I'm having problems with my text buttons retrieving a url. I created a text button with three states (up, over, & down) and would like for the button to take the user to another page. When in the Actions setting of the buttons "Browser/Network" settings "getURL" is greyed out. This basic funct...more >>

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I'm working on a project with flash and Final Cut Pro for Mac that requires I export my flash animations, and not publish them, for using in Final Cut. (I have to export in a .png sequence if that's important) The problem is that if there is a movie clip with its own timeline in my scene, then th...more >>

Maybe I am just not informed, and maybe it has been (and I am sure it has to have been) talked about before, but why has Macromedia mot made something that is server side for displaying Flash content? You know what I am talking about, doing away with the Flash Plugin and selling a server side fl...more >>

I am working on a presentation and what size should the format be for a overhead projector. The work will be carry out on G4 15.2" laptop with Flash MX. ...more >>

I've been using Flash off and on for a few years, and can draw, animate and make buttons to go to frame numbers with ease. However, I am doing a new and very large demo tutorial project, very similar to the Flash product overview. Rather than having one long timeline, I have broken things down i...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to do an image catalog, when a user click on an image I would like to popup a save as window to permit the user to save the image. Is it possible ? How could I do that ? Thanks Happy hollyday to everyone !!! ...more >>

newbie here, and i'm looking for pre-made mask effects. I'm looking for something like a continious scribble. suggestions on where to get them? ...more >>

I just built this site and for some reason I have to refresh the browser to get some of the animations to play. After that they work. Anyone know how to fix this? I need to get this online and working by end of day! HELP! http://www.rdesigncreative.com/test/newsite/ http://www.rdesigncreative...more >>

I'm developing an interactive presentation in which I have 3 sailboats(transparent pngs) which navigate along paths around a flat map of the world. The problem is that in trying to edit the animation, my computer lags hardcore. The animations span some MAJOR frames - 1300+ - in order to "time" wi...more >>

we created a FLASH presentation and exported it as an .exe file. We burned it to a CD-ROM and included an autoplay file. The presentation plays fine when you put the CD in the drive, but the one thing that does not work is the email link inside the FLASH presentation. We noted that it does not ca...more >>

it may be an very easy solution to this, but i don't think so since i have spent a lot of hours trying to figure this out. i have a perfectly working flash movie, at lest it's perfect if you test it scene by scene, but when i publish it to .exe (doesn't give any errors) it will freeze after half ...more >>

Anyone, When I publish a movie then try to run the swf file i get this error message. First it shows the destination of my file, the full path. Then, right under that it says "The device is not ready." Does anyone know why and if so how do i fix this problem. Thank you in advance. ...more >>

Does anyone know if its possible to create an swf that cant be copied. Is it something to do with the read only? Any ways that you can do this would be really helpful. Thanks ...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had an article or tutorial on how to build a Flash Software Installer GUI. I'm a systems administrator who installs the same set of software on thousands of machines. I want to build an SWF, similar to the install for Studio 2004 MX where you can choose to instal...more >>

I'm trying to follow the first tutorial, with the "Trio Motor Company" embedded video. I'm missing the rewind and fast-forward behaviors in the Behaviors menu. The tutorial says to click on the rewind button, and then go to the Behaviors window, click the +, select the embedded video menu, and c...more >>

Okay... whats the deal here? I am developing a flash presentation using MX 2004...... In it, there are scenes with large headlines that fade/move across screen.... along with other elements moving onstage...... The presentation also goes fullScreen. I was having major lag issues with my old G3/45...more >>

To load external swf movie from my source file, I proceed as following : _root.createEmptyMovieClip("holder",5); holder.loadMovie("accueil.swf"); It works, the movie is properly loaded as I want, but how can I add a preloader in order to perform an action when the movie is loaded? I tried _lev...more >>

About twice a year I get out Flash5 and make a little movie for a webpage. Virtually every time I use this thing I close the panel - or whatever it's called - on the left (the one with the color pallette, etc.) and I can never get the thing back......... I do this inadvertently, by the way. I li...more >>

I am trying to use the Flash Charting Components that I downloaded from Macromedia's developer exchange web site. These include a Bar Chart, Line Chart, and a Pie Chart. I am using Flash MX Pro 2004 7.0.1 on Windows XP. I start Flash MX, choose File->New->Flash Document. Then, I open the Compo...more >>

Hi there, just another stupid question from me. When I make a exe with the a demo of 2004MX (just because it is so much faster) will it have a 'end of trail' sort of popup after 30days ? anyOne?; cheers, vincent ...more >>

Could some one tell me how do I link a intro flash to the allready designed site?? Please help me ...more >>

hello; I have a narrow input text field; it is set to multiline and it has a vertical scrollbar; my problem: if a user types into the textfield, the textfield needs to automatically go to the next line when the cursor gets to the end of a line; I have played with textfield.maxchars but that i...more >>

I am using the evaluation version of Flash MX Pro 2004 (7.0.1). I have loaded the Flash UI Components Set 2 in addition to the built-in components (UI Components.) I am following some tutorial instructions from a book, and they tell me to select a "ListBox," but I don't have one. (I have the sa...more >>

Sorry for this very basic question. What is the executable file for running swf files and where is it usually located? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, im quite new to Flash and I would like to know how I would go about controlling a character using the keyboard. I am doing a basic game, where the character is in a race, I want the user to toggle two keys on the keyboard to make then go faster. Does anyone know how I would do this? Thanks. ...more >>

I have been using loadMovieNum() to load external swf's into my movie. Sometimes the sound works and sometimes it does not. Of course the sound works in the original movie. I have no idea why this is happening. Could someone help ...more >>

Hi all, Could someone please tell me how to place a link on a button in flash to open a new document, like a word or pdf in a new window... Is it something similar to loading an external movie clip or jpg??? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Charlie ...more >>

I have a Flash movie posting to a cold fusion login form. It works fine except when someone uses a password with a special character like & or % which I know has a meaning to parsing a form. How can I keep the string intact when it goes over to cold fusion. Right now it cuts off the variable at the ...more >>

I have very little knowledge of flash but i need to link from a button in a flash graphic to another html page Please follow link below for an example, you will see the buttons 1/2 way down the page that say About | cuisine | Drinks | Cookbook | Contact How do i link these to another page? ...more >>

Hey guys - I'm a jam and in a rush (sorry to sound hasty)! I'm simply trying to make a very simple animated button with Flash (I only tinker with it now and then) and I keep getting this error message when trying to apply a getURL action to the button: =======================================...more >>

Hello, I installed FLASH for Pocket PC 2002 on a Dell Axim, the installation appeared to work but upon trying to run a swf file I created in FLASH MX there was no association for it in File explorer. Tried installing again...the installation recognized it was already there and asked to reinst...more >>

Hi, i have a weird problem occuring when i print a movie i have done in Flash MX. my movie (to sum up, it is a graphic design application) is created by dynamically loading some custom component, and everything goes well until i try to print it. on the screen, all the component are positionned...more >>

Hi all. I've seen this done many times using Flash -- but I don't know how it's done. Most often, it's like a silhouette of a person or persons, moving around like a movie. You can see an example in an advertisement on this page: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4437-2003Dec...more >>

Hi Forum I received a download link from Macromedia and downloaded the installer of the shockwave player and flash player for distribution on CD. But this installer installs flash player 6 instead of flash player 7. Do anyone knows, if there is an offline installer setup for flash player 7? I ...more >>

I wanted to save an animation - for all you football fans out there it is pretty hilarious - http://www.buccaneers.com/index.html - and used to be able to do this by opening up my temporary internet files and searching for the filename of the .swf - but it appears that I can't do that any more. ...more >>

I am building a flash site with many scenes, I have a preloader which loads the entire site before playing the intro, as the site is quite large I want to know how to space the preloaders so the first preloader loads the intro scenes only then when the intro has played another preloader loads the si...more >>

I am creating flash pieces that run from a cd rom. Most of the text is pulled in from external txt files. Some of the texts have htmle <a href tags linking to pdf documents also on the cd or on the users computer. when flash opens these pdf it does so within Internet explorer. Is there anyway ...more >>

Hi. Can someone help with a loadmovie/dynamic text problem? I'm new at this. I have a main swf that loads other swfs into itself. pretty easy so far. However, one of the swfs has a dynamic text box that loads a txt file into itself. Also, the loaded swfs and the dynamic text are in different fold...more >>

hi there i have a full screen swf movie running in a browser. on the click of a button in flash it opens a html popup window. Problem- the html popup window opens in the background/behind of the flash movie. Requirement- I need the html popup window to open on Top of the flash movie. pl...more >>

I'm a newbie and I have a problem using Motion Tween. When I'm selecting the object and inserting Motion Tween, all the objects become's selected, so I can't move for example A CAR around the other objects, because they all became grouped by the Motion Tween. Can someone help me, please? ...more >>

Hello and thanks in advance for any help. I have a webpage created with frontpage and want to display a movie I created. I would like the movie to open in a separate window just like if you had the swf file on your computer and clicked on it. The only way I have even come close is to use the proj...more >>