Hi, I am trying to check for a var that is passed into a SWF via HTML (file.swf?var1=something) however when I check for the var on the first frame while publishing the SWF in the test environment it tells me the var is not defined. if (s=="something") { doSomething(); } else { ...more >>

I'm having a whale of a time with rollovers in AS 3.0. In this app: http://rexmap.com The bottom buttons are simple movieclips with an up and over state. When you rollover and out of them they are very buggy. They have listeners and that is is. myButton.gotoAndPlay("over"); The button...more >>

Ok , I know that i must be overlooking someting so simple that I can grasp it... I have a mc that has an on press function. What I want to happen is when the user clicks on the mc that is opens up and plays another swf in a new browser window... I am also using this code on another m...more >>

I have a main movie (index.swf) that preloads my external SWF that is a menu button 4.swf My index.swf has background music (song1) that plays on load. I also have background music (song2) that plays on my 4.swf It works fine when I test 4.swf directly however when I load my main index.swf ...more >>

Hi, Trying to load an external plain txt file into a text field using Actionscript 3.0. The text file is saved in UTF-8 format in the same file as the Flash movie and I'm using the following code: var external_txt:TextField = new TextField(); var externalReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest...more >>

Hi everyone, I integrate flash witch XML, until the flash read all the data of XML file is ok, but i have an error on intance the MovieClip like a Button. I Using the folow code :: This code duplicates the movies but i cant do the button instance?! Someone can help me? for (n=0; ...more >>

I was wondering how to i change a check box from a check to a X using styles. Thanks......more >>

I am using the Window component in the following manner. User clicks a button called audioText_btn and the window will popup with audio script, like a closed captioning. Up unitl 30 min ago I could publish with this code just fine. Now I get this error in all the files I used this in. As I sai...more >>

Hi everyone. I have made a flash banner advert (http://www.upssystems.uk.com/_banners/sky_scraper.swf) and I am loading it through a holding movie (http://www.c9dd.com/holder.swf) in this move there is on frame with this action script in it... loadMovieNum("http://www.upssystems.uk.com...more >>

Hi! I'm updating a flash file that makes action script calls to two .as files. The only thing I'm doing is adding new names to the names.as file. But when I publish the flash file to an .exe, I keep getting an Identifier Expected error. I've tried in three versions of flash as well as publ...more >>

This is my first post so first of all, hi all... I am currently having a bit of a nightmare trying to optimize a flash file for use on the web. My first frame is currently about 600kb in size even though the only thing on the timeline is the preloader, which is no where near this size. ...more >>

I had a video playback using NetStream that worked perfect on Friday, then our IT Dep. switched servers on Friday night, and now it doesn't work. It will still play on my local files and when you open the .swf from the server, but it you try to go to the web address, nothing. I know this ...more >>

Hi there, Why can't I access new properties in a created class with a parent statement ? i have classes A and B that both extend flash.display.Sprite B is a child of A (this.addChild(B) at B instanciation in A) I can access inherited properties of A from B with no effort (such as pare...more >>

Hi -- I have a series of movie clips with instance names "movie1", "movie2", etc. I would like to iterate through a loop and change some properties on each instance. How can I dynamically access these movies using a FOR loop? I have this: for (clipLoop =0; clipLoop < 6; clipLoop++) { ...more >>

Hi, I am new to flash. I am creating a website with parts of it designed in Flash. I wanted to design the menu bars in flash and some other parts aswel in the future. I created a button in flash: 1) Created a circle and then turned it into a button and named it home. 2) I then added a ...more >>

Hello guys ;] I need some help in AS3. My problem is that I can't preload the content in the swf movie itself.. I mean movie clips and images that are inside the swf not external and so on. In AS2 All I needed to do is this : this.onEnterFrame = function() { loadingAmount = this...more >>

Hi -- It has been a long time since I have coded in Flash and I am trying to load a movie from a library into an empty clip on the stage using action script. I believe in prior versions of flash the syntax was instanceOfMovieClip.loadMovie() However, this does not seem to work. Do I hav...more >>

Hey all, I hope you guys can help me with my problem: I have a MovieClip on the stage. It is a simple 40x40 pixel box. It's registration point is is the top-left corner. It's instance name is 'box'. I am trying to get the box to rotate and stretch to the mouse pointer. Here is the code I...more >>

Sorry, I realized that I put this on the wrong board, so I reposted it here. I'm a little rusty with ActionScript, and I was wondering if you could provide me with some assistance. I was hoping someone could show me a simple piece of code that searches for music files and then plays them. I ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to get EventDispatcher to work, and it simply won't. I was hoping somebody might be able to spot the error, I've been at this for 2 hours, using http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/creating_events.html as a model. I have a MovieClip symbol called "WindyButton" that ...more >>

Hi, Has anyone had any success with creating a datagrid and using html text in a column. I've done this using a AS2 component, but was wondering whether anyone had done this using an AS3 component. I think it has something to do with the new dataGridColumn class using a CellRenderer class - ...more >>

I have a Flash input form in which I can eliminate unwanted ascii characters such as leading or trailing spaces, etc. with charCodeAt(i). But line feeds have no ascii value that I know of (as spaces do). As a result, the text stored in the created text files look like this: &ititle=Oh-Oh ...more >>

Hello, I am making this game. For the dude to shoot I use this code (it is applied to a movie clip that covers the Background: -- onClipEvent (mouseDown) { _root.e=1 endX = _root._xmouse; endY = _root._ymouse; startX = _root.b1._x startY = _root.b1._y } onClipEvent (...more >>

I have a small flash file with an mp3 in the library with a linkage name. I then have a small bit of code as below CONTENT_SOUND=new Sound(); CONTENT_SOUND.attachSound("m_d_1_01"); CONTENT_SOUND.start(); which plays the sound fine. I then publish this swf. I then want to load it into ...more >>

I have set a FLV player in my flash document. It loads external videos. Over the FLV Player screen I have a MovieClip called "Videoclick" which says "Press here to start video" and disappears when you press the play button. Here is the code: //Setting the FLV Player Component// var cfp...more >>

I am having trouble getting a button to work in my Flash 8 project. I have 52 frames that make up an intro to my project. I have an "Actions" Layer on which I have inserted a keyframe on frame 52. In the Actions of frame 52 of this layer I typed: stop(); On a different layer, on frame 52...more >>

HI, I have html page , I want to display that html page into flash, for that i need to parse all html tags into flash, extract the data from html and display that into flash. How can i do this in flash? I mean parsing of html. Is there anyway to convert html to xml dynamicc...more >>