hey everyone, I have a custom scrollbar that is scrolling a movieclip, and in the MC is a loaded text file, but when scrolling it doesnt display the whole text file. Its a list of 10 items, but only displays 8 of them and stops scrolling there. The text file does have 10 items, ive double ch...more >>

I have a US map, with each state being a separate symbol. I want to add rollover behaviors to each, but want to apply the state to all the symbols at once. Is it possible to do that? TIA...more >>

Hi, I have been away from Flash for a *long* time. Am using MX. Have a movie clip that has a "swoosh" sound. At the end of the movie clip (frame 15), I have a stop(); action. In my main ovie, I have some text that comes onto the screen, stays for a second, goes away, and the next set of tex...more >>

I have done a search on this site and have found little help as far as creating a preload. I made a Flash video and when posting it to the internet other users sometimes do not know what is going on, it takes some time to load. I am not a proffessional user with flash. Is there a good website ...more >>

I want to modify the global appearance of certain components in a single Flash piece. Particularly, I'm looking to change radio buttons and check boxes. A whole ton of library symbols get imported when you place one of these components. Figuring out which ones affect the look-and-feel of ea...more >>

Hi, i've noticed that, when a Dynamic text is masked, it doesn't show the text...How can i mask it??? thx, Maverik...more >>

Hello, I have menu pulldowns that drop over a flash movie. <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> seems to ensure that the pulldowns are on top of the movie in IE. But, this does not seem to work in other browsers: Opera7, Netscape7, Firefox0.8 Any ideas on how to get this to work f...more >>

I imported a flv video file into Flash Pro and added a button link to the last frame of the video. Now do I publish as swf and take it into Squeeze to make it flv? If so, what compression settings because the original settings were good and I don't want the file compressed any more. Please ...more >>

I am working on a website that needs a flash animation. After the flash animation is done, I created a button that says "REPLAY" and they can hit that and replay. Here's the rub: I made the button with its UP OVER HIT states but when you hover DIRECTLY ofver the word reply, you can't click...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Flash and simply trying to make a graphic from the library appear when the user presses a button. Please help! Thanks!...more >>

The tut is saying: With slide1 still selected, drag a ProgressBar component onto the center of the Stage and give it an instance name of myPB. What is a ProgressBar ? How to drag it into the center of the stage? ...more >>

Please help. Post a response to the following thread in order to get the attention of MM. We are attempting to get a new category called "Components" added to the Flash forum. The more responses we can get the better chances we will have. So, please tell everyone you know to post to this t...more >>

I've had to use Director MX when one of my applications used video because importing video into Flash MX always created problems for me (large files, freezing, slow to open, poor playback, etc). Not even for web, for stand-alone apps that run right off the computer. Does Flash MX2004 Pro real...more >>

Hello All, My client is looking for something similar to www.nike.com/speed. I know there is no way I can achieve something that brilliant... but I'd like to emulate traveling through a 3D space, with objects passing by. I've been digging through flashkit.com with no luck, can anyone poi...more >>

My Flash movie is importing all text from xml files. I have an xml file containing Czech text. When played back in Flash, it displays incorrectly. My regional settings on my OS (XP), are set to Czech. I don't see anywhere in Flash, where there's a setting to set language encoding. Any ideas on...more >>

http://www.obrienadv.com/stjulien/ I am working with an ad agency to develop a Flash web banner ad for their client. I used Dreamweaver to place this banner ad, and uploaded it to the link above. The client went to the page but was not able to see the banner ad. I know that they have to have t...more >>

Can a flash SWF movie built in Windows XP be played in the following: Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows XP Windows ME Windows NT 4.0 Can Flash projecter movies built in Windows XP run on all of the above? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, How can I make a flash animation that give you the impression that a seal make a logo in a page. Where can I get examples of that kind of animation. Sincerely Daniel...more >>

Hi there! i am a newbie and i have made a flash scene but i want to import another .swf into it (a quiz). Could someone please help me out by telling me what i have to do, and where i have to put the actionscript, and the actual scripting i have to type? The name of the the file is called ...more >>

i think this is more a php question, but perhaps not. at the moment i have a flash page being filled with content in various places by two text files on the server. however to update the page, they need to download the text files, change them and then upload them. is there a way in flash pe...more >>

Hi I am working on my site and I am trying to do this: I have a rectangular area in my flash where I want to load some .jpg files. First, I want to go through a folder and load the first image (this images will have the names like "img01.jpg", "img02.jpg", and so on). When I press a "n...more >>

I'm producing some on-line learning that has a Flash animation on the front page. From here I can go to my site map, which is like a card index where, when I roll over a card with my mouse, the card pops up so I can read the full text. The site map works fine, apart from the fact that as I s...more >>

hi there I'm a newbie and I need some help (as detailed as possible - 10x) I have a rectangle, animated as a movie clip (10 frames). And I have a background image like a math paper; or like a chess table. I need this 10 frames movie to appear over the background in different positions; I...more >>

I have a 12hr clock done in flash but the only problem with this is that it displays the time one hour forward than what my computer displays. Have been playing around with it for ages but cant figure it out. I use flash 5 NOT flash 6...if that helps at all. HERE IS THE CODE: onClipEvent (...more >>

I want to make a flash mouse cursor "chaser", the snag is, I would like to overlay the entire flash animation over my current html page, with a transparent background, so that you can still browse the website, only you have a flash mouse curser "chaser". Is this possible with flash? Plea...more >>

I created a movie in flash, a revolving spiral, this is our company "moto", growing upwards and outwards. Now i want to put this movie into, for instance a word document as a bacground image, but the movie must work and revolve in the background while i am able to work over it like a normal do...more >>

I have created a Navigation Bar with several buttons which animate on to the screen and taken together have been converted into a movieclip. Each button in the movieclip needs to go to a particular scene. In the MOVIECLIP TIMELINE I select each button, one at a time, and in the actions panel u...more >>

http://www.hkedcity.net/citizen_files/aa/go/so5686/public_html/supersimple_cross _making.rar can you help me how to calculate the score mark in this flash, for exmaple, after pressing the hints buttons(the small buttons,each buttons will deduce one marks ), and after pressing the submit butto...more >>

Is there a way to convert powerpoint files to Flash? Thank You ...more >>

same as title ..how to type copywright symbol "(C)" in flash? please help ..tks...more >>

We recently started developing a portfolio CD Rom for ourselves. It has been designed in the following way: using Flash MX 2004 Professional, created as a 'Flash Slide Presentation' (the first time we have used this method - but it seems to work pretty well). Included with the "usual" kind...more >>

Hallo ! habe eine Frage, was sind die besten Möglichkeiten um eine rein in Flash erstellte Page in Suchmaschinen weit oben positionieren zu können ? was sind musts/don'ts ? Habe derzeit zB folgendes Problem,daß ich auf der Startseite in den keywords zwar gewisse ausdrücke stehen habe (a...more >>

would anyone know if there's an image size limitation? i'm attempting to have flash load (load movie) a 500px x 4200px file so that it can scroll over it, but when the preview appears, all that it shows are horizontal lines that look like a tom friedman self portrait. and then if it does get o...more >>

I've looked through all of the product documentation and have contacted Sorenson about this but haven't had a reply yet. Basically I'm trying to figure out what version SWF files are exported from Squeeze 4. Are they version 5, 6 or 7? Also, if anyone uses Squeeze do you know of a way to ...more >>

I have a movieclip in the first frame of main Timeline. Although I put a "myMovieclip.stop()" right at the beginning, the movieclip still executed its own first frame before it stopped. In other words, the movieclip stopped after it finished its first frame, even there was a "stop()" in the fi...more >>

I used to use Flash MX proffesional but now our operating system has changed to Windows ME and I was stunned when I got the error when I tried to re-install Flash. There is no option for us to change back our operation system so there arent any ways to use Flash mx 2004 on a ME OS? ...more >>

Hi, I used this the method specified by Macromedia to access a href name tag, http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/popup_windows.htm It works for the first "click", but on subsequent clicks on the button(in flash), it doesnt go to the link, instead it goes to a blank pag...more >>

Hello Urami, Please help me. I have a movie with 4 scenes, scene 1 scene 2 scene 3 main I want to add a "skip intro" button so when you click on it will go to main page. (ie."main.html" ) its the name of the file I'm using. I want Automatically to go to main page after animati...more >>

How to Load executable file (*.exe) from swf movie or from projector file?? Anybody knows??...more >>

Sounds simple, but I don't know how to do it....more >>

Have any of you experienced a bogus error while using certain components? I'm using a DragDropTree component made by Jonathan Doklovic. This code fails: import mx.managers.PopUpManager; import mx.containers.Window; **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actionscript, frame=1:Line 1: Syntax erro...more >>

Hello, I am trying to make a site, it has a few static, some dynamic and some input textboxes. In one of the pages, there are three input boxes and I have assigned all of them to the same font size 14. However when I view on another computer, only the first of them has the font i assigned,...more >>

i have a movie clip which contains inside some text, an image and a button. The movie clip has rollover and rollout actions. The button inside is a text button named "email". This button is not working. In the enclosed example fla, i just created some simple roll over effect on this button...more >>

Hi, I am uncertain as to why the following issue occurs: On an Input Text field, I choose "Character... >> Only >> Numerals [0-9] and And these characters: '.' (period)". The purpose for the text field is for inputing dollar amounts. The problem is, there are 7 letters that are still ...more >>

hi, I hate to ask such a stupid question but how do I get the flash mx 2004 progress bar component to preload my flash movie please? The help contents were ok but didn?t give any example for using the component to preload the flash movie. I tried searching the net for ages and found no...more >>

OK ... little clearer this time. I have a splash page... i am making with flash. I want to bring an image in .....id like to swirl it in and stop and stay there. I just cant find any effect to swirl an image in. Any help appreciated ...more >>

Hopefully someone will have an answer to my issue. I have developed a CD application using IE and flash, the menu systems are all flash based and I use IE in kiosk mode to handle presentation of all the elements. I want to open a named window from inside a flash movie using the getURL with a Jav...more >>

I am trying to open a .fla (Flash) file that was created in Flash MX Pro 6.0 with a non-pro version of Flash MX 6.0. It reports 'unsupported file format' and in Flash MX Pro 2004 7.0 it reports 'failed to open document'. I assume I need the same version it was created in to open it!? Is there ...more >>

I want to make a combo box that goes to a scene after choosing a certain item in the combo box. How would you do this?...more >>

Hi, I am currently building an application that uses the new Color Picker Component that is supplied on DRK 8. However, when I export my application the ColorPicker does not look like the rest of the Halo Themed components that I am using and this detracts from the application as a wh...more >>

hi i was wondering how you are able to swirl a picture in a splash page.... thanks to any reply ...more >>