I have invisible nav buttons created in the authoring environment, that navigate to a particular frame. When I use MovieClip.createTextField to put text names to where the buttons are, the button function is lost. It seems that script-created text covers up the buttons, I just can't get to t...more >>

Hello all, excuse me, but what's going on with the External API? I've tried it and got it working on component buttons...but not on custom buttons? Have anybody here experience from this? Why isn't it working? Cheers Adrian ...more >>

I was wondering if there is a way to incorporate drop down menu's with a form and the user can choose from the menu what they wish and it will imput that info in the text box. I.e.--if a form asked for state and the drop down listed the states, the user scrolls down to Delaware(the best state ...more >>

I've used setinterval before in projects but mostly just copied, pasted and studied. I've studied them over and over but it's just not gelling with me. If anyone could explain it in a way that sinks in, I'll be forever in your debt. Here is what I've got so far but I know this won't work sin...more >>

When I click on a button that I have, is there an easy way to disable all buttons on a specified level? I've got a button on that loads a swf into _level25. I'd like to disable everything clickable on _level5 and _level20 Is this easily done? I tried this: _level20.enabled = false; ...more >>

I'm sure this easy but I can't seem to find the solution. I have a video clip (linked) that plays on a stop frame. Once the video has completed, I want to move to another marker. How can I do this? I'm using Flash 8 Pro. ...more >>

Hey, I have a client that would like to have the ablity for his website visitors to create and print business cards form the web. He also wants to have brochours ect for them to print. I have taken a look all over and have found a few possible solutions: Possible http://www.printingauto...more >>

I am using flash MX and looked in the actionscript dictionary and it came with that example: function Book(name, price){ this.name = name; this.price = price; } book1 = new Book("Confederacy of Dunces", 19.95); book2 = new Book("The Floating Opera", 10.95); Now the problem is...more >>

I want my Flash piece to load JPEGs at runtime. I thought Flash MX 2004 had this functionality, but searching "load image" or "load JPEG" has resulted in nothing. Is this possible? If so, what's the command? ...more >>

We are currently doing some research into the possibilities of using flash to run an online questionnaire - the questionnaire will driven by an sql/coldfusion database. The number of questions and responses will vary in length i.e Q1 may only be four lines long and would safely fit within 600p...more >>

Hey everyone, I have two swf files, one is a preloader and the second is the main file. I want to preload the main file using my preload swf. It works, however the main swf starts to play after about 11% of it is preloaded, how can i stop this? I want to preload the entire main swf and the...more >>

Using F8, AS2.0 What I am trying to do is to store an array inside of a slot in a Local Shared Object. (snippet from function) // leaderboardShare is the Local Shared Object // the variable scores is passed through this function // if no array exists, create one if (this.le...more >>

All, I have an application where students work on a graph drawing directly in Flash. They draw the graph with the mouse and I capture it and display it using Flash drawing API. I would like to save that drawing (either as data or as a graphic) to a file so it could be shown later in another ...more >>

I=B4m trying to convert global corrdinates to distance. I found a scriot in javascript but i have some problems to the adaptation to flash This my first on a button where d exist in a dynamic text, after i wish put dLat and dLong on input text: on (release) { LatLong.distHaversine =3D func...more >>

I'm not even sure what you would call this, but I'd like to do something similar to this: http://www.logistice.com I've been doing google searches most of the night trying to find a tutorial for something similar. Any suggestions are welcome. ...more >>

I am building a digital catalog using a flip book component and delivering through IE on a CD. I want the user to be able to right-click an image and be able to save it to their local drive. I'm not delivering the final project on the internet and my FINAL catalog will be opened through IE. ...more >>

Hi everyone, I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me out with the following.. I have a MC instance in main timeline in one layer and another layer called 'actions' (only one keyframefor both) This MC is containing another MC2 The MC2 is containing another MC3 This MC3 is con...more >>

hi, i importing into my movie an external image, once loaded make a bitmapData object of it, scale it by half and then attach it to a dynamically created MC (i know this procedure doesn't make too much sense, but its a part of a larger procedure which i won't describe in here). anyway, the ...more >>

my php seems to have trouble with an array that comes from a datagrid from flash. I then proceed to read the array and update the database but this doens't seem to work cause I can't get to the objects in the array. My return value to flash only produces "null" function updateNi...more >>

i'm trying to password protect a part of my site, and in this case it's the last scene in the movie. i have downloaded so many movies from flashkit in the hope that i could re-use the action script to do this but none of them are keen to work with flash player 8. i got this very simple one b...more >>

hey all when you put a script on a frame does it run just once or if it is stopped on the frame will the script keep run over and over? What about on a mc will it run continously if the main timeline is paused? Can more than one thing have the same instance name if they are in different ...more >>