I have a navigation that I need to open to the correct category with each page. What I would like to do is just send a mouse click event to my button and let the script do the rest.. I have a button who has code for on(release){ stuff to do ... } it is nested down to _root.navMen...more >>

I wrote some code to load XML from the first frame of my timeline, and it worked perfectly. So I moved it to my .as file, made what I thought were the appropriate modificatons, and it no longer works. Please tell me what is wrong with the following code. on the first frame of my fla I h...more >>

Hi ! I have a curve drawn with pencil or pen I would like that this line draws itself that is to say that at the beginning this curve is only a point and at the end the curve is totaly drawn. I don't like mask because of strong cut. Is it possible to save all the coords of the point of a ...more >>

I have a problem setting the selectedDate property of the DateChooser component. If I drop an instance of the component on the stage and work with it directly, everything works fine. If I create an instance of the component inside a movie clip that is part of a component class, then it appears...more >>

I got 1 sentence that is the length my window (800 px). I reeeaaally don't want to create a motion tween thats 500 frames long in order to see it move slowly from right to left. Is there a way in actionscipts that i can tell... dynamic text.text - move from your current cordinate...more >>

Hello- I am currently using a simple dynamic text box on a single page to load the content of an external .txt file. The content of the external file has become too long for the size of my Flash page, so I would like to have the dynamic text field embedded within a ScrollPane component. I ...more >>

You right - but don?t missunderstand me! I have allways been polited and beggin on my knees but it seems not to help. Why? That?s where the scary parts beginns. The problems seems that we - beginners, intermediates or whatever we call us on this forum are learning ourself to think within...more >>

I have a header movieclip that is on a template page, but I don't want the movie to play if the current page is not the Home page or ./index.html. I would rather the movieclip just goto the end of the movie. Is there a way for actionscript to tell you the name of the current html file? I...more >>

Is there anyone who has written a function to pull a random letter from the alphabet using the existing random function in flash?...more >>

I have created a basic form using Flash MX 04 which will send feedback to my mail account contact@plobs.com (which has been set up via fasthosts) This is the page = http://www.plobs.com/testpage.htm It's not working and I am confused as to why. I have tried using my own personal e-mail ...more >>

How do you change the background color of a rectangle that is called 'test1'? I tried: test1.background = 0xFFFFFF; but it didn't work. Why?...more >>

Hi All: Have a text input field where someone is going to put in a start time. I need to verify that they are putting the time in a HH:MM:SS format, and preferably in a 24hr format, although I believe I can do a search for "AM or "PM" at the end of the string and convert accordingly, but ...more >>

I can't seem o get the "get URL" script to work with a local path. example: on (release) { getURL("http://www.kid-ebooks.com/calculex/pages/contact_us/contact_USA.html"); } works fine when the file is uplinked to the remote server, but i want a local path ... on (release) { getU...more >>

I have an fla which is loading an XML page. This works fine in a browser, but I need to have it play in a Director shell. This is going on a sample CD so it needs to play off the CD without the use of the internet, inside of Director. Is there a way to have Flash load an internal XML page,...more >>

Hello. Im trying to import data from a text file to load relevant pictures and text from a txt file. The picture wont load, can you have a look at the below and see if you can help please. Textfile.txt reads as follows: picture1=picture1.jpg &text1=this is picture1 &ready=1; ---------...more >>

What I'm doing is to help make the customer's site more editible for them without needing me just to change a date or two when meetings change. So I'm bringing in text from a .txt file and the variables are call &time, &place, &time2, &place2.... and so on. I have a separate box for each time ...more >>

Hi, I'm working on this movieclip, and it doesn't seem to move slow even when I use 24fps or 36fps. Here is the link: http://smithcrainefinance.mortgagexsites.com/xSites/Mortgage/smithcrainefinance/ Content/UploadedFiles/LocLot8.html It moves so fast and it flicks(?). I have check "...more >>

Trying to turn a string into an object in Flash 8 This works of course: var a:Array = []; a = [3, 4, 5]; trace(a[0]); This does not: var b:Array = []; c = "[3, 4, 5]"; b = c trace(b[0]); I know that I could simply split the variable into an array but does anyone know of a lite s...more >>

Hi I would like to solve the following problem: When I right click(including release), the contextMenu is presented. I would like to kill the menu if a mouseMove is detected. Is there a way the contextMenu can be forced to disappear without the left mouse button being pressed. Many...more >>

Hello, I have a flash movie with 9 movieclips in it. Their instance names are movie1, movie2, movie3 etc. Can someone tell me how I can use the 'onClipEvent' and 'with' commands to control all of these clips at once? Many thanks, Olliebear77 ...more >>

I have several thumbnail pictures as buttons. When you rollover a button, the corresponding larger picture(which is an external jpg) is loaded into a placeholder movieclip. I want the picture to fade in when you rollover the button, not pop in. I have a script on each button and this i...more >>

I want to seperate the char from a word. How to use substring in flash? char = String(word1).substring(0, String(word1).lastIndexOf("A")); Insted of clipping upto "A" .I want to seperate the char. ...more >>

Hello, I'm having much trouble figuring out how to access shared object data from other movies which are stored in the same directory. Am I doing something wrong or have I missed the point of shared objects???? For a test I am using two files one with a movieclip loader and one with ...more >>

I've got a small problem involving a few movieclips I want to scroll up/down. First the names of the files are loaded in from xml using php and then I arrange them on the stage . I use the scroll buttons up/down to move them up and down and make them smaller and transparant. but only the last ...more >>

How do i set a cell's background color in a datagrid?...more >>

summary says it... is it possible to convert a swf into an fla???...more >>

hi i need way that i can delete a xml file after i loaded it in falsh then i need to delete it note i need to do it without using any server and i have flash 7 and work in window NT...more >>

Hey, I have a flash animation in a html page. also in this html page is a table with a certain 'table background' image called 'black.gif'. at one point in the flash movie the user clicks a certain button, and i need the table background image 'black.gif' to be changed to 'line.gif'. ...more >>

The following code: getURL("javascript:window.open('http://www.photoassistant.net/donatepop.htm','', 'width=600,height=200,top=50,left=50,resizable=yes')"); opens two windows, one with the Javascript in the URL and another with the URL that I want. Is there a fix for this? This pop-up...more >>

Hi everybody i went to this amazing site "gotoandlearn.com" and finally got to do it Now the problem is that when i click send or submit i don't get any response : like message succes or failed although my script is correct ( well i guess :) ) The actionscript for my flash button is the f...more >>

hi, i know this sounds silly, but i am a perfectionist. Currently i am developing a game and i am planning to increase the engine's performance as much as possible. I have a movieclip which has some bitmaps of different positions for my character. I wonder if enabling runtime bitmap cache for ...more >>

I have a class that has one array property. Although I can myArray.push() and trace successfully, when trying to return the array from a custom 'getter' call, I get undefined for the result no matter what I seem to do. Attached is some code to give an example.:disgust; class myClass {...more >>

I have what should be a simple task, created a Flash/php email form, I have named frames, "theForm", "sending", "acknowledge", and "failure". The logic is simple, gotoAndStop("theForm") and process the form, click the send button on the form sends the movie to "sending", if the send is a fail...more >>

For an experimental animation project (I am learning programming), I would like to fade a series of duplicated movieclips onto particular positions on the stage, keep each there for a certain number of seconds before they fade out. Both position and duration of time onstage are different for e...more >>

I have a small slide display that has back and next buttons on it. The script on the buttons tell the frame to move back or forward and each frame has a script that loads an image into the container on the stage. My client has version 7 player (that's what they say when they right click the...more >>

hey guys...we have resolved this once before, but i seem to be getting confused. i have a test xml that looks like so : <?xml version="1.0"?> <contacts> <id name="safryyy" email="fghjh" city="ahsdf" message="iuoyuio"/> <id name="asdf" email="afasf" city="asdf" message="ds"/> <id name="...more >>