We just upgraded to new Macintosh G5's with OS10.3 and flash MX2004 (7.0.1) demo. Type 1 fonts are trashed onscreen, difficult to select and edit, and the app crashes in a few minutes. What's going on? I'm trying to use Flash MX 2004 in a professional work environment and it doesn't work. So far...more >>

i have created a simple flash animation and when i view it in explorer it loops forever, anyboy knows how to make it work only one time. i'm using flash mx v.6 ...more >>

If I download the new trial version of Flash MX2004 Professional, will I still be able to run the MX2003 version? I am skeptical about the new version and I don't want the trial version to disable the the old version. Best regards, Jip...more >>

Hi again ... thanx for the past support... now how can i do this : this is the idea ... have an interval in flash , it is going to call a php function that exist in the same page, or in an other page !! ( dont know if it differs) ... this function checks the cookie if it has expired or not,...more >>

I have been using Flash since version 4, I use Flash MX everyday at work, and I am also proficient in ActionScript. Currently, I am using Flash MX (bundled with Studio MX) which my company purchased early in 2003. Our 2004 budget includes some money I might be able to use, but I don't know if I ...more >>

I'm having trouble surfing to any page that has alot of Flash content. As an example, when I try to visit www.Disney.com, the page just hangs there and will not load. Also, my wife uses toontown.com alot and she can't access that page from my laptop either. I'm running Win XP with IE6. I've trie...more >>

Hello, I am using Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer to generate xls files and send them. when I use getURL(baseadr + "createXls.php"); I get a dialog aking me to download the file, and that's what is expected, but I get an emty IE screen that pops, is there a way to avoid it from appearing and to just ...more >>

Hello All! I've been working with Macromedia to try to get Flash content to work correctly on my computer, but two techs are now stumped. I've downloaded the player successfully, then removed, reloaded a bazillion times, but the problem remains: Some sites work, others don't. These work: ...more >>

I'm terribly sorry if this has been covered. I did a search for this and found nothing. I have noticed that the position coordinates fields are missing from the Transform palette in MX 2004. I must be really stupid today, because I cannot find those fields so I can manually enter in the positio...more >>

Hi , hope you all had a good christmas. Does anyone know if there is an action script in flash to make it wait on a frame for a set amount of time ? I know the scripts for play and stop but I cant find one for wait ? ...more >>

Hello, I work for a web development company in North Carolina and up until now we have not designed much using Flash. This may be a very basic question, but I am not sure about the answer to it. I am using Flash MX 2004 and we have a content management solution written using ASP. I know that for...more >>

Hi, The project I'm working on uses the font "Berkeley MdIt BT" and using the Movie Explorer I can see that this is the only version of Berkeley being used in the .fla. However, the movie size report shows that "Berkeley Md BT" is also being used and Flash MX is embedding ALL of the characters...more >>

Hi all I have a basic general question - I need to develop a small Desktop application for a customer This application need to work with a Database I want to build it with flash and I'm not quite sure which platform is the right choice in my case... At the moment I am going to use flash ...more >>

I have a flash application where I am dynamically loading jpgs with the loadMovie() function. They all load, but some of the jpgs are white on all the edges, so to represent that this image is consistent with all the others I have added a border on them. However, when they load there is an offset...more >>

Whenever I create a dynamic text box and add a scroll bar, the scroll bar doesn't work. I am using loadVariablesNum to call the text. All of the text is selectable but the scroll bar is greyed out. I tried to attach the files to this post, but that button doesn't work either. I can send them to you...more >>

I'm trying to create a menu with multiple listboxes, where each listbox opens the next listbox except for the last one. I have the code to open the last one. What would anyone suggest for the code to open a listbox. ...more >>

I have a Flash file in which, when someone clicks on a particular movie clip, the view of that movie clip changes. I also want to have this same movie clip draggable if the user clicks and holds it (as you would do with a selected circle in Flash. Is there any way to do this? I have tried a few d...more >>

I'm using this to load a jpeg into my SWF. The variable location is passed from PHP, all works fine. loadMovie(_root.location+"big.jpg", "holder"); However, how can tell when the jpeg has been loaded? so I can perform something like "if jpeg is loaded do X, else do Y" ? mark ...more >>

I am trying to attatch the action to a button to tell it to get an url, so here is the script that I am trying but it is not working, i think I might have to specifiy window, and method, but i don't know what to use for those. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dubs heres the script...more >>

Hello. I am new to flash and at a new job where I am learning as I go. As in figure out how to do this because we want to use it in our new site. It is a great way to learn but now I am stuck. We have a small video that is playing when you go to the page and would like a button that you can clic...more >>

I'm just testing a website on a few different computers, and when I look at it on my Mac laptop, the small fonts look hard to read (a bit pale and varying in density), and the background pic is a lot paler than it should be - on the other 2 macs they look better. Is this just the computer, or coul...more >>

Hi I am building a Flash MX site with dynamic text boxes that receive their data from a flatfile database via a Perl script. One of the fields contains the name of a music venue, and if there is an associated website in the datafile for the venue, the Perl script automatically creates the HTML ta...more >>

I am a below novice flash mx user, with minimal amount of actionscript knowledge. I have made web pages with flash before, however I always integrate html with the flash. this time I want to create the whole site with flash. So I'm asking a very basic question. How do I create a flash menu? ...more >>

I uninstalled the Flash player because animations are very annoying. It's like trying to read a book that has a built-in television screen. GIF animations are also disabled in my browser, but at least I see the first GIF frame. Now where Flash animations used to be I just see a white box, i...more >>

I do not have the Scrollbar Component. I have Flash MX Pro. How do I install or find it? ...more >>

Using MX 2004 Pro on XP when I try to export it hangs up...it stops, hangs on the "Exporting Flash Movie" box and won't publish. I have to cancel and restart and try again. It usually works on the first export but if I edit the movie and try again it won't export. When the .swf is compiled suc...more >>

All, I realize the answer to my question is "it depends" BUT how is it that I can develop code that behaves completly different on the mac than on the PC? I'm sure 'it depends' on the code i'm writting but I thought one of the big selling points behind flash is that it's platform independant. I...more >>

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has a working on line version of preloading multiple swfs. I have trauled the web and ALL the examples I've found of people claiming to have done this - don't work or aren't quite what I'm looking for. I need to preload 4 movies INTO THE BROWSERS CACHE to be...more >>

Hello, this is a question for flash 5. I have a main MC that loads many other SWF files with the LoadMovie action. I want to have a "Reset" button that when pressed unloads all the loaded movies. I noticed that I can only specify one level. is there a way to specify many levels? thanks...more >>

I developed an Lead Management web application using Flash MX Professional 2004. The SWF file size is 207 kb. The loading speed of the application's first form took about 20 seconds on my machine but much longer (about 40 seconds) on the users' machine (sales consultant). Some machines give a warnin...more >>

what is best way to create large flash file? ...more >>

I have imported an image externally to the flash. - how do I make sure the size of the images is within the box I want? eg. the pictures size always changes times to time, but when I load it into flash I want it to be 200px by 200px, or constrait ratio to 200px. - how do I load the images,...more >>

Hello guys, Is there any significant difference between wav and mp3 when imported into a flash movie. Because when i import a music clip inside a flash movie by mp3 or wav format, exported swf file has the same file size also the music quality seems to be same in both cases. Any suggestions!...more >>

Flash MX 2004 I'm starting to learning Flash by editing someone else's fla file and there are some Timeline symbols for which I don't understand their meaning: The open rectangle at the end of each layer (or one frame from the end if the layer ends with an empty keyframe)? One layer has...more >>

Hi I'm new at this, doing lesson 5 of "Flash 2004 Macromedia Training from the source" while adding motion tweens between keyframes if I follow the book and get a dotted line instead of arrows in the Timeline what does this mean? ...........happy new year everyone... ...more >>

What export settings are the correct configurations for exporting a fla. file to quicktime WITHOUT losing movie clip animations? I have yet to find a export setting which still views "movie clips" after a quicktime export. Thanks in advance, Jeff jeffdoe1@yahoo.com AIM-jeffdoe htt...more >>

hey guys. i was just wondering if any of you knew any good books that teach flash. i have found many for sale on amazon....etc., but i cant decide which one to buy. if any of u have any recomendations, please tell me.thx!!! ...more >>

im creating a simple sequence of jpeg images which are being imported into my flash movie. each image appears on a different layer with a basic "fade in" kind of effect. so far i have 4 layers but for some reason when i try to insert another layer nothing seems to happen. however i am able to...more >>

is it possible to call a swf (loadMovie to a level) from outside the main swf....like from a HTML-link??? thanks for help ...more >>