Hi, My question is which method to use in the following: I need to drop stones one after the other into a pond to get it filled. Do I have to make use of an array or loop condition? I am not sure. Kindly guide me to an example where I can refer to the codes or at least gve me some starting...more >>

so i started my first completely new, from the ground up project since the release of 3.0. i'm a dork, so i was kinda excited to create a new fla file and save 3.0 in the publish settings. so then i got about my business, create a movie clip that i want to use as a button, jump into my actio...more >>

Hi -- I have a custom package I wrote and I need to add a child to the stage from the package. However, a plain "addChild()" throws an error when compiling the movie. I tried stage.addChild() and root.addChild() but those both give me errors at compile time as well. Can anyone help me wi...more >>

Hello, I'd like to know, when a streaming sound has preloaded enough and would start to play, so I can start playing another mc with an animtion in it. Becaus e now the animation is already playing before the sounds has started. Tom ...more >>

enter_bttn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonCLickHandler); function buttonCLickHandler (event:MouseEvent) :void { navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http:www.tnae.net",)); trace("I'm clicked"); } I've tried adding _self and _parent but I can't get it to open in the same window....more >>

Hi I have a form with several input textfields. In some textfields it is allowed that user can input strange chars like çéà etc... Now when I select those textfields and choose to embed those including some standard Latin, Num, etc.. chars It seems that suddenly all other textfields have...more >>

I'm very new to Flash ans AS3, but here's what I've got: I need my buttons to rotate on rollover and rollout. I've got it pretty close to what I want, but not quite. here's the code: import fl.transitions.*; import fl.transitions.easing.*; homeGear_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent....more >>

hey i am making a flash intro and i made a movie symbol (that takes up one frame) with actions scripts and what it does is it scrolls pictures from right to left and there is about 8 pictures it goes through but the window size fits one picture at a time. after the last picture slides i ...more >>

Is there a way (using listeners, for loop, etc) to use the same function on multiple mcs - or, what's the most efficient way to do this: var ar_sq:Array = new Array(11,12,21,22); //Init squares on a grid for (i=0; i<ar_sq.length; i++) { k = ar_sq[i]; this["sq_"+k].selected = false;...more >>

Hi, I'm using a mouse event to check some UI. I was wondering if I can tell, from the "relatedObject" property of the event if the calling object is a MovieClip or a Sprite (for some functionality I want to include). The code is something like this: private function console_barOut(event:Mo...more >>

Hi Everyone, Spent all day, trying to get the attached script to work, no joy and certainly, no LUCK. Can someone see if they can see where I am going wrong here; its a mp3 player that should use XML list and .as file. I will attach the code. GOOD LUCK! ;) Kind Regards, Boxin...more >>

Hello Community, I can't believe that I have only run into this (what should be a relatively simple) problem after so many successful AS2 projects. Anywho, here's the skinny: I have a video screen that I feed vids to with the NetStream Class that is the same size as my published SWF file...more >>

I've noticed this in one of my projects and Mike Potters of Adobe. Safari 3 even has a popup which reports the error message. Everytime you visit http://www.riapedia.com/ in Safari 3, within a few seconds the popup will display. What's up with that? [RPC Fault faultString="HTTP request ...more >>

So, What I would like to do is allow users to customize some aspects of a flash file, and then get emailed an animation with their personal touches. Let's say they can choose a background, a message, and a type of animation. They would input these options into a flash form, and in return,...more >>

according to the migration page in the help files, loadBitmap() has been removed from ActionScript 3 "because of the new bitmap support in ActionScript 3.0" -- well, what is that exactly? How do you load a bitmap into a bitmap object from the Library(as opposed to from an external file)? I ca...more >>

Any idea what would cause a flash document file to get corrupted repeatedly over a long period of time as someone is trying to work on it and saves it regularly?...more >>

Using AS3. If I do a class to handle Complex numbers, like class Complex { public var a:Number, b:Number; public function Complex(a, b) { this.a = a; this.b = b; } public function add(w:Complex) { a += w.a; b += w.b; } } and do a loop summing up 100000 times, it is 10...more >>

Is it possible to access a remote .as file (from a web url) using the #include statement in flash (AS2)? Tried it and I got the msg: "Include paths must be POSIX-style, and delimited by slashes instead of colons. ...more >>

I don't know if this changed in flash 8 or I'm just senile but it seems to me that when I disabled a movieclip, any and all controls inside of that movieclip (buttons, child movie clips, etc) were also disabled, via inheritance. I started using Flash 8 back in June and have noticed that it d...more >>

I found this tutorial on Craftymind.com but keep getting the same error when I run. [i]TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function. at searchxml_fla::MainTimeline/entriesLoaded() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunctio n() at flash....more >>

I think the XML aspect is irrelevant here... all you want to do is disguise regular text right? There's probably a more efficient way to do this, but here's a start anyhow. var chosenWords="hello it's me"; function disguise(original:String):String { var parts=original.split(" "); ...more >>

Hi, I am building an application in which (for accessibility reasons) i need to allow the user to change the font, font size and font color of text in a dynamic text field, for this reason i am having to use device fonts rather than embedding fonts. The dynamic text field is within a movie...more >>

In this file I have several movie clips controlling each other using absolute paths. Then I get to one that just wont work. After a lot of trial and error I decided to try a relative path and that worked. Is there a reason for having to use _root to get something to work? thanks in advace....more >>

Hi all, I'm stuck in Flash8 land. Mostly because I use mProjector and MDM Zinc to extend flash projectors and neither support AS3 correctly to date. That said.. Is a Flash8 SWF capable of using fonts embedded in "other" SWFs? I realize this is an ongoing difficulty and a well known area...more >>

I found that to use (what was orignally attachMovie) I had to create a linked mc in the library, then write a class for it.. which I've done. The only problem, is that the linked mc that I have created, has to interact with a function on the main timeline. I've never created my own classes ...more >>

I have an issue with ActionScript and linking it back to a movieclip. I hope you guys can help.:grin; I bring a movieclip in from the library as follows: on (release) { if (_root.HaloMouseD == 2) { HM += 1; HaloM = attachMovie("HaloM", "HaloM"+HM, HM++); HaloM._x = _xmouse; ...more >>

The message title pretty much says it all. I want to lock a movie clips Y pos, so that the user can only move the clip on the X axis. Any ideas? Thank you!...more >>

Hi. Thanks for reading. Here's my problem; I have the clip starting out 425 pixels on the X and ending -100 pixels on the X. My movie size is 400 by 100 (banner size). I set variables defining the clips "start" and "end". I need the clip to go from 425 on the X to -100 and then from...more >>

I'm hoping someone can help. I have a main movie with the first script in it on frame 25, where it becomes active. I have two buttons that pull in videos and text, depending on which button is selected. When either button is selected it will become invisible because they are behind the s...more >>

I had something strange.. i was trying to make a mini flash game.. but when i tested it, strange things happend. Some functions where initialized multiple times. I finaly found the peace of code that is causing this. When you test a movie (CRTL+ENTER) in Flash.. and you press in this e...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create an HTML splash page that will launch my flash portfolio website- I was told to control the new page with javascript, but when I do so with the code below, my links won't work- see defective link at catmerrick.com, and the page I'm trying to load in a flash-specific win...more >>

Hey guys having a massive issue with a Scrollpane in Actionscript. Just wondering if someone wouldnt mind having a look for me please. I have been working on this for 5 days now with no luck. Basically the problem is that the thumbnails i am pulling from my XML file wont sit within the Scr...more >>

Hi Something very strange here... When I put an input textfield with "mulitlines" on my stage and publish it. I noticed when I select the field a line break is already set. So typing starts on the second line. Any idea? tx tom ...more >>