I want to create a website and CD for displaying drawings and paintings. I would like to display images of these artworks in rows, where once you mouseover or click, the image is magnified and centered on the screen in a smooth, gradual fashion. The effect I'm looking for is similar to the mouse...more >>

Anyone know the BEST way to create a shadow under a semi-transparent square - yes I know this may be impossible in Flash MX... ...more >>

I have done this once before, but can't figure out how to do it again... I've created a dynamic text field named "diningField" with the variable "dining". I also have a text file named "dining.txt" sitting in the same directory whose contents read: "dining=This is a test". From an earlier thre...more >>

I've seen some flash screensavers, and I was wondering how they do it. All I know is that you have to use projectors, but how and what are the associated apps to work along with Flash. Any info, ideas or even tutorial links would be great help. Cheers. ...more >>

Sorry to make yet another thread about it, but I e-mailed you (Mike) as you said, but I got no answer, so I wasn't sure if there's a problem. Mike, I've asked someone who has MX 2004 (betatester I suppose) to export a test swf out of it, and: 1. For top left aligned bitmaps, shifting was th...more >>

I have 1 to 20 different movies that can be loaded and the all go to level 100. At any point in time I may want to know which movie is loaded into level 100. Is there a way to detect which movie is loaded into level 100? Thanks a lot ...more >>

Sometimes when I try to import something into FlashMX, it crashes and the error report says that it was an error caused by "flash importer.dll", but it usually only crashes when I try to import a larger file (over 1MB). Any ideas why this is happening or how to fix it? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

please could some one help me in getting started in flash i have a generel idea what to do but it would help if there is some one who could help me a little more. regards markomarkosillypig@aol.comhttp://www.marko-pcs.co.uk ...more >>

Hi, we're using action script attached to a blank movie clip to cause a swf to load into a target movie clip when the blank clip (with the action script attached to it) is loaded. Is there a way to do this directly through code attached to the frame, rather than a blank movie clip?? Here's th...more >>

I've got a series of vector images imported into flash in a layer (one frame after the next). The animation is 100 frames long. The feeling should be like a plane flying through clouds. There are also smaller clouds in other layers that whip by as a tween throughout the sequence. No matter what I do...more >>

Hello Guys, I was wondering what i have to do to get a site like hi-res with the background image stretching to fit your browser screen but then having just the text and other aspect fixed for all screen browser? Any ideas on how to get that results?? It doesn't look that complicated but i can s...more >>

how do I make a button open an acrobat .pdf file or anyfile for that matter just by clicking on it? thanks for your help! Stu ...more >>

Is it possible to add basic authentication to an XML sendAndLoad() transaction using: someXML.addRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic "+a64BaseEncodedUserID:Password) When I append the header in this way, the Authorization does not show up in the request. Does anyone know why? I am trying...more >>

I made this movie with really cool movie clip buttons that I want to make a few changes to. Now for some reason when I try to open it, I get a message reading "failed to open document..." . Is there anything I can do to fix this? The .swf opens ok, but I will need to update the file later, so I need...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to send a double to my flash movie with setvariable with this code : char Strg[4]; _bstr_t Test = SysAllocStringLen(NULL, 4); _gcvt((double)MAX_fl,4,Strg); // double to char * Test = Strg; ...more >>

Hey Everybody ! I've been through the help files and almost every posting on this site but to no avail. My ALIGN panel in particular is getting cut off. I can see MATCH SIZE and SPACE but I can't access the options beneath. It's as if they weren't there. I know that this has something to do w...more >>

Hello-- If anyone has a little time could you please visit the following site? http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com On the homepage there is a spinning car in the middle of the page. Anyone know how to do this? Can it be done with just MX or is this some kind of 3D Max-type animation? P...more >>

I have dynamic text boxes with scrollable text in them. I have two buttons that I created to scroll the text. The text box has the "selectable text" button pressed and the "render as html" button pressed. when I paste in my info into the dynamic text box, everything works great and the text just s...more >>

Hi, I have created a 150X250 Flash movie and have published it in a table on my web site. I have designed my web site to ajust for different screen sizes however the flash movie doesn't so how do I do it so it changes to the size of the table cell. Any help will be appreciated. ...more >>

In our flash presentation the text moves as a cast in a movie, each line is a unique object and is filled up from a file. We need the text to move fluently, without spurts and quickly (10 lines per 10 seconds), we move on 1 px, but it's going to be very slow, if we move on 5 px we will get spurts...more >>

I have a site that was designed at 800w x 600h. We're starting to realize that "Hey, this is too big." We'd like to bring it down to 700 x 525. So when I publish the site, I could just change the publish settings to publish the site at 700 x 525. I've tested this and the site runs much smoother. The...more >>

Does anybody know if Flash MX 2004 will support right to left text (For hebrew and arabic). ? Thanks Ramster ...more >>

I will try to explain this as best I can. Lets say I have a list box in the middle of the stage with a bunch of selections in it. I put a symbol of a big square over the list box, you cannot see the list box anymore because it is covered completly by the square. When moving the mouse over the...more >>

Is there a way to show the actual frame rate or capture the minimum and maximum frame rate a Flash movie runs at? This would be useful for determining if I've set the frame rate too low or high for various computers. Thanks, Steven ...more >>

hii, can i browse the computer from flash (using javascript, asp, .......)?? ...more >>

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OK, here's what I need to know. I'm new to Flash, by the way. Is it possible to have a flash presentation served on the web that will link to a quicktime movie (or any other video file type) that lives on a cd-rom in the end-user's machine? What we're trying to do (to resolve security and pir...more >>

I realize I posted another thread earlier, but I am trying to figure out why I cannot get flash to NOT smooth an imported image. I want the image to stay crisp, clean and 'pixelized' as it is when imported, but yet the rest of the document to be anti-aliased (such as vectors and type). unchecking...more >>

Hello again. I am more of a programmer and am in desperate need of a GOOD book that covers ACTIONSCRIPTING, REMOTING and has REAL examples. Please recommend me something. Thank you. ...more >>

got a little issue with trying to preserve the "pixel" state of images in flash, and avoice antialiasing on them, but keep it on vector and type elements. somehow, sites like www.bacardidj.com and www.2advanced.com (as well as others) have targeted their images to use the 'low' quality setting...more >>

hello everyone, i have a question, i have a .swf file, is there anyway to convert it to a .fla file so i can edit it??? ...more >>

Hi there I was wondering if anyone knows how to control flash sound from the browser, i.e. a controller for the web page viewer to be able to turn volume up, down or off. thankyou in advance for your help ...more >>

I am creating a Flash site with 5 links to different parts of the site, each designated part for each link is also created in Flash, but in another Movie Clip, and then inserted into a Frame on the Root MovieClip. I have a little Flash intro on the Root Movieclip before the Link Frames, I have put i...more >>

Hi there, Flash 5 How can I precision add guides? MY work area is 150 X 150 pixels. I want to add guides to at 75 pixels from left and top. My search function with help does not want to work? Regards, Deon...more >>

hiii, plz i want to send an email from from with attached file, i'm using geturl (with "mailto"+......) to send an email, but how to attach a file to that email???? thnx ...more >>

I think this is a pretty basic animation task in Flash which I believe could be very tedious to do -- here's the project: For numerous 2D shapes lying on a rectangular background, change the outline color of each shape one at a time, as though they were being cut by a laser beam. I have se...more >>

I have set up some animated text on my home page and want to take the user to another page in the movie if they should click on the text (see http://www.latitudesolutions.co.uk for the current site - not created yet on this version). To create the link, I have placed an invisible button over the ...more >>

i want to run my swf in a flash player when i clk the hyper link text in the IE browser. for that what should i do. i want a new window whitout toolbars plz help me out. ...more >>

hai, I need to load jpegs in Flash 5.0. Pls. suggest a solution for the above.. With regards, Sara ...more >>

I'm using LoadVars to upload some variables to an asp script, but I do not want him to show anyhting to the user, not even a blank page, and I cannot get it to work like that. I've tried loadVariables but that one wouldn't even make contact with the asp script, dont know why though, everything was i...more >>

Could someone explain me that I just need to put the image on one cell in datagrid. How is it possible that with resizing of the image in that cell, to display the image in datagrid Thanks 5 million stupid people make 1 person look smart...more >>

I have a simple line which is used to preload the whole movie, but I kniow it does not do it because some buttons are not active for a bit and also some of the bigger images do not show up when a button is active and clicked. I want to have the whole swf movie preload before hand. Code is for a m...more >>

I downloaded the demo of MX. Opened up a Flash 5.0 file. Brought in new graphic images (a .png and .jpg). I set the alpha in the color mixer to zero...nothing changed. I converted each image to a symbol (set to graphic)....nothing. Setting transparenies in 5.0 was a no-brainer. The index help ...more >>

Im using a loadVariables command to call an asp script that recieves the variables and sends them to a DB, but it doesnt seem to be working. I do not want to use getURL because i do not want another window to open, or the window in wich we are change. Here's what im doing loadVariables("adici...more >>

Has anyone tried using an HTML link or a JavaScript to control a Flash movie that is opened in another window? Suppose this JavaScript is in a separate window and you want to control the Flash movie from another window. ...more >>

I created an introduction in Swish at 12 fps. It is mostly text with some effects. It plays back fine in Swish. I exported it to an SWF file that also plays back fine (off center, but fine). However, when I imported it into Flash (as a new symbol set to movie clip) is plays back visually slower ...more >>

Can I import PSD files? because I could but now I can't. And other question. What is the Action Script for execute EXE files? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have a sound on a button to play when the button release. Prob is that I have to wait and hold my clic for the sound to play entirely or else, the sound stops and the URL at witch the flash button refers loads up. Pretty basic isnt it? ...more >>

I am loading a sound dynamically. When I test my flash movie, it works perfectly fine but when I insert the swf into an html page, the sound does not play anymore. I use song.loadSound("music.mp3", false) song.start(0,999) The flash movie plays perfectly fine when tested but no sound play...more >>

It's time to address all these "negative" comments about the 2 split versions of Flash MX 2004. I have tried to address various people in this list to help them understand the differences, but I seem to have failed. Most of the people complaining are just throwing out insults without any real p...more >>