I used to remember it didn't work in Flash 8 on macs, is this still true?...more >>

:confused; Hi my script has been set up with an asfunction function call from within a textarea to a function that sends a small xml file to a server side script (basketRemove.php) the code is attached i'm using charles to check what is happening between the server and flash and...more >>

The following does not return a case insensitive result. Any ideas how to do so? var arr:Array = new Array( {search:'lowerCase'}, {search:'CheeseBurger'}, {search:'Socrates'}, {search:'AlphaMale'}, {search:'Zelda'}, {search:'zelda'} ); function ascend(a:Object, b:Object):int {...more >>

Hi. I am making a game in flash which requires lots of similar functions, such as function getSomeNumber():Number{ return number; } I was wondering if i could generalize this by doing the following. take a parameter of string defining the name of the variable. i then want to ...more >>

Hi, I have pretty much near the end of my first flash project - quite happy with my media player. Only issue I have is with the following if statement which is bothering me. if ( file.substr(file.length - 3,3) == 'mp3' ) { #include "video.as" } else { #include "v...more >>

in flash cs3 using actinscript 3.0 i have a frame that i loaded text into, i want to freeze that frame so the text stays in the window for lets say 10 seconds, then it exits and loops again...is there a snippet of code like sleep(1000); that will allow me to do that? ...more >>

Hi all. This is probably really simple I just can't think of the code right this second. I have a button and when I click it I want it to load a .swf at level 0 and I want it to go to frame 5 in the .swf that is being opened. I know the code on (release) { loadMovieNum("home_scree...more >>

Hi all, I have nothing but themost basic noob knowledge of Flash and actionscript, so I would really appreciate some help! I created a Flash with a text field that pareses and RSS feed. Just copied the AS from here: http://www.yourminis.com/developers/...s/as3/rss.aspx Fair enoug...more >>

I have tried and tried and somethings work half of the way and others not at all. I have a series of images that shows progress along a 12 month timeline. When a play button is pressed the movie plays and the images display in succession at the framerate hard coded to the swf. I know yo...more >>

I have two movies, "Animation01.swf" (30K) and "animation02.swf" (2MB). Additionally, I have a preloader movie, "preloader.swf". What I am trying to do is from the preloader.swf is to load the first move (Animation01) and as soon as it finishes loading, to play it. While Animation01 is pl...more >>

I have a button on my main page wth the following: on (rollOver) { gotoAndStop("GlowButtonOne"); } The GlowButtonOne movie plays. If I click the button in the movie: on (release) {loadMovieNum("AboutUs.swf", 2); } it loads another page and the movie clip event for mouse ...more >>

I imported a button into my project's library and can add as many as I want using Actionscript, but I cannot figure out how to change the text that appears on it. E.G. var myButton:ButtonGreen = new ButtonGreen(); myButton.name="digFactBtn"; myButton.label="Facts"; myButton.textFie...more >>

(using actionscript 2.0) I have two .swf files the 1st swf has a global variable that is an integer. I want the 2nd swf file to be able to display that variable. the 2nd swf file will have a button that loads the 1st swf file on level 1. is there a way to pass a variable from the 1st swf file ...more >>

I have a movie clip called "popup" on my root timeline. In the popup movie clip, there is a dynamic text box with the variable set as "content". I have an external txt file called "file.txt". On my popup timeline, I have this code: loadVariablesNum ("file.txt",0); I have both my fla file...more >>

Thanks, works perfect!...more >>

Hi, Can someone help me form tearing out any more hair? The following code should work but it is not, it should play the next song: this.sound_obj.onSoundComplete = function(){ (song_nr==songfile.length-1)?_global.song_nr=0 : _global.song_nr++; _root.sound_mc.songStarter(songfile[song_...more >>

Dear all, I cannot seem to get to a solution. It is not very difficult I guess, but I just don't get it. I will try to explain it in an easy way: 1. I have an html file at http://www.server1.com/test.html 2. In the html it calls for the swf on http://www.server2.com/test.swf Now wha...more >>

I was wondering how do you duplicate movieclips in a certain location in flash can anyone help me with the coding and it would be nice if you could explain it to me! :D...more >>

Here's the XML file I'm starting with: <?xml version="1.0"?> <images> <pic> <image>image1.jpg</image> <link>http://www.nbc.com</link> </pic> <pic> <image>image2.jpg</image> <link>http://www.abc.com</link> </pic> <pic> <image>image3.jpg</image> <link>http://www.cbs.com...more >>

Ok so heres the thing. I am kind of new to actionscript 3.0 and I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong with my coding. I have used this code time and time again and up until I got CS3 it worked just fine. If there is anyone that can take a look at this code and tell me what I am mi...more >>

I have Flash Professional 8 and it came with AS2. Is there a way to update to AS3?...more >>

I've got a number of layers in my fla. One of them has a watermark (its a mc) on it that shows if the account is not active. I have moved the code to the MC as a last resort as I for the life of me can't understand why I can't make this MC vanish when the value a "is_active" field is true. The...more >>

Hello! I wanted some help this condition statement... There are 2 tweens called "mc_sun" and "mc_welcome" I want to run when someone clicks on a button called "btn_home", but I don't know exactly how to write the code because I've already tried these 2 modes and noone work at all! THANK...more >>

I can read flash vars with the following line: var paramObj:Object = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters; However if you read the code below someone brought up to my attention that I don't have the array correct because an array expects an integer and not an object. Is there anoth...more >>

I am trying to swapDepths of a movie clip on an onMouseDown function and it works fine, but when I go back to the beginning of the file to replay everything the movieclip appears before the onMouseDown function AND it when I do click the movieclip shows up twice. Is there a way to reset t...more >>

Is it possible to load one swf file in the background while the other one is playing? And if so will it continue to load if somebody clicks to skip the intro?...more >>

Hello. Small ActionScript issue here. I've got a flash animation embeded in a html file. If at any point you want to skip the animation and proceed to the next page in the html course you can by clicking a button. This button contains the following ActionScript: on (release) { getURL("...more >>

I'm running Flash CS3 on an intel mac (macbook pro). When debugging an AS2 project, if I press opt-F7 to step over a line of code the flash IDE immediately crashes. I can click the debugger icon to step over so it's something about the keypress in particular. Anyone else seen this? Any s...more >>

Situation: there are a lot of movieclips (about 1000), attached to stage using attachMovie. no movie has mouse event functions (such as onRollOver, etc), movies are only square shapes without any code. when mouse doesn't move - all is ok, but when it begin to move over those movies, CPU usag...more >>