Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / July 2008

Hello fellow flash users-
I have been building my website all in flash and have a simple question that I
cannot figure out for some reason (maybe its too simple) . Anyhow I have
uploaded my mp3 songs of my music and used the geturl and _blank so that when

I have a movieclip which has a code to detects the mouse up.
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
   var = var + 1;
}

I did some performance tests in AS2 and AS3 and what I found is really
surprising.
I just wrote the below code in AS3 and similar code in AS2. But I don't see
*ANY* performance improvements in AS3 version. On a P4 3GHz HT, AS3 version

Hi all, I'm making an AS2 program that queries a mySQL database through PHP. I
have several functions, each querying the database, sometimes simultaneously.
After a while, I see the program slow down tremendously, sometimes even
hanging. How many queries can I have running at the ...

I've reposted this hoping someone can help.
I'm using learning interactions components to create question and answer
session at the end of a lesson.
I need to get at the interaction tracking values for each Q&A which will be

Could anyone give me some quick pointers.  I've been scouring the net but I
can't seem to get a handle on it and Adobe's help file is useless as far as
I can tell.
I just want to have a button that opens a URL and sends that URL a single

I'm loading (onload) .swf files into an html shell. The shell holds my Flash
exported SWF file, which is embedded in the html file, so, I have buttons on
the top of the html page for resources, etc. I also have a link to EXIT.  I'm
trying to figure out how to close this main ...

When I type into the window in flash in which I want all the text to scroll the
window just elongates and when I test the file I just see an elongated window.
The code attached was tried with both dynamic and input text fields.
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? Thank ...

I know actionscript represents numbers and double precision floating point
values. I'm having a problem where double arithmatic in actionscript doesn't
match the results of the same double arithmatic in C++ / C#.
EXAMPLE:

I'm using AS2 and would like to create a function to monitor the current
time of an FLV file in a swf.  I'm using the swf in Director and using the
format sprite (1).flvCode.flvPlay () where sprite (1) is the location of the
swf, my AS2 code is in a movieClip with an instance ...

Hi guy?s
I am using flash 8 and actionscript 2
I have a form done in flash. I have a button off the side of the stage with
some actionscript on it so that several functions can be activated whenever the

Hopefully you can help me to write the script that would draw a line/
curve according to given coordinates/angle from one to another, I've
used "moveTo" and "lineTo" but it happens too quick, i'd like to make
movement visible to the eye... Hints are welcome!

I have an XML file that has answers to a quiz done in Flash and AS 1.0. One of
the questions has answres in the form of "> 1" "< 1". This particulat answer is
referring to less than a year or more than a year. The < deosn't show up at all
in the answers screen, probably becausse ...

Hi there ? I need help with this problem. I'm not a Flash person but | have
collated various bits of tutorials from different forums and have 90% what I
need ??but it's just not there. I don't want anything fancy ? just 780x250
banner that rotates gently through a series of ...

Hello.  I was wondering if it's possible to read a part of a URL with
ActionScript...
...For instance, if I have three country-specific websites:
* www.somewebsite.com