Has anyone seen a tutorial to create a image selector like the one on iTunes 7.0. It looks like a jukebox and you can scroll through the different albums. I would like to work it into a database with latest images. Thanks ...more >>

Hey all, I'm building a site whose flat, vector shapes need an outline of a dotted line. The majority of these shapes are simply rectangles with rounded corners. All are created dynamically. I could do each shape's lines by hand and attach them, but I'd much rather use a script. Anyone...more >>

Hello, I am having a problem with founding out the x and y position of dynamic text. I have a flash movie which allows users to type out some text, change font, size, bold, italic etc and then move it around within a restricted area. The users then save their design which saves all the inf...more >>

I am just trying to set up a button where if you hold down the "Shift" key and click it, it will take you to a specific frame. I tried a few ideas like: onKeyDown = function() { if(Key.isDown(Key.SHIFT)){ gotoAndPlay (2); } } But thats not working. Any ideas would be greatly appreciat...more >>

A.swf contains code loadMovieNum("Z.swf",0); B.swf contains same code loadMovieNum("Z.swf",0); When Z.swf is loaded into A.swf or B.swf I need on Escape Key Down to return to the original swf, i.e. if Z.swf is loaded into A.swf then Escape Key Down I need to load A.swf Z.swf is load...more >>

Does anyone know if this should cause a problem? I have a my flash page at http://subdomain.mydomain.com/flash.html and the page I load data from is at http://subdomain.mydomain.com/flashdata.aspx. Then when I do my loadvars it doesn't even get to the page; success always equals false. I...more >>

I have my portfolio images set up in a masked layer so that they won't show when off the stage, but I don't know how to set up the ActionScripting/movie clips so that when a user selects an image, the image will move to the center of the stage and enlarge. Also, the user needs to be able t...more >>

I have building a flash video player app and have pretty much completed it and wanted to add a preloader. I added a new scene in front of the 'main' one called it 'loader'. I put some code that checks for bytes loaded and and waits for an XML to load with setInterval. The loader works fine ...more >>

Looking for a method or statement or methodology ? that detects / knows when a sound is finished playing. here is a sound object for an remote mp3 var mp3_sound:Sound = new Sound(); mp3_sound.loadSound("http://blablabla... thisfile.mp3", true); mp3_sound.stop(); soundIsPlaying = false...more >>

Hi, I have a flash movie which basically has around 10 frames and I am moving between the frames by pressing the down and up arrow keys from the keyboard by adding an action listener. Now what i want is that when i am moving i always want a flash movie to play in the background. I trie...more >>

I have various movie clips which I need to appear in one of four locations randomly. I need the movie clip to also be random. I also need more than one movie clip on stage at the same time. I believe the following needs to be used: Math.random duplicateMovieClip I also believ that the...more >>

Can you build a web browser that is contained within an SWF file? Here's what I'm shooting for: 1. Building a scavenger hunt that asks learners to answer a question by browsing the company Intranet. 2. The first approach was to use frames - Question and answers in top frame, web page na...more >>

Newbie here, so please be gentle. I want to have some automatic validation of 2 input fields. One will allow integers only and another will allow decimals. I will also want to check that the numbers entered fall within a particular range. So a couple questions. First, I am trying to ...more >>

Okay - here's what I'd like to do, but not sure how to code this... I have four MCs (names q1, q2, q3, & q4), all exported for actionscript. They are simply different colored questionmarks. I'd like for a set number of them (to be determined by a variable) to fade into the stage and then f...more >>

My movie structure is: Scene 1 -> movieClip -> button. When I click on the button, I want to move the playhead in Scene 1. I've tried gotoAndStop(_root._currentframe + 1); but it doesn't do the jump. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Rob Childress ...more >>

I'm needing to place small delays into my actionscript. I'm loading a MC onto the screen.. I only want it to be there for about 1/2 sec, then remove it, placing it to another random part of the screen. Obviously, my code is something to this extent.. (not the actual code, this is just a de...more >>

I have a big video, 18 minutes long. I am going to be delivering it via a Streaming server(rtmp://...). I can get the video into my FLA file using File Import Video and selecting the second choice (Already deployed...) and entering the URL of the video. Applied stock controls. I chang...more >>

We are currently looking for Mid to Senior Flash Developers for multiple positions. The Flash Technology Group would be a group with focused expertise in developing Flash technology various product platforms. Particularly in the development of content and their related tools for those platform...more >>

how can i able to click on the button and the object will appear onto the stage? Can anyone show me or direct me to any tutorial which can guide me? thanks!...more >>

I am using the scroll bar component for a dynamci text field. I only want it to show up if the text loaded into it is long enough to require scrolling. This would be similiar to how a broswer works. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hiya! [b]The Quirk:[/b] I'm using an icon in my ([i]mx.controls.Alert.show()[/i]) Alerts and when playing back the compiled movie the icon shows up just as expected. However, when I load that same '.swf' via a preloader, the icon doesn't show up at all. As a matter of fact the alert wind...more >>

Here is a simple Flex sample. It complied fine and display fine. When I click the button, It suppose to give me the alert message. But it give me nothing. Can anyone help? Thanks, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006...more >>

Hi I have a php file that is using $_GET method to get the "id" of an item and then a query will search the database and return the results back. I am using the following code but there is something wrong. Can anyone help me with this? myVar = new LoadVars(); myVar.id = "1"; myVar.Send...more >>

Hi, I am working with the Image tag in the textfield. when i load the image it always take the left or right alignment. i want the image tag where exactelty i place the image tag . In Html it shows fine but the same code i added in flash it dosent work . Please let me know if any solutions ...more >>

Hi all, I was wondering if someone could shed some light on this issue I am having. I have a contact form with 5 radio buttons labelled: mr_rb mrs_rb ms_rb dr_rb other_rb Next to the other radio button I have a textInput fields labelled other_txt. I am trying to write some A...more >>

Hi everyone! I've come across this problem for the second time now, and I'm still not sure what solved it the first time. I have a timeline that contains the clip "contentMC". On the same timeline the following AS appears: _root.contentMC.attachMovie("home", "contentHolder", _root....more >>

Playing a flv the volume bar works fine and all that, but after the video is finished playing, i want the timeline to goto frame 2 and for some reason, the VolumeBare handle (triangle) that you drag along, is still on the screen. Placing the mouse over the triangle it changes to a hand. I ...more >>

I want to make scrolling text using action script. I have too much text for 1 page, so I need to have a text scroll. I want to know how to do it??? Thank you!...more >>

I've created a world map with clickable countries and two buttons for zooming in and out. The clip is also draggable when clicked but there are a few aspects I want that I have no idea how to start... First of all, when the "zoom in" button is clicked, the movie clip simply increases in si...more >>

I have a couple of .tiff files on my site and I want the user to be able to right-click and Save As to their hard drive, etc. I can't seem to find code for this. Thanks. Rob Childress...more >>

I'm using loadVar to load a .txt file into a dynamic text field. (data is a number) I can't seem to get the send part down. I want to update the .txt file with the new info thats in a dynamic text field. (again just one number.) Any Hints???? ...more >>