Hi, I have made some buttons that got to a full URL. The button shows up in Firefox on PC, but the button itself is not even shown in IE 6 on PC. How can i fix that? Thanks, Josh...more >>

I am using CS3. I asked earlier how one keyframe can be hyperlinked to go to another keyframe (frame 325 to 120)after the "home" button is hit. The answer I received was: place a button symbol on frame 325 with the following script: on (release) {gotoAndPlay(120);} I tried and there MUST be a ...more >>

Okay, I am having a hell of a time trying to get the following header to resize. http://www.spectacularstuff.com/php-test/inprogress/home.php I have the class set to noscale. I am missing something to do with the width and height. I have read a million tutorials on this and have attem...more >>

Hello, I used a tutorial from kirupa to create some hover captions on a grid of buttons. From here: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/hover_captions.htm It works great but I'd really rather have them appear after a couple seconds of hovering on a button--not instantly. Any ideas...more >>

Hello, I have written an application which lets a user experiment with generating spur gear profiles based on a few input variables. The user selects the number of teeth for both a wheel and pinion gear train, plus a couple of other variable values. The program then calculates the profile...more >>

Hi - I think what I'm trying to do is fundamental but I'm not doing it correctly. I have a swf that has a few different textFields appearing when buttons are clicked. I thought I could write one function that would handle the creation of all the textFields so that I could just put a few par...more >>

I need some direction with the For Loop I am using a For Loop to run through and Array. Everything is working except that I need the loop to wait. Each time the loop runs I am downloading an image. I want the Loop to wait for the image to download the continue to the next image wait and...more >>

I am placing different text array length amounts into a dynamic text box ...Is there a way to highlight (in background) just the text being shown as opposed to the background of the whole box....more >>

Hey fellow Flash friends... I have a flash banner that I have sitting on my gaming clans website I did. The forums are PHP and when ever anyones views a new topic or post of does anything to refresh the browser it reloads the movie and plays again. I'd like the movie to just play once when you...more >>

I am trying to customize a flash component that I purchased. It is a flip-book which some of you may be familiar with. The component works just fine, but I want to use input and output/dynamic text fields. I can't assign the variable names to the instances, because they are created dynamically...more >>

Sorry to bug everyone again, but I have exhausted my resources and am totally stumped. It's a button and function problem. In the first frame I stated the function: function mask2(event:MouseEvent):void { MovieClip(root).mask2.gotoAndPlay(20); } Later down the line I made a button a...more >>

I'm doing a simple quiz and I only want the user to add to the total score once if he presses the correct button. How do I stop him from being able to click it multiple times using script rather than just adding a key frame and removing it's instance name or replacing the symbol altogether. Th...more >>

right, i know there is a lot of code pasted here but ive cut out the bits that dont need changing!! basically im stuck on this now, i have a motion detection actionscript program running and counting the number of pixels with movement in them... the timer now works and only certain movie c...more >>

If I have a class class A { public function foo() ... } And create two instances of it var a1 = new A(); var a2 = new A(); Why these comparisons are all true? trace(a1.foo == a2.foo); // true trace(a1.foo === a2.foo); // true The problem is I made an Event Listener mo...more >>

Hey All, I am working on a project using client information. A movie clip opens on command and inside it are text input fields for First Name, Last Name, Address, Company Name, Email and Phone Number. You can enter text fine and it writes every field to the database. When you navigate a...more >>

I'm trying to create, in Flash 8 Pro, a slide presentation with an audio track (narration) on each slide. The sound files are mp3. If I attach the sound to each slide using the Properties window, all the sounds start with the first slide. I've tried several variations of ActionScript to loa...more >>

This is Flash 8. AS 1/2 I have a main swf that contains my UI and a loader clip. I have it set up so there is a sound object that controls the volume for my loaded swf. The problem I have is that now I need to use a dynamic sound clip and onSoundComplete in some of the loaded swfs. Any sug...more >>

I teach interactive media design in a vocational high school and my students found a interactive art project online called a http://www.zoomquilt.org/ My students asked if we could build one as a class project. Here?s a link to a 4 tile http://www.ifranz.com/school/zoom/ We want to ...more >>

Hello everyone. I've been working with actionscript for a loooooong time, but not 3.0. I'm working with two movie clips, making one reference another through the main timeline, to create a nice button interactivity. Now comes the problem, what the f*** happened to my simple _root.moviecli...more >>

Hi i have a simple problem. I have video I want to play but I want to edit the end of the video of. I do not want to edit it with adobe pro. I want to play the flv file and stop the video/visual say 3 secs from the end just the video. How do you do this with action script. The only way i co...more >>

:confused;I am using the Loader.load() method to load audio and graphic clips. When I "test Movie" I get the error message "Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2035: URL Not Found.". But, my clips are loaded and displayed. Can I do anything to get rid of this message (and pote...more >>

Hi My flash program needs to send some variable to a php file which uses it to output an xml file. I'm using LoadVars.send but i'd like to use loadVars.sendAndLoad as i really dont want the browser window to open at all as i need these things to happen in the background. The php file cre...more >>

I'd like to load a movie (separate file) into an existing file, but I'd like to make it go to a specific location within the loaded movie. Example: I have a home page file that has thumb nail images that I'd like to lnk to respective portfolio pieces from another file. Is this possible ...more >>

So I am trying to send a variable to a child .swf. The child .swf is embedded in a movie clip on my stage. How would I get the child .swf to recognize the variable change?...more >>

Hi. The title of the post pretty much says it all. I have imported a picture of a gun. And also a picture of a bullet. They are both movie clips. I want, when the user clicks the left mouse button, I want the bullet to come out of the gun. Pretty logical approach I'd say. :) If anyo...more >>

I would like to take an existing Synched video and slide show .fla file and convert it to a FLV file for insertion onto a page with multiple videos. I was willing to try and convert to QT format and then convert to FLV and drop the video component on the page, however CS3 reqiuries you to out...more >>

Used this code to create a popup window: on (release) { getURL("javascript:openNewWindow('http://www.macromedia.com','thewin','height=4 00,width=400,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes') "); } Get message that Safari wont do it. Anyone any suggestions of an alternative? All I want is a new windo...more >>

Hello, The goal of my script is if a movieclip moves from right to left the sounds wil pan also from right to left. And so far it works! But when i want more sounds, the sound effect in Flash does not do what it supposed to do. If you see my trace, the values per movieclip is increasing th...more >>

Hi I have no idea how to make a flash movie play from a trigger such as an email - can anyone point me in the right direction as to how this would work? Are any tutorials available? thanks e...more >>

hi i am using the array like [1,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,5,6,7,7,7] but it need to display the array like [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] when i called can any one give idea for this issue....... ~~Sk ...more >>

Ok, heres my problem (among others I am sure)! I want to call the following function, which is meant to pause for 2 seconds before launching the function within it. Initially it works but the counter starts acting erratically when you launch the initial function a few times, which unfortun...more >>