I have a similar problem now with the set () function. set("_level.Oslo.isLocal", false); WORKS FINE i have a function that receives a param I eval it and then set("_root.isLocal", false); does not work.. I have tried _level0.isLocal .... but still not... ...more >>

I've been using beginFill to add pixels to a mask, but what I don't know is how to remove some pixels from mask. Is it even possible?...more >>

Hello. I'm a newbie to this forum, so if there are standard patterns or posts that I should read, please point me in that direction. This seems like it should be a straight forward issue and solution, but I'm not sure I am looking in the correct location for an answer. Here is the situ...more >>

function removeClip(insName, cName) // coming from globals and are Strings { //this line under works as i want giving the path manually _level0.Oslo.theButtOslo.removeMovieClip(); //this i cant make work and where my problem is.!!!!! var test = eval(insName); // retu...more >>

Hello! Does anyone know how to get the RGB value of movie clip to show in a variable? Example: _root.redBox_mc; var myColors; Anyone? Thanks! Ney...more >>

if (Key.isDown(keyD)) { this._x+=moveSpeed; Lets say I wanted this to not check continually like it does but instead check for it like 6 times a second (or some other random number) and do what I tell it to only once when it's checked. So instead of it constantly telling it to do t...more >>

I was just wondering if it were possible to convert a .jsp file to ActionScript. I have some games for my site that were written in Java years ago and I would rather convert them over to Flash than recreate them if possible. ...more >>

I have a movie clip on a person walking duplicated on the stage a few times. Some of these clips are flipped horizantly so the person walks the other direction. However, becuase the ones that are flipped are walking the opposite direction, some of the code needs to work differently. how ca...more >>

I have link buttons that when you rollover them, a movie graphic slides upward then stops (via the "stop" command on the last frame of the motion tween). If you roll off the link button the movie graphic dissappears. Pretty simple I guess. And it works fine. The problem begins when i select th...more >>

Hello- I am attempting to load random movie clips at random times. I have 10 animated bubbles, set on paths, that flow from the bottom up and then dissapear. I would like each separate bubble animation to be called up at random times, to give the effect of random bubbles surfacing from t...more >>

I've been working on movement for a while. There are tons of tutorials on this but most of them either suck or are a bit too advanced lol. I'm talking more then 8 way movment... well not really. I mean if I'm pressing right, then I press up, it'll go on a curved path upwards instead of ...more >>

hello all... what i'm trying to do is create a combobox that when a option is selected will open a new webpage... how can i get this to work? i'm using flash 8... thanks for the help in advance!...more >>

I have an ad banner that the client says the clickTag layer must be the top most layer. The problem is I have movies below that layer that animate on rollOver: on (rollOver) { this.gotoAndPlay("bounce"); } These do not work unless they are above the clickTag layer. Is their a way I ...more >>

I'm having trouble with a dynamic text that I fill up with different texts depending on what the user selects. But on different computers the font size changes. How can I avoid this? Thanks a lot! Brenda S. ...more >>

i notice that if you goto newgrounds and look at some animations, you right click and it has forward, rewind, play, loop: all that crud. and some others dont have it. ( just have about macromedia flash 8 and settings) i dont want people going into the next frame of my animation by p...more >>

:frown; I have a set of mc's planted on a parent mc. When the child mc's are clicked, they become a small popup where the user enters some data. When user hits enter key, the mc disappears and the entered data should be passed to the parent mc and placed where the child mc loc was. (its a c...more >>

How can I get this thing to loop? This Flash generates clips based on user input on the ASP side. There are anywhere from 2-10 slides and I want the whole thing to loop instead of stopping at the end. There are 3 layers and only one frame in the fla file. One layer gathers all the ASP gene...more >>

Weird, I know, but I need a workaroud. In my project, I use 3 different components (Combobox, Checkbox, RadioButton). I have a form that used these 3 components and I also use some textefield, not textfield component, just a simple textfield with the input property. The problem is when I ...more >>

I use flash 8 and i want to change the pan knob code in the external library to control volume by knob. Help me please.. code: increment = 4; level = 0; // panKnob.onPress = function() { if (Key.isDown(Key.getCode(18))) { autoPan = true; } else { autoPan = false; ...more >>

Hi, I have a button with a getURLaction assigned to it. I needed to change the URL of that button but can't. When I go to the symbol in the library, open it, then open the actions menu, I get a message that says "the current selection can not have actions assigned to it." I had the same...more >>

Hi, If I have text (MC names) like this Hero1, Hero2, Hero3. How do I code to get the number from the names? In other words, what functions can be used to get the first number of the text? Thanks. ...more >>

In Flash 7 or later, has a solution been created yet to allow me to grab an external jpg (I will be doing this dynamically using XML), and then create multiiple instances of it in the Flash movie? My goal is to be able to map a small jpg many many times onto a pseudo 3D object that was create...more >>

I have animation in head of htm file. But i dont want it to play in every htm file. Lets say in contact.htm i want animation to gotoandstop(85). Can htm tell swf to go on frame 85 on end of animation? Sorry for my bad english. ...more >>

I have looked for a way to get the user to input information into input text fields and have it come up into the users email program. Is this possible? I've tried: on (release){ getURL ("mailto:who@where.com"+ "?subject=" + regarding.text+ "&body=" + fullName.text + telephone.text + email....more >>

Another one for the gurus... I have used tweening on an mc to move it off screen. Works fine and so did the return, except the motion was more than I wanted ... and I sometimes get varying problems. Some times phantom mcs appear, but their appearance is not logical or coded. I think ...more >>

I have created more than 100 textfields throughout my project. And it'll be very time comsuming to go through all my AS files and located all the textfields and set this property (selectable = false). Any idea on how I could do this faster or easier? ...more >>

Hello, Question: Can you load an external .swf file into multiple timelines within the original timeline (it would be the same .swf file on each different timline)?...more >>

I have a script in a flash button that when clicked, opens up a new window.. the thing is that when i'm testing it from flash in windows, the popup opens then suddenly disappears as well.. when i uploaded the files on my ftp then tried the script on internet, it worked just fine... i tried to ...more >>

FlashMX 2004 | ActionScript 2.0 I simply am not sure of how to send a var from the main time line to each of the specific fields. MC target paths have always baffeled me. I promise this time, I'm carving the answer on the side of my CPU case. Using trace(), all the versions of syntax ...more >>

I have created a ferris wheel effect and now it won't view the extra 15 panes that i have added to the code, so: pane15 - pane29 This is baffling the hell out of me and they are in my library but just won't show? Can anyone help, Also the Get Urls do not work so i have no clue wh...more >>

When I apply my UIScrollBar skins to a scrollbar component associated with a dynamic text field, all the skins show up properly. When I apply the skins to the listbox component that's pulling in data from an XMLconnector component, I get nada - no data, no skins. When I remove the skinning cod...more >>

can someone gimme code for making a text field that has stars instead of letters that appear and how to make submit button that goes to the next frame if the thing entered was correct. ex:(make a code for this) text field: when "hello" is entered and the submit button is pressed got...more >>

Flash 8 Pro / AS 2.0 I made a picture gallery driven by a XML file but when I a user click the thumbnail its suppose to open a popup window in the center of the screen. I make a Javascript fuction in head part of the HTML: <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- Begi...more >>

Hi People, I recently downloaded a template for a flash based survey from flashkit.com. Its perfect for what I need but will only work in flash 5. I need to update it so it will work with Flash 8 as soon as possible. When I import in into my flash 8 project I get the following error mess...more >>

FlashMX 2004 | ActionScript 2.0 Each time I run a trace() my output reads, undefined. Exactly what is undefined? gradName = RankID+ " " +lName+", "+fName; _root.form.passName = gradName; tia ...more >>

I have a movie clip which is an walking animal+sound. I want it to stop both movement and sound. but it soesn't. I use; stop(); piggy.stop() The outcome said that; **Error** Scene=Scene 2, layer=Layer 1, frame=120:Line 1: Statement must appear within on/onClipEvent handler ...more >>

how do i detect the KEY "b"???? I know how to detect special characters: if (Key.isDown (Key.PGUP)) { } if (Key.isDown (Key.PGDN)) { } if (Key.isDown = Key["b"]) .... Key.B Key.b ..... But wuth the key "b" i have tried lots of things and i dont reach the solution . prob...more >>

Hi, I'm developing a game where I'm dynamically generating movieClip instances using linkage properties. Is it possible to export the movieClip linkage anywhere other then the first frame and if so how? Also I'm using AS2 and I have noticed in the linkage properties window there is an "AS ...more >>

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but in Actionscript how would I do the following.... As an example. If I have 5 text input boxes called ti_1 to ti_5, and I want to check the values in each from a for loop. How would I do it ? for (var i=1;i<6;i++){ trace("ti_" + string(i)); // ...more >>

I'm trying to create a simple media player in Flash 8 and I can't figure out how to make a 'next' button. I'm providing my own sound clips for the player. I'm just trying to figure out how to make it so when I hit the 'forward' button, it advances to the next song (5 songs total). I'm *fairly*...more >>

Hi, I am making a game that uses a time limit of 60 seconds for the user to score into a basketball hoop. I managed to get till there however I would like to let the user pause the game. I have made a movie clip named 'Pause' that basically gives a message that the game is paused and that ...more >>

Hi Guys, is there any way to make a component like HTML iFRAME. I want to put in there movieclips, images, text etc. with any control and click. please post a link or help me out....more >>

Hi guys... This is my first post here sooo hi! - basically I'm a novice flash user... BUT! I want to get better, I've got a brief understanding of AS and can usually figure out what's going on with a specific script when it's in front of me... it's just getting started that sorta hinders m...more >>

Hey, when you use loadVariables(Num) method you can hook up with a php/asp/etc. script. Is there anyway to reduce overhead and control the header information? Maybe not specify browser type, or cookies, basically just send pure string data. Maybe using something other than an "http" addres...more >>

<a href="mailto:FreeQuote@SouthwestLimo.com%20">FreeQuote@SouthwestLimo.com </a> That's how it would look in dreamweaver, and I want it to just show up as text in flash... Like this FreeQuote@SouthwestLimo.com Like that, how can I get that to work? ...more >>

I set my moveSpeed to 5. Right now it's set up like if I press any of the direction keys (W,A,S,D) it'll go in that direction with the strength of 5. I want to try to make the movement flow a bit more. So if I'm going right at full speed and press the left button I'll slow down THEN start...more >>

This is the action script. pretty basic huh. well can you rewrite and figure out whats wrong? onEnterFrame = function () { if (mc1. hitTest (mc2)) { gotoAndPlay ("4", "frame"); } }; Thank-you for you time Sincerly, Rbr1234 ...more >>

I use flash to build my main web page. I have 3 image buttons. I am first time user playing in action script. What I want to do now is, when i click on button1, it will go to my main.htm How should my sciprt be? ...more >>

on (release) { getURL("javascript:void(window.open('matous.html','_blank','status=yes,scrollbar s=yes,width=800,height=450,resizable=no))"); } when doing this one, a windown promptly pops up and sunddenly disappear as quickly! basically I want a new window to open with restricte...more >>

Both the about.swf and the xml_pg_final.swf files include dynamic text that load from a text file. Here is the script from the about.swf that loads the text box from the text file "about.txt". loadVariablesNum("about.txt", 0); loadVariablesNum("about.txt", 0); ...more >>

I am trying to customize a monster template and I can't get the links to work in the menu. There are two files I need to change: www.2megalomaniacs.com/images/flash/header.fla www.2megalomaniacs.com/images/flash/menu.fla I'm a complete n00b when it comes to flash, I can do a few ...more >>

I have discovered amfphp (http://amfphp.org). It's a really cool way to move complex data objects from php to flash and back. So I am successfully creating an array of items from my database...an item that would otherwise be created like this: items = array(); item = new Object(); ite...more >>

I have been having trouble with refreshed versions of my swf pages in html. I have updated the swf on an html page, but have had viewers tell me they don't see anything new. After clearing the cache on their machines all is fine. How do I code either the swf or html to remove or refresh t...more >>

:confused;OK, I know this is easy but I'm chasing my tail. I have two sets of buttons - icons and corresponding text nav bar of same categories. I have movie clips that play on the rollover state of the icon buttons. When these clip START to play, I want the rollover state on the OTHER text na...more >>