Does anyone know how to run IE at fullsreen...yet keeping the taskbar at the bottom visible. I've seen it done somewhere once before. Thanks....more >>

ok, i make a flash project, and i go to file>export>export movie and i chose were to export it, and now that i go to were i exported it to, i try to open, the filre but i dosent open, it dosent show the flash logo in gray (it dose it @ the pc's @ school) so im guessing i need a program or somk...more >>

Hi, I have been experiencing some weird crashing issues with Flash MX 2004. Flash freezes for about a minute on test movie - it completely locks me out of my computer, i cant click on the anything, after about a minute it unlocks my computer, yet still continues to freeze in Flash indefini...more >>

I am having error messages coming up when I try to import an MP3 file to library. File > Import > Import to Library, I then choose my MP3 file and a message comes up saying "Flash doesn't recognise the file format of _____.mp3. Would you like to try import via Quicktime". I click on y...more >>

I have a large presentation to create consisting of about 18 Powerpoint slides and have been looking at the excellent Slide Presentation mode in MX Pro which would seem to suit perfectly. I've been through the tutorial and it seems to suit fine in that I can > navigate between 'screen...more >>

I am trying to add action with buttons. First off I have a background layer and several other layers that coorelate with thier buttons. I want to start falsh and have it stay at the first screen and not move until you press one of the buttons. When I through the stop() variable under the act...more >>

Is there anyway of finding out what versions of Flash Player 6 are most commonly being used by people? Some scripting I am looking into may not work in all versions of Flash Player 6 but I am weary of using Flash Player 7 as I do not want to limit my audience. Help. ...more >>

There are some softwares such as Spiders that punch out content from HTML web sites. Can these spiders also punch out content from web sites developed in Flash? We have subscribed to a service and that service works by punching out information from our existing web site. But we were ...more >>

Hi i'm creating a CD-ROM triaing project and I need to be able to open a word document so the viewer can fill out and print. i know i can create this in flash but the client would rather have it in Word format. I already created the button. How would i do this? (Flash MX professional 2004)...more >>

Hi I'm creating a home-business website and have several AVI files (and will be creating new AVI files) that need to be added to this site. I want to convert these AVI files to SWF macromedia flash files however. Does Macromedia make a product that will allow me to do this? Thank you ...more >>

My movie plays fine in the SWF Player but once it's embedded into a web page the button (Project 1) that loads the corresponding movie won't play. http://www.jarrod.ca/StoneHedgeLandscaping/Gallery/default.html When the Project 1 button is clicked the URL changes to http://www.jarrod.ca/...more >>

COMO PUEDO HACER PARA SIMULAR NIEBLA EN FLASH MX, YA QUE HE TRATADO POR TODO LADO Y NO HE PODIDO, GRACIAS...more >>

I have one looped soundtrack on my flash site. My flash site is one flash file divided into scenes. At the end of one scene, I have the action "stop". The movie is essentially stopped and waiting for the user to take the next action (clicking on another link, for example). But this stop comman...more >>

Okay I am in desparate need of help with this. i have done a search and tried solutions in the search, but none of them seem to be fixing my problem. I am building a flash banner for the newspaper where I work. It needs to be updateable by folks who don't know flash, so I have built it using a...more >>

Hey peeps, I need to know how to locate/modify/delete certain objects in a flash of mine, but cannot physically/visually locate them, and the only info I have is the TAG ID and Sprite ID numbers! Any help would be greatly appreciated lads. ...more >>

I've been researching the ability to have a transparent background in an FLV and have concluded FLV doesn't support it. Can anyone confirm this fact? If it can, how do I do it? ...more >>

I am trying to return the result of a php/sql query in the dynamic text box var "total"....all i get is: onLoad=%5Btype%20Function%5D the var sent back from php is: echo("total=$flashdata"); on (release) { myvar = new LoadVars(); total = new LoadVars(); myVar1 = dep_ccc; //...more >>

I have this button named: print_btn Here's the actionscipt for the button: on (press) { print_btn.onPress = func () { print("_root","bframe"); } } I've added "#p" as the instance name to the frames that needs to be printed. However, when I get to the page where the print ...more >>

I am attempting to reference a member of a string array as dynamc text on stage using the property inspector. My issue appears to be in the variable name reference box. I can reference a string variable and it displays fine, but when I reference an array member that is a string - I get no re...more >>

Using Flash MX, is there a script that allows you to save files from a CD to a local drive? If so, can this be done using an exe and a browser? Thanks in advance! ...more >>

First I created a banner movie and "a button layer" at the bottom of all movie layers. And for the movie I entered the url in "actions > getURL" in flash and export the movie to dreamweaver. But the PROBLEM is: when I preview the page, the movie starts to play and in a second it immed...more >>

Hi My computer is crashing and i lost all my data. I recovery my data with a program but my fla files doesn't open. When i open them appears me a message: UNEXPECTED FILE FORMAT. Help me please, this files are very important. Thanks your help ...more >>

I have Avid Xpress Pro and Flash MX 2004 Professional, and when I try to export a Flash-video from Avid, and enter the options box, the choices for resizing video is greyed out. Does anyone have any idea about why? I have already downgraded QuickTime to 6.4 since I've read in this forum tha...more >>

anyone had problems with a flash in a layer over a table? i still have it. shortly i have a flash in a layer over a table, in flash i have some butons that does not respond from y=30 down... strange isn't it...; if i remove the table below the butons works well but this only in mozil...more >>

root 1 frame action Script - ----------------------------------------------------- function Rectangle(createZone,xSize,ySize,fillColor){ if(_root.count == null){ _root.count=1; } createZone.createEmptyMovieClip("empMC"+String(_root.count),_root.count); this.drawZone=creatZone["emp...more >>

I've been working on a button for my website and after I saved the document, closed it and opened again to edit the button, the button is a whole mess!!!!, nothing is in its place!!! and everytime I try to fix any symbol, flash (mx2004-7.0)just shuts down!!! Can anyone help me pls!! it is urge...more >>

I wrote a flash movie on a Wintel laptop at work using Flash 7.2, which contains several instances where there is text over graphics (for example with buttons etc, but particulary with instances of dynamic text fields over graphics). The layout displays fine on windows, but when I try and use...more >>

hi all, i'm trying to build a linux based filesystem for embedded systems. and the main application will be based on the flash player. becouse of the filesystem's size restrictions, its not suitable to use flash plugin embedded in browser (mozilla i.e.). has anyone done that before? i mea...more >>

Hi, just a quick question i have sorted out an mp3 player on my site but somthing i would like to do is to have 1 mp3 track play automaticly on the load of the site, so this will be somthing else other than the player, i just want to have it stream from my server rather than importing th ewhol...more >>

Hi I have created a Flash site and want to when the user goes to a url for a html page to load, when it appears i want it to detect if the user has flash player if it does then the flash site will open up in its own new window, and if they dont i want them to b able to download the player, Cou...more >>

Hi people! I'm planning to make an anti-drug kind of game. I'd like it to both informs people about drugs and to educate the players about different aspect about using drugs. But, I'd also like to have interactions and parts of the game that challenge the player's ability to control the...more >>

Could anyone please check : http://www.opcd.net/opcd/swf/ with IE browser and SP 2 ? It's continue to crash me and I was wondering if any of you experience that too ? I communicate with MS support , forward my memory dumps to find what stand behind the crashing problems and it seem it's a...more >>

I still cant get an answer to a question i posted a few weeks ago. urami you said you'd replied twice. i still dont have any reply. can you post again here? the question I am using the page turn effect downloaded from these very forums. i am trying to add a link to load an external swf f...more >>

I've noticed that when using masks or completely transparent movieclips (_alpha=0) the unmasked or transparent areas or are still faintly visible on some screens. Namely screens with a low color resolution and laptop tft screens. Is there a practical workaround for this? ..soma ...more >>

Sorry if something like this has come up. I don't post in here often. Is there a way to do this: Say you go to a website at noon. There is an image of sky - which is blue. Now at around 5-6 o'clock, the image starts to change so that the sky is getting darker (maybe even showing sunset first...more >>

Hi All, I am fairly new to using flash, so please forgive me if this sounds like a really basic question. I am currently working on a presentation, and am trying to link an avi file to my flash presentation using a button. The presenation will be running on people's PC's directly from the CD d...more >>

Has anyone received this message when trying to open their fla file. I have the document in the correct path. What to do? I can't open my file and don't believe it to be corrupted. Thanks. Libbi ...more >>

I hope this is an easy one. I'm new to Flash and have an intro movie to a website that I want to automatically link to the site hompage after the intro is done playing. Seems like this should be well within Flash's capabilities, as I have visited other sites where you see the page the intro mo...more >>

This is a post I made in the DW Forum but was not able to resolve. Pasted below.... I take a quicktime file, process it to and FLV using Sorenson Squeeze, upload the FLA to the web server as well as the supporting files which include clearSkin_1.swf and FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf as well as...more >>

is this possible? reason i ask is because ive been pulling my hair out trying to get flash to play shoutcast streams and short of using a proxy file (which kills my site bandwidth) it isnt happening inside of IE. so my next idea is to use a program called FreedomAudio (www.freedomaudio.com) wh...more >>