# flash **URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/c/programming/flash/38.md?page=852 [Latest](https://forum.kirupa.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.kirupa.com/categories.md) **Page:** 853 --- ## [So there will NOT be only one "root" in AS3 applications](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/so-there-will-not-be-only-one-root-in-as3-applications/269946)
**Author:** [@zhangxiaorui](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zhangxiaorui)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/so-there-will-not-be-only-one-root-in-as3-applications/269946 "2008-09-03T13:52:17Z")
If I use root to referer to a document class in swfA, and the swfA is loaded by swfB (use Loader) The root in swfA is still to the Document Class of swfA, right? If it is, it will save me a lot of time. I just want t… --- ## [Firefox 3.01 and mouse events](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-01-and-mouse-events/269942)
**Author:** [@pod\_clock](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pod_clock)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-01-and-mouse-events/269942 "2008-09-03T11:53:13Z")
I just upgraded to the latest Mac version of Firefox (3.0.1) and noticed that rollover and out mouse events seem to be broken when entering full screen mode. Click seems to work. I checked a few sites that I knew had ful… --- ## [Problems importing swf's](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-swfs/269941)
**Author:** [@JoshR35](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshR35)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-swfs/269941 "2008-09-03T11:49:04Z")
Hello ! I just finished with the "Transitions between external SWF's" tutorial" with Actionscript 2.0 I am working within a flash template and I'm using the premade flash buttons to call the swf's. When I click on a bu… --- ## [Tween, unexpected end](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tween-unexpected-end/269939)
**Author:** [@gykz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gykz)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tween-unexpected-end/269939 "2008-09-03T11:04:38Z")
Hi, I'm trying to simulate ocean waves for a presentation. In order to make it look random I've added 2 waves with a coded tween each. Once a tween is over it gets recalculated and moves to the other edge. And so and so. … --- ## [Test music player](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/test-music-player/269937)
**Author:** [@alexnowa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alexnowa)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/test-music-player/269937 "2008-09-03T11:00:45Z")
Hi guys! Have made a music player for my site and need your opinion about usability - music select, scrolling and etc. Look here http://www.melodyloops.com/music-for/website/ Used as 2.0 + xml + mp3 Thanx! --- ## [OOP adding sprites](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oop-adding-sprites/269935)
**Author:** [@Spanjj](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Spanjj)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oop-adding-sprites/269935 "2008-09-03T10:50:49Z")
Its probably very straight forward but I can't seem to work it out, so maybe you guys can help! I'm making a game and in the game there is a menu screen which contains several sprites that represent the visual look of th… --- ## [Google maps Flash API](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-maps-flash-api/269934)
**Author:** [@daidai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/daidai)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-maps-flash-api/269934 "2008-09-03T10:35:26Z")
Could someone please help me understand what I have to do to set it up. The info here http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/intro.html#Setting\_Up isnt helping. Ive never come across setting up a .swc fil… --- ## [\[CS3/AS2\] Scrollpane problem](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cs3-as2-scrollpane-problem/269933)
**Author:** [@everisk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/everisk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cs3-as2-scrollpane-problem/269933 "2008-09-03T10:28:01Z")
Hi, I have set up a scrollpane to loaded up dynamically loaded images from XML file. I got it set up and images are loading inside the scrollpane but the scroller (not sure that how it is called) doesnot appear. I have… --- ## [Calling function located on a frame number inside a MC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-function-located-on-a-frame-number-inside-a-mc/269932)
**Author:** [@jerome\_chevreau](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jerome_chevreau)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-function-located-on-a-frame-number-inside-a-mc/269932 "2008-09-03T10:24:20Z")
Hi everyone, I have a movie clip on the stage which contains 4 frames and i wanna call a function from for example frame number 4... Obviously i wanna call this function from the main timeline containing all the MC. Ho… --- ## [Button link](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-link/269929)
**Author:** [@Akash\_Thapa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Akash_Thapa)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-link/269929 "2008-09-03T09:30:04Z")
Hi, I tried tutorial "Complex button" (here is link http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button\_effect.htm ) and by this button I want to link with next scene? Is it possible? Kindly help me if there is any solution? … --- ## [CSS overlapping Flash?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-overlapping-flash/269928)
**Author:** [@Jiruharudo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jiruharudo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-overlapping-flash/269928 "2008-09-03T09:16:56Z")
Greetings all, Question; I've made this little site: http://www.kerkenzo.nl/opening/ I'm tring to get to run the virtual earth full screen on ANY screen, so I tried putting the java size to 100%. However, my CS (… --- ## [XML processing logic](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-processing-logic/269927)
**Author:** [@gnrlbzik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gnrlbzik)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-processing-logic/269927 "2008-09-03T08:25:37Z")
So the idea is to have external XML file through which i define parameters of flash movie/stage/movieclip/gallery and so on. you can always point me right away to good tutorial but here is the deal, i read plenty, it s… --- ## [Alpha motion tween not working properly](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-motion-tween-not-working-properly/269921)
**Author:** [@cturner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cturner)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-motion-tween-not-working-properly/269921 "2008-09-03T06:02:56Z")
I am wondering if someone could please tell me, why my alpha motion tween is moving to the left when I test the animation? The first 10 frames move to the left and it is not supposed to do that. Has someone experienced t… --- ## [Create Array From XML](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/create-array-from-xml/269917)
**Author:** [@Blissd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Blissd)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/create-array-from-xml/269917 "2008-09-03T04:00:11Z")
Hi There, Thanks for taking to time to read my thread. I'm currently loading movies from an array, and displaying them one after another - this works fine. What I now need to do is create the array from XML. Curr… --- ## [Problems with drag of multi-layered movie clip](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-drag-of-multi-layered-movie-clip/269915)
**Author:** [@NYRick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NYRick)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-drag-of-multi-layered-movie-clip/269915 "2008-09-03T03:48:48Z")
I am relatively new to Actionscript 3.0 and Flash CS3 for that matter, and am trying a new project. I have looked through this forum, but haven't found a similar post (maybe searched wrong). I have an issue where I ha… --- ## [Removing objects created through simple for loop?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removing-objects-created-through-simple-for-loop/269911)
**Author:** [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removing-objects-created-through-simple-for-loop/269911 "2008-09-03T01:43:31Z")
private var newHolder:FunkyShape; for (var i:int = 0; i \< 10; i++) { newHolder = new FunkyShape(); newHolder.x = i\*100; } How do I delete all 10 of these? Can't figure this out \[frowning\] removeChild(newHolder)… --- ## [The "e" thing](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-e-thing/269906)
**Author:** [@johnb816](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/johnb816)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-e-thing/269906 "2008-09-03T00:11:32Z")
I've noticed that some websites have an icon to the left of their website url. For instance, kirupa.com doesn't have one. But google does (it's a swigly "g"). What's the name of that thing. Is it something you do in flas… --- ## [An easy one (gotoAndPlay)](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/an-easy-one-gotoandplay/269905)
**Author:** [@Shard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Shard)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/an-easy-one-gotoandplay/269905 "2008-09-02T23:13:31Z")
This has got to be an easy one. I need the movie to goto a random scene (they are all named scene1, scene2 etc) I generate a random number (n) and try \_root.gotoAndPlay("Scene" + n, 1); I also tried var temp = eval(… --- ## [Adding preloader causing many errors](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-preloader-causing-many-errors/269904)
**Author:** [@madfatter](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/madfatter)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-preloader-causing-many-errors/269904 "2008-09-02T22:45:08Z")
Hi, I have a very elaborate flash project that works well when you load the .swf directly into the html page. However, once I added a prelaoder (using the show display progress code from “Essential ActionScript 3.0” ex… --- ## [Doozie of a bug](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doozie-of-a-bug/269903)
**Author:** [@AlexWeldon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AlexWeldon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doozie-of-a-bug/269903 "2008-09-02T22:41:16Z")
Short version of the question, for those disinclined to reading: Under what circumstances could one display object be inside a Canvas, with non-zero height and width, alpha of 1, visible == true, have the highest myCanva… --- ## [\[CS3/AS2\]Button to Rotate Multiple MC's](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cs3-as2-button-to-rotate-multiple-mcs/269901)
**Author:** [@mnat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mnat)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cs3-as2-button-to-rotate-multiple-mcs/269901 "2008-09-02T22:06:13Z")
My movie has multiple draggle Movie clips (via a button with an attachMovie function) I would like to have one button that when clicked will rotate whichever MC on stage the user selected. Basically if a user clicks o… --- ## [Flash Video Buffer Notice](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-video-buffer-notice/269898)
**Author:** [@craig\_clayton](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/craig_clayton)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-video-buffer-notice/269898 "2008-09-02T20:55:16Z")
Ok so have this site here http://72.52.192.225/ that I am building and I am having a problem with letting people know when the video is buffering. I would like a movieclip to appear when the video is buffering but cant… --- ## [Break does not stop trace - has it really stopped?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/break-does-not-stop-trace-has-it-really-stopped/269897)
**Author:** [@charles\_i](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/charles_i)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/break-does-not-stop-trace-has-it-really-stopped/269897 "2008-09-02T20:48:37Z")
I've come across this several times and always wondered. If I have a loop which stops at the end of so many iterations with "break" the animation stops - but the trace keeps repeating in the Output window. Does this me… --- ## [Delaying a button](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-a-button/269894)
**Author:** [@elgringoson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elgringoson)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-a-button/269894 "2008-09-02T20:28:48Z")
Am I able to put a delay on a button? for example to stop the user clicking through a set of images too quickly? Here's my code I spliced together after searching: previous\_btn.onRelease = function() { prevImage… --- ## [Superclasses?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/superclasses/269893)
**Author:** [@DesignerMichael](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DesignerMichael)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/superclasses/269893 "2008-09-02T20:14:01Z")
How do you assign one class to multiple library movieclips? Eg, each animal in my game has the same animation sequences... And, copy-pasting the entire class into a new .as for each movieclip would be kinda messy... Do… --- ## [Remove movieClip dynamically](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/remove-movieclip-dynamically/269891)
**Author:** [@pixel\_chick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pixel_chick)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/remove-movieclip-dynamically/269891 "2008-09-02T19:42:26Z")
I have a map that I created to display some results of a small town election. There is a statsBox movieClip that pops up on mouseOver on each county that displays the results pulled from an XML file. The statsBox is on t… --- ## [Loaded HTML image layout](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-html-image-layout/269889)
**Author:** [@tabbycat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tabbycat)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-html-image-layout/269889 "2008-09-02T19:24:38Z")
I am loading an html file into a textfield. The textfield is set to accept html and is wrapped and multiline. The html file contains consectutive image tags which cause the images to be displayed on top of each other. … --- ## [Targeting MovieClips](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-movieclips/269885)
**Author:** [@rodlab2x](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rodlab2x)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-movieclips/269885 "2008-09-02T19:06:45Z")
How do you target movieclips in parent timeline. For example this was in as2 .\_parent.digit2.gotoAndStop(2); or parent.parent.glow.play(); --- ## [Performance w/ hundreds of objects onscreen](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/performance-w-hundreds-of-objects-onscreen/269882)
**Author:** [@mrgulabull](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mrgulabull)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/performance-w-hundreds-of-objects-onscreen/269882 "2008-09-02T18:50:39Z")
I'm looking to create a dissolve effect using hundreds of small circles to hide the content I have onscreen. I've tried sequentially creating and attaching movieclips of a circle, but the performance hit is pretty severe… --- ## [Loading projector files into Flash](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-projector-files-into-flash/269877)
**Author:** [@tokyoboy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tokyoboy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-projector-files-into-flash/269877 "2008-09-02T18:00:55Z")
Hey all, Is it possible to load projector files into Flash (\*.exe) with something like loadMovie? [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/c/programming/flash/38.md?page=851) [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/c/programming/flash/38.md?page=853)