What line of coding would terminate all action script in that frame?...more >>

hi i have created an online calendar, you can see it on this link this application uses php as well which is called through the actionscript it works fine on firefox browsers, and some versions of IE, the version i have is explorer 7 (which i really dont like), and it doesnt work well at all...more >>

Working in Flash 8 & new to the whole Actionscript thing. Trying to set up a button for downloading an image but rather than use getURL & zip'd files - was tyring to figure a way to automatically open a window that gives readers the option to save the file/jpg to their desktop. Any clues. ...more >>

If I replace the [j] with a number, it works fine. I know it must be a synax issue with concatenating it but I am unsure of how to properly code it. I am getting an error in the Output window saying it's looking for a "," or a ")" on the line that starts with "fXSlide" and the two below it. ...more >>

TIA, I have two event handlers on the Main Timeline.(attached at the bottom) Also on the Main Timeline, there is an outerMC(2frames), which contains, a innerMC1(frame1) and an innerMC2(frame2). With the event handler on the Main Timeline, when the nested movieclip is no longer under th...more >>

Instead of using onRelease, is there a function for the right mouse button, I can't seem to find one. Thanks. Rob Childress...more >>

Is it possible to add actionscript to a component. For example, can you add AS to the play/pause button on the FLV playback component? thanks!...more >>

I am [i]very[/i] new to AS and this seems way over my head, but I thought I'd give it a shot... I created a Flash site for a client, and now they want a login page that connects the user to an ftp site. I know how to do this through an HTML form with a javascript function. However, I d...more >>

Hi All I wrote a text ticker that loads its dynamic content from an external xml file, parses it, then scrolls the resulting final text string items from right to left. However now I'm being asked to make the items fly in quickly, pause long enough to be read, then the next item flys...more >>

I have a button using getURL("mailto:me@mydomain.com?subject=Blah blah&body=line 1\nline2"); This works fine in test mode (i.e. I get 2 lines in the body of the email), but not when run from the browser. What should I do? Thanks so much in advance. ...more >>

Can anyone figure this one out? I'm completely stuck on this - I need the subnavigation to hide on mouse out. If the user rolls over the main navigation - the sub pops up and is very annoying and confusing to the viewer. I can get the subnavigation to disappear on mouse click but when I set...more >>

Hi I'm trying to make a little game: I have a movie "bird" and i duplicate this movie randomly and they are moving around the scene for me to shoot them down. i have created an array with an id for each bird. On every bullet i have the following sccript I verify for every clip if th...more >>

Hi! I'm working on a page that needs dynamic jpg loading. My problem is that all the pictures loaded from a folder (that is on server) look a litle desaturated or colourless. Black looks like gray and red is nod as red as it's in original picture. I can't figure out the reason. Is flash l...more >>

Hi all.. I`m having trouble with an function used to animate two movie clips.... I want to use the function like this " fSwitch("movie1", "movie2"); " I`ve checked to see if I had typoes but I don`t and the scripting looks good to me... In spite of this fact , when I test the code or...more >>

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction or offer help on how to create thumbnail rollovers a la istockphoto http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&text=flourishes&filetypeI D=&x=0&y=0 Here is a page if you have an account to login (it's free) Otherwise, when ...more >>

I have this swf with three different movie clips that each load a random image. I have this code and it works when I just use the code for one movie clip. I fugure I'm doing something wrong with the code. Any suggestions????(also, I am controlling this swf with another---swf_01 has btns and...more >>

I'm fairly new to actionscript so bare with me. This is for a client so a fast reply would be very much appreciated. I have created a splash page using AfterEffects. I then made it into an flv file using flash video encoder and imported the video into a flash file. What I want to accomplish is...more >>

I have created a button with a tooltip on rollover. The tooltip is a static textbox that contains text. When the site is published, the text displays with some characters missing. For example: "Financial Services" displays as "Financial erices" "Match Reports Guide" displays as "atch eort...more >>

I have a character who sits at the bottom left of a movie and I want to make her eyes follow the cursor. I've tried "startDrag" but it isn't really comprehensive enough. I want her to look straight ahead and then when the cursor moves she will look at it and then return to looking straight a...more >>

I have a movieclip controlled by a button.... So far everything has gone to plan... My problem is this... Currently all the Movieclip instances are on the same layer and when the movie is run I find the inactive instances are above the movieclip I wish to be top... Is there a way to set t...more >>

I have created some very simple quizzes using the learning interactions components - specifically one of the quiz templates. When testing the .swf on its own, everything works, including the last page that tallies the number of right and wrong responses and calculates a percentage based on tho...more >>

I have a base movie which loads another movie into layer 3 (using loadmovienum). Is it possible to have that movie that loads into layer 3 to have yet another movie load into layer 1 of the base movie? (again, just a designer, not a programmer - thanks for your help) ...more >>

I have created Flash animations for Training purposes using the programs built in actions but want to progress and learn to use Actionscript. What is the best way to start, DVD tutorial, One on One training course, books etc........... Any help in getting me started would be most appreciated...more >>

Hi there, Actually I am experiencing some weird bizarre problem... I want to make a Sound object that does a normal player... I did the play, pause, and stop... Everything works properly... But when I go for next music (automatically called after current song finished) I should have make f...more >>

In my previous post I was using a button component to perform a calculation when clicked upon using.....on(click) { with(_parent){ however I need to use a designed button and this has to perform a calculation and go to another frame....so when I tried this it will now not work. Pre...more >>

hi there, i start using flash actionscript couple a day and i write some code and its work but when i start to use class's and oop the code not work any one can help me this is my class: import mx.controls.Label; import mx.controls.*; import mx.utils.Delegate; //import mx.controls....more >>

I made a Combo box and name it comboBox3 ...cause I have 3 combo boxes How I suppose to create a link from what I wrote in the labels lets say one of my label his name is first.....How do I create link from the first label to the web page I have....(lets say the link of this page is http://w...more >>

Hi. I have this strange problem. I use the MediaDisplay to load an mp3-file and adding cue points to the mp3-file to trigger events in other movieClips Accessing the instance on the timeline for the first time everything works just fine. Cue points are found and the correct events are ...more >>

Hi I have a movie clip that i'm using as a animated button for a tab menu system. Is posible control de mouse events? I mean that the mouseOver event don't be fire while a peace of code is running, and after that activate it again? Thanks ...more >>

I want to use a Combo Box to link to a scene. I know that you put a listener in the 1st frame but I am not sure of how to code it. If I have a combo box called: my_cb and I have labels : Gold, Silver & Bronse. and Scene Names G1, S1 & B1 Does all of the code go in the 1st frame or do...more >>

When we open the browser the flash menu is does not work for the first time as the first click it takes to activate the control itself. Only the next click the menu inside gets acitvated. Pls guide me how we can do that? ...more >>

hi guys! i have been trying to figure out the problem wif my flash of able to drag duplicated clips and thanks those experts who helped me. Until now i still unable to slove my problem. Hope someone can help me wif my problem! My problem: 1. Unable to move duplicated clips (due to after d...more >>

Im having a problem seeting up my actionscript so that when the MC(which is created and put into motion via actionscript) leaves the stage it will be deleted... I have a buttload of actionscript for you guys to sift through: stop(); z=1000; q=1; w=1; i=1; score = 0; k=attachMovie...more >>

Hi guys, this is just an idea I have for a website, i haven't done the animations yet, but my thought is something like this: i will have an animation done in 3DsMax and imported into the timeline of my SFA, say maybe 160 frames. The animation would be of a CUBE spinning, and showing all 6...more >>

This is my first time using Flash 9 Alpha (F9A)/ActionScript 3.0. I am using code from the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook so I assumed it would work immediately; this is not the case. I've verified that my code looks exactly as it does in the Cookbook with two exceptions: 1) the image file I...more >>

Hi - i'm familiar with using the drawing api to draw lines. My question is if I have several lines and I want to animate those lines over time (ie, if i had lines and or curves, and I wanted to progressively move the starting points, ending points, and controll points...) is there a way to do...more >>