hey everyone, I'm currently trying to simplify my life a little by using eval in conjunction with a for loop to lighten the number of things I have to write down a little. Here is what I'm doing and I guess I need help understanding why it doesn't work as well as a suggestion on how to fix i...more >>

Visit this website "http://www.betriebsraum.de/" This site has kind of a windows operating system flash application. My question is: How is it that you can move one of the draggable windows in front of another draggable window by clicking it. In other words it kind of moves itself up a lay...more >>

I am trying to link to and open a PowerPoint ducment using getURL() like this: on (release) { getURL("http://mycompany.com/files/mypowerpoint.ppt", "_blank"); } This has always worked for me except for recently with IE on Windows XP. IE gives me a Not Found message. But if I refresh the ...more >>

Hey i have a bit of a complicated variable problem. Have a look: function subbutcreate(sname) { for (i=0; i<this[sname].length; i++) { attachMovie("subbut", this["s"+sname], i+mainbutnames.length); this["s"+sname].count = i; this["s"+sname].smenu = curcount; this["s"+sname]....more >>

Hi! Can anyone help? Within my Flash website I have the option to load another movie clip into a box embedded on a page. However, when I have loaded both website .swf files and the extra .swf containing the video clip (and HTML) onto the web server, and gone to click on the button...more >>

Hi, I've done a quick search about attachMovie() and layers, but can't quite find the answer..Is it possible to attach a movie clip to a certain layer in Flash? ...more >>

Can anyone help me? I just need to have a volume up and volume down button that visually affect the same red bar that goes up and down, depending on what they push. I dont need a slider bar to do this, but thats the only type of tutorial I"ve found after hours of scouring flashkit and...more >>

I want to set an on(release) fucntion to execute the following line: new animation.Scale(box).run(100,100,3000); But when I try a simple: on(release) { new animation.Scale(box).run(100,100,3000); } I get no response. How do I script this? ...more >>

I am developing a project using asp.net and Flash. My flash project has symbols on different layers. My asp.net creates an xml file that contains each symbol name, and a value for visible. My actionscript loads the xml, and I am looping through it just fine. When I put the xml output for symbo...more >>

I have a flash file which contains an online form. I want to take the information collected from the form and enter it into an SQL database. I am using .net. Can someone lead me to a tutorial on this? ...more >>

Hi I'm having trouble making this work. Is there any one there who can tell me where I'm going wrong? I've made a power bar animation that I want to advance when you press the space bar. Over the top of the animation I have put key frames with the action stop() on every frame. I put t...more >>

I'm trying to place a preloader before a movie I'm developing. The preloader is located in first scene (loader) and the movie is located in the second scene (main). The loader has a progress bar. Here the actionscript for frame 1: bytes_loaded = Math.round(this.getBytesLoaded()); byte...more >>

Dear all, I have inherited a movie that I now wish to alter. At the end I want to cause it to explode followed by a static page with some text on. I have done this by creating in Scene 1 a timeline for the main movie (movie, frame 6 -24), a separate timeline for the explosion (explode1, fram...more >>

Does anyone know what Control > "enable sipmle frame actions" exactly do? I tried many ways to find difference between "enable sipmle frame actions" on and off, but still don't know what happen. I have scene with animations, buttons, frames with actions like stop(), gotoAndPlay() and so on, b...more >>

If you place the following code on frame 1 and run it you get a node length of 2 back //****************************************************************************** *** xmlObj = new XML(); ignoreWhite = true; xmlObj.load("XML/course_setUp.xml"); xmlObj.onLoad = function() ...more >>

Hi, What command do i need to make a button go to another scene on press I have about 5 scenes and was using just gotoandplay ("scenename"); but this isnt working so what do i need to do...more >>

I want to create an image slideshow with text and images. I will have 20 images that I want to fade in and out with text appearing for each image. What is the best way to do this through actionscript to save space?? Thanks Scott ...more >>

hi every body in need some help for this action script "exec" . when i make a button whith flash mx 2004 and i make the exec action script to open a setup program that dosn't work in other way with flash 5 that works i need how can i make it works (the help for this action give a bad so...more >>

Hi I'm making a Text-Based Game. The problem is when the player inputs a response after the correct response is done the text field doesn't clear it self. This Deleting thing gets boring and tedious. So if you could give me so scipt to do this or point me in the right direction it would be app...more >>

Hi Can anyone help with the following issue: I need some code which loads an external mc with input text boxes in the mc. when a button is pressed the mc is loaded into a target and the input text boxes are set with values which a user can see. How do i load a movie and reference it ...more >>

I have a flash header that I want to play only "once" instead of every time you enter a new webpage. I've read that shared objects are the way to go, so I found the following code below, but I cannot get it to work: Now = new Date(); Today = Now.getDate() + "/" + Now.getMonth() + "/" + Now...more >>

example1: in one frame var my = "abc"; var my_xml = new XML(); my_xml.load("aaaa.xml"); my_xml.onLoad = function(src) { if (src) { trace("load"+my); } else { trace("error"+my); } }; ctrl+enter to test, OK, it can trace the variable my's value. // ex...more >>

I'm new to Flash so please bear with me. :confused; I bought a template and modified it for a site that I'm working on. The contact form is a movie clip that contains a submit button. The action script for the submit button says: on(rollOver){ this.gotoAndPlay("s1"); } on(rol...more >>

I have a text field named "description" inside a movie clip called"description_mc", and i'm trying to tell that mc to check is the text inside the field longer than the field can take to its visable surface (does the txt needs scrolling). In case the text is longer than field (scrollable), the t...more >>

I have a basic command on a scroll button that makes my content go down 250 pixels per click. However the new _y value is immediatly changed. How can I make this be more of a scroll? (so the content scrolls up instead of imediatly changing) My code on the button is: on (release) { ...more >>

I can't seem to get this code to work. I'm kinda new at this, so forgive me if its obvious...It is attached to a button on the main timeline. on(release){ fadein.gotoAndStop(22); } On my main timeline I have in the actions layer this code.... stop(); _root.inner.fadein.onEnte...more >>

I've got a really interesting problem... I retrieve xml data from php using loadvars, and all is well. I take a copy of the data as an object variable by referencing the corresponding childnodes in the xml node tree. to make the app a bit more user-friendly, I use one copy of the data to d...more >>

Hi, how do I check if the email entered in a Flash form is valid. I use this AS in the button to check if the required fields are not left blank : on (press) { if (name != null && email != null) { gotoAndStop ("ok"); } else { gotoAndStop ("notok"); } } and this is working fin...more >>

Any way to stop the accumulating non terminating downloads that seem to occur under EVERY situation when the mediaPlayback component is used to deliver .mp3 files? I cant find a stop stream/load for the media class, which I think is the only class to control components (?). thank you. ...more >>

I get an syntax error when I add the following code to an existing flash project. import mx.data.components.WebServiceConnector; I have the webservice connector in my libary, but still no success. Any thoughts. This project I am using was written by someone else but i am editing it now. ...more >>

I feel pretty close to the response. I'm basically trying to set up an error checking trace. With this trace I have a variable array the top that contains the name of other arrays. What I wanted to do was automate this trace a bit. Have it loop through each of the arrays. Of course the eva...more >>

I have a file with music playing in the background. The music is an mp3 inserted via attachSound() from the library. Initially it plays fine. I also have a button that if pressed causes the movie to start over at frame 1 (via gotoAndPlay(1) ). The problem is the sound file is duplicated when t...more >>

I have a motion tween of a character walking (12 frame animated MC symbol) from the distance to foreground. The speed of the motion tween needs to begin gradually then speed up as he gets closer so the distance of his steps are true to perspective. I've played with ease in-out but it doesn't g...more >>

I loaded another swf file in which there s a button that opens a popup window on another movie.But the pop up window is not working after loaded.What can the problem be?...more >>

i am creating a picture on the stage by using attachmovie.... now when i want to reset the stage and clear it i am using removemovieclip but it is not working!! any sugeestions why... the way i am doing is like this.... for attachingthe movie i_story.page1.stage.stage1.attachMo...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm trying to embed a Flash Slide Presentation inside a Standard Flash document. I know it can easily be done with a Loader Component but it's not good enough. The Loader Component does not give me access to the underlying Slide Presentation (even if I set "_lockroot"). Did a...more >>

Hi I've a flash project in which I need to do a fileupload I need to know how the user can select their local files (like html pages 'browse') and upload them with other flash form elements Can you please help me? Thanks ...more >>

Hello, I?ve a problem with the getURL script on a button. It looks like this: on (release) { getURL("filename.xxx", "_blank"); } I want it to link to a pdf or http adress or a movie. I got it to work a few times. The problem is I?m supposed to import the flashmovie in Director...more >>

I'm doing a presentation were I'm loading one movie into another. and I need to be able to stop the movie I loaded any given time. the code I'm using is not working any Ideas //on Actiion Leyer loadMovieNum("Max_Intl.swf", 1); // My Stop Btn on(press){ _level.s...more >>

can i use an mp3 as a background music loop, is it better if it was streaming? event sound? my background music doesn't seem to loop very smoothly.. thanks in advance....more >>