Hello everyone. I wanted to know if anyone could send me in the right direction. I created a form in flash made up of checkboxes, fields, and dropdown menus that worked great using Windows 2000 ASP. Now that my new hosting is on a windows 2003 server, I have to make it work using ASP.NET. Can ...more >>

Hi, i have a problem. I have a code in SwfA: loadMovieNum("C:\test.swf", 1); in test.swf(SwfB) do I have: System.security.allowDomain("mysite.com"); When I run SwfA locally, I see SwfB. When I run SwfA on the web, I don't see SwfB Other people does it see, but I don't (and a few...more >>

Hi, I'm very new to flash but not design or web design. Before I start the weeks of research it will take me to achieve what I want to achieve I just want to know if I can or can not. Can Flash interact with databases, such as a log in and password database. I will also require a comments form...more >>

I've been doing a lot of design in Fireworks & Photoshop lately and importing those works successfully into Flash. However, if I print out a frame, black appears where the transparency is supposed to be. Does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it? Thanks, Jason Heydasch heydasch@mai...more >>

Hi, I need to know how can I display my exe in systray? I don't want to use Screenweaver or another one. Please Help me. ...more >>

can I display an static image on an html page if the user does not want to install a flash player plugin when prompted? I was wondering if this was possible on flash since flash displays a red x in a box if you chose not to install the flash plug-in. I want the users of my website to see an stati...more >>

Very strange problem, I'm working with this flash movie and there are some images that sort of randomly don't show up. Instead a white gray or blue or some other colored square the size of the image shows up. There seems to be no logic to it at all. Any ideas? If you view the file, several images ...more >>

I have a dynamic text box that calls an external .txt file to be displayed at run time, and the text displays fine but requires a scrollbar. However, after adding a scrollbar component (drag and drop on text field) and making sure it is targeting the correct field, the scrollbar does not function a...more >>

What version of HTML does Flash MX support and is there a reference of working tags for Flash? ...more >>

Hi I was wondering if there is anyone willing to give me some hints on how to create a preloader. Thanks ...more >>

I need some help editting this file I cant seem to figure it out I want to get rid of the first entery(course calender) from the nav list and also the space that it leaves behind so the first entery will be employers page but just cant get it rite I am new to flash so be gentle its part o...more >>

Files referred to below can be found at http://www.jeti.com.au/jeti/html/flash_help.html I¹m trying to update parade.fla. Basically the file consists of a mask through which a series of pictures are fed ­ tweening gives the illusion that the pictures are moving through the mask. The update is...more >>

Hello all. I was wondering if there was a way to change the color of the input boxes when you create a form in Flash. Thanks! ...more >>

I have a rich Text Editor components and a dinamic text field. I would like to add the news from the Rich Text Editor to the text field showing them from the newest ( just added ) on top, and the oldest at the bottom of the field. The example the comes with the components don't display the story in ...more >>

I'm trying to find out how to easily make something slowdown, at the end of its movement. Suppose you have a circle or text moving from one side of the screen to the other. I don't want it to stop suddenly, but it does, if you define its position in the two keyframes (initial and final position) and...more >>

I have been having some problems with my Flash MX program for a few weeks now after looking at a CORRUPTED flash file.Today I downloaded a bunch (LIKE DOZENS) of freeware fonts to my iMAC from the website Fontfreak.com. Later in the day after happily using many of the new fonts, I went to go use ...more >>

hi there, is it possible to embed a font completely, i.e. with all unicode glyphs as greek and cyrillic in verdana? i'm reading in xml and display it in a dynamic textfield - either i'm embedding "all" chars, the i won't cyrillic chars - or i'm embedding no chars, the the font has to be instal...more >>

Cani use the trial download of flash MX to create a website? ...more >>

Hi all, I have this problem I am trying to solve. My movie consists of several mini movie clips which run when the mouse moves over them. As the mouse moves over each mini clip, text appears informing the user of the contents for that link. I also have a graphic on the stage ( which we will...more >>

Hello, I am trying to learn how to load a movie into a movieclip. I've been working on it, but the movie either loads by itself or doesn't load at all! I would like it to load at a specific place into a movieclip, that is called by a button on the main movie (it already sound complicated!). I'm ...more >>

so it's like everytime i'd like to click on a button, some text would appear talking about it, plus a picture or two. more of something like an inline frame of a normal webpage. please help. ...more >>

Hi all: I have followed all instructions in the troubleshooting guide, but no luck. When I click install now on this page... http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash I move to the next page where the plugin is supposed to install automatic...more >>

Is it possible to change all fonts in an .fla file at once? Thanks Danny Ayo Capt. Dan Ayo Shallow Minded Guide Service www.flyfishlouisiana.com...more >>

I have a menu with buttons on it that pops up when you roll over buttons on the main screen. Problem is, if there are buttons under the menu while you are rolling over it, they still work and cause the menu to pop again in a different spot. I need to create something in the pop up menu that will cov...more >>

hi there:-) the object keeps disappearing when I use masking except for a small fraction of the object???? Quite weird man. Can you have a look and see. I tryed creating the mask within the object clip and on the main stage ? same deal hay and can't I attach a fla or swf file to this forum It is ...more >>

Hi all, Can anybody tell me what the code is for a flash movie that is on top of the webpage instead of embeded? So when the page loads, the Flash starts to play over the webpage it self? Thanks in advance. I appreciate your help! ...more >>

Hi, I'm porting a project from CD to web-based. The project uses FLV's with moderate success - but there's an opportunity to switch now to use Quicktime or Media player etc... I'm keen to keep the video integrated within the movie - what's my best route for streaming video? Cheers Ia...more >>

Does anyone know what the best program for turning your flash stuff into a screensaver?? the thing is I want one that actually allows people to install/uninstall it... cheers ...more >>

I've done a basic animation for a screensaver, Part of this involves a character lighting up as a car drives by. The sound effect I have for this bit needs to match perfectly. Although this is not a problem to set up, the sound and animation dont always match since the animation can slow down...more >>

Is there any way possible to create a screenshot of an image in Flash, then save it server side? I have a postcard creation tool I made, and I want it to be able to create an image of the final product to be saved as an image file for storage. If I had a lot of time, I could make it so it'd sa...more >>

Does anyone know where I can get the java flash player. I know it's old, but we need some sort of solution for java. --sharp ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to load a quicktime.mov from a button in my flash movie. I want the quicktime to appear in a quicktime player popup window, not a browser, sized to the .mov. I have searched through all the quicktime related threads, but can't seem to find a way to do this. Help would be much...more >>

Hi all Is there an equivalent to PHP's if(file_exists) command? That is, checking whether a text file exists or not. Also, when Flash calls a text file with only the file specified (e.g. "file.txt"), does it look in the folder where the swf is stored, or in the folder where the current page is...more >>

I currently do not own a sound editor, anyone know where I can get some = high quality sounds for free (although "free" is not required, just = helpful) Thanks for any help you have! Dan...more >>

Hello, I have developed a 200K site. In scene 1 frame 3, I have a small conditional statement: COCOCOCOCOCODE which checks that the initial - and tiny - pre-loading graphics and scripts are loaded before moving to the specified frame where the full prel-oading begins, and where an tiny...more >>

Hi! An application error occur while I tried to import files into Flash MX, flash quit immediately once I pressed "import" and an error message pop up as "explorer.exe has generated error and will be closed by window. You will need to restart the program. An error log has been generated." Si...more >>

I already have a ASP/Access gallery setup and working, I wanted to mess around and create the interface for the gallery in Flash. I read some material about creating the ASP page, then the variable to pull into Flash, but the instructions were not very clear. Does anyone know of a good tutor...more >>

I have seen a number of sites that use a version of this effect. There is a large image on the screen whose size is something like 400 x 400. The main image is broken up into 16 100 x100 pieces. In some cases if you roll over one of those pieces, it will change/fade/morph etc. Here is my ...more >>

Hi everybody, I would like to know if someone has information on how to design flash site that can be ranked in search engin. Can we design a flash web site and expect to get a fair position in search engin. I know that full flash site use to be nearly impossible to rank ... as it changed. ? ...more >>

Hi, I have to make animation of gears rotating in different direction at different speed where I need to be very precise on the number of teethes,to do the same I am looking for a software through which I can make precision gears by just giving the inputs like radius of the circle tot...more >>

why would an import to library degrade the original jpg's involved within the imported movie? thanks for any tips. ...more >>

I want to have a shape follow the mouse at a fixed horizontal position. how is this done? ...more >>

I have 4 buttons on my main scene (in this order: previous, stop, play, next). My scene contains 15 frames. Frame 1 is all blank except for the buttons I listed. Frames 2-15 contain movie clips and the buttons I listed. I currently have it set up so when a user clicks on the play button on the...more >>

I've seen several messages in this forum where IE crashes in a similar way. This could be the solution... My website is based on Flash, and I've found that some customers are having trouble (IE crashes!) with the current Flash player version 6,0,79,0. I've also found that the previous versio...more >>

how do you make those drop down menus, cuse those would be good on my web site hehe my cool web site...more >>

i want to make a good online quiz with multiple choice answers. i also want it to count the amount of times a person gets the questions right. also as an extra depending on ending the score i want certain sounds or animations to come up. can anyone explain the easiest way to do this? my c...more >>

No matter what I do, if I try to export .swf of publish .swf Flash MX freezes. I can export to .avi and everything else but not .swf. Does anyone know what i can do? ...more >>