How do I change the flv movie in media display? Example: Initialy, the URL of Media Display is: "first.flv". But if I click a button in my flash, it has to change to "second.flv" movie. See ya! Augusto ...more >>

I have the following code. loadVariablesNum("data.txt", 0); test.text = _global.languageVars.wlecome; however the textbox with instance name "test" always say's "undefined" why is this not being defined? -tim ...more >>

I was wondering if there was any way to get the instance name of the class to the class without having to pass it in when you create the instance of it. For example, so I can do this: var myObject:CustomClass = new CustomClass(); and then the class knows whats its instance name being us...more >>

I've got a movie (parent) that loads several other SWFs (children). I need for the parent SWF to attach movie's to the child SWFs from it's library - but i can't get it to work. Is there a way to do this? ...more >>

I have a flash presentation with a navigation and in each section it plays a short animation then loads a video. The idea was after the video click the next navigation item but now they want it to auto continue to the next swf (using loadmovieNum to layer 25) here is what i tried : var nc...more >>

Hello all. I'm relatively new with Flash and I'm using the MX version. I have a query regarding buttons. I have created a number of buttons that link to different frames, but now i'd like to alter them slightly. I would like to have text appear upon rollover of the buttons, but would like th...more >>

Hey, This is probably a really stupid question but is there a way to declare an event handle on an Actions layer that handles multiple events? For example, both of these are equivalent: // on button on (rollOut) { } // on action layer btnTest.o...more >>

Given the following string: sendRPCDone(frameElement, "chelsea", new Array("chelsea", "chelsea fc", "chelsea football club", "chelsea building society", "chelsea charms", "chelsea flower show", "chelseafc", "chelsea piers", "chelsea football", "chelsea clinton"), is it possible to ext...more >>

start_btn.onRelease = function(){ startMenuHolder_mc.attachMovie("startMenu_mc", "startMenu_mc", 100); } i cant call the startMenu_mc when i attach it like this. i can only call it when its outside of the onRelease function. startMenuHolder_mc.attachMovie("startMenu_mc", "startMenu_mc",...more >>

i have been given a task of rotating an image of the world, make a dove flapping its wings and a bible paging. how can i achieve this or alternatively where can i get gifs of them.....more >>

how do i add a video on flash dinamically? (exrternal file loading on the fly) thanks. ...more >>

How do you remove a movie clip created with the createEmptyMovieClip() function? I have tried: movieclip.removeMovieClip movieclip.unloadMovie but neither seems to work and in "help" it states they are for other movieclip loading functions. I have been trying to call these using the: thi...more >>

I'm trying to call a list of tweens but with different tween properties. The problem is that the last call to tweenMe overwrites the previous one, i.e. a linear tween gets changed to an easeOut. Any ideas? Example; test2_mc.tweenMe("linear", "_x", 0, 100, 3, 2); test1_mc.tweenMe("eas...more >>

I've long known the old timestamp query string trick for anti caching, but never really had to worry about with XML.load in Flash. I just now tried it: myXML.load("myxml.xml?timestamp="+escape(new Date().toString())); And it gives an error: failed to load file. If I remove the timestamp, i...more >>

Hiya there I've tried hunting through other forum posts, tutorials and being abused by bitter Middle Eastern 'web helpers' in chatrooms - and still no joy... maybe you know the answer! My level of knowledge with Flash is fairly good, but limited when it comes to PreLoaders. <b><u>THE ...more >>

:frown; hey! does anyone know what kinda of action script you would need to use if you were making a website and you have a button that you click on and you want <b>a new window</b> to pop up over the website, to display, say a larger image of the button. How do you do that?? PLEASE le...more >>

Hi there. I have FLV files loading into my swf using a Video Clip Symbol and all works fine when testing on my PC or network drive. But when I publish to the web the FLVs dont load at all? I dont have Flash Communication Server but I didnt think I need to? I am publishing as player 7. I have t...more >>

I?m having some major issues with author-time shared assets in Flash 8. I will try to be as specific as possible, so bear with me. I have a large project that has an accordion menu system in the main file (Main). We?ll focus on one of the accordion?s children for simplicity. There is a loader ...more >>

Hi - I am new to Flash so sorry if this is a simple question. I have a nested movie clip however when it is playing within the parent timeline the actionscript doesn't seem to trigger. Below is the code that I am trying to use: Can someone please give me some hints as to how to get it to wor...more >>

Hello. I've made a movie, and the scene1 timeline has only one frame. There I have 4 different movieclips into different layers, each one with is own timeline. Now, how do I insert a preloader bar in my movie? When I tried with tutorials, it doesn't work, and even if the movie loads li...more >>

I have a complex MC that is continually changed by source code. I have a print button that is supposed to print this MC but with other MC's that are not only for use in the printed version. So far I haven't found a good way to do this. The only way I have found, is to have two copies of the...more >>

If i load a swf movieclip into a parent swf i.e. using: _root.loadMovie("bar_chart.swf"); How can i then pass variables into this swf from the parent using AS? Is it possible to use _global to declare a global variable in the parent and then acessing this in the loaded swf i.e.: Parent: ...more >>

I have problems updating the view (i.e. tracing debug texts, displaying load clips) when larger code blocks are executed in Flash. Here's an example: The following code is executed when releasing a dragged MovieClip (starting drag with onMouseDown and moved by following mouse position on...more >>

Hi, I have a PHP script that generates XML based on an HTML form page with 16 fields in it (8 song name and 8 file name). I left all fields there as the client may want to add more down the road. The problem is that the empty fields are causing buttons to be created also. Do I edit the AS to ...more >>

Hi ithere! I've been trying to make a simple "mailto:" action work properly but it doesnt work.. it does open a mail programm but first of all opens a browser! well.. thats not what i want, i would like to make the get url " mailto:" action just open a mail programm and thats it... this...more >>

Hi I read a few articals on preload, I tried cuple of different methods, but the same problem kips not letting it work: The first 2 frames contains ONLY the preload stuff. the rest of the movie from frame 3 contains heavy stuff (700 KB). When I check the movie in the bandwidth profile it ...more >>

hi there i really hope someone can help me...am desperate at this stage I am displaying data loaded from xml in the form of a "news title" then the "news brief", another "news title" then the "news brief" etc. Now I have managed to get all the news titles to be displayed one under the other....more >>

I found <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.sitepoint.com/article/menu-scrolling-background">this menu</a> and it does its job pretty well. The only problem is that after loading the movie it centers the view on the last position of the mouse even if it's outsid...more >>

hello, i'm having problems with my movie clip behaviors on some button rollovers. i want my movie clips to play frames 1 to 13 on rollover, pause at frame 13 until rolloff, and at rolloff run frames 14-27. if the user rollsoff before frame 13, i would like the movie to finish it's cycle ...more >>

hello everyone, i am a Actionscript novice and I have a small problem. i am using the LoadVars class and the toString method to retrieve some result from the web. The result obtained is represented by the following string (which is not the full string, as it'll be much longer to write) : ...more >>

Hi List, I usually do not write complex AS but would like to simplify the following code with a for-loop if (_parent.a1._currentframe==2) { _root.vara1 = true; } else { _root.vara1 = false; } if (_parent.a2._currentframe==2) { _root.vara2 = true; } else { _root.vara2 = false; } if (_...more >>