i need help. i can't get my loadMovie button to work. help... Here the two swfs and a zip on a http://designlev.com/help/help.html....more >>

Is there some way to tell how much RAM I should recommend a user have when running my SWF application in a brower? It's only about 200k but load external SWF and FLV content up to 20MB. Thanks in advance for any help. ...more >>

Hello Folks, Quick question, trying to do some action script however its not going to well. [code] function testing() { envia = new LoadVars(); flvURL = "BDAGMgdzVTFYel5tVCZUZQR3WzALPgl3"; envia.r = flvURL; recibe = new LoadVars(); envia.sendAndLoad(...more >>

I am using an extremely simple script that I've used at least a half dozen times on different projects and it has always worked before. Spent hours re-pasting code, trying variations and this stupid thing won't work. There's an iTunes gift certificate for the first person that helps me solve t...more >>

hello, i'm trying to limit the path that myMC can travel on the x axis... (between 0 & 180 pixels only) you can see what i've done, by defining l,t,r,b in the "MovieClip.prototype.startSmoothDrag" function, then applying it in the "myMC.onPress" function. but it doesn't work. does a...more >>

I have a banner with three images, each image displaying for 5 seconds. I want an invisible button to link each image to a different url. I get 1 button to work fine, but when I add another button to the second image, I get the error "[b]duplicate function error - function buttonClickHandle...more >>

I have 10 buttons on my stage, i am attempting to give them actionscript so that when each is clicked, the number clicked is recorded in a dynamic text field as an average vote. For instance, one person clicks a 6, it is then recorded and saved. Then next person clicks an 8, it is recorded, ...more >>

AS 2.0 provided a simple way to allow for input fields to pass urls to a browser, as well as passing variable values to scripts on the web (such as Google). I'm now struggling with getting an instance of the URLRequest object to use the contents of a text field for the string expected in t...more >>

I am creating a color wheel of sorts and am using a red, green, and blue circle converted to movie clips. I have the transparency set to about 70% on all of the circles. Where the red and green circles overlap, I am not getting a nice yellow like want. These circles will eventually be animated...more >>

Please could someone send me the AS for a sound to play when the moused is rolled over an object Thanks Caz...more >>

hello everyone, i?m really a newie in flash, and now i?m traying to learn a couple of things at least just for fun. The problem it is that I want to build a button with an animation effect,but I want when the mousse go out the button,this make a animation too, so what I did was: create a fig...more >>

I know in Flash8/AS 2.0 you had to add a random number to the end of the query string - http://www.mysite.com/myscript.php?rdm=32&var1=Bob - to get around the fact that the SWF got cached and the dynamic data wouldn't always get loaded right... Is that still the case in CS3/AS 3.0? Th...more >>

I have created a SWF that loads data dynamically from an ASP page. It loads the FlashVars m_XWidth and m_YHeight . I declared the Flash variables DynX and DynY and assigned the FlashVars to them respectively (so far so good). BUT - when I say: this.dynamic_mc._xscale = DynX; this.dynamic...more >>

Hi, Does somebody knows what is happening? I'm using the mcLoader class to load all my external swf files, everything worket perfectly until I decided to use flvPlayBack on one of those external files. If the player is on my main stage it works great and if I run directly the loaded swf ...more >>

Okay, as the subject says, I've adopted an abandoned flash project, but I'm a little confused. The people I've taken the project from were far more sophisticated in their works, and in their source files had a nearly scriptless ..fla file and a jaw-dropping .flp file. I don't know how to i...more >>

Do we have some function to check if user is pressing on Ctrl or Alt key? or pressing on a key at all?...more >>

I'm doing a kind of falling snowflake tutorial and would like to add some random rotation to each of the flakes. I don't want them to rotate more than once while they're falling. Here's the actionscript I've been using. Everything works except for the last line of code. Not sure if any of that...more >>

I am using Adobe Flash CS3 At first, I tried swf_mc.loadMovie("//swf file location"); It gave me Warning: 1060: Migration issue: The method loadMovie is no longer supported. Use CODE: var l = new Loader(); addChild(l); l.load(new URLRequest("your url"));. Well, the given code isn'...more >>

I am testing a simple flash movie with one button and action attached to it, here it is in full: on (release) { myButton_btn.onRelease = function() { getURL(clickTAG, "_blank"); }; } If I change the event to onpress, it works fine, but some advertisers say that this will trig...more >>

Hi, I am updating a site that was originally created in AS2. The very large music library for the site contains "sample" files that were auto generated into SWFs files. But they do not contain any properties, methods, or labels; just the sounds. When I load the SWFs with the AS3 Loader...more >>

Folloing are the excerpts of my code in AS2: I have image1 as and image2 on my stage. The image2 is a transparent GIF and works good transparantly when moved, roatated etc. this image2 is merged over image1 on a button click instance. Problem with the source is that as soon as the image is m...more >>

Hi Dudes, I want to find out(detect) a movieClip's name on mouseOver. plese help me. I tried with hitTest and mouse listener but not able to get the movieclip's name on its mouseover state. thanks in advance. Regads, kumanan ...more >>

Hi, My actionscript skills are very basic, as I only use Flash from time to time so any help would be gratefully received. I?m trying to load some jpeg files into movies which start at different points along a timeline within another movie and have come across a problem I can?t work o...more >>

I would like to make a function that could execute other functions execute the one after another - in a manner that the next function is executed only after the one before has finished its task I have been thinking about how to achieve this but haven`t come up with anything good. If ...more >>

Hi, I trying to get both of my flvs to loop but it seems I can loop only the last 1 I enter (video2.flv), does someone have any ideas how I can make them both loop? Thanks... my_video.load("video1.flv"); myListener = new Object(); myListener.complete = function() { my_video.play()...more >>

Hi. Is it possible for flash to detect the number of files (ie. images) stored in a folder / directory on the server or local machine. In the same way that it can look into an xml file and detect the number of nodes (i know this is completly different but its the best way i can explain it)...more >>