Dear All, Just joined in here as we seem to have noticed an issue with MP3 and Flash when using XPHOME SP2 with IE6. Please visit this link to see the threads so far. http://www.dougstudio.com/playa This is not the only faulty player we have noticed and have tried several combinations ...more >>

i have flash mx ... i am new at all this but ... once i create my button/text and convert to symbol i am supposed to be able to right click on the object and see the actions option below the following other items "Edit ... Edit in place ... Edit in new window """ Action"""" then Swap symb...more >>

I've had a current bug happening when i stream an audio in the timeline it usually plays before COULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME OUT...more >>

Hey guys, I am kind of a newbie with flash. Im pretty good at basic things and am learning as I go, but I have run into a problem that I do not know how to fix. It deals with a scroll window. On one of my pages, i have a scroll window with thumbnails of pictures, the user can click on th...more >>

I have a flash movie that I've made, I want to add it to my web site as an introduction. What do I do from here?...more >>

Hi so basically I have a label on each frame of a movie clip and I want to check what it is. I tried this._currentframe.label and it didin't work. anyone have any ideas? Thanks!...more >>

We are developing a Flash site for a client in Slovenia and we have transparent png files that have been cut out with a path in photoshop and in this country all transparent images are visually correct. However, we have heard from a few differnt sources in Slovenia and Croatia that the area in...more >>

I have created flash sites in the best and never had a problem importing vector logos from illustrator. I have a new project and cant seem to get the company logo into Flash. I have the logo in Illustrator and I proceed to export it into a swf. Then I open Flash and import the swf. The vec...more >>

I'm making a menu for my website in flash, and the menu is a collection of .gif images that are right next to eachother. Now, my problem is that when you mouseover the different links the hit areas overlap eachother at several places. Is there a way to exclude the transparent segments of the ....more >>

I cannot get webpages with Flash MP3 players (streaming) to play in IE 6.0.2800.1106. I see my bandwidth meter pegging the stream, but no sound. The exact same web pages work perfectly in Firefox and Navigator. Is there a problem with IE? I have disabled all popup blockers, so its not a blocke...more >>

I have some text in a dynamic text area, and when I publish it, there are some linebreaks in it that I don't want. If I publish it as static text, then it appears exactly as I entered it, and the dynamic text has its unwanted linebreaks in the same place whether I set its value at runtime or j...more >>

Hello, I have checked the 'protect from import' option in flash's publish settings, but internet explorer still caches my swf-file. Any suggestions to why it doesn't work? Thanks....more >>

I'm hoping someone can help answer my question regarding audio quality. I've been using Flash for less than a year, and I'm doing pretty well with it. I understand all about compression settings, etc., and Event, Start, and Stream sync modes. Here's my problem, though: I am putting togethe...more >>

I am wondering, hoping that flash will be able to improve its printing abilities. There does not seem to be a lot of interest, however, the potential for applications are incredible. Bitmaps + text that are not 72dpi. Transparency / Color effects. Perhaps there is some technical dif...more >>

Hey folks.. I wonder if someone might be able to point me in the right direction with a problem I'm having. I have a page that has a flash animation playing in a box at the top of the page, a navigation menu below that, and content below that. What I want to have happen is for the flash anim...more >>

Hi, I would like to know how to save somme settings from a movie without third party software (that would not work on a web site). I've already seen some games with a "load / save" button who write and read settings to the computer (i never found where, maybee in cookies ?) But i am sure th...more >>

Hi all I've been struggling with this all day, hoping someone here can help. I have a form in Flash that I want to POST to a JSP page so it can generate an email.. Its got 3 fields, 'firstname', 'lastname', 'email' and a submit button. I attached some promising AS, but I can't seem to get ...more >>

Got a fairly big Flash file with 5 scenes, all with one 'child' movie clip in them with sound and other things going on in scenes themeselves. The .swf file works fine but when exporting to Quicktime inorder to make DVD, the 'child' movie clip freezes up and you only get animation on the 'pare...more >>

Ok, heres what I have. I have a animation for a button, when you roll over the button it plays the animation, when you rollout it plays another one. The button is behind the animation. The animation is of text. The button itself is just a black rectangle. This is all done in a movie from my sc...more >>

Hi there - I'm REALLY new to MX Studio. Don't use it - yet. I've purchased the software and I was able to PRINT for both FIREWORKS & DREAMWEAVER the entire help section so I have it in paper form in front of me while I practice with the software. But for some reason, I can't print out the w...more >>

I am loading a flashpaper swf into a larger swf as a movie clip. When the next/previous buttons in the flash paper are clicked, items from the menu component no longer can be clicked. Has anyone noticed this? Has a solution been found? Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

I'm trying to create a text phrase that follows a wavy line. Is there a better way than to break apart the text and position each letter indiviually along a guide line? Thanks!...more >>

Made a projector file in MX2004Pro with some videos with progressive download. The .exe works fine on PC but opened on a Mac the sound on the video is terrible. If I embedd the video - no problem! (tested with a small video). However this is not an option - to large video files. Flv:s ma...more >>

I have created a Flash movie in to place in my dreamweaver page. The client want the movie only to play the first time the client visits the page. The second time they are at the last frame of the pages. Is this a javascript for HTML to substitute an image or an actionscript in Flash. Than...more >>

I am wanting to linking a button within my flash movie to an external avi file. This is what I have the actionscript saying... on (press) { fscommand("Video1.avi","_blank"); } This script is not working for me. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or have another way to accomp...more >>

I would like to trigger an event when an exact word is entered in a textbox. I do not want to waid for the user to hit 'enter' or 'submit'. Could anyone point me to the proper actionscript (MX)? - Thanks ...more >>

:confused; When dragging a component, or any component onto the stage and previewing it, it doesnt do anything. How do you get components to perform like there titled i.e a scoll bar to be a scoll bar etc? ...more >>

Hiya! I wonder if there is possibility to change my nick name in this forum? ...more >>

From Help I read: "printAsBitmap() action prints at the highest available resolution of the printer in order to maintain as much definition and quality as possible." That's nice, but can it be defeated? Is there ANY way to precisely control final size/resolution of bitmapped graphics? Dou...more >>

Well, this has to be one of the most basic questions asked here in a long time, but I can't figure it out and it's driving me CRAZY! All I want to do is start with a blank screen, have a graphic fade in, and remain on screen. That's all! But no matter what I do, the image keeps looping. ...more >>

I have a complex FLA archieve. There, I have into a "background" layer a movie clip called _root.contactList0. I also have a "top" layer with a movie clip: _root.statusMenu.statusTab After loading some data through XML, I call for a function where inside a "for" (where var i increment the me...more >>

Is it possible or even feasible to control client side flash movies from a server. The idea I have is that the client machine could be looking to a text file on the server every five seconds or so, and when a value in that text file changed, the flash movie on the client machine could move to a ...more >>

First im really sorry for cross posting but im desperate I have created an XML gallery but cannot get the thumbnails or the main image to preload from the XML document can anyone help? I have 2 layers on layer one (frame 1) I have a movieClip container labled 'thumbnails' and one called 'loa...more >>

Hello, I have a text field which I want to add bullet points to. I thought that an easy way would be to add a full stop, formatted to 60pt, wherever the string <BULLET> appears in the text. However, I'm not sure how to apply formatting to only a certain part of a text field. I have looked at ...more >>

I am making a Flash movie with a lot of imported bitmaps. Most of them are being used only once in the movie, and not as part of an animation. Some are used multiple times, although not as part of an animation. What I'm wondering is: 1. If a bitmap is used only once, is there any advantage ...more >>

Here is my problem. I am creating a Flash animation that involves pasting images (people faces to be specific) obtained from WebCam over existing video. Now since a human face is hardly rectangular, I am wondering if it possible to automatically crop the obtained image to make an ellipse ou...more >>

Hi, I want to create scolling text in Flash MX on Mac OSX. An example of what I would like to achieve is at this web site, I'm sure there are plenty of other examples. The URL is: http://www.swns.com/index2.html. If you click on the news menu you will see that there's a block of text that obv...more >>

Hello everyone. Suppose I have a MovieClip symbol in my library called baseMC (Flash MX 2004). Now suppose I want to create a couple of new MovieClips which are almost identical to baseMC, except that they each contain a different additional feature (e.g. an additional graphic, extra...more >>