What's wrong with this? fscommand ("exec", "C:\\Code\\VB\\RDMCOM-DLL\\Demo.exe"); ...more >>

Hi! I wonder is there any fla source file which I can find from the internet. I hope I can learn from fla source file to create special effect. I will happy to hear from everyone. Thanks. Yann ...more >>

Here's a thing, you create a huge application which has become a great tool for creating interactive content online. You then make a new product which is a bit more advanced than that one, and name it Flash Professional. Having spent all this time to create these great and wonderful products, Why...more >>

I am trying to apply a fade-in to a photo via the setInterval but all it does is go through one evaluation, and the image is displayed on the screen with an alpha of 15. It doesn't fade-in the way I want. All code is on Frame 1 of my script layer on the main timeline. What am I doing wrong? M...more >>

Hello everybody! Although, I have the MX studio, I never used the Flash. But I would like to learn it. Please give me any information about the websites, books, etc, so I could learn it. If anyone could tell me, if there is a website where I could get some ideas for the design for my website, ...more >>

Can someone help me out here? Whenever I use Date.getSeconds(), or Date.getMilliseconds, it returns a 0? What's going on. Thanks for the help. -Erich Albert ...more >>

Dear all, I wonder if someone could help? We are producing a presentation in Flash, which is an abstract of the web site we have built for a client. The presentation will be distributed on CD, so we thought the best way to publish would be as a Flash .exe file. The problem we have however is t...more >>

Hi all I'm a newbie and really do not have a clue. I have a 13 slide PowerPoint Presentation with each slide having it's own narration. I would like to convert the PPT into a flash movie and have it show just like a PPT does. I would like to also add buttons that will allow people who view the...more >>

I know that there is no 100% fool-proof method of preventing screen captures in general, but wondered if anyone knows of any good techniques to foil the dreaded built-in OS keyboard screen capture (i.e. Windows' Print Screen, etc.) from Flash. I know that this is somehow possible with Quicktime, us...more >>

I was interested im buying Flash 2004 Pro. But it is really expensive. I am a student at my local college. Flash isn't one of the software they carry for student discount. Are there any retail stores around Southeast Michigan that sale the student version? Also I heard that Microsoft is coming ...more >>

Hello everyone. I just downloaded and installed "Flash MX 2004" for mac os x (10.3 / Panther). The app seems to work fine except that I don't know IF and HOW I can group the "Properties" panel with other panels such as "Actions", "Help" etc. The Properties panel doesn't have the :: raw that woul...more >>

I just ran the Flash MX 2004 Updater for OS-X and Flash stopped working. After rebooting a couple of times I decided to re-install it from the CD. Once I reinstalled Flash I am now greated with a help menu that tells me that I can UPGRADE to Flash Pro... The only problem is, I PAID for Flash PRO...more >>

Hello I would like import a photo jpg in my SWF. exemple : in cool.swf , I would like the photo .....image/photo.jpg I will can change the photo without open my file FLA and export the SWF. (P.S. sorry for my english) Thank you very much every body Thomas ...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to attach a movie clip to a motion guide? If so, how do I do this? Thanks! ...more >>

Hey, is there a way for when a variable changes ( textField.scroll ) or when my mousewheel is used, that I can make a function respond to it? Something like an onClipEvent(enterframe) but maybe for a dynamic text field instead? Thanks ...more >>

A Newbie, I'd like to import a fireworks png file (with hotspots) into Flash. Problem is, the hotspot functionality disappears when I play the Flash file. Is there a way to bring the png into Flash with the hotspots (and associated links) intact? Thanks ahead of time. ...more >>

The question has been asked about Flash Pro, but I cannot find a sounds Library where the Help says it should be: Flash also contains libraries of buttons and sounds that you can use in your document. To view these libraries, after taking this lesson, select Window > Other Panels > Common Libr...more >>

I would like to customize MX's component radiobuttons, but can't seem to find any instructions for resizing and altering the color of the radio button itself. It doesn't appear that ThemeColor actually changes the button color. At least, I've not been able to get it to change to "haloBlue/green/or...more >>

Hi, I have a movie with a dynamic text field, and a movieclip image with a mask over it. There are scroll buttons on the side, so when I click up and down, the pictures move's with the text like a webpage would. The only problem is, when the user uses the scroll mouse, the text can move, but the pic...more >>

Hello, I have a line circle symbol and I'm trying to animate the alpha from 100 to 0. How I have been doing this with my other symbol is I click on the symbol on the stage, which gives me a color pop-up in the properties panel. I then assign the alpha to the keyframes and tween. However, my ci...more >>

Hiho, I have flash a couple of days now and i've created a couple of little movies so far. When i export and view my movies in the flash player everything works great, but sent the movies to my brother so he can take a look at them and he had to open them in internet explorer, and what happens? Th...more >>

I have been getting in a bit of a muddle regarding ?Dynamic Referencing? In this practise script I have knocked up I have a number of cards in the library that are generated dynamically through a randomisation script. What I would like to be able to find out is a way that I can avoid cards bei...more >>

I work in a school district and I am trying to create a horizontal scroll in flash that works like the one found in Apple's I-Tunes store for new music. Basically I would like to have maybe 15 small photos slide either from the left or right depending on what button you hit and only slide in 5 ph...more >>

This is a game I'm working on. http://jasonadamsdesigns.com/platform/platform.htm I've been working on it in MX04 and trying to learn AS2.0 through this process. If anyone has any advice or comments, please feel free to contact me. Of course there are no enemies yet, so the game should present...more >>

Hi, I placed a movie (approx 500Kb) on a website and I'd like to know how to add the message "Loading..." or a percentage of the progress (1-100%) when the movie is being downloaded, so the use won't think that the download session has been hung up (freeze) thanks in advance ...more >>

I need to hue this instance of my bitmap symbol to a particular shade of purple. If I use the "Tint" mode, it completely obliterates the bitmap and makes the whole thing a solid color. I know I can use the left column percentage boxes in the "Advanced" mode area to adjust the color, but is there a...more >>

I have seem some Flash movies, over Html pages, I suppose locate it on a frame, that doesn't has background, in other words, the flash has transparent background, so where the flash is playing, you can still see what's behind on the Html page!! Does somebody knows how to do this??? how to make fl...more >>

Just wondering if anyone knows why the actions panel (normal mode) is gone?? I don't understand it, it made things much easier the way it was before. Unless I'm missing something...it doesn't make sense???? If it's still within the application I'd sure like to know about it. ...more >>

I have been trying for the past few days to get a copy of Flash Player from Macromedia's website, but nothing happens after clicking on the Install button. Are there any known problems with this link? I am running Windows XP Pro in case this helps. ...more >>

Hi, what will be the action you need to assign to button on playing movie to close it. I have movie with invisible buttons, which with click will play new movie on the top of first movie and I need to be able to close top movie with button. any ideas, thank you ...more >>

When you have a site created totaly in flash, with swf's that load in different levels, the search engines don't find any links or content in the html page, so it is not listed. Is there a solution for this problem? I really need help on this. Thanks in advance. I believe ...more >>

Hi, Often I create movie clips and forget to adjust the registration point while I am creating the movie clip. Is there any way of adjust the registration point after the fact. Currently if this happens I delete the current movie clip and recreate it with the correct registration point. What a pa...more >>

Hi!! I need help. I have a flash movie with 600 frames. I have two buttons. When i push the first button I whant the movie to play frame 2-300 and then return to frame 1. When I push the second button I whant to play frame 2-600 (entire movie) and the return to frame 1. Can someone please help...more >>

I have clasic html frameset and in two frames i have flash movies. I need link from flash movie another movie to play it from some frame. ...more >>

Hi Urami You kindly helped my with the control of a MC when buttons are pushed and allowing the first MC to complete before then second started well.... I thought that would solve my problem but alas - in my move I have buttons which send the user to different frame labels. on the first fram...more >>

When I try to update flash I get an error message that says flash is not installed when it actually is! Any ideas?? ...more >>

What's the best way to synchronise video sound to animations? I'm using Flash MX, will upgrade if the solution is in MX2004. In edit mode I can't hear the video sound (unlike sound clips) so when I'm aligning a bit of text to the video speech I have to guess, export, tweak, export etc. which...more >>

I am currently running a page with a flash header and the notice will pop up automatically on Higher versions of IE explorer for them to download the player if they dont have it. But as of right now we have about 50% of our user getting the message and 50% not getting the message. Our user base v...more >>

Hello there everyone, I'm ripping my hair out at the moment because I can't find one GOOD tutorial about how flash communicates to a mysql database. I know that flash does this through a php page. I can set up the php page and the mysql db no problem, but it's the actionscript that I'm having ...more >>

Hi all I have a MC that I want to use in the background of a movie - is it possible to use AS to play the MC at random intervals? Thanks for any help as ever -- keen to learn @ hotmail.com ...more >>

I'm using dynamic text in a text box [named content] with css, but the dang thing hangs about half way through even though all css tags are defined. I think there may be a limit to the text scroll even without a maxscroll definition. This is all coded in frame 1 as follows: var ss:TextField.Styl...more >>

i have a simple intro to a website, i need to loop a certain animation forever, however i want to run other animations only once. what is the best way to do this? any help is much appreciated. ...more >>

When ever I go to the install page and click INSTALL NOW I never get the diaolog that asked whether I trust content from this site and asks YES or NO. And it doesnt install at all??? I have no clue what the problem is. ...more >>

Hi, I am new to Flash an I am wondering if I can edit a image when I import it. Is there a technique for doing this? As when I try it does not seem to work. Thanks. ...more >>

Is there an easy way to apply an alpha fade to a symbol, graphic, whatever, and have this exist separate from scaling/translation animation? I've managed to do it, but just barely. No I find it very hard to adjust anything after the fact as it seems to exist as a whole. I am learning FlashMX and ...more >>

We are developing an Intranet based application with a Flash front-end. One requirement is to give people the option to download the Flash plug-in without taking them outside of their Intranet. This which would mean placing the plug-in file on one of our servers and providing a link to it there, rat...more >>

We played a file today on a machine that (we think) didn't have flash installed. I heard that Netscape bundle this in when it's installed and although Netscape isn't on now, it may have stuck in the plugins file? Is there a list of who installs flash as standard with their software, or does IE6 ...more >>

Friends pls goto www.netscape.com at the top right of your screen there is a flash movie. I want to do like that how can i do it. its like a flipping(Click here). waiting for someone's help. thanks ...more >>

If u include FlashGateway namespace in ur .NET environment and u check through, there are tons of classes, even more methods that can be used. But where the hell is the documentation? I find it funny and yet seriously pathetic that some developer in Macromedia spend his time in developing this piece...more >>

Is there anyway to create an object that "looks through" a mask? I am trying to create a beaker filled with liquid. When the beaker is rotated, the surface of the liquid would remain horizontal. I had planned to have layer 1 as liquid, layer 2 as a mask for the liquid, and layer 3 as the beake...more >>

Hi, I am currently facing difficulty with Flash. I've created a flash movie where by which i have defined a section in the movie where by a visitor can click on something like a hyperlink and be prompted to download a file. The file that I am trying to invoke a user to download if of type .doc ...more >>

hello, I have been asked to design a site for an alpaca Farm. What i want the design to be is kind of funky and fun so i want to have cartoonish alpacas standing in a field of grass, bobbing their heads (everything that cartoonish look i think you have all seen in other webpages) What softw...more >>

Documented feature in manual does not exist or does not work. You can make a text box scrollable by menu command [the resize box square changes to black], but it doesn't scroll: "To make a dynamic text block scrollable, do one of the following: Shift-double-click the handle on the dynamic ...more >>

Really getting frustrated having to move my library panel out of the right column every time I bring it up. Has anyone figured out how to keep it in the same place you've left it on startup? Thanks. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= remove "_nospam_" to send email Ian Kelleigh Ian_no...more >>

How can i gather data from peaple and send that data to E-mail address ? ...more >>

Now that MM has released an update I wonder if they're gonna let those of you who were unhappy with MX04 have thirty additional days to try out the fix. this would help their pr a bit. Any comments? Kevin ...more >>

Hi, I'm doing my first flash website, and i red somewhere that the best thing is to use pixel font with flash, because flash is anti-aliasing and makes it blurry. So i made all my graphics with dynamics text, the problem is that i just realised that we can't tween them. I tried to embed the font af...more >>

I'm a freshman for here and this is my first message in the forum. Thnak you ! ...more >>

So I published a flash movie, it works fine on a PC but on macs there seems to be trouble. I get feed back that either the user can not view the movie at all, or the loadmovie commands don't work for the nav buttons. How do I go about fixing this problem? ...more >>

I've been trying to find anything on ASP/Flash integration for values setting. I'm using a flash movie as my home page on a project and it loads two intro movies. I want to then set it so that they do not "play" again during the current users session. So that they can return to the home page without...more >>

I can link to a website or file via dynamic text http code, but I wanna do that with a button, and I dont wanna put dynamic text in the button as the link... is there an AS command or something? Thanks. ...more >>

hello im kinda noobie (in this forum and in flash).... Im making a banner witch as the folowing format: 468x60... it's all ok till here... when im making the test the banner is full screen why is that????? it could be a stupid question but as i said im noooooobie...:) if anyone could help ...more >>

Here's my problem. I have scene 1 -- you click on a button which takes you to scene 2. Scene 2 has just one frame with a movie clip. When the movie clip ends, I want the user to be returned to scene 1. What ends up happening, though, is that the movie clip plays over again. On the last frame...more >>

I was reading about the next Microsoft O/S called 'Longhorn' and noticed a brief mention of a new project named 'Sparkle' which is supposedly Microsoft's alternative to Macromedia's Flash product. Has anyone else heard anything or seen any information websites? Given that most companies are seein...more >>

I really need a tutorial on how to work the MovieClip.trackAsMenu command anyone know where i can find one. thanks, wietse Wietse Jagersma www.jagersma.ca...more >>

Hi Im new to Flash and actionscript and am having trouble retrieving the domain of which the swf file is on, the code I have at the moment is: urldomain = LocalConnection.domain(); urldomainprint = urldomain"DR/games/game.php"; I have no idea if it is right and am getting completely lost,...more >>

Hello Everyone, I am building a flash site, and need the Macromedia web addresses for their download pages for Linux, Unix, and for Mac. I have Windows and a PC so I can't get entry to use them. I need these addresses to redirect visitors who don't have Flash on their computer to the appropriate ...more >>