actionscript-2

How to add a control feature to a flash movie built of compiled movie clips

I have designed quite a long flash movie, it's for an advert. The movie was designed in several flash files, each has been combined into a single movie clip and then all the movie clips have been moved into the master document. Each movie clip is on a single slide. They play through and when a clip reached the end I have used the ac...

FLVPlayBack Aspect Ratio

Hi, I´m working with a FLVPlayBack object on Flash using AS 2.0... It load dinamicaly a lot of videos, in differents size. The problem is to make it show on all screen without mantain aspect ratio, I tried something like: Player._width=800; Player._height=600; and Player.setSize(800,600); If I use Player.mantainAspectRatio=false, nothin...

actionscript 2.0 referencing main timeline form movie clip.

Trying to edit as 2 file and stuck on how to tell a movie clip to gotoAndPlay the main time line. The animation contains several tweens and I need to add a temporary tween. I created a movie clip with tween. Once the it gets to the Movie Clip(frame 10), I inserted the stop command so the the movieclip can run its tween. The problem I a...

Dynamic Text - Auto Resize of Font

I have dynamic text field that must be a fixed width and height. The actual text that will populate the dynamic text field is variable. What I would like to do is to reduce the font size if the text does not completely display within the text field's dimensions. Any ideas on how I can accurately perform this? Also, I am using AS...

Encryption between C# and ActionScript 2

I'm trying to send encrypted data from a flash ( Action Script 2.0) to decrypt it in C# So far I've found this post (Link opens in Chrome, Opera and Safari. Doesn't work in IE nor Firefox) There's also this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3308781/encrypt-in-actionscript3-and-decrypt-in-asp-net-c But both only work in Acti...

Load external SWF, display it for 5 seconds and then remove it

Hi, i have a Flash Application with a button and an onRelease event. How can i load an external swf File, display it for 5 seconds on top of the main stage and then fade it out? Will this be possible with createEmptyMovieClip()? Kind regards Thom ...

Has any one used Flex 1.5 for mobile apps?

I know its now Flash builder 4 and it is grate. But FP for mobile on Nokia is still quite not up to AS3... while my audience has mostly has quite old Nokia phones... That support like most of FP7-8... Has any one experience of using Flex 1.5 for creating mobile apps? Is my idea ok or there are some really big problems on my way? Mainly...

Accessing declared and set variables in nested timelines - Flash CS4/AS2

I have a minor issue accessing declared variables in nested timeslines that are loaded using the attachMovie() method, and I could do with some help. I'm running an experiment where I load a container dynamically at runtime using attachMovie(). In this container, there is a test variable called 'testvar' that I set with something arbitr...