Is is possible to make text inside of a Textarea component actuall close the Textarea itself? I have been using a Textarea component to dynamically add a bunch of formatted text into it, based on an object that was clicked. Initially, this Textarea does not show up, but when clicking the oth...more >>

how do I dynamically set the width of a dynamic text field? Preferrably not in pixels but in a number of characters ...more >>

I would like to be able to open a new window of a specific size from inside my flash page. I know that this can be done in an html page by using javascript. I sthis possible????...more >>

New guy again...So I have my handy little intro on my main page after the flash screen and I have my first page of content come up right before it is finished. Now if I view the file on my hard drive there is a little pause when it comes in (very annoying) but when I view the uploaded version...more >>

I am trying to get an image to move when a user hovers over the image. My movie is called ball_mc i have added this code but get some errors. what am i doing wrong please? myButton_btn.onRollOver = function() { tweenBall(mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut); }; function tweenB...more >>

I have a question about getURL, javascript, and Internet Explorer. I have a thumbnail gallery that I created in Flash. I have some basic animations & actions with each thumbnail. One of the actions is when someone mouses over a thumbnail, a call to a javascript function performs a basic javasc...more >>

Hi, What I want to happen here is that the page go through its load animation backwards (to unload the page) when the user clicks a button on the nav menu. It kinda worked once or twice, but in the if {} suddenly jumped to main time line from the page clip and only a couple frames worth ...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to pass dynamic information as parameters to the transitionManager.start method. Something like this works just fine: TransitionManager.start(a_mc, {type:mx.transitions.Wipe, easing:mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, duration:2, ...more >>

Cannot find a solution in any forum; Either preloader wont show up till the 32K baggage the component brings along to frame one loads (at about 75% , OR change publish setting for AS to load classes to frame 2 and then the movie does not play when run from the actual swf file. Howev...more >>

I building this kind of little world cup chart. So you type in the scores and it will work out everything. I have successfully done this for group a but i need to make it more universal so i can save memory and i don't have to repeat 600 lines of code. I decided on using a class but i have a...more >>

:confused; We need to have a physical input device control the display for a museum exhibit. I know Flash can't take input from the game port. We've come up with building a custom interface device that can feed a stream of characters, and I'm thinking that if it can "type" those into a...more >>

In my movie the user will view various clips. At the end of each clip I need to get the user to end up on a different frame. Right now i'm just creating a spereate movie clip that is the length of the movie which jumps to the correct frame at the end. I know there is an easier way to do ...more >>

Hello All! I'm wondering if there are any tutorials out and about that would show a person how to make a cool "roll in" effect in Flash 8. Here's an example: http://www.templatemonster.com/flas...ates/11214.html I like the way the white rolls in from the top right. I need to do somethi...more >>

I have an animated menu that when you scroll over the button it smoothly changes color and the text shifts to the right. The only thing is that since they aren't in button format (The buttons are composed of graphic and movie clips) I dont know how to apply a sound when you scroll over the but...more >>

the progressBar mc never plays. It shows the MC but just stays on frame one. (progress bar is a a 100 frame MC with stop(); on frame one) when I comment out the "myListener.onLoadProgress" line and change the progressBar.gotoAndPlay(loaded) to progressBar.gotoAndPlay(50) it goes to that ...more >>

I have converted SWF into EXE using SWF Studio 2.2 to be able to run flash without havinf a FLASH player installed. It works fine except one feature. On clicking a picture it is supposed to load another movie using loadMovieNum() That other movie is too converted to EXE and loadMovieNum is calle...more >>

Question Score Weight. How can I handle Question Score Weight? I thought of one way, but it seems a long way around the issue. Ultimately I'd like to be able to change the weight of a question (for scoring). I'd like it to be transparent where no matter how many questions I add - and f...more >>

If i have a dynamic textfield with the text being loaded from .txt file is it possible, and if so how, to have variables subtended in the text i.e: "This is the text in the dynamic text field that is loaded from something.txt , you have looked at it XVAR times" Where XVAR is another va...more >>

var t3 = "Hello world"; var tn = 't'+_currentframe; //_currentframe now is iqual 3 trace(tn); tn shoud be "Hello world", but I'm getting that tn is equal to t3. Thanks in advance...more >>

Is it possible to change the shape of items on the screen using AS. Similar to an AS version of the subselection tool or the free transform tool - skew and distort namely. Thanks!...more >>

I'm using a Tree component and a FLVPlayback component. For those not familiar, the Tree component's dataprovider (DP) has to be filled via XML, and the structure of the XML-object is very strict. I use one XML-file, which provides the data for the Tree instance's DP as well as for the cuepoin...more >>

Hello, I've been trying to create a map which zooms and moves at the same time. So basically altering the scale and coords of a mc. However the problem is that when I alter the scale values the coordinate values become then relate to a different point on the mc. I.E. using the Tween ...more >>

Hi people, I have a strange problem here: I want to create textfields dynamically that are just big enough to hold the text to display. The textfields use a font from the library. I get the metrics of the text with TextFormat.getTextExtent(), it seems to work ok. However, the last letters ...more >>

is there any way to sort a numerical array properly, not as a string ie: 1, 2, 12, 20 instead of: 1, 12, 2, 20 without going: 01, 02, 12, 20...more >>

Dear Expert, How to freeze background i have a single frame swf (1000x500) with buttons all over. clicking on the buttons will loadMovie into a movieclip same size as stage (1000x500). Apparently, the oringal swf is still active and will still react to mouse overs and presses. How can ...more >>

Hi there, I have searched and found many articles on a Javascript triggered pop up browser window but when I seem to translate them into the new version of Flash 8 all functionality seems to fly out the window. Any ideas on how I can approach this? I have tested the scripts in Flash MX and t...more >>

I would like to know if anyone can tell me how to make a flash slide show jump to a new url? In other words, when the slide show concludes I would like to redirect to another web page. Any help would great. Thanks! ...more >>

Ok, :confused; So this is my first attempt at making a web page... I am trying to simply make my little button display my movie labeled "Content", I don't think I am doing somthing right... Doh.... I have diffrent movies (p1 & p2) for button rollover effects... and I have a seperat...more >>

ill admitt it, i am a complete novice when it comes to actionscript, but the best way i found to learn it is to get the code and change each part to figure it out. So how would i make it so that when i click Either on a mc or just anywhere that it creates an mc at coodinants that ill specify a...more >>

Hello ISorry to say this but I am a newbie in Flash. I have made a flash movie with playback control. I hosted it on my website but the problem is whenever someone visit the website it loads automatically even if you don't press play. I was just wondering how i can make the video starts ...more >>

I am designing a flash program that takes a series of images and descpriptions from an xml file and then adds a movie clip for each node to the stage based off of one template. The series of clips scrolls from left to right with the movement of the mouse and when hovered over, the images e...more >>

Goal: Jump to a URL from a text file where I have a list of URL's per each day, such as, wk_url.txt, mon = www.mysite.com/008.php, tue = www.mysite.com/002.php. What I have: I have a file that act as a state to load a swf file for special campaign for each day. Each day is a separate sc...more >>

I'm searching the web as well as these forums and all I'm seeing is that I can add an object that has an onKeyUp() function to some global MovieClip named "Key". That doesn't help me when I have 5 text fields on the Stage and only one of them is supposed to "fire" when Enter is pressed within...more >>

ok - i created a pre-loader movie that has 100 frame animation with a stop action on frame one. I placed the MC on the main timeline and named it: lineLoader_mc then placed the following code: lineLoader_mc.onEnterFrame = function () { framesLoaded = Math.round ((_root._framesloaded...more >>

right, i'm trying to rebuild a flash fla using a decompiler program. i've got all the as files but can't change the function/method calls. the problem is that when i compile the fla i get the error: **Error** C:\CMA_reverseEng Dev\Engine\Candidate.as: Line 46: A setter function may not ret...more >>

I need a same action to occur for few movie clips. For example i have instances: P1 P2 P3 P4. I tried: Calling every one of them by one name. Writing P[1,2,3,4] Writing G = "P" +[1,2,3,4] Can anyone help me? ...more >>

G'day all, I have a menu that loads its content via "loadVariables" from a text file. This is an example of the text file (see code below) but I've determined that the & in the url modules.php?name=vwar&file=member cuts the end off, resulting in a wrong page. 1. Is this correct? 2. Is ...more >>

Hi everyone! I have a problem with the Math.round function. When I code: Math.round(undefined); in my flash-movie, it returns the number 0!! But when I test the same code in a new flash document it returns NaN. So my question will sound: Why does it return 0?? /Tobias ...more >>

I have a banner with a background sound that reloads every time a visitor goes to a new page. The sound level is controlled by a volume slider that I built using http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/beginner/volume_slider/index.shtml and now I want to save the position of the slider as a cook...more >>

Hello, got a problem with the next code trying to load the swf from the client pc: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab# version=8,5,0,212" width="1024" height="768" id="flash"> <param ...more >>

I have one swf , wich contain lots of movie with animation . i want to keep pause play button for it, i know how to stop all the movie when clicked on pause button, but i want to play those movie only wich is playing priviously. means, suppose there is two movie 'a' and 'b' , here 'a' is st...more >>

Hi guys.. Here's a little animation http://www.netsunset.com/flash/v2.fla I m trying to understand how the brown color is set.. If someone could guide me. Thanks Stan ...more >>

Can anyone recommand some actionscript books for beginners to learn? ...more >>

I have an image that i want to be able to allow a user to rollover and the image to move across the page slowly but can't work out how to do it without it jumping from 1 position to the next. any ideas? ...more >>