I have made a 355 Frame movie with soundtrack for insertion in my website (http://www.mokillustration.com/NaviMatrix.html ? PUNCH the Hitchhiker button) the movie plays through just fine - its a little jerky because it's slowed down animated still frames, but it more or less does what I want for...more >>

Hello all. I am a FLASH 5 person and recently started working with FLASH MX Pro 2004 ED. The UI is definitely a bit different and as I go to tell a button to play movie clip, I find myself not able to. I have been out of development for about a year and I seem to recall using telltarget to load a...more >>

I just upgraded my Flash MX Professional 7.0 to the new 7.0.1. Now anything I created in the older versions of MX Professional will not open up in the new version!?!? I keep getting "Unexpected file format". Just wondering if anyone experienced the same problem? ...more >>

I have created a template with a iframe in the body surrounded by three flash movies, all is well untilI tried to change the iframe from my flash movie. Below is the code from the html button that worked in the same setup. I would appreciate any help. <a href="javascript:;" onClick="Lvl_targetI...more >>

I am not sure about the Flash Player and the Shockwave player differences and how a Shockwave file is created. At first I thought it was simple: a .fla played in Flash players and a .swf played in Shockwave player. But, I am not sure. Thanks for a reply. ...more >>

I would have to say that One of the Most Annoying things I've come across is 5 second samples that loop endlessly. When are music modules going to be supported already? Would someone be so kind enough to point out to MM that music is just as important as graphics!!! And music modules (MOD, ...more >>

I have been working on a little game for a couple of months now and I have Beta version that I need feedback on. It's fairly simple, but I think fun. Here is the url: dave.vergemedia.com/war/ Please send me feedback through the email provided on the site. Thanks so much. - david z. ...more >>

This is kind of a 2-part question: In summary: 1) how do I 'switch off' Flash's internal codec if I'm using 3rd party codecs? 2) why am I only getting mono sound from either aiff or mp3 original soundtracks? In researching why I can't seem to get FlashMX to create a stereo soundtrack from ...more >>

I have a shape and it is moving across a background, but I can't find a transparency option. I have to choose a color, which won't work because it won't look good on this graphic background. Any suggestions? ...more >>

Trying to create a very simple button. But as a designer, I'm a little lacking in the ActionScript area. WHY did they get rid of Normal Mode? I always thought that upgrades were supposed to make things better and hopefully easier. Not the case here. Anyway here is the ActionScript I wrote...more >>

Hello...Happy New Year everyone... I am having a strange problem with a Flash movie. The first frame of the movie is 500k in size. However, the first frame on my timeline is tiny...just some text and a vector image. So it appears that Flash is exporting a large part of the movie's contents ...more >>

how to make the loader (MC) (instance name: loaderS) put 3 pic in each line ??? Now all the pic will be loaded in the same row (pic size: 100px * 100px) I want each row to have 3 pic only. Thx so much ..::herman for (i=1; i<8; i++) { loadMovie("images/pic"+i+".jpg", "moviePlayer.loade...more >>

Hello Fellow Flashers! I am trying to accomplish a particular effect with a Flash file. What I need to do is have a set of 5 images fade in and out in a random fashion. This is part of a "banner" graphic that will be appearing on a web page. I can accomplish this very quickly and easily in another ...more >>

There is a nice scroll bar in flash communication server sample file: "sample_room.fla" How can I export and then import it into flash mx 2004 professional? Previously I just export it as .swc file and put it under directory "Flash MX 2004\en\First Run\Components\UI Components\". It doesn't wo...more >>

There is a "Button" components in UI components library. I give the button an instance name say "sample_btn" I used Actionsript like : sample_btn.setEnabled(false); // this works, it disable the button but sample_btn.setEnabled(true); // this doesn't work basically once the button is...more >>

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hi all i need a flash top menubar component for my project. the one i found at: http://www.coolfocus.net/ was just what i needed, but it seems like there is no way to have it functioning without internet, and since my project is an offline one - i discovered i could not use that menu. what a sham...more >>

I want to run a movie clip on button press but i m anable what can i do pls help me. Movie clip is running on holding the button. i want to run movie clip in single click. ...more >>

Greetings, I'm still pretty new to Flash, especially MX2004. I began my project (a map) using Flash 4. Now that I have MX2004, all of the text (_sans, static not dynamic) displays much larger after exporting. It looks fine in Flash, but when previewing and exporting as .swf it displays much mo...more >>

I have a shell file, there are 4 buttons that are supposed to load 4 seperate external files. This works on my computer, but when I upload it, and try it on the web, it does not load the external files. what is going on? on (release) { unloadMovie("images"); } on(release){ _root.images....more >>

I'm a newbe to flash and I want to make the top menu that macromedia.com has made. Any advices from the gurus? ...more >>

Hi, Hopefully somebody can help me with this problem. I?ve opened a popup browser window with a ?flash tour? in it. At the end of the tour I?ve got a button that I want to do the following: Go to an URL in the browser that opened the popup window and then close the popup window. Is this ...more >>

I did a search in the forum and did not see an answer so here is my question... Can anyone direct me to a tutorial/explanation on how to create custom buttons for controlling video (volume, play, pause, ff, rew) in a Flash presentation. The built in controls are nice but do not match my presen...more >>

I've build a menu bar using flash 6. I did it following a template for a menu bar (similar to macromedia.com one) To build it i also had to modify an .xml template which serves as the source file. I can go ahead and test movie & see it, but when i put it in dreamweaver it doesn't work......it see...more >>

Hi, I have an element in my current project which is an animated symbol. At a certain point in the animation I would like this symbol to 'become' the mouse, so the user has control of it from then on in. I can make the symbol change and 'become' the mouse no problem, but it jumps from it's curren...more >>