There seems to be a Stage.height bug in Flash CS3? My movie is 800x600. However while testing my movie in Flash CS3 it returns 800 x 500! When running SWF in Player it returns 800 x 600. Has anyone else experienced the same issue? David D. ...more >>

I am going through the Flash 8 Actionscript (Training from the Source) textbook. The last two exercises I went through set up functions that send a response to a dynamic text box. However, even though my code is exactly the same as the books completed file, my text does not work when I test ...more >>

Hi -- I am creating a user input form and I have some javascript code, etc. for validating data input but I would love an input mask so that, for example, telephone numbers have to be put in ###-###-#### and dates ##/##/####. I have discovered the "restrict" option to only allow numbers an...more >>

i have a main swf that's about 3.5 megs. my question is would it be better / more efficient / practical to place a preloader on the same swf or create a separate one on its own and have the main swf load into it (as i am doing currently but am still have problems)? ...more >>

He guys, I've got a Problem: I wanna do an animated Button in flash. I'm new to it, and i'm done with the "graphical" work now. But I've got a Problem with the Actionscript now, I know how to set it up that the Animation of the Button will start to play when the mouse is over the Button (wit...more >>

Hello Forum members, I am suffering thinking - broken, etc. I have an include file, "myfuncs.as" where I have written some functions. some run, some do not(?). I have a function like this in the include file: function ShowObjects(show:Boolean) { //these are objex on my timeline ...more >>

I am trying to control a loaded .swf with the parent .swf. I do not know how to call the loaded .swf. I know how to control the parent with the child, but not the other way around. any suggestions would be great. thanks! ...more >>

When I first heard that Adobe had overhauled the sound API in AS3, I was excited. However, now that I'm trying to write audio support for a fairly large application, I'm less enthusiastic about it. It seems that the architects were determined to learn nothing from the old API, and that the o...more >>

Hi -- I have a series of text input objects and I would like to retrieve their text value using the "getChildByName()" function like this trace(getChildByName('FIRSTNAME').text) However, I get a complier error "Access of possibly undefined property thought a reference with a static type...more >>

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to bring in a group of 4 separate movie clips and have them behave as a single clip, and then allow the viewer to "ungroup" the clips so that their properties will be accessible individually. I can do the first part, it's the second part that is giving me f...more >>

The following is reading an xml file. I have the following code and works fine if floorplan[p] is not equal to = the word Null. How would like to keep that but add to the following code if = floorplan[p] equals a blank as in the xml, then largerpdf._visible =3D = false; ? This is what I mean...more >>

Please, someone help! I have a project I'm working on that involves maps. I'm using Flash Pro 8. Ok, I have several maps of the Hawaiian Islands, one of all the islands and others of each individual island. What I've done is taken the map of all the islands, Overview, and made it a MC o...more >>

I have a requirement that the total size of my SWF files be no larger than 120KB. I used AS 2.0 components: TextArea and ScrollPane. I'm also using MovieClipLoader to load external jpg files. Target Flash Player is 7. My movie is 245KB, with 163KB coming from AS2 classes. Is there any wa...more >>

Hi. When I test the code within the flash development environment i get no errors returned, however, when i run the code i get the following error; 1037: Packages cannot be nested. Any suggestions? Thanks Barry. The Code: --------------------------------------------------...more >>

Scenario: we have a button to view special events on our website. these events change on a regular basis. Issue: I want our adminstrative assistants (no flash knowledge) to be able to upload a jpg (which has all the info for the event on it) to the site and have flash take it and update t...more >>

I have a movieclip in which there are 2 other inner moveclips. I currently have onRelease code on the main outer movieclip in which I use hitTest to determine which of the 2 inner clips I'm clicking. However, when I try to put this same type of code in the onRollover method, it doesn't work....more >>

Hello, Here is what I am looking to do. I have an animation where there are 10 doors on the first frame. When the user clicks on one of the doors, there is a tween effect and then the user gets to see what is behind that door. Once they see what is there, they click on the screen and t...more >>

Hey all, I need to make an animated character that runs on the normal desktop without interrupting other programs. I would be greatful to those great flashers if they can suggest me a way . Regards Sms ...more >>

Hi folks. I cannot find a solution for this problem. I have looked all over the web for this and spent a few hours on this problem. :-( I have a textarea on the stage. The a textbox is loaded with HTML from a txt file. Here is the order of how the item is loaded. mytextboxstyle = new Tex...more >>

Maths is not my strong point. I have an image in a scrollpane I'm drawing a line on. My client wants a scaled full view of the line over the image. So I have a loader with the image scaled in it above and to the right of the scrollpane. The coordinates of the Scrollpane are x=37, y=286, w=...more >>

Hi, I have three external swf files - part1, part2 and part3. I know how to load one clip but I would like to know how to dynamically load them into an empty MC and then play them in full consecutively without any fancy transitions so that it plays like one big movie using Actionscript (no b...more >>

I'm having trouble with getURL not working with IE 5.2 Mac and maybe older versions for PC. Here's an example: http://www.gus.org The skip button loads a new URL into the same window. Works fine in Safari, Firefox, Netscape, and some versions of IE. I've seen other posts regarding this iss...more >>

Hi all I am creating MCs through a loop, but I want to assign an onRelease function to each created MC, in that same loop. And I need to use the variables from the loop into the function... So I tried this: for(var sVar in flashVars){ i++; var mcName = sVar.substr(0,3); // create t...more >>

Is there any example to scroll the content using mouse wheel?...more >>

Hello I am searching for a good tutorial or any example that helps me to understand proper functioning of writing XML From Flash using JSP. I am not much aware of JSP. Thats why ...... Thank You in advance. ...more >>

Is it possible to have function that will bring the movieclip to top when user click on it? ...more >>