:confused; Hi all, Im relatively new to Flash. Im having a bit of trouble at the minute creating a simple flash game. Its a very basic space shooter. When the user dies two buttons appear alowing the user either to restart the level or return to the main menu. Here is the script fo...more >>

I create a TextInput dynamically (with createClassObject). It works fine. I delete it and create a CheckBox at the same level. I delete it. I create the TextInput again at that level. It works fine. I delete it. I create a RadionButton at the same level. I delete it and create the TextInput ...more >>

I have a feeling this is a circular problem and maybe can't be done. I have a class (myOwnerClass) that instantiates a whole pile of other objects, one of those objects (myManagerClass) needs to reference many of the objects that are instantiated by the myOwnerClass. So right now I insta...more >>

I have this simple for loop which does everything it suppose to do.. load movies onto the Stage for(var i=0;i<Items;i++) { var t = this.attachMovie("holder","holder"+i,i+1); t.onRollOver = over; } My question is I'm tring to target each movie seperately on a...more >>

I am loading data from xml file. There is 12 XML nodes (in this case) I don't want to show all xml data in Flash by default. I am attaching one button on the stage for every 5 xml nodes (depends how much data I want to show per one page, let's say 5) So every time user clicks on one of thi...more >>

i have following actionscript in a frame: myVars = new LoadVars(); myVars.onLoad = function(success){ if(success){ trace(this.peter); trace(this.lastSiteVisited); } else { trace("false"); } } myVars.load("myData.asp"); and myData.asp <% Response.Wri...more >>

Hi there, My flash knowledge is little/non-exsistant and I would like your help. I am updating a website for someone that primarily uses flash. They have a movie that links to an external XML file. I am trying to locate the ActionScript to edit in the file but I can't seem to find it. ...more >>

I am trying to figure out what is missing from my function. Here is the code I am using. function keyplayed(keynumber:Number){ var thekey = "sound" + keynumber; _global.Sound.mysound = new Sound(this._parent.thekey) _global.Sound.attachSound(thekey); _global.Sound.start(0,1); } ...more >>

Hi, I'm relatively new to flash, and I am attempting my very first flash website. I've hit a wall though. I would like to ask the experts in here how to load an external HTML file within a dynamic text box? More specifically, I would like the following to happen: 1) User clicks on a ...more >>

I am running into a problem. I want to have a flash movie with a background that scales to the browser window but I want to have information to stay the same on the screen without scaling. There is a tutorial I went to that didn't work the way I wanted it to. "www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/...more >>

I have a quick question.. how come if I didnt include www, the database wouldn't work? thanks note: I also want to say thank you who have previously helped me with scripting problem as I have passed my final review. http://www.ivankandi.com/jive ...more >>

Hi Im making a lemmings type game for flash Sometimes there are 2 or more MC's that are over lapping at a certain point, all of which are in a hitTest array example code attached. When the hittest is run i want to pass a variable to ONLY the top MC, any thoughts on how todo this? J...more >>

Ive made a new topic for this cos the last one went wildly off-topic... Im trying to use info from the soldier instance to set up bullets he fires. Each new bullet wants to be its own instance/mc whatever. Thing is that I cant get the info out of _root.soldier and into _root.bulletX (where ...more >>

I've read other posts on sending flash forms to the cgi script fommail.pl, but I can't get it to work. I can get the script to work if I build an HTML form like this one: http://www.zenodesign.com/form.html My flash version does not work: http://www.zenodesign.com/master.html (click t...more >>

have a flv video in a moveiclip (embedded - 60 frames long) and when it is attached to the main movie am jumping it to the middle (frame 30) and moving it forwards and backwards with a drag. problem i'm running into is it is much slower when going backwards .... any thoughts ? ...more >>

how do i make a button move another object on the flash stage 20 pixels to the right?...more >>

Okay, let's say I have an XML file like this: [i]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <pages> <page url="01.swf" search="one" /> <page url="02.swf" search="two,2" /> <page url="03.swf" search="three,3,tres" /> </pages>[/i] Then, in Flash, I have loaded the XML file into a...more >>

Hi! I have a movieclip button and this is my code: b1.onRelease = function() { _root.b1.gotoAndStop(6); }; b1.onRollOver = function() { _root.b1.gotoAndPlay(2); }; b1.onRollOut = function() { _root.b1.gotoAndPlay(7); }; b1 is the name of my movieclip button. When the use...more >>

I'm having this issue with a flash file...when I click on the ,.swf file...I have to control/play...or right click play so the movie can play.. how can I make it play automatically. Thank you for your help ...more >>

Hi Folks! I have a Flash movie containing three Movieclips and three Buttons, one for each clip. As you might imagine, when you click on each button, it unloads the previous clip and plays the new selected movie clip in the centre of the page. See the following FLA file I created (with a...more >>

Hello all, I have two SWF's communicating via localConnection. Uers drag items from one SWF to the other, and I have the receiving SWF attach a clip and set its ._x and ._y to _xmouse and _ymouse, completing the illusion of seamless drag. However I'm having trouble getting Flash to recogni...more >>

Hi i am new to using UI compents in flash. Basically i havnt a clue where to start. Just some simple action script will help and be much appreciated if someone can give me it. Basically i have a question to ask which requires radio buttons to answer the question. I have a questio...more >>

Can anyone help me I?m sure that this is possible but I?m not sure how to do it. I have a movie clip placed in one frame and when that movie clip is completely finished I want to go to a different frame. The problem I?m having is that I have to put a stop in the frame with the movie clip to ma...more >>

Hi I changed the font using _global.styles.ComboBox.fontFamily = "AAA"; where ASU is an embedded font The font displays correctly when the combo box is open but closed it still show the default _sans Anyone help on changing the display font when closed? Many thanks Mark _g...more >>

I have a series of tiny movieclips (about 100 of them, cannot be created at runtime) already exisit in my main movie. These have been name from A1 to A100. I have to refer to one of these movieclips depending on a value calculated at runtime from 1 to 100. I don't want to use a switch & ca...more >>

Hi, I have a xml document with imformtion grouped as "slides" the text value of the slides are sometiems formatted with the [LI] tag these then populate a textArea component. my problem is that as soon as I load a text with the [LI] tag it duplicates on the all the rows... any one have a s...more >>

I would like to put the instruction attachMovie() in this code. If some Know nows ... myPhoto = new XML(); myPhoto.ignoreWhite = true; myPhoto.onLoad = function(success) { //portfolioTag = this.firstChild; numimages = this.firstChild.childNodes.length; spacing = 70; for (i=0; i...more >>

Hello everybody, first of all - sorry for my bad english :) well i think i found a bug in the TransitionManger.as Class File - Let's go through the script and the problem occurs running the script with the "Squeeze" Transition. Look at this AS script: import mx.transitions.*; ...more >>

I want to create Flash built-in components (buttons, combo lists, etc...) without having them physically existing in the library. Is it possible to register the one I want to use with Actionscript only? ...more >>

hi how can i solve the tabkey problem of a combobox... when i press the tab key inside a combobox... the focus doesnot move to the next element. why? can i solve this problem? Gustavo ...more >>

Here's one. When I pull in html formatted text into a text field and set the paragraph to align right, the whole line is set as a link. Is there anyway to make it so the link is not made for the whole line? Example: <p align="right"><a href="link">Link Text</a></p> Any help would b...more >>

I have a problem with automaticly stopping external FLV video (in flash 8 with Display component) at custom cue point. For example: if video is 400 sec long, i wanted to stop it at 300 sec. I've tried with totalTime action but it only affect the slider. So, LuigiL sent me this solution which sho...more >>

HI there, Just wondering if someone can give me some clues on what to do. I have a class that loads some text from files using the URLLoader class and the URLRequest class. I then have a method that performs operations on the loaded text. The problem i am having is that i don't know...more >>

Hello, I'm having trouble with my List component. I'm trying to make an MP3 previewer, where users can select the song they wish to preview from a List (component). The problem is that it works just fine when I preview it locally, but it doesn't work properly in Firefox and sometimes in IE t...more >>

Is it possible to click outside the movie clip on the website and still have the movie clip recognize the click? ...more >>

hi everyone! yeah, i'd like to simplify my AS this is: import mx.transitions.Tween; this.snapshot1.photo.loadMovie("image1.jpg"); this.snapshot2.photo.loadMovie("image2.jpg"); this.snapshot3.photo.loadMovie("image3.jpg"); this.snapshot4.photo.loadMovie("image4.jpg"); this.snapshot5...more >>

Can anyone tell me how could I run any application exe from flash player?...more >>

hi, I just can't figure it out which mc is the parent and which are its children. Please help. Here's the code: // generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu) // given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu // as well as any of the submenus GenerateMenu ...more >>

Ive been making a little flash game to learn about it Ive got this movie clip of a bullet that I want to be able to replicate everytime something shoots. At the minute the only way I can work out to replicate the bullet each time is using some code like: (when shot is fired) duplicateM...more >>

I'm very new to flash and almost embarrassed to ask but is there a simple frame/stage property that returns the number of objects/instances placed on the stage at any one time, I would like to do a loop to a specified count - namely the number of items on the stage/frame. Many thanks Mike...more >>

I am having an issue with buttons and loadMovie commands. In Firefox on my Mac the buttons work as they should, on my PC they do not. Is there a reason that something like this might happen. Here is an example should you feel compelled to look: http://www.natkendall.com/indexTmp.html ...more >>

Hi, Here's my problem. I have a movieclip "a_mc". I want to put the content of a second movieclip "b_mc" into "a_mc" or somehow replace a_mc with b_mc and keep the name. I tried the following but I'm getting nowhere: a_mc.swapDepths(b_mc); removeMovieClip(a_mc); b_mc._name = "a_mc"; ...more >>

Hello everybody, I have created a new website for someone, and I use two swf files which are connected to eachother using LocalConnection. Everything seems to be working fine.. it's just that randomly the buttons on the bottom of the page sometimes stop working. It doesn't seem to trigge...more >>

Hello folks, could please anyone tell me, what action script I have to assign to the button, if I wanna play a video clip from Flash library on release. The clip is called: Rain.mov I had try: on(release){ "loadMovie" (Rain.mov) } ...more >>

So I've used work-arounds with the intent of learning the proper format, but I've not run into the solution on my own. When you load an MC, and that mc references _root, it then references the above mc. (correct me if I'm wrong). When you use a loadVars, onLoad function() { //crap }. yo...more >>

Here is my situation. I have an flv with two event cue points. I have placed a FLVPlayback into my movie and called the instance "my_video". All I want to do is have my "begin" cue point tell my movie to gotoAndStop at frame 18 and then the second cue point "white flash" to tell the movie to...more >>

Greetings! I have some bizzarness happening. I have a component that my team built that I wanted to make able to emulate the Active/Inactive window thing that Windows does (since our components will be on a primarily Windows-based world). To do this, I put a mouse listener on one of the mo...more >>

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]kglad[/b][/b][/i] then why define a prototype function? just use a regular function.[/q] When I originally wrote it, I planned on using in more than one spot, but that never materlized. I am leaning towards just writing a new function. I thought it woul...more >>

Hello, on my website www.acottageflorist.net I have buttons that I thought worked fine. They do when you single click them, but when you double click them they take you to diffrent parts of my site. My button code for the buttons is pretty straight forward on (release) { gotoAndStop(16)...more >>

Hello folks, I know my question is probably stupid and very basic. But I am new in Flash, so there is obviously lot of confusion. I would like to post few video clips on my website (there are in Quick Time format right now) What is the best way to do it. Should I import it to Flash's library...more >>