So I have a swf file that pulls other swfs, and eventually these swfs pull XML whenever they want. What I'd like is something to tell me if ANY the XML load fails on the main movie, so I can trigger an event. I know I can go into each XML loading function and code in an "on failure" method, ...more >>

Hey everyone, I'm just learning Flash, and from various online tutorials, I have managed to get this far with the soundboard I want to make. http://www.grabtheair.com/testloop.swf As you can see from the example, this will be a very simple soundboard. All I want it to do is trigg...more >>

Hello folks, I had created 3 Scenes, each one representing one web page for my website. Those Scenes are actually Movie Clip Symbols. Within one of them I have an Embeded video clip (120 frames). When I put those Symbols on main Stage as 3 frames,(each of one for one web page) everything wor...more >>

I am new to Flash. I am a programmer, not a designer so this is my first foray into Actionscript. I am creating a slide show player in Flash. It retrieves an XML file containing other .swf files that should be played, the order in which they should be played, the length of time each one sh...more >>

Is it possible to know the duration of a streamed MP3 before it is fully loaded? Sound.duration gives only the amount that has been loaded. The Sound.id3.TLEN gives undefined....more >>

I need one movie to trigger another to play somehow, and I haven't been able to find a solution. 1) Movie #1 2) Movie #2 3) Button will go back, and trigger Movie #2 to start 4) Extender slides out with more options. Any help would be appreciated! <img src="http://home.comcast.ne...more >>

I've got a number of movieclips on the stage and I have a slider which I want users to use to change the height and width of these movieclips. But how do users "select" a movieclip and then how does the slider know which has been selected so it can adjust the size of the selected movieclip. ...more >>

I've created a 'slideshow' in which the thumbnails scroll across the screen, and as you click them it loads an .swf animation of whatever image you clicked into an empty object. I used 'on (release) {object.loadMovie()}' What I really want it to do is show 1 of the image animations when the ...more >>

EuroTAAC 2007. Denmark. March 21st-23rd Call for speakers In late 2006 we polled business leaders and eLearning professionals to discover what really interests them in the field of eLearning. The purpose of this poll was to enable us to learn what topics should be presented to our audience ...more >>

:sad; ...i need help for this...im working a flash site that has a dropdown menu and submenus on it using external xml files..it works fine but my problem is..what if the submenus will be consist of 50 buttons or more..?! ..that means it needs a mask and a scrollbar...how can i do that...? ......more >>

Hopefully this is something really simple. However when I export my movie in Flash Player 7 my images go away and i have nothing but a blank stage. When I export in Flash Player 8 all is well. I'm not sure what the deal is. However, Is there some what to display Player Requirements without you...more >>

hi all, i use this : attachMovie("mv_lib",inst_name,index); inst_name is a varibale that holds the instance name. after creating the instance, i need to modify them. so then i put this codes: eval(inst_name)._y=100; eval(inst_name)._x=200; eval(inst_n...more >>

Hi, the situation: I have an Mc "outerMc" and a class assigned to it "OuterClass". And i have another Mc "innerMc" nested inside the "outerMc" and another class "InnerClass" assigned to it. I attachMovie("outerMc") to the time line, but i couldn't find out how to access anything in the ...more >>

hi experts I want to change size of my swf according to the size of html page in which it opens such that if page size is 1024 by 768 then swf should scale to that size if its 700 by 500 also sw should change its size is this possible i want this so that my animation start fro m edge to ed...more >>

var so = SharedObject.getLocal('onj'); trace(so.data.blah); so.data.blah = "hi"; trace(so.data.blah); Should that produce "undefined" & "hi" the first time, and "hi" & "hi" the second time? For some reason I can't get any SharedObject to save data. Using Flash 8, publishing to Flash 6/...more >>

As you may know, pixel fonts are tiny sized, specifically created to NOT be anti-aliased. You use them at 8 pixel size, with anti-aliasing set to "bitmap (no anti-alias)". But I cannot find how to specify this type of setting for a List Component. I can embed the font, and get it to use th...more >>

I've just started using classes with as2 and flash 8. I have found that the class files don't always compile when I change one and run my project again, is there something I need to do, driving me crazy. Very hit and miss. A good example, is I add a trace to a .as file, it works, then I ...more >>

I load dynamicly created XML (any languages including Japanese and Chinese). Text (textField in a MC with onRease function) shows fine in Japanese in the first place. But on certains PCs (Windows 2000), when you click to trigger a onRelease function, all the Japanese (or Chinese characters) tu...more >>

Hello, I'm making an engineering game. Students need to input force equations and to check the equation is right it has to add up to zero. There are two input text fields, one the student sees with the force values expressed in letters like HA, VA, and MA, and one hidden field where the va...more >>