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    sending mass email with php

    im needing to create a mass mailer in php for a newsletter that is going to be sending out to 1000+ mailing list subscribers. my first attempt to send a mass email blast was to create a form that once submitted, uses a loop that takes all subscriber email addresses from a database and then...
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    flash wont play on my server...

    ok, i did that and it worked like it normally should. so, could there be something that my code is doing? all im trying to do is load an external jpeg. var preloader:Object = new Object(); var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); mcLoader.addListener(preloader)...
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    flash wont play on my server...

    so, nothings wrong with my flash document and nothings wrong with how i embed it into the html page. when i upload my files to my server, it will freeze at the first frame and cease to function. at this point, the only thing i can blame is the server because if i put these files on any other...
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    checking component types

    yeeesss, once again you have helped me out. a good man you are! -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios
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    checking component types

    is it possible for me to check what type of component a component is with actionscript? for instance, i have a good sized form thats split into 5 smaller forms thats using radio buttons, check boxes, and text inputs. so lets say i only know the name of a given component on the stage. can i...
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    Creating Movie Clip Buttons

    i think you just had the alpha for your button movieclip set to zero, plus the alpha for the white box inside of that movieclip was set to zero at the end of its tween. -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios matt@wavemotionstudios.com
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    buttons not working

    ah, nevermind, i figured it out. thanks for the help though. -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios matt@wavemotionstudios.com
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    buttons not working

    hmm, i tried setting _lockroot to true for all the movies that get loaded into the main movie, tried setting _lockroot to true for each individual button, even tried setting _lockroot to true for the container that the movies are loaded into, still no success. ive never had this problem before...
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    buttons not working

    sooo, i have two button symbols on the stage of a swf, and that swf is loaded into another swf. doing so, for some reason, totally disables my buttons and i cant figure out how to fix it. im pretty sure the problem is being caused by the swf being loaded into another swf because if i open just...
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    scriptable mask problem

    ah! gotchya, thank you sir. -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios matt@wavemotionstudios.com
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    scriptable mask problem

    i have a project where everythings placed on the stage with actionscript and i also create an empty movie clip to load subpages into thats behind a scripted mask. so, the page loads, everythings cool at the start, but when i click a link to load a subpage, my movie container is no longer masked...
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    shape tween with actionscript

    is it possible to script a shape tween with actionscript? -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios matt@wavemotionstudios.com
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    reflections in flash?

    you know how apple has popularized the reflection? well, is there a way to do that with actionscript in flash? id love to make a photo gallery that dynamically loads photos and then creates the reflection at runtime. would it even be practical to do it that way? am i making this harder than...
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    Graphic Fill?

    to my knowledge, i dont think you can fill an object with a symbol in the library. you could however use some actionscript in combination with a mask, 2-dimensional array, and some easy math to probably create the same effect. if all else fails, you can turn your graphic into a bitmap and use...
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    using the curveTo function properly

    haha, did my best... -/ = Invisible Lines O = Anchor X = Control * = Your Line (just guessing how much it would bend) X / \ / \ / \ / * * \ / * * \ / * * \ /* *\ /* *\ /* *\...
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    Mouse XY position capture...

    _xmouse and _ymouse keep track of the position of the mouse. example... trace("Mouse X: " + _xmouse); trace("Mouse Y: " + _ymouse); is that what you were wanting? as for displaying its position as a floating point number, that wont happen, unless you want a bunch of zeros after the decimal...
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    100% height problem

    well, i figured that if it didnt take too much time to have that row extend forever with just css and background colors, then i would prefer to do that over using a background image. but i have a deadline on this project, so i decided to go with using a background image. thanks for the tips...
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    100% height problem

    i have an all-css, tableless page that, broken down, consists of four rows. what i want to happen (without using a background image) is for my bottom row to automatically extend to the bottom of the browser window regardless of the size. one thing i've already tried, is making the html and body...
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    read rss with flash?

    does anyone know of any tutorials or anything that explains how to read an rss feed in flash? im going to use weather.com's rss feed to display local weather in a flash project im working on, but haven't really messed with rss that much. thanks! -- Matt Milburn, Wave Motion Studios...
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    movieClipLoader problem!

    i have a main movieclip that loads 7 other movieclips. two of them will randomly cause my program to just stop functioning (especially in internet explorer). what happens is ill click a button, my movieClipLoader will start my preloader but then my preloader immediately goes away and nothing...

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