Hi all, I have yet to purchase the Studio MX 2004 software and am trying out the free trial at the moment. I have experience in the previous Dreamweaver versions but not with Flash/Pro. I am starting up my own shop online and would like to know if it would be possible to make it entirely with Fl...more >>

Hi again, How can i send variables used in a swf program in a PC, to an other swf in an other PC in a LAN ?! I've been told to make a connection, and share a text file, or share a textfield in both SWFs ! but , this way is not really effective !, is there a better way ?! and , what is the ea...more >>

what is the best music editor?or way to apply sound to a flash site. I want to add background music to a website without adding 70,000K to the size. How should I do this......loop? the more detail the better. ...more >>

Hi Sounds doubtful, but is there anyway I can show an external HTML page in a flash movie? I want to designate an area of a frame for the HTML page to be imported or show in? Any ideas if this can be done? ...more >>

Hello there, I would like to know if there is any way I can search for text in a movie. For example, if I have some text distributed in different layers, I'd like to provide the user the ability to search for text. The results will appear and the user would be directed to the frame where the te...more >>

I want to know how to make a GotoandStop Scène number and frame number. In a MovieClip, I want to GotoandStop in scène 1 and goto frame 7. But I can't do it. Please tell me how to do it. ...more >>

Hi, I am having a problem with updated swf in internet explorer 6. I upload my updated swf to my web host and when I want to view the updated swf in ie6, it still displays the old version that is cached. It will not refresh no matter how many times I refresh ie6. The updated version plays proper...more >>

As i'dd said of provious postings i'm a new flash-user, so maybe it's a stupid question but i'll hope somebody can give me an answer. If i'll draw a red rectangle and place a black line over it the line apears behind the ractangle, how can i make the line come to the front?...is it only possible wi...more >>

I want to stretch all the keyframes to make the flash longer. Is there a way to select all of them and just pull them longer uniformly? thanks Michael ...more >>

Can anyone recommend any sites that have nice sound effects for buttons? I have spent a while looking but found nothing for free. Thank you. ...more >>

I'm having some trouble with this can any one help? http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?s=66b48b76b4baac49622e24d27989fe94&postid=2607834 ...more >>

i have 2 flash separate .swf files embedded within a HTML page. swf1 plays some background music. if movie 2 then also uses the sound object, the background music stops in swf1. 1. is it not possible to have 2 separate sound objects playing within 2 different swf files at the same time? -- ...more >>

Hi There, Im building a flash based website and I'm having some trouble with something. I would like to have the user click on a button and have it load some text. When I looked in the Flash help files here is what I found for loadMovie (which I assume is what I should be using) --------...more >>

hi,im fairly new to flash.a site im working on right now is www.veinonline.com.this is a female and she is a rap artist.im on dsl.my question is how can i get these flash pages to load quicker and stream faster.i go to some sites and the loading pages are really fast.i actually know how to set the b...more >>

I understand that adding video, audio make the file size larger. My question is what else does? eg: stage size, amount of frames, number of tweens, number of rotations in a tween, text size, number of timeline effects, etc... ...more >>

I am having problems installing Flash 7. Prior to the last few weeks I was able to view any Flash web site. Now the site appears with the small "X" box in the top left hand corner. I am using the 98ME. I had no problem installing Shockwave but when I click "Install Now" for Flash it simply moves...more >>

Hi all, I just want to display the time using a LED-Style font, like we see on board like in a stadium. Anyone knows the name of that font and where can I find it. Thanks ...more >>

I'm working on a few navigation classes for a site I'm currently working on. I'm finding that my changes don't always seem to take effect when I "Test Project", or ctrl-enter to test my file.. I'm not sure if this is "reproduceable", all I'm doing is typing in some code, then testing.. The chan...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know of any tutorials or know how to make transitions like have been used at http://iso50.com/ Preferably using actionscript if possible. -- Dave ...more >>

hey, i was just wondering if anybody could tell me how 2 apply trace bitmap to video in Flash MX....this is really pissin' me off....any help would be much appreciated ...more >>

Whazzzup, I am hoping someone can help me. I will try and put as much information as I can as to assist in making a suggestion, so bear with me if this seems drawn out. My movie is 50FPS, I am using FlashPro w/ the publish settings at Player - 7.0 ActionScript 2.0. In my movie, I have a ...more >>

Hi. :) I'm having a bit of a problem drawing the pieces of artwork that I'd like to produce for an interactive game. Whilst I'm an accomplished programmer, my drawing skills leave a lot to be desired (never really used them at all during my life), and I was wondering if anyone's got some suggest...more >>

I was looking for a audio equalizer animation tutorial (the horizontal bars moving up and down to an audio frequency). I found several examples of this type of animation, but was hoping to find a tutorial on how to create it. I want to use the animation as a button to toggle on and off an intro...more >>

Hey guys, what are thje best methods for publishing? I don't know the basics!! how to control resolution, how to make text clear, how to make the window not resize itself in the browser....is there a simple page that will tell me this? thanks heaps!. -Nic ...more >>

Hey guys, how do I load text from a txt file on the server my site is on in MX or MX2004? Cheers. If there's a better way to update a website's text without the user having to re-load the entire site, inform me please. Thanks. -Nic. ...more >>

i use a mail form in flash mx and i pass the entered data into a php script ... The problem is that when the user enter greek fonts ... the received data in my mail box was unreadable ... you know something like that ( φγξφγξφγξφγηξφγηξφγηξφÎ...more >>

I have built an animated clip that has two text phrases appearing from a central point, the first moving from centre to right and the second moving from centre to left. Each resides on its own layer and I use a mask located over the final resting point for each of the layers (one mask for each laye...more >>

I am having a problem with the workspace. I am making a barney scroller and because the images are large they go off the light grey workspace and during the mvoie the image comes out distorted because of this. Is there anyway of making this area bigger? regards, -JAM ...more >>

I know there have been other posts about this but I have yet to come across a decent answer... I have a very large file (275Mb), and yes, I realize I should've used Director for this, but it's too late now and I need the darn thing to publish. It's loading fine and I can publish each scene indiv...more >>

MS Customer this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three new vulnerabilities. Install now to help protect your ...more >>

basically what i'm trying to figure out is if i can have my stage on one monitor and my timeline/toolbars on the other. is this possible or am i dreaming? if anyone has any information regarding this topic could you please email me at dkmuramoto@jmail.co.jp thank you for your time, ~Ke...more >>

I'm just getting to the point where I'm building my entire site with Flash. My question is this. Do you break up your pages using scenes? That is, just like I do my skip intro text button symbol, you click it and it skips to scene 2 or whatever. Do you do that with say, an about us page. Create tex...more >>

I created a flash doc that has two layers. I want them to rotate in opposite direction. they are overlayed on each other. This is the steps I follow: after putting object on stage I create a keyfram on fram 20. I open the transform window. I select the frame 20 keyframe. in the transform window I en...more >>

What I need to do is to have either a script in the HTML file or a flash movie that loads other flash movies randomly, either when you open a page or based on time limits, I would like to know how to do both, kind of like when you put an image banner on a web page, but I want it done with flash movi...more >>

is anyone else having trouble with this? i've been playing with the MXPRO menu components for the last couple hours and it just doesn't work. i'm cutting and pasting the code from the Help files, following instructions word for word and it just does nothing. i've tried the external XML examp...more >>

I have found some sites that will allow you to use someone elses already built piece of flash. Like a Navigation bar for example. When i download it it comes usually in a fla and swf form. Which one can I edit to lets say make the nav bar use my choices instead of the ones that are currently on it?...more >>

Is it possible to make the background transparent? So that it would make the instance I want to put look like it's over jpeg background I have in dreamweaver instead of the usual white opaque background in Flash. Thanksh Parka ...more >>

I am new to flash and have just created my first buttons. During the rollover the button image changes and text appears left of buttons for that text. The problem is even when I don't rollover the button and roll over where the text appears, the text appears. i don't want it to do that. Only when on...more >>

Hi Everyone, I'm very new to this and I've run into a problem. I just did the stiletto tutorial and everything I did seems right. However, the dynamic text I linked to only shows up in IE not in Netscape or Opera. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks Grant ...more >>