I'm making an interactive chemistry education page and I have a problem. The user drags different elements onto a scale which displays the weight of the element. Based on the weight, the user enters the name of the element into a text field and hits enter or presses an enter button. If the...more >>

Hi, I'm developing an RPG in Flash 8 Professional. It's from bird's eye view, the character only rotates, background is the one that moves (the character is always centered). I've designed the backgrounds but the character walks through the walls, I've gone through a lot of tutorials but all o...more >>

I'm using AcrtionScript 3 and Adobe Flash 9 Public Alpha. I have 50 movie clips in the Library that use Linkage to set the Class name to: Img1, Img2, Img3, ..., Img50. I have a parent class named RandImg. I want the constructor for RandImg to randomly select one of the 50 movie clips from ...more >>

hello, I'm editing video in Final Cut Pro and need to export my timelines in FLV format for use in Flash's component video player. I was wondering if it's possible for the markers in the FCP timeline to export as cue points in the final FLVs. I know it's possible to put cue points in thr...more >>

I'm creating an animated menu using a series of MCs and wrote a function to reset them back to frame 1 whenever you choose a new menu item. I couldn't get it to work so I did a trace to see if I could even get the value of the current MC's frame & I get "undefined". I only have 2 MCs in the ar...more >>

I have a class file used for managing sounds, and it's method playSound(Boolean) gets called from another .as file. I have included trace statements for the name of the file from the library, and the duration of the sound that gets selected. At runtime, the appropriate string for the nam...more >>

:confused; Hi, I'm creating a LoadVars object in my main movie thusly: //------------- Loadvars Object ---------------// var myLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); myLV.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) { if (success) { _level5.loadedInfo.htmlText = myLV.info; } else { _leve...more >>

I want to create a variable, xSpeed, which has an equal chance of being either 10, -10 or 0. Here's what I've got so far: xRandom = random(3); if (xRandom<=1) { xSpeed = 10; } else if (xRandom<=2) { xSpeed = -10; } else { xSpeed = 0; } So there should be an...more >>

ok. this is a pretty long chunk of code. it's x10 basic math but can't figure how to simplify into shorter syntax. tenmillionsCount = Math.floor((counterStart-(billionsCount*1000000000)-(hundredmillionsCount*100000 000))/10000000); millionsCount = Math.floor((counterStart-(billions...more >>

Hello all - I DESPERATLY need help with this! I am using the code from kirupa's xml photo gallery with the thumbnails. right now the alpha changes on mouseover, fine...but my client is demanding that it draw a border instead. I have been at this for about a week and have NO idea how to do...more >>

I need to make a loop (which I know how to do) that needs to do this (which I have no clue how to do): Take arrayval and add the varaiable from the loop to make a variable name in which I can use to call them from flashvars i need something like var arraycount = 3 for(var c:Num...more >>

for example: Having a map with several cities on it. When you roll over the city name, a movie clip appears displaying that city's info. There is going to be many cities, so we want to shorten the code using a loop..or an array, i don't know. I tried naming all the city buttons as 'c...more >>

I am flash newbie. And I have a problem. Here it is: I have 2 shapes : shape 1 and shape 2 overlapping each other. What I am trying to do is when I start the movie, and when I roll the mouse over on shape 1 (initially visible), I want shape 1 to fade out and shape 2 to fade in . and when whe...more >>

Hi everybody, I want a square to rotate depending on the direction i move it to and depending on the speed i'll do the movement. I tried but i'll get only bad results, and i found nothing anywhere. =) Somebody knows a link to a good tutorial or other advice? Thank you very much. ...more >>

Is it possible to dynamically bind an XML object to an XMLConnector in ActionScript; and if so, how? Thanks....more >>

Hi, How can I make a dynamically created movie clip name variable? var font_mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("font", 1); font_mc.loadMovie("fonts/myFont.swf"); I'd like to be able to specify dynamically create "font_mc", like: var "font" + i + "_mc":MovieClip = this.createE...more >>

Hi, I entered a previous post and said that my External MP3 was not working with Flash 8.0. I tried a longer sound wave and what it appears to be that the sound wave is playing back but at a high speed that is unintelligeble. Does the MP3 file need to be converted or formated in a certain...more >>

I am trying to read a variable in my flash movie from javascript, using GetVariable. In firefox, it works fine for variables, but not for object members. Javascript code: var s1 = flashMovie.GetVariable("stringVariable"); // works in IE and firefox. var s2 = flashMovie.GetVariable("objec...more >>

I have a button in SWF film with code getURL("ziele_de.htm", "destination"); and I have <iframe name="destination" id="destination" </iframe> in my Index.html I need to load "ziele_de.htm" in "destination" frame In InternetExplorer works fine. In Opera, Mozila it does not work. Why...more >>

I am creating a counter of Baby Boomers turning 60. My script works (a miraclel!!); see below: now = new Date(); boomer = new Date(); boomer.setSeconds(0); boomer.setMinutes(0); boomer.setHours(0); boomer.setDate(1); boomer.setMonth(0); if (now.getTime() > boomer.getTime() ) ...more >>

I am trying to send variables from a flash form. No trouble for the normal form variables that sit at the root level, I press my submit button (which is also on the root level), and they all get sent fine. However, the variables that are inside a movie clip, are not sent (they are in a movie c...more >>

Hello! I've got a problem. Suppose that we have a symbol in a library MCcar with identifier "car" and assigned AS2 class "Car". This is definition of the "Car" class: class Car extends MovieClip { public x:Number = 0; public y:Number = 0; public function Car() { } pu...more >>

Hi friends! I have created some dynamic texts and i am triying to change the horizontral space between letters but it doesnt seem to work, how do i do it??? Do i have to know something special? Can i do it using code (AS 2.0)??? The funny thing is that the vertical spacing works perfec...more >>

Hey there helpful people. Got another doozy for you. If i have a block of text how can i get flash to recognise a word in that block of text (when it's clicked) and then change colour? Will it need to recognise how many characters along the text block, before it executes a change in ...more >>

restrict (TextField.restrict property) is not reliable! Using it in a very important Flash Form is actually driving me mad as users, despite this applied property, are able to enter ";" or "?" or ":" in Email Textfield on which the restrict property specifies: _root.mcEmail.restrict = "-_.@...more >>

I want to load a piece of text into a textfield depending on his variable with the variable id from the button. Can it be done? And how can I fix this? With this example below flash can't recognized the part of the text he nead. id = 2 _root.textload = "textfile.txt" this.onRelease = f...more >>

hello , I am developing a drag and drop application i would like to store all hit areas which are movieclip instances in a array var test_array:Array=new Array(); test_array=["target1","target2","target3","target4"]; late check which of the hit areas have the user droped some other ...more >>

Hi all... I would like to seek help...i created a scroller and i wanted the text to go back to the first paragraph after the mouse rolls out of the control button. I don't know how to do it please help me :( on (rollOver) { tellTarget ("mc") { nextFrame(); } gotoAndStop("...more >>

I had a problem when compiling my flash movie. I had made an instance from a class, but the output kept saying: "The name of this class, XXX, conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded XXX." I read a lot of developers have the same problems, when i looked it up: http://w...more >>