Hello everyone, I am re-doing my site and instead of having buttons that open in new windows, I would like the viewer to first rollover a button, a sub-menu comes down with clickable links there. Once they have chosen one, they click and the content comes in the same window, BUT without changing...more >>

Hi all, Simple question, I think. I want to have my buttons reveal a sub-menu, very much like the Macromedia Dashboard window that is in Flash itself. Basically, rollover a button, a submenu comes down (without changing anything else) and then have several options in that submenu, that the view...more >>

I am trying to use the dynamic text box and scroll bar features in flash MX, I have set out my box inserted my text (which fits nicely) and added the scrollbar. Labeled all my components and targeted the text box with the scroll bar. But whenever I save and re-open my work the text box has grown to ...more >>

I have a contact form that uses arial as an embedded font. It looks great on PC, but the line spacing is off on Macintosh computers to where the titles don't match up with the corresponding text fields or checkboxes. Does anyone have any information on this? Does Macintosh not support line spac...more >>

My main movie has nav buttons that send the main timeline to labels w/anchors. It has actions on keyframes on an actions layer at the labels keyframe. What it should do: on a navigation button click, the main movie timeline should advance to a frame label w/ anchor, then at a keyframe on an act...more >>

I'm trying to sync animation and events within a Flash presentation with some music, but, since frame rates seem to be heavily reliant on processor speeds, slower computers don't fare so well: the animation and the MP3 audio don't synch up. Now I could have sworn somewhere I've heard of a way to ...more >>

If you have static text, and you use a font that other people probally don't have on their system, will they be able to see it? I saw another flash movie, and it had weird text that I don't have installed here. It was static text I believe. -- NullZilla http://nzinc.tk ...more >>

I have a series of JPG images, named in sequence ("001.jpg", "002.jpg", etc), which I am loading dynamically in a Flash movie through the use of buttons. An initial button pulls up the first image, and I would like to know if it is possible to have the number of the file (ex. 001) be equal to a var...more >>

I have seen many issues with Macs on the forum, but none really help me with my problem: The site I have looks fine on PCs, but the client is telling me that there are some rendering problems on their Macs. In the intro, part of the movie displays outside of the intended viewing area. In other ...more >>

hi all i am new to flash and cant find in the tutorial or lessons how to make a certain film and was hoping someone could steer me the direction of some simple instruction. i want to make a flash movie of two pictures which take turns fading in and out (when one fades out the other fades in). on top...more >>

< For nl.comp.programmeren and be.comp.internet.design: I'm sorry that this post is in English > I'm working with large textfiles. Is it possible to load external text from a HTML- or Wordfile instead of .txt ? reason: typing in dreamweaver or word is much easyer and more organised than my st...more >>

I have an html page that has 4 frames, a top one, with a menu that is a swf, a left one with some images fading in another swf and 2 other frames that dont matter in this case. What i'm trying to do is control with the top frame menu, the image that apears on the left frame, changing it and fading ...more >>

i have an html page, with a flash swf in a table cell. i also have the main nav in a layer on top of the flash... bu tthe flash coversit up.' whart can i do? -- Regards, Jon Juriga ...more >>

I'm on a deadline and I'm wondering if there is a way to dynamically load Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into a Flash movie. I'm also wondering if it's possible to pull specific entries from the Excel file and load them into a Flash movie textbox or something, so that if I update the Excel file, th...more >>

Hey everyone. I'm using a Frontpage template I purchased off the web (obviously I'm not a web guru!). The site I purchased from said to allow for any text modifications to the flash files, to use Flash MX. So I dl'd a trial version and I'm really having a tough time. I modified the header b...more >>

Is there a way to have movie clip wait for another MC to stop playing before it begins? I have two swf's that I am bringing into a third. I want the first to finish playing before the second begins. I know I can accomplish by importing the first movie, but this seems to increase file size and t...more >>

I haven't used Flash since Flash 3, and now I gotta use it again :) I have Flash MX. Is it possible to take a plain text HTML file and have it show up in Flash as an object or something? What I basically want to do is have a little scrolling "testimonials" box on our site. It would be easier though ...more >>

Flash is a good program, but there are some things about it that drive me up the wall. 1. It always once to go online when it is launched. It doesn't matter that I keep the answers panel closed, it still wants to go online as soon as it is launched. 2. It always looks in the wrong place for...more >>

Can Fireworks MX created buttons with rollovers cause problems for Flash MX???? I'm starting to wonder if some of my problems may be due to outside sources... ...more >>

Hello, World! I'm trying to make a 'run-time shared asset'. Whatever font I choose in the source fla file gets screwed up when I publish the swf file that is linked to the font symbol that is stored in the source fla/swf file (please see attached zip). All of the letters are either squished or ha...more >>

hello. i have spent many hours searching this forum to no avail. i have several buttons which call individual external text files into a single html supportive text field using the following code on the buttons which i got from someplace on this forum (i forget where and i can't find it again for th...more >>

I am loading an SWF, and I would like to mute the video that gets loaded..... I currently have audio running for the Scene that loads it, I do not want to create the SWF without audio as I use it later.... So: myMovie.loadMovie("c:\myMovie.swf",0); myMovie.setVolume(0); Does not...more >>

Help! My site is password protected, yet all of the swfs are accessible on the search engines. Put in my site name, you get a few pages of html and then a list of all my swfs. Any idea how I can protect them or stop the search engines finding them? I've reached a dead end and can't solve the pro...more >>

Hi All, I have been supplied an FLA file by a guy who created it for a client I now deal with... the file was created in flash 5 on the Mac, when I open it in my version of Flash 5 on my Mac, the timeline shows all the goings on except the stage is empty?? If I export the movie I can see it properl...more >>

I have made a site that is by no means demanding. I am using Flash MX. The site incorporates an XML news feed and external files (SWFs and JPEGs) it's total size is only around 100kb. It runs perfectly well on a PC but on a Mac has serious problems speed wise. Upon research i have found t...more >>

I¹m building a site in a frameset. The left nav frame is a flash movie. So is the top banner frame. Here¹s the site ==> http://www.howhuman.com/pollination/ It works fine for me and the vast majority of our friends and users. Unfortunately, my programmer isn¹t able to see the whole site on...more >>

Hi, I am having a problem where flash mx is crashing when I load a particular movie. The movie is 206 meg as I have imported an mpg. It was running ok previously, but now when I try to open the movie flash crashes (tells me it has to shut down) and when i check the information link it says ...more >>

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Hi Can you change the alpha properties on a Non-symbol, ie a shape that you havnt yet turned into a sysmbol? If so how? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I'm running Flash MX on Windows XP Pro, and I wondered how to change the default panel set to include the library panel on startup. I've checked the documentation and its not where it says it should be. I can find 1 folder called panel sets, but it doesnt contain the 'default' one or any of m...more >>

I'm studying multimedia and I'd like to know how to use Director or Flash turn .dir or .fla or .swf files into a screensaver? please help me. There are software online can let people put image or sound in. what I want to do is to make my animation and create into screensaver. In windows syste...more >>

its been a while since ive used flash and even then i was a beginer, well since then i forgot how to make custom cursor. also when i was experamenting with flash i tried to use a custom cursor to drag an object but it alway got wierd can anyone help me with the creation and usage of a custom cursor,...more >>