As my code stands right now, I can deal cards to the proper location and move at a steady speed, but they all move at the same time. Now, I want to add the effect of them being dealt by using the setTimeout method to offset the times they are dealt. However, when I call the setTimeout method...more >>

HI! I have nested movie clips. the last click has a button that went clicked it will move the previous movie play head to 2 how do we make the path? eg. scene1 movie1 movie2 movie3 --> button here will move movie 2 play head to 2....more >>

I'm creating flash xml slideshow and have managed to get the images to load from the XML file. What I want to do now is have a timer that loads the next image after x amount of seconds. Any help would be great. Code sample stop(); // Create XML Object slideshow_xml = new XML(); ...more >>

Hi, I've made tween in mc which has normal speed specified by frame rate. Than button, which should speed up that tween twice. It works well for simle shapes going thru motion tween. But my symbol for tween is quite difficult and it seems that this fact brake faster move. Is it possible pr...more >>

I have a movieclip in my libeary that i want to pop up how can i do this....more >>

Hi, i wonder if it possible to create in flash 8 peer-to-peer connections without depends of the FlashComm. I'd use to create peer-2-peer application on Multiuser Server of Director. In Director is very simple to create an application like this, because the mus.Xtra, and i am wonder if it's some...more >>

I have the Flash AS Bible and one of the exercises is to create a random letter displayer. I am not getting any errors in my AS code, so I believe I have that o.k, but when I test movie I only get a blank screen. One part I am unsure about is "using the text tool, add an authoring time dynamic...more >>

Hi! Well... I have a little problem. i?m sorry for my bad english, i will try to explain the better as possible. Well...I?m working on a simple photo gallery, I have thumbnails on my main stage that works as buttons, like every photo gallery. I want to do the following: when press, flash cr...more >>

Hey Everyone! i have type buttons that are set at 50% alpha, and i want it so when the mouse rolls over it, its at 100% The script im using checked out to not have problems, but when i preview it, its not working at all! the script im using is below... can anyone help me on this? ...more >>

Second post, new problem. I'm planning on making a wallpaper which switches to another wallpaper every day, for upcoming events and such, and I need a simple script that would go something as (I'm just making this up now, so...) if.Date(22/4/2006) { gotoAndPlay(1) } And so on and s...more >>

I have various FLV's in different layers and in a couple of movieclips of my one single swf. Only one FLV is ever playing and indeed only one should ever exist at any one time. I have built a custom controller _root.v.c.playBtn, etc. So far I'm giving each flv it's own instance name and th...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to clean up my code and thought I would try to write a function for repetetive AS I have at each section of my main timeline. The only difference was the mc name and xml node. So I tried to take the AS from each frame and place it in a function on the first frame of the movie...more >>

im sort of stuck. im making a game where you have to get all the objects before time runs out and if it does it goes to a certain frame. could some one post an example code?...more >>

Hi. I have several Movie Clips on my project's library and I need to retrieve their properties in order to assign them to certain variables. at a given point I will attach those MCs to the stage, but I needed their widths, heights, etc. before, in order to calculate the positions where I'l...more >>

Hi the function duplicateMovieClip gives me a real hard time. I dynamically load certain parts of my application using the MovieClipLoader, then (when the external movieclip is completely loaded and intialized) I try to duplicate this movieclip using the duplicateMovieClip function, but it...more >>

I have my code and I am getting emails from my site. I decided to add the code: if (name eq "" or email eq "" or message eq ""){ stop (); }else{ But it isn't working. Should I be using something else? Or is it in the wrong place? Here's how I have it now. But if I hit submit with none o...more >>

hi i am using a preload code to load my swf these are the statements am using to load _root.getBytesTotal() _root.getBytesLoaded() the preloader loads just fine, but it shows up only after the loading is around 80% please help, i would like it to show from the 1st% i ha...more >>

I am working on building an xml slide show in flash and was looking at some code. Although I understand basic actionscript and the logic behind whats going on I am a little confused as to the syntax of using the terminating ; in a function. See example below. Example One function updat...more >>

I currently have a chip's challenge-style tile game in progress, but a teleporter that I am trying to make has stumped me. So I have copies of one mc, with another mc inside. The actionscript is contained on the inner one so that I can easily copy the tile. The outer ones have instance names ...more >>

hi. please some help in this issue. i havve a dinamyc texfield that is populated by a string that i loaded from an external xml file it looks like this: <postal> <item titulo="aura - soma" src="media/bo1.jpg" ><!]></item> <item titulo="biga - usa" info="" src="media/bp1.jpg" >gourmet...more >>

mc.onPress=function(){interval=setInterval(myFunction(this),delay)}; In this code myFunction(this) executes immediately irrespective the delay value. How do I set it to execute with a delay? ...more >>

In FLASH-8 an attempt to import another swf file either to stage or to library results in nothing. It show SWFs available for importation but selecting a particular file and clicking Open produces no effect. Also in Flash 4 it was possible to open libraries of two FLA files and drug clips from o...more >>

Hi, I would like to include a preloader for an mp3 player I'm building. The player has a dark, sinister sci-fi theme and I would like to have the brushed aluminium plates to slide accross one by one as equal chunks of the main player have downloaded. However the movie clip for the aluminium pl...more >>

If I call one swf from another using loadMovieNum("name.swf",0) will the second swf be executed in the context of the first one or it will run as if it was called directly? In other words will it be the sama name space and I should expect conflict between variables names? Also will the second s...more >>

When calling one swf from another using loadMovieNum("name.swf",0) is it possible to pass parameters to the second SWF like it is done in HTML/JavaScript or using any other method? ...more >>