Hello, I am trying to reuse a dynamically loaded movie which has been loaded with a movie clip loader. The movie loads fine and can be displayed once with no problem. However, I would like to be able to store this movie so that it can be resused again without loading it from the URL agai...more >>

HI, I have made a button symbol (trying to make a skip intro button) which is just unselectable text. I have made all 4 states including the hit state. I have used the either on (release) { getURL("who.html", "_self"); } or getURL("who.html", "_self"); Nothing works when...more >>

I'm trying to create a Flash web form. I have many fields like Email, username and so on. I would like to add a code to validate the email, How can I program the Flash to report an error if the Email is invalid? or if the username is empty? Thank you ...more >>

Dear Forum I am having problem displaying escaped quotation marks in a dynamic text field. I'm using flash 8. Actionscript 2. 1) I am loading the text content from a database / php with XML. It looks like this (note the backslashes!): ---------------------------------------------...more >>

I am encountering a very strange problem.. after 39 cases in my switch case statement the 40th case does not get executed.. the code is in my go button and there are like 1000+ lines of code in there.. if I replace my 39th case with the 40th it works but it doesn't execute anything after that!...more >>

I have an empty movie clip that contains text and media for frames in a lesson called content_mc I dynamically load in one text box, and then other various stuff like graphics, videos and other swf files.. before I started inserting swf files, it was working fine, but that was just th...more >>

Hello. I working on application that sends mobile wallpapers. I have three fields set up in a movieclip called mobileNav. This mobileNAv movieclip exists in a parent movieclip called WPManager that has several other movieclips on different layers.The mobileNav movieclip has an as2 class path t...more >>

My client made me put my MP3 files inside the file, too complicated to have them in a separate folder for some reason. So I am creating a single EXE file for the client. I moved the MP3 files into the file on the timeline, with the WAV files already in place. When I jump around using the bu...more >>

one day i will have this figured out but the starting up seems to be the hard part I am trying to move eyes around for a Jack-o-lantern I have a movie clip ( which is an eye)and linked to a class called "eye" it is saved in an Eyes. fla file (document = test.as) I then built anot...more >>

I am trying to fadeout the image loaded origninally, but I can not get a reference to it. Any help would be appreciated. this.pArray = new Array(); this.mcArray = new Array(); for (i=0; i<this.picCount; i++) { this.pArray[i] = i+1+".jpg"; this.mcArray[i] = "hero_mc"+(i & ...more >>

I've added a drop down list and would like the content path of the FLVplayer to reflect this change. So far I have : var myListener:Object = new Object(); ddlVideos.addEventListener("change",myListener); myListener.change = function(){ //gotoAndStop(ddlVideos.value); player.stop();...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to use code to set the center point of a Sprite and/or a MovieClip to better handle zoom and rotation......more >>

hey, i am having a problem with my input text. i have it set up to go to a php page. like you are supposed to when you have an email sign up thing. and I have an input text for name, and email. i have created 2 input text fields, and set the one variable to name, and the other to the t...more >>

I have created a counter that when a user accesses a flash file it sends an "id" variable to a php file that then adds 1 to a text file called "id". But i have tried alot but dont seam to get this working. I have seen something similar but that required a php file for each counter, i have inst...more >>

I would say I've graduated from beginner by now when it comes to actionscript. www.grandwindow.com/flash My problem is this: I have my main site w/ background and menu called site.swf. Then the buttons are set-up to load external swf's into an empty_mc where the content pertaining to that b...more >>

[b]Aim[/b] My main SWF (let's call it "TheShell.SWF") needs to load another SWF (let's call this one "TheContent.SWF") using loadMovie cross-domain. [b]Problem[/b] I have added the following line to the first frame of TheContent.SWF: System.security.allowDomain ( "http://www.example_shel...more >>

Anyidea how do we change the hues while maintaining the gradient of a MovieClip, using the colorObject method in AS2. I know how to change color using colorObject. Does the getTransform do this piece of work? Thanks U ...more >>

Hello, I have trouble with attaching and removing of MovieClips. I have many image movieclips in library and I need to display them in sequence. The simplest way is to attach them on frame to display them, each image clip on separate frame. But without removing them the memory usage is too...more >>

I am having a problem getting a movie clip to loop. I need the clip once it gets too -100 pixels to restart at its starting position at 600 pixels X axis. I dont want the movie to start over I just want the clip to "jump" back to 600 pixels and start its journey across the stage over and o...more >>

HI is it possible to hide " settings " and Redrawn region... during Right Click Function............ ~~SK ...more >>

i have it set to where it can lists the undefineds as null... but how do i remove them from the array completely so they dont show up at all? I want to filter out the data from the array... hopefully my question is clearer this time and I'm thankful for anybody that helps.. thanks.. Data...more >>

Hi. I'm trying to flip my movie clip horizontally so it will point in the opposite direction. Any ideas? [b]Thank you.[/b]...more >>

:embarrassment; Apologies for a probably very basic question, but I am very new to flash and working alone. I am trying to write a script which reads text from a file and display it in the movie. It all works fine but I can not get the TextFormat object to do anything at all. ...more >>

I have this button on mouse over, clip appears and play when mouse goes off, clip desapears. (so far ok) But when I do mouse over again clip starts again from frame 0, but I need it to continue playing in the same frame it stoped the last time. Please can you explain me how to achi...more >>

I goal is to make user draw something(circle or any polygon) by moving cursor .As soon as he completes drawing the circle I want to detect is it "closed" .That it is any circle part is intersectd with its last line segmentwhen user finished drawing. I need an algo .Mathhematicians invited. ...more >>

OK, I'm still learning Action Script and I need all of the help I can get. If I load variables into Flash from a php variables file as an object, as follows: myData = new LoadVars(); myData.onLoad = function(){ placeData(); }; myData.load("http://www.location.com/filename.php"); ...more >>

Hi there I want to make a dynamic text box that when i click on it to focus it, it will select all the contents of the text box rather than having the user click and drag to select the contents. Is there some actionscript to get make the textbox select all when focused? Many thanks ...more >>

So, all this basically does so far is create a few colored squares on the stage and let me draw in black. I'm trying to get it to let me trace() some incremental value onRelease of the different colors but I can't seem to get it to work. Can someone please help me with this? var hexPrefi...more >>

Could someone please point out where in the Flash 8 Quiz Template Multiple Choice Actionscript logic, the correct feedback is set only if ALL of the correct answers are selected? We would like to consider cases where checkbox1 OR checkbox2 is a correct response rather than require checkbo...more >>