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    sending mass email with php

    im needing to create a mass mailer in php for a newsletter that is going to be sending out to 1000+ mailing list subscribers. my first attempt to send a mass email blast was to create a form that once submitted, uses a loop that takes all subscriber email addresses from a database and then...
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    flash wont play on my server...

    so, nothings wrong with my flash document and nothings wrong with how i embed it into the html page. when i upload my files to my server, it will freeze at the first frame and cease to function. at this point, the only thing i can blame is the server because if i put these files on any other...
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    checking component types

    is it possible for me to check what type of component a component is with actionscript? for instance, i have a good sized form thats split into 5 smaller forms thats using radio buttons, check boxes, and text inputs. so lets say i only know the name of a given component on the stage. can i...
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    buttons not working

    sooo, i have two button symbols on the stage of a swf, and that swf is loaded into another swf. doing so, for some reason, totally disables my buttons and i cant figure out how to fix it. im pretty sure the problem is being caused by the swf being loaded into another swf because if i open just...
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    scriptable mask problem

    i have a project where everythings placed on the stage with actionscript and i also create an empty movie clip to load subpages into thats behind a scripted mask. so, the page loads, everythings cool at the start, but when i click a link to load a subpage, my movie container is no longer masked...
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    shape tween with actionscript

    is it possible to script a shape tween with actionscript? -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios matt@wavemotionstudios.com
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    reflections in flash?

    you know how apple has popularized the reflection? well, is there a way to do that with actionscript in flash? id love to make a photo gallery that dynamically loads photos and then creates the reflection at runtime. would it even be practical to do it that way? am i making this harder than...
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    100% height problem

    i have an all-css, tableless page that, broken down, consists of four rows. what i want to happen (without using a background image) is for my bottom row to automatically extend to the bottom of the browser window regardless of the size. one thing i've already tried, is making the html and body...
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    read rss with flash?

    does anyone know of any tutorials or anything that explains how to read an rss feed in flash? im going to use weather.com's rss feed to display local weather in a flash project im working on, but haven't really messed with rss that much. thanks! -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios...
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    movieClipLoader problem!

    i have a main movieclip that loads 7 other movieclips. two of them will randomly cause my program to just stop functioning (especially in internet explorer). what happens is ill click a button, my movieClipLoader will start my preloader but then my preloader immediately goes away and nothing...
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    scrollPane issue

    my scrollPane is screwing up my preloader... i have a flash website that loads 7 smaller flash movies with a movieClipLoader object. movieClipLoader works fine and is using 3 methods... - onLoadStart, attaches preloader movieclip from library - onLoadProgress, update progress bar -...
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    sticky situation with remote mysql connection

    im creating a client login system for my clients to login and remotely update their databases from my server. one thing i didnt notice in the beginning was that some of my clients have hosting service with godaddy and they dont allow remote mysql connections. SO... is there a loophole i can...
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    flv and seek problems

    ive come across a weird problem that is a little hard to explain... i made a video player that has rewind and fast forward buttons. both buttons wont behave the way i want them too. i simply want them to skip ahead or back .5 seconds from the current position. here is my code for those two...
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    do constants exist in actionscript??

    i know you can declare a static var in an actionscript class but what if i want to just plain declare a constant in my document? in other languages, its usually like const MYCONSTANT and i noticed that if i type "constant" in my actionscript panel, it gets recognized as a reserved word but i...
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    sending email with php and flash 8

    i have a project im making a flash version 8 a lot of my code will only work in flash 8. one important thing in this project is sending an email via php. nothing is wrong with my php file, ive tested enough to figure that out, so... i have 2 input fields in flash with var names of email and...
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    preloading with sound object

    how could i preload a sound that im loading with a sound object? id really rather not create a whole other movie clip just to handle preloading for external mp3's. but if thats all i can do... ill do it. but id rather that be my last resort. ive been told before to take advantage of the "set...
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    rich text editing

    does anyone know of a decent, FREE, easy to use rich text editor? i need a good one for this project im working on. i would create one myself, but it seems more complicated than i had expected it to be. id really like to find one that is easily customizable, meaning i can go into the code and...
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    preloader doesnt work when i export something for actionscript

    i have a preloader that works like this... first frame: var loaded:Number = _root.getBytesLoaded(); var total:Number = _root.getBytesTotal(); var percent:Number = Math.round((loaded/total)*100); loadText.text = "Loading "+percent+"%"; second frame: if (loaded == total) { play(); } else {...
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    LoadVars not working in Firefox??

    I have a LoadVars object setup and it works in Internet Explorer. But when I test it in Firefox, it won't work. Here's how my code is setup: var myVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); myVars.load("somevars.txt"); myVars.onLoad = function(loaded) { if (loaded) { debug.text = "loaded...
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    how do i check if a string has a specific character?

    i have an input text field where the user will type in an email address and submit some data. when they click submit i want it to check to see if that text field contains the @ symbol and if it doesnt, it will stop and let them know that they need to enter a valid email address. no matter what...

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