hi everybody... At the moment I am working on a navigation system for a project and have encountered the following problem stop(); mcPos = new Array(); for (i=0; i<24; i++) { duplicateMovieClip("mc", "mc"+i, i); eval(eval("mc"+i)+".d") = i*15; } mc._visible = false; fsc...more >>

Hi, I have a hard time finding help on what I'm looking for (sorry for my english this is a second language for me) I'm really not a programmer so I will try to explain waht I need as clearly as possible: I have a Flash (index.swf) that loads differents Flash (6 swfs) with 3 buttons...more >>

I have a problem with a timer. The timer must count down from 60 to 0, and if I click on a button it must add 10 seconds. My timer is now working, but he is not adding 10 seconds if I click on the "+10 seconds" - button. You can download my project http://www.flashfocus.nl/forum/attach...more >>

i am having a heck of a time writing the php and actionscript to get a combo box to load a list from a data base. And then once that list is loaded into cb_combo1 based on the users selection loading the appropriate list into cb_combo2 , so for example user is asked to select a state. o...more >>

I have 5 text input fields and a submit button all defined by a tab index and it works perfectly but when tabbing to the submit button (last in the index), the button highlights/focuses and then loses focus after a second or two. Tabbing still works though and you can cycle though the index ov...more >>

I have movie clip with dynamic text and static text. I am using same font, size and color. The static texts looks great but the dynamic one is not. How can I get smoot fonts within dynamic text??? Thanx.... ...more >>

Hi I've been charged with internationalizing a Flash RIA, and unluckily for me one of the locales is China. Having spent fruitless hours trying to get just one Chinese character to display, my only chances of an ongoing career in IT are 1) resign and 2) beg for some help on here :-) T...more >>

I am importing text from an xml document at run time. Everything comes over ok except for a few characters. The ' does not display correctly and ? (greek lower case beta symbol). Does anyone know how to import these special characters? Is there a list somewhere? I tried embedding the gre...more >>

I'm having a little trouble with the following code. I'm calling two functions: init() and inittwo() to attach some movie clips to the stage. If I comment one of them out, the other works fine and the movement is okay. But as it is, only the "cloud" movie clips are being attached. I need for t...more >>

[b]On the first frame of my movie i have the following:[/b] mySound = new Sound(); mySound.attachSound("music"); mySound.start("", 999); // starts background music myVoice = new Sound(); myVoice.attachSound("voice"); [b]Later in the movie i have [/b] myVoice.start("", 1); ...more >>

Hi there i've a mc containing a bitmap (Dim. aprox 1500 x 1000) and the onMouseWheel event linked to this mc : it's a thing like Mouse.onMouseWheel = function(delta){ if ( checkthatthemouseisoverthemaskedarea ){ this._xscale += delta; this._yscale += delta; ...more >>

this one drives me nuts! if i include an external actionscript file in frame one of my movie, then [as you'd expect] all the functions, global variables etc contained in that external AS file are available throughout my movie - with one notable exception. if i add a button to the stag...more >>

Trying to use an ebedded custom font in a dynamic HTML text field, the HTML tags are not taken into account at all. Even putting an offstage text sample with the desired font styles and sizes and embed them (as recommended in a TechNote) will not do it. Declaring and using a CSS through Actio...more >>

Hello I am loading a swf file into a Movieclip on a button action, and a want to fade in and move this Movieclip(from top right to center) when the button is clicked. I have tried using onEnterFrame but can`t get it to work. Can anyone help me please........... this.mcDropin._alpha=0; ...more >>

hello i'm trying to set a shared object that increase a number in a text field in a page evry time the user reload the page. I have 2 layers : in the first layer i Put a dynamic text field and assign to it the variable "count" in the second layer i put this actionscript: mySharedOb...more >>

HI I am trying to use actionscript to calculate an amount and pass it from keyframe (1) to another keyframe (15) where the total is supposed to be carried over and displayed. Any ideas why this doesn't work? Also should I be using screens or scenes to make this any easier? - I am not su...more >>

I have a forward button and I have a back button and 4 checkboxes Component what I trying to make is a game. well the game has 5 frame all with back and forward buttons and 4 checkboxes and some radiobutton on them. My Problem is that when I go back the checkbox or radiobutton value wi...more >>

I have a table that I need to scroll automatically and repeatedly. The table contains about 200 lines and it needs to be aligned in 3 columns. I have done this using embeded text in a movie clip but I cannot align the columns correctly (no tab stops), plus it is not very "elegant". I have been...more >>

Hello everybody, Been trying for some days now to create a menu system in flash for a project of mine and I came across some issues that shouldn't be there...The goal is to have a menu where menu items resize when rolledover to reveal the actual choices of each menu item. So after a couple...more >>

Have a customer who would like to have an updatable news feed. ex via an admin form with login. Is this possible with actionscript/flash? Working with Flash 8 pro. thnx in advance...more >>

I have two little music players on my site, let's say 'main' and 'discography'. 'Main' starts automatically, and the other is in the discography section and has buttons that have to be clicked. When someone plays a song in the discography section, I want the main music player to go to another...more >>

Hi, I have a problem. I am able to load an external MovieClip into the stage with the position I want, but it did not play when I Test Movie. Can anybody guide me regarding this? This is the code: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1); loadMovie("scroller.swf", "container");...more >>

I created a movieclip named rollover_mc that basically animates two panels that open like sliding doors. My delimma is that I would like to control this with actionscript. I want it to open on rollOver and close on rollOut. Here is the link: http://www.geocities.com/demetriusmcclain/ ...more >>

Hi, (I didn't know whether to add this to a previous question I asked?). I have a flash script which calls a php file. The program works on local machine but not on remote machine. I run the php script on it's own on remote machine and it works fine just to add to my confusion. There progr...more >>