Hi! From the swf I open a new window with javascript: getURL("javascript:function pop(){newwin=window.open(\"velkyobrazok.htm\", \"_blank\", \"width=600, height=450, left="+qtx+", top="+qty+", scrollbars=no, resizable=no, toolbar=no, statusbar=no\");return;};pop();"); In the new window I...more >>

I am running a flash file in Macromedia Central and in order to get it to go full screen automatically I need the program to think that the F11 key was pressed. Can anyone help me? Also, if anyone knows a better way to make Central go full screen, I would love to hear it. Thanks! ...more >>

vist this site http://www.fantastic4dvd.com/main.html or http://www.fantastic4dvd.com/ How would a junior designer like myself go about greating this illusion of spinning rotating Any suggetions! ...more >>

Hello, I am fairly new to flash and trying to figure things out. I have a basic understanding of Actionscript and animations and have built a few sites. I downloaded the flash source files for some sites I liked and am trying to figure out how they work. One thing I am trying to figure o...more >>

I have created several .SWF files that play music tracks and scrolling text that describes track. I intend to have a forward and back button to load these files into my main flash file as a track list being controlled by a forward and backward buttons. Also a stop and play button. I can lo...more >>

I am looking for the code when the mouse rolls over a button a WHITE TEXT WINDOW WITH TEXT appears on another corner of the page. Where or how can I find it/do that?...more >>

I am trying to build a launcher menu thing for a CD-ROM to have buttons to launch certain webpages and programs on the CD with a basic .exe export. How do I make a button open a program directly without going through a web browser using the getURL(). Hopefully this is the right place for the...more >>

I am having a problem with local shared object. If user Google desk top appliation installed, when flash application writes local shared object crashes IE and Firefox browser. Have somebody knows workaround this problem? Thanks. kay ...more >>

I'm working on a project and I want to move a movie clip based on the current value of a variable. If the variable's value is "red" (string) I'd like a function to move the red_mc movie clip, for example. Right now my code looks something like this: var color:String = "red"; changer_mc...more >>

where do i assign or get the stageID?...more >>

Hi, i?m new here. I have some trouble with this script. I Want to load some information i have in this asp page (who generates a XML file) and take it to Flash, to show it in a LIST complement. If u can help me, thank you var miXML:XML = new XML () miXML.onLoad = inicial; miXML.load ("ht...more >>

I have a text document that has the contents separated with commas (comma delimited) I can load the file and I can get it into a variable I can even separate the contents into an array. My problem is when the text comes in it?s not reading the "," comma as a comma it converts it to "%2C" which...more >>

greetings all i'm attempting to take 4 mp3's, load them dynamically, and play each in succession without any dropouts, skips, etc. i've tried several methods: loading sounds in SWF's and monitoring _currentframe vs. _totalframes, loading as sound objects and monitoring position vs du...more >>

please let me know if I can do this. What I want is to save some action script by re-using this function but I don't know if I can use a function like this. Any response is appreciated. function(infoHere){ mainTimeline.infoHere.gotoAndPlay("whatever"); } ...more >>

I'm looking to detect processor type & speed, memory, OS, possibly computername IP address, MAC address. I'm developing a tool to help rebuild computers...more >>

Is there a way to set instance names on the fly threw code. Im calling mc's to the stage from my library and there not keepiing the instance names i gave them at creation. is there a way around this?...more >>

flash likes to think its local folder is the folder containing the html the swf is embeded in. Normally I get around this by adding the name of the flash folder infront of any file references, but in this case im embeding the same swf in a number of html files in a number of different directo...more >>

I created a Flash website (you can view it at www.chirocurrent.com ) that is Database driven using Loadvars. The problem I am having is that the page sometimes load slow of the data doesn't show up on a page until you go to another page and then come back to the page. Any ideas on how to per...more >>

I have a code : myLoadVars = new LoadVars(); myLoadVars.load("tekst.txt"); myloadVars.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) { if (success) { mc.tekst.text = myLoadVars.tekst; } else { trace(false); } }; and tekst.txt flie like this : tekst="BBMonitor"; a...more >>

i'm trying to use the attachMovie() function to create several instances of a movie clip. the movie clip has a label within it that i am having trouble trying to set the text of. Currently i'm trying to set the "text" property of the label with the following code but without success: att...more >>

Does anyone know how to drag a movieclip on the "startDrag" along a 45 degree slant. Theres no problem with the x and y axis but when I try to work out how do restrict it along a slant then Im stuck. Cheers ...more >>

I am working on a client/server application. The server is written in Java, and the client is written in Flash. Up until now, I have had the client and server running on separate machines, but I would now like to run them on the same machine. This seems like it would be simple, but I am hav...more >>

Hi, this is a repost from the Rich Forms forum. It was suggested by a fellow board member that I try to seek out an answer here. I'm trying to create a custom header for an alert box within my flash form (cfform). However, due to the obvious limitation of not being able to use the word "ne...more >>

I've been playing with the PrintJob class over the past couple days and have noticed that the PrintJob.send() method seems vestigial at best: it simply isn't needed. If anyone has the time, I'd love to see some field testing results on other platforms (I'm on WinXP Pro, Flash 8). ...more >>

I have a flash project where i use behaviours for reversing the way of a play of the playhead. Everything goes fine BUT - the thing is that the project can not be published in the Flash 5+ version. If I publish it as a Flash 5 (which I definitely don't want) - it works well, but when publishin...more >>

I am trying to control the sound in my main movie. When I do so, it also controls the sound in my loaded movies. How can I do it, so I can control them independently? I have a sound object in my main(root) movie that looks like this: this.mainSoundLoop = new Sound(); this.mainSoundLoop....more >>

How would I fade sound in with AS? ...more >>

I am placing sound on my stage at runtime and would like the sound to loop indefinitely. How do I do that? mainSoundLoop = new Sound(); mainSoundLoop.attachSound("mainSound"); mainSoundLoop.start(); Thank you!...more >>

I'll give my flash timeline path Scene 1 Layer 1: frame 2: action:stop(); animation.photo1.loadMovie("flash/photo1.jpg"); animation.photo2.loadMovie("flash/photo2.jpg"); animation.photo3.loadMovie("flash/photo3.jpg"); animation.photo4.loadMovie("flash/photo4.jpg"); La...more >>

Hi, I 've made a script that attaches movie clip something like this var list:Array=["a","b","c"]; for (var i=0;i<list.length;i++){ var name:String "mymovie" + i +"_mc"; d_mc.list_mc.attachMovie("mymovie",name,i); d_mc.list[name].textbox_txt.text=list[i]; bla bla bla.. } ...more >>

I made a very simple button, containing an empty dynamic text box, called, let's say: "mytextbox". I then instantiate it with attachMovie (for example "button1") and when i try to set the text (button1.mytextbox.text = "foobar") it does not work. After doing a trace on button1.mytextbox, it ...more >>

Hi, at present im creating a CD/DVD Software using flash for the purpose of when a computer breakdowns and i fix it i have an easy console on 1 DVD with all my tools and programs needed instead of having 15 different media to use. I'd like to add a browse CD/DVD function but i don't know whe...more >>

Using the simple readily available script : loadedbytes = getBytesLoaded(); totalbytes = getBytesTotal(); frame = int(loadedbytes/(totalbytes/100)); if (loadedbytes == totalbytes) { gotoAndStop(3); } I could successfully complete my preloader, but it is quite weird that somehow ...more >>

hi all : i wanted to display data in datagrid component from xml. i hv done this part. now i hv to display the colors of text in cells according to the information coming from xml. My xml has provided me dates.I compare these dates with current date. if this date is present than the color ...more >>

I have this movieclip that holds some dynamic text fields. Some of these fields contain verdana (bitmap) and others have verdana (antialias). When i try to fade in/out using script or animation it never works properly. The bitmap text does it fine but the antialiased text doesnt respond to alp...more >>

For my work, I have a button that gets double clicked and jumps to the next scene... in theory. My double click test works, I tested using dynamic text box. So, once it is true that I have double clicked, I want the swf to jump to the next scene in my swf. I do this with a call to nextS...more >>

We provide a Flash Text editor to our customers, which enables them to upload their own text to the website. This Text editor tool provides Text Format, so the customer can make a text for e.x. underlined, bold, colored. This worked perfectly with Flash Player 7 so far. Unfortunately,...more >>

i want to controll swf in a html page from another html page...more >>

i'm working on flash rich internet application. the idea is to create dynamicaly user interface from external XML like in Macromedia Flex. everything works fine ... and i want to show progress while creating components because when they are more then 10 the creation time is between 10 - 15...more >>

hi, I made a flash file sample.fla and i want to load a pdf file from root folder. flash have only XML loader script all text and hyperlinks are write in XML file. flash have no button. all text or links load from XML. when i click on pdf link. the pdf file will open in Adobe Acrobet. ...more >>

I have a sound object called "music", on the root - is there any way I can check whether this sound is playing or not? thanks......more >>