Hi, I am new to the forum. I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have a button that I want it's function to be jump ahead 30 frames when pressed, and another that will jump back 30 frames on release. Is there a way this with timeline control ? I can't figure it out. Thanks ! ...more >>

I am at the end (almost) of developing this site and need help. From my main movie (main.swf) I call in a movie to my URLLoader called workCnt.swf. In this movie I have a button which I want only to load a swf file into the URLLoader called workLdr found on my main movie timeline. I have s...more >>

Hi, I have the following problem which sounds easy : movie1.swf loads an external movie called "external.swf" I know how to access the external movie from within movie1.swf (by using the content property) but how to access movie1.swf from within external.swf? Thaough it sounds easy I ...more >>

I have external SWF as contents, and those SWF has an animation that stop at frame 20, but when I click any other btn I would like to play those swf from frame 21 to 30 I'd try with this AS but dosn't work: on(release){ _root.contenido.gotoAndPlay(21); } sample: http://www.innde...more >>

I am having problems loading an xml file from an swf. I have a dynamic calendar that I am using. I am loading the calendar.swf inside my parent.swf using the ; loadMovie("calendar.swf", "loadstage"); I have worked out all issues except the xml file that the calendar.swf calls for is not loadin...more >>

In the flash game I'm making I've decided to try out the attachMovie code to place the monsters. As an example I have one room that has a giant spider in it. The code I used on the frame that contains the room is below. The problem is that the hitTest isn't working. The player MC walks right t...more >>

Hey everyone. I'm new to AS3 and very... very lost (Last time I did much with flash was Flash 5). Short version: I'm trying to load an external .swf from a URL and add event handlers to the movie clips (or it's movie clips sub-MCs) on its stage. I can't find a THING online on how to do t...more >>

Hi, I want to send some values from flash to html, using javascript (external interface), But this is not working without server, can anybody tell what is way to access flash values to html without using any server. Plz help me on this thing... ...more >>

I have the following Actionscript which moves text and images onto the stage. I want to delay p1-p3 so that they float in at set times or intervals. I am extremely confused as to how to achieve this. I am an actionscript fool...but I *think* I need to use Timer but I have no idea how to implem...more >>

I think I need I might need to create an Event member for the Dispatching Object, but am not sure. Any idea what's missing from the example code below? Base Class: import flash.events.*; private function init():void { _Data = new Data(); _Data.addEventListener(Data.DATA_INIT, data...more >>

Hi I'm trying to control the flv files using xml. The format for setting cuepoints normally is 00.00.00.000 However action script requires you enter a number so the above is not allowed. You can use 00.000 i.e. up to 99.999 however when you reach 100.000 it stops working. I noticed som...more >>

Can someone explain this to me? I was following along a simple AS3 example (in the design video workshop) where a "Power Button" has some MouseEven CLICK event handling applied to it with a trace statement as the resulting handled function. Really simple basic example. The import statement ...more >>

I have been struggling with this problem for a week. I am a C++ programmer so I am new to actionscript. Here is what I want to do: 1) client side actionscript has flash movie player. Client generates a request to server 2) server gets the request and generate a movie file by calling a exe....more >>

Hello, I'm having trouble with a fairly basic function. I'm trying to change the colour of a line that will act as a scale bar over an image from a microscope. Students have to choose between a white bar or a black bar depending on the selection of a radio button. I've written the code ...more >>

I'm publishing to Flash Player 8 from CS3. I have a MC placed on main timeline that loads an external MC onto level 10 of the main timeline. code: on(release){ loadMovieNum("video60.swf",10); } The external mc, "video60.swf" is linked to an FLV file. The FLV, SWF and the "AC_RunAct...more >>

HELP Flash email form takes too long to send and bring up "Welcome/Thank you Message your email has been sent" When someone fills out my email form and clicks send, the page just sits there for a long time and then after a certin period of time it will switch over to my THANK YOU message. ...more >>

I'm trying to create a function without getting "statement must appear within on handler" in the error box. This appears in the flash help file and also registers an error: function traceMe() { trace("your message"); } traceMe(); I need the code to attach to a button and also...more >>

How do I simplify this: _root.btn1._visible = false; _root.btn2._visible = false; _root.btn3._visible = false; with a for loop like this: for (i=1; i<=modtotal; i++) { } ...more >>

Hi, I at the final stage of an application developed in Flash 8. This application enables user to merge two images (JPG bitmap). With help of this forum i have bee able to do everything on this project viz. moving, resizing, rotation, and the bigger part - merging. Now when the m...more >>

Target another frame from flash-navigation - has Adobe released some solution? [b]- Right now we migrate from Flash towards PowerPoint and CSS, because the lack of answers and interactivity in Flash because of Microsofts security pathes in IE 6 and 7 [/b] But I still wonder if there ...more >>

I want a dynamic text field that loads different text files depending on what button is clicked. In xml each node defines what text file to load. What would be the actionscript code to load the text files? Here is what my xml file looks like: <icons> <icon image="ars.png" t...more >>

Hi I'm working on a movie that scrolls through random characters before coming to rest on specific words/sentence. I originally created this in flash 6 and as1. How can I a) rewrite the code to work with flash 8 and as 2? (when publish in flash 8 as 2 the words just continue scrol...more >>

i cant find a way to link to external html with AS 3.0. Everythign i find from searchign on forums and tutorial sites sais use getURL();, but i always get an error when doing this in AS3.0 so i'm guessing that this isnt a valid way to do it anymore :/? Can anybody lend a hand? Id like to load...more >>

How can i apply an action to many instances of the same object or different objects without the need of writting the same code tens of times ??? Like i have 10 copies of a circle and i want in the first frame to set their x positions to 100, can i do this in one step instead of writing the co...more >>

Hey guys, I need to make my site full browser flash because when a portfolio element is clicked in its menu, a black overlay fades in and a project swf is called. Simple enough, but of course the overlay needs to fill the user's window otherwise it will look disjointed. When I publish ...more >>