Hi all, I have a main.swf with a placeholder mc in it, when the main.swf start it will load mainmenu.swf in the placeholder mc at run time. I use placeholder.loadMovie("mainmenu.swf") statement to load the menu file, that is not a problem. But that's how far I can go, I can see all items in t...more >>

Hi, I have this gallery that is connected to a database. When I tested it locally (inisde Flash MX), it's working just fine. I can display the gallery correctly. But when I uploaded the file to my server, it simply didn't work. It didn't even load the php (i think). It didn't return a...more >>

Hello, I am creating a projector file, in which I need to create a button that will allow the user to close the application. As, I said before, I am new at this and hope that you can help me. I prefer to ask people who do this all the time vs. searching online. Sincerely, Jim ...more >>

Newbie question: I am trying to programmatically play a sound. I have some code in the first frame of an Actions layer. The entire FLA is 60 frames long with some other animation layers. No matter how I attach the sound, what start() signature I use, or what movie clip, if any, I cons...more >>

I have a button at the bottom of my movie that goes to a different frame. The button is approximately 800 pixels down. When I click on it, the movie jumps to the correct frame, but the html page displays at the area I've scrolled to y=800 (800 pixels down). Is there anyway to tell the movie to...more >>

Masks work on MovieClips, not layers, so you have to host the movieclip you want masked inside another 'holder' movieclip. Apply the mask to the holder, and then any movieclips you add inside that holder will be masked. ...more >>

Hi Guys, I'm creating a presentation cd with flash and flash video, the FLV file size is 200mb and plays ok when the flash movie opens. However if i try scrub to the end of the video a couple seconds into the movie the movie pauses for about 2 seconds before the buffering bar shows up, t...more >>

hello, an issue i have encountered: i have a comboBox with text sizes in it, and a listener to register the "change" event. there is also a dynamic rectangle behind the textField which changes its height to reflect the new height of the textField. now, when i change the size of the t...more >>

I have a movie in which I have a "Mask arrangement." The arrangement is that I have a Mask layer with several "cutouts." That layer is masking the layer below it which has only a single movieclip. I position the movie clip under a particular cutout so that it shows, then do some other stuff...more >>

I have a movie in which I have a "Mask arrangement." The arrangement is that I have a Mask layer with several "cutouts." That layer is masking the layer below it which has only a single movieclip. I position the movie clip under a particular cutout so that it shows, then do some other stuff...more >>

I am very new programmer in FLASH, just know the basics of flash. so please halp me while senario is I have made an animation of 10 Layers x 112 Frames. now i want that it should stop after playing once, then at 112Frame i have paste a button with all its effects. now i want that user shou...more >>

I have a list component which loads xml into it. I have multiple entries in the list that are the same and i want to remove the duplicates. if anyone has an idea or hint it would be appreciated. Thanks function loadGulf(){ import mx.xpath.XPathAPI; var cityXml:XML = new XML(); city...more >>

I am creating an application with comboboxes and using action script to load them. I can figure out how to change text color of the choices in the combo box, but can anyone tell if it is possible to make the text choices appear as different colors. For instance if I wanted all of the choices...more >>

I built a very basic flash movie of 6 pictures scrolling across a page for a client. You can view it at the link below. http://www.faziorealty.com I made most of the content on the site updatable through a protected Admin section, but now he wants to be able to update the images in the f...more >>

I've created a test swf with a ScrollPane component that successfully loads a movieclip. The code below is taken directly from the Language Reference but doesn't generate a trace output. I wondered if loading completed too quickly so I put a large JPEG in picHolder but still no trace output. ...more >>

I created a flash movie to be loaded into another movie using: on (release) { //load Movie Behavior if(this.holder2 == Number(this.holder2)){ loadMovieNum("theRetro.swf",this.holder2); } else { this.holder2.loadMovie("theRetro.swf"); } //End Behavior } when I play ...more >>

Flash 9 no longer reads ID3 tags from mp3 files located on other domains. That is unless the other domain has a crossdomain policy file. How is this possibly good for security? This breaks a ton of flash-based mp3 players out there. Please someone from Macromedia explain. ...more >>

I've created a thumbnail panel made up of buttons that scroll left or right depending on the mouse action. Once a thumbnail is clicked on the current behavior opens a URL. This works fine except that I want a new browersl window to open instead of the behavoir/action replacing the existing ...more >>

Im trying to make a game like this one http://www.miniclip.com/games/miniclip-rally/en/ but i don't know how to make the car go in the direction it is facing instead of going up the y axis. Does anyone know how to do that or a good tutorial about it? ...more >>

you must use the more cumbersome: function test(param) { trace(param) } _mc.onRelease=function(){ test("xx"); }...more >>

hello, i have an interesting problem... i have a rectangle (mcIn), dynamically drawn within (within on the stage) another dynamically drawn "hollow" rectangle (mcOut) (think rectangular doughnut) now, there are buttons to move mcIn with the idea being that when it hitTests positive with...more >>

Hi there, I want a simple solution, but in flash it's not as easy as I want it to. From the code below, it plays the movie then jumps straight away to frame 15. I want to movie to play until it reached frame 15, then stop. I tried a loop to detect the frame which is playing, but no ...more >>

I have an animation I'd like to add a Mute button to. There is background music set to Stream, and two other sound effects (also set to Stream) that occur during playback. I've tried various bits of code I've found here and online, but can't get them working together. I've basically ...more >>

Check this out: http://d14684333.r200.radiowebworks.com/magicbulb.html I created that the other day, and when you hit "Ask" the text box keeps flashing. It disappears off the screen. I put another text book the same everything below it, and when the first disappears around frame 5, it flas...more >>

i try to attach some .css on a textfild and it work because it load and i dont receive the error message but the .css effect dont work at all. // LoadVars var myLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); myLV.onLoad = function (success:Boolean){ if (success){ loadedInfo.htmlText = myLV.info; ...more >>

Hi There, I seem to be having major problem programming in flash... but learning it slowly... OK, here goes. I have a this _global variable called X. We have to detect what X is, then give it another value. Anyone can help? Here is my code that works well at the first time, then it doesn'...more >>

hi all, I need help on this one, here's the thing I want to create a flash application where a random data is called from a text file. My problem is how to get flash to call a random data from the text file. Here's what I got so far: _global.qno = "q"+Math.round(Math.random(5)); load...more >>

hi all please take a look at the following code: the code refers to a movieclip eg. checkbox1 that has within it a child mc named checked the movieClips are allready on stage and the function calls them by name in parameters if you look at the code, you will see that even thoug...more >>