Hi all, I'm trying to make the scrollpane background transparent in MX 2004. I've tried the following with no luck. myScrollPaneInstance.boundingBox_mc._visible = 0 myScrollPaneInstance.boundingBox_mc._alpha = 0 myScrollPaneInstance._alpha = 0 // -- Doesn't work with embedded text ...more >>

Hello, Does anyone have any good links to some documentation about developing flash content for portable devices/ cell phones. Can you make stand alone projectors for these devices? Etc. Thanks in advance for any help. -Dan ...more >>

Hello all, i just want to ask if there is a way to link a button to open up photoshop or any other graphics application? I really appreciate any advice that anyone can throw at me. Good Day ...more >>

I'm setting up some text input fields and assigning the variables and all that junk (subject, body, etc.). That's all working fine. What I want to do is just send directly from what the put into the input fields in the flash file. I don't want the actual e-mail to pop up in the users mail messeng...more >>

When I run Test Movie--Control > Test Movie or Ctrl + Enter--Flash creates a .swf file in the Documents and Settings directory and names the file "christian.swf", which happens to be my first name and is the first part of the user ID with which I log on to the computer. My coworker has Flash MX inst...more >>

Message box* pops up when I try to install Macromedia Flash MX 2004 on my Windows XP proffessional. *Component transfer error Component: <Disk1> File Group: <Disk1>Disk1 Files(1) File: C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{2F353D44-73BB...more >>

I know this is probably a very stupid question and I'm hoping that there is an easy answer to this. Basically I have created a flash banner with 169 frames 12 FPS. I have several tweens in my Flash file as well. I am also using rather large source images that have been optimized in photoshop (72dpi)...more >>

I really need help !! i just cant find solutions !!! the deadline for the project is on the fifth of january !! 1-) when openning a link by getURL, i need the button or the link to open a new window... Now if the user pressed the button or the link again, i want to go to the opened page, not to...more >>

I am a noob. I have an ideo to make a banner with two layer. I would like the text on the top layer to be cutout so that I can scroll a gradient on the layer behind it and it will show through. The problem is I can figure out how to creat the top layer with the cutout text. I can make the text ok, b...more >>

Good day, Using Flash MX Pro, and I want to dispaly a mask over the dataGrid component .. but it does not seem to work ... This is what I have done so far: Created an MC that contains my dataGrid and dataSet Placed this onto the stage, onto a layer called "dataGrid" on Frame 1 Create a ...more >>

On the stage I've made a movieclip named fields. In this movieclip there are 2 dynamic textfields with the instance names field1 and field2. In these dynamic textfields I want to load a .txt file. For field1 that will be text1 and text2 for field2. I've tried to do this with the following code...more >>

Does anyone know if there is a way to import/call an external .mpg into a flash file? I do not want it directly in flash because it is already compressed and if I do so flash compresses it more. File size is no problem; final files will be written to cd. ...more >>

hi, i u/l a changed .swf to my site but when i do refresh to the html file it doesnt present the changes. (i deleted the swf and html from the site and u/l again but the problem stays) what should i do? avi. ...more >>

Hi, Just for fun I thought I would test my page in Netscape. Much to my surprise (yeah), the scrollPane component did not display an content. This works great in IE. Is this a known bug? Is there any way to get my content to display in Netscape. Thanks. Scott ...more >>

Hi I have a navigation bar with pop up menus set up in dreamweaver, I am trying to link to my flash movie from the pop up menu. I want to be able to control the size of the window the flash movie loads into, do flash movies have to be embedded in a dreamweaver file to do this or is there a way t...more >>

Pasting a 32 mb mpg file from one FLA to another took over 10 minutes, why? I'm currently using FLASH MX (not the 2004 version) and I'm on a 2.4 ghz 2048 mb ram, 2 x 120 gb hd's Why is it taking so long just to paste a file? This seems ridiculous. -Line http://www.LineDetail.com | T...more >>

http://www.5and3.com - the presentation that's on here. Was Flash used to make this? If so - how hard is it to do? What is it called? Inserting video? Do you know of tutorials or 3rd party software that does this for you? Thanks! ...more >>

If I wanted to have a newspaper where all the stories were grayed out (yet still readable), until the viewer mouses over one, and then it wakes up (goes to color), is that possible using just Flash? Also, I am planning on the paper being actual sized, unfolded lengthwise, so it would run off th...more >>

I am creating a custom scroll bar, for some dynamic text. I want to move the scroll bar within a constrained area, and based on its position scroll the dynamic text. The scroll bar is a button named drag_bar. To move it I called startDrag. (See the code at the bottom of this post) I do not ...more >>

I am working on creating a flash movie/projector that is to be placed on a CD for promotional purposes. It has some nice gradients (created and imported from Illustrator) for the background objects. On screen working in Flash MX 6.0 everything looks beautiful. However when I create my Projector ...more >>

hi, i got a site i made with flash 5 and i want to continue working on him with flash mx pro 2004. the problem is that when i open the file , flash mx popup a message with this content : "unexpected file format". what should i do? Avi. ...more >>

After managing to figure out the inner workings out of the scrollpane (Big difference from MX). I'm noticing the scroll pane doesn't show text when the font is embededd and the alpha is set to 0. Also clips that are child clips to the scrollpane that do drawing from the drawing API don't show any...more >>

how i can do a random between numbers from minus to plus? like from -60 to + 60??? thanks for any helps ...more >>

I'm building a RIA. For the most part, I avoid using the components because I've found that once I instantiate one of them, the performance of my movie is immediately effected beyond any reasonable understanding. For instance, I've got things going to where the movie loads and plays at a fairly ...more >>

how can i put dynamiclly objects on screen like : text box,radion vutton and so on but withogut putting any of them in advance on stage?>! thanks in advance PEleg ...more >>

hi, i'm much more of a ASP programmer than an actionscripter so was hoping someone could help me out with this.... i have a link on a page of my site which looks something like this : gallery.asp?referer=<%=Request.QueryString("referer")%> the "referer" is obviously part of the URL pass...more >>

I'm researching RoboDemo a bit and had a few questions regarding Flash output from RoboDemo. Since there isn't a RoboDemo MM newsgroup yet, I thought I'd throw it out in here. If you are a RoboDemo user that has exported to Flash from it, I'd like to ask a few question... -Darrel ...more >>

I am working as a subcontractor and am doing some revisions to some Flash files... I came across this: http://www.rexmorgan.net/test/temp1.jpg in several files. The person before me (currently unavailable to contact) authored several files in MX and created these layers that are mask layers, onl...more >>

OK... Am I missing something. I am new to Flash but I have upgraded to MX 2004 and I no longer see a ScrollBar component. I see a ScrollPane component. I have a text box on the stage and all I want to do is add a ScrollBar component for scrolling text How to I do know? Scott allsource...more >>

I have a dataholder bound to a numeric stepper component in Flash MX 2004. The binding works when I use the up/down arrows but doesn't work if the user changes a number manually in the text box. Is there a way I can get both be bound? Thanks, -Luke...more >>

Hi all I self taught flash actionscripts and i need some help with the questionares i was given... can someone help me: How many types of looping syntax are there in Flash 5, besides enterFrame? How many types of even handlers are there in MovieClips in Flash 5? How many ways are ther...more >>

Flash MX I have just been doing some work on a fla file which involves a big (as in dimensions) movie clip on the first frame. But now, for some reason it isn't a) letting me select the movie clip from the main frame or b) letting me double click the movie clip to edit it. I can get to the ...more >>

hi i made this movie in flash but when i try to publish in html page , it just took ages to load, maybe forever, i then import the movie to dreaweaver and same thing occurs when i preview in html mode, iam not sure what cause this kind of problem, if anyone could tell me wot's going on that will be ...more >>

How do you know that you have been working on Flash for too long? When you go to sleep at night and before a dream starts, a blue strip appears with "Loading, please wait"! ...more >>

Hello again, I have been asked to submit a site to a number of search engines - problem is, I have no idea where to start. I know I have to have meta tags, or somthing? so I check out the script of a site i foud off a search engine which is: <meta name="keywords" content="Pixar Animation Studi...more >>

I recently upgraded to Flash MX 2004 pro, I am very interested in using screens for presentations. I have viewed the On Demand demo re screens and in this Mike mentions a script he had written to hide all screens but I can't find this script anywhere. Mty problem is that when I populate scree...more >>

I was wondering if I could use Flash to create a slideshow for a website? If I can then can someone help me by giving me some pointers. My photo software does it but I can't save it then transfer it. Thank you, Erin ...more >>

hello, this is moder with team xbox god. we are now working on a xbox web page and kinda need some help with some graphs. after xmas we may be willing to pay some mony.. 50 at most now for a nice logo and what ever. for now we dont whant to dump to much in the site now intill its fully up. any he...more >>

sup all, no flash files play on my computer....i have tried d/ling flash player but when it take me to the page when its apparently finished d/ling the boxes that are supposed to have the movies dont play... i have tried d/ling with my firewall off incase that is whats wrong..... just wondering...more >>

I try to play the streaming in Flash MX Professional 2004 without the Flash Communication Server. In my addition that's successfully,but I wonder about the video is download to the client's compuet or isn't. If the answer is "YES", 1.Where can I find the streaming file in the client's computer? 2....more >>

I am working on a photographers site, and have been struggeling with a persistant color shift of the JPGs that are loaded dynamically into the Flash movie. I have set up a little page for comparing a JPG being loaded straight into the browser (left) and then into flash (right side) at (click on t...more >>

A flash menu that shows on every windows computer, yet on an AppleMacintosh version of Internet Explorer 5.1 it only shortly appears, then completely dissappears......however...if you move your mouse over the place where the menu should be....it suddenly showes small parts of the menu (where you mov...more >>

Hi all, I am new to flash and we are using Flash MX 2004 and I was wondering if this can be done. I am looking at doing file upload and I believe that it can not be done in Flash and that the only way is to call the submit form from HTML. I have some examples that I can follow however my que...more >>

I've been checking this forum for posts about how to make a flash site more visible to the major search engines, and I haven't really found any truly satisfying advice. It seems that google and others will not recognize text or links inside your swf, and they basically score a site based on text i...more >>