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Can I pass URL to media playback through string variable, instead of statically specifying it in Component Inspector?
Thanks
Lance

Do slides in MX Pro make life easier? Does it mimic the ease of use of PowerPoint...or am I better off just building presentations in regular timelime/loading SWF mode. Any thoughts are appreciated.

if I use:
getURL("http://www.google.com?foo=bar");
the address bar reads:
http://www.google.com?foo=bar

Flash MX.
I am a beginner-student of this and I cannot get any of my if then statements
to work properly w/o an error. I am using a tutorial which provides the code:
function checkLoaded (movies){

Flash MX.
I'm attempting to develop a simulated quizzing program wherein the user
chooses from three T/F or multiple choices located on one frame, and the
"answer" (the user selection) triggers a correct graphic or incorrect graphic

This is probably a simple peice of AS, but I'm having some problem with it.    
Here is my situation:  I am loading an external .jpg into a movie clip (which
is no problem), named 'image.'  Upon loading the .jpg, I would like it to
center on the stage; the .jpg is 100 pixels wide ...

i use this script to animate some mc's .. its a very old trick and it uses a
lot CPU power .. mostly because the enterFrame loop still continues  thats my
first question .. how can i break the enterFrame loop ?  my second question is
there an other posible ( lighter for the CPU ) ...

Friends,  I have an index.htm that has a frame set. 2 frames left & right.
I wish to have a flash navigation in the left and have it change the contents
of the right  my index fragment  <frameset cols='110,1*' border='0'
framespacing='0' frameborder='NO'>    <frame src='left ...

Hi, I am making a word game that requires a huge dictionary and am venturing
into flash to do it. I have several txt files of all of my words broken up by 8
letter words, and less.  17,000 lines! how can I use this gigantic string in
flash? how can I use and manipulate it?   I ...

I have two SWF files - the first is a preloader document that contains an empty
movie clip called 'placeholder01.'  The second SWF contains four audio files
and code for sequential playback.  The audio player SWF functions perfectly on
its own.  When I play via the preloader doc, ...

When I try to make two duplicateMovieClip loops I get a problem with both loops
not showing all the movie clips. If I set it up so that there will be 11 of the
first movie clips and 5 of the second I get the last 6 of the first movie clip
to show up and all of the second ones to ...

I have a pause and a play button (it's just text) who's _alpha I should like to
change after being pressed. I am using the attach code but nothing happens with
the stinkin alpha. Other items in the code are working.  Interestingly enough,
if I set the alpha to 25% using the ...

I created a homemade scrollbar because I just need to preform simple scroll
functions and can customize the scrollbar fast and easy.  However, the current
code I use has one flaw: if you scroll too quickly, even when you release your
mouse, you are still controlling the scrollbar ...

I am using the mediaPlayback component to play external .flv files. First
problem I had was that they were stopping intermittently when loaded to the
server.. so I read up on the netStream class and attached this basic code...
var netConn:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); ...

I am having prblms with dispalying values in  a textbox.  I have 5 dynamic text
feilds all with var set to myTxtFeilds (i suppose they will be treated as an
array) . i am writing a loop which will fill the textbox with values   for
(i=0; i<=4; i++)    {          myTxtFeilds.text ...