Hey people! I have an swf embedded in a page, and to be able to do the validation I need, I also have a hidden text field. When the user selects a file using a filebrowse I need to populate the hidden field with the filename they selected. I make the hidden field to text so I can see it,...more >>

Hello and Happy New Year!!! I have been trying to rename dynamic movieclips on the stage and place them into new levels without re-attaching. I have used eval, _name and .name, but to no avail. I would appreciate your prompt assistance, Emma=) _root["thumbNail"+a].name=eval("th...more >>

Hi, I have a performance problem that may be best demonstrated with an example. http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/swf/game1.swf If you look at the animation and watch it for a while you will see the number of balls growing. Initially the performance is so-so but eventually it becomes t...more >>

Hi! I need to deliver my stuff in a few hours so I realy realy need help!!! I have one SWF on a domain, it loads different SWF animation files stored on another domain. They load fine, but Im not allowd to controll the SWF animations useing gotoAndPlay etc. It works when I run everythi...more >>

How to Upload a File using FileReference + PHP?? If you could help me with a two code examples the AS code and the PHP code of a working example. Thanks Jorge...more >>

Hi there, I have a project I have been working on in Flash 8, that really needed the 'Complex Buttons' as provided here - www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button_effect.htm (you can download the .fla here) I got them to work really well ... But I am having issues making them go to a k...more >>

Is there a way w/ AS to control the speed that an FLV plays? In Lingo the "framerate" is a variable defined by the video's actual framerate (i.e. 30 frames per second). But you could tell the video to playback at 2 * framerate (or in this case 60 fps), play it backwards w/ -1 * the framerate...more >>

Hi, I searched the site first and did find a downloadable pre-made contact form that works with Flash, but I don't know that it will work with my ancient version since it uses PHP to mail the form. I use flash for drawing more than anything and don't know a whole lot about actionscript. I'...more >>

Hi - I just know enough Flash8/AS to get myself into this kind of trouble without a way out. I'm using the Accordion component and I've been able to change the header using the following code but I would like to change the font from black to white. How do I do that?? TIA your exper...more >>

Hi All, Im trying to print string using action script. When the text is too long it is not taking the next page it is printing in the 1st page and cutting off the rest and Im not able to set the left,right,top,bottom margins. can any one help me to resolve this problem please c...more >>

I am populating a combo box using a loop and additem(). Basically, once in awhile, the comboBox appears out of order, with the non-first item being selected already. This seems to happen after I use a loadMovie command to load an external .swf into a different movie. I cannot see why this woul...more >>

http://www.sages.hu/galeria.fla is the *.fla If you open an image there is a close button on the right top corner of the image. It's task would be to close the image. So it has to know which image is opened currently. That is why I need target_mc. (Sorry for the Instance names and the co...more >>

First off, thanks to kglad for the line graph function I started with, it has been a huge help. Now the step I'm trying to take is 2 fold. First, I'd like to graph more than one line segment on the graph. Right now I am graphing functions f1 and f2, but f2 currently overwrites f1. I want th...more >>

Hello, I am loading multiple files with the same set of listeners, and I have an OnLoadInit event listener: [i]mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) { ... }[/i] With this listener I can beautifully follow up the MovieClips during the animation and I can write the onRel...more >>

the actionscript was as followed: on (release) { getURL("http://www.pixertech.com", "_blank"); } I published for fla file as usual: ctrl + enter, and the links to the web worked perfectly. then I published to html: ctrl + shift + enter, everything looked fine except the links, t...more >>

Hello I am making a map that are going to display colors on cities. The colors are set with: mcCity1.setRGB(((255-"variablename")*65536)+("variablename"*256)); Now I need to populate the variablename with a value from an xml file that match the node city1. Can anyone help me with this...more >>

Hi Guys, Happy New Year to all of you :) May all your wishesh comes true.... Okay.... Please see the attached code... What i need is that i want to navigate each movieClip by pressing tab or Down/Up arrow keys. Is there any solution??? Please help me out. Thank you very much for ...more >>

Hi , Flash and VC++ communication , exchanges data between flash and vc++,. Please help out with a code example. Thanks Sri ...more >>

I'm also having a similar problem. Can you shed any light? I'm sure it's a stupid scope issue, but it's driving me mad today. I've got a prebuilt mc that has a bunch of movieclips inside of it. I've then attached the prebuilt mc to the stage dynamically at run-time. For some reason, the instan...more >>

Hi - I think this is a simple fix that I'm missing. I want to make the UIScroll bar (instance name "UIScroll") to have the same height as the text area (instance name "desc_t"). So I thought this code would work but the result is that the scroll bar stretches off the page. Am I using ...more >>