Why Does This Seem To Be So Hard?

This Could Be A Hard One
does anybody know if it is possable to change the HTML background colour (using hex, i.e. #445566) with flash button that is inside a *.swf. i do know that i can be done using javascript. so any ideas would be good

regards

steven

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Can It Be No One Knows How To Do This? Is It That Hard?
my movie preloads but does not preload a external swf that gets loaded in a movie clip, so when it play from the web i have 10 seconds of a blank stage.
no one here seems to know the answer i've seen post for the same thing and they are never answered.
is this so complicated?

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Is This Hard Or Something..?
how do you make a MC fade out gradually using action script.....?


Anyone?

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Not Too Hard I Think:)
Hello!

This should be a quite simple question, i know how it should work but just dont know what actions to give it.

I have button, that when relased sets my backround to alpha 30.This button also loads an external swf.
Now i have total of 4 buttons with similar actions.
All the 4 buttons load a certain movie and set my backround to alpha 30 when relased and on rollover these buttons set my backround back to alpha 100.
I want each button to check if the movie that it loads when relased is already loaded and if so than dont set my backround back to alpha 100.
it should be something like this:
if (mymovie, mylevel) loaded dont set backround`s alpha to 100 and if not than set backround to alpha 30.

Hope someone understood me and knows how to do this.

THX
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Is This REALLY That Hard?
Can someone please tell me how to set a variable so that my movie clip will respond when I say if a="1" then go to frame "page2" else if a="2" go to frame "page3" etc. etc.

I just want a button to set the variable to a=1 or 2 or whatever so that the movie clip will respond to what variable was set.. This can't be that hard??


Katie

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Exactly How Hard Is It?
Hi, I have been using SWISH for quite some time now, and dont really like the way that it has no way of synchronizing music. Its quite annoying, because the timing is different in my movies on every computer i watch it on.

I was wondering, HOW HARD IS FLASH to actually learn, and how fast can you pick it up?

thanks,

Will

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Not Hard
I have a text field and a submit button ...I need to send it to my email address on server."

http://www.productentertainment.com/...mmail.pl....??
my email is product@productentertainment.com

How do I set this up?......AND NO I have not found a tutorial on how to do this......

Thanks guys

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A Hard One
since flash mx can load images from out the movie from any specified path (url, folder)

i´m wondering how to use banner ad code inside my movies (ad code asp or any other like typical banner ad code)

i saw some people make such peoplecall.com in it's application, anybody can tell me how i could make it?.
I know this is almost guru's question...

hope any guru by there have a good day and explain me.
please be gentle...

i can exchange with graphics work for u if need exchange for the help
blanka, the monster of the cookies

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How Hard Would This Be To Do?
I'm currently workin on a website for my clan, and I do understand flash pretty well. I want to make a admin system I guess you could call it, like a place where my clan members could log in and change there info and post news. How hard would it be to do somthing like that in flash?

Right now i'm using dynamic text fields and text files to display information. So I understand how to do that but I really don't know what would be involved in makeing an interface for them to use. Even if there is a tutorial on this I would really appreciate it.

Thanks Alot
Elite311

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How Hard Is This?
Hi all,

I'm new to the Flash scene and have experience only with Swish.

How hard would it be to do something like the following:

http://www.eskedahl.se/

with the side swipe revealing the text and the bouncy side boxes?

Thanks in advance!

-niyogi

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A Hard One
Ok this is a hard one! I have 3 inputfields named;

-title
-first name
-lastname

Is it possible to combine these three fields into one dynamic textfield

For example when some one files in this;
-Mr.
-Andre
-Kreft

And then the uotput looks like this
Mr Andre Kreft

Possible or impossible??????

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Ok This One Might Be Hard...
OK - I have 52 movie clips and I want to RANDOMLY display one of these once my flash reaches a certain part of a movie clip... so basicly... EVERY TIME MY MOVIE GETS TO SAY FRAME 5 IT DISPLAYS A MOVIE CLIP (1.SWF-52.SWF)


HARD ENOUGH LOL

-THANKS

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This Can't Be That Hard? Is It?
I'm trying to make a perpetually scrolling background.

Basically, I have a background image of randomly scattered boxes that I want to float, from left to right, across the background. Obviously I can just tween the background image but then once it runs out there's a jump and/or a blank space while it jumps to the beginning of the animation/movie clip. How can I make this seemless? Is there a way to make it look like the boxes keep floating by without leaving a jump or a space?

I'm open to any suggestions...it doesn't have to be with a single image...I'll do it however it can be done.

Thanks!
Clint

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Man This Is Hard
Okay I know this is not really a Flash question but I didn't know where else to go and I thought since you guys at Flash Kit are such cool people you could help me out with this.

This is like hangman a bit but trust me I am not doing this for fun:

The symbols 1, 2, 3, .... 9, 0 which make up numbers:
_ _ _ _ _ _ ( 6 letters )

Changes one or more terms to other terms, e.g addition:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ( 9 letters )

Spread out, e.g 35 = 3 x 10 = 5 x 1
E _ _ _ _ _ _ _

3 + 6 < 12 is a number what?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Thanx for any help you guys can give me, remember this is really important, well to me it is anyway. Thanx.

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Maybe To Hard To Do ?
Well, now I am really stuck here. I want to develop a game for kids where they can learn som math. I was thinking of a game like the one at:
http://www.flasharcade.com/game.cgi?additup

When there is no numbers left that can be added to get the target-sum, the game ends. I don't know how to check this. I'm sure there is a simple algorithm that can check this. Or maybe if you guys can tell me some sort of a pseudocode it would be great. I think I can manage the actionscripting if I know the logic of doing this.


metaman

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Hard One
Hi,

Need a hand with the old magazine flip book. I've edited this code from actionscript.org so far. Now I wanted to add a function that autoflips the page when a certain button is clicked. I tried using a new function autoflip, then using the PageRatio>0 to tell the page to flip. It doesnt seem to work however. .fla at www.infinitydesigns.co.uk/pageflip.zip

Thanks for any help

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How Hard Is This?
I am looking for a point in the right direction...

I want to create a simple "Virtual Makeover" app. where my visitors can upload a pic of there face into a .swf and then have pics of different moustaches, hair ets to be dragged onto the face.

Very much like the old Mr Potato Heads that we have probably all seen.

I would imagine that PHP or ASP would be needed for the upload part which just uploads into a simple .swf

Any pointers? I can create PHP upload files and I can make simple flash files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Looking Too Hard ...
ok, I'm new to this stuff. I'm just trying to understand the construction of a site in Flash. I have an index file with 2 layers, an actions and background. I have a movie with three buttons inside that call movies when clicked and are loaded into an empty movie on the background layer. And I have an initial welcome movie load in the begining. Here's the problem.

When I test it the welcome movie barges in and kicks EVERYTHING out except itself. It's like I never even made that navigation movie with buttons. I'm trying to get the buttons to load a movie into the empty movie on the background but it's just loading on top of everything. Can someone help before I jab a spoon in my eye. Thanks.

-B

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Looking For Some Help...should'nt Be Hard
Hello Flash enthusiasts. Looking for the code to stop a movie on mouse rollover and continue moving when mouse rolls off. Also, what is the best method to have a button display a photo when mouse rolls over button? Thanks flash gods...and goddesses!

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Looking For Some Help...should'nt Be Hard
Hello Flash world. I am looking for the code to make a movie stop playing on mouse rollover and continue when mouse rolls off. Also what is the best method to have a button (when rolledover) display a picture? The picture would be invisible until rolled over. Thanks

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Ok, This Is A Hard One
I was making this game. where blocks fall and you try to get the biggest groups of them greater than three.

The way it works is this is a bunch of variables that represent a grid.
The vars are labled like X5Y5 for the 5th across and the 5th up.

There is also a grid of mc's that are labled like

BX5Y5 fot the 5th across and the 5th up.
Depending on the vars grid these change colors to match the grid of variables.

This all work fine, the problem is I cant develop a method for the click. I want it so when you click a mc it checks if there is other colors around it, and if there is atleast 3 in a row it will delete all of the squares that are its color, and ar conected to the block you clicked in some way (except dioganaly)

The vars in the variable grid are letters like g for green or b for blue.

Here is the code I tryed to make:




PHP Code:



function click(ex, ey) {
    to = 1;
    theco = _root["X"+ex+"Y"+ey];
    if (_root["X"+ex+"Y"+(ey+1)] == theco) {
        up = true;
        to++;
    }
    if (_root["X"+ex+"Y"+(ey-1)] == theco) {
        down = true;
        to++;
    }
    if (_root["X"+(ex-1)+"Y"+ey] == theco) {
        left = true;
        to++;
    }
    if (_root["X"+(ex+1)+"Y"+ey] == theco) {
        right = true;
        to++;
    }
    //make sure at least 3 squares are touching
    if (to>=3) {
        _root["X"+ex+"Y"+ey] = "blank";
        if (up == true) {
            calc(ex, (ey+1));
        }
        if (down == true) {
            calc(ex, (ey-1));
        }
        if (left == true) {
            calc((ex-1), ey);
        }
        if (right == true) {
            calc((ex+1), ey);
        }
    }
    up = false;
    down = false;
    left = false;
    right = false;
}
function calc(ex, ey) {
    to = 1;
    theco = _root["X"+ex+"Y"+ey];
    if (_root["X"+ex+"Y"+(ey+1)] == theco) {
        up = true;
        to++;
    }
    if (_root["X"+ex+"Y"+(ey-1)] == theco) {
        down = true;
        to++;
    }
    if (_root["X"+(ex-1)+"Y"+ey] == theco) {
        left = true;
        to++;
    }
    if (_root["X"+(ex+1)+"Y"+ey] == theco) {
        right = true;
        to++;
    }
    //make sure at least 3 squares are touching
    _root["X"+ex+"Y"+ey] = "blank";
    if (up == true) {
    }
    if (down == true) {
    }
    if (left == true) {
    }
    if (right == true) {
    }
    up = false;
    down = false;
    left = false;
    right = false;
}

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Is This Hard To Do?
Folks

Ive been asked to copy this link below-is this hard to do? ie whats needed to complete this task?what kinda actionscript


http://www.kidport.com/Grade5/Science/BodyBones.htm

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Why Does This Seem To Be So Hard?
Ok forgive me if I seem a bit frustrated, but I have been trying to do this for almost 3 months.

All I need is my MC to start at 100% and zoom out until it's 10% or so, then stop.

Then I need it to scale back up and stop when back at 100%, all by using two buttons.

Then, I need that MC to be dragable only, in the confines of the MC...so you just can't drag it for ever.

Can someone please help me. I'm not an actionscript wizard so please refrain from the "Use _scale" like I have been getting for months.

Thanks,

Jeff

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This Is A Hard One Please Help...
Me and my friend made a card game and we want to find a way to make a flash file it would look a bit like solitaire that can do these things:
-Be able to click on a deck and get a random card and move it to your hand.
-Be able to hold five cards in your hand.
-Be able to click on a card in your hand and it puts it on the field
-Be able to click on a card on the field and it goes away.

Would be nice to have:
-be able to keep track of what cards were discarded.
-cards go on the field in order example there is a card in slot one so next card goes
in slot two.

Don't know if this is possible:
-make the flash like a net play so me and my friend can connect online and play it like a yugioh game.

Thanks for your help.

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A (VERY) Hard One
hi there, this will be a bit hard to explain but i will try.

i need to dynamicly create a line .25 px thick and 550 pixels long, at the bottom of my stage, (this i can do)

but, (and a big but)
i need to be able to split the line into 1 pixel pieces, and not only that but i need a bit of code that says if the mouse in on one pixel in the x axis, then increase the alpha of the corrosponding pixel piece on the line(but on the opposite side) i.e. if mouse's _x =-10 then the pixel on the line 10.

i know it is alot to ask, but i would help me A LOT if you can help me.

i have been trying putting bits of code i already know together, but i cant figure it out.

thanks for your time.

zlatan...

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How Hard Is This?
Can anyone tell me if there is an example of a similar lighting/motion effect as the bits and bobs floating around the continents of this link:

http://www.templatemonster.com/flash...ates/9475.html

Thanks

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How Hard Is It To Do This?
http://www.rovion.com/

Do you really need to pay these people for their "technology" or can do the same thing yourself? Can you just have a DIV floating on top of your page playing an FLV that has transparancy? Would that work the same? Please share your thoughts on this.

Thanks.

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[F8] This Might Be Hard....
is it possible to have two input text fields then when you type numbers in them and press the "equals" button the two numbers you typed in will multiply and it will show the number in a dynamic text box? ive been trying to do this but i dont think it works...

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[MX] How Hard Is This?
Go to mtv.com

Choose the USA option of MTV.com -

As it is loading, you will see a flash animation of small boxes and they twist and collapse in different ways with the MTV logo in the boxes

Is that quite tricky? Or is it something a n00b could tackle?

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Is XML And AS Really This Hard?
Evening everyone,
A first time poster on this forum, but I frequent other forums, but just not enough experience flash developers there. This post may seem lengthy, but its detailed so we can reduce the qualifying questions. I've got this Leaderboard Ad im developing for work and it has to be as dynamic as possible because it’ll have 30+ different concerts to display.

http://www.egzist.com/CC/DynamicEnt/..._concerts.html - Example of AD as it stands Wed. Night.
I have all the base animations and MC's created but I spent all day trying to get the core elements to work. No luck. My problem is a few, but the one that is making me rip my hair out is this XML factor. I have an XML doc (http://www.egzist.com/CC/DynamicEnt/fla/concertdata.xml) that feeds a banner URL, Band Name, and Concert date. But in my Concert container, the only node it seems to pull is the image. It won’t load my text (Band Name and Concert Date) into my dynamic text boxes I have placed on the stage. The text boxes are dynamic, and they do have instance names (titletxt, cdate). The area of the AD on discussion atm is on the left side. You’ll see an image pop-up and then some text that says “Buy tickets now”, which is static The Dyncamic text boxes sit above it. These two you see pop-up, this is the area I am trying to fill with the XML data, but I’m getting the problem as described here.
Here’s my AS code for the XML:

PHP Code:



 function loadXML(loaded) {    if (loaded) {        xmlNode = this.firstChild;        titletxt = [];        img = [];        cdate = [];        total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;        for (i=0; i<total; i++) {            img[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;            titletxt[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;            cdate[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;        }        titletxt.text = titletxt[0];        banner.loadMovie(img[0], 1);        cdate.text = cdate[0];    } else {        content = "file not loaded!";    }}xmlData = new XML();xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;xmlData.load("concertdata.xml");///////////////////////////////////// 




But this only brings the image into the banner MC. I’ve tried a few different ways, using attributes instead of nodes and same thing. The image worked, the text didn’t. Though, that could be a problem, not entirely sure.
When this part is all said and done, I’m gonna have it recreate my “ShowContainer” which holds all those elements, for the first 6 shows, and run them in that rotating pattern. I’m pretty sure I can do that with a loop statement closing it off after 6. I’ve got some code set-aside for when that time comes.

And once I get this part working, I’ll be able to easily get the other part of my AD finished. If you click on the “More Concerts” button to the right of the movie, it will pop-out a window that I’m going to have all the concerts scroll horizontally through. The scrolling part is giving me a bit of an issue, but I’m more than positive I can figure it out after a small break from today’s upset. But nothing special with the scroll, it’ll continuously scroll at a slow pace so they can be read. I may make it reactive with mouse movement, but I don’t want it to move too fast… as we we’ve read here, my AS skills are novice. Flash not that bad though, IMO. LOL

But here’s a link to my RAR file with my FLA and images in case anyone wants to see my madness: http://www.egzist.com/CC/DynamicEnt/...eaderboard.rar
I tried to keep my Layers and symbols pretty clean and organized, so it’s not a jumbled mess. Same goes for my file structure and folders. But that’s a different story.

I really appreciate you taking the time to read this all. Sorry it was so much, but I really did spend all day on this and I can’t believe I didn’t get anywhere. I always try all my resources before I post asking for some advice and help. My history today is HUGE from all my googling.

Again thank you in advance and I look forward to hanging out around here.

Cheers
Tim

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It Can't Be That Hard?
Hello i been useing a flash header on my site. It loads loadVariablesNum from a txt file.

The text

logo=Yoursitetitle.com
&textline1=Imagination
&textline2=Creativity
&textline3=Perseverance
&textline4=New Ideas
&url=index.php

i now there is a way to add css to the Dynamic text fields so i can edit a css file to change the color, font, font size just useing css. So then i don't have to edit the fla file everytime i want to change a color.


But i have not found any where on how to do this.

The only thing i have in my flash file is

loadVariablesNum("flash.txt", 0);

I don't know ActionScript but this has been working for me for about 2 years.

I have read i can have the text file a html file. Then i just edit the html file but i don't know how to do that.

What is the easys way to have css in flash loading the text for a file?

Any help would be great i been trying to do this for months.

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This Cant Be THAT Hard
I need to make this actionscript load into a dynamic text box with the variable name of "stat". The thing is i need some of the content to load as an html link?
Is this possible... For Ex.


ActionScript Code:
stat = "Blah de da";
stat += newline + "http://www.thecrag.tk";

I have to have it so that it's not from an external file and so im having a bit of a dilema here... any help will be appeciated

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It Can't Be That Hard...
Okay, I have been using the "Presentation" template and ALL I WANT is to have a video on each slide and one controller to control them all. OR, if that won't work, one controller per video... but after 8 hours, I still CAN'T GET ANYTHING TO WORK RIGHT! Either the one controller for all videos works but the videos don't ever load, or if I put one controller on each slide, only one controller is recognized so the others don't work at all. I have given each individual component a different name, etc. I can't believe this is really as difficult as it seems. Can someone offer me advice or a tutorial or something? Please??!?!?!?

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What Has Been Used Here And Is It Hard?
Hello All,

I would like to know how this movement with the screen has been made

http://www.chromazone-imaging.co.uk/flashindex.html

and is it hard to make.
If someone knows how to make could he/her write down a start here cause i really want this effect.

Thank You,

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Why Does This Have To Be So Hard
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How Hard Is It
I am thinking of learning some simple flash, just to add a little spice to my website (not making it all flash though) and before I embark on this journy I would like to know how hard is it to pick up?

Thanks

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How Hard Is That To....
...add a litlle status bar to tell a user that the movie is being loaded?

hint: I haven't used flash since the days of Flash 4 and well... a friend asked me to do that for him.

I said yes.

I'm dumb.

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How Hard?
Hi


I wonder how much work there is to create a flash pop up window that pops up when a cd is inserted in the drive. The flas window should consits of 3 buttons, they should...

1. Install Acrobat
2. Open up a pdf doc
3. Open a txt file

Does anyone knows of a tutorial on how to do this?


Regards


M

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Still, Why Is It So Hard?
Why is it so hard to find, or make an upload button in flash? I've been trying this for over a year now, and the only thing i've found is with the use of components, "which don't work those either". This would be something for the next version of flash!!

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Here's The Hard One:
So what i need to do is to make possobility to print from flash projector. There wouldnt be a problem except a fact that the text is a lot longer than vieable area of movie.
But this still is not the problem, I solved it by creating movieclip to print and made dynamic text box in it wth textField.autosize="center", so now I have huge text box.

OK bere's the problem:
how to correctly print text field that is longer than A4 page?

Problems accures like:
1) it print only one page;
2) bottom of printed page has line that has been broke appart due to reason that it went too low.

What to do? What to do? What to do?

Any help will be appriciated

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This Is A Hard One To Break
Nobody seems to know how to detect the functions keys like F4 F6 F7 F11.

if i use on keypress/keycode detect it sure detects it en works fine off-line.

when operating in a browserwindow (IE) the functions keys interact with the browser instead of the SWF.

REALLY NEED HELP - the only solution i got now is to make a keyboard image and make buttons of the F keys wich the users needs to click on. not much of a software simulation huh :-/

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Hard To Explain...
Can anyone help?

I'm trying to create an input text field that will display a "*" for each character typed (ala Windows Login). I'm not really concerned with retaining the actual variable info from the text field, I just want the stars to appear as the user types. Any ideas? If I've been unclear, please let me know -- I will attempt to clarify.

Thanks,
Sem

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Variables - It Can't Be That Hard?
I posted this question under an existing thread since it was a similar problem http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=175397
but I got no replies. I don't know how it works here, so I'm posting it as a new one again!


I have an almost similar situation where:

I have several buttons on a flash movie
I need to set a variable when the button is clicked
I do NOT have a submit button

I need to pass the set variable to a coldfusion template(server side) instead of a perl script.
Is this possible? It should be, I guess?
if not, alternatively can it be passed to javascript and then may be to CF using wddx??

I've been trying everything I could, in vain!

could anybody pleeeease help. Itz gotta be doable?!
I'm new to flash(not to coldfusion)...

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Really Hard Question... (I Think)
Hi, is someone can help me...

Hi need a special effect on a bouton mouse over...

go see this link for my problem...

http://pages.infinit.net/creanet/help.gif

the button on mouse over became bigger and all other button each side must move...

thanks!

ben!

http://pages.infinit.net/creanet/help.gif

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Shouldn't Be Too Hard.....
http://www.missouridrumline.com/movie-increased frame.fla

I am able to preview a movie fine within Flash, but whenever I export the movie or use the "test movie" feature inside Flash 5, all of the movie shows, except for the part that involves the mask layer.

When I take off the "mask" property of the layer, both involved layers are visible in the final movie, but as soon as I put the "mask" back on, nothing is shown in the exported movie. (but it is shown when previewed inside flash)

Any help would be appriciated. :O)

Mark

PS Sorry this is the same as my question below, I didn't include the file before.

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Hard Question
How do I interrupt a download of variables?

I have a loadmovie requesting some variables from a server. If the reply takes too long the user sometimes prefers to jump to a different scene. When they do this good ole flash crashes. If they wait everything works fine. Sniff.

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Hard To Explain But Please Help
OK as the subject says i find this hard to explain so bare with me.

I want 2 things to be happening at once in my interactive game. E.g. There is a guy and u have to move the crane behind him by moving the first lever then knock him off the platform by moving the 2nd lever making the crane swing and hit him. I want to give the user about between 5-10 seconds to use the levers but if the 10 seconds are up then the guy shoots the screen and u lose. How can i do this?

Thank You For Any Help

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Simple, But Hard....
well..
i will explain the proble in 3 parts...

1 - how to disactivate a button using only actionscripts?
2 - how to reactivate this button when I clik in another one? ( and if i have like 5 menus and all of then can be activated and disactivated )

if any one can helpme tanx!!

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Come On Guys.... It's Not That Hard
Can someone please release me from this misery... I have a git of a customer that ensists that this project MUST be in flash 4 format for max compatibility...

I have a movie clip animation over 75 frames, the stage is 750 pix wide etc.. I am trying to make this movie clips timeline jump to a frame based on where the mouse is...

This is the code in flash 5 format for the frame controller on the root timeline,

Frame 1 = startDrag ("tracker", true);

Frame 2 = mouseX = int(getProperty("tracker", _x)/10);
_root.mclip.gotoAndStop(mousex);

Frame 3 = gotoAndPlay (2);

As you can see, I am using the goto(variable) action to get the mclip to go to a particular frame number.. This code works beautifully as you would expect..
When I try to publish in Flash 4 format, it Obviously doesn't like the _root.mclip.gotoAndStop(mousex) part.. I have tried using the good old Telltarget(mclip) gotoandstop(variable) rutine but still no joy???


Anyone the wiser??


Thanks Pro's

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