I want to blend/multiply three circles so they change color at the intersection points. I then want to tween the effect as the three circles converge on each other. Can I do this with Flash MX? I've attempted to create the scene by importing the starting frame from fireworks (also tried importi...more >>

I have an animation of a line the builds across the screen, going right, then up, then right, then down, etc. etc. The animation of the line was created as a symbol, called "Timeline", which I placed into a layer in a scene called "Auditors Log", in which the "Timeline" scales as it animates acro...more >>

I need someone to tell me how to make a link that when you click it, you download an mp3 for example. I've found that some pc users cant listen to music on my site because they have to right click it and they are unable to get that option in my site. Can someone help me figure out how to make a li...more >>

I have a problem with a flash document: I have an animation with a movieclip called "MCfonscolor". Inside this movieclip "MCfonscolor" there is a button. What I want is that when clicking on this button it goes to another frame inside the same movieclip "MCfonscolor". There is no way for me to ...more >>

I am making just a simple movie with flash with sticks like stickdeath.com but i dont know how to get things to animate. (example)I want the stick figure to run but if i use tweening he just moves but no real leg movement so how can i make his legs move like he is running without making individual d...more >>

erm well ive been using flash mx for a couple of days now and ive decided to make a crappy little anmation ,that probably no one will want to see, to learn how to use it better and get more familiar with it, so far ive got the charaters to do a little jig as part of the title screen, i have one ques...more >>

1) I've set up some text to fade away, but for some reason it stays solid. 2) Also, it's not embedding the special font I'm using. Basically, what could cause something to not be published in the final swf file? ...more >>

Hi, I'm new to flash and was making a movie and I wanted to use this technique I saw on another flash animation. The best way to describe it is that it was a spotlight. The area was completly black and a light or something would move from left to right to make text visible. Otherwise text was no...more >>

I want to starting learning how to develop some Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) and was curious if anyone had any good resources (web/print) to do that. I've looked through most of the stuff on the Macromedia site but haven't tried it all yet. I've looked at the book http://www.forta.com/books/03...more >>

okay in http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=30374 at the begining it starts at one point in the sky and pans accros to the house. How do you do this? Do you have to draw in each diferent part of the sky? Help would be grately appreciated. ...more >>

Can you control a Quicktime movie in actionscript? Do the quicktime movies have an properties such as visible, alpha, etc. thanks tony ...more >>

Hello all, hopefully someone will be able to help me out here. Now, I'm trying to build a hybrid CD in flash that opens pdf's and powerpoint presentations. I have succesfully accomplished this in the PC version using a 3rd party tool. However, I am having NO LUCK with the MAC based verion. Is th...more >>

Hi When i create two lines with the line tool beside eachother, they clame to eachother, and the minimum distance i can get between each of them is about 0,5 cm. I only want the distance to be about 0,1 cm. Is that possible? -Mikkel ...more >>

Hello all How would I go about rounding a decimal number to a certain number of decimal places in flash 5? I can't find anything in the maths object for doing this. Cheers Dave ...more >>

does anyone have an idea how he traces the outline of the body... is this a very thin mask or a shape function http://www.arostyle.com/contact.html Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed....more >>

I want to add music samples to my flash movie. I have converted the source audio to mp3 format and I want to have them playable from the movie. However, I do not want viewers to have a copy of the mp3 file in the browser cache so my question is can I have an mp3 play embedded in another swf from ...more >>

I've been asked to update some flash cartoons I've done so it loads all text/images/sound files from external which isn't a problem in itself and seems pretty straight forward. The problem is they want to be able to display Chinese / Hebrew text etc. How does flash handle this when loading text ...more >>

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Does anyone know if there is a Browser setting that will prevent a flash movie not playing, or not allow flash to load a movie within a movie? (I know you need the plugin so don't anyone reply "Do you have the plugin?") ...more >>

I have a web site that has an HTML header and menu bar accross that top of the page and i need the buttons to load the Flash content of each page. Does anyone know the generic HTML to do this? I know how to put flash movies inside an html code, but how do I get different html buttons to load dif...more >>

I made a navigation menu into a movie clip and now have it "imbedded" in another movie that it's going to control. What actionscript do I use in the nav menu movie clip so when I put 'goto frame 15' it goes to frame 15 in the main movie and not to frame 15 within the nav menu movie? ...more >>

I have embedded a video on my website, but it takes a long time to load when accessing the site, how can I compress/condense the video so the page will auto load or load fast...? Referring URLs http://www.jirehinc.net/main.html ...more >>

Does anyone know how to hide layers in flash. By hiding layers I don't mean hiding then for when you view them in the .fla file. What I wan to do is be able to hide different layers of a map depending on the viewers selection of viewable or not for each thing. My question is how do you hide the laye...more >>

What's the benefit or drawback of runtime shared assets? I don't know when to use them or how. Has anyone out there? Why? The Flash help is confusing on their purpose. ...more >>

I've imported a jpg into flash and it's at 100% size. I didn't do any compression in flash and it looks really low res and blurry. Why is it doing this, and how can i make it stay at the same resolution as the jpg that was imported. I already optimized it in photoshop. Please see referring link to s...more >>

I am creating a training application. In the main SWF, I have a menu for the training exercises. The user clicks a button for Exercise A, and the SWF for Exercise A appears. The problem is that the buttons from the menu are still active, even though they are hidden behind the Exercise A movie. (On t...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash MX and I want to display EITHER a MODAL DIALOG or a PALETTE on "onRelease" event of a push button. But the problem is I couldn't find any components/UI in flash MX that resemble a a MODAL DIALOG or a PALETTE . Can you please tell me how to create such dialogs/palettes with a...more >>

hi there My open scene is 70KB's and the whole swf is around 120KB is there a way to load the thing more intuitively? Like split the scenes up into movies and then load them in on request buttons and then just share liabrary Items??? My movie is taking 15 seconds to load which is too long I k...more >>

I am creating a 5 sectioned flash portfolio, and i am looking at the best way of going forward with this: is there any good examples of how i can create this??? ...more >>

I have four button symbols on my page. I want to create different up, over and down states so I double-click one button to go into the symbol editing stage. I want the button to look slightly dim in the up stage so I tried to place a tan colored rectangle over the button reducing the Alpha to 50%....more >>

Hi, How can a new browser window be opened to specific pixel dimensions and placed in the middle of a viewer's screen (rather than to a full screen or in the upper left corner of screen space)? Macromedia tech notes don't seem to describe how to open the window in the exact center of a viewe...more >>

I have a flash movie that uses a php-file (which puts out XML) to get data from database. As I use flash on my own computer and php-file on a server, everything works. But when I put both php-file and swf-file to the server, data doesn't appear on the screen if php-file gets new data from databas...more >>

How can i make a direct chat program with Flash MX ? Can Flash MX make direct connection between 2 computers by IP. socks etc. ? THX ...more >>

I am running windows XP and have properly installed the latest macromedia flash and shockwave players. For some reason, whenever i run any flash application, it runs it WITHOUT SOUND. I went to the control panel and my sound configuration say none are muted, and all should be playing at ful...more >>

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Trying to venture into some video stuff with MX. I'm putting together an interactive CD presentation with multiple quicktime files. I had no problems importing the first batch of QT movies (imbedding them in the Flash). However the Client went back to the video house because he wanted better qua...more >>

I have a small flash file in my dreamweaver site. It is just a small part of the page. I need the background of the flash part to match the background in Dreamweaver. How can I set the background in Flash to a backgound file? a .jpg? Is there a better way to do this. Any help is appreciated. T...more >>

I want to create a soundtrack page in FlashMX so when you load the page, a Music will start, in the corner I want to have buttons similar to a casette player with Play/Stop/FFW/RWD. I want my visitor to interact if they want to? I want them to have the ability to navigate through songs to play, o...more >>

I need to get a book on advanced actionsscript programming, there is so much to choose from. Which one do you think is most quality, thorough and still reasonably priced? -- Tom McClintock for California Governer www.tommcclintock.com...more >>