Hello, Could you tell me if I can to do streaming with flash 8 ? if yes please do you have a link for example thank you very much for your help Best regards, Alain ...more >>

I have 2 buttons on an interface, on the root timeline which play the same animation (of the interface disappearing) in a mc. But i would like to have them open they're 2 respective layers at the end of the animation. ie one button could be to "Contact us" which would play the closing of the...more >>

Well, the title says it all, but here's a little detail in my problem... The thing is, I'm trying to make a game, online game. Someone reported that the hotkeys still work. If someone presses it by accident, they get kicked out of the game and go straight back to the login screen (before that,...more >>

hi i have a problem getting flash to send my loadvars to php. not that flash dossent send and my php site dossent get the send data, but flash is altering some of the data. i have a string text with som special danish letters (???) the UTF-8 code for (?) = "%F8" but when flash sends it it ...more >>

I copied some actionscript from one .fla to another in Flash MX 2004. I also copied the MCs needed to run, yet when I test the scene from the second .fla, nothing happens. Any ideas? Any one experience this sort of thing before? Thanks for any help. ...more >>

I have a .swf which loads an external jpg. It reads the path from an xml file. The whole thing works fine on my hard drive, and when I publish it as html and upload it to the server, I can still view the jpg. But when I create a PHP page which includes the swf file, I can't see the image. The ...more >>

I have created a Datagrid that uses a checkbox cellRenderer to make one of the columns checkBoxes. I can setup a Listener that uses the cellPress event, but I want the user to select an item using the checkbox. I can't seem to find a way to catch the click event on the checkbox. Obviously they...more >>

I'm dynamically loading a movie into a movie clip: _root.controlPanel.loadMovie(_root.movToLoad); Immediatly after, I try to get the height: _root.controlPanel._height It always returns 0... is there a way to make flash WAIT until the movie loads before getting the _height of it? I...more >>

I have been trying to improve my AS skills by learning to write AS in the main timeline rather than on the clips themselves. However, I cannot seem to get the clips to communicate with each other. The movie is two crabs tossing a disc back and forth. Originally I wrote to the clips thems...more >>

Hi guys, I have this script playing from the first action frame in order to load two scenes. Nevertheless, once I insert a large FLV file, the loader starting displaying only at 80 percent. Is there any alteration that anyone can suggest to make sure this code captures from at least 10 per...more >>

I am using a wav file as a background sound in my clip, yet in the clip it plays much slower than when played in Windows Media Player. Ho do I make it play at a normal speed? ...more >>

Hiya all! Could some one please help: This actionscript is not working. I have to convert a movieclip that was produced in actionscript1 using flash6 settings into actionscript2 using flash7 settings. It does not seem to work when I insert it into flash8 the actionscript is: fun...more >>

So, my last host died at the beginning of the month and I just got everything migrated to a new host. I was trying to get back to work on this Flash project that logins via PHP to a mySQL database. The login script stopped working. I have discovered that _global.getcards.THISVARIABLE will n...more >>

Anyone knows a good example of how to use this class? Both actionscript and ASP.NET verion of file upload page. Any resource will be helpful. Thanks, ...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problem with mod_gzip when trying to retrieve xml files using get_Url() on flash on IE. The getTotalBytes() method returns the value of gzipped Content-Length while getLoadedBytes returns the gunzipped Content-Length. Thus my script won't consider my file as loaded and kee...more >>

Hi, i'm looking for a way to achieve the following: i have movieClip called mcHolder. When the onMouseOver event of mcHolder is triggered when the user sets the mouse over mcHolder.hitArea the mcHolder movie plays and displays three subbuttons. onMouseOut of mcHolder the mcHolder tim...more >>

I have a string variable (let's call it 'myFrame:String') and I want to use this variable as the argument for a gotoAndStop command to send the timeline dynamically to a named frame. The gotoAndStop command accepts frame names if they are between quotes "", but therein lies my dilemma. If ...more >>

I'd like to catch a file load error and provide feedback to the user. I'm building a educational excercise and if the problem doesn't load, I'd like to politely let the student know. I've written a try-catch block which catches a file load exception fine in the Flash IDE and in Internet Explo...more >>

Hi, Wondering if you can help a n00b ... I'm trying to make life easier for myself by loading swf's into empty containers within individual scenes - when I preview the individual scenes - it works - the movie loads and all is good. When I preview the full project it plays the first sce...more >>

Hi all! I am building my first Flash website and have a small problem. I am building it using individual SWF files for each page. However, when I click a button to navigate from one page to another, I am getting a flashing blank screen for just a split second. What i mean is, it doesn't ...more >>

Hi all...long-time listener, first -time caller... I have a file with a Loader and PrgBar component. The Loader pulls in a swf with buttons. The buttons control Sound objects to play MP3 files. When the second swf loads, the MP3's dont play. The music is embedded, not loaded externally. If...more >>

I am calling 3 different swf in to test.swf. now i want to unload only 1 swf from test.swf can any 1 tell me how it is possible i am trying with removeMoviClip() and unloadMovie() but its of no use. regards Justbipin ...more >>

Hello. I've got a main swf file which acts as like a hub, which then goes on to load a couple of external swf files. My problem is getting consistant sound across all the swf files. My hub (or _root) swf file creates a variable called soundLevel (which can be adjusted with volume controls)...more >>

I have an external flashpaper presentation that i load into a emptyMovieClip. It all works however it only opens up half the size of the canvas. Does anyone know how to make it open so its the whole size of the canvas?? ...more >>

I am using the script below to download an image on to the users computer it works fine but I was wondering is there a way of showing the progress of the download on the screen. Thanks BP :) import flash.net.FileReference; var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference(); onPress=...more >>

Hello, can any tell me how to call a swf into anather swf but at proper x and y co-ordinates. thnx n regards justbipin...more >>

can SharedObject store movieclips?? It doesn't seem like it...more >>

Would it be possible to make a game like the sort of bomberman by Flash (for multiplayers with same computer, not playing online)? I've never seen that made by Flash on the Internet...~...more >>

I have a movieClip attached to an external class file, the class file takes data and uses it to draw an bar chart ino the movieClip. If you re-size the movieClip and then compile everything displays correctly but obviously all elements in the movieClip are enlarged/shrunk depending on how yo...more >>

Hello, I'm having problems with lowing down the volume of an audio sound (mp3 sound attach) without affecting a video (streaming) sound volume. It seems that flash assumes that the Sound volume controls all sounds in stage. Can anyone help? Thanks ...more >>

This is the case in all browsers that I'm aware of. http://www.personalhurricanecenter.com/ I have the following piece of code that takes a movie clip from my library, duplicates and moves to a coordinate based on information retrieved from DB. During testing, that information doesn't c...more >>