Hello. I want to attach a number of movieclips from the librarie. The symbol from the library has a Dynamic textbox named "nnn". If i want to attach 4 movieclips when pressing a button: for(i=1;i<=nr;i++){ map.attachMovie( "town","town"+i , 10,{_x:clas[1].xx,_y:clas[1].yy} ) } how can ...more >>

How can I do that? For example - I had load in my movie another movie like that: var my:MovieClip=_root.creatEmptyMovieClip("my",100); my.loadMovie("some.swf"); In some.swf there is library, so I want to attach MovieClip from that library. Is that possible? 10x. -- Я бы изм...more >>

Apparently, this is a known issue with many browsers. I'm wondering if there's a simple (or not) workaround. I've got a FLASH US map with each state a button to go to a separate part of one HTML document. This works fine when I test in Flash. But when I place the SWF in an HTML docum...more >>

I am trying to create a scroll pane that reads in xml and then creates two elements for each node of the xml, an image and text. As the xml is parsed, I have a movie clip that is duplicated and the image is loaded into the duplicated clip. This works great for the images, but when I try to ...more >>

Is there any way to call document.URL value from actionscript, without any extra code included into website itself (pure actionscript solution) ?...more >>

Is this a viable piece of script? if (((variable1a == true) || (variable1b == true)) && ((variable2a == true) || (variable2b == true)) && (variable3 == true) && (variable4 == true)) { //insert code here I wasn't sure if you can combine all those and/or statements like that? ...more >>

I have 3 objects on the stage that I need to be able to individually drag and rotate. I've managed to get this to work with one of the objects using the arrow keys left and right to rotate the object. I then tried to set a variable that would rotate the different objects but can't seem to ge...more >>

Hello! I'd be very grateful if someone could help me out with this. I have two layers - each contains a different object. Each of these objects have things happening on their own timelines. At a certain point on object A's timeline, I want the user to be able to click on it and jump to a dif...more >>

I am trying to use common library buttons but want to dynamically create instances of them. I enable the linkage as export to actionscript and then use createobject with the linkage id. This does create an instance, but all of the init obj parameters are ignored. Is there a way to supply these...more >>

Hi Everyone, I am loading external .swf's into a template file for an e-learning project that will need to have navigation options fairly often. Is there a way to talk to the external swf, even just to get it to gotoAndPlay on the main time line once it has come to its end? i.e. when the...more >>

Hi, I'm new to flash so please bare with me. I'm loading an external swf file into a movie clip and that's working just fine. The problem is, while the movie clip is loaded, I'm still able to click on buttons that are "behind" the movie clip. Pushing these hidden buttons without even knowi...more >>

Hello to all, This is my first time in this group and I am new to AS, so I might be missing something. I have a main movie clip on the stage: burgers_mc There are 8 instances of a nested movie clip called burger1 to burger8 within burgers_mc All movie clips have been put on the stage a...more >>

Hi There, I'm using the following code in Frame2 to load an image to the screen using a loader component . . . function loadImages() { var iA:Number = AlbumDetails.childNodes.length; //1 childNodes var i = 0; for (i = 0; i < (iA); i++) { var iNumOfTracks:N...more >>

Hi, I have a tile based maze game that i want to be able to choose a level at random. The tiles are arranged by script using a 2D array (the standard way to make tiles with script??), so for example one array is called gameOne = [array], gameTwo = [array] etc.... Anyone have any idea...more >>

I do not know if this is the right place to post this but i am lookig for freelance actionscript guys to help me with several projects... insteaad of fishing for free advice I would rather share cash and have a few regular actionscript guys who would like to be feed regular work... I am a ...more >>

Hello, I wanted to know how can you upload a mpeg, avi, or wmw to a website and have it process it and create a flash video file? What software is involved? What is the easiest method for doing this? Is there a tut out there or a book that details this method? Thanks, ...more >>

Hi, I'm using the following technique inorder to parse the XML like this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;.... Just want to known if there is any way in Macromedia flash where in we can you element by names for parsing XML like asdk supported api : eleme...more >>

Hello All How can we convert standard video files in to flv file at run time like http://www.youtube.com and http://video.google.com/ is there any script or tool to do this. This is urgent. I have one project in this project client requiring function like whatever standard video file ...more >>

I'd like to stop each flake using hittest (I think) so that when the flakes hit another mc, it appears to land and collect into a pile. Will this code work for that effect? As you can see, I've tried a couple different things but neither work. Here's what I've found: width = 550; hei...more >>

simple question, the <p> tag in html leaves a space between</p><p>paragraphs, but it doesn't in flash</p> why not, and can it be fixed or worked around? :confused; thanks for any answer, creed ...more >>

I asked a while ago and didn't get an answerthat answered the question, and now it has become rather more urgent. How do i restrict a text entry field so that users can only type into the available space, i.e NO scrolling horizontally or vertically. I can't find a way to do this. Many t...more >>

Hi, I have two flash applications which are running from my desktop and both of these are communicating with a web server in order to transfere data to a centralised database. It is working with a normal http connection, but now it is very important that this communication is change this t...more >>

I have a problem changing dimensions of a MC which contain a mask. there is a MC, containing MASK (300x300px) which masks the content (600x600px). I want to resize the MC for the screen width. But flash resizes always the whole content of this MC while keeping its content MASKED, so I se...more >>

Can someone tell me how to create a background that will scroll seemlessly from left to right (& from right to left) by having the user hit the arrow keys? Is this complicated? Thanks. Gary...more >>

A client of mine just sent me an e-mail about all button not working in a web site, that I am certain works fine. I think I read something about the new IE doing something like this as a sequrity feature? Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated! Brian...more >>

help!! i have loaded a {slide swf} into a movieClip .. on stage .. using the var loader:MovieClipLoader(); using a button movie clip the is embeded into a seperate swf file that is loaded in at run time but the {slide swf} is runing a Interval that i need to clare ... so is there a...more >>

Hello, Problem: I have a m.c. that has a combo box in it. However when you attach this m.c. the first time it is fine, if using removeMovieClip and remove it... fine, however when you try and re-attach the m.c. all hell breaks loose. If I remove the combo box from the m.c. everything attach...more >>

seems straight forward... but cant figure it out. i want to go to the next key frame when any key on the keyboard is pressed. is this complex? thanks, anton ...more >>

Here is the codes i am using for a timed slideshow Frame1: function delay() { if (slide1run !== 'no') { nextFrame(); } } setInterval(delay, 1000); Frame 3: if (this._currentframe.String='4') { gotoAndStop(1); } Frame one is just telling it to goto the next slid...more >>

I have the following set up: A movie-symbol (spinner) that contains a spinning movie-symbol (spinner_components). (Spinner_components) contains three movie-symbols that are animated. One of these is a rectangle (holder) onto which I load an image, ?image?+(x)+?uri? When the timeline co...more >>

Hi all, First of all thanks? for looking at this post! I'm trying to build a game for a kid's website that teaches them how to write numbers. It's quite simple in a sense that the user will be shown an example of how to write the number 5 and are then asked to try it themselves by drawi...more >>

I have been trying to load an external movie to my main stage and position is correctly, however, it's not working. Please let me know if this simple command is off track or not... In Frame 1, the action script presets the position for _Level2 like this... _level2._y = 100; _level2...more >>

I'm trying to develop a cd presentation in flash which nedds to access the database in the cd itself (local database). I will be just displaying the data. is there any way it could be done ..?(may be just displaying the MS Access database in the datagrid) ...more >>

I have an instance of a movie clip which has three keyframes to it and is positioned off the stage. At the beginning of the scene I calculate the position for the clip and then move it onto the stage via the following code: var block = _root.Shape1; block._x = calculatedX; block._y = cal...more >>

Hi, I am trying to figer out the way for AS to call javascript functions remotly. I have swf element that my website's users will take and include at their own websites. I need to gather statistics from those elements. Regular javascript stats script looks like this: [Q]<script type="text/...more >>

I have a website in which swf and html files reside in different folders, like this: wwwroot/html/example.html wwwroot/flash/example.swf The example.swf is placed in the example.html file and referenced as .../flash/example.swf. Now I want to communicate through javascript with the s...more >>

Hi there. I want to develop a product catalog with flash. I have over 200 products. This is going to be a stand alone app that is distributed on cd. I am using an xml database with links to images. How should i proceed? Should I preload all the images? And what should i use to display th...more >>