I have been trying to action script for years with no success. I to some time off and learned javascript and some oop (ruby) so I thought I would take another stab at it. I am still having problems. Here goes... I have several movieclips on the stage that will be set up as buttons. They ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to track the visible property of a movie clip as I need to perform a function when visible = true and another when visible =false I have tried to use a listener object but I can?t get it to work. Can you attach a listener object to listen for the visible property? ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to track the visible property of a movie clip as I need to perform a function when visible = true and another when visible =false I have tried to use a listener object but I can?t get it to work. Can you attach a listener object to listen for the visible property? ...more >>

HI I would like to create something similar to this: http://www.actionscript.cl/mx_nematobit.swf I've downloaded this file and decompiled it... When I try to test it, it doesn't work like it should... I've created one empty MovieClip in Library named 'mc' and gave him an linker i...more >>

Hello, I'd like to be able to iterate through all of the dynamic text variables in my flash movie, and I'd like it so that if I add new text to this movie, it will show up in the iteration. Essentially, I want to do something like this: for (i in _root) { trace(i); } While t...more >>

This is such a simple task, yet I can't seem to figure it out! I'm using AS3 but I think it's the same in AS2. Here's the dilema: I have an element which is about 14th the size of the Stage. I would like to provide a button which prints it, isolated, fullscreen. So the answer is to intiali...more >>

I'm trying to clean up my code. I have a varying number of MovieClipLoaders and related listeners. I wanted to make a general purpose loop to create them where I can call the function with a variable and instantiate both the MovieClipLoader and its listener. I'm starting with pretty t...more >>

Hello, Can you compile an as file and then load the compiled version into an fla? I've searched here, on the web, and in the docs but don't see anything. If you can't, could I build a dummy movie clip (with some minimal UI that is invisible), add the code, and compile as a swc file? T...more >>

Yeah, I'm behind with Flash 5. Haven't used it in a long time but I'm now waiting for CS3 so I can get all the upgrades... I've been all over the web and found a few tutorials on making timers. Some I've gotten to work, other not so much luck. The problem is all the tutorials I've seen ten...more >>

Does anyone know how to display a button?s label in 2 rows? This is what I have right now: myButton.label = "Click Here to List All Available Items"; I need to display that in 2 rows Thanks in advance, ...more >>

Hello, I have an online test in Flash. It is basically working ok, but it is not reliable 100% of the time. The movie has 6 sections, the first 4 use quite a few audio files. I preload all of the audio (external mcs) in the beginning of the movie, while the user is reading an instructio...more >>

As a relative newcomer to Actionscript, I came across a preloader tutorial (from a trusted source) which reveals a cut out photograph as the movie loads. I decided to use it, but although I have checked and double-checked the Actionscript, Flash 2004 keeps reporting an error and the preloader ...more >>

I have two (key)frames on a slide. On both I added stop(). When the slide opens the stop() is ignored and it advances to frame 2! It DOES parse the actionscript, other commands (like trace() to debug this) are played. Why doesn't Flash not??? UPDATE: I found if I add an additional...more >>

I have the attached bit of code which fades an mc out smoothly using actionscript. Works a treat, but how do I get the mc to fade in - i.e. the reverse of this code? gryllsie mcname.onEnterFrame = function() { mcname._alpha -= 5; if (mcname._alpha <= 0) { mcname._visi...more >>

This code works like this: I have 3 folders with pics and I want them to load one after another, first from the first folder, then from the second and after that from the third folder. So what this code is should be doing is to load fruit picture 1 and when loading is completed, it should star...more >>

Hi All, I have this fla wich uses some tweening with actionscript. These is done with the Easing Class of Robert Penner. Thank you, Robert! I use 2 tweens after eachother. Lets say a MC tweens to position 100, 100 and when it is there it has to tween to position 300, 200. This works fine,...more >>

The script I wrote works fine in Flash Mx but the same script does not work in Flash 8 Proffessional. It gives me errors stating , or ) required. Can anyone help me on this? saxena...more >>

hello i have a series of movie clips that I want to play sequentially. For some I would like to do one right after another and others with a pause inbetween. I have the first part worked out but it is sloppy and there is code all over the place. is there a set, clean way to accomplish this...more >>

Pretty simple interface, level 0 loads a intro swf on level 1 then loads the navigation on level 2. Navigation loads all movies on level one, replacing whatever is there. The issue I'm running into is if I load a rather large movie into level 1, it starts loading with the preloader, but if I c...more >>

After figuring out that removeMovieClip won't work on objects with negative depth numbers, I've run into another stumbling block in some menu generation code I'm working on. For the most part, my menu code is complete, and functional. However I've been trying to clean up some of the displa...more >>

Hello Anyone knows any good actionscript 3 pocket reference book available or going to release? It will be so helpful to have one with me all the time. Thank you...more >>

[Q]I have a movie clip with instance name "launch". I created a global variable with: _global.launchwebsite = ""; I have a scrolling menu with thumbnail images. I want each thumbnail to dynamically change the URL of the launchwebsite variable. I tried putting this code on one of the me...more >>

Hello, I have a difficulty that I need help overcoming. To give some background information, here are the movie clips used: 1 movie clip called 'skater' 1 movie clip called 'token' In the actionscript, 'token' is incremented to become 'token1', 'token2', etc. I am using a...more >>

Ok.. I don't know what is the problem for this.. maybe someone with more experience bumped to this too.. and can help me out.. I will put the link here so u can see it but before u open it, pay attention of the mess.. pictures are loaded one over another or not loaded at all.. There are 2 pa...more >>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all. Was wondering if its possible to do/rewrite the following as i am completely programming-blind! Based on the following example http://www.senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.169 I have a movi...more >>

Ive created an input box that i want to go to the next frame if some you type in the right word. How do i do this....more >>