i tried to play a game but when i click play it gives me this message: this application requires an Xtra (Flash Movie...) that either does not exist or failed to initialized properly. Please make sure the apropriate Xtras are in the Xtras folder(s). I then click OK because that is the only ...more >>

I have just recently bought a new computer, sony vaio. and i tried to play a game but when i click play it gives me this message: this application requires an Xtra (Flash Movie...) that either does not exist or failed to initialized properly. Please make sure the apropriate Xtras are in the Xtras...more >>

Do I have to have the old version of Flash MX installed in order to install the MX 2004 upgrade? My guess is I don't, but I would like to be sure. Second question: If I understand it correctly, the transfer-license functionality would enable me to have MX 2004 installed on 3 different computer...more >>

I am sure this is a stupid question...but anyway... Is there a way to fit text to path...such as a circle, so that the text wraps around the outside ect. Thanks ...more >>

I have an animation that I need a little help with. At about frame 120, I need to have about 25 of the same instance, (a bee) to be distributed to different layers, as I need to tween them all individually in different directions. Problem is if I put them all on 1 layer initially, then select t...more >>

Hey guys! I'm playing around with using video in the new FlashMX2K4, I'm finding the compression and hence the playback to be very poor! It uses the sorenson spark codec I know, and I have sorenson squeeze 2.02 on this comp. I've tried a straight AVI imported, then compressed on export, still...more >>

Macromedia team, I've just been reading a couple of primers on ActionScript 2.0 - and I have been grinning from ear to ear. As a Java developer, my first experiences with ActionScript (now AS 1.0) was quite hairy - especially since I was thrown into the deep end, and my first real Flash project ...more >>

Greetings Is there anyone way to specify the background colour of a loaded movie? I have a series of movies that I'm loading into my main movie. All the movies have transparent backgrounds. I would manually change the backgrounds myself but I dont have the source files - the were handed t...more >>

Is everyone else having trouble getting to Devnet to download software? ...more >>

Hi i'm currently using flash Mx, and i've been working on a little mini cartoon. I've managed to make a nice layout which shows two characters sitting in chairs, aswell i have them talking. It's pretty boring just having them sit there like that, so i was wondering if it was possible to zoom in for ...more >>

Well, I made a presentation for some college in Switzerland. Looks great, works great. Now the guy paid some professional to do a voice over for each part of the presentation. Ok, no big deal. Well, when I import each mp3 file into the library and add it to the designated point of naration, it works...more >>

Hi, I am using Flash MX to create a Flash Player 5 compatible movie. I have an action script at the end which displays dynamic text (the text is embedded and not called from an external file). For some reason, the special chrs. in my text (accented French chrs.) are not showing up properly ...more >>

I'm having a problem with my help panel. No matter what my desktop resolution the text is so small it is not readable. I can't find a way to make it bigger in any preferences. Is anyone else having this problem? Anyone know a way I can fix it. ...more >>

Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to print out a linked txt file. The text is supposed to appear in a dynamic textbox. I just want to make a button to print out this text. Is this possible? I have a lot of text which I want to appear on one frame but still it should be possible to pr...more >>

Im generating a QuickTime movie with the option: 32bit-Alpha transparency, but when i open it on AfterEffects, it doesn't work the alpha, It's the same case if I export the movie to Pict secuence with the option alpha 32-bit. somebody knows how to export the movie with alpha and import to After...more >>

Hi! I would like to put a Flash Movie into a CD. I know that are some programs that convert SWFs to screensaver, and to Desktop applications. But this is not enough! :P Is there any Software that puts a number of files into a Setup Executable? Thanks! ...more >>

I have a flash html page. It loads a number of swf files using loadMovie(). I am using Flash 5 for authoring. When i bring up the page from my local machine then it is displaying as it should on Netscape4.7 and on IE. But when i load the page on a webserver and pull it up on the browser, it is displ...more >>

I saw a nice little informative 'tutorial' by Jason Shea on the macromedia site (here).... http://www.macromedia.com/newsletters/edge/september2003/index.html?sectionIndex=1&trackingid=OMN_AAEN .......which has a pointer moving around the screen to show you what's going on. It's a flash movie...more >>

Well, just want to express my opinion.... Flash MX2004 download - 72 MB ?! WTF is that. I can't believe they could fit that much crap so it makes such a huge install. Could it be the new candy interface with alpha blended icons and soft shadows !? Well, go to hell with RAM-sucking, resource ea...more >>

How am I suposed to use Remoting with the new components if flash remoting doesn't work with the new actionscrip 2.0????? Is there a patch yet? I really hope they patch this soon as it renders flash remoting totaly useless since you can't use it with the new components v2. ...more >>

http://www.zaigen.co.kr/support/main.aspx the pic masked effect is very cool today. how can i make it is there any tutorial? ...more >>

Just downloaded the flash 2004 demo and I see a option to create a flash javascript file. Does this mean I can write javascript functions and flash will be able to run them? How do i impliment this and call the file? I haven't been able to find anything other than the run command in the help files. ...more >>

I have created a page in Flash and would like to make the text that is displaying on it links. So I selected the Text tool and highlighted the text and typed in the URL (using static text). Anyways, when I view the page I cant see my text anymore but the link is working. So I went back into Flash 6 ...more >>

Does anyone have any observations on the performance of the new Flash player running existing swf files? We don't really see much difference here. How about after recompiling existing code with MX 2004? Just curious if anyone is seeing the "twice the speed" that was being claimed, although we'd be h...more >>

Hi, I need help with some simple text formatting when text from my external xml files load into a dynamic text field in Flash MX. All I really need to know is how to add the usual stuff (i.e. Bold/Italics/line breaks/links/)...most importantly I need to know how to corect my dynamic text fi...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know that is possible to view a web site in a Flash movie. I am working on a concept of putting a window in a Flash movie, which would be an element in a web page. The window in the Flash movie would dynamically show what is going on in another web site. If you have done s...more >>

I am dealing with a gif image representing an ivory object, a miniature sculpture of a dog, walking from the left of the screen to the center over an Eastern Canadian Arctic map (light blue and white tones). While it moves viewer can notice this pale halo around my dog. I am creating my gif imag...more >>

I have a flash menu built with flash buttoms linked and targeted to html in frames. What I'm trying to accomplish is making 2 html pages open in seperate frames by pressing just one flash buttom. If it was easy html code I would imagine it would look like this<a href="example1.html" taget="main", ...more >>

Suppose someone is not a Flash developer and therefore does not have the Flash application installed on their desktop (i.e., there is no folder under C:/Programs/Macromedia/Flash MX/Players that the player resides) - where does the installation place it on a Windows platform? Doesn't the Win install...more >>

I downloaded a template with some flash buttons. When I go to assign hyperlinks to the buttons, I get some problems. 1. If I assigfn action "getURL" each button is assigned the same URL. 2. If I use the "On" ..."Release"...action then "getURL" the movie sounds and animation for the button...more >>

I read on KNI.com that the flash player 7 does not support database driven websites created in flash MX. Is this true and if so has anyone else heard this and what the @#$% are they thinking? Referring URLs www.kni.com ...more >>

I have a stand-alone .exe file which goes at 24fps because it had an animation which I wanted to as smooth as possible, once the animation ends at frame 800 I placed a keyframe which the action of loadmovienum("lk.swf", 2); everything loads up well except for the fact that the movie being loaded was...more >>

On page 1/7 of the Flash features, on the site, it says... "Edit projects faster with full spell checking and Search and Replace across all application interface areas including actions, library, the Stage, layers, fonts, frame labels, instance names, and text fields." I was hoping this mean...more >>

Hi all, Earlier today my Flash MX crashed !! (don't ask ask me how, it just dit) So i did a new installation, so far so good. The Flash player for my browser is version 6 revision 79 (6,0,79,0) and it "used" to be this one in Flash also.( with ctrl-enter / testing movie) I know i installed ...more >>

Hi, I have the following problem: in my movie there are about 1000 frames and I would like to add a different text description every 50 frames. How can I do it? Thank you very much, ATA2002 ...more >>

I dislike flash and I want to remove it from my computer, how does one go about uninstalling it? ...more >>

Hi all, Is it possible to embed my own plug in in Flash? I can embed it in HTML. Thanks for your attention, slou ...more >>

I am about to undergo a college course on Dream weaver, photoshop and Flash and I have very recenlty had to re-format my computer and I have lost every thing except the Installation Disc for Macromedia Flash V. 4 I have searched high and low. I have no evidenxe of purchase and I don't have the inter...more >>

Referring URLs www.flashtime.free-host.com ...more >>

Dear All, just to inform you that Soundoftheweb is 'giving away' its last few copies of the 'Sample-ROM Volume 1' sound effects and music CD-ROM. Full details can be found by visiting the StockMusicVault or SoundEffectsVault below. http://www.soundoftheweb.net Enjoy, Ben ...more >>

Hi I have an application developed in flash mx that is performing perfectly in the flash 'test movie' environment but it is throwing a particular error once it is embedded in a page of html. Does anyone know any reasons why a movie would behave differently once it is embedded in an html page? ...more >>

Dear All, Ok, so I can link a button to a frame number or to a URL by using GetURL, but cannot link to a word or other file format? This is probably so obvious to the geniuses out there, but as a new user to flash little things like these are sometimes frustrating!?! would appreciate your ...more >>

Hi everyone. I just joined this community after lurking for a bit, and am looking for some (possibly strange) help. I'm trying to create images that chenge on rollover without having them be buttons. Specifically, I am designing a digital portfolio which has a grid of small circles that goes acro...more >>

Hi, I exported a Flash movie with 100 JPEG Quality. Then I inserted the movie in a page using Dreamweaver and set the quality setting to High. The problem is that when I play the movie or open the page the quality appears at low, however the source code still shows quality to be high. Doe...more >>

I've created an .exe with flash, but would like to use an .ico (icon) instead of the default flash player icon. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about doing this? ...more >>

Hello, Hope I'm clear enough... When I cre8 a dynamic text field and resize it eg. I want the text field to become smaller. When I test the movie the characters of the text in the dynamic text field are smaller! they had to stay the same, only the text lines had to become smaller (lesser text ...more >>

how to center the scene in the middle of the screen when the swf is made projector (i mean by that a back cover) ...more >>

Hi, I have a flash movie that I needed to sync the voice over and background music with the animation. But when I tested on different spec of computers, the sound came out 1st then the animation. What's the solution to make the animation sync with the sound/ voice over in a correct way. Thanks for a...more >>

Anyone found any documentation for the Form class, Screen Class and Slide class? The help file for these classes just says: "For the latest information about this class, click the Upgrade button at the top of the Help tab." Click the button and no new help content is available!! I can't be...more >>

You can now download trial versions, upgrade or purchase Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 as well as the other new MX 2004 products: http://www.macromedia.com/ Best, Bill Perry | www.pocketpcflash.net Team Macromedia Volunteer for Flash ----...more >>

^^ ...so i can load them up the next time i play a swf (eg: a game) and continue playing where i finished. is that possible in flash mx?? coz im thinking of making some sort of flash rpg game (not sure yet) but wasn't sure if you could do this... thanks ...more >>

How come Number('somestring') != Number.NaN?? Number('somestring') traces "NaN" but yet this straces false: Number('somestring') == Number.NaN Ok, how do I check if a value is a number or not (instanceof doesn't work as it's generic type, not instance of the "real" Number class. ...more >>

Hi, I need to install the projects done in Flash into some clients' machines but they may not have Flash Player to run them. So, I need to install Flash Player for them to run my programs. But I cannot assume they have live connection to the Internet. Is there any ways that I can get Flash Player...more >>

I have some big disappointments with MX 2004. I was hoping for some real editor functionality improvements, but... ActionScript reference: Still the same one, still very bad with poor or missing usage examples. Here's how you use math.random: math.random( ); Nice usage examp...more >>

Hello, I have a client that is a large format print shop and wants to be able to have a web enabled application that let's users build banners online and submit them to him for printing. The system would include a set of premade template backgrounds for the user to choose from. Then they wo...more >>