The text in the Help files in Flash MX 2004 is tiny. It's also too light to read against the white background. Is there a way to change this, or are we stuck with it? ...more >>

I am having this problem that, if I double-click on swf file from Explorer, it opens in Flash player 4, therefore all I get is a blank file. I read somewhere on this forum that you could manually launch the executable for the Flash Player 6 or 7 & the location was specified but I can no longer ...more >>

Lately I tried to import some music files into my flash movie, and have been unsuccessful. I keep getting the message "One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them". The strange thing is, other music files that I have stored on my computer can be imported just fine, a...more >>

Hi, I am pretty new at flash, and I am having a severe problem when I run my cartoon. I am using Windows XP and Flash MX. I have two scenes so far, and sounds in both. When I play the movie the sound in the first scene plays nicely but in scene 2 the sound is non-existant, instead it plays in seemin...more >>

I am attempting to create an animated button wich gradually changes color on mouse rollover and gradually fades out again on mouse rollout. Now.. I've used a movie clip attached to the over state of the button for the rollover effect but how can I put a movie clip for the rollout effect? What woul...more >>

I have a dynamic text field. I have set the size to 10 point type in the properties window. When it renders, however, it is more like 22 point. This keeps all the copy from fitting into the allotted space. Why doesn't it render as 10 point? ...more >>

I need to set up a panel for the user within a flash movie similar to vcr controls: play/pause, fast forward and reverse, etc. Can anyone point me to a tutorial for this? Thanks. ...more >>

I am a contractor for a company that has a Flash application. They purchased the full Flash MX 2004 Studio product, but it requires Activation. I'm afraid to Activate the product because when I'm finished with this contract, the Flash product is supposed to remain with them. However, if I acti...more >>

Is this possible in either Flash MX or MX 2004... Basically I want to run Flash videos that have a media controller (play/pause/stop/etc). I know I can do this, among other ways, with the MediaPlayback component in Flash 7 using the URL field to point to the appropriate .flv file. Or I can cre...more >>

Hello all, I trying to port some Flash MX applications into Flash 2004 Pro and i've run into a small problem. I am able to fill the DataGrid with results from my database, but i can't seem to figure out how to obtain the Selecteditem of each row. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Richard M. ...more >>

Hi all, I have created some input textfields. Whatever the font family I set, the text is blur and the size seems to be larger than i set. What's wrong with input text or dynamic text ? What should i do to make them clear ? Thanks. ...more >>

Does Flash support Japanese text? ...more >>

I heard recently that flash sites are hard to find when using search engines. I am not very familliar with this side of things. What and where do search engines like google look for? I suppose that an ENTER html page (you know the ones, with get flash player, screen resolution recommendations etc...more >>

I know it is me, but I have looked around the forums and could not adapt any posted solutions to my problem. I have a button "A", that when select loads a movieclip "mc_B" into a empty place holder movieclip called "placeHolder1" (also the instance name) The script for button is:- on (relea...more >>

Hi, I made a website using flash and dreamweaver. Some people say that it looks good, but it takes to long to load each page. I'll appreciate if you can help me fixing this problem. The easiest way is if I reduce the animation, but I really want to use them. Please, take a look www.go-gator.com...more >>

Is there a technique or actionscripting code that can make a Flash movie appear to be panning across the stage back to the starting point? Can this be done without creating a large background file? I guess a second part to this question would be is if you use actionscript in a Flash movie, is i...more >>

Hi there... I was wondering if anyone knows the minimum system requirements for a Flash projector for the PC and MAC. I searched the forum and only found one post, but that post didn't have the official system requirements put out by Macromedia. Does anyone know where I can find these? I can't...more >>

Dreaming in TO, Toronto's newest Macromedia User Group, is dedicated to supporting users of Macromedia Dreamweaver. However, we are more than just a User Group. We are a Design Community, committed to the professional and business development of Macromedia Dreamweaver users, from the novice desi...more >>

ok, here's my problem... i need to create a web page with pictures and captions for each of them... i (or my client) need to be able to udate that page on-line - delete pictures, or upload pictures, and change captions. what do i need to use in order to create such page? the idea sounds very simple ...more >>

Hi all, I'm having some trouble with flash mx. Let me explain: - I have a MC that contains a linked text, instance name is "links" - I move the istance "links" on the center of my Stage - I move the istance "links" out of the Stage (x=1000, y=1000) - I don't see the text anymore but invisib...more >>

We're in the final stages of developing a Flash application which imports a lot of .jpg images. We've just now noticed that they seem to be getting re-compressed upon import, and in some cases this is causing unacceptable image degradation. The "use imported jpg data" checkbox is not available to ...more >>

I have published my movies in the windows projector format but my load movie function does not work. On buttons I have actionscript telling flash to load a movie into an empty movie clip. I realise that it is probably beacause it is telling the movie to load in an SWF file. Will I need to ch...more >>

Hi all, Need a bit of help with variables. I have a variable called LOADEDFILE, the value of this variable is "NAME". How can i make another variable using the contents of LOADEDFILE, so i need another variable called NAME or whatever the value of LOADEDFILE is? Any ideas? Thanks. L...more >>

Is there any way to turn this REALLY irritating 'feature' off? All I'm trying to do is cut some text from an InDesign document, and paste it into a text field in Flash Pro. However, everytime I try to do it, Flash moves the textbox into the centre, meaning I have to re-layout the page! There no ...more >>

Hello friends, Re: Flash 2004 Pro I am new to Flash and have a basic question that I have tried, to no avail, to solve through the Help area. How do I make a button when pressed, have the timeline jump to xx keyframe? Many thanks. ...more >>

Today I attempted to import a photoshop document, something I have been able to do before. Instead I received an error, telling my it can not open the file because of an error. I tried opening other Photoshop files, but no luck. I even resaved the file, but still no luck. Any ideas? I have t...more >>

I have a question that I hope someone can answer. I created a flash movie that plays when you visit the index page of my website. However, if you go to another page and then go back to the home page, the movie plays again. Is there some way to have the movie play when the person initally hits ...more >>

On http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/oldplayers.htm, you can download old Flash players for testing. But there are no instructions on how to install the ActiveX versions. Anyone know how to do this? Right clicking on the .inf and chosing Install doesn't seem to do it. -Je...more >>

Hi, I need to set up a pretty basic contact request form. I need to have Name Phone No. e-mail Country Then when they click send all info is e-mailed directly back to the site company's e-mail address. I know this is fairly basic to set-up using input text etc, but I don't know how...more >>

Hi, Is there away to curve static or dynamic text around a circular/curved line path. thanks. ...more >>

Hi, sorry about this off topic question, but what is the font used by Apple? Are there public variants? Thanks! ...more >>

How do I link a flash file from an html page and have it open in a new page at the correct size. An example, the flash is 320x240, but it open as a full page and is distorted. I am link from a button in an html page. Is there a better way to show and flash file? Thanks Dave K ...more >>

http://www.hpsolutions.com/rob/Fasten_Flash_v5.html I am having nothing but problems with this Flash movie. There is a mysterious image shifting going on during transitions from one banner photo to the next, which only occurs in the Web browser (tested with IE and Safari). You can't see it in ...more >>

I have used an array to create a number of speaker buttons which all have different soundbytes in them. The buttons function when the mouse hovers over them and vibrations emit from the speaker. My problem is that I want the vibrations to stop when the sound finishes but, for the life of me, I can...more >>

Is this the right forum for Flash Player issues? If so my problem is that I have Flash Player 7 installed (quite some time ago and just a few minutes ago also) and while Web sites show that I have 7 installed and will play the content, the standalone player still says Version 6. I've reboo...more >>

Well I've spent a lot of time with Flash 2004 now and can conclude absolutely that in its current state, it is absolutely unusable for the kind of work we do. We've just released a large application written in Flash MX with Firefly and it works really well. On the back of that, we HAD decided to ...more >>

Hi everyone, I have produced a cd-rom in flash mx and published it as an exe and a hqx and would like it to be viewed on both mac and pc. However it doesnt seem to work. When i burn it on my pc it doesn't work on my mac and vice versa. Can anyone help??? Thanks Charlene ...more >>

Is there a way to abort a running JSFL command? while (1) { } - seems a sure-fire way to hang Flash dead. Have I missed an option to kill a script, or is there none? And if there is none, heck, WHY?? And why isn't there a simple "command line" in the scripting window, for immediate command...more >>

Hello! In earlier versions of (before mx2004) flash you could choose if you want to write actionscript in basic or expert mode. This option seems to be unavailable now? It is only possible to make the actionscript in expert mode. Is this true? ...more >>

Hi, I've created an XML based image gallery in Flash. The problem is some of the jpg's aren't showing up in the movie. When I export the movie I do not receive an output error message and I've checked and rechecked to make sure the jpg's are in the appropriate folder. The code seems fine as ...more >>

Has Macromedia added the capability to name colors in Flash yet? I want to be able to see colors in a list view like FreeHand and name them what ever I want. The swatch panel sucks in every Flash version so far. Little tiny squares without any names attached to them. How am I supposed to know what c...more >>

I have a quicktime mov a couple of minutes long that is like a slide show with audio. Is there any way to take this into Flash MX, create a play, stop, forward, and pause buttons, and then export as a swf file that can be posted on the web and 'played'? It seems like a simple and obvious 'yes' an...more >>

Okay - know i can declare a variable when embeding a flash file in a web page. I know that i can add a dynamic text fiedl that is set to display a varible of that said name into a flash movie. So why is my flash movie not showing the vaible. It's listed in the html code, but now joy in displaying an...more >>

Hi, I'm a newbie to integrating video in Flash movies and i am in desperate need of some direction. My case is pretty simple (I am using MX 2004 Pro) - I have created a FLV file and I have my stage completed - I would like to make the FLV clip it progressively downloadable (since it's pretty b...more >>

I've completed a flash file which has a date countdown. My studio MX is under Win98se and my file works great. I've sent it to some friends who have Win millenium and others Win Xp and my file does not work under these OS .. Why ????????? Can somebody help Danyel ...more >>

Hello, I just got the Flash 2004 And just found out that Scale & Rotate tool is gone.......!!! [ctrl + Alt + S] pc. --Modify - Transform - Scale & Rotate.... That is the tool that I use the most and without it, I don't think I will buy the 2004. Please let me know what happened to that...more >>

I've been working on a button audio toggle that I finally have working okay. One problem I'm still trying to solve is disabling the hit state for each button when it is visible. Also, the movie load time takes too long, which I assume is due to the sound clip being embedded in the movie. Is the...more >>

When opening an flash 4 file the following line out of a while loop with i = i+1 Set Variable: "curangle" & i = eval ( "curangle" & i ) + eval "angle" & i ) in flash 5, it is converted to set ("curangle" add i, eval ( "curangle" add i ) + eval ( "angle" add i )); Only probl...more >>

The following code can not be read by flash player 7 but it can be read by Flash 6. <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://webto...more >>

Does anyone know a good website for getting wavs? I'm looking for anything, sound effects, people talking, anything. Or if you know of a good program that lets you create your own sound effects and stuff, please tell me what it is! Thanks ...more >>