If you can apply a textfield background color in AS, why can't you do so using Flash's GUI panels? All it offers is changing the text color. Same goes for the _alpha property as well...you can set it in AS but not using the GUI. What's up with that? --cfcoder2 ...more >>

I want to populate the columns of a datagrid by grabbing the attribute names and values from an XML node. The node attribute names will be the datagrid column names, and the node attribute values will be the datagrid column values. The trouble is, it seems that you have to hard-code the column names...more >>

hello! I am following instructions in a book on creating a basic rollover button. I first Insert/Create New Symbol I choose Button and name it Button1 I create each state, up , over , down and Hit I insert a keyframe as i create each state the book says at this point i am done and to go ba...more >>

Hello to everyone...I am new on this forum and new in Macromedia Flash. I start using Macromedia Flash 2 months ago. Now my problem is i want 2 know this: There is a Flash Banner in this web page : http://www.milliyet.com.tr/content/muzik/20030705/ When i go with mouse over on this banner it s...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to change the text content in the title bar on a non-full-screen projector (.exe). Currently, by default, it says "Macromedia Flash Player 6". Thanks for any suggestions/help! Serena ...more >>

I try and help out as often as I can here on the forum, so I help someone can now give me a little guidance. I keep hearing people talk about embedding fonts? Just what on earth does this mean? Why do it and how? All I know about fonts is that it is better to use pixel fonts and also that usin...more >>

Hi everybody! I have a strange problem with ActionScript used to define button behavior on a movieClip. I have the following structure: MainTimeLine with 2 MovieClips: Button01_mc : a MovieClip containing 2 frames on frame 1: button01_btn (with _up, _over, _down frames) on f...more >>

I built a movieclip and would like to move it's contents to the main timeline. I create a folder, move the layers into it, copy the folder and then paste it onto the main stage. The result is a HUGE version of the movieclip that goes way beyond my stage size. Any suggestions on how I can move ...more >>

I'm confused about bitmaps and file size...I was under the impression "tracing" a bitmap was the most efficient way of file optimization....but upon doing a series of tests found otherwise... 1. I took a regular photo and imported it into Flash and then saved it....file size of the swf was 22kb ...more >>

A while back, this was posted by someone... ---- Hi, I wonder if someone has some info how to make one page fade out(or some other animation) and the new page fade in when clicking on a button? I have a main movie where my navbar is. And I load external movies(pages) into an empty movie clip ...more >>

ok right now im having big issues with this preloader right now mainly on the skip intro button because my movie persist of 2 sections I have to put up 2 preloaders ok so the intial works fine but when I press the skip intro button the background is loading but i still dont get a preloader does anyo...more >>

Does anyone know how to change the screen size from 550 x 400 to 1280 x 1024? But also adjusting the entire movie already created in flash. If so will this make the text larger? Is there a way to make the entire movie larger on the screen without going thru each indiviual keyframe and chan...more >>

I am designing a website for my client, CIM Radio. I have a flash page at http://www.cimradio.com/beta/index.swf. You see where the Now Playing button is? When you rollover that, it should display the now playing title just right below the button. Right beside where the now playing title appears, I ...more >>

I am trying to make a game and i am trying to set boundries so my object doesn't float off the screen. I have 2 movie clips that move and i do not know how to set them into a boundary. Can i please have a code that makes my object stay in a certain area? ...more >>

Hi all! I created a slideshow that ended up being about 500kb...too big! I was able to create a preloader for the entire movie, but I need to create something smaller in file size. Ideally, I would like it to behave like this: Short preload, image appears, user clicks 'next', short preload ...more >>

Im a newbie to passing information to the server with flash. The client wants a flash login screen but has SQL and ASP to read and write to the server. Im confident with ASP my question is how is the information passed from flash to ASP if it is at all possible. Any help would be gratefully rec...more >>

I have a client that would like a intro similar to what is found at tasmania.info. This is a flash screen saver. I know it is asking alot but will need to download the screen saver to see the effect. You can get it from http://tasmania.info/home/index.cfm...ub=selectscreen Question, how do ...more >>

Does anyone know of a semi-reliable Windows (or Mac if it must be) application, plugin, or component that will allow PDF/Acrobat files to be ported into Flash? Rex ...more >>

Hi: I made a flash cd presentation and last time I asked on how to make a flash movie to autorun from cd, Now I would like to know on how to make that file autorun in a full screen without the options usually exported in swf files. One of the reasons is that the movie have many jpeg images ...more >>

when testing movie with mask animation inside (flashmx 6.1) , the movie don't appear at all, someone can tell me why ...more >>

Hello Flash Folks! I got into this discussion with a friend of mine who is a graphic artist. Although he doesn't work with Flash, he said that he would import a graphic into Flash after converting it into a tiff file because what Flash is excellent at is compressing graphics and there was no sen...more >>

Hi I have created a simple button which has text that changes color when you move your mouse over it whenever I want to edit the text for one button I have to do the same change for up, over, down and hit. Surely there most be a quicker way of doing this by making one text change which only needs...more >>

Hello, I want to set a scroll pane to contain word documents. I tried to import a word document, but Flash doesn't like the format. Do I have to save the document as html and then import it? I have about 200 documents, and that would be painful. Is there a trick to this? ...more >>

Hi I have noticed that if you are using static text fields the text in the published movie starts to look fuzzy if you drop the size to anything lower that 12. I have tried to use dynamic text and that looks alot clearer but for some reason the text doesnt display as bold (if this option is set)...more >>

I have a dynamic textbox and I want to format the text (Flash MX) I have the line: my_text = "A load of text. Needs to be formatted into paragraphs. But I can't seem to do it"; SO I want the output to look like this: A load of text Needs to be formatted into paragraphs. But I can't...more >>

I'm working on a scene-based presentattion that was getting weighed down with the narration I'm creating in Cool Edit. After reading some tutorials, I've decided to load the sound dynamically by making the narration into Mp3 snippets and streaming them using loadSound. I've mostly seen peopl...more >>

I want to create a timer mc that I can insert in a given frame so that I can effectively pause to allow a user to read a statement, something like this frame 1 timeAllowed = 5 seconds frame 2 if currentTime > timeAllowed goto frame 3 else stay in frame 2 and test again frame 3 ...more >>

Hi .... I am facing a wall ... please help!!! I am building a site .... I want it to be full page(full width ... not height). The main movie is 750 wide .... align left. The space(in an other <td>) at the right of the movie is filled with an other movie (scale=exactfit). I want this 2nd movie ...more >>

Who can help me out on this question. I want to load my text from an external text file into my swf file, WITH special characters like the ë. I use the URL encoding list from Macromedia but still, the code %EB does not give the right result, when i try %33 my swf shows the number 3 without hesita...more >>

I looked up the flash detection kit, but being a designer, and not a programmer (though I am quite savvy with html) I just didn't get it. (I also wrote a note about this) I couldn't understand whether I need to add an intro page, what tag I should insert and where. On a site I designed and b...more >>

Still can't get a pop up window from my flash movie - i've followed the tutorial at macromedia http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/popup_windows.htm but get a javascript error on the page - their example file download doesn't work either - how is this done ? Thanks, Midge ...more >>

hi..my presentations are on cd using flash mx is there a way please of getting flash to consistently centre on screen thanks martyn ...more >>

I have a cfm page (in the root) that is loading an swf that is 2 directories below and all I get is a blank area where the swf should be. Here's the call in the cfm page. <param name="movie" value="dirA/dirB/main.swf"> However if I browse directly to the page http://www.mydomain/dirA/dirB/m...more >>

I have a strange effect in the FTree. The situation: If have a lot of Items in the Tree that i get a Scrollbar. I move the Scrollbarslider to the lowest position. Now i close one or more Folders until the Scrollbar disapears. When i try to close, to open one of the first Folders in the Root or...more >>

well dear i m facing a problem in looping a sound loop actually i just import a loop and place in a movie clip and when i play this movie it shows cut but if i give it some loop like 10 or 5 then it plays smoothly without cutting but i dont wana give the value in loop cos it makes my movie size heav...more >>

I need to create a newsletter invite as an email, and not sure how to go about it. I need to include links, rollover images, and check buttons, all without opening an attachment, but preferably this information as the email. So it's basically an email, but looks and acts like a web page. Can it...more >>

I love Directors feature of "cast to time" where imported graphic files in numeric order can be automatically added to the timeline in sequence producing the desired frame by frame animation. In flash it looks like I have to drag each file onto the stage with a new keyframe each time. Is there...more >>

Hello there, I made a flash/html site for a client, at the end the client started to edit the html portion of the site himself and always butchers it and expects me to fix it. So I did as a good gesture but now he wants the flash source files. Should I give it to him? Or is it my property? What s...more >>

This is my first try at a flash snipit. I have imported an MPG movie but there are frames in the begining that I wish to delete and not include in the flash movie but I can not seem to figure out how or if I can delete the unwanted frames. It seems when I try to do that by highlighting the first 1...more >>