Flash / Actionscript Forum

Hello all, I am using Macromedia Flash Professional 8 in this example of a simple way to use motion tweens. Ok here goes... Directions: A. Preparation 1.) Start the Flash program. Once loaded, create a new Flash Document. Note: By default the pixels are set to 550 x 400, i changed mine to 275 x 200. 2.) Speed up the animation by...

Hi, Well the title of the thread is the question. I have tried searching for this and after several days of getting nowhere with it I decided I would ask. So here's the deal. I am using Flash 8, I have a movie that reads information from an XML file. The trick is that depending on a selection on my web page I want the move to read a...

I'm making a contact form, and I keep getting two errors when I try previewing it in a web browser. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Button is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable ComponentShim is not defined. I don't know what these errors mean. Can anyone give me an explanation? I am using Flash CS4 with ActionScript...

When using mutiple SWF in the main timeline, I can't get the 1st SWF to stop looping. I want back to back SWF to play once. I've used STOP, GOTO and play, ect but no luck. Can anyone help? Thanks Steve Using CS3 and AS 2.0

Hello Everybody. Anybody know how to download (capture) a Flash file (swf) form the internet.

Suppose that i load a picture inside my movie clip mc.loadMovie("pic.jpg"); How can i know the dimension of the "pic.jpg" ? I need the info such as the width and height of the pic to continue with my scripting. (such 1024 x 768 or 680 x 480). Well, the reason i want to do this is to make a photo gallery and i want to put all pics with...

Hi there all. (first of all, sorry about my bad english) I need some help over here. I'm developing an asp.net application that works as an administrator site for other application built in flash. The basic Idea is to generate xml dinamic so the flash movie can read its content any time is invoked.. I was forced to implement a "preview" kind...

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

Hi, I've have added cue points to an flv with a listener so that when the cue point is reached the cue point name is traced. My problem is when i try to use the seekToNavCuePoint() function on the flv movie to seek to a cue point, the invalid seek error occurs. My project is for use offline and on a cd, I read somewhere that a streaming server...

Linking pages with buttons in flash? Hi: I have this problem in actionscript (flash). I was wondering if someone can help me out. I am a junior programmer, and I really needed to do this for school. Ok, I have a page with a graphics, and I would like to push a button that I created which will go into another page on the certain frame...

I need help figuring out what dimensions to use for a flash site, I have a site that I finished not long ago; I set the dimensions to 1028*960. Now when I view it on my pc at home it looks great, but when I view it on computers elsewhere the dimensions are all messed up and text is barely readable. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi! I know a solution for this problem and that is using this code: PHP: (submitScore.php) <CODE> <?php $nick = $_POST; $score = $_POST; $kills = $_POST;

Hi, I have 360 degree rendered images of car. And i want to move all image an 360 degree on drag. I also need hand cursor as a mouse for rotation. Was anybody help me out in this problem? Thanks

hello there. Well I actually have 2 small problems with getURL. I need to connect a button with a web site an my code looks like this: on (release) { getURL("http://www.blahblahblah", "_blank"); } also I'm trying to make some pop ups work like this: on (release) { getURL("pops\1.htm", "_blank");

I'm making a website entirely in Flash CS3 Pro. On some of the frames, the text I want to enter is longer than the background so I want to create a scrollbar for my text field. I want my text field to be Static Text. Is this possible? I've searched quite a bit online for a way to do this and am having trouble finding a method. The only way I...

How do I change my script to automatically play, rather than clicking through individual slides? What is the action script to skip to a specific slide in the show via a button? (Right now I have a next an previous buttons.) Here is my script: slides_xml = new XML(); slides_xml.onLoad = startSlideShow;...

Hello can any one help me in this Experiment iam building a seconds convertor to minutes in flash i have the fig like this 1) text box ( instance name -> sec_txt ) input text box

Hi all, I need help...I have a flash file name test.swf and there are button to launch another swf file. I try to use loadmovie() method but it replace my old swf with the new one. What I'm trying to do is more like popup for the old flash. Hope you all can help me. Thanks in advance.

i need someones help, im trying to get a code from a flash document i just created that will embed itself onto a web page such as myspace...help me please! oh yea and it has buttons and stuff so it has to be in swf format, i already know how to get a code for gif files but i cant figure out how to embed an swf, thanks

Steps that I have taken are listed below... 1) I have downloaded "admob for flash air (admob_all_in_one6.6.7.ane) from this link http://fuji.h1de.net/browse.php?u=Oi8vY29kZS5nb29nbGUuY29tL3AvZmxhc2gtYWlyLWFkbW9iLWFuZS1mb3ItaW9zLw%3D%3D&b=13 2) I added this native extension to my flash cs6 project via advanced actionscript 3 settings ->...

Hi I have 5 buttons. I want each one to be played from the keyboard with a key, but i need the specific key to each button to be a variable read from a txt file. I can load the file and store the variables but i can't pass a variable to On Keypress == variable... any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Shahar Zrihen

Basically I just need the the link to open in a new browser window when the image is clicked. This is the content of the xml file: <!-- pages --> <section name="pages"> <page name="home"> <image imageUrl="_pic4a.jpg" link="http://www.companyname.com"/>

How can I speed up a 40 second FLV file to play in 4 seconds? Thanks,

Hello, I'm coding a file for my home page using flex. I'm getting horrible errors when trying to get img source from an xml file: SecurityError: Error #2147: Forbidden protocol in the URL http://www.talentdream.com/prj/-744961848/1665601556.jpg Feel free also to take a look to my xml provider: http://www.talentdream.com/cgi-bin/last.py ...

Hi, I am displaying dynamic content in my flash. Dynamic data is coming from XML and in flash file, html entities are not showing right, strange characters are displaying there. Here is link, globtier.com/portfolio See featured work description at the bottom of the link above, if there is no special characters in description then refresh...