Hi, i'm a beginner so i'm presuming this will be fairly easy 2 answer :) I have made my own buttons using flash but dont know how to link it to a page! Whats the easiest way of doing this? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have a webcam streaming via Flash MX fine and want to know if it is possible to pause the stream to give the impression of taking a picture? Thanks Steve. ...more >>

Hi, This is probably pretty simple to most but I have never used the component. I have a simple fla file, it has a movie clip on the main stage and then inside that movie clip is a dynamic text field that loads a text file from my server. I can't get the scrollbar component to work with this...more >>

Hello all, My Flash movie is a series of images which simply fade in and out. When I view this movie in the flash player a border is added which is not part of the movie. The movie property has the size specified as 128 and 105, and the images which are fading and out out are exactly the same si...more >>

I am using Flash to create a web site. On one of the pages, I have an image that I want to play a sound whenever the cursor moves over the image. I can not figure out how to do this. Can it be done? Help! Thank you, Mamata ...more >>

We've just inherited a flash site with the promise that in December the client will be wanting us to make the site html/php. But for the time being, they have asked us to do some updates. I thought: How hard can it be? I've done a little flash, and the updates were a breeze. Now comes the prob...more >>

I am having problems anticipating what a user sees when entering my site. The flash on the site is encoded in flash 7, but people are still loading the flash movies with flash 6. DRK, for flash distrubtion? Couldn't anything in Macromedias site. Thaks in advance. Jason Huff http://www.kyp...more >>

I have a need to supply people with a "demo" site that is hosted on a domain outside of my control. (a different ISP). I am looking for the coolest way to have the site "disable" on my prompt. My current approach is to make a call to my server and return a variable yes or no to disable. If it's a ye...more >>

Hi, I have made a form in flash and a server in ASP. The form and the server work, flash get the information that I have send to the server back, but it don't save it. The form and server is made like the exemple on this site (make forms with components). Below is the code from the ASP-server: ...more >>

Hello. I have been using Flash MX for about a year and all has been fine up until today. I can't seem to mask anymore. I was masking just fine up until about an hour ago but now I am unable to. I am using the Windows 2000 OS (with latest service packs) on a 2.0 GHZ - Compaq computer. I have rebooted...more >>

could someone help. i'm building an all flash website. how does one create those "loading" graphics at the very beginning? is there some kind of template or does one have to just draw and program one from scratch? thanks!!! JMc ...more >>

I made a pop-up menu and I am trying to publish -html and I cannot do it. I am using Flash MX 2004. Is there anybody out there using this??? ...more >>

I am attempting to create a training module using the new slide based presentation in MX 2004 Professional. I've used the Flash Article http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/media_components_print.html as a reference, and can get my mp3's to sync with slides when they are all in the sa...more >>

I am building a simple web portfolio of my work. Instead of combining it all into one large swf file, I chose to split it up into several swf files and load them externally as I need them. I am using the following code to do so from the main swf file: on (release) { loadMovieNum("external.swf",...more >>

So I can trap errors within my cfc's using cftry/cfcatch, but how might i pass that error message back to my flash page to notify the user if the connection to the database did not work, an insert,update,delete did not work, ect.? is there a way? thanks dan ...more >>

I have a ever growing series of images that I would like to do the following things. 1) load randomly 2) load dynamically 3) fade in show for 10sec and then fade out 4) if at all possible have the list of images be managed either by looking at a folder OR a text file rather than having to modi...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to get "onSoundComplete" to work for sounds brought in via shared library? Here is what we have tried so far: 1. Attach sound from shared library: Doesn't work 2. Put sound on stage of shared library. Call via instance name: Works, but can't use onSoundComplet...more >>

As a newbie I cannot figure out how to insert new frames or keyframes before the current one and not after as they get inserted by default using the Flash GUI Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have an external swf that loads into the main movie. The external swf has it's own menu(5 buttons) which consists of their own movie clips. What i did was create a code for each button that controls the timeline of another movieclip. For example. The button named clark has this scr...more >>

Hi all, Do we need to put the Made With Macromedia logo at the end of our products that are authored in Flash though supplied as EXEs on a CD? Also do we need to register these products with Macromedia when they're published? Cheers, Andy ...more >>

dear sir If swf file is created some one else and i want to import that swf file in flash and save in gif file. How to do it ? shehnaz ...more >>

Does anyone know how to make couple lines of text grow smoothly and simultaneously (from say size 6 to 36)? TIA! ...more >>

WTF. I just downloaded the trail version of Flash MX 2004 and it wont unzip. Winzip says that it gfound invalid data or something. What's the deal? ...more >>

I recently ran into an issue where someone creating a projector file from Flash MX 2004 repeatedly kept generating a blank standalone player after publishing the .exe file for windows. I was wondering what may be causing this, and what I may be missing. We want to create an autorun CD but when the...more >>

In an attempt to increase my skills, I am trying to animate liquid flowing through an "L" shaped pipe. The liquid begins at one end and proceeds to the other. I have seen a solution using Movie Clips with 2 components: 1 movie clip fills the pipe and the 2nd movie clip tweens over with the color. I ...more >>

Has anyone else raed this? How will MM be addressing this issue? http://www.macromedia.com/newsletters/edge/october2003/index.html?sectionIndex=3&trackingid=OMN_AAJV ...more >>

How can you change the color of the text that is assigned to the radio button? I have a radio button on my stage and the text is black and my background is dark blue. So, it is almost impossible to read the text. ...more >>

Is there a way to change a background picture dynamically without changing the rest of the content in that scene? I have various "wallpapers" the user can choose from. Instead of making duplicate scenes and just changing the background (which would mean updating the content in each of those scene wh...more >>

I have a flash swf on a PHP page. All it does is serve as a button to open a customized page based on an ID number generated by PHP. How do I send this ID number to th Flash movie in order to open the desired page. For example: the Flash movie should open the address http://www.one.com?ID=$ID ...more >>

"the game is to be sold,not to be told"...more >>

Here's a new article on how to encourage surfers to visit Flash-based Web sites. Enjoy www.toondoctor.com Referring URLs Make Your Visitors Enjoy Flash-based Web Sites ...more >>

I am running Windows 2000. Ever since I installed Flash MX 2004 and the flash 7 player, I am unable to hear audio on my flash files. I can hear all other audio files except in flash files. Does flash 7 player have any bugs with windows 2000 or does anyone know how to fix this problem? Any advice wil...more >>

Helllo to u all, Pronlem: I want to create a flashmovie with the following: Left side: An area (A) in which the mouse can move.... Right side: 2 txt areas in which the X and Y coordinates of the mouse in area (A) are visible and continuesly are changing when the mouse moves in area (A). ...more >>

i tried to click the bitmap and select in the menu "modify>arrange>send to back" but it is still on top of shapes. how to make a bitmap as a background or under any objects? ...more >>

How do I prevent the text of a scrollable textare (being read in from an HTML file using XML object) from being highlighted when the scrollbar is used? It's so damn annoying! ...more >>

how can install an old flash player? i already used the unistall plugin to remove the player, but i don't know i can i install the new ocx in my "Downloaded Program Files" folder, that i downloaded. i'm using XP. thx. ...more >>

I have been asked to produce a flash website for someone who wants a design background which feels the whole browser window (which would be a background in Dreamwaever) but the flash site that sits on top needs the background in it too, they want the site centred in the browser window so is there a ...more >>

In the size report I generate when exporting my fla file, it doesn't include any sound information. Is there some button i've not pressed, or does it just not do this? I'm very curious and this would be a big help. Thanks....more >>

Is it possible to work with variables in movieclips? I tried to use variables, but it doe not seem to work when the text needed has to come in a movieclip. ...more >>

Hi, I have to call an exe file generated from VB, through flash file. I have put fscommand and its working. But I have many sections in that exe file and I want to open a particular section by passing a parameter from the flash file to that exe file so should I pass the parameter to invoke th...more >>

Hi all, At the moment I'm trying to create a movie with background transparency for use in director. Every frame is currently in transparent gif format, and now i want to string those one after the other on the timeline. The problem is i have 9000 frames, made up of about 30 different sections...more >>

Hi everyone, I am currently working on a project for work. I am trying to use a flash file as a signature in microsoft outlook. I have made the flash movie ok but I am having problems getting it to display in the email. It shows up in the signature preview but not in the email. Can anyone help? ...more >>

Hello , I have a website I'm working on, and in the middle of the site I have an empty movie clip which is the holder of external SWF's. This is where my content is going. My menu on the first page calls the external SWF's to that location fine. When the SWF is in place, the rollovers on the SWF do...more >>

I was trying to use them to stream mp3s but I found out that just the media components alone take already 67kb = 12secs in a 56K connection. Maybe it wasn't meant for web usage? Is there a way to cut the fat? Or any better solution to stream mp3s? Thanks ...more >>

As what the title says, is there a way to skin the media components? ...more >>

I am creating a lot of Flash MX Projectors for emailling and want to know what I need to do to create both Windows and Macintosh formats. I am on a Windows machine and need to be able to distribute to both systems. I have read that I need a file encoding program (BinHex) but have no idea what ...more >>