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First I'll show you the file, say what I want help on and then I'll show the actionscript. http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=germ1go.swf (Copy pas the link the forums are glitchy...) That's the VERY basic flash. I'm basically making the template for a very basic game (that'l...more >>

Hi, I have a small problem. I have made a application where you can answer a some questions. Now I want to find a way of saving those answers in some kind of external file (.txt, html or similar). The answers are saved in variables inside the swf, so I guess I need some way of creating a ...more >>

Is it possible to build a flash programme that creates, updates and delete an external file. Can u please metion all the ways possible please :D...more >>

Hi there, I'm really not getting this. Here's the issue: I stream an FLV file from another domain, I know the crossdomain.xml is setup properly. I know I can play the FLV, no matter if it's Sorensen or on2vp6 codec, as I'm running FP 8.5 because I've got the Flex 2.0 environment installed....more >>

Hello, I'm am (trying...) to create a game and I've run into a problem with the health which I have yet to sole :( Once health is <= 0 I want it to goto the scene "gameOver" but the methods I've tryed have not worked. I've tryed... if (_root.health<=0) { gotoAndStop("gameOver...more >>

I'm new to actionScript, so forgive the newbie questions, however: Why do some properties of certain classes have the underscore "_" character as a prefix? Is this some kind of special parameter type distinction? It just seems random to me. Like, take two parameters of the button class: ...more >>

// I have a MovieClip called "letter" and I have a dynamic text field named 'field' function placeText(target:MovieClip, x:Number, y:Number,banner:String):Void { var txtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); txtFormat.font = "Arial"; txtFormat.size = 24; for(var i = 0; i ...more >>

I am fairly new to actionscript but I've seen something on another site that I would really like to use myself on my site. Please take a look at http://www.tbwa.com ... The home page has a movie that follows the mouse cursor and when you click the movie graphic it opens the site navigation...more >>

Ok, l need to make something where l have a menu on the side, and a dynamic text field looking for the variable "sg_txt". The dynamic text field will load the vars from a .txt, l got all this to work fine with a single document, however, l have about 45 documents, so this is a problem. l have ...more >>

I have an email form with some input text fields. The form works, but everytime I want to remove text with the backspace key the playhead moves to a previous frame. (Not THE previous frame but I think the previous named anchor in the movie) WHen I use the TAB key to get focus on the first inpu...more >>

http://www.raniszewski.com/preloadext/testOne.html http://www.raniszewski.com/preloadext/testOne.swf http://www.raniszewski.com/preloadext/testOne.fla I am having sooooooo much trouble with this. I HAVE done research, but I can not find anything that I can get my head around. I need ...more >>

I'm trying to do a sort of numeric and alpha data. I've got a list like: 700,71,70,70B,70A That needs to be put in this order: 70,70A,70B,71,700 The elements are defined as strings. None of the default sort orders will work for such a thing. I'm trying to come up with a custom func...more >>

I made a project using Flash 8 and Flash Comm. This consist in make a videoconf and aplly effects with bitmapdata. It's happening somethig strange. When I export the fla in a swf it functions perfectly. But when I do the upload with a ftp program and open with internet explorer I can't see the...more >>

Hi All Is there an obvious reason this doesn't work? This is set to a button... on(Release) { PBX = "FrameLabel1"; gotoAndPlay("Learn",PBX); } It appears to jump...more >>

Hi ! I am creating instances of a movieclip using duplicateMovieClip, wich i name like this : "item"+i, where i is the number of the created instance. What i want to do now is write text form an SQL db to the text property of a text box inside the movie clip. The problem is that ususally i...more >>

There seems to be an issue with the Flash 8 FLVPlayer component and the BitmapData.draw() method. I'm using BitmapData.draw() to take snapshots from an FLV video. Everything works fine in the Flash IDE. But the SWF file doesn't work in the standalone Flash player nor does it work in the b...more >>

I have the following code for a hover caption. It seemed to work good, but I just looked at my site when I did not have the fonts activated on my computer and the fonts don't look right. I think I had this problem before, but can't figure out how I did correct it? Assuming I need to embed th...more >>

I need to know how you make it so a mc will stop moving at a specific height when you use the arrow keys? When i use this code the mc moves up but it doesnt stop when _y > 30 . Can you fix it? if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && this._y>=30) { this._y -= 10; } Thank you for your time. ...more >>

I'm new at arrays. I want to have multiple movie clips do different things at once and I'm trying to condense the code... this is wrong but will let you know what I am attempting. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks: +++++++++++++++++++++ river_width = 100; river_height = 13;...more >>

Im tryining to update an XML file so i change the XML information uploadit to a server and then i want to download it to the same folder that im using the swf. is it any way to make it transparent for the user? Cheers ...more >>

Hi Let's say I have this array: price_list = new Array(); price_strcuture = Then let's say after a while price_list gets popluated, so it looks like this: price_list = I want it so that when I hit a button it will search for iPOD then another hit of a button will take it to...more >>

I am working on a small catalog manager site that uses a flash tree to display categories of products. I want the user to be able to drag multiple products at once from a list of products into my tree to attach them to categories. i also want to allow people to drag items from the tree to ot...more >>

I'm about to dive into a major project that will use lots of Flash Remoting, CFCs and a large database. I need some help though... Wwhat do people usually use to map out their entire project before they start? I guess I could call it a flow chart... That might not be the right word though....more >>

I need to know how to cancel out a action script in a IF actionscript. This is an example can you fix it for me. Replace the Capitalized words. if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) { CANCEL ACTION SCRIPTS ON LINE 9 } Thankyou for your time Sincerly, rbr1234 ...more >>