why can't I assign actions to a movieclip or button in CS3 as I could in MX or Flash 8? Am I missing a setting option?...more >>

I can find a bunch of simple drag and drop tutorials, resources, etc. but none involving inertia / gravity (whatever you wanna call it) or rotation or throwing of movieclips like this one - http://www.1-18-08.com/. Does anyone know of a tutorial or resource that might help me get started? ...more >>

I am working on re-creating an aurora borealis in Flash. I'm not doing anything insane, for now its just one frame containing AS and one MC on the stage. No external classes or AS right now. I'm importing... import flash.filters.GlowFilter; import flash.filters.BlurFilter; and then run...more >>

how can i set the layer priority as my action script mc plays over top of my 3d rendered movie all help appreciated ...more >>

Alright, so i am having trouble with my class. it keeps kicking back this error: [h]1119: Access of possibly undefined property ground through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObjectContainer.[/h] it's because "parent.ground" doesn't exist or something... this is th...more >>

I'm trying to get the script to listen and wait for the php file to load a directory listing and then for a Flash script to sort the directory listing alphabetically and place it in a text field. It works if I give it 10 frames worth of time, but I don't want anything else to happen before it ...more >>

Hi, I've got a main video (FLV) that starts automatically, and 3 movies (FLVs) that start when you hit their HTML (button) links. The problem is I hit the link for one of the 3 movies, it starts to play but before it ends, the main movie restarts. I'm saving in Flash 8 using Actionscrip...more >>

I have a date object created for today. How do I simply subtract 7 days from the date without worrying about if the month or anything changed. I just want it to keep the regular date format but be 7 days earlier. Thanks ...more >>

Hello, I am having a small problem with the getNextHighestDepth function. I have multiple movie clips on stage (a deck of cards). Clicking on any movie clip will start dragging it, and bring it to the top of the pile. Problem is, I can click a card near the bottom of the deck, it will c...more >>

Recently I found a bug in Datagrid component. The swf file which contain datagrid act differely in IE 6, and IE 7. This is what I've done: 1) Compile swf, export it together with html file. 2) Run the html file 3)Press on one of the cell,drag it and then release it outside of the brows...more >>

Hello, Not sure how to search for this so I'll just post and hope someone has an answer. I think it's probably pretty easy. I have a grid of 16 thumbnails that are buttons. When you rollover one button, I want the rest of the buttons to gray out. Then when you roll off that button to a...more >>

I have a full browser script that is working just fine (script below). I am having trouble however positiong an imported .swf clip into a movie clip (mc2). Even though the movie clip's registration point (mc2) is in the center, the ..swf that goes in has a top left registration point, and th...more >>

Hello Flash Forum, I am following a tutorial on how to create a class. this class requires a package like: todd.interactive (a tutorlal from Lynda.com) I have created my on dir where I keep fla files: D:\Flash\, and then have created the following dir structure under D:\Flash\classes\tod...more >>

yes, a colon is not used in flash to designate a path. the period or dot is used to designate a path. if that code doesn't work, omit the "_level0." part of that code....more >>

I have a screen with about 10 scrolling textboxes on it, which allows people to type in bits of text. I then want to print what they have typed as one long document, so no longer as the 10 boxes but more as paragraphs of text. I just can't quite understand what to do. I have looked at the ...more >>

I'm having some problems playing the main timeline from one of it's children. In actionscript 2 the command would have been: _root.gotoAndPlay(2); How is this done with actionscript 3? root.gotoAndPlay(2) does not work since root is a DisplayObject instead of a MovieClip. ...more >>

ok, your first paragraph is clear: TotalA is the total number of correct answers to your 50 questions and each variable q1a,... is assigned a 1 or 0 depending upon whether the user answered question 1,... correctly or incorrectly. your second paragraph is less than clear but i infer that...more >>

I'm building a Flash AS3 project in CS3. The SWF works just fine until I change the publish settings and omit trace. When I do this, I always get a stack underflow error when testing the movie from the IDE. When I allow trace I always run without errors. Has anybody else encountered this ...more >>

If i write this code with or without the import statement it works the same way: import flash.text.TextField; var mytext=new TextField() addChild(mytext) mytext.text="Hello World" Works the same way as var mytext=new TextField() addChild(mytext) mytext.text="Hello World" I ...more >>

I have the code: while (_parent.orangehold == 1) { if (this.hitTest(_parent.orange.active)) { //I think this is what's making Flash crash when I export as SWF gotoAndPlay ("hold"); } } if (this.hitTest(_parent.orange.active)) { //Here I want to make is so that ...more >>

Is it possible to get the instance name of an MC or BTN to determine what action to take? For example, I have 10 dynamically generated MCs with the name empty_mc1, 2, 3 etc. I could hard-code the action to each MC (empty_mc1.onRelease = function() { doAction1() } and so on) but the idea is...more >>

I am working on a demo of a UI for a handheld device. I am trying to make a back button that can track the users actions back several steps. I started by putting this line of code in my frame 1 actions layer: var wherefrom:Array = new Array(); then i placed this follwing co...more >>

with (myClip) { moveTo(0,0); lineTo(50,0); lineTo(50,100); lineTo(0,100); lineTo(0,0); } this creates shape which is empty . I want to fill the shape created after i have set a certain parameter to true. How to do that with movieclip. beginFill not usable since it starts filling just f...more >>

We are attempting to construct a 'input' text box which the user can drag around the screen. If anybody has suggestions they would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks for your help, ...more >>

Hi, I've got a noob question to ask :P I've got 5 movie clips, namely "1.swf", "2.swf", etc.. I've got a numerical variable "scene", which captures a number relevant to which button the user clicks. So if the user clicks the first button, "scene=1", and so on. When I call for the mov...more >>

Hi I have a preloader in a different scene then my main movie. I noticed that my preloader only show up when it reaches 97% What could be the reason for that? It's a very low prelaoder frame 1: ifFrameLoaded (2) { gotoAndPlay(2); } stop(); frame2: total = int(_roo...more >>