I have to create two shapes bouncing on the screen together. I created 2 layers, then successfully had shape1 bouncing, so I clicked on layer 2 and animated that shape bouncing...then the first layer disappeared. what did I do? someone please please walk me through this. why can't I v...more >>

I have been trying and trying to figure out how to work flash through flash mx to no avail. I mean I can make basic videos, stick figures moving stuff like that etc, but when it comes to making a site intro using flash I am lost...I took the lessons etc and they couldnt quite educate my simple...more >>

:( I exported my flash movie as a quicktime player. I created some dynamic text ( a digtal clock, etc.) and nothing appears in the quicktime player. The interactivity works fine, but it seems that quicktime will not recognize anything that is dynamically built. Does anyone know the solution?...more >>

Hi forum, Sorry if this is a really stupid question but I'm trying to create a quiz that has got 6 questions and each question has 3 answers. At the end of the quiz the answers get totalled and the result gets displayed depending on your choices. Anyone done anything like this or can point ...more >>

Apologies for the newbie question - couldn't find this addressed anywhere... I'm loading .jpgs as symbols into a Flash 5 movie. The .jpgs are generally square in shape. I am attempting to select just a portion of the image that has an organic shape (to be used independently in animation)....more >>

Hello, I want my text to scroll while the up or down button is being held. I can make it move up or down however many lines i specify, but how can i make the text scroll continuously without having to press the button(s) every time and/or can i make a scrollbar that one could just drag up o...more >>

Hi guys, We've been tasked with a project of Streaming video over the web. We've chosen the new Flash - FLV format as the best cross browser / system compatible method. I was reading the Flash Player 7 release notes and it says the following - : 'Streaming FLV over HTTP Flash Player 7 supp...more >>

I have a 7 second .wav file and i want it to loop.. but i have never added audio to a site before... i would like to be able to have a stop and play button but have it start looping after the site is loaded. thanks ...more >>

I've set up a site on one of my new servers which is a Microsoft Server 2003 standard edition server with IIS 6.0 When I try to stream a flv within flash on that server it will not load it. However I have the same site setup under Windows 2000 server standard with IIS 5.0 and it works perfect...more >>

I'm still having trouble getting Flash to do what I want. I can draw a page and make it do what I want using shape tweening but can't find a way to put a .jpg or .gif on the page. The underlying page shows through the turning page and I have tried masks and everything else I could think of. I ...more >>

If I use the scrollbar (when it appears) on a textArea and move it at all, it selects the text. It's really annoying. How is that changed? I can't find a selectable parameter/variable anywhere. Any help is most appreciated. panhead490 ...more >>

i was just playing on this game and when i right clciked acidently it only came up with to things,,"about"and"setings" is this some kind of action script in the game i want it so know one can skip on my games can anyone help me get rid of all of em except the 2 aboth ...more >>

I have tried to add several different layers with motion guide but for some reason I haven't succeded. Can you only have 1 layer motion guide per scene or what am I doing wrong? Nothing happens when want to add Motion Guide to another layer. Thanks ...more >>

Does anyone know you can ad/ Insert another layer below the existing layer/s? When I click on Insert layer, the new layer always end up above the marked layer. Please help....more >>

I have a customer who wants her web page to 'explode' when a button is pushed on the 1st page that pops up. Then, switch to the 'main' page with the menu's and other general text. Is there anyone that can help me get a set html page to 'explode' and assign it to a button? Thanks, Steve...more >>

When I import a .mov file into a Flash project and embed it, it becomes tinged with a pink color. Why is this? How can I avoid it? How can I conrol it?...more >>

Hello, I want my text to scroll while the up or down button is being held. I can make it move up or down however many lines i specify, but how can i make the text scroll continuously without having to press the button(s) every time and/or can i make a scrollbar that one could just drag up or...more >>

I'm planning a computer treatement program for kids in speech therapy. The sound is very important. The treatement progam will be put on a CD so parents can take it home and work with their kids at home. Should I use Flash or Director? I really don't know reasons for and against Flash / Direct...more >>

I am having problems creating a button to open an .exe file. I've created a button with the following action script: on (release) {getURL("name of file.exe","_blank");} but it doesn't seem to work....any suggestions??...more >>

hi is there ant special method for developinf a flash for an email? any special export? actionscript? thanks...more >>

i am currently working on my Master's thesis, which is a study on the use of Flash in commercial web design. to cut to the chase...i am having a very hard time finding ANY numbers, statistics, charts, etc that indicate how many commercial websites have adopted Flash both as a primary design so...more >>

I am using Flash MX Professional 2004 and I am trying to create a scrolling text box that brings in text from an external document. 1. To start out I brought in a scrollpane from the components panel. I labeled it "scroller" and I set the contentPath to "test.txt". 2. I create an ext...more >>

I have several machines and numerous browsers (MSIE, Netsacpe, Mozilla, etc.) . I try to test my sites in different resolutions and on different browsers to make sure that as many people as possible get an acceptable result. On one machine I purposely left the flash plug-in out, so that I co...more >>

Can someone tell me why this preloader is not working properly? It should show a preloader animation, then start playing an external movie (that is stopped on the first frame) once it has finished loading into an empty clip. What I get when I test it online is no preloader, only the stopped movie...more >>

Hi all, Wanted to pick your brains about an application I'm currently developing in Flash. It's an interactive data-driven Flash animation for use in a nightclub installation. Now to try and keep the costs down to the customer, and also take advantage of the multiple display support of rec...more >>

Hi All, Finaly i've got my progressbar working The next code is (maybe) final 1st frame stop(); var targ = this.createEmptyMovieClip("load", 100); targ.onEnterFrame = function() { var bt:Number = getBytesTotal(); var bl:Number = getBytesLoaded(); prgb_pb.setProgress(bl, bt); if...more >>

Hi everyone - I know this has to be an easy one. . . How do you combine 2 event methods in one script? For example if I have: myButton.onRelease = function(){ // code here } and myButton.onReleaseOutside = function(){ // code here } How do I combine the onRelease and on...more >>

If I was to import a video into the flash stage and delete a few frames off the end of the video, would that delete some of the video and hence making the file size smaller? Also is it best to turn the video in a graphic in order to make the size smaller? Any info would be appriciated...more >>

i'm following colin moock's http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/addressbook.html which uses the 'click handler' parameter for its list box and push button, however, i'm using flash mx 2004 and it seems like this update they've removed that function. does anyone have the link t...more >>

Hi - i am currently struggling to try and get flash to work with ASP - I've found some great help and tutorials but all of these require making input text areas with the text tool and assigning variable names. Because I have such a big form I would like to use the components but I cannot see w...more >>

this is my code and what i get... i'm accessing this through this url http://192.168.0.2/php/test2/test.php?user=me@test.ca&subject=test it grabs the correct stuff from the database, but doesn't put it into flash. this is what i have in the flash file... onClipEvent (load) { // ass...more >>

HI All, I have a big problem. I have created an application where there will be separate flv for video and mp3 for sound and both are in synch. Now the web version is fine and it downloads the files and then play and play perfectly. But when I am trying to play the same from CD Version... ...more >>

Hi, I've created some scrolling dynamic text using two button to enable the user to make the text go up and down. I now want to add an email link (just mailto) within the dynamic text. Not sure how I do this. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance Michael ...more >>

Hi, I made a slides presentation with MX2004Pro, the slides are 40. In the "presentation" slide (the master slide) I have a button linked to the First slide, (I have applied to it the "Flash Behavior", no hand made scripts). The problem is: this button doesn't "react" at the first clic...more >>

I am doing a presentation with slide show and published it as *.swf file,but when i run the swf file,it shows all the screens and does not work and show the item in a very wrong way. Do any one know why?? Rafiq ...more >>

Windows XP with SP2 does not allow Windows Projector (exe file with flash movie) use the getURL action (http:// and mailto). XP secutiry settings - shutting that all down did not help. Also it's not the matter of used FlashPlayer version. ?? ...more >>

Hi, I have a flash file which contains a movie clip which scrolls images and buttons (scroll). when you click one of the buttons it opens a box with text in it (which is another movie clip - 'zoom') this is all working fine and all the elements have instance names. However when the box open...more >>

Hi! Here is my problem: On the stage I have a input text box and a button. When I press the button I want the text from input text box to be sent to a e-mail address. I hope you can answer me. Thanks! Regard, Loredana! ...more >>

I have seen posts on how to send a variable within the URL... How about "grabbing" the string in the URL? IE - http://whatever.com?status=yes I tried doing it this way: var strStatus:String = status=yes; And then tried to do some feeble conditional statement but got nowhere with it. ...more >>

Hey all, I've got a text "button" within a movie. This line works to make it invisable (in the button's code): this._visible = false; (the button's name is drag01) However, these lines does not work this.enabled = false; or this._enabled = false; or any other variation I can think of (i...more >>

:confused; Ok I'm not sure if this is possible but I'm trying to link onto an image from another website, similar to a link banner or a button....more >>

:confused; Hi there! i'm working on a site in flash mx 2004 and was wondering if it's possible to use a button that would tell people I was online or not and how I would go about doing that? ...more >>

I've seen so many spam email selling OEM copy of Macromedia products such as Flash MX Studio 04, etc. Are they legal copies? ...more >>

I wold like to know if there is someone who could help me with a important thing about my career. I?m trying to put a windows media into a web page, but i want that a flash control be respomsable for interacting with it!! Example: Play, Volume, stop... All that wold be in flash, but the...more >>

does anyone know how to create a screen saver with flash? or are there any softwares that will take my swf file and make it a screen saver?...more >>

How do I make a button that skips to the last scene. Like I have this animation that plays before it comes to the selection menu and I would like an option to skip that at the bottom... how would I do that? thanks ...more >>

I use to have it where, for example, when you opened up the actions panel and click on something like goto and stop that it would give you the option of filling out the frame and sceen in a nice little box but now it is all code and no helpful box? Anyone know hwo to fix this? Thanks for helpi...more >>

Hi, What just happened all of the sudden is when I create dynamic text and then preview my movie, the text is jagged. Static text displays aliased. Any ideas why the dynamic text is no longer aliased or what may cause this? ...more >>

Hi everyone, Would someone please tell me how to create newsletters and send them via e-mail? And what program to use? I would be very grateful for your help. VW...more >>

It seems like there should be an easier way to do this than constructing a string from the various Date() pieces. I need to compare var date_now = new Date(); to a date saved in a shared object, and then perform actions if the shared object date is more than one hour old. Ideally I'd l...more >>