Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / July 2008

I have a game where a character moves with the arrow keys.
I need the character to move away form the center of the screen when I hit the
up arrow.
How do I do this?

I have one MAIN FOLDER with 6 SUBFOLDERS (A,B,C,D,E,F)
The path is C:\\My Documents\\Main_Folder\\Subfolders\\
Here is the structure
MAIN FOLDER (inside I have six subfolders plus the Main_Template flash movie)

I have 100 button icon, when flash program runs, how to dynamically choose
button i want and put it on canvas using action script?
for example, when user choose computer - all icon button related to computer
will get put on canvas ... etc

How do I make a auto hide task bar (which is a movie clip)?
auto hide bar similar to windows task bar, when move mouse to bottom of
screen, the task bar come up, else task bar auto hide.
http://www.oniva.com/upload/1356/hide.jpg

If I define a variable in the main timeline, can I modify its value in another
timeline (i.e. inside a movieclip timeline)?  If, so how do I call on this
variable from within a movieclip's timeline?
Thanks.

Hi, I have a Flash file with the following code in it:
// Create a new style sheet object and set styles for it.
var styles:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet ();
styles.setStyle ("html",{fontFamily:'Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif',

Hey Guys,
I'm trying to reduce the size of my header swf file by breaking the animation
down into swf and then loading them external.  I know how to load files using
load Movie on enterframe or button click.  However, is there a way to load them

okay, im making a simple click the ball minigame and I have it scripted but the
problem is that the variable doesnt increase by one with each click but the
first time you click it it'll turn to 1 the second 11 the third 111
the script is

Is there a way to export a .dir file thats compatible with flash? I have a few
games/animations made with director MX that I need to import into flash but I'm
not sure how to go about doing this. Maybe I'm missing something but does
Director MX export to a Swf?

Issue 1:
I've got an array... [b]var a1:Array = [1,2,3,4,5][/b]... that I'd like to
display in a dynamic text field like so:
[b]1

I am hoping this issue I have can be resolved with AS.  I have created a CD
autoplay slash screen in flash, where the user can select to install an
application, browse the CD drive and read the readme file.  My issue is that
when the user select the install button, the system ...

I am trying to get my MC to move on frame by frame from a particular starting
frame in the movie.  Anything below the stated frame I don't want anything to
happen. I've tried this
if (this._currentframe >= 6 )

How do you make an object move away from its registration point using actionscript.
Is it possible?
Thanks for helping,
Rick Ryan

hey there,
I have a flash file where I load up external images and change their color
(hue, brightness etc) using the ColorMatrixFilter.
This works great when i test it in Flash but as soon as I put it in a browser

I have a file called "index.swf" which has dimension 800(w) x 600(h). It has a
navigation bar and also an empty clip (contentclip) that has size 800 x 500. In
dreamweaver I have defined the dimension of index.swf as its default dimension
800 x 600. It works fine when I try to ...