I am planning on acquiring Flash for creating cartoons and anamation. Do you have any recommendations for the type of mouse, mouse pen, or tablet I should get? Thanks Mike ...more >>

How do I import an image? I made a pic in Photoshop, and I want to put it in a flash movie I'm making. ...more >>

I am looking for a site that has Flash news and forums and other cool goodies. I have seen flashkit, but I am terribly unimpressed, everything is outdated and the design is terrible. I am currently looking for a site that has flash photo templates for a website. I am new to the flash community, so i...more >>

I've created a Christmas game called The Santa Game. See if you can get the highest score! http://www.clivemusic.ca/santa/ If you like it, please email the link to your friends. evilC Vancouver, Canada ...more >>

I have a movie clip called cursor with the script on it: onClipEvent(enterFrame){ mouse.hide() this._x = _root._xmouse this._y = _root._ymouse } Inside the movie clip is the picture and it has 16 frames. The first frame I want to be static and to stay the same as you move around. But ...more >>

Anyone know how to print multiple pages without the windows print dialog coming up for each page? TIA Steve ...more >>

hi guys, i am trying to call a .avi from flash. actually i am calling a html file from flash which in turn calls the .avi file. i am embedding the object also. my problem is i am calling that html , it is checking for the plug in also. but after that it is saying ready , and not playing anythin...more >>

Hello I got this little problem Look I've put some swf files on my site, but the problem is that the files doesn't stream. First it downloads the WHOLE file and then it plays the file. It doesn't cache the file or s0.. Can someone please help me.? My site is.. http://members.lycos....more >>

I put some swf files on a site put the SWF files doesn't stream...they just download the WHOLE file and then it plays the file. Tell me what's wrong Here's my site.. http://members.lycos.nl/jawastylo ...more >>

Dear Anybody, I know it must be possible to produce the spinning newspaper effect in Flash. The image should start small, or non-existent, and spin, Spin, SPIN its way to its final bigness. I suppose this requires something like both a Motion and Shape tween being applied to the same set o...more >>

Hi, There's a tutorial here: http://www.the-stickman.com/tutorials/f4barneys_menu.shtml ....which shows how to do a funky menu system. What I'd like to do with this is take it all into a movie clip so that I can move it about on screen as an individual symbol. However, when I copy the frame...more >>

Hey everyone, i would like to know how to make the browser shake at certain points. thanks ...more >>

hey, i woul like to know how to have an input box where the user can type his name into. After i would like what he typed to appear somewhere else on a different frame. could anyone help me with this? Thanks alot ...more >>

I have a preloader swf that loads external movies in sequence (no problem there) then on the final frame of the loader movie I use getUrl to redirect to another .htm page. - Works locally, but not live. I originally tried LoadmovieNum into level0 on the last frame of my preloader, but had the ...more >>

Hi all. I have a question regarding text in Flash. My site, while mostly images, also has several areas where there is a decent amount of text, like my bio and client list (which have links to their sites). However, it seems text in Flash doesn't work that well, and it appears very jagged and...more >>

I am trying to export a flash movie as a quicktime movie for tv. I am getting an error that my quicktime doesn't have the "handler" for this kind of flash movie. Then it tells me to conslut the documentaion for further info. I can't find that documentation. I have the most recent version of Quicktim...more >>

I am just beginning to learn flash and have flash mx. I downloaded the text effect volume 1. I imported the librbary and now am confused on how to use them. would someone know where i can find a good, easy tutorial or if someone could explain I would be grateful. Randy ...more >>

Hey i'm wondering how i could make a text box an input then display it in another text box, whatever was inputed ...more >>

Can someone tell me how to scroll a dynamic text field? I know how to scroll in one line increments, or multiple lines for that matter, but I want to click on a button and have it scroll to the end of the text. I give my dynamic text box an instance name, and tell the buttons through ActionScript...more >>

Good day, This should be an easy question to answer... How do I retrieve the value of a variable that has been passed to my Flash movie via the URL? I am loading my flash movie from an ASP page, and I am passing one variable; using the following code: <embed src='NewPrice.swf?myVar=some...more >>

Please could someone explain to me why my wptv.swf file works when played in flash player but not when it is embedded in a HTML document? The movie shows up but the loadmovie commands dont seem to be workign when embedded. Any ideas? Gee ...more >>

the IT Director wants to know why he keeps getting a macromedia pop-up everytime he vists our website (our website has flash design in it) so i asked him if there was a yes or no option to download the flash plugin and he says YES THERE IS BUT I CLICK NO.....when i told him he should click YES he ex...more >>

Hi all, How do I do this, pre loading frames? I have 5 buttons which should all load movies when mouse over. They are called 1.swf, 2.swf, 3.swf, 4.swf, 5.swf . Do I use javascript- can anyone post me the pre-load code? Thanks you very much ...more >>

We can get Generator up and running (again) on our IIS Server. MacroMedia has deleted help files and forums. Anyone have any installation doc? Will pay $100.00 for solution. Contact john@inetwerks.com ...more >>

Hi This could be a very basic question, but I am new to Flash. I have Flash MX 2004 but want to produce some simple interactivity using buttons that will work in Flashplayer 5 (as well as 6 and 7). I keep getting an error in the Output window refering to my use of 'Flash MX Button Instance Name'. ...more >>

Hi, A couple of questions. We've been testing a projector on Mac OS 8.6 and on Windows 95 that was published from MX 2004. However the source files were authored in plain old MX. The projector seems to work fine even though MM don't support the older OSs. Is it only the new features of MX 2004...more >>

I've been searching on the forum but haven't found a solution to my problem. I'm having a very simple movie in which four pictures come and go. I hev made three buttons: one to stop the movie, one to restart the movie and one to print th pictures. I don't know if I'm thinking in the right direc...more >>

I have a graphic symbol which I'm setting to 100% transparent. However I'm getting a strange light blue discoloration (ghost effect) of the symbol. Any solution to this anomaly? David ...more >>

Flash And Slovak Fonts Hi my problem is this...hope somebody will help me: i've to type some slovak language texts in a flash website...but i cant do it correctly because i work on an italian computer...and we dont have all the accents on the letters like slovak does... now i've tried to copy a...more >>

can anyone help me please??!!! i'm tearing my hair out with this annoying dilemma! i have movie symbol containg 2 keyframes with the 'stop' action applied to each. each keyframe contains a square graphic (.jpeg). the jpegs share the same dimensions & co-ordinates yet when i export/preview it...more >>

You have no idea how many books I've been reading at CHAPTERS (book store), or how many web pages I have looked into. Nothing works. I am trying to add to my web site, a popup window to display images or other html pages. I did exactly that in dreamweaver so easily as seen here: http://home...more >>

Hi, I wonder to know if it's possible to create a banner with different picture as button and to have timeline pause on each mouse over state ??? thank's ...more >>

Hi everyone, I am a developer using Flash MX 2004. I currently started the making of web pages and I am facing a problem with the flash detection. As you propably know in Flash MX 2004, in the HTML publish settings there is an opition "Detect Flash Version". I select version 7.0.14 and I publ...more >>

Hello. Don't you know the address to that file (FlashMX2004-en.zip) for Windows? I need it because I can't download another way! ...more >>

Hi, am using streaming component in flash 2004, to stream my video file, but my problem is : am puting this in level and when am trying to open new page in unload movie and load movie this streaming video keep playing and if I want to open this page again it open but the video stock and not playi...more >>

has anyone worked with ipix before? i'm trying to open an html file with flash and i'm not doing too well. i've followed the link to javascripting on the macromedia site, but i'm still having problems with it. if i have this filled out correctly: javascript:openNewWindow('http://www.macrom...more >>

Hi all, Just a short question :P Is there anyway to deny users from accessing SWF files directly from browsers? ...more >>

When viewing theflash item in my internal browser (and flash player) ? all seems well, however when I look at our URL it doesn?t show. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? ...more >>

In the Flash MX 2004 IDE, my wheel mouse behaves very annoyingly. While I am editing Actionscript files, scrolling down with my wheel mouse works great. However, when I scroll back up the page, the scrolling jumps a dozen or so lines of code on each individual click of the mouse. Within the...more >>

I want to make a button that when the user rolls over it will make a different graphic move to the left a certain amount of pixels (5 px). Is there a script I can write? ...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to implement movies (like the ads on msn.com) that expand out over html text? And then can be closed/collapsed. Is it done through Javascript? Please excuse if this question has already been answered, but I couldnt find it. It would be great if you could direct me to tha...more >>

I'm googled out!!! I've searched everywhere for some pleasing musical notes to put on flash buttons. I wouldn't have thought it was such a difficult job to find a simple library to download to my mac. I'd settle for simple do-re-mi type notes, or chords, or rifs, or bells, chimes, or anything. Anyon...more >>

I have a swf complete with scenes and stop scripts. When I reimport it into flash (a different movie), all of the scenes play without stopping. It plays like a linear video clip. Any help out there? Adam Flash MX ...more >>

Does anyone know if it is possible to put jpeg images onto the symbol of a swf file. If you can how do you do this? Thanks ...more >>

I'm trying to importing my website graphics I made with Fireworks MX 2004 into Flash MX 2004. No matter what I do, the images are always messed up once they come into Flash. They look sort of tattered and uneven- just basically messy or smeared. This happens no matter what options I seem to try ...more >>

ok, my resolution is 1024 x 768. i set the size of my stage to the same, so that the projector would take up my entire screen. problem is, when you run the projector the window opens and its not centered. i was wondering if there was any way to center the movie in publish settings or elsewhere in Fl...more >>

I regularly use other tools like Visual Studio and I find it really annoying that the AS panel closes everytime I select a window outside of Flash. Often I need to reference code in AS and since I have early onset Alzheimer's ;) I just can't seem to remember all those variables and code in the blink...more >>

I need help and have for some time now. It is very hard to find anyone out here that understand flash or anything at all about Streaming and Media stuff. I have a company presentation I have taken and made Jpegs on and then taken and recorded audio and opt. all of it. I put them into flash and th...more >>

Hi!. I create a input text. It is a password input. I need that characters are not visible. User must see only "*" characters. How I can do? Luis De Sousa Venezuela ...more >>