Heeeeeeelp

Heeeeeeelp
Ok, here is my issue, I have a flash movie, that has 48 Movie clips in it. Those 48 movie clips all change color depending on what number I put into a database. I use XML to change these colors. My problem is, I want to be able to mouseover one of the movieclips and have a little text popup come up and show what the actual number is in the database that is making it change that color. I have searched amongst sooo many forums and sites with help, but to no avail, no help as of yet. Hopefully you can spread some light on the situation....I just need to know if there is actionscript that I can do for a mouseover/rollover and pop up text that I put in, or numbers from a database via a string or something. Thanks in advance.

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Pleeeeeeease Heeeeeeelp
Hi,
I am somewhat new to flash, and I need help with something very easy regarding flash buttons, please help...
I know how to insert a button and make the different states of it(Over, hit...), but I don't know how to link it to another file, for example when the visitor to the site clicks the button, it would take them to another page on my site, such as page 2. I don't want to neccessarily link it to another URL, but I want to link the button to another page in the site which I am using dreamweaver to make...
Please help me with this and please be detailed so that I understand. Again I just want to learn how to link a button to a 1)URL and 2)to an internal file in the site
PLease Please help...

Thankfull,
Bachdragon

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Scrolling Heeeeeeelp
Hi...please help me! I am using Flash 5 on a Mac. I have a client that wants me to do the site for his bar and he showed me a site wich he would like for me to base myself on to do his site. It's:

http://www.ol3.it

The site works with two types of navigation. I am needing help on the top part of the site, the one that has a window that scrolls the image with the movement of the mouse. I am trying VERY hard to understand how this works, but so far....no luck.

I am including the file I am currently working on with this message.


Please....can anyone help me?

Many thanks,

dwhit

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Heeeeeeelp Trying To Use Data From A Txt File
Hi all,
I’ve got a serious problem that keeps me stuck in designing my homepage, most probably I’m writting something wrong somewhere, but I can’t find the mistake.

What I have is as follows (simplyfied, that means I have several items that work exactly the same as the example I’m posting):

Frame 2:

A button that when you press calls a function named “variables”:
on (release) {
_root.lang = "english";
_root.variables();
}

The function variables is stored in frame1 and goes like this:
function variables () {
trace ("variable lang is " + _root.lang);
if (_root.lang=="english") {
loadVariablesNum ("./english.txt", 0);
}
_root.mainpos();
}
The text file contains many variables, among them:
architecture=ARCHITECTURE
&archgx=129

As you can see this function calls another named “mainpos” which is also in frame 1:
function mainpos () {
setProperty ("_root.archg", _x, Number(eval(_root.archgx)));
gotoAndPlay ("start");
}
The 3rd frame is labeled “start” and I have a MovieClip in it (instance name “archg”) that contains a textfield whose variable is _root.architecture

The variable _root.architecture is properly loaded, but not _root.archgx. I’ve tried to set the _x property in several ways such as:

setProperty ("_root.archg", _x, Number(_root.archgx));
setProperty ("_root.archg", _x, (eval(_root.archgx)));
setProperty ("_root.archg", _x, _root.archgx);
_root.archg._x = _root.archgx;

But nothing seems to work. Maybe the problem is in the way I assigned the values of the variables in the txt file, I don’t know.
I would really appreciate any help on the matter. This is driving me crazy...

Thanks

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Page Tear Off Effect. Heeeeeeelp
I am looking to achieve a similar effect as the one on this flash file (just page 11, the black tear off page). Can someone tell me how I can achieve this effect. I want to peel the "screen" back to show a piture underneath.

I cant make sense of the actionscript as I dont know what I need and what I can disregard.




Thanks in advance!

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Fscommand Exe Doesn't Work :: Heeeeeeelp
Hi people...I'm getting sick with this problem...

I made a movie, published my SWF and created my EXE in the projector...

In my movie I have a button that I want whenever I press on it to pen another EXE file (e.g: myfile.exe). this exe is in THE SAME directory with my projector and swf file.

I am using the fscommand for this:

on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "myfile.exe");
}

but it doesnt work at all !!!! :-

I used the 'quit-fscommand' and works fine.

Anybody with ideas or suggestions to solve this????

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Heeeeeeelp- Weird Pixel Displacement Effect
I've been working on the design for this site http://www.boomfestival2002.com for the last month or so, and now that we are in the final stages (bug testing and whatnot) there is a very particular bug that is annoying us and we haven't got a clue of how to correct it.
The thing is- I made up some trippy images using 3dMax and Photoshop then I downloaded some even trippier flash movies from the "movies" section of this site and mounted them over the image in Flash- some of the results were very pleasing- buuuuuuuuut!
But- when the swf is exported and then viewed in the browser a weird pixel-displacement effect happens.
Go see the "tickets" page for the best example- as the balls are swinging round by actionscripting the background jpeg made by me is constantly being distorted/displaced and makes the whole thing look really crude...
If you have heard of any cure for this disease please indicate it to me...
mail me here: desata-me@central-criativa.com
Thanx a million
:::m:::

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Heeeeeeelp Text Field, Alpha And Special Characters
Hi all,

I’m pretty new to Flash, but form the start I have a big struggle with coding. Hope some smart, experienced flash coder can help me with that.

I want to create an empty text box in the actionScript. Then I want to pass a variable to it, and set up its alpha to 50% (I embedded the Verdana font and linkage it to actionScript).


This is my code:

var myTxt:String="Łódź, Poznań; Moscow:Москва; Minsk: Мінск";

var txt_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
txt_fmt.font = "myFont";
txt_fmt.size = 24;
txt_fmt.color = 0xBF0000;

this.createTextField("city_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 25, 5, 200, 40);
city_txt.type = "dynamic";
city_txt.embedFonts=true;
city_txt.setNewTextFormat(txt_fmt);
city_txt.text = myTxt;

city_txt._alpha=50;

My problem is that it doesn’t want to display special characters like Polish or Russian letters. I know, that it is possible to embed characters, but I guess it is only possible to the text elements placed on the stage, and I need to create this text box dynamically in the code.

I tried to change the font into: Arial CYR, but still nothing. What I managed to discover so far is, if the line: "city_txt.embedFonts=true;" is removed, than everything is displayed correctly but than I can’t see my alpha.

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