How owuld i go about making an object spin around on its circular motion path with out having to put like 10 key frames in. Whnever i do that, it always ends up going at different speeds. ...more >>

hello, I am searching in vain for some good ways of getting an entire site made in flash registered in google and other search engines, does anyone have tips for me ? thanks lizuka ...more >>

Hi all, I recently downloaded a program to make a screensaver. I tried it with a Flash file and it didn't work so I left it. Now I am trying to open Flash and after going Start => Programs => Macromedia => Flash MX a window opens asking me if I want to install or configure the screensaver (the ...more >>

Hi Folks, I have a problem using loadMovieNum("moviename.swf",2); on an html page. If a just use under flash it works but not in my html project. Is anything in IE or in flash that a need to setup. Tks in advance JFB ...more >>

How can I make own panel set default layout in Flash MX 2004? Thanks for answers... ...more >>

How/Can I import Adobe Audition files into Flash MX? Please help! ...more >>

anyone have any code or trick for detecting flash in mac os x mie or safari browsers? mine aint workin' --thanks ...more >>

Hey all: I am trying to insert a "pause" into a script. I have an action script which changes the alpha of a movie clip upon rollover. I would like this clip's alpha to change gradually from 100 to 0. Here is what I have so far ... --- on (rollOver) { var a = 100; while (a != 0) { trac...more >>

I bought Flash MX on Sept 1. When is the free upgrade for MX2004 going to be available? The MM page for continues to say "check back later" eventhough the product is out. ...more >>

This is driving me crazy, I have a main movie, we will call it main, main has action script to load a movie into level 1 (call it home movie) and a script to load a movie into level 2 (call it GUI) SO whem main is launched it loads 2 more movies, the problem is this, The naviagation is in the GUI...more >>

I just uploaded a site http://www.maldesign.com. Now I've testing things to make sure everything works properly. When at the "home scene" there are two options: architecture and accessories. Most of the time everything works fine, but sometimes when I press one of the two buttons the screen just...more >>

www.mitinet.com The drop down menus go behind the flash graphic. I'm using Dreamweaver MX. Help -- Don't know how to make the layers go on top of the flash graphic! THanks! Carole ...more >>

I have a flash movie that loads in variables from an external .asp file. I have a preloader script that will only display the "skin" of the flash movie, until it has loaded in all the variables. When I open the page containing the movie in my browser, I'm able to view the movie as it's intended to l...more >>

I am relatively new to Flash, and can't seem to find a tutorial that takes you through a complete build of a mock flash site. I only find bits and pieces of tutorials that cover segments like components, etc. The real thing that I need to learn first, is the construction of a complete site, and w...more >>

I'm using Flash Pro MX 2004 on Mac OS X and I can't access the "Screens" panel. The menu Window -> Screens is grayed out. Any Ideas? ...more >>

Hi all I hope someone can help me.. I am looking to make a drop down menu by following the quick tutorial here: http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Interactivity/Navigation/Drop_dow-Phlook-951/index.php However I would like to make the menu items+links load from an external text file so others...more >>

Hello, I'm hoping there's a simple solution to this- I'm kinda new to the flash thing and I've read faq's tutorials etc... I know the onClipEvent only applies to movie clips, but in my main timeline (of Scene 1) I have a layer with a number of frames, and for each one I have the same code b...more >>

hi i can decompile flash, and just now i got a mass flash game package(made from freeware games on many sites), so do u think its okay if i upload the fla files of certain key games(that have great thingies)?? ...more >>

On this page: http://www.wireflyinteractive.com/ The links at the bottom of the flash page after clicking enter take you to different places, within the flash page.. how do they make it so the links give you different pages but with the same intro. Like, when you click on support it closes, the...more >>

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I am loading text from an external text file to use in my Flash MX movie. Everything looks good from my computer, but on other people's computers, the text is squashed so small that you can't read it. I set up the text inside a scoller bar like the tutorial here: http://elsharif.info/tutorial5.sht...more >>

Here's what Macromedia says on it's "Flash MX 2004 Emerging Issues" technote: No Scale & Rotate item issue update: 9/12/03 Issue: Users cannot find Transform > Scale & Rotate (the keyboard shortcut for this command is Control-Alt-S). Reason: The Scale & Rotate menu item has been removed fr...more >>

I am currently working on a presentation that loads additional SWFs into the main SWF. Some of these addt'l SWFs contain Quicktime video. I've noticed that the volume of the video in the loaded SWFs is significantly quieter than when i play the Loaded SWF alone. So lets say I have main.swf ...more >>

Dear Friends, I'm a rookie, but learning and loving it! I want to create an outline of mountains, that starts from one edge of the screen and draws the outline of the tops of mountains, with the result being that you have the outline of mountains when the line is finished drawing. Any idea'...more >>

Here is an emerging issue in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 emerging issues on the Flash Technote. Crash opening MX files topic update: 9/12/03 Issue Some customers report that Macromedia Flash MX 2004 crashes when they open files created in Macromedia Flash MX. This seems to be system specific so ...more >>

when i use a window component who contain a swf file with other components, i have some problems... in example: if the swf contains combobox, i can't open it, click have no effect. if the swf contains an alert, it open but it's impossible to set it size and it content is empty i'm sorry if m...more >>

Hi, I've looked everywhere on a tutorial or .fla source to find out how to do the scollpanes like they use on the Extensions page http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm#loc=en_us&view=sn121&viewName=Dreamweaver%20Extension&authorid=0&page=0&scrollPos=0&subcatid=0&snid=sn121&itemnumber...more >>

I am developing a Flash intro for a client's site and it contains a series of product images that fill the entire stage and fade in and out. The trouble is, that when they fade in (I'm using a tint effect and I've tried alpha also) and out, the images 'twitch' - like they squeeze in and the expand ...more >>

I am having trouble with a flash game that I am making for junior high school kids. The problem is that their machines run on a 56K modem and it will take a while for them to download my game because it over 1 MB in size. If anybody has any suggestions for me to either decrease the file size of...more >>

THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE INTERESTS ME; http://62.27.44.109/slrlive/webspecial/flash.php?lang=en\slrinfo\details\info cAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW THEY GOT THE MENU ABOVE THE MERC TO MOVE AROUND AND POINT TO PARTICULAR AREAS USING RED LINE. oBVIOUSLY THIS IS DONE USING FLASH, BUT HOW ??? does any one ...more >>

i'm importing my swf into a director movie. my swf is 750x340 and i need to resize it to 597x283. i did not know it would need to be resized until the movie was created. surely there is an easier way to resize the entire movie at once than having to resize every layer, graphic, and text tween one at...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to display what a user types into a input text field (as they type)? I have seen it on a flash site before but i cant figure it out. please help! Thanks. ...more >>

Hi - I thought I had this figured but....... I want to use the loadmovie command to load .swf into a mc I create a mc called 'loader' with an instance name of loader - dimmentions 225 by 225px - in the main movie. I create a separate movie (225 by 225px) and publish it with a name of one....more >>

Well, just after installing OS-X 10.2.8 we lost our ethernet connection on that machine. It turns out Apple released a buggy patch to OS-X! So, after re-installing 10.2 and then installing the 10.2.6 patch we had ethernet back. BUT Flash MX 2004 no longer works! We've tried deleting it,...more >>

Hello, I have been following the Flash Tech Note on how to Create Pop-up window browser at specific size. Tech Note can be found at: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/popup_windows.htm But for some reason, the code is not doing what is supposed to do. Please advice...more >>

Hi all, I need to publish a site so that when it is viewed it opens in the simplest form of browser window, just like this site...... (click on "enter site" on http://www.red-design.co.uk ) Also, can someone give me the html script to make a certain url automatically divert to another...more >>

Assuming I have an input text in my movie called "Search_value", why isn't this working? The url is an example. I know google won't serve this up. on (release) { getURL("http://www.google.com/?Search="+search_value.getValue()); } ...more >>

i make interactive Cd-roms and am wondering what the major differences are between flash and director...actually, should i be using director instead of flash...what advantages/disadvantages are there? thanks, kevin ...more >>

from the moment on i did install this "great new player" version all preloaders on any website i did or i do visit does not function- i only see a white splash where the movie should preload. is this only for my system or have you made the same experiences? - and how can i downgrade to flashplayer 6...more >>

How do I make the flash window that pops up to stay at my proportion and it doesn't resize ...more >>

Does anybody have a clue how to make the help text larger. The default is just plain unreadable. I spend enough time at the computer that I don't want to put my nose on the monitor just to read some AS code snippets or print a page just for one little reference. If your out there Flash developers...more >>

If I create movie "A", then Create a separate movie "B", Can I import movie "B" into movie "A"? Jeffro ...more >>

I have a movie clip i made and i want to reuse it and swap other symbols with it. How do i do this to a symbol that has several keyframes in it. I have to select every keyframe and swap individually. I want to chosse the symbol and swap it out through all the keyframes. Is there a way to do this...more >>

where do I put the link info in a button? i have created buttons in flash and every time I put the link in it screws up the behaviour of the button. can someone baby step me through this? what frame does it go in? is it done from the library panel? I am confused! ...more >>

How do I make my text box so that it only shows a portion of the text that I want, and then scroll down to the rest of it. Basically, display it in a specified window size. what I want to do is put it in the box below my buttons on this page www.meadowlarkco.com/meadowweb/main.htm here's ...more >>

Anyone know of some good tutorials on how to use the UI Components such as Message Box and Loading Box? Thanks, Jeff Miller jeffm@gjonas.com...more >>

Hi , I'm looking for a little tool which will be able to do batch proccess for video files to .swf or.flv! we already using Flix, but is there anything else out there? (PC or Mac) thanks stelios -- stelios jijikakis | flash developer email | stelios@cvonscreen.com ...more >>

maybe a stupid question.... but i have a flash movie, that i want to put behind something, in a different sized(bigger) flash movie, and i want the first one to be the same size as it was before, and i cannot create it any other way than making it as one movie (as a symbol or movie clip it wont wo...more >>

Okay, you're thinking great, another popup question, but this one is a little different than the average request, honest... My flash movie has like 30 variables on the root, which I'm successfully commuting to a new window with the post command... Working Code on my button: on (release) {...more >>

i have question about get url in flash mx i,ve created a menu in flash that it has a animation but when i gave to button"get url "in out of animation is not working but when i gave in to the button is working but it has a problem.for example we have 3 button(home,contact and Abut us) when i ...more >>

I've created several menu buttons in Flash that are semi-transparent so that when I place into a HTML table cell with a background image, the background will still be visible. When I inserted the button .swf files into the cells, I set the parameters to wmode and the value to transparent. The ...more >>

Hi, I want to create a projector that has the dimensions 1280x1024 and is set to full screen. If it is shown on a machine with a lower resolution, I want it to scale to fit the screen. But if it shown on a machine with a higher resolution I want it to stay 100% and fill the screen with the ba...more >>

hi, I have just completed a website in flash MX...how do I get it on the web??? I am not currently online at home, need some advice on what to do? thanks cb ...more >>

Hi I have swf's in the browser, IE5.1 on the Mac. In every other browser/platform (even mozilla) my swf's display properly. But with this combination on the mac when the swfs are in a table they disappear... A user simply has to click anywheres in the same <td> as the swf and presto it disapp...more >>

Hi there, I am working with Flash MX and am currently building a simple little racing game which involves you driving a boat along a specified course. The game scrolls in the vertical plane and the player drives 'up'. For the game to last a reasonable time I need to create a long course and...more >>

hi any1 know how to make a pre-loader when using screen developement mode?? ...more >>

I am working on a site and I want it to be all flash, and a little bit of html maybe javascript (but that I can handle) how can I do that? ...more >>

can i use flash player to show movie in my Java Application , but not in Web browser? ...more >>

When I try to open a fla file with a png bitmap in library I get the message "Not enough memory to open this scene. Your file is not damaget...". My png file it's a regular png (300KB) from adobe not fireworks png. My system it's a p3 800MHz with 256MB RAM and windows 2000 pro and I'm using Ma...more >>

I'm new to using XML with Flash, and I'm having some trouble getting XML files to work with the data components. The documentation hasn't been very helpful, and I haven't seen any tutorials yet. What I want to do is create a simple glossary where you select a word in a listBox, and the definition a...more >>

Just a wild thought.... I don't know if it is possible .... I want to use FLASH to build an user interface for controlling external devices, such as an optical relay, attached to the Mac USB port. Does Actionscript have facilities to directly controlling the USB port? or some hooks to communicate ...more >>

In MX can't you have a blank background... basically transparent to what ever is behind the .swf?? Or do you have to specify a color? ...more >>

Hello anyone, I find this very, very annoying. Flash MX 2004 slows me down quite a bit. Upon some investigationsI find out (I think) that there is a licensing thing going on in the background - It's a service that gets started everytime I launch Flash MX 2004. I also notice 2 process of the same...more >>

I have a Flash swf which loads a series of JPEGs using the new-to-mx04 loadclip() function. The exact syntax is: var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); // ... (included preloader functions from 'Preloading SWF and JPEG files' section of Flash help) loader.loadClip("button01.jpg...more >>

Hi All, I am a new Flash user and i am currently looking into using Flash in video productions. I have recently seen a number of productions that have used flash effects (Animated Lines/objects/titles etc) which i think look great and am wondering if anyone knows where i can find some tutorials ...more >>

Please here me out. I'm trying to understand why Macromedia engineers would double the work load associated with connecting to databases. On a fundamental level, I want to show why the new RDBMS resolver they're pushing, is not only a step in the wrong direction, but actually produces twice th...more >>