Movie - 100px by 100px. Picture 800px by 600px. Move picture around to create the effect of looking through a 100px by 100px window (peep hole) where various parts of the picture are being displayed. All works fine. How do I make the window (movie) a different shape? Any help much appreciat...more >>

Hello, I currently have a Flash project I'm working on for school, a quiz like interface. I'm going to have boxes jump and morph around into other sections. But I'm not sure how to go about it. I found this site which has similar traits to what I'm planning on doing. I know it's a lot of shape twee...more >>

Hello, I used a list component in my flash file. The component appears, but the items (labels) don't during runtime though they appear properly in author environment. Does anybody have an answer? Thanks, Pascal PS : other thing : does anybody know how to add a scrollbar under mx 2004? ...more >>

Many thanks to Kevin L. Bowling and "trafalz" for prompt replies to original post. Herewith responses: KEVIN L. BOWLING: Have no idea where the window stating that FLASH PLAYER 7 was required for the Web Page being accessed, and asking if download was required, came from. It appeared the ...more >>

I know how to manualy change the position of registration point in flash 5 because there is that option under "transform", but i can't find that option in flash 6. Please help ;) cuz i now it's something realy stupid... ...more >>

i am using html 4.01 transitional and iso-8859-1 encoding for my web page. i just tried to use the object, classid, param, etc. for encoding my .swf file in my web page, but when i try to validate it, it says "there is no attribute 'src', no attribute 'width', etc." i attached a file that contains...more >>

I have a Flash file that has 7 main movie clips. I am using the following code to link from buttons on the main screen to each movie clip: on (release) { _root.mypage = 3; _root.play(); } The number 3 representing the third movie clip. Within the third movie clip I have 6 more buttons...more >>

hi, i have just finished my site. if u could look at it and tell me if it works or any problems or just u'r opinions that would be great. i have had some problems with pc's so any feedback would be great. cheers Referring URLs www.othersidecreation.com ...more >>

Hi is there a way to turn the 'allow smoothing' option by default? thanks in advance ...more >>

Am I able to make a favicon .ico file from Flash? I tried to export an image as a Bitmap or a GIF and rename it as favicon.ico but it wasn't recognized as an Icon file. Should I use Photoshop? Or must I use a dedicated icon application? Has anyone done this?? ...more >>

Hi all, can anyone help? I want to print out my art from an .fla file but find all the alpha colours print full colour only and thus cover up what should have been seen underneith. I can paste the same pic into Photoshop and it will print the alphas fine (although now I have a pixelated image whi...more >>

I seem to remember that in Flash 5 there was a keyboard shortcut that published only the videoclip that was currently being edited. But I might be wrong. Does this feature exist, and does it exist in MX/MX2004 ? ..soma ...more >>

Would appreciare advice on the subject problem, which I have been unsuccessfully trying to solve by myself (best way to learn) for bloody hours: The ".swf" file in question functions pefectly in FLASH MX (not 2004) on my machine. However, when I publish to my Web site, it does not run, but ...more >>

Hi- I am having a troubling error whenever I publish a certain file in Flash. The file in question has 7 scenes and lasts for 5:30. It plays perfecty for the first 4:00 (5 scenes), but on the 6th scene the movie just stops (even though there is nothing telling it to). The odd thing is that when ...more >>

I'm working on a animation for a multi-screen setup (6 plasma HD screens turned vertical, 800x600 res each). Altogether it's really wide: 800x3600. Flash only goes to 2880px wide. Are there any ways around this? How can I get it out to 3600? I know Director goes that big, but I'm working on a Ma...more >>

I recently compoleted a flash intro for my church. However, I am trying to place the flash html file in an existing site. What must I do (the steps needed) to replace the old html index, and insert the flash intro as the new index? I know that I have to create a index2.html for the old, but whe...more >>

Hi, I need some help regarding scrollpanes. I'm fairly new to using them. It seems to me that when you load a movieclip into the scrollpane, it generates the scrollbars based upon whatever content is in the first frame of the movieclip. My question is... how can you appropriately update the scrol...more >>

hi im new to this flash thing, but I followed a flash button tutorial, and did everything it said ... but I have this problemhttp://www.hostultra.com/~mosquitoreaver/sgtmarky.htm the button works fine, but whats with the rest of the area around the button? Mark ...more >>

Hey there... Got a question for you guys, im not sure if this is the right forum but, here i go... I create an animated logo using swish (300x200) that i wanted to use in the website im working on right now...(my first one!!) but there is something wrong and i cant figure out what it is... ...more >>