I have a thumbnail gallery with A LOT of thumbnails in it and the problem I'm having is that they all try to load right away when the page comes up (this is using the MovieClipLoader's loadClip()) -- or they load in groups. And tested on dialup things get really funky. So I wanted to know ...more >>

Hi I'm trying to send and receive data to/from flash and php using sendAndLoad, but I can't receive any data from php. Other info: I'm running this locally and the path is correct. so yea I can't see anything inside the text field, I can't even trace it.. it says UNDEFINED. Thank you...more >>

Hi, I am making an autorun cd to open a flash exe file, which has one movie clip playing inside. Currenlty I have created a flash project of the size 800*600 set fscommand to fullscreen and Stage.scaleMode = "noScale"; so that my movie does not get pixelated if the screen resolution is more ...more >>

Hello All, I am using Flash 8 Professional for a real-world pop-up application. I have isolated a tweening problem that I can not seem to fix and I need to call in the experts. I have created a very small sample app which demonstrates my problem. My stage is 500 x 500. I've got a...more >>

I have a file upload using flash and php. It uploads smaller files fine. When you upload larger files it says that it is 'all done'. But when you come to look for the file it is not there. My php is set up to accept file uploads for up to 50mb, and as far as I understand flash is set up to ...more >>

A friend of mine is recording videos in halo 2, and I am making a player to play it in. I have working play, pause and stop buttons, and i use the loadmovie actionscript to make the load time shorter. The load time is shorter, but it plays then stops then plays then stops and over and over aga...more >>

so i have a controller movieclip that rewinds my main timeline. the button that triggers this mc on and off is present on all the frames except frame 1. So once I rewind my timeline back to frame 1, the button goes away, but the controller script continues to rewind, so my scene gets stuck t...more >>

I'm sure this is pretty easy, but I'm having a hard time figuring it out... I want my dynamic text field within a symbol to inherit whatever instance name I give it. So when I name my instance "Banana", my text field within the symbol says "Banana" Thanks! TPS ...more >>

Im making a rollover button for practice, I got all the way up to the actionscript but it keeps giving me the error: **Error** Symbol=enter.mc, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances on(rollOver){ Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported...more >>

Hi, I am stuck. I have created a flash banner using mx 2004 and would like a movie clip to play once, on whatever page the user arrives at and not on other pages visited in the site, and then only plays again say after a week for example if they visit again. I would like this to happen ...more >>

Hi! I have a simple music player on my website. Visit website here: http://www.flip-media.com There are 3 items in the player: 1 PLAY button 1 PAUSE button 1 movie clip with the song in it. When you press play, the button turns green and the song plays. When you press pause, the p...more >>

About 2 years ago, I created an CD interface for a customer that would allow people to open Word or Publisher files on the CD. The function simply read: function handleClick () { // to be determined actions will go here... fscommand("Shellopen","%ORG%\\Adult_Lessons\\Lesson_1_adult.doc");...more >>

What is the best practise when dealing with xml within flash. If i know the structure of the xml and know it will be consistent can i simply use something like the following objXmlData.childNodes.childNodes.childNodes.childNodes.nodeValue to obtain the values i'm looking for? Or should i co...more >>

Hi. I'm trying to get an swf, loaded from inside a class, to communicate with the class that loaded it (it needs to let the class know that it has loaded some xml). It's too local for local connection I think. I'd appreciate any suggestions. thanks. ...more >>

I'm 90% there in trying to create a draggable mask that reveals a different image beneath it but seem to be falling at the last hurdle. The code below is part of a Flash sample, but it keeps displaying the image of a flower from the macromedia 'help examples' server. Is there anyone out there...more >>

I have a timeline that has sections that the nav bar points to (see below) amen_bt.onPress= function(){two.gotoAndStop("A");scrollOut();} ff_bt.onPress= function(){two.gotoAndStop("B");scrollOut();} view_bt.onPress= function(){two.gotoAndStop("C");scrollOut();} map_bt.onPress= function(){t...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to do something where I need to control have an MC moving along in a timeline, and then be able to control it with actionscript, when triggered by the user, but then be able to put it back on the timeline. Right now, it almost works, but I don't know how to get it back on th...more >>

I want to place a stopwatch in a movie that is playing an animation within a movie clip. However, if somebodys computer is likely to struggle to play the large animation at the correct speed, are the stopwatch and animation going to get out of sync?? Thanks ...more >>

Hello ! First, please excuse my approximative English... Here's my problem : - I create an empty movie clip (let say Clip1) - with loadClip, movieClipLoader and so on, I put a swf in Clip1 - this swf contains a button (with over, down images...) - I wait for him to be loaded - with a...more >>

I have a series of images that enlarge when rolled over. Each image is a link to a new page. Would it be possible to recreate the slickness and smoothness of the mac dock effect for this layout? I have something that works, am now just looking to make it look good :D Any help is appreciate...more >>

Hi all... I posted this in general discussion and got not hits. hoping the actionscripters of the world can lend their insight. I need to find an equiv to the lingo stopMovie command. This will tell the movie whether the user hits the back button, closes the browser, or otherwise, the swf ...more >>

hi all, i am working with flash , i had created my flash movie "DOCUMENT.swf". i want to make redirect to a new html page from DOCUMENT.swf as follows After completing the display of last frame in the DOCUMENT with out any user interaction( clicking button or link or any text). ...more >>

Hello, I have began writing a class to hold all the 'windows' that will be in my presentation. For the moment, everything works correctly. However, my 'windows' that i will be applying the class too, has multiple movieclips inside of it. Small items that dont require an individual class. ...more >>

Hello Yall First time on here and hopefully I can have a bit of beginners luck. Eers my problem. I am currently designing a Flash web page that looks similar to a canvas in Flash. What I require is some lines on my stage similar to Guides. The difficulty I am encountering is having the ...more >>

Hellllooo there! I am running IIS V5.0 on my XP and have PHP 5.1.2 installed. I am using the flash 8 file uploading capabilities which was working fine when uploaded to my remote server, but on IIS I get a 405 error and nothing is uploaded to my wwwroot. It gets to 100% in the onProgress...more >>

I am trying to open a recently purchased web template created, according to the designer, in Flash MX2004. When I try to open the FLA file in Flash 8, all the tools are visible and active, however all that is displayed is a message saying "loading 99%". I have tried loading all of the layers a...more >>

I extended the MM combobox and used dispatchEvent to add several new events. The new events work but the combo box no longer responds to the keyboard. I used composition to make my component, that is, I put the MM component into a movie clip and made that movie clip into a new component. Th...more >>

....I hope! Having trouble finding simple answer to this in documentation and groups. Have an XML file: <Configuration> <Variable1>Value</Variable1> <Variable2>Value</Variable2> ... <VariableN>Value</VariableN> </Configuration> There's no further struture. Just a list of var...more >>

Please help me. the code here works on my local machine but doesn't work on my hosting site. I want to pass data to ASP page and also get back data by querystring.I just use a text fie to test the function.but it doesn't work on server.why. Please help me.Thanks Mark 1. Fla f...more >>

I was wondering with my current code if it would be possible to have my gradient_mc act as a mask. Thanks for any help you can provide. This one has had me stumped for quite awhile. Thanks, Saveth var link_array:Array = []; var cover_array:Array = []; function loadXML(loaded)...more >>

hi, I have a 150-frame timeline on my root movie i am wanting to allow the user to navigate the timeline 1 frame at a time by using the Key.isDown call I want to give them the ability go either 1 frame forward using the Up Arrow key or 1 frame backwards using the Down arrow key ...more >>

hi There, I've a doubt about a job done, but now it's need to be modified, thing is the flash file feeds the info from a public and free WebService, in this case I'm using drop down components so people can choose between us dollar or euro, then compare this option to mexican peso and then, pl...more >>

I've got a swf file embeded in a html file and I'm having troubles finding some actionscript to close the html file (i don't want any popup windows, so i don't want one html file opening the other html file that has the swf embeded in it) this isn't on a button either it's on the timeline. ...more >>

I have a play/pause button. I need to know what variable I can put into an if statement to tell whether the movie is playing or not. Please help!...more >>

Hi all, I would like to create a rolling advert for 3 case studies on my site. So in simple terms, there is an area for an advert on my home page which i would like to advertise 3 sepperate cas studies by having them show one after the other on a continuous loop. Can this be done in action...more >>

I?ve been having some trouble getting a few items to work correctly. 1] I?m trying to get the movieclip ?clipA? to fade in from 0 - 100. So when the images load or when the user clicks on the navigational links it will fade in. I tried working with the MovieClipLoader Class and applied the ...more >>

In Flash 8 Pro on winXP (sp2) I have a movieClip with a grouped object inside which is then rotated 360 degrees as a tween over several frames. It has worked fine for days but since this morning the movieclip (which is attached in code via the attachMovie command) flickers on and off on the st...more >>

I know that flash text boxes can render HTML if you feed the raw HTML into the ..text or .htmlText properties, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get a web page to load in flash with just giving it a URL and letting the user interact with the page from there? So like I could just give a te...more >>

Been building an AS2 programe in Flash 8 using the mx.transitions.Tween classes. When I bring it into Flash 7 pro and run my code it complains that **Error** Symbol=Tools Menu, layer=Tools Menu Code, frame=1:Line 85: There is no property with the name 'onMotionStopped'. tween1.o...more >>

:music; Hi, Kindly let me know whether it is possible to create a standalone projector in Flash MX2004 Pro, justlike teh one we can do withDirector MX2004 to self-start a CD-R. I want the reviewer to not to look for and click myfile.swf. Instead, as soon as he inserts the CD-R, it automa...more >>

Hi, There are lots of bits of code on the internet that let you convert a bit of XML into an object and a couple that even convert an Object back into XML, but they all do it slightly differently meaning that if you go from XML to and object then straight back to XML again, the two XML's a...more >>

Hi, I am trying to build a way to capturestate changes to a MovieClip. What i want is to be able to apply a listener to a movieclip which notifies me whenever the movieclips state changes and also notifies me of which event has occured. f.eks if i have a movieclip which goes to frame 20 ...more >>

Hello forum, I have two buttons, two xml objects and two xml files, each button on pressed loades it's respective xml. the content for both xml files are previewed in a common text field when the onLoad event occers. While one of the xmls is being loaded the user my just change his mind ...more >>

Hi, It's maybe a newbie question. I need to display a data list (the datas come from an XML file (I don't have any problem with this part)). For my first test I use the datagrid component but I don't really like the look of the scrollbar on the right. So my idea is to concatenate sever...more >>

Hello again, I want to realize a photo gallery similar to the gallery_tween.fla example shown in Flash 8. It shall be preloaded by an external preloader. Now I got into trouble setting-up the right code to fetch the imagepaths.xml into an array to be able to calculate tBytes / lBytes and so ...more >>

in java, package defined in the header of java source file like this, package com.test.ui; ..... in flash actionscript, what is the syntax of package in as file? ...more >>

Hello I have a MovieClip with an On(Press) event. I want to trigger this event without the user actualy pressing. can it be done? Thanks...more >>

Hi folks, wondering if anyone knows how to do this? If you look at the specification for http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/a ctionscript_dictionary646.html you can see it can take n arguments to pass to the function that you specify as another ar...more >>

I have created a flash animation/movie that is an FLV file linked from a component in the SWF (Flash 8) - what I am wanting to do is when the movie ends the user then automatically gets redirected to another page. Is this possible? If so how? Thanks http://www.explore.rice.edu/explo...more >>