Flash / Actionscript Forum

hey just wondering does anyone have idea as to why flash content in a web page may slow after being left to play for a while. what i have is a page with a flash banner in it and lets say if i went away for 10mins and come back it slows down and dramatically stagers. I have tried a .removeMovieClip on the looping movie clip elements but to no...

Ive been trying to figure this out for hours and it is driving me crazy. I need to add a different gotoAndPlay action to each instance of 'a'. I can figure out how to add the same gotoAndPlay action to each one but how to I add a different action to each? Any help would be much appreciated. _global.t_depth = 1; t_mcs = ; for (a=0;...

I have a problem with embedded content, quicktime and youtube flash content, in a page. My page has a sidebar on the left and mixed content on the right. When I scroll through the content and the embedded content disappears out of view, I get strange behaviour in Safari. The browser is not able to hide the embedded content correctly and it mixes...

Hi, Is there a way in actionscript, to tell a specific button to load the image from a folder that exist in the same root of the flash file? Let's say I have one button in flash that is called "Home". and I have in the folder that is called "Images" three pictures: Home1.jpg(normal state) , Home2.jpg(over state), Home3.jpg(clicking state) ...

Is anyone out there aware of a method of being able to change the size dimensions of a swf without distorting the images/content? In other words, changing the swf file would just crop the content or simply extend the file. I've tried various methods but it isn't working and I'm not sure if it's possible. Any help here will be greatly appreciated!

Here is what I'm trying to achieve: I'm making a site that is basically a big slide show which is insignificant, but it has to be really minimalistic. So what I did was make an invisible button that is over the entire 900x400 rectangle. Basically what I want and as far as I got was getting it so that when you scroll over the button, the blank...

hi, i would like to make a animated ball from one side to another side and viseversa but when i am running this code only once my ball is running but not second time. please help

Hi Friends can u explain the Actionscript to play Movie as a external file. if we click the button to Play the Movie file.

Hi ! I'm having a problem after importing a gif into flash . When the gif is imported , it shows in the library tab and looks as it is successfully imported , but no , for some reason the last frame of the gif I imported somehow copyed the frame before the last frame and paste it behind the last frame , and doesn't look right . Here is a picture...

hey there. the actionscript to import external images is: loadMovie("photo.jpg", photo.empty); //two movie clips how can i import the same jpg and make it scroll left or right after its appearence? Im a real actionscript noob...

One more weird question. I have a movie which is 6MB. its almost a complete application. well i decided to split it (cause probably it wil take ages to load) which means i want to have smaller movies to load them into the main so the main size will be smaller. so i dublicate the main file and delete all the unnessecary layers, scenes and objects...

HI can someone please tell me how to check the contents on a variable (which is loading external data) to see if it contains anything. i.e variable "title1" if (title1 =="") {_root.dataholder.button_1._visible = false } this is how I thought it would work, what am I doing wrong

Here is my problem. I searched here and found something that made sense, however when I did it, it did not work. I'm building a site and heres the deal. I have two links. When you rollover one link I want the other to fade out. Not just with alpha, because I don't want it to be clickable. And when you roll out, I want it to fade back in. ...

Hi there; I am amking a walking man that will animate and its hand will move just like walking. I am reading a tutorial but it said that I should make a stage. the first is I will mae and craete a man. then the second one is I will erase the hands. How can I insert another stage so that I can make 3 stage and can draw three man in my...

Hi, I have spent most of the afternoon looking for what is probably a really simple solution. I am trying to add a checkbox to a form but I can't figure out how to do it. I basically want to add a box that is defaulted to checked to let us know that the person sending the comment wants to be on our mailing list. I'm not looking for anyone to...

wat s the flash script for flash gallery to popup browser window.

Hi! I am new to Flash and I am having trouble getting a dyamic text box to be controlled by a checkbox. Here is the Actionscript that does not work: on(click){ if(this.selected)==true){ this.selected = true; dynamictextboxname_txt.text = "text here"; }else{ this.selected = false;

Hi. I want to be able to change the text and pictures of a flash movie from a control panel on the same running flash movie. I will need to upload pictures on the movie with the necessary text describing the picture and it dynamically apply the changes to the existing movie. Can anyone help me out with the necessary steps/codes to effectively do...

Hi to everybody...I'm new in thescripts forum... I've a big problem to make a simple Flash animated menù. I have a FLVPlayback component where I put inside a external FLV. TO this FLV I've mark 3 step by cuepoint. To every cuepoint I wish load an external .swf file (menù) into a empy MovieClip. Well the movie start...The listener...

This is my first flash project and i've been doing it all of tutorials. working in Flash CS3 windows xp pro actionscript 2.0 the website can be found here: http://balfourwest.50webs.com/balfour%20west.html and i want to be able to scroll the entire page with the mouse. i can scroll the page until i actually click within it. (make...

I'm curious what "col" is and which is better between these two sets of code. I can't find which version of actionscript "col" is from. Codes attached to a mc, an empty box outline graphic over a text field. this.test_mc.col = new Color(this.test_mc.text); this.test_mc.setRGB(frontcolor); this.test_mc.onRollOver = function ():Void { ...

I'd like to ask if anybody knows and can share how to create the menu Amazon has. It is like a rotating menu.. Check it out here and then scroll down, it is more or less located at the middle of the page: http://www.amazon.com/ Hope somebody can tell me! Thank you!

I have a websketch program. It allows the user to 'draw' on the web using a little flash app. It has a print option (and other little options). But I need it to 'capture' the image they just drew and click on a button to 'email' the picture to an email which I hide behind the scenes. It will always go to the same email. I know how to setup an...

Hi, i need some help to my school's project. i have a iframe in my index page. the iframe's src is another html file containing a flash navigation. Here are some of the codes: on (rollOver) { _root.mouse_over_button1 = true;

Hi I want to open up a movie which displays an image, than want to show a movie that shows please wait and finally another movie with different image. Can someone please help me with the code here.