I have images being pulled from a xml file and they spin around according to the cursor like a carousel, however, when i click one of the images, i have it set so all the others disappear and it brings up a Media Display...I'd like to put corresponding videos there from a xml file as well... h...more >>

I have a bunch of embedded movies that are controlled by hidden buttons. I would like to be able to adjust the stacking order or z-depth of the layers by scripts to solve a design problem. What I've ended up with is if you roll over button 3 the #3 movie zooms up to it's desired position on th...more >>

For some reason I cannot add any code to symbols in flash, but only the frames. When I click a symbol (tried movie clips, buttons, and graphics) and go to actions it just says "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it". This makes no sense to me since I KNOW that flash allows object...more >>

I am using Flash Pro 8. I created a .fla file which contains several objects, each of them has the ActionScript. Now I want to search through all the ActionScript for a variable such as named GeneratedXML (already used somewhere in the application). So I go to Edit --> Find and Replace or...more >>

Hello I need to pass get or post parameter with getUrl, the help say that: firstName = "Gus"; lastName = "Richardson"; age = 92; getURL("http://www.macromedia.com", "_blank", "GET"); but it dosen't work! I dont anderstan where I have to tell to getUrl wicht variavle it have to send i...more >>

Hello. Any help is greatly appreciated. I've worked hard to get this working by roaming the net forever, and it's working out great, except for one small final touch. I have two MP3s that I am playing as background music on my site. They stream automatically when the site starts, and it's ...more >>

How can I deploy the SWF with ExternalInterface.addCallback? My understanding was just supply the SWF and HTML to the server, so that anybody can access the function in the addcallback. But when I did the testing, these functions are getting called only on the machines in which FLASH develope...more >>

Can you help me in establishing this. I have just established a menu based-image in flash in the main html page. Also I do have a second page has details on each option of the menu of the main page. I am trying to whenever I click on any option of the menu in the main page; this should tak...more >>

Hello, I just tried this tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_slideshow.htm I managed to complete it successfully in each of two versions. (successful when tested from the original fla file.... yet when testing from the .swf file which is also the case from an html page ...more >>

I'm excited to be learning AS3 with my new copy of Flash. But it seems to me the documentation has taken a step back since MX04. So can anybody explain the difference between Bitmap and BitmapData class? I'm guessing that BitmapData is just used to manipulate the data and then the Bitmap i...more >>

Hi, I am not able to get a variable value from PHP back into flash after sendAndLoad. I can only get the actual value returned by php. here is the detail. Initially from flash dataOut.sendAndLoad("phptest.php", dataIn, "POST"); and the return from phptest.php dataIn.onLoad ...more >>

Hi everyone, I know that there is a way to create a pop up alert box with some message in it using JavaScript. Anyone knows how to write that code in flash? Sorry for the trouble. FiOh...more >>

Hi, Is this possible to move a object in a curve path using script thanks, shanthi....more >>

I can't edit Vars in ActionScript 3 in Flash CS3, it says make Publish setting for AS 2.0 or 1. So how do I do this in AS 3.0 ??...more >>

Hi There I am writing an entirely custom video player that does not use any pre-built components. I have an instance of the video object on screen, with FLVs being fed in to via an XML script that references a PHP page. It does [b]not[/b] reference a direct URL. The PHP script then sp...more >>

sorry for cross post but general flash seemed the wrong place for this... OK I am loading in some html formatted text via xml. The text is contained within the <![CDATA[MY_TEXT_HERE]]> tags, I am encoding the xml using utf-8 and I have the html attribute set to true for my text field along w...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to get an automatically focus on a textbox (or textfield) in Flash? I tried this: Selection.setFocus(input_txt); Selection.setSelection(); where input_txt is the instance name of the textfield. It does not work? Does anyone know how to do this? R...more >>

I am using a tree component with the multline cell renderer and it's all working fine apart from one small issue. When the text is wrapped around the 'large text field' it looks nice, although when a node has a smaller name, the text is placed at the top of the textfield and subsequently looks...more >>

Hi flash users! I wonder if any of you can help me with a problem that is making me tear up my hair. I have this flash project I'm working on with a kind of a gallery of sounds. I have some buttons generated by actionscript and XML that will load when pressed a set of 3 different mp3 fi...more >>

I have been trying to adapt an mp3 player so that it always plays randomly from its xml playlist. I dont want this function to be able to be turned on and off, i just want constant random play, so there will be no need for any new buttons. The mp3 player has some scripting in the fla and has...more >>