I've created a forum to discuss Internet Operating Systems, and I would like a few people to contribute. The objective of the forum is to discuss diverse approaches and aspects of designing an IOS, from the hard-nosed programming, through user interface considerations, to the potential applicatio...more >>

i trying to downlod the flash 2004 profishnal program from your site but the installation couldn't be complet and appear this message ...(((error: invalid copressed data to inflate.)))please answer ... ...more >>

I searched everywhere to find out... How do you put a simple pop up menu on a button in flash? It's a no brainer in fireworks etc, but how in flash? ...more >>

Hi all... I can't install Flash Player...I keep getting an INF error: INF Install Failure. Reason: Unknown I am logged on to the PC with an account that has administrative priveledges...even have tried while logged on with the actual administrator account. I have reparied IE 6, reinstalled...more >>

Every time I select a large number of frames (across multiple layers) and try to move them, Flash crashes. Anyone else seeing this? G4 500 1 GB RAM OS 10.2.6 ...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to create a dynamic 'component' like a radio button, checkbox and so on? I cannot see an 'FRadioButtonSymbol' anywhere on Flash MX 2004. Thanks, Raymond ...more >>

Hi, I need to deploy the Flash plugin to 2000 users. What is the Best practice for this scenario? A scripted installation? Thanks, D. ...more >>

I am just breaking in to Flash and am having trouble making buttons. Does anyone know the easiest step by step process to create one? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!! ...more >>

Does anyone know how I can open my flash 5 files in flash mx pro. I don't understand why i can't. Each time i try i get an unexpected file format error. Someone please help. ...more >>

hey, again, im going to use the lamborghini.com site as an example. How do you make the flash site, appear on the net without the I.E, Netscape etc menue? (if your going to lamborghini to have a look at wat i mean, click enter) Referring URLs www.lamborghini.com ...more >>

Thanks to this forum I've figured out the script to load random images. The only thing is - sometimes it loads the same image twice in a row and /or sometimes seems to load one of the images substantially more than some of the others. I am using the following code: movie = Math.round(Math.random(...more >>

my sites load fairly slow,can anyone give me any reccomendations,to how to make these sites load faster. www.oohwebpages.com www.veinonline.com www.boloskitchen.net ...more >>

I am new at Flash and know (hope) this is probably a simple task. Can anyone tell me how to play a movie clip two and then have it stop. Thanks... ...more >>

Hi, When I attempt to use a component (and switch to AS 2.0), I get the following errors while publishing: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- **Error** C:\Documents and Settings\olivier\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\Configurat...more >>

I am tearing my hair out trying to work out what is wrong. Look at this site and the text will be blurred - http://www33.brinkster.com/lookere I honestly don't know what I am doing wrong. This is what I did with the text, I used dynamic text, I used a pixel font from fonts for flash. I made su...more >>

Hi, forum... Please answer me this... How do I get the image dimension after it had loaded to some movieClip by using loadMovie();? Show me some scripts!!! Thanks... ...more >>

I am hiring. I am looking for flash animators. What are you rates...more >>

i created a map in Illustrator, exported to SWF, but when i import that SWF into flash some of the graphics lose their fill. the stroke remains but the fill is gone. any idea why? ...more >>

Ok, I am working on deadline and just learning flash, so this makes it harder. But here goes. I made 4 movies. They all work and all have sound. I test them out and they work well. Now, I want to make all four movies run consectutively. So, I import the movies into the library, place on...more >>

Does anyone know of a good site to buy background music for presentations. ...more >>

I have created a flash movie with audio and images. The movie synchs on my machine...from my hard drive, and on my machine when viewed on a browser...the file is on a server...some folks testing the file on different machines and browsers..(file on server)...experience a lag time for the images. ...more >>

I'm trying to see if there's a way to add border (1 pixel border) around a font in Flash like there is in PSP or Photoshop. I've considered creating a raster bitmap with the text and the font border, importing the .jpg into flash, trace bitmap, then manually select and crop around it, but this se...more >>

I have a shape tween of a napkin being crumpled up into a ball. The shape tween works great, but I have a layer of writing on it, and for some reason, the text does not show up with I export the movie! I have tried making the text a GRAPHIC symbol and breaking it apart as well, but it doens't ...more >>

Hi, I'm loading movie into a movie clip on my stage. For example, loadMovie ("andy.swf", "file1"); .... of course- andy.swf is the file I'm trying to load into a movie clip with an instance name of "file1". This works fine. However, I cannot figure out how to evaluate the amount of ...more >>

I have big problem with Flash MX 2004. When I'm trying to open it can't do it. It's hanging. Please help me. ...more >>

Hello everyone, What is everyone's rates for flash...more >>

I seem to have a problem keeping the size of my movies down. This is what I have been doing. I have imported a 640X480 bitmap, traced it and then made a movie around the traced bitmap. Now, my movie size is the default 500X480 or something like that. When I make the movie, it is about 100KB,...more >>

I am catching my first glimpse of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional here at work, and I noticed it won't open up my Flash MX (old version) applications, as it keeps coming up with "Unexpected File Format" error. What's odd is that I can't even open up a .fla file in the Samples directory tha...more >>

I was hoping Flash 2004 Pro could be the ubiquitous UI development tool but if I read the player downloads correctly there is no official player for Linux. Is that a permanent official position or just hadn't gotten around to it? ...more >>

I've got Icon forge and have created an animated icon to go before my http:// text, but how do i get the icon to work. Have uploaded it onto my domain but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to get it to work? Cheers Zedcee ...more >>

I imported an mp3 and shortened it using the time control bars in the edit mode. Does this decrease the file size or do I have to shorten it in a music editing program outside of Flash? Also, how do I center it vertically as well as horizontally in html? Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks ahead ...more >>

Hi Could anyone tell me the best way to create a scroll bar in flash? I'm looking to create a scroll bar like that seen on http://www.karenmillen.com/company/company.htm and on the 'places to visit' page of http://www.eryri-npa.co.uk, or the scroll arrows on the 'services' section of http://www...more >>

When i use the mailto:blahblah@blah.com when the window opens on the email program the address bar has the address followed by a /start. Wat is this?????How can i get rid of it? PLease can any1 help. lee ...more >>

JUST A QUICK NOTE TO SEE IF ANYONE KNOWS IF YOU CAN TRACE BITMAP NUMEROUS FRAME/PICS ON FRAMES AT THE SAME TIME..RATHER THAN TRACING EACH FRAME INDIVIDUALLY. CHEERS ...more >>

I would like to use Flash MX Professional presentations as an alternative to PowerPoint (I have a number of file types that don't play well with Powerpoint.). I know how to set the Flash Projector to go fullscreen at load time. Because my presentation will be photo/video-intensive, I can't allow my ...more >>

Hey peeps: It seems Macromedia has dropped a feature I if not many others used to use heavily. Remember CTRL+ALT+S to bring up a dialogue box containing direct input rotate and scale values? Seems to have disappeared from this release. I know many of you will probably recommend using the 'Transf...more >>

is there a way to attatch a sound to the mouse click in flash. Naturally I know about button sounds etc buyt I was wondering if there is way to attatch a sound to the standard mouse click? Thanks. zedcee ...more >>

Hi! Here is a page I'm working on. I never worked with flash and my buddy did it for me. In flash player on my computer I can see movie fine - Picture in frame, words background on full width. However, on a page it moves all over a place. I suppose it's a problem with my script (I just...more >>

hi, I ve got a problem I can't face with: I was trying to copy a polish text and pasting it in Flash. The problem is that flash doesn't recognize the polish accents. The police looks like this: ("są źrόdłem wtapiało się pilśniową, stylową dekoracj&...more >>

In short I have an image that I want to fade in along with some type. The type will start to fade sooner then the background image. I have been following the tutorial http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/programs/mx_animation/index.html step by step and I keep running into the same problem....more >>

I need to do a form to send a mail with the attach file option. How can I do this? Thanx. MooG ...more >>

Hi all, I have a small problem, perhaps someone might know what i am doing wrong. I have an array called AUNTIE, this has 3 entries. I also have a dynamic textfield called IDENTITY_ENTRY. I have variable called LOADEDFILE, this contains the name of the array(which could change according t...more >>

I've got a compiled .SWF movie that's got about 5 seconds of audio I need to capture. How do I deconstruct the .SWF file so that I can extract the audio? ...more >>

I have some text in a flash 6 movie that I am embedding on a web page. I made it dynamic text, (multiline no wrap, selectable, rendered as HTML,) because I wanted it to be antialiased. When I previewed it, however, the lines were way too spaced out. So I set the line spacing to -6 pt. Even though th...more >>

More menu questions... Does anyone know how to create cascading menus? I'm trying to create a Menubar with Menus with sub Menus, like File > Open Recent > (list of recent files) (see Flash File menu for example). I've tried adding a new menu as a menu item, but it doesn't seem to work?! I'm sur...more >>

On a test movie, I have a symbol and a button. The button is in the movie, just so I can "start" the movie and see what happens to my symbol. I have code that, when I press the button, makes the symbol move from position A to position B in 80 steps. I know it is 80 steps because I used a 'while...more >>

hi, i just have to do the following, but i can't make it: I want to use the system font (Trebuchet MS) without the antialias effect, but because the font has to be masked, I have to embed the font outlines (if I don't do that the font will not display because is masked). So, how I must do to inse...more >>

Problem: I have a Flash movie embedded in my HTML page .On the page I have some DHMTL and Javascript that generate n Drop-down menu. The problem is that the dropdown menus display behind the embedded flash movie. Any ideas how to fix this? FireLion ------------------- may the flash be ...more >>

I once saw a downloadable Flash5 shopping cart. Does anyone know where it is? If someone has built a shopping cart in Flash, can you offer some suggestions ... My first take on such a project is that the download times for a full-featured Flash shopping cart would make it unusable - I'm I wron...more >>

Hi all, using this on a button... on (release) { getURL ("javascript:n_name=window.open('http://www.musestyle.com/enlarged/PD01a.html','new_name1','width=350,height=380');void(0);"); } i just get a big blank browser window, no url in the address line, nothing. any ideas? Thanks, ...more >>

I am trying to get the go ahead to purchase Flash MX or Flash MX 2004 I am running Windows NT SP4. It does not mention it in the system requirements but can anyone say that Flash MX or the new MX 2004 will work on this operating system??? If not are their any alternatives such as an older version...more >>

Hi guys: Right now i'm developing a new page for a customer. I have a problem because this customer want to anounced other partners in popup window whithout browser frame in flash. How can i do that? I have been trying with javascript command wihth window.open("features"), but i didn't find...more >>

hello I create a menu bar that it has 6 button that is working separate and each one button does its on program anyway its working but has a problem that problem is when I running a button and is working then when I want click to another one and click in to a another button is working but in to t...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to get single colour logo to appear before the http:// text in peoples browsers? Help would be appreciated. zedcee ...more >>

when i make my swf file and i run it on my computer or on others it will run in slow motion mode even so there's no problems with the pc's on which i tried it on . y am i having this problem? ...more >>

My links page of my Intranet is a flash movie, the text when clicked links to the websites. However I can't find a way to load it into a blank page, it will only load into the main frame which is not very useful. Any ideas? Thanks Jon Howell ...more >>

When I make changes to my flash content then view it on the web I usually have to clear my cache, refresh my browser many times, then close the all browser windows and then re-opening one. THEN I see the changes! Why are these SWFs so hard to remove from the cache? I am using IE 6 on a PC. Any a...more >>

Hello all, I am triggering a function with an event using addEventListener in MX 2004 Pro. However I wan to pass an argument to the function but the syntax of addEventListener doesn't allow me to. eg: MovieInstance.ButtonInstance.addEventListener("click", FunctionName); If you try a...more >>

When I save out an as an eps and then open it in Photoshop. The colours look washed out. Is there anything I can do in flash apart from guesswork, lightening the colours and hoping for the best. e ...more >>

hello, Im very new to flash, and i was just wondering how you make a picture background, can u actualy aplly it, or is it just a picture on a layer and everything else is on top. what i want to do is have something like on the laborghini site (link below) thanks Referring URLs http://ww...more >>

What I'm trying to do is learn how cool motion graphics like http://www.astrostudios.com/ were made... I've found out I can?t simply import the swf into flash since movie clips won?t show up in the timeline, so my next best bet is to play back the movie in slow motion or frame by frame so I can s...more >>

I am using Flash MX on Windows 2000. I have created a swf which is my main page. On that page there are links which call other movie clips inside the main page, yet on a different level. What I want to do is to have those links on the main page to call (loadMovieNum) another swf, load it in a sp...more >>

hallo FRIENDS, I have some problem.... I have no flash font (fonts for flash).... if you have plz....plz...plz..... send flash fonts.... my e-mail address is, martoon_2001@hotmail.com or plz give me some web address where i can download free flash fonts...... plzzzzzzzzzz.....more >>

How do you set the sync to start, end and the number of loops for an audio clip in MX? Thanks in advance. -D- ...more >>

Hi, just downloaded Flash 2004 MX 2004 + Prof. Installed it. Opened a former .fla file I made in Flash MX. I get an error-message : Unexpected File Format What's wrong? Don't tell me I have to read the manual to open my old files? ...more >>

hi all was just wondering how do i position the flash movie file (yellow.swf) to a specific coordinate ? currently on rollover, it appears at 0,0 (upper left) corner.. thanks d on (rollOver) { loadMovieNum("yellow.swf", 1); } on (rollOut) { unloadMovieNum(1); } ...more >>

In Flash MX there was Expert mode where you typed in the code, and Normal mode where you could click the forms above the code window to put in the frame number, scene, etc. What is that in MX 2004? When I pull the "GoToAndPlay" command onto the script window, there is no longer the area above that...more >>

I am working on a website and I am using script that allows me to have pics scroll when I push specific buttons (simple stuff)...but for some reason the pics cover everything on the stage, even though they are on the bottom layer. Plz help... derek ...more >>

I've just migrated a very big app to 2004, and I have only 1 thing left to fix. I've migrated to the new syntax of the scrollpane, but now when content loads inside it, it does not center (I have to manually put the reg point top left of my content movieclip) It also enables the scroll bars on...more >>

Hello! I have made a short video in Apple's i-Movie apporx 60 sec and have exported it to a quicktime movie, a .mov file. The finished project will not be going to the web but to a Flash Projector to be burned to disc and be self contained I have succesfully imported it into flash. It play gre...more >>

Hi, Can anyone tell me why the panoramic 360 file doesn't work when I insert it into another flash file? The actionscripts and instance names are all there, however the flash file timeline is a bit longer in the new file but I also tried inserting the panoramic 360 file into it's own movieclip w...more >>

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I was sent and also have a swf file on my hard drive. When I try to open it it asks me for a program to open it with. The Flash Player is not listed in the programs. I have downloaded the latest Flash Player from Macromedia. I am using Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6. How can I get this file to...more >>

I've made a projector file from a flash movie made in Flash MX. When I test the projector file on Mac OS 8.6 it ask for carbonlib, but carbonlib only works on Mac OS 9.1. So are MX projector files on compatible on Mac OS 9.1 and up? Or does someone know of a work around? Thanks. ...more >>