i have been able to open a new movie within a movie. is there a way that you can open a new movie and go to a specific scene in that movie? i hope that makes sense.... ...more >>

Hi! I am building my first site and it seems the info I need is here! I have created a download now button in my site and have an EXE file that I would like to allow visitors to download. What is the easies t way to accomplish this? ...more >>

Hi what I'm trying to figure out is how to add dynamic hyperlinks to buttons (articles.asp?articleID=...). I'm using Access DB and ASP: Is the best way to create XML for each button (there are only six buutons and the number will stay the same) or is there a better way? Please help. THX for ...more >>

I am trying to build my first website with a flash teplate. The site is coming along and I have learened alot along the way. But now I am at a stand still because I have made a botton inside my template to play an external SWF in the _root and when I use it in test movie mode the clip plays bu...more >>

Is there any way to grab the value of a variable on the actual page the SWF is sitting on? In other words, let's say I have my SWF on index.asp. At the top of index.asp I define a variable, let's say: <% dim myVariable myVariable = "123abc" %> Any way for the SWF to get the v...more >>

I am following a tutorial that makes a CRAZY dynamic scrolling gallery... I am new to AS, but I have been following the tutorial closely... now I know there were problems with the code they provided in the tutorial, but I cant catch them all... one was just a couple of bad characters... anoth...more >>

:confused; Still wrapping my wits around ActionScript. I'm trying to do something like a gallery page, where clicking a button will play a short animation (movieclip?) in one section and display some text information in another. Can someone here simply outline the overall process for thi...more >>

I would like to place some actionscript code on an instance of a movieclip that makes it shake or vibrate when rolledOver. Does anyone have anything out there for this. Would be great if it had a timer function too, so the shake time can be limited to a value specified. THANKYOU!!! ...more >>

I have a main .swf with my navigation in it. When you click on any of the 4 nav buttons it loads an external .swf into an empty movie clip called holder. Some of the .swf's are big picture galleries (900 k), and they all have preloaders. Is there a way to only preload the movies half way. ...more >>

At Veer's website, they have a photo section that has a technique that I would like to find out how to use. If anyone knows how to do this or knows about a tutorial that is similar please let me know. The website is below. Once you get there, just click on the photo of the lobster and it will ...more >>

Hi Guys, Has any of you lot come accross this problem before... I am trying to send a username and password to php which will then query the database and display the results in Flash I am using Flash 8 Pro buy publishing to Flash 7 I am using the example from http://livedocs.macrom...more >>

I'm not entirely sure how to go about doing this. I've tried a couple of different things. This is one of them: if (myMovieHolder.playing = false) { myMovieHolder.unloadMovie(); } myMovieHolder is the label I have on the MediaDisplay component. Any ideas? ...more >>

Good thought, using an array is the way to do it, but I'm baffled by this: Math.random()*r) What is that supposed to do?? Anyway, try this: r = ; randomFrame = r; mc.gotoAndPlay(randomFrame); ...more >>

In your title you say frames, but in you post you say layers. Layers are just something used during author time to organize the structure of file. When you publish (compile) your swf the layers go away. So there is no way to refer to specific layers using actionscript. Just to get that out o...more >>

Hi all, I've got a linked MC (myForm) that loops through a recordset and creates a form dynamically - code here. As the form may well be longer than the screen, I've used a ScrollPane component and used myForm as the content path. The problem is that the scrollpane draws the scrollbars b...more >>

When I subtract or add to the _alpha value of a movie clip the result is slightly off. say you have a MovieClip called redbox, and a dynamic text with variable alph use this code: function phase() { if(redbox._alpha <=0) redbox._alpha = 100; else redbox._alpha -= 1.0; alph = red...more >>

hey guys i have a problem that is just about to drive me off the deep end. HERE GOES? i created a scrolling menu, after numerous attemps to get it scrolling it finally happened, i got it to work. well now my problem is my scrolling menu goes crazy when you move the mouse to any part of t...more >>

php flash browser problem flash read data from php (data is three numbers) on player it's working but in browser the text from php file is not showing i need help...more >>

I'm trying to create a buttonMov in a library.fla file that will be accessed by a container.fla file and all the movies that are being loaded into it. The movie is basically using 1 movieclip as a button. I am trying to figure out how to have a rollover state triggered in the buttonMov. So wit...more >>

how do you dynamically unload a flash video after it has finished playing?...more >>

I have been searching and searching for an answer to this... I want to send the Pass/Fail status from the Flash 8 quiz templates. I can only send the score and a complete status. How would I send the pass/fail status compared to grade. I have looked into the java scripts that flash uses, and t...more >>

Hi, I am in the process of completing a fairly complex Flash web-based application. We need to send some lengthy data to the server and receive an XML response back. At the moment, we are simply using the XML.load method, which is working just fine, eg. XML.load("http://myurl.co...more >>

I am checking my slideshow in Flash 8 and images are there but when I publish to a swf file, insert in dreamweaver and test in browser the images are not there. Is this an actionscript. Is my universal resource identifier code wrong? And is actionscript the only way to link the images with the...more >>

In one specific movie I am working on, I click on my error check button in the actionscript window, and it says there are no errors. I can also publish the movie fine. However when I then click 'autoformat', it says there are errors and the movie cannot be formatted. Has anyone come across...more >>

I need to build a script that will take the current date, subtract 120 days and then show that date. I have been fooling around with various available scripts but can't seem to figure it out. Yours Truly, Lynda Freeman Email: webmaster@paragonpubs.com Paragon Publications Website: http://...more >>

Hi, I have a simple preloader script that should jump to frame 6 when 100% of the movie is loaded. This works without fail on high bandwidth, but when testing using "Simulate Download", at 56kb, every second or third time I test the movie it ends up stuck on a blank screen with the ban...more >>

I have a setInterval function set up, but i want the interval part of the setInterval to change each time the function is called. I have the code set up like this, but it doesn't work and I think I know why. var interval:Number = 10000; setInterval(createNextObject, interval); function ...more >>

hello i'm very new to flash so please bear with me if i'm being stupid. I've made a slideshow with 7 frames. it's controlled by next and back buttons to go between frames. that works but i need to make it so after a certain length of time passes it automatically goes to the next frame & it...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to remove an item from an array and move down the array index of the items above? Thanks for any help, ~Oni....more >>

I was trying to build a slide show in Flash using AS only, so I can use it with any amount of images without too much changing of the AS. It seems to working good for the most part. Seems like the variable works properly updating the number and resetting itself. The I introduced two more va...more >>

is it possible to delete a movie clip that was created during authoring? MovieClip.unloadMovie(target) // This only works for movie clips that was loaded using MovieClip.loadMovie; MovieClip.removeMovieClip() // This only works for movie clips that was created using the attachMo...more >>

Hello, I have a problem I found a great tutorial that taught me how the load swf files into a movie clip. I got that working fine, but I tried to take the same technique of loading the swf into a mc, and tried to apply it to the swf I was loading into the movie clip(If you understand what I...more >>

I'm trying to load external movie clips into different levels of a main movie. When doing running the swf's on my local machine...everything runs perfect, but when uploaded to the web I have a problem. The other movies don't seem to be loading. If I right click on the player and choose "Pla...more >>

Hi, How do you change the size of the scroll when a new movieclip is attached? I am attaching movieclips to the scrollpanes content, but the scrollpane doesnt change the scroll size.. how do I get it to change? Thanks for any help, ~Oni. ...more >>

Hello there, I am searching a way to have different quality settings in a movie. I have a Movieclip that should act as a color picker (just like the one in Flash). The problem is, when this movie is played at "high" quality, the color rectangles become blurry. On "low" quality, they are ju...more >>

i am trying to follow a very difficult tutorial on super duper scrolling movies, but the code they provide is giving me some errors... expected ";" stuff... i fixed a few that were just weird characters, but the ones below... i just dont know where it is missing a ";"... any ideas? if (L...more >>

I have been making an interactive card game for an online learning environment. It is quite complex and I have become stuck as I have used if statements in a very disorganised way. The game was working fine, and now one problem remains. If the students drops a card onto anywhere BUT the av...more >>

Hi, i am creating a program using mx2004. i need to load variables from the users mydocuments. and as the user is going to change it needs to be real flexible so i can't use a static address! the rest of my code works as i have tested it with the file in "c:" i have tried an array of things ...more >>

I'm using an XMLConnector (restype_con) and a Dataset to fill a ComboBox (restype_cb) with options (read from an XML file) at the start of the movie/SWF. The options are added properly to the ComboBox but there's no default value selected (empty combobox selected-field) or selectable and so...more >>

Hello. I'm working on a projector that uses fairly lengthy audio files. My problem is in certain conditions I don't want to start right at the beginning or finish at the end. The guy that's supplying the audio said he can embed cue points into the audio (.WAV) file. Does Flash support this? ...more >>

I make a Beeld_mc slider: onClipEvent (enterframe) { Slowy = (endy-this._y)/speed this._y += Slowy; } onClipEvent (enterframe) { Slowalpha = (endalpha-this._alpha)/speed this._alpha += Slowalpha; } /// I make a buttons b1: Menu1_mc.b1.onRelease = function(){ ...more >>

Hi, I need to create an application in which the application would read the the text typed in by the user. Just like Flash Site Pal. How can i achieve this usign flash. Please help me as i need this urgent Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Vinay ...more >>

So I was preparing to teach a little class on ActionScript (Flash 8) and was talking about putting handlers for on(release) and on(rollOver), etc., on the buttons. I then wanted to address a problem I'd seen before where the learner would have more than one of the same event handler in the sa...more >>