I have a swf file that has a big white box (the size of the movie) in the beginning when viewed on IE and Netscape, the first time. So I created a preloader thinking that would get rid of it. But it's still there. I've read about embedding my fonts, or not embedding my fonts, but either way, ...more >>

Hey, well i know this may sound stupid but how the hell do you skin components, for example the draggable window, ive been using flash for awhile and for the life of me cannot work out how to skin the components. thanks :evil; ...more >>

I have Windows XP Home edition SP1 running on Toshiba satelite A75. When ever I close Flash Mx 2004 I have to uninstall and install the program all over again in order to be able to run the program. I have also installed Service Pack 2 but the problem is the same. I install and uninstall the p...more >>

Hi on my movie iv'e got a plain old nomral static text (fontsize: 57, font: sydnie, saying: V-1.0) with no fancy bla bla done to it at all, and ive checked that its exactly lined up with pixels. In the editor it display fine but when i test the movie/ publish it the text goes gay. Most of it i...more >>

Using scripts, how can I change a users screen resolution to 800x600 upon loading my projector file...more >>

Hi. I feel like a heel for coming here and asking this, but I need help. I'm adept at FrontPage, and I got a small job updating a Flash site. The guy doesn't want to change formats, so I'm scrambling trying to figure this out. Basically, it is a schedule, and it needs to be updated. I thought "ho...more >>

Some how when I export a movie with a movie in it and I have it 2 times in the stage(unchanged) it also takes up double the space in export. And no it isnt double in library. Yes it is the same file No I dont want it linked Anybody can help me out? Already thanks, ...more >>

How do you embed Flash movies in a html or xhtml document and remain W3C compliant?...more >>

Whenever I select an item within a screen object such as a button or something, you should be able to use the behaviors panel to add actions and action script gets generated automatically ... for quite some time now my behaviors panel has not worked - the plus or add button is always greyed ou...more >>

I am doing some research trying to figure out why Flash movies with multiple movies loaded runs faster on a windows box using IE than the same box when using NS or Firefox. I know there are several varibales out there including CPU speed, graphics card, and the number of animations going on a...more >>

Hello All I am intersted in this product ( http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/flv_tutorial.html) and extensions for a web site redo. I do not see where it explains how to convert MPEGs (or the like) to the .FLV video file - does anyone knows this yet? HELP?!?! I would like t...more >>

I have a flash movie which streams an MP3 from a website. By itself, in an HTML page, it works just fine. However, I then duplicate the object (it pulls the path of the MP3 from a variable passed to the swf) several times on the page. Now, none of the objects work. *** I have obs...more >>

I've been searching the archives and reading the help trying to figure this out but without any luck. What I want to be able to do is have some images fade in and out. What I want to avoid is having to create a motion tween for every image individually. I think I should be able to do is pu...more >>

Hello Everyone, I have not yet had a chance to really learn to use Flash, but have a project where I know that I need something done in Flash. I need to create a 3D triangle, like a pyramid, that will have images on each side. I need the pyramid to be such so that the user can tur...more >>

I want to have SWF movies alpa/fade out whenever a new SWF file is loaded using AS. How would I do this and where would I place the AS in the main movie or in the individual SWF it's self? thanks in advance 'help push the cause' -curios ...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone out there give an idea (be very specific - new to flash) how to create the 'expand & de-expand' effect similar to http://www.attwireless.com/ Trying to create a small 200 x 100 button that needs to enlarge to twice that size and then (a few secods later) return to it's o...more >>

:confused; so i've jsut completed my first flash presentation. Its basically a powerpiont type of presentation with a brief spoken part correspondng to each bullet point. THe problem i'm having is that at the end of each clip, there's a faint, quick but sharp 'fuzz' type noise..does anyone h...more >>

Hi I want information about Optimaze (eRain Software) vs Flash MX 2004. I built a website. The site is 500k. All the site is done in Flash MX 2004 exported in Flash 6 ActionScript 2. I need to know if I use Optimaze to reduce the size of the main swf, does it can affect the Script inside the...more >>

I have a presentation thats playing full screen in a flash movie and want an exit button. Whats the command i put on the button?...more >>

How do I keep the user from being able to print ( by using the browsers print button or file menu option) from printing the embedded flash movie? I know how to disable the flash right-click menu, but i do not want users to print the images I have loaded in the flash movie. tia DAN ...more >>

How is the enlarge effect on this page created? Or what is the properly way of creating a similar effect? http://www.ikevin.ca/hill.htm When you click on a picture it enlarges and then when it closes it goes back to the original size. I have created a similar effect but mine does not seem ...more >>

I am wanting to create a corporate timeline showing milestones similar to this site: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/timeline.html. Click on the Flash version to view. How is this accomplished? I am using Flash 2004 Professional. Any help is appreciated! ...more >>

Can anyone help? I'm new to Flash and would like to know if its possible to create a flash move/movies that will autorun from a CD. If its possible, how do I go about it? I've done the same sort of thing in Director by creating an executable Projector file. Thanks Stu ...more >>

When I export it and run it with Flash, it works. When I run it with Stand-Alone, it doesn't. I don't understand what is wrong. You can contact me on AIM: jthereliable...more >>

Please help. I'm looking to control the speed ot a movie (either clip or root,whichever is best) with a typical drag slider. Can this be done in a small enough file size? something basic . Think of a square which turns on and off (one frame on and one off) whose "blinking" speed can b...more >>

In the document set-up menu (which determines the movie dimensions), all I have are solid color options for the background. ...more >>

I currently have Flash MX (ver 6) installed. I have a client that wants a SWF file converted to a AVI to use for a DVD. When I convert to AVI not all of the frames are being converted. The cause seems to be that not all of the elements are on the main timeline but rather they are contained ...more >>

Hello, I have a site totally made in Flash. I need to create a site map for it which will be an HTML page. Anyone know how I can do this? The main problem I have is the site works by loading the main navigation which frames the centre of the page. Then the page the user selects loads in...more >>

I have an embeded flv movie in my .fla file. This causes each TEST MOVIE to take quite a while and since I do that often it takes up a lot of time. Is there a way around that short of removing the video until the end of the project? ...more >>

If a user doesn't have the flash player installed. when that user comes to my site they see the option to download the flash player. If the user chooses NOT to download the flash player they see a grey image. Is there a way to display a default image, rather than this grey image? Thanks in a...more >>

In banner exhange system "Flash banners in swl" format are available to be added. What is s w l format?...more >>

Hello! How can i prevent the swf caching? How can i reach that the browser is onyl cache the swf when it's modified. Does it have an HTML Tag, or any syntax? ...more >>

Hello! How can i prevent the swf caching? How can i reach that the browser is onyl cache the swf when it's modified. Does it have an HTML Tag, or any syntax? ...more >>

I need to launch 2 copies of flash mx 2004 the same time to open two diffrent projects. Who knows how to do it please help! Flash mx 2004 doesn,t permit me to do it. But flash mx did. Why not 2004?...more >>

How can you get UNDERLINED text in Flash MX? ...more >>

I have a menu, when I chose from the library "convert to compiled clip" the items of the mnu are aligned diferent then before. who can I fix this? here is how it looks: http://www.adriantnt.com/temp/after.gif Thanks. ...more >>

I have loaded my site and tested it in Browsers but, it appears too small when viewed in Netscape. Can anyone tell my why? Others work fine....more >>

I have a average knowledge of flash and have just upgraded to Flask MX. I have a document with 4 scenes and I want to put a button in scene 1 that when pressed will play scene 4. What Action do i give it? In flash 5 it was easy. when you added a button and then went to add a 'basic action' ...more >>

I've got a challenge for Swift 3D experts. Using Swift 3D I want to create an animation of a spinning top with a pattern painted on it. A spinning top is an example of precession which is the motion of a spinning body in which the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone. So, there are two moti...more >>

I am trying to get the nodeValue from this xml tag and its not working. It keeps tracing out as null. When I do nodeName it works fine. When I do nodeType I get 1 as the trace. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? This is what the xml looks like <title>Here is the title</title> Se...more >>

Is it possible to make a swf where people can eks. make drawings by putting together simple symbols(drag and drop) and then save the result as a new swf file on the server. ...more >>

I have a swf that loads super on all other machines I've tested it on Win 98 OS - Win XP, It works fine on the Laptops i've tested it on, it only has trouble on a certain DELL Machine. The display coordinates seem to be totally off, with a result that the movie objects are out of the movi...more >>

hi all, i need theroy assignment for prototype inheritance script Regards Gurmeet Flash developer...more >>

Hello people: I use loadmovie script and load the movie 3 time. I have some button in my first movie. They don't work. I mean i do something like this: Movieclip_1(with buttons)>>movieclip_2>>movieclip_3 and when i play the movieclip_3 the button in movieclip_1 don't work. Can anybody help me?...more >>

Hi, I''ve developed my Flash movies locally under Apache web server. I recently changed both my computer (dual AMD 2800+) and operating system (WinPro + SP2). I also installed Apache again (version 2.0.52). Now my swf -files don't work properly under localhost anymore. They launch, yes, but ...more >>

can someone take a look at this code and tell me why it's crashing? probably you are going to get dizzy just by looking at it because it's long but it's basically repeating the same thing (a hit test) and loading movies. why does it keep crashing?? http://www.thebutterflyeffect.us/zip ...more >>

I don't know what it is, but I just don't like using Macromedia Flash MX 2004. IS there any other programs out there for authoring flash for mac?...more >>

is nayone here having problems getting flashmx 2004 for to load with directx 9 ????...more >>

i am deveoping a web site and i want to have a menu where once i role over an item i get a list of subcategories sliding in from tthe side or some kind of affect.... and i dont even know where to start. 1) what will the list in the submenu be??symbol,scene??? 2) and once one of those items is ...more >>

based on my selection in a combo box i want to go to a different scene (as soon is the selecton is made) but dont know on what handler i should put script in. I tried to put script on the combobox and put an if statment that will go the appropriate scene according to the selection but not wor...more >>

i see this on sites that show flash movies. when you watch it, the movie first has a loading screen, then when it finishes loading it will proceed to play the movie or game. it has a bar that shows how much percent is loaded. how do you do this? also, flash things that i download are appli...more >>

I know the system requirements stated on Flash site prohibit these 3 from working together but is there a way to get them to work anyway? I am sore from trying it. Thanks...more >>

Does anyone know if it's possible to set the actual background colour of the SWF to transparent. I'm not talking about the HTML export option but the as in the actual colour selector for the documents background properties. Mr Urami ? Help! Creating an SWF Desktop and need a 1280x1024 SWF wi...more >>

I have a GIF file of a textured map of the western United States. I would like to make each US State into a "Button" that users can click on to select that particular State. I import the GIF file and use the polygon selection tool to "cut out" each state and paste it on it's own layer. I've cr...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to creat a continuous rotating basketball that loops?...more >>

:| I've been trying to animate the look of paper folding in Flash. I can achieve the beginning by tweening a rectangle with the second keyframe resized to give the illusion that it's being folded up. I cannot acheive the folding down by the same method. Has anyone had this delema? ...more >>

the entire studio folders appear in applications but when i try to open any of the programs, the icon bounces in the dock for a few seconds and then nothing happens. i was never even asked to enter a serial number. worked before i installed panther. using flash mx 2004 mac 10.3.5 ...more >>

When I take a button symbol, and add a behavior, like movieclip>go to and play at frame or label>this it says that under action and then under event, when I choose key press>space bar, it just does it so when I click on the image, pressing space bar does nothing. How do I fix this? ...more >>

What's the code to make it so that ON RELEASE the user goes to a certain frame, but does not play?...more >>

:rose; I want to have a line of binary code swirl around a pictures.. Ie. the line of code is swirling around the picture (looking 3d) ...more >>

so, i haven't been using flash very long, at least not any action scripts. let me get down to it. i'm trying to make a picture page that when you roll over the images a border comes out and the picture expands into it. let me show you.....http://www.plazalivermore.com it's on the photos page.....more >>

i have uploaded it to my site but it is not showing up. if you right click on the area where its supposed to be it shows that there is flash there but it is blank. whats going on? thanks...more >>

Hello everyone. A newbie flasher here. Been fiddling with flash and i love it! I am currently working on a intro. I can make the messages appear, etc. It ends with the word 'ENTER'. Here's my question: How do i make the movie stop looping and stay at the last frame shown? How do i assign ...more >>