Hi, I'm trying to find out how to bring to front a layer using action script. I have several buttons and want I roll over one of them I want it to come on the foreground. I'm actually not sure if this is possible. Anyone know a way? Thx Lucky ...more >>

Hey there, Not sure if this has already been answered, because I think I saw it a really long time ago. I'll make it very simple. I have an array and I want to, based on the arrays length, make a new array and randomize the order that all the numbers in the new array will be in. So...more >>

Hi group, i'm trying to make a simple FLA with put the difference between actual date() and other future date (like 31/12/2006) How to put time difference with action script?? Thanks in advance -- Saludos desde Oviedo (Asturias) Juan Menéndez Mastercafe S.L. www.mastercafe.com juan@...more >>

There's probably an elegant solution to this, but... can anyone provide pointers on the best way to display a date that's for example, 2 days ago...or exactly one month from today's date? It seems like this should be relatively straightforward, but I'm concerned with when new months/years inte...more >>

HELP! I must be doing something really dumb. I have a single frame .fla with a movie clip on it called circle_mc, and the following code on frame 1: var boxmaker:BoxMaker=new BoxMaker(this,circle_mc); I've attached the code for the 2 classes BoxMaker and Box. All works fine until I ...more >>

How do I put an action on a button so that when I click it, it will export a file? It can be any type of file, preferably a very small, blank .txt file. This file will then make our software bypass the flash intro if it is seen by the software. Please help. I can't find anything in the fla...more >>

can tranformation be applied to dynamica and input text. i have seen a tranformed input text field. I am sure this can be done. When I tranform the dynamic text then its text disappears. Scaling does not disappears the text but does not show any effects too. Please help. ...more >>

can tranformation be applied to dynamica nd input text. i have seen a tranformed input text field. I am sure this can be done. When I tranform the dynamic text then its text disappears. Scaling does not disappears the text but does not show any effects too. Please help. ...more >>

How do you get trace() to work from within a component script? ...more >>

I used the flash article to make an FLV player with play list from the bellow: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/prog_download.html Actually everything is working fine but I still need to add a Progress bar or Buffering bar when it loads each movie. Any help will be really appre...more >>

Should load an extrenal swf at this path; "sub1/sub1.swf", where the swf counts up to 13. Why not? function hitButton(nbrID) { btn = _root["subMeny_mc"]["btn"+nbrID]; btn.nbrID = nbrID; btn.onRelease = function() { _level0.mcl.loadClip("sub1/"["sub"+nbrID]+".swf", 50); } ...more >>

the output is: OMG in init question is..why can't i call methods in the loadVar's onLoad function? i understand saying: dictioLoader.load("words.php"); trace(fourLetters); will return undefined since fourLetters won't get filled up that fast...but why can't i call it after ev...more >>

Hello, I am having issue with my html file dropping. I have a master swf, and inside that master swf with a mp3 player the progressively downlaods external mp3. From that master swf other external swfs load into the master (when click on buttons) I have completely different loadVar names for...more >>

I want to make a flash file like this... check this... http://h1.ripway.com/jamescherry/ask_xml.swf ...more >>

My sendForm function works properly, but whenever a webuser presses the submit button, the browser opens a new blank window, even though the tutorial from which I learned the actionscripting doesn't seem to be afflicted in the same way at all. function sendForm() { gatherForm.email_to ...more >>

Sites like youtube that let you know the embed tags, is it possible to use these to play the video from that location into my site... eg.. myVideo.play('http://www.youtube.com/v/4aQSpV5cERY.flv'); However this does not work, According to youtube the embed... <object width="425" h...more >>

i keep getting this error when testing for syntax errors: The name of this class, 'Word', conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded, 'Word'. i already searched about this error in livedocs and most of them said that it's a time based error. So i checked and adjusted my tim...more >>

Is it possible to move to a new scene/marker/frame etc at midnight everynight (GMT)? A simple animation needs to change colour everyday, without having to do it manually....more >>

I'm writing code for a simple game, and I want my code to be contained within ..as files, and have as little code as possible on the timeline or inside movie clips. My main actionscript file controls when and where to play appropriate movie clips, but I've run into a bit of a problem. I ha...more >>

I'm building a website with a simple frameset - a top banner, a navigation menu frame on the left and a large, central main frame for displaying content. I am able to ActionScript assigning the GetURL function to buttons in the Flash movie that functions as my nav menu. However, I can not se...more >>

I am working on a SWF (flash 8 pro, export 8) that dynamically loads progressive FLV's from a list component to a FLVPlayback component. I have encoded all of the videos with the Flash 8 default converter. Most of the time, all goes like it should, however occasionally on testing the playhead ...more >>

Will the FileReferenceList class or FileReference Class work for this issue:? I am working on a kiosk project that will be updated dynamically. Is there a way to have flash detect what is in a folder before I have the shell play through the sub files. I know you can set it up through xml and...more >>

hey.... ive been wrestling w/ this problem for a few days, and havent been able to come up with a solution.... any direction would help ! here is the dilemma, im working with a parallax scroller ive found on flashkit. http://www.popmontreal.com/TEST/TEST2/ im trying to limit t...more >>

I neded pages' numbers buttons. I wrote the no. 1 then I turned it into a symbol- button and whent to edit it. on the 4th frame ther should be the chance to set something called active area (don't know if correct I got the Italian version) after having set it I went back to the scene and check...more >>

why links to scenes don't work. The action script is correct but when I go checking the project with an export (.swf) and I click to that button the scene linked to it is not the sameone that appears on the action script. WHY? It's driving me mad ...more >>

Here's a summary of my code: -------------------------------------- _parent._parent.MyMovie.duplicateMovieClip( HA, 0, _parent._parent.MyMovie) _parent._parent.HA._x = 100 _parent._parent.HA._y = 100 trace(_parent._parent.HA._y) ---------------------------------------- And this wil...more >>

i'm using this trick to load my XML file so i can be sure i'm not using a cached version. xml.load(fileName+"?killCache="+getTimer()); prob is when I publish when I'm editing in Flash it doesnt like that path with the extra goodies thrown in on the end. what var can I check for to te...more >>

I am trying to animate a word flying across the screen at a nice uniform rate. Sounds simple I know.But it seems to start grinding to a painfully slow pace once I start moving it across my stage. I have an array of names thatI pull the text from. For each name there is a movie clip with...more >>

Hello all I have a random picture flash animation that works with one frame only. The principle is that it loads files from an Array of filenames that is staticly filled out into an empty Clip object on the timeline. Works out great! But the problem I have is that I have to make it dyn...more >>

Using a button to mute sound, I have inserted this code: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- on (release) { tellTarget ("mymusic") { volume (0); } } ------------------------------------------...more >>

I develop 1.swf which is having 3 buttons each one having anather .swf to call 2.swf, 3.swf respectively. This application is running perfectly on my PC, but While uploading the swf to server the 2.swf and 3.swf is not running. Can any one tell how to recover from this kind of problem. ...more >>

Hey everyone. I have several fields on a form using input field and combobox components. I have a validation check happening to ensure that all fields are filled in and if they are not, I change the background color of the text fields to yellow. But I want to also change the color of...more >>

Hi, I am having problems with string manipulation when the string is Windows path, such as: "\\Users\Me\Desktop\photos\photo4.jpg" What I want to do is to replace all the "\" with ":" (I am writing to file using 3ed party - Zinc and need to convert Windows path to mac and back) I need ...more >>

I'm using the NetStream Class to control the playback of an external flv. I've got a Pause/Play button using .pause, and Fast Forward and Rewind buttons using ..seek. What I want to do is once the video is done playing to automatically reset back to the beginning of the video, allowing the use...more >>

Is it possible to set the dimensions of an externally loaded jpeg, so that if the image is too small it will be stretched to a set dimention of in my case 850X600.????...more >>

I created an empty movie clip and I'm loading an image into it and that works fine, however when I load a GIF with a transparent background the image fails to display. I switched it to PNG, same thing. Then I changed it to JPG with a black background and it works (of course without the transpa...more >>

Hi! I am loading .swf files into my movie, some of which have startDrag in them. I need to be able to turn off dragging and then resume it sometimes but I don't know how to find the object in the embedded movie that's being dragged. Is there a way to find the currently dragged object? I th...more >>

Dear Forum I'm still having problems with my text field. I'm slowly getting a grasp of things. I realized earlier that one main problem I oversaw was to embed the puncutations in order to be able to see the < > tags in my html field. My front end application however still doesn't pro...more >>

Hi all I would like to put together a simple slideshow that shows a series of images I pass in (parameters/xml?) and they will fade from one to the next. If the user clicks on the image, I want it to take you though to a page about that image. I.E. A picture of a Ford, Chrysler and BMW....more >>

I have one button in my application. I want to check how many time the buttion is clicked in a day / in total and print the count somewhere. Or create the log file for that. Can anyone help me for this? ...more >>

Hey ladies and gentlemen I'm currently converting one of my project to as3 and I hit a wall with this preloader problem. Before, with as2, I was using getBytesLoaded() and getBytesTotal() in a frame loop to display a progress bar and know when the loading was finished. I can't seem to f...more >>

My Flash Actionscript [b] var myText:String = "hello"; var letterNum:Number = myText.length; var startX:Number = 0; var startY:Number = 0; for (i=0; i<myText.length; ++i) { var flyingLetterArray:Array = new Array(); flyingLetterArray.push("flyingLetter"+i+"_mc"); flyingLetter_mc...more >>