Hi, I'm finalizing a project that needs to retrieve weather information to display. There's a main movie, that loads another movie (wich is local). This last one gets xml information, from an external site. Localy this works fine, but when I put in a website, the network security warning...more >>

I?m in desparate need of some AS3 help. I'm loading a swf with sound embedded in the timeline into another file thusly: var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("animatio ns/ANIM_Test4.swf"); var animLoader:Loader = new Loader(); animLoader.load(urlR equest); addChild(animeLoader); ...more >>

I have spent the last 2 hours searching this forum for a solution to my problem. I have read more than 20 topics and tried them all...nothing works. My problem: I have a SWF that uses the following script to load another swf: loadMovieNum("Base/BASE_ALL.swf",2); I would like to pla...more >>

Hello, I am attempting to create a toggle button that can play and pause the movie I have on the main stage (scene 1). I also have tertiary navigation that will allow the user to jump to a different part of the movie on the main stage. http://www.baxa.com/testing/webdemos/em2400demo.swf ...more >>

I have an array in php called $image_array that I want to pass to image_array in Flash: the php code is; ------------------- <? $dir_name = "/home/myHome/public_html/flashRev7/thumbImages/oil"; $dir = opendir($dir_name); //READS THE DIRECTORY while ($file_name = readdir($dir)) { ...more >>

How would I go about starting the imported text at the bottom rather than having to scroll to the bottom? Normal: ----------------- window top text 1 text 2 text 3 ----------------- window bottom text 4 text 5 Instead I would like: text 1 text 2 ----------------- ...more >>

I am getting a type mismatch error and don't understand why. Here is the code The line that is outputting in error is this xmls = new XML(xmlReceiver); var xmlReceiver:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); xmlReceiver.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) { if (success) { xmls = new XML(xmlRe...more >>

Can someone look at my code and tell me where I might be going wrong? I'm trying to load a background, create a movie holder and create a button to launch a movie. When I test the movie the button does not show. The background loads fine. I'm using Flash Professional 8. Thank you very much. ...more >>

I have no idea why as3 is so stupid but it is and I have to deal with it. Basically, I creatd a Server.as file with the Server class but I can't import it into my .fla! Both are in the same folder and when I change properties to use AS2 it works! But when I'm doing it in as3 it doesn't work......more >>

Problem: I cant seem to get the completeHandler function to output the results of the variable to the textfield main_txt. The below code is stored in a URLLoaderDataFormat.as file. Below that is my code in the echo.php package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.*...more >>

Hello , could anyone help me please i would like to introduce my problem : i have a flash file in the first frame i put a code to load an mp3 file: var audio:Sound= new Sound(); audio.loadSound("Dog1.mp3",true); i put a button so when i press the button the sound will play...more >>

I have a function in my html that I am returning a url back to flash for a reference to a jpeg. However IE doesn't seem to send that variable back to flash or Flash be able to grab that variable from IE. Safari & Firefox work fine. I need some help figuring this out. Javascript...more >>

Hi folks, I have an ActionScript class called Gem, which is declared as extending flash.display.MovieClip. If I link a library symbol to it with: Class: Gem Base Class: flash.display.MovieClip then it works fine. But if I link it instead with: Class: Gem1 Base Class: Gem ...more >>

Ok now the fun part was getting flash to plot all the points based on an xml (Thanks again Patrick) but now they want me to make the time between them appearing a variable too. I can add extra lines to the XML to make the object appear in the same location for a set number of frames but that ...more >>

I have a game and when the game ends, the aliens that are still alive are left on the screen when it goes back to frame 1. i have tried using the code with removeMovieClip, but it isn't working. here is the code used to create the aliens and the code that happens when the game is over. Please...more >>

I'm building a site that incorporates some flash. What I'm trying to do is make a site where the user can customize their own personal doll. For example I want to have a collection of hairstyles, eyes, noses etc.; then the user can click on any hairstyle they like and the hair appears on the d...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make a module in Flash to read external data from a weather service (in this case is weather channel). I tried to make this in AS3 and it worked perfecly, but the rest of the interface is in AS2. What I'm trying to do is to send an http adress in order to get x...more >>

Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before. In Flash CS3, I have the Output, Compiler Errors and Actions in 3 tabs. I would like to have the Actions separate so I can view my code at the same time as either the errors our the output. Is there some way to pull these apart? Thanks, Tim...more >>

I have these tweens on a mc: var tween_handler_alpha:Tween = new Tween(content_mc, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, 2, true); var tween_handler_y:Tween = new Tween(content_mc, "_y", Strong.easeOut, 475, 15, 5, true); How can I round the y tween to keep the text on whole y coordinates? I ...more >>

Hey, hopefully someone can help me out. I'm having a problem getting the load movieclip script to work. Here's my situation, I have a swf file that I want to load into another swf, I have this test file that I'm working on, I created the swf that I want to pull in. no problem. I attach the loa...more >>

Ideally outputting to an xml file is where I am headed but if there is something that wouldbe better I am open to suggestions. My first question is s simple yes or no - Can you export the contents of the output window? ie. If I wanted to have all my traced objects in a file outside the fla...more >>

The text doesn't show with correct font. Using default Times, why? I've created and linked the font in my Library. var fotoLocationX:uint = 5; var fotoLogo:TextField = new TextField; var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat; format.font = "CstBerlinEastMedium"; format.size = 12; ...more >>

I have a moving scrollbar with stills from various FLV videos. When the user rolls over a still it stops the scrollbar and plays the video(videos are about 5 seconds long). I want a button to pop up after about 2 seconds that says "Play Entire Video". I accomplished this by putting a cuePoin...more >>

We are developing an dynamic animated image gallery using Flash 8 & AS2, for which the images are called up from a different domain. I have used the reflection class (in which bitmapdata.draw() works ) to achieve reflections. This works fine when the images are called from the same domain. But...more >>

I was wondering If I could make my own method for shape. I have written a little function to draw a line using a square brush from one point to another point. Now at the moment this is just a function as follows function drawSquareLine(shpe:Shape,x1,y1,x2,y2,brushWidth,color){ with(shpe...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to make a movieclip scroll with the mouse wheel with a slowdown (makes the movie clip look like its slowing down) function so that with one scroll of the wheel the movie clip will move down then slow down and with another scroll it will go down further etc...? I ...more >>

HI! If i used an opening flash (localhost) to send variables to php(server) , how can i make it without open a web ? I tryed many ways . It was said that bulid a crossdomain.xml in the server would be ok. What i want : 1 , I want a flash file at the localhost , It can sen...more >>

I'm trying to randomly load images, but I get undefined message when I want to load a variable from a number.txt. All files are in the same directory. I tried to set a global variable, but no success. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks a bunch, Code of the main swf contai...more >>

results in the GlowFilter disappearing.... ?...more >>

Could anyone tell me how to acheive this kind of scrolling...... http://christinagarciabridal.com/main.html From the home page click on "PRESS" and then "NATIONAL EDITORIAL". In the right window of the "national editorial" page, there is an interactive scrolling movie clip...I wan...more >>

If I have a movie clip added as a child to another movie clip on the stage, and I remove it's parent, and null all references to the parent, will both the parent and child movie clip be deleted by the garbage collector? If so, will it be done on it's regular pass or by mark and sweep? ...more >>

hello, when i study this code, i can't understand some code , can someone help me to explain this codes ? thanks very much!!! Vector.prototype.rotate = function(angle) { var ca = Math.cos(angle * Math.PI / 180); var sa = Math.sin(angle * Math.PI / 180); with(this) { var rx = x* ...more >>

What I want is to create a player that can handle SWFs and FLVs or just FLVs, that load from a XML playlist. Now I have seen the tutorial (Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Flash Video) url: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/prog_download.html But this populates a list...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know why this script works when exported in flash 6 but not as flash 7 or 8? I have checked all my capital letters and so on but I can?t figure it out. Thank in advance for your help. //Frame 1(only one) //Movie clip "ball" in library for(i=0;i<8;i++){ th...more >>

Okay, so I have this: a sound button containing: a sound loop clip and some text (look at the fla) (SAME BUTTON BUT TWO DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS) When I press the "mute" button, I want it to mute the sound, as well as stop the sound movie clip. When I press the "play" button aga...more >>

Hi all. Got a problem. In the below example (if you paste into a new fla with AS3) you will see that the two squares sit on top of each other. This is not what I want for a few reasons. I am makeing a brush type tool that needs to update the shape every time the mouse moves etc. Is t...more >>

i have created one player interface(application) in flash 8. i use that app to play some recorded videos(swf files) one by one. that mean i load external swf in my main swf. we have recorded those videos using camtasia studio 4(third party software). now if we play that swf file individu...more >>

I have a really big problem that NEEDS fixing! I created a custom class in a .as document and whenever I try to use XML within it, it tells me every method doesn't exist! To make sure I wasn't doing things like an idiot I even copy & pasted the part of code who wasn't working into a blank do...more >>