I have been working on creating a heart rate monitor using ActionScript. I have figured out how to create a continuously moving horizontal line. I cannot seem to figure out how to change the line to make it move diagonally once the line reaches the 200 pixel mark. Here is the code I have so fa...more >>

I would like to have a background movie clip adjust with the browser window size and a second movie clip sit in the center of stage and remain constant in size. How can this be done? Thank you....more >>

Hello Forum Group, I have a path that I would like to follow in a Flash application. I have a path that moves horizontally, and vertically, and a symbol (a small filled circle - as a movie clip) that tweens along the path I have drawn. (I am trying to show electrical current flow in a cir...more >>

I am creating a custom video player for an ad and am trying to get the play/pause button to work correctly. I dragged an instance of the pause button to the stage with instance name "pause_but" and inside that movie clip created a second frame with the play button. Frame 1 has a frame label "p...more >>

On the [i]Adobe.com and Forums Feedback[/i] forum I posted a suggestion which applies to this forum. It concerns the two languages, Actionscript 2.0 and 3.0, we are all so familiar with. ;) Well maybe it is personal, but I find it increasingly difficult to find myself the correct answers s...more >>

Hello All - Need An ActionScript 2.0 Guru - Please Help I am developing a test to track both visual acuity and response time(hand/eye coordination) I have a grid of possible locations where I have a movie clip appearing. I am able to track the time it takes for a user to press the space ...more >>

Hi When I open my html web page containing swf file I have to click it once before it start running(doing its fuctionality). This problem is occuring only with I.E. In Firefox this problem doesn't occur. Can someone please guide me. Thanks ...more >>

Hello all, I am trying to learn how to achieve this effect of design, where the background resizes without distortion when the browser window is resized while other elements remain the same size http://www.dollhouse.com/ and have looked everywhere for tutorials or books that explain how this i...more >>

I'm not clear with how to deal with Event flow across multiple objects not on the Display List....more >>

Finally taking a huge leap here and want to learn the Bitmap and BitmapData classes in AS3. I'm looking for any decent tutorials on my own but was wondering (for those that use it) what sites others here used while learning the classes. The shear power I've seen with regard to photographic i...more >>

Hello. I want to make a reflecton of my mc. using fully AS2. So i got this code for basic reflection: mc.duplicateMovieClip("mc1", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_yscale: -100, _y:(mc._y+mc._height), _alpha:60}); The problem is that reflection doesn't get verticaly fliped. How do I make ...more >>

I create graphics for events (shows, meetings, etc.). I have a flash game where one area of the screen is the actual game board projected onscreen and the rest of the screen is for the person managing the game and not seen by the audience. I want to prevent the operator's mouse from entering t...more >>

I have been talking to a few other Flash developers who use quite a bit of tweening and found that they use seconds (true) when writing tweens, where i was always told to use frames (false). I am pretty sure I was told that when you use seconds (true) your tween relied on the users computer fo...more >>

I'm putting together a Flash Blog and I want people to be able to comment on the site. I figure the best way to do this is to have people SUBMIT their comments and write it to a simple text file and then have Flash read the file and display the text somewhere else. I know how to get Flash...more >>

Does anyone have a sample fla of a movieclip that can be scaled larger or smaller by dragging the lower right corner of it? AS2 preferably....more >>

Hi Everyone. I need some help with a project I'm working on involving the Flash External API. I'm basically swapping a style sheet and color scheme each time a visitor hits a particular page on this site I'm working on. The way I have it set up, the javascript in the header of the page picks a...more >>

I feel lost. At the stage I got two buttons (nyheter_btn, sted_btn) and two movie clips (nyheterMarker_mc, stedMarker_btn) . In maintimeline two labels (nyheter, sted). Then....I just want to make a loop for CLICK, and ROLL_OVER the buttons. The CLICK event is fine. But for the ROLL_OVER eve...more >>

Hi all, How do you put a ComboBox into a Datagrid in AS3 !!! I've read some post (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s....php3?t=138395) but it don't work fine... Help ME!!!...more >>

Im very new to action scriptis im trying to put sprites into flash. I couldnt find any other way to put them into flash other than drag each individual picture into different frames. Problem is i have probably 2,000 pictures(sprites). To much work to do by hand so i was told the Scrollpane o...more >>

Greetings: I need some assistance with resizing a browser. I have a movie clip that runs and is a .swf. The stage size on this is 800*600. Once the clip has finished I want to load an application in the same window and adjust the browser window to reflect 760*515 which is the size of the ...more >>

I would like to open a browser window from a Flash button which will open my ..swf into an html page with specific height and width with no tool bars just like: the "click here for demo" button in www.teachingtextbooks.com. It opens a window with no tool bars and it fits the .swf file perfectl...more >>

Hello, I have a series of swf files that I'm loading into a Flash movie. They were created in Keynote, which doesn't allow a transparent background. Is there a way to load a swf and set a color to be transparent? So if I set the keynote background to green is there a way to say change all ...more >>

So making a custom mouse cursor is easy, but my question is about making it have a mouse over state when hovering over buttons. I could add an event listener (this is in AS3 BTW) for every single button but that would be a pain and kinda messy. Is there a global way to change the mouse over ...more >>

Hi, I have a flash input text field, that is returning garbage, instead of returning just the value of the input field when I do trace. here is the content is returned: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="11" COLOR="#333333" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">the ...more >>

I'm building simple little mp3 player in AS3. Have been doing it for years in AS2 but decided to learn how in AS3. I want the "play" mc to be disabled upon initial launch of the player, as the music will already be playing. Then when the user clicks "pause" or "stop" the "play" mc will become ...more >>

Is there a way using bitmap data to tell if all the pixels in a given clip are contiguous? I've got a randomly created shape (not square) and it is possible that there might be two (or more other shapes) drawn. Any tips for how to proceed? ...more >>

Hello, me again! I have a flash movie thats has an flv with a cuepoint in it called 'End', I created the cuepoint when you import videos. When the video reaches 'end' i want it to open an external swf file whihc is in the same directory. Any ideas? Where do i put the actionscript...more >>

Hi guys and gals, I run a large Intranet and want to standardise the way alot of the flash files work. They all need some standard bits of data, but at the moment they are located in txt files in the same reletive path as the movies, so when using LoadVars, it looks at params.txt. Rather...more >>

Hi I have made a two slide, slide presentation with transtions and although I know you can use the arrow keys to navigate to the next slide...is there a way of making it automatically go there after a few seconds? do I use actionscript...if so - what and where?? Please help...any advi...more >>

Can I get some functionality like c++ etc for file reading/writing,getting sytem specific iformation like current boot drive,current path, and opening folders in AS 2.0 or 3.0 . Please answer definitly. Thanks In Advance. ...more >>

Hi there I have been working on a sroller that uses the blur effect so the faster you scroll it the more it blurs. It works fine until the contents of the scroller movieclip exceed about 4000 pixels. Is this because flash has a size limit of an object that it can apply the blur effect to? ...more >>

I try to download a file from my web site. With download(), i can trigger the prompt window with no problem. I have the source URI of the file (dynamically created) filled and give a default name to the download file (eg. download.zip because it's a zip file). But then, nothing happens... ...more >>

Hi all, I was wondering how to get JavaScript to work within AS2. I have a button on my stage and need to execute the following JavaScript code, which works fine in a browser, any help would be appreciated. <a href="javascript:openWebUI()"><font size="4">Launch CBD</font> <script> ...more >>

I have been working on a bit of flash that can load html strings from a database using a combination of php and mysql. As flash does not use the <table> tag, I was forced to look for other options. I luckily found a nice script that can create a make-shift table in flash using a combination ...more >>