hey everyone, my boss wants me to make something like : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6028629/ I have some ideas on how it was done (Drawing API and external .swf's), but I would like your opinions on how to tackle this hugeness. I'm no flash junkie but i know my way around. Thanks! ...more >>

Trying to build an flash app that checks Spelling, Capitalization, Punctuation and Indentation compaired to an exsiting string as one type into the app. any suggestions could be emailed to me at jahred@pobox.com or answer here... Thanks in advance ...more >>

Please see the attached files for an example of this strangeness. Basically I'm setting a variable to contain a HTML string which contains a bold section and a normal text section. If the user click anywhere in the BOLD area, then clicks at the end of the normal text (say to add some te...more >>

I have a flash projector which is eating up a lot of memory when movieclips fade in and out ... the clips just contain static images ... wondering is this normal behavior or a memory leak problem ... I tried removing the clip via having a blank keyframe ... as well as attaching and removing th...more >>

I have build an interactive presentation using Flash MX 2004 ... the final product is a flash projector that loads in 6 different .swf's that contain embedded video (.flv's), audio narration, and animation effects ... One thing I noticed was that despite the CPU being low during the prese...more >>

We have been developing a Flash piece that has a text ticker that loops at the bottom of the page. No matter what we do, the ticker is jerky and not smooth. the ticker is a symbol in the Flash. What' s the best way to make the ticker run smoothly? I have heard there are third party tool...more >>

can u make a script like this onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (_root.hammer.is on frame (3) _root.hammer2.nextFrame(); (else) _root.hammer2.gotoAndStop(1); } and if so can some one rearange this script so it will work ...more >>

Hello Is there a way for me to control the volume of a remote WinXP box from a web page using a Shockwave movie? We are looking for a way to adjust the audio on our MP3 server without having to walk over and manually turn it down every time the phone rings. Any ideas here? Thanks, ...more >>

I have seen lot of topics on how to create a button or some kind of animation, but I am yet to see an article on building a demo of a web site or a product e.g. all the demo's of Flash were built somehow. How do you capture screen and then how do you make it move from place to place with mouse...more >>

Hi, anyone tried this. I updated to version 7.2 of Flash MX Professional 2004 and all seemed fine. The I clicked the "Update Help panel" and suddently the section "Using Components" tells me that the files doesn't exist. It looks like the link to the HTML pages is wrong. Is it me. I ...more >>

I have successfully imported my text from a text file, but not all of it is showing. There 4424 charecters with spaces in the document and I am wondering how do I get all of the document in there. Do I have to make a movie, since I am using a dynamic text and calling from a file. Also if yo...more >>

All of asudden when I publish from two files I lost all tranparency (alpha) effects. It's only on these two files. It sounds like some setting got checked... anybody know a quick fix for this?...more >>

Hello friend!( Because you are my friend for even reading my little problem.) Any-who, here's the situation. I have a movie that loads variables from a cfm file. I am testing the movie locally, but the CFM file is already online. I changed teh argument passed to loadVariables to >>> "http:...more >>

I have a dynamic text box that slides in (using actionScript), scrolls through the text (using hscroll), and then slides out. It slides in fine, but as soon as it stops and starts scrolling a white background appears on the text box and does not go away. Why is that? ...more >>

Hello, Please excuse me, but I am extremely newbie. But I am not newbie in making video and video files and I think this is why I'm having a hard time working with Flash and FLV. I have Flash MX Professional and have made some FLV files. Now, how do I play them back to look at them? I ju...more >>

Just doing a little change of some text from one state to another, repeating. Not complicated.. Wondered what differeces, pros/cons would be.. Thanks...more >>

I have two movies with Lincoln font and I'm loading them into another movie. one shows the font, but in the other it has reverted to Ariel. If I make the words Italic, they will show correctly. anyone had this happen? Max ...more >>

I have having problems with Extension Manager not installing support docs into the Flash configuration folder on Flash MX 2004. Has anyone else had this problem or know what the fix is....more >>

I am trying to enlarge an animated logo. It has one scene and three symbols. I use the transform on the scene but then the symbols etc. don't enlarge correctly with it. How can I enlarge everything together and also the positioning and proportionate is right. I have been struggling with this f...more >>

I'm building a slide show with FLV files audio and video. presentation - (has the main buttons in it) video - (has video playing in it) - but it will not wait for the video to stop playing before going to the next slide. video02 - (has audio playing in it) I'm using MediaDisplay to pla...more >>

i am making this rpg game and i whant it so when they walk onto a object it goes to an inventory so i have it like on hit test root.inventory.grass.nextFrame() but when u leave the screen and come back it is there again so i was thinking of useing a destroy object but how do i use it when it...more >>

Hi Flash people Re: Flash MX 2004 unexpectedly quits on first run I've just installed Flash MX Pro 2004 (part of Studio MX Pro) on Mac OS 10.3.5 (G5). Since doing this I can neither successfully boot Flash MX (still installed) or MX 2004, which crashes at a screen reading "Do you w...more >>

Help! I am trying to create a question & answer Flash document that has around 10 questions with 2 possible answers each. When the Flash is over there will be the option to press a button 'generate a PDF' of the answers the viewer chose & my recommendation from their answers (2 possible recomme...more >>

I've developed a line drawing tool to have people draw shapes on my website. I'm wondering if it is possible to have someone draw a closed shape, which would create a mask for other "objects" in the scene? Or is it possible to draw a closed shape, and have the exterior part of the closed ...more >>

when playing flash game online like this one http://www.puzzlechoice.com/pc/Cubebusterx.html does it use a lot of network bandwidth?...more >>

I have some files with the extension .swt that are used to create flash buttons in dreamweaver. I like the designe and want to modify them for other purposes. I have not been able to open an editable version in flash mx2004. Are .swt files editable in flash and if so how? Thanks in advan...more >>

I'm making a cdrom and want the intro (external .flv) to preload before it starts playing. Any ideas? Without a preload it works fine on faster computers with faster cdrom drives. On slow computers it takes forever for the video to start playing. As a quick fix I simply put some text under t...more >>

I made a great powerpoint presentation and the presentation has two videos in it ...one is a short avi and the other is a longer swf... it plays no problem but when i try to package it to cd it tells me that the videos wont play on the CD unless its being played from the computer it was ...more >>

How can I make my links display in a custom frame - not _parent, _top, _self, or _blank?...more >>

Hellooo all !! Could some one please help me. I am using FLASH MX 2004. I just need to know how to put a "ASSET" in to a "SHARED" library. Thanks for your response....more >>

Hi there! I have 3 buttons, I want them all to point to the same SWF file, but different scenes within the SWF..is this possible? Thanks in advance! -MC-...more >>

I have created a simple 6 layer animation. Each layer is a word and they move around for 40 frames and stop. But the last layer I added, a simple text box that says "Click Here", will not show up at all when I run the movie! It starts and stops with at key frame. When I manually run th...more >>

Hi I have created a pre loader but stupidly dont know where to place it and implement it to my main movie, my site is at www.freshlemon.co.uk could someone please help? thank you...more >>

Hi! I want to send a "word" to a file on my computer when someone looks at my "live webcam" on my flash site. Is it posible?? I run my own webserver.. David www.xelon.servebeer.com ...more >>

Sorry if this has been asked before but... I've noticed that several sites these days have a little flash movie that runs when the stie is first viewed. In looking at the source for these sites they reference a .SWF file. I have several AVI files that I'd like to convert to .SWF to be di...more >>

hi i need to create a form in flash which point to a "formmail pl file" which is writen in perl i have sucessfully done this in dreamweaver, what the best way to do this in flash Many thanks Craig ...more >>

Is it possible to implement QT VR movie (panorama 360 pic) in Flash and have mouse control like in Quick Time player? THX!!...more >>

I have read so many articles here on Flash and nothing works or there are steps missing ,or I don't have the same icons, or maybe I am an idiot (possible). All I want to do is read an external file either in a pdf format or .txt format and then put it into a scrolling text file. Please help....more >>

Really need help here, been banging my head against this one for a week. I have a few videos using the Media Controller component from MX 2004. They call video.flv from a directory on the cd. there are 6 of them and three have urls to a web site as there wasn't room on the cd for them. These thre...more >>

Hi, Anyone got any idea how I can copy a scene from one Flash MX movie to another? Thanks in advance Michael...more >>

I am a newbie first of all and I have mad a text bar, which automatically started to scroll. The first problem is that it is editable when viewing, which I do not want and the second is that I can't fit all of the text that I want to in the txt line of Properties. I have changed the edit to ...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004 installed on win2k and I have no "Reference" panel. I can not find any menu items to display this particular panel...has the name changed? On the top right of the ActionScript panel there is a Help type button which the mouseover tooltip shows as "Reference" but when I ...more >>

I'm doing an html project on a cd. There are several swf's in the site. What is the code that will "sniff" if the PC has the Shockwave Player installed, -and if not, will offer to install it from the CD (I've downloaded the Player from Macromedia). Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, I live in China but i am not chineese, i am 10 y/o and i bougt Flash MX 2004 Educationnal version, and i would like to know what is the Action thingy to write in so that, a page STAYS THERE until the person presses the play button... I make stick fights, you can admire some at www.st...more >>

Hello again, I created a "HTML version" button that has an action on the "down" phase... it is "get url" action. I published the movie and it is not triggering a GET URL to any location. Any ideas? Thx, Donovan ...more >>

Hello, I have an embeded .swf in an html doc. The .swf has a matching background as the .html file. The image maps up perfectly but I have a faint line just below the .swf file that I can't get rid of. The background .jpg that was imported is the exact same pixel dimensions as the movie ...more >>

Northern Virginia E-Learning Macromedia User Group Meeting Monday, October 18 7:00-9:00 pm ********************************************************************* Speaker: Jason Merrill, E-Learning Developer, ICF Topic: Beginning Action Script in Flash MicroCenter's computer lab *******...more >>

I have a flash file that is giving me problems. I have created a file that brings in some text at the end of a "movie". I am using a mask over the text to give the illusion of it being "pulled" in. However, when I play the movie in Flash, everything looks great. But when I export the movie...more >>