I have installed the trial version of MX (not MX 2004) on the following system: dual 800MHz P3 800MB RAM Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a more than 500MB of free space on C drive within a few minutes of starting Flash one of the following happens: - Flash freezes when I open a .fla file (Tas...more >>

Can i make a action (with a button) to open up a program or folder on the person who is viewing the animation's computer? i.e. A button that would cause "my pictures" to open, or a specific program. ...more >>

hello everyone. where is the transparency tool in flash mx 2004. thanks people and later ...more >>

I am creating a Flash Projector File which pulls information from a Database (DB). One of the pieces of information is a phone No. I have a custom made phone handset which plugs into my computer. I have a button in this flash app that says "Make call know". When this button is clicked i want the ...more >>

I haven't touched flash in ages and I new the bare minimums. My problem: I tried creating a button from just a text I typed out. I converted into a symbol. Made a rectangular hit area. When I export the document...the button is useless and just turns out to be plain text... HEEEEELLLP...more >>

Hey all, I have made a webpage with two frames, top and bottom. The top frame holds the main Header and Navigation which are in a flash movie. THe nav calls upon movies that load into empty clips within that movie. Easy enough. what I'm wanting is for when the button is pressed to call upon the emp...more >>

Hello I made a webpage with 2 flash films and a navigation bar which is a javascript applet. They start all three at the same moment. Both movies are approx 12secs. My problem is that the movies are starting well, but after 4sec they start to stick. Same thing for the navigation bar. Does someb...more >>

First off, sorry to waste all your time to the experts, but whenever i try to import a png into my library, flash crashes, all the other file formats work that i know of, the only reason i want to bring a png in is because thats the only one i know that you can have transparencies on, is there anoth...more >>

Hello everyone, Don't know if this question has already been answered somewhere else, but I've searched and found nothing. I've been working on a project in flash mx for a few weeks now and just recently got 2004. Now, 2004 wont open any of my old flash documents that were created in MX. W...more >>

i am tring to duplicate a movieClip like this: MovieClip.prototype.slide=function(x,y,s){ this.onEnterFrame=function(){ this.cx=(this._x-this.x)/s this.cy=(this._y-this.y)/s this._x-=this.cx this._y-=this.cy } ...more >>

How do u make your custom mouse change its look when you click?...like say its a face and when you click its mouth opens and when you release it goes back to normal. thx ...more >>

Does anyone know where I can get the source files (asset files) for the tutorial "Introduction to Flash"? I downloaded the trial version and it doesn't give you the sources files. Please help me! ...more >>

Hi: I found some flash work I did back in college. They are all HTM and SWF files, no FLA. I want to group them all together into one EXE. Is there a utility or something easy I can do so I dont' have a bunch of HTM/SWF files that link together - I want it all exported into an EXE...but again, ...more >>

Hi, Anyone who are able help with streaming of mp3´s in flash? It works if I run the swf from the flash IDE or run the swf locally - but if it is through a browser (IE 6) with player 7.0.19.0 then the streaming does not work (no sound at all). The movie I have uploaded works for all my frie...more >>

I have 3 questions about characters. 1) For movement, is it better to use frame-by-frame, tweening, or something else that I don't know about. 2) The shading, I've noticed a lot of 'toons have the same shading, is there something within flash that will let you add that shading, or do they ju...more >>

im a first time flash user trying to make a crappy movie and i couldent find out how to add audio i went to import to stage and opened my auido file but nothing happened so i tryed to libery but nothing happened so how do i add auido ...more >>

How would I add a scrolling option on a flash page? I've got a lot of text and I don't want it to be too small, so I want people to be able to scroll down to read it all. Also, how do i get it where a user cannot resize the application window? Thanks! ...more >>

i have a movieClip(square_mc) that when it enterFrame i want it to duplicate 10 times in an upward direction on the y axis, to simulate a bar graph, i can do this but it looks really static, is it possible to animate (pause before it creates the next mc, and so on). i really need help here thanks...more >>

I have made three flv files with sorenson squeeze with UNCOMPRESSED audio sample rates set at 11, 22 & 44 Hz. When I import the files set at 22 & 44 Hz into Flash MX and then play back the video, I hear digital audio artifacts (or what I am guessing are artifacts) in the form of rapid, continious...more >>

Hi, Here is the problem I am having: My flash site views fine in IE, but only the background shows when I open the site in Netscape. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this, or what I might be doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated! J ...more >>

Hi Just a quick question. Is it better to optimize pic's (jpegs) in photoshop or image ready and then import them to flash or to let flash take care of it for you when you choose the publishing settings? Also this is probably a bit stupid but I was wondering anyway... If you have an ima...more >>

Yes but I loose the drop shadow and raised emboss? any other suggestions?? -- Thanks Greg Burgh burgh@gweb(REMOVE)solutions.com >can't you export to flash in vector format from FW ? >Regards >urami_* ><xmas> >http://flashfugitive.com/ ></xmas> >> I am trying to recr...more >>

Hi! I'm trying to create a simulated grocery store check out area where you click on the item, drag it under the scanner (causing the price to appear) and then you put it in a bag. I've got the whole thing working except I can't get the scanner part to work while the item is being dragged. ...more >>

I'm making a pong game (www.madskater.com/randfiles/pong/pongfla.html) and if you take a look and put the speed on very high (about 40), the ball moves so fast that by the time 1/48th of a second has passed it has gone through the paddle when it should have been deflected. Originally I used this.hit...more >>

Hi! When I look at websites with flash many of them runs realy smooth. Like http://www.tank.se/ The menu system tween on that site runs smooth. Is threre a special way to do that? Framerate, Plugin??? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi All, Anyone know where I can get a search engine written in Flash? I've only seen the Active Search one over at flashkit.com and that doesnt seem powerful enough! Anyone got any suggestions? TIA Big Dave ...more >>

I want to have it so it starts typing the text instead of (fading, zooming, scrolling) in/out of the movie. If you dont get what I am talking about do this. When you reply to this message you will have the main message window to type in the cursor is a | blinking and you start typing away. Watch w...more >>

I'm trying to create a simple video to run from a web page. It's ~3min in length. I've tried using the import to stage and import to library then drag it onto the stage. When I test the page or export it to a .swf, the video is pixilated. Am I doing something wrong? I'm using the Flash M...more >>

I was wonder is it possible to have 1 layer looping say at 7 frames and another layer looping say at 20 frames?....if so can u tell me how plz :) Thx ...more >>

Folks, I'm trying to reverse engineer a Flash intro. I found one I really like and thought I could figure out how some of the things were done. However, I'm stumped and it seems like it ought to be simple. This flash intro has text (as symbols) move into place and at the end they are hyperlin...more >>

Hi, I am using Flash MX. I have a movieclip, mcButton. Inside the movieClip is a textfield, when I fade mcButton using actionscript to adjust the _alpha, the button fades fine, but the textfield inside it does not. I tried putting the textfield inside it's own movieclip and fading that, b...more >>

I want to have a movie clip got to its first frame when the cursor exits the movie how can i do that? ...more >>

Hi, I have made an animation, but when it finishes, it goes back to the first frame, is it possible to have it hold the last frame onscreen indefinitely? ...more >>