First off sorry for the multiple post, only just noticed this forum.. anyway... Quick Problem: I have a movie that connects and displays the data fine when run by testing the movie from within flash its fine however as soon as i try to run it from the html or by IIS link to the swf, or eve...more >>

Umm yes, I have figured out all of my button issues, but I seem to have a new problem. My Movie, as soon as it is done playing, jumps right to the begginings, and I have a Button in there that is supposed to be a replay button. Im fairly sure this is right, on (press, release) { g...more >>

Hi guys, I'm new here! I wondered if anyone could explain to me what I'm doing wrong here. As part of a Flash-based campus mapping system, I am trying to create a 'Room Information' box that will display certain information regarding rooms around the campus, based upon data stored in a...more >>

I am trying to get Flash to do something based on whether the user came from certain URLs or not. Is there any way to know which URL the user came from? Any help would be appreciated....more >>

Hello, I have a question concerning the way some javaScript is executed with the new flash 8 player using firefox as the browser. I have an all flash site and there is a button that is scripted to open a new browser window and then center it and load an html page into it with another flas...more >>

Hi there, i have a basic problem to ask i want my pictures to move from the right to the left. I can do it BUT i want it to move smoothly. any suggestion?...more >>

Hi, I have an instance represented by a variable (stationinstance) and i want to change the text of this instance but can't quite think of how to put the variable in the path... It won't work with stationinstance.text="whatever" I guess it's taking the variable literally and not pla...more >>

Ive desighned a nice flashy Menu system called Mymenu_MCP. in my menu mcp i have a few layers actions graphics animation of menu system up to frame 70 buttons inside buttons i have animation up to frame 70 of buttons_MCP Problem is no matter where i insert code i cant get the code ...more >>

Hello: I have been using a guestbook in my site. Everything is working ok... but one thing. I attached a UIScrollbar in Flash to the text field where the comments are going to be displayed, but the scrollbar does nothing and the text in the bottom cannot be readed. I would like to know...more >>

Hi, I just used the movie clip loader class to load a swf dynamically, and oddly, the width and height are zero even as i'm looking at the loaded clip too large for the area i'm loading it into. Is there any way around this? thanks e ...more >>

Hi, I have a button that I want to have set functions, but I want it to contain dynamic text so that whatever the name of the instance, it is also the text of that instance...so my standard button could be used in an instance called hello-where the text is hello and an instance called goodbye ...more >>

Hi. I have a project that requires loads of variables with similar names but distintc values. I was wondering if there was a way to declare them automatically, providing only a string with the variable's name and a number that indicates the amount of variables (and would be used to index t...more >>

hey, I have just a quick question on movie clip buttons. What i would like to do is simply have a moving ball rolling down on stage and clicking it would bring you to another frame. (I want the movie clip of the ball just looping untill its clicked, which would bring you to another scene or f...more >>

I'd like to put a scrub bar at the top of my movie so users can scrub back and forth through it. I've found a couple pre-built ones at Flashkit.com, but I really would like to learn how to make one myself. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Michael ...more >>

i want my button to do the following things..... go to a frame and stop, wait for one second and then go to another frame and stop. reason i need this so badly is to cut down on the number of movies i will need for the animation to work. i have currently called the test button 'home' and hav...more >>

I need to create TextInput Components at runtime. I can create the object just fine but I can not position or size the component. I assume this is due to the properties (x,y,width,height) being READ-ONLY but assumed that createClassObject would at least set the initial values as per the initOb...more >>

Hi, I have a flash file with 3 scenes that play one after the other, in scene 1 i want to put a loader so that everything loads and then all scenes play. I placed this in scene 1: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { var total = Math.floor(_root.getBytesTotal()/1024); var loaded = Math.floo...more >>

Is there a way to access an outside folder from inside a subdirectory. For example, I have folder d inside folder c. My fla file is located inside folder d, but i need to access an image that is located in folder a, which is also inside folder c. I know for c++ and oldschool dos, it is ".."...more >>

The action script below loads two videos ( first.flv, second.flv) then plays them consecutively. I would like to load the videos as variables from a PHP page that this flash is embeded in - something like: $first_flv = "first.flv"; $second_flv = "second.flv"; How can I get $first_f...more >>

I have decided to simplify a project I've been making way complicated in my head. Going from frame to frame instead of all this motion and sliding images and everything I just want to play a brief, 3 frame movie to "fade" the whole thing to black, and then when it is done, the user will be on...more >>

bc.onRollOver = function() { if (_root.section != "images/bc_sample.jpg") { _root.section = "images/bc_sample.jpg"; _root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing"); } }; Above is the code I have on frame 2. It allows my button bc to work. It works fine, but I want button bc to do two t...more >>

How can I keep the rollover animation from stopping when the cursor pulls out before it is complete? There is a rollover anime and a rollout anime,but I dont want the rollover anime to be interupted. Basically it would be like a whole movie clip activated by the cursor but if the cursor stays ...more >>

Can anyone explain why my mcs disappear after the tweening has finished?? If I extend the tween time to 4 or 5 seconds, they stay on the stage permanently. At these times (less than 2 seconds) the mcs disappear once finished moving ??? on (release) { tellTarget ("_level1") { stop(...more >>

can you create a variable and name it dynamically? like: for(var i:Number = 0; i<5; i++){ var :Number = i; } so you could create unique variables on the fly?...more >>

how to create ball effect as on www.aeonflux.com in gallery? :cool;...more >>

I need to display a message indicating which elements of my array have not been validated ie. when a user has not entered the text matching the string in my multi-dimensional array. Here is the code: ...more >>

I have a very simple javascript function: function changeStatus (status) { var statusBox = document.getElementById('status'); statusBox.innerHTML = status; } it works from HTML, the function is Ok! I tried from Flash like this: getURL ("javascript: changeStatus ('aaa');"); but ...more >>

My mc was created using some code by abeall (thanx :D) from another thread (Gee it's useful reading this stuff) //create MovieClip to cover area req'd var mc1 = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("ent_mc", 2); //draw invisible square based on Stage size mc1.beginFill(0xFF0000, 0); mc1.lineTo(0...more >>

here's the code I'm working with: stop(); b1.onRelease = test function test (){ pauseI=setInterval(pauseF,1000); function pauseF(){ _root.gotoAndStop(3); clearInterval(pauseI); _root.coverAll.gotoAndPlay(2); } } Problem I have with this is that both the _root.gotoAndStop(...more >>