:confused; OK I created a movie clip and placed it on the stage. Inside this movie clip I have menu buttons that drop down when you hover over the right areas. This part works fine. What do I do so that when I click on a button that drops down it goes to the main timeline and tells it to ...more >>

Hi everybody. I'm trying this: I have a movie clip which does something with a graphic (jpg). I have a boutton as well on which I want to load different jpg from a url into that movie clip and then replay. That way I'm hoping to crate one of those slide shows that performs that same movi...more >>

Hey guys, I'm kinda new to Flash. I purchased a Flash template and am trying to modify it. The pages are actually movie clips. When you click on a button, the page slides out and another page slides in. I need to add this same function to other buttons that I've added (i.e. When a visitor push...more >>

Hi, Maybe I am just having a mental block and can't see the wood for the trees. The issue is that I am creating a sound object inside a function, and start a sound playing. Then as long as I address the sound object from inside other functions it works fine, but not if I address it outside...more >>

onClipEvent (enterFrame) { h = "ban"+n+".jpg"; // trace(h); t = getTimer(); if (n<=_root.tot) { if (t-oldt>=2000*n) { a = false; loadMovieNum(h, 2); _root.button.l = _root[n]; n++; } } } i have this code, then _root.button.l is linked to on (release) { getUR...more >>

Greetings all, I am putting together a game where I have some clickable areas that dispatch events to some movieclips on my stage. When I add the movie clips onto the stage and add each clip to the broadcaster object with addEventListener it works great. However when I add the movieclips ...more >>

Anybody knows how to pass a variable to a function that is called by an event listener ?????????? I recieve the error "Expected 2, get 1" a=1 lala.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, getvar(a) ); function getvar(event:MouseEvent, a:Number):void { needthevar[a].textColor = 0...more >>

Hello Everyone, I wonder if anyone could help? I have a SWF with multiple dynamic text fields. I want to load in the contents of ONE text file into the five or so fields at the touch of a button. Can anyone advise on how to set up a XML or TXT file and the Action Script to allow this t...more >>

Hii everyone, I'm a new programmer in flash. I made a game, and I wrote somewhere "gotoAndPlay" to frame 2, but he stops there, and there is no script in frame 2... Why could it be? The file: http://www.mediafire.com/?6eiy9dms2t2 Please help, Ofir. ...more >>

Hello, I have a datagrid that has a row that contains information similar to this: 1,2,3,4,T4,T4,5,6,..17,29,..43,T44,T44,45.. and so on.. I hope you get the idea.. if an element appears more than one time, it has a "T" at the beginning (this data is from a database and I have to display it ...more >>

Greetings! Hoping I might get some help with a problem. I want to create a movie that will read the date (numeric day off server or user computer) and load an flv (or swf) into the movie. Any suggestions as to a starting point. The thing that is holding me up is the date detection. Tha...more >>

I read the text and the image path from MySQL. Both are displayed correctly but is there anyway to force the dynamic text box to wrap around the image?...more >>

Is that possible? if yes, how can I do so?...more >>

I'm loading an image into a movie clip, how can I force the movie clip to have fixed width and height regardless of the ...more >>

Does anyone know how I can retrive some text from a HTML page and then the text returns to the FLASH movie, does anyone know if this is even possible. Thanks James...more >>

I am trying to get the content of my xml document into a text field. I have the following AS: /*******************************/ var aInfoText:Array = new Array; this.scroller_all.scroller_slider.infoScroll.infoText.autoSize = true; var xmlContent:XML = new XML(); xmlContent.ignoreWhite ...more >>

I have the folowing problem with the way the .[b]SWF[/b] is exiting? For example, The buttons contain the following script to call any xx.swf: [b]on (rollOver) { gotoAndPlay(2); } on (releaseOutside, rollOut) { gotoAndPlay(10); } on (release) { loadMovieNum ("about....more >>

I have seen threads on this topic before but I think my situation might be unique. I am using LoadVars.sendAndLoad to pass vars to an ASP script on a different domain via the GET method. The ASP script does not return any values back to Flash but to be safe I do pass a return LoadVars object...more >>

I am passing values to php like this and writting those values to a same text file. coding.send("http://localhost:8080/dogyears2.php","blank"); nop.send( "http://localhost:8080/dogyears1.php","blank"); lvOut.send( "http://localhost:8080/dogyears.php","blank"); values in coding and lvOu...more >>

I'm looking for some advice from some flash sage, greater than myself (not that difficult). Although I've purchased Flash cs3 pro, I haven't used it and I don't know if I'll ever use it. my dilemma is; I've developed a flash CRM in Flash 7&8 with ActionScript 2. The CRM application is made...more >>

How can I get the standard arguments like bytesloaded, target, etc immediately trough my proxy class? Without using it like this. put it in var in the start section and read out in the proxy.create() section? var mclThumbs:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var listenerThumbs:Obj...more >>

Hello, I am trying to make a listener to an OnEnterFrame event. But it does not work. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong? Regards, var listen:Object = new Object(); listen.onEnterFrame = function () { trace ("some text "); } onEnterFrame.addListener(listen); ...more >>

Hi, I have laoded an XML file and assigned node values to an array through a function. Array values are names of images that has to be loaded dynamically into a movieclip and to rotate them as an AdRotator. I can't access the array values outside the scope of function. Is there any way to...more >>

Hi all, I have been trying to format my XML data when it loads into a flash text area component. The component is set to render text as HTML and I have applied global styles that I want. However everytime I run my app the XML data has not been formated corrected based on the styles I want...more >>

Hey there. I hope that maybe someone can give me a hint. I´m trying to build a XML based picture viewer. Once the picture is loaded into a movieClip you should be able to zoom,pan and rotate it. My problem now is to have an event handler like the onLoad-function, but if I use this fun...more >>

I want to do something that should be simple. I want to run a movie clip when a certain keyboard key is pressed. I have found various code that should let me do this but it all gives me problems. both of the following methods work in a new blank project. But when I try to put them in my ex...more >>

Hello Everyone, I've followed the excellent Lee Brimelow tutorials on creating carousels, but I'd like to customise it a bit to launch a new SWF or URL from each button, any ideas? Thanks Darren. ...more >>

First, sorry about my English :) I made a presentation in CD (that could be a web site), using many animations in action script, but the animations are too slow, and i´m using 41 fps. The general performance of my swf are very bad. Anybody know how can i improve some performance to my sw...more >>

I have several MCs on stage that users can drag & drop with the mouse. How can I also give the option of moving the MCs by using the 4 arrow keys(up,down etc)? I can't put this code on them all as they'll all move at once: bloc1_mc.onEnterFrame = function() { if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) { ...more >>