I am sending a science teaching module with 39 swf snippets prepared on pc as illustrations to others on a CD. What should I tell those who have Mac computers on how to be able to play these Flash files? (1) will they be able to play them? (2) Can they use a SAFlashPlayer from my PC if I include it ...more >>

Has anyone else found this problem? If I have Photoshop7 open, FlashMX2004 wont start and oppossingly if FlashMX2004 is open Photoshop7 fails to start! It is happening on all machines running these applications at my work! I am going to presume this is not intentional, mearly a conflict in a s...more >>

I am building a Flash site, www.acmeadapters.com, and am having a few problems getting it to load properly on a Mac, seems to work fine on PC. Basically, the problem is that it double loads... after the pre-loader finishes, it launches the pop-up window, and then reloads the site again like it hadn...more >>

Hi Gang I've produced a quick Flash Projector .exe for a CD-ROM, and the people it's for want to include a minimum system requirements bit of spiel on the back. I've tested it on my ancient Windows 95 machine and it runs fine but that has 128MB RAM and a 166Mhz Processor. Does anyone know o...more >>

I want to create a bobble head in flash. Anyone have a script or know where I can find one? Please e-mail me at enzo@face3media.com if you know of any. Thanks and Happy Holidays! b]Enzo ...more >>

Why is the first frame huge when there is nothing in it? I test it and it shows 74kb when there is about 100 frames with only one text saying loading? It did not do this in flash 6? Is it pre-loading stuff? ...more >>

How do I go about creating a flash movie that will accept input from the user and generate a new, independent flash movie? Is it possible to create a PDF from within Flash? ...more >>

hi, i'm using flash MX, i want to call upon a quicktime file to play within my flash site (or alternatively in a new browser window). is this possible using the flashmovie w/actionscripting alone, or am i required to use html (eg. dreamweaver). cheers! krustafarian@hotmail.com ...more >>

Hi people, Just wondering if there is a way of achieving the button effect found at http://www.metadesign.com using motion tweens and basic ActionScript. I have tweened the effect for the links which do not move more than one link at a time. How do give the buttons intelligence, by this I mean...more >>

I run a community site using phpBB and I'm slowly comeing into the Macromedia Generation and started using some flash content for fun. As well I use flash content for ad campaigns. So browsers to my site need min. Flash 6 plugin installed. Now the java script I'm using I got from FLash html publ...more >>

I have this same need, but never saw the question answered in the post below. I need a Flash file that calls a HTML page which contains the Movie Player (media player or Real player or whatever) embeded onto it. Is that it? And, is there a command to get the html window to be a certain size or doe...more >>

Newbie question: When a button gives the command loadMovie("example.swf", 1); or something like that, will this movie replace other movies already playing in level 1? If so I have another question, how do you set the x and y coordinates where this movie is going to show up in level 1? ...more >>

Hi there, I'm using Microsoft XP. I'm working in flash for the first time. I want a graphic symbol to "fly through" with a loop on my web page. (I'm making a childrens' site). I am having trouble to make the graphic's background transparrent. I think one should do this in Fire Works but it d...more >>

Is there a way to embed acrobat files into a Flash MX 2003 Pro projector .exe file? I'm updating a CD-ROM created last year in MX where I used a third party tool to embed the acrobat file. I'm wondering if there is a new method with the new version of Flash. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi, How is it possible to jump to a given frame depending on the value of a variable passed to a flash movie ? Lets say I have a movie with four states, state 1 is in frame 1, state 2 is in frame 5, state e is in frame 10 and state 4 is in frame 15. I load the movie with this variable: ....more >>

Help!!... Restarted my system after a couple of days, just to try and clean the system a bit. After I restarted Flash MX 2004 Professional just will not work! Using Mac OSX 10.3.1, without a problem. Installed only Apple system updates in the last couple of days. I start up Flash, the icon bou...more >>

Hi, I have been trying to create objects that revolves using flash without success can someone help me out? i have tried to use multiple frames to create it and also use actionscript but am not and advance flash developer. Please help me out. ...more >>

I have a .fla and .swf file that someone made for me and is no longer available and I need to modify the file. I have no experience with Flash although I have now purchased the CD and also trailing CD's, but I need to make a change now and can't figure out how to do it. the website is http://www....more >>

I am a member of a site that uses Flash to open thumbnailed pictures. If I want to copy one of the pictures to my hard drive how do I do this? If I right click on the opened picture I do not get copy as one of my options. If I right click on the thumbnail, of course I can copy but only the thumbnai...more >>

Hi, I'm just wondering is there a pixel sampling function in Flash, and if so how to use it. Regards Peter Akrill ...more >>

I built a game in Flash where I use both static and dynamic text, and combine them in sentences and things, such as 'Your score is 2" with 2 being dynamic. The problem I'm having is that even though I'm using the same font for both the static and dynamic areas, the dynamic font is changing to a defa...more >>

When I test my movie, it works fine. But when I publish and try with HTML the whole frame is not there. I have tried to adjust the size to "show all" but still publishes wrong. Please help. I have attached the file. ...more >>

Hi pals! If someone can help me out here. I want to know how to fade out content when you click a button and fade in the new content. Like tansitional content view, to make my sites more eye catching. I think is clear enough, but you can see an example here, about what Im talking here. http://w...more >>

i have flash 5 for my Mac, I'am a new user and have just started to get to grips with flash. does anybody know how i make the stage background transparent. ...more >>

Hello, confused newbie here. I have Flash MX 2004 and I'm having a problem. When I add an item to the stage, it shows up just as it's supposed to. However, once I add a transition to it (ight click the object/timeline effects/transition), the object is not visible on the stage. It is surrounded b...more >>

sorry for the simple questions... but I can't figure out why when I create a new graphic on top of another one, it erases a portion of the background image. Is there a preference I should turn on/off? also, when I am creating a motion tween, and then go back and try to add another image to mov...more >>

Each time I export video to a move the file size is ALWAYS 16 MB!! Often the file size is actually increased! A few days ago I created one with a file size of 8 MB, but for the life of me I can't recreate it! The video file that I'm importing to Stage is 12 MB, and I'd like the swf to be under 5 ...more >>

Hello. I know how to create a preloader, but what I don't know is how Flash actually loads a movie. Is it linear?.... I ask this because I have a movie that's about 500k. Currently, the preloader has a progress-bar, and it loads the entire film. That works fine, but users on a slower connecti...more >>

I downloaded the three free extensions for Flash MX 2004, yesterday. But I cannot find them in my computer. Does somebody know their names or how to find those files?? Thanks! And... another component-problem. I would like to place a progressbar in a flashmovie... I don't understand the explanat...more >>

If I set the opening properties of a .swf to flash player then double click the file then it opens and plays no problem , but if I set them to open in IE6 then IE6 takes ages to open and sometimes freezes trying to open them , but if I write a html file embedding the .swf then double click on the .h...more >>

Hello: Was hoping someone might have a clue here. Im opening a web page via a button within my flash movie, using a on press/ getURL command , and it brings up two duplicate browser windows, both loading the specified url. Anyone have a hunch about what I might check to stop this annoying r...more >>

I have a few flash queries.... i want to create a button that loads a new browser window, can this be done simply through flash? or do i need to use html scripting in dreamweaver?....secondly can i control the size the window opens at etc..... next question.... can i create download links in ...more >>

Let's vote! Narrow it down and choose one best feature, one worst feature. Keep in mind there may be many useless features (such as timeline behaviors) but those don't have any effect on my workflow so they really don't qualify for me as "worst". My vote: Best: Find & Replace Worst: Histor...more >>

I have scrolling text boxes that have dynamic text loaded through a "txt" file. I have some www addresses i would like to have active so the user can click them and open a new browser page. Is this possible inside a dynamic text page? I know i can use html tags to format the type, so i was wonder...more >>

No matter what action i set for my buttons, i always get this message: **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=button, frame=1:Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler getURL(www.bit.nl); Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 Actually i would like you to help me with this er...more >>

2nd Submission! Hi All I have the new Flash Player & have uninstalled the older ones. I am using MSIE V 6.0.2800 as my browser. Every time a page with any Flash content starts to load a popup stating "PRESS OK TO CONTINUE LOADING THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE" pops up. Most annoying! How do i switch i...more >>

Here is my setup information. I built a Flash into (1.fla) which should open to a home page (index.htm). The published document is 1.htm. The Flash into runs, but when the Exit button is clicked, I receive the following error: 404 Error -- File Not Found The page you are looking for (http://ros...more >>

I have created a flash button, and I'm trying to find information on how to integrate it with dreamweaver. I have exported the button to macromedia\dreamweaver\configutation\flash objects\flash buttons, and it appears nicely under the insert/flash buttons options in dreamweaver, but I'm havi...more >>

Is it normal for a flash anamation to flicker. I have created a simple bouncing ball and it flickers like an old TV as if it is trying to chop the ball in half in a shear fashion a bit then back together again. ...more >>

Hi, I've just installed Flash 5 on my new g$. It worked fine on my G3, but now, when I try to drag a symbol onto the stage or create a keyframe, nothing happens. All ideas gratefully received! ...more >>

I've just begun to create flash animations for tv commercials here in Aus. I knew that the colours in flash were too bright for tv, but assumed that the station's production team would run it thru a filter or something. Well, they don't. Now with my latest animation, the colours are bleeding...more >>

Hi I know how to *hide* the mouse, I want to *restrict* it from going into a certain area. So when you're moving the mouse and want to move over, say, an object, the mouse "gets stuck" at the border of the object, and only moving away from the object has any effect. Found lots on hide and s...more >>

Hi, I've experimented with the Flash Video Exporter and am quite satisfied with the result (quality-wise). However, I experience problems with the bitrate. I want to make a modem version of a commercial clip. I've limited the VIDEO bitrate to 24 Kbits/sec and the AUDIO bitrate to 8 Kbits/sec....more >>

are there any "exe to swf" programs? Those exe files are created by Flash MX2004 (version7) I find some but all of them only support flashplayer 6. Thx!! ..::herman ...more >>

Hi I've written a function that attach a MovieClip(attachMovie), moves the MC to a new position and then calls a function in the attached MC. function loadPictures() { for (i=0;i<images.length;i++) { theHolder = attachMovie("emptyHolder","image" add i,i); theHolder._x = i*159; trace...more >>

Hi, i have bee n teaching myself flash for about 18 months and have just ve-designed my web site with the hope of finding some work. My site is http://www.beginthinking.com, and i am looking for other flash sites to trade links with, i want to link to some truly superb flash sites to show people the...more >>

hello, I've got a question. I've made some animations in flash and when I play the animations standalone they all run smoothly. But when I play them in combination with a swf in fullscreen (fs command) with LoadMovie they all run slower... especcially flv's. Is there anything I can do abou...more >>

Hi, I want to make automatic vertical scroller which scrolls a list of names from txt file. How could I do this? It must be automatic and re-scroll when it reaches the end... Please help, I've searched Google and have had no luck, found a few but not anything of worth... Thanks Chris. ...more >>

hallo, i've got a problem and i don't know how to solve it: within a movieclip code block i attach a Movieclip. Through runtime, i'd like to do a "gotoAndPlay(3)" or a "play()" command on the attached Movieclip. The movieclip doesn't play, it only jumps to the frame and stops. What is wrong? H...more >>

I had to reinstall Mac OS. Types in other programs work fine except Flash. It gives me this message: "Some characters could not ne converted to outline because an appropriate outline font is not available. These characters will disappear in the Flash Player file. The characters that failed will l...more >>

When I try to import an swf made with MX or MX2004 set to either Flash Player 6 or 7 and then I try to import them into Quicktime, I can't and I get an error message- does anybody know a good way around this? ...more >>

I'm a new user to these forums so I am unaware as to were to stick this post so I am simply placing it here for simplicities sake... I have a program entitled Incredimail which requires flash to play... And just earlier this afternoon I had it and my computer was working fine... However I ran a S...more >>

i have windows XP and i've tried downloading flashplayer. i click the 'download now' button and then nothing happens. absolutely nothing...any ideas? ...more >>

I have read all prior posts on movies not loading in netscape and have not found one that fixes my issue. I can view other flash movies with the netscape browser I have but my movie will just not play. Go like at www.sugarsnap.biz in netscape and you will see. Here is the code: <OBJECT classid=...more >>

I want to create a Peer-To-Peer chat app, but don't know where to begin. Can anyone please help me get started? ...more >>