Hello, I need help with an animated banner. Basically, it's a slide show. Frame 1 displays img0, frame 20 displays img1, and so on up to img5. When I play the movie with Control->Test movie, the first img doesn't stay long enough to be seen. I would like to add some sort of pause-then-...more >>

:confused; I have no idea why this isn't working... I've tried attaching this code to a button, to the actions layer, and to a frame... nothing happens!! on (release) { gotoAndPlay("Home", 1); } I've also tried using this code on all of them, too: home.onRelease = function (){...more >>

I have a site that I am building from a template. Here's a link to it... http://www.studio4creations.com/design/ How would you handle loading other pages on this site... For example - select the about us image (1st on the left) then on the new page that loads below it, there are some a...more >>

I would like to be able to stop a looping movie when the mouse is detected over the swf in a webpage and have it start (from where it stoppped, not go back to the beginning) again when the mouse leaves the swf area. I don't want to use an invisible button. Can that be done? I suspect it ha...more >>

Hello, I'm a new user in the forum and my problem is to the include by swf file. The file is correctly included, but the action acript code would not carried out. Can you help me? the code: fl.getDocumentDOM().library.importEmbeddedSWF("swf/start.swf", swfData, "Intro"); or h...more >>

I'm trying to change [b]selectedIndex[/b] programmatically in Flash 8 using a [b]List Component[/b] to display groups of songs. I'm working on getting the [b]prev[/b] and [b]next[/b] buttons working, but so far nothing seems to work. I've read that [i]using the [b]selectedIndex[/b] property t...more >>

So i'm trying to fake quicktimeVR without having to use the quicktime plugin. I've got it working except, the object turns when the mouse enters the frame and rotates based on the mouse's x position. This is ok, but i need to to only move on drag, and to stop when drag release. I've done so...more >>

I need to tell my users to set their printer to landscape. I can't control their print orientation and I can't change my print parameters in a way that allows portrait to work. I wanted to use a simple popup when they roll over the print button, but when I do the print button no longer ...more >>

I created fla that has a movie that follows the mouse around. What I would like to do is have some alpha in the mask layer so that more of the background image shows through. has anyone done this before? is it possible? http://www.dicekmaru.com/ for what I have done so far. ...more >>

Ok, this is a bit rudamentary.... lol I know *what* the issue is, but just need a little info on how to fix it. I have a swf, it has 1 frame. In that frame i have one layer. In this layer it has 1 button (called [color=#009900]simple_btn[/color]) and a dynamic text box (it's instance ...more >>

This one confuses me. I have a button nested within an accordion component. I basically want to call a function, but it's not working. Here's the actionscript: my_acc.somethingElse.uploadFile.onRelease = uploadImage; That does absolutely zilch. Oddly enough, the following code works perf...more >>

I am making a flash presentation as homework for school. I have several stages but don't know how to make the buttons work. What i mean is that when u click a button it should direct u to another stage. How can i make them work? Thanks! (I am using Flash 8 Professional) ...more >>

I am making a flash presentation as homework for school. I have several stages but don't know how to make the buttons work. What i mean is that when u click a button it should direct u to another stage. How can i make them work? Thanks! (I am using Flash 8 Professional) ...more >>

So i heard a while back that microsoft lost some battle and now in internet explorer you have you click on the flash element in order to activate it...is there any way around it or a way to solve it in actionscript? ...more >>

Is there a way to get a swf to automatically resize to fit various monitor sizes? Any help would be much appreciated....more >>

The attached code works perfectly fine but I was wondering is there a better way to write this rather than such repetative code? headText_mc._alpha = 0; headText_mc.alphaTo(100, 1, "easeinStrong"); // Actions for TAB 1 tab1ON_mc.tween("_y", 116, 1, "easeinStrong"); tab1ON_mc....more >>

This seems a simple scenario, apologies if its already been posted but i can't find anything on searching. I have a button which triggers an action on mouseover, i need to detect how long the users mouse is over the button and only trigger the action when the mouse has stayed over for 1 se...more >>

Hello! I am trying to make a menu bar in flash. I have a movie clip set to onRollover to attach another movie clip which is the drop down. Inside of this movie clip, it will not allow me to add a rollover function to this clip. See the attached code. Please help. I have been struggling w...more >>

:confused; Ok ... so I have been working with flash for 6 years now. Each time I start a new project, I use the bottom layer for my actions - publish settings are bottom up. I have noticed that most developers use the top layer for their actions - publish settings are bottom up. Is there...more >>

In transact sql you can do something like "If value NOT IN (1,2,3,4,5)" Checking one value against a list of other values. Is there a way to do this in actionscript?...more >>

I need to generate a random number within the code below. Where [b]/*trgt*/[/b]is I need it to be a random number. _root.createEmptyMovieClip("empty", 1); photoGallery(_root.empty/*path*/, "thumbnails/pict_"[b]/*trgt*/[/b]); Thanks In advance. ...more >>

hi i would like to test when a file is totally loaded into a particular movieclip. i now there is a good way to do such a things in MX 2004, but i'm not that sofisticated... i'm using MX. i have a button with the next script: on(release){ maximum = 10; i=1; while (i+=maximum){ ...more >>

Hi All, Back yet again with another thing Flash doesn't do well! I have a file path which I've put together by stringing a number of constants and variables together, as per the following line of code . . . var imagePath:String = String("C:\\local audio\\" + VoucherNo + "\\" + Artist ...more >>

Hi, is there any way of reducing the speed of audio in a flash movie by using action script or some third party tool....more >>

I am trying load images extenaly, this flash file is located inside a php page (PHP FUSION PAGE), when i play the file in my computer... it plays out just fine, but then when i upload it to the page i get all things loaded except the external images....they dont show!!! The first thing i...more >>

Hi all, i have created a relativly simple flash game with a swf file size of 52k. Seems small enough however when i view it in flash i can reach the end in 22seconds and when i view it on the web it takes me 32 seconds in IE. i also tested it on another computer with less RAM and it runs f...more >>

What information does flash use to find the values my_xml.getBytesLoaded() and my_xml.getBytesTotal()? I'm only getting undefined/0 with some XML files that doesn't return Content-Length, is that needed for the flash? Best regards ...more >>

I'm trying to write some prototypes to extend the behaviour of MovieClip, such as, for example, supporting drawing dashed lines, dotted lines, etc. For example, suppose I wanted to create an API called dashTo, I would need to know both the endpoint and the starting point of the dashed line. ...more >>