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  loadVariables issue
  Posted by SymTsb at 1/31/2007 11:31:19 PM
  I have a text field i created. I am using loadVariables to load the file i want to show inside this text field. After loading my new file, the formatting rules i applied to the box when it was created (tested that they were being applied already - success), are being replaced by default crap...
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  slide accrondign to mouse
  Posted by pablo scillia at 1/31/2007 11:03:57 PM
  hi im trying to modify a .fla flife that i found and it consist in move the background based on the mouse movement this sample i got is only moving at _x position (horizontal) and i want to make it only for _y (vertical) i try to modify the script but im not so good on that can anyone he...
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  global variable does not work
  Posted by Listat at 1/31/2007 10:46:12 PM
  Hi, I'm trying to set the content of a global variable but it does not work; this is the code: //Declaracion de variables y constantes var carga_variables = new LoadVars(); //Objeto para cargar variables desde el archivo "concepto.txt" _global.lista_conceptos = new Array(); //******...
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  Re: get class name
  Posted by freedomsun at 1/31/2007 10:33:41 PM
  Sorry. I need to identify components and objects on stage from Actionscript: TextField, Button, etc.. Or be able to identify their class path's: mx.video.FLVPlayback, mx.controls.Button, etc... Thanks ...
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  ActionScript SubMenu
  Posted by 72dolphins at 1/31/2007 10:27:19 PM
  Hello- I have received a Flash file that contains some ActionScript I cannot decipher. In a nutshell, there is a navigation menu whose content and links are loaded via an XML document. To see the menu in question, view this link: You can s...
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  ActionsScript help!
  Posted by andrePT at 1/31/2007 10:00:56 PM
  i want to move a movieclip in the stage area from one position to another when i click on another movieclip! i know the theory but i could use some help with the code plz! so it is suposed to be like this (i think)... on(realease) { gotoAndPlay(2); // for example! "moviecli...
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  Compare X/Y positions
  Posted by Horea4 at 1/31/2007 9:30:29 PM
  Now, the idea is that it works OK when I test the movie on the computer I wrote the script. When I got home and tested the movie, it didn't work (exactly the same code) and it also doesn't work when I post it on the net. So, something very weird is going on and I don't know what's wrong. Can y...
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  Flash and PHP
  Posted by finalcutexpress at 1/31/2007 9:06:18 PM
  I downloaded a Flash file with accompanying php file from the exchange. The actionscript and php seem pretty straightforward, but I cannot get it to work. It consists of an HTML page that embeds the .swf and the .php file called to action from within the .swf. The .swf is an interface that all...
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  Passing Data?
  Posted by brandon_haslip at 1/31/2007 8:57:50 PM
  I have a list of options that can be turned on and off. What I want to do is this. Say Options 1, 2. and 3 are on. I want a list that says Selected Options: Option 1, Options 2, Option 3 Anybody know how this could be done. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...
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  Problem with content: 7 - Bad sound Data
  Posted by BobAchgill at 1/31/2007 7:09:26 PM
  When I do the following... Voice = new Sound(); Voice.loadSound("test.mp3", true) I get the error... Problem with content: 7 - Bad sound Data AND Problem with content: 7 - The sound data format is not recognized. I am using the test.mp3 files that comes with Flash8. Thanks! ...
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  Odd variable behavior (PHP)
  Posted by mtg169 at 1/31/2007 6:57:05 PM
  I have created a PHP script (getVars.php) to generate some variables to load into Flash. I have no problem with this and basically echo something similar to the following: ID=10002&Name=Joe Schmoe&Email=joe@schmoe.com&Check=True What I am trying to do is have a certain movie load based on...
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  Right Aligning a MC
  Posted by Scottie0 at 1/31/2007 6:11:21 PM
  Hi! I'm trying to right align a MC that I have exported to runtime. I want it to remain on the right hand side even after a browser resize. I'm using the following code... the MC aligns properly when the browser is opened, but when the browser is resized it begins moving right off the sc...
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  change size of index.html dynamically?
  Posted by luciewong at 1/31/2007 6:02:58 PM
  Hi, my original index.html has a size of 752x1250. On Frame 1 it loads certain data (background color and user defined website size) in with asp. When this data is received, I change the website color with an ?getUrl? command as the user has defined the color. This works fine. B...
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  #include "myFile.as"
  Posted by oscmejia at 1/31/2007 5:33:43 PM
  Its posible "un-include" a file. I have some function inside this file that at some point I don't want to be active. tks,...
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  getURL() leading to blank page on IE6
  Posted by Newt99 at 1/31/2007 4:38:12 PM
  Hello, I have a call to Javascript from a SWF: on (release) { // // Close the World Map container layer getURL("javascript:void(EF_toggleLayers());"); } In IE6, clicking on the button with this code sometimes leads me to a blank page with the URL of the page in the IE addre...
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  hitTest
  Posted by Brian at 1/31/2007 4:36:10 PM
  I have an ifstatment, in which I would like to test if the mouse is over one of several MCs which I have set up as buttons in a dropdown. The thing is that I only went to trigger the rollout sequence if the mouse is on either one of the buttons, so I have to make sure it is off all of them. ...
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  Graphics "Ripper"?
  Posted by Rothrock at 1/31/2007 4:30:05 PM
  I'm going to do some drawing with the graphics API and am having a hard time knowing where to place the points ? especially for the curveTo(). Does anybody know any free tools for the Mac where I could draw a shape using the authoring tools and then retrieve its lineTos, curveTos and points? I...
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  To Extend or Not to Extend
  Posted by Rothrock at 1/31/2007 4:23:12 PM
  I'm doing so work with Hindi/Devanagari text. The problem with Flash and complex languages like this is two-fold. You can't embed the fonts, so you can't count on things looking right. And Flash doesn't seem to know to break words at the spaces instead of just in the middle of letters. So ...
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  Active X and FlashVars Troubleshooting
  Posted by eisenstein03 at 1/31/2007 4:07:13 PM
  An swf - Navigation is embedded in an HTML site. The Navigation should receive a status - var from outside, so I used the param and embed tags with the FlashVars Option and its value. Unfortunatly in IE I have now the well-known problem with Active X warnings. So I used the Adobe Template...
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  testing if the mouse is over a MC?
  Posted by Brian at 1/31/2007 4:02:21 PM
  Is there a way to test if the mouse is touching a certain MC? How would I do that, and can I have that in the arguent part of an ifStatment? Thanks for the help!...
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  Trying to tween a colour change on an mc with AS
  Posted by RedBox at 1/31/2007 3:18:43 PM
  Hi I have a Flash front-end that loads menu data from an XML file, dupliactes an empty movie clip and populates a dynamic text field with each menu item mc and then populates the text fields with the text from the XML. With help from others in teh forum I've finally managed to get the move...
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  Button Problem
  Posted by Diggers34 at 1/31/2007 3:18:15 PM
  I have a page on my site that has 4 buttons on each side...movie clip over a button...looks like a bar with a small arrow movie clip on the end. I am sure you know what I mean. When you roll the mouse pointer over the page it obviously is supposed go through its actions and alert user there is...
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  GetURL doesn't work on live site
  Posted by jenpsn at 1/31/2007 3:01:37 PM
  I have a flash 8 movie that works fine , with a button that invokes GetURL to open a popup window. It works from our standard URL for veiwing a customer site (like), but doesn't work when the url being used is the customer's domain name (like...
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  Sound.loadSound("MySong.mp3", true)
  Posted by BobAchgill at 1/31/2007 2:59:54 PM
  I can not dynamically load and play an MP3 file from the directory where the parent is running using the subject line of code. What am I missing? I put the line in my action script for the frame. Thanks! Bob ...
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  Help with Buttons
  Posted by Horea4 at 1/31/2007 2:14:36 PM
  So here is my problem: I have a button which I want to rotate an image. It rotates it with a value of 2 every time the button is clicked on. Needless to say, if you want to turn it 90 degrees, you'll have to press the button an annoying number of times. So I'd like to be able to rotate the ...
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  setMinutes Method Of Date Class
  Posted by AwesomeDigital at 1/31/2007 2:14:01 PM
  I want to set the minutes of a date with this code, but it does not work, why? var testDate:Date; testDate = Date(); trace(testDate); testDate.setMinutes(5,0,0) trace(testDate); Thanks Mathias ...
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  Probs with setInterval and programmatic animation
  Posted by RedBox at 1/31/2007 2:06:51 PM
  Hi all Further to a recent post about using setInterval to create animation on a dynamically created menu item mc; I'm now trying to refine this process but once again not having much luck! The Flash front end is pulling in the menu data from an XML file, duplicating a menu item movie clip...
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  can I get System Specs through actionscript in flash
  Posted by unthank at 1/31/2007 1:24:13 PM
  I'm working on a suite of games for schoolkids for an EU project. It has a very wide reach so I want to create a benchmark program that schools in countries all over Europe can visit and email me the results. From this information, I'll be able to decide how complicated the games can be et...
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  is ie cached swf loaded data plz help me
  Posted by sam_fiarOne at 1/31/2007 1:17:26 PM
  hi i real can not understand ; i have in same page more than one swf and i entered each one an id this id send to php which load it's data and send it to swf i test it in firefox and it work will each swf show it's won data but in ie all swf show same the data that data belong to first ...
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  Input not working in Firefox browser
  Posted by rkin2k at 1/31/2007 12:02:44 PM
  Hi, I have a flash animation and its getting some inputs from users. The input bozes not working in linux firefox browsers. Could you help me out to solve this? Thanks in advance. Regards Ravi Quintegra Solutions ...
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  taking screenshot and copying to clipboard
  Posted by Eric Adriaans at 1/31/2007 10:42:48 AM
  Hi, I'm trying to develop an application that can create static images (jpeg's or png) from a part of the workarea, i.e. images of a clock with which you can set time in flash, and the create a jpeg or png from the clock. So far everything's been going pretty smoothly, I've used Zinc to tak...
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  voice recording
  Posted by JSanvictores at 1/31/2007 10:30:01 AM
  Is there a way to integrate voice recording in Flash and saving the recorded sound file to the user's local PC as an MP3 or WAV file? Is it possible to do this without using Flash Media Server? tnx! ...
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  drawing lines
  Posted by jonnybennett at 1/31/2007 9:45:31 AM
  I am trying to create a pattern by drawing curved lines using actionscript. However the following code eats so much processsing power that whne you add it to the rest of my site it slows down all the animations in my piece. createEmptyMovieClip ("curveLine", 3); curveLine.lineStyle (1,0xCC...
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  loadMovie("MyMovie.swf", myMovieClip_mc);
  Posted by BobAchgill at 1/31/2007 9:25:50 AM
  I can not get MyMovie.swf to dynamically load from the directory where my calling swf is running and run inside my main swf. Do I have the syntax right? Here is what I did... I made a symbol/instance called myMovieClip_mc with property Type=Movie Clip and put it on the frame panel. T...
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  preloader: can I define a custom location?
  Posted by SuperRoach at 1/31/2007 5:00:06 AM
  Gidday, Like most people writing a preloader, the basis of it is getting the total bytes and bytes loaded so you can get a percentage, and know when to remove the loader. So far I have a function which finds which button has been clicked, and starts the preloader. All of the content is l...
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  Movie clip buttons
  Posted by magic dude at 1/31/2007 1:04:07 AM
  How can I make a movie clip button please help me ...
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  Catching a tree's item
  Posted by Listat at 1/31/2007 1:01:51 AM
  Hi, I'm trying to catch whe the user selects an item from the tree component but I've tried with onClick event and I couldn't. Somebody help me please, tanks. ...
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  loadMovie cause problems with onEnterFrame method defined on a class
  Posted by Quiltron at 1/31/2007 12:50:39 AM
  Hello everyone I have just started to work with classes few days ago and i found this problem on my way. I have defined on a class a method that has to be executed every frame (onEnterFrame), but it doesnt works, the reason for the error is not on the class nor on the way i define the ...
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  Drag Selection Help!
  Posted by blamethatkid at 1/31/2007 12:46:25 AM
  Hello All! I am new to this forum and to flash. I have something that may or may not be simple. I essentially want to setup (visually) a grid. Inside this grid the user can click hold and drag through the cells and a color will apply as the user drags across the cells. I have been...
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  Simple Multiple Drop Down Menus dont work
  Posted by rvguys at 1/30/2007 11:16:51 PM
  I'm trying to get several instances of a menu to work in Flash 8. I want to have 16 thumbnail images, each with a different drop down menu associated with it. I can get it to make the menus, but the showMenu positioning won't allow me to create different locations for each menu. This sample c...
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  I want to make a text tween.Please read!!!!!!
  Posted by magic dude at 1/30/2007 11:11:34 PM
  I have been trying for a while now to make a tween from 1 text to another...
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  Does Flash do named anchors?
  Posted by jlucchesi at 1/30/2007 11:00:58 PM
  Hi - I'm using an external HTML to build a glossary in one section of the Flash application. This list of glossary terms is getting updated often so it's a good thing that it's external and easy to get to. But now the list is so long that I've been asked to add the alphabet to th...
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  Tweening Class questions
  Posted by SymTsb at 1/30/2007 10:17:52 PM
  Hey everyone. Few questions about the Tween class. I have a SubMenu class I created. During this classes creation, a few things take place I'd like to animate. The first, is thea line that is drawn on the left side of the menu as well as under each menu item. Currently, I'm simply d...
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  Setting A GMT Value Of A Data String
  Posted by AwesomeDigital at 1/30/2007 9:21:48 PM
  I have a date string which I am breaking apart to create a date object Tue, 30 Jan 2007 2:52 pm CST How do I convert the time zone (CST) so it is the proper GMT value in the date object? Thanks Mathias ...
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  Script Issue
  Posted by brandon_haslip at 1/30/2007 9:19:27 PM
  I have a script attached to a button that zooms in on a movieclip when pressed, I need to modify this script so that it stops zooming once it has reached a certain point. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Below is the button code. on (press) { var startx:Number = (_root.printarea...
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  external linking issues
  Posted by mdbrueckner at 1/30/2007 9:02:23 PM
  I have created a website that is almost entirely comprised of a dynamic image slider. I am trying to set buttons on another page to link to certain pages in the original slider and am struggling. Anyone got the good word on this? :confused; ...
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  Pop up with no toolbar
  Posted by Msharif11 at 1/30/2007 8:52:24 PM
  Hi everyone I need to open a page by clicking a button in a flash swf file which has no toolbars (Standard buttons,Address bar, Links etc.) (it is done with a javascript code( window.open) in a html file but i don't know how to do it in Flash.) Special Thanks M.Sharifkhani ...
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  Volume control button
  Posted by helpLaura at 1/30/2007 8:26:55 PM
  I have added sound into a game i am making, however can someone assist me in making a volume control buttton?...
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  printjob with learning interactions
  Posted by mississippiboy at 1/30/2007 8:25:09 PM
  What I'm trying to accomplish is to allow the user to print all the frames in a certain section with a push of a button. E.g. one section of frames goes from frame 20 to 29; the user is on frame 25. By pushing the "print this section" button, the printer will print frames 20 through 29. Ev...
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  Passing Values to external source
  Posted by Gary Townsend at 1/30/2007 7:32:29 PM
  I have a flash app i am using to allow the users to preview fonts on this app is on an asp.net page what i would like to do is find someway to get the values of the users choices out of the flash app and to the asp.net page without having to post the results via loadvars to another page and tryin...
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