I am testing a Flash button and Mozilla Firebird and Netscape 4.7 just show a blank white area where the flash button should be. In Opera 7 the buttons don't show up at all. I checked for browser support and the list showed that all these browsers are supported including IE 4+, Mozilla (all), N...more >>

I'm really struggling with this preloader issue: I have a Scene (Scene 1), consisting of 90 frames. I have 9 movie clips, one every ten frames. (ie: movie 1 is on frame 10, movie 2 on frame 20, movie 3 on frame 30...and so on) I have control buttons on the main timeline (Scene 1) that contro...more >>

So I'm making thse banners for a non profit and they look lovely -- now as you vets know, wrapping the embed and object tags doesn't amke it clickable - and the old flash 3 way of putting URLs in is completely different. I understood it, therefore it had to change ;) ... Anyway, I'd be super grat...more >>

I am having an issue with position of a movie on rollover. It positions fine in Flash Player 6, but is not working with Flash Player 5 (which is what my client wants compatability with). Here is the code I am using: on (rollOver) { gotoAndPlay("WorkLife"); //_root.attachMovie("textBox_mc"...more >>

Ok, in Flash MX under the "Component Inspector" Parameters, we had a Change Handler. I am unable to locate this in the new Flash MX 2004. Can someone guide me to this? Please. thanks in advance, ooba ...more >>

I have a customer that has generated a DVD intro for trailers for their movie. Is there a utility that will take the DVD intro screen and turn it into flash?? It would be cool to reuse the already generated content. Thanks for any information, Dennis ...more >>

hi, my flash file is flash5 compatible I`m try Flashmx 2004 not open file error messages unexpected file format why???? ...more >>

Hi people I use Photoshop a LOT. I notice that Flash can import PSD files if Quicktime is installed, my question is this; ok you need to have quicktime installed to import it, do the client aslo have to have quicktime installed? What are benefits of exporting PSD files, obviously Flash doesn'...more >>

I have been touting my new-found Flash skills to my friends only to find that none of them can open my web pages and they haven't a clue what to do. The problem is that they need to download the latest Flash player. I'd like to add a Flash player detector to my web pages that notifies viewers of t...more >>

I am creating animated titles in Flash MX to put over a Final Cut Pro video. Of course I need to publish the titles as an alpha channel with transparency. I tried to publish to Quicktime but an alert came up saying that "the installed QT doesn't have the handler for this type of mac movie." Does a...more >>

Is it possible to set opacity/transparency for the stage background color in a Flash document? If so, how? Thank for any advice. Dave ...more >>

When I create a site completely in flash.....should I put a "go to and play" action on buttons or should I put a "on release get url" action??? It seems to me that the go to and play action will keep my initial loading down as each page will load when called upon instead of initially. Am I corre...more >>

Hi, Actually, I have two questions. First...I am having difficulty exporting a quicktime movie. What I have done is imported (embedded) a .mov file and adjusted the quality/size. Now I want to export it, but every time I try this, I receive a message that the installed version of Quicktime d...more >>

I have a flash movie that contains a main scene with several movies on that scene. It's kind of like a mini-movie player (similar to Windows Media Player), in which the user can click a control button (which are on the main timeline) and depending on what frame they're on, that button action will...more >>

Please... take a look at the collection of images in http://www.stellamccartney.com I need to achive the same concept for about 200 images. I know how to do it manually, but I was hoping someone wouold point me toward a more automatic solution (actionscript?? xml ?? ) Thanks Oli ...more >>

Why does the contents of my scrollpane leak outside its boundaries? This happens now and again when I'm loading the external swfs online. Is it a bug - or is it my loading code? Also I notice that there seems to be new versions of these components available - will this solve my problem? ...more >>

I've been scouring all over the forums, technotes, and articles to find what is best practice to use Flash Video in MX. I am in the midst of doing a project that involves ~50 MB Quicktime videos. (I am creating an .exe) My options are: 1: Use Sorenson Squeeze to create FLV's and incorporate...more >>

I realize that this may be a novice problem, so perhaps a flash veteran can help me out. I have two .gif files with identical content, but different colors. I would like to morph (tween by shape I suppose) the two colors together. I imported them, each with a keyframe 15 frames apart, then chose...more >>

pardon my newbieness creating a flash projector.... video components work great, would like the videos to open in a seperate player window though currently using "load external movie" behaviour but can only get the videos to load in the same player window.... I do not want to call up ...more >>

Does anyone else get this. WHen i use components i get this green border around the component when It is selected. How do i get rid of this ? ... ...more >>

I have a movie movie with 20227 frames... it freezes at frame 16001. I debuged, and found that the _framesloaded box says 16000... what can I do to fix this??? ...more >>

I have a swf that contains a combobox bound to an XMLconnector. Everything works fine when you run the file on its own, but try loading it into another swf using loadMovie or the loader component and its a different story. I'm using _lockroot to re-establish the data binding paths so at least th...more >>

I'm realizing that the 23 html validator doesn't recognize the "src" attribute of hte embed tag and so was wondering if I should drop the embed part altogether since it doesn't seem to add anything to the already sufficient object/param tags? do I need embed? Thanks. ...more >>

I am building a site at www.EIVP.com/new if you skip through the intro my main SWF plays then loads another SWF (video gallery) into an empty MC called "holder." At the bottom of the loaded SWF I have a horizontal sliding menu of thumbnails which link to corresponding SWF's which I want to load int...more >>

I have a very long movie that I'm trying to publish and Flash MX won't let me. No matter the lenth it informs me that I do not have the correct version of Quicktime installed. I've got 6.3, is there some other version that I should have? ...more >>

Hi guys! I got a stupid problem... I pressed a wired key combination and my scene went to the upper left corner. I can't really do much of anything now...... :((( How do I disable that view ? Thanks Mihai ...more >>

hello. I would like to know how I can handle this. I have my js menu and I have inserted a swf movie under the menu, but the menu won't apear over the flash .. can anybody tell me what to do ? because ofcourse I want that menu to be over the swf movie. Referring URLs http://www.clickbiroti...more >>

What are people doing for tool tips in MX2004? -mcg ...more >>

I have an animation which I want to do 2 things... When the user rolls over a pie slice, it changes color and show a message in a text area (also a movie clip). Each pie slide is a movie clip with a button embedded in it. I created the art and defined the movie clips and buttons and got the ...more >>

Hi, ive made a movie with different scenes and for about 10 frames during each scene a sound will play. ive created a button that i want to use to turn off this sound. and once off can be used to turn the sound bac on. but after hours of effort it still doesn't work!!! wat is the correct p...more >>

I have an object that moves from roughly right to left across the top of the stage in a twelve frame motion tween. I would like to move that tween so that it moves from roughly right to left across the bottom of the stage. My question is, is there an easy way to move the entire tween so that the ...more >>

I'm trying to create an activity from the drag and drop learning interactivity. I need the user to be able to drag certain objects to the same spot. This will simulate giving someone a sheet of paper, so I want to have the hands holding the dropped objects. However, the object always seems to be...more >>

Hello anyone, I just did an update of my Windows XP Home Edition. Prior to that I was working really, really well for about 2 weeks with Flash MX 2004. I did NOT notice any performance issues whatsoever. Then all of a sudden AFTER THE WINDOWS UPDATE - Flash MX 2004 slowwwwwss down. After a littl...more >>

Hi, This is a "test" and "work in progress" page: www.cornerstoneassembly.net/index1014.html We cannot get the flash movie to "play." Any suggestions? Thanks, Brian ...more >>

Good morning, what i am trying to do is clear out text fields so the next time the page is viewed, the text fields and/or combo boxes are blank. I have a movie clip that displays data. when the user selects the edit button, this movie clips visibility is set to false and another movie clips visi...more >>

I created a 50MB CD-ROM Flash presentation. My current flash is in 800*600. It is full screen. The problem is when the user is in 1024*768 or any other resolution than 800*600 ...it's not really fullscreen anymore. So here is my question: Do you know a way to modify the display resolution o...more >>

hello first at all, i want to excuse for my bad english. i don't know how to realize a dynamic menue with mainuttons with an dynamic amount of subbuttons. the difficulty of this menu is that the menu must to be vertical. i already have an example for a horizontal menu, but i can't find an e...more >>

My company has recently purchased flash mx2004pro, and i have been trying to get some of the SCORM compabilities to work. However no matter what i do (quiz directly from template, clean file with publish settings for "Flash with SCORM Tracking", and clean file with the FS SCORM extension). Whenever...more >>

I've got a flash MX presentation with English language using Arial fonts. Now I've received an Arabic translation for the English text in Word2000 where both English and Arabic shows just fine. When I try to copy the text from the Word document into my static text box in Flash it only shows a lot of...more >>

Right... i am wondering how many people out there actually have student licences of the new studio mx 2004? Also does anyone know whether the student edition actually has any limitations within it? I am considering buying it for the uni course i am doing and would find this information useful as ...more >>

I'm working on a page right now, which is http://www.thevandyck.com and I'm having a problem with the images and other parts of the page not appearing. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Why would this happen. I've never seen a bug like this in flash. Please note, I'm using MX 2004 with a ...more >>

Hey guys, sorry to disturb, but I am designing my new web site qith Php-flash relation... the fact is that I need to load some images through Php, to have something wich is fully automatic... i'dlike to now if somebody has an idea about how to bring a variable into a get url command . ex...more >>

Hi the reason i'm asking this is that i'd like to be able to do the following : people upload swf files to a directory on the server and the swfs can then be included in the page dynamically - but i don't know how to get the dimensions in order to write the object tags with php - how does dreamweav...more >>

can anyone send me copy of mx 2004 pro i trined much but not get it working... i will give my server's ftp access ...more >>

How can I Send a variable from HTML to Flash? something like this: <PARAM NAME="language" VALUE="EN"> ??? Please help. ...more >>

Hi All, I am working on a CD-Rom based learning module that requires flash player 6. When I run the CD on a computer that does not have flash player installed it automatically tries to go to the internet to get it. Since I want to run this learning module on computers without internet access I...more >>

Hello, I have seen a flash on the webpage from Foxsports on the NFL side to where they show the scores from the games. When you take the mouse over the score it grows larger. I have tried something like that with pictures but, with so success. Could anyone help me on how to set something like that u...more >>

dont able to download flashmx 2004 and dreamweaver 2004 trials tried 3 times ...more >>

Hi, as many of you have probably heard. There is a new IE comming up. In this version there will be a popup whenever a user enters a site with any active X content, there among flash, saying "do you want do continiue downloading content". See more here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activec...more >>

I've been asked to create a christmas news letter in a rich media sort of email, like the macromedia newsletters they send us. Does anyone know how i go about doing this? can it be done in flash, do i just attach a html file to my email? ANY HELP MUCH APPRECIATED!!! ...more >>

I'm making my first Flash site and I'm having trouble finding a good professional font. I know about the bitmap/pixel fonts, which are very clear. But I haven't found one the looks really nice. Can anyone make any suggestions? Perhaps maybe a font that looks like the font on the menu above. THanks...more >>

i'm trying to put a presentation flash file on a main flash file page. if i just plainly import it to my library it is played as a movie. how can i put this presentation on the flash file without it being played as a movie but rather seen as a screen by screen presentation? TIA!! ...more >>

hi all, I'm interested in making an entertainment product with Flash. 1. I want it to be standalone, distributed on CD-ROM. In the old days, Flash could generate a .exe. Is there still a way to do this? 2. I want it to change video mode to 640x480 and run fullscreen. Is there a way to do...more >>

Hello, I am setting up a quiz using Flash MX and the learning interactions templates that are provided with the program. Now, my customer wants that several multiple choice questions contains really long ansers (100 or more characters) and now I have a problem: the template allows to only disp...more >>

I have 4 jpegs and 4 corresponding wavs for each. I recently figured out how to create playback buttons for a .mov, however, now I have static images with audio. What is the best way to approach this without having to stretch the timeline too far? Somehow the audio have to be linked to each jpeg/sli...more >>

I use Flash MX for display annimation (1024 * 768) for use on Plasma screens and data projectors and so my files end up faily large (most have atleast 8 clips) I want to put these on my website by way of advertising my services but cannot seem to get them down to a size that is manageble for a we...more >>

Hello yall! I have a flash movie burned on a CD. On the movie, I have buttons where people can download forms (pdf). I use the getURL to lcoate these forms like this: on (release) { getURL("form.pdf", "_blank"); } This works great on my local machine. But when I run the movie on CD, I...more >>

Well can u link me some flash mx tutorials?? ...more >>

is there anyway to make a projector created with flash save and retrieve data such as high scores and names? If so, how? ...more >>

Can someone please help me, I've been looking into this for the last couple of days. I've tried various solutions, browser windows, etc.. and viewed numerous source of info, but can't seem to get the solution I need.: I just want to have the Flash Player play an external .swf from my .swf, with...more >>

Hello!.... I am using Flash 2004 Proffesional Here is my problem. I am doing a flash presentation that is due tomorrow at noon (EST) I have two very large video clips I want to embed. They have both been edited in Final Cut Pro and or dimensions of 640 x 480 each I have imported one o...more >>

I'm pretty new to Flash. Can anyone explain why either imported type (colored white) from AI which has been saved as a .swf file or type that's created in Flash (colored white) is rendered as a hot purple on the stage in Flash? Am I doing something wrong or is there an actual reason for this and doe...more >>