I know I'll probably never get a responce, but here I go: How in the world do you make a cookie that tells an swf to go back to the same frame that it was in when it was last opened? Thanks in advanced. ...more >>

If have I have an .html doc with two flash movies imbedded. What is the actionscript that allows a button from one swf to control the other. For example: a button on myflash.swf wants to tell thisflash.swf to go to and play frame 2. How would I do this? ...more >>

I am trying to get trace(); to work in Flash MX 2004 have resorted to a small test myvar = "hello"; trace(myvar); it works for a buddy of mine... but it wont work for me... no combination of trace will work.. I can't get de bug to work either it's like they are disabled... I ...more >>

Hello, I have a circle and inside i have a ball I would with my mouse dont get out the circle when I move could you tell me how can i do please I hope you undertand me thank you ...more >>

Below is code I am trying to use to go to a frame after the end of a flv file is reached. The video plays but the end of file listener does not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. nc = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); ns= new NetStream(nc); Ticatavid.attachVideo(ns); n...more >>

Hello! I' m new in Flsh and I want someone to tell me how can I make a loading bar??...more >>

So i have one main swf, that dynamically loads in several copies of another swf. Within the Child movie there are buttons that call out to the HTML to various JavaScript functions, I need each instanct of the Child movie to have a unique ID variable set by the container film.. Can someon...more >>

Hello ! I am wondering, if it is possible to randomize the order of the scene through actionscript ? For example, I have created 3 scenes: sceneA, sceneB, sceneC....when the movie loads, the scenes are loaded randomly...sometimes we would see sceneA, and another time when the user ent...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with my array function, moveover, I don't understand why this is not working. I am defining 2 arrays in the code below and performing a hitTest to try and detect which object in the clip2 array that clip1 is actually hitting, when the hitTest is performed, the trace ou...more >>

I am looking for a basic function that will receive a string, I want the function to look at the string and determine what the file type is, then perform another function. where filename = "demo.swf" or "somethingElse.pdf" if filename == 'swf' goto "10" else if filename == 'pdf' ...more >>

i'm trying to make an application form for training courses for work where when you select a course from a combobox it automatically populates the date combobox from an array - i can get this to work but only in a very very long winded way: var myListener:Object = new Object(); title_cb...more >>

Hello, I've searched the forums for the solution and I find some posts on how to play movie clips backwards, but I can't figure out how to implement that into a button. I have a graphic image and when I roll the mouse over it, I want a movieclip that is on the stage to play forwards. W...more >>

I have a timeline control embedded into my flash piece. It contains the buttons "Re-Play, Pause, and Play." I am building some testing software, therefore I have instances where the animation/sound stops and waits for the user to select an answer. At first, I had a problem that, when the...more >>

I'm trying to put a preloader on the front of my .swf file. I have a four frame movie with a basic preloader at the front which works fine, but does not appear until about 65% of the movie is loaded. When I view the bandwidth profiler there is about 135kb of data on the first frame. The f...more >>

Hi there i have a flash application which retreives data from a MYSQL database. That data is loaded by LoadVars, but i have recently been reading up upon the flash8 xml parser and would like to know which method is <b>faster</b> and <b>more efficient</b> in retreiveing and parsing large amount...more >>

I am creating software simulations of our company?s proprietary software using Flash. One of the things I want to do is to provide multi-level feedback for the user. For example, let?s say you are supposed to click Button B. On their first try, the user clicks Button C instead. I?d want...more >>

I am facing a probably very simple problem, but I just can't figure it out: There are several scenes ("Start" and "Style", for example), and I have a movie clip in "Start" containing a button that should, when clicked on, play the first frame of the Scene "Style". I tried the following com...more >>

Greetings! I hope my explanation is easy to follow. Any and all help isi appreciated. I have a movie clip, "bottomMenu_mc", on the main timeline and when rolled over, it displays some text. Within the bottomMenu_mc I have two dynamic text fields, one called "title_txt" and one called "bull...more >>

When using the movieClip methods beginFill etc. If i created a fill object by doing e.g. beginFill(); lineTo(bla); lineTo(bla); etc. endFill(); and then once it had draw i started a new beginFill but this time instead of closing the object off i closed an area of the above fill o...more >>

Can anyone point me in the right direction, if it is possible at all? I need to create a single swf with lets say 12 separate scenes that are all the same bar a couple of lines of text. I then need to include the same swf into 12 different html pages, but when each page is selected from htm...more >>

right simply, i have a movieclip, that will be stationary at the begining, when someone then presses a button the movieclip will play, how do i stop it, because when i write .stop(); the in the frame it doesn't work, when i write i it in the movieclip it won't play .play(); and also be ...more >>

Hey my basic aim here is to have a single flash swf file if possible, open, display a message of text, and then somehow make it impossible to read the text again, either by erasing it, deleting itself, whiping it or change it somehow, so that from a computer it that has recieved it from mine, ...more >>

hi if i wanted to use the duplicate movie clip. how would i go about choosing where i duplicate the moveclip to? i want a game where enemies begin on the left side and move to the right any ideas? ...more >>

I have several external SWFs that are loaded into my site and each one has a preloader. When I run them by themselves the preloader works fine, but when it is embeded into the main SWF the preloaders do not work. Any ideas? here is my actionscript - lBytes = _root.getBytesLoaded(); tB...more >>

Hello Flash Forum We have a question about a 360 flash / movieclip which comes to a halt or jumps to whereever the cursor is moved horizontally while any vertical movements is ignored. We are having difficulties to implement this and would like to ask whether someone can point us into the ...more >>

Hi! I'm a newcomer to this forum. i am confident i can find the answers i need here. I appreciate any input. I have an mp3 player that plays mp3 files dynamically. But i want to load the selected mp3 file into a timeline without dragging it from the library. Is this possible? and how can t...more >>

i'm working on a photo gallery. 1) What script do i need to make a movieclip load an external picture once a specific buttons is clicked? -also, I'd like to keep the picture to a maximum of 400 pixels wide and 300 pixels high-without distorting the proportions. 2) What script do i...more >>

I have a projector exe file (intro.exe) of flash which has an intro animation... on completion of the same it should call/open a powerpoint file. how can i achieve this? thanx ...more >>

Dear Forum-users, What would you show/teach students, which are new to Acrionscript (they know Flash animation, symbols, stop-play, and simple behaviors), when you have 2 hours of time? What is could be of special interest and can be a basis for further studies? Do you know any nice TUTORI...more >>

Hi I have a very simple question, is it possible to change the highlight color of dynamic textfield? thanks...more >>

Hi there, Is it possible to flash rebuild a string that as been url-encoded? Thanks, ...more >>

I have created the flashReferenceList, which uploads the fle thru my server PHP script. In windows XP (dodn't test on other windows versions, but sure it is the same) it works excellent - exactly as I expected. In Macintosh... It doesn't work at all! I am sure I haven't ma...more >>

HELP Please.... I am using Flash MX.. my projector exe file doesnt seem to open/call "myppt.bat" file which calls a powerpoint (PPS) file after the animation is over. The bat file runs well when self executed but not from flash... I also installed the trial version of Flash 8 and seem to b...more >>

I'm using AS to try and draw a sector of a circle. say i start from co-ords (0,0) i lineTo(0,50) then i want to start a curve that will end up at (x,y) - depending on the angle of the sector then lineTo(0,0) to complete the sector This is probably more of a trig question than AS how ca...more >>

i have some swf files with different resolutions of 800X600,1024X800 etc., i want these swf files to be loaded dynamically in a flash movie but their width and height should be of constant one. can any one help me in this? bhavani ...more >>

uh whole day, im messing up with my .swf file.. i have some content and script on server server.com/project/api/getSound which returns .mp3.. now im on the same web or on other site and i want to load that .mp3.. i put crossdomain.xml to server.com/project anc checking flash player, if is load...more >>