Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / July 2007

Why I can use movie clip as a button in some fla, but not in others. Here is
error message I got: "**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=ActionScript, frame=1:Line
8: Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property.

I would like to use an external data feed that is formatted in JSON.  If the information was XML, I would have very few questions.  How do I request, retrieve, and display information with JSON?

I'm having difficulty understanding how swf URL params are accessed?  For
example, say I redirect to:  test.swf?blah=blah1&blah2=blah3....
How does my swf get access to blah, blah2 etc..?  What actionscript 3.0 is
required to get access to these variables?  Note, that I want ...

Hello,
I have been going through the tutorials in Adobe's Flash 8 training from the
source, and I have run into a syntax question about arrays and was hoping
someone could explain something for me.

I have been having the worst time getting these key listeners to go away!  Any
help would be greatly appreciated.  Please see attached code.  I even tried
putting the remove listener on the next frame, and that didn't work either.
tabPress.onKeyDown = function() {

I have made several separate SWF movies using Captivate and I want to compile
and create a continuous playback in flash.  I tried using a loadMovie which, of
course, loads the first movie fine.  But how do I let Flash know when it's done
playing to load the second one?  I thought ...

Is it possible to do it in dynamic flash with php, all i want is when user click play button, it can update click count to mysql.
If yes, show me how to do?
thank you

I am creating a contact page for a my website and I am having a bit of
trouble. I have created the form in flash, and am using a php file to send the
email to myself. The form works OK, but when it deliver's it to my inbox, I am
getting all of this jibberish with the email ...

I am trying to synchronize sound and images (images change according to
music). I have added cuePoints according to when they need be changed and an
EventListener triggered by these. When moving the progress slider on the
MediaController component (associated with MediaDisplay - ...

how can add numbers together in using as2
i have a button that when pressed adds 20 to a text field with another number
in it.
i am using the following format.

I have a movie, with interactivity and plenty of Actionscript 2.0 . Within this
movie, I have defined a function called overrideFault.
It is shown below. I have also exposed this function to JavaScript via
ExternalInterface.addCallback(), also shown below. My problem is that when ...

i am using the following script to make a piece of text change when a checkbox
is checked.
How can i make it so that when the checkbox is unchecked the text box says
something different?

So I'm doing a U.S. dealer-locator map for my company, and I made my first
custom class to be able to control the button properties of all the states at
once. It works beautifully, except I can't assign my class to more than one
State!

i want to make a .swf file, which could run without being appeared on
taskbar...
plz help
thx

Can anyone advise best practices on how to SEO a flash site?
It appears most methods on the Net could be deemed as 'Black Hat' methods,
even though its really a work-around.
Thanks,