Hello all, I am new here and have looked through the posts to see if my problem could be solved. Alas, I am still stuck; please help! I have an existing flash animation (swf) on my desktop and am trying to edit it in mx pro 2004. The problem is that I open it and straight away the toolbox will d...more >>

hey- i'm noticing that when using the attach method, objects take a long enough time so that it's as though they're loading. possible solution: place all objects onto the Stage in an earlier scene? or are the "export for action script" MC's considered during preload? please advise...more >>

hey. what if i have a button created in flash & i want this button to show the contents of an excel file when clicked. how do i do that? thanks, again! ...more >>

hi. i have a question to ask regarding framesets. i have a frameset composed of 3 frames: the top is where my banner resides, the left is my navigation & the right for the content. if my navigation button is a .SWF, how do i target the frame on the right? so that the selected contents would a...more >>

Hi, Just wondering why I can't open any MX fla in MX 2004 Pro. I am getting an Unexpected File Format error. I thought maybe my files were corrupt; however, I downloaded some flas from Flashkit and I get the same error. Thanks, SL ...more >>

When creating code for the new Flash 7 plug-in, the compiler now enforces case sensitivity for variable names. So, "_global.foo" is no longer the same as "_global.Foo". Additionally, a variety of other enhancement have been made to ActionScript. At a high level, I think making Action...more >>

saving on frame I have a file on frame for there is an order form, that also gives a picture of the final product the customer has just designed. when they press the print button the movie goes to frame 5 where there is a printAsBitmapNum(all, "bmax"); gotoAndStop(1) taking them back to frame...more >>

I need to fill a list component with the contents of the following XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <items> <item id="i1">item 1</item> <item id="i2">item 2</item> <item id="i3">item 3</item> <item id="i4">item 4</item> <item id="i5">item 5</item> </ite...more >>

Any thoughts on what to study on flash mx developer exam? I have the exam on sept 30 and I have reviesed over action script and buttons is their any specific I should be concentration for this exam??? thanks in adv Wasay Knowledge is a circle which has no end @#$%^&amp; :0) ~ColdFusi...more >>

I have no clue how to do this, can someone enligthen me? ...more >>

I've created a bitmap background for my first attempt at a webpage but found it was way to big for the FLASH stage window.Could someone tell me the dimensions of the stage window so I can create a background image that fits perfectly without distortion. :) ...more >>

I've created a bipmap background for my first attempt at a webpage but found it was way too big for the FLASH stage.Could some one tell me the dimensions of the stage in terms of height and width so I can create one that fits perfectly without distortion. :) ...more >>

Sorry to waste everyones time with such a simple query ? but a while back now I?m sure I discovered a way, a Hot Key I think, to provided a Stage Only view window in Flash MX. Eg. The entire screen is taken up with just the stage. Although I have trawled through my reference books & tried the Onl...more >>

Is there any way to create a classical crosword in flash, just like the old school printed ones. Interactive of course!! Online tutorials appriciated :) ...more >>

Hi all. Please can someone tell me how to do this? When the animation finishes is it javascript that does this? Thanks a lot for any advice ...more >>

Well, I may have to tell my boss we need to cancel our plans to upgrade everyone to MX 2004. As far as I can tell gotoAndPlay(); is no longer working in MX 2004. I have a MC that has a stop action on frame one - the frame is labeled "start" and is called mc_buttons. My main timeline has the fol...more >>

Could someone tell me the script that when i click my button it then goes to a site like google.co.uk i am only a noob please help ...more >>

My buttons won't work when i publish my movie. can anyone help me? im a newbie. thanks ...more >>

I see this technique a lot. After clicking on a link the annimation builds to the page. If you click on the link again nothing happens. It dosen't reannimate to the page. How do you do this? When I click my links and arive at the page then click on the link again it builds again. I'm us...more >>

Hi guys, Really need any help on working out how to an interactive flash map pretty much the same as the one featured in this link: http://www.manningstainton.com/search.htm I presume you need some irregular hotspots and a show/hide layers functionality? Any pointers woule be extremely apprecia...more >>

Hey, I just need to know how you open a flash movie in its own flash window, from a regular HTML page? E.g. like at http://www.iwantmyflashtv.com/ when you click "Enter" Thanks in advance, Dan ...more >>

I have a main movie that loads first, and as the person navigates the site the movies are loaded into the main movie using the loadmovie script, but when they are loaded they load on top of the main movie, how can i get them to load below the main movie, the main movie is at default layer 0 is th...more >>

I am new to flash and this is probably a basic question, but i made a site where if u click on a word, another page comes up, and all that. the problem is, when i published it and tried to run it, it automatically went thru all the frames and kept looping thru them. how do i get it to stop on the ...more >>

Hello all other than www.minifonts.com or fontsforflash.com do you know other sources >>>> fonts 4 flash with the same quality (ful set of caracters) of this one: www.pixietype.com ((((I bought some from this one and they are great)))...the problem is that they only have 5 sets. but I ...more >>

Hi all - Does anyone know about potential problems with looping MP3 streaming audio in Flash? Specifically, does the sound get cached on the local client, allowing the Flash player to loop a local sound, or does the sound keep streaming, effectively tying up bandwidth? Any guidance would...more >>

ok, i need some help, i dont know what im doing wrong, I have 2 .swf's 1 swf is called 1.swf the other swf is called design.swf i need it so that on 1.swf, u click a button, and it opens design.swf, and also closes 1.swf (itself) instaniously, with one click here is the code i ha...more >>

I am coming across a rather unusual problem in Flash (atleast 5). See the refering url: http://www.bkvi.com/review/qualitytest/ When a bitmap is scaled on a movie with a single frame in it, the quality is fine. But when a bitmap is scaled with multiple frames (including other scenes), the...more >>

Hi I'm just wodering if anyone has some exaples of video in flash 6 movies. Is the uality ok or just too bad??? Thank you in advance Bjorn ...more >>

Hello, I would like to be able to type in a url and be taken to a page with a specific browser size, without the address bar, without scroll bars, without the status bar and for the flash page contained within the page to completely fill the browser displaying it. I have had a look at other p...more >>

Hi I would like to find out if there is a way to control the way an instance of a symbol behaves on the stage. What I am trying to accomplish is this. I have a button on my stage. This instance of the button is currently behaving as a button (Call it my_button). When I rollover another button I w...more >>

In Studio MX there could only be one simultaneous user over a network connection at any one time. I heard a rumor that in Studio MX 2004 there were allowed 2 simultaneous users without getting booted. Is there any merit to this statement? It is important to me because I am wondering how many ...more >>

Hello all! I have a textbox in my flash movie, and I want to place a link from some of the text in the scrollpane to another frame in the movie. I know how to create a standard hyperlink, I can just highlight the text and put the link in the hyperlink field. But how do I link to a specific fram...more >>

Does anyone know of any companies that sell Flash graphics (buttons, bars, controls, knobs, shapes, etc....) I'm looking for something like those big clipart packages, but with Flash only. Thanks ...more >>

How can I have a iframe-like inside a flash so that it contains a external php in html? ...more >>

I am looking for some direction in designing an elegant, dynamic flash photo gallery. It may use a database. The ideal layout would be similar to the gallery at http://www.michalcohen.com/photogallery02x.fla. If anyone could help tell me what I will need to research (I am relatively new to flash but...more >>

Dudes and dudesses, i want to build a menu in flash mx. (see http://www.odbo.com/flashmx/) Its items are: HOME | MENU1 | MENU2 | MENU3 Each menu has its one submenu beneath it like this (menu1 is hit): HOME | MENU1 | MENU2 | MENU3 subpage1 | subpage2 | subpage3 Now, i can make a...more >>

the default fonts that came with flash MX have a lot to be desired. 1. can i bring new fonts into the program to use? 2. if so, HOW DO I DO THAT? thanks! bp ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create an effect on buttons similar to the one on the following website: http://www.evdu.com/xga/v6/b/ Looking through the forums I think I need to use actionscript and the On (rollOver) and On (rollOut) events. I have already tried exprimenting by creating an clip ani...more >>

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I'm really surprised that you can't do an alpha gradient mask or just a plain alpha mask. Also, what's with the Poly tool and the lack of a preview. Even FreeHand has this feature and I would've thought that if you are going to have similar tools across applications, why not have similar fu...more >>

please help me out with this. i got a flash movie here http://www.binarian.com/test.swf the menu is all GLITCHY on me i am using this method for the dropdowns. the initial button ie webservvices is a movie clip.... this movie club has 8 frames. the first frame contains a button (web serv...more >>

I need to create a link to an external video for my flash movie. The command GETURL is not working so i don t know how to make this link. It will be an CDROM so all the components will be inside the CD. Can someone help me please? ...more >>

Dear Macromedia (or anybody who knows), Are there any plans to reissue the Flash MX components that are broken in Flash MX 2004 in the Actionscript 2.0 format. It would be really handy to have the functionality of the RichText editor back. I hope you can make this happen soon, as some of my mov...more >>

I would've thought this to be a no-brainer. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= remove "_nospam_" to send email Ian Kelleigh Ian_nospam_@FreeHandSource.com "The FreeHand Source" http://www.FreeHandSource.com ...more >>

What's the deal with this? You can add tools as a "sub-tool" but you can't remove tools from the panel at all? If I want to add the Poly tool as a tool by itself and NOT as a sub-tool of the rectangle, it's not possible. Or if I want to add the Subselection tool as a sub-tool to the Selecti...more >>

my proceeding: - flashmovie (720x576) - export to avi in same size - convert to mpg with tmpgenc - convert to dvd-file with tmpgenc dvd author everything is wider like normal for a 16:9 format. can somebody help me with instruction how to do this correctly? ...more >>

Hello all, having discovered the scrollPane component had changed in MX 2004 I am having to rewrite my code. This is bad enough, but has anyone managed to find a way to load a dynamically created MovieClip into a MX 2004 scrollpane component? The contentPath method just doesn't seem to want...more >>

Is there >>ANY<< documentation on creating forms based apps in 2004? The template gives you 2 forms one labeled application and one form1 but there is nothing to say what you do with them.... how to navigate, what is "content path", how to build a typical 3 pane application (top bar, side bar, co...more >>

Hi, How can I get flash to randomly choose a number within the range of 1 to 30? Thanks, Mike ...more >>

From Aral Balkan in FlashCoders: ------------------- Has anyone actually *read through* the new docs? Here's an excerpt from the page on the MenuBar Class: * * * PopUpManager.createPopUp() Adds a menu to the menu bar. Accordion.createSegment() Adds a menu to the menu bar at a spe...more >>

Guys and Gals I need help! I would call myself a novice when it comes to flash / actionscripting. I am a designer that constantly gets "sucked" into development projects! I currently develop flash projects using Flash MX (not 2004) and have been trying to develop a method/strategy to use Flas...more >>

I have a problem with Flash on my home computer. I am having problems viewing websites that require Flash. Here is an example on what I am talking about. I go to shockwave.com and it tells me that I need Flash to view the page. I go to Macromedia.com and download Flash. It says "When you see t...more >>

hiii, i've a problem with any flash movie with html page, which is a border from top and left corners, i'm trying to put that flash in the left top corner without any spaces, and i failed, is there any solution????? ...more >>

I create some shape, turn into graphic, call it icon. I then get a button component and assign the icon. All looks good. Until... I put an instance of the icon on the page, then when I run up the movie the button label scrolls off to the right! very very odd. Anyone else see this? ...more >>

Greetings; My name id Orville Andrews, I am a teacher at Cambrian College in Sudbury Ontario Canada. I have been using Macromedia flash as presentation software for over a year. I have started using the learning objects in flash to deliver randomized pop quizes for my students. I have not b...more >>

I'm using mx2004 and the Datagrid component and I need for each record in the datagrid to have a checkbox. This was easy in MX and Firefly but I cannot seem to figure out how to do it, or how to add a dropdown on each record either. I also need be able to make particular fields in inch record no...more >>

I still need to perform some testing with the v6 Flash Player. It is not available at the 'Archived Players' web page (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/oldplayers.htm)... Thanks, Darren ...more >>

Hey, I'm looking for a list of companies that have solutions to convert video to flash content (flash 5 and flash 6 to swf or flv). I am already aware of Flix from Wildform as well as Sorensone Squeeze (flash 6+ only). Thanks. ...more >>

here is my situation, I have a screen with 24 squares drawn on it, thinking of making them each a movie clip, and 24 items that a user can drag into these boxes. what i need is for it to know what box each item is in when a submit button is hit. Also this information needs to be output to a tex...more >>

In Flash 5.0a on a Mac, I can't place a library object. If I import a new object, it works, but I can't drag anything from the library (including the common library) to my movie. Anybody know what's up? Thanks for the help! ...more >>

on (release) { Each_1 = ((Retail_Price_1)*(1-Discount_1)); } Is there something I can add to the code so the output is only 2 decimal places and maybe even rounds up? I was thinking about setting the text box to a max value but that doesn't help because I have 4-6 digit numbers. I know in ...more >>

I am creating a interactive CD for begginers with autorun I have created with flash MX a file = Intro.swf which I converted with flash to a projector exe. This file is the one that autorun calls up. The intro.exe calls, by the "loadmovie" command, the " install.swf " module this swf file ...more >>

does somebody know how I can check the size of an external file? I have a txt file, sometimes it's empty. When the file doesn't have some content, the button, wich normally loads the file into my mc, must change.... so I need an If operation. Now, i did it with the next piece of code: It is testing ...more >>

I have map with over 50 instances of the same button placed at different places. 'On press' links to a unique text file for each button. I need to indicate, for each instance when mouseover, the name of the place under the button, for example London. To do this I now need to make a unique butt...more >>

Hi all, I have a movieclip on _level0 (root). Is there a way to move it to another level (_level999) at runtime, without loading it as an external movie? I tried to use swapdeths with no luck. Any idea? thanks in advance tony...more >>

a movie clip contains two movie clip which attached onMouseDown event if i clicking movie clip ,then each onmousedown callback function will execute and i don't known which movie clip trigger event why ? ...more >>

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I posted last week (see below - thanks a lot for replying Peter) I'm trying to construct an interactive map where buttons reveal or hide clips as necessary. Whatever I do I can't seem to get the code to work so clicking a button does this. I'm using Flash 5 I have all the elements now on one l...more >>

Hi, can anyone tell me what he/she thinks of my site? About the flash & design...? The text is mostly in dutch, because it's a website for Belgian basketball-team. Greetz, G ...more >>

I am working on a Flash presentation which involves a lot of photographic images that fade in and out using tweens from alpha = 0 to alpha = 100, and then again in reverse. A lot of the images seem to wobble during these tweens. As far as I can tell the left hand side of the images remain stati...more >>

Hi, i gota project where on a click of a button all the interface text must change form English to hebrew. I thought about keeping the interface text on an external file than changing the file on a click of a button. Can anyone suggest me any idea or online tutorial about it? or an open source? p...more >>

how to edit the picture in the scrollpane component? ...more >>

I placed a component fla in the component folder for Flash MX 2004. It appeared in Flash MX 2004 when I ran it. However, after I deleted the fla from the folder the component is still showing up in Flash MX 2004. I want to delete it. How do I do this. Thank you, Matty ...more >>

I'm making an interactive dvd for a course i'm doing and i have a problem with my intro video. I edited it using Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Adobe After Effects 5.5 then exported it from After Effects into an swf file which is 60mb. when i try to import it into Flash MX using either import to library...more >>

Alright I'm doing a project on the Bill of Rights, and I need some help with Flash MX. I want it to be able so that when I click a coin on the Flash a little scrollbar text thing, I think is called dynamic text will open up above the button and display the text about that freedom/amendment. So far...more >>

Can anyone suggest a good drawing tablet for flash mx 2004, thats an affordable price and works good? ...more >>

Ok, After fighting with it for several days, I have figures out how to get an Alert window to function properly. Now my next target was the Prompt Box. I am having very much difficulty getting the Window component to load the content properly so that I can have a simple textinput field retur...more >>

What do I need to do to get a message box to appear (ONLY ONCE), when a button is pressed? I am using it to appear when my "fullscreen" and "close" buttons are pressed. That is for a stand alone player. If possible, how do i do it if the movie is within a webpage? (Getting it to go to fullsc...more >>

Hi Everyone, Could anyone tell me what is the problem in my animation. When I run it on small flash screen the animation works aright but when I preview my animation it is not giving the same results. The animation color has changed and the effects of those animations have also changed. To be...more >>

I?m very new to this so please bear with me? I?m on a PC (XP) version of Flash MX. Certain fonts are showing up in my font folder and in other applications (IE: Illustrator, Photoshop), but not in flash. They appear to be of the native italic and bold families. Can anyone make sense as to why this ...more >>

Hello Helpful Folks: I have a simple preloader built into the beginning of my movie. It's just a loop that plays until the first 80 frames are loaded. I added it because the file is large enough that it take a bit to load and I'm stuck with a big white square in the middle of the screen while I...more >>