I am new to Flash, using Flash 8 Pro, and I can't remove movie clips from the stage once they've been loaded. Is there a way to give an instance name to a movie clip through ActionScript alone so that I don't have to place it on the Stage at authoring time? (And would this make the loaded mo...more >>

I want to get a value from javascript and set a variable to it inside Flash. I can't thik of anyother way other than getURL(), though this isn't quite there either.... (I am unable to add javascript code into the accompanying HTML page as I have no control over it). Here is my attempt,...more >>

I am trying to have everything happen on the first actions frame of my movie. Therefore I am loading all movie clip instances from there. The problem is that I would like to have a couple MCs load after a few others. Say my interface loads and takes 3 secs. Can I tell my main logo to load ...more >>

How do I insert an ENTER in a dynamic field through action script??? I want to have two lines of text and I want to insert them through a variable. Thanks! Brenda Sanchez....more >>

I have two movie clips. Clip1 and Clip2. Clip1 contains a button called btn_one. Clip2 moves up and covers Clip1. BUT - the mouse still picks up the BUTTON behind Clip2 which is on Clip1.. Both of these are in a MASK layer. What I am trying to do is set it up so when Clip2 completely covers ...more >>

I'm creating a media player system that uses 3 swf files that communicate with each other. Users these days have the same web site open in multiple tabs. I want the 3 swf files to work with eather other uniquely on multiple pages. IE: Page one has swf 1-3 talking with themselves, page...more >>

I have a movie clip that is animated and appears to act like a button except I can't get the on (release) gotoAndPlay scene1, frame thing to work. I've tried the _root etc but all it does is absolutely nothing. I just want to have the movie act like a button and go to a specific frame on the...more >>

Hey everyone, How does one save the value of a variable to an Excel/<spreadsheet of any kind> file? Also, is it possible to do this without using CGI, Perl, js, etc non-Flash scripts? If you could assist me in how to save the value of a variable to *any* type of file that'd be good as ...more >>

Hi there. I have a movie clip (100px100px) that I want to enlarge to 150px150px on mouse over a button and reduce back to 100pxx100px on mouse out. I would also like it to gradually tween up and down to the sizes rather that jump from 100px to150px at once if possible. Any help, pointers...more >>

hey all, can someone tell me why this outputs 0 rather than 260? tia, michael _root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc", 1); _root.mc.loadMovie("test.jpg"); // test.jpg h:202, w:260 trace(_root.mc._width); ...more >>

I can successfully create and publish a Flash player component within an .swf file. However if I don't want it to play until further down the timeline and only "onRelease" I can't figure out how to trigger it. Right now I'm using onRelease gotoAndPlay the frame that the component is on. But...more >>

Hey, I really don't know how to work this one: on(press) { startDrag(this); } on(release) { stopDrag(); if (this._droptarget == "/drop") { _root.allCorrect +=1; _root.removeMovieClip(this); } } When the movie clip is dropped onto the 'drop' target I want it to up t...more >>

In this application (thanks again to NSurveyor), a series of boxes are connected with a red or green line. These boxes represent computers that are connected in a network (for training simulation only). A green line means the connection between the boxes are good, while a red line means ...more >>

hi there, can you guys please answer some FLV questions ? i'm tring to build a similar FLV player to the one Google Video has. here is a quick reference, just to ease your searches : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2428643356101239067. --- --- 1) you can see that the movie is...more >>

Thanks in advance for any help you may provide. Using the Flash JavaScript API I can easily access items in an FLA's library and construct an array of references to the items with linkage IDs. This is really handy at dev time but I'd like to be able to do the same thing at runtime. I h...more >>

I'm sure I've made a mess of this and it could probably be done with a lot leaner code but this is what I have: //Create XML object var xmlBHR:XML = new XML(xml); xmlBHR.onLoad = initXML; xmlBHR.load("BHRdesigns.xml"); xmlBHR.ignoreWhite = true; //define xml variables var xnDesig...more >>

So I'm sure many of you have been to www.thefwa.com and noticed that when you go to, for example, the http://www.thefwa.com/?app=aboutus&id=17 page, there is a button in the top right that says "Direct Link" which then shows how to access that specific page. I was wondering how a flash ap...more >>

Hi there . . . I'm trying to create multiple instances of a class I wrote (which extends the MovieClip class) using a for loop. I get an error when I check the code saying "identifier expected." Any suggestions? Here's the code: for(var i:Number = 1; i<=4; i++){ var "novo_"+i...more >>

Hi I'm trying to combine a mc button's drag functionality with a double click functionality. I have the actionscript to do both - with the drag aspect working fine - but I'm having problems getting the double click to work too - basically meshing the respective scripts. Tried varia...more >>

Hello everyone. I have a small problem. i have developed a small game in flash 8, that uses php and mysql. the game works perfectly on my local machine. i have used this command: SendDets.sendAndLoad("http://localhost/scripts/update.php",respons,"POST"); it works very fine, i can write int...more >>

I just cant figure it out, how can I make a text box created with the createTextField(instanceName, depth, x, y, width, height) command be a hyperlink??...more >>

I am developing a quiz with 20 questions, each question has 11 checkboxes. When you advance to the next question on frame 2 the checkboxes that had been selected are still populated. How do I clear the selections when you click on the next button. I have tried using cb.setValue(false); without...more >>

Hi I've been trying for what seems like ages, I've googled and chased up mystics bearing false fruit. Anyway, basically i'm putting together a stock image site for work and am having great deal of trouble in resizing images once they have been brought in dynamically. I am trying to l...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to set flash shared objects at the session level? In other words, is it possible to have the shared object removed if the user closes their browser. I see sharedObject.clear(); but can't think of a way that it can be invoked if the user were to close their browser. ...more >>

I have a window component that loads an swf file. Thw swf that it loads grabs images from a folder on the server and displays them. Locally the swf works perfect, and when the swf is loaded into the Window component it works. When I play it online however, the swf plays properly within the w...more >>

To my knowledge, this seems like it should be right, but it is not testing the _currentframe script before it goes on to the else statement. I'm fairly new to actionscripting, so any help will be appreciated, or if you have any other ideas how to bring one movie clip in while sending another ...more >>

You rock! Thank you very much! Everything is working great. I didn't realize the difference between mousedown and press. Imagine that!...more >>

I just want a toggle button that will pause the animation AND sound. Everything I've found seems to be for one or the other. I have several buttons, Pause, Replay, Next, Previous and an long animation with many scenes, I know how to make the buttons jump back and forth between scenes or ke...more >>

I was wondering.. I can set parameter of the my component by instanceName.maximum = "33" instanceName.width = "100" Now.. I want to create universal function something like.. function setParameter(instanceName:string, instanceParameter:string, val:String) { ev...more >>

Hello - I am in desperate need of help. I have 3 movieClips that I've tied together and it starts out w/ a preloader. The movie after the preloader plays with no sound. The rest after that movie is fine. I tried switching the sequence of the movies just to test, and I'm getting the same proble...more >>

_url retrieves the url for the swf (i.e. it includes teh name of the swf file). Is there a way inside Actionscript to retrieve the current page's url? (i.e. with the page's file name?) Thanks Geoff ...more >>

Once the xml has been loaded and assigned to a new XML object I would like to select a node set (in this case it is a list with multiple list-entries as children) to use as a context for my XPath. I am attempting to improve performance by trimming the context down from the entire doc.xml to a ...more >>

:confused; how are textfields created in flash 4?...more >>

Hi, I have a MC named slider, where I load image1.swf into mc_holder1. In image1.swf I have two layers. Layer No. 1 has an MC named b&W,into which an image is loaded and I want to be shown when masked and in layer No. 2 has a visible image. What I want to know is it possible to mask MC...more >>