I'm looking for some form of Flash component, to where I can dynamically bring in photos, thumbnails, titles, and summaries. I also want a dynamic transition when clicking photo to photo. I tried to download a flash component that did close to what I wanted, but it ended up being no FLA. W...more >>

Can someone please supply me with code that will do the following. I am trying to use a tile transition to fade between images and then when it reaches the last image I would like to move to the next frame to continue with the flash document. What I am trying to do is this. Use the til...more >>

[b]OUTLINE[/b] I have some text that has a graphical outline around it. This text needs to be Dynamic for localization. However, I still need to have the outline appear around the text. I was hoping that this was something that would be built in to Flash CS3. It's not. Is there a way to do t...more >>

Hi I am trying to preload an external flv into the flv playback component. Basicaly I want to set autoPlay (using the properties window) to false until enough of the flv has been loaded to play without interuption and then activate the auto play. I have been getting snipets of code all over an...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to make a ScrollPane with a vertical scrollbar. I found following ..fla www.mais3marketing.com/h_scroll.fla Ive tryied to change the mc position and AS so in order to get a "horizontal scrollpane" but i had no success. Could somebody help me? thanks Peter ...more >>

I am creating an AS3 application with a dynamic layout. i am having trouble with making an mc stay in the center of the flash document even when the stage is resized. does anybody know how to do this? thanks ...more >>

Say I have a function called updateText(). Now say I have 5 other separate functions that can all possibly call updateText(). Is there a simple way to find out at runtime which function is calling updateText()? At the moment what I would do is I would put trace statements in each of t...more >>

I've got a Mouse listener checking for all the onMouseUps. Is there a way to find out the name of any instance (if any) that the mouse is over when it comes up? The only way that pops into my head is to iterate through all the instances on stage at the moment, if it is a movieclip (the onl...more >>

Hey all! I could use any help you can give me pertaining to the need for an external JPG preloader. Check out my site at www.nathanaaron.com - go to menu/portfolio/print (for example.) As you can see as you scroll through the images, they take a bit of time to load, making you think nothi...more >>

So one of the ways I work is to publish my swf into the testing environment. If things are quite what I expect I often go to the Debug menu and select "List Variables." Then I can see the status of all my variables and often realize what is going on. Try this with AS3. Make a new AS3 F...more >>

I have just created a new site www.photive.eu and at the moment have a loader at the start of the .swf movie, this as you can imagine takes the whole site a while to load up, is there any way that i can put an individual loader before a particular scene within a movie?? cant find info on this ...more >>

Hi, I have been working on a flash app to provide users with an FAQ area for a program I look after. I have all the faq solutions in individual txt files which flash pulls in once the user has selected a question which relates to their issue. The problem I am having some of the text file...more >>

I have Flash MX 2004. I want to write some actionscript classes that i can import into my actionscript. I also want a user using my classes to be able to choose which class might get used to encode data. Is there a way that my main class (let's call it Service) can choose which file to refe...more >>

I have tried two other newsgroup and another forum and no one has responded to my question. I don't know whether it is because it is not possible or no one knows the answer. If it is not possible, that would be helpful information. Is it possible to prevent a movie clip from resizing when ...more >>

This is ridiculous, why do I keep getting this error. I can't even find any information on the internet about it... i searched Google for 'flash cs3 error 2025' and it pulls 149 English pages. What does this error mean, how do I fix it and how do i prevent it. Also, I was wondering what ar...more >>

I am loading image locations from an XML to an array. Once the array is populated I then sequence through the array to load the images one at a time into a movieclip on stage, rather that is what I am trying to do. What is happening is only the last image in the array loads and moves slowly a...more >>

when will the Flash 9 release,but not the alpha....more >>

I'd like to implement a button to allow user to save a file (say, html), not open the file. getURL with _blank opens it. Is there anyway to allow save on click?...more >>

Hi everybody :D, Hope you can help me here ... Should be fairly simple but I cant get my movies to load depending on the dynamic XML data which I load into dynamic text boxes ... check this out :D thanks for your help !!! stop(); var myXML:XML = new XML(); myXML.ignoreWhite = true...more >>

I?m new to Actionscript so please bear with me. How can many buttons be visible, except when the mouse rolls over each one, then all that should be showing is the corresponding overstate image? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Default LoadMovieNum questions Hi, We need to load some external SWF into a MovieClip, the size of this movieClip is generally smaller than the external SWF, so the external SWF should be resized to fit into the host movieClip. Another BIG issue is that we need to set the level fo...more >>

hello all, this is the situation: i have some buttons in the form of some stones. when a user clicks on a stone a glow builds from the inside (this is done by a movie with a growing circle, this movie has a blend setting = 'add'). when the glow-movie reaches it biggest point (ie. the l...more >>