Hi, I have a dynamic text field that doesn't always contain the same string. Is it possible to get the number of pixels is takes up? Thanks for any help, ~Oni....more >>

ok i have a swf/xml flash file , its like a menu and buttons and stuff... so u think this would work on touch screen ? is like just like a mouse click when u do touch screen? any special events for touch screen? can we have flash for touch screen?:) please anyone who have experience with th...more >>

I made a page transition thing with Tween and added sound. I used this script to make it play the tween when I enter any page.. The problem is that when I enter a page I want the tween to start on frame 70. It plays the sound but somtimes it sort of sounds like its playing 2 or 3 of the so...more >>

Built an audio pause/resume button. The idea is that you hit the button once and it will pause sound. Hit it again and the sound will resume right where you left off. Problem is that sometimes the button works while at other times you'll hit it and start up another instance of the same audi...more >>

Ive seen other tutorials but they are not working for me.. Im using flash 8. I have a index.html page. The flash movie floats over the html and then the user can close out of the flash movie and proceed onto the rest of the site. If the user clicks the back button or navigates back to the home...more >>

Hi I have a flash movie in a div tag that floats over html with a wmode=transparent... a box comes up at the end and has a "close" button but I cant figure out the script to close the flash movie.. already tried the fscommand quit... remember the flash movie isnt in a seperate popup window it ...more >>

I must be doing something really dumb. I have an array with named elements, but I can't seem to get it's length. for example var myArray = new Array() myArray.item1 = new Array(1,2,3) myArray.item2 = new Array(x,y,z) trace (myArray.length) // this yields 0 instead of 2 Thanks in a...more >>

Anyone know how to change the color of a button instance with actionscript? If I pass in a default variable I want to change that particular button to a different color. ...more >>

Okay, the only part of action script i really know is the basics. I know [b]bold[/b], [i]italic[/], [sup]supscript[/sup] and so forth..basically i just know text scripts, and if something is started i can work and eventually finish it...but i have recently been in the process of creating a few...more >>

Hi everyone, i am loosing my hair over this. here's what im trying to do. i am using the datefield component. basically when the user chooses a date. it gets posted to a text field and the user clicks sumbit to email the date. the emailing is working like a charm. my problem is that ...more >>

I am passing some URL parametters that in want to get into flasg i am trying the FlashVars but it's not working like it should. so i was wandering if flash gas a "GET" were it can read the URL thanks ...more >>

It is very easy to reproduce the problem. > Create an input TextField dynamically (see attached code). Clicking on the text allows the user to edit it. Clicking away from the text makes it lose focus. All is fine. > Now, just drag a UIScrollBar component to the Library (the same problem...more >>

Hello, I need help. I need to load in an external .swf file into my new movie and stop the sound/music that is playing from the external swf file. I need the sound/music to stop immediately on frame one. I don't have the fla to the external swf file as it is years old. Can someone help me ...more >>

Hi, I have problem with greek charachers. Flash call php. Php take data from mysql and print xml that read flash. Mysql, xml, php are utf-8 but greek characters can't be displayed. This work fine if I write greek in php but if php take data from mysql there is a problem. I also put em...more >>

If I define a swf through pixels and no scale how do I than get it to stay centered both up and down and full screen in the browser window? I can not seem to get this pixel thing to work for me - I am trying to have the swf auto resize back to 800x650 no matter what the persons screen reso...more >>

I have a map with about 50 instances of a button. When they rollout of a button I want to change a picture to a default pic. Is there any other way to do this other than adding a "on rollout" script to every single instance of all buttons? In other words, can I use a script on frame 1 to ...more >>

All, Does anyone know the trick of getting the horizontal scroll bar to appear? I've got a grid with dummy data in it now, with 18 columns all set to various widths; the total of all widths is 850. The grid itself is set to 800 horizontal pixels. Only 15 of the columns can be seen. I have ...more >>

Hi I'm looking for a starting point to create a draggable movie clip that slides a little when it is dropped. It should be quite simple but I'm new to this sort of coding and I can't find anything online for some reason. Thanks a lot, Ciar=E1n ...more >>

Folks, I'm ignorant in this stuff, yet I think I can work my way thru with some help. I have a panoramic photo that extends off the stage left and right, which is ok. I made it a movie clip. I would like to have the user be able to click and drag this movie clip of an image to see the miss...more >>

Hello there, I am an experienced graphic designer who also has some educations in Web and Flash design. I know Actionscript a bit but having problems creating the Web sites that I design. I see so many nice Web sites out there that I get inspired, however I also get so frustrated since I ...more >>

Hi, I have a game where a paddle (instance name: paddle) is hitting a ball (instance name: ball) which drops from the top of the screen. There is a dynamic text box (variable: score) which adds 5 each time the paddle hits the ball. This all works. However, the if statement to send the ...more >>

Hi there- Ok, as a disclaimer i am teaching myself flash right now although i do have a good curve in that i am familiar with a lot of other design programs. I am creating a movie- and i created a continue button that the user will click to well, continue onto the next part of the movie. ...more >>

I'm not very skilled with actionscript yet, so bare with me. And I'm going to apologize ahead of time for stupid mistakes that I'm bound to make. As the title suggests I'm working on making an audio player for an all flash site. I think I have most of the script down for the basic functions of...more >>

Hi, How can I change the tint of my movieclip "mc_clip" from #000000 to #990000 in 15 frames by scripting it?...in the same time change the alpha value of the clip from 85% to 0%. thank you in advance, Attila ...more >>

This is not for testing purposes. This is a game that needs to read an RSS XML with news from Yahoo. So I want this SWF to load the XML data from the site for my clients. How can I do that? Please help me on this. Thanks, Horea ...more >>

I am loading external mp3s from URLs and I added the Media Display component to play them. Is there something in the MediaDisplay that will let you loop them? Right now they just play once and stop. Here is how I am playing my mp3s: controller.autoPlay = false; controller.setMedia...more >>

Hi, this might not be actionscript specific but how can I make sure my projector executes maximized and fullscreen? Any ideas? Thanks in advance...more >>

Hello, Wondering if anyone can help me, i am having a few problems with pausing, fast forward and rewind on a loadSound???!!!! Here is my code for the pause button but it is not working, the soundPosition = mySound.position is the error, as it says the variable soundPosition is undefin...more >>

Hi, i'm using this code to crete a textfield dynamically (works fine) however i keep showing the html code aswell... this.createTextField("body", 1 ,0 ,0 ,fw,fh); this.body.embedFonts = true; this.body.multiline = true; this.body.wordWrap = true; this.body.border = fal...more >>

Hello, Wondering if anyone can help me, this is driving me crazy. I have a mp3 sound linked to my flash by load sound, this is the code i have to load the sound: trackOne_btn.onRelease = function(){ stopAllSounds(); var mySound:Sound = new Sound(); mySound.onLoad = function(load...more >>