When I have a SWF open in the Flash Player (not in the browser) and I hit the Control key on my PC, the video will go black. If I keep hitting the Contro key the video comes back. Is the control key a special key for Flash, or...? Thanks. ...more >>

I am using Flash MX and I imported some audio and streamed it (to keep the filesize at a minimum). The problem is when the louder streamed sounds play they make a sort of crackling noise. Is this my bad doing on flash? or do i need a new sound card? Also, is it possible to stream sounds over mult...more >>

hey guys, I'm designing a movie with some simple animation in the timeline. On the last frame ( frame 100), I inserted a movie clip that contains 50 frames worth of animation. When I press enter and play the timeline, the cursor stops at frame 100 and only shows what's in the first frame of the...more >>

Hi. I have a question. Is it possible to have two separate Flash movies online, and in one movie you can press a button or something to trigger some sort of response in the other movie? I mean, sort of inter-connecting the two movies, which are two separate files, but they are somehow linked. Is thi...more >>

I am pretty new to Flash MX, but I am getting better. How can I build a sign in form that goes to a different scene within the flash move when the correct password is entered. If someone could give me all the info they can, I would greatly appreciate it. Please, if possible, give the followin...more >>

Dear People, Hi, I am learning Flash at the moment. What is the difference between publishing a movie and just saving it as a Flash file for inserting into a webpage. Any light shed will be greatly soaked up..... On another subject : A thought I had recently after completeing some web design work...more >>

Hi all, I am a frustrated developer becuase of the hindering effects of Macromedia's security feature which blocks me from using Flash's xmlSocket object or the regular xml object across domains. I know the security 'sandbox allowed domains' function will NOT work for my purposes, but that ...more >>

I place a movieclip (170 x 150) on a layer at [0,0], on the next layer above it I place another movie clip (580 x 150)at [170,0] and everything lines up fine(there are horizontal lines in both clips that when lined up correctly looks like one clip. But when play the movie one of the clips moves ...more >>

Dear Experts, could you tell me why my flash pages (in fact, any working samples) wasn't show up on the browser after I uploaded the file(s) to the ftp server on ISP (or i've tried something like "geocities" too.) what i have done was just published the flash into something .html, right? ls...more >>

I would like to have my button preload an external SWF. What I have now is wrong - I put the preloader inside the external SWF and so what happens is the entire SWF loads before anything is even visible and you don't even see the preloader. So how can I have the external SWF be preloaded with a ...more >>

Hi How can i make a movieclip start, when i hit a button, and not when the movie loads? -Mikkel ...more >>

hi, I have an swf file in which on clicking a button which is linked to a .exe file(flash or any other exe file) should start installing that file. Plz can u tell me how it could be done?.how can I link a button to an exe file? Thanking You roopa ...more >>

Hi How can i make a movieclip start, first when a button has been hit? Usually it starts just when loading a movie, but how can i make a movieclip, which is not located on the mainstage, start, when a button has been hit, and not when the site is loaded? -Mikkel ...more >>

I am desperately trying to find a way to use a remote control to move from a "stop" keyframe to the next "stop" keyframe (as when hitting "enter", viewing the .swf file) for a windows projector presentation. It used to work perfectly in Flash 4 (with a projector file), but was changed in 5 & MX. Yo...more >>

Since I can't use Director very well, I'm trying to use Flash for an offline CD presentation. I have several .wmv video files that I would like to use. Can I actionscript this so that I can link and load these video files externally without affecting the quality of playback and the file size of the ...more >>