Hi ya'll, I'm new with this forum and about as new with flash. So, I need help. I wrote a very simple Flash movie (a simple picture "appearing" i.e. with it's alpha going from 0% to 100%, nothing more) which I load from another Flash movie (the one with the "miniature" of the picture) wi...more >>

OK I have been going down one road for this and have taken a few wrong turns. A few things about what we are looking at: I am using Flash CS3 but I am using Action Script 1.0/2.0 for compatability purposes. What I have been able to do so far is create random instances of a movie clip ...more >>

I made an automatic slideshow that switches frames at a set interval but now i want to load each frame from an extrenal swf and add a preloader for each frame, how do i tell the slideshow to wait until the frame is loaded before it proceeds to the next frame, but still have the movieclip be au...more >>

how can i make a dynamic MC move while internel dynamic MCs move with it. the container MC would house or have nested moveclips that would move like a slideshow when a butten is clicked. anythoughts please i think theses are the metheds but don't know how the order to place them _root.cr...more >>

If I have 2 date fields on stage can I calculate the difference? For instance... Someone wants me to run a banner ad on a website. Say I charge $XX per day. If I have a dateField labeled 'startdate' to signal the day that the banner ad will start, and another dateField labeled 'enddate'...more >>

I am creating a simple mouse over button on my PC computer in Flash for a website. When I upload the .swf, and the html file, the file works fine on my PC, but does not work on my mac... any ideas? Also, when you click on the button, the website comes up, so that portion works fine on my m...more >>

Hi, I've been looking high and low for a way to exclude class file from compiling into a swf on publish, similar to the functionality available when publishing AS2 apps (outlined here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?c ontext=LiveDocs_Parts&f...more >>

I was wondering first of all, if there is a built-in parameter to detect the native size of a video file in Flash. Currently, the video player with which I'm working scales any video clip to the size of the video instance. So, for example, if I am using the 16:9 version of my player and I try ...more >>

When I extend a base class, I want to override a method within my own namespace, but the Flash CS3 compiler complains my own namespace can't be found in the subclass. I have no idea about it. Whether a method within a custom namespace can't be overriden or not? thanks here is the source c...more >>

anybody know of a good link that explains what's going on with flash components? in the AS 3.0 flash document, there's no accordion, yet i know there is a class, but when i try to import it, i get compiler errors. same thing for the ProgressBar class. keep in mind i'm using AS 3.0 documents in...more >>

I have a code block that duplicates a clip and positions it at random on the stage and then stops after 20 of them have been displayed. What I want to know is it possible to replace the random command with a setProperty that will use a variable loaded from an XML or Text file to position t...more >>

I am creating a slide show, using a MC that houses other MCs.. When i loade ".jpg" files they loade but are not centered how do i fix this in the long run what i am trying to do is connect each movieclip that is housed in the container movieclip to images that are in an image folder. i th...more >>

I have a 50-state map in a flash movie. Each state is a movie clip. Goal: when mouse moves over a state or is clicked in a state, the state will be highlighted in a bright color and a small box will pop up near the state and display some information about the state. Question: I know I ca...more >>

I missing something myVar3 = new LoadVars(); myVar3.onLoad = function(success) { if (success) { iff = myVar3.ifvoted; trace(iff); if (iff == "no") { alert = "Teams not Set for this Week"; } else { alert = ""; } } }; myVar3.load("http://www.4tenproduction...more >>

Can anyone point me, or share a file, to a good source for a tutorial on uploading files via flash? I'm authoring on Flash CS3, my applications uses AS 3, and on the server I'm using a php script that receives images, resizes them, and saves them. The php script works like a charm if I sub...more >>

Version: Flash CS3, AS3 To add a new movieclip to the stage from the library you can do something like this: var newMC:libraryMC = new libraryMC(); this.addChild(newMC); To do this, however, I need to know the name of the library movieclip beforehand (in this case, libraryMC). What...more >>

Hi. I've seen this done before, but not with flash. This site had about 4 different buttons, each controlling a different color scheme for the website. The users could then choose which scheme they wanted by pushing the appropriate button. I was wondering if anyone has seen that done with ...more >>

Hi. I'm working on a project where I want to control a flash animation via mouse rollovers and clicks. I'm new to this, so any advice will help. Here's what I want to do. - play animation on rollover - increase frame rate when mouse moved vertically away from center of movie (but mous...more >>

Hi, i have a flash site that is around 800k in size the site will load on my computer every time and i have tested it on others and it loads fine, but my client has said some people can not get it to load every time, like it will stop at 61% or another is 38% so my question is, are some lo...more >>

In AS2 i usually used the unloadMovie(this) funciton. I have searched the internet as well as the documentation but it refers to flash.display.Loader.unload() Which of course wont solve my problem :( Any tips? ...more >>

I have two loaded movies loaded into a main movie. I would like to perform an action in one movie by hitting a button in the other. Here is the basic setup var mc_location = _level0.movie_1.my_mc; import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; btn1.onPress = function() ...more >>