This may be a basic question, but why does my attached example return false? I would think that if two arrays contain te exact same number of elements, and those elements were identical, that the below example would return true. Is this a good example of ?There is something fundamental about...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to accurately add a hyperlink in my .fla so it will link to a URL. I'm very rusty with Flash, especially ActionScript 2.0. I've tried the getURL action and that didn't really work, so I used onRelease and that seems better. However, my file isn't working everytime, and it se...more >>

I have a website http://www.charlesmarsden-smedley.com/index1.html that I am building. In the projects section, if you navigate to Projects > Museum > Tower of London. You will see 'more information' link. This loads an external Movie clip for the text feild. I would like to make the ...more >>

Hello all, I am currently working on a flash file and I'm an intermediate user. My actionscript abilities are probably close to beginner, but I'm a quick learner (most of what I have learned with actionscript has been self taught). In my flash file I have an animation of a rotating glob...more >>

I have a FLV playback component on the stage with an instance name of my_FLVplybk. I am trying to pause and play the video using buttons on the parent timeline, "19mc" which is embedded in the main timeline. The pause button (for example) targets the main and embeded timeline. However, w...more >>

Hello all. I have an excel spread sheet that you can input some different values of some machinery and the operating costs then the spread sheet automatically calculates the annaul costs and a few other things. Total there are 12 different values that need to be input to get these number. ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if this is possible and if so how. have an enitre array to be used as parameters in a function. Here is a quick example: var modules = [but1, but2, but3, but4]; function change(** every thing listed in the modules array){ ...more >>

I have a project I am working on that has a scroll window on the main page and the movie clip displayed in it changes. All of the movie clips that get displayed in the scroll window are all dynamically made through actionscript loading all of the info from PERL scripts usingLoadVars(). Fo...more >>

Hello all. I have a simple problem, which I'm sure can be resolved quite easily. I have a movie clip that's viewable through a mask, acting as a window for content. There are two buttons which move the movie clip up and down through the window, moving in increments of 5, but the user has to re...more >>

I am continually amazed at the number of people who are just now coming to Flash (or have only just started learning a bit of Actionscript) and post questions regarding on(someClipEventOrOther). I'm trying to understand who and/or what is guiding them to using this type of pre-Flash MX (6) sty...more >>

hi i'm creating an activity based CAL (computer aided learning) program, some of the activities will require a calculator, which i have coded. what i want to do is somehow have the activities able to load the calculator, and drag it about, is the best way to do this by making a button...more >>

Ok, I've googled till my fingers bled, and I'm still stumped. Have you all seen anything like this? I've got the following code: ------------------------------------------------------ var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("status"); if (! so.data.seenIt){ so.data.seenIt = true; ...more >>

I have noticed the UI components in my flash MX 2004 and would like to use the ComboBox for a quiz. I want the user to be able to select the question from 2 combo and upon clicking a button, it will lead the user to that question the user has selected. Eg. Term 1 Exercise 10 (Term is a com...more >>

I am currently working on a project for my Flash class and I have a media section where movies are selected from a menu and the video opens inside the same movie (beside the menu). I wanted to know if there was a way (through ActionScript) to have the movie automatically close when it is over...more >>

Hello, I am trying to read some professional codes but i always stumble on some syntaxes that send me back to actionscript school. Here is one case: // Definition of an object 1- var game:Object = new Object(); 2- game.Columns = 10; 3- game.rows = 10; 4- game.spacing = 30; 5- g...more >>

I've created a simple drawing app using flash and I'm trying to figure out how i can allow the user to save the picture they've drawn by converting what they've drawn in the flash app window into a gif that i'd post back to server as and handle it like an image upload. Thanks for any help! ...more >>

I have an MC with exactly 4 frames showing in the timeline. However, _totalframes reports 16 frames! I tried selecting (in the Flash 8 Prof. GUI) those "virtual" non-existing frames and deleting them, by selecting a number of frames after my 4th frame (although they already show up empty)....more >>

Hi, I'm quite new to AS so this is actually quite simple but is something I've yet to figure out. My flash movie comprises of several sections, and all these can be accessed from the main menu. Right now, what I'm doing is to preload all the sections at once before starting the clip. Howev...more >>

Dear All: I include some text into htmlText from a xml file and the text has serval paragraph,I want to add one grey rectangle background to every paragraph and need to get coordinate of ever paragraph. who can tell me how to realize it ?I'll appreciate for any reply. Best Regards ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm building a client server appliction using flash: the client app is a projector that connects to a server and loads some sfw files from that server. One of these files is used to play videos... When I test this file locally it works: I run it on my computer and it fetch...more >>

Hi, I'm taking 2 four digit numbers from a text file and i need to subtract one from the other. I've hit a problem if the number being subtracted from the other begins with a zero then the result is sometimes is really wrong. So i'm kind of thinking that i may need to take the zero off the...more >>

Hi, I created a simple player for videos, it works fine aside from some FLV which don't fire the complete event. I am using Flash 8 and the FLVPlayback component. Any suggestion? Cheers...more >>

I have created two swf files 'Loader.fla' and 'Sound.fla'. Inside the 'Sound.fla' just i import a sound file to library and named it 'snd'. I added the following script on the first frame var my_sound:Sound = new Sound(); my_sound.attachSound("snd"); my_sound.start(0, 1); the scri...more >>

I want to print a dynamic text field when my user clicks a button. This dynamic text field is more than 1 page long so I don't want it to be scaled. I want it to be printed in more than 1 page. How can I do this!!!!! Please if anyone can help me. Thanks, brenda s. ...more >>

I want to be able to get the file name and it's full path of a local file. I was thinking of using "FileReference" but FileReference doesn't permint accessing the local file path. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this. Thanks ...more >>

i have a variable that is my flash movie is retreiving (well, hopefully....i'm having troubles with the loadVariables)....anyweezer, the variable is named "id". i would like to add the value of this variable to then end of a text string and then use it as reference to an instance name. fo...more >>

I am attempting to attach a symbol in my library to a movie clip in a class. The code looks like this: __movieClip.attachMovie("symbol", "symbol_mc", __movieClip.getNextHighestDepth, {_x:0, _y:0}); When I test the movie, I get a type mismatch error. I'm sure '__movieClip' is a MovieCli...more >>

I am trying to create a flash countdown timer. Flash does not seem to find any errors in my script, but when i compile it and test it, instaid of a coundown display in digits i.e. 00:00:00:00 days hours minutes seconds its just displaying NaN:NaN:NaN:NaN ...more >>

I've encountered another problem. The following code does not mention that I have a MovieClip in the Library set up with its class as my_class. I drag it onto the stage and name it my_object. When I try to use the my_array property it does not work. The class includes a boolean property ...more >>

Hello... I have written a small function that simply moves an object to a new position on stage depending on a variable passed to the function. It works just fine, but instantly rather than in intervals -- mimicking a tween. I was wondering how I would integrate a delay into this function ...more >>

Hi, I'm migrating an app from AS2 to AS3, which has fairly substantial use of webservices using the as2 Webservice classes. Is there an AS3 equivalent for these classes? I read on one forum that there is nothing provided for webservices in AS3, and you'd have to serialize/deserialize t...more >>

Hello I have this AS: this.thumbHolder.onRollOver = function() { this._alpha = 100; this.play(); }; The thing I can't work out is how do I add onDragOver as well as onRollOver? Thanks for your time! ...more >>

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: RectangleParticle. This is a error that I get. I know why, but I don't know how to fix like I want. I create a swf that have a class. This class have a metod like this: public function createSomeThing() { return new someTh...more >>

I have a variable that i need to set from a function. The variable is located in the root of a movie clip. So I use: function myfunctinon() { _root.myvar = "myvalue"; } Works great. The problem is that this movie can be loaded into other movies... so I don't know what the absol...more >>

video doesnt play if NetConnection and NetStream is instantiated inside function. But when I place them outside the function the video plays fine. Im stumped, anyone know whats going one? // DOES NOT WORK function playVideo(){ trace(typeof _defaultVid); var nc:NetConnection = new N...more >>

1. On the stange I have a movie clip called mc1. 2. Inside mc1, is another movie clip names mc2. [b]3. I want to use a variable to target mc2.[/b] To test things, I made these 2 variables: var vpath = "mc1"; var vpath2 = "mc1.mc2"; This works fine without using variables: this.mc1...more >>

Hi. I have a button called 'my_btn' inside of a movie clip(mc) called 'my_mc'. I have another mc outside of my_mc, called other_mc. I want the button to make other_mc to play when pressed, but don't know how to do that. I tried on (release) { other_mc.play(); } but that doesn't work. W...more >>

So, I'm trying to get into Flash development. I'm running into what seems like a very simple problem - so simple no resources I can find mention what I'm experiencing as a problem. I've got a total of 6 .swf files - a master.swf, a splash.swf, and four content swfs - bulletin, audio, evid...more >>

Hi :D, I want to load parts of an external site into Flash. I already have experience loading XML files but wondered if it is possible with an HTML aspx site such as: http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=3486&Pr edictionLength=7 Loading XML int...more >>

Ok... So i built myself an image gallery where you could click a next button and the next image would be displayed. VERY simple. Now i have decided to make thumbnails. I have an xml file, and i want to automatically load each thumbnail onto the stage where i want it. If possible i want the...more >>

I would like to have the user's curser try to "catch" an object during a site being loaded as a preloader. The user would be unable to "Catch" the object until the site was loaded. First, is this possible in Flash and Second, if it is possible, would the preloader file be so large that it defe...more >>

That about says it all. I'm finding a lot more tutorials and examples of Action Script 2 on the web, but it looks like Action Script 3 is more powerful. It's a shame that a lot of the language in 2 doesn't work in 3. So I'm asking a little helpful advice here, which way would you go? I'm ...more >>

I have a movie clip in a game I am making, that replaces the mouse. I need it to be infront of everything else on the stage, and some things are attached from the library (so I can't controll their depth with layers anymore). I thought I had worked it out when I found the bringToFront(); fun...more >>

I am trying to convert an excel spreadsheet into a workable flash .swf. I took all the cells from the spreadsheet, and used input text fields in flash to try and duplicate what the spreadsheet does. I want this flash program to allow users to input numbers into several input text fields and...more >>

for what im building, users can vote once each week. So their voting status changes each week. Not only that the table in a database that data is drawn from will change per week. I have a big if else statement for intervals for 10 weeks. (i.e 7 to 14 is week 1, 14 to 21 is week 2 ect. BUT...more >>

Hi i wonder if someone can help i'm sorry, i'm pretty new to flash, but someone wants me to make a program where there is a horizontal line and a vertical line. the user should be able to "grab" the top of the vertical line, and move it around, the bottom of the line should be snappe...more >>

I'm not really sure how to explain it. In some flash cartoons I have seen in the past, there is a box that moves about on the screen that can change size, rotation etc, which is the camera Basically, you can zoom in on a character or something like that without having to resize the whole sce...more >>

Hi, I have a menu that has: 5 icons: A, B, C, D, E 5 positions: 1 (x=18, y=554), 2 (x=48, y=569), 3 (x=80, y=569), 4 (x=114, y=554), 5 (x=160, y=566) After they are click the initial time, they go into a little nav bar. In there, when an icon is clicked, I want it to go to position...more >>

I just googled in the hope to find some resources about how to build custom Flash CS3 components, but nothing turned up. I also couldn't find any info on Adobe's Flash developers center. Do you know of any resource that sheds some light on this subject? If not then I'll have to try to f...more >>

I need to be able to get the text selected by user after clicking a dynamic scrolling textfield. I am very disappointed to find no method that returns the selected text when there is a property of textField to make it selectable. I am using Flash MX. Let me know if this is possible in ne...more >>