Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / July 2008

hey hey! new here and have what is hopefully [but unlikely] and easy question.
i am trying to display the contents of an RSS feed within a .swf i have found
several places with instructions on how to do this.
so far i have

I've checked the help files and searched on this board.  There's plenty about
focus problems but nothing gave me the single, easiest line I'm looking for:
How do I set focus on an object like an input textfield?
I'm making a form and when the user tabs into a field, the cursor is ...

So I have a couple of flash banners that I'm making, they are different sizes
of the exact same thing.  I used this script to stop all the animation inside a
movie clip called main_ufo on the main timeline:
_root.main_ufo.stop();

I am duplicating a MC and then trying to remove it by fading it.
What am I doing wrong?
I have the below code attached to the MC
onClipEvent (load) {

I know this can be done because I've done it before, but I cannot find
the file since it was around 6 or 7 years ago.
I want to tween an object on half circle arch. Needs to be ActionScipt.
I know it has something to do with sin and cosin, but beyond that I

i have made 1 file named menu. there are 2 menu clips, left and right.
inside each MC, there are buttons. each button contains the following code:
on (release) {
this.swapDepths(1);

I'm very new to this so please be gentle. I have a flash document with an
addtional 8 scenes, each scene gets referenced from the first scene. However
this is the problem, everything I have tried just isn't working.
I've tried to used the basic "scene", frame reference and the ...

I have a php file that generates a string image, the php file changesheaders to
jpeg and it becomes a image. In my code im loading the .php file into a mc. In
all windows browsers its showing image correctly, but in Mac its coming up red.

I was wondering if someone could help me with this flash problem.  It?s
probably really easy (one or two lines of code) but for some reason I can?t
seem to figure it out.  
I simplified the design to make it easier.  I just need help with the code.  

My goal is to have a button that, when clicked, an empty movieclip is created
and a text field is attached to it.
I could write it easily if the newly created instance names where hard coded,
the problem comes with the syntax to generate them dynamically.

I'm trying to pull library objects(MovieClips)to the stage via
ActionScript 2.0.
I have clicked on the MovieClip in the library selected Linkage... and
then clicked on Export for ActionScript. I have the Identifier as the

I'm trying to dynamically name multiple variables with a for loop and can't get the syntax, can anyone help?
for (var U=1; U>2; U++){
    "test"+String(U)=U;
    }

I have a menu in the main movie which has 12 buttons. Each button loads a
specific external swf except one. This special button call"View All". It will
load the 11 external swfs sequecially. Now I just duplicate all swfs and give
them different names. But I believe there is more ...

I have a button (called lets say button_1). How can I make it download a .pdf file once its clicked? I am using Flash 8, Action Script 2. Thanks!

I typed out a fairly lengthy description of what I was trying to do, but for
some reason the forum complained that I had improper words in my description
and then ate my description. So anybody know how to do this?