Hi! I have an instance to which numerous clips are attached at runtime. When I duplicate this instance, the nested clips are not duplicated. Is it because duplicateMovieClip duplicates instance itself only -- not what was attached at runtime? The code is simple but, in case I miss some...more >>

HI All I have some 50 mc's on stage, and wondered if its possible to have the motion (e.g _x,_y,_alpha) be random. For example: say i had ============== import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; var Eq = [mx.transitions.easing.Back.easeIn, mx.transitions.easing.B...more >>

Hey there. I have a question about randomizing Movie Clips: I am attaching an example where 12 movie clips will be called into stage. (movieA1, movieA2, movieA3....) I am trying to create a situation where instead of triggering "movieA1" and so on, the code will trigger: movieA1 OR mov...more >>

I have the following code below in my flash file.. q2a = random(10)+1; q2b = random(10)+1; ans2 = q2a+q2b; I have 18 thing similar to this in my file, where it basically increments... q3a etc etc. Is there a simple way to create a for loop which will iterate through each of them? I c...more >>

Hi - I have these 3 buttons that when rolled over they show text in a textfield. In this particular case the text is longer than the field is tall and the scrollbar is activated. The problem is when I use the scrollbar to read to the end of btn1's text and then hit btn2, the scrollbar is in ...more >>

Hi - I need to launch a PDF in a blank window - or at least give the user the choice to "download" it from my app to their desktop. The attached code shows how I got it to work using getURL and an onRelease command...but I need to get the same to work from a text field. On rolling over th...more >>

KGlad, I tried the below solution and it doesn't work entirely. It works when I navigate away from the main menu which is the first time the back button appears in the timeline. Elsewhere in the project, the back button doesn't function properly. Any more solutions? Steve Attach Code ...more >>

I'm attempting to use a custom cursor. So I've hidden the cursor and have a custom cursor follow the mouse. I've had to make functions that get called onMouseOver and onMouseOut/onMouseReleaseOutside that toggle between my custom hand and arrow cursors. Everything has worked nicely until now. ...more >>

I have a movieclip that needs to be played at different speeds: 2 seconds, 5 seconds and 8 seconds. They need to be played at "exactly" the same speed on different computers (it's ok with a few miliseconds difference, but at the moment the 8 second movie takes between 5-9 seconds :( ) I'v...more >>

Okay, so I'm putting this into the frames action, and I have a movie clip named "mc" on the stage" code: asdf = setInterval(chek, 10); function chek(){ if (_root.mc._x<_root._xmouse) then (_root.mc._x+20) } I say check for errors and none come up, but when I test movie, I ...more >>

I going through the book ActionScript Cookbook by O'Reilly, and I can't seem to add a custom math method. Here is a simple example: Math.timesTwo = function(num){ return num*2; } trace(Math.timesTwo(5)); I get the following error: **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 2, frame...more >>

Hi, I am a newbie and don't know much about scripting. I have created my profile in MySpace website. In it i have inserted some text and a picture. The text doesn't require any script - one can just insert a plain text. The picture goes below by pasting the script in HTML that automatic...more >>

Ok I have a banner and it loadmovies 3 banners into it. I want the main banner to stay on top. I was told to use swap depths but I don't know how with loadmovie. Here's my code. _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1); loadMovie("banner1.swf", "container"); container._x = 0; con...more >>

I have a text filed created like this: createTextField(); .type = "dynamic"; .multiline=true; .html = true; .htmlText = myText; myText = "<ul><li> blah-blah blah-blah </li></ul>"; The problem is that the text is too long and I inserted <br/> in the middle like that: ...more >>

Hi developers!!! I am from Bulgaria... my english is very poor..However, my problem is that i load in flash txt file in textarea. My language(bulgarian) charset is window-1251. Instead of chars are showed squares. PLEASE HELP ME!! ...more >>