On frame 20 I have a movie clip instance that has 2 buttons in it. One of these buttons has a function that goes _root.myFunction(); and accesses a function back in frame 10. The function works, but when I click this button it forces the movie to frame 1 and then stops. What is the problem?...more >>

I am doing the mouseover to small image(left) and will display the big image on right. THe first image is working as i want but the second image is not working even though i use the same action but different name. Can anyone tell what and where i did wrong? http://www.testnewsite.com.websi...more >>

I have a file in the root of a web server and prior to Flash Player 9 (I believe this to be the culprit) I was able to simply attach the following code to a button and the file would download (it will work in Mozilla browsers, just not IE): on(release){ getURL("file.zip", _blank); } ...more >>

Does anyone know if it's possible to access and modify a MovieClip that's been placed in a ScrollPane? I want to be able to manipulate a MovieClip at runtime with ActionScript, but allow the viewer to scroll the MovieClip... Do I need to find a different approach that doesn't use the Scroll...more >>

There are a lot of posts regarding timers that I have read, but I am still having trouble incorporating a timer with a conditional statement. Three circles appear randomly. For each circle that appears, I want its correlating box to appear for five seconds. I want the appearance of the box...more >>

Does anyone know if there is a way to get access to individual cells in a DataGrid so they can be individually formatted at run time? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I've got a dynamic text box that retrieves text using Action script from an external PHP file. It works well except when I set the dynamic text in Flash to be centrally aligned it still aligns the text to the left when I play the movie. I'm guessing it's to do with the script I'm using...more >>

Hello everybody, I have a question about a button-movieclip. I would like to write a script, executed when releasing the button. The goal of the script is to create a number of new MovieClips in the root.mc. the amount of that number is given by an external txt-file. so far so good. ...more >>

hi everybody! i'd like to know how to make buttons move in the direction the mouse is moved. like this site: http://www.sydneyblu.com/ i guess it isn't difficult, but i don't know so much actionsript. thanx in advance, i hope you can help me... cheers!:confused; ...more >>

I've successfully used the FileReferenceList to upload multiple files, however, when the files are selected locally, they are uploaded in a seemingly arbitrary (but consistent) order, rather than alpha-numerically by file name. Performing sortOn on the fieldName "name" on the FileReferenceList...more >>

Hello all, I have a button, and I want to have certain actions attached to this button depending on how many times someone has clicked on it. Pseudo-code in my head would be something like this: if this is frame 1, then if button click is first click, play audio file #3 i...more >>

i've got buttons sitting in clips which all sit on different levels. on rollover, i want the button to jump over all the other clip's levels surrounding it. anyone? sbb...more >>

I'm curious if anyone knows how i can scrub through a series of frames so it plays an animation but only when the user clicks and scrubs on it. More precisely i have a series of buttons in a circle, i want to be able to scrub so that the circle rotates and the buttons in the back come around...more >>

Hi, am doing an app which has several keys used to control the flow of the app. The problem is that when specific text fields have focus (and selected text within them), the controlling keypress replaces the selected text in the text field. This would normally be desired, but not in this c...more >>

Im fairly new to flash and am building a web page in Dreamweaver using two frames that contains flash movies on several pages. I have a movie on one page that contains buttons that link to another page, my problem is that I have another Flash movie in the new web page that needs to start at di...more >>

Hi can i know how many frames in flash... i want to animate some of things extended to 23000-60000 frames... i placed movieclip in the first frame and tht animation upto 23000 and the second one starts from 23001-60000, how can do this one.. plz help me Thanks :confused; ...more >>

I am making a puzzle with nine irregular shaped pieces. I have the correct x and y values which are used in if statement that checks the correct place of first three pieces of puzzle. I have noticed that the problem is in the "P2" piece. P1 and P3 work fine, but when the P2 gets in then statem...more >>

I have a .swf file in which I would like to have various other .swf files open separately at various points. For instance, this is an instructional .swf. If someone misses a question three times, the help.swf opens. The .swf files are not in .html pages, they are standalone and will all be ...more >>

:confused; Hi all, I am a Flash actionscript programmer. I have come across a peculiar need in elearning courses I have developed so far. Some of my users are not able to follow the speed at which the audio in content pages reads. I have hundreds of pages like that. I need to reduce ...more >>

Hi, I am wanting to be able to use the mailto (done that much) and wnat to include the text in the swf for the subject and body. eg.. in the swf, there is a text field 'Style 1001', and I wnat to include that in the mailto command so it automatically 'gets?' this text. So I need the ...more >>

Hi... I'm going to change my website from head to toe, and I would like to insert some new features. The site will have a news and portfolio section, no problem here. The issue is that I would like to update these sections without editing the .fla every time. Is it possible to create a php...more >>

I am new to flash but not to programming, but took an example from the docs but it doesn't seem to work... // Creates a parent movie clip to hold the container this.createEmptyMovieClip("logo_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth()); // creates a child movie clip inside of "mc_1" // this is the ...more >>

I was just wondering whether someone could tell me how I can publish my flash sites, so that viewers are not allowed to control-clicking and get the list of options like Play, rewind, etc.. etc... I noticed on alot of sites when you control click it gives you just 2 options: 'Settings' and 'ab...more >>

Well, I'm back with a different question. I don't think this is possible, but I need to change the document size using ActionScript. If it's not possible, maybe you can tell me a way to include as code from an external file so that I can create different sized files with the same code. Tha...more >>

I can't seem to find anything that says you can't use the tween class in movie clips that will be loaded into other movie clips that also use the tween class. Can anyone shed some light on this subject for me? My tweens are not working in my loaded swfs but do as stand alones. I do not have an...more >>

I'm sure this is asked a lot. Is there an easy way to make a function wait before doing something? i.e. wait(1000); or is the only way to do it to use getTime(); and whatnot? How do i do it? i want it to be like this: myFunction = function ( ) { do something; do somethin...more >>

I know how to load an external jpg (inside a movieclip) using the following AS on the timeline: movieclipname.loadMovie("images/myimage.jpg"); However, what AS do I add and where do I put it when you want an external jpg (inside a movieclip) to load when you rollover a button, as opposed...more >>

First of all -- I'm a basic Flash user with not much ActionScript experience. I normally use Flash for simple movies. Now I have a not-too-simple problem <g>. I have a text input component in one of the scenes, and I want a certain input to automatically move to the next scene. For examp...more >>

Hi, (AS 2) I have a class "mother" with four properties and a class son inheriting from the first. I want the class son inherit 3 properties (not 4): how to delete the fourth?...more >>

Hi, I have a text field (not component text), Dynamic Text, and want to change the font text via actionscript. I just cant find out how to do that, can anyone nice please advice? Cheers...more >>

hi, I have this script: var let = new Array(); let[0] = "E"; let[1] = "X"; let[2] = "P"; let[3] = "R"; let[4] = "I"; let[5] = "N"; let[6] = "C"; let[7] = "T"; let[8] = "H"; let[9] = "D"; let[10] = "F"; let[11] = "B"; let[12] = "W"; let[13] = "S"; let[14] = "A"; ...more >>

hey guys. I am building a site and need a preloader. I made one and coded it with what i thought is correct. The flash movie just shows up as a white box as it loads, and once it loads, the movie plays fine. But the preloader isnt showing up. Has anyone seen this before. You can see the site a...more >>