Hi i have a code to put an animated cursor on my banner (ex. here: http://dkch.net/intercampus/banners/doctor_c.swf) as you can see the click here cursor appears but on my webpage still shows even if the cursor isn't in the banner area how can i make flash to only show the cursor when the mouse is a...more >>

Hi. I successfully built an MP3 player with Flash MX that loads the MP3 off my server. However, when my Firewall is up, the MP3 doesn't load. Similar problems occur when certain antivirus software is armed. Someone recommended to me that I should try opening the port that is required for...more >>

A client has submitted some fla's that were developed in Flash 5. The Flash 5 movies use scenes. I would really rather not keep them in "scenes". Is there an efficent way to export the scenes from the Flash 5 version to seperate Flash MX movies ? Other than selecting all the frames in the Flash 5 ...more >>

I have created an array called headerArray which is populated by the addition of numerous '2 element' objects using the 'push' method (as explained to me by one of you guys) ie headerInfo - new Object(); headerInfo.name = "the price of tea in China"; headerInfo.myPosition=1; headerArray.push(h...more >>

Hello, I am working with an educational version of Flash MX. I can't figure out what is going on. I've created a very basic layout with some text based buttons. However what seems to be happening is that my page plays and then converts to HTML. I can't figure it out. can anyone PLEASE help ...more >>

Hi, I was having alot of trouble trying to get the TextArea working then i realized i was publishing to ActionScript 1. Changed my publishing settings to ActionScript2 and then my TextArea worked just fine. In help no where does it say the textarea component is only to be used for ActionScrip...more >>

I am having trouble getting the "value" of an xml node. I am new to this and would love some help. So far I have >> Got xml object created and loaded >> Have been able to access misc. node "Names","Types", etc.. I am trying to fill a txtBox with "value" of a node with type "Element", my xml is l...more >>

I have two identical scenes in two different Flash Pages. They are each 81 frames. Each scene has a movie clip that is 550 frames with a stop action at the end. On one of the layers in each scene, on the first frame, I have a "play" action (to start the movie clip). One of the scenes plays...more >>

I'd like to make that neat little swirly image that comes up on the Exchange site appear next to my progress bar. How would I code such a thing in Actionscript? Is that swirly circle an image that comes with MX 2004? Basically, in my function I want to be able to make it appear and then disappear as...more >>

Can anyone help? I'm working in Flash2004 pro and I createda movie with a Scroll Pane that loads an external SWF file. This worked fine in a small test movie I set up. Now I want to use a Scroll Pane in a larger and more complex movie (multiple layers, symbols, etc.). I took care to duplicate th...more >>

I have a flash site with a main preloader which loads the site and then subpreloaders that loads the subpages of the flash site. The main preloader contains this code which hopefully only loads the main timeline, and no other Movieclips. bt = this.getBytesLoaded(); trace(bt); The site is...more >>

I am setting up my company's website, and I already know how to set a button to go to a certain url. What I need to know now is how to set up a button to go to a certain frame of that url. Thanks, in advance for any help you can give me. ...more >>

How do we access data located in a movie made in Flash from outside this flash movie ? For example I load a flash movie in the client browser, this movie get some data from the user, and in order to get this data, we want the user to click a send button placed outside the flash movie, wich is a s...more >>

HEllo, I have made an empty nav bar which I want about 20 quotes to fade in and fade out sparatically with randomness, so when the bar is called upon, they don't come up in the same order all the time. I know about AS fade in and fade outs and AS setintervels, I just dont know how to randomize the...more >>

Hello, i just launched my new web site: www.27lamps.com As in most flash web sites a yellow mark appears when the TAB key is pressed. I want to make this disapear. Of course it would be better to disable the TAB key for all my loaded .swf files then disabling the TAB key for each MC and ...more >>

Not working for me. Trace's are not appearing. Is there more to it than simply starting flash, opening the central debug panel, and launching Cenral with my app in it? ...more >>

How can I change the face color of a tab bar component in 2004? BackgroundColor does the background of everything. I want to change the look and feel of the face color and border. I've tried all the properties from the docs and nothing seems to do it ... I'm guessing it is part of an inter...more >>

hey everyone, i have this schol project due in 2 days, and i thought id be able to handle everything with the flash, but i cant. Im pretty much learning as i go but now the time is running out. there are farely simple problem that i think most of you can easily fix, i cant upload the file anywhere s...more >>

I have developed a flash swf file. I play this presentation with swf standalone player provided by Macromedia. All works great except the text that contains accents. For example in the word: lunedì, the character ì is not visualized in the right way. How can I solve this problem? Unfortunate...more >>

i had installed macromedia flash mx 2004 and removed it because i had problems using it... now that my old project is finished i wanted to use flash mx 2004 now but i can't install it anymore... what do i have to do to reinstall macromedia flash mx 2004? thx ...more >>

Hi guys I've seen a really nice bit of flash where you rollover a button and the movie in the background shoots of in the direction of the target then slows when the bit you want comes into frame. A bit like those things you get on film in a library! Anyway have a look at the link and if yo...more >>

Tool: Flash MX 2004 Professional Objective: Rezsize slide show down from (640X480) to custom smaller size. Problem: when I resize the "document" (menu: Modify/Document...) to the new custom size; the images and text elements remain fixed (i.e., they do not scale). Question: How do I scal...more >>

I'm creating a flash presentation to be delivered on a local intranet to about 170 users. The presentation will be linear, with VO, small animations, text fades, etc...and contain the occasional video. Now...I was pretty excited to hear that MX 2004 doesn't need FlashCom server to stream flvs. So...more >>

to go to and play a framelabel in a different scene? God, I hate not having Normal mode! ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have a function, which I am using to determine the random position of a MovieClip on stage, at four different timeline locations. The code below sits on frame 1 of the main movie timeline. It uses an array called randArray with eight location values which are randomly copied to ...more >>

hello all I am new to using flash and I had a question about how to create a scrolling list. I mean like in a news section all of the topics automatically scroll up and when the last one scrolls the list restarts again. Could someone please tell me the correct name for this and point me in the ...more >>

I've reposted this as I missed the boat with the last one. I have a menu that rolls up, and rolls down, much like a rollerblind would. I created the roll up sequence with 10 frames, and a motion tween. This works fine, however for the roll down bit, which is just the reverse, I tried the 're...more >>

Can anyone lead me to a good resource on designing flash files with the components. I want to know what commands and such are available for actionscriptin? Thanks ...more >>

hi there first of all and kind of new to flash. im trying to build a floor plant with Path orientation. i have a demo using some code from the exemples in flash. purpose: the plant is top view of a floor when a user click on a specific room of the floor plant a "path/route" is show ...more >>

I'm trying to make a game with Flash MX that resembles Duckhunt for the NES. My only problem is that I want the "duck" movie clip to move around randomly. I can give it random coordinates but I don't know how to make it move there in one smooth motion, instead of just jumping there. I would apprecia...more >>

How do you add a listener to the scrollbar on a textarea?? Thanks ...more >>

I tried to use the sounds library in Flash MX 2004 and followed window > Other Panels > Common Libraries > Sounds. But I can not find the "Sounds". Are there anyone can tell me what is the problem? Thanks in advace! brucewin ...more >>

Is there a way to retain the quality of small text (at least to make it readable) when a flash movie is exported at 100% for different browser resolutions? ...more >>

Hello This may seem stoopid, but I'm at my wits end. I'm using Flash MX, not MX2004, I am working on a project which requires a lot of equations to be displayed on web pages. I know I can recreate some simple equations just by using the Symbol font. I know that screen readers can see and rea...more >>

in this movie, i have a graphic as the backround and a truck in the foreground on layer 2, layer 1, the backround moves to the left to make it look like the trucks moving. when i export parts or the backround graphic arent there, (example- there are houses and grass in the backround but only the gra...more >>

I'm using loadMovieNum to dynamically load a .swf file in FlashMX. Is there any way for the loaded clip to reference variables or call functions defined in the "parent" clip? Thanks! Jon T. Camp Applied Research Associates ...more >>

Does anyone know how to make a mpeg2 file of a flash film? please, help needed thanks caro ...more >>

Developing a movie with a dark background. Created instance of Checkbox Component and trying to figure out how to change text color. There is no option under instance properties, right click options or Component Inspector. Am I missing something or does such an option have to be built into the...more >>

Go to http://www.flash4all.de/ select hight speed connection and on the left rollover the buttons, you will see some great effects.1.How are these buttons made with a glow around them? In Photoshop? 2. What about the rollover effect? How is it made? 3.What about the animated golden numbers on the l...more >>

I am a 'babe in the woods' when it comes to flash & need all the hand-holding I can get so any help anyone can offer would be much appreciated. I placed a zip file on the site at the link below since my explanation of the problem is probably a little vague. I built the quiz from the template: ...more >>

Hello all, I have the following problem: on frame 1 of my movie, a preloader on frame 2, variables are loaded and the movie starts Somehow my preloader only shows a progress bar for part of the whole movie size; almost all symbols for the movie have been loaded before my preloader kicks in...more >>

How do you set focus on a Flash movie when a page loads? I have a script that supposedly does that but I've been told it doesn't work on a Mac with either IE or Netscape. On Windows it works fine on IE 6 but not Netscape 4 (I haven't tried other browsers). This is what I've been doing: <HTM...more >>

Hi, I have a main swf file and onther one containing a sound, which is called by the first swf (loadMovie). I'd like to understand why the sound doesn't play when the HTML page isn't located in the same directory as the swf files. However, when the HTML page and the 2 swf files are ...more >>

How do I tell a movie to load itself completely before playback so the audio doesn't get out of sync? I ran trough the lessons included in Flash MX and I didnt find info on that. Thanks! Jemvie ...more >>

Hello, i am developing a dynamic flash site where the users can edit text for pages using a CMS. When a user enters a hyperlink in the text, which looks like this: <A HREF="http://www.blabla.com" target=_blank>blabla</A> the text inside the a href tags just dissapears! when i remove the target...more >>

I was hoping someone could explain this extremely unusually phenomenom with flash and DirectX 8. There is an old game called Global Operations that uses Directx 8. Inside the game (especially on Windows XP) you will experience a "warping" effect where as you're walking around on the map and all of s...more >>

Just wondering how many ppl do use Flash remoting to connect to .NET or J2EE? If u do, what kind of app do u do? I've playing wif Flash MX Pro 2004, seriously, there are way too many things that dont work for no apparent reason at all and i cant seem to find any resource. Just wish to know if ...more >>

hi, i am new to flash and i can't get my head around this. i have a simple snake game my friend made, he sent it to me in a .zip, but the actual game its self was saved as a .fla , and on MX 2004 whatever i try it wont let me open it! am i using the wrong version of flash or something? ...more >>

can u help me how to create a clouds thats animate and looks real.... tnx ...more >>

Hi, OSX (Panther), Flash MX2004, Mac Dual 800 G4. I'm trying to create a movie clip. I've created a *.fla file. I copy the frames. I create a new symbol, of the type movie. When I attempt to paste the frames into the 1st frame of the movie clip, the application crashes. Am I missing a step so...more >>

Hi guys Any idea how to send parameters from one movie to another one? I want to open a new movie and pass some parameters at the same time. Thanks in advance Alberto ...more >>

i have a swf file that works perfectly by itself if i load it using _root.loadMovie("myMovie.swf"), works perfectly BUT when I load it using loadMovieNum("myMovie.swf", 2); the call reached the server, but just didnt return to my movie is this a built in feature that is not documented? ...more >>

How exactly do I unextract the .exe flash file that I have right now so that I can open it in Flash and edit some changes that need to be made for a presentation with newer company data? ...more >>

I want to know why they did this (quoted from the help): Normal and expert modes no longer in Actions panel In previous versions of Flash, you could work in the Actions panel either in normal mode, in which you filled in options and parameters to create code, or in expert mode, in which you added...more >>

hey there, quick question... i have i very simple movie for a school project, its 2 layers and what happens is a truck pulls up from the left side onto a graphic that i have as the back round, end of scene, in the next scene, its the exact same thing except some of the item in the back round are no...more >>

I would like to make a text animation. The text will form a oval. It is easy to rotate a text forming a circle, the rotation point is the origin of the circle. But when text forms a oval, it is hard for me to make it rotate well. I am trying to mimic the text effect at the link. http://www.cbtcafe....more >>

hi, im now making a splash screen. i would like to have a button which will open a dir in my computer to allow me to browse all the content inside that dir. (im using pc with XP installed). i think it is something related to GetUrl, but how to write the script?? thanks for advanced. edwin ...more >>

Hi ,... Is there a component in Flash for browsing files inside the PC ?! then for example insert the selected file into a textfield ?! or should i use a java or vb application again ?! ...more >>