Hey guys! I am making a game. Right now, I made a circle follow my cursor slowly, but I want it so that when the edge of the circle touches a box called "Boundry" it stops. How would I do this? Here is a link to the SWF file so you can see what I mean - http://xesturgy.com/Test.html ...more >>

I'm sure there's a simple solution to this problem but I have a swf file that operates perfectly in the flash program and when run offline. However, when inserted in my webpage it acts up. When the page first comes up it works fine, but when the page is reloaded or returned to from another p...more >>

Hi Everyone First i am novice, so please help me i created a movie with sound and on/off button, http://www.4urhair.com 1. the button comes at the end of the movie (if i put the button at the begining and push stop the whole movie got stopped) so any solution so that the button will come...more >>

A web service that I am accessing contains a method called delete(). If I try to call this method with a WebServices object, i.e., getCallback = myWebService.delete(), I get a publish-time error: "Expected a field name after '.' operator." Is this a keyword issue? A bug? Is "delete" an inv...more >>

ive been making some interacting classes and for some reason afew of the classes refuse to believe they are part of the inheritence chain. calls to super() do nothing, no superclass variables are set or even defined. anyway i thought this might be because afew of the classes had bytecode o...more >>

I have a problem with a site I made. http://www.leeuwardenbeach.nl The (html) scroll doesn't work, I think it has something to do with the TextArea component. Does anyone know a solution for the problem? Thanx. ...more >>

what would be a good way to go about this-- want to load several external movie clips into a main movie. but on refresh i would like the movie clips to randomize and change containers. i was thinking it would be easiest to randomize an array containing the external movie clips each time th...more >>

Here?s the problem: When I?m trying to do a tweening animation with glowing effect, from full glowing at frame 1and no glowing at frame 10 with pixelfonts, the text at the last frame become blurig. The problem only occur when I?m loading this firstMovie.swf into anotherMovie.swf with ...more >>

Hi people, First of all Happy new Year :) wish u all happiness and joy... and a life full of real development and analysis away from graphic design coz i hate it... Back to subject...I really wonder how "MathIWYG" was developed in flash, its making me feel like i have never written a pie...more >>

This works perfect var sDataString = [{data:1, label:'Auftrag1', Start:'28.12.2005', Theme:'Telefon1', Themedeclare:'Text 1'}, {data:2, label:'Auftrag2', Start:'01.01.2006', Theme:'Telefon2', Themedeclare:'Text 2'}] var recData:Array = sDataString; a...more >>

Hi i have a problem with a work. I need to stop my flash for and "x" time, but i need to manage that time from an external file. Can you give e some ideas on how do that? Thanks for all...more >>

Hi, Please how can write the action script on Rollover at the button, it try following it is only scroll one line on (rollOver) { text.scroll = text.scroll+1; } when I give text.scroll+10 it scroll 10 line I want that when I mouse over the button, text shold be scoll and wh...more >>

Hi all, I want to load webservice throught action script and also want to call functions in it for saving & retrieving data, can anybody know how to do this? Thanks in advance...more >>

Hi, I'm combining asp and Flash. The flash is only inserted into asp page (a small navigation movie).I'm getting the data from DB with asp, which also generates XML. This is the code: <% Response.Buffer="true" %> <% dim sql dim rsxml dim list response.ContentType = "text/xm...more >>

i have 3 radio buttons. on click of a aubmit button how will i come to know which button was clicked?(flash 8) in flash mx i have done samr thing. radiobutton1.getState() this gives us the state whether clicked or not. but how can i get the state of radio button(ie.clicked or not) in f...more >>

I am developing a simple example in flash. on click of a button i am setting focus to a dynamic text field. its working fine. But the screen reader dosn't read text in it. Setting focus is not the only thing, i think somthing more gas to be done. So that the complete control will go to t...more >>

I hope this is the right forum. When I?m trying to do a tweening animation with glowing effect, from full glowing at frame 1and no glowing at frame 10 with pixelfonts, the text at the last frame become blurig. The problem only occur when I?m loading this firstMovie.swf into anotherM...more >>

I have an XML document and the 2nd <LI> value is not appearing. Any ideas why? XML Data: <countries> <country> <name>US & Canada</name> <detail><li>260 average programs per quarter</li><li>Test</li></detail> </country> </countries> Actionscript code: //init TextArea compon...more >>

It only freezes when rand is less then 5, enemyamo is 0 and enemyenergy is 0. Enemyenergy then increases to 100 and then it freezes in either "enemyattack" or "enemyattack2" Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? //Picks random number rand = Math.random()*10; //machine ...more >>

Returning from my messageSent function I get the following as the value of sent or not -->> onLoad=%5Btype%20Function%5D. The message posted to my error tracing shows "undefined". I do not have php on my local system, but publish to server and test it on-line. Any Help is Appreciated. ...more >>

I have a movieclip (portfolioSubMenu) that contains other clips that are set up by a script in the first frame,to act as buttons. One of them (buttonLogos_ instructs the movieclip "portfolioSubMenu" to go to frame "logos" and play. It does this - I have a trace set up so I know the timeline ...more >>

Hello all ye fine folks! I'm in a bind here ... I promised a client I could do something, and now I'm having a heck of a time doing it! Here's what I/they need: They want to have a "pool" of fonts on their site. They want to be able to add and remove fonts from this pool at will (th...more >>

I am connecting to some xml data that contains a date field in the form "16-12-2005, 16:47". I wish to display that as "16-Dec-2005, 4:47 PM". I am using the data components in Flash 8 Pro to connect, and can't find enough documentation on the formatting/encoding of dates (what's difference ...more >>

I have a button on a movie clip that I would like to activate a frame on scene 1. What is the proper syntax? I've tried: on (release) { gotoAndPlay("Scene 1","Pictures"); } but that doesn't work. (Pictures is the frame label) Thanks for any help! ...more >>

im only trying to do this as a last resort...i bought a photogallery from tufat.com...ive tried in vain to embed it within my movie with no success... as a last resort im going to just add the masthead and button's from my site and link it up externally... how do i do this...linking up 2 diffe...more >>

I've noticed that at least a couple of the components have pretty serious memory leaks. I'm using Studio 8. Here's the setup to see the problem: 1. Have a datagrid or a list in the library. 2. Have a timeline that loops via a gotoAndPlay (e.g., frame 10 has "gotoAndPlay(5);") ...more >>

I have a loadvars that has been working fine online for months. Today a user reported that it would not work on his machine. He is using a Win32 operating system, with Flash 8 plugin. I will post my code below. Are there any issues such as a Firewall that might prevent a loadvars loaoding ...more >>

Hi Everyone, Well, that's pretty much the long and the short of it. I have a button that fades in the sound but when I reverse the script to subtract it doesnt. HMMM!!! here's my code... for the fade in... on (release) { _root.my_sound.start(0, 1000); _root.my_sound.setVolume(...more >>

Hi, I'm using the Text format object to create rollovers in my text. When I test the file in flash player 7 and I roll over the text, it does what it is supposed to do when I rollover it, then, the text just disappears when I roll out of it. I am using a font that I put linkage on in a shared ...more >>

Hello all, I have a seemingly simple question, that i cannot seem to find on the internet (probably because it is common knowledge). Can anyone provide me the code that would initiate an action upon the pressing of "spacebar" for example. This is my code as of now, if (Key.isDown(Key.S...more >>

Enviroment: Flash Player 7, Action Script 1.0 If i define a global var as _global.vec_Productos = new Array(); after i put values into this. i can't see the values loaded. But if i define the global var as _global.productos_G = new Array() I can See The values and manipulate this. Nobody...more >>