Hi all, I created a button "place holder" (until I had time to design my own) on an object using the standard button component, this worked great. When I replaced it with my own user defined button it stopped working. The object has the same name and is referenced identically. Can a...more >>

OK, I give up. Please be gentle if I've been a total bonehead. I have the following code on a 1 frame main timeline for testing purposes (Document set to play at 20 fps). Two problems: 1) the interval I request for the timer v. what actually happens is different. 2) STRANGELY I get totall...more >>

I'm working with medium numbers of items (1000-4000), each with several properties (10-400). At very small time intervals, the parameters of some items need to be modified. In order to do this, the whole data collection needs to be iterated over. 1. This objective could be achieved by a ...more >>

Hi all, For the purposes of a scrolling text field which dynamically loads content from a jsp, I would like the text field to crop itself according to how many lines of content is loaded (if only a small paragraph is to be loaded, th text box should be small, so as to not scroll very far/s...more >>

as some of you you may have seen, i posted this link (http://jacksonpollock.org/) earlier in the week because i thought it was really impressive. well, curiousity got the better of me so i downloaded a decompiler and, uh, decompiled it to see if i could learn a little about how it was done.....more >>

whats wrong with this code, I'm trying to make a button. On the timeline it works fine, but once its turned into a swf it doesn't work anymore. It's flash MX 2004 action coding by the way. I'm sorry this is so a dumb question for flash pros on (release) { Door.onRelease = function() { ...more >>

whats wrong with this code, I'm trying to make a button. On the timeline it works fine, but once its turned into a swf it doesn't work anymore. on (release) { Door.onRelease = function() { gotoAndPlay(10); }; } :frown; ...more >>

I have a quicktime clip that I using in Flash 8 encoder. I enter 4 cue points through out the clip. They correspond to a fade up from black. I then encode the clip and playback in my Flash 8 movie. During playback, the cuePoints that I embeded have slipped by as much as a few seconds. Is ...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to create a custom tooltip component for myself and have it working the way I want it but can't seem to get the tooltip to display over all things in my movie unless I place it on the highest layer in the timeline. I would like to be able to place the component anywhe...more >>

i want to use the robert penner tweening functions in my flash fla. but i don't know what i should script in my fla actions layer .to import these tweening functions. also, how would i import the zigo/tweenManager.as class into my fla. ...more >>

Hello within my movie i try to load another movie wich goes fine but... loadMovie(tmpStr,clip); I want to movie to be full screen (i mean the full size of the original movie) How should i handle this ? ...more >>

Is there any way, or will there be a way soon, to control the envelope controls in AS? What I'm looking for is a way to allow a user to type in a line of text, and then be able to apply some pre-set distortions to it, the same way you can do it in Photoshop using the "Warp Text" palette. ...more >>

Here's my problem. I'm trying to use a string variable to pass a marker name to be used to navigate to a new area of my Flash movie. When I hardcode the name of the marker, it works, but if I declare it as a variable, it jumps to a comepletely different frame. Here's the actionscript: //Th...more >>

Hey guys, The following situation is stressing me out :( I have a main MC and some buttons. the buttons must load a swf into the main MC. I have created a another MC and this MC must fade in, load a new movie into the main MC and fade out, so u can see it. the following code i have on ...more >>

Hello, I am making a flash that has like 9 (may be even more in the future) dynamic text box. How do I quick initialize them all? See ya! Augusto...more >>

I use the LoadVars command in actionsript to load text from an external text-file. It works great when tested on windows-server, but when I run it at an apache-server it displays a squere at the end of each line in the textfield. Anyone knows how to solve this? ...more >>

Hi, Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could have a movieclip/graphic curved background box resize dynamically based on the height of a dynamic XML-fed text box lying on top of it? I've been trying to use setProperty to update the background's _xheight or _xscale based on the height ...more >>

Hi, How does one target a dynamic text box to change the border color inside of a movie clip? Example below which does not work theName = ("answerPrint" + arryCount); boxName = ("box" + (arryCount+1)); _root.pagePrintPartA[theName][boxName].border = true; _root.pagePrintPartA[theNa...more >>

With a loadVars object is there a method for stepping through the variables it contains. At the moment I am using a loop and referencing the variables like: this["textDisplay"+counter]; Where "textDisplay"+counter is the name of the variable. The only problem with this is that if someone wan...more >>

G'day I'm currently using a series of swf files to make up a website as the file is 3.1 meg I have split the pages into seperate swf/html documents with code such as... on (release) { getURL("pacman.html"); } so how do I modify the code to get each page to open in the same window? ...more >>

HI I want to build the following game: - There is a 10-by-10 grid of numbers from 1 to 10 distributed randomly - User clicks on a number and the 9th, 18th, 27th, 36th, 45th, & 54th numbers from the user's selection in the grid are selected - Below the grid are the various 7-digit permu...more >>

Does anyone know how to make a button in flash that when clicked will run a given program, which in my case will be 3 buttons assigned to 3 different program install exe files. The same sort of thing as what runs when you install the macromedia programs. Thanks! -Austin ...more >>

Hey all, On most of my option MC's I have something like: this.onRollOver = function(){ this.gotoAndPlay("onanim") } this.onRollOut = function(){ this.gotoAndPlay("offanim") } Obviousy if you quickly roll on and then off the MC the animation is staggergy and not a fluid anima...more >>

I've been trying to learn some new things with flash and actionscript out of a book, I was trucking along nicely then I hit this rut-- I keep getting an error with my script, but I am 99.9% sure that the script is the same as it is in the book. here is the code: //----------<LoadVars...more >>

Ok, I've done a lot of searching on the web and I've only found the problem, but no input or solutions. I am trying to create an accessible flash application/site and I am setting the tabIndex for the menu elements and content. This was working just fine in development. As soon as I add ...more >>

I have a dynamic text field that i'm pulling a XML file into, but I need the URL links within the XML to control a movie clip. I've read that you can pass an arguement inside flash from within the XML doc but i'm not positive how it would be done. Any love on this one? ...more >>

I have made a preloader and it works terrifc. My problem is I have a video with with the skins and it is on frame one. when I make my preloader I then shift the movie to frame 5 when the preloader does its job the movie doesnt show What do I need to do to make the movie appear. i have thr...more >>

Hi all, I have a small menu with 5 options, I am trying to have 1 turned on (blinking) when my movie first runs. I am calling the function but nothing happens. However if I run over the option (which is using the same function) the option becomes selected, so I cant figure out how to or wh...more >>

Hey Everyone! So im trying to get a loading bar for my flash site, and followed this guys tutorials - www.gotoandlearn.com... which are GREAT by the way!!! ...BUT, i can seem to figure out one part.. in the begining of the Loading bar tutorial, he says "now i go to test movie" and he g...more >>

ive come across, in tha past, an online script that can detect the coputer systems RAM, CPU and the sofware that is installed on that computers system. For the life of me I cannot find it again. Does anyone know of such a script, idealy in ASP/VB/Javascript. If anyone can help I would ...more >>

Can anybody why when I use a variable as movieclipname to mask It won't work? Doesn't work: var eraserId = "test" this.attachMovie("eraser",eraserId,this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:_xmouse, _y:_ymouse}); this.setMask(eraserId); Does work: this.attachMovie("eraser","test",this.g...more >>

Hi all, I have been working on using a datagrid to display contacts loaded from PHP generated XML. Because of the number of contacts I need to be able to filter the contacts down by typing a name in a text box much like in Outlook or iTunes. I have created a function which listens for the te...more >>

Hi, I got this situation, where i need to load 5 external jpg files. I don't know where those are located, the location is retreived from an XML file. The problem is I want to load them all in one chain, but the preloader textbox needs to get their total size, and set that as 100%. So I ...more >>

Hello, Is there a (rather) simple way to change the color or highlight a movieclip (act the same as a button) on mouseOver? Perhaps even target the color of text inside a dynamic text box within a movieclip? I would like to try this without using an ebeded button, as I require the same (56...more >>