what is the best way to determine if an MP3 has finished playing...i'm able to detect when a video has completed but that code doesn't seen to work with an MP3...more >>

i am making a "virtual files cabinet" for which i have to create files icons dynamicly and give them serial no too, but its not happening. movieclips are sucessfully created. i have a dynamic text filed in the movie clip. what i want is that when a new movie clip is created that variable is ...more >>

Hi guys I have an app that loads clips to the stage depending on what key is pressed, as per below. However, before a new clip is loaded when a key is hit, I want the existing one to play it's exit transition. Can anyone give me guidance on how to implement this? Cheers ...more >>

This php page works great to pass a variable from the page to the flash = in IE, but in firefox, no variable is passed. ECHO"<PARAM NAME=3DFlashVars Value=3D'$var' >"; Any ideas anyone ? IE and Netscape both work on the page and load the = value into the flash, but it's like Firefox is bloc...more >>

First of all I am using Flash MX and have searched the forums for an answer. No luck. I am creating a dynamic website using flash. What I am attempting to do is to use movie clips as buttons (as to keep them dynamic with cursor on and cursor off animations, etc...) I have no problem with t...more >>

Hiya, I have one problem in my project in Flash with which I can't move on. I have just one frame on the main timeline and movie clips inside movie clips on it (you saw the project before). I want to do, when some movie clip which is inside another will end, I would it to jump to the next ...more >>

When I use the function loadVariables to load a .txt file into a text field (dynamically) it works perfectly if I run (Test Movie) it from flash, but it doesn't load on the website when the site first loads. However when I click a button which has the same code (loadVariables) to load the tex...more >>

When in AOL is get an error message"A script in this movie is causing Macromedia Flash Player 7 to runslowly. If it continues to run your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? I abort. This only happens on AOL Sports Main, AOL Sports NCAA Tourney, AOL News M...more >>

I have a webpage I am working on, it has a movie clip containing three labeled scenes. Each scene is a different product and info with a motion tween half bringing the info into the scene, and half back out. I have my three navigation buttons on the main time line which should bring me into th...more >>

i'd like to make a scroll bar similar to this link at the bottom, however i'd like to make it work without having to click, so that it follows the cursor. does anyone know how to create this? http://peterfunch.com/ ...more >>

Thanks for any help! I have a movie playing in a contoller. I can't get the sound to pause/resume or turn off and on. And I'm having other problems, the sound doesn't restart with the movie when play is pressed after the movie has played through once. Sometimes the movie cuts out to...more >>

ok.... ive attached my FLA file to this URL: http://www.zeldavideos.4t.com/link.fla plz tell me why it is glitching. ive tried the codes yall gave me. none worked. take a look for yourself ...more >>

what is needed to be enabled to pass variables to php? my flash script doesnt seems to pass variables to php script and mail comes empty. do i need to enable something on server side? PHP SCRIPT <? $to = "email@address.com"; $msg = "$name"; $msg .= "$message"; mail($to, $su...more >>

Anyone have recommendations for a Flash Debug Player for Mac OSX? Thanks....more >>

Hi, im triying to hide some new buttons i created with duplicate movieclip. Well the design tells me is better moving a MC on the buttons to hide them. I just need a MC with a higher depth dont I? the thing is if put a special depth, sometimes that mc gets duplicated on the higer level and is...more >>

When I use the opaqueBackground property on a movieclip and if I advance the playhead to a later frame in the timeline, the movieclip still holds it opaqueBackground as it should. However when I move the playhead to an earlier frame from this point the movieclip lose its opaqueBackground! Th...more >>

Please help! A client gave me a .mov file to convert to a .swf with play, stop, pause and sound on and off buttons. I imported the movie into Flash 8, and selected the separate sound option. I created the "contoller" with the above mentioned buttons, imported the video onto the stage...more >>

Whenever I try consuming and using this webservice I get a weird error. The especially weird thing is it worked fine on my old server. Here's the logs from the WebService class... 3/24 8:40:35 : Creating stub for http://66.228.116.162/peak8WSprod/Peak8WS.asmx 3/24 8:40:35 WSDL: Creat...more >>

Hi Anyone know where I can get hold of a tutorial for the rotating menu here: www.mtv.com/style/#/style/winter2005a/celebritypick.jhtml?celebrity=8ocean Thanx d...more >>

I have a graphic on the stage that I have converted to a MC - and now as I understand it - I have to place this object inside a parent movie clip before it will actually behave like a real movie. So I created a blank move from the MC pannel and then dragged my first object into it and it a...more >>

Ok, I know myMC._currentframe will return the current frame number, but what if the current frame had a frame label? Is there any way to return the name of the frame label? I've set up my movie clip with frame labels marking the start and the end of an animation, and I want to use the prevF...more >>

Hey everyone! I am trying to send form information from my flash file to the asp page without having to refresh the entire page, so i'm trying to use the lv.sendAndLoad() method. At first I was using the loadVars.send() method and everything worked fine. However when I migrated to the se...more >>

Hi All, This may be a daft question, I am a little new to flash. I have a movieClip which I attach to a class using the linkage dialog 'AS2.0 class'. Inside the visual movieClip that the class extends I have buttons and so forth that I want to address. In the methods of my class I would l...more >>

Hi all, Is there a method in flash 8 to round a number var to a certain number of significant decimal places? Or a function that you add to your projects? Thanks!...more >>

Hi, Please take a look at this link: http://www.ivankandi.com/experimental/problem/testCart.swf To download the fla:http://www.ivankandi.com/experimental/problem/testcart.zip I have a button that will attach movie clips into a stage. I have another button to delete one of those MCs you...more >>

A small and simple question: Is there a way to use a function in a function on a onClipEvent? I can't seem to get to do it only once, it keeps looping....more >>

Hello, I have searched several newsgroups about retrieving the "masked" data information, without any success. Would greatly appreciate if someone can provide details on how to resolve the following. Using actionscript, I am able to make a call main_mc.setMask(mask_mc); to set the desi...more >>

Hi all is there a way to assign one sound to all on(rollOver) events of a swf, in one shot? and another sound to all on(release) events? I mean some action script that would tell flash, in the fiirst keyframe, something like that: if(rollOver event happens){ myRolloverSound.play(); } i...more >>

I have a MovieClip instance, let's call it ball, and it has a function foo() placed on the first frame on the layer actions. How can I call this function? I found in a book the next code, but it doesn't work: ball._x = 100 // works ok and moves the ball to position 100 ball.foo() // does n...more >>

Please if someone can create a script that : 1.load variables from a text file 2.create a duplicate of a movieclip instance to the number of variable from the above specified text file 3.rename text of every duplicated movieclip to that of its variable name 4.load a picture of every varia...more >>