Greetings, I have a simple slide show movie on my web page (http://www.als.uiuc.edu/timo/ALS/). On my XP box with IE6.0, the pictures shift causing a slight distortion. On any other browser; Opera, Mozilla, etc., this doesn't happen. When viewing the movie within Flash, it plays fine. Any thought...more >>

Is there any way to keep the library panel there forever, since I use it soo much. Every time I open flash it's gone and have to reopen it, it's a pain in the neck. Ok, So pressing CTRL+L to get it to show isn't toooo tedious, but it puts it right on top of my work area, and I have to move it....more >>

can i build in FlashMX interactive piece with mouse right click action on the image? ex. If i right click part of the image, it opens a new image. Thanks! miros ...more >>

I installed the flash player for linux but it only works for Flash animations and not shockwave. At the test page: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ my browsers (both mozilla and phoenix) only play the bottom animation (the non-shockwave one). How can I fix this? I'm trying to ge...more >>

I have a variable "boothimage". The variable contains a path to a JPG file. I am trying to load the image using the LoadMovie function. How can I do it? I can't get the proper syntax... I have the expression check box checked... and when I put in the variable name..for some reason it doesn't u...more >>

Hi - my employer wants to distribute a flash animation on a pen-drive, therefore requiring a license to do this - does anyone know where to find out information on this? MM only has information on distribution on CD or over an intranet. thanks frank ...more >>

Hi, First time posting..but I enjoy the bbs tremendously. I'm running FlashMX, and I've developped a mutiple choice quiz, which is nice but which has stumpped me. I have a french and english version..simple scripting using radio buttons. Heres are some problems I really need help resolvin...more >>

Dear Friends: Greetings: I am a retired attorney. A few years ago a man came to me with a letter. He asked me to verify the fact that this was legal to do. I told him I would review it and get back to him. When I first read the letter my client brought me, I thought it was some "off-the-wall" ide...more >>

I have embedded the Helvetica 45 font using a font symbol. (I want the text to appear in Helvetica 45 on everyone's computer.) My problem is does the Em-Dash (shift+option+dash) character not appear in flash. Instead I get an N with a wavy ~ character on top of it. I've hear you can im...more >>

I would like to use the Rich Text Editor component that comes with Flash UI Component 4. However, I don't have a width of 525 pixels for this fairly large component. I've resized it on the screen and it looks just fine in the Flash MX editor. However, when I go to run it, it becomes much larger. ...more >>

Hi, I've recently upgraded to Flash MX, however I can't open two specific movies that I've created previously. They are relatively large, is that a possible problem. The error msg is Seek failed on "file location ie. c:/mydocuments/movie.fla" I am able to open smaller files, but these won'...more >>

Hi im loading som variables from a text file that looks like this &high0=2&high1=3&high2=1 I get the variables in to flash but now i want to do a for loop of some kind to go through the varibles to see witch one has the highest value, i have tried this: bestHigh = 0; for (var i=0;i<3;i=...more >>

Hi i want to put tooltips on a flash button to tell the user what the button does. dreamweaver ultradev has this as a extension. but what about flash thanks. ...more >>

i ve now spent enough time trying to import some pngs as a sequence. As far as i have read in the flash help it should be possible... 5 If the name of the file you are importing ends with a number, and there are additional sequentially numbered files in the same folder, choose whet...more >>

Hello, everyone! I want to have some suggestion and reference link about how to communicate among flash, database and asp pages. I have each of them but don't know how to get the variable saved in the database from flash file and don't know how to pass the variables between asp page and flash page ...more >>

Hello there, I have been trying to pass three variables to an .asp file the checks an access database. there is good communication between the .asp file and the access database. My problem is between FlashMX and .asp file. This is my code in the flash file: on(release){ registered...more >>

Every time I load a page with Flash in it using Mozilla, the browser freezes. The specs are: Win 2K, Shockwave Flash 6.0 r47, Mozilla 1.01. Has anybody else experienced and resolved this? Thanks, Don -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Don Hinshaw Hinshaw...more >>

Does anyone know where I can get more flash slide show templates? I recently reformatted and installed my OS and apps and before I did that I had more then one slideshow template. I don't know if it was an extension or what but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Can anyone help me? Thanks ...more >>

I have actually been looking at the wacom site for a couple of weeks with the intention of going over to the pen.... Therefore in your opinion what is the difference between the £200 and the £600 tablets? They seem to have much the same spec, but come in a larger size. Could you explain the a...more >>

I have an image of a mouse pointer that I want to display in a linear SWF movie (no user interaction). I want the mouse pointer to move around the screen in a set fashion. Is there a recording feature within flash, that once a record button is pressed, whatever movements or changes you make are ...more >>

As the title says , i have a problem with the text ; *When i work on it as a .fla , the text's Alpha is set to 50% , and the text is smooth ( polished ) *When i look at it as a .swf , the text's Alpha look like it's 100% , and the text is not polished. How can i fix it? Or there is no ways to...more >>

I am trying to make a timer that counts down from a time defined by a user. A user on one frame inputs 20minutes and 30 seconds... The next frame I would like the timer to appear with 20 minutes and 30 seconds displayed. I would like the countdown to start with user input, and I would like the use...more >>

Hi, I have a movieclip object "a_movie_mc" in the library and I dragged it to the stage and gave it an instance name "a_movie". Then, I wrote a class "Another_Movie" that inherits MovieClip. How can I tell Flash so that the instance "a movie" will correspond to the class "Another_Movie". I ...more >>

I am attempting to make a button and when I try to add actions to it I get the following messege: "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it" I have no idea why I am getting this....I have tried many things and nothing seems to work. Any help would be great!! Thanks ...more >>

I hope someone can help...I'm on a deadline. I created a "walk" animation in poser and saved it as a series of .bmp images. Then I imported the series into Flash MX. It created the 30 frame sequence as all keyframes, one after another. What I want to do is have the man walking toward you from a ...more >>

I'm new in Flash and I'm having a problem about target path. When I try to run my movie using the Test Movie menu command, I get an output as follows: Target not found: Target="_root.news.news" Base="_level0" I've already checked that the instance with that name (news) exist and I've used the ...more >>

HI there: I have seen on some websites where you would have a row of three pictures (for example) and place your pointer over them and they rollup or down following the curser if you move it from top to bottom. If you click on an image it will either bring you to another page or enlarge the pictu...more >>

Hi there: I am going to be working on a flash CD for a medical company. I did one last year which was fine. This year this company wants to follow a similar introduction to this flash presentation they saw on line http://www.splashinteractive.com/hospitality/flash.html Several questions. I be...more >>

I have a flash logo on the main page of my site. I was wondering if there is a way to make it so that if the person has Flash they will see the logo, but if they don't they will instead see a plain jpg logo? Is there a javascript or something along those lines? ...more >>

Dear friends, This is a screenshot of my workspace timeline and the flash player: http://www.reubenking.com/images/flash-probs-100703.gif Please note the text labels. (They are actually Bitmap images created in Photoshop and imported as GIFs). I do it this way because the anti-aliasing used...more >>