Hi, I have a flash document,where each time you click a button, a text box adds 1 to the value, from the origonal value of 0, on and on, like so: 0 <button is clicked> 1 <button is clicked> 2 <button is clicked> 3 ... but instead, it gives me: 0 <button is clicked> 01 <button is clicked>...more >>

Just when I think I've got a good understanding of Flash, I come across something that I never would have thought about before. I was always told that if I animate everything through actionscript, it will run much more smoothly than if I used tweening. Now I animate everything through actionsc...more >>

Hi! I saw somewhere a way where a subdomain made a variable in flash. Eg, if i had a site called mysite.com - and anyone can come and put http://blablabla.mysite.com - and a variable on my flash file would be blablabla. Is that possible? Ps, I use flash 8 with actionscript 2 ...more >>

hi i've been puzzling over this for a while now - hope you guys can help i'm trying to send a bit of xml to a php script which adds the item to a basket (using a PHPSESSID) and returns a list of the basket contents back to the movie which i hand off to another function to deal with but i...more >>

Hey, I m having issues with radioButtons , due to the fact that I m unsure how they work! I hope someone has the time and energy to help me, appreciate it a lot. Oki here is the deal. I want to have 3 radioButtons so they become a scale from 1 - 3, meaning there will be a question ...more >>

HI everyone. I am trying to create a fastforward/rewind button in flash. At present i am working on an audio file and I have got the track to advance/retrun 2 seconds on clicking the relevant button. What I would like to achieve is to loop this process while the user still has the mou...more >>

Hi - im getting a site together with a contact page controlled by php, i have the usual input fields eg. name, telephone etc but im trying to add 3 radio buttons to give the client an option of how they would like to be contact eg. by email, mail or telephone. When a radio buttons is selected ...more >>

the html housing my flash site, has the internet explorer bug, the active content thing. I'd like to get rid of it. The code i was using to embed my flash movie was this.. <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shock...more >>

i would love it if someone could help me with this i have an action script that allows the viewer to click on an image that is linked to a URL and directs them there. but the problem is that it opens a new window, and i would like it to go to the page in the same window. if someone could ...more >>

Hi, I designed form in the flash so i want to put the spam blocking in the form ... Then tell me the script. How ...... what are the code fot it reply me Thanks DDirector, ...more >>

Hi -- I have created some code in Flash CS3 using AS 3.0 to create form elements dynamically but now I am having trouble accessing the package I have created from another Flash movie. My package setup is like this... package formbuilder { public class forms { publi...more >>

Hi, I'm having a hard time understanding how to control playback of frames in my Flash animation. Basically, I have a file that is 40 frames long (this is a test file for a larger project). I want the first 20 frames to only play once, and the last 20 to loop repeatedly. My line of thinkin...more >>

Hi guys, /ActionScript3/ I am new to xml and I just read all the helps that are available in the flash and I've been reading around different forums too. Anyways, I think someone who gets around this kind of stuff easy could help me out so I have a nice clean start with it. All I need is...more >>

Hi Everyone;:confused; ActionScript 3.0 + Flash 9 I'm having trouble with embedded fonts and dynamic textfields when static text is on the stage using the same font. From the many forums across the net, I've been able to figure out that the problem has something to do with the fact ...more >>

Okay, I know there has to be an easier way to write this. Can someone please point me in the right direction? There has got to be a way to use 1 function and some type of variable to make to add the new sprites from an array with a for statement. I just don't know how. Any help would...more >>

Hi, the project is to create a thumbnail picture dynamically from a xml file and display the big picture with the event onPress. My problem is that I create dynamically a function onPress for each thumbnail and inside the function the name of the picture to load. I get no error but the picture...more >>

Can anyone please explain to me, how can I create a HTML Link to a Button (Converted to a Button from a Symbol or image) from Flash CS3 please. I created a a label in the time line and a Instance for a buton name with various methods and exported it to Action Script 3. Never worked, I am ne...more >>

It's been a while since I've worked with Flash, so bear with me. This one is right under my nose, so thanks in advance. I have a simple button inside a movieclip... when it is clicked I want it to jump to another frame on the main timeline. I've tried putting the code both on the main timel...more >>

I am trying to load the titles of blog posts into buttons but before doing so i would like to convert the text to all capitols... is there a way to do this within flash? Thanks!...more >>

Hi everybody, my question is: i have 3 clips and i get move it with script code, i´m using Tween class and Timer class, but, when i run the aplication sometimes work fine and othes not do that. for example: clip____n. execute___work clip1.............1...................yes clip...more >>

hey everyone have a look at the attached code. its not very complex but for some reason i can't get the onPlaybackComplete method to fire. any ideas why? SoundClick is an mp3 in the library set to export as an extension of the Sound class. it plays fine, so presumably extending Sound and a...more >>

http://www.flashden.net/item/3d-rotating-clickable-menu-carousel/490 Using the above link, can anyone tell me how i can go about creating such an animation using dynamic movie clips that are loaded from the library at runtime? my movie clips are named mc1,mc2,mc3,mc4, and mc5. Any and all...more >>

Need some help. Trying to learn. I have sections with questions and answers which I can get. But, I need to save each section into new array and tally all the final scores. The screen will show the section score of current section that was just completed and the final score. I know t...more >>

Well, i dont have any programming history, unless you count calculator programming. So I wish to learn AS3, but it's hard to start. Does anyone have any tips on how to get me started?...more >>

Hi, I am a newbie in actionscript 3.0. I just created a property and the code goes like this.. private var _lastname:String; private var _firstname:String; // create a "lastname" property public function get lastname():String { return this._lastname; } public function set lastn...more >>

When I have to work with ActionScript 1, I still use prototypes. But a friend of mine prefers using another method (see example below). It looks like classes (sort of). It works fine but is it a good scripting practice? Better than using prototypes with AS1? clip1.fadeMe = function(out, sp...more >>

Hi I have an embedded movie (EM) visible within the main movie (MM). I want all the buttons (actually mc's) in the embedded movie (EM) to be inactive until button (MORE) is released in the main movie (MM). I'm a print designer and not a web designer to keep it simple... haha Any help appre...more >>

i am designing my flash website and i was wondering if the was a script that would let me play another swf inside this one, i want it to be able to be positioned....more >>

I am trying to have JavaScript open a new browser window with certain height and width and navigate to designated path . . . however I am now trying to get it to look back in the root at certain variables to get this information and the code has now stopped working. Can someone take a look at ...more >>

Hi, I'm resuming work on my game. And the question I have is, how do I figure out at a given point, where a MC is on its animation cycle? something like if (frame.player == 1) { //do something } The reason I ask is because sometimes the player gets stuck on frame 1, and I want t...more >>

Hi, It's impossible, that when I open a flash slide presentation swf file it starts exactly in full screen mode?...more >>

Hello, I cannot seem to figure out what I am doing wrong and I need some help :confused;. Who better to ask than the experts right? I have everything working correctly thus far except for this actionscript. I am using Flash CS3 with ActionScript CS3. I have 5 buttons made up in fla...more >>

I would like to fade out the large play button within page10 of my project once the movie starts to play. Can anyone help me? I would be so greatful... URL http://www.marshallad.com/flippingbook/page10d.swf p.s. I can never copy any code out of action script and paste it into anything e...more >>

Hello Kglad and other forum expert! I have a movie clip (really just an image converted to a movie clip). I a "zoom" effect set on two layers - on for the zoom mask, and the other for the base image. I just use the modify/transform in some keyframes to have the image motion tween from no...more >>

In the code, below, I'm trying to color the entire area of a Sprite object. However, after the call to endFill(), the width of the sprite is changed from 300 to 2250. The trace output is: width=300 width is now 2250 The line "_sprite.width = w" is a workaround to restore the width of t...more >>

Hi all, Im working on a project that allows users to drag shapes on to the screen - I need a heads up on what to look for; I want to have my user in a page enter the x and y of the draggable area then next to the page that contains the objects. any ideas here? ...more >>

Hi, Could you tell me the limitation in AS3 ? For example, how many "Sprite" can i use in an another "Sprite" ? Where can i find all limitations in the langage AS3 ? Thanks...more >>

Hello everyone. I'm in a little pickle right now. I broke my ankle and cant get to my office where my actionscript 3.0 book is. I have a button in an animation that is supposed to reverse the animation when pressed. What is the function or method that's used to reverse the animation. ...more >>

does anyone know the correct syntax for the startDrag() function. I want to limit my object draggable area to like 100px x 100px. in ActionScript 2 all I needed was this.startDrag(100,100,100,100); AS3 is puking after I enter this value. any sugggestions? ...more >>

Hi all i have a question for you is it posible to create a layer for your fla file using actionscript or any other type of language? currently i have be given a project that requires the developemt of a fla file and provides a complete template for users to work with. I have been to such ...more >>

Hi all, This is my 2nd question. I seen a few guestbooks that involve php and cgi. Can flash achieve a guestbk that will reflect the guest's comments immediately on the remarks in the site without using cgi or php? something like getting the data that guests key in and then reflect them ...more >>

Hi all, Newbie to this AS so seeking advice. I have seen a lot of tutorials on loadsound but none of them actually solve my issue. What I am trying to achieve is to have a music player playing a list of mp3 songs randomly but hosted in another location/folder. this player will be loca...more >>

I'm originally a medium level Flash 5 user, now in the early phase of CS3 (bit of a jump). How would I go about making the attached code for a button open the new page in the same window/frame instead of launching a new browser window each time? Thanks in advance, etc. K -----------...more >>

I always name variable manual. And today I'd faced necessity do it by AS3 code. And I couldn't do it. How it's done?...more >>

Hi all I include a .as file in my main movie. There is a function structred like this inside that .as file String.prototype.isEmail = function() ...... } How can I call that function from a movie that is loaded into that main movie. Normally I would use if (!myEmail.i...more >>

Hi, is there a simple way to add multiple functions/listeners on one event? Like, if I try this: mc2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,mouseClick_handler); mc2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,mouseClick_handler2); only the first function seems to be called. But I want both to be e...more >>

How do I change the code below to wait a few seconds before going to the next frame instead of the website in the example, Im clueless with actionscript so please be as clear as possible. Thanks for your help! function openWebsite(url:String) { getURL(url,'_blank') } website='ht...more >>

If I get dynamic string, example "var pict:BitmapData = new myPict(1, 1);" can I make it as executable line of code? That is how delete double quotas and start up code? (Certainly, if it's can in AS3...) ...more >>

hi i'm passing the operator as String to the textArea Component in AS 3.0 i.e ".,+,-,*,/ mainly i used this one for to make the calculator function if the user enter the data as 25.5 means then user won't again type the Dot opertor Can any one give indea for this one... Thanks ...more >>

hi I am facing the problem in the keyboardListener i.e when ever i typed the number like 123 1) when i typed the number 1 it'll display empty 2) if i typed the number 2 then it display the trace 1. can any one help to display when i typed the number in the text here i am paste my c...more >>