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 >>

Hi All, Believe it or not, I got myself a leaking actionscripted filter, what ever next? ;) Got a mc button, with drop shadow filter, on a completely different layer another mc takes on the properties of the button, onRollOver etc... Need friends fast! Kind Regards, Boxing B...more >>

Hi everyone, http://iz.myftp.org/flash/slider_mc.zip so I have this very simple slider which when you drag it, it switches between 5 MCs. What I want to do is when the slider is at the point where it should switch the MCs a simple fade tweening happens. I have been going crazy trying...more >>

I have created some multi-level Flash dropdown menus. I have made hot spots wherever the buttons are not that call an onRollOver event, making the menus disappear back up. The problem is when you move your mouse quickly over and off the button. It calls the drop down level, but it sticks bec...more >>

kk so the last one is a little wordy so how about this: this.ANIMopen._alpha = _global.tempAlpha; i put this code into frame 15 of an animated clip in the clip there are 3 key frames : 1, 15 and 30 with a motion tween between 1 and 15 and 15 and 30 i used the above code piece to tr...more >>

any help would be very appreciated. i'm using a scrollpane to show an swf from another folder on my site. for some reason, even though i set the scrollpane width to be 569x462 with a vertical scroll enabled, it shows the content at 100x100 with no scrolling. has anyone run across this before? ...more >>

I am trying to instantiate and position a library asset (MovieClip) programmatically. The classpath setting and import directives, which work as expected for all other custom classes (those which are not in the library), do not seem to affect library symbols. It appears that the compiler wor...more >>

the situation: i have to dynamically generate a movie clip inside the already created movie clip i have two event controllers which ( SHOULD) set the _alpha state of two instances( which happen to be 2 diff key frames of one animation sequence turns out im unable to get anything to h...more >>

new to the coding side of things so apologies as this is probably real basic stuff i've had a banner add returned from an agency saying the click tag is not working. the fla is here http://www.thinkingtype.co.uk/clientarea/ET_468x60.fla wondered if the click layer should be first? AN...more >>

Regarding Flash 8 actionscript 1 or 2.0. My SUBMIT button Actionscript keeps coming up with errors!? This is my script: {onClipEvent (load) myVars.LoadVars = new LoadVars(); } { returnVars.LoadVars = new LoadVars(); } { returnVars.onLoad = function(success) } { myVars.sendAndLoa...more >>

I confess that I've nabbed this code from a search on google groups but unfortunately can not understand why I can not initially set the colour of the first and only the first accordion header - the listener function manges to do this on change - could anyone enlighten me as I'm in the dark as...more >>

Hello All, I spent the better part of the afternoon researching this one and have come up empty handed. The app I am designing displays two live webcam streams from an FMS. What I want to do is control the audio from each stream so that camera1's audio plays in the left speaker only and ca...more >>

Adding event listeners to a loader, and it won't call the function!! here is the code: it doesn't trace anything... anyone know why? is AS3 still buggy? we have weird problems with it! var splashScreenReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("..\\" + lessonSettings_array['splashScreen']); ...more >>

I am building a flash page that has buttons and a thumbnail. There are more of these buttons than will fit going down the left side of the screen. I want to create a scrollable menu so when dragged it will reveal the other buttons on the screen. I understand I will need to use a mask and I'm O...more >>

Hello, a little question and i have the feeling i am very close. i use loadmovie to load an image into an movieclip. that movieclip goes to the position x and y of the movieclip - the loaded image width/2 my problem is that when i load a new image the position is not correct. my cod...more >>

is that any way to detect a url for a flash swf start in a diferent frame.... i mean i?ve got a flash inside a html, if the url is http://www.something.com/index.htm to start in frame called home. (just with actionscript) thank?s very much Alex ...more >>

Hi, I'm a flash minor and an actionscript newbie so please go easy on me. I'm going to need step by step, sorry!! First off, please visit http://www.dotwebcreations.com/event_planner.html to view the project in question What I'm trying to do is figure out how to make it so when you cl...more >>

I have a preloader that I have used many times in MX. I am now trying to use it in MX 2004 and am getting errors. Can anyone tell me how to fix it. Below are the scripts and the error. (FRAME 1) totalbytes = /:getBytesTotal(); loadedbytes = /:getBytesLoaded(); loadedpercent = int ...more >>

Hi All, I am tryiiing to do datagrid component manually but when i have my rows which r some movieclips & into that i am putting some dynamic text box & i am masking my data grid component then dynamic txt has been not shown what is the way to solve this?:tounge; ...more >>

Hi everyone ! Here is my problem, My php script return me something like : Town1='blabla'&Town2='bloublou' etc... I'd like to add each town (loaded by LoadVars) in a ComboBox. here is my script (in AS2) : for (i=0; i<_root.tab_result.liste_lenght; i++) { myCB.addItem(_root['tab_re...more >>