Hi, I am new to flash, and I wonder if someone could help me. I have a dynamic text field on the stage. I want to be able to do the following: when the user rolls over the text, the text changes its content, continuously displaying different texts out of an array that I have populated with tex...more >>

Hi, I am new to flash, and I wonder if someone could help me. I have a dynamic text field on the stage. I want to be able to do the following: when the user rolls over the text, the text changes its content, continuously displaying different texts out of an array that I have populated with tex...more >>

I have created a button that when pressed, moves a picture to the right in a smooth slide (this is for browsing through thumbnails of pics). When published to Flash 6 it works perfectly, but when publishing to Flash 8 it doesn't work. I have to publish to 8 because I have FLVPlayback flash vid...more >>

Hi! I need to know when the mouse leave the stage. I can't put a invisible button in front because all my other clips will be behind and "not effective". Is there a command like I don't know "stage.rollOut" or ... you know what I mean. Any suggestion is welcome. ...more >>

NOTE: This code is in a Movie Clip.. What I am trying to do is use FlashVars. I have HTML like this: <param name="flashvars" value="high=62&low=2"> I want highNumber to be = to the value high from above and if its not there highNumber to be =to 40, and the same thing for lowNumber. ...more >>

hello, sorta new to variables, so even the simplest problem seems complicated. i have a external .swf i want to load into a new and higher level each time it is closed and opened.... ive started out by decaring a global var at the begining of my script _global.loadLev = 5 ----...more >>

Ok, I am confused. First, this is not a problem when testing the movie in authoring, but it does not work in a browser. Second, this used to work with no problems at all both in authoring and in a browser ... now it doesn't. I have a movie (we'll call it "main") that loads in an external swf...more >>

The flash form has an input textbox for Name (var=t1), email (var=t2), phone (var=t3) and finally comments (var=t4) * each input textbox has no instance name The flash has (2) buttons "Reset" and "Submit" respectfully. The reset button as the following code to clear the input textboxes: on...more >>

hello, i have a "master" movie which loads another .swf on frame 5. after that each of the movies has a keyframe every 5 frames on the actions layer. i have some script in each movie on each of the keyframes. it has become fairly confusing to try to match them up and remember what is where. ...more >>

Help PLEASE!!! I am producing a display screen that displays information. The information is loaded by attaching a movie (single line display) and then loading the data. There can be 1 to ? of these attached movies. The number of entries in an Array decides the total number. See Code: ...more >>

I am writing a game where I want to use the key board to fire missiles. When the f key is pressed it keeps firing missiles until another key is pressed. Does the listener store the value of 70 for the f key and keeps thinking the key is being pressed. I tried to only use the listener withou...more >>

Hey guys .. i am back with set of query..till now .. key press movement a rocket (mc) is moving left right up down in a defined stage area. and i am able to generate some fire balls randomize falling from top. this is just i am duplicating the movie clip(fireball_mc) .... now i want incase or ...more >>

I have a fully functional Flash patch created with MX2004, Action Script 1.0. I'm now reworking it with Flash 8, and compiling it for ActionScript 2.0. I have a clip that is created like this: _root.attachMovie("DynamicLoadScreen", "loadscreen_mc", _root.getNextHighestDepth()); This ...more >>

Sorry for what's probably a stupid question. I know I've seen the syntax on how to do this, I just can't find it at the moment! What I mean is: I have a bunch of existing movieclips, on the timeline, named things like mc_1_1, mc_1_2, mc_1_3, etc. I want to procedurally hide all of them i...more >>

Hi wondered if anyone can help. I know you can set the stage background colour in flash and the published movie will sit central on top of the background. I want to set a pattern behind my published flash file. I dont want the scale of this pattern to change when the window is resized or moved...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to develop a little game. It's a simple 3/4 view (top-down view isometric) car game (quite classic I know). But what I'm looking for is how to add different layers in my game. I mean when the car is under a tree, then the car should disappear (now it runs over the tree), same wi...more >>