Is it possible to put a flash command like "GotoAndPlay("framename")" into a XML file and It controls Flash? Thanks! ...more >>

I've been experimenting with arrays. See what datatypes I can add to an array. Now I know arrays are very flexible when it comes to adding Strings, Numbers, and Booleans to one array. My question, is it possible to instantiate an object into the push'es paramaters? In other words can I add an ...more >>

Hi, I have my flash document set at 700x400 with a blue background. If I was to put in the : fscommand("fullscreen", true); command, on loading the screen would be filled with my movie. How can I make it so it expand the screen to full, but keeps the 700x400 size of the movie and fills the...more >>

I have an external .swf that I load at a certain frame. It doesn't have any animation added to it. It's basically a screenshot of a software app. I'm loading and unloading to save on space since these screenshots jack up the file size . This is working great, however, what I'm looking to do ...more >>

Help....Unable to direct code to next scene. I downloaded an animiation file for a text introduction scene. I'm unable to get to scene two. I've tried everything. I believe that it is in the code somewhere. Please note code before in 4 frames. Frame 1: text = "VISONS FLORAL DESIGNS BY...more >>

Im trying to transfer variables between two different movies using localconnection. it works when i have both movies open in different windows. For example i have the login screen and the first page of the course open at the same time. I type my name in and press submit. My name then shows...more >>

hi I need help to e-mail a forum that a user fills out. I was going to use the "mailto" html tag, but it doesn't work with mozilla due to the find on this page feature. When you use a browser that suports this, it opens up outlook explorer. I can't have that on my site. Is there a way to...more >>

OK I saw someone typed my exact problem and noone answered to him .. so I hope now someone can and will answer me.. I have a movie clip and I want when I scroll the mouse wheen up the movie clip to go up and when I scroll the mouse wheel down the movie clip to go down (like his _y = _y + 35 ...more >>

I have code for my project all working correctly. My code is used in a function. When I click on a certain button and view contents there, I want the other buttons to be disabled (until returning to the main interface). Here is my code: kitchen_mc.stop(); mySound = new Sound(); mySou...more >>

i know the title makes me sound like a total novice, which is probably true, but is there some special rule or something that im missing about gotoAndPlay? i have a mc thats not on the root timeline, and it has the code: ("home" is the name of the scene) on (release) { _root.gotoAndPlay...more >>

I am using Flash Pro 8. I am trying to get Date using the following actionscript - I am getting the following date format - F 13, 2006. How can get - February 13, 2006 Hope someone can help! Thanks.... _root.onEnterFrame= function(){ var timeOfYear:Date = new Da...more >>

I need to run a function that does some simple statistics calculations. The problem is the user can indicate to run these calculations many times up to 9999. The calculations are fairly simple, but it takes my computer several seconds to return the results. I want something to pop up to let th...more >>

Hi Can anybody help me? I am working on a web site, and I would like some of the buttons to do two things when pressed. First i should go to frame 81 and play from there. After this (when the rest of the current scene is played) it should go to another scene and play from frame 1. How do I...more >>

here i.m creating easing on stage resize. how would easing equations be properly applied? my movieclip is not responding to actions nor #include? #include "lmc_tween.as" Stage.align = "TL"; Stage.scaleMode = "noScale"; stageListener = new Object(); stageListener.onResize = functio...more >>

Written a Flash 7 app (using AS2 strict data typing feature only) that runs in IE6.0.2900 on winXP (SP2) which reads some data in via the XML object than uses text input fields with embbed fonts (Helvetica 55 Roman) to get data from user, then jumps to a new screen a plots a graph using the dr...more >>

how do you make stuff move with the keyboard?...more >>

I'm struggling to find a solution to dynamically draw boxes and connecting lines at runtime. It is simple to create a tween to draw a line, and with a bit of tweaking probably a box, but I suspect it is much easier to acheive using actionscript but I can't work out how. Does anybody have a...more >>

I want to load three external SWF files (green.swf, yellow.swf & red.swf). When a movie is loaded, it will search a text variable to confirm a number. If this number is <= 15 loadmovie red.swf if this number is between 15 & 20 loadmovie yellow.swf and if this number is >= 20 loadmovie gree...more >>

:confused; k, it didnt go well when i last tried to explain this problem. here goes again, i cant go on with my project unless i solve this. i have a class called gantt.as . this class constructor takes 4 parametes: 1: movieclip object (in which it'll later create additional moviecli...more >>

Hello, I have three movie clips that I would like to play in sequence automatically. For example, MovieClip1will load first, then when it is done playing I want MovieClip2 to play and the when MovieClip2 is done I want MovieClip3 to play. What is the ActionScript that I need to use to do t...more >>

I am setting up an XML based, SCORM 1.2 compliant e-learning module. I am in the process of creating my library of elements that will be included in module. I am thinking that, for larger scale portions of the module, I will need to create individual SWF files, and place them in a library. ...more >>

Hi, This is my second post of this topic on same day. There is no reply First I thought it's easy to load any image in any typical shape. But when I faced such problem, I can't think what to do? Actually I want to load one image in triangle. That image is square. When i load this image in...more >>

Hi I have built an animated button on a map which needs to show another smaller map when clicked on...i have tried this several times but cannot get it to work. Currently I have it so the new map is there all the time and disappears when the button is clicked. Any advice on how to do...more >>

Hi, I'm having a lot of problems with the Alert component. I have multiple functions and inside each of those functions I want tp show an alert. How would I do this. I've tried to define a hander and alert show inside the function, but it doesnt work. It works if it is outside the function...more >>

hi, i want to disable the right click menu options(zoom , show all, play , loop....) in flash player 7. thanks in advance...more >>

Does the new F8 uploading facilites work with secure folders on the server? I had uploading working just fine - then I modified my server so that users had to login to access the folder where my app is. Now I'm having problems uploading... I read something about fileReference not sending the prop...more >>

Does the new F8 uploading facilites work with secure folders on the server? I had uploading working just fine - then I modified my server so that users had to login to access the folder where my app is. Now I'm having problems uploading... I read something about fileReference not sending the p...more >>

I am not able open the MS WORD file from .swf file. I tried using GET URL script, but it could not work. PLease give me some other way to do it. Thanks in advance....more >>

Okay, say if i had a flash and i put it on a website, and when i previwed the website, wat code would i have to put on the website and in the flash to my any open gb invisible, see threw, so that you could see the webpage behind it>? ...more >>

Hey guys, I have a flash website up and running. However, i have embedded music file that players (loadmovie) which opens on start-up of the browser. The actionscript works in FlashPlayer but whenever I go onto the web browser to view my site, the music does not play. Can someone please help...more >>

:frown;I have several functions which load XML data. The trouble is that control returns to the calling routine, and continues to execute code there, before the XML data has been read. This leads to problems when I try to use data that should have been loaded but hasn't yet. This must...more >>

Lately I've switched from coding a lot on the timeline to putting it in external Class Files. Unfortunately I didn't realize that there came a lot of problems with this when putting the files online. A simple preloader didn't cut it at all since all the code was being exported to the first fra...more >>

Hi I'm trying to use the mx teen class to replicate the movement in this website: http://www.zebrapeople.com So far I've got here: http://www.detkendesign.com/detken3/test6.php I've got the basic structure but am having problems with the xscale / yscale aspect and getting the tween...more >>

I am tying to use the datefield so that a user can upload their birthday. However the datefield starts with the year 2006 (understandable). What isn't understandable is that to get to a different year the user must flick through all the months to get to the previous year. Therefore someone tha...more >>

Hello, I have to make a link between a xml file and flash now is that not a problem but is there a way to reload the xml file without to refresh the hole page ? Thanks ...more >>

hi guys, my website use file upload from the class Filereference and php to upload images to the gallery and it was working fine for about 2-3 months but suddenly i'm getting httperror #403 a few days ago, the strange is that i didn't move anything. i use a shared hosting using unix . i t...more >>

Hi How can I find x-y coordinate location of a movie clip being dragged? I want to know this because I am trying to drag and drop a movieclip to a certain location. Also, is there a way I can change the color (hover affect) of the rectangle where the movieclip is to be dropped. Than...more >>

I already have my project working but I need to find a way to put the code that I have now, into a function to avoid repetition of similar code. I've tried different ways but none of them worked. I have a movie clip which has four buttons on top of it. Inside this movie clip I have 5 keyf...more >>

can anyone give me a clue or guide me onwhere to gotolearn how to create buttons like this http://www.keigrafisch.nl/index_flash.html i like the way it is highlighted andunhilghted when rolled over thanks ...more >>

friends i m stuck in a prob ... i am making a calculator component and need to capture button events inside the component .. i tried eventListener but didnt worked and i wish to make it true AS2.0 methods . i m adding button as a movieclip inside component. please help or send me link that can...more >>

Hi, First I thought it's easy to load any image in any typical shape. But when I faced such problem, I can't think what to do? Actually I want to load one image in triangle. That image is square. When i load this image in triangle shape , image doesn't look triangle, But it's in original s...more >>

I have this exact same code in two different .fla's. Only one of them actually works and shows the Alert window. Here is the code I used in both: (note: one of the .fla's has other code in it and the other only has the follwoing code) -- import mx.controls.Alert; error = "Sorry, unable to ...more >>

i realized some sites the movement of images is so smoothe... i can get it that smoothe.... is there a better way of tweenig or lets say moving images from one place to another like for example in this site http://www.shanalondon.com/ therectangle expands so smothly and then when you go to CO...more >>

I know I've brought this question up before on the forum, but I was told to skin the UI scrollbar component. This time I'd like to build my own scrollbar which either scrolls a dynamic textfield or a MovieClip that is masked so only the read-able section is shown. If ANYONE can help please do....more >>

Hi anyone know if it is possible to display math equations in text boxes. like being able to show the square root sign etc. without having to draw a line?? any help appreciated ...more >>

hi all... ok here is what i have. This is just some dynamic text I have in a scroller... it is working now.. but opening in the same window as my movie. <a href=\"http://www.apextuning.com/ncdubs/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1138897507#\">< u><b>more</b></u></a> where can i put _blank in...more >>

Hi. I have the following problem: myArray0 = new Array(); myArray1 = new Array(); var aLocalConnection = new LocalConnection(); aLocalConnection.test = function(myRecivedArray, i) { this= eval("myArray"+i).concat(myRecivedArray); } // This code doesn't work when i use a Local ...more >>

The problem is next: I have an input text field, under this textfiel a submit button. After writing the text in the input textfield I press ENTER button and nothing happened. It's possible to make an actionscript which insure after press ENTER the submit of a text? Thank you for the answers, W...more >>

friends i m stuck in a prob ... i am making a calculator component and need to capture button events inside the component .. i tried eventListener but didnt worked and i wish to make it true AS2.0 methos . i m adding button as a movieclip inside component. please help or send me link that can ...more >>

Hi Guys, I'm applying the below code on the movie clip, but it does'nt work. onClipEvent(keyUp) { keyListener = new Object(); keyListener = function () { //32- space -- 13 - Enter if(Key.getCode() == 90) { Key.removeListener(keyListener); nextFrame(); } } Key.addListener(...more >>

I'm trying to create what I think is a very simple animation but am new to this. I want to create a simple animation of a box getting wider depending on a parameter passed in at run time. Basically - the parameter is a number (1-100) and the box should slowly grow it's width to this number...more >>

Does anyone know a good tutorial on how to make fullscreen flash sites IN BROWSERS? I put that in caps to prevent someone from just giving me the good, old fashion fscommand response because from what i've read you have to do all sorts of javascript calculations to resize your movie and what n...more >>