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I am calling to a large string that is separate paragraphs. I just don know how to put line breaks in flash actionscript. Can anyone help me? example tLabel.text = "blah blah blah blah (then a return with a tab indent) blah blah blah" I just want my paragraphs to show up seperated when the text loads in the textField. Not to appear like...

Hello, I am a .net developer. I have inherited a asp.net 1.1 visual basic application that has a web page that hosts a flash presentation. When the presentation completes there is an actionscript that makes the following call: var result_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); var send_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); ...

Hi, I've been using a "for" loop in a javascript to load multiple nodes from an xml file, but now I need to do the same thing in flash. Here's the javascript code: xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("xmlfile.xml"); x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('info'); for (i=0;i<x.length;i++) { document.write(x.childNodes.nodeValue) document.write("<br />")

I need further help in understanding how callbacks work with Alfresco. I am able to connect to alfresco and I’m trying to return a list of users from three groups, but it seems that I don’t quite understand how callbacks work, because it’s returning all three groups to my function at once, rather than having the function return the result of...

I have a Flash form that uses a submit button. The form data needs to be sent to my clients email address. Our server can't support PHP/ASP so I'm trying to figure out if I can use a CGI script. I've never worked with any CGI before so I don't now the first thing about it. Can anyone offer me some insight to what a CGI script is and used for? ...

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I have made a lot of datagrids work in my time, but I seem to be missing something. I'm receiving an xmllist and all I'm trying to do is set the dataprovider. It should be straight forward, but it's placing all the children of '<userName>someName</userName>' into a single row. Here's the xmllist that I'm receiving: ...

I am developing photo gallery in Macromedia Flash 8 and XML to retrive the Image. Image Size is all in different size. my question is How to Change image size at runtime in flash? so that image display one by one automatically with correct resized image please help thanks in advances

hay. long time since my last post now xD anyways, im playing around with with flash in actionscript 2.0, and the textbook im using wont teach me how to preload songs. it simply tells me that blablabla, streaming is better. well i want my script to load the songs in the preloader, cause i find it silly to first have it load the script itself,...

Guys and Gals, AS2 do you know if its possible to drag a movie from one clip into another clip? I know I can do it by having two same drags, one in movie A, and the other in movie B. But is means a lot more coding/testing as there are many drags and targets, 3 attempts allowed, drags that have several correct targets, and some hit tests. ...

I'm creating a Flash site for a client and they want a "LOG IN" page with in the Flash site. Users to this site must enter their contact info before they can enter the site. My client's main objective for the site is to generate sale/contact leads, so the "LOG IN" is really just a way to get their contact information so that a sales team can...

I have a doubt as to why we have addListeners and addEventListeners in AS2. At times addListeners works and at times addEventListeners does the job. Can some one please differenciate as to when addListener is to be used and when addEventListener? To addup to the confusion, we have event handlers directly linked to objects such as movie...

I posted this on a different section on bytes but I think this is more applicable. I thank you once again for your help and my question is relisted below: __________________________________________________________________ I want to say hello to all and thanks for letting me a part of this great forum. I am having some problems with my flash site...

I have created a website, however, when I make changes to it and upload to a hosting site it doesn't load the changes. Instead it loads the cache memory of the website. Is there a way of getting around this??

im a newbie to action script stuff in flash,currently needed help on my 2nd flash annimation to work out. i would like to know how to pick up an item and put in down as i dont want to drag the item... as an example, i want to pick up an apple and the apple follows the cursor moving,then i want to put in down onto a pig's mouth and it will go to...

Hello guys, I pretty new to actionscript and i need some variables from a php script. But i always get an error "Error opening url" This is what i have in flash: var succes:Boolean; Minutes = new Date(); DataLoad = new LoadVars(); DataLoad.load("http://www.mysite.com/playing.php", gegevens);

I am a newbie to Flex, and want to purchase a book that I can use to learn how to create RIA's using Flex. I am fairly well versed in PHP and MySQL, so a book that has some good examples of Flex->PHP->MySQL applications would be good. Any suggestions?

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Hi I am embedding a swf object. I try: <script type="text/javascript" src="../scripts/swfobject.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var flashvars = { linktarget: "_top",

hello i'm new to your site....... i'm devloping a game in which the enemy car need to chase player's car....... so i need to use some AI for enemy car......... can u plz give me some idea tht how can i do tht???? it's somewht urgent for me.......

Hey, I would like to know how to make a button dissapear after it has been clicked using actionscript 2 i no it has something to do with onRelease but not sure on the rest! HELP!!! NAble Sea

I have a project with several buttons in a movie. Each one has an action scripts that opens a new url once clicked. All works fine, but one of them is opening a different URL than what I have in the action script getURL! I've tried deleting the layer that has the button on it, and it still is the same. I don't know what is causing this other...

I've been searching for a while now, and I really can't find how to do this anywhere. I'm making a game, where the player controlled character moves right and left only, but has a separate movement animation from the standing one (I'm using sprites). I have a movie clip with the character using the standing animation from frames 1-20, then...

I have an issue I want to click a button and have it dissapear then another button to appear. I have that susted, However, im using a mask and as the second button shows behind the mask it dispears again i'll send the file if anyone needs more info PLEASE HELP ME !!!