Hi, I'm building an expandable flash banner that plays video clips. You rollover a static image to open out a larger playback area. With this area I have an FLVPlayback window that i'm loading different clips into using a menu of buttons. There is also the option to close the banner to ...more >>

Hi I have a flash 8 combobox which I populate from a remoting call. The problem is that the width doesnt automatically resize for the text added to it. If I force a width using _width, it stretches the component. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance Shaun ...more >>

I have a movie clip (mc) I want to be able to drag around the screen with the mouse. The problem is within the mc I have some buttons, and these buttons stop working when I use the standard drag code for the mc. Below is the code I am using to drag the mc: mc.onPress = function() :Void {...more >>

i have built a drop down menu with xml and actionscript but i need multiple instances of the menu on the stage so i want to detect when the mouse touches the stage so i may close all current open menus. thanks ...more >>

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Hi, I searched in previous threads here and discovered that the only way to get the stage width and height of a SWF that you load in is to "create a rectangle on the first page of the imported SWF that is the same height and width as the document" - Is that still true? - Or has there been ...more >>

It will be local so could you explain what a wrapper for the projector is? Thanks....more >>

if i get my images from a .txt file, i think i have to use: g_img_urls[g_cur_page] and maybe loadMovie??? im not really sure, ive never had to do enlarge b4... some help on the script for the button would help me soooo much.. Thanks everyone ...more >>

I have a dynamic text field (W: 403.3, H: 45.6) with font Trebuchet MS, fontsize 35. I want to display a variable in here (an album name to be precise) which is pulled in from an XML file. However, if the variable text is longer than 23 characters, the text gets cut off at the end of the ...more >>

OK, this is a real noob question and I think I already know the answer but I?d like some conformation of my fears ;-) ? is there any way to globally mute sound effects placed in timeline layers or do I really have to make sound objects out of each and every one of them and use soundObject.setV...more >>

Hi, wondered if anyone could help me. I really like the way the images appear when clicked on in the gallery section of this website http://www.graemeswinton.co.uk Could anyone point me in the right direction, or know any tutorials i could follow to replicate this effect?? Thanks so much f...more >>

I need to create approximately 5 questions with yes/no answers for a self-assessment check. All the results need to be showed in a summary, so there are no right or wrong answers. I've had a look at the quiz templates and wondered if they could be modified in some way? I don't know very muc...more >>

Hi! Is it possible to know which MovieClip is at location x, y ? Thanks....more >>

Hello, I created a flash movie that has a "Contact us" form, that sends name, email, phone number and comments to an ASP.NET web page that acts as an email relay. If it is able to contact the ASP page, then it displays a "success" message. If it is unable to contact the server or if the ...more >>

I want to load a gif file into a movieclip and rotate it around its center point. But my code rotates the picture around the 0,0 point in the top right corner. var cx:Number = Stage.width / 2; var cy:Number = Stage.height / 2; import flash.display.BitmapData; //my picture 506px by ...more >>

Most of the Flash game books are still written in procedural code, sometimes with a small example of oop in .as files. I'm looking for some really good examples of simple arcade games written using best practise AS2 OOP (compatible with AS3 practises). 1. I'm assuming this will include m...more >>

Hi All, My problem is related to language inplementation in actionscripting. I am involved in development of a website.In which i am working on flash applications. This website is multilingual. We have finished working in English version and now we are looking for development in another l...more >>

I know this is most inelegant and I'm wondering if there is an easy way to clean this up rather than repeating it 12 times. (A fair number of eyes roll skyward about now - I'm a newb) How would I write a function that would take care of all of them, given that the instance names of each ob...more >>

I received a flash file that uses 'import' and 'include' statements for a number of external class files. The author has given me the published file and it was OK. However, when I tried publishing the FLA file from my system (I am using Flash 8 on a mac and the author uses its windows version)...more >>

Hi fellow flashers, My jsfl traverses an fla file looking for movie clips, it is working just fine but takes longer times for larger fla files causing flash to dispaly a message telling me that the jsfl is taking long time and whether I want to continue or not. How can I suppress this ...more >>

Hi, I've created an interactive map that loads data from XML. The map is made from several areas (MCs, currently 16) - all positioned in a "mega MC" that holds the map together. The JPG are loaded externally respectively to the area MC that it belongs to. The problem is that the Map MC (t...more >>

Hi forum, I'm working on jsfl routine that traverses the fla file looking for every movie clip. My routine is recursive meaning that each time I find a movieclip I call the enterEditMode('inPlace') function and then call the main function again. The problem is that I can't perform an ed...more >>

Hi there, I donwloaded a sample ffrom www.macromedia.com/go/component_samples. which embeeds check box , combobox into a list component..... I placed a new button on the stage called selectAll_btn , on clicking this button I should be ablt to make all the checkboxes in the list compo...more >>

Ok, here is a tricky one: I've got a project which was working correctly on all the platforms and browsers (early XP as well) and now the same disc is not working anymore only on windows XP machines. I suspect some security update might be the cause of some conflict with the javascript in ...more >>

This works by creating a bitmap on the fly then loading , but how do i work with a bitmap loaded in library from a file? import flash.display.BitmapData; import flash.geom.Rectangle; import flash.geom.Point; var bitmapData_1:BitmapData = new BitmapData(100, 80, false, 0x00CCCCCC); va...more >>

Hello, I mad 2 frames with on frame one the normal button and a code that it has to go to frame2 onRollover. On frame 2 there is the rollover button and I have got this code on the button on(rollOut){ gotoAndPlay(1); } What is the question. I want that after the rollout the roll...more >>

hi all, can u please suggest me some tips to improve performance of flash file using action script. thanks in advance....more >>