Today I tried to use components in my movie, the scrollbar components in Flash MX. Before I work on components I found some site to learn about it, and I learned that all components will be loaded in the 1st frame which make the preloader useless. Then I learned how to disable export in 1st fr...more >>

Hey there, I was using this code quite some time (about a year or so) and it always worked properly. Now, it don't anymore. It still starts the email-client, but only the reciever of the message is there. The subject and the body of the message remain empty. I am thinking it might be...more >>

anyone know a site where I can get a complete list of classes and methods for flash?...more >>

I have this scroller to control the rotation that is attached to the stage using the attachedMovie. This scroller will be removed (removeMovieClip), when a user rollOut or click on an area outside of it. The problem is, I'm trying to keep (reserve) the value of the last _x position of th...more >>

Help! Please help me for passing variable through querystring to flash to load a movie with desired effect and passing text with desired font. thank you -- manisha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ manisha's Profile: http://www.24help.info/membe...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone tell me if there's a manageable way to embed font data in an LSO (Flash local shared object) such that it can be stored on the user's machine and used by a movie? I was under the impression this could be done, but my impression may be wrong. :) Or, perhaps someone ca...more >>

I am using the flash 8 component: I'm loading a "linkage" instance from the library called namely "menuListing". inside "menuListing" mc, (deleted from the stage) I am duplicating another mc namely "menuList", 'x' amount of times... ('x' being the number of menuItem nodes from my XML) [t...more >>

I have 6 different movie clips each dynamically loading one jpeg into themselves via the moviecliploader class. I have a preloader on the main timeline and I want to be able to keep track of all 6 simultaneous downloads. I have tried using the myListener.onLoadProgress function. Within that...more >>

I have a swf files that load images from an xml file but when i test the movie all i get is the output window tracing the movieclip holder and it doesn't want to load the images. The following is what is outputed when i test the movie: _level0.nHolder.n2.hot_mc _level0.nHolder.n1.hot_...more >>

Hi Guys, i have searched the forum for this problem, but couldn't get much help... I have created a very basic form in Flash 8. It has FName, LName and Email as the fields. Now when someone clicks on submit button (in flash), i want this form to be submitted... (i haven't created the c...more >>

function MatrixMatrixMultiply(A, B) { C = new & Array(new Array(), new Array(), new Array()); C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; C = A*B+A*B+A*B; ...more >>

Hi guys I have this 2 text fields that I'd like to display my XML in. The first text field is smaller than the second. Is it possible to display only a few words in the first text field (probably like 5-10 words) and display the whole in the second text fields? Also is it possible to a...more >>

I notice that F8's nice font rendering comes with a penalty: embedded fonts are quite a bit larger. Thinking about methods for optimization on a page that will be visited regularly: one tack would be to embed my oft-used fonts in local shared objects (LSOs) that would be persisted on the us...more >>

I'm working with Full Browser Flash techniques. Stage.width is an important part of making this work. Unfortunately, I've noticed what can only be described as a bug/deficiency in Flash's FBF handling. Flash demands that you set an initial pixel width for your movie. This value can have lit...more >>

Strange But True: My project was going great until I added a Text Area Component just for a help box. Every time I scrolled the static text with the vertical scroller - FREEZEROOO!!! I tracked it down to one little thing: My use of an array prototype function that seems to conflict w...more >>

Need more info like Does the text provides from an external xml document or txt or it's all in Flash. Does your code use the escape and unescape methods to encode your text. ...more >>

I nkow that text does not have to be preloaded, but if I use an html textfield that load html tag like many images. Is there a way to preload it? I can't figure out how! Tanx in advanced...more >>

Hey all.... So im creating the splash page for my web site... when the animation is done i have set all the layers to stop(); so that it wont play the next scene until someone hits a button.... and i have the buttons set up as gotoAndPlay("Scene 3",1); now i know it works because if i...more >>

:confused; Im am currently making something in flash and I require a code to change the fps of a movieclip(to 16fps) without effecting the rest of the movie(24fps). Can anyone help?...more >>

This is probably Flash -101, but I need to pass a parameter through from the calling html to the Flash movie. I tried adding a query string (eg xxx.swf ?myvar=abcd) but I was unsure about what I need to do in the way of AS code to pick up myvar inside the Flash movie. Thanks, Rob ...more >>

Well basicly it works for A-L and the rest just dont work. I put in traces erlier, and it's not even passing inhl._y (Input Name Highlighter). I also did a trace and the values are the same as the if statments so I dont know why its not working Any ideas on how to fix this? onEnterFra...more >>

Hi, I've just got my website and uploaded everything nicely - when I preview the website in both firefox and internet explorer everything looks as I expect it to. And when the website opens properly on the web in firefox it runs as expected. However when it is opened in Internet explorer i...more >>

targetMC.loadMovie(swf); // start the next load.... ooops. we gotta use preloader code here to make sure it's loaded before //we start the next fade-in. i'm not sure how you want to handle that. Yes "we gotta use preloader.." But I must admit ? I don?t really know ?how to do that? in t...more >>

Movie. A repeating section, and a section that plays when the user mouses over. The problem is if they KEEP the mouse over, the animation stutters and keeps trying to gotoAndPlay. is there more code or a trick I can do to remove the 'mouse over' effect until the animation frames are DON...more >>