Hello :: Need to find a way to download flash 6 and flash 5 players for testing purposes for development. Been all over the macromedia site and have only found previous versions of the Shockwave player. Anyone know where to get the older flash players? Thanks in advance to all. -jmac ...more >>

I am trying to start up Flash from the Studio MX 2004 Educational version and when Flash gets to "initializing fonts", it seems to die. I am running Win98 SE and when I check the Close Program window, Flash is "not responding". Anyone have any ideas? I was running the program yesterday then got hit ...more >>

When using a shape tween on a box, the color of the border of the box seems to fade to a darker color then suddenly pop back up at the end of the tween as the orginal color. Is there away to fix this? Matt...more >>

Can anyone tell me how I can load an external text doc. into a dynamic text field with an attached scrollbar? I can manage to make the scrollbar work in the dynamic text field, if I type the content into the flash doc., also, I can manage to apply an external text doc. (i.e. notepad doc.) using "lo...more >>

This happens consistently on my machine (MX Pro 2004, OS X 10.2.8): If I copy and paste a number of keyframes, each time I perform the copy and paste operation will be slower than the last. After three or four copy and paste operations, Flash will lock up completely. This puts a serious crimp...more >>

I am a senior in high school, and at my school we are expected to do a "senior project". The best I can explain is that it's about half our grade, we have to do a project, and a paper. Spend at least 50 hours on the project blah blah blah... Project examples: Soup up a car/truck, install car ste...more >>

How do you add sound clips to movies? Thanks. Referring URLs www.xuccl.com ...more >>

Hi: I'm new to Flash. I can do simple animation but what I really would like to do is make a presentation with many different transitional effects as my image change from one to another. Can you tell me which menu option will allow me to use effects like flip, skew, blink, bounce, morph, pulse, ...more >>

Hi, I have a movie A that has a dynamic text on it. It works when I run it alone. But when I load it, which is A into another movie B using loadMovie(), the dynamictext in A stops working (the text is empty) when I run the movie B. Does anyone knows why this is so? Any help would be gre...more >>

I'm having a problem with all my flash files lately... Basically the background images are stretching on the left side (jumpy) as the rest of the layers are animating... Is there some way I need to import my bitmap images better? ...more >>

I'm confused about the interaction of Flash Player 7 domain security and the ColdFusion CFCONTENT tag. You can use CFCONTENT to send non-HTML content directly to the consuming client. CFCONTENT accesses the file system of the server to produce the content. This is frequently used, for example, to...more >>

Hi I'm not that great at the technical stuff about computers, however I do know when something is wrong. I had flash until recently and now its just gone, I don't know what happened to it. When I go into many websites that contain flash, I simply cannot veiw them. So I click the button that sa...more >>

Is it imposible to change text color(i meen just one word. If i change one words color changes all text color :( ) in dynamic textbox. thanks ...more >>

I realize that this isn't the forum, but I will be using sounds for my flash movies... Can anyone recommend an inexpensive way to record myself (just short audio clips) to save the sound files in a format compatible with flashmx? Thanks! Mark ...more >>

I have created an animated gif from a Flash animation that uses a mask but the gif plays back as if the mask layer is not there, displaying everything underneath. The swf produced at the same time plays back correctly. The irritating thing is that the gif played back correctly until I started tweaki...more >>

I am using the following script on frame 1 to start a sound that can be controlled with a volume slider: mySound = new Sound(); mySound.attachSound("fruityMusic"); mySound.start("", 999); at the moment the sound starts abruptly on max volume & the vol slider is on 100 (max) position. I would...more >>

how do do you guys describe the difference between FLASH & HTML?? compatible on any browser,,,, and so on.. please tell me as much as you think ...more >>

I think this was asked many times, but I couldn't find that. I use in my movies always some movie clip symbols. When I export it to *.swf, it works fine. But when I export it to *.avi, to burn it on a DVD, the movie clip symbol won't work! Could somebody please help me out of this????? ...more >>

I am having difficulties finding an error that is caused in Flash MX2004, that didn't occur in Flash MX. I am using a fairly simple script to load an external file (php), but my function buildHighscore() returns an error and I seriously can't figure out why. Perhaps one of you can see the mistake...more >>

I want to use LoadVars to load variables from a PHP script on my local server. Is there any possibility to set Flash up so that it calls the file from the correct server address (eg 127.0.0.1/flash/test.php) rather than using the absolute address c:/root/flash/test.php while testing the movie? Hm...more >>

Ok one weird question, how do I show a load bar for a movie that I am loading externally, like say, I have a flash movie that randomly loads certain movies in the dir, but while it's loading said movie I would like it to show a load bar, I can't make this load bar in each little movie because I'm ma...more >>

Hi there, I'm ever hopefull someone can help with this please. New to flash MX. Can load dynamic text into text fields and the scroll bar component, but not sure where/how to call the text variable into the ticker component from the components set 2, downloaded from the MM exchange. The ticker...more >>

Library dissapeared from a Flash movie that I have been working on and off for quiet some time. Last tiem I opened it everything was fine, but no I can't open the library, seems like it has never been there. Does anyone know what could have happened or what can I do? thanks ...more >>

I have to right click on the movie while it is playing and select "show all". How can i make it so my movies starts out as "show all" insted of "100%". ...more >>

Is a printed version of the Flash docs included in the boxed version of Studio MX '04, or Flash MX '04 for that matter? I really prefer a plain, low-tech book in my hand to an irritating Help panel that's too small and gets in the way. The ferret fadeth....more >>

help! Im trying to make revisions to an FLA that was created by someone else. I cannot open the FLA in MX or 5. I get a message that says it is locked and cannot be opened. Im on a mac, so I checked the file's info and it is not locked. Ive modified this file several months ago with no proble...more >>

Lets have a break from actionscript, tweening and "how do they do that effect"? What music are you listening to as you read this post? I'll start the ball rolling here, I'm listening to "A hard days night" The Beatles. Come on lets make this a big post. I feel entitled to this thread becau...more >>