on ( press ) { buttonName = this._name; menuExpand (buttonName); } do function references not work within event handlers?...more >>

alright here it is guys:function popLoop ( popArray, tracerArray ) { for( n = 0 ; n < popArray.length ; n++){ trace(popArray.length); trace(n); if (n = popArray.length){ trace("sure"); } } } popArray.length = 3 FYI so whats happening is i want the for statement t...more >>

I am just starting out with cms and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction to get started. I am going to be creating a site that needs to be updated on occassion and would like to do it through cms. ...more >>

Hi, Im having a filereference download issue which is turning out to be rather elusive. I have it working great on my comp in ie, however on my comp with firefox, or with any browser on my father's computer we get the file browser popup and when we hit "save" everything SEEMS to go OK but the ...more >>

Hi, everyone! I have a big problem... I`ve loaded a .swf file using a 'flash.display.Loader'. The .swf contains a button. When the user clicks the button, I want the loader .swf to execute a certain function that I defined within it. In AS2, I would have accomplished this by means of '_lev...more >>

I am making a flash banner ad for my boss to advertise with an outside company. They only accept Flash 5 player compatible swf's which means I need to make an AS 1.0 compatible swf. Furthermore, this company restricts the file size to a ridiculous 16 kbs. The only way I think this will b...more >>

I'm well aware of try catch functions, but in general is there a simple setting to suppress browsers from displaying stackTraces on errors?...more >>

I'm creating a full flash website and I'd like to be able to change the site's background color within flash. The swf itself is only 1000 pixels wide and 600 pixels high. The design is a horizontal band across the middle of the site that will be continued on the right in a div with css. (once ...more >>

I am creating a dynamic flash picture gallery. I have external folders filled with the thumbnails, all of which are descriptively named. I was wondering if there was a way to create a string array of the JPEG names (per folder), then use that to drive my loader loop, instead of "pic"+i+".jp...more >>

I'm trying to use this function: function scaleUp(event:MouseEvent):void { TweenLite.to(event.target, 1, {scaleX:1.5, scaleY:1.5, ease:Exponential.easeOut}); } function scaleDown(event:MouseEvent):void { TweenLite.to(event.target, 1, {scaleX:1, scaleY:1, ease:Exponential.easeOut}); ...more >>

Hey - I've been using a standard flash Video Playback Component on this page: http://www.acutaboveexteriors.com/video/ And it works on some of the computers around the office, but not others. What am I doing wrong...? Is there a video player I can use that anyone can point me to other ...more >>

has anyone tried to do this? http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?c ontext=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000670.html I follwed this word for word with flash CS3 published as flash 9 actionscript 2.0 but only the default image1.jpg shows up. and not the ...more >>

Need help on moving around in flash xml document. I am pulling in a xml quiz in flash and have button for next and one for previous. I can go forward and tried same thing but with -1 for previous, but only moves forward one. Can someone help. thanks, btn_previous.onRelease = func...more >>

Hi, I can download single files with FileReference, no problem, but could I download an entire Folder or ZIP Folder? I get an IO Error. Thank you for your help. Luciewong...more >>

Hi there, Total forum newbie here -- apologies if this post is mischaracterized. We're working on way to call a Python script via Flash Lite or embed it inside a Flash application. Is there an easy way to just call it from within actionscript? Thanks. ...more >>

hey all, Im trying to actionscript a dynamic menu generator -- my current problem is im trying to find out a way to use actionscript to create movie clips with motion tweens in them -- essentially i want to use actionscript to create these movie clips with a open and closed status an...more >>

Hi all... I hope someone can help me!! I have created an Xmas invitation which has a small game in it!! Bit of a promotional thing to get people interested. The gimmick behind it is that whoever scores the highest score we will give a prize to in our xmas party!! Kinda fun. What I wan...more >>

Well, I will try to explain. First, the FORM: it consists of 9 areas of input. Household --input field next to it and there are input fields next to each of the others: Your Water Supply, Your Present Water Softner, Where do you get your bottled water from, Comments, Name/Business, Addres...more >>

Hi, I would like to find a nice solution to the following problem: I have a large HTML text containing text and images (<img>) inside a source TextField. I need to split this content into several TextField's of a fix width and height so that no scrolling is required. I tried to use ...more >>

I am producing a animated map that will be save as an .exe format. On my map, I have a stop button that I want to had a alt tag to it so that when someone puts, the cursor over the button, a tag will show up and indicate that this is a stop button. So far, the script behind my button the ...more >>

I have a movie clip instance on my main timeline and I need to change the value of a variable from within that clip, but I need the value to be seen on the main timeline. I figured defining the variable from the main timeline (outside any functions) would make it global and then the movie cli...more >>

Sorry but I am a total newbie> I have a 4 frame movie imported into one layer and want to specify a different URL to be opened in a separate window for each frame. So I have made each frame a keyframe and added from the behaviors a geturl event for each frame. When this is published it loo...more >>

Hi - I have a swf that brings in multiple "child" mcs. The main (parent) timeline has a sound var on it and the children mcs have their sounds. If I set both setVolumes to 100 - no problem. But if I lower the child's sound to 20 - the parent's sound is also lowered. What am I doing wron...more >>

Anyone agree that we should have seperate AS3 and AS2 forums on here? Think we can get Adobe to do that? I try to find answers to my problems, think I found it, and then find out its an AS2 post when I'm learning the AS3 stuff.. how can we get Adobe to create seperate AS forums? ...more >>

I'm making an application in Flashlite and I'd like to have two color schemes (skins). A day and night skin. I have no idea where start. Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial that can get me started? ...more >>

I am importing external text using the asFunction, jumplinetext. But I have apostrophes in the text that can't be used because they are in the asFunction code. I have tried quotes and special characters but nothing works. Is there a way to imbed apostrophes ? Rob Childress ...more >>

hi i am trying to use MovieClipLoader for multiple loading on movieclip instance. I am loading thumbnails in mc instance and want to apply loading script to each mc instance. I am attaching the script i have used. the loading seems to be not happening even as images are loader. Cur...more >>

anyone know of a relatively easy way to create an alpha shift in an MC over a set length of time without using tweening? thanks very much...more >>

Hi, i was playing around with computeSpectrum FFTMode and got some weird results. First all the frequencies over 11000 hz are not there, it looks like only 0-11000 hz are written in the ByteArray; Second when i read the ByteArray with readFloat() the values goes up to 1.465~. What am i...more >>

Is there a way to activate a html link through flash? for example.. i have a button in flash and i want it to do this - <a href="http://google.com/" title="Google" rel="gb_page_fs[]">Launch Google.com</a> Can i make the button somehow make this link active or is there a way that i can ...more >>

Hello, I just need to know how to position my images. Here's my code btnOpen.onPress = function(){ loadMovieNum("openclose.jpg",1); } btnseekup.onPress = function(){ loadMovieNum("seekup.jpg",1); } btnSeekdn.onPress = function(){ loadMovieNum("seekdn.jpg",1); } btn...more >>

Is there a way to activate a html link through flash? for example.. i have a button in flash and i want it to do this - <a href="http://google.com/" title="Google" rel="gb_page_fs[]">Launch Google.com</a> Can i make the button somehow make this link active or is there a way that i can ...more >>

I would like to imitate this two-list Flex application in Flash. (please see the link below and then search for "two-way drag-and drop support" example) Is this possible? Does anybody have a working example? Thanks. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/adding_drag_and_drop/ ...more >>

I'd like to load frame 5 of an external swf into my main fla file (A.fla), by clicking a button that's inside of a movie clip in the A.fla file. Would anyone know what the code for this should be? Thanks. ...more >>

hello all, i need to make a small ad (160x90). when this is rolled over, i need to figure out how to make a larger floating box appear. i see it all the time. it must not be too difficult. help? thanks! ...more >>

Hello, What I am doing is creating a game. Basically what I have is a comboBox on frame 1, where the user can select between 1-10 players. Based on the number they select, that many textInput boxes appear. From here, they are able to input the names of all of the players and then click beg...more >>

I have data in a text file that I want to load into a listbox... I have fully mastered handling strings and arrays so I'm going to need some help... I was wondering how do I get flash to load a text file that contains the data below.. and display it line for line like I want it to list down th...more >>

Hello I'd like to know if there is any function that can capture screenshots for the computer loading the flash file. Many thanks...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to stop and then start a music loop when the user navigates to a certain movie clip. This is not associated with a button or object. I need some help on how to write the ActionScript so that when the user enters the mc the music stops. When they click to navigate to...more >>

I have a CMS system im developing and I have it everything based on teh index.php page using a index.php?pa=viewer.php as a template for the php doc.... Now anyway, I have it set up like this: index.php?pa=videoviewer.php&id=25 id being the id on the database, on that play page i ha...more >>

i have in flash CS3, actionscript 2.0, several functions that call sendAndLoad to a php file, returning variables into the same LoadVars object. The first time it works, but after that it returns nothing. even if you delete the object and say [u]var responseVar:LoadVars = new LoadVars()[/u...more >>

Hello, Can someone please give me a code clip to add to a movie clip that that will make it so it does not go out of screen when moved around by the keyboard commands. im making a spaceship game and it pointless if you can go out of screen to avoid the astriods. Thanks a lot. ...more >>

hi, you guys can help me with this. i have a subscribe form made in cgi and my client want me to integrate it into flash. i am not a flash programmer so i don't know how to do it. ----------------------------------------------------------- this is what my client provided me. <form ac...more >>

Hi I am just trying to understand the scope of this in AS3 for example in AS2 basicM_btn.onRelease = function() { this._visible = false; } Would have made the button invisible In AS3 I was expecting to write the same thing as this function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {...more >>

I want to load a jpg in a scrollpane.Then want user to drag and drop the jpg inside scrollpane outside it somewherre on stage .The scrollpane must become empty when jpg is draged. How to do ...more >>

Hi, I want to create scrolling text similar to this website: http://www.christianlouboutin.fr/ If you enter the english site and then click on 'biography' which is the photo frame you will see what I want to achieve. There's a slider on the right hand side which you can move down or up to...more >>

Actually i am planning to have a similar game. So its basically building a engine. so, i need the steps and procedures for this game. URL: http://www.thomasandfriends.com/usa/games_build_an_engine.asp Thank You Rekha ...more >>

Hi I am having names like sam,Kelly,gary in the array my_array if the user type the name like Kelly, KeLly, kelly in the textbox it should display the position of the array.... is it possible ????? can any give me suggestion for me.... ~~Sk ...more >>

Hey, I'm sure this has been asked here before, but I can't seem to find a related post. What is the best way using AS3 to create a movie clip out of a sequence of images on disk/ a server. Thanks! ...more >>

I have a simple function that fades in or out any MC supplied to it. It works a treat - never had any problems. Today I created a MC with mixed text and graphics that I wanted to fade in and out. The graphics faded ok but the text switched on and off at the begining and end of the fade. I made...more >>