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The link doesn't work for me so don't quite know what you're after.

Thanks for your help on this, I did try to remove .embedfonts but I got what you did - a square! Arrggh!
Any other ideas?

Cheers again for this!

Wow! thanks for this guys, I'll look into it - its taking me a while to take it all in!

Hi,

I'm trying to get Flash to display certain special characters in a textfield which I create using code.

I've attached the file which should hopefully explain the problem.

When I create...

This should be what you want:

http://www.flashandmath.com/basic/dragdroptour/dd_tour1.html

Actually this (or a slight modification on this) should do what you want:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001964.html

Try this:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00004100.html

HTH!

Awesome! Cheers for your help.

Thanks modified, but that still doesn't seem to work. Any other ideas?

Cheers for your help tho!

Hi

I'm trying to get a second movie, which is loaded into a first movie using loadMovie, to access the variables of that first movie. However, what I'm doing doesnt seem to work:

In movie 1...

Hi all,

I'm trying to build a question/answer maths programme for 13 year olds. The sort of questions being asked include multiplication/division, simple algebra (eg factorise: 2a + 2b = ?) and...

Hi guys,

Been trying to work out the best way to do this and thought someone might have some ideas. I am using AS2 in Flash 8.

I am calling a function I wrote which moves a mc across the...

Seem to have fixed the problem now. It was a problem with apache I think. I upgraded to the latest version and that seems to have done the trick.

Cheers for your help

Hi guys, don't know if of you have experienced the following, I know its technically not a flash issue (i think!):

I have a fla with a number of images. I am using apache 2.0.59.

Everything...

Yep - There are a number of ways to do this, but this is a simple way of getting the job done. Just put this in the first frame of your movie.

import mx.transitions.Tween;
import...

Hi,

I need to reload the same frame I am on when the user presses the enter key. I have the event listener working fine, but when i use gotoAndPlay("same frame") after the enter button has been...

Thanks for your help. I'll strip out the tooltip from the rollover fn into another separate fn and then call it from onRollOver.

Hi

I don't know whether this is possible, but can you have two rollover functions on a single mc. For example I have a mc which i want to add a tool tip and then change the colour. I originally...

Hi guys,

Does anyone know if flash has an option to set the mouse cursor to a open hand which appears to grab the page when the mouse button is down? If so how do I get to it? Otherwise i guess i...

thanks very much thats solved the problem

I know how to change the size of font of a textfield using actionscript but can you change the font size of individual characters inside this textfield using actionscript so that eg one character is...

thanks very much that has done the trick! - appreciate the quick response
John

Hi i have a stage with a large number of text boxes on it. I want to press a button and it return the focus of the last text box which had focus. However it seems that whenever i try to use:
...

awesome, thanks!

Hi, does anyone know the correct actionscript if i want to reference an array with a dynamic name using eval/[]? At present i have this code but it doesnt seem to work.

this["qinst"+m+[i]]
...