Hi, I would like my flash to act differently depending on what html page it is on. Can I send information from html code to action script? ...more >>

Hey all, I have modified a flash gallery from the "animation and effects with macromedia flash 2004" book, my problem is that the gallery works perfectly on my computer, but once it has been oploaded the file seems to be missing. All files are in the directory - images and swf file, so can a...more >>

Hey All, Im working towards a easier way of updating my menubar componet. I'm having it load from an XML file, part of the code works well, the other part is hosed up somewhere and thats where I need help I'm not sure where the issue is IM hoping someone can help me out. below is my cod...more >>

Hi, I need to run a query and convert the results to an XML string. I *think* I need to do all of this in PHP but I wanted to get some guidance as sometimes I make things more difficult than necessary. Do I have 2 scripts... one to query and one to process the results to XML? Or can I put ...more >>

My problem is a little unusual. I have a perl script that does this great job, but I want to make a flash interface for it. The thing is that I don't want the flash to load any new pages or pop-ups when executing the script and so looking as if the flash does it all. Is there a way of NOT open...more >>

Hi, I've got a job for a client that includes creating a flash movie that will contain a number of thumbnails that represents links to avi movies, powerpoint presentation etc. The thumbnails need to be updated and added to on a regular basis. Is it best to call the thumbnails from an xml...more >>

Hi i am interested in using adobe flash to generate a code out of the infomation a user inputs generally the idea is this 1. User inputs infomation such as age etc 2. a code gets generated 3. this code links in with the infomation that is given and i can now type this into flash and the infoma...more >>

Hello, Cann somebody tell me how to make cd (autorun) menu? or where to find a tutorial. I want to make a menu with 4 buttons some pictures, (All pictures on a row) I also want a video (avi or wmv) in a new window to preview (something like the design of Youtube) witch enables to view ...more >>

Hi guys, I got a music portfolio web site running PHP, MySQL and Flash. There's a page showing all the artists my client worked for and when you click on a song title, this title is passed as a variable to a PHP page then to a Flash page. The Flash page contains an actionscript music pla...more >>

i have a main site i'm building in one area i have 12 buttons for each item. I want to set it up so that when you click each button one image ,a title and some text, and possably a link to veiw each subject loads from an external source. When i click on the next navigation button i want it to...more >>

I'm sorry this is a question from a server ignoramus, so please be kind: I've previously captured user input using a combination of cfml and text files. That was way back in 2002 and using AS 1.0. I'm now working in an environment where the server guy won't put any scripts on, and I mean non...more >>

Hi, hope someone can help. I'm trying to deploy flash e-learning with dynamic content on a content management server. The xml will not display, no matter how many different approaches I take. So I need a method of encapsulating lots of text within Flash and referencing it from say, an actionsc...more >>

The header is flash with an external xml file to load images. It is placed in DW with all flash, images and xml file in the /flash folder. http://hansonrunsvold.com/new/ Notice no images are loading. When I exported it directly from Flash it worked. At least until I uploaded it. I th...more >>

Hi, I have a question about my xmlReader.as file about XMLReader class. this will be xmlreader class , but i can not take the data -i think.- XMLReader.as /* * XMLReader Class, * * Reads XML to Array * */ class XMLReader { var xmlArray:Array = new Array()...more >>

Hi, I am creating e-learning material that will be accessed online by students. Is there anyway that Flash can write to a database to tell us how long the student was logged in for and how long there were on a page? Thank you in advanced. ...more >>

having trouble intergrating files! ive created some interactive animations in director and I want my flash interfce to link to these html shockwave files, how can I intergrate them, is it possible, or will I have to make a purley html interface. Any feedback would be great! chhers. ...more >>

I am trying to make a search box in flash however no matter what I do I cant manage to make it work... here is the script in highlighted form http://pastebin.ca/494701 and the PHP if anyone wants to or needs to see it http://pastebin.ca/494567 on (release) { myVars2 = n...more >>

I'm a bit of a newbie to getting data from XML into Flash, but I'm seeing that this is going to be very important to future projects that I work on. I am using FileMaker Pro (currently version 7, but upgrading to 8) to create a database and exporting XML file from there to read into Flash. I c...more >>

I can not read my XML into a DataGrid. I have looked at the TimeSheet tutorial and have been able to get it to work, but can not make the adjustments to this file. I was wondering if there was a problem with XML itself? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> <data...more >>

:frown; Hi there. Does anybody know if it's possible to make text wrap in the combobox component, and if so, how? I've searched this and other forums/sites but have had no luck with an answer either way. I'd like to combobox to stay a set width and therefore wrap text lines that are long...more >>

Hi, I've been tasked with producing a Flash movie which will retrieve (presumably as an array) a list of all the articles in our Sharepoint Portal 2003 news listing, and display the title and abstract text, one story at a time (looping through every item in the array). I presume I need...more >>

Hello I would like to build a dynamic webdatabase . (One form that updates text and bit-maps.) I must use Microsoft ACCESS or mySQL. Is it possible and is there any video tutorials out there? I heard a lot of "tissling and tassling" that flash is not well suited to work with databa...more >>

Hello, I am developing a VB.NET Windows application that plays SWF and FLV files in popup windows. The user presses a button on the main application form, a window pops up, and the Flash media will then play (in theory :frown;). I was successful in getting SWF files to play. First, ...more >>

Ok, so I've read up on the TextArea class in Livedocs, and i've been looking at XML explanations and their implementation into Flash for about a week. I've tried this EXACT code on another Flash document, except on the main stage instead of embedded inside of a separate movie clip, and it work...more >>

Here is the piece of my code: if (this["projectName"+three] != "") { _global.projectFile3 = this["projectFile"+three]; heading3_txt.htmlText = this["projectName"+three]; content3_txt.htmlText = this["description"+three]; if (this["thumbnail"+three] != "") { picHolder3_mc.loadMovie("image...more >>

I want to design a list of wanted presents for a party in flash so that if guests tick/select a present then it must become greyed out or unavailable for the next guest so that they know it has already been selected/bought. Also, I would like to know how to possibly make it a log-in site so e...more >>

Hi all, I'm using a simple form to submit to a php mail functions. works fine, however when i publish for flash 8 the mail body shows all the inline style as plain text. example: Name: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\"><P ALIGN=\"LEFT\"><FONT FACE=\"Arial\" SIZE=\"12\" COLOR=\"#333333\" ...more >>

Hi, I am not sure where exactly I should post this but I have been trying to populate a list of videos in a repeat region in Dreamweaver. This is working just fine but when I try to use a "Go To Detail" page server behaviour and have the chosen (clicked on thumbnail) play on the page I get a "...more >>

Hello... Sorry for this question, but I am trying something new to me. I need to hold a couple of variables in an outside file that can be incremented by user activity -- not just during one interaction with the swf, but with every one. I have no problems with using loadVars and I get the ...more >>

Hello every one, please some body to help me. How to store the data text in Access databases using flash form and to search into the database. It is possible to work without server because I don?t want to put this flash file on the net. If it isn?t possible please some body to tell me how to ...more >>

onClipEvent (load) { info4 = new LoadVars() lv = new LoadVars(); lv.onLoad = function() { info4=this.info4; txt4 = info4.split(","); format = new TextFormat(); format.bold = bold; format.italic = italic; format.bullet = bullet; format.color =...more >>

Can someone point me in the right direction here? I am trying to use the FLV Playback component to load FLV's dynamiclly into the flash movie. What I have is a asp page with a Recordset pulling the URL from the DB into the page using Dreamweaver. This is all fine. Now I have one instance...more >>

i have an image carousel, images being pulled from xml..right now, when you click the image, it slides over and some text appears also comming from the same xml file.. xml set up like this <?xml version="1.0"?> <icons> <icon image="image/Dunne_Lexan.crushed.png" content="Test" /> <icon i...more >>

this is my current cv, painstakenly written in flash: http://disfasia.net/cv/cvenglish.html I was told that I can use an external data file and load this into a flash file with xml, i am trying to make an xml file that will do what you see here above. But i cannot get the information t...more >>

Hi All, I have a Flash Application (developed using AS 2.0) that consumes the Web Service using the Web Service Connector. I would like to migrate to the new AS 3.0. In Flash CS3, I could not find any tutorial of Action Script 3.0 talking about the Web Service / Web Service Connector C...more >>