Hi, is there an easy way to determine the connection speed of a visitor in Flash MX ? Distinguish between modem and high-speed should be enough. Any ideas ? Stefan ...more >>

Hi. Can you tell me why onion skinning does not work in test movie or in publishing flash movie? Thank you. ...more >>

I'm using a trial version of flash professional and tried to open a .fla created in flash mx. I get an error messge that says "Unexpected file format". Is this a bug in my trial or do I need to do something special to open an older version .fla? ...more >>

Hi all, I can't seem to find any help on kerning/ tracking text in dynamic text(fields). All I can find (on this great-big-internet) are workarounds, like using seperate MC's containing a textField for a single character. This creates a whole new problem: One would have to define so many varia...more >>

I am particularly interested in movie size and alignment glitches. ...more >>

Either from Flash or javascript to prevent picture-snatchers from doing their job? ...more >>

I was wondering in flash, how can I get %target% I'm want to get the variables like: %name% %pass% %email% etc.. I know how to do it HTML, but not in flash, anyone know how to help? - Daniel T. Daniel T. Cell: 426-6247 email: secret_ident101@hotmail.com AIM: secret ident 24...more >>

Scenario: Three files: main.swf new.swf samples.swf new.swf is a brand new file. I put the scrollpane component and tell it the contentpath is "samples.swf". Play the movie and it works fine. main.swf was a Flash MX file which has now be...more >>

OK: Here's my question (forgive me if it's a dumb one): Can I have communication between my Main Movie and a movie loaded into it? I want to have my menu/navigation system as a Loaded Move, which would control things in my Main Movie. Can this be done and if so I'd like to know the ...more >>

HOWTO: Create help files + CodeHints in Flash MX2004 Pro? just looking for quick reference... // chall3ng3r // ...more >>

Question: I have a dynamic text field which is filled by a .txt file. Now I want a certain font in that dynamic text field. But how do i make it? I want everybody to see that font, even if they don't have that certain font installed on their pc.... Help me? Thnx!...more >>

Hello - I am doing a poll in Flash and MS Access. Everything else is fine but I cant figure out how to set up the DB so that I can access (In one Frame) the DB to find out how many times choice A was chosen, Choice B, etc. Once I get that into Flash then I can do everything else, its just the s...more >>

I am trying to create a photo album in flash mx 04 pro. This album is choreographed to music. When ever I play the scene on the stage the pictures that I inserted at specified times match up perfectly to the beat of the music relative to that time, but when I export the file to a .SWF or run the t...more >>

I have a fairly lengthy soundbyte (30 seconds) its mostly speaking with a few pauses. My goal is to have an anamated figure do the talking but its difficult to sync the pauses up with the mouth movement... I know a while back I was able to move the timeline slider back and forth over the sound ...more >>

Whenever I publish an .swf file in Flash Player7 (whether it be AS1 or AS2) the issue of case sensitivity becomes a problem. I use .as files to load my remoting services to save time and wrongly have been using .setGatewayURL and not .setGatewayUrl which has had me searching for some time to find a ...more >>

Hi I just downloaded Trial version of Flash MX 2004 and there aren't modes Normal/Expert in ActionScript . And there is only expert mode. Does anyone know if there is some plug-in to download for Normal mode, because I am beginner and it was better for me. Thanks for your help. ...more >>

I am not new to flash, but so rarely use it I still consider myself a "newbie". I have some music clips that I took off a CD. I made them into wav files and imported into flash MX and set up the clips to play on buttons. There are 5 clips and the total file size is enormous! 296K is there any...more >>

Hi! I have one main swf, which loads many smaller swf-files with loadMovie method. Then again, these smaller swf's load jpeg's and other data inside. However, if a small swf is in a different folder than the main swf, loading jpg picture inside the smaller one doesn's work. This is because loadMo...more >>

hii, when i make a simple motion tween, the animation not always so smooth according to what?? ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I have two quick questions regarding action scripts. 1- Is there a script that is like "goto" where you define the frame number, but instead of giving a frame number every time you can tell flash to go to the "next frame"? 2- Is there a script that is like "goto" where you...more >>

Dear Brajeshwar, I uploaded a simple video to my server and tried to stream but its not streaming well as in the macromedia conference sample video. Can u please check my website below and tell me what i have to do to get a good streaming. Should Ihave to host the video in flash communication ...more >>

Hi - I am using loadMovieNum to load a new movie in place. If I want to BACK to the older movie, I could use loadMovieNum to load it, except I would want it to go back to the SCENE that sent me to the new movie. Is there a way to send parameters to a movie with loadMovieNum, and then look for these ...more >>

My small company has licensed distribution rights. My developers are all gone, the flash distribution cd is not in it's place and I need to redownload the Flash Player like soon (1hr) and make some more distribution copies. Please help if you know how to redownload the player again from the site. Th...more >>

I can't import Swift 3D .swft files into Flash MX 2004 Pro. Is this a bug macromedia is aware of? -Bloke ...more >>

I have a really weird problem. Some of flash files(including swf's and exe's) which were created in Flash4 cannot play on my system with flash 2004 player. It only shows standard flash rpojector window with white screen and stnads like that. However, some flash4 files play normally. What is the prob...more >>

Hey folks, What in the world is going on....I mean, why is Microsoft taking this route in regards to the upcoming IE release for next year, in regards to the ACTIVE X stuff...Yeah, u know what I mean....Is it because, the web is moving more into FLASH based WEB-SITES, thanks to Macromedia. Th...more >>

Hello, Does anyone here have any experience building (or reading about) a Flash-based html editor? If so, was it a good experience? I can't seem to narrow down a search to an appropriate page on Macromedia so I thought I'd query the forums. I'm not looking for a third party tool. I want...more >>