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Perfect that works! Thanks very much for helping me resolve this I do appreciate it. Here's the working package:

package com.develop.carousel{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import...

Great idea - that's where the problem is - it's tracing out blank, either as a string as in your example or the original. There's something about this which doesn't define:
...

Thanks for replying Moagrius. All the files reside in the same directory - html, swf, class & xml. I tried republishing all files to the desktop to remove any sub folder structures but no luck yet....

Hello,

I am trying out the carousel in Flash using ActionScript 3 (MacUser 26th February 2010 issue, pg. 086) without success. According to the article the complete project file can be downloaded...

Sorry, can anyone advise what needs to go in the crossdomain.xml file to allow my contact page to send an acknowledgement to the customer email address? The web host provided a new php script which...

Hi,

I have 2 sites using their own version of the same email.php file accessed by a contact form in Flash - one copy is sent to an email address on the site domain and another to the originator....

well thanks a lot for the advice - it keeps the hair on my head by not having to scratch it!

Hi, i gather it's not possible to send arguments from Mouse Events without writing a custom EventManager. What would be a correct way to identify either the object sending the event or to pass...

Thanks chaps for the replies. The save as new seemed to do the trick!

Hi,

I regularly get up the next day and find my project no longer works. Undefined properties all over the place. It's happened quite a few times now and I can't figure out why my .fla file...

I've tried everything I can think of to have this static function execute addChild to the stage. I think i'll just have to live with adding the function to every class file - at least this way I'll...

ah so that's why in my static Function I can get it to trace ('something') but addChild(MovieClip) returns undefined property? I have a static variable defined in its own class:


public static...

I think i had a naming conflict, too many subMenuDisplayCode - this seems to work now thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction.



package com.bosie{
import flash.display.Sprite;...

Hi, i'm at home now so can post more details - thanks for your interest.

Instead of the error I mentioned earlier, having recreated the crime scene I'm now getting the error:
1026: Constructor...

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Thanks very much for the tip. Actually i tried this initially but whenever i try to use "static" in the public function statement I get an error along the lines of "static" not allowed in a...

Aha, found something that might help me achieve it:

http://www.gotoandlearnforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16182&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a


EventCentral.getInstance().dispatcheEvent(new...

Hi Phil,

Yes "global" as it was in AS2

I'm not able to address the buttons from the timeline because they're generated by .as files (at least i don't know how to do it - compile error says...

Hi,

I'm new to as3. What is the proper way for classes to communicate with a function of another class - should I be reading up on dispatch event? I did google and a search on here but haven't yet...

I'm far from expert and nervously suggest this:

var score:Number = 0;
score_txt.text = String(score);

I solved my problem by replacing newsButton() on the timeline with addChild(new newsButton);

I think i had some ambiguity going on as well, too many items named newsButton so here's the working...

Hi,

I'm just starting out in as3 and for the life of me can not see how to create an instance on the stage of a symbol in the library by calling a function which resides in as file.

My library...

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I'm on an iMac G4 1.25Ghz processor with 1Gb RAM.

Whenever I visit sites sporting flash video my CPU runs to 90-100%. If i try to multi task the flash video starts stuttering and becomes...

I noticed that too. You need to include a different number of slashes according to each browser depending on how they "escape".

lovely, thanks chaps for this explanation it helps a lot.

I'm new to Flash 8 from 6 and reading various actionscript training books in which I notice the term "Void" applied to code such as this:

function onEnterFrame(Void):Void{
...