Hi I have a presentation to build that will displays lots of information to a user. Most of this information is text that is displayed over a nifty graphic.mc, however this graphic has controls of its own, such as a pull out that plays a video on the pull out. Let me break down how I hav...more >>

I would like to control the volume of a person speaking in a video and the volume of background music independently from each other with two volume bars. However this far I can only: 1) Control volume on voice and music on same time (but not independently) 2) Control music but not voice ...more >>

In order to save time, i would like to script this game in such a way that i can put some code(similar to: if(this.hitTest(_root.MC)){ ) on MC#1 but make the other clip being tested any other MC on the stage with out coding separate hitTests for each. In other words i want to make it so whe...more >>

I hope someone could help me with this. It seems simple enough, but I'm probably not writing the script properly. I have two timelines: 1. In the first timeline ("actions") there are two keyframes. The first keyframe: [Q]stop(); x=0[/Q] This keyframe just declares the value of x...more >>

ok, heresd my problem, i have been trying to sort it for about a month or so now. and no body i have asked seems to be able to help me :-( www.djpaulbayley.co.uk/new on the first page you see the "newsletter" subscription link,,, all i want is fo that to be uses to send a basic email to ...more >>

Hi there: --After a thought I think that the last subject may be a bit vague-- I am writing out my actionscript classes for my project. I want to have a class that is responsible for the remoting service. The only problem is when i try to use the same remoting code that was working just f...more >>

Hi there: I am writing out my actionscript classes for my project. I want to have a class that is responsible for the remoting service. The only problem is when i try to use the same remoting code that was working just fine in my FLA document, it seems to have a problem loading the classes:...more >>

Hello All, I am working with an XML and External JPG loader and it doesnt seam to want to work all the time. It works randomly loading different images. The code is as follows stop(); myPhoto = new XML(); myPhoto.ignoreWhite = true; myPhoto.load("bangorchamber2.xml"); myPhoto.onLoa...more >>

could anyone perhaps tell me how i can stop/pause a movie for 5 seconds... My current movie is 40 frames long and i need to pause it at frame 34 for about 5 seconds...before continuing on to frame 40...without user interaction (no buttons or mouse actions) i did a search on the adobe site ...more >>

Apart from some other problems this site: <http://www.model-agency.nl/NEWSITE> www.model-agency.nl/NEWSITE displays a bug that baffles me. I added a simple preloader.swf that loads the main.swf in itself. Everything works fine except ONE component (and the loading of backgrounds on lo...more >>

Folks, I have a Flash Projector application that is a frontend for an electronic Catalog (PDF'S). I have incorporated an install and web updater feature on the CD so the user can install on their system. After installing, I have a web updater feature that goes out and checks for newer vers...more >>

I am creating a projector and using the fscommand "showmenu" as false (fullscreen false also). When I do this, and load a 'fullscreen' .swf file, it creates extra pixels on the top and bottom. Any way to work around this while not being able to view the menu? Thanks. Rob Childress ...more >>

hi to all i want to create some text field inside a movieclip at runtime and change the values of the textfield at runtime. i also want to create RadioButton inside a movieclip at runtime. how to do that ? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi Experts, Don't think this is a Very basic question. I am having a Circle(Say 100x100) in a movie clip. If you trace the width of the Move clip it will show exactly 100x100. Well. Now rotate the movieclip for 45 degrees(or some other degrees). Now trace the MovieClip width. It will sho...more >>

i m using Bitmap Data class ..i .e i first use bitmap.draw method and then then i attached it to a movie clip by movieClip.attachBitmap method....but the problem is that unlike attached movieclips which align their centre with the movie clips center to which they are attached ,the bitmap im...more >>

I have build navigation systems in the past that had several layers of submenues. These would for example be structured like the following, where you would have button a 1, 2 and 3(1st level), button 2 has a subbutton that we will call 2.1 and 2.2(2nd level), which then have subbuttons that ...more >>

The reason for this entry is a really screwy Actionscript that needs to read the pixel color information and then SEND it to a server side script that will read that data to recreate the image. For the script to process this information, the pixel color must be a hexadecimal value, so unless the...more >>

I was wondering if there was certain actionscript to let background music transfer from one scene to the next without a break in the sound. As in if i start a song on scene one and then half-way through it goes to scene two but continues the music w/o repeating. -Thanks syn90 ...more >>

Wondering if anyone else gets the same results. Try this on a new document: var cm = new ContextMenu(); cm.hideBuiltInItems(); cm.customItems.push( new ContextMenuItem("Select",select,false,true,true) ); cm.customItems.push( new ContextMenuItem("Rename",rename,false,true,true) ); _root.m...more >>

Hi Folks Do any of you know how to print out the actionscript source code WITHOUT copying and pasting into a text editor. I would like to be able to do this from within Flash if at all possible? - I am using Flash 8 Thanks ...more >>

I have a drop down MC menu made up with buttons dropping down. I'm trying to target the buttons within the menu to the next scene, or a specific scene. It's not working. Any suggestions?...more >>

I'm using getURL(); to pop open a new window from a projector file but the projector is taking hierarchy over the pop-up window. I need the window to appear ABOVE the projector file. I've heard you need third party software to do this (something like freeMX) but i'm wondering if someone has an...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to build a simple adventure game engine and I'm haveing problems getting the boundry hitTests from Ed Mack's tutorial to work. I'm pretty new to actionscript and if someone wouldn't mind taking a look at my code and telling me what I'm doing wrong here, I'd appreciate it. Yo...more >>

Hello, I am new to actionscript and would like to make a flash movie (swf file) with a sequence of large images. Another movie (swf file)would have say ten thumbnails of these images. When the viewer clicks on a thumbnail the other movie with the sequence of large images would load... ...more >>

Hi, I'm an ActionScript noob, so please forgive me if this is totally obvious - I'm just not finding it in the docs. What I would like to do is play a sound file on each screen of a slide show (this part is working) but instead of the user pushing a button to go to the next slide, I w...more >>

Hi there, Has anyone else experienced this issue and if so has anyone got a fix? Basically, I am using loadMovie() to load a dynamic jpg into a simple movieclip. When you go to view the website using the Flash 8 player the image doesn't display. However, if you are using the new flash 9 ...more >>

I would like to open a save file dialogue box on the click of a button within a flash projector. I need to allow people to save particular content from a cdrom to their hard drives. Is there any way of doing this? many thanks ...more >>

What I'm trying to do is load a movie in another level wich is defined by a variable (i) On level 0 there is this piece of code i = 10; loadMovie("Home.swf", 10); (I've entered 10 instead of i because otherwise I wouldn't get anything at all) Now every time I go to another 'chapte...more >>

Hi guys, hope you can help. Firstly I'm new to Flash - please be gentle! I have 2 SWF files, A and B. A is a master page which loads B into itself (for use as a menu) using loadmovie. In B there are images that, when clicked, load an image into a programmatically created mc in A . Loading an...more >>

What I'm trying to do is load a movie in another level wich is defined by a variable (i) On level 0 there is this piece of code i = 10; loadMovie("Home.swf", 10); (I've entered 10 instead of i because otherwise I wouldn't get anything at all) Now every time I go to another 'chapte...more >>

I'm new in Flash Proffessional, and I'm doing my first job. Everything it's OK but now I want to load an other scene into my background to first scene (1), from a button. Anybody help me? Thank You....more >>