Often I receive the message you need Macromedia Flash Player, I click on the Install now, at the macromedia download center, and the only result is the blank box with the triangle, circle and square in the upper left hand corner. The paragraph below the empty box is: "When you see the install...more >>

Hello everyone, i use macromedia Flash MX 6.0 , and i import a AVI video and it asks me for quailty and 2 other stuff, i put all of them and 100% and try everything then i press ok. Then the avi video is there, but its weird quailty and its grey and not the same picture as the way the AVI is.. Help....more >>

hi, i hope that this is an easy one...i'm trying to burn some of my .swf files to disc so that i can give them to someone and altough i test the disc on my computer and it works fine, when i give the disc to someone else to view on their computer, they can't open the files. even if they have the fla...more >>

Ok i just install Central didn´t get any problems whith the installation but now the program just doesn´t work??!! I mean i press the Central icon at my Desktop and no program appears in my Windows(XP)...I also try to install some applications from Central but nothing happens, no program...nothin...more >>

I have a preloader which is working very slow, it works by loading frames. How can I make it go quicker, also does the preloader load faster by using KB load, and how do I do this? I need this solved soon, because of the launch date, is coming very close! Any help is greatly appreciated! ...more >>

Hello everyone, I just started using Macromedia Flash MX, and had a few little problems with Importing sounds and music files. When I try File>Import and select the song i want, the majority of the time, I get an error that says: "One or more files were not imported because there were prob...more >>

Ok I'm pretty new to flash and I'm wanting to make a cartoon. The problem is this i can make the animations just fine, but what I would really like to know is how can I Take my own recorded dialoge for the characters and successfull match it up with the animation and make it look decent? ...more >>

I've recently started using Flash MX 2004 Pro at work, and I was working on some files today I hadn't yet worked on in 2004, only in MX. When I do a Test Movie on these files, I get an Output window full of errors like this: **Error** C:\Documents and Settings\rdd003\Local Settings\Application D...more >>

The fonts are not readable in the panels, as per screenshot http://www.groovygraphics.co.uk/screenshot.gif On the site is only helps you for windows 95 and I have XP. I've searched on here but have not found any solutions to this problem. Could someone tell me how to fix it, if you can that is? I...more >>

Hello - I am basically using the same principles as a preloader bar but I am not doing a preloader. I have a value from a database say 50 (which I am turning into a percent) and I want to have a rectangle bar start at 0(invisible) and stream to 50% then stop. I have seen this before with some...more >>

I have a movie with some text that fades in with an alpha increment taking place..0-100% When I scrub the timeline it looks exactly like it should....however, when I test movie in any form it does not work out like it should. The text comes in immediately at 100% alpha...but scrubbing the time...more >>

hi guys, can u answer my question?i am using flash 5, when i am trying to fill the shape with bitmap ,it is filling with tile effect. but i want it to be a stretch effect(even though it is a small image) in the shape(say in circle). how should i do that? thank you guys, ...more >>

Evereytime I start up flash, it says "Unexpected File Format" how can I fix that? But thats not my only problem.. When I click on anything under "Create From Template" It says "Failed To Open Document" Someone Please Tell Me How To Fix This. ...more >>

Can anyone suggest a book(s) that gives tips, tricks, codes, or templates for specific Flash elements such as text or picture scrolling, preloaders, music controls ... etc. ...more >>

FLMX04 I have the following in an #include file; why doesn't it work?? //---------------- Math.prototype.forceBetween = function(num,minNum,maxNum) { return(Math.prototype.max(Math.min(num,maxNum),minNum)); }; ASSetPropFlags(Math.prototype, "forceBetween", 7); //---------------- I'v...more >>

I have an animation that loops. However, I also have a preloader on it. My problem is when all the frames are loaded and the animation is continuosly looping you can see in the first couple of frames the movie clip. Is there a way to hide the mc without effecting the preloader? ...more >>

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hey guys, I'm working on a map in flash MX. When you move your mouse over a building name a circle MC flashes over the particular building. That's no problem at all..the problem comes when I zoom in on the map. When you zoom in on the map it doesn't move the circle MC accordingly to make up for ...more >>

My stage displays all objects in "outline" mode and I can't find where to change the setting to "Design" so I can see the layout in the colors in which I design. The flash movie has the correct colors display, but the design stage show all objects as outlined objects. Please help this is very d...more >>

Hello, I was hoping that someone can explain to me how I go about making a link out of an entire image. You see I'm making a popup ad for a website and it's dims are 333px by 215px.....I know how to make the text a hyperlink, but how about the rest of the window. I want the whole window to be h...more >>

Alright, this code works... if (courseTag.childNodes[k].nodeName == "Name") the I properly find the correct nodename with the tag "Name" the node would look like this. <Name>This is a test</Name> I then try to read the node with this courseTitle = courseTag.childNodes[k].nodeVal...more >>

how can i do a basic shape tween while setting the opacity level of the basic shape at the same time? i can't seem to do both. when i group the shape i can set the alpha, but it won't tween. and the opposite when i break the group apart. thaks. ...more >>

is it possible to send to flash that is lodad into director events or callling a function that in flash from director but not the known ones like rotstion and so on but function that i build? thanks in advance peleg ...more >>

I want to create a flash movie by importing a series if jpgs to the stage. I pick the first one and it knows it's part of a sequence and asks if i want to import all of them. I say yes. All is good, but the jpgs are 320 x 240 and they don't come in at the zero point of the 320 x 240 stage. How c...more >>

In the design review for an upcoming project, we identified the possibility of streaming some video using the new Flash Video capabilities. I was tasked with an action item of finding out if Flash supports the MPEG4 standard. After reading a Flash Video white paper it appears as though it doesn't,...more >>

I want to create a smiple alpha motion tween on some dynamic text that I have created. This I have done on the time line, and I works fine. However when I test the movie it fails to work. Can anyone offer me some help. King Regards Danny ...more >>

Hi all. I have a small app I?m just about done doing. It seems to be working great except on some Mac machines. The app will in the end, grab cards from a table and compare hands. Flash collects the cards and send the hands server side for win/loss ratios. Everything seems to work great except for t...more >>

Hello, Can you tell me, instead of preloading a JPEG in a flash movie is it possible to load it into a frame when that frame is arrived at through normal movie playing, to cut down on total movie size and downloading ? is this a good idea ? Sincerely Chris --- Outgoing mail is cert...more >>

I have a static text field whith some text on it, and i would like to Justify it with the device font option selected so that the text appears crisp...The problem is that it just doesn´t work the text appears always align at left althought the justify option is On. But if i don´t use device font...more >>

Flash novice requires help! I have created a flash presentation which I need to autorun on a CD. How do I now get my presentation to appear centrally on a black background, regardless of screen size, without menus, etc. Do I have to move to onto Macromedia Director? ...more >>

I am developing a project in Flash MX. It is published as an .exe file. When running it on a new computer with XP Home Edition, Pentium 4 w/HT, 512 RAM, the flash player will act strangely. It will all of the sudden start the swf from the beginning or just close and ask if I would like to report ...more >>

Hi All, My site works fine on my local PC, but when I publish it to the web, the getURL("myFile.ext", _blank); does not open a separate window. What happens is this: 1) I have 5 buttons: home, synopsis, resume, portfolio, and contact. They each have a loadMovieNum("name.swf", 1); 2) The Ho...more >>

Do you have to publish for the Flash 7 player to take advantage of the enhanced video capabilities of MX04, or can you publish for Flash 6 and still get the same performance? ...more >>

Hi, I am little stuck at the moment and I am wandering if anyone at there can help at all.... I am trying VERY hard to loop indefinately a streaming .flv file - does anyone have any ideas ?? thanks for anyhelp recieved! MArk ...more >>

Hiya All, OK...I am a raw raw Newbie at flash. So I now have the presentation finished using mutiple scenes. The whole thing is 22 minutes long without any music. I have mixed together a track for this, and saved it in both mp3 and wav formats (file sizes are quite large). What I want to do is pu...more >>

I'm looking to license or buy flash games which would be suitable for all age groups. I don't need the source code but I intend to make them available from my site, so some slight customisation of your game will be required. Your game will need to accept a username from a PHP script before th...more >>

Sorry for the lame question... But here it is... I created a glowing button set with Flash MX and I cant get each individual button to act as its own link...Each button needs links to its own html file... Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks! ...more >>

Hi can anyone please help. I have a flash movie with 5 buttons. I want some code, that depending on what the user has 'tabbed' on to with the keyboard when they hit the 'ENTER' key will run a specific action for that button. i.e so you can navigate using the keyboard and enter as well as usi...more >>

For some reason flash dont seem to be working in my web browser, hence i cant see animations any more, the easiest thing is i know, to just reinstall flash player 7 from the downloads section, but when i go to install it the browser just hangs, and i dont see anything downloading, is there module i...more >>

If I import graphics into the library and don't actually create an instance anywhere in the timeline, are the graphics included in the published .swf? If so, is there a way to dynamically load these? I'm trying to work around a problem with loadMovie I posted about a few minutes ago. Is there a...more >>

Hello! I need help locating a slide show source I downloaded some time ago. Since then I had a HDD crash and the source was lost. I remember downloading the source at one of the many resource sites for flash. The slide show has a number of thumbnails on the right side. If a TN is clicked it ex...more >>

Hi people, hope this doesn't sound to odd but I am trying to reverse the timeline, ok let me better explain it: I have a button which when you rollover it pushes a panel to the right, what I want to happen is have the panel pushes to the left when you rollout (effectively reversing the timeline 1...more >>

I want to exlore flash mx and video streming. Has someone interesting links about this topic? Thank you - Mark ...more >>

Ive been asked to do quite a few CDRoms lately, with loads of crossfading, moving masked images usually all full screen. trouble is, the swfs run slow unless the machine they are on have like 1gb of ram or more, old machines just chug along, and macs do worse. should i be doing this sort of th...more >>

Hello, We have been doing some extensive testing to get self installed IPIX movies working on IE (5.2.2) with flash. Here is what is meant to happen, a flash movie opens a popup window using getURL. The popup window has an embedded (java applet) IPIX movie (tested in IPIX .ipx and IBM Hotmedia...more >>

Could anybody please explain me what is the profit of having multiple scenes? What is a big difference between pasting movieclips into a scene and jumping between scenes? Thank you. ...more >>

hey all (again) anyone got a telephone number for macromedia customer services in the UK? Cheers, John Muckley ...more >>

Okay, here's my dilemma. I have a large, corporate client who wants the audience to download Flash 6 from there own servers (instead of MM) when Flash 6+ is not detected. I believe there are a few permissions/security issues over there in downloading the latest version of Flash. Do I make thi...more >>

Im trying to create a dynamic password verification but am encountering problems can someone please help me out?? This is what Ivev got // moveTo //crear clip para contenedor de caja de texto _root.createEmptyMovieClip("nombre_mc", 1); //Formatos para Textos defaultFormat = new TextFormat()...more >>

Im going to dedicate valuable time yto learning a database. I would like to hear some suggestions as to where I should lead my effort: Access, MySQL, etc?? ...more >>

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Just curious, I have a substantial amount of graphics, movie clips, etc on a timeline. In the course of moving things around, extra keyframes are sometimes added by Flash. I try to be diligent and delete them when I remember to do it. My question is: What is the impact of having unnecessary...more >>

Hi! I hav created a slideshow presentation in Flash MX 2004. In the first slide I have made a movie clip that runs when the file i started. Then in slide 7 i want the clip to run again, but the clip is shown as if it allready has been run. What can be the problem? Is there some way to re-play the...more >>

Hello everyone, I'm happy to have found this place. I hope you guys can help me out. I've been working on a Street Team Project for a musical artist for about a month now. Its an online board game consisting of video clips and sounds. The premise of the game consists of landing on a space, cli...more >>

I have install a Traditional Chinese XP Pro with all latest security patches, direct X ....etc Now enconter a problem of cant viewing flash website content According to Macromedia Website suggestion 1)There are two solutions to this problem (Add or Remove program -->select IE 6 Repair optio...more >>

i want to have a small text box open when a button on the main page is clicked. i try get URL but the entire browser window opens. i just want a little popup window about 1/4 the size. how do i make this happen? thanks em ...more >>

Hi! I`m building a site with some movies and scripts inside. Then i´ve created a new scene to work as a preload. The problem is that my adressing is not working no more( i have a movie that in the ends up with _root.gotoAndPlay(38) - that´s been ignored( it´s playing frame 1). My question is: Once i...more >>

Just Curious: What language is Flash MX 04 developed in ? (ie java? C++ ?? ...??) TIA ...more >>

Help! I'm trying to create an animation of a person walking and am using shape tweens to move his legs. While everything seems to look okay, while I'm designing it, sometimes the leg disapears between tweens. Is this a bug? Help! Thanks! ...more >>

I'm designing a new page and I'd like it to include a "Quote of the Day", which will be a different quote for each day of the year. I'm thinking that I can find 365 quotes out there, put them into an access database, and use coldfusion to (1) check the date on the server to retrieve a record and (2...more >>

ok I'm almost a total noob at flash I won a copy of it and I'm trying to learn it. I can do some stuff not alot of if you replay please put it in step by step for me please thanks. Ok first questions I'm trying to make a website in flash (I know its going to take for forever for me to do) b...more >>

Hi all :) Ive creating a flash file in MX Professional and tried to open it in just the MX version and its giving me "unexpected file format" error - are they not compatable?? Cheers ash ...more >>

Granted, the Japanese market took a beating yesterday that affected the NASDAQ today, but... .... from reading about all the woes over Flash 2004 MX, I'm not surprised... Macromedia slumps on slow start of flagship software Thu October 23, 2003 11:26 AM ET NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters) - ...more >>

Following flashplayers file is created automatically in my PC when I visit some internet site. And whenever I find this file, I do delete it. Of course it doesn't make any problems, but it always irritates me. To prevent above irritation, I did install flash player. And flash MX is also i...more >>

Please help me...I having problem to convert my swf file into mpeg file. Please advice me what software is best converter..I did try to use swf2avi but it seem to be problem with the audio which my video came out without audio and picture is not same quality like swf. Any suggestion is always we...more >>

I'm trying to install the trial version and when it starts to install there is an error that says the following: "Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is not supported on this operating system" but I have Windows ME, please tell me what's wrong!! Thank you. ...more >>

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