Recent content by billwatson

Hi 1) Yes flash supports all of those controls and listens for events 2) You can create your own forms 3) Saving results as text and printing can be achieved 4) Flash works best with a class framework Rather than a tutorial a working example to refer to may be of more help as you work your...

plug in for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=flash+switcher&status=4 allows quick and easy switching of flash player versions

sounds like you are trying to position them before they have fully loaded

http://www.flashjester.com/?section=tricks_flashhandout

can you just post a link to the fla be quicker if i fix it then you look at code

with flash mx only ( not 2004 ) you dont have a loader component all you can do is scale the photo after it has fully loaded let me know if you need code

then the photos are larger than the box. you could scale them after they have loaded or if you are using mx2004 or above use a loader component which will automatically scale the photos to fit

dont embed it use the swfobject http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

you are trying to assign the action before loading is complete use a moviecliploader and place the onrelease code inside a complete function

suspect it is a php problem look at this thread http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1390523&page=1

try adding system.useCodepage = true; in frame 1 of main movie

Sorry to butt in Kenneth One solutiom - untested myData = new LoadVars(); myData.parent = this; myData.onLoad = function() { switch (this.parent._name) { case 'mc_one': this.parent.info.text = this.mc_one; break; case 'mc_two': this.parent.info.text =...

called your xml file link.xml code in frame 1 of the movie url_xml = new XML(); url_xml.ignoreWhite = true; url_xml.onLoad = function() { image = url_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue; link = url_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue...

Assuming that you are loading the files into an empty movie clip (empty_mc) Frame 1 of main movie function nextRandom(){ empty_mc.loadMovie("image"+random(46)+".swf"); } nextRandom(); and in the last frame of all 47 swfs add _parent.nextRandom();

actionscript goes like _lv = new LoadVars(); _lv.onLoad = function(){ myVar1 = this.var1; myVar2 = this.var2; } _lv.load("myvars.txt"); myvars.txt will look like &var1=Bill &var2=4