hey. recently i have learned java programming and the powerful object-oriented things that can be done in it. i was an actionscript programmer first, and never used such techniques. now looking at actionscript i've found that one could most definently define their own classes and replicate obj...more >>

i have buttons set up as movie clips. the background color is determined by input from an xml file. if the colors are dark, i would like the text to be white. I am not sure how to go abolut this. Any ideas??? ...more >>

hi all, I am new to actionscript. Currently, i am doing the project using actionscript. I have a simple question. What's the difference between Text_format & Textformat? I found textformat actually is a class which is the same as java. However, I am confused with text_format. What is text_...more >>

:confused; I NEED TO CREAT A TEXT IMPUT FIELD SO SOMBODY CAN WRITE THE ITEM NAME WICH IS A MOVIE AND LOADING IT ON A LEVEL...more >>

I'm relativly new to flash, but have been teaching myself over ther past two years. The problem I have is I have a website with frames set up. The navigation frame has buttons that link to various .html files. What is happening is that by using the getURL function, it tries to open the .htm...more >>

Hi, I know that I am not that great at this kind of stuff, but I am trying to use a string that is the same as the name of an object to use it to facilitate actions on that particular object. Example; imagine there is an movie clip object called roboCop_mc, and I have a string called filmnam...more >>

Hi, I know that I am not that great at this kind of stuff, but I am trying to use a string that is the same as the name of an object to use it to facilitate actions on that particular object. Example; imagine there is an movie clip object called roboCop_mc, and I have a string called filmnam...more >>

Hi, How can you, by using actionscript, automatically insert a specified .swf file at a given location into an existing powerpoint presentation ? That is, embed the swf and set its height + width + left + top values in the slide ? Best regards ...more >>

Hi Everyone, A hearty thank you to all who are reading this. I would like to create a website with an image as the background that resizes accordingly to the browser window. I need the image to of course maintain ratio. To when someone opens the site in a 1024x768 window the image resi...more >>

I need to display a list of names in a Datagrid, wich can be sorted by the field. That is when the user clicks a letter of the keyboard, the first name wich contains the letter as the first character must be focus. I can't find a solution. I don know if it is possible. TX in advance ...more >>

Hello, I am using Flash MX , not Flash MX 2004. I would like to use a transition for a slide show of photographs. How can I do that? Are there any transitions available in Flash MX? And where can I find them? Thanks, Patricia ...more >>

:confused; Hi, I need to know how to determine an event caller... I want to create a form in Flash with multiple buttons and define the same event handler for all... is there some way to know the object that is calling the handler? something like: //Listener onActive = new Object(); ...more >>

I created a sound object called meusom: _root.meusom = new Sound(); _root.meusom.attachSound("intro"); _root.meusom.setVolume(100); _root.meusom.start(0, 1000); it starts ok..and I wanted it to fade out by creating: onEnterFrame() = function(){ _root.meusom.setVolume(_root.meusom...more >>

I'm looking for someone to help me figure out how an answer to an input box can redirect to an applicable URL. I am using a zip code input to send a user to one page or another and would like to expand this later (multiple zip codes would go to seperate pages.) This is what I have so far....more >>

Hello. I want to fade one sound into another, so I startde with the basics. I know Flash can support up to 8 different sounds playing at once using attachSound. So I did the following: SoundOne = new Sound(); SoundTwo = new Sound(); _root.SoundOne.attachSound("loadLoop"); _root.S...more >>

If I have an empty element in my array , how do you refer to that? Say my array looks like this if(objects=' ' ){ trace("Got ya!"); } For some reason it won't trace anything. ...more >>

I have the following and it seems to not work. I am trying to export the movie as a player 6 file, could that be the problem? I don't get an error message. The trace in the loadTheMovie function gets triggert, but the traces in the listener functions don't. Before going to this, I was loadi...more >>

Here's an example of what I'm trying to do: _root.blognr = "200603232359.swf"; _root.blogk = "done"; if(_root.blogk == "done"){ _root.mcLoader.loadMovie("blog/"+_root.blognr); } Ok, basically, I have X = movie.swf // and I want to do a loadMovie(X);. Thanks in advance...more >>

OK, i am making a flash website. I have an image below my navigation bar which i want to be collapsable. The the content would then fill the space. To do this i have created 2 frames, one with the image hidden and one with the image displayed. I have also created a button and a simpl...more >>

Please help! I have the following code. class XmlLoader { private myXMLDoc:XML; private thisObj:XmlLoader; function XmlLoader (xmlFilePath:String) { this.myURLPath = xmlFilePath; myXMLDoc = getXMLDoc(xmlF...more >>

Hi, i have made a simple pre-loader, which is ment to load the scene called 'main', but my loader just continue's to loop even when the main page is loaded (from looking at the simulate download sextion). The action script i use for this loader is below. stop(); myInterval = setIn...more >>

i have a button over a movie clip. the button's up state is transparent, but the mouseover state isn't. i have another button that causes the movie clip to jump to frame 2. the problem that i'm having is after pressing the button to make the movie clip's frame jump, it brings the clip to the f...more >>

Hi, Im trying to create an xml file from within flash. But how can i create an attribute and append it to a node? <example test="yeehaa"> this is my xml file </example> I can make the nodes and text nodes, append it and make the file. But i cant make the attribute ( test...more >>

Here's a short event handler created on a button instance to control the alpha of a movie clip instance: on(release){ if (movieclip._alpha = 100) {movieclip._alpha = 0;} else if (movieclip._alpha = 0) {movieclip._alpha = 100;}; } The movie clip is initialized to an alpha of 100. Eve...more >>

I need to do this; Retrieve an object property from an object stored in a multidimensional array with following structure; this object has a property called itemText but I can't retrieve it with this syntax; contentArray.itemText It works for a normal array (i.e., contentArra...more >>

i made a flash clip with coll detec. my school has flash 7. so i switched the player to flash 7 tolerant. the clip went blurred. what do i do?...more >>

If I created a button and wanted to make it a layer visible/invisible when the user clicks it what kind of code would I need? I know how to make a mc visible/invisible but how would I make an entire layer visible/invisible? ...more >>

Hi Everyone, PLEASE HELP:| I am making virtual classromm. And one of the requirement says that tutor should be allowed to share his desktop with student In short Desktop Sharing only difference is that in desktop sharing other user can work on you computer but in my case ustudent will ...more >>

Flash can import a QuickTime movie, but it won't play it if it's a General MIDI file (music). Fine, so I'll link this QT movie to the web page to have Quicktime Player play it in the background while Flash plays the visuals. The question is, is it possible to control (turn on/off) QuickTime'...more >>

I placed a movieClip on the stage ("Clip_1", and gave it an on(release) script that would cause the movie to duplicate itself and name the copy "Clip_2". I also gave it an on(unload) handler that sent a message to the Output window. In theory, when I click the movieclip will duplicate itsel...more >>

I know it can be done, but I can't get it to work... Does anyone have a simple fla example of a document with a skinned scroll bar. I have imported the scrollbar assets into my project library. I have made sure that the correct scrollBarAssets are exported in first frame, but any scrollbar ...more >>

I'm trying to target a specific scene from a button within a movie clip - it should be fairly simple as the structure is: main timeline > menu movie clip > button I tried attaching this script to the button but doesn't work: on (release) { _root.gotoAndPlay("win", 1); } ("win"...more >>

Hi! A couple of days ago i received a flash movie. it played perfectly on the flash player. but a week after, I played it again, some features weren't appearing anymore (for example, the scroll bars disappeared, the texts/images that appear when the mouse pointer hovers over certain words don'...more >>

Can you create a Flash movie which when taken into PowerPoint will allow the user to click a link from the Flash and go to a slide within the PowerPoint presentation? If you can, how can this be done? Thanks ...more >>

what = "calender.row_0" + myRow + ".date_0" + myCol + ".myTextField.text"; myRow is an int myCol is an int Hoping for "what" to equal the actual text within a textfield (calender.row_01.date_01.myTextField.text) What am I doing wrong? ...more >>

Hi, We are facing an issue with Flash8.ocx file. When we run a SWF file in html, after some time we get an error message in IE as follows: "The following add-on was running when this problem occurred:" File: Flash8.ocx Company Name: Macromedia, Inc. Description: Flash Player 8 ...more >>

I have a text formatted with tags HTML, when the same is loaded in a TextField with parameter HTML true, it only interprets part of tags, for example, alignment, bold... but not them of colors defined in exactly. It makes a test, please: myTextfiled = "<P ALIGN=\"LEFT\"><SPAN style=\"c...more >>

Hi all, Just trying to create class which will create one movieClip and another movieClip will be attached to it. Then duplicating that attached movieClip. In this i am not able to take a reference of duplicated movieClip. I have put the entire code below. Please help me to solve this thin...more >>

Hello, Whenever I copy variables it always seems to be by reference. How do I duplicate a value so it is independent of the original? Cheers...more >>

On key press to change image and remains in down state until other botton is clicked? Something like swap image behavior in FIREWORKS: Please help. ...more >>