Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / November 2004

http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=168831 has a technique that  
actually works pretty well. I haven't had to wander away for an indeterminate
amount of time to let the problem clear  AT ALL, EVEN ONCE this morning.
Hurray! Finally!

I've been having bit of problem with creating a listener object when I
name with a fixed var I don't get any errors
like so:
       var mclListener:Object = new Object();

I am trying to capture the text displyed in a textField when the amount of text
exceeds the actual textField.  Is there a way to determine what text is
actually visible so I can copy the additional text into another field?  Thanks.

I have an index file containing, say member details: 251,Michael John,
mike@email.com 2424John Smith, john@email.com 4646,Brooke Adams,
brooke@email.com ... and so on  I'm currently using Loadvars load() to load the
file, put them in array, and do a search.  Now this index file ...

How can I protect my swf file from decompilers? Is there any code for this? :(

First: This is actionscript 2.0 and we are working in Flash MX 2004 7.2.  We
have found the following strange behavior.  We are comparing two Numbers, one
of which is undefined and the other has a value(it is the same result for any
value).  Both >= and <= return true, while == ...

Is it possible to modify a variable such as &text=5 that was loaded in from a
text file?
Can you do something like:
newVariable = text + 4

Open up a new document and in frame 1 of the main timeline post the following
code:  function myFunction(){ trace('stage height' + Stage.height);
trace('stage width' + Stage.width); } setInterval(myFunction, 20);  the stage
is set to default 550 x 400 but the output window shows ...

Hello, I've spent about 1.5 hours trying to get the drag and drop quiz to
'gotoAndStop' to the next frame. Question: How to get draga nd drop quiz to
advancew to next frame. tried all configs in help all returnd not results
'markd below with a 0'.   disabled feedback and tracking ...

I cannot get my links to work in my
published mac os x projector files.
I'm taking a .fla file with a button
that has a handler. Here's the code:

Can anyone show me a simple way to show and hide text using mouseOver in FlashMX?
Thanks

Hello,  this is a simple one.  How do I reference a particular frame
number/label of movie clip that I loaded into an empty movie clip place holder?
I am sure this is easy but I am stumped. The code I am using to load the movie
is:  on(release){     _root.placeHolder ...

i'm loading text to dynamic text field for an external text file. since i work
with lot of  text i have too many text fields. is it possible to get the
variables to one text field and load them to different text fields? i tried to
put them in one text field but doesn't work:

Hei
Trying to use the NetConnection object in a new Class (called Chat).
But when i try the onStatus function, i get a syntax error.
Should i import the NetConnection class or something ?

I was following along in the
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/databinding_06.html article
and found when I tried to extend mx.data.binding.CustomValidator to create the
MyCustomValidator class that all of the mx.data.binding.* class files are