I have been searching endlessly but others don't seem to be having this problem so it must be very simple. I have some text animation in my advertising banner and I would like to load a movie so it appears under the text - to get around the 20kb size restriction of the banner ad. I can...more >>

hi... I want a button to display some information in a MC when its clicked, and to hide that same information when its clicked again. Can anyone help me? Here's my code: btInfo = "off" //inicial value _root.info._alpha = 0; on(release, keyPress "a") { if(btInfo == "off...more >>

ive made my online form with the scripts shown below, when i submit i dont get any errors... but i also dont receive any emails from the form, if you can see anything that ive done wrong please help me out.. -------------------------------------------------------PHP mailer.php-------------...more >>

Hello, I want to state variables on different frames of my movie that later decides what .as file is loaded using #include. It seems that you can't use variables though with #include... How do I do this? Example is below. #include var1 + var2 If I cannot use #include... What can I use? I...more >>

The idea is to have a list of buttons on the left, and a single instance of a FLVPlayback component on the right (just dragged out onto the stage with it's contentPath NOT set). The buttons on the left are called 'btn1', 'btn2', 'btn3', 'btn4', and upon clicking the button, a different video w...more >>

Hi - I appreciate any specific help on this problem. I've developed a Flash Drag & Drop game for kids to dress a character properly for winter snow sports (skiing, snowboarding, xc & snowshoe) -- I've got everything working beautifully except for the fact that I would like the give the user t...more >>

Hi, this is probably a very easy topic, but i haven't been able to figure it out myself. In my example i have a class that creates 3 clips (sp1, sp2, sp3) and places them on the stage. In addition they are nested: sp3 inside sp2, and sp2 inside sp1. From my main flash movie I am tryi...more >>

I needed to run a simulation on my local computer and record the results. There is now an .sol file containing a handful of multidimensional arrays on my hard drive. I know that I can retrieve this data with the same .swf that generated it, but I would like to take a look at it and edit it. ...more >>

Hi, I am not even sure how to explain the issue properly. I'll try. I am working on a site involving 9 video clips. Here is the staging URL (please wait for the video clips to load fully, it will only really work on a broad band connection!!): http://www.multimediaworkshop.co.uk/TDD/002/ ...more >>

Hi, I have a few questions regarding the Library and the linkage of its assets in AS3/CS3. The only way I know of using an external image (e.g. a PNG file) in Flash/AS is: Add the image to the library, give it some linkage - name: "my_image", class: "BitmapData" (cannot seem to change th...more >>

Hi, Is there a way i can make a movieclip speed up or slow down according to the distance between the mouse and the movieclip? I've made a friction effect for a movie clip (script 1) and i have a script to work out the distance between the mouse and the movieclip (script 2) but i cant seem...more >>

Does anyone know how to add a toolTip to the FLV seekbar component? I have been banging my head against the wall far too long for something as simple as this... It's a quick an easy fix for the play/pause, stop buttons. I added in a movie clip that appears on the rollover state of the button...more >>

I'm using Flash 8 -- Actionscript 2.0 I've created a quiz that i want to keep track of the user score. i've created a function that, whenever the learner clicks to check the answer of his/her question, checks the correct answer versus what the person picked. I've created a function to play...more >>

Hi, here is what I am working with: The main scene, with two labels 'Intro' and 'About'. Initially the playhead stops at the first label 'Intro'. I have a movie clip with an instance name navLinks1-1 on the stage. Within that movie clip is another with an instance name of navLinks1. Within...more >>

Hi Flash 8 / AS2 - limited AS2 knowledge Im building a project using the transitions classes and easing to move a mc around the stage. I have made a mc arriving on scene with the below transition import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; var myImg_tweenxscale...more >>

I have set up the example from the URLLoader class as directed. When I run the code I get this error: ioErrorHandler: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Docum...more >>

I'm trying to make a mask act like a apray can. So when when the cursor moves over a particular place on my page, it will reveal an image below, as if it were spraying away the top layer. I have seen this effect before, but I cannot find any tutorials for it anywhere! ...more >>

Hi, I am able to load an XML file but now I want to make my code cleaner and I want to do it inside the constructor of an object. Loading an XML file happens in 2 steps : 1. start the loading by myXMLdoc.load("example.xml"); 2. Flash indicates it has finished loading by calling the ...more >>

Not sure why this isn't working. I have a Flash movie in an HTML document. I have a layer in the HTML document called "textLayer" I have a button in the HTML document, with the following code: <p>Make it <a href="#" onClick="MM_callJS('opacity(\'textLayer\',0,100,2000)')">Fade In </a></p>...more >>

Hi, I'm new here. I'm a Flash developer for 3, 4 years. I love it :smile; There is a thing that i "can't" made in all of my "Flashed life". That is, preloading SWF movies and images, before show them. I don't put all content in one SWF. I make various movies, then I use loadMovie(......more >>

Any ideas on how to have the top portion of an mc dragable but needs to drag the rest of mc. The mc contains input text fields. track_mc_bar.onPress = function():Void { this.startDrag(false); }; track_mc_bar.onRelease = function():Void { this.stopDrag(); }; The drag wo...more >>

When Importing .swf files that have input data fields, the fields don't work/ vanish. Any ideas why .swf with input fields would not carry the input fields into the new file? Thanks,...more >>

I have an instance of the FLV playback component on the stage called 'my_video' and an FLV called 'group.flv' stored in the same folder as the FLA (this is all running from my desktop). If I link the component to the FLV through the component inspector panel it works fine but when I try to do ...more >>

Situation: Have a frame, on this frame are three movieclips, each movieclip is 600 x 600 (pixels) in original size but have been scaled down on the frame to 60 x 60. Some of the content inside the movieclips is produced dynamically. Problem: How can i make a function to print the three m...more >>

i know in html css can done by this <td style="red">You are now at <span style="yellow">home</span></td> .... the "home" word can change to another color .... any one who know this can done in flash , please give some advice or example ...more >>