Some processing is supposed to run in the background at regular intervals. So, I guess a timer may be set up for this and whenever it times out, it will trigger this job. Is there such a thing in AS? Thanks! ...more >>

I am currently working with a menu and submenu comprised of buttons within movie clips - the script on the buttons within the movie clip is on (release) { gotoAndPlay("scenename", "#labelname"); } When the button is tested by itself, the code works, but when the button is placed in...more >>

This works, but uses the default looking button: var btn:Button = new Button(); btn.move(200,200); addChild(btn); [hr] This doesn't, with my pretty button: var btn1:Button1 = new Button1(); btn1.move(200,200); // If I comment this line out, the button draws, but is in the uppe...more >>

is there a way to lock the size of flash player so that the user cannot resize the window?...more >>

I have a 15fps movie that is 255 frames long (15 second linear animation). I have a carousel effect starting on frame 45 with the following actions: //for product carousel effect var numOfItems:Number = 4; var radiusX:Number = 100; var radiusY:Number = 75; var centerX:Number = Stage....more >>

I have a flash movie with 5 keyframes, 3 of which have an FLV playback component in them. The first keyframe plays a video and upon completing, goes to the 2nd keyframe. The 2nd video plays all the way to the end, and then loops. It is supposed to go to a keyframe with 2 buttons on it asking a...more >>

Does anyone know of a good source of rtmp (or http) video content that I can stream into my flash application? I don't need to record it, I just want to be able to play it like I would a local .flv file. As far as I know, you cannot do this with the streaming conent on, say, CNN Videos or AB...more >>

I want to remove a movieclip instance which was manually placed on stage. The movieclip has the instance name 'deleteme'. It has no class, and thus no event listeners. Also, I'm sure there are no further references to it somewhere in my fla. this is my code: this.removeChild(deleteme); t...more >>

Okay to elaborate. I want to be able to populate a dynamic text box with the information I get from the movie. What we have so far: A simple vision test that displays points on a grid based on the input of an XML file. It also gets information as to how long the interval to display the ...more >>

I just built this site and it works everywhere, except on IE on pc. Even IE on mac is doing fine. IE on pc seems to be making some divs wider, so instead of being in one line, they break to two. What could be causing this? The pages are here: http://www.bronzesf.com/test http://www.bronzesf...more >>

I am having issues with the use of clickTAGS. They seem to work fine in Firefox, however in IE both 6 and 7 my url comes up undefined? Is something with IE preventing the variable(clickTAG) from being passed to Flash? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...more >>

when I load in a flv it triggers my onMetaData function and outputs all the meta tags on the flv. I want to make a list of all that info in a textfeild. I have got the info to load in a textfeild but when I try to format it with html it doesn't seem to be reading the html correctly. I noti...more >>

Hi Guys, I am hoping one of you will be able to help. I have finished reading some books on AS3 and started working on a liquid transition animation using actionscript 3.0 (see attached .fla). Basically, I am setting the stage scaling to NO_SCALE and playing with a 4:3 aspect photograp...more >>

I'm currently following an actionscript tutorial and I need to set my actionscript settings to version2. It's supposed to be in File-Publishsettings-Fash- Actionscript menu - 'settings' But my MX version doesn't seem to have this option. In my publish settings box there is no option to...more >>

Hi, I'm making a button for users to download an mp3. I tried to use getURL("pathtomp3"). It's not working so well, because many users have plugins installed (e.g. quicktime), and clicking on the button opens up an popup and directly plays mp3. In some cases, there's no way to download it (...more >>

Hopefully you guys can offer me some advice. Here's my situation... I've been using Flash since the day it came out, and started using AS when it first appeared. I got pretty good at it back in the day, by just figuring out how to do what I wanted it to do. But now it's gotten to the point w...more >>

hi, i created a flash http://www.damn3d.net/map/index.html working...but how can i do to leave line/trace behind the circle...please help me...tnx...more >>

Hi, I would like to save user's drawing to image file e.g. BMP, JPGE. I have done the drawing part, but cannot do the saving part. I have looked around and only found way to print the drawing OR save(or reconstruct) via PHP by using BitmapData class later method seem fit my ne...more >>

is there a way to import images and align them with anything other than the top left hand corner. i'm trying to set up an image gallery with both portrait and landscape images and the layout of my page means that it would work and look far better if the bottom right hand corners all lined up a...more >>

Hi, I know this is a pretty basic question but I'm not too good with my action script. Basically, I have a dynamic text box that is equal to a number, and this number changes depending on certain buttons being pressed. Is it possible to have an MC be controlled by the value of the dynamic ...more >>

Is it possible to change the color of a part of a movieclip? Ad exemply: if I have a movieclip that's a cube... and every face has a different color, how can I change the color of a specific face? I have to use nested movieclip? thanks a lot. ...more >>

Hi, I'm using some code which I have use in the past to play movie clips when my Flash video hits a cue point, please see code below at end of message.: This is working fine in Flash Player 8/Actionscript 2. But I'd like to use the new .xml captioning option in the Flash 9 Player/Actions...more >>

What I do wrong? I successfully added html text to html activated text fields. They contain font color, spans, etc. everything works, but the [B] tags don't work? Why? The text stays nornal....more >>