Is there any way to make a button play a sound when you mouse over the button and then stop immediately after you pass over of it. I can make it play right now but if it is a minute long when i pass over it it plays the whole minute. Thanks In Advance, Dave ...more >>

I am having trouble getting a setInterval function to fire when I put an If statement before it. I have 2 buttons, one is a sound on button that sets a variable to "true" when pressed. The second button is used to fade the sound out using a setInterval function that should only run if the va...more >>

Hello there. I'm new to flash therefore new to actionscripting. The code doesn't seem to be that much disimilar to python. Anyways, here is my situation. I have a menu consisting of five buttons on the left side of screen. It stays here only on the "home" screen. Clicking any of the o...more >>

I'm making a site for a customer, the site will contain some Flash 8 elements, such as the intro, logo, menus, and some other stuff. The majority of this site's visitors has Flash player 7 or less, so I made a flash player version detection script, which works fine (multiple people tested ...more >>

Hi, I wrote a simple Flash object using ActionScript and MTASC, and I've been doing interop with Javascript using ExternalInterface. Now I'm trying to switch from ExternalInterface to the older style interop method: TCallLabel. I'm not very familiar with the concepts yet, but it sounds...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to assign a function to a :Function type variable. To be more precise, the :Function variable is the onMotionFinished member of an instance of Tween. The thing is that the function that I'm trying to assign is a method of another class, so it goes something like this...more >>

Using the online and book examples of how to change styles for the data grid, all I've been able to do is change the background color. For instance: _level0.myDataGrid.setStyle("hGridLines",true); does not yield any horizontal grid lines. What has the documentation left out that I ...more >>

Hello - I need to be able to horizontally flip the entire movie (all the movie clips and other symbols on stage, including their relative positions) dynamically using ActionScript. I have an application that will be localized into Hebrew and Arabic, so the UI needs to flip for those countr...more >>

How can I add a Variable (counter variable) to the end of another variable in an if( ){then}? set("speed"+lpVar,0) set("size"+lpVar, 0) ^this is what I used before, but it will only set it, can you check it also somehow? ...more >>

I use flash8, CGI script and the Hebrew language. when I export my contact page as flash 6 and above, the input texts with Hebrew input export as gibberish. when I export the same file as flash 5 everything is ok and the hebrew text is readable. syntax: loadVariablesNum("http://www.x...more >>

i am making an executable Flash file to put on a cd, and in it I have a button link to a website. when I tested this button locally, I found that I had to change my Global Security Settings to tell the internet to "trust" my SWF file and open up the website in a browser. however, since I a...more >>

Hello I need help with some actionscripting in Flash 8 I'm loading an external GIF image into a MovieClip with MovieClipLoader.loadClip. Now I need to perform a hitTest between the mouse position and that image, the hitTest should return true only if I have the mouse over a non-transpa...more >>

Ok, so on frame 1 of my movie, i am preloading a bunch of images into their own movieclips using the moviecliploader class. Now that they are loaded, i want to be able to assign one to a movieclip in a different frame. How do i that? ...more >>

I have a movie with 5 scenes 4 being the content. Each use the same elemtents as the first scene but are animated in a differetn sequence. I would like to make them animate back to their original state and then go to the specefied scene. So far I been able to use frame labels to navigate t...more >>

Is there an easy way to tween numbers without using onEnterFrame? (My thought is that the Tween class is like a convienent onEnterFrame command.) I am trying to develop aircraft instruments that pull information from a variable that contains an airspeed. Right now I'm using the Twee...more >>

i'd like the contents of my swf aligned "TL" to reposition itself on the resize of any browser window here's an example of what i.m aiming for only my swf is aligned top left }}} http://www.rigsbydesign.com or http://www.gskinner.com/site2_5/ any help would be appreciated ...more >>

I have a Flash file embedded in a html page here ( http://www.newmanveterinary.com/DentalProblems.html ) that communicates with another page, shown in an i-frame in the same window (about 1/2 way down the page). After putting the pages to together, everything works fine on the internet, but...more >>

Is there some equivlant to For x=1 to 10 in actionscritp?...more >>

I'm trying to register a class to an object using actionscript and I'm not sure how to do it. My code looks like this: //On the timeline var teaNames_array:Array = new Array({label:"Please select a tea"}, {label:"Green Tea", data:"greenTea"}, {label:"Black Tea", data:"blackTea"}, {lab...more >>

Is there a way with actionscript 3.0 to create custom collections? if so how do I utilize AS 3.0 in my flash application it seems to only support 1 and 2. I"m still new to the whole AS thing so please excuse me if this is a dumb question. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Originally posted by: kglad what parts work and what parts don't work? the working button goes back to the home page and skips to the end of all the intro movie clips, so it just jumps to a static version of the page. the non-working button goes back to the beginning and plays all the movi...more >>

Is there a way to make an array of movieclip objects?...more >>

I am trying to make a preloader for my overall movie. It is divided into scenes. I needed to know where to put the preloader and how to do it. I also need a preloader for external images that are being loaded into the movie for an image gallery. This is the code on each thumbnail butt...more >>

Hi there, Is there any way i can use external images with this transition. Here's the code... Stage.scaleMode = 'noScale'; var speed = .3; var delay = 3; var switchblur = 9; var images = ["pic1", "pic2", "pic3"]; var index = 0; var transbmp = new flash.display.BitmapData(480,...more >>

im making a platform game and hitTest is giving me a real headache this code works var player:MovieClip = _root.mc_level.mc_player; var ground:MovieClip = _root.mc_level.mc_ground; player.onEnterFrame = function() { if (!ground.hitTest(this)) { fallSpeed += 1; } el...more >>

I am having problems with a variable that comes back incorrect. I am trying to move one image onto the stage and then move that one off and another one(any one of a serious of image, determined by what button was clicked) will move onto the stage. So once the new image is on the stage it goe...more >>

I would like to import some text from a external file then place it into my movie with a skewed perspective. Is it possible to break up text on the fly then skew it with actionscript? Thanks Mathias ...more >>

here is the line Im having trouble with duplicateMovieClip("/Lightpole", "pole"&lpVar, lpVar) I am trying to dynamically duplicate a movie clip object, so I can have 4 or 5 at a time, and update/remove them. but the variable isnt doing squat, anyone know why? ...more >>

How can I bring an internal movieclip to the stage by the click of a button. I've created a movieclip but I want it to appear on the stage (with the right coordinates) when I click on a button. 2nd question... How do I remove it from the stage using a button? Many thanks in advance! Ro...more >>

New to Flash and ActionScipts, but familiar with MM apps. But... trying to make a menu which is expandeable (like trees in Windows) with plus/minus symbols to click. Found a Menu and a Tree component in flash, but how to access the "code", or set parameters to it, set up it contents... ...more >>

Hello, Sorry to crosspost, just didn't know which group was more relevant. I am importing an xml file into my flash and assigning the value from my = xml to the .text value of a movie clip in flash. I then have that movie = clip looping. My problem is, is that I want to move through the list...more >>

I have 3 scenes in my flash movie. the bottom part is same for all the scenes.(four buttons) Is there any concept of frames in flash. or any other sugestion so that i dont have to waste time in doing the same thing again... ...more >>

Hello! I am making a website fully in flash. I have one problem though.. I want people to download mp3 file when a flash button is pressed. But all I can get is when I press on the button the song starts to download immediatly to default folder, but I want a function, something like "Save targ...more >>

Howdy all. I've just started teaching myself PHP and getting Flash to send data to a PHP script which will then write data to a .txt file on the server. I spent some time here in the forums reading and even got help in getting started. Now, I've come up with a new problem that really has...more >>

I have a question regarding a script that someone helped me with on #flash on irc.freenode.net. I am playing an audio file at the moment, but after several seconds of audio have played the audio restarts again from the beginning. It seems as if it doesn't finish downloading and just starts a...more >>

I have several movie clips in the intro to my document - they all play in sequence when it opens, and takes the viewer to a table of contents. I want to have a "Home" button that returns to this table of contents, but bypasses all the animation. all the elements in the table of contents are in...more >>

(Sorry in advance for long post. Some code and link to test swf are below. ) Will it cause slowdown or problems with a movie playing back to load too many SWFs or JPGs on top of each other? I am looking at doing this to solve a back button problem I have run into with my web app. User...more >>

Can some one help me figure out why this preloader won't work. I'm an idiot and can't figure it out. thx. jv http://jvworldproductions.com//jvworld/notworking/stagebar.fla...more >>

Hi, I wanna do a reverse playback on the timeline. How do I do it? For eg, I have a rollover effect on a button. When i clicked back, i should be able to play reverse of the rollout effect, n finally reaching the inital screen. How do i do that? regards ...more >>