I know this is old school, and I'm actually embarassed to have to come to the boards with a preloader issue, but..... I just recently switched over to F8 and have built a movie that is huge. It contains a ton of embedded fonts. I've built a zillion preloaders, but have never run into this si...more >>

Flash 8. I have created a new movie with a window component in the library. A button click as follows: on (release) { /** Requires: - Window component in library */ import mx.managers.PopUpManager; import mx.containers.Window; System.security.allowDomain("http://80.5.54.164"...more >>

Hello everyone! I've been searching for methods to read a current user's window size and/or monitor resolution, in order to create a dynamic system that fills the browser window entirely, by scaling an SWF to fit within that users current frame. I understand that both Tables and SWFs can ...more >>

Here is the code I am using. In following frames it still is registering the mouse down for the mouse listener. How do I remove it? Thanks for your help in advance! this.mouseListener = new Object (this); this.mouseListener.onMouseDown = function () { if (this.rightClick_mc.hitTest(...more >>

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15854 This will explain how mp3s do not loop seamlessly. However the solution calls for using wav files, which I am not able to load with the sound class. I rather not embed large wav files inside my swf. Does anybody have a wa...more >>

How to make a "go back" button to operate the previous page, but not to point to the certain label? ...more >>

Hi I'm trying to load a dynamic image at a certain point in a timeline. I want to pause at the point the loadMovie is actioned and test for when the jpeg has loaded into the target movie clip before moving onto the next frame. I am using Flash MX and the code is as follows :- this.scre...more >>

hello kirupa forum world. I've been trying to figure out how to have a log in form in flash-- All I really need is to have a username and pass, I need to pass the varibles to a php page(info.php) and this php page then does all the work, checks the database all that fun stuff and sends the...more >>

Hi I tried to attach movie clips to scrollPane using attachMovie but could not do it I tried the following code: sp.contentPath="emptyMovieClip" sp.content.attachMovie("boxesRow","boxesRow1",1) trace(sp.content.boxesRow1) Im able to trace the sp.content.boxesRow1 , but not seen i...more >>

I have a list of filenames in an array pointing to data files on my hard drive. I'm trying to use a for loop to sequentially extract each filename from the array and load the file into an new array for later use. I have an onLoad event handler checking whether each file has been loaded. ...more >>

Without inserting loads of blank frames, can I delay the start of my movie clip? Also, can I get it to loop a specified number of times? Thanks!...more >>

Problem: I have an HTML page ("moving") with two frames, "puls" and "qui". In "puls" I have my buttons in swf. "qui" is my target frame. When I attach to one of my buttons: [i]on (release) { getURL("CosOff.html","_qui"); } [/i] the clicked button opens the link in a brand new page,...more >>

It appears to me that the text spacing tool ( A\V ) in the properties inspector does not work on input text fields. All other tools do seem to work though. I'm creating a form to be used by a classroom instructor to show students how each of the 200+ input text fields should be filled in. ...more >>

I'm ashamed I have to ask this, but I can't find the code anywhere Instead of prevFrame(); which only goes back to the previous frame, I would like to go back THREE frames. This seems like it should be so easy, but I just can't find the right command. Using a frame label is n...more >>

Hi, I'm having a little trouble with a flash movie I'm trying to make. What I've got is an embedded movie clip and 3 buttons (stop, play and pause). The movie and buttons work fine but ideally I dont want the movie to start until the user presses the play button. At the moment the mov...more >>

Folks, i'm tryng to copy a mc into an already existing movieclip, the already existing mc = mc_ThumbNails.mc_ThPic01 [created on stage], the mc I want to copy into this is aP[0][6], tried the code below, and also a straight assignment [which is //comment// now below]. Who can help me? ...more >>

Hello I am loading pictures into a movie clip using loadMovie, the jpg path is read from an xml file. If the file does not exist flash generates an 'Error opening URL '. I want to be able to trap this error and produce a message to say the picture does not exist. function updateSlide(n...more >>

I'm sending variables from a flash-form to an application using POST. Unfortunately, the application doesn't like utf-8, the character set I think Flash i sending. I need to get the special Norwegian character in the mail the application is sending based on the variables fro Flash... How d...more >>

Back to theory...I want to send variables (values) to server side script. Server side script receives them as querystrings.It uses them to collect the right data from database and then creates XML. Flash then reads the XML In Flash the values are sent from one swf and xml is loaded into othe...more >>

Hi all! Does someone know how to execute onExit action script. I want action script application send some specific data through socket when application is being closed. Thank you ...more >>

Does anyone know if Flash can detect a users country ID, return the result to the Flash movie and then have actionscript load the appropriate XML language file based on this ID. In addition, is it possible to load a global XML file that all movies in the Flash file read when they are loaded in...more >>

there is a weird white block flash only happens when: textfield.autoSize = true and there has to be a pic in the html ? to see error goto : http://urbian.co.za/clients/joshgen/ click info > vision ...more >>

I'm wondering if there is a nice easy way to call a function that will essentially act the same way as closing the .swf and opening again... except without actually having to do so. I need to make a program that handles a lot of data clear all of the data and just load fresh upon hitting a but...more >>

I am working on a quiz as an assignment at school. This is a begining flash class so obviously I don't know alot about ActionScripts. After my quiz loads and you get to the table of contents I only want one button enabled. After you complete the first section of the quiz I want the first butto...more >>

I have a php file that holds a certain variable (the name of an image). Then I have a SWF that shows the location of the file and then shows the actual picture itself. Here is a snippet from the PHP file: [Q]print("&location=$image");[/Q] Below is my action script: What am I doin...more >>

Can anyone help on this one, im kinda confused on using combo box, i have this code below... i have o submit 4 datas, username, password, campaign and process to php on a _self page, icant seem to make this thing work, i have tried several tutorials but im really confused.... i placed this scr...more >>

I want to fade in a movieclip on enterFrame. The following code works great, only it fades out instead of in. I tried doing: this._alpha += 5; but that doesn't work. any ideas? onClipEvent(enterFrame) { if (this._alpha > 0) { this._alpha -= 5; } } ...more >>

I am using movieclips as buttons so I can have it fade in and out on rollover and rollout. Basically what I want to do it keep the button on the rollover state until the user rolls over another button (all instanced-named mult1_mc through mult7_mc). Here is the basic code I have so far: ...more >>

hi, I have spent the last three hours reading every single post and trying every single script that I have found and to no avail. I have created a button in flash and I want to use it in a dreamweaver - generated HTML page. The intention is that on clicking the button, a pop up window with a cer...more >>