I am modifying a rotator that was used on the old site I worked with. Go to orderpaintball.com and look on the right hand side of the page, you will see a flash rotator displaying our products. This runs off of an XML file and is very flexible when hanging products. On the rotator I am try...more >>

Okay, i'm an animator not a programmer, so i need to do some simple AS before the end of the semeseter and cant do anything.. Basically, i have a bunch of images that i imported as buttons to the library and want to make a simple slideshow of sorts. Click the image and go onto the next I...more >>

Hi, I created two movieclip animations. I want to see the first one play, then when it stops, the other should play. I put both of them on the main timeline but then they play at the same time. I've been playing around with the goto in script assist but none of the combos I try work. Can...more >>

:confused; A user types input into 5 or so text fields. Following this a button is clicked which triggers a concatenation of all the fields. The result (with added spaces and punctuation) is then displayed in another field. The catch is that one of the input fields has to displayed as ital...more >>

Hi, I am working on a web site and I use individual swf files loading into a clip named "container" for bringing in section content. The empty "container" clip is placed and masked on the main timeline. One section with text is showing up quite wierd. All of the text is set as static. I...more >>

I have one movie clip on a stage and I put stop(); in a main timeline keyframe. When the movie clip finishes it's animation, I want main animation to resume. It would be easy to do in AS2 by putting _root.gotoAndPlay(2) in last keyframe of movie clip , but it no longer works in AS3. What shou...more >>

I have almost 100 Captivate 2 files that I have had to edit in flash 8 and export as swf and now want to load via another swf. The audio works fine in the exported swf, but is lost when loaded by another swf. The audio handling in the files that come out of Captivate use var sound:AdobeCap...more >>

Hi! I've got a strange problem. look here; As fast I create a button or movieclip or whatever I cannot add actions to it. I only got a message with the text: [i]Current selection cannot have actions applied to it.[/i] I'm sure i've converted it to a button. I've also tried to restar...more >>

If I open a new Flash (AS3) file in Flash CS3 Professional and try to import DataProvider (import fl.data.DataProvider;), I consistantly receive a compiler error (1172: Definition fl.data:DataProvider could not be found). Does anyone know what the problem is? ...more >>

I want to be able to have the preloader check the folder contents before loading, not just image by image. I was hoping that someone could help by editing my source file :) [B]http://www.dominicdesign.com/flash/files.zip[/b] ...more >>

Hello everyone I have the following problem i am no expert in Flash i just wanted to create a simple flash menu so i saw a guide on the net and everything was fine till i reached the part where is says " select the invisible button press F9 and add the following code" i have tried eve...more >>

When placed inside a Window component the quiz template does not work. As soon as you begin the quiz it hangs. Any idea why? Would appreciate help Thanks...more >>

Hi , I am pretty new at actionscript and flash in general. I have a question regarding global array. I am not sure how the global variables function but my test to create an array fails. Any idea how to edit so that the "arr" is not empty. The xml file is after the code _global.arr =...more >>

hey all, i was using a script to animate some site content with a sliding panel easing effect in AS 2, but when i try to run the script in AS 3 it doesn't work. is there a way to convert this to AS 3 quickly? baseRate = 3.5; difference = _parent.targetx - _parent.panel._x; rate = di...more >>

Howdy! I have a MovieClip ("PlanRightPopoutMenu_mc") with two framesets labelled ("closed" & "opened"); I've been trying to add some code to a button that will check which frame the MovieClip is currently displaying... on(release) { if (_root.Plan_mc.PlanContent.PlanRightPopoutMenu_mc...more >>

I am having a problem that is probably pretty simple but I am not sure what to look for. I have a movie clip that is basically just used as a small popup window with attachmovieclip(); The clip is just a little window with a few images in it that people can use to select their choice, ...more >>

I create a menu system to load an external SWF movie by using loadclip. no problem so far, the swf movie load. but when I use unloadclip to unload the external SWF movie, the movie dissapear which it is good but.... the external SWF movie has a setinterval running, if I unload before it ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to work out how or if I can resize a browser window to a preset size for example 800 x 600. I have an FAQ application and when the user clicks on video tutorial a swf is displayed. The swf was made using Captivate and has a resolution of 800 x 600. At present when you...more >>

Is it possible to hide the "copy" and "paste" context menu items for a TextField when a user right clicks on a TextField? I know you can use the ContextMenu object to hide built-in items for the flash player, but I haven't been able to figure out how to hide the built-in items for the TextFiel...more >>

Hi all, I have been trying this for weeks now with no avail. I am not an advanced coder by any means and dont even know the best way....so many options. I have 5 cards...each with a different symbol i.e. cross, circle, square, triangle, spiral. The user will pick from their favorite sym...more >>

Hi, I want to change the Browser 's height with a Button click from my swf file. Can I do this? Thank you, Luciewong...more >>

Hey, Below is the code i am using to resize an object on my flash stage to be the same size as the users browser window. It rezises in Proportion the the browser window - so an image will never look skewed. It works really well, but the object only resizes to the size of the browser windo...more >>

I created a button and 2 movie clips. Every time when the button is clicked, the two movie clips change depth level, so that I can see the color changes. It worked fine. swap_btn.onRelease = function() { bgBlue_mc.swapDepths(bgYellow_mc); }; After I loaded swf files onto the movie c...more >>

I tryed posting this question before with no success, so I thought I would re-explain. i am using a combo box component (using flash mx 2004 pro) and have been able to customize the fonts, colour, etc. of the list once the user clicks on the combo box, but can not figure out how to make the in...more >>

I have an mp3 file that can be imported to my library and loaded by Sound.attachSound(), and played back correctly. However, if I use Sound.loadSound(http://..., true). It plays back with scrambled sound. It does not matter if I specify streaming or not, both played back with extremely hi...more >>

Hi, I have found that Event.COMPLETE doesn't get dispatched in IE 6 or 7 on a PC, but does in Firefox and the Flash authoring environment. I would like the swf to declare when it has completed loading. The code is below. SImply put it into frame 1 of the main timeline and publish it. ...more >>

Hi i have a flash movie, with a pause and play button, i also have 4 scenes with a main menu which the user clicks to view each scene. i have a sound loop on stream, but when you view a scene and the scene reaches the scene end stop action, the sound loop stops aswell. is there away of...more >>

Hi! I was wondering how I could get a list of all the movieclips inside a given movieclip. For example, suppose I have two instances of a ball movieclip: ball1 and ball2. These movieclips are inside another one named balls. Is there any method you could call on the movieclip balls ...more >>

In this project the user needs to be able to select "light text on a dark background" (for certain visual difficulties). The text is currently dark blue on various pastel boxes, so the text and boxes need to swap to white and the boxes to black. This is easy enough in one file, but there ...more >>