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Quiz Help
Posted by Jadeivy at 6/9/2006 11:56:57 PM
I have a quiz that I am using which works fine. It was based on a 4 answer multiple choice question. I want to add capability for true/false. (where action script detects the number of XML answer in a node, and hides the last two choices of the 4 choice question. Thus creating a two answer...more >>

gotoAndPlay() gone haywire!
Posted by D. Porter at 6/9/2006 11:51:50 PM
Hello all, I've just finished a website and there is a bug and I've been having the most trouble figuring out. Go to www.chameleonworldwide.com/CCD.swf . Click on the mainsite button, and it will take you to a random part of my intro. No where near where I told it to send the playhead. On t...more >>

ExternalInterface and IE
Posted by mcshaw at 6/9/2006 11:32:20 PM
The following will work in Firefox but not IE WHY! FLASH import flash.external.ExternalInterface; var tmp_txt = ExternalInterface.call("getLocation"); JAVASCRIPT function getLocation() { return window.location.toString(); } ...more >>

AttachMovie Problem
Posted by Caraldur at 6/9/2006 10:38:50 PM
I have a movie clip that I attach during runtime. The movieclip called mcRuler has a movieclip inside that I want to use as a button to trigger and function and remove the clip. I have done this with a login window that is attached at the begin. The button-movieclip in that instance works as i...more >>

Game User Interface events propagate to outside movieclips?
Posted by Lunatech3D at 6/9/2006 10:00:08 PM
I am making a marble game but I am running into a problem while designing the user interface (UI). Basically I have a "world" object that is attached to the root and it has an "onMouseUp" method so that when the world movie is clicked, the marble travels to this new position. The probl...more >>

_root.onQuit Event?
Posted by Jim Esteban at 6/9/2006 9:27:22 PM
Is there and event that occurs when the user presses the page refresh and the current swf stops playing....more >>

controlling swfs from other swfs.
Posted by bB_ at 6/9/2006 9:12:04 PM
hi there. the site i've designed has a background layer, a navigation panel layer(menu) and the content is loaded as separate swf files on levels behind the navigation panel. to allow for seamless unload of the content i want to control the transition from the navigation panel layer. eg. W...more >>

External Images not loading in Flash 7 player
Posted by CBecker at 6/9/2006 8:32:40 PM
I'm have a site that has a Flash intro that loads random images from a directory. I published the movie for Flash 7 player in MX 2004. http://www.portcityarch.com If you view this on a PC in IE6 (or on a Mac with any browser) with Flash Player 8 - it works as expected - the images appea...more >>



external API question
Posted by Vee at 6/9/2006 8:11:08 PM
Everything I find uses components to use the external API. Im not looking to use components. Thing is I cant get the simplest of things to work. Like the below. Ive changed the all code on the HTML page to "always", so that it can work locally. Nothing works. None of my old JS works in FLas...more >>

Published Movies Link to Old Source
Posted by beevyarr at 6/9/2006 7:59:24 PM
Working in Flash 8, publishing Flash 6. Optimized for FPlayer 6r. Having published before with numerous changes, I made simple link changes to button code that will no longer publish. Example: Original Code on Button Instance: on (release) { getURL("pdfs/"+prodID+".pdf", "_blank") ...more >>

moving a movieclip's location
Posted by ofeet at 6/9/2006 6:53:15 PM
let's say i have _level0.box1.ball I want to move ball into _level0.box2 so it will become _level0.box2.ball How do I do this and have ball keep all it's original properties?...more >>

Instanciate a customized button
Posted by Jesús_Ángel at 6/9/2006 6:51:09 PM
Hello I want to attach several buttons at runtime. These buttons have to had several attributes and methods. I have created a new class that extends the button class: class MyButton extends Button { public function MyMethod():Void { trace("Estas en mi método"); ...more >>

loadMovie question
Posted by dante013 at 6/9/2006 6:35:07 PM
I have a .swf movie I am loading into a main movie. The .swf movie has two frame labels that I would like to call from the main movie, is it possible to have two buttons calling the different frame labels from the main movie? ...more >>

My First Function
Posted by sbryner at 6/9/2006 5:36:47 PM
Hello, I'm trying to create what I think would be a very basic button. I want to enlarge an _mc when onRollOver occurs and decrease when onRollout occurs. So below is the function I created for enlarging it and making it smaller. can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? this code...more >>

New Line - mailto:
Posted by ufitzi at 6/9/2006 4:55:25 PM
I'm using the getURL() method to open a new email message window for the user. This works fine, creating the email window w/ pre-filled subject and body values, but I need to insert new lines to seperate a few fields. I've tried \n, \r, and newline, none of which are working for me. Here's my...more >>

Prevent the textfield from resizing
Posted by nmariano at 6/9/2006 4:16:32 PM
How can I prevent a textfield from resizing when I would resize it's container movieclip? Instead of the tf scaling with the mc I want it to just stay the same. Help anyone?...more >>

LocalConnection.allowDomain
Posted by Vince at 6/9/2006 4:13:32 PM
Hi, Does anybody know if the 'allowDomain' method of the LocalConnection class actually works? If I create two movies and host them on different servers, they will not communicate even if I return true from the allowDomain method. They work fine if they share the same domain. Any help ...more >>

Flash Detection Kit Help (Java Script version)
Posted by mgilvey_IPG at 6/9/2006 3:16:07 PM
Greetings, I recently downloaded the Adobe Flash Detection Kit and I have decided to use the "Client-Sid Scripting to Detect the Flash Player Version" urm version (page 6 of the PDF). I have opened the accompanying HTML file "ClientSidDetection.html" and copy/pasted the script (lines 6 - 1...more >>

Arrays and loops
Posted by ab9hz at 6/9/2006 2:46:36 PM
i'm loading variables from an external txt file into arrays - one for course titles and one date array for each title - which then get loaded into comboboxes. the text file looks like &totalcourses=5 &c0=Please choose a course... &c1=Assertiveness at Work &totaldates1=4 &c1d0=Select ...more >>

Preload and Park
Posted by Prashant at 6/9/2006 1:50:51 PM
Hi All, I am loading images using xml file. Its working fine the only problem is am facing is that client also need when first image is loading secound image should also load side by side so that when client click on next button they should not wait for longer period. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Replay button?
Posted by tim_lti at 6/9/2006 1:30:54 PM
I have an element on my flash page that I want to replay the entire flash piece, but when I use it, it only replays the audio. The audio is aattached to the control and the code looks like this: on (press) { stopAllSounds(); gotoAndPlay(1); } Replaying the audio is fine, but I...more >>

flash slide presentation
Posted by niki115 at 6/9/2006 1:14:24 PM
i making a flash slide presentation in flash 8 .i want to make a presentation where it goes automaticaly without entring buttons. i have got 3 slides when i run it it goes like from slide 1 then 2 then 3 then again it perform transition on 1 but after 1 it stope and doesnt move ahead ...more >>

Preloader shows 0% but image loads
Posted by aniebel at 6/9/2006 12:58:45 PM
To me, this looks like it should work but the text field either displays "loading... 0%" or if I reload the page it displays "loading...100%" but never steps to "image loaded". Don't know if this matters or not but this is an external .AS file that's included in the first frame of the main mov...more >>

component not working
Posted by dave at 6/9/2006 11:25:51 AM
I have a drop down component that works fine within its own movie clip, but when I use loadmovie to import it into a prent container clip the functionality stops. Any ideas why this may be happening? Thanks ...more >>

problem with printing from an URL
Posted by jonsaul at 6/9/2006 10:54:18 AM
:confused; Hi, my first post on this forum......so hello everyone !! Im trying to print a file on my server from a flash app, I have been using the printJob class. This function always spools the whole of my parent .swf file and not the file pointed at by the URL(a.pdf). Is this ...more >>

how to link into flash from HTML
Posted by NullAgo at 6/9/2006 9:44:53 AM
We have a site, entirely made in flash. We link it to another page with the same navigation and look but HTML instead. I now what to make the HTML-Navigation work and bring me not only to the index.html with flash embeded, but deeper into the flash side. I know, this is done via getParameters ...more >>

scrolling gallery problem - doesn't reach end of movieclip
Posted by careysizer at 6/9/2006 9:36:47 AM
take a look http://www.rutherfordstudents.com/artgallery.fla . ive tried a majority of what I can find on the internet, however none seem to be able to scroll right to the end of each side of the movie clip. is anyone able to point me in the right direction? also, an acceleration / deceleratio...more >>

Desktop screensaver in flash
Posted by eeswardelihi at 6/9/2006 8:44:19 AM
Hai to all, I need some guidance to create Desktop screensaver flash mx 2004. I wrote the fscommand code. I published my file. Now I had these files one .html file, .exe, .fla. How to set my .exe file as desktop screensaver . Looking for early reply ...more >>

Target path issues, multiple nested mc's
Posted by barwench at 6/9/2006 8:02:35 AM
I have a movie clip with a total of 15 nested movie clips within it. My goal is to be able to scroll through these 15 mc's, they're thumbnails. Before I nested all the individual movie clips into one, they expanded when rolled over. Now that they are nested, they don't expand when rolled ov...more >>

Almost there
Posted by Daninator at 6/9/2006 7:02:23 AM
Hiya, I finally found the code I needed for making a button that pauses sound, well... kind of. At the moment I press the play button once and the sound plays, then I can pause the sound with the pause button and resume it with the play button. The problem is when I press the play button when ...more >>

Linking Internal Webpages
Posted by Ryan Rabe at 6/9/2006 2:10:39 AM
I'm trying to create a rollover that when clicked will (in a webpage) load a designated page. I've made that roll over and all that, but I'm having difficulties generating a linking command. Thanks, Rabe ...more >>

Netstream Resume
Posted by mitchlrm at 6/9/2006 1:50:15 AM
I'm using netsream to play a video file. I can start it, stop it, and pause it but nothing I've tried works to resume playing the video. I use my_ns.pause() to pause the video. I've tried both my_ns.pause() and my_ns.pause(false) to make the video resume but neither seems to be having any e...more >>


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