Here is my problem. I have a two buttons on the mainstage playing two different movie clips. But both buttons are playing the same movie clip even thought the action scripting is different on both. Here is my code for the buttons The need button- on (rollOver) {gotoAndPlay("nee...more >>

Hi - Familiar story...preload progress graphic doesn't start until 89%. Report tells me it's the Actionscript 2.0 Classes...so I changed the Export frame to 2 instead of 1 in the Settings of the Publish Settings panel. This makes frame one about 8KB instead of 51KB. Yikes! Every tim...more >>

Hi, I'm now writting some as that will load information from several files. However, I am not able to edit these files, and they may be available with different codifications, like iso8559 or Unicode. Is there a way to identify the way the text was saved to load it correclty on flash? Currentl...more >>

Hi! I have a few simple questions regarding flash AS. Here we go... 1. Apparently . onRelease doesnt work with keys, what kan i use then? 2.How can I check if a textfield is empty? i tried both if (text=="") and if (text_txt.length ==0) 3. How can i control so that an inp...more >>

Hi! I have a few simple questions regarding flash AS. Here we go... 1. Apparently . onRelease doesnt work with keys, what kan i use then? 2.How can I check if a textfield is empty? i tried both if (text=="") and if (text_txt.length ==0) 3. How can i control so that an inp...more >>

All I need to do is have a movieclip that the user clicks on with the right mouse which triggers a "gotoAndStop" function. I don't see how ContextMenu helps me with this when I don't need a menu. There is no way to detect a RightMouseDown ??? How about AS 3.0 ? Rob Childress ...more >>

Is there a type of z-index in flash?...more >>

I have a comboBox that calls a js function that spawns a new window. The issue, is that after the user has clicked the item in the comboBox, and the new windows appears, the content, specificly the comboBox, breaks. At this point, close or ignore the spawned window. Try clicking the combobox...more >>

Hello friends, I'm developing a large-scale simulation that has some heavy computational requirements at specific times (e.g., when the user clicks the "end turn" button). I would like to set up a progress bar that shows the results of a series of computations being performed by external A...more >>

I have a page where the initial start page is all flash. All the following pages are html with flash menus in a default template that stays as you navigate. The pages all have one main inline frame called "main" that all content is loaded in. The rest of the page does not change. What I ne...more >>

Why is it when I try to insert a "£" symbol into a mysql database using an asp page and vbscript, it always inserts an extra character "£" Any ideas? It doesn't do this with any other character, and I don't want it to appear in any reports. Thanks Dave ...more >>

Hi. I have a MovieClip named mcContainer. This MovieClip contains several MovieClips, mc01, mc02,..., mcN. I'm pretty sure there must be a way to automatically build an array containing the names of those MovieClips, I'm just missing how. Can anyone give me a hand? Thank you in advance...more >>

Hi, is there a simple way to get rid of html tags present on a string? What about special chars encoded? What I want to do is to change <p>Hi, this is a [B]tagged html[/B] text with some special chars: &aacute;&Aacute;&ccedil;...</p> into this: Hi, this is a tagged html text with som...more >>

Hi, I am searching for something linke a setBounds-function. Or even better something to tween between two bounds without frame tweening but in actionscript. But the relativ center-point always confuses me. Any ideas oder tutorials? TIA...more >>

[F8] createTextField help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am making a flash slide show, using Flash 8, that pulls in an XML file that has image URLs and descriptions. I can load up the XML and process it so I can pull out image URL...more >>

I am trying to create a preloader to load multiple swf files from an XML file. I was able to add the bytesTotal of the files together to get a cumulative bytesTotal and now I need to do the same for the bytesLoaded... the problem is that the files load in parallel so getting the bytesLoaded i...more >>

Hello, I am wondering if anyone out there can help me!!! I'm in desperate need of a fix for a sound problem i have. I know how to fix this problem if i import the sound into the flash file. But i cant do this with this example because the sound file is too large!! I have some sound fi...more >>

Hello guys Iam using the MovieClipLoader object to load multiple jpg images by getting their names from a xml file but agfter a minute or two images are disappearing.In other words I can still get a hand cursor by rolling over them but I cant see them,please guys help me with this problem.he...more >>

hey all, i'm having a little problem i hope you can help with. i had to pick up someone elses job, its mostly done however theres a playback problem. http://newsite.resortvacationcertificates.com/home.asp its 3 smaller files loading into a shell swf. something is going on causing the files...more >>

OK, I made this typeout text thing in flash using the substring actionscript; but I would like it to pause in between sentances and commas. Please help!! From http://www.developmentnow.com/g/69_0_0_0_0_0/macromedia-flash-actionscript.htm Posted via DevelopmentNow.com Groups http://www.developmentn...more >>

I have an ifStatement that I am using to drive a preloader that has frames. It looks something like this: movieloader_mclListener.onLoadProgress = function(target:MovieClip, numBytesLoaded:Number, numBytesTotal:Number):Void { if (numBytesLoaded/numBytesTotal>=0 && numBytesLoaded/numByte...more >>

Hi, I load an external swf witch also loads other external swf, witch have lots of references to level0. When this external swf is run by itself, it works fine, but when loaded externaly it hangs, because all their external swf are referencing to level0, and level0 now is the main swf. So my q...more >>

Im posting this in both General Discussion and Actionscript because I'm not sure whether its just a Flash problem, or if my AS is causing it somehow. Heres the problem: I ttach a movieclip dynamically. When I do ANYTHING to this movieclip (change its _x, or _alpha) it changes color, almo...more >>

Any code suggestions on how to create a time line based auto redirect to an html page *.html (navigated in the current frame not pop-up) that activates automatically at the end of a movie? I have a product demonstration movie under construction and want to auto redirect to an html form to ...more >>

I need to make a preloader to preload both all frames and a dinamically handled sound object. right now the one I have works until I add the sound object dinamically....more >>

In the following actionscript I am loading an xml file into a number of arrays. If I place a trace createResourceList function all the arrays are loading with the correct values, but if I call the showDetail function from another frame the array values are all undefined. If I put a trace in the ...more >>

Is there a way to change the stage dimesions with a script please? Relates to another post below which I can't figure out....more >>

I have a system where hundreds of similar movieclips ("pieces") can be mouse dragged around in an area ("dragArea"). I am having trouble with performance. When you start dragging a piece, it jumps to the top of the depths so it appears above all the others. All the pieces are created dynam...more >>

This couldnt have come at a worst time, i have m deadline in 2 days, and i have barely started the work... and now, Flash will not let me use actionscript on frames to target anything anymore.... I first noticed it when i was making the navigation bar, it simply would NOT target any of the...more >>

Hello, I am creating an online photo gallery in Flash. I want the buttons, on rollover, to be at full opacity. The buttons are currently at alpha 25. Thanks, WonderWendy btn1._alpha = 25 // this works fine btn1.onRollover = function(() //this is where I don't know what code to insert...more >>

:frown; I have HTML content defined in an external XML file: [Q]<textBody><p>First line of text containing some [B]bold words[/B]. More text with some [B]bold words[/B] and then two line breaks.<br /><br />Here's some more text with [B]some more bold words[/B] in the middle of it. Don't you ...more >>

Hello guys Iam using the MovieClipLoader object to load multiple jpg images by getting their names from a xml file but agfter a minute or two images are disappearing.In other words I can still get a hand cursor by rolling over them but I cant see them,please guys help me with this problem.h...more >>

From one SWF how do I access a SharedObject created by another SWF on the same machine ? I know the name of the SOL file in question and the absolute path to it ...more >>

I am making a touchscreen keyboard. I need to be able to code a flash button so that it does the same as if you pushed a key on the keyboard. What would the code be for the letter "A" for example. Sorry for the newbie question. Thanks Benny ...more >>

I have a number of SWF and now I need to add an entry text field to all of them. I do not want to find myself creating a text field in every single FLA I wonder if I can create in, say, in an .AS file using something like createEmptyMovieClip and then include it into relevant FLA? Or what othe...more >>

I have created news ticker in my Flash application. I took one movie clip and put one dynamic text into it. made the dynamic text autosize. so text and movie clip width are set to the text width automatically. I am moving the movie clip by changing the _x postion of movie clip to implement the...more >>