Hey, what's the story with Masks not supporting alphas? Just about every other program in the industry does ie. photoshop, AfterEffects.... Thanks, Justin* justin@element9design.com ...more >>

Hello, I just published my first all flash web page. It all works well but I cant get rid of the gutters that are around the page. Is there code that I need to put in the HTML doc to get rid of these gutters? Thanks, Kevin ...more >>

Hi. I'm just now sitting down to start learning Flash, using the (pathetically small!) manual that came with Macromedia Studio and their online lessons, and now I'm stumped at how to proceed! Here's the problem...I went through Lesson 1, opened the Illustrator.swf file, and now the text says Adva...more >>

hi folks! I know my question is easy to solve but I dont have too much practice with levels. I want a small menu to appear when somebody clicks on a button called ´Veja mais produtos´ (Product tour). The menu has 6 icons. When I click on one icon, the image with the product description should c...more >>

Sometimes I want to insert blank keyframes before the content I have in frame 1 (on every layer). The only way I know to do this now is to insert frames after the current content, and then go through and manually drag the content to frame 2 so that the first frame is empty. This is really annoying...more >>

My UTF-16 encoded .txt files (some Japanese, some English) appear fine when viewed locally in the browser, but when uploaded to the server, the files don't load into the .swf. I'm guessing there's a problem with the way they're FTP'd there (perhaps the encoding is corrupted?). Any ideas how to...more >>

in the middle of one movie clipi want it to start another movie clipfrom a framelabel. How can I do this?\ ...more >>

Hi, Haven't come across this before, anyone know what might be wrong? I have a load movie action that loads in a menu, with the following : loadMovie("Genre.swf",genre); The problem is this, when I run the swf on it's own outside of the html page, then the mc is loaded ok. When I run th...more >>

in the middle of one movie i want it to start another movie from a framelabel. How can I do this?\ -_-' -_-' -_-' ...more >>

I made a post yeasterday and I appriciate the help, but I'd like to ask the question again in a less confusing way. I have an external xml which lists several jpeg files. I also have some action script which picks a random picture from this list and loads it into a target. All of this works fine, bu...more >>

Dear Flash Gods, I have previously posted a question regarding this and I received three wonderfully helpful responses. However, I am still not able to get done what I need to get done. So, I again defer to the experts in the matters of all things Flash. I would like to state that I believe ...more >>

Is there any technical documentation on how to create a Flash player control using basic Windows ActiveX functions? I've been successful using Delphi to import the type library from Flash.ocx and working with the Delphi VCL wrapper control. Cool enough, but I would like to be able to use a vani...more >>

hi, i´m trying to make a button, that simply waits to begin its shrinking animation when a mouse over, and if the user mouses out, it finishes expanding again to its original state, but if the user does not mouses out, then the animation stops in the middle and waits until the mouse is out to co...more >>

I'm interested in creating a streaming file of a lecture where the only visual element is the Powerpoint slides. Has anyone done this in Flash? Seems to me you can time each slide to the audio track and the end result would be a pretty small file. Any suggestions, shortcuts, etc? Thanks, Tim ...more >>

Hello All, I work for a company that uses Flash extensively for the Internet, but recently we were asked to create a Multimedia CD that incorporated numerous .flv files and .aif audio clips. We were working from a CD, so I felt like the size of all of my .swf/.flv/.aif files would be no real iss...more >>

Ok - Here is what I am looking to do. I am working a a redo of a site for comics and want to have the home page have a row of pictures across the bottom of the comics that you can scroll through, click on, and go to their page. What is the best way to go about this? I have see some examples of i...more >>

i need to control my movie extensively with gotoAndStop functions. only i find that clicking the enter key just sends the bloody thing off haywire uncontrollably. i've spent two hours trying to stop it only to discover that it only does it in dev mode. or it would seem so anyway, cos if i put th...more >>

Anyone know any metrics on the Flash player versions being used by web users? I know the latest player installs automatically but I am worried by how the Flash 6 player asks for a system restart after it installs -- by the time their machine restarts they may have completely forgotten the w...more >>

I am dynamically creating movieclips which will act as buttons by looping through a text file and assign values and properties of each new movie clip. The problem I am having is that I want to assign a dynamically created variable and assign it a value from the text file. BUT when I click the bu...more >>

There is a great tutorial that covers lip sync'ing for characters from an animation standpoint, but does not get too technical on how to perform some of the needed functions in Flash. Specifically, I am wondering how to label the timeline how the gentleman has done it here: http://animation.about.c...more >>

Urgent need of a good book discussing gamebuilding in Macromedia Flash MX. Anyone got a link to a site with reviews or maybe a title? Thanks, Kingairloch ...more >>

Hey all, hoping someone could help me with probably a really dumb question. What I want to do is load each movie over the top of each other as I have the external movies set to fade in. Whats happening is that the previous movie is being removed before the next one fades in so it always jumps. Does...more >>

Hello, can anyone help as it is driving me mad! I have a flash web site and I would like users to be able to print a page if they want to. I would like a print button on each 'page' so they can select which page to print. Is there any way I can set each print button to print a selected frame fo...more >>

The flash animation covers part of the Javascript-generated menu bar which is put on top of the animation. Can someone help me? Referring URLs www.spacehere.biz/TFHK/index01.html ...more >>

hey guys. im doing an assignment for college and i need to know WHAT Flash actually is? what it does? how it works?? thanks HEAPS guys!!! ...more >>

Hello, Here's my situation: I have an SWF #1 embedded within its published html file. Within the SWF file there is a button that I want to spawn a customized javascript browser, and another SWF #2 to load within that customized browser. I have completed 6 different tutorials on this subje...more >>

I am working on a site that loads jpeg files dynamically from an xml file. They load and appear where I want them and I am happy with that. What I now need help with is a preloader for these files while they are loading. I created a movie clip preloader that plays a simple animation while the jpeg l...more >>

For some reason I keep getting the same thing over and over and over again and it is really frustrating. What I am trying to do is. 1. get three letters to show as a side view and zoom at the way it would look from behind you. then to the canvas one letter at a time. What I need to see is the le...more >>

I'm creating Flash sites that I want to get a good rating from search engines, especially Google. What can I do to improve rating ? Do search engines see HTML comments ? i.e. like when you insert the text from a Flash page into the HTML comments or is this a waste of time ? Keywords ar...more >>

Hi everbody- A friend had asked me to edit her website - which was put together by a guy who has since left the country. All I need to do is change the menu items to the site at http://www.delilahs.ca I said I'd take a look at it - only to find that the entire site is one big Flash movie. I...more >>

when I type in a movie name in _root.MovieInstanceName.gotoAndPlay("FrameLabel"); it runs into an error Scene=Main1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Statement must appear within on/onClipEvent handler How can I fix this. -_-' Flash Man ...more >>

I'm trying to install Flash Writer, and the install asks for a serial number that was supposed to be mailed to my account... but it never was? How do I get the serial for that? I'm a Macromedia member, and i thought having the cookie would somehow let Macromedia know that I'm logged on and they ca...more >>

I am trying to creatre movie clip similar to this .. http://www.crewunlimited.com/flashmain.asp At the moment I'm motion tweening a group of pictures on one layer & trying to synchronise another tween of the same picture group on another layer. BUT Arrrgghhh it's never smooth. A bit faster ...more >>

I'm using the JS Drop nav menus in Dreamweaver MX. I also created a flash movie, but the flash movie covers up the drop downs. Is there a way around this? ...more >>