I'm trying to make a button that plays .wav music but i don't seem to be able to stop it from when the button is pressed more than once there will be many layers of music playing at the same time, is there a way to do so, i'm also wondering if the single button can be set so that when the second tim...more >>

Does anyone know if there are licensing costs associated with embedding Flash demo's into a commercial product? thanks ...more >>

Hi All, I've seen quite a few posts regarding drawing methods. I guess I'm just not savvy enough to understand the complexities of drawing equations and complex geometry. Fact is, I just need to draw a simple arc, and can't seem to figure out the curveTo() method. Attached is my code - would some...more >>

Hi all, Our company records conference calls that we do and we want to make them available to customers but since they are about 10 minutes long, after editing.... they can take a while to download. So I'am trying to make a flash presentation to see if I can speed things up a bit. I have made ...more >>

What are the secrets of keeping the memory as low as possible when you are using a certain font? Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. I'm working on banner ads and need to minimize all memory. Thanks. ...more >>

Pardon my ignorance, I can not add a sound to a Mouse Over or Click on a button rollover in Flash. Can anyone help? Thanks ...more >>

If I drag the SWF object onto a page in GoLive, then select the SWF file and save, I then view the GoLive html file in any browser and the darn movie is tiny. However, if I open the Flash generated file in a browser all appears fine. I want to have HTMl content and flash content mixed. I can re...more >>

Dear Friends I have a problem I want to pass some variables to my SWF file so I write these codes and add them to my OBJECT part and EMBED part of my program and I have no problem. ---------------- My codes: <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="default.swf?<?php echo "menu=$menu"; ?>"> <EMBED name="co...more >>

Hello, I have created a flash page with 4 movieclips on the stage. Each movie clip has a different background sound associated with it. Each sound is in sync with an animation in each clip. I would like to be able to control the sound in each clip from the main timeline. Ideally a "sta...more >>

Hi, Who would have an idea how these cool text effects were made..? Any snippet of proposal for a script would be very welcome! http://www.group94.com http://www.ozarkhenry.com (in the subpages) I'm particularly interested in how the textlines appear and form a column. Thank you so m...more >>

I know that i type: music.loadSOUND ("path.song.mp3",true) but how do i play the loaded sound in my flash project ...more >>

Hi there Please help Have an issue where I am embedding a scrollbar from the Flash Components set into a dynamic text field (box draws text from a .txt file externally). This in itself should pose an issue (as far as I know) yet the scroll bar will not function properly - the site for you ...more >>

hey everyone, im new here, so il try not to be too annoying :) I started on flash recently, and i really tried to google for my problem, with no luck... the thing is: im making an animation, where i have a picture as a background. in that picture there is a window, which i erased, and put ...more >>

Hello, I was wondering, if one owns the academic studio mx, how much more is to upgrade to the 2004 mx professional flash one? anyone know? thanks. ...more >>

would like the index.html to be size specfic and centered with a pop up window centered within that. I am able to create the pop (via button press) centered but would like it to open from the timeline of the swf within the index.html. for whatever reason, the getURL action to do so on the timeli...more >>

Hi, how do I load a movie into a movie if the final movie will be a exe file for a cd presentation? what am i suposed to write in the url section? thanks caro ...more >>

hi! i've made a flash movie where pictures fade in-and-out, but how can I make it so the people viewing the movie can "hold" the pictures if they want a closer look? and too how to make it possible for them to rewind and play fast forward? thanks!!! ( I use Flash MX) ...more >>

This is my first attempt at a Flash site, and I'm asking for detailed solutions (code, and if I need to put it in Actionscript or HTML) to the following questions: 1) After returning to the drawer page, how do I make the browser window automatically scroll back up to the top? 2) Should I speci...more >>

Hi I am working on a page and need a box with a scroll bar that has the ability to load an html text file into it. http://www.bvvp.com/abovethelaw(TEST1).html In this example I used a floating frame extension within dreamweaver, but I do not care for the default colors of the box and bar....more >>

hi friends i wanna make a shaping tween that the first frame is a text and tha last frame is a shape!! help me soon! Referring URLs www.falshtime.free-host.com ...more >>

having a bit of trouble with some xml text i am pulling into flash. the server returns a true or false statement using xml, however when i try an if statement to test for true using the == operator, it will not catch when the value is true, but it wil catch when i use "eq". i have tried conve...more >>

Any free library or reference so that I can have my guestbook in flash? Thank you. ...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to learn about Flash. I do not have admin. privs. to install software on my Windows 2000 system. But I have a NT system that I can install software on, but that system does not have Internet access. What would I need to "sneaker net" over to my NT system to get starte...more >>

Is there a way to remove the swf control menu option you get when you right mouse click the movie (when embedded in the html), other than from within the containing html page. This would be necessary to prevent anybody launching the swf in a new window and then using this option to overide/force...more >>

I have an array that recieves input in the form of "YES" and "NO" . At the end I want to view how many "YES" answers there are and display a number: (5 "YES" answers), etc. ...more >>

hello, I 've created an animation (wich you can see on the url below), wich is a combination of tweenings and action scripting, but .... it shocks when it is played. I,ve put the frame rate to 120, speed up the motion in ac, but it still shocks. It 's probably the processor that can't handle it (...more >>

Maybe I've been missing something all this time, but something dawned on me as I was putting together a Flash project this morning. There is no easy way (that I know of) to insert bullets into text fields, particularly static text fields. If this isn't present in the current version, has it been...more >>

Scene1 Main timeline - Frame 1 - MC1 In MC1 - Frame 1 - MC2 In MC2 - Frame 1 - MC3 I want to make a button in MC1 to gotoAndStop MC3 This is targeted via the "scene" right? would it be gotoAndPlay ("scene1.mc1.mc2 , frame") ? or something like that? thanks in advance. ...more >>

My son is becoming very frustrated with error reports crashing his games on the internet (he's only 5) When I check the report, Microsoft blames the Flashplayer for the error. Is this a software problem, or is most likely caused by the video card I am using? I am looking for answers. I am no...more >>

I have an animated button which works perfectly, as soon as turn the button text to an animation when i place the mouse over the text the animation no longer plays please help ...more >>

Hello out there! I have a particular question concerning export of bitmaps from FLASH MX: I would like to export a PNG file out of my FLASH library. There are multiple bitmaps I want to save to my hard drive. Is it possible to export the whole library, containing the image names? THX :) ...more >>

First off, I am sorry if this repeats something on this exhausted topic. I just want to state the facts and then ask for confirmation or recommendations. I want to allow clients the ability to select from a list of fonts installed on my server. After several hours of investigation, it app...more >>

I have an Input Text field. I need text to be entered into this field by the user, using buttons on screen(so not keyboard) presses. However i also need the cursor in the input field to move to, as if being entered using the keyboard. The focus needs to be set, so the cursor appears in the fie...more >>

making a site in flash, navigation is constant throughout the whole site, all the frames on the navigation layer are keyframes (does that even matter? - cant they be frames?) used a gotoAndPlay("frame"); action when published, if you click a button once, it goes to the relevant frame as it is ...more >>

Hey, I want to open a new window with a flash button. This is no problem, it works fine. But the fact is, I can only define a absolute position of my new window.... with the windowfeatures "left" and "top"... In fact, I would like to center the page on my screen. How vcan I do this? thanks d...more >>

Hi Flash MX Friends, Please help me where could i find trial Flash MX Exams, i want to test my self skill on flash. Thanx ...more >>

I am pulling a .txt document into a dynamic text field in Flash MX. How do I add hypertext links and color tags to the text document? I've never dealt with the proper format with text docs - just HTML. Thanks in advance for you help... ...more >>

hi all, i added a movie clip into scrollpane,the content out of scrollpane in macromedia player,but not in IE(i do not use device fonts). any suggestion is helpful! ...more >>

Like many sites, I have an opening html page letting the user know that they need the flash plugin etc. I then have the swf open in a new window set at 800x600 pixels. The swf is told to open at 800x600 also. All of this works fine except that the jpg's in my swf look pixelated. What I find odd abou...more >>

i am doing my flash movies, and then testing them in IE on my server here at home and then my online server, but the movies dont seem to refresh, am i doing something wrong? ...more >>

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hi. how do i access a variable inside a movie? this movie is located in my library. what i want to happen is this: each movie contains data stored in variables. i used the attachMovie method to load each movies in my library. when each movie loads, the data inside the variables they contain sh...more >>

I'm trying to insert a variable into a sentence, and I'm having no luck! I want the user to enter their name, and then in a new frame, use their name in a sentence, i.e. (frame 1) Name: Tyler (frame 2) Hello Tyler, how are you today? however I want the text to work perfectly, according to the size o...more >>