When a button component (named btn_Connect here) is clicked, I would like to display a message in a Label (lbl_Status here), before calling a long-running fscommand() function. But there is no action until the fscommand() is finished. How can I do? Thanks, Joseph A part of my ...more >>

Hi I was wondering whether there is a command that when I click my mouse it starts the timeline moving again. So on mouse click play or something like that. need help. thankyou. Si...more >>

Hi - I'm working on a project showing some video clips. I've converted the video clips to FLV and put each FLV into it's own SWF . Now I want to bring the separate SWFs into a "master.swf", which has a placeholder_mc, on demand. There will be a text list OR a series of buttons that the user...more >>

I have three movie clips in my library. Each has a unique identifier (mc_1, mc_2, mc_3). On my main timeline, I create an empty movie clip and want to attach the first MC from the library, have it play all the way through, the attach the second, have it play all the way through, etc... ...more >>

Hello, is it possible to activate and deactive certain buttons using actionscript? Let's say I have 2 'control' buttons, A and B, and 6 other buttons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I want it so that when I press button A only buttons 1, 2, and 3 are functional, and when I press button B, only buttons 4,...more >>

The code works with the onPress function, but when i try to use onEnterFramenothing happens. Im trying to make the movie play as soon as the swf loads up. Im still very new to custom FLV players. This is the code that i used: //player.play_mc.onPress=function(){ onEnterFrame=function(){...more >>

Hi Guys. I am playing around with IFrames and Flash. I have the main nav in one frame build in flash and content in another IFrame on built with css. I have links within the main body of the html page and I want the images in the flash movie to change accordignly to the location of the use...more >>

I want to create a Timer (count down) and when it reach to 0 it is going to 2nd frame..... this is what i wrote onClipEvent (load) { var num:Number = 5; var fps:Number = 12; var militimer:Number = num*fps; } onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (militimer>0) { militimer--; } else { ...more >>

hi all, im new to the forum so please go easy on me :-). i am currently in the process of creating a flash game and have towards the end of my project except i am having one major problem.... i have a variable called "score". once the game has ended this variable is displayed showing...more >>

I feel like ahab chasing moby dick. I am trying to create a flash projector program that sends variables to an external program (which is priadoblender-compiled php) i thought fscommand("exec", userReg.exe + var1 + var2 + var3 + var4) would work because of MX2004 let it happen, but I a...more >>

Hi, Is there anyway I can create 1 main variable contains other variables in actionscript? eg: a main variable called 'human' contain 'eyes', 'hand', 'leg', etc. I know we can use arrays or maybe objects but don't how to write the script for this. any one? ...more >>

Can anybody see why the following text formatting obj is not being applied to my text fields? This code is in frame 1 of my _root movie & is called from within a couple nested movie clips with the following script // Array to store text var aText:Array = new Array; var nHeight:Number...more >>

Hi I have a main movie which laods different swf files based an the action the user has taken. So f.ex If I press button A, A.swf movie loads in the movieHolder_mc. If I press button B, b.swf movie loads in the movieHolder_mc. Now if I press A again, movie A.swf appears again, but I don'...more >>

hi, i am having a combobox, which have the items like choose your options one two three four sometimes the combobox shows the items as choose your options choose your options choose your options choose your options choose your options please any one help me. tha...more >>

Hi, I have got an idea that I need to find out if it's possible to do. I have a flash movie on a html and would like to use a html link on that page to make the movie go to a new scene. Is this possible and how would I go about doing it? ...more >>

I'm creating a cdrom and, to keep things tidy, have created a folder structure. When someone looks at the video section i point the path to /videos/01.flv or whatever. It all works fine when i view the page from my desktop but it stops working when i write to a cd to test it properly. I am...more >>

Hey all users, hopefully someone is able to help me. I cant seem to get my exported Flash movie to play properly. When clicked on the buttons I have made, should send you to the next scene, but instead of stopping there the movie just rolls ahead in a very quick tempo. Why do you think t...more >>

Hi, I've been experiencing a strange behavior with a the combo box components. I have 2 CB in a FLA let's call it slave.fla/slave.swf. When I test it everything works fine. Now, I want to load slave.swf inside master.fla. I'm using a MiovieClipLoader Object to do the trick. Well, when I te...more >>

Hi, let say I have a frame 100x100. In this frame there's a dynamic textfield. Is it possible to make a UIScrollBar visible when the dynamicly loaded text exceeds the frame height and invisible, when it doesn't exceed the frame height? THX for your help ...more >>

MovieClip.prototype.onRelease = function(){ trace ("working"); delete this; // what this delete will remove }; box2.myNewReleaseFunction(); what the statement delete this will remove? actual...more >>

Hi, I saw different kind of scripts here about [b]Date Constructor....[/b] what is the easy script to put in my movie if i want that a movie clip will play in a specific day ? and will continue .....to play Ehud :smile; ...more >>

trying to change the contentPath (or even using just play.) seems to get stuck if there is a file who's stream has not completed yet. Is there a way to closeVideoPlayer(0); then reopen it. Would I need to use attachMovie after closing it? removeMovieClip was offered as a solution somewhere els...more >>

I created several Duplicate Movieclips and I would like to reference them later to set the _visible parameter. Obviously, the example below does not work. Any clues? Example: // for loop making several duplicates of a movieclip on a specific form ( Page ) for (var a = 0; a <...more >>

A quick question to those out there in the know, When you set the _height of a button component, why is it not set in pixels? Its kinda awkward to use when it isn't in pixels, I am sure the component handles the resizing of itself based on its height, but say for example I set the height t...more >>

:confused; I have been trying to create a popup window that is attached to a selection of text such as "read more info" or an object in flash 8. Please provide details on how I can accomplish that task. Please help (I want to place an image and some text in the popup window). Window size about...more >>

Hi, I'm creating an elearning application with four tests, on each of the four tests if the user passes, they get a password which they note down, i want to create a page where they enter each of the passwords into its own input box and then submit and aslong as all the input boxes have th...more >>

:confused; Ok this is my site: www.onphire.net/Large Ok, this is a tough one to explain... my site is loading perfectly in firefox and netscape but when i open it (the home page) in IE it displays the folio page. My site is set up so that transparent swfs are loaded ontop of the mai...more >>

I have 3 classes that make up a gallery, Viewer, ThumbnailContainer, Thumbnail. Thumbnail container displays any number of Thumbnails in various developer defined ways. Viewer shows a large version of each thumbnail and uses a setInterval to fade between pics when a new pic is selected. Eac...more >>