hi people. im pretty amateur on scripting..but my flash techniques are coming along ok. I'm creating a site and i want to integrate a feedback form into the swf file so the user does not hav to click a link to open a html page in a separate window to fill out a form - instead i want them to be...more >>

I recently created a flash animation that calls the dynamic text from a XML file. The movie works when I use flash player, however when it is embeded in a webpage it does not load the XML. Any help would be great. Adrian Salvador Director of Information Technology Firelands Winery, S...more >>

How do I set up my drag and drop questionaire to export to a XML file? I have a 70 seperate SWF files that pose a question and contain a drag and drop rank order response of 1,2,3,4.How do I set up a XML file that receives the responses.I don't understand how to do the Actionscript and ge...more >>

I have created a flash .swf application that is hosted on a website and communicates nicely with the back end SQL server using xml and a .net middle tier. It turns out now that there's a possibility that the client wont allow any Flash player to be installed on the client machines, although t...more >>

How do I put the contents of a php document into a dynamic text field in a Flash document? Thanks. G...more >>

I doesn`t know how to interface Flash with ASP inorder to retrieve data from database. I am not able to find any website which provides me atleast an introduction level how to retrieve data from Microsoft Access using ASP. I am in need to know the details ,since I am developing mobile appl...more >>

Hi, i have one XML data. it similiar : <menu> <newmenu> <name>name</name> <text>bla bla...</text> </newmenu> <newmenu> <name>name</name> <text>bla bla...</text> </newmenu> </menu> from this XML how can i find my data? for exam...more >>

Hi I have form in flash with input text fields with Var field set to t2_2 t3_2 t4_2 ... what i want to do when user enter values and press buton it should post data(values) to aspx page - how can i do that ? i saw some tutorial but i did not help what i did on (release) { ...more >>

My contact form works just fine, however, I currently have the target set to "_blank" which is not what I want. Rather than opening the .php file open in a new window, I just want to go to a new frame (labeled "success" or "error") within my flash file (which currently works fine) So,...more >>

Hi all, plz visit - http://www.vision-divine.com/samples/test.swf to see what i mean I am using FlashMX and i have the following - .. a multiline dynamic box > named "mytext" .. 2 triangiular up/down arrows for scrolling . .. text database file > named "apartments.txt" which contains title...more >>

Hi all, I'll appreciate any available help for the following problem: In Flash MX I use an XML connector component and I see that it has a parameter "URL". Is there a way to feed the XML connector with a string variable (XML formatted) created with Actionscript inside my flash file? The ...more >>

On the development version of a site, I have created a flash movie that uses an XML file that refers to the filenames of images and their respective captions that are then loaded into the flash movie. The images are loaded 2 at a time, into movie containers within the movie, and then the...more >>

hi, i have edited an open source flv player's fla file for my needs,but ihave some problem.it uses XML when getting video source URL but i want it to read from QueryString or a variable from ASP.How Can i do this? the original codes are like this,these are for reading from XML source; ...more >>

Hello, I have html code <param name="movie" value="movie.swf?var=a&vari=b" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> and I need to pass <b>var</b> and <b>vari</b> variables and its values into the actionscript. How it can be done? Thank you. ...more >>

Hello, I have a project where I need to use XML to dynamically load PNG and GIF files not just JPEGs. I have found forums and information from 2004 of users complaining about the capability not being avaliable but since then we now have Flash 8. Does anyone know if this has been resolved? ...more >>

I'm using LoadVars in Frame 1, and I need to use the resulting variables in other scripts afterwards. (But all the examples I find online only use the variables right in the same script.) The problem I'm having is, the onLoad function doesn't actually make it wait. It goes ahead to the nex...more >>

There is a combo-box by the name "cbJobs" and it gets its value from the XML file named "data.xml".. I want to store the value transferred from this XML file into a variable.. so basically someone told me to use the code on (change) { _root.subject = this.getValue(); } the only prob...more >>

Hello, I am looking for the best way to approach the following situation ... 1) how to connect 2) what I will need to maintain "realtime" updated data on the the web browser (client) side 3) and if Flash Media Server 2 or the Flash runtime (Platform) would be required. I have a SQL S...more >>

Hi all I've made an animation where the user has to draw something, from there i want the user to save his/her animation to a jpeg file... Is there a way to do this, I've been looking around php but haven't found nothing yet... please help ...more >>

Hi, I am hoping that someone out there can help me. I am recieving a number of records back from an SQL query. The total number of records is being presented in a string records.n, where n is the number of records. If I have records it works perfectly, however I want the movie to jump to...more >>

Is there an actionscript (or other) way to deliver a dynamically-generated but static-format graphic file, using Flash. For example, User A submits 'Hello, World' to db User B references web page FrontPage.html Frontpage.html sends trigger to background file Background.html with Wow.sw...more >>

Is it possible for flash to accept value from a database? Here is what I want to do: There is a database storing values "postions" and "descriptions" (there are 2 coloumns named so to store the values). In flash I want to accept the values entered in these 2 coloumns. How to go about it?...more >>

How can you set the XML connector's URL to a variable? I have a variable called "thisURL" and an XML Connector called "myXMLConnector" Thanks much....more >>

Hi, Please help How can I install flash player plugin (version 8) in browser without downloading setup or redirecting to macromedia site if flash plugin is not available in browser Thanks ...more >>

How can a pass an asp value <%thisvalue%> to a SWF file? I can get the SWF to connect to an XML database but need to be able get a value from the ASP code so I can compare the XML database table and extract the correct information. XML DATABASE ClientNumber Client Name ASP VALUE (c...more >>

I am trying to have a PHP page load some variables into a Flash banner ad that will be running on 8 different websites... I need to have one central location for the PHP page and allow 8 other domains access this data... I am finding that when everything is on one server... no issues... data...more >>

Here's my problem: I have a project with loads of text ergo I am loading text from external files with html formating. Now I have to insert videos linked to the text file too (as in "dolor ipsum ... press here to view video"). All I need is a code that lets my text interact somehow with th...more >>

I made a dynamic textbox wich should load a txt file. When I test the .swf it says undefined in the textbox. I treedouble checked everything. The txt file starts with content=, the dynamic textbox has nextup as instance name and in the Var, the txt is in the right place and has the right na...more >>

:confused; Click to Activate and Use this Control... WOW... my upgrade to Studio 8 has been rendered anemic by the requirements of "more security" by Microsoft and others. Now Flash has an error message and you have to click the little sucker to get it to work. Someone dropped the ball BI...more >>

This one is boggling my mind so if someone can help, please do :). I've got a dynamic text area pulling text from a MySQL database via AMFPHP. The text includes special characters such as accents, umlauts, etc (multi-language site platform). Most of them work fine, and ALL of them work fi...more >>

My department is working on setting up a Learning Management System (LMS) but at this time we are not ready to do so. Unfortunately, other departments are looking to publish courses with tracking and authentication and, having no LMS to link them too, we?re having obvious problems imposing sta...more >>

hi i am developing a flash cms open source if you want to help me or only too write your article/tips in my blog contact me my web: www.3viso.com/wpmu/flashcms my email/my msn: marco76tv@hotmail.com my icq: 210139517 ...more >>

Hi I'm using a xml file to upload info to a flash app. For the xml I used utf-8 encoding but I'm having a problem the "&" symbol isn't displaying rigth.. is displaying &amp; Any ideas on how to solve this problem. thanks german ...more >>

Hi There I have a flash file with a dynamic text field where I load text from an external .txt, but for some reason I cannot get the ? character to appear. I also have a similar problem with &. Help Please. ...more >>

I've created a simple MySQL Database, query via PHP and then load in the vars via LoadVars ( in Flash ). Everything seems ok. But when I see the data in "myResult" textfield I get two extra slots of info. Has this ever happened to anyone before? example: John Doe : Something : Something ...more >>