hello all... am a .NET developer, who is trying to plan a combined .NET and MS-SQL backend with a Flash front end for an online testing suite. I have the following questions about the "abilities" that Flash and Actionscript can accomplish.... If the testtaker passes the test, I want Actio...more >>

Hello there. I'm using David Morris's Creating a Web Site using Flash Book. I know, it's my first time, but it's still fun. Anyhoo, I'm on pg. 68 and I'm trying to add pauses after some text zooms in before it zooms out. Here's my ActionScript for the first Keyframe: stop(); pauseAni...more >>

Im using this on / for one of my buttons: quitting.onPress = function(){ getURL("javascript:window.close();"); }; The button has an instance of quitting on the stage, but Im getting this error in the output: **Error** Scene=playgame, layer=Layer 28, frame=330:Line 1: Statement m...more >>

Hi, I'm using flash with asp. Flash load/unload swf on user's demand. What is the best way to tell the browser which swf was the last loaded - even if the user closes the browser and reloads the site or even shuts down the computer and reloads the site? I found one page which uses flash and...more >>

I have created a small menu.swf file that loads full-screen on a single use computer. (This application is NOT intended for the internet). The menu.swf is works like a type of juke box to help users select mp3's on the hard drive. I have created buttons to open folders to show the mp3's, like:...more >>

Is there an AS method to mirror-inverse a movieclip similar to movieclip._rotation ? ...more >>

I have a container file used for loading .swfs for an interactive CD I'm building. In this container is a sound object controlled by a play/pause button that plays backgound music as the user reads the content on the disc. Since it's in the container it sits on top of all .swfs that are load...more >>

I have a movie symbol. In this a butterfly animates its wings. I added this to another movie symbol that moves the butterfly across the screen. What I would like to do it make it land on a branch and then stop flapping its wings (1st movie symbol). For some reason I cannot make that animation ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I am really hoping someone can help me out with this probem as I am at a total loss. I am trying to add cue points to an FLV dynamically by loading values from an XML doc, then assigning the cue points to the FLV. I created an XLM docment that has various names and ti...more >>

Hi, I am using the code below to make an image of a flag blow in the wind, which works great. The problem I am having is that I can't get it to go away again! I want it to disapear either when i go to another frame or click a button (dont mind which). I have tried deleting the function, un...more >>

Hi all, I've got this project I build on my PC. Works fine . Now I want to continue working on it on my laptop which is a powerbook g4 , OSX 10.4. But.... The project does not compile correctly on the MAC. It doesn't give errors but most of the movie is invisible... Does anyone know why this ...more >>

HI. I have got a problem that someone here might be able to assist with solving. I would like to extract and reffer to a numbber thta is made up by the instance name on stage of bits_mc. I have 25 instances of a mc called bits, "bits"+i+"_mc"; (i=1; i<=25; i++) the thought was that by ad...more >>

I have a button that I've embedded a movie inside. I can't get the rollover actionscript to play the movie. The first frame of the movie contains a stop then the tween starts on frame 2. The button simply rises up a short distance then falls back to original positon. I have placed script on or...more >>

Is it possbile to utilize JSFL to add snippets of code to hundreds of .as include files? If so, how can this be done?...more >>

Hi all, I am using a dynamic text box that is updated with news from a CMS. Also i am pulling in a style sheet so that i can utilise different styles within the one text box. I have it working fine with just one font that i have embedded in the library with relevant linkage, the proble...more >>

Yes <a href="http://www.hairyt.com/private/FlashTest/index_flash.html">This is the working page </a> <a href="http://www.hairyt.com/private/FlashTest/SpiderNav.zip">This is the fla file </a>...more >>

Hi all I'm messing about with the flash.geom.ColorTranform class (Flash 8) but it says it 's unable to load it . ?? any ideas ?...more >>

Hi, I am facing this issue http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6904/issue5ey.jpg I know this is a issue with Flash itself http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=2178a075&pss=rss_fl ash_2178a075 I have solved this issue with normal text by using <br> but in cas...more >>

Attached link to movie as displayed on web. How do I go about coding a rollover effect for any of the 3 buttons that would turn the buttons into another image? The "contact button" has a button property and instance name of "button1". Because that button was created in photoshop and expor...more >>

A have a movie clip instance running as a child of the main timeline. On this timeline I load swf's by using loadmovie to load movies into holder_mc. Easy so far? On this timeline I want use XML for the whole site to load text into dynamic boxes. I've hit a brick wall becasue I'm not sure ...more >>

What I have is an clothing website that has multiple images of an item in many different colors. So when an color swatch (button) is clicked a shirts color appears to change until the next color swatch is clicked on. Because of the large number of differing colors I did not want to load them i...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to set the combobox label to a array which I create in code (to mimic the years). The question is .. how do i get the combobox labels to match the list that I generate. Here is the code which does not work for (i=1929;i<2000;i++) { x=x+1; labellist=i; trace...more >>

hello everyone, does anybody know how to write in actionscript code the following operation in flash 8 editor: Behaviors>+>data>Trigger Data Source ?? thanks in advance antonio...more >>

I am having trouble gettine my pop ups to work with IE exlplorer 6, they work fine with Safari and also Firefox, but IE says that there is an Invalid Argument. If anyone has dealt with this problem before please let me know how to fix it. The code I am using looks like this: In the HT...more >>

Hi, I was thinking if its possible to use a variable to store the current time which is the time running in the computer. then use it to tell my flash movie to load a special clip depending on the time. if anyone knows its possible please tell me how its done. thanks. ...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if it's possible change the dimension of the stage with actionscript. I tried with the Stage object, but its parameters are read-only. thanks ...more >>

i have a scenario in which i have twelve buttons that each lead to a different timeline. when they are clicked, an intro is played into their timeline, and when the user clicks to leave and go back to the page with the twelve buttons, an outro is played. What i want to be able to do is make ...more >>

I was surprised when I couldn't find a flash animated odometer / generic counter when I needed one for a new site. So I built a fairly flexible one from scratch. Since this group has helped me (a lot) in the past, I thought I'd share (with source code). http://www.agavegroup.com/?p=60...more >>

I have been reading up on shared object and don't understand them. I have a swf with a flvplayback component playing an flv on one from and a text and a button on a second frame. I wan't the user to see the flv the first time and the next time the come to the site it goes to the second fra...more >>

Hi, I need to sort an array by the sub value: year_round yearList.year_round year_round can contain values from 1-26 and PF, QF, SF, and GF. They are all classed as VARCHAR (or string) even the numbers. So how would I sort it so that the array is ordered by .year_round 1,2,3,4,5..26, P...more >>

Hi, I'm using the new fCMS to update my webpage. So, my text fields are dynamically xml loaded. Some of the text is linked. Is there a way to add rollovers to the links? (i.e. on rollover - change color and underline) . . . I'm assuming this can be done with the AS of the dynamic text field, b...more >>

I need to be able to modify every object property using the loadvariable or loadvar etc. function. For example sending " ..var01=342&obj5._x=40&var02=3242&.." when received the X property of the obj5 must be set to 40. I'm not able to do this, there is a way to bypass this? Many than...more >>

My problem is having two variables that are constantly associated. I want that an existing variable V1 could be associated to another variable; the problem is that I don't know previously the name of the second variable, but only during the movie execution. Imagine that when the movie is...more >>

Hi NG, I have the following class that I load in my timeline: class com.debuger { //INIT public var aColors:Array; public var mcDebuger:MovieClip; //FUNCTIONS public function alert(txt:String, colorId:Number) { trace("txt:" + txt); mcDebuger.txt.htmlText += "<BR><FONT color=\"#"...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know if there's a way of making it so that the DateChooser part of the DateField component will only scroll a certain number of months? eg to December 2007. I can set the disabledRange so that users cannot select a date after a certain date, but the scroller will still ...more >>

Hi, I came across one issue in DepthControl class in flash8.0 i created 4 movieclip + 4 corresponding radiobutton and used 'sendToBack, bringToFront, sendBackward, bringForward' function of DepthControl class, to change the depth based onradiobutton selection. Although it works fine for ...more >>