I?m building a Flash Presentation on a CD. I want to link few buttons to a PDF file. I?m using: on (release) ? getURL(and name of the file). When I try to test the movie without internet connection it doesn?t work. ?This presentation should be used without internet connection?. My question is: Is th...more >>

Hi all, Does anyone know how to get 2 (or more) flash movies that are in the browser, to communicate with each other - like passing variables from a swf in one frame to another swf in a different frame. Can you use javascript to do this? Or can flash do it without the need for javascript? ...more >>

I have a simple movie that I¹m dropping in an HTML page in a framed environment. I have an invisible button covering the whole thing so that when someone rolls over it another movie is loaded and we hear a swarm of bees. It works fine here: http://www.howhuman.com/pollination/images/beehiveh...more >>

When I test the movie locally everything is OK, but when I test on server objects are loaded and displayed erratically. Some textboxes are displayed, some aren't. Some container shapes are displayed, some aren't. And they are not always the same. Sometimes they all display correctly If I reloa...more >>

Hi, I really want to replicate an effect I have seen but cannot think how I can do it. I use Flash 4 and would like to recreate the affect of the flash animation on the top of this page (where the orange 'swooshes' move across the animation): http://www.thetvroom.com/tvrplus/ I can't think ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to create a "blood slowly flowing over the text" after the flash animation stops. If you have ever seen Dracula (Bram Stokers) in the opening credits there was this effect in it. I do not want to touch the rest of the flash movie just the text. Can anyone help me here? I ...more >>

Dear friends, I have designed manually several buttons, using ActionScript, for my school's web site. I have this problem: the mouse goes over these buttons, all these effects run smoothly, but when the mouse runs over the buttons really quickly, these buttons function thow, but incorrectly. They...more >>

Been looking for standalone players for my home system which is not online. Did Macromedia completely move away from them? ...more >>

I created an exe file that runs exactly how I want it, but the only problem is if I have a bunch of programs open on my computer and then run it whenever I click a link the window opens in the background. I'm making this program for customers and if they have programs open I'm afraid they'll thi...more >>

I am working on an interactive demo using Flash MX. There are a couple of places in there where the bitmap is distorted after publishing when the movie is played at 100%. Parts of it are wavy or jagged where the lines should be straight, and these wavy/jagged lines move a little as the animation pro...more >>

Hello, I wanted to find out if there is a way to have html text inside a Flash movie. For example, when I go to the web site, all the content is inside a Flash movie but the text that is displayed inside the movie can be highlighted and copied. Can this be done? Thanks, rcrane ...more >>

With a swf that has textfields which call external dynamic text I have found that some server platforms display the text, others dont. Any ideas to the exact types of servers which DON'T allow dynamic text fields to pull in external text? So far, Apache is the culprit ****Any workaround???*...more >>

I would like to know if macromedia flash player will auto play a flash cd when inserted? thank you. ...more >>

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Hi I'm working on a little animation with Flash MX. I deliberatetly made a symbol larger than the stage, because I didnt want too much in the scene. I only want the part that is on the stage showing up in the movie. But, I get the whole symbol. Help? Let me know if that's too vague ...more >>

Hi, someone knows a tool that can parse an SWF file into XML format ?? Thanks ...more >>

Noticed that my system resources disappear quickly while running Flash animations. So I'm assuming that the Flash animation is gobbling up more and more memory as it cycles from beginning to end to beginning... Is this true and if so how can one put a lid on memory consumption. ...more >>

Does anyone know how to Print a PDF file directly from Flash MX by pressing a button without opening the PDF File. I hope that someone can help me in this issue. ...more >>

Hi all, I volunteered to design a couple of web pages, but since we don't have a Flash programmer yet, I don't know what the limitations are. We set up a web page with a mock up of the page… http://www.oddhobby.com/membersubmissions.htm If you can't visit the site for some reason, in...more >>

I've tried to find this information online but cannot find the answer. Is it possible to hyperlink to a specific frame in a flash movie? Example: I'm on an external website that has a hyperlink that, when clicked on, opens frame 35 in my movie. If it is possible, do I have to flag this fra...more >>

We have made several CD-ROM projects with Flash that are running as Flash projectors. In these projectors, we have links to web pages that launch the default web browser with the specified URL. However, this does not work correctly in Safari 1.0...it just launches the browser. It does not open a ...more >>

Hello I have several instances where I use the loadMovie in a projector file that work. I insert with(_level0)(gotoAndplay("scene2fr4")); unloadMovie ("registration"); on the last frame of the loaded movie, and that takes me back to the root timeline. However, I have some video that I c...more >>

hello... I'm having some problems using a dynmaic text box with the scroll bar component. My text box: dynamic text, multiline instance name: theBox var: displayBox i'm populating the box by using : displayBox = "data"; and my scroll bar is linked to 'theBox' Unfortunatly, i can...more >>

I have a custom gradient I have created. I have a long curved shape and I want the gradient to follow the curves in the shape and not be linear. Is there a way to do this in flash? If not in photoshop maybe? Thanks! ...more >>

I would like to know how can i position the flash movie on to the center of the browser, say my screen is 1024*768. do i have to change the dimension of the movie or any changes before publish? ...more >>

Hi! I have imported a quicktime movie into FLash MX and I have also exported my flash movie. I get video and I get sound BUT the sound loses synch to the video. It gets worse and worse the longer the video plays. Why? And can I do anything to make it better? The quicktime movie is fine when I ...more >>

hi there, this is probably a simple solution, but i just cant work it out. is it possible for me to access a certain scene from within a movie clip? say my movie clip is in scene 001, how can i access scene 002 from within it? when the movie clip is finished i have a script at the end of it...more >>

Hello everybody!!. because of my job, I have to do something in our web page and I was thinking on a flash movie, but I'm not very used to it. I want to do a movie that consist in drawing a map of spain, so that you see from a "dot" to the whole map as it it draws itself (not a tweening motion...more >>

hello, hope u can help me with this, i know its possible to make a browser shake, but is it possible to make a flash movie shake? eg. bomb blows up...can i make the actual flash movie (.swf) shake? is there some sort of special scripting i can mke use of? thank you very much, raim ...more >>

Can anyone help? In the darkness, a light is shone, in the light, darkness is there. Is there really such thing as Lightness and Darkness?...more >>

I am trying to import a .wmv video file into Flash MX, with a file size around 1.5M. My machine is running XP Pro and is a very new computer with 512M RAM (I have read something about memory being a possible cause of a similar problem). When I attempt to import the file I get the error msg "One or m...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to make ListBox fade in. I made a movie clip (which has my list box) and make it 15 frames long. On the second frame I set movie clip alpha to 0, on the last frame I set alpha to 100. And everything seems to work perfectly! When the user pushes the butto I play the movie clip (got...more >>

Hi, I have been doing some work with conditional statements in particular the ?if? & ?if else? type. Basically the idea is that I have 2 text fields on stage (An Input type ? called ?pup? & an Dynamic type ? called ?long_txt?) when a user submits a surname through the input box & submits usin...more >>

Hello, Could anyone help me how to type (from keyboard, using Input Locales) multilanguage into Input TextField? I need to type Greek, Japanese, French, German.... Thanks, tuyle@psv.com.vn ...more >>

I have a one easy problem for a profi user but for me :( to hard. i have i site all done in flash and he have over 300 kb i would like to make preload page with just a few kb only for load sign . I would like to show that page ex ( loading.swf) and when the main page loads to swich to main.swf . it...more >>

Dear all I have developed a flash presntation that will be run as a stand-alone in a public display. I need to monitor its use, what options are chosen at various places, how many users, how long each user stays etc etc etc. I could easily enough add a bit of script to each each button to ...more >>

Is there any way for flash to go back to the previous page within the movie itself. The only way i have found round this is to break the movie up into individual scenes + then the user can use their browsers back button. Can flash log which scenes you have visited? JimR99 ...more >>

Hello, Internet Explorer seems to refuse to let me paste (ctrl-v or cmd-v) text into the form fields in my Flash movie. I can only paste text with the contextual menu. Is this a known problem or is it something to do with how I created the form in my movie? It works OK in Netscape. TIA, Steve...more >>

Hi, I wanted to make a menu that could best be described as a "slide down menu" but instead of me trying to explain it there is an example of what i would like it to be like (roughly) on www.coasttocoastam.com On the left of this site is a menu, and when you click on the heading the ones below it ...more >>

I would like to send some valuable from VBScript in HTML to Flash MX. Then if in VBScript; Str = "Some String" How Flash MX can receive this value? Any suggestion greatly appreciated. -- ----------------------------------------- Osamu Terao Email: hag83950@ams.odn.ne.jp ---...more >>

On the IE browser, does anyone know how to position an embeded swf file under other pull down images? my current method is using gif to replace the swf file.. yet the gif is too big (450k)... I need to change it back to the swf file, yet, when the pull-down window comes out ... the swf fil...more >>

Hi All, I am on Mac OS10 Flash MX and have a postscript font that won't work in flash given missing outlines... looks jagged in flash. Any tips on what to do... can I convert the font so I can use it in flash? It works in Illustrator... oops that's Adobe... but anyway. If I get desparate I'...more >>

I'm creating a Flash .EXE file to put on a CD. The CD will contain directories with web pages in them. I'd like to make a link in the presentation to a web page in a directory on the CD. I don't know how to use ActionScript to find the current path the Flash file is in. _URL returns the full pat...more >>

Is this a bug? There is no mention of this in any of the documentation (that I could find). Dynamic text fields cannot an embedded font. I proved it to myself: I created two text fields--one dynamic, one static--and set them both to Bank Gothic. I exported to .swf and then removed Bank Gothi...more >>