have a multi page SWF that uses external JPEGS and SWF's accessed via an XML file. I wish to be able to go to a certain page by having a pulldown contents list menu (html or flash based?). How would I go to the page I wish to using this and the XML file? So I assume that the menu would tell t...more >>

I have an XML content (txt and images) wich comes respectivly on a Txt_field variable and MovieClip. With no problem, I have the content brought and showed, but my problem is that the content of the text and images is to long than the height of my clips. Pliiiz Help Urgent ! How can I set t...more >>

There is a great example for a guest book in the Flash Mx 2004. This guest book example integrates with PHP and uses XML but nowhere is the php file included and I really need to see the code to figure out how to do this myself. Does anybody know where to get the code example? The guest book I...more >>

i send the params from a xmlConector to a php but i dont know how to get that data in php with the name of the component?, $_POST["params"]? i dont know what to do thanks for your helk...more >>

We have web based application in ASP.net & IBM DB2 database. I just wanted to know if we use flash for user interface (forms & other components), whether flash is compatible with ASP.net & IBM DB2 database. This is very urgent proposal. Can anyone clear my doubt? ...more >>

Hi. How can I show in a text area ONLY selected results (I get from the xml-file generated by a PHP-document). like in PHP/mySQL you would write $query = "SELECT * FROM paintings WHERE id = '5' "; or do I have to write for every flash-page a new PHP-document? tnx for helping me! ...more >>

New to XML. This is probably basic. Trying to load titles of lessons from an XML file to individual dynamic text fields without using a component. Any quick solves? MORZ...more >>

ok . i have managed to get data from a xml-file. this file is generated by a php file. So on every load I have to get this php file to generated the newest xml-document. How can i load the PHP-file into my flash-site? ...more >>

hi guys, i have been trying to do this for longggggg time, i hope u guys can help me. i have an xml file let say is something like this to make it easier the real aplication is a kind of monster. numbers ----1 ----2 ----3 letters ----a ----b ----c ok the numbers, lettes, etc a...more >>

Using Flash MX 2004 Pro. I am setting up a web service to pass data to Flash from Perl. I am trying to figure out how (if it is possible) to define the WSDL type definition to make Flash understand these. Can anyone help me with this? ...more >>

I think the summary may describe the problem but - I'm doing a page where a product diagram allows the visitor to select a product group. This selection brings up a swf that lists the products within the group and allows the visitor to drill down. Right now I have a different swf for each prod...more >>

I am trying to pass variables from a contact form to an ASP page to be written to a database. I have input fields on the contact page and have given them an instance name of xxxx_txt. When i call GetUrl or LoadVariablesNum using the GET method, the items are not passed in the URL. However...more >>

Hi, Does anyones know how you load an external CSS file into a movie clip that's 2 MCs deep from the _root timeline? I've managed to do it on the _root timeline, but it doesn't work when i'm in the movie clips's timeline... The XML loads in ok and the text field is called myText. The...more >>

Hi I'm loading in an .asp file as a LoadVars(), i've also tried it as an XML Object. My problem is when i go to request the file again it's caching it even though its requesting .../index.asp?=userNum (which is a random number)..... so it should get a new string from the server but it ju...more >>

Hello, can someone help me, please, with the following scenario: I have data (info about users) stored in an XML document ( <datapacket> <row id="... bla bla bla ... /> </datapacket> ) , which I am successfully connecting to my Flash application using an XMLConnector, DataSet, binding an...more >>

Hi there, I have some troubles in Flash MX in my Movie : _root.main. I attach a MC called "InfoWin" in this I create a MovieClip called "vr" and in this "vr" - MC I load a movie with loadMovie("empty.swf") Already is working right now to this point. In my empty.swf I wanna call...more >>

I want to get text from my database which i manage with phpMyAdmin into a textarea in the Flash document. I tried a lot but it does not work: What I understood was, that I have to 1. export from phpMyAdmin a dump.xml file. 2. After putting a XMLconnector in Flash I put the parameter URL ...more >>

hi to all, is it possible to play a live windows media broacast through a swf ? the url is of the form mms://domain/broadcast_publishing_point this is a live feed not on-demand, if not can director handle this ? i will hold of on posting there til this thread has had some views kind ...more >>

I have loaded the XML data into flash using connector, and can bind it to a component. Is there a way to assign a specific value to a local flash variable? I want to use the text from the xml string as a visual element and the TextArea component limits that. Thanks for any help. Jason ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to intergrate a videofile (about 2 minutes) into a flash file (fla.) but the problem is that if I'm going to export the fla. to a sfw. it becomes to big. (It's for a website so it must be 5 or 6 MB at maximum.) Greets, Martin ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I'm just wondering anyone can get me the answer for web service? I'm writing custom actionscript and i want to use web service classes or web service connector but it's show me the error that "it's couldn't load".. so, i'm wondering whether i can use web service classes o...more >>

I'm trying to use XMLConnection with a PocketPC PDA. The XML app works on Internet Explorer on a desktop PC, but fails to work on my PDA. Is this a Flash Lite thing or what?...more >>

Hi, Hope this is the right forum for this question. I'm looking into how/the best way to develop a log on page in flash that: 1) retains the user's ID (creates a session or somthing) 2) have multiple forms (submiting questions for example from many different locations/forms) 3) stores the s...more >>

Hello, I have a ticker utilizing an XML file. I have found that the swf seems to interpret a relative path in terms of the location of the HTML or PHP page calling the animation. Am I correct? Is there a publication setting to control this? I do not understand why it would be a _GOOD_...more >>

hello having problems integrating flash & php. The results are coming into the php file itself but having problems integrating these results into flash. I know there is something needed inthe php script for the variable in the SWf. Could anybody point me in the right direction. here is the...more >>

i have a loadvars variable called my_lv.add that has to be named 'add' to work with the paypal system. flash is reading it as a reserved word and not allowing me to use it as a variable field name. how can i get around this?:confused; ...more >>

In my movie, I have loaded XML data using the XMLConnector component. All my XML text loads perfectly fine into my different components, however, after I load my CSS file I cannot seem to apply it to any of my components. It seems to be because you must set the stylesheet to the text component...more >>

From Developer Centre - Flash and Web Services One thing to pay attention to, however, is that Flash MX Professional 2004 doesn't natively support ASP.NET DataSets as of this release. You can work around this by parsing web service responses yourself, but you cannot bind directly to the .N...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm having what seems like a timing problem with a loadvars.load(), and I require help. I'm writing a data class that encapsulates a heap of loadvars calls into a nice data layer, but I'm having a slight problem with the timing of it all. it seems that the functions that s...more >>

Hi all. Iam wanting to create a CD rom that contains a flash movie... This movie is to display images and data about the images.. I currently have a non flash website that i use php and a mysql database to do this but I now want it on a cd rom and using flash. Can someone tell me or go...more >>

Friends: I have an app where I have a datagrid and some buttons. The idea is that the grid is filled by a WebService, ad the results depend on which button is pressed. The Web Service requires a single integer parameter. However I've found the documentation a bit confusing. Here is what...more >>

I have an app that uses WebServiceConnector (programatically or from the IDE directly) as well as XMLConnectors. When I run using "Test Movie" the first time in the MX Pro environnement, it works. The next times it just "hangs" never return from a call (randomly) and when I try to connect ag...more >>

I;m working on a project where I have a series of buttons. Each button represnts a country, and the idea is that when a button is clicked, a list of institutions belonging to the country represented by the clicked button appears on the data grid. OK, so I create my databases, I create my web...more >>

Hi, I have just finished working on populating a datagrid from an xml file. I am creating a client list with category headers. What I am trying to accomplish is to set the category header font weight to bold, but leave the client listing font weights to normal, but I am having trouble figuring...more >>

I've been asked to create a Flash file that gets ALL its information from an XML file, including document size, colours and just about everything that has to do with layout. Is that even possible to do? This is my first attempt at using XML with Flash, so I don't have any idea where to star...more >>

I am using Flash for the first time so I don't know a lot yet, but I want to create a Flash Movie of the sun going down. I have taken digital photos of the event, one every 5 seconds (about 110 frames) and now want to create a Flash movie to show it on my web site when it first opens. How can ...more >>

I have created a flash file that loads an XML document from the same location as the .swf using the XML object .load function. It works locally but when I put it up on a server running Tomcat, the load function fails everytime. Does anybody have any ideas why? ...more >>

How can I remove the green line around flash object like buttons, text fields and data component I have a list component that keep on displaying this green line around it as soon as I click on it Any ideas? ...more >>

I'm wondering if there is any way to have Flash pull a number of photo filenames from a DB, and rotate the appropriate photos (fading in &amp; out). So when the filenames in the db change, Flash will automatically incorporate the new photos. Thanks. Walter Hardy ...more >>

hello can someone tell me how would i go about the following, it would be much appreciated i have created a flash program and i want to bring a number of different images from a database and have the user be able to navigate around the images ie, zoom and pan etc. i have no idea how to...more >>

I was curious as to what the best practice was when loading multiple multiple XML files at once into a flash movie. At first thought I have 2 options, a new XML object for each XML file to be loaded. Or Cycle though one object for all of the loading, by storing the file names into ...more >>

How to set and display data (from Database) dynamically in Combo box?...more >>

I'm trying to set up a visual flash database which will eventually provide access to up to 50,000 records... The logistics of actually displaying this information is still being worked out but the initial problem appears to be loading in the XML data. Flash freezes when loading large XML data ...more >>

I have a mc instance ('customTree') on the main stage with an embeded list component labeled: 'cTree' On that mc 'customTree' instance I have the following actionscript: onClipEvent( load ) { import mx.controls.Tree; var cTree:Tree; //icon function is added here cTree.labelFunction = func...more >>

I'm french so my english isn't perfect. I would like to open HTML or PHP pages into my flash animation. Can you help me please by sending me a tutorial, a document or a link of a website. Thank you ...more >>

Has anyone encountered this problem before?I get a problem when I link a dynamic text field to an external text file which has an html bulleted list within it. When the text is shown in preview - the bullets are not where they are supposed to be - there are added lines and bullets. Any sugge...more >>