Hey everyone... I know this is a silly simple question, but its driving me nuts... When you have a bullet point and the sentence runs down to the next line it auto justifies to the left edge - i need that next line to be indented, but a simple space isnt reading - is there a key command f...more >>

Here's the AS I'm using.... myInterval = setInterval (moveMask,50); function moveMask () { MYmovieClip._x -= (FMipodGenInfoServStrat._x - _xmouse)/2; MYmovieClip._y -= (FMipodGenInfoServStrat._y - _ymouse)/2; } This makes the clip follow the cursor at the desired speed. I need to ...more >>

Good afternoon everyone: I seem to be having some problems with Flash 8 reading an xml file generated by an .asp. Here is the ASP Code; Dim objCn, objRs, objCm, strXML Response.Buffer = true Set objCn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") If Connect(objCn) Then Se...more >>

I'm using flash 8 and some of my users are having trouble seeing my site because they can't see any of the text!!! In some computers it works ok but some users can't see any text member even if they upgrade the flash player to 8 version. How do I correct this! I had had problems with thi...more >>

I'm having some weird problems with some basic actionscripts. I have a button that jumps to a new scene and it works perfect remotely on my computer but when i upload it I get different results when i click the button. Everytime I click the button it goes to a different page all together. Anyb...more >>

I'm looking for something that is quite basic in function: I want to have an input text field only allow numbers 0-9 (one character only.)Then I need to have an output dynamic text field show this information. [b]For example: I type [u]5[/u] in the input text field. I then want to see "Th...more >>

A site I am developing (http://www.rainnetworks.com/betasites/vm/) is built in flash. After you click on a category (say, the Gear) and wait for several minutes, it disappears. Any idea why? I have nothing in the code telling it to do so... the only thing i have is when the movie clip enters t...more >>

Hey Actionscript Community, I really need help. I know their is a way to make it so you cn have a movie clip on a key frame, have the flash movie play that entire movie clip, then once it is done, move on to another key frame. Their has to be a way of doing this besides making a key frame and ...more >>

I have 50 movie clips containing images. what I need is that when I drag one movie clip, they all move at the same time and the same way as if I was moving all of them. I can't put them in a container movie clip because I need to know their _x and _y positions at all time. Can anyone hel...more >>

:mad; Okay, so I am building a registration form, but I want restrictions on who can access it. I have put together a login page (in flash) that passes the login info to a php script which then runs an SQL query and passes a response back whether or not the user should have access. I am ...more >>

visit www.bigredrooster.com notice the flash object in the upper left corner. That is a button that opens a new page. I would like to constrain the size of the new page (news.html) to be 400 pixels wide. Is this a function of the flash button or the new page? Any instruction would be appre...more >>

Helo everyone, Im with some doubts about easing the dragging movement of objects. I checked some websites with this efect (like http://www.cultivatorads.com/ ) but i couldnt find any article about it. Can someone help me in doing this particular efect? Thanks and good day. ...more >>

Hi i'm creating a simple game for a uni project, where the user has to catch falling objects... you know the sort of thing. I've done it by creating movie clips of objects falling in the library and loading them (using .attachMovie) randomly every 20 frames into empty MC that exist on stage....more >>

Sorry to bother everyone. I have a rudimentary question, but I am new to this are of Flash. I have a form in an SWF with two input text fields. In my Actionscript, based on the Flash Tutorial under help, I've got my submit button going out of the SWF to an external page, in my case a Cold F...more >>

Okay. I'm working on a slide show in Flash 8, and what I've been trying to do is create a couple of functions to dynamically load a jpeg based on a variable that gets updated by the function (for example, file 1001, file 1002, etc). I wanted to keep the number of movie clips down to two and us...more >>

Hi, I have a flash navigation that i want to pass the value of a page to include into another page... Main.php include the flash nav that will show whatever is clicked on there show the content into the iframe below. <iframe src="$link" name="showcontent"></iframe example: flash...more >>

Hi, I have a select form field that I have recreated in Flash to act like an html select form field. I need a way to detect that my Flash movie is no longer in focus (when clicking on the html page) and so, hiding the dropdown options. If you see the way an html select field works, you c...more >>

Hi, I?ve successfully used a preloader that I built from a tutorial on the internet. In the movie where it is functioning correctly, all the actions are on the main timeline. But now I?m trying to use the same preloader for a movie where the main action, instead of being on the main t...more >>

Hello. I'm trying to load a bunch of images into a movie clip holder. The image loads very slowly, and it will disappear after a few minutes of being onscreen. On the holder clip I am using the following code: onClipEvent (load) { val = 0; } onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (val...more >>

Hi, I encountered a strange phenomenon: When I try to [h]send_lv.sendAndLoad(parserUrl, result_lv, "POST");[/h], the variables are sent & loaded OK to and from an ASP page (simple email form submission is what I need). [b]BUT[/b], whenever I try to direct the parserUrl to an ASP.NET page, ...more >>

Hi all, Is there a way to open external files using swf? I have gone through a number of forums and all seem to tell me to open with a window projector. my problem is, I need to embed the swf into a html to be viewed online... So I need to do it in swf format. Any ideas? ...more >>

This problem is driving me insane. The movie is *supposed* to generate multiple clips based on the contents of an XML doc... but for some reason only the last clip gets drawn on screen. No errors are thrown. I must be missing something REALLY obvious... can anyone spot the error? http://www.b...more >>

Hello friends, So, I am trying to learn how to write classes to make my life easier in the long run.... I am extending movieClip and using Tweener inside my new class.. Here is what I have: import caurina.transitions.Tweener; //@ author eric shoemaker ////////////////////////////...more >>

:confused; I want to control the location of a movieclip using setProperty and using xy coordinates but my syntax is screwed up, I keep getting a message saying expect ')' or ',' but I don't know where it goes. Is this correct: setProperty (this.movieinstance._x = 316) ? This is a button scrip...more >>

Heres what I am up against! I have a series of 20 checkboxes to check for certain responses from a simple form. Only problem being that I dont want to have to check each of the 20 checkboxes to get the required values, so I added a loop to check them for me. Initially only the first six an...more >>

Hi, I?ve established that I needed a path /flashcontent/screens.swf to use with loadmovie like so, loadMovie(?/flashcontent/screens.swf?,_root.Empty_MC); and this works. What I wanted to do was use a variable in my path like this? varpath = ?/flashcontent/?; loadMovie(varpath+?screens....more >>

hi i have a collection of 100's of comic strips, which i would like to show on a flash website what i need the page to do is * Load a new comic strip everyday * Be able to have access to past strips through some kind of date archive form which the user could fill out i have f...more >>

I'm having issues with using an external preloader and I need some help. I have one variable set to the movieClipLoader class and it is used to load external swf files into an empty movie clip on the stage. I'm also using an external preloader that is loaded using a different variable se...more >>

I was on this site http://www.chromazone-imaging.co.uk/flashindex.html Im wondering how to create this same effect of the mouse slowly scroll moving around the web space. Help me please! Thanks- Graphic Graeme ...more >>

Hi, the movie i made is calling 2 different asp function which update a DB and return an updated XML if all is fine. i'm doing this using a 'LoadVars' object, with the 'sendAndLoad' method. when i'm testing it in the working environment all works fine. when i'm testing it inside a browser (...more >>

yes i need help in the if then else coding in flash i have 3 buttons. when i click on each button i want to designate a variable for that button. each button will load a certain movie clip btn1_txt_mc for i made a text element inside a movie clip that i want displayed. btn2_txt_m...more >>

Hi, Can anyone help me? I want to create a sliding volume control through action scripting. Control should be the same as we have in Windows Media Player. When I drag to the left, the volumme should decrease and when draged to thr right, the volume should increase. Saxena ...more >>

Once you have done fun stuff with BitmapData in Flash 8 is there anyway you can export the image back to a server as a JPEG or PNG? TIA Kevin...more >>