Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / February 2008

It is possible to create dynamically a global variable? I started to develop a
Flash application that load some external variables (loadVars). I have to
transform the loaded variables into global variables. The problem is that
external txt file may to contain different  variables ...

Good afternoon people. I'm teaching myself flash and an having difficulty in
getting the gotoAndStop feature working correctly and I'm asking for your help
in understanding it. I have a site that has flash at the top that plays it's
frames in the main index.html. On subsequent ...

i have an AS 2.0 class file which is associated to my FLA project. all working
fine. there is, however, a *hard-coded* IP address INSIDE the class definition
(.as file). i need to make this a dynamic value (so that i can change the IP
address at runtime). i am already loading ...

Please check out this site...
http://www.greenovia.net/#greenovia
I am only interested in how they have animated the branches. Is it just one
very large movie clip with a mask, that is animated around the stage as you

Is there a way to create hyperlinks to AS functions within text that is
imported from an XML file without having to call out to JavaScript and back?
In other words, I'd like to have a way to put a link in the middle of a line
of text and have it call an ActionScript function when ...

I'm making a site for a Tafe assignment and I'm stuck on something.
http://www.evadless.be/play.html
I'm trying to make it like that. Where you click Enter and the page scrolls
across. I've always been used to doing these things externally but i want to do

Hope this is an easy one, I have an mc which is moveable (startDrag) and a
mouse listener that detects if _xmouse  has passes a certain co-ordinate, if it
does then I tell the mc to stopDrag. Part of the moveable mc can extend beyond  
that point and If the user continues to drag ...

Hey, I'm interested in creating a game where you tap 2 buttons alternating for
example the left and right arrow keys that in turn makes a meter go up.  Kind
of like those old nintendo track and field games where you'd hit a and b back
and forth as fast as possible to make the ...

I am having trouble with my pop up window. i have a button that opens an
external swf in a new window. The swf is 145x145 which is small but when it
opens in the the window the swf resizes to full screen and i need to find a
script to stop this. any ideas would be great?

Here's the actionscript and sample XML which is working just fine with the
exception being all my XML tags are displaying in the dynamic text fields and
the images aren't loading because it can't find <image>images/this.jpg</image>
Any assist will be rewarded in the after life.

I want to create a preloader with a loadbar that shrinks from left to right. My
loadbar is a white box. I want it to uncover the layer behind it effectively
revealing more of an image as the swf loads. My code (below) works if I try to
"grow" the loadbar. I was trying to use a ...

I am developing an user interface. When ever i try to goto next form item using
the TAB key, flash player hangs for while.
Any idea as to what could be the problem?
thanks in advance,

This is a bit of a strange one because what i am trying to do seems to be
already done in my project/fla.
On my website i have background images that get loaded randomly when every a
user visits my site.

Hi, I'm using this code to scale "port" ratio..  How would I limit the height
scale to 480 instead of stage?
   port._width = Stage.width;
   port._yscale = port._xscale;

I currently use a text document to send dynamic text and other variables to the
.swf. I am now trying to use a variable defined in the text document to
complete the actionscript below, but I can't quite figure it out. The line in
the text document looks like &howmanyevents=11 and ...