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Hi all, I was looking at a site - http://www.salleephotography.com - and I was wondering how the background colors can be made to change in this way? I have a component that I want to drop on the stage, but have the background color change as each image loads. Can anyone tell me how to achieve this before I have no more hair left? Thanks a lot! Hugh

Hi, I have an animation which runs fine on IE, But on FF it is comparitvely slower with jerky. The interesting part is , I have a full screen button. When its fullscreen in FF it runs fine and smooth. Can someone throw light on this.

Hello there can anyone help me restart my setInterval after I've cleared it? my code function wait() { trace("hello") ; } var timer = setInterval(wait,2000); //then on a button I have btn.onPress = function():Void { clearInterval(timer); } I have this all working fine. It starts an animation and at the end of the animation I'd like to restart the interval. Trying to ...

I'm doing some pageflip. and i need some function to make a search button. Can anyone help me?. Or kindly direct me to some resource link.. thanks in advance

Hi, I have a site which I'm trying to get to fit together. I have a menu system down the bottom, and the best place for thumbnails in the gallery is where the menu is. So I was going to load the gallery swf ontop of the menu, but I have no idea to close he swf to get back to the menu (noob). So I'd like to position a button somewhere on the swf that closes the swf. Can someone pleaswe help me ...

Commonly seen on Orisinal games, does anyone have a script in which I could make the mouse button actually stay like a mouse (pointy triangle), when I hover over a button in flash? This is opposed to the pointing hand. I don't know if they are so much buttons, but clicking anywhere on the screen passes through the istructions onto the game! All help is fantastic! Seth PS...

I've been trying to recreate as realistic as possible effect of some nice rolling clouds, but i've found it's no easy task. Anyone have any thoughts/ideas/examples?

I'm not sure if there is an issue, but I have a movie that I built in Flash 8, and I now want to load an external movieclip that was created in Flash CS3. So if I have the flash object use the Flash 8 player, the CS3 file doesn't show. Any work around to this? -ps

Hi, I was wondering what would be the best way to handle secure data in Flash. Whether it were sensitive information, or credit card processing, or a game that cannot have values altered in any unfair way. Would Flash basically handle the front end, client interface, with a Java application in the back end handling all of the variables and stuff, being passed encrypted information? Or is ...

Could you help me with creating Flash Slide show? I have started creating it from KIRUPA's photo gallery, but need to add two more functions. I am a beginner with ActionSscript, and not be able to figure it out myself. ..so, please help I need to add two functions. 1. play loop images 2. which image is playing now indication on thumbnails.

i am designing a site in a way that i call use actionscript to load movie clips onto the stage in levels, but i am having tons of trouble with the buttons. I want the buttons to look different (my over state) when you are on a particular page eg: if you are on the contact us page, the contact button will be purple. i cant seem to be able to do this. i saw a file that had this done, but i can ...

Hi there, Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I am currently looking through an array of swf files, which is working fine, however I can not figure out how to make it all play again. My actionscript is as follows Quote: var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var list:Object = new Object(); mcl.addListener(list); var myMovies:Array =...

Hi, I tried tutorial "Complex button" (here is link http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...ton_effect. htm ) and by this button I want to link with next scene? Is it possible? Kindly help me if there is any solution? Thanks aKASH

I've been trying to recreate as realistic as possible effect of some nice rolling clouds, but i've found it's no easy task. Anyone have any thoughts/ideas/examples?

Hi There, Thanks for taking to time to read my thread. I'm currently loading movies from an array, and displaying them one after another - this works fine. What I now need to do is create the array from XML. Currently working, with a hard coded array: Code: var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var list:Object = new Object(); mcl.addListener(list); var ...

I've come across this several times and always wondered. If I have a loop which stops at the end of so many iterations with "break" the animation stops - but the trace keeps repeating in the Output window. Does this mean the swf is still running? I don't want the processor hit of several animations still running that I thought had stopped. Thanks Charles

Hi Everyone, Its been a while since I`ve played with flash but I`m trying to make a menu that when someone clicks on a university, the university appears and when they click on it again, it disappears. movieVar = 0 mcUni.onEnterFrame = function() { uniMenu(mcCov, movieVar, mcContent.mcUni); } uniMenu = function (cover, movieVar, uni) { cover.onRelease = function () ...

I made some computer games for learning English. I have played them hundreds of times on my home computer, computers around the world, computers at home in the US (I am in Japan now), and many others. When I decide to show them to my boss for some extra credit with my job it's just a blank page. It didn't prompt me for an error or say I needed a different flash player (they were all done ...

Hi, I have a function called by an interval which is working just fine but I can't seem to reference the instance outside of this function Here is my code var myInterval:Number = setInterval(this, "my_function", 1500); function my_function():Void { myLevel++; attachMovie("my_mc","my_mc"+myLevel,myLevel); this["my_mc"+myLevel]._x = 400; } and this is what I ...

Hi everyone ! Please help me, I want to learn Action Script but confuse from where to start. Is there any sources, tutorials or sites who can teach me from A to Z. Waiting eagrly Akash