Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / November 2006

Using Flash MX: can't figure out how to open a browser window with specific
parameters (specific size, no scroll bar, etc.)
This is the html equivalent:
<a href="#" target="_blank"

I have created a component called tab which I'm using in another movie.  In the
main movie, the linkage identifier for the tab component is called tab.  I'm
trying to create an empty movie clip and then create a dynamic amount of
instances of this tab component and attaching them ...

If anyone could tell me what's wron with this code, I would really appreciate
it.  I think it should work, but it doesn't work exactly how I think it should.
I have a scrolling movie clip menu behind a mask_mc.  The buttons on the menu,
when pressed, each load a movie into an ...

I know the most basic command in ActionScripts to keep my
Flash video from looping (stop();). Can I apply that command if I want
to end on a scene used previously in the movie (as in the example in
the

ActionScript noob here. I have a input field with an instance name of my_txt,
now, sometimes the field displays dynamic text and then other times my content
person may choose to leave the field empty. But when its empty, the field
displays the word "undefined", which is not what ...

This is absolutely bizarre. 2.4 - 1.2 = 1.2 and 1.2-1.2 = 0, or so you'd think,
except that Flash keeps telling me 1.2 - 1.2 = -4.44089209850063e-16. Subtract
1.2 once more from -4.44089209850063e-16 and you miraculously get -1.2. Even
more bizarre is that this only happens if ...

I'm trying to detect when a user clicks in a text input box.  The project is
going to be displayed on a touch screen monitor, and I have an onscreen
keyboard, so I need to come up with a way to tell which text input box the user
is trying to type in... thanks!

I have a flash animation playing in a table on a ColdFusion page.  It is a
rather long movie (45 seconds)  and I have a stop action at the end of it.  The
final frame has several navigation points into the site.
Is there a way, that I can tell flash not to reload the page if the ...

Ok I basically have a navigation which has 5 buttons. What I want to achieve is
when one of the buttons is pushed the sub navigation slides out on the right of
it. I had planned on creating an mc on the stage that only had a mc inside
which has an alpha of 0. This mc is motion ...

have a project originally developed in flash 7.
I am now working this project in flash 8 IDE.
When I attept to use the external API (import.flash.external.*) I get a syntax
error when attempting to debug / publish.

I have implemeted Xpath search in flash .the xml contains more than 70000
lines(2 MB in size) and because of this the searching is very slow, and also
the flash player gives the warnng message about the script making the flash
player slowly.  Is there any way to make this warning ...

I've been using a nice effect in AS1 to slide things around - this won't work
with player 8 which I want to use
for the filters etc.,
Can anyone teach me how to write this in AS2 ?

I am using MediaPlayback component to play audio and video files, these files
are listed in a DataGrid.
I want the MediaPlayback to play next song automatically when one is complete,
How can i do this ?

Please help - i am currently loading data from a text file into flash using an
array and loadVars......however when the data is loaded into the text box in
flash there is a comma after it.......i tried using 'join()' but that didnt
seem to work :( it just meant my variable was ...

Please help i have read through the previous post about this subject however i
have applied this to my problem and it's not working wonder if anyone can help??
I have an array at the moment, where the content is determined by what the
user inputs, however if the user enters data ...