Fellow Flasher, I have an issue. Can anyone take a look at the included script and give me an idea of how to tidy it up? Basically I would like to know if there is a call or function that I can do to condense the last nine button calls. I am creating the "buttons" dynamically and I would ...more >>

hello everyone, does anyone know how to extract in actionscript, given a string, say: var str = "Pittsburgh"; the last 5 letters ("burgh")? thanks a...more >>

Say I have a movie loaded into Layer 10.... and I want a button in that loaded movie to tell the the root movie to go to the next frame.... layer0.nextFrame (); doesn't work... any ideas?...more >>

I'm trying to load text from a .txt file into an .fla. I get an error in my output window: undefined. This is my code: myLoadVars = new LoadVars(); myLoadVars.onLoad = function() { location = myLoadVars.location.split(","); days = myLoadVars.days.split(","); dates = myLoadVars.d...more >>

Any ideas why this full browser flash file could be having this issue only on Firefox and Netscape. The file displays half way of the browser. http://www.brough.com Thanks for any suggestions. Brian...more >>

hi am using the preloader component in flash 8... using a listener var pbListener:Object = new Object(); pbListener.complete = function(evt_obj:Object) { evt_obj.target._visible = false; evt_obj.target.removeListener(pbListener); }; but whn i want to reuse the preloader it do...more >>

Ok, so here we go. I have two different server accounts, one that has ColdFusion and Flash Media Server on it and the monthly bandwidth limit is 100GB. Another account has PHP and that stuff and I get 1,500GB of monthly bandwidth on that. We've calculated that with approximately 10,000 hit...more >>

Hello... I am not new to flash, but new to actionscripting... I am trying to send some variables to a php script (to insert some data on mysql). But when click my button... flash sends me to the php script page... I don't want it to do that... but rather go to a different frame in my flash...more >>

i've been toying around with this for a few days and have gotten nowhere. Does anyone know how to take text that is typed into a textfield and then have it show up in the flash movie? thanks in advance. ...more >>

:confused; Aight, this worked before I started making it idiot proof...(then again, that is the difference of a 90 line program and a 900 line program) but this idiot here is getting lost somewhere... my balls move around the screen onRelease. The grow onRollOver, and shrink onRollOut.....more >>

Hello all, I have several pictures of screenshots. Every picture is its own .fla file and in the end its own .html file. I have a main movie with a button that I am trying to script to open these pictures in a new window. For example, on(release){ getURL("http://localhost.picture1.htm...more >>

Hi I've created a scroll like http://www.rempox.it/forum/actionscript/fx_slide_scroll.html but without the buttons and mine is vertical. I want the scroll to stop on mouse rollout and to start on mouse rollover. How do I do that? Thanks a lot. ...more >>

Hello, I have a problem and couldn't figure out. I have 2 movie clip name movie1 and movie2. Inside movie1 has a input text. I want when user type any text in movie1 then movie2 get that message. How do I do it? I also have a button for user click to release the info. please can a...more >>

I'm using a NetStream object to display video in Flash. I'm creating my own player controls to control the video, and I've managed to get everything to work except for the volume controller. Does anyone know how to change the volume of a NetStream object? If this cannot be done for some...more >>

I'm using a NetStream object to display video in Flash. I'm creating my own player controls to control the video, and I've managed to get everything to work except for the volume controller. Does anyone know how to change the volume of a NetStream object? If this cannot be done for some...more >>

I would like to have two MCs - when the user drags the first MC with their mouse to the right, then the second MC will rotate around its registration point clockwise. If the user drags the first MC to the left, the second MC will rotate around its registration point COUNTERclockwise... Is...more >>

Hello Forum I am building an application and it becomes more and more necessary for a couple of classes and movieClips to be able to be accessed by multiple classes during runtime. I am instantiating my MainManager.as on the root. From there on the classes and instances branch off. ...more >>

Hi. I have the following code on my timeline: var my_number:Number = 0; function IncrementN (n:Number):Void { n++; } IncrementN (_root.my_number); IncrementN (_root.my_number); I thought that the 1st time IncrementN is used it would make my_number = 1, and then the second ti...more >>

Hi! I'm new to actionscript and need some help with this -i woud guess- pretty simple thing. I'm making a preeloader and would like a %-counter in my "progress bar" movie clip counting 100 frames. All i need to know is how to spread numbers out from 1 to 100 over the 100 frames without...more >>

I would like to create a function library to allow flash to talk to the devices my company makes? The protocol is proprietary so writing it in action script is not acceptable because it can so easily be decompiled. Currently on Windows we can use the external functions to access an ActiveX obj...more >>

Hi, i've been reading in the forums about rotation with actionscript, but haven't found anything that helps me, so I guess I'll just ask a question: I have a graphic of a circle that is divided into 4 parts (like a pie). I want to rotate this "Pie" 90 degrees when a button is clicked. I did ...more >>

Hi everyone, If anybody can help me with this I would be forever grateful. The scroll area in my SWF has this odd bug where, if you're scrolling and then move the mouse outside of the scroll area without releasing the mouse, suddenly the whole scroll area (not just the scrollbar) start to scrol...more >>

I have a site that has a Flash and HTML interface. They both call an XML file that contains the content for the pages. This allows my client to upade dynamically. I have never called XML in Flash. Anyone got a quick example or whatever? Thanks. ...more >>

I don`t know, is there any possibility of realtime skewing of a movie clip(or even disorting?) using scripts? please help I really need it ...more >>

Hi i am building a website which allows people to show actions to each other and in order to do this i need them to make localconnections between each instance of the swf file and then send mouse coordinates between them. I am seeking a way to initialize all these connections on the run. As I ...more >>

http://www.blurredistinction.com/testing/littleLadyMemory.php This is a little memory game I'm making for a friend's site. If you look at the page source you'll see I'm setting the value of mykey = taco This is, of course, just for testing. The movie has only one frame and I simply do a: te...more >>

I am trying to delay the time before a button resets a variable value on a rollover event. Here are the details: I need a button to reset a variable when the user rolls over it, but I need it to delay about a second before doing so. Anyone handy with getTimer() or setInterval() ? Not sure...more >>

Hi! I'm developing an IDE for a special assembler and don't ask me how, but my boss is into flash. So he asked me to do it in flash. No problem so far. Now he wants me to add a part to interact with hardware. No problem so far. I know that direct hardware-access seems impossible from flash...more >>

Is it possible to run a flash form which sends data to a php script on a different server? I currently have the flash form, php script and MySQL database working when I run them all from the same server but when I move the flash form to a different server (hosted by a different company) the ...more >>

HI, How do i Varying an obects Zooming Sequence according to its _y value. That zooming has to be an odd value..now, this is working... zoomA = ; ind = 0; function zoomball() { object._xscale = object._yscale=zoomA; ind++; if (ind>5) { zoomA(2*ind-7); } }...more >>

Hello, I am using php and flash 8 to let users upload images to my site. In my php I have made it so that if a user called say 'steve' uploads a image, it will be saved as 'steve.jpg'.... Therefore users can only upload one image. If they upload a new image it will simply replace the previous ...more >>

What I am trying to do: When you press down I am trying to make the whole movie clip shift, and when you pressq up make it go up. (The movie clips is a bar that hovers over a menu, like an rpg menu ). But the normal scrip I had for that allows the user to hold down or up and it makes tha...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with a button that has the following script: on (release) { getURL("preloader.html"); } The file is located locally in the same directory as the swf. (it will be on CD eventually). When i click the button all is fine if IE is set as the default browser. If F...more >>

Just to give u a brief working on a demo in flash which is continuous. Now i need to add three buttons on it rewind pause & forward. 1) The rewind will just display the last slide & continue playing 2) The pause will pause the show (also turns into a play button)& again on clicking it, it w...more >>

I have a movie clip with a number of product thumbnails (defined as movie clips) attached I have placed a rectangular mask above this so that only some of them display at a time I use actionscript to move the underlying movie clip so that a user can horizontally scroll through them using t...more >>

I'm using flash to upload files with a php and sql server. But I found the upload function call url (a php file) twice every time. My way is write some words to a file in the php, I found every time it write two times. Anybody know why? ...more >>

I need to know how to get flash to play the last point it was at in a movieclip. I have 10 buttons but only 5 are on the screen at any one time. They are static until the user rolls over an arrow and then buttons scroll round so the new buttons appear. When the user mouses off the arro...more >>

hi i am new in actionscript, i wanted to ask you something: how do you perfrom an sum operation by having two variable say "var1 = 4" and "var2 = 5" and have 9 as result? thanks...more >>

Hi everyone! I need to develop a game like teaching aid for people studying engineering and might need to draw some vector graphics and thus use cos() sine() functions. I was wonderign if Flash 8 sripting language supports that or may be are there some extensions I need to get? ...more >>