Flash / Actionscript Forum

Hey guys, I am trying to display a date within a flash movie created in CS3. I only know AS 2.0 so I wrote a script to display the time, and long date. For example: 14:27 Monday January 7, 2008. Ok, my client doesn't like the date in that format, and instead wants it to be in a 12 hour format and include AM or PM behind the time. I am...

I'm trying to figure out how to make some small text changes to my website, but don't have any experience doing it. I've managed to figure out that the file which needs to be changed has an SWF extension. I guess this is a Flash Movie file type? My question is: What program do I use to edit this file? I have both Macromedia...

hi i have a fla file of a website a friend gave me..i would love to use some of the features from the site.. all the code in in the fla file im having trouble isolating the correct pieces of code.. id like to put each effect into a separate fla file so i could easily update the content and transfer the effect to the site im currently building.....

Hi, i'm working flash website & i want to know how i call a database which is create in ms access. so plz guide me how i can make a link.

Hi, I`m trying to load RSS from "google blog search result" into my flash. It works locally, but does not work on the server. This is most likely a cross-domain issue. Can`t find crossdomain.xml on google. It does not need to be google as long as it is blog search results. Is there any way I can load RSS from atoner domain into my flash...

I've designed a website for the company i work for: www.speedy-print.co.uk and when ever i have imported flash swf files or images, like my header banner and menu button banner. They have a grey square box appear around them when the viewer roles over these flash elements, is there anyway of getting rid of these box outlines. Please help!!

Help greatly appreciated! My links open in a new window, but I need them to open in the same window. I'm not sure where to put the ,"self" part of the code when dealing with an Array. Any help is so appreciated. I am stuck now and am past due. Here is my code- stop(); var arrLinks:Array = new Array(); arrLinks =...

I'm making a website that's consists entirely of flash . I know how to create a button that functions as a link to another flash frame using the Button selection in the Components window and applying ActionScript. What I do not know how to do is create text within my static text fields that link to another flash frame. For example, on the main...

Hi, this is perhaps a common question, but everywhere I just find how to load external images into a movieclip. I have images in my Library that I want to load into a movieclip, so I used attachMovie like this: mc.attachMovie("imagename"); where imagename is the Linkage identifier, but this doesn't work, so I wonder what I am doing...

Hello all i search around the net for that solution and ask my dev frineds all siad that there cant be done, blow the wind out of my sails. the way i understood it becuz flash is a plugin it get to be loaded last so all his object will allways comes on top i saw some examples doing that <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> or <embed...

Lets say I wanted to setup a server from home. And on this server I had a few movies. Keep in mind that I would be the only person using this server, so there would be no copyright laws broken. If I wanted to play a movie that is 2gigs through a flash player, how well would the movie play if my laptop only has 1 gig of RAM It would...

Hey guys.. i just have a really quick question:: I have a movie clip which contains a movie clip which contains a button. How come my overlay properties don't work for my button?

Hi there! Does somebody can tell me how can I “parse” the content of a variable (html text) to multiple movieclip/textfields. I unsuccessfully tried to with bottomScroll and maxScroll... Many thanks in advance for any help!

I created a video using a pre-made fla skin that I edited so that it only shows the play/pause, stop, seek, mute, and volume features. It all works fine, however I was asked to have it set that the video will be automatically muted. Setting the volume to go to 0 is fine, but I can't figure out how to set the mute button to automatically go to...

How does one create a simple menu page with links to open ppt files? thanks jeff

Hello all, I am a photographer/graphic artist and I am createing a website useing flash. I have created a flash animation that contains everything I want to happen in the page. I now want to write code that will allow me to click the buttons and have the animation go to a certain frame and play then pause on a certain frame. when the next...

Hello Everyone: Would like to know if this is possible. I have a client that want me to create a quiz which would be created in Flash and the data would be in XML. I can do that part, but the next step I'm not to sure about. 1. How so I get the test results to db (DB would be in sql) 2. Can I use PHP and XML together. The PHP would be use to...

hi, I'm fairly new to actionscript - I have created a graph out of a sprite, and got it responding to mouse events (eg onPress, onMouseDown...). when the user triggers a mouseDown on the graph, i register the mouse position, and when they release the mouse( mouseUp) also register that position. I want to enlarge and zoom into the difference...

hi, i m developing a xml based image gallery. i wrote code for generating thumbnails using loader component. its working fine locally. but when i upload it , In Mozilla firefox browser its working fine. but Internet explorer is not supporting it. its showing large images as thumbnails. but when i refresh the page , then its showing thumbnails...

Hi, I want to show the live video on the network using flash video and quicktime. Now since its a live video i want to put mouse over it and able to click on screen and change the camera view or do some other functions like zoon in and zoom out. we already have camera working fine on network but quality is not very good we think if we use...

Hi there! Would you please tell me why the _visible statements are not working in the code below? Many thanks in advance for your help and suggestions. Regards Gerry

Ok so I have an idea. I will warn you ahead of time, it concerns Myspace, so anyone with any proclivity to barf at the mention of MurdochSpace.. please contain yourselves.. lol Anyway... One of Myspace's best features in my opinion, are the groups. Now when I say "best" I mean that's the feature I use the most communicate on an ongoing basis...

Hi, how to i make action script to fillup the form?

Hi, i'm completely new to AJAX - but i'd like to get started with it. I'm starting development work on a small website which will have a flash menu. I'd like to emulate a frame-based layout by keeping the menu fixed and only changing content in one section of the page (enclosed in a <div>), according to the page the user is on. Is this...

My client says it would much more enjoy his Flash Website if there was the capability to print the FULL result of the searches he performs. The result (a Variable returned by the server) is always a text and is displayed in a Dynamic TextField which has a ScrollBar attached. For the time being, only the VISIBLE content of this field is printed....