I would like to have a paragraph of text in flash but within the paragraph there are key words which i want to have pop up a speech bubble, is this possible? If so how do i do it? Urgently need to know as i am trying now for tomorrow. Thanks, Neil ...more >>

I am trying to have a mc (my background) change based on the size of picture that's loaded into the loader. If the picture is less than 400 I want my background to change from landscape to portrate (land2port) and if it's greater than 400 i want it to change from portrate to landscape (port2la...more >>

Does anyone know how to create a "break" within a Dynamic textfield? I'm trying to avoid creating three Dynamic textfields and stacking them. Thanks in advance! ME...more >>

Hi all, I must be really thick, I cannot seem to find any code for easing/tweening for flash pro 8....! All i want to do is move a vertical rectangle up when someone rolls over it and down when they roll off it. button1.onRollOver = function () { Move up in a tweening/easi...more >>

....my traces print undefined undefined Clear._x undefined class Loader extends MovieClip{ public function Loader() { var Clear:TextField = this.createTextField("Clear", 500, 30, 30, 50, 20); Clear.text = "Clear"; Clear._x = 60; trace(Clear._width); trace(Clear...more >>

I have one mc called mcTotalamber and another mc called mcText all i want is to hide the mcText on the start and then when you rollover the mcTotalamber it makes the mcText visible I have started by hiding the mcText on a top action layer: mcText._visible = false; I am then stuck on ...more >>

I just made a mask (with help from LuigiL) that works fine except that it doesn't mask with a straight edge. Hard to explain, take a look http://www.gregory.se/flash/gregory2.html The code looks like this; mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) { target_mc._visi...more >>

Hi All I'm a new actionscript user. I'm building a memory type game without the random background cards. I have created a couple of arrays one for the colour that I'll use to compare cards with and one for the cards covering the background image. My problem is referencing the arr...more >>

Hi, I just wanna know how can i use "System.capabilities.version" to detect the flash player? Any help would be appreciated. =)...more >>

I'm experienceing a strange problem where a simple xml.sendAndLoad will work fine on most computers, but fail on others. I've read the security documents for Flash 8 and believe I'm doing everything correctly: The .swf file is on the same domain (and in the same directory) as the PHP file be...more >>

Hi, I'm in the process of converting a flash application from actionscript 1.0 to 2.0. However, I've noticed this conversion is making my code less convenient to handle, in a particular way. I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion for how to avoid the following phenomenon. One of the ...more >>

So I added this code to my movie and then it hit me that I have no clue on how to stop the rain on a sertain frame??? (im a compleate newbie on actionscript) so how do I do that? var swidth = 550; var sheight = 400; // movieclip to hold our 'drops' _root.createEmptyMovieClip("Drop...more >>

I must be overlooking something, but I can't understand why loadMovie is loading my swf into instance1 instead of the parent empty movie clip. How can I can control an mc if the swf is loading into automatic instance names? this.createEmptyMovieClip("logo_mc", 1); logo_mc.loadMovie("test....more >>

I have a flash program written for a statistics class that is meant to illustrate the value of choosing experiment subjects randomly. A button on the screen randomly picks 10 out of 20 mice for the experiment and calculates a few statistics. You can run this program (trial) 100 times and view ...more >>

I have this code that gives no errors at all in Flash MX 6.0... but in 7.2 it gives allllll sorts of syntax errors.... and as far as I can tell, the difference is NOT between AS 2.0 and 1.0... on (rollOut) { if (_root.general_mc._currentframe < 61) { gotoAndStop("general_mc",1);...more >>

hello, I have 5 different graphics, that could possibly follow each other from top to bottom when someone clicks on a menu option in the webpage, so if the image is image1 and the user clicks on menu2, the image2 and image1 will move from top to bottom leaving only image2 on the screen I...more >>

I'm developing a Flash questionnaire and I need to carry not only the data from each question, but also summary data for each section of the document. Will actionscript support a 2 dimension global array, like arrayName? Additionally, I'll be passing the variable data to a php-based form for...more >>

This is probably the most basic flash question, but on this same site, I need to know how when you click away from the home page, the coffee cup empties, then the next page loads. Can anyone help me with this issue? I need my page to do something similiar, pretty much unload the current scene,...more >>

I have to figure out how to send a simple 4 digit variable from one flash movie across the web to another flash movie. Any pointers to help me get started would be fantastic. I'm entering a year into a field in the first swf, and then when I hit enter, it opens the second flash movie and...more >>

below is a nice bit of script to increment a timer. I need to know how I could set the initial value of the textbox to say 20:30:15 and increment from there instead of starting from 0:0:0. Thanks onEnterFrame = function () { time = getTimer(); miliseconds = time; minutes = Ma...more >>

hello; I am retrieving data from a MYSQL via php using my_LV.sendAndLoad( ... ); this is not a problem normally because I just retrieve variables and their values; however this particular time MYSQL needs to return a multi-nested tree-structured array; I could ofcourse have php brea...more >>

I am loading a SWF into an empty movieclip on my main timeline of my main swf. I am trying to create an effect where when a button is pressed it "wipes off" the current SWF off the stage and "wipes on" the new SWF. The "wipe on" is just a mask effect inside the SWF being loaded. I am having tr...more >>

I'm surprised. In the first frame I have 4 lines of code. Each line is a problem. I have to remove all four lines for the SWF file to work as desired. The lines of code in frame 1 are: this.airSpeedIndicator2._xscale=240; this.airSpeedIndicator2._yscale=240; this.airSpeedIndicator...more >>

I'm trying to animation dynamic text (slide in and fade up) based on cuePoints within a video. The slide in works fine but the fade in doesn't until I change it from Dynamic to Static. So my question is: - How can achieve both animations with Dynamic text? - Using Dynamic text, what ty...more >>

I'm not sure if this has been answered else where in the forum, so I apologise if I'm retreading old ground, but I have spent hours trying to solve this problem. My flash file contains 5 or 6 category headings, all of which should link to seperate webpages. I have tried using the propertie...more >>

Hi all, I am building an interactive praph that has points on it for certain companies. So each company is an icon and when you roll over that icon a description pop up comes on. Now i know there are many ways of doing this but i need to know what is the cleanest way of doing this? I have ...more >>

I'm trying to get a certain portion of a movie to play through ten times, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong here. gotoAndPlay(begin) if (hello == null){hello = 0;} ++hello; if(hello <= 10){gotoAndPlay(begin); } else{ gotoAndPlay(done)} ...more >>

can anyone help with this one, I'm trying to create a CD that has multiple swf files. I need to load each swf file from a button in the previous one. That's pretty simple to do. However the problem that I am having is that several of the swf files have timelines with nested movie clips. I...more >>

I've run into this rather odd problem. To start with the beginning I am writing a Hiscore for a game (actionscript 1). It writes xml code into a shared object. I can read the xml file fine, I can manipulate it to add in newscores and I can save it off to the shared object fine. Next time...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to search and remove an item from an associative array? I tried to use the splice() method but this didn't work since associative arrays don't have numerical indexes like a regular array. Thanks. ...more >>

This is supposed to mask in the image, but it will not work. Anyone understands this code or have I written it wrong? import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; #include "lmc_tween.as" stop(); var up:Tween = new Tween(nav, "_y", Strong.easeOut, 317, -11, 24, fa...more >>

Hi i'm trying to access the children of a movieclip... I know you can use for(i in moveclipname) ..... But I am tryign to access them in a way of movieclipname; To no avail! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! My code: function checkhit() { var thisItem = menu_mc[i...more >>

experienced Flash designers. i am very new to using Flash - VERY NEW and wet behind the ears. i have been asked to work with a Flash file and I have gotten the links intergrated into the site so they call to external pages that can be easily updated using HTML ... my question, is there a ...more >>

I hope you don?t mind my contacting you directly. But you seem knowledgeable on the subject. I have an application that uses web services provided by geocoder.com ( converts a street address to latitude and longitude) and Microsoft?s Terraserver (additional info plus a satellite imag...more >>

hi all, it's been ages since i have done any flash work, and even then i never did much/any actionscript....so i would be very grateful if anyone could help me get my head around this one. i'm building my own "portfolio" and basically i have all the content as one movieclip which i sli...more >>

Flash limits your ability to interact with the mouse, such as not allowing you to catch right clicks and not allowing you to reposition it. Obviously if this was available in Flash natively you'd have adware abusing it enormously. Are there any third-party applications out there that extend ...more >>

I'm experiencing this problem quite often and at first I didn't think it was anything, but now I think it might be something. When I load a completed .swf and the accompanying .html to a server and I open internet explorer and navigate to the site, it works fine, but when I close internet ex...more >>

Hello forum, I have a swf into an html page and I need to call an actionscript function from javascript, is there anyway to do so?? if not, then is there anyway around it?? many thnx in advance....more >>

I have two different singleton classes. I call them both from the timeline with var myvar1:MyClass1 = MyClass1.getInstance(); var myvar2:MyClass2 = MyClass2.getInstance(); trace("this line is executed"); ... now the funny thing is that the MyClass2.getInstance() function never gets execu...more >>

i got problems to get the right height of a dynamically created textfield the returned height is always the same as of a singleline textfield although the text is shown correctly as multiline Actionscipt looks like: MovieClip.prototype.textbody = function(p_string) { instanceName = "t...more >>

Hi, I need to change how far a scrollPane can scroll down. How do I achieve this? I have tried changing the _height and setSize, but all that does is change the size of the scrollPane window. Thanks for any help, ~Oni. ...more >>

I get this error when compiling my flash. Done this before and cant see what's wrong. Anyone? **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=as, frame=1:Line 14: Type mismatch in assignment statement: found Number where String is required. for(i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++){ --- The code --- ...more >>

Hello, I have a number of paths as MovieClips in the Library I have a number of Animations as MovieClips in the Library Can I associate the paths with the animations as motion guides at runtime? Thanks for your help, Ewan ...more >>

I need help with two items. FIRST - I would like to play an external swf file when a button is released in one scene of my template. I know how to create the button and place it but I can't seem to find or write the script to start my external movie in a stand alone window, while pausing ...more >>

Hi all flash-es , If u hv seen the scrolling text in Flash Help-->About Flash, its pretty good! How they hv come up with such a smooth scrolling text; its so Beauty ( i like it). I tried with timer & scroll property of text field. But its not as smooth as its in that About Flash screen. ...more >>

What is the script that gets me the Address of the page where the swf is running?...more >>

Hi, Im trying to apply a function to a generic object: function hitFunction(){ this.onMouseUp = function(){ if(this.HitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ymouse,true)){ trace("This "+_name+" has been pressed"); } } } MyMovieClip = new hitFunction(); MyMovieClip2 = new hitFunction(); ...more >>

Hi On my parent movieclip there are 3 movieclips which build a complete picture. One of the buttons on the parent movieclip should reverse those movieclips and then "goto" a different frame within itself. How do i do that? ...more >>