brand new to web design. have just completed a great looking site that has a flash header on each page by modifying a purchased template. the problem is this: on some old browsers, or in the case of a Sun platform browsing through netscape for example, it will not launch the auto-prompt to instal...more >>

Hi, Before I pull all my remaining hair out can anyone help me with mpg video import? I have imported a small mpg file and placed it on a screen (slide) within a presentation. I want to create a button that will start the video when the user views that screen and presses the button. I've mes...more >>

Does anyone know how to activate simple mode in the actions panel in mx 2004? I can't see where. It's different from the old mx. ...more >>

I'm wondering if Flash is able to make something similiar to an animated gif (rolling throgh pics), except that when you place your cursor over the pic it pauses on that particular picture, until you move the cursor off. Any ideas? ...more >>

There's been a couple of posts on the subject of using scenes the last couple of days, which in my humble opinion are not correct in their advise. The general advise is not to use scenes at all, as they would work in an unpredictable way or something like that. The truth has somewhat more nuance...more >>

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I am looking for a JS that will swap flash movies within an ASP each time that page is visited. Create a cookie that contains a counter which increments by one number each time a visitor views a certain page. Let's say it starts with "1" - have the web server read the cookie and serve up flash1.s...more >>

Hi Everyone I am a relative newbie to flash and I have a job to do which i am not sure how to do it. I have a logo which I have designed in photoshop which has arrows around it. I want to be able to make the arrows spin round the logo in a circular motion. Does anyone know of a tutorial that w...more >>

When an employee tries to open a *.swf with Flash 5, which is the program that he used to create the file, it opens as a blank white screen. I uninstalled/reinstalled Flash 5, Flash Player, and Shockwave Player. I do not use Flash and have come up with fruitless Internet searches. Any help would be ...more >>

How to change font in Tree component (from Flash UI Components Set 2) ? ...more >>

Anyone had this..... Static text boxes with nicely laid out type..... Save project - turn off - go to sleep (hopefully).... Get up... get to work... ALL text boxes now have less linespacing???? If you click on the first line and add a space - the whole box 'respaces' itself to what you ...more >>

Would someone know of an actionscript command that picks up whether a browser window has focus without the use of Javascript and an fs command. I am launching a video window froma flash page. The flash page has a looping script which eats up alot of processor power and casues the video to chu...more >>

Hi Masters of Flash - I'm attempting to use LoadVars() in a FlashMX movie to communicate with an ASP page which talks to a database. Where I think I could be messing up is with setting up a loop to wait for the LoadVars info to get back to the flash movie from the ASP page. Please forgive w...more >>

Is there a way to export movieclips from the library? Or export them from a larger project flash file? I have a lot of clips that I would like to reuse. Is there a way to get them out seperately? So that I can load them seperately? ...more >>

I don't seem to be able to find info on how to get a sound file to play (and continue playing) as scenes change. My sound file is attached to a sound object. My sound file is not on the stage 'directly'. Any info would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

I am working on some animated gifs and flash files which contain both detailed photographs and logos. They need to be reduced to 15-18k but have 4 frames with different photographs and text on each frame. The files are 120x600, 728x90 and 300x250 and the photograph about a third of the total image. ...more >>

I have six scenes in one fla. Each scene uses the media display and media controller to stream a video. When the user moves from one scene to the next, the previous video continues to play (audio). I'm a newbie at action script, so I have no clue how to make the previous video stop playing when t...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to write an action script to make a button quit a movie? Greetings from JotaM (Lisbon, Portugal). ...more >>

Hi, can anyone answer my query? Bascically, I'm trying to use the getURL script with some variables to send out an email. I don't have any problems with the code so far when i use this technique in a browser window but can't seem to get it to work when running from a Projector. Is this even possi...more >>

I recently installed Flash MX 2004 on my G4 running OSX 10.2.8 Everythigng was running fine until I ran into a problem with the OS and had to reinstall the OSX 10.2.8 Now I cannot lauch Flash MX 2004. It launches then quits immediately - even after I try and reinstall the app. I'm guessing there...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a Flash intro for an interactive CD. The intro animation is composed of different images that fade-in and fade-out (sized at 800x600 pixels). I created the transitions by setting the alpha to 0 and created a tween where the alpha is later set to 100. The problem occurs when I a...more >>

i just bought flash mx 2004, and am tearing my hair out over what should be a fairly simple thing: creating a class. basically, i've created an external Person.as file, and filled it in with the sample code: class Person { var age:Number; var name:String; // Method to return prope...more >>

how can i make text scroll like movie credits? ...more >>

when i want to load string for my database , if the string contents char & or + , they don't be recognise by flash ! do you know why ? thanks a lot tepat ...more >>

Hello, I have two questions: 1. How can I make text and graphics appear over area painted with paint bucket tool? 2. How can I make shadow for text created with Text Tool? TIA ...more >>

We just gained a web maintenance client for a completely Flash-based site that was already designed by another company. The problem I'm having is that I can't publish the movie. And when I simply attempt to test the movie within Flash it comes up as a completely blank screen, not even displaying the...more >>

Need help. I've created a movie clip that calls mx.managers.PopUpManager.createPopUp and everything works fine it attaches the contentPath movie clip from the library, but when this movie (swf file) is loaded into a parent swf file it seems that the created pop up can only attach items in the roo...more >>

Why is it that I can sometimes successfully import Illustrator graphics and other times, only pieces will show up? Also is there a way to import an Illustrator graphic and maintain the object's gradient? ...more >>

Video question. I have a potential client wanting to drop in a few 7 min or so fullscreen (800x600) clips into a flash projector. Has anyone done something that massive before? Will it work? My understanding was that Flash would be able to handle it well or display it right because of ram and cachin...more >>

Hello; I'm importing mpg's and mov's into my Flash MX movie. After doing so, the video plays fine, but I can't hear the audio track. I've tried this on several different clips, including the ones in the Flash tutorial page, and none of them play the audio associated with the video. I have also...more >>

Humm, I'm playing a voice over that has things happening at relevent points along the way, but it's very hard to get the timing to stay the same on different platforms. If I play the sound as "Streaming sound" then the quality is awfull but the timing is a bit better, if I play as "event sound" the ...more >>

I have got a button called Fac1 and when this is clicked i want the movie to be taken to frame 2, this is the code so far but it wants a handler? Mouse.addListener(Fac1.onMouseDown = function() { gotoAndStop(2); }); Could you please explain? Cheers. ...more >>

Is there a way to have a flash movie start at a different scene or frame number based entirely on the html used to embed it? ...more >>

please how. i have flash *.exe (projector) and i have button. button open video in windows media player. and how minimalize flash (*.exe) ? I need it because video open under flash :(( and no see the video ...more >>

I have a problem with a form in flash. When you are on a formfield en you hit the "tab"-key then you go to the next field, only not to the next but to... any he likes. How can I make a script or something else, that the tab goes to the next field in the form??? Martijn ...more >>

Hi, I have nearly finished this game so I would like you to post some comments www.hologram.hr/toonlander It's a sword fighting game, and the keys are: q,a,s - hit w - block (you have to press it repeatedly to increase your chance for blocking) e - special kick (after 10 succesfull hits...more >>

Flash MX. I have ten image one after an other scrolling accross the scene. I am using the tweening method (not any action script). My problem is that the animation is not smoothly. As the images passes by you can see that they stuck for some milliseconds. Thank you in advanced. ...more >>

hi everybody.Do you think Flash sound loop set?...more >>

Ok...this is a fun question. I would like to make a gradient box in my = swf using variables that are assigned from the html (which are actually = done in coldfusion) the header bar across the top of the page will be = the dark color, and the gradient will be from the light color to the = dark c...more >>

Hi community, After spending the entire weekend looking for a way of solving this problem and not finding any answers, I hope this newsgroup will help me (on my way). The problem: I'm making a website for my mom, totally in Flash. She makes her webpages in HTML and updates them often. So w...more >>

I'm using the XFTree example provided in Macromedia Tutorials which explains how to extend FTree to store XML in nodes. When I added a combobox component from Flash UI Components to my fla the FTree stopped working. I have to assume some incompatibility exists between FTree and Combobox. ...more >>

I'm testing a demo script and it has rollover buttons (symbols) with no action assigned to them. I've been trying to add a hyperlink but without success \c: I click on the symbol and select "edit in place" which gives me Up, Over, Down, Hit if I try to add an action (getURL) but the Actions b...more >>

Is there a functionality in flash that can save into text files? ...more >>

hi there gys have just launched, in a lsight hurry www.s3d.co.uk would love to hear any comments thanks Matt ...more >>

hi there, even after 2 houres of searching technotes and forums i did not find any information about what is the default setting of the flashplayer's setting dialog box on windows systems concerning the permission for writing sharedObjects to the client disk. Using sharedObjects in a movie and h...more >>

Hey people, I need to create a mask that will change shape,size and position using script. I have a background image in my fla, which I want to be masked. But each section of my site will change the shape of the mask as to reveal a different section of my back image. But I wan...more >>

sorry if these questions seems to be too fundamental, but i cant seems to figure out how Flash AS works. I am using Flash MX 2004 Pro (evaluation version) on Windows XP Pro. I have a TextInput and a Button on the stage wif name "input1_txt" and "myButton_btn" respectively. Both are on the "Compon...more >>

Hello, I am flash scripter, working 1.5 years with flash, I want to become professional flash programmer one day... I am creating dynamic module working with flash resources. (Text, graphic...) Also MS recourses... What is usual problem making applications that require graphic or ...more >>

Does anyone know how to change the default actionscript (*.as) icon. In my opinion the icons for FLA's and AS's are too similar. I used an icon editor to change the color of the AS icons to a bright green so they'll standout more in a long list of fla's and as's in Windows Explorer and then used W...more >>

Hello everyone, I have zero experience with flash and I'm looking for a tutorial that would address the following scenario: a demo for a windows - based program. Flash movie would show main form of the application, then a text would appear, then animation of a mouse cursor clicking on a butto...more >>

I have a simple flash question: On the main time line I call LoadMovie("01.swf", "m01"); m01 is a movie clip on the main time line. I can stop, restart, return to the main time line from buttons on the main time line by using this target: gotoAndStop("MainMenu"); I can't seem to ta...more >>

I load the most of my text I use in Flash in by a txt with variables. The problem is I can't send them into a mc, they are always loaded into the root. the action in the mc: //a=variable name of the dynamic text field in the mc //b=variable with text loaded from a txt-file a=_root.b; ...more >>

when you publish a flash movie you can right click on it and zoom in and out, pause the movie and go forward and back frames. Is there some script to turn it off in the published movie?? thanks, ginger guy ...more >>

before anyone says anything i've looked around at numerous sites with examples on how to do this, but they're a bit too advanced for me to understand, really i need a tutorial of some sort. basically what i want to do is have a button at around 25% alpha, then on rollover it fades up to 100%, the...more >>

I have a button in my flash movie that gets its text description from an XML file. So far so good... the text appears correctly but the "hit area" which should cover the whole button suface is not active where the dynamic text is displayed. This only leaves a tiny area around the edge which is 'c...more >>

when do we need to use var to declare variable, and when we dont?? I went through quite some of the examples and found this rather inconsistent. Hope some experts out there can shade some lights. :) Kit ...more >>

The panelsets and properties and other displays in Flash MX are in a Font that I can't read. How do I change the font in the UI or correct the problem? stormjam@netzero.net?subject=MM_Flash_MX_Forum ...more >>

Does anyone no how to create a different icon for the .exe - I'd like to create a custom icon for a client. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers ...more >>

Dear Sir/Madam, I have got a problem when embeding the flash swf file in the HTML. Let me describe the situation briefly here: I have made a Flash reading the content of an XML document, while they are placed within the same folder. It works well when I play the flash file alone. Then, I ...more >>

i'm building a site in mx, trying to keep each section inside its own movie clip so the main timeline has only 5 frames (one per section). Each frame has its own "stop" action. When I try to script a button within a movie clip to go to and play another frame on the main timeline, it only takes me ...more >>

Hi all, I have made a text field in a movie clip, which is place in the third level of scene. When I assign this field as STATIC TEXT, it can show its words; but when I assign this field as DYNAMIC TEXT OR INPUT TEXT, it cannot show any word. Do I need to amend something or any special sett...more >>

The documentation says the Flash_Video_Exporter.exe installer puts the plugin in the Quicktime folder. To use it, you are supposed to open the video in the video editing application (I use Cleaner XL) and select File-->Export-->Quicktime. Well, I don't have a menu item File-->Export-->Quicktime (...more >>

Why should everyone be forced to upgrade to 7? I hate it. I've spent years with MX 6, and now you've just chucked it? You should at least setup an archives folder. If you're going to chuck it, by the way, why not just make it abandonware instead of letting it vanish? *hops off Soapbox* ...more >>