hello, im trying to figure out a way to have a selected item of a list box return a the appropriate numeric value ---- ex. if i click the 7th item of a list box, it will set my variable to "6" ---- ( i know the first value is 0 ) is it possible to use the getItemAt to return a numeric...more >>

[b]I have a problem .I am trying to load some data from a php script . I want to send some variables to php .[/b] public function LoadXML2(nume:String,c1:String,c2:String,c3:String):void { var loader2:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loader2.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, OnComplete2); ...more >>

hi there, anyone know how to make this website button bar? http://www.grouplotus.com/grp/. i tried to find tutorial at flashkit.com but can't find it...... pls help help~~ many thanks ...more >>

If I wanted to to cycle through an array that looked like this: Array("Red", "Blue", "orange", "green", "Silver", "Black", "Yellow", "Peach") how would my code look if I wanted to only display three at a time. what would the code look like for a next and a previous button to see the next t...more >>

I am sending the x,y values of the points where I click mouse I want to send them to php in the format like x,y|x1,y1|x2,y2 but I am getting the output like x|y|x1|y1 I am dong it like(where lineat is the array) lvOut = new LoadVars(); lineat.push(_xmouse, _ymouse); lvOut.lineat...more >>

Hi there. I am working on a site for a musician. I created a virtual jukebox using Flash MX 2004 that streams MP3 files. My client wants people to be able to purchase his songs through PayPal. I would like to add a "buy" button to the Flash that will send the proper form data over to PayPa...more >>

Hi, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me. I want to point out from the start, I know NOTHING about Actionscript!!! Somehow, with the help of a video tutorial, I was able to put together a script that allows someone who comes to my site to fill out a form and send the info to...more >>

Does anyone have a good website to check out for making preloaders? I'm still a little new with actionscripting and pre loaders kind of confuse me. I understand why they are there, but am clueless on how you make them. Thanks. ...more >>

I want to read data from several files whose names are written in array then I want to get an array with names of those file whose content length is more than 1000. I have done looping and able to get data of files and check their length but not able to store the file name. this is happin...more >>

I want to rotate a movie clip and try the following code. The instance name is atom _root.atom.onEnterFrame=function() { this._rotation += 1; } I get this error 1120: Access of undefined property _root. ...more >>

I want to open an image using loadMovie and than be able to pick color where I click on the image. Can someone plz help me with the code to achieve that....more >>

We want to create an effect over a movie clip that starts when the mouse rolls over it and ends (and returns to the initial state) when the mouse rolls out. We have succeeded but we have still a problem. If the user rolls quick the mouse the on(rollOut) event doesn't work properly and as a res...more >>

Hi everyone. I have made several flash websites that utilize a loadbar in some fashion and they all work fine. This page I'm doing now, however, has me stumped. When I test the movie in Natve Flash, the loader works exactly like it's supposed to, however, once I upload it to the server, ...more >>

I have a simple event that never fires. I have gone through the help section and the syntax appears to be correct but I am new to 3.0 so perhaps I am missing something obvious that someone here can help me with. The loader just loads a jpg and I'm trying to add an init event to it. What is ...more >>

I'm pretty new to this class stuff. My main document class is getting pretty long and unmanageable. Is there a way to use #include to break out some of these public functions that I need to use in main? Thanks ...more >>

I need a fully customizable flash xml slideshow, so that I can change fonts for the captions, put the captions over the pic, change everything I want and put captions, thumbnails in any part of the canvas, and even not show thumbnails if I want. Any link to a site where I can purchase some...more >>

Hi, I am having problems with using seek, I'll describe my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a 45 second FLV, when I receive the Meta Data it confirms this adn returns 45 seconds for the duration. However if I seek to 40 seconds I get an NetStream.Seek.InvalidTime error, the ...more >>

Hi, I have a slide show with an emptyMovieClip as a pic holder (Frame). The images are loaded with a movie clip loader, so I know the original size of target_mc onLoadInit. The pic holder has the size of width 382 and height 246. Now, each image should be loaded into my Frame, centre...more >>

I have a movieclip that can be moved around the screen when a user drags it. I want them to also be able to scale the movie clip. Is that possible?...more >>

Hi flash developers, it happens too often that my ideas are too complicated compare to my knowledge. This is what I want to do now. I want to create a rotating 3d box (rotating around Y). The direction of rotation depends on the mouse position (left,right). And each plate,side of the box (...more >>

Ok, here is the situation. I have several "Shapes" which are MovieClips that consist of "Nodes" (MovieClips) at the vertices. What I need to do (during runtime) is determine whether there is a path from any given Node to Shape_0 (the anchor shape). Here is the data I am able to generate...more >>

does the mouseX and mouseY property read where the mouse is on the stage or where the mouse is over a symbol? I seem to be getting conflicting reading. I have a stage that is 640 x 480 with a 1280 x 960 scrolling background. When I trace the mouseX position it doesn't seem to give me the readi...more >>

I'm trying to use the "_self" argument of the getURL method in a flash form in IE7, but it opens a new tab no matter what. The funny thing is the "_self" argument seems to work in the new tab as long as the parent that spawned it is open, but then my button that call the getURL method with a "...more >>

Okay, here is my problem: When I added a duplicate movie clip script to my guy, he duplicates fine. But when he duplicates again it replaces the old duplicate!!! The main problem is that each NEW duplicate has a new name!!! I tested it with the namebox script at the end! onClipEvent(ente...more >>

Help. I'm new to actionscript and am trying to do something simple like use a 2 frame HTML page with navigation in top (Flash obj) and plain html stuff in the bottom or main frame. I declared these global var... //global { var lssnPages = new Array('lssn_01.htm', 'lssn_02.htm', 'lssn...more >>

PLEASE Advise me "How to write the code where one button stop an the second button is still activated. The code follows: stop(); Test1_btn.onRollOver=function (){ _root.createEmptyMovieClip("controller_mc",2); controller_mc.onEnterFrame=function(){ _root.gotoAndStop(_root._curre...more >>

Hello, Please could someone help me. I am xscaling some movie clips. I have two movie clips, one large box, and a second smaller box. I need to xscale both these movie clips by 80% therefore i coded: boxOne_mc._xscale = 80; boxTwo_mc._xscale = 80; This works they are scaled by 80...more >>

I have a base .swf file that opens and plays another .swf file. I want to know when that .swf file has finished so I can then open a third .swf file inside the original. Thanks. Rob Childress...more >>

I have: myText = myText + "<b>location: </b>" + locale[p]+newline; how can I make the content of local[p] a different color? lets say grey. thanks ...more >>

When I'm trying to add script to a button i receive message that: "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it"... What's wrong with it... older versions of Flash didn't make problems like this... ...more >>

Hello, i am completely stuck with as3. Here's is what i did in as 2.0: I created different dynamic text , then i assigned the variable var_name1 for the first text, var_name2 for the second or whateverText_name1 etc... Then i created an array: myArray [["name1", value1, value2], ...more >>

Hello, I have been working on a dragonball z game recently and I have encountered a problem with the sprites.I have traced the bitmap and everything else and even created a movieclip of the sprite.I have put this code on the movieclip- Code: ( text ) onClipEvent (load) { step = 5; ...more >>

I'm making a class for an image viewer movieclip. Right now the movieclip sits on the main timeline and is called fullSizeViewer_mc, the linkage identifier as well as the class name is fullSizeViewer. The only thing in the movieclip is another clip called bg_mc. This clip is supposed to functi...more >>

I think this is a simple problem. I want to pass a Variable to a function when a button is clicked. I am used to just passing a Variable like so: FuncTest(CustomVarible); But that doesn't seem to work. Here is an example of what I trying to do; I know it won't run in actionscript, but at l...more >>

Ok, I have found defining classes in .as files can be very useful for me. I have a few functions that are being called over and over again in different movies. There is what I want / need to do in order to stream line the creating and updating of the flash site. I want to see if I can put t...more >>

I have tried to look up this issue in the flash help, lynda.com and here with no luck. I have an issue with external text that I import. The text loads fine but when I click to go to another frame in the same timeline the previous text stays and the new text renders over the previous text....more >>

I thought new Object({ prop:true, prop2:false }); was proper syntax for that......more >>

I have the following script that works perfectly to play random and in a loop but everytime it loops the size of the video is resized but i cant see where its being done...Anyone who does see it? my_FLVPlybk.muteButton = mute; var movies:Array = ["filmpje1.flv","test.flv","filmpje3.flv"]...more >>

Hi, I was wondering. If a user visits a site, can you make a Flash file that shows data from the user's CD-ROM drive and interact with the data as if it were local? Of course, the user has to grant access to this permission first, but is it possible? Thanks. ...more >>

I am familiar with the tween class but all I want to do is add its functionality to my custom classes which are nothing more than extensions of the Movie Clip class.... I cant use the import statement in a class file and putting it on the main stage doesnt work either... Any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, I have a piece of code which instances a new MC (attached to an empty MC on stage) and attaches an onEnterFrame function to it, which will move the clip to the right and skews the clip along the X-axis. The problem is, when I create another instance, it influences the skew of the pre...more >>

Hello. I'm in an interesting predicament. I created a kind of interactive seating chart for my company that allows one to look up peoples names and extension numbers. Unfortunately I created it in a way that severely limits updating new employees and positions. http://dontbedumb.twu.net/fl...more >>

I am using a TextArea to show some text that sometimes contains URLs that should be clickable, but when they are clicked, the page loads in the same browser window/tab as the swf-- replacing the swf. Is there some way to trap those clicks and process them yourself, so that you can force a new...more >>

I looked all over and I haven't found any good information or samples on how to read from and write to an external XML file. From what I understand, there needs to be a server-side script to receive the data when you use URLRequestMethod.POST (not sure how to use though). However, my current...more >>

Please inform me if I am a total idiot,... but it appears that holding down backspace while in a TextInput on a mac will only delete one character rather than deleting chars as long as the button is held down. I have tried making the simplest project consisting of only a base sprite and a text...more >>

Hello- I am trying to figure out how to make a random number of circles appear on a stage I have created and then have them scale x and y randomly and at different speeds as well. In other words, the circles would appear in random numbers, in random locations, at different speeds, and scale ...more >>

Using onPress within my class definition seems to work sometimes and not others. I started with a small test file called Test.as class Test extends MovieClip{ function onPress() { trace("howdy"); _level0.status_txt.text = _level0.html_var; } } In my test.fla file i have a sin...more >>

can anyone help me with this? i made a app which draws a chart with values passed from database, how can i create the axes values which will move and display different values as the chart is moved or zoomed in/out? can i use dynamic text fields so that each time i move the chart, new tex...more >>

What am I doing wrong here? Or is this a bug I can work around? [i] var mainLoadVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); mainLoadVars.onLoad = function() { inString = mainLoadVars.toString(); trace(inString); } btnMain.onPress = function() { mainLoadVars.load(urlcut + "/lookup.php?...more >>

I can not believe this simple task is giving me such a hasle. I can't seem to figure out how to link to an external URL from within flash. Basically, I just want to open a new browser window with a certain webpage in it when a visitor clicks a button. How would I go about doing this in Acti...more >>