Hi to all: How can I detect a string contains a certain string. I want my user to input a sentence and as long as this sentence contains a certain word(s) I am looking for, that the user is allow to move to some frames. for example: If the user entered "My name is Larry James". And ...more >>

Hey all, Once I convert something to a symbol, can I 'unconvert' it back to original? Tim ...more >>

I use XML to load some news on a flash, some of this news have more info, so I open a new popWindow with the compleate news, I need to send a the news info to the new popwindow as a form, so I use getURL and javascript to access the form variables and open the new pop window, This works fine on...more >>

I've got a pop up browser window with flash in it that contains a close button. I assigned a fscommand using "quit" and thought that would close the window but it's not working. What should I do to fix that? Thanks! ...more >>

have a intro that has simple fade in tweens of photos. when the tweens complete, they are jumping a few pixels to the left. However, of 4 computers we've viewed it on, this jumping happens only on 2 of them. We have a jumping on a Mac using IE and Safari, we have jumping on a PC in IE. We also ...more >>

how can i make sure a movie clip plays in its entirety in a single frame before proceeding to the next frame? ...more >>

I'm a novice (Flash that is) having 2 problems: 1. rotating gears (symbols converted from gifs) wobble (I swapped symbols at some point, but looked jittery before that) 2. I input data for rotation of gear symbols ccw and cw, but they don't appear to be rotating at all the points I specified...more >>

Hey, Uhm how exactly do u import a movie as a frame by frame one into flash mx? Because i need it frame by frame so i can trace it.plz tell me exactly how im pretty new. Thanks alot man. ...more >>

Hey Flash Folks! There's so much drama on the board today!!!! Crazy! On a very boring note, I was wondering if I could get some kind of discussion going with how to make the graphics that you've imported into Flash, whether they are PNGs, JPEGS or whatever, look as good as they do in your Fla...more >>

My business wants me to create an interactive calculator for online use. I don't know javascript (hate the appearance of the javascript calculators I've seen on the Web anyway!) and have concluded that I should use Flash. The calculator, which might operate with buttons - or sliders - I'm not sur...more >>

I am using dynamic text fields and I am having an issue when they are rotated. Everything works fine when the dynamic text field is at a 0degree angle, but once I rotate it 45degrees, then export the movie, the text field completely disappears. Is this something that Flash doesn't allow, or are ther...more >>

A have an swf that is almost 500 kb and I would like to preload it on the website with a status bar. The only problem is that I have never done this before and I have no documentation or anything on how to do this, if anyone can help me or tell me where to go I would really apreciate it. Thank Yo...more >>

I converted a file from .tif to .png using Paint Stop Pro 8 so i could make parts of the graphic transperant. However, I cannot import the file into Flash. My manual says that the only time PNG cannot be imported is if its an Animated PNG, and in this case its not. Am i missing something ? - Ank...more >>

OK folks, I think I thought of a better way, or more accurate, to ask this stroke question of mine.... after playing around, here's the question I'm really trying to ask: If I draw a box on the stage, let's say stroke of 1, no fill... and I try make it larger in width in a later frame, by typing...more >>

Hello there, i want to use some sound loops in my flash movie. To control them, i use the "linkage properties". So, import a '.wav' file and then go to the linkage properties and choose "export for actionscript". Ok, that works fine. The only problem is that these sound files are now direct...more >>

HELP! I'm very new to flash. I would like to copy an entire scene from one project and paste it in a new scene in a different project. This may sound stupid, but I have NO IDEA how to go about this. Thanks! ...more >>

I am looking for some lightning effect tutorials. I have been to FlashKit, only to find movies or effects and not howto's. Garling ...more >>

All, I have developed an MFC application that has Shockwave Flash ActiveX control to display swf file at run time. Question i have is that, do i need to display macromedia logo on my application and/or any kind of license agreement if i wanted to distribute that app to my customers. NOTE: I a...more >>

I have created a .exe file to burn on a CD. I want the presetation to auto start. I created a autorun file called "autorun.inf" with the following: [autorun] open=DFS.exe icon=DFS.ico The CD auto starts fine on Windows 2000 and XP, but doesn't on Windows 98. Anybody know why? The icon p...more >>

i am totally new to flash and trying to modify some code of a charting app created in flash...i want the names of the colums to be rotated 40 degrees...the creator of the app told me this "As for the diagonal column, you can create it by embedding the fonts of a glyph, and then rotating the textbox...more >>

Hi guys, I created a page in flash. I publish it to my desktop, and it loads great when I double click the html. I've publish-previewed it as well, and it works great. When I FTP it to my server and try to view the page in my browser, it loads way too slow!!! I've even tried putting it on d...more >>

OK, I give up..... I can't get an answer about the stroke question, seemed to me it was probably realllllly simple to a Flash user, but I guess not. So I'll ask the other question individually: how do I make the object in a layer stay in the movie, show in the movie, show on stage throughout t...more >>

Can anyone explain what the heck is going on with Flash masking - on Apache servers? I've got a large Flash app (100% action script) that requires a Flash player of version 6,0,65,0 or better... it works and runs on MS based servers just fine, but the masking for text does not work at all when ra...more >>

Does anybody know how I can create a modal message box in Flash (so that the buttons in the background are disabled while the message box is active)? At the moment the box appears but the rest of the screen underneath is still active, so buttons can be clicked to navigate away without closing the me...more >>

i know that there is no way to solve the problem with full justification with dynamictext fields ( input fields, device fonts). but i dont really understand the reason why macromedia didn´t support this feature. i thougth macromedia would also show us that flash is grown up for heavy informationbase...more >>

I am having problems getting my Flash site to appear fullscreen without any window. I am using this code on the first frame of my Flash site: fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); fscommand("showmenu", "false"); Also on the first frame I have some codes for my preloader, could this be the probl...more >>

My button question that I've posted a bunch of times with no answers so far is that in my .exe movie with multiple .swf pages inside it that are located in separate folders outside of the program, how do I get my back button to go back to the last page it was on. I have a direct link to one page...more >>

Im sure ive read somewhere that i can target a specific scene, or even frame in Flash from a html link. What is the code for this? Many Thanks, Dave ...more >>

Please, I have list of products and pictures of them. This products have over 400, and if I put all of this pictures in same SWF my presentation will have over 1 MB. So, I want to link this list of products (everyone of them) to pictures whose located to a directory, and call him to same wind...more >>

I am having a problem with HTML text. I am importing it from a text file and it is displaying fine apart from occasionally a space from the preceeding line gets rendered at the beginning of the next. Alex from mirlada had a similar problem and posted to this forum but nobody came up with a solut...more >>

Sorry, my questions are getting excessive now. I'm trying to debug a movie. I have a movie clip on the stage (called "callout"). This clip has stop actions and frame labels in it. I also have a button on the stage that says when rollOver, callout.gotoAndStop ("on"). On rollOut, callout....more >>

Dear Flashers, I have developed a flash application to be deployed on CD. It is infact made up of multiple projector files with the main projector calling others using the fscommand. Here's the code: on (release) { fscommand("exec", "bond.exe"); } It works brilliantly until some poo...more >>

I have a real problem with special characters from XML displaying in dynamic textfields in Flash MX that needs sorting urgently today. I need to display characters such as é and ö for French and German words. I have tried character references in the XML such as é but this doesn't work. ...more >>

hi friends ! we are developing a demo for a client which has a no. of video clips, so we were forced to use flash mx. now the problem we face is, when we need to load an external exe file on the click of a button, it does not work !!! how do we overcome this problem. in flash 5 we do not have th...more >>

Hello: This is a situation I happened to use onPress method. I have generated 4 button instance in a MovieClip called MyMC by 01 onClipEvent (load) { 02 for(j=1; j<4; j++) { 03 duplicateMovieClip(Btn0,"Btn"+i,i); 04 05 _root["Item"+k]=eval("_root.MyMC.Btn"+j); 06 ...more >>

We have been told that search engines dont like Flash, as they cannot read individual pages. Does anyone know if; a) this is true, and b) if this is the case, how do we overcome this? Thanks, ...more >>

Hi everyone, I have a very simple movie (10 lines): var xml = new XML(); xml.ignoreWhite = true; xml.load("http://bos00459/columns/getChildren.xml"); xml.onLoad = function(success) { if (success) msgBox.setMessage(xml.firstChild); else msgBox.setMessage("serv...more >>

I'm trying to fix a Flash project that is experiencing an audio stutter. I believe I've narrowed the issue down to it happening when the CD-ROM drive recues on a laptop. This is primarily for delivery on laptop, so must be fixed. I have not experienced this issue on a desktop machine. Any ...more >>

How do i make it so that when i hover over a button, it scales to 150% and becomes bigger? ...more >>

anybody have a good way to create a music spectrum. (the bouncing bars that goes along with music) let me know if you have any ideas. thanks ...more >>

I have a problem, I'm making windows type movies where you can close, minimize, etc. but I can't figure out how to drag it when I click and drag on the movie, rigth now it drags whenever I do the mousedown and stops whenever i do the mouseup, the only problem is that when i have two windows open, th...more >>

I'm a bit of a novice at Flash and have a question that is probally pretty elementary: I'm creating a quick flash movie and I want to loop a constant rain fall sound. The looping is no problem but it doesn't stop after the movie has stopped. I've tried to add an action script "stop" at the end of...more >>