is there a built-in property or a function to show or hide border around a rectangular movieclip similar to that attribute in HTML (border=1)? ...more >>

I am developing a gallery and am really close to being done... I am using the movie clip loader class to determine when the image is fully loaded before fading it in. Below is the code I have for the image border to resize...however, it does not transition to it (http://www.rainnetworks.com/...more >>

using the MovieClipLoader, all works fine. attaching a series of movieclips with a nested clip, and loading a jpg into each of these movieclip's nested clip. in the listener func onLoadInit, I get passed the clip name that is loaded, how do I neatly reference the parent of that clip? ...more >>

Here goes... I am trying to create a small game.... Frame1 exists to hold actionscript related to the rest of the code. In Frame2 I have a square grid covered by 49 small square buttons (7 across, 7 down) When a user clicks on any one of the instances of the button, flash randomly pla...more >>

I have a movie clip on the stage - it's moved up and down by two movie clips with mouse over and mouse off events. This works fine but i can't figure out how to stop the top of the movie clip from going past y=20; etc. and giving it a boundary to live it . this is the menu i am trying to e...more >>

Im new to flash and im trying to build a web site using XML and PHP which communicate with mysql db and ActionScript in order to populate List component that i use as menu. I have 2 frames one called category and one subcategory. In the first there is one List component called categoryList and...more >>

Hi. I recently downloaded the trial version of CS3 to test it out. I'm an experience AS2 developper, and have 10 years of C, C++, C#, Java, PHP ... programming experience on BIG projects before starting flash. I have been trying to use an embedded font in AS3 with a dynamically created tex...more >>

main swf loads in new swf with xml image carousel including reflection of image. when you click an image on the carousel, the image slides over and changes to a new image with that image being reflected. the new image is loaded into an empy movie clip, along with the flipped image as well. the...more >>

:confused; I've created a Flash web banner about 400kb in size that plays fine until about halfway thru at which point the transitions and animations seem to get noticeably slower. I've added a preload script which loads the whole clip before playing and it still plays with the same lag. ...more >>

I run stage.invalidated and I get this error: Error #1065: Variable stage is not defined. What am I doing wrong here?...more >>

This is an AS3 question: I have a movieclip on that starts on frame 2. I have code like this: target.gotoAndStop(2); trace(target.child) //get null but if I put that same trace statement on frame to it returns a movieclip. Now my understanding is that Flash renders the code t...more >>

Okay, so I have this for the AS: stop(); IntroButton.onRelease = function() { nextFrame(); }; ...more >>

Hi guys, I have a bunch of buttons that I want to have do the same thing; pass their instance names to a function that will advanced the play head appropriately. To avoid having to write a ton of .onRelease functions, I'm trying to find a way that I can have a symbol return it's name if the ...more >>

I have five buttons. I need to program these buttons so that when I click on the button, the information in the down state stays up until another button is pressed. When another button is pressed the information from that down state will stay displayed until I hit another button. PLease help a...more >>

I have a flash app that works fine in local testing, but fails to load dynamic data when live on a site if I use the javascript method to get around the "click to activate issue" What I would like to do is to direct all the trace output to a textbox so I can test it in situ. Is this possib...more >>

ok here's the deal... i have some old code that worked in as2, and im trying to get it to work in as3. i think ive fixed all of the problems with it (i think), but im am stumped on how to get around the setProperty part. the button instance is oney, and the MC instance is box. here is the code...more >>

Hello, i'd like to know how can i change the mouse skin on a accordion header onRollOver. I juste whant it to looks like the pointer of an onRelease button (the little hand with a finger) when my mouse is on the headers of my accordeon component. Thanks for the help ...more >>

I have some free software for recording screen captures, so that I can make a video tutorial. This tutroial I want to play over the internet. Problem... this software converts the tutroial screen recording to either an avi video or to swf. If you try and convert the avi video to flv, all the...more >>

I am trying to create a section of a site, which look s quite like this one: http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/genericContent.do?oid=163402 (click on DIGITAL SLR and see what I am trying to replicate). I have created a sliding bar, created 3D animated sequences of my movie. But I do not know h...more >>

I've created a FLV player in flash. After a few seconds of the mouse not moving, if it's over the video, I want the mouse to hide. Anyone have any examples of this? Thanks -Rich...more >>

so I want to make browser to go to certain web page or open pop-up window using actionscript 3 code. How to do that?...more >>

There doesn't seem to be a way to render a region of one bitmapData to another bitmapData. Is this a large flaw or is there something I'm missing? I'm currently creating a complex game, and this has been puzzling me. I know about the draw command, but say I want to take a convex polygon region...more >>

Hello everyone, http://www.elumdesigns.com/catalog Is there any way to create a form similar to this in Flash? I need it to be embedded within the .swf and not using html. Any help would be MUCH appreciated!:) Thanks Kit ...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know how to replace a letter or letter combination like in a chat, to replace this letters and put a movie clip instead? I tried something like this, but got no result. textfield_txt.text = "After this word a " + smile + "smile should be visible.."; I made a m...more >>

Hi there, I have this actionscript for a simple password protection which doesn't quite work, i have looked on previous threads for the same sort of code but have not found a solution, i am using flash 8, please help on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") { if (password == "abcde") ...more >>

Hi All, Can someone tell me if it is possible to access the local file system using actionscript? If so how? I'm learning flash and I'm trying to see if I can build a text editor using actionscript, just for learning. Hence, I would like to know if I can somehow allow the user to spec...more >>