Flash :: Urgent Help Needed

Serious Help Needed?
Hello pplz.

Here is the question,

When the site loads .. a (graphical)window will be displayed in its pre final form,

this window holds 4 text buttons which on their turn
control which text loads into the main timeline.
(this has bin taken care of alredy)

The actual problem is that in stage 1 when a visitor randomly clicks 1 of the 4 text buttons the window needs to be tweened into its final form but when the user clicks (after the window in tweened) one of the 3 remaining buttons the window needs to stay in its final form and only the text associated with its button need to be changed.

Anyone who can help me out ....?????....

thanx n advance ...................

Serious Help Needed.
Hi pplz.

Here is the deal, Last week i posted a question about
keeping a tween from playing when it has played 1 time..

k the tween is an animated backgroud which tweens into a field for text after 1 of the 4 buttons is pressed.
but when a visitor presses another button the tween needs to stay in its final stage..
It needs to be possible to click any button in the first phase where the background is not jet tweened.
so that the user can choose about what topic to read first.

.. someone alredy gave me the folowing code but it seems not to work.

Code.-----------------------------------------------
on (release) {
if (! Tween_ended) {
// tweencode here---
} else {
// dont tween
}
//tell button to play text
}

this code )(completed does not work)

has anyone a suggestion that does work.

Thanx in advance

Help Needed
i am just experimenting with some simple actionscript and cant get this what seems simple script to work, can anyone see ifI could be creating an error somehow?

on (release) {
if (enter="correct") {
gotoAndPlay ("right");
} else {
}
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}

i have a stop action on a different layer of the same frame and same with frame 2 and label"right" but whenever i type in "correct" into the text box (with the right variable) it comes up with frame 2, I thought that maybe someone could help me out, It should be taking the "correct" input as a literal string but when i type it in it comes up as if i typed in the wrong thing. Sorry if I have confused you as I am new to actionscript but a bit of help could mean so much to me. Thanks

Help Needed
hi, how do you go full screen wit action script?

I tried
fscommand ("fullscreen", "true");

in the first frame of my movie but its still in the browser window.
Am I missing something here

Help Needed
Hi all,
iam created a movie clip which i want to rotate 360.
Actully i need to rotate in a increment of one degre each
what action i need to give for this.

thanks for replay

Naushad

Help Needed Plz.
This might be hard to explain...here goes.

I made a flash swf and a publish page of that, main1.swf and main1.html. I upload both files onto my server using CuteFTP and the URL for these files can be found at http://www.leodadominico.com/main1.swf or main1.html. (The files are taken off at the moment) I need help on how to have the same file name when i take that file off from my site and do some addons, say adding more sounds or whatever then i upload it back to my server with the same file name, main1.swf, and main1.html, but iam not seeing the changes that i made after typing in the same URL (leodadominico.com/main1.swf or main1.html). I did push the refresh button on CuteFTP before i upload these files, still iam seeing the old files, not the new ones that i have made some changes to. Help plz, thanks. (not sure if i did explained everything correctly)

Plz Help Needed
hi

I have a mc1 at the bottom of my .swf and another mc2 (navigation)on top of it.

now I want if someone goes with his curser over mc1 that mc2 atracts to the cursur of the user

but I don't know which actionscript I need?

Help Needed
Im starting my portfolio//webdesign site and I am wondering what people think about it. You can see it at http://www25.brinkster.com/kallok/index3.html .I think its good so far.Im 16 and Ive already designed a couple sites and graphics for money

Thanks
Ryan

Help Needed With A .swf
I was just wondering if anyone can help me with this problem I'm having. I've made a menu system in flash and exported it to a .swf file. The problem is that the .fla file is on my computer at work and I really need to edit this menu. Does anyone know if I can some how "back engineer" a .swf into a .fla? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Help Needed
does neone no of an easy product to use to create a proffesional looking site at a low cost and for a resonably clever beginer?

Help Needed Please
working on a few different flash files right now when i want to combine them into one bigger movie how do i do that.

OOP Help Needed ..
i'm reading through the chapter on OOP in Colin Moock's 'ActionScript - The Definitive Guide'. Although it's very clearly written and covers the topic in great detail, it seems somewhat short on examples.

i'm working on a simple game where i need to create a bunch of different 'obstacles' [aliens, monsters, whatever] for the player to interact with. each obstacle is a movie clip and will have different properties: colour, speed, points value etc.

now i see that i can do something like ..

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

var monster = new Object();
monster1 = new monster();
monster2 = new monster();
monster3 = new monster();

monster1 = { colour:0xff0000, speed:1, points:10 }
monster2 = { colour:0x00ff00, speed:2, points:20 }
monster3 = { colour:0x0000ff, speed:3, points:40 }

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

.. although that's probably not precisely the right way to go about it .. but the real question is, how do i connect these objects to the movie clips i've made for each monster ? how do i get them to appear in the movie when i need them ?

1000 x thanks

||| O ^ | + O ¬

Help Needed
Hi there,
I have two movie files in the library.
Each movie is refering different variable in the main scene whether the variable is true or false.

For example

Scene 1 : has a two variable
demo = "true"
Literature = "true".

Movie 1 : DemoClip

I have a actionscript inside this movie, which will change the scene1 variable from "true" to "false" and vice versa.
Suppose for example i have changed to "false" now.
_root.demo = "false";

Movie 2. LiterClip

Now is the deal.
If i want to get the current value of particular variable in the LiterClip movie from 'Scene1' like
trace(_root.demo);
But it gives as "true" rather than "false".
I know that it takes the global value of a variable from the scene.

But it takes inside the same movie.

Is there any way to solve this problem. If you have solution, please let me know.

bala_raja @hotmail.com

'If - Then' Help Needed
I'm building a quiz using the Learning Interactions in Flash 5. I'm creating an End of the Quiz screen whereby the quiz taker will be presented with his or her results.

I need some ActionScript help for this screen whereby, if the quiz taker has answered, say, 20 out of 20 correctly, text can be presented which would say "You're a superstar!"

If 2 of 20 are answered correctly, the screen would lament "Go Back to School pal!"

I've already figured out how to present the total score in a dynamic text box. What I need is a script to assess the score and serve up different text accordingly.

Can you help?

Help Needed...please...please...please
please help...

i am still a beginner at flash 5, and want to create a percentage preloader or a bar preloader for the intro movie to my site...

i've tried working through nearly all the examples in the tutorials section, but i must just be thick or something because i still can't make one work properly...

anyways, please, does someone out there have the patience to talk me through it step by step, on how to make my preloader??? Please!!! (please don't just point me to another tutorial link...)

i know the basics like the looping animations and stuff, but i just want the percentage thing, or bar loading thing as well, so that the user can see how much has been loaded. etc....

please help...there's a bear in it for you...(or is that beer?)...anyways...

thank you kindly my friends........
i am eternally grateful...

Help Needed
need help with stopping at boundries. HELP NEEDED

Please Help Needed
Is there any way that a blank movie clip can load and play a preloading swf whilst the main swf is loading into the same clip???

Help Needed
hi all, gt a qs -
the flash i did is of dimensions 800x400.....and when i publish to html......i wan the browser to open at exactly this dimension. anione can help? anione noe the syntax or anithin?

Help Needed.
this is probably a newb question but i also think it might be an actionscripting question too.

ok

http://www.geocities.com/dpgclan/dpg.fla

that is the file i need help with.

its a common problem.

i have 1 scene, and i have a button within about 3 movie clips i like too neatly put my stuff that way.

anywayz.

i want it so when i press the button it goes too the scene on the button.

if someone would like too help.. by either sending the fixed .fla too my e-mail address. which i think is on my profile.

or upload it too a site and give me the url so i can download the fixed problem..

or just tell me the simple scripting problem i have.

thank u all that help out in advance.
bye

PRO HELP NEEDED
I am having trouble with a menu I am working on in MX that opens a submenu onPress, and closes it onRelease. The submenu is a smaller clip of several buttons (smbut#) that moves out onPress, and I want to be able to have the button that you are OVER fire onRelease. These are also dynamic, so my code (placed on the "mainButtonHouse") looks like this:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton1.smbut1.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(2);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton1.smbut2.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(3);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton1.smbut3.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(4);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton1.smbut4.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(5);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton2.smbut1.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(6);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton2.smbut2.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(7);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton2.smbut3.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(8);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton2.smbut4.onRelease = _root.mainTextMov.gotoAndStop(9);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton3.smbut1.onRelease .getURL("http://www.alliedassault.com", _blank);
_root.mainButtonHouse.mainButton3.smbut2.onRelease .getURL("http://www.mohaa.ea.com", _blank);
}

This will not work. It seems as if it is only paying attention to the onRelease of the Parent button, instructing the movie to close. I DO want this to happen, however, I need the sublayer buttons to work as well. Thanks.

Help Needed
I am new to ActionScript and am having some problems with a project I'm developing for work.

It is a quiz. The user will be tested on various subjects or "categories". The test is set up to ask a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 4 questions per category. When either 2 questions have been answered correctly or 4 questions have been asked in total for that category, the code selects another category at random. The user also has the option to quit the test early by clicking on a "Quit" button, which takes them to a page that displays the total number of questions asked and the total number of questions answered correctly.

The selection of the Categories and the selection of the Questions is totally random.

The final version will have 9 or 10 categories with 4 to 7 questions per category.

The problem is that the code is working as it is supposed to work for category 1. However, it IS NOT working correctly for either of the other 2 categories. If the user selects the "Continue" button for the Category 2 or Category 3 questions, they are taken back to the beginning of the test. The "Quit" buttons don't work at all for either the Category 2 or Category 3 questions.

NOTE: The correct answer is the same as the number of the question; i.e., the correct answer for Category 1 Question 2 to answer 2, the correct answer for Category 3 Question 4 is answer 4, and so on.

I would greatly appreciate anyone checking this out and telling me why it is not working and what I need to do to fix it!

Thanks in advance!!

The file can be downloaded at:
http://itraveluniverse.com/flash/testActionScript.ZIP
(16.8K)

Help Still Needed...
I'm still a bit stuck on this repeating movie clip to a circular path problem... Senocular has given me some code, that works, but flash seems not to like it... Damn flash!

Basically all I need to do, is make a series of concentric circles (about 20, the circles being made of dots - the dot being the movie clip) that play in... So it looks like they're animating in.

I can do this the dumbo way ie: export the symbols from freehand all in place and animate them in one by one, but the resulting file size is large to say the least.

Does anyone know how this can be done or a good maths/art flash developers site that might give me some pointers?

Cheers big ears
Bombadier

Help Needed
Help !!!!!! Hi pple, I am completely new to Flash...a newbie......hope sumeone can help wit tis problem.....whenever i do sum animation tweeening n try to do a test move (from the menu)..... i don see the animation !!! i convert the images to symbols n tried n still no luck ! y is tis happening ? the problem is i can see the animation when i create any images from photoshop and tween it. but when i create a image from Flash MX(sqaure, circle, etc) and tween it , i don see the animation ! wat am i doing wrong here ? can any gurus advise me ? THanks a million for ur help guys.

Help Needed
Hi

I have a problem with buttons that should load label contents.In the main timeline I have three buttons, and three labels for them. The thing is that, when the movie loads and i press the 2'nd bttn, nothing happens To display the content from label 2 i must first press the 1'st bttn and then the 2'nd one. Please help!
AS for 2nd bttnon (release) {
gotoAndStop("portfolio");
}

heres the fla. http://www.hot.ee/dizain79

Help Needed Plz
Hi wondering if someone can help me. I am doing a website in flash and am having one problem. I want to have my tool bar with pop menus with a nice effect. So i make a movie clip with the effects I want for the menu. But when i put the action to the button it won't work. Other normal actions work but i want it to jump to another scene and it won't do. I also tried Making a movie for the menu and then just loading up what i wanted to display by loading another movie into the first. But when i load the 2nd movie into the 1st it won't call the varibales of the 2nd movie into the Text boxes. Anyone can help? Am trying to use the same menu animation tru all the movie so i can update the movie alot easyer without having to update each scene at a time.

Help Needed
Hi there guys i have a problem hoping anyone can help, well here it goes. I am using this code
------------------------------------------------------------
loadVariablesNum("http://omar/projects/test.txt", 0);
_root.box._visible = false;
if (mb == 1) {
_root.box._visible = true;
}
------------------------------------------------------------
To try to make the movie clip *box* visible if the varible *mb* equals 1. It works if i declare the varible in the code but when i try loading it up from a text file from my IIS it won't work. I know its loading up the varible because i made a dynamic text field to see if it was accepting the variable and it was displaying it. Anyone can tell me why the code won't read it? Thanks any help is apreciated.

Help Needed Plz
Hi there guys i have a problem hoping anyone can help, well here it goes. I am using this code
------------------------------------------------------------
loadVariablesNum("http://omar/projects/test.txt", 0);
_root.box._visible = false;
if (mb == 1) {
_root.box._visible = true;
}
------------------------------------------------------------
To try to make the movie clip *box* visible if the varible *mb* equals 1. It works if i declare the varible in the code but when i try loading it up from a text file from my IIS it won't work. I know its loading up the varible because i made a dynamic text field to see if it was accepting the variable and it was displaying it. Anyone can tell me why the code won't read it? Thanks any help is apreciated.

Help Needed
Hey guys how can i trace a image files outline and u can check http://www.pixelranger.com u see the formation of image like from outlines to orginal image i wana just expriment that can u guys help me how to trace the outlines of the image!

Thanks

Help Needed
How are u able to display a percentage progress as you are loading a movie?

Help Needed
i read it is possible to load an external swf into a scrollpane. But i can't seem to get it to work (

I have movie called main.swf and in that movie i have a scrollpane placed. what action should i give it, so it will load a external movie called: movie1.swf ??

thanx in advange...

Assenoost

Help Needed Plz.
How can I scroll a group of difrent text boxes all together?
I tried making a button that moves each text box up and down the _y and _x position But i need to do it dynamicaly since those text will be loaded from a ASP page.
Is there a easyer way to do this? Thanks for any input you guys can offer

Help Needed NOW
Hey all. I'm a beginner at using Flash 5, so I need some help!! I run a fantasy wrestling website and I'm trying to make a 'Champions' flash bar. It's kind of hard to explain fully what I'm trying to do.. but I'll try my best and also provide a link to a flash I'm trying to 'mimic'!

First of all, here's the link of the flash that I want to try to duplicate on my own: http://gwfwrestling.net/titlehist.phphttp://gwfwrestling.net/titlehist.php

I am trying to make something similar, so that when you put your mouse over the text on the left, it changes the pic in the middle. I'm pretty sure I know how to change the colour of the text on the left, when you mouseover, but I need to know how to change the pic at the same time. (Follow me?) I would also like to know, when I put my mouse over the picture, how to get text to come up below it.

I hope that makes sense, and I hope somebody could help me soon because I'd really like to get this done. Thank you so much for your help

Help Needed :)
Im looking at trying to make a cd full of my programs setup files. I know how to make an auto run cd to run an exe file, but i wont the exe file to be a projector file which is ok. I need to know if you can make a flash thingy where i can click buttons and open files off the cd??? a bit like an installer but all it does it have a picture and open the desired setup file?????

any help is greatful

Thanks

the_bass_man

Help Needed
I'd like to randomize an array of 76 cards. Everything works fine but when the thing gets to 38 it starts to add back cards. Any ideas.

Code:
function ShuffleArray(deck) {
caa = deck.length;
new_deck = deck;
for (x=0; x<=caa; x++) {
ca = deck.length;
trace("ca: "+ca);
i = random(ca);
new_deck[x] = deck[i];
trace("Deck bef pop: "+deck);
for (t=i; t<ca; t++) {
deck[t] = deck[t+1];
}
deck.pop();
trace("Deck aft pop: "+deck);
}
trace("");
return new_deck;
}
I know I posted this earlier, but I thought I fixed but I didn't.
I'm using Flash MX btw.

Some Serious Help Needed
yeah, hi. i was wondering if someone can help me out.
i have a button called contacts and a movie clip that has a graphic symbol inside and that symbol has a dynamic text inside it. now what i want to do is:

on (release) {
link = "contacts";
}

so when i press the link variable gets the string "contacts". ok.
BUT, i want that variable 'link' to be written inside the dynamic field. i already placed variable=link in the dynamic text properties, but for some reason it doesnt show text. why am i trying to do that? experimental and educational porposes and to save file size. see, i have 3 buttons, each button would fill the variable 'link' with different strings, and the only thing that would be changed is the dynamic output. so i dont have to make an animation for each button pressed, just the output of the dynamic field. i will try and make a new document only with this stuff and if it doesnt work, ill attach the fla in the next post. but if you know where i make mistakes, plz do tell me.

thanx.

Help Needed..........
AOL users that i have testing are telling me that the flash loads fine, but jpg's won't load? I've went from relative links to absolute to try and fix. Is there any known issues with AOhell and dynamic pictures? Works fine in IE,Netscape/mozilla..............???
Any help on this would be GREAT!

Thanks

Steve Lilly
mmeye.com

Project in question
MenOWar Hockey

Help Needed
i have 4 sections in my flash movie. when a user clicks to move to another section, i want something to happen before the next section is displayed??? how is this done??? thanks in advance.

Serious Help Needed
Ok, heres the situation:

I need to duplicate a block so that it creates a section
4*20 blocks in size. I have the code I'm working with, but cannot give up a FLA. because it contains too much other game code. I have to finish this project stat! so please, help if you can!

---------------------------------
this code is on the main timeline
---------------------------------
red_layer = 11;
block_redX = 0; //the blocks x coords
block_redY = 0; //the blocks y coords
for (i=0; i<=3; i++) {
_root.block_redX = i*20;
for (t=1; t<=20; t++) {
duplicateMovieClip(_root.block_red, "block_red"+red_layer, red_layer);
red_layer++;
_root.block_redY = t*20;
}
}

------------------------------------
Regards,

Tyler

Help Needed...
Hi, I am currently working on the movie clips which would become stick with your mouse pointer when you rollover it.
I am strugglling on the part that which to disable the hit test on the others duplicated movie clips when one of the clips have been rollover. Is there any way I can achieve this?

I have been thinking on giving a switch id (true/false) on each duplicated clips, like ("idswitch"+ i = true)
but have no idea how to script it, so it would work inside the loop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hep Needed Please
I have a flash movie which features apartment listing for rent.
I made a lot of dynamic text fields to which I load variables from a text file.
And my text file looks something like this:

&name=Sun Hill
&station=hayward
&walk=3min
&price=320,000

&name2=Hill Crest
&station2=fremont
&walk2=10min
&price2=560,000

And I want the name of the apartments to have hyperlinks. (in this case, "name" and "name2")
Is it possible?
How can I make it happen?

Help me please
Thank you in advance

A Little Help Needed...
got a little microsite i'm working on (not finished at all, just in cut n' test mode atm) but i'm a little stuck on something. you see being more of a designer than programmer, it takes me a while to find tutorials n stuff in order to work things out, and i've got to the stage where i am stuck.

basically, i'm loading external .swf's into a movie clip holder, and from the main movie (where my navigation is) i need to know how to be able to change the brightness of the content within the movieclip holder, whenever the user rolls over the mainmenu on the _root timeline.

take a look at this : my test movie

and click on the dubsport or awesome buttons, both of which i have used to load up some content (again - this is strickly for testin', not finished design) .... thing is, notice how i have got the menu moving, so that if the user rolls off at any point, the menu returns from it's present position (i have achieved this by using a 'reverse play action on the hit area) now, i would like it so that the fade of brightness on the external movie clip is the same as the menu (fades in and out depending on whether you have rolled on or off the menu) this is so that i can keep the menu semi transparent, and still have nice legablity.

heres a screen shot of what i am talking about (quick mock up in p-shop ) : click here

sure hope someone can help me out.

cheers
rachee

A Little Help Needed
'eval' doesn't seem to work with 'gotoAndStop'

my code....

gotoAndStop(eval("c"+i));

how would i have to fix this to make this work?

thanks.

Help Needed
ok...i got the music to load...now all i need is to know how to keep stopping and playing it when the user clicks the button...

thanks

Help Needed
Hi everyone,

i am developing a flash game in Flash MX. The game uses 10 classes of objects, 2033 lines of code. Up until now I was able to work normally, but since today morning every change I have made in the script causes Flash to crash (even slight changes like changing "+" into "-" somewhere in the script).

Did anybody happen to encounter a problem like this one before?

Pop Up Needed A.s.a.p
ok hi ya'll

I need some help ASAP

what i want:

when you open an swf file... and you click on it. tat it would open an html file in a fixed window size.

it's probably gonna be java, but what's the code?

And not the code where some hidden scripting is in the HTML files.

Thanks you guys!

MX Help Needed
Hi, I have recently just started using Flash MX and I had never worked with any version of flash before. I can do the basic stuff e.g. crop/rotate, keyframes and animate etc etc but I want someone to teach me new things. I really want to explore MX.

I will give anyone who is willing to help a free membership to my website (icklebabydscam.com).

If you are intrested please e-mail me at :

admin@icklebabydscam.com

IckleBabyD

Urgent Help Needed

Hi all,I have just a single question. Can the system(Computer) Volume be controlled with flash scripting. If yes, Pls let me know how. Pls this is very urgent.Senthil

Hi all,
I have just a single question. Can the system(Computer) Volume be controlled with flash scripting. If yes, Pls let me know how. Pls this is very urgent.

Senthil