aargh! i'm using flash mx and i'm trying to make a flash movie where the user can click on thumbnail buttons to load external jpegs into a movie clip on the screen. i've tried a couple of tutorials but they weren't so great. can anyone recommend a really good online tutorial on the subject ...more >>

I am helping a friend turn his book into an interactive CD-ROM. I was going to do the whole thing as one whole inidividual .fla file. But someone suggested doing a main .fla file for the overall structure and then using individual .swf files for the chapters. Is this easy to do? How would ...more >>

Hello all: I really hope someone can help me. I have gone through the forums and still cant get a clear way to correct the 'unexpected file format' issue. So here is the dilemma. I have a flash file that was created on a Mac and now I am using a PC to work on. The Mac flash version was creat...more >>

I bought some flash headers. I want to change the links on the menu items and change the name of the menu items. I can find out how to change the name when inactive, but not on mouse over. I have no idea how to change the link. The original and changed flash files are at www.abelson.com/fl...more >>

How does FLV quality compare with other video formats? I want to make projector to distribute on CD/DVD with interface that lets people chose between various movies to play. I want very good quality here, I'll also have the usual postage stamp size movies on a website but these I want look...more >>

Hello. I posted a message yesterday where I described a horizontal bar on which I am working. It is 800px wide and I wish to have a series of thirty or so 200px-wide images continuosly scrolling over it (FWIW, from left to right). The images have all been imported into the library and are ...more >>

Hello all. I am a new user to Flash and to be honest still have yet to know how to use it properly. So, please excuse what I am sure is an easy question. In a nutshell I wanted to save my home page image as a flash file to prevent someone from potentially copying it and saving it. It was custo...more >>

My client wants their site in multiple languages. I figured I would just use the suggestions I read by having separate XML files for each language. And just reload the content for the appropriate language the visitor selects or maybe build some type of detection script. My problem is that I g...more >>

I have searched all of the Macromedia help topics, and the Flask Kit tutorials and nowhere can I find a simple example of how to make a sound Stream and not Event. Macromedia help topics said to set an option in the Properties panel, but I do not have that option dialog box. I am using Flash M...more >>

I have created a flash demonstration that has a link on it that I want to go to play an external application. The external application is a .wrf file which is opened through an .exe player. How do I get that link to automatically open the .wrf file within the .exe player? ...more >>

I have macromedia flash mx and a downloaded template for a website. I have changed text and colors but can't figure out the audio file. It has an audio file on it that I would like to change to a custom MP3 I recorded for the site. Can anyone help me with the steps to accomplish this task? ...more >>

Hello, I have a dynamic textfield called myTicker, which is inside a movieclip called textMC. I've given them instance names. I have this: stop(); t=new LoadVars(); t.load('ticker.txt'); t.onLoad=function(){ textMC.myTicker.text=t.var; //my text document starts with var=blah blah blah } I...more >>

I'm including a sound clip in an .fla and need to crop the recording. There's too much lead time on the front end of the recording and an unnecessary segue at the end. Thusfar, I've been able to achieve the crop only in iMovie, exported to Quicktime. But I can't import that into Flash. Hel...more >>

I want to display several flv files where one flv file ends, another one starts. How do i do this in Flash Professional?...more >>

on my personal site i have a picture viewer that is a image loader component that is 370x278 and right now i the pictures in there in individual frames and just a next frame and previous frame buttons on it... well as you would have guessed this takes forever too load and killed my bandwidth. ...more >>

Hi, folks. I'm pretty new to flash. I was asked to create an animation from from a print ad. You can view the simple animation here. http://members.rogers.com/ben.wmv or http://members.rogers.com/ben.mov I simply desaturated the original colour photo in photoshop, took out a lot of the ...more >>

I am trying to have a flash movie zoom inside a web browser to 100%. Everything works fine in Internet Explorer. When I view the page with Netscape or Mozilla it doesn't zoom. Anyone know how to make a movie zoom to take up the entire Netscape Browser Window <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6...more >>

I am new to flash and i am still learing about the action scripting. I was wondering how I could create a progress bar or loading bar? If you dont know what I mean, I am talking about the the bar that shows the percentage of the animation that is loaded. thanks ...more >>

Is it possible to create a resizable window using flash so that a few (specified) elements in the flash movie remain fixed size and the rest change size according to the change in the size of the window. Thanks Durgesh Kumar Vaishnaw ...more >>

I am working on a flash site and had a concern about the security my flash movies. There are so many softwares that allow you to download complete web sites for example softwares like 'WinHTTrack Website Copier', http://www.httrack.com, then there are softwares that allow you to download onl...more >>

Hi I have created a Flash website, on my contact page I want to open a pop up window in which a.swf file will play a movie of a map, how can i go about doing this? hope someone can help, really desperate, thanx ...more >>

Hi Folks, Using Flash MX 2004 Heres the scoop: I have an interface that hosts the following code: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("mcHolder",1); mcHolder._x = 192; mcHolder._y = 132; loadMovie("1_splash.swf", "mcHolder"); The Problem: The movie loads fine, but the inlcusiv...more >>

What is the difference, in the flash source, between: 1. cab#version=6,0,0,0 and 2. cab#version=6,0,29,0 And where is this setting in flash mx? ...more >>

Just to let you know, (and stop all that spamming), that there is a Cold Fusion error. When ever you post a message, you receive the following message. But, your post is still posted. Don't click [BACK] and try posting again, because it worked: NNTP protocol error. 400 Too many open files ...more >>

Can someone suggest a really good flash book for beginners? I love the Dreamweaver Missing Manual book and am looking for something comparable for Flash MX (not 2004). Thanks, Mickey ...more >>

hai, I need some links where I can learn how to write action script for rotating object along any axis . Please intimate to this mail ID: mohanbeela@rediffmail.com. Thanks in advance to all. Mohan ...more >>

I have client having trouble loading a flash and I'm wondering if they have a current player. Is there a page I can send them to check their version? They should only need 6.05 optimized. Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jefferis Peterson, Pres. Web Design and Marketing http://www.PetersonSales.com ...more >>

Okay folks, Answered my own questions, but a little something I learned may be helpful to others: YOU CANNOT move a slide presentation's timeline first frame or insert a frame in the timeline without screwing up all the hidden code in the template. Initially I moved the presentation's first ...more >>

Hi How come that some flash are not working correctly on Mac OS X? (same on safari and IE), and they are OK o windows. For instance : "skip intro" and when I clic on small pictures to enlarge them. It's a shame as Flash presents itself as a plug-in for all platforms.. Is it a bad ...more >>

Does anyone know how it's posible to comunicate with another swf. I want to do this: i have 2 swf in different frames (html- frameset), one swf it's a button and the second it's a swf with movie clips , - when i release , i want to go "somewhere" into the second swf , how it's posible ?...more >>

Hi, Like to ask everybody, especially the staffs from macromedia, that is it true that loading of XML with Flash 5 will crash if the xml files are too big to handle? If not, I encountered a problem of loading 5 very big xml files with the swf file published in flash 5, setting very low...more >>

Hello. Here is the situation: I have a horizontal bar on which several images keep alternating, four at a time, each occupying 25% of the bar's total width, as represented on the following scheme: +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | (a) | (b) ...more >>

Guys, Is there a way in which I can build a flash object which sits directly over the top of another flash object, sort of like a transparent window. When overlaying the flash object underneath, my flash object will highlight certain things in the object below, graphically. Possible or am ...more >>