I'm trying to have a flash menu have the links to get url to frames on a site. Anybody know how to do this? Thanks ...more >>

Hello, It seems that opening and closing several .swf files using IE 6.0 causes the whole site to freeze up. I'm not sure if I have a problem with a cache limit. Or with the server and flash. Or flash and the client. Or if there is a specific way that I need to close each .swf file to allow t...more >>

I am working on changes to a web site to support the upcoming release of Internet Explorer which has additional ActiveX alerts in order to get around a patent suite. It is my understanding that Flash objects require a movie paramater in order of IE to load. This requirement causes the new ActiveX...more >>

Dear Macromedia Component guys... There seems to be something very important missing from the new TextArea component; the ability to change the Text Format. Changing the style doesn't help, because it won't show up if you set the myTextArea.html = true; Is there any way to dynamically change ...more >>

I have just switched jobs, and am now doing flash developing on a Mac that runs OS 9.1 I am a PC person and am shocked with how incredibly sluggishly Flash MX runs on my system. Are there any tips out there (besides go out and buy a PC) to help optimized my development time? Also, are there o...more >>

I have had Flash 5 for some time and am just getting around to learning. I am able to link external sites to standard block text using the Character Panel by entering the full url in the URL box, however when I build the site in Dreamweaver the text links open in the same window (I want to keep the...more >>

Can anyone help me? No components are displayed in my components panel. I checked the folder and all the version 2 components are there, but they just won't load up. What can I do? ...more >>

Hey guys, i have a flash movie that i am running from windows projector and i'd like it to start maxmized, does anyone know how i can achieve this? Also, I'd like to change the title at the top of the windows projector (which is now "Flash") to something else? I've heard of some software that can...more >>

Hey nobody is giving answer to my question, so i think this is very hard question for gurus. this forum is not at all usefull........ come on gurus, solve this.. ...more >>

Hi. Please. I'm trying o create a asite in flash. I have a contact button. When the timeline stops I wants the user to see input/text fields for: name email address message ....followed by a submit button. As far as scripts go, all i know is that my site host supports CGI scripts...is ...more >>

I want to have a text feild or movie clip that reads a value from html. The font I have to use is not a system font, so I cant use dynamic text. I have number feilds that go from 1 to 999, and need to be able to specify what number they will display at any one time with a line of code in the html. ...more >>

How do you make flash exe, and Mac projector files fullscreen for a CD? Are there any good tutorials for CD creation from Flash on the internet or in a magazine or book somewhere? I specifically need to make a Hybrid CD from flash. Thanks for the info. Aaron ...more >>

`hello, it appears to me that flash just like that seems to be speeding up movies. I have an electron that I make round, but the speed is rapidly getting higher. Does anyone know a remedy to this problem? tnx, Looman ...more >>

I'm trying out the Slide presentation environment in MX 2004 professional. As I understand it, each slide has its own timeline. Can I use that timeline just as I would in a regular movie? In other words, do I have a number of independent flash movies, one per slide? I have been trying to do a sto...more >>

Hi all, I can't seem to get rid of the black 1 pixel border that surrounds a scroll pane. is there actionscript that can make this disappear? The following link posts the swf. Is this possible??? http://www.naviplan.com/_donovan/news.htm Donovan Referring URLs http://www.navip...more >>

I have dynamic text field that is loading text from external txt file. I want to put link in that text that will have asfunction and javascript link that will open new browser window. But I can't get two links to work together only the first one is working. It might sound a bit complycated so I am p...more >>

Was wondering if anyone tried the new Microsoft browser after they announced that it will have to make changes: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/intern...s.ap/index.html Download: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/ All of a sudden my Flash content isn't working right, neither is my database in...more >>

Does anyone know how to create a button that appears disabled and tests for an event to happen that will enable it. ...more >>

Can anybody tell me how to write variable values to a txt file? Thanks ...more >>

I have my flash movie in the middle of dynamic HTML but the flash movie is on top of the expanding menu items. I've searched the knowledge base for TAGS, etc. to move the flash movie to a different order within the HTML document, i.e. z-order = -1, etc.. Any ideas? thanx Chris ...more >>

Hi everybody, playing arround with the new components, I noticed that the scrollpane scrollbar doesn't seem to shine green (blue/orange) on mouseover / press - - - like the ones here on mm.com do....Only the arrow buttons shine green - but what would I have to do, to let the scrollbar shine ?? Pl...more >>

When I tab to a button, I'd like to see only the buttons over state and not the yellow FocusRect. Is there any way to make the FocusRect invisible, but still have tab navigation among buttons? Less importantly (but desirable) is to have a button with keyboard focus display its down state when th...more >>

I have a working web page at www.personal.psu.edu/jlh369 but I have been unable to produce what I see in professional web pages. My vision is to have a static background and only change the menu bars, information panel, and content panel. What I want to be able to do is load sections of my page af...more >>

I am loading movies in main mc. The thing is that the number of the movies is not always the same. The movies are named movie1.swf, movie2.swf, movie3.swf... I would like flash to check if for example movie5.swf exists and if not to load movie1.swf. What I get from flash when exporting it is Error ...more >>

Flash folks, I have asked this question on the board months ago and really didn't get a response that I could wrap my brain around and understand. So, I'm trying again. Why is it that when you import a bitmap to the Library a graphic as a loseless png or gif, convert it to a symbol and then p...more >>

I made my flash movie, but when I publish it, there's a nasty white border on the right side and the top. Can anybody assist me in removing this? ...more >>

Hello, I have now flash mx 2004. But before i have the normal flash mx. If i want to open a old .fla document from the normal flash mx then i get the message unexpected file format What can i do? thx misteryke elektro_alex@planetinternet.be http://www.elektro-alex.tk ...more >>

Greetings. With the "_currentframe" i can get the frame the movie is playing. But how can i get the scene the movie is playing? Thank you. ...more >>

Flash must do this, but I can't find info about it. I have a sound that is started (...then later on, stopped) by ActionScript. This works fine, however, I don't know how to get the playhead to stop until a particular section of the sound file plays. With Director, I'd insert markers (and lab...more >>

Hi guys, hopefully you can help me out here - apologies if this seems obvious, but I am relatively new at level stacking movies. I have a movie which is the main navigation and scene. On top of this I load my 'content movie(s)' that are triggered off when you click the appropriate navigation butt...more >>

I'm evaluating the trial version of Flash MX 2004. I'm having troubles working with multilingual content using the String panel. The thing is that the project I'm working at is being authored in two languages (English and Russian). After saving and publiching everything works correctly (the XML's ar...more >>

I'm not sure why this has started happening. I use Flash MX on a Win2000 machine. I have done many previous animations with the exact same technique, style, coding, layout, etc., only changing the look of the object that appears in each. For some reason, this one particular animation has reake...more >>

Newbie here, How do you turn off the Auto Loop Function? I have made my simple movie, but it's always auto looping and I don't want it too... any help? ...more >>

Hy. I'm software developer working for a small company. Currently we're redesigning the webinterface of our software. We're would like to use Flash MX but we're not sure if it meets our requirements. Can someon please tell me, if the following problem can be solved with pure* Flash MX? Imagine a ...more >>

Is there a way for multiple flash swf's to communicate with each other without all being within the same file? Basically what I want to do is have three seperate swf files all embedded within a JSP page and basically be able to load content on one of the swf files by pressing a button on another. ...more >>

Hello, im using a variable method to call movie clips using a button, but i have a proble with some of them being that some button are in a movie clip drop down list, and these buttons dont seem to work, can anyone give me a hand, im stumped. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hello, I have a website made in flash for a client who now wants to be able to update some part of it. I think I can make the text updatable trough ASP, but my problem is that he wants to have different links every week and I don?t know how to do this. So, how can I have a button, that points to...more >>

Looking for someone with identical problems to classify as a bug or a freaked out Wndows install....! I am ripping my hair out with MX 2004, the files won't save properly. I have a 4Mb flash file with a some AS, classes, a few components and some bitmaps. When I save the file, the timestamp i...more >>

I want to try and make a calander in flash so that when a user clicks on a date it shows information about events taking place on that date in a text field. I don't really know where to begin. Any help would be appreciated. Also, if I just insert the calander component and click test movie withou...more >>

Hi, just a quick question. theory: I have two images on screen, I want to be able to drag one over the other - easy, but when I get it within a certain distance and let go I'd like the draggable image to scale to the size of the second image, which is a little larger and also lock their centre po...more >>

Whenever using masks on objects containing dynamic text or input text, I loose the text. Is there a way around this? ...more >>

hi everyone, could somebody let me know how the effect @ http://www.espmonaco.com/ on the home page is achieved. i'm referring to the kind of 'reveal' effect they have. any help would be much appreciated thanks paul ...more >>

This has probably been asked many times but I can't seem to find anything on it. What code do I need to show a static image in place of a movie in an html page if the user doesn't have a flash plugin? Thanks Mark ...more >>

Hi everyone, Thanks for all the help you have given me in the past.. Im working on a site and would like to do the percentage bar on the pre-loader as a circle... So that when it gets to 100% the line of the circle would be complete. Your help would be greatfully appreciated... thanks CRAI...more >>

Hello, How to detect MAC OS9 or MAC OSX with a script FlashMX ? Thanks -- ----------------------------------------- 28, rue du Général De Gaulle 67205 Oberhausbergen Tel. : 03 88 56 99 98 Ligne directe : 03 88 56 86 57 Fax 03 88 56 97 98 http://www.2exvia.com bira@2exvia.co...more >>

I have created a Flash movie and imported a number of PNG's and JPG's. When I look at the flash file on screen (in flash) all is well, but when I export to a .swf the images look to have moved 1pixel to the left and 1 pixel down. I have looked at compression of the file and images but nothin...more >>

Hi I am doing a form in flash and need to pass in the data to a database. I wonder is it easiler to do error checking such as only digits for the Age field in flash or asp file. Thank you Regards Jade ...more >>

Hello all, I can't figure out what's going haywire here...maybe me. I've made a JPEG to use as a background in a Flash file. Size is 400px wide X 101 px tall. DPI is 72. I imported it into a new Flash file that I had already set at 400 X 101. I dragged it around to align it on the stage,...more >>

i need to know how can i passs variables values from one movie clip to target movie clip. i haved try declaring _global.myVar into the target movie clip and when the "from" movie clip try to passs with _root.[target movie clip].myVar="5"; the trace(myVar) in target movie clip write undefined. An...more >>

Does anyone have any ways to optimize sound/music for low bitrate encoding? Some wav files compress to mp3 better then others. For instance live orchestra music seemes to encode better then midi-based orchestral music. Is there any way to pre-filter the sound to make it better suited for low bitr...more >>

Community MX never sleeps. As proof, we'd like to offer the following to you. Enjoy! Using the CMX Web Services in Flash [Free] http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5EA2A608932F770 Mouse Wheel Support in Flash Player 7 [Free] http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid...more >>

Hello stwingy I've visited your site and I saw something that I'm looking for a long time. I also created a drawing program (with a little bit more possibilities like diferent line color, etc.) But as i am not really a programmer I have no idea how to save the stuff that a visitor has drawn, to let...more >>

Hello, I want to make a button of a font in Flash . I can make it in Photoshop, the font is there., and I can inport it in Flash, but than I can't use the collorfill tool. I thouht to make it new in Flash, but the font is not there. Can anyone help me ?? I'm a beginner, so I don't know what...more >>

I am using the scrolling text boxes created in Flash as shown here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/scrolling_text_mx.htm Question: When editting the scrolling text in Flash I am able to apply text enhancements like bold and italic as well as add links but when I export it ...more >>

Hi, I have a little problem which I cannot solve. I hope to implement a mouseclick or a keypress action, but I am not sure how to implement it on Flash MX. The situation is as such... I hope to make Frame1 a loop, meaning frame one will always display (when no key or mouse button is press). Only ...more >>

Hello. I'm an absolute beginner, I know nothing. On another forum I described my situation, and they concluded Flash was what I needed and would have least trouble with, so here I am. I want to create another version of Solitaire, one which I haven't seen on the net yet. I need to define which c...more >>

Hello, Was it intended that the PDF import feature in the new MX 2004 release require us to have the fonts used in the PDF trying to be imported? A related grievance is that the PDF import feature always retains text block information. When unchecking this option, PDF's are still imported ...more >>

I am loading sound dinamicly from library. I'm using for that: function playSound(soundID) { var soundobject; soundobject = new Sound(); soundobject.attachSound(soundID); soundobject.start(); } sound in library are exported for actionScript and they have name. When I test the swf it ...more >>

i cant find it, please tell me its still here! not having the scale and rotate dialouge box is enough to make me stick with the original MX.. ...more >>

I just put up a site that has 3 flash movies on the intro page at http://www.anthonymazzella.com . Two are menus that run at 20 frames per second and the main movie runs at 16 frames per second. The reason I kept them separate was that the menus are used on all of the pages and I wanted instant load...more >>

How do I hide the menu bar when I export my swf to a stand alone player? ...more >>

I can get the scroll pane into the stage and all that, but how do I get my JPEG that has been converted to a movie clip into the scroll pane? I have tried the tutorials and looked in the manual. Maybe I'm just that stupid I dont know. Can sombody please help me, I'm new. ...more >>

Hi People, I'm trying out the New Flash MX 2004 and the second part of the tutorial: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/tipoday_pt2.html The problem started to occur when connecting to the Web Service. Failed. I'm assuming and some one can correct me if I'm wrong, but, it w...more >>

I've done a fair amount of work in HTML with DW, PHP and MySQL, but I'm a baby with Flash. Problem: I have an animated flash movie as the banner on my index page on a new site. It's set to autplay but not loop in DW. I load the site, the movie plays, and all is well. But if a visitor looks at...more >>

I can't believe I'm stuck on something so simple.... Flash is always recompressing JPEGs that I have imported to the Library, regardless of the options I have set in the Publish settings (as far as I can see only a quality slider), or on the image Properties in the Library. Lossless works great ...more >>