I have 10 items within a scene. Each item is labeled by numbers 1-10 and when you click on a number the scene advances to that number within the scene. How do I use an arrow button and activate it where when clicked, it advances to each number? For example: when you clikc the arrow i...more >>

Hi, I recently created a game that i added to my members area of my website. At the end of this game i wanted to have a high scores table that gets the username from my website database and somehow makes a high scores table. Can someone help me because I have no clue where to start. ...more >>

I am dealing mainly with a nested array of objects that I would like to be able to save to a .txt or .html file. Because flash can't do this (I assume for security reasons) I need to use a PHP script. The only problem is, I don't know how. Can someone please inform me of how to save a flas...more >>

Ok I don't know what I did. I'm working on a site that has it's own pop up windows. When you click read more, you can adjust the Horizontal size and move the window around with in the flash movie. Ok now the problem. I can't seem to get more that 4 different kinds of windows. Some links open ...more >>

Hello all: My question... Is in reference to the rotating 3D cube located at this site: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/faces_depths.htm I'm interested in making a slight change to how it works and I'm hoping someone here can provide some guidance. I want to have 4 t...more >>

I know that AS is a Flash thing through and through, but I want to start to develop in Flex and it uses AS to make things 'happen'... Does anyone know good books to read that will teach a person AS 2 or 3 without depending on the Flash interface? How to handcode AS. I made the mistake of t...more >>

I am not sure if anyone else is interested in discussing how to pull of AJAX-style behaviors with ActionScript and XML in a traditional HTML delivery but I thought we could start a thread here (if you don't know what I am talking about, check out http://www.fjax.net ). My first question ...more >>

I have a web servlet that a third party creaded for my company that I'm trying to post data to, The way they set it up is by posting a starndard XML document (or string) that's wrapped by a pair of non-standard tags (the tags are --<<tagName>> -- ) . Its a little bass-ackwards, but I suppose t...more >>

I have a movie using the V2 menubar component to load another swf in the same stage using loadMovieNum. Buttons in the loaded movie work once and then fail until I move the cursor (even just slightly) , then they will fire again, once. I found a post for the same problem back in 9/04, b...more >>

Hi I have created a silly little flash movie- just playing around - that works fine in IE but does not load in Mozilla Firefox. or Netscape Navigator. Any ideas why? http://www.flash.angelicdesign.co.uk/ - Don't laugh I am new! Thanks in advance. V ...more >>

Hi, I have many products out there that use a TextArea Component with an <a> tag that calls another url as in: <a href="anotherPage.html">Click Here</a> This functionality stop working on Flash Player 9. My old products are useless until Adobe fixes the bug, but now I have to figure ou...more >>

I can't seem to get the proper script happening to load swf files from the buttons on my menu page. Help?...more >>

Hi I have created a silly little flash movie- just playing around - that works fine in IE but does not load in Mozilla Firefox. or Netscape Navigator. Any ideas why? http://www.flash.angelicdesign.co.uk/ - Don't laugh I am new! Thanks in advance. V ...more >>

Hello In the attached fla file: dynamic_color_fading.fla Now, the Publishing Settings are set to Flash Player 5 (actionscript 1.0 this is fixed) and the file works fine. As you pass the mouse over the little squares the big square fades to that colour. BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT when you...more >>

Hi all, Briefly -- I'm using Flash 8 Professional and I need to load data From a .txt file INTO an action script object. I tried following the steps outlined here: http://www.visualxtreme.com/flash_tut1.html but failed to get results. Any ideas? More Detailed description: I have a map...more >>

I'm looking to condense some code on a photo gallery I'm working on where I disable the next or previous buttons if there isn't a next or previous image to present. I wanted to break away from the standard multiple line approach... nextBTN_mc.onRollOver = function() { this.gotoAndStop(1);...more >>

hello i am having a problem with the mySound.position thing i have a movie in which the user can change songs, but when i do that, the position continues to run all the time. i want to make it start again every time a new song is loaded, and i tried to do that also by setting a variable to...more >>

Silly, but a big problem as I am in a crunch.... Have an .exe file that will run on a CD, that is the main movie. That main movie .exe calls other .swf's into a target. Inside of the .swf's are buttons that call local .htm files and for some reason getURL does not work!!! When I click the but...more >>

I have a swf that contains a datagrid of names. When you click a name the flash file loads in a jpg image from a server. Sometimes it shows the security sandbox violation sometimes it doesn't. How can it be so temperamental? Please can someone answer this one. Thanks Dave ...more >>

Hello, I'm learning about prototypes and have done much reading. Most I don't understand or read over and over to retain slooooowly. The below code is what I've come up with, with the help of Blemmo's direction. The problem I'm having is I want to add the all the properties of the "s...more >>

imagine a flash that contains some buttons i want to do this. when we click on these buttons a text string that we define be written in an external text file on hard disk in any drive. for example(name.txt) note that we only want to write in external text file please show me this in w...more >>

imagine a flash that contains some buttons i want to do this. when we click on these buttons a text string that we define be written in an external text file on hard disk in any drive. for example(name.txt) note that we only want to write in external text file please show me this in w...more >>

I'm just trying out the sample code in flash 8 to give focus to a text field, and I've copied the code from the help pages and it simply doesn't work! When I run the code, there is never one of the text boxes active, until you click on a button. This is wrong i believe as there is a line...more >>

Hi. I am trying to create empty movieClips in runtime and load images to them. My problem is that it results in some performence problem. The thing is that I load images from a digital camera and each image is about 1MB. First of all, that takes a long time to load. Then i change the _x/_y...more >>

I have a tweening animation that fades images in and that moves images from side to side. I want to block all user intervention whilst those animations are...well...animating. Because is someone clicks on the menu before the image has faded in, it will remain pale...in other words, the tweenin...more >>

Hi, in my Flash movie I have some dynamic text boxes that are set to automatically retrieve text from a exterior PHP file (see code below). It works well except when viewed on Flash the dynamic text boxes always put an = at the end of the text even though it isn't on the PHP file. I have upl...more >>

hi, i have actually got two questions... the first one is how can i make a download button for a file in flash? so that when the user presses it he can have the save as, open, etc.. options? the second question is concerning dynamic text. is there any way i can edit the text and make it into...more >>

Is there a way to give a textfield a default textformat, so that an empty field gets automaticly this textformat when it gets a new text value?...more >>

hi i am developing hit counter in flash using shared objects. here is the code. hitcounter(); function hitcounter():Void { var lsoNotes:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("counter"); count = lsoNotes.data.hit lsoNotes.data.hit = Number(count)+1; hit.text = lsoNotes....more >>

here's a code I?m doing ... its working... I wanna know if its possible to simplify this code. (if its ok, thanks for reading) this is a math's problem... on (release) { if (a=="" & b=="" & c=="" & d=="" & e=="" & f=="" & g=="" & h=="") { _root.mostra.gotoAndStop("p0");} else { a...more >>

Hi I have a scrollpane component that I load different movieclips into dynamically. Is it possible to specify at what height the movieclip should be scrolled to when loaded, or does it have to load with the scroll at the top of the pane? For example if the loaded MC has 7 paragraphs, is it pos...more >>

Hello all, Reference: I'm creating a drag-and-drop game which has two drag-and-drop actions per movieclip. Essentially, I am dragging movieclip1 to targetclip1; on success successclip plays a sound. After this sound, I need to drag movieclip1 to targetclip2; on success successclip2 plays ...more >>

Hi, All, Who knows, what is "WD=f" member in the System.capabilities.serverString() ? I can't find its description in the help... ...more >>

I can get the data when i test it in my local machine, but when i update the files to server and check i cant. Why is that? below is the code, var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); my_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) { if (success) { bola= (this.toString()); } else { ...more >>

hello community, this is what i am trying to achieve. when a user clicks on a button, it will play an animation or display a picture in its own window. to my understanding, this can be done using the getUrl function. but when i attempted this, the movie loads and plays on the flash docume...more >>

Hey all, this is my first shot at trying to import info from an XML file and I am sure many of you will have some ideas on how to tighten my code (by all means suggest), but I am wondering if there is any way to import an exernal image into a MovieClip as opposed to using the Loader Component....more >>

I am working with dynamic text fields. I noticed when I write an empty string into the text property it loses its textformat. So I tried to save the textformat before writing values into that field and then set it again after that. But it does not work with the gettextformat funciton. ...more >>