Hello Everyone, this is my first post here, I'm somewhat new to flash, altough I'm quite satisfied with the way things are going for me as a complete newbie. still, i have a question. now i'm working on a site, and at some point the user may click on a button, and an external swf is lodaed i...more >>

I really need to know how to do this...PLEASE, any help would be greatly appreciated I have been working on the code to scroll a dynamic text field. I've gotten buttons to scroll the text when clicked and I've gotten a scroll bar to scroll text when dragged. What I need to do now is get th...more >>

I am passing LoadVars to an aspx page which then sends out an email. If I use send it works, but if I use sendAndLoad it doesnt. The reason I want to use sendAndLoad is because I dont want the aspx page to pop up when the user clicks that button that calls it. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hi there, Hope all is well. Just wondering if anyone knows somewhere where I can get a cheat sheet for actionscript. Found lots for CSS, PHP, and MySQL, but unfortunately it is actionscript I am hoping to find. Thanks ...more >>

:confused; Assume: I have four movieclips (instance names are A, B, C and D). C and D are on the same level within B B is within A Task: Drag C onto D Conditions: If C = D, then gotoAndPlay the frame label ?Slide_19? located on in the root of B. If C != D, then stop...more >>

Greetings! Trying to get the last frame of my javascript to replace the layer my flash is in with a static html layer on the page. As to the error, Firefox says flashopen and Layer2 are not defined. IE says 'visible' is undefined. I'm confused, and need another few sets of eyes on...more >>

Hello ... my site is www.massiveisle.cjb.net ... I made my site with a Flash program .. and know that I uploaded it I have a problem. The site is stopping on the loading at the begging ... you can check for yourself ... Then if you press the refresh button the site loads as normal without ...more >>

I've looked at several different categories on the forums that were focused on mouse hiding, but I don't know where to put the action script for the mouse.hide() and for the new movie clip that will be the new cursor. And when it does work, all it does is make the mouse disapear, and make the...more >>

I have a really unusual problem, that I hope I can get some help with. I have a flash movie that uses a text file and an external swf. If I access it directly via URL (http://bpb.wildwoodclient.com/flash_files/indexpage.swf) it loads and the information in the embedded file and the embed...more >>

I am working on a site in which I need Drop Down Menus. I looked at DHTML, which I do not know how to write, so I looked at So Think, Likno, and Deluxe Menu DHTML Menu Software, I sent out some image customization questions to the companies and have yet to get a reply, so I am looking at doin...more >>

Hello everyone, I'm trying to do something that I would imagine is very simple, unfortunatly my knowledge of Flash + Actionscript is also very simple. I am going to be using flash, to publsh an projector file as a standalone application that will run from a CD. I need a way to check the...more >>

I'm having some problems getting the background colour to change when somebody clicks on a button. I've added the following to the buttons: on (press) { _root.1_background._alpha = 100; _root.2_background._alpha = 0; _root.3_background._alpha = 0; _root.4_background._alpha = 0; }...more >>

I'm trying to download a file from a web server the dialogue box opens and the "onSelect" listener fires but nothing else happens. can anyone give me any ideas why this is not working? I've attached my code, the downLoadFiles() function is called from a button. Thanks for any help!!! ...more >>

Im having some difficulty making these buttons work. Basically, i have 2 buttons. The point of them is for one to take the user to one web page, and the other button to take the user to a different page, without having to do the animation twice. Actionscript for button1: on (release) {...more >>

Here's the problem...Im creating a textfield with AS and loading in the content from a txt file...I want to attach scrollbars to the textfield when neccessary... Below is a copy of the script im using to create the txt field. This script is located inside a movieclip....Any help you can offer...more >>

I am trying to use loadVariables to look at an address like this. http://someaddress.com/index.asp?page_id=home I want the page_id variable in my movie. From what I have read this should work. I have attached the code that I have in my first frame. It does not seem like the page_id var...more >>

I'm am trying to get a variable from my url. i.e. http://someaddress.com/index.asp?page_id=home I have attached to code that I have in my first frame. From what I have read the load variables method will create any and all variables that are in a query string (either from a URL or some...more >>

Is it possible to call this Javascript code into a movie clip? <Script language="JavaScript" src=http://someunknownURL.js></script> <Script language="JavaScript">CM8ShowAd("Right");</script> What I am trying to accomplish is, I have a base swf that randomly loads two external swfs. No pr...more >>

I use very simple action script for a movie that runs by it's self. I use frame counters on objects to make things happen. "onClipEvent (enterFrame) {" . . . "counter++;" . . . "if(counter >= x) { gotoAndStop(2);}" in frame 2 i use "loadMovie("nextMov.swf", movieMark01);" but there is a bi...more >>

hi kglad, happy new year. i am back ! , to disturb you. i am developing a flash application. when i am exporting FLA file to SWF it takes lot of time. but the SWF file works perfectly. the exporting time is too long. what shall i do ? i am expecting the answer. Cheers.... ...more >>

I've two MCs mc_a and mc_b. I want to load mc_b at the same level as mc_a but I want mc_a will not unload unless mc_b is compeletely loaded. but i wanna see a preloader of mc_b on mc_a. Is it too complicated or am I..??!+ help me out please ...more >>

I'm writing an appliation for a wrapper (Northcode .swf studio) that want's a version 8 .swf. However, when I publish as version 8, array.sortOn doesn't seem to pay any attention to the sort option parameter. I am using an indexed array, where one of the fields is a number; but the numbe...more >>

I am building a class called LineGraph that will plot a number of straight lines on a graph. When creating the LineGraph in my main flash movie, I'm using this line of code: my_linegraph = new LineGraph (line0, line1, line2, ....); where line0, ....linen are objects containing the coordina...more >>

Hi.... Any one plz help me out............ I have different height and width swfs, that i want to load in a FLA with fixed dimension. How can do this plz help me Thanx in Advance Satish K Rajula ...more >>

Hi... I've found a million ASCII tables, and another million UNICODE tables, but did not find any table that presents the scientifical and mathematical special characters with their unicode representation. (e.g. ? , ? )... Does anyone have it, or shall i get them one by one, and Char....more >>

Hi All, A very Happy New Year to all the Wizis of Flash, I am stuck up with the right click option in Flash 8. I have embedded this code to get the right click option when I run my Flash. MENU = new ContextMenu(); MENU.hideBuiltInItems(); link = new ContextMenuItem("Site by sdpur...more >>

Please read before you?re asking questions. - I?ve already solved the problem. With all my respect to you Kglad (you have helped a lot of people on this forum) and to all the others. But even you Kglad is a human and can missunderstand things. Those answers came to late. The answers, o...more >>

Heres the issue Im having: since switching over to using .text to address an instance a a dyn. textfield im having trouble with sending strings from other timelines. I used to use _parent.textVariable="hi"; and it worked now when I use _parent.textInstance="Hi"; nothing happens. ...more >>

Hi guys, Is it possible to run an exe file in fullscreen? or even disabling the restore/maximize....? Thanks. ...more >>

I have a very large Flash application with over 150 dynamically attached movie clips of about 15 different varieties. I continually find myself running into problems when I attempt to access/manipulate one of these movieclips before it has finished loading. I've been using onClipEvent (load) {...more >>

I am trying to ake a flash slideshow with an xml file, i can get it to cycle through the nodes once, but can't a second time: here's my code: /* style sheet loader */ var ss = new TextField.StyleSheet(); ss.load("css/flash.css"); teaser.styleSheet = ss; credit.styleSheet = ss; li...more >>

Is it possible to link to a frame inside of another swf file???? You would be linking from a button in the original swf....more >>

I have a movie with various scenes and need to get to the value of a variable in another scene. Can anybody tell how this can be done? Thanks....more >>