can anyone tell me how to embed sound/music into a flash movie. or point me to reading material thanks a mill ...more >>

I make a cd in 3 languages with director mX and a movie linked in my project. For the french and the deutch part i have a lot of setvariable for flash MX including words like "tranchées" and it doesn't appear in my menu with an accent but with a Z in place of é ? I use severals fonts, and it's the ...more >>

I was trying out Flash MX 2004 Professional but it seems to be totally unusable because it just hangs every single time i try to publish/test/debug movie. The file practically doesn't have any actionscript, just a few stop()-s, that's all. It uses the flash 'screens' feature (9 screens in a prese...more >>

I have a short movie created in Flash. It is 45 fms at twelve fms a sec. No matter what export/jpeg settings I choose the resulting file always stays at the same size. 1.17mb This is much to large for my use. The file has only One short tween and a couple of buttons with links. It can be se...more >>

With your help, I have now been able to create some rollover buttons that link to web pages. What I need now, however, is a rollover for an "email me" button that when clicked on, brings up an email message the user can send. I can't find any process for this, oddly enough, in the 721-page b...more >>

I just got the new version of studio mx 2004 a few months ago and I decided a few days ago that I was going to try out flash to see what was new from the old.. I cannot figure out how to import an mp3 into the file .. It was so simple in the previous versions .. anyone have experience with this ? ...more >>

Pardon the n00b. :) I'm Using Flash 6, and made a 2 minute "commercial" for a local non-profit agency. It's timed to a song, and all actions (simple fades of still images, scrolling text, nothing fancy) activate perfectly in test mode and when I export the film as flash to my own desktop. Howe...more >>

Can someone tell me how I can fade an image (jpg) in and fade one out in Flash MX? Thanks - WebSteve ...more >>

Out graphics designed developed a lot of material in flash and used some unique fonts. Now he's gone and we want to use his graphics (aircraft gauges with lots of numbers), with his fonts, in our Flash productions. We have his .fla files. How can I change his fonts to a new _sans type font for...more >>

I want to create a button that will stop/go a target movie clip. If you click it once, it will stop, if you click it again it will go etc. If anyone can help, it would be mightily appreciated : ) Thanks ...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to dinamically name frames? Thanks in advance, Jorge Olino ...more >>

macromedia flash mx 2004 built-in components are too hard to learn. there are not much information to learn from live docs. components' actionscripts are no way to follow...... no hope! ...more >>

i see lots of posts about flash mx pro crashing on mac...but no solutions. It crashes right after the flash startup window and then goest to the crash report window. this is driving me crazy..i have done everything from deleting the macrovision folder to updating to 7.1....my crash log says: OS V...more >>

Hi, I downloaded the 30 day trial of FlashMX 2004. I select the radio button for "I want to try Macromedia Flash. (30 days remaining)" and I get the screen asking for the serial number. Any idea why? I haven't downloaded the trial before. ...more >>

I'm newbie with Flash (used it for 5 hours now). I dloaded Flash 2004 and when I make videos, I want to add sounds to them. Well, the problem is, I don't know how to add sounds ;). I watched some tutorials, but didn't find anything. Help me, please. =) ...more >>

Hi, Could someone explain to me what the difference between these two versions of Flash are and what their recomendations are to buying what version? EG: Can you purchase the standard version and still do everything the pro version can do? Cheers, mfollower ...more >>

hi, i am using MX and i have loaded an swf on top of my main page (level2). it works fine now but it is the wrong size and appears at 0,0 (top left corner) how do i set the size at which it opens and how do i set where it appears on the page??? krustafarian@hotmail.com ...more >>

Hi I want to create a Flash movie in one HTML page frame, which when clicked to start another movie on different frame on the same HTML page. I posted a message about how to make Flash movie to interact with another movie on different frame and urami_ told me to use local connection tools. But I d...more >>

Im trying to build an online web app. I need to be able to create thumbnails of pics uploaded by the user. These thumbnails in turn will have the ability to be dragged over a hit area, and when dropped load a larger version of the original pic. Once I start the drag im using a duplicateMovieClip ...more >>

Hi, right, first problem (1 of 2). i have a flash site, basically a stationary page which calls on other external swf's and loads them into a movieclipholder, i don't want to open them in new windows. BUT, as the swf's are interactive, have buttons and sounds etc..... the functions don't work when ...more >>

OK, you guys helped me immensely to create a Flash rollover button. Works great when I preview it: even managed to get it to make a 'whoosh' sound when it's moused over. Now what I need to do with it is put it into a table cell in Front Page; how the HECK do I do that???!!!! ...more >>

Hello everybody. I was just wondering if i can get an html page into my flash movie and if so HOW can i do this? Thank you in advance. ...more >>

I can find tuts to make nice ugly plain rollover buttons with text, but when I try to make them with existing graphics, it doesn't work. Anyone point me in the right direction, since this HAS to be possible with a program so advanced as Flash MX!! I can do it with javascript, but would like t...more >>

Hello, My company website was created in Flash MX and we have recently upgraded to Flash MX Pro 2004. We are unable to import our company website into this new version. Please suggest what we could do. Thank you. ...more >>

Can someone pleae tell me how to embed a music file into a movie. Or at least point me to were i can access doc's thanks ...more >>

I have a text file and I'm reading it in to flash. I've done this a few times before, but for some reason, this time, I am unable to get flash to recognize the <b> or the <i> tag. It recognizes the <font> tag though. Please help! thanks. ...more >>

I am wanting to view a Shockwave Flash Object, an .swf file, which has been sent to me by email, as an example of work by an animator, who thinks it may interest me for a website I want to have built. I have saved the .swf file to my hard disc and when I try to open it, I am asked (by MS Windows 20...more >>

FLASH MX 2004 was cracked!!!! I have the cracked files .... any one can download it at""""".i'm not telling.....""" to macromedia...please strengthen your software system security ...more >>

I am using external txt files and reading them into flash. I want to make a link in the text file (a href...) but I want that to link me to a different frame inside of flash. For example, if the user clicks the link, I want a gotoAndStop("company") behavior. Is this possible? Thanks in advanc...more >>

I want to load a swf file into my movie and have it serve as a button to allow me to skip to the last frame in the presentation on command (should I choose click on it). I can load the swf file and position it where I want it, but what is the syntax in action script that will convert the swf into a...more >>

I need some help/info - These new pop-up's (well sort of new) that are now being used by major marketing agencies - The one's that sit on top of an entire web site then quickly fade away or that you have to chose a graphic "X." Does anyone know how this is done and/or with what technology besides ...more >>

Hi, I made a site that takes way too long to load and it's only 267kb. On dsl it is taking 30 seconds to load!!! Any reason for it? www.shoutbooking.com ...more >>