Hi guys, i have the following problem: i have an application where i'm loading an flv into a mediaPlayback component and it works perfectly when i'm testing it on my hdd but as soon as i publish it on the web, the flv stops loading, i don't get any errors there's just nothing happening with th...more >>

Hi all Apologies if this has been covered but I have a newbie question I have a scroll pane component on a scene. It has a number of thumbnails which when pressed bring up a large picture in the middle of the screen- great all works fine while in that scene I can swap between all the pictu...more >>

I have created a flash piece that uses loadvars and loadmovie to load text and images on a rotating basis. When viewd in browsers it either crashes the browser or gives the following message in Gecko browsers: Shockwave Flash The plugin performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advi...more >>

I made an application to display videos with a combo box, media display and an xml connector. Everything works fine until the video chose with the combo box end, then when i select a new one it seems that everything stop i just see the first scene of the video.:confused;. But while the fir...more >>

HI. I have a problem. In my movie, I'd like to preload "Scene 1" before "Scene 2." Then when you get to "Scene 2" have it preload that scene. Is there a way to do that?...more >>

Now ,I have a problem! I want to load a Clip which is in another swf's library! the code like this(of course it is wrong): //code in the test.fla createEmptyMovieClip("load_mc", getNextHighestDepth()); createEmptyMovieClip("container01_mc", getNextHighestDepth()); createEmptyMovieClip("con...more >>

to all of you out there struggling to understand why your 'printJob.start()' command returns 'undefined' when everything seems to be OK (while others seems not to have such a problem at all), well NOT thanks to the macromedia's flash team i found how to overcome this: simply change your publish ...more >>

Hi All, anyone know what I need to add to this to set the font (Verdana 10 point) ? -------------------- on (release) { this.createTextField("story", 10, 96.2, -79.2, 589, 297); story.border = true; story.borderColor = 0x740122; story.type = "input"; story...more >>

Hello I have a button within a movieclip(a). The button has an action on it to setProperty of movieclip(b) when the mouse rollsout and over. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- Movieclip(a) moves up and down and acro...more >>

In a standard text, I want to fill in particular variables on the basis of different INPUT TEXT fields. After that I want to save the edited text as an XML-file. I've allready created an "interface" , but I got absolutely no idea how to approach this. Is Actionscript the solution, or a...more >>

Hi All I have an array called " searchRows " var searchRows = new Array("Coastal Valley", "Valley Coastal", "boston"); I have a search criteria " keysearch " var keysearch = "Valley" My aim is i need to trace both "Coastal Valley" and "Valley Coastal" for keysearch = "Valley" ...more >>

How can I execute this code several times, so 4 images are loaded. Just putting it in a for loop won't do the trick. This causes the image to load 4 times but the preloader doesn't work anymore. I allready got this code below. This loads the four images into the right position (next to each ...more >>

Let say i wanna create 2 buttons, A and B. When i rollover the button A, it will play simple animation, also when i rollout. But when i rollover button B, the animation of button A is expected not to stop suddenly, but keep going on until it is finished, while the button B plays its animation ...more >>

i have created a button which i want to load a jpg dynamically....the fla and jpg are saved in the same directory...the code i have used is this on a layer above the btn.... but.onPress = function () { _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 0); _root.loadMovie("image1.jpg", "container...more >>

I have a site that load's numerous external swf's. One external swf is a scrolling menu that appears in level 100 of the document, being the second highest level, only lower to the button that calls it, it appears above the other items on the page. This is the desired effect. Unfortunately, th...more >>

Hi i am working on a site which needs a form to be submitted through my flash movie and for that purpose i am using PHP but the problem is this when someone type in Arabic strange characters recieved on other end. I tried almost everything but i dont know what i am missing i tried php fun...more >>

I have a multi-line textfield, called txtEditArea. When someone types something and press ENTER, I want to add extra 3 spaces in front of every new line, so look at the code at the bottom of this message. Now it works fine, but I want the cursor to be at the end of the line, so I added thi...more >>

Hi all I am using MX2004 but I want to save as MX, so the fla can be opened with MX too. When I do this, the MX version automatically comments out this line of actionScript: // var loadImages:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); In the MX2004 flash file, this line is not commented out. I guess it...more >>

i wanna create a button with animation on mouse event, which animation doesnt stop while the mouse hovers other button with other animation. can anybody help me how?...more >>

I have built a Domain Check area for my site, however, I have dealt with Html so much this Action Script is taking its toll on me and I think I am confusing the two. Here is the script I thought I had correctly written, however, I keep getting errors. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong and f...more >>