Hi, it would be much appreciated if anyone can help me with this. Is it possible to create a swf file that can record audio from your microphone and save it as a mp3/wav file on your computer? I?m wanting to make it so the user can click on a record button start talking into there microp...more >>

I need to create a button that when pressed it captures a jpeg or pdf of a frame in my movie that can be saved to the users desktop. What would be even better is if the button opened the users email and put the captured jpeg in the email as an attachment. Does anyone know if this is even pos...more >>

I have created a button class with an event handler for when the button is clicked. The event handler should simply go to the next frame and play. However, if I code _root.nextFrame(); in the class definition, I am getting an access of undefined property error. Am I missing importing a class o...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to work on a jeopardy game, and I pretty much suck on coding. Anyhow, I was able to disable the button so that when you go back to the board, the button no longer works, but I'd also like to dim that button. Is there a way to do this? Or is there a better solution out ther...more >>

I have a movie nested inside another movie with pictures that scroll horizontally across the screen. I would like the user to be able to control the speed and direction of the pictures by moving their mouse. Can anyone give me some insight on where to look to find out how to do this? ...more >>

Hi! I've got a big problem when I'm working with movieclips, scenes & "gotoandplay"-command. Problem is, that I've a game, where you can move movieclip (player) with keys, so all those "gotoandplay-commands" must be within movieclips. So, I have tried to use "_root.gotoandplay();"-comman...more >>

The following code is giving me an error 1119: function keyPressed(event:Event):void { if (event.keyCode == Keyboard.ENTER) { mainText.text = myGreeter.sayHello(textIn.text); } } The error says Access of possibly undefined property keyCode through a reference with stati...more >>

Here is my question: I'm trying to have a few elements made visible once another movieclip instance has finished playing. I have tried reading my manuals but there doesn't seem to be an event handler that does this. There's onUnload, but I don't want to make the movieclip disappear, I just...more >>

I have collected data from a flash and I have a post command that pushes it out to an asp page I can see that it is posting the data but the problem is that it does not stop. It is supposed to reach the end of the movie, post the data from the text boxes that have been storing the data I need...more >>

Hello everyone, I am making a movie that has 12 sound files in it. I am having trouble getting this to work with a preloader. I was using a seperate flash movie and using the movieClipLoader to load in the movie that has the sounds in it. However my employer wishes to have everything in a ...more >>

Client has changed their mind on using external flvs and now want to use external swfs. I was usign the flv componet for this, is there an easy way to get similar playback controls for a video for the playback of an external swf? ...more >>

In my script, Im trying to access the text property of a text input field, from the event handler of a button. The text input field has an instance name, but for some reason I just cant read the text value. Help?!! ...more >>

I'm working on a large app (taking over from someone else) -- it's a long series of FLV's, loading in response to user input. Thus you have an FLV playing, user is asked for input (in the SWF), and based on choice, one of 3 possible next FLV's is loaded. I'd like to preload all of the nex...more >>

I've been working with an older version of Director and would like very much to learn Flash. I'm feeling very much like a fish out of water. In Director, manipulating script was a simple as right-clicking on a cast member or accessing the menu. How is it done in Flash MX 2004 (is it done in...more >>

Steps to reproduce bug: 1. I use ExternalInterface.callback to receive browser scrollbar event notification & values, to scroll a scrollRect.y value. This works fine until... 2. I right-click for Flash ContextMenu (custom, or DefaultRemoved). 3. Try scrolling browser scrollbar R...more >>

I can see that SWFobject is the better way to go but I need to get this page up NOW and have implemented teh default code that Flash generates for Flash Player detection. My problem is that it's asking to install Flash Player. Can someone quickly tell me what I need to edit to change it to aut...more >>

Hi - Could someone please explain the difference/advantages for loadSound and attachSound. What's the "best practise" on when to use which? I've been trolling around and found 2 ways to get a sound to play onRelease. I don't see a difference. Thanks fr your expert input. JL thi...more >>

I want to randomly flash 13 cards on screen. How do I do it using action script? I do not want to create an image of all 52 cards. want them to be created dynamically. Can anybody help?....more >>

I'm trying to write the proper AS3 script to change the properties of a single movie clip called blueMC. I'm using input text fields that have instance names with a button next to them to trigger the change in the MC's properties. Here's my code thus far: yscale_btn.addEventListener(MouseE...more >>

See http://www.seanberry.com/scrollPaneInTheAss.html for reference Have an interesting situation here. I am using a scrollpane to hold a loaded movieclip (scrollContent_mc for reference) which contains several mask/image combinations. The images within scrollContent_mc can be resized by u...more >>

Does anyone know if the video compression in flash cs3 is the same as that with flash 8 pro.. or are they the same? thanks J...more >>

Hello! I'm trying to move objects with actionscript 3.0 and i need events to happen after other events are done. I tried setTimeout but none of the events happened even though some of them had very low times. I heard about home that command snaps to the nearest keyframe. I am converting mo...more >>

I'm using the following code to position some text clips on the stage. But the weird thing is, the clips positions come out differently than if I position them manually from within Flash. For example, if I set the Y position of a clip to 250 in the Properties Inspector, it comes out to be...more >>

:disgust; When I click on any of the 4 states in my button object, action window displays "Current selection cannot have action applied to it." All actions are greyed out with same message. How do I apply get URL action to a button so it functions as a button. It's taken me all day to figu...more >>

Hi there, I want to allow the user to save an image file straight out of flash without posting a heap of image data back to the server first. I basically want to allow the user ot save a big image (e.g. 1600x1600) which is generated from the current flash program. Is there a way to save...more >>

How I can call thisMC in my function after the tween is done? I can't reach it somehow? With currentTarget...nothing var xTween:Tween = new Tween(thisMC, "x", Regular.easeOut, stage.stageWidth, thisX, 1, true); xTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH,origPos); function origPos...more >>

Hey, I'm programming some tweens with actionscript and I want the flashplayer to wait 0.5 seconds between each action. I've used set interval before, but that was when I only wanted the playhead to stop, wait so many seconds. In this instance I need it to go like this: import mx.tran...more >>

Hello I'm trying to create an interactive storyboard using the drag and drop function to drag characters onto a stage so the user can arrange them however they wish. My problem is that now I have started this project I have realised I need a lot more images than first thought and have limi...more >>

Hi Everyone I am sure this is very simple to solve but I have been searching for hours and trying all sorts of incantations to the gods of Flash with no luck. The problem I am having is that I want to link a button to a URL and have the page load in the same window using AS3.0. I manage...more >>

I have made four buttons. Each buttons shall have a AS3 code, doing something. Instead of writing the same code for every buttons, I want to make a "for" loop and activate eventhandler for button1 - up to button4. But something goes wrong, can someone please take a look. Heres my code:...more >>

Afternoon, I don't know if anyone out there can help out with this but if you can it would be greatly appreciated. Basically I'm putting together a video editing tool using actionscript 3, and I'm having a few issues with the netstream seek command. I'm up to a point where the user can ...more >>

This may be a very basic question, as I am a novice Flash user. I am trying to label a sequence of images in Flash. I would like to add annotations to the images in a separate layer and create a button that upon being hit will reveal the annotation layer on each image. I am not sure how to go ...more >>