I'm looking for ways to create a timeline that a user can control for a demo. Something like the navigation bottom of Breeze is what I'm looking for. I've tried the media and progressbar components with no luck. Any ideas? ...more >>

im in a class at school for webdesign. we have flash on only our apple laptops, which have OS X, and our pc's have XP. i want to be able to work on the .fla at home when im out of class. but when i load it on my computer, it says "unexpected format" and doesn't open it up. is there somethi...more >>

i have a strange problem that i'm trying to work around.... i have a flash move, sized 800 x 612, that i'm printing from flash using the print() function. when i print this movie from the swf itself, everything is fine and the print is centered on the page. however, when i print from my ...more >>

Hey all, I'm not so new to flash, but I am new to integrating video therein. I've been having a little difficulty finding documentation on cue points and their full usage, so I'm hoping someone can help. I have a video piece that serves as an introduction to a flash movie. If it were em...more >>

I've just started an online course which requires me to listen to MP3 flash streaming audio. However, everytime I click on the speaker icon a player box pops up, song title is listed, play button is lit up, but nothing happpens. I have flash 7.0 version, real player, windows media player. My i...more >>

How do you convert a .swf file into a .exe file? There is a SWFKIT PRO online, but it is exorbitantly priced $299. Does anyone know of a free or inexpensive tool for doing this? Thank you very much. All help appreciated. ...more >>

Hey everyone, Heres the scoop, I've got a SWF with buttons at the top, and am trying to load external SWFs below the buttons when released. Heres what im using now... on (release) { loadMovieNum("home.swf", 1); } when i preview in flash it works fine, and the external SWFs show,...more >>

Hey there Macromedia studs... I had a quick question. Is there a checklist of things that I need to have in order to play progressive video (.flv) from my server? I have flash mx 2004 professional. And I use Sorensen Squeeze to create the flv from a .mov. I am using the flash 'Media Display' ...more >>

"properties" window wont show up.. whats the problem?...more >>

Hi Folks, I'm trying to use a preloader in a Slide presentation, but it is creating a few problems. It is a freebie Preloader by intoFlash but the instructions on the website are all in Swedish? Anyway, I'm not sure if the preloader frame requires a stop action on the first frame. Here are ...more >>

Hey, i'm trying to stream a 30 minute external FLV file using NetStream. Whenever it loads however there in about a 4-5 second delay in the audio. I've tried working with the buffer in the NetStream class but with no luck. If you have a suggestion or a solution i would REALLY appreciate it....more >>

Hey guys, I'm having a little issue with a couple tweenings in my flash. I have 7 layers on my stage and 2 of them consist of motion tweens that are to play on page load. When those tweens finish and loop again, all 7 layers reload/loop causing the page to go all black for a split secon...more >>

Hey, I have been looking around for awhile and I was wondering, is there a Flash Magazine out there or even a MacroMedia Magazine out there that people can subscribe to? Not a newsletter but an actual magazine for developers and enthusiast? Any info would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

How do i change the "order" of my scenes? Or, how do i make a particular scene my index, or starting scene?...more >>

Hello, Can anyone help me with this problem I am having? I am trying to get an object that is linked to a layer mask to rotate upon a onKeyDown action. I have tried this already with a non-masked object using the following code and it worked. movie_mc.onKeyDown = function() { if...more >>

My company is looking for someone who can create mini applications in Actionscript on an ongoing basis and possibly provide some onsite training. We are located in Barrie, Ontario so if you are located close to or in Barrie and have great Actionscripting skills please contact me to discuss ...more >>

Has anyone seen their flash playing upside down in a browser!? It happen to me serveral times. This glitch is totally random... that's the worse part. Any feed back is greatly appreciated....more >>

I am trying to make a set of scrolling thumbnails. I have managed to load one jpeg in to a text field using the html image tag. However when trying to load more than one image they just overlap. I am using flash pro 2004. Is this the best way to load and scroll images. when the images are ...more >>

The Problem: Client gives me a 68 megabit mpeg and a 28 megabit mpeg. Wants them available online. The attempt at a solution: I first tried to import them into a flash library with Sorenson Spark. It crunched it down quite a bit, but still left the file size too big and the sound was una...more >>

I am creating a lenghty movie in which I've used actions to load other .swf files. When I save the FLA document and view test the .swf, the movie plays only up until actions are defined to load the other .swfs within the movie. I am using loadMovie in the actions. Do I need to specify play ...more >>

Hello ppl just wanted to know what would be the code to open an image in a browser, not to load it in the swf or movieclip, open only the image in a new browser window. i?ve tried the getURL with the image inside the same folder that the swf, and it opens a browser, but in a completely d...more >>

Is there a way to turn off the warning that shows up when importing graphics, with a numbered sequence in their name, into the library? The warning says "This file appears to be part of a sequence of images. Do you want to import all of the images in the sequence?" Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, Here is a good website: http://www.tronicstudio.com/ Some body know how to set a background which fit to the window whatever size it is? I Think it is a set up inside the flash page. Thanks! ...more >>

A client is trying to send me a file that was 1MB. He added some text and pictures and now it's 236MB! The pictures he added were all sized down... something is huge in there, is there a way to locate the culprit? ...more >>

Did squeeze video with sound as .flv with Sorenson (v.3.1). When importing .flv to library it is ok (pic/sound) when opening a MediaPlayer end connecting .flv via URL pictur is ok but sound damaged (white noise). I have a mac and someone thoought that could matter in this case! any solution su...more >>

This may sound basic, but where can I get a simple print out of Flash MX 2004 keyboard shortcuts? I have searched everywhere!...more >>

:confused; im working on a failry simple image viewer, where thumbnails move the slider to appropriate target image in a strip. i want users to be able to then click on that image and a hiRez image come up in its own window. the problem is that my loRez strips are one .jpg each album with al...more >>

I have a presentation on cd, that has links to a website. Here, in my pc, works fine, but in the client's pc, the IE opens behind the presentation (I'm using fscommand("fullscreen", "true") in the presentation). Then, I tried in outhers 4 pc's and in 2 of them I had the same problem!!!! An...more >>

Here is my problem. I have a button, and when I click it, it does go to the page it's ment to go to. But when I click it again on that page it will go to the next page over. I have looked at the code and it all should work. What am I doing wrong? ...more >>

I'm doing a christmas movie/calender. I would like no if it is possible that at a surtain time or date it would go in a diffrent frame. Example I want on 24. December 2004 that the frame would gotoandplay at frame2. And when the clock is 18.00 it would gotoandplay on frame named night. If this...more >>

Hi, I had a basic Flash file which when it got to the last frame it simply held it on display. I added a basic action script to introduce a simple % pre-loader and now when it reaches the last frame it goes to a black screen. Do I need to add something to the action script to tell it to hold ...more >>

I have created an emailer form in flash , there is a php script that is sitting on a server. I need the data that is inserted into the text fields to be sent to the PHP script and then to the specified email address. I have named all my text fields eg. name_txt, email_txt etc. And then I ha...more >>

We are publishing a Flash MX2004 projector on CD-ROM. Previous versions of Flash stated the 'Made With Macromedia' logo be placed on the credits screen of the application and also the CD cover printed packaging. Looking on the Macromedia web site has shed no light on current regulations and...more >>

I have created a button in Flash MX Professional 2004 and would like to save it so that I can pull it into a website created outside of Flash. How do I export it to my external web?:confused;...more >>

Hey, another question i have is that i have made a game in flash mx 2003.. = and for some reason it "crashes" on a certain flash 7 player.. not all.. = but a specific.. so only 1 on the 1000 will have this.. but this is = still 1 in a 1000 enough to get me curious what the reason is behind = ...more >>

hi, I'm just wondering if anyone knows a good tutorial on how to pull this off in flash. We've all seen the IPOD commercials and I actually did come across a tutorial that someone did of his dog in silhouette form in a flash movie, but unfortunatly I didn't bookmark it and haven't been able to...more >>

Hi every 1, I have jsut 2 text fields binded to my XMLConnector and i have a php file. All I want to know is how do i pass the textbox data to my php file. Plz tell me how, either way.....how to send the data as XML or as variable parameters...........Plz tell me any ways how to pass the data ...more >>

you can have a look at it here http://amworld.l2p.net/images/flasherror.JPG How do i get over this? Can someone please assist me, thanks help will be appreciated! ...more >>

Please see the link below. Is this umbrella effect done in Flash? If not, can it be done in Flash? Can someone point in the right direction on how to do this? Is a tutorial for this out there? Thank you. http://www.itclicks.com/whoweare_aboutclick.htmlhttp://www.itclicks.com/whoweare _abo...more >>

Hi, My cousin sent me a flash document. It was only 144kb when he sent it to me. So I add a little more to it, and I also insert a song, which is 5 megs big. So after I am done, I save it. And while I am sending it to him, the file became a whopping 42.3 megs!! What the?? So I deleted the...more >>

Hi, I'm having some problems regarding the use of buttons. I am trying to create a motion menu. I have the button and rollover so they work and for the most part the menu parts working, but for some reason the buttons within the movie clip will not let me link to the other pages that I hav...more >>

Hi all. I'm just curious how this was done http://home.pacbell.net/krakon04/navpage.html Just thought it a cool effect. Thanks Alexis ...more >>

I have a set of buttons in a Navigation Bar which I created in FireWorksMX. They work fine when tested in a browser. However when pasted into FlashMX, they lose the 'radio' quality. That is, in Fireworks, when one button is depressed it stays down until another of the group is depressed. At t...more >>

The picture in 'slide presentation' looks pixelated when the SWF window size changes, but this doesn't happen in normal SWF file. If Macromedia wants 'slide presentation' to beat 'Powerpoint', this low-level mistake should not happen. ...more >>

Dear Flash Community, Recently I have seen several flash sites that have used a video of a person interacting with the viewer. For examples, you can go into the Macromedia Flash Video Showcase. Now, once you get the video in there, how do you go about removing the background and making it l...more >>