When I run the swf file of my portfolio site (www.whoisdan.com) on my computer it isn't blurry. When I import it into an html file in dreamweaver, pop it on the remote site and view it through a browser, it's very blurry. I have anti-aliased the pixel font (fff atlantis) and set the text positions a...more >>

I'm in the process of refining a simple content management system I built with flash mx and php. The Content Management Tool is a simple flash interface that loads variables to a php script which creates a text file. The text file is then called by the public end which has been also built in ...more >>

can asp work in flash? I would like a flash movie to be able to read a database using asp that way it can load all the flash movies in that database that way when i add to my portfolio all i have to do is add the new flash files into the database and the mainflash movie displays it, using asp th...more >>

Hi, I'm a somewhat green Flash MX developer - I have a site at www.darrellraby.com that has 2 scenes - the first scene is an introduction, and the 2nd scene is the interactive site. I've noticed that if I click the "SKIP" button that I put in the introduction and it goes to the 2nd scene, the...more >>

I know that swfs exported as v6 are usually smaller than swfs exported for v5, but is it possible to get this size benefit if you've begun a FLA as exporting to v5 and then later on start exporting as v6? I have a series of FLAs that I've bene exporting as v5, but when exported as v6 are actually...more >>

Friends, I have created a quiz using flash templates. I am trying to export this swf file into another file. When bring this quiz.swf, it loses its background color, and sometimes even interactivity. Following is the code I am using: loadMovieNum("quiz.swf", 10); stop(); Is this the right way...more >>

Hi, I have a website in which .swf are embedded. These .swf share variables using sharedobjects. I am using a very clean code copied/pasted from a tutorial on shared object. In my browser window in IE, I've noticed the little dreaded yellow warning sign saying there's a Javascript error. I do g...more >>

hello every body i'm in the faculty of computer and information in cairo university and i'm wondering if there is anyone who can help me and tell me if there is a way to make a relation between action script and java i wish you can help me and i wish i can help some of you in programming with a...more >>

Most people have no problem accessing my flash web pages, but some can't. Here are the facts as I know them: I'm using Macromedia Flash MX, Version 6. Users with the problem don't get an error message, and are not prompted to download the Flash Player. They get a blank screen (they do get t...more >>

Has anyone ever seen a white paper and/or book on good Flash development habits? And I'm not talking about Actionscript. I'm talking about using folders in the Library or naming all imported files and layers in the timeline. Things like that. I could write it myself for staff and outsourced develope...more >>

I am using DataGlue to populate a listBox with a recordset. The list box is big enough to display 11 records with out scrolling. The problem is, if there are fewer then 11 records in my record set, the rest of the spaces in the list box display "null", and I get the message "index is out of range"...more >>

I want to take an image of binary numbers and add a perspective-transformation as the image travels from left to right (i.e., the numbers at the right hand side will appear smaller than those on the left hand side). How can that be done? Any help is greatly appreciated. Best regards, Jip...more >>

Hello Flashers I'm trying out ways to build an online exercise for which I need to embed some video in a Flash MX timeline. I've now managed to do this by importing from QT into Flash. However, what I do not understand is the role of the FLV file format - many newsgroup postings refer to...more >>

Hi all, I am very learned in Flash 5 but now that I want to go to MX I feel like an idiot. I know MX has the ability to stream video and not have to embed it and create a 5 meg swf file. I followed instructions as best I can but I can't figure it out. Here is the situation. I have a mov file t...more >>

I have created a website in Flash and it's embedded within an html page but I have to set the dimensions so that the movie scales but the x and y height are fixed so it can't be distorted and the movie can't be scaled more than 1024x768. I have played around with the publish settings but I can't g...more >>

Ok, I have a single monitor support video card(32MB), and would like to upgrade to something a bit more robust(128MB). Can any of you please suggest recommend some video cards to use in conjunction with the one I have on my system or one to just replace it. Thank you for your input. Elijah ooba...more >>

If I have a some *.MXP windows files, do the same *MXP files also work/install on a Mac? Or does the Mac version of Flash expect a different format? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, Can anyone tell me why the very useful drop down panels on the bottom of the Actions boxes have been removed FlashMX 2004? These were excellent if, like me, you weren?t an expert in Actionscript. When defining buttons etc they were ideal as they had panels like Scene/Type and Frame, and on ...more >>

I imported a movie as a linked library and I thought I had to publist as a quicktime in order to use this feature in MX, when I try to publish as a QT, I get this error "The installed version of quicktime does not have a handler for this type of macromedia flash movie" I have Qt 6.4 installed ...more >>

Hi. Can you please visit http://www.morningbreath.com - view portfolio. I am working on a site, for a magazine. They have different page layouts, which they would like advertisers to view. I thought it would be neat to set up the magazine pages, similar to the way Morningbreath set up its port...more >>

Hi, I use Flash Professional. Since I upgraded I can't "paste in place" When I copy text to replace the text in a static field it always paste it in the center of the stage. I can't try the Shift Command V shortcut because it is greyed out in the menu. Has anyone experienced this problem? I ...more >>

when i run publish preview, there is a small border of background around the outside. how do i get rid of this and make the preview fill the entire screen? thanks em ...more >>

The Conectics Group, a CommonHealth company, is looking for an advanced Macromedia Flash developer to work in our interactive multimedia department. This individual must have extensive experience in ActionScript programming and a solid understanding of computer science and programming concepts. ...more >>

Hi all, After finding out that the flash 7 player won't play my flash MX movies correctly, it seems that the only way to make it work is importing them into a flash mx 2004 movie. I have a lot of script references to _root in the original movies, and these will offcourse reference wrong. I s...more >>

I'm trying to distort a dynamic text field so it looks like its in perspective.. why won't Flash allow me to do this? I can do it with squares or circles I create, just not with text. I need it to be dynamic so I can have text fields entered in via varialbes. I've converted the text field to a ...more >>

I have a button that when rolled over, plays a movie clip with a sound in it. The movie clip loops as long as the user is moused -over the particular button. I have the sound set to stream because I want the sound to quit when the user mouses out of the botton. The problem I am having with the so...more >>

Would anyone have any examples of how to create a Jeopardy Style game. I'm wanting to use button or movie clips for each point value on the board. But I have no idea how to make them disappear after they have been hit once. Any help would be awesome...thanks alot. ...more >>

I have a program that runs great on my local machine but not on my hosted machine. I am loading external mp3 files from my Flash MX program..exported to Flash 6. The sound plays on my local machine even when my path is linked to my server... BUT when I run the program from my web site I do not her...more >>

Hi, i'm experiencing troubles with printing a page containing a Windowless flash movie. When the print button is pressed, the flash content goes upside down, mirrored like ?! I've tried with extra simple content (just a shape), I get the same behavior. I use IE 6 sp1. You can see an example in...more >>

Greetings. I have a Flash movie that pulls text from an external text file. I want to be able to have links (from the text file) that, when clicked, will open a new sized window. I have tried the MMopenWindow behavior, but every time I click the link my original home page reloads. I did get the pl...more >>

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any sort of batch processing within any version of flash. I'm not aware of one, but that never means there isn't such a thing. The issue I have is that the course that was completed last month was done using flash mx and exported out witht the mx player. Of course...more >>

Hi, If I take a BMP and make it a graphic symbol I can drag it to the stage: the positioning of this graphic in 2004 is the same as in MX with the information window showing the graphic's dimension and position information - I can therefore give this an X/Y position of 0.0 to force it to the top ...more >>

Greetings! How do I make a graphic (imported .gif picture) flash up (/get highlighted) for a couple of seconds? I have a train travelling between a dozen stations, so when the train approaches a certain station it has to flash for 2-3 seconds. Any help greately appreciated! ...more >>

I did a new install of Panther over the weekend on my 15" 867 Powerbook with 768MB Ram and then installed StudioMX 2004. When I launch FlashMX2004 Pro I get the following fatal errors: -------------------------------------------------------------- Flash XML parsing fatal error: An exception oc...more >>

I've been reading the help files which don't seem to help much in using the new loader components in Flash Pro 2004 - or at least they don't make sense to me. Any instructions on doing a basic preloader, e.g, or using the accordion [menu ?] or other menu components? While I'm at it... I feel ...more >>

I currently have two buttons - -- button 1 -- on (release) { myClip._visible = true; } -- button 2 -- on (release) { myClip._visible = false; } How can I toggle visibility, using the same button? I did this once a long time ago, I think I used a number instead of the word...more >>

Dear sirs i am checking up some flash technique and i need help lets take general linear equasion y=ax+b. and text asside it. for example "Y = ax + b has slope _____ and intersection ________ this function looks like that:" so i wonder if i can do with flash the folowing thing: ...more >>

Is there a way that once a movie has played and unloaded that if you bounce to a non-flash page (i.e. HTML (.htm/.asp) page) that when you back to the page it won't play that movie again. I using: loadMovieNum("images/flash/rainmaker_v1.swf", 1); to load it. I know it would be easier remaini...more >>

when i preview in flash, everything looks great. when i go to publish, i can't seem to get things fit on the window just right. either it's all cramped into the top left corner, or it's spread out and not centered. i just want the published version to exactly look like the previewed version, fitting...more >>

I'm trying to position a movie that I've loaded via: loadMovieNum("images/flash/rainmaker_v1.swf", 1); I've tried: _level1._x = 30; and things like this without success. It's loading at 0,0. Help? ...more >>

Hi, yesterday I installed Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) on my Macintosh G4. Now I have big troubles with some of my fonts. Suddenly there is a cotter in each space charakter of my texts. When I restart my Mac with MacOS 10.2.6 the problem is gone. (same flashproject). I got this problem with these fonts ...more >>

Hi All I am having trouble figuring out to target links made in flash to specific frames dreamweaver, is there a way to designate this? Any ideas please... Thankyou. ...more >>

i want users to download Word text files from my site. what commands would i use to allow a button to do this? thanks em ...more >>

Hi, I am looking for a program that converts the flash size report to a document that can be used with preloaders, I am sure you know what I mean if you have used this yourselves. It looks something like &1&120 when it is done (taken rom my memory). Many thanks flashfriends! Peter ...more >>

Is it possible to publish to flash projector vers. 7 so that there are no menus in the projector window? If so....How? ...more >>

Hi, I have to load external images into a movie clip on the stage. Is there any metod to check the image has been actually loaded? thanks in advance for your help Rev ...more >>

Hi, I've made a slideshow in Flash using the preset template. It works fine when in dreamweaver when the correct file is open, however when i use a link from another page the slideshow does not appear. All that happens is a white box appears. Please help!!! thnx ...more >>

Hi people, I am soon going to provide my client with a swf for there website. But is there a way that I can stop the swf working, just incase they do not pay up. I'm sure i read about a way to do it, but i can't remember how. Thanks Dave "In the land of the blind, the ...more >>

Hi I have a flash game where i wan to track the user's score for it. What i have done currently is that the user will login thru a flash interface, and when he click on a btn, the flash game will be loaded. The question is, how do i send the score back to the database for this user's rec...more >>

Is there anyway to read into FlashMX a Excel spreadsheet cell or an Access database field to replace text symbols. I want it to read from a database and update the symbols at startup of the SWF. No need to go the other direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Eric ...more >>

Hi All, I am facing the worst problem in my carrer as Flash Animator. I am just hired to develope a mutimedia / highly animated Flash Business CD. The Size of the presentation should be 100-180 MB (as project manager says) whereas the FPS should be around 30. Is it possible to do that in Flash MX ...more >>

Hi All, I am facing the worst problem in my carrer as Flash Animator. I am just hired to develope a mutimedia / highly animated. The Size of the presentation should be 100-180 MB (as project manager says) whereas the FPS should be around 30. Is it possible to do that in Flash MX (Ver...more >>

Hello for all, I am trying to make aninteraction between 2 swf files on the same html page (on Dreamweaver). The first swf is a menu, that should ask, on Release, 2 things : - It should allow the layer that contain the second swf on the page to appear (be visible). - It should launch th...more >>

Hello, I have noticed that the dynamic fields of text in MX do not visualize special characters like ÀÅÂçÑÏÚèé etc... If instead, always from MX, I export the swf as Flash 5, the loading of the text is correct. Some suggestion? thanks, Trestigres ...more >>

Hi people, how can i remove the border that surrounds the scrollpane component? Thanks Dave "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"...more >>

^_^ Hello flashers!! I have a country map with 33 cities on it, I also have the distance chart between each two of those cities. I want to have the ability to click any two cities to find the distance between them. plz help how can i do that thanks ...more >>

I want to create a guestbook and I want to use the guestbook of Flashbible.....or this one: http://www.flash-db.com/GuestBookTut/ But both have problems with special signs like: & $ # % ^* ( ) _ + especially the & sign causes trouble. After the & sign, n text is seen...how can i solve this? ...more >>

Can anyone out there help me how to create a "music bar player" just like ones on official artist pages? ...more >>

Hi, sorry for my newbie question. I need the one.swf starts at 20th frame at the first time but at the second time (call by two.swf) I need the one.swf starts at first frame. The action of first frame of one.swf is: if (i>0) { gotoandplay(20) } The action of last frame of two.swf (bu...more >>

I am tring to achieve the below.. Basicly, I am using loadmovie to load a jpeg housed in a SWF as a single item. This works fine (FLASH 5).It is a gallery where the images are loaded on the fly. However, I want to fade the image in. Which is ok, as this is done in the time line. What I am co...more >>

problem: i have flash (http://www.vehicle.cz/Vehicle2003/webc.html) which read some texts from *.html files (for example: when you click on Enter WebSite in the center of the page, then on pulldownMENU and then on obchody...texts which is on left page of book is loaded from html files); when i´m und...more >>

I installed Studio MX(flash 6, etc...) on my new dell labtop and i can't read the small writting such as the fram number in flash, or the submenus in dreamweaver? What do i have to do to fix this? My labtop's screen resolution is 1600X1200. I've already tried setting the window setup on the same ...more >>

Hi all, I would like to be able to preload my dynamic swf. The swf would include a number of images, which means the size of the movie will depend on the project chosen in the main movie. The content would be coming from a database so maybe I could have the image sizes down there too. Is th...more >>

I have just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3, Panther, and have noticed an extremely annoying slowdown with Flash MX 2004 Pro. This may already be an issue with OS 10.2, however I have only just started using MX 2004 Pro since my upgrade. Has anyone else encountered annoying delays when switching betwe...more >>

When we publish OR insert Flash through any MX products the object tag in HTML page is embedded with player version 6.0.29.0. Can I change customize the player version? thanks sirimalla ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to make a few pieces of wheat in a field move with an ease back and forth when the mouse touches them. As if they were waving in the wind back and forth. Any help would be great. D ...more >>

In the past I've had occurences where something moves outside the boundries of the .swf file but continues to be seen on the web page...I'm working on a design and trying to use this idea to my benefit but now that I need the problem I can't seem to recreate it. I've seen it used effectively on the ...more >>

Can anyone recommend good audio software that will record in mp3 format and is user-friendly, and a good microphone? I am getting started with adding audio to my Flash file. All of the audio will be voice-over narrative. I plan on creating up to twenty audio files, each running 30 seconds to two ...more >>

Hey everyone - Quick question and problem. I want the code below to automatically load the data from the submitURL as soon as the user enters the frame. Unfortunately, this only works if I leave it the way it is and have a getVotes button call it. Any thoughts? Thanks!! Here is the code -...more >>

Hey guys how can I make my movie resize when I resize my flash player window?? I mean, when I resize the window that the movie is playing in, can I have the movie resize with it? When I click the window open to the full size the movie stays small. ohh and I am using flash 5. thanks a lot-------...more >>

Hey guys how can I make my movie resize when I resize my flash player window?? I mean, when you resize the window that the movie is playing in, can I have the movie resize with it? When I click the window open to the full size the movie stays small. I haven?t found this---and I need this for tomo...more >>

I need to tween a cw motion of a moon rising up over the horizon..whereby the rising stops at a given point, but the cw motion continues a couple of turns.. the problem I am having is controlling the cw motion to be slow and constant throughout the entire movement. I can do it if I make it a long tw...more >>

What is up with the double spacing of every line you type.. This line should be on the next line, but it's two lines down instead. Makes it hard to put together and makes every line look like a different paragraph. ...more >>