Hello, I'm new to Flash and I'm designing an online portfolio that is going to be user driven and sequential. The user will see the first image and then click on the next button to get to the next image (there is also going to be a back button) and so on. I believe I have to make t...more >>

I keep getting this: WARNING: This movie uses features that are not supported in the Flash 5 player Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Flash MX Button Instance Name Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Flash MX Button Instance Name Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Flash MX Button ...more >>

I have started a new project using a slide presentation. My presentation will consist of roughly 50 slides. My question: I have been trying to create a preloader for this since the file size will be large. A previous thread on this forum suggested creating a separate swf which would load ...more >>

Is there an event in FLASH, which is fired when a FLASH finished playing? If I wanted a browser window to close as soon as the FLASH movie finished ...more >>

Hi, I'm creating a website and want to learn to create a dock effect for one of my features. Does anyone know if something like this is possible, and if it is, how might I be able to accomplish this feat. i have been toying around with ideas with no clean look. Please Help. Thanks ...more >>

hi, can anyone please help! i would like to change the colour of the button in video component from blue to black, is there any possible ways that i can do it? urgent, please help! thank you!...more >>

I'm very new to flash. In Flash MX 2004 Pro, I'm having a little trouble. When I insert a jpeg onto the stage, there's a huge block of white around the actual part of the picture I want. Is there any way to make that part (the background of the jpeg) transparent so that I can see the backgro...more >>

Starting to wonder if these posts are actually getting to the group. Please someone respond if you see this post. Thanks Rick -- Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain ...more >>

hello, can someone tell me how to create font outlines for static text inside of a .fla, so that i can open up the file on any computer that doesn't have the font i used, without having to worry about choosing a substitute font. my thanks in advance =) ...more >>

I have a couple different jpeg images I want to bring into Flash. If I drag and drop them from Photoshop to Flash the images appear fine and clear. However, when I test movie the images become pixelated. What am I doing wrong? Erik ...more >>

Why does dynamic type appear differently than static at runtime? The font Futura, renders pretty poorly when dynamic, but fine otherwise. (see the "instructions" page at davespartyart.com" for example.) I had to make it bold, because otherwise it made only diagonal segments of plain characters...more >>

i am making a website on flash and i want a dynamic text box on the front page (that scrols) and it has about 20 difernt hyperlinks in it but when i try and type a hyperlink to 1 word the hole box becomes a link so how do i make it so there are lots of words that take you to difernt websites p...more >>

i have a problem with loading images, and i'm not sure what it's caused by, as some of the images load, and most do not. however, this was not always a problem, and i think that the images that do not load have in common that they initally were on my external hard drive, and we're created on a...more >>

I'd like to develop a typing test that meassures speed, accuracy, etc. using flash. Does any one have any example .fla files or maybe some suggestions that will get me started. ANY input helps....more >>

I am trying to combine features of two different tutorials into one video player solution. I used the Dreamweaver Flash Video kit and this tutorial, http://www.sonify.org/home/feature/remixology/019_bandwidthdetection/ Ultimately, I am looking for a way play a .flv file (progressive download...more >>

I have a movie with 8 layers (7 animated, 1 sound) I want to make all the layers either fade out to "scene 2" (black page) or to all like explode to a blank page, is this possible ? So far all I can do is make the movie just end and scene 2 begins (black page), and what can I use the "break ap...more >>

I made a 43 second movie, using 8 layers (7 for animation, 1 for sound). the sound layer is 25 seconds long, the animation ends at 19 seconds, how can I made 4 of my layers continue to animate (rotating) until the audio layer is done? ...more >>

Using Screens, is it possible to create a slide show that automatically advances the slides at a particular interval without the user clicking on a button or clicking on the image (or any user interaction)? I want to create something akin to an animated gif. ...more >>

I have links created with the following script : on (press) { //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL("http://www.amm.org","_blank"); //End Behavior } Works in the Flash preview but when I upload the file to the server and try to view it the links do not work. Please help!!!!! ...more >>

Hi all just been looking around and couldn't find any info on this. I really like using the trace bitmap feature on frames of a video, but would love to find an quicker way of doing this . Is their a batch process that can be done with the trace bitmap command on multiple frames ? I have...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Flash and want to include a few user driven "slide shows" in the online portfolio I'm designing. Can I do this using behaviors? Do I put each new slide in a new scene? Thanks! ...more >>

I am having a problem adding text to the text field of the TextArea Component. I want to add formatted html text to the TextArea. The html field is set to true. When I paste the text in, it only pastes one sentence at a time. Any suggestions? It sure would be nice if there was more space t...more >>

Hello, It seems that when I press the new graphic button in the library panel it gives me a default size. How can I specify the size? Does the size of the graphic affect the size of the final .swf? Thanks! ...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Flash and I'm attempting to construct an online portfolio. My first question: how can one make a mailto response to a button click (the way you can in html) so that when the user click the "contact" button their e-mail application opens with my e-mail address already ...more >>

Hello I have created a site that uses embedded video in some Flash .swfs. I developed and published the files in Flash 2004 Professional. Unfortunately, when I test the site on a PC, **some** of the Flash movies are not showing up. It looks like they are not loading. Here is the site...more >>

I am looking for scripting/instructions to create a "window" within my flash movie with scrollable text that can be dragged across the screen with the mouse .. . . so it would look like those small html windows that pop up, but it would actually be part of my flash movie/webpage. Thanks fo...more >>

I'm importing a short embedded video using Flash MX 2004 Pro. After I import it, is there any way to change the compression or brightness/contrast settings (found in the import dialog) without having to re-import it? Starting over from scratch is a pain because I'm cutting and pasting clips...more >>

Hi i am uploading my splash movie to my ftp site.... but when i go to view it off the ftp site it skips my splash movie, and goes right to my index.html. Any suggestions? Thanks...more >>

First of all, please view the scrolling javascript images on this site: http://haylotrailers.com/slide68.htm A client of mine wants this functionality, but I don't want to use Javascript for it. I'd prefer to use Flash. This client is going to be having these scrolling-images on many diffe...more >>

I have an instance of symbols that I want to swap in Mac MX. This instance is tweened. If I select the entire tween including both keyframes and all the frames in between, or even the entire layer, and do a swap, I find that only the last frame of the layer is swapped. The instance remains the sa...more >>

I noticed in my timeline that some of my tweens have a vertical line between the arrowhead at the end of the tween and the ending keyframe dot and others have no vertical line, just the arrowhead followed by the keyframe. Why is that? ...more >>

Is there a way to duplicate a FOLDER of symbols in the library at once in Mac Flash MX? Or at least more than one by SHIFT-CLICKING several symbols before the duplicate command? ...more >>

Hello Everyone, -Flash MX 2004 Pro -WinXP Hopefully someone can shed some light.... I have dragged and dropped a scrollPane instance onto my stage. I created an MC that contains a pretty lengthy and detailed order form. I want the form to scroll with in the pane however nothing appear...more >>

As a semester project I am making a "virtual guitar" in Flash Mx. what I want to ask is... . What scripting languages can i use (i am not gonna export as an html file in the end) . Secondly, i have to collect all the code and then print it and present it to my supervisor, the flash file do...more >>

Hi, I have made a banner in Flash and am having a problem. The banner runs through fine, but when it has run through it's sequence it seems to stop and then restart (kind of a flash effect) at the end. I do not know too much about Flash so I am having trouble figuring this out. Here is...more >>

I posted this topic on September 23 but haven't got any answers yet. In Flash MX 2004 Professional I downloaded new helpfiles but there are several pages missing, I have no use for the helpsystem. Where can I get new helpfiles (I don't want to re-install Flash and download a new and updated h...more >>

Hey all, Would appreciate some tips please! I have a projector that I created in flash. How should I prepare it for (possible) broadcasting on tv? Is it just a matter of adjusting the number of frames per sec? Is there a better file format to use when publishing? I'm used to just prepa...more >>

I use a ScrollPane, want the pic (jpg) load into it from outside, but when i use the following actionscript, it only load the jpg w/o scroll up & down function. (already enable Vertical Scroll) _root.pane.loadMovie("pic01.jpg"); how to make it scroll? Thx!! ..:herman ...more >>

Ok, I'm making a cd-rom using an executable file. I'd like to have a button to send an external pdf file to the printer without having to open that pdf. I have a feeling this can't be done, but thought maybe someone might know. If you know for sure this can't be done, please verify so I don...more >>

I have streamed the wave files as they need to be synched with the text that appears. But the sound quality is very poor (screeching, ears can't stand the noise). In 'publish settings' the quality is set to Best and to 56kbps. (The sound is good in any other sound player). Any suggestions...more >>

I am an aspiring graphic designer who has been using Flash for some time now, and have only just recently decided to make the move to television. I thought I'd start off light, you know... so I'm trying to do the animating by myself. One thing that I'm used to utilizing like crazy for the web,...more >>

Hello I'm trying til create a shortcut that would start flash player with a link to a flash movie, and show it in Full Screen mode. Starting flash player with a link to a flash movie is easy, but is there a startup argument that would start flash player in full screen. (yeah I know you ...more >>

I have several swf files that I want to launch from a "main menu" swf file. When I load the external swf file into the "main menu" swf file, it loads - but any buttons on the imported swf are invisible until the mouse is dragged over it. It's as if you have to initiate "focus" by dragging your...more >>

Hi, I have some variables that I get from a aspx-page using LoadVars(). I need to concatenate these variables so that their values become a string. myData.onLoad = function() { _global.Student = myData.Student; _global.Upp = myData.Upp; Student_text.text =Upp + Student; ...more >>

In this http://drigz.petbo.com I have made some text boxes down the left into links. However, to use these you must carefully position your mouse over the text. Is there any way I can make the background of the text work as a button as well? ...more >>

I'm having trouble being able to link a movie with button properties to a point on the timeline that the button itself lays on. I used a movie symbol as a button so I i can have an animation play wholly on rollover, without cutting on rollout. I have the original movie within another movi...more >>

I've been asking a question repeatedly and searching for an answer to no avail. I then decided to build the simplest flash application possible with the same functionality I was testing. Here's what I found. A hitTest on any object in a Window component will fail almost all the time. Depen...more >>

I am keen to know how to reproduce the effect of dynamic resizing magnificently illustrated at the following link http://www.pellepiano.com/v4/gallery_chrome.html. I imagine this has been asked before but was unable to find a thread cheers p a u l ...more >>

Hi, I've got a strange, strange problem with a site I produced a series of Flash slideshow files for. The slideshows consist of JPEGs imported using loadMovie() with the image name selected at random from an array. The kernal Flash files are each about 2K, while each JPEG is between 8 and 1...more >>

Working my way through some samples here. I see a "push button" component used by the samples. But there is no push button on my component palette. There is a button, but it does not have an event handler name property. So I cannot follow the receipe and type in "doRecord". I am guess...more >>