In Flash CS3/AS3, if I try to run a transition on a movie clip "PaneB" accompanied by a PaneB class definition, I get the following error: ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property __transitionManager not found on Site.Page.PaneB and there is no default value. However, if I don't associate a...more >>

first thing, the user is loading the MC to the stage. the print button is located in the MC. now i want only the MC to be printed. if necessary, the button can be on the main stage. in the following script that I found: this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder_mc", 999); holder_mc.loadMovie("...more >>

I've got an application that I'm building that uses a variety of sound effects. These are currently sprinkled throughout the app. in buttons, mcs & 1 or 2 on the main timeline. Is there an easy way to add a button to turn off all sounds, if the user doesn't want them? I've tried applying the "...more >>

I load a Flash Professional Slide Presentation into a scrollPane. Is it possible to figure out which slide is currently being presented from the scrollPane and/or Parent of the scrollPane? If so, how? Thanks. ...more >>

I have a datagrid that loads perfectly as long as it's on the first frame. However, I need it on frame 10 as well, but when I get to frame 10 the datagrid doesn't load. What gives? The weird thing is if I do a test movie it works fine. If I publish the swf it doesn't. ...more >>

Can I turn a button to its over state by telling the playhead to gotoAndStop on the Over frame? Is there another simple way to do this? Will I have to turn my buttons into MCs? I am hoping to aviod doing that. Thanks a lot! ...more >>

Hi guys. I need some help with this code: if (search.text != "" ) { on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") { getURL("http://google.com/search", "_blank", "GET"); search.text = ""; search.setFocus(null); } } else getURL("http://www.google.com"); I have a text input and i want ...more >>

Is there a way to Pause the Flv 5 sec or whatever the time into playing it, so the user sees it, but then has to select Play to play the rest of it?...more >>

Anyone have any ideas on this? Seems like it should be pretty straightforward....more >>

Hi Forum It appears that popups called from within html with a onClick event in the anchor tag are less likely to be blocked by most browser popup blockers (safari, mozilla). A popup called from within an swf movie however will trigger the popup alert. That just seems kinda unfair. no ? ...more >>

Anybody, I have a loadmovie function that places a window on top of existing movie. It acts a pop up window to zoom up on the item someone clicked on. I would like to manual close it with a box with a x in it. Do I make a button i the top corner that unloads the current pop up window? ...more >>

Here is my scenario: Event website, I case of bad weather, the secretary will upload a text file to the web server. Flash will check for the text file existance when homepage loads. If Exists, it will load a movieclip to explain cancellation of event. I will dynamically use the text fr...more >>

Hi all! I'm trying to make a small game in Flash using ActionScript 3. On the scene there is a movieclip that can be moved around with the arrow keyes. Its also possible to zoom in and out. I use [i]scaleX[/i] and [i]scaleY[/i] for this. The problen is that the more I zoom in (scale up m...more >>

HI, Can someone tell me if there only certain tags in xml that flash recognises, i know this is true with HTML and flash but is it the same in xml? I have an xml file with tags suchs as...'title', 'main', 'thumb'. Im trying to add other tags such as 'description' but cant get flash to r...more >>

Hi. I'm trying to migrate from AS2 to AS3 and have stumbled on this. I can't find how to create dynamically referenced variables in AS3. Can anyone give me a hand? Thanks! Here's the code I used in AS2: //AS2 for (var i:Number = 0; i < 10; i++) { this["myThing" + i] = new Object...more >>

Hi, I have a flash file that used the ExternalInterface class to communicate with the html page (with javascript) What I need to do is use Javascript functions to control the flash file... ...this is all working, but i'm just looking for the best way to do one of them.... I need a java...more >>

ActionScript3: I want the parent movie to go to nextFrame when a movieChild reaches its final frame. in the actions timeline of the Child I added the script: root.nextFrame(); I know this is wrong because it doesn't work :) I think I have to add a listener or so...more >>

Hi everyone. Project I?m helping develop in Flash CS3 an online soft skills training that involves students viewing a short video than answering a multiple choice question. After viewing several videos and answering the related questions the student is given on overview of how they did...more >>

hi... I created a button to show and hide some content on stage. The button works well, but there's a problem...when i click on the button to show the content and i move to another section of the timeline the content hides again, and i just want it to hide when the button is clicked again ...more >>

So say I have a class named Thing that extends MovieClip. Then I have a class named Box that extends Thing. I also have a class name Circle that extends Thing. I then create 2 movie clips on in my FLA. One uses the Box class and one uses the Circle class. Both movie clips have a child...more >>

Hi. I'd like to be able to create some variables dynamically in AS3 and then use them as object names. For example, to create the variables circle1, circle2 etc I write: for(var i:Number = 0; i < 10; i++) { this["circle" + i]; } I would then like to create movie clips with the nam...more >>

Hi, I am working on a project and want to be able to determine what files exist in a specific directory. Is there anyway to do this using AS? I appreciate any help you may be able to give me. Thanks, Chris ...more >>

Hi I'm 90% complete on converting my AS2 application to AS3, but now I have hit another small snag. After searching for a while, i'll struggling on swapping depths of my movie clips. Currently it does the following. 1) load the xml file which has the image names 2) move Loader in to MC (lo...more >>

I'm trying to build a printable form with multimedia help (this is a free project, I don't get paid). Since I can't create PDF from Flash I instead try to get the Flash into the PDF. It would be very helpful (although probably not essential for this particular project) if the embedded Flash co...more >>

What is the script I would attach to a button to make it an e-mail link? Thank you....more >>

Hi Wondered if someone could put me out of my misery here:| creating a flash application that has a menu system, with different forms. The problem i seme to have is that say u r on a form wiuth mutliple inout fields. If u populate 2 fields, say the first has four characters placed in i...more >>

I'm new to Flash...I have a Home page with nothing but a top and side border. When it opens it loads an Invitation page which has a movie that runs, then six buttons appear. I can then click any of the buttons and go to a different page. When I click the Home button to return to my Home pag...more >>

Hi, I have created my own Flash website using "Flash Slide Presentation". And when people go to site, it's playing a song. For example "Song1". It's any script, that can play several songs each time I am going to site? var Song1:Sound = new Sound(); Song1.attachSound("music/Song1.mp3");...more >>

hi, I am designing something which has 4 buttons, linking to 4 seperate animations. the buttons are hairspray bottles and the animation is a image which fades up, as if it were being sprayed. The way I have designed it is for each bottle to have this code: on (release) { section1....more >>

This is the site Im messing with.. www.brewbus.net/cfab The site is currently set up using external .swf files called into a master file. I have page transitions set up, but I would like to have the new page the visitor clicks on to come in OVER the current page no matter what it is.. ...more >>

Hi, Basically I have a movie file (in html text) generated from an xml file. Then when I load this movie into another movie using an AS3 Scroll Pane component I see the movie but I have no option to scroll. I then adjusted the scrollPane's properties to force a vertical scroll bar, however t...more >>

I have 2 swfs - in these, on any keypress, it advances to the next frame. I have a setInterval delay on each frame so it doesn't go too fast. Both files work fine on their own. I then load each swf into 2 different frames of a container swf. If I press keys fast on one frame and then swit...more >>

HI There, I'm not sure if I'm understanding this feature correctly. I'm trying to get a banner ad hosted on the advertisers site to retrieve a movie hosted on our server. Do you have to assign the allowDomain code to the load target, or can it just sit in the first frame of the ad? Th...more >>

I am still using AS2.0 (I will get with the times eventually), and I have a series of links on my webpage that create empty movie clips and load SWFs into them. I have a button (a typical little "x" in the corner) that should close these clips, and it works when I preview it in Flash, but when...more >>

Can anyone see anything wrong with this dreamweaver generated embed code? It's not working - although the filenames are OK. It worked previosuly then some unknown change stopped it. Any ideas gratefully received Many thanks tp <tr> <td colspan="5"><script type="text/javascript"> A...more >>

I've put this to Tech Support, but I might as well post here. import fl.controls.ProgressBar or import fl.controls.* does not work for me anymore. all files are AS3. All fl.controls packages are where installer put them. I have one program where the progress bar works, no problem im...more >>

So I'm working on a multiple xml picture gallery, in which an xml file will contain on gallery. What I want to do is check how many xml files a directory contains, to check how many xml files I will have to load. But I can't figure out how to do this, I guess it possibly has something to do wi...more >>

i have a dynamic text box with the name 'prodName' in the actions layer I have set prodName.text = "something"; prodName.textColor = 0x000000 When I test it, the color code works fine, but the dynamic text doesnt. I have tried htmlText on and off. Tried embedding and not embedding. Cant...more >>

Hello, Having trouble figuring out what the correct actionscript for a button that is trying to access a labeled frame within a movie that is part of a larger movie. It works if I play it by itself outside of the larger movie, but I'm not sure how to get it to work within. This is what I...more >>

I'm trying to find out if there are issues with loading a SWF movie clip using: onClipEvent(load) { this.createEmptyMovieClip("empty_mc",9);' empty_mc.loadMovie("compiledwithgreaterversion.swf"); } If you compile the swf that this is created with to a few versions behind, say F...more >>

Hi. Fairly new to Flash. I'm putting together my first full Flash site. The tutorial I'm following along with for some assistance is written for Flash8, but I'm using CS3. To try to minimize differences, I'm doing my files in Actionscript 2. I've used an instance of the component Loader t...more >>

i have frame labels set1, set2, set3, set4 I essentially want to do: on(release){ gotoAndPlay("set"s+1); } How would i do this....more >>

with AS2 i would like to know how to get a PDF file when i click on a button...more >>

I am trying to create a button that will go to a different scene in my flash project using on (press) { gotoAndPlay(about,1); } I have done this several times before, however, for some reason every time I try to put actions on my buttons it says that actions can't be applied to it. I ha...more >>

Hi, Pls help, what I have to do, or which script I have to use, that I can see another language letters? I am from Lithuania and I can't see all letters. When I simple write a text on a stage it's all right. But I have created a New Font and I am using it for buttons. Can somebody help me...more >>

Hi, I would like to control a video file with my own buttons. Here is what I have: an imported video file using "Progressive download from a web server". The main stage has some buttons (Play & Pause) within a movie clip and an instance name of: "MusicControls". The Video is located in anoth...more >>

I'm trying to create a hotkey of sorts. The idea is that the user should press Crtl-Shift-T to make the movie jump to a special frame. The code attached works correctly when put onto an empty frame in a fresh movie. However, when I use the exact same code (literally a copy-paste) in the intend...more >>

I would like to know what the action script would be that would allow me to download a PDF file...more >>

only yesterday i faced one bug with the combo-box component, which i mangaged to overcome (with some help from Luke867), and today i have another one. to remind you - i have a swf containing combo-box which i load into the main movie behind a mask. it works fine, except for one minor thing...more >>

I want to create a button that will open a certain file can someone tell me what Action Script must I give to the button to open it and also with the opening of that file to close the flash(I need a command that will not open a new browser window just the file) also I need an AS that will ...more >>