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Dear List I'm using flash 8 and 'm considering using the transparent flash movie embed tag. Did anyone run into trouble using this feature? I'll be using actionscript 2, communicating with xml, php and mysql and do a little bit of animation... standard stuff. Are there any issues of an...more >>

confused; OK I admit this should be easy, but I can't seem to do it. I want to assign simple stop and start actions to frames in a main movie. I would like the movie to wait for a click to start (managed this much) and to stop at select frames when clicked and then restart on a click. The ...more >>

Hey i need help on this one.. ive created some files for you to watch.. its easier than start explaining too much.. its very simple.. when the movie containing the scrollPane compoenent gets loaded into the "main" swf.. it suddently gets this green border on usage.. i want to get rid o...more >>

Dear List I would like to tile a little image across the background behind a flash movie. It's basically the same effect as creating a 100% width and height table and putting a background image into that table that tiles itself until it fills the entire browser size... My flash movi...more >>

OK, I have big deadline for Monday and I can't figure this out. I have a bunch of movieclips that are set up with linkage for actionscript and set to export in first frame. Everything was fine and dandy for a week. Now all of a sudden Flash hangs when I try to export the swf. If I turn off the...more >>

i have a projector file, and i used the fscommand and the full screen. when the full screen comes up, the background goes white !!, how can i change the color of this background. Please id appreciate any suggestion. thanks in advance Juan ...more >>

Hello all, i have 2 scenes ; scene1 and scene2 in scene1 layer1 i declare an array list and fill its values. i go to scene2 by using "gotoAndStop".When i come back to scene1, all my array values are undefined:(( is there a way to keep those values? please i need help thanks. ...more >>

HI, I've done an web banner in flash that loads an external swf and changes for another external swf after 5 seconds. The banner have a preloader, but the problem becomes when it loads the first time. As the swfs aren't cached in the browser's cache yet, the time for 5 seconds starts to c...more >>

Im trying to make a 'button' with a movie clip so when you roll over it it activated the movie clip and when you roll out it doesnt go back to the start of the movie clip (like a button does). Iv put in this actionscript: onClipEvent screen_mc.onRollOver = function () { this.goto...more >>

Hey Guys, I know this is a simple answer but I can't find it in my book. I want Flash to get a jpeg from the folder where the FLA is located. But the jpeg is in another folder inside the FLA folder. Whats the code again to achieve this? ...more >>

So - it used to be my understanding that elements that exist in the library of an .fla are only compiled into the .swf if they are used in the .fla....and that ones that are not used, but exist in the library, are not compiled. However - I have a large application that loads other .swfs into ...more >>

Greetings! New to the forum here. Been using flash for several years -- more of a designer than programmer - though I have a moderate understanding of Action Script. Problem: using someone else's code -- free -- open source I need someone who understands using functions and setting v...more >>

hi pls advice what to use for controlling timeline of MC. i'm using appearence of background with alpha property from second frame till 5. in 1 and 5 frame stop(). so i have 4 buttons with different chapters above bg. i used action for bg gotoAndPlay(2); it works but every pressing of but...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create buttons that enlarge and reveal more content in the mouse over state. However the buttons do not overlap correctly because they are arranged at different levels, ie. some are in front and some are behind each other. Is there a script I can use that brings the enlarged ...more >>

Hello, I know this is a big answered question, but I can't find any solution for this. I remember I read some time ago a good example from Kglad, but I can't find it. The problem is I have a grid of n movieclips, all made at runtime, this grid is not inside any movieclip, she is bui...more >>

I am attempting to use flashvars to determine a getURL address to get... for example: the flashvars param is "returnto=.." on some, and just "returnto=." on others. the getURL(returnto + "/index.html", "_self") seems to work fine online, but when I download the URL to my local hard drive, ...more >>

myTextFormat=new TextFormat(); myTextFormat.font="Arial"; textBox.setTextFormat(myTextFormat); This does not change the text font to arial. The text stays as 'impact' font face. Any ideas? I have embedded both fonts. Thanks to any responders. J ...more >>

Hello As experts ;) I am new to Flash (about 2 days) but have intermediate programming experience in MEL. I am trying to create a projects page for my site, which consists of a banner per project, it then takes you into an article on the creation of the project... Each banner has an imag...more >>

I am trying to create a Flash form application using an accordian to hold the fields. The problem is I can't seem to load information into, or modify, elements within the accordian's children. Anyone know how this is done? ...more >>

Hello All! I am trying to open a SWF file from inside a SWF. This all needs to be dynamically in code, meaning the Main SWF will change based on the SWF that you are loading (think like skinning is the Main SWF and the inside is the loading SWF). What I normally do is load the SWF a...more >>

I know that practice, time and hard work is what is best for learning syntax for any language but I was wondering until time, practice and hard work kicks in where is the best place to look up the proper syntax for various statements. When I say best place I mean one that would be easy to s...more >>

hi, here is the case MC1 preloads a JPG inse itself but them i want to take that MC1 and use it or inserted into a different MC2 for animations hope this make sence how can i do it?? many thanks ...more >>

hi guys I'm reading in nodes from an xml file into flash. A node can consist of html code and various subnodes here is an example <fulltext> <p>once upon a time there was a[B]bear[/B]</p> <smallimage>bear.jpg</smallimage> <p>this bear was [I]huge[/I]</p> </fulltext> I need ...more >>

I have a flv which im loading in from another location (ie its not embeded), and Im trying to create a loop point using cue points. I have 3 cue points: begining, loop_point, end Basically when the playhead reaches the "end" cuepoint, I want it to jump back to "loop_point" Can anyone hel...more >>

Using Flash 8, AS2.0, streaming sounds via loadSound(url, true) When using the method Sound.duration, this returns whatever value Flash thinks is the length of the song. This is based on how much data Flash has loaded about the song. The duration is never really correct until the file has ...more >>

Hey, I was wondering how (or if it's possible) to display a variable declared in a separate swf file. eg. I have a game with a highscore variable called _level0.punteggio and I wan't to display that variable in a different flash file. I don't want to have to edit the original flash file wi...more >>

I'm trying to create a function that will insert commas into a number string. So "$3000.00" will become "$3,000.00", "$3000000" becomes "$3,000,000", etc. I have no idea where to go with this. ...more >>

I am still fairly new to actionscript, but am learning by working on small, simple games.. I am able to do "hit detection" with movie clips, but the problem is, when i draw a movie clip, it forms a box around the mc. So if the user hits any part of the "box" they lose... I want it to be J...more >>

Hi - I'm trying to write a class for a standard input form. I've got a movieclip in the library and have linked it to this class. (class included below.) This movieclip contains several text inputs which I have declared in my class file. I can get their ._x and ._y values, but I can't a...more >>

how can I make an MC rotate when I use the on (press) with the this.startDrag() function? I have tried many different ways of doing this, but all that happens is... nothing at all. I've tried fitting in the _rotation and the rotate command, but all fails. Please help me. Thanks in advanced. ...more >>

Is there anyway to have classes defined in external AS files to bring up a list of public methods when you are reffering to an instance of the class..... so when i type; myInstance. <- Then a drop down list would appear with my methods? Thanks for your help, ...more >>

Hi, I'm using an excellent online tutorial for making a Flash-based email form using PHP (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_email.htm). The only problem is that if the user doesn't fill in all the fields on the form and clicks the SEND button, the email is still processed....more >>

Why is this... when this progress bar moves while an mp3 is playing, if I set mcPlayProg to update using _xscale, the scrubby handle and the bar get out of sync - there is a gap as they move along that gets progressively larger. But if I use _width, there is no gap. ?? // play progress ...more >>

Hi, I have a dynamic text box that retrieves text from a PHP file that in turn retrieves text from a mySQL database. Sometimes the PHP file may necessarily display no text if the mySQL database is empty. However, when the dynamic text box in Flash tries to retrieve text from an empty PHP f...more >>

Hi, Trying to track movieclip reference if mouse is clicked on the movieclip. I have created around 50 movieclip dynamically on my stage. Now what I want is to track movieclip name when they are clicked using mouse. Any guess would be a great help. -Push ...more >>

hello what if i need to create this on the main frame, but with images [later...]? when i run, it gives me this 01-02-03 00-04-05 00-00-06 00-07-08 09-10-11 well? sounds simple... please help?:smile; ...more >>