of the sort.......more >>

:( My problem would be that when the user first comes to the site 2 buttons ( which are movie clips ) are suppose to be in their over states ( which have frame actions on them ), which works. But when they are rolled over for the first time they go off, and shouldn't do that because the in...more >>

I am working on a bad word filter for an online chatroom which is working...... however it is also stopping words that contain a bad word. ie bad word that is banned - turd good word that is also banned - saturday the code i'm using is...... if (this.message_txt.text.indexOf("tur...more >>

Hello: I have a a combobox named CboSelec how do I detect the option that a person have chosen? Thank you ...more >>

Hi, Im not too sure how to do this so any help would be appreicated. I'm looking to create a movie clip which cycles through names randomly. These names will come from an external text file. Basically it's for a Q&A so people dont feel there being picked on. The teacher would hit '...more >>

Hello, I've made a class named Element (created a MC in Flash 2004 MX, then export in actionscript as mElement and as Element at AS2.0 Class). Then wrote this class: class Element extends MovieClip{ private var test:Number; public function Element(){ trace("Element created!")...more >>

Hello: I have two arrays (for example) arrayA["asd","bcd"...] arrayB["fgh","wdf"...] // this new array contain the names of the two arrays before ARRAYS["ArrayA","ArrayB"] // I get the name of one array before result=ARRAYS[random(2)] //for example, I get: result="ArrayA" // I...more >>

Hi, I have a .swf movie that loads up a .xml file and uses the data inside it to generate dynamic text fields at postions specified in the xml data. All the ActionScript is on the Frame 1, when I publish the movie as Flash 6, it works fine. But now I want to load this .swf movie into a mo...more >>

Hi I am trying to move this ball_mc across the stage.Its simply just sitting there at x =0, y=0 and not moving.Whats wrong??.Here is my code var k=0.2; var damp =0.9; var tx = 250; ball_mc.onEnterFrame = function() { ax = (tx-this._x)*k; vx += ax; vx*= damp; this._x +=...more >>

Hello, I'm using Flash 2004 Professional V.7.0. What is the actionscript command to load a jpg into flash. Basically what I am doing is setting up a product picture gallery for many differnt products. I would like to be able to make a folder for each product and then put resized pictures i...more >>

i have two objects: 1. circle 2. photo the circle will load first but i want it to mask the photo because it has the four corners (not circular like the photo). So if i mask the photo with the circle the corners won't display function imgIt() { var xoo:Number = 400.1; var mo...more >>

Heya, I am trying to give a button a rollout effect but the code I'm using sucks and closes the flash or whatever browser it's open in when you rollover, haha. Ideas anyone? -Spence...more >>

I'd like a way for actionscript to give compiler errors if a variable isn't declared I'm going insane. Can anyone help?...more >>

I want to load and swf into another, at a specific coordinate. Can someone help with this code?...more >>

I have a loadMovie successfully loading .jpgs into an empty movie clip (loader MC) when the user hits a button. I would like to make this movie fade in from 0 alpha to 100 alpha once the ..jpg is loaded. For this I have 25 frames, first frame is the loader MC at alpha 0 and at 25 frames i...more >>