"Act Now" layer is not showing properly. The texts in "Act Now" and "Fine Print" layer are all garbled. My animated layers under mask, description 1-3 layers is not showing either when I do "test movie". I see everything normal under just "play" but when "test movie", description 1-3 layer t...more >>

Could someone just let me know what techniques I will need to learn to create a Flash project such as the one at this link: http://www.ign.com. Thanks...more >>

I have no problem creating the flash buttons. I am creating a Play button so that when a user clicks on the play button it will play an audio clip which is an mp3 file. I don't think I am connecting to the audio file correctly. Can anyone help me with that. Thanks Greg ...more >>

FlashMX running on a G4 with Mac 0SX I have a flash movie with text converted to symbols. The symbols fade in, fly around, & fade out. In the .fla everything works. When I export to movie, one layer does not fade in and out. The alpha, though set to 0% has no effect. I have recreated the...more >>

Any dice on this one fella? Does the size of the image I use matter? I get a finger over the image so it's recgnising the image as a button, but doesn't move it....more >>

I used a script I found in a text book to make a slider go to and fro on mouseOver. I have seen them loop. How can I modify the script to have it loop? The site I am working on is: http://www.gayleleeco.com/test.html The script I used is: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { shift = ((350-_...more >>

I have Fash MX 2004 Pro. and can anyone please tell me hot to create a video with the media playback I cant get it to work....more >>

Hi All, Quite new to illustrator. I wanted to create some text effects and port them over to Flash MX. Unfortunately, flash doesn't support my Illustrator fonts, and even so, I'd like to stroke my text with a thin line in Illustrator, and I'm sure flash will never be able to handle that. I...more >>

For some reason a website I created has strange issues. The first being, upon initial visiting of the website live online, the site ignores all the stop actions and just plays through, but after viewing it the first time, it works fine. Also, the scroll bar I created in Flash acts funny, aft...more >>

I just want to add a box that allows me to put more text than the box can hold, but the user can use arrows to scroll. I've tried using both Scrollpane and Scrollbar but I can't get them to work. I have looked everywhere and read 20 tutorials on how to use the UI Scrollbar and Scrollpane and...more >>

I have three scenes in my Flash movie. I always want scene 1 to play but then I would like the program to randomly decide whether to play scene 2 or scene 3. So one time a user might see scenes 1 and 2 but another time they might see 1 and 3. If they saw scenes 1 and 2 then they *would not*...more >>

Question: When in "Test Scene", I cannot hear audio in the video file. This is extremely important as I'm trying to time audio with other actions on screen (bullet items); however, when I publish the file, I hear audio just fine. Is there some setting I may have accidentally tweaked? So...more >>

Hello, I own dreamweaver MX 2004 and Fireworks MX 2004. When I downloaded them initially, I had the trial versions. When I downloaded them they immediately came to a screen opened by .xml or .html...something very common and compatible with windows, and then I proceeded with installation....more >>

I know I have posted already in regard to crashing but I have new scenario right now and I was wondering if any of you have experience similar problems. I used to run XP home till recently when flash start crashing it on regular bases, some web sites in particular. I could not narrow down the ...more >>

I have created a ver2 component, but using a movieclip as the background. I want to use and instance of the RectBorder class, so that it can be easily re-skinned. Anyone know how to do this? I can't seem to find any information on this. :( ...more >>

Hello, I am about to create a Flash application, that would allow user to chose language to work in. On every application form, before it's presented to user, all the text fields that have some text inside, that has to vary, depending on the active language, are populated. I am using symmet...more >>

Should this script take the user to the Scene "S3" if a user has the swf file cached on their computer or has viewd the file before? if (getBytesLoaded() != getBytesTotal()) { gotoAndStop("S3", 1"); } I am trying to skip a scene once a viewer has watched the intro. I appr...more >>

Good Day All, I have a client who wants me to do a flash animation for her, but she wants to store and play it from a DVD. Is this even possible? Thanks,...more >>

Hi I want to creat a flash web site, with some parts only available to registered memebers with a password can this be possible? and how can i go about doing this? hope someoen can help, thank you...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to build my first website and it will be almost all HTML except for the Navigation ber at the top. I'm basically trying to duplicate the Macromedia navigation bar on their site. I've been reading some older posts on the subject of getting a button to trigger a m...more >>

I have series of images placed one next to another and applied motion tween. When I play the movie the images jerk heavily. I've played with the following to solve the probelem but no luck: -- broken apart images -- taken off 'allow smoothing' option from each bitmap's properties secti...more >>

I am using Flash MX and I am wondering how do you fade objects or text? Thanks...more >>

Does anyone know if there is an extension out there that allows you to open a webpage in a panel in either Flash or DW or both? It is a pain to have to shrink you MM program so you can fit a browser window next to or below it. stillwaiting ...more >>

hello anyone looking I have created an intro in flash which i want to use in a movie . the flash file is text and a jpeg, what file format do i need to save the flash file as so i can import it into final cut express, without the text looking very bad ...more >>

Hi All, We're having trouble getting our site w3c approved for accessibility, only a flash movie is failing the test, the error reads: Alternative content of object is empty string "". Does anyone know how to get around this error? The oblect tag looks like this: <object classid="c...more >>

Hi Can I use Flash CheckBox component in a similar way as an HTML Checkbox. I am developing a questionnaire. One of my questions has 4 multiple answers (the users can choose all those 4 answers). I would like to use CheckBox component to capture the answers. Do I need to put 4 seper...more >>

Hi all, Are there any chipset available of which macromedia flash content can take advantage of in the process of computation and rendering? e.g there are chipset available for decoding mpeg, which results is enhanced performance and less load on the CPU thanks in advance ...more >>

i cannot edit the .swf files in flash because they were made with another program that doesnt give me the .fla files just the .swf.. anyways im wondering if anyone knows of a script or any html that will let me use the flash as links.. a normal a href="" tag will not work already tried.. th...more >>

hi, i've a preloader, with a pixel font(dinamic) and i embed the font, so any people can see it rigth, the problem is that the file increase at the beging, i dont know if i explained rigth, the problem is that when you enter the website, the preloader dosent run, it have to wait for the sw...more >>

Hi all, I'm having trouble getting focus to set on a text field when it is displayed in my flash movie. The movie plays a static title page for about 4 seconds and then stops on a screen to collect the user's name. Here's the code I have in the frame: --------------------------------------...more >>

L.s. I'm a systems engineer, responsible for 30 Citrix servers (windows 2000). If I want to deploy Flash 7, I've got to open all 30 citrix servers and install it manually. Is there a way to download the Flash 7 distribution (preferably in MSI standard) so I can deploy it scripted. Reg...more >>

hey there, i'm importing a quicktime movie and the quality comes out very poor when i export it as a .swf file. the bit rate encoded through flash is higher than the bit rate than the original source file but it looks pixelated and terrible. am i doing something wrong or is flash's quick...more >>

I have created a flash movie using Flash MX..I uploaded to the website I'm working on. Everything works perfectly for MAC users, but it fails to play for Window users...They get a message telling them that the file is not safe and gives them the option to open or save it. Even if they choo...more >>

how do you turn a flash file into and exe file so that it can run directly of your desktop.... and can you change the icon for it?...more >>

Is there a way to insert a swf into Dreasweaver and have it unload when it finishes playing. I?d like to build a complete html page. Use javascript (js file) to load the swf over top of the html and when the swf finishes playing, remove it from the screen so that the html beneath is displ...more >>

Hi Folks; This is probably easy, but hey, tying shoelaces was hard until I got the hang of it... I have a Flash Intro that I have made. How do I get it to go to the default.html page once it is done playing? Thanks! Lurch ...more >>

Hi to all, I am a newbie to Flash (MX Studio version) and I'm trying to create a navigation bar just like the Macromedia site. I've been reading many related posts and found a great one last night for triggering the sub-menu movie clip from the global buttons just above. I tried it and it ...more >>

Hey, I just got MX so of course I'm lost. Can anyone tell me how to get a JPEG I cut and pasted into the frame to be edired like the rest of the document? Whenerver I go over it with the paint brish it just goes back to normal. The brush seems to be going behind the JPEG. How can I get it to g...more >>

im trying to make a website in flash i just need to find guides to making it good. such as: the best sizes to make the project itself, how to keep file size down, making pop ups and sliders, and just a bunch of other things pro sites use to make their websites managable for the person who goi...more >>

I'm having a problem with one of my movies. It's a long animation I'm doing with about 9 different scenes. The res is set at 800 x 600. When I test a scene and open the swf in Flash player everything is fine, but when I export the whole movie and do the same, it shows an area of about 20 pixel...more >>