I was thrust into a project to create 2 banner ads for a local TV affiliate that will be in the MSN system. MSN supplys a template code snippet for the client's clickthrough and to measure statistics. Where is the best place to locate this code? Their is a large bitmap in the back ground a...more >>

I've read through many of the postings about the comboBox, in addition to the help files and livedocs, but have not found a solution to my problem. I have a SWF with multiple comboBoxes on it. Based on certain conditions I need to change the background color of the collapsed comboBox of a spec...more >>

I have a movie clip which contains an input text box. This movie clip resides on my main stage, and is masked using a mask layer which is also on the main stage. I am unable to select or enter information into the input text box. Is there a way to target the input text box within the masked mo...more >>

What is the proper way to display a bitmap Graphic Symbol (eg. jpg) from the library onto a MovieClip using ActionScript?? My project has 10 bitmaps that represent state and at runtime I want to display that the appropriate bitmap on a MovieClip based upon the state. I'm pretty new at t...more >>

i'm importing external swfs into my main movie. is there a way to make these imported swfs have trasparent backgrounds?...more >>

I am printing a movie clip and it works fine if I run it locally on my machine, prints perfectly. I upload the swf to our framework, and run the same print function, it comes out completely black. But this doesnt happen on all computers, only some. Some it works fine, but I can't figure out an...more >>

I'm setting up a Flash file that will basically operate as a presentation on the site's home page. The swf will load in a sequence of movies that the viewer will not have control over. Is there a way to stop these external movies for say, 20 seconds, before it loads in the next one. Or...more >>

Here's a puzzler. I have a movieclip with a three-quarters profile view of a box on one frame and a cutaway view of the same box at the same angle in the next frame. Both frames have stop(); statements on them and nothing else. My problem is simple: I have an onRollOver behavior of gotoAndStop...more >>

I have two buttons to control my sound. I have attached the sound using "attachsound". The "stop" action works fine but the "start" action plays the sound from the beggining.(i want it to resume playback) I know about the "secondOffset" parameter but how would I know what to set it at to have...more >>

Can anyone Pleassssse help ... I am trying to save a field name into a variable such as: var a:String = "city"; var rec_array:Array = new Array(); rec_array.push({name: "john", city: "omaha", zip: 68144}); rec_array.push({name: "john", city: "kansas city", zip: 72345}); for(i...more >>

hi, I have a swf movie and in it i have a loadMovie(); that loads another swf movie. It works well when i play the main swf, but when i publish the main swf to windows projector it doesn't load the external swf :-S Why is it? ...more >>

Is it possible to load an external flv and then load a swf file when the flv has finished? I've looked through the forums but haven't come across any solutions. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi. I have created a search function which takes some text a user types in and then searches through some dynamic text for them. If any of these words are found then they are highlighted red. this works fine if a user types in a word, space, another word etc. but if a user were to enter 2 ...more >>

I created a bunch of separate flash files and i need them to be linked so when i click a button it loads the requested file. I made them all separate html files to link but it doesn't look right...loading each page separately...is there a better way? I tried loadMovie but i don't know the corr...more >>

My fullscreen link prompts the user to change settings at Adobe's site. I can't have the user have to do anything. An example is www.kpf.com Anyone?...more >>

I am trying to pass variables either from an external TXT file or from the HTML into flash. The passing seems to be working. The problem is that the variable that I'm trying to pass is an integer (ie. 9999) and I am trying to eventually concatenate a URL string with this variable to make one...more >>

I have a test.swf movie that loads on top of another base.swf movie using levels. Within the "test.swf" movie, I have a movie clip called "load1_mc" which is a blank movie clip. It is also placed on the main stage. On frame 1 of "test.swf" I have the following code: load1_mc.loadMo...more >>

I'm looking at FileReference(List).browse and it seems to always show the old-style Win32 file dialog rather than the Explorer-style one that arrived on the scene, what,10 years ago? There doesn't seem to be any way to control that. This looks really lame. Are there plans to fix this an...more >>

Would it have been to much to give .setStyle("backgroundAlpha",number);? how do you make the background of a DataGrid translucent or transparent while retaining functionality? 4 Days of work, $1600 in time wasted - wtf. Save me - please - this is hard to explain aside from blaming MM/ADOBE w...more >>

Hi I downloaded the mp3 player from gotoandlearn.com and the first part is workin correct, but when I add the controll buttons it stops playing the songs continously. It only play the first song and then stops. Any one having the same problem, or knows a way to fix it? thnx.. here's the ...more >>

I need to find a way to get my final .swf file to loop only two times. I know there's got to be a easy way to do this. Any assistance would be helpful. Thanks....more >>

I have been using menu systems with carats that position themselves according to variables passed in the URL string. This setup uses JS to parse to the variables and include them in a script that writes the Flash code in the HTML doc. With the advent of MS wonderful activex control, I need to...more >>

I've asked this before, but the post just got too long and confusing, so I am going to start over. Basically I have 7 movieclips acting as buttons, so they can fade in and out on rollover and rollout. But when the scene first loads, I want the first button mult1_mc to already be on its ...more >>

I need to do the following type structure on a string in Flash where tSTNames is a string This is typical director Lingo i would use to do this. repeat with i = 1 to tStNames.line.count tName = tStNames.line[i] --stuff end repeat I know this will need to be a for loop...more >>

I have looked through the forum to see if my problem was raised but I could not find any topic that could help me out. So here's my problem. I have a simple photo viewer that load jpg's via xml. Everything work perfect when I preview the movie in Flash or on my desktop but as soon as it'...more >>

I've got a big movie with actionscript across lots and lots of movieclips. is there a way to search the actionscript in all of them for a certain string? an extention, plugin, etc.? for example, i'm trying to reduce the file size and remove a MC that is attached to other MCs via attachMov...more >>

I am trying to make a mp3 player similar to the ones on myspace. I need the player to start playing the song contained in my MYSQL Database under the users name. How would I do this. right now I have a play and stop button, but that is it. I am new to Flash, and couldn't find a tutorial on how...more >>

I am trying to make a mp3 player similar to the ones on myspace. I need the player to start playing the song contained in my MYSQL Database under the users name. How would I do this. right now I have a play and stop button, but that is it. I am new to Flash, and couldn't find a tutorial on how...more >>

dont understand where do i find that option? i have given each sound a linkage name and clicked the export for actionscript check box...more >>

Hi i have some background music and a seperate file as a voice over, i need to lower the volume of the main background and keep the voice at 100% i have tried this code but not quite working? myLoop1 = new Sound(); myLoop1.attachSound("Main"); myLoop1.start(0,10); myLoop1.setVolume(1...more >>

hi, I'm trying to show a username that was inserted in a input text field in a dynamic text field. No problem here, the issue is when the dynamic text flied is inside a moveclip...the dynamic text field aprears empty :-( Can anyone help me? ...more >>

Ok. Let me start by saying I'm getting better at Actionscript but I'm still far from where I need to be. Hopefully you guys can help. I am trying to pull off an effect where a logo emerges from the background using "DropShadowFilter". The Background is white and the logo is white so I onl...more >>

I need to create a button, that will play one sound at a time when it's being clicked, switching to a different sound from the library each time it's clicked. (I have about 10 sounds at the library I need to rotate when the user keeps clicking the button.) I'm new to actionscript, so I apo...more >>

hey all, i'm loading a large (250k) movie into a scrollPane, and am having serious issues trying to get a preloader to work in any fashion. i've tried placing the preloader in the root level, but the scrollpane forces the 250k to export on first frame to be functional, thus making the prel...more >>

Hi people, are there any known issues with startDrag in classes? I am working on a custom scroller class, and want to build a dragable scrollbar. However, the MC won't become dragable at all. I don't understand what's wrong here, any hints? The class gets an MC when it's instantiated, whic...more >>

Hi Guys and Girls, Im having a bit of a problem creating a stand alone cam exe projector that talks to my remote media server which in turn talks to a browser cam swf. All the browser based swf work fine but for some reason when I try and create a standalone exe projector it fails to con...more >>

Hi, Can any one help me to find the solution. Actually I want to disable the input text box from keyboard stoke....more >>

Flash compiler actually _omits_ the classes that I reference using import if they are not literally called upon in code (which is ridiculous) It would be interesting to see what macromedia has to say about this and to explain how we can instance dynamic. please help me and tell me what...more >>

Hi all, Can you explaing me what is DispatchEvent and where its used ?? If possible, can you give me small sample code.... ???? Thanks in advance:rose;...more >>