Hello, I have a movie movieclip. There is a nested movie clip inside of that (which isn't moving in the clip that it's nested in). I want to know the position (X,Y) of the nested clip. If I tell it to find the position of it with the script I have, it tells me the X,Y position that it res...more >>

Can anyone point me to a reference discussing details of when mousemove events are dispatched? For example, if you have a display object that covers the entire display area and you move the mouse from the upper left to the bottom right within a one second duration, how many mousemove events ar...more >>

Here is my code: stop(); attachMovie_btn.onRelease = function(){ this.attachMovie("pop up", "popup", 1); }; I have a stop action on frame 10 of mc called "moodboard" in scene 1 and trying to load a movie called "pop up" into the mc "moodboard. It's not working...does this script...more >>

I am interested in using actionscript with a button to turn labels on an image slide in flash on and off. I would like to have only one button ("labels") that upon first click and release will advance to the labeled portion of the slide timeline and upon a repeat click and release will return ...more >>

I know my actionscript better than I know the browser environment, although I'm getting to grips with javascript because of the similarity. But some things like this are uncharted territory... With a couple of flv players downloading some 3Mb and 7Mb flvs after the web page has rendered, t...more >>

I have published and tested the sample ExtInt.FLA, uploaded it to a server and tested. It WORKS. I copy all the scripts and content of ExtInt into my own project, as well as copying the JS from the HTML page too. Publish, upload and test. Does NOT work. When I test locally, I put a TRACE...more >>

It seems to me that this 3 line actionscript should print on paper what's showing on the screen. Move a textarea component to the stage, put these three commands in frame 1: _global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor", "red"); _global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("borderColor", "blue"...more >>

Hi I have a media display component showing a flv file. i flv video file will be streaming, what i need is when the stream has finshed to go back to scene 1 frame 110 how would i do this when i dont actually know when the stream would finish? ...more >>

I'm working not so long with flash and I have an idea but do not know how to do it. My tusk is to use data from xml file in flash script. [b]Summery[/b] I have a xml file for example [b]asdf.xml[/b] with next content: [hr] <?xml version="1.0"?> <node1>1</node1> [hr] I need a fl...more >>

I am trying to alter my AS3 code so the user sees an animation progress instead of a regular loading bar. Here is my original code... var ldr:Loader = new Loader(); var url:String = "a_home.swf"; var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); ldr.load(urlReq); ldr.contentLoaderInfo.ad...more >>

I have a flash movie beng served form a remote server. This movie, once started has to communicate w/ a C++ engine running on the local machine (client). The data transfer between the flash movie & the C++ engine is two way. Since the movie runs w/in the sandbox of the browser, it's getting t...more >>

I have assigned a MovieClip as a variable so I can use the _x and _y properties var correctAnswer:MovieClip = radio4; but I also want to use the name of the instance in the following if/else statement if (this._parent.radioGroup.selectedData == correctAnswer){ //do something The...more >>

On the first frame of my movie I have a preloader code. What I want is the logo KCMlda to increase in alpha as the movie loads based on the percent the movie is loading, when the movie is loaded it should go to and play frame 2. The problem is that it goes to frame 2 but does not conti...more >>

I'm trying to find an easy way to embed characters into dynamic text fields, rather than manually doing it to over 100 fields. I've googled a bit, with no luck. any ideas on something that my help? Thanks. ...more >>

I have the need to add a spell checker to a Flash application I am developing. The user can enter text into an input TextField. Once done they click "Spell Check" and using a LoadVars object I send the data to a page that processes the text and returns any likely misspelled words. Then I ...more >>

Ok, I am a pretty good designer but i do not have a clue when it comes to creating email accounts in flash. I do know that you need a external file in order to send the email. I need to create multiple email accounts for a client. Can someone please explain to me how to accomplish this. Th...more >>

Hi, I am apparently new to Flash Actionscript 2.0, I have been developing applications since April 2007. But I personally feel that I need a good guide book. I don't have very sound programming knowledge and I don't know Javascript either. Could someone plz refer a good book on Actionscrip...more >>

I am having a problem getting using FlashVars to work with CS3 and AS 3.0. I found a supposed "answer" to this problem here in the forum, but it did not make sense to me. :confused; I have a Flash file that I mastered in AS 2.0 that used FlashVars successfuly. I just rewrote to AS 3.0 w...more >>

how to masking dynamic text without embedded the font? because the dynamic text contain ASIA language. any idea?...more >>

For animations is it better to make objects mc's or groups? Which has less file size or are they the same?...more >>

I have an object with a dictionary member. The dictionary holds weak references to objects which have members added to the display list. After running for awhile the objects stored in the dictionary are garbage collected, even though the objects have members added to the display list which ...more >>

I have created a function to help load jpeg's into a movie holder depending on the name of the variable attached to the codebase. In this case the name of the variable in the codebase is "Home", but thats not really the problem, its the calling of the function of if a variable equals to th...more >>

Is there a way to have a flash react if a key is being held down for longer than is necessary? For example I want to disbale the movie or jump to an error screen if the key used for interaction is held down for more than 3 seconds. Does anyone know if this is possible in Flash? Hel...more >>

I'm new to using classes in flash. Here is what i'm trying to do. I load a .swf file (lets call it child) into a movieclip within another .swf file (lets call it parent). I then try to assign a class to child. Then I try to call a function in childs class from childs timeline. Currently th...more >>

I want to load a swf file from a sub folder in a standalone machine. What can I do? I write the following code: submenuno=i+1; // i have been already initialized button.zz = "http://link"+submenuno+"\\"+mName; button.onRelease = func...more >>

Hi, everyone! Dows anyone know how I can turn a String that has a XML form(for ex: [i]"<item><subitem1>child1</subitem1><subitem2>child2</subitem2></item>"[/i]) into an actual XML instance ? Thanks a lot! ...more >>

Hi I've recently bought a component from page-flip.com With the source code that came you get a number of example demo files showing you all sorts of additional functionality that you can add into the basic functions. One of which was a zooming tool. I've copied the actionscript and the ...more >>

Hello! Well, i have a very strange problem with my swf i hope you can tell me why. I have 2 sound in my library and they are named as "certo" and "errado" i start a sound variable on the top of my code [b]var novoSom:Sound = new Sound();[/b] and each time i want to use i do [...more >>

Got an interesting problem; it may not be solvable with existing tools. A coworker wants a 'scrub bar' for her flash animation, so that users can scan back and forth through it at their will, recap what confuses them, rewind, play, fast-forward, etc. I've seen this done in a couple places onli...more >>