I created a button symbol using only text. The text changes color on rollover. It works fine in FlASH, but after I publish, the button becomes transparent and only works over the letters. Anyway to avoid this without having to create a fill in the background of the text? ...more >>

I am looking to add a feature that will change out the movie clip on my home page when a view reenters my site. Example: Lets say that you come to my site for the first time and you see a picture of pop corn on the home page but the next time you enter the site, which could be a day later or a h...more >>

Im using dynamic text fields to get data from external text files, which are formatted in HTML Whats the full list of tags that flash will recognise? I know it does stuff like <p><b><font><br> etc, but i would rather having a list for future reference ...more >>

Hi Guys, I am trying to use one button in a movie that toggles between fullscreen & windowed. I can get it to do one or the other but not both.......Please help Thanks in advance ...more >>

I am brand new to flash MX. I have read the lessons and the tutorials. I am used to Swish Flash. Is there a setup that automatically does things like slide in text, blur text on flash MX? I have a swf file that I made with Swish and it looks great on my pc, but I cannot get it to work on my page...more >>

Hello, Can anybody help me? I am going absolutely crazy here... I am unable to compare input strings because the string that is has been input is adding a newline character to it... I tried to use trim() prototype method, but it does not work because the trim() method checks only for white spaces...more >>

Ok, help me figure this one out. I have a movie that loads movieclips from the library (about 8k each) when the user calls on it by clicking a button. The entire file is 180k - so I need a preloader for the .root timeline. The problem is, Flash loads all of my 8k movieclips before it will play ...more >>

Starting fresh and having fun but wondering how to take a movie clip that has 5 layers each 150 keyframes down to 100. I tried grabbing all of the last key frame and moving them but couldn't get it to work. Help is greatly appreciated. Jody jody@sixdom.com...more >>

Hi~ I'm trying to create drop-down menus in a flash movie using Action Scripts. I was using an article on WebMonkey to show me how to create drop-down menus, but the problem is, I can't get the menu to disappear once it pops up. The technique that the article suggested was to create an invisible ...more >>

Please can somebody help me. I am very new to Flash and am trying to create scrolling text. I've created the text field, the buttons that will scroll the text and have entered the code. The only problem that I have is that I have to move the mouse way from the button and then back over it everytime ...more >>

I'm new to flash, and im trying to loop my movie with a song playing while the movie is looping. However, when i import a sound into the flash movie it repeats whenever the movie does, and there's gotta be a way to loop the movie and let the song only start and play through once, but how? Thanks f...more >>

We currently use PowerPoint to create presentations. I have seen some great presentations (desktop + web) created using one of the Macromedia products but not sure which one. They usually have personal voice, animations, charts and play- pause buttons. Can also be sent to someone as a weblink. ...more >>

I've read plenty of directions as to how to center a Flash movie in a browser. But all it does is do it horizontally, but the movie is still attached to the top edge of the browser window. How can I center the movie so that it is in the exact center of the page, horizontally AND vertically? Here is...more >>

I need some help to send a mail, from a flash movie. how I can do it, if you have some example that would be great ahpolo ...more >>

Hi. What is the best music software for making nice loops for Flash? I need something effective and easy to learn.Something that I can learn without any classes and just by using software's help. ...more >>

I have seen a site that lets you download a SWF that has unique id codes included. This is done on their web site. You select a category and they generate a banner with your id code built in, that is then immediately available for download. Does anyone know how it could be done? ...more >>

Has there been a flash MX update yet eg 6.1 ...more >>

Does anyone know if importing Windows WMA media is possible at all? I trieds converting the wma to wmv but Flash tells me there is a 'problem reading the data'. Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have been having some problems animating my mask. I have a collage of pictures and a series of buttons. On rollover of the buttons, I want the mask to show only one of the pictures in the collage. Initially, I made the fill in the mask a movie clip the size of a single picture and wrote some ...more >>

Use the propery inspector to position relative to the registration point Anyone know how to do this in flash 6?? The help says that the property inspector can only position relative to the top left of the movieclip. Can't believe that this feature is no longer available?? If it isn't ho...more >>

Don't know if I'm going mad or not, but I just did a test and created 9 movieclips with the registration points set to the nine options (top-left, top-center, top-right, center-left, center, center-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right) When I then position these using the properties di...more >>

Hello! I am working on a sites accessibility and have come across some swf files that have no fla files. They were done in swish. I tried putting an alt tag in the object but that didn't seem to help. Any suggestions? Thanks for any help! Va. ...more >>

is it the consensus that png is a better format for imgs rather than jpgs? i am working on a photography studio's website and need my imgs at a high quality.. but of course i have to consider load time... when i test the jpgs i have imported, they reduce from 785 to 233 kb... when using pngs, afte...more >>

How can i stop the movie in the main timeline until the products.txt file (which contains the num_of_products variable) is loaded from external source? Value of num_of_products variable sets the number of MovieClips on stage (each MovieClip contains a button). It all works fine in standalone pla...more >>

Say I have 8 buttons as navigation and two of them are home, and portfolio. I want to be able to make it so that when Im at 'home' and I click on 'portfolio', the area where the contents load, in this case, 'home', to fade away and then for portftfolio to fade in. The only way I know how to do it ...more >>

Hi, i have created a page within my site with a flash movie. As this is the first one i have created do the users need to have flash movie player installed on there machines in order to view the movie? cheers ...more >>

When designing content for 56k modems, what file size should I start creating a loading screen for the file? Thanks. ...more >>

Are there any file size limitations on mac's? I have a 100mb swf that works fine on a pc but that doesn't play on a mac? Any help appreciated A ...more >>

Hello! I'm authoring in Flash MX for Flash 5 player and have a problem with ordering the TAB key in flash form. Is there a way to change the order of TAB key? Is it even possible to disable the TAB ordering in Flash 5? Thanx for any helps.. best regards Tomas Lehuta ...more >>

Oink, I'm creating a flash site with loads of movieclips containing thumbnails (.jpgs) The main function of this movie is to scroll when the user clicks something. I've noticed that at 12fps the movie is very jumpy & makes the site appear clumsy and even slow. At > 48fps The movement is ni...more >>

Hi My problem is not regarding programming Flash, but with a problem displaying it on my machine. I thought perhaps, someone could help. I have recently installed XP on my new PC. Everything is working fine, but on a few webpages, some of the content is not being displayed. I think it is fl...more >>

Hi everyone... Ok, newbie problem: I'm designing my first Dreamweaver site and I designed a flash navigation menu from the sample menu_dropdown.fla included with Flash MX. When I test the menu in Flash, it works fine. When I publish it and check the published swf file, if works fine. When I...more >>

I have a movie rect_mc "instanced" in the main timeline as rect_1 rect_2 rect3 and rect_4. I want the movies to play with a delay one from the other, so i wrote: _______________ function rect_1_play() { _root.rect_1.gotoandplay("Play"); } function rect_2_play() { _root.rect_2.gotoandp...more >>

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I am new to flash but have a quick question. I have made a simple flash website, with text dropping in from different angles. All looks good, except when its finished it just keeps repeating. How can I make it so after it displays what is at the end and waits for a click by the user? TIA ...more >>

I am new to Flash and I was wondering if it is possible to remove the options on the right click menu of the browser (Zoom In, Zoom out, Quality, Play, Loop). I've seen some sites that only have the settings options, any idea how could I do that. I also would like to know if there is a way to avoid ...more >>

Am new to flash. How do I get rid of this in flash MX. I have tried all combinations of publish settings. I want the flash to be a small banner and not alighned to the top or side of the browser, and I dont want it to resize. For an example of my settings visit this link: http://134.7.78.56/temp/fla...more >>

Hi, I've suddenly got a problem viewing Flash content in Internet Explorer. It just started a day or two ago. When I access a page that has any kind of Flash content, the Flash movie is replaced by a blank pale yellow/green box. When I mouse over it I get a cursor with a little starburst thingy wit...more >>