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OOP gives you structure on the basic level. If you build a symbol of a car, you would have a class for the wheels, which defines their rotation according to the speed for instance, and other effects...

Jili , you need to change your thinking about flash and do some homework. there is a movieClipLoader class that is where you can assign a single preloader to all your clips.
There are many ways to...

add a mouse listener , and set a flag (a boolean variable) , that is checked every time there is a click ('onCLick') . when true - there will be an action , when false it won't do anything . As...

You can either load the new mc into the same depth of the previous one (use getDepth() to find out the level) , this way the previous mc automatically unloads , or
you can simply unload the...

Thanks for your reply.

I mean importing SEVERAL classes into one class.

if I use ' import ' in a class I get the message :
Import statements are not allowed inside class or interface...

Hi !

I'm trying to make several classes operate on the same MovieClip
withing the same class . Something like :

Class topClass {

private var obj_color:Color
private var...

I'm building a flash blog.
I have a textBox . it displays a text file using loadVars.

THE PROBLEM :
After I update the text file (using PHP) , the LoadVars sends the old data (without my new...

To write to flash text file you need to have a server - side language (php, asp etc.) that would do the actual writing. Flash itself cannot do it. Since you don't want to use the web you have 2...

Thanks a lot guys, it did the trick...

General question :
If anyone works in the industry (professional flash developer) -
what is xml and flash mainly used for ?

Hi !

How can I access the data inside a tag ? I mean

<year> 2006 </year>

how can I extract the '2006' ? isn't it by

xmlObj.firstChild.nodeValue ??

Come on guys ... No experts out there ?

Thanks for your reply. This game uses the 'myGame' class as a general class for the whole game, and the 'ballClass' class for a ball MovieClip. I used the same name ('ball') since these are 2...

I take it that it just doesn't work... the problem might be in your _root.links - what is it ? a mc ? a variable ? you seem to confuse them and expecting a mc to behave like a var

Hi !
I have no idea where I go wrong ... I already spent several hours on this ...

I have a game class :

class myGame {
private var ball:ballClass;
private var...

Good idea ! I'll fiddle with the XML to see how it works...
Thanks

Thanks maan !
Yeah, I was quite aware of these options , I just wondered if there is a nice elegant way like passing vars or something like that from one HTML swf to another using flash variables...

or alternatively you can use a function that calls an interval after 5 seconds , so that instead of gotoAndPlay("done") you put
myInterval = setInterval(myDelayFunction,5)

and myDelayFunction...

Thanks guys... good ideas, it's just that I have some restrictions - the website needs to be search engine friendly so unfortunatelly I can't use frames...
Could definately use the idea of opening...

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Question : Is there a way to make flash play an mp3 without stopping
while changing HTML pages ?


Details : I have a website with the same swf on every page ,
and I want to play an...

Hi guys !

I need to play the same sound loop in all my website pages.
all my pages have the same swf .

I only succeeded to play the MP3 in a single page - each time the user switches page...