hello, i need to move the location of various child movieclips at the root level in a for loop. is there any way to do this? updateAfterEvent() seems to do this but it can only be called in an onClipEvent() or setInterval() call. all code is in one file a...more >>

I have a button that is assigned roll over and roll out to make the button nice and fancy. I would also like to make this fancy button take me to the right part of a movie. I dont want the button to take me to the root of the movie, I want it to take me to this certain movie. I've tried...more >>

:evil; Looking to have a live audio input activate my animation. Don't know how. Maybe it's easy, but I'm at the begginer/intermediate stage, so please go slow!...more >>

I have this problem that's driving me insane. For some reason everytime I call sound.position, the value comes up as "undefined". how could that possibly be? the sound is playing! all of my syntax is correct, I can get the sound to start() and stop(). I don't get it. the funny thing is tha...more >>

Hey - I've got some very simple error checking that I'm trying to do. I check the value of a text input field that I have on the stage and if it's not a number, I want to display an error message and change the value of the text input field to "0". Everything's working except for actually chan...more >>

In a nutshell I want to feed a number - any number - from an external .txt file and have flash count incrementally from that number. Here is what I have so far. It's close, but no cigar. //Settings var interval = 1; var output_list; var file = 'sync.txt'; //delay between count interv...more >>

I'm doing a banner ad and it has to loop 3 times. So what I have is in my main timeline 2 movies: 1st movie loads some text say text1Mov . At the end of the text1Mov instance I have a go to the root and play the next frame which contains text2Mov, and so on. What I want to do is have the ...more >>

Hello, this is a newbie question: I have loaded a movieclip which gets bigger as it plays. I want to keep it within the stage by shrinking the clip as it gets larger. So far I have not found any "events" for a movie clip changing size, so the best I can do is wait for someone to resize the s...more >>

What can you use to replace tell target. I want to tell a movie to stop playing at a certain point. Tell target doesn't work. What does?...more >>

Im sorry , this probabvly sounds a sillly question.But what versions of flash are compatible with actionscript1 and what versions are compatible with actionscript 2?...more >>

This the format i think it would be but can you fix it? If this is not the right format make the correct one Placed on mc2 on (release) { _root. mc1._x = CURRENT POSITION Thank you for helping me Sincerly, rbr1234 ...more >>

I have a preloader. When I add it to my movie (350k) for some reason the preloader doesn't get attached untill about 76% of the movie is downloaded. If I add the same preloader to a different movie (280k), it is attached after under 8% of the download. If the preloader is the same, then surely...more >>

Can you fix this?? onClipEvent(enterFrame){ If (mc1 TOUCHES mc2){ mc2 IS REMOVED { { Sincerly, rbr1234...more >>

Can you fix this? on (release) { if ( _root. mc1. IS ON FRAME 1 ) { _root. mc1. gotoAndPLay( 10 ) } if ( _root. mc1. IS ON FRAME 2 ) { _root. mc1. gotoAndPLay( 11 ) } if ( _root. mc1. IS ON F...more >>

I am having trouble with a myXML.load command. There is a line in my flash which says delegates_xml.load(http://myserver.co.uk/get_delegates.asp) This works fine if I create an exe and run it from my desktop, but when I run it from html (using the swf file) from the server it does nothing....more >>

Was wanting to do some dynamic nav with our website but wanted to make sure we didn't lose SEO by going to flash. Does anyone have any concrete data about flash and SEO? Thanks ......more >>

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for a simple slide show that dynamically loads jpg's? There are 4 images in my slide show and I'd like them to fade into one another, with control over how long they display. Thanks for any help, Amelia ...more >>

OK, so I have an extremely simple piece of code which navigates to a page: CODE on (release) { gotoandStop(2); } How do I swap the '2' for a random number between 4 and 30? Thanks in advance, guys. ...more >>

Not sure how to accomplish this with ActionScript 2.0 here's some code that probably doesn't make any sense (and doesn't work) but may give you an idea of what I'm trying to do: targetx = 0; targety = 0; startx = getProperty(instanceName,_x) ; starty = getProperty(instanceName,_y) ; ...more >>

Im trying to refer to a movieClip inside a movieClip inside a movieClip from the main timeline, but cant seem to get the syntax right. colourLight[x] = new Color(_root["scrollBar_mc.colourPalette_mc.colourLight"+[x]+"_mc"]); ...more >>

I asked this question before, but not sure if I worded it correctly. I have in a MC 25 jpeg images lined up left to right. On the main stage I have the MC centered. I have 5 buttons on the main stage that I would like to control the scroll of the MC from right to left with. Play butt...more >>

:disgust; i am developing a large project that is completely dynamic; it attaches movies from library to stage at runtime according data loaded from database from server using flash remoting. When i attach a movie clip and the next line of code i try to access the movie's methods it is undef...more >>

:disgust; i am developing a large project that is completely dynamic; it attaches movies from library to stage at runtime according data loaded from database from server using flash remoting. When i attach a movie clip and the next line of code i try to access the movie's methods it is undef...more >>

:disgust; i am developing a large project that is completely dynamic; it attaches movies from library to stage at runtime according data loaded from database from server using flash remoting. When i attach a movie clip and the next line of code i try to access the movie's methods it is undef...more >>

My design is breaking in IE on mac and I can't figure out why. The most right column is breaking. I know a lot of you are going to say, that it does not matter if the design is breaking in IE on a mac, but in this case, I really need to make this one work and I see no reason, why it should n...more >>

Hello, I have a fairly simple question (I hope) regarding creating functions. I know you can create a function using one of these 2 syntaxes: 1: function MyFunction (parameter1, 2, etc.) { //actions } 2: myFunction = function (parameter1, 2, etc.) { //actions }; The first I unde...more >>

I've got what I hope is a quick easy one, I've treble, no quadruply (?) checked this snip of code against other working exampled and I cannot see what's wrong. It's got to be syntax (I hope). The movie is being attached successfully, no problem there. However, it does not tween and the tra...more >>

is something of this sort possible? onClipEvent (load || mouseDown) { // do something } I hate always having to do this all the time. ----> onClipEvent (load) { // do something } onClipEvent (mouseDown) { // do something } ...more >>

I am loading data from a PHP script but not sure why this isn't working. Here is the PHP code I'm using: print "Mail_Grid.addItem({X:'x', Icon:'icon', Subject:'$subj', From:'$from', Date:'$date', Size:'Size'})"; Is there anything wrong with this? It should return the addItem to insert in...more >>

I have a problem when loading dynamic text form a HTML file. Lets say the text file has the text Drum & Bass you need to replace & with %20 but the & symbol shows up as blank. Also if you have a comma or apostrophe or even the French word of cafe it will not render the ? is there a solutio...more >>

I'm not sure how to explain this...but here's my best shot: Say I have a movie that is 1000 frames. In this movie, I have 25 bulletpoints that will fade in one at a time on specific frames. Here's my issue...Let's assume I know ahead of time the exact frame number each bullet is suppos...more >>

Every time I need use a class of mine I must open it and refresh my memory about properties and methods. Are there any way to show properties and methods of my classes like Flash shows its own classes? Can I do it in another editor? ...more >>

I have created a nice SWF to show slides with narration. I could probably do this the wrong way, but... What's the "best practice" way to build new HTML window with the swf in it, and tell the swf the name of a folder to work with, e.g. - "Open nss.swf in new HTML window (wid, hei) an...more >>

I?m having some minor difficulties understand a part of this code. Following the ?Flash 8 ActionScript Training from the Source? Book. If anyone can give me a hand would appreciate it. If you have the book its on page 74. This is just a snippet of the code. It works fine. It moves a small ba...more >>

Hello, Last November I was looking for help in this forum. I was trying to build a weather application and I got stucked. I also asked for some feedback about my coding, since it was my first Flash application ever. Well, I didn't posted the code because I put aside the application for qui...more >>

I hace an MC with setIntervel set to 5 seconds. I load that small mc into a main movie and it begins to run fine. Suddenly it starts to skip frames and eventually locks my main MC. What may the problem be? ...more >>

I am in the process of creating an interactive presentation for a client, "deconstructing a traction motor". Go to http://www.associatedrewinds.com/test/deconstructingmotor.html to see what progress I've made. You will see that my deconstruct button is linked to a play command. When the anim...more >>

I have a site that sendAndLoad's info from a mysql database. I would like to find a way that when the user triggers the sendAndLoad function that a preloader will appear so that they can determine how much longer it will take for flash to recieve and display the data. All the tutorials I ca...more >>

ok well i have only been playing around with flash 8 pro for about 2 weeks or so and i think i am doing really good so far, i was wondering if anyone could tell me if theres anyplace to see tutorials on actionscript and like making button commands. i am trying to make my movie stop on a scene ...more >>

Hello, Flash MX has a limitation whereby JPGs that are larger than 2880 pixels along one size cannot be dynamically loaded into Flash using loadMovie(). Can anyone tell me whether this is still the case in Flash 8? Thanks Steve...more >>

Dear All, Hers the scenario: Swf file prompts user: Have you used this before. If the user clicks Yes: Then the file loads the Slide Presentation and goes to "slide2". If the user clicks No: Then the file loads the Slide Presentation and goes to "slide1". My problem is how ...more >>

Hi, How would I go about changing the label colour of a checkbox component. Ive looked in the help documentation but cant seem to find anything about it anywhere? Thanks Christopher Jack...more >>

i want to be able to create Color datatypes, but be able to access them using a loop. Heres what i've got. var palette1:Color = new Color(colour_mc); button_btn1.onRelease = function(){ palette1.setRGB(red); } but I want to access pallete1 like an array . Im thinking someth...more >>

I have Flash Proffesional 8 on MAC OS X (Tiger), I need to use FlashRemoting Functions So I download the Flash Remoting for Flash 8 on MAC. After the installation i try to Include NetServices.as but dosent work. This is the error : in this Code Line: #include "NetServices.as" **Error...more >>