When I send a call to ExternalInterface.call, it stops the processing of the movie. What I'm trying to do is pass the name of the movie that's currently being played to an javascript function that sets a js variable current_movie. If the line to call ExternalInterface is in the AS, it won't ...more >>

I have a script where when a button is rolled over the image shifts to the next one and so on. what i need is to modify the script to move images into frame one image at a time every 30 seconds without the rollover. Just a continuous cycle of images. Can the attached script be modified to incl...more >>

Lets say I have a dynamic text box with the following text in it - $1000 and I want to dynamically increase that number to $2000 by clicking a button while actually displaying the increase. i.e. $1001 $1002 etc. etc. Any thoughts on how to do this? ...more >>

I would like the mute button to default to the "on" or "mute" position when the video starts to play. Then the viewer would have to click the mute button to the "off" or "sound on" position to hear the sound. Can someone tell me if this is possible with Flash professional 8? If s...more >>

How do I attach a sound to a button? :S...more >>

Hi All, I'm creating an user interface with Flash 8, I'm new to Flash, my background is Java therefore I decided to use ActionScript to create a custom component that is reference within an external file. My problem I believe is scope related. I have a status bar (label component), o...more >>

I'm makin a scrolling marquee that gets its data from an xml file. It reads it in and displays it fine, however, each loop of the scroller I want it to read in the xml file again so that any new entries will be displayed. I don't know if it's caching the xml file or what. I've tried the us...more >>

I'm trying to use the following variable in a statement. It doesn't work and I think I have my syntax wrong. var activeButton:String = "btnWhoWeAre_mc"; [activeButton]button_txt.setTextFormat(button_fmt); It works if I hard code it. So how do I use a variable on the front end of this...more >>

In my application, I have a set of three radio buttons that should all belong to the same radio button group. However, I need to put them into separate movie clips. Setting the group name for all three to the same string doesn't do anything (neither does just leaving it to default). Is...more >>

Hi I wonder if you would recommend any good books, which you have found helpful, on understanding action scripts. -- Nishi ...more >>

Hi, I have been trying to get to grips with the tree component. I want to customise it so that I can have a different icon for each different link. E.g. a QT logo for a video etc. If no valuse is found for the 'icon' attribute it will just display the default. Within my XML file I have c...more >>

Hello guys and gals. I'm trying to do something which should be amazingly easy and fundamental, but which just won't work. I've looked all over the web, millions of forums, and all through flash help and still can't get a solution. Basically I'm trying to target an IFRAME with a getURL c...more >>

I've got three buttons which I want to start playing three different movies when clicked. Each button click should cancel the movie already playing and start up the new one. This sounds simple. For some reason I'm having all sorts of trouble with this. The first movie plays, but the others nev...more >>

I am trying to raise and lower several windows using rollover buttons. I need it to raise on rollover and lower on release. I can get it to do one but not the other. can you help me out with the formating to get this to work properly? It's driving me insave! here is the start to my code. o...more >>

Hi, I've got a following problem - I have a TextArea element, that loads the text from XML file. Furthermore the elements reads css settings to format the text. Everything seems to be ok, but if I reload text in textarea the css-formatting fails, and I've already tried to do everything to ...more >>

Hi, since ActionScript is asynchronous, can I use an Alert component to halt the execution thread and wait for the user response? i.e. The code below, Alert.show("Message", "Title", Alert.YES | Alert.NO, this, alertHandler); trace("hello"); will pop up the Alert window but the trac...more >>

Firstly I would like to say, before we start, that I am in no way a professional developer, this is for a university project, and as such, I can't handle large peices of code, if you post a reply with this stuff, I'm not going to be able to understand it. I don't mean to be rude (I a...more >>

I have too much space at the top of my animation and I want to raise all the layers, frames, everything... The problem is that the tweens won't move along with everything else even though their frames are selected... Is there a way to move the tweens without having to redo them? ...more >>

Hi All, I got an error message while publishing a file: [b]**Warning** com.mapper.LinkMapper: Branch between 10161 and 43877 exceeds 32K span.[/b] The "LinkMapper" class formats an XML with 5 Nested Loops:-( I checked the swf metada file usig some third party tools also, it says some ...more >>

Hello How can I get better precision on a movieclip _x property than a tenth's pixel? Or isn't that possible?!? Regards Compmon...more >>

Hi all.. there's probably a simple way to send form content to the standard formmail.pl but I need a tutorial of some sort to do it.. anyone point me in the right direction? ...more >>

I'm having trouble understanding why this Timer function won't stop after my variable count gets to 56? As I understand it, "delete frametime" here should cut off the interval. Will someone explain why this doesn't work? when placed on the root timeline: <code> function Timer() { if...more >>

Hi, I've looked around the web and couldn't find a solution to a question I have so I thought I'd ask here. I'm working on a CMS site that is based on a template page which has content dynamically loaded into content divs. Is it possible to use Actionscripting to load my swf just once (onl...more >>

In my movie I have lots of buttons and when the user click on a button, it takes him to a certain frame on the timeline. However, hardcoding each button seems like a lot of waste of time and space. Is there a modular way of scripting the navigation, e.g. using a variable like *myName* so that ...more >>

Hello, Lets say I created a program asking for NAME and ADDRESS and PASSWORD. So, the new user enters their name/address/password. How would I go about STORING that information, so that next time that person visits the site, or that program, they could enter their NAME and PASSWORD, and ...more >>

what is the action script code, and what else is needed, to make my buttons change color (indeed image) on rollover? I have got this from the manual: 366ActionScript classesonRollOut (Button.onRollOut handler)onRollOut = function() {}Invoked when the pointer moves outside a button area. ...more >>

Hi! I' am trying to randomly load 10 short video clips. The script below doesn't work properly. It plays the first video clip randomly, but then nothing else happens. Please answer my questions below. script: var VideoArray = new Array(); VideoArray = ["Q1.flv", "Q2.flv", ......"Q10....more >>

Can one use Flash load file power point ? if yes how can we do? and flash to interact with power point?...more >>

Hello, I hope someone out there can help me with this problem: I have a ScrollPane that contains a MovieClip that to which I attach several other MovieClips at runtime in response to user inputs using attachMoveClip() (both MCs are in my library and set to export for actionscrip in first ...more >>

I'm trying to make a button that will link to the very last frame of my movie. But I have no idea how to do this. anyone help please? (I have the button already saved)...more >>

I've created a simple maze game where a player rolls over hot spots and triggers quiz questions. The quiz questions are based on Flash Quiz Templates. I would like to add one more layer of complexity to the game by having a false answer send the user to a different frame in the Flash timeli...more >>