I've got a menu I'm programing, but I am starting to forsee it being a lot of code.. Is there a way to cut down this code specifically? I've got it so that the alpha level of a button goes down to 60 onRollOver and the alpha goes back to 100 onRollOut. Is there a better way to do this? Her...more >>

Can anyone explain what flex is? thanks e...more >>

I am trying to target a button inside a dynamically loaded movieclip, such as the following (but is not working): clipAnswerYesNo: Movieclip testbutton: embeded button Script is on main timeline. _root.clipAnswerYesNo.testbutton.onRelease = function() { trace(userAnswer); } D...more >>

Basically I'm trying to make back and forwards buttons in my flash document. I've gotten to the part of writing the actionscripting and for some reason I'm having problems placing the code on the individual frames. What happens is say I go to frame one and put some script in there for an array...more >>

I need a button to do absolutely nothing when conditions are right. For example if a != b, then don't act like a button at all. Is there ActionScript for "do nothing" or "ignore everything"? Right now the page is not navigating on press, but it is re-loading the same page, and that's not...more >>

I need a button to do absolutely nothing when conditions are right. For example if a != b, then don't act like a button at all. Is there ActionScript for "do nothing" or "ignore everything"? Right now the page is not navigating on press, but it is re-loading the same page, and that's not...more >>

Hello everybody, I have a Web site make entirely with flash MX. My Web site contains several button, when I click one button a drop-down menu container of other button appears. (A animation make this). My problem is : I can't click on a button already clicked (to remake to unroll the men...more >>

hello, i have a scrollpane on my stage at authoring time. then i have a comboBox with a listener, that on "change" puts my external .swf into the scrollPane. the problem: sometimes it works, and the scrollbars and the .swf show up, sometimes it doesn't, and the .swf loads on top of the s...more >>

This script works fine when published for player 6 but not for 8. In 8 there is a delay. What it does, it writes to a text box with a Variable defined as text. Whatever is typed in the text box it will animate like it's being typed. I need it to work beign published for player 8. Any ...more >>

Can you at to the script below if the file is missing or not? If he is missing this._parent stops for example. If the file is not missing he says, this._parent.gotoAndPlay(2);. I use, tholder = _root.subload+"img_01.jpg"; and loadMovie(tholder, this.thumb.holder); to activade the movieclip...more >>

What would I put the trace() on?...more >>

SWF Protect v1.6 can help you to Encrypt and Protect your Macromedia Flash? SWF Files from ActionScript Decompilers. Movieclip Actionscript obfuscation. Button Actionscript obfuscation. SWF Protect v1.6 can defeat the sothink deompiler 3.3 and other decompiler tools. ...more >>

Sorry, I have never used BitmapData Object. Is it possible to load a jpg using MovieClipLoader object and create instance of BitmapData Object using the loaded image? Thanks, ...more >>

I've created a drag and drop game using the _droptarget command and it works fine as a stand alone thing, but once it is loaded into another mc (as it is going to have to be!) it no longer works, my object still snap back to their original position on release, but the _droptargets do not work ...more >>

Hi, I know there have been severa postings about preloaders, but I still don't seem to understand this, so I hope some good soul out there can help me with this...please?!!!! I have a project in which I have my library full with jpg images (icons), and at the beginning of the movie I load ea...more >>

I am using Flash 8 for a simulation exercise and we are using screen shots of our software and I need to be able to put a transparent text entry box over an area of the screen shot and I need it to have the cursor blnking in the text entry box as soon as the frame displays. Is there a way to d...more >>

Hey, Using the "loadvariables" to send my vars to an ASP mailing script. The mailing script produces an HTML formatted email... In flash, my 'comments' area is a multiline textfield. I need to detect the carriage/new line feeds so as i can accurately reproduce them in the mailed email. ...more >>

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me understand the right way to do this. Basically I have some programmatically attached movie clips which are attached in a loop, so the only way I can reference their Instance names is through using a variable. I want to do this so that I can attach a cre...more >>

hi. i am using the alert component. when viewing locally, everythign is fine, however, when publishing and uploading, the alert box contains no text.... it seems similar to a dynamic text field with no embedded text problem. cant figure it out... has anyone experienced this? ...more >>

Hello My Favorite and Most Helpful Community, I am STUCK. I am *so* close, that this last step is driving me crazy. This one is a be-atch to explain, so I have posted the SWF for you to play with and the FLA to download at this link. http://www.culshaw.info/junk_drawer/xdin/nav_problem/ ...more >>

After updating my data and redisplaying it in my datagrid, I what to reposition the display of data in the grid with the same row at the top of the grid. So I need to deremine what the vPosition of the row currently at the top of the grid. How do I get the vPosition of the that row before I up...more >>

Hi, I have 25 mc instances which called mcBlock01, mcBlock02, mcBlock03, etc. In each mc instance there is a button(btChangeColor) and text field(words). What I want to do is when button clicked, it will change the text color in the previous mc instance. This is what I did which works fine:...more >>

hey everyone, im new to actionscript so if anyone could help me, that would be awesome. I've searched the flash help thing for this but i havent found anything that answers my question. What i want to do is when someone moves their mouse over a button, it plays a short sound. Pretty simple e...more >>

Please i need a code for password an section of my site....more >>

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem i am having. From within Flash I would like to be able to scan a directory, not local, and place the information in an array. With this ability I would also like to be able to go unlimited-(within reason) directories deep and also load the...more >>

I do apologize if this has been answered. I did a search but none seemed to answer my question or be intelligible to me. In my movie, I start with one small movie clip that begins at _alpha = 0. On the enterFrame, I have alpha increase by 10. When the alpha hits 100, I have it do two t...more >>

Hi Smile You know that game you play when your bored where you try to make a house like thing with a cross in the middle without lifting up your pen or re-traceing any lines that they already drew? (looks like a square with a triangle on top and the square has an X in the middle coming fro...more >>

Hey All, I am builidng a player in Flash MX 2004 which will show externally loaded SWFs to the user. One SWF at a time. The user is going to have back-next type navigation controls. Thats all. Simple. But I am facing a wierd problem in loading external SWFs. I want to be able to resize the ...more >>

How can I make a script that checks if a variable is loaded from a textfile? already thanks!...more >>

How can I update a variable from a textfile into a frame? The hard part is that I want to keep the same variables in the textfiles and I want only change the textfile name. example script on a frame, new loadVariablesNum(page); page = loadVariablesNum("data/img_autonoom.txt", 0); v...more >>

hey, Is there any way to make a function return a string onLoad? for example if i want to have a class for saving to php like this class.saveCrap() and I want this function to return a value. like var savedId = class.saveCrap() But since loadvars.sendandload() takes time I cant s...more >>

How I do, two peoples or more, use the same file, how I game where two peoples play in the same time....more >>

i have three textinputs on loading that scene i need to set the focus on the first textinput i tried using text1.setFocus() but when i pressed tab the focus does not go to the next textInput please help ...more >>

Dear list I am looking into ways to create a countdown until the launch of a website (days - hours - minutes - seconds )... I guess I could try looking at the user's clock but that one could not be on time... Another way I was thinking would be to get the initial time from the serv...more >>

Hi to All, I have entire animation in a movieclip.. it was done before without pause and play stop buttons..seek bar too but i required now.. i want pause the animation... the audio synchronization must be stop... is there any component... plz tell me how can do it... Thanks Satish...more >>