Suppose I have a MC on the screen inside it frame 1 with stop on it now,when something hits the instance circle it goes the the 2 frame inside the MC...more >>

Hi, I have a movieclip to dynamically load swf's. Some of my swf's are slideshows and contain jpgs that are quite large. Therefore I do not want to wait till the end of a complete load to show the swf. Say, if i want to show picture 3 (at frame 3), i'd like to show it as soon as the frame is l...more >>

I was reading the tutorial on importing class's. This is what I read Importing classes To reference a class in another script, you must prefix the class name with the class's package path. The combination of a class's name and its package path is the class's fully qualified class name. If ...more >>

Hey all... I've set up a little intro/splash page in flash for a website. I have it so that after you click on a category it takes you to that URL, however I want it to wait for the animation to finish before exiting...here's what i have (and i'll explain why the URL isn't being recognized): ...more >>

I've gotten the DateChooser component to work very well loading dynamic text fields with data from an external XML file. Can I embed a jpeg into the XML text like I would with the <img> tag in an HTML text file? Many thanks in advance for any tips... George ...more >>

I'm a relative flash/actionscript newbie. I created a towers of hanoi solution moving movie clips around using Tweens. This all worked great when the action script containing the Tween creation existed on what I guess is the root movie clip (within the Action script window of my .fla file). ...more >>

So, some of you may have run into this before. I know there is a known issue with importing an SWF to a MovieClip using LoadMovie - in that, any library items in the SWF that have linkage IDs can only be attachMovie'd within the MovieClip itself, and not in the main timeline (or any other tim...more >>

[b]Password script[/b] I found this actionscript on the net, i try it and it didnt work when i used it in my flash. please look at it. This is the site: http://www.myflashresource.com/flash-tutorials/password-protection-loading-exter nal-text This is the script in frame 1: -------...more >>

I wonder if there is a way to easily calculate how wide to make a textfield that you create dynamically with createTextField based on the length of a string that is passed as an argument. In other words, if you know the font size you plan on using, is there a way to figure out how many pixels...more >>

I modified code that I downloaded from Colin Moock's website that has to do with Mouse Trailers. Basically a blue dot (movie clip) trail follows the cursor. The code works but I do not understand why the dotTrails variable is not replaced the next time the function is called. There are 15 blue...more >>

I want to transmit JPEG image data from C# to Flash SWF, in order to display in SWF. After I had written a JPEG data as a file on hard disk in C#, I sent the filepath to Flash SWF, by using AxShockwaveFlash like: xmlRequest = "<invoke name=\"DisplayJpeg\" returntype=\"xml\...more >>

Hello i have what i think is a rather basic query but i cant seem to get it to wokr! I have an input text box and basically the user has to enter an answer, if the answer is 26 then i want some text to display in the input box saying well done, is this possible wiht an input box or do i ne...more >>

after tracing the child indexes of my sprite, I get multiples of 2. Any reason why this happens? I also make an attempt to trace the child name but results show null. var len:Number = 5; for (var i:Number = 0; i < len; i++){ // Create a simple button and configure its location ...more >>

Hi, I'm developing an application, that communicates with one of our local servers(it takes data with WSDL). And everyone of my coulegues must have this application, but the problem is that when he or she installs the application the flash player always wants to configure the Global Security S...more >>

Hey all. I'm trying to get a cable-looking line to work. I found kglad's post from last year, but it doesn't seem to be a general solution (using Flash 8; are there incompatibilities?) . In particular, when catenaryApprox is passed xmouse and ymouse for the first pair and a constant for the se...more >>

Hi all I'm trying to pass a simple var to flash using the url of the swf like so: movie.swf?myvar=3; Poblem is that the movie relies on this var to run and in some cases, when my visitors load the html page, the var is not being picked up. the only thing I can think of is that there is a delay ...more >>

I have a .fla movie with 4 frames containing a different movie clip each - In my "Actions" pane I have a script written as such: home.services.enabled=false; about.services.enabled=false; contacts.services.enabled=false; the "home" movie clip is located in frame 1 the "about" movie c...more >>

Hi All, I keep getting an Output error 104.75 everytime I click on one of my buttons. The code below is an example of where I am trying to navigate to in scene1: label="s" + _root.link; gotoAndPlay(label); I'm not expert in ActionScripts but it just doesn't look right to me. Do you...more >>

I've done a simple check input coding which should check for the inputed number of 0.09952. Problem is Flash says that the correctly inputed number is incorrect. Can anyone help??? Check out my Flash8 file here: http://home.exetel.com.au/twistedpancreas/images/calculation.fla Everyth...more >>

Hi, I just need a little guidance please:- I'm trying to animate a linear thermometer. I have 4 layers.... Action Background Thermometer Scale Needle ... and Symbols for most graphics The needle layer has a tween that runs from 0 to 99 degrees using 100 frames and a ease ...more >>

Dear flash desingers, i want to put in a action script in my flash movie, after the movie is played, is has to go to a defferent url (as i next page) , i know in action script you have to put in "get url" but not with the script "on (release)" because you don't have to click on it. it must...more >>

Is it possible to convert a date being retrieved from an oracle database to the flash Date format in flash so that the different Actionscript date functions can be applied to the retrieved date....more >>

Hi, how to avoid scroll using the mouse or keyboard in datagrid? if anyone know the solution pls let me know.. thanks n advance thil...more >>