hello all i just got studio mx 2004 and went to work on a site i was doing allready. I had a gradient fill background in dwmx which could tile to fit the browser port. but the site content is all flash wich means dat the flash background doesn t show the gradient fill. on old studio mx i had it w...more >>

Hello, my name is Baldur and im a 14 year old boy from Iceland, i'm making a Role Playing Game in flash and i was wondering if and then how you could make is so that is you sellect a girl character then there is allway's a picture of her and the same about the boy so on if you would select a bl...more >>

hey guys, I've created an html/asp web page with a standard form that asks the user to enter their "username". When the user does this and clicks submit, he is taken to another html page that contains a flash movie. I want this flash movie to display the "username" entered on the previous page....more >>

I am working on a popup menu, much like the one Macromedia uses on this site. I have run into a slight problem though. Not always, but occasionally, when you roll out of one button onto the next button the menu items from the first button do not go away. In other words the previous menu items do not...more >>

Hello, I have a button that has a action to load an external swf movie. "on (release) { loadMovieNum ("about_text.swf", 1); } How can I position the loaded movie to be in a deferent X and Y position in the stage. (when it loads it snaps to 0,0. thanks, -- Mic www.migocreative....more >>

I use http://www.versiontracker.com to keep up with the latest and greatest software. For the past few weeks it has been telling me that these two files are out of date: AuthPlayLib 7.0 SAFlashPlayer 7.0 It tells me that the latest version is 7.0 r19 I've downloaded the installer and run i...more >>

I can set the Flash to scale according to the window size, but I'd like the objects within to maintain their original size. Essentially I'd like to have a UI that manipulates or adds fixed size objects according to how the Flash/window size is changed. I'd appreciate any help in how to approach a Fl...more >>

I just started learning FlashMX and have gone through many of the video tutorials at lynda.com and some at macromedia.com but as much as they discuss motion tweening i can't get it to work with bitmap graphics. If you look at nasa's site http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/m2k4/frameset.html now lo...more >>

I am using a single Loader Component to load Images. When a user selects an image from a listbox the change handler tells the loader to load that image which works fine, it clears the old image and loads the new. The progress bar works fine the first time but for any other images it stays at 100%....more >>

Hi. I have made a webpage, where you kan transform a flash movie with the actionname"mymovie" Now I want the user to templairy upload his picture (from his own computer) to my flash movie. And I want the picture to become in de movie "mymovie". If this works the ppersone can transform his own pic...more >>

Are there any new products that took over the functions of Macromedia Generator? I need to generate .swf files from users uploaded jpeg files. ...more >>

Hello all, Is posible load music and video files in the execution of the flash animation? something similar like loadmovie() How i do it? Thanks a lot. ...more >>

Hi, I have Flash MX. When I try to insert an action script into a button it says it can be have actions applied to it. I want to apply the getURL action to the button in order to make it a link but it will not work. I try uninstalling and reinstalling the program and it still continues to give me...more >>

Hello, I am a real rookie to FlashMX...I a play, pause, and stop button created on my stage... I now want to be able to use this on my website to play my sound.mp3 Are there any good tutorials out there on how to attach this sound to the buttons? Are there any Extensions that would walk ...more >>

Hello Flashers, I have set up a button to launch a streaming audio file in a new window, but everytime I click the button in the exported flash moview, it just opens a new instance of windows explorer. Am I missing something? I've tried from the SWF file, and I've embedded the swf in an HTML ...more >>

I'm running Panther and Flash MX. My URLs worked before, from a text link. Suddenly, they don't. Clicking a mailto link now opens Safari. No new configurations, same file, same system. Can associations get lost? Any ideas? Thank you. Scott ...more >>

I used to use Flash a long time ago, and I'm just getting back into it. I seem to remember when I had an audio layer and I would drag along the timeline, I could hear the audio track at the speed I was dragging... This made it very easy to sync my new layers to my audio track... I'm using...more >>

i do this in director : gObj=Sprite(me.spriteNum).getvariable("_root",false) when i do : gObj.muFunc() it calls myFunc() but when i do : gObj.muFunc2("sdfasdf") the function dosent recive the value! what to do?is there a way to send variables to function? thanks in advance epelg ...more >>

I'm having trouble making this code work. I have two movieclips on the main timeline. The first movie has buttons that need to be disabled once any one of them is clicked. They are then re-enabled by a button in the second movie clip. I put the array of button instances and the disable and ena...more >>

hi all i have 3 questions: 1-how can we creat large files? 2-how can i run some large swf files serially? 3-how much is maximum size of flash file? ...more >>

Alright... I've been screwing with this for almost 3 hours, and have gotten NO WHERE. So it's time to search for help. Now this site has a little music player that I'm guessing just streams the songs from some where. What I've been trying to do is get into the flash animation and find out where t...more >>

Hello, I want to add audio to my website....How would I create audio buttons (play, pause,stop) like on audiogenerator.com ?? How is the best way to add audio? Any short tutorials out there? Is there anywhere that I can find these buttons already? thx Mike ...more >>

Hi, I just wanted to point out a few features I think would really add flexibility to the future flash releases. My two ideas are based on the layers, inspired from Photoshop, I admit. -> blending mode: I think it would be very attractive to be able to put a blending mode (ex.: overlay, multiply,...more >>

Hello, I was wondering how to display a quicktime player in a flash document.. I have read that a .swf doc could not read quicktime, instead to save a flash doc as a .mov. I have done this and have followed many tutorials however, it is not what I am looking for... an example of what I am talking a...more >>

Hi, i am a total newbie to flash, and to most of you this will probably seem like a stupid question. Question: Is it possible to copy/paste or import a layer from one flash file to another? Thanks in advance ...more >>