Hi Folks BACKGOUND: I am using mx2004pro. My objective is to read in various blocks of text stored as variables in a txt file (myText.txt). The variables in the txt file are named myVar1, myVar2 etc I have loaded the variable into the flash piece. I have used a text component named 'myInf...more >>

Hi folks, I created a Flash thingy a while ago from one of the files I found on here but I deleted the FLA file I modified (DOH) and now I can't remember how to do what I did before. Basically, if you look at the SWF file in the ZIP file, that's what I created, I need the FLA to look like that. ...more >>

Hello, I have lately seem many of those ads thet pop right in the middle of a page (for example when the movie Timeline opened there was a lit arrow that suddenly struck the middle of the page and started burning everything on screen) and I'd like to try making some, but have no idea where I c...more >>

Hello Everyone....For the last three weeks I've been trying to download Flash Player - and haven't been able to. With help from another Forum I've tried absolutely everything anyone can think of to solve the problem. No luck tho' Although, I can download shockwave with no problem. I've gone th...more >>

Hi all, As a relative newbie, I have been going through the "Introduction to Flash MX Tutorial". At the step "Create and Transform a Duplicate Shape", the instructions state to duplicate the oval shape and then use the Free Transform tool to shrink the duplicate shape on top so that it is s...more >>

Hi, I have a flash movie where an animated object is made of two absolute colors (2 shades of gray). I want to batch replace one of these two colors by another color, without editing each individual frames of the movie. Do you have a hint on how I could do this ? Thanks in advance, Luc.T ...more >>

I'm using loadMovie() command, how do I pass variables from one flash movie to another if swf files are running on CD and not on web? ...more >>

I have a button: home_btn I have a movieclip: light I want the movieclip to 'light up' on rollover. Both instances are named and I have spent all afternoon and this evening looking at the help files and forums. Cannot find the answer! Has anybody got any ideas. Thanks. Steev. ...more >>

Help! My internet explorer 6 keeps crashing, and every time the error report (running XP Home) tells me it's the Flash player causing the problem...what do I do?! Thanks, M ...more >>

Is it possible to have the user download an executable flash file that when they run on there computer it will... 1) display a form with various fields they can fill out 2) that they can save that info to there computer at any time 3) when they are finished filling out the form, they can submit i...more >>

hello I have a hopefully easy question maybe someone can help me out with. I am creating a flash site on a macintosh and have been testing my site on a pc to make sure it looks the same. The problem is it doesn't and hopefully someone can help me sort out why? I first off i am not usin...more >>

This is weird... I use this code: this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder",10); // holder.s = new Sound(); isStreaming = true; holder.s.loadSound( "http://www.entertainmail.net/test/sample.mp3", isStreaming); But the sounds plays twice as fast... How does this happen??? Greetz, Jur. ...more >>

Hi, I need to print a movie clip in Flash 5, that main movie clip has a few movie clips inside. Printing itself works fine, but if I change _alpha, _x or _y properties for those movie clips, changes don't take effect on paper and the child movie clips return to the original stage after printi...more >>

I'm a bit of a novice with Flash and I would like to create a button that controls the movement of the text on the page. Baiscally, when the mouse is over the 'up' button the text scrolls upwards, and when the mouse is on the 'down' button the text scrolls downwards. Does any one kow how to do this?...more >>

Hi, I posted a similar question earlier so forgive me if it's too boring, but I could really use some advice. (I'm new to this, so please don't be too hard on me...) I have created my first Flash site, and have included 51 jpeg images. It's a portfolio of design work, so quality need to be qui...more >>

Good Afternoon All Am running Flash 2004 Professional with Remote Components. Actionscript debug output states that it requires a ")" even though closed brackets are in place, i.e. "(" ")". Any ideas??? -- Please don't reply to this email address as it is a spam trap to log trolls lurking...more >>

I need fonts of modernist style but I do not know any. Can someone help me? Thank you and regards: Fernando C. www.ciberimagen.com ...more >>

Sorry for this thread it's a test! daniele galiffa multimedia designer & developer http://www.mentegrafica.it/daniele daniele@mentegrafica.it...more >>

Apparently changes were made to the ATSUI (Apple Type Services for UniCode Imaging) in Panther which is the probable cause of this issue as it was apparently addressed in MX 2004. Macromedia - is an update in the works for MX? Evaluated 2004 Pro and I can honestly say that it is the most feeble atte...more >>

I have the following command on the first frame of my movie: fscommand("showmenu", "false"); It gets rid of that annoying "File | View | etc..." menu at the top of the window. However, what happens is the first frame loads, the command gets rid of the menu, and the whole image shifts up into ...more >>

Hi there, Can someone help me with the following problem? I made a navigation with 4 buttons. Each button has a logo in it. When the cursor moves over the button, a transition starts "from logo to short text". Please take a look at it right here: http://www.publiccontrolling.nl This is exactl...more >>

Clients send me a flash file, but it is in format of exe, xxx.exe. They ask that clicking a hotspot of image goes to play a flash. So, I add hyperlink to flash file. But it promots me to open or save this file. I want to how to auto play when clicking a link. It's urgent. Who can solve this? Ple...more >>

Hi guys I've put a movie clip on my stage that has some sound files along it's timeline. The user clicks a button on the main stage and it telltargets the movie to go to a framelabel so the user can hear the sound. I've 6 buttons in total but four use the same sound (this isn't a beep or anyt...more >>

<A Rant Of Sorts> This message fourm needs a big upgrade. 1) Give us a message forum where you can do a search - click a link from the results, then go back to the search results to click another link. Current result is to throw a Page Expired dump on you and require you do to a search again....more >>

Hi, Currently setting up a countdown to New year on a website. I have all the date and countdown functions working but don't know a very basic thing of making the numerical day into actual day. I know Sunday = 0 Monday = 1 etc, and currently is grabbing number fine. How do I set the variables ...more >>

I keep on seeing this effect and it looks really smart, was wondering if anyone could tell me hoe it's done? It involves a kind of mask that moves across an image, shifting the image by about 10 or 20 pixels where it passes. I haven't described it very well but there's an example at http://www.ambie...more >>

I've been using Flash for a little under a year and I just came across something I imagine is quite basic: I'm wanting to do a very short movie but I want the whole image to be a link. I can add links to buttons and text but is there a way to make the whole area a clickable link? I tried to sea...more >>

"... that one day, browsers will be the same as other browsers. and little flash movies will NOT be discriminated by the type of browser that is viewing them... Oh, yes, I have a dream... that one day flash movies will be judged on their character, not by browser dependant features. My fellow c...more >>

I want my movie to play in the flash player at a certain size without the menu bar of the browser. How is this accomplished? ...more >>

Hi, I'm a complete newbie - so please be gentle! I'm creating my very first website in Flash MX. I have 51 jpegs to include. I originally made them part of the same movie, but of course download times are dire. Having read through tons of posts here, I realised that using loadMovie is probably th...more >>

I currently have a web page that plays a flash animation within a layer. When the animation finishes, I want to do a show/hide layer so that the layer containing the flash is hidden and the layer behind it becomes visible. What is tripping me up is finding a way to specify that ANY behavior should g...more >>

i made this movie for a school project, and during the ending credits i put in a sound file, which was billy joel's we didn't start the fire. i did all the calculations to time it correctly (ex: 30 fps means in 1 second 30 frames will play) and i made it so at a certain point the song will play ... ...more >>

When I attempt to paste all the layers of one frame into a different frame, the pasted layers end up combined into one layer, rather than distributed over the existing layers (which are identical to the frame from which the layers were copied.) I can paste one layer at a time, but would like to k...more >>

I'm trying to see my alternatives for making a flash presentation (for offline use on high-end computers) with large (640x480) video clips in it. I made a quick test with Flash 7 player, although video speed was told to be improved a lot, it barely makes 5 fps out of the 25fps video (with mediu...more >>