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Hi all,

I'm trying to build a system where users (restricted to a very few admins) can publish news articles.

The form is simple enough:
an input field for "Headline" (single line)
an...

Hi all,

never really used checkBoxes much and wondering what the best AS2 is to use one as a "switch" ?

i.e. place a checkbox which is default unchecked and if the user checks it {do something}...

Hi all,

this is a weird one and I cannot solve it.

Using php to declare a few Flashvars. No problems - they all arrive and behave. One of these populates a dynamic text field inside an MC. ...

Could you post your code please ?
Is it very different to mine ?

Tried it - yes
Repeated the error - yes
Same on three browsers, Mac and PC - yes

Same thing seems to be true for this guy who is selling Flash buttons !
Try either button on his site to see the...

I've never had much to do with XML but I'm just finishing a site for photographers where there is one public gallery containing all images and each member has their own gallery just containing their...

Hi all,

slight hijack...

My paypal button has worked for a year but suddenly gives an error on the paypal site like this:
"You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often...

Hi all,

I've been using a paypal button on my site for a couople of years with no problems. Suddenly I get an email from a potential customer saying that as she clicked the "buy now" she got this...

Beautiful.
Thanks mate.

Thanks for the reply.

This line has me confused:
"This assumes that ValidateAndSend does not actually use the event argument it is passed, and that that argument is optional".

So I'll post my...

Hi all,

migrating from AS2 to AS3 and unsure of the simplest things ! :)

So - question:
I have a button which validates a form, I'd like it to work on release
AND / OR on a key stroke...

Hi all,

I've got a flash front end for an image gallery. The images are pulled into
Flash via php which delivers a string of filepaths - this works fine.

Now I need to allow users to delete...

Appreciate your help on this btw...
Did as suggested and the code returned this in the "del_pic" text box:
(cut and pasted)

...

Can't run a trace (I'm developing live online) but this:

on (release) {
del_pic = _root.galpic;
}

returns the array (string of filepaths) in the dynamic text box "del_pic".

Thanks for the reply.
So I did a test, set up a dynamic text field with a variable name of "del_pic" then
put this code on the "next" button.

on (release) {
tmp = _root.galpic.split(",");...

Hi all,

I'm bringing a set of filepath data into flash in the standard comma delimited format like this:...

Thanks chaps.

Hi all,

using AS2 how can I count the number of commas in a string ?
The string is imported dynamically and then held in a dynamic
text box (called "coolBox).

Thanks and Best wishes
Monty

I'd totally forgotten about FlashVars so thanks for reminding me.
Had to scratch my head about it for a while but I solved it and I'll post it
here in case it might help others.

So the query...

Put an empty movie clip in the button, (on it's own layer), give it a name, give the button a name and when you load the image you can target the movie clip to hold it.

Hi all,

I've got a mysql db in which a table called "pictures" holds a list of paths to images on the server.
It looks like this:

http://www.shutterbugclub.com/tony/pic_table.jpg

Also got a...