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phobos2001, did you manage to find a solution to this problem? I have a similiar one - although I have not lost any of the data in the .bak account - I need to restore it to the correct administrator account. Did you come across a solution or find out why it happened in the first place...

Hello, Does anyone have any experience of problems when running MySQL alongside MS SQL 7.0 on a Win 2000 Web Server using IIS? thanks, g

Thanks oldnewbie, I am teaching the Sound object today and now I have a resource to set some homework. :)

I have managed to get a similiar situation to work using: loadMovie ("movie.swf",interger(_root.top)); It seems Flash would like assurances that you are sending in a number and not a string.

Norton can get a bit heavy handed when you open Word docs and stuff I wonder if it is that? That would be a bit strange though. Are these apps on the other pc you are testing on?

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/beginner/html_forms/index.shtml This tutorial above is a link to how html forms translate into Flash. You will still need to link this form to some sort of server script to actually send the mail. The most common script used for this type of thing by...

Do you run a lot of other applications, or services (do you have these in xp?) at the same time on your pc?

The only way to affect instances independantly is with Action Script. If you use any of the drawing tools for e.g. the change will propogate accross all instances. Select the button you would like to change and hit F8, this will bring up the 'Convert to Symbol' dialogue box. Leave it on Movie...

:) That the beauty of this place I suppose. Spoilt for choice. g

Also cgi scripts are normally kept in a seperate folder on the server, usally called bin, cgi-bin, or something similiar. It is possible you do not have the correct path to formail.cgi in your url.

oldnewbie Also, one wonders, if a student has misplaced code You are too right and something to bear in mind before I start pulling my hair out. wangbar I think we have both experienced the situation of having to deal with this before an audience. Not exactly a nice stroll in the park. Is...

You have pretty much got it right. onClipEvent (load) { this.stop(); this.playedalready=false; } onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (_root.homelink.direction == "forwards"&&this.playedalready==false) { this.gotoAndStop(this._currentframe+1)...

I have searched for this because I am sure MX's idiosyncrasies have been discussed here already but I have not found any refernce to the problem I encountered today. I am teaching actionscript at the moment and my class is full of bright people but with no experience of Flash. So mistake one...

I have just started playing with MX so someone please correct me if this is wrong but now we have autoSize as a method of text fields. Which means text fields are being treated as objects and have instance names in addition to variable names. So if your text field instance name is textField2...

Server pages like asp or php need to be hosted on specific hosting packages I am not sure it Tripod allow this. Also if you are going to develop and test on your own pc you will need to run IIS or Apache to get them to work. Do a bit of research into web servers and hosting.