Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / November 2007

I have a project for a class due in website development.  Teacher wants us to
include a form that transmits data via mail.
I've built all my Flash forms to transmit data via php which, of course is
superior, but I don't trust this particular teacher to give me credit.  His

Hey everybody.  I am having a problem getting my sprite to quit looping after
it is completed.  Any pointers or suggestion would be helpful.
 Here is the .as:
Frame 1 of sprite -

I have a MovieClip "mcFlake" what is based on class "FlakeClass" that i
wrote myself.
On frame 1 i initialize 100 new MovieClips based on class "FlakeClass".
later on i would like to run a particular FlakeClass method named

I'm building a script and I want to load 4 Movies into different targets on my
stage but I don't want the same one to show up twice.
Here's what I have so far. Which works find randomly but sometime shows the
same movie loaded, which I don't want to happen.

Been struggling with something easy, trying to make a button using a MC. It's
a simple square that goes to full alpha when rolled over, and should navigate
to another scene when pressed. The rollover part works fine, but the switch to
the scene does not.

how can i change the registration (point) of my MovieClip via AS3 ?
i did not find any "registration" property or command line.
i have a mc in my symbol library registered with "registration point" on
top left corner.

I am forced to use a fairly large amount of code that heavily relies on
hard-coded depth. (Just about every line of code begins with _level0, _level1,
or _level2.)
I would like to use AS2 components with this code. Components mainly interfere

I am to create a snowglobe for a client. They require the feature of picking
up the globe and to shake it. When this happens, the contents inside the globe
should bounce around and when it is still, the objects stop bouncing.
I have actionscript code which give me the function ...

I'm not sure if I can explain this clearly enough because I'm not familiar with
all of the terms but I will try.
I have created a flash banner to act as a meter. The 'brain' logo is to move
up and down the mercury of the thermometer according to the placement of the

I have several Multiple Choice instances that I track users selection
in a database. The user can login - and I am able to have the user
selections read in to an array, but I need to have answered questions
repopulated after a login. What I'm ideally looking for is a way to go

I almost feel bad about posting this, but I cannot for the life of me
figure this out...
I'm using Flash CS3. But have decided to go with ActionScript2.0
instead of 3.0 for this project.

It seems like even with the simplest flash app, I'm not getting a great frame
rate. I wrote the attached code just to display the frame rate.
If I set the movie frame rate to 60, then I'm seeing displayed frame rates of
around 37. If I set it to 30, I'm seeing around 24. My ...

I have been having a fairly frustrating time with flash and I have a really
basic question, not sure why it's not working:
I created a file with a bunch of images in photoshop, then import into flash
using the import tool, got all that to work fine. Then I have one of the items

Hi, I'm new to Flash 9 and I don't know how to add parameters to a Flash 9
component I create via the Component Definition dialog box if my component uses
a class file.
The second I enter a class path for the component, it wipes out any created

When declaring a variable using strict data types where the variable is a
reference to a movieclip, is the variable type a MovieClip, Object, or
something else?
e.g.: