Hi, I am making an interactive Flash presentation with MX. Of course, at any point of the movie, I have many different movie Clips playing and interacting with each other. I want to have a pause button, that will pause not only the main timeline, but also ANY movieClip that happens to be playing ...more >>

Is this normal guys? When I create a new movie, and add a couple things it is about 12k. Then I add a combobox to the movie, it adds 54k to the swf after compression (66k). Doesn't sound right to me. The only thing that I can think of that may cause this is Flash MX installed on the same machi...more >>

I have created a flower. I want the pettles to be dragable. i can do this fine. but on release i want the image to play a movie clip of the peddle floating to the ground. I cannot make the movie clip play on hit. any suggestions? ...more >>

I'm woefully new, but have been able to piece things together up to this point. I want to fade in some text, then fade in a movie clip of a syringe. I would like the movie to stop then, and when the viewer hits a button I would like the handle on the syringe movie clip to go down (and stay down)...more >>

I'm using the Accordion Pane but I have a question. I have the height set at 300 pixels, when you click on one of the links the Pane opens all the way. Let's say I have 4 menu items and under menu item 1 I have 4 submenus, but under item 2 I only have 2 items item two will ahve a bunch of empty spac...more >>

ik ben nog redelijk nieuw in flash dus misschien is dit een domme vraag maar ja.. ik wil de naar van de scene veranderen maar hoe doe ik dat? bijv. "scene 1" in "preloader" veranderen of zo... en voor ik het vergeet is het mogelijk en zo ja hoe om twee scenes om te wisselen? alvast dank bij voorb...more >>

Hello. I have created an fla that has several screens with an ad on each screen. I would like to transition between each screen with the ad from the previous screen fading out and the ad from the next screen fading in. On a timeline I can do this easily, but I wanted to know how to do this with s...more >>

Hi all, I seen the Macromedia On Demand presentation about form navigation. Everything looks great, so I tried this amazing feature but... I made simple screen by screen navigation; everything works fine, so I tried to put some tweening motion element on the first screen. Testing the movie, ...more >>

I'm creating a presentation that will be viewed on a wide screen plasma. How can I set flash up for this ratio, 16:9 (1.2)? I'm getting the unwanted squashed look from my images I import. Tom ...more >>

I have been posting all day and still cannot seem to get a reply. All i want is to know is if you can have a javascript pop up from a hyperlink in a dynamic text box. ...more >>

In flash mx, I could have a single frame on the main timeline, and have movieclips on the main timeline with animations waiting to play, and when I give the play command, they would play.... but in mx 2004 it seems to have changed, and I cant figure it out. It seems I need at least 2 frames on the...more >>

Can anyone recommend a good place to purchase royalty-free Flash movies? My manager has found a great Flash video that would be great for an into to one of our Flash presentations. However, it is a rights-mananged media and has very costly fees just to use it for a year. Surely there are a few onlin...more >>

Hello all you flashers in cyberland. I have a scene with a bunch of MC's on it. on the top most layer I have made an MC used for fading in and out of the scene....Basically a big black fill. On entering the scene, the fill's alpha is reduced from 100% to 0% to give the illusion that the MC's be...more >>

Please have a look at the attached example. It is a simple button with dynamic text (set in the calling url), and it doesn't take the variables (item and adres)... Thank you! Pieter http://webforums.macromedia.com/attachments/problem111111.zip ...more >>

I am Flash self taught, I have made several flash movies, but all just start and finish, no interactivity with the user. I recently saw this website www.chipotle.com Its a fast food mexican restaurant site, but I love their navigation bar if you will. Does anyone have any idea where I wo...more >>

I'm trying to achieve all the great text effects, and have seen a ton of downloads($40+) but they all seem geared towards the people w/o flash. I don't mind spending a little for the software, but I have no idea which is the best, and which one's work the best with mx 2004. I may be a little nieve, ...more >>

Hey guys - I'm having issues with my mc container not loading movies correctly. When I load a mc with functionality (like a popup/dropdown menu.swf, or a photo.swf with a magnifyer on it) into a containter, the new mc loses its functionality. The mc will load fine if I load it alone into its o...more >>

how do i make a button go to a web site???.......on (release) {getURL(www.formaxproductions.com); } then what do i type?? ????????????????????????????????????????? ...more >>

I need someone to go to www.msn.com and tell me how they made the flash file jump all over the page like that! The flash file in question is the Windows Mobile Motorola presentation and it jumps all over the screen but still allows you to see and access the links on the webpage behind it. If you ...more >>

Hi I want my flash projector (standalone Flash presentation) to open full screen BUT I don't want the movie to adapt to the computer screen size. I want the actual movie to have a fixed size, only the background must be full screen. Is that possible? How? thanks for your help. ...more >>

how would i make a link from a button that loads a html page over the page where my flash movie sits.? the new page would be plain html , as a sort of exit page .. thanks.. xchris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com)....more >>

I am a Director Lingo programmer. I successfully avoided even touching Flash with my fingertips for a long time after some awful experiences right at the start with Flash 5. I have to use it now for the web since the Shockwave-Player doesn't seem to be as widely spread as the Flash Player. AND I...more >>

Hows does flash searchability work? Is there a way to make searchable through Google? Or another way. ...more >>

I don't know if anyone has noticed this, but using the Key.isDown (or left, right and up) action, often gives me 2 key presses. I'm working on a new game and happened to use this but it does not work as I want. Could anyone suggest a different solution? Thank you ...more >>

I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on how to make a shape (or group of shapes) look like it /they are spinning? I am fine with shape tweening and motion tweening, but I can't make a shape look like it is spinning. Regards, Scott...more >>

This is a suggestion to Macromedia to improve future Flash versions. A new kind of symbol: Fractal With a symbol of that type a picture coverted to that type would be displayed in fractal form, that is, multiplied all around itself as many times as the area to be fulfilled. Suppose my image...more >>

I have a standalone app that were're working on. It has a lot of data in it that is being saved to a shared object mainly because it needs to hit a database and also needs to be available weather the user is online or offline. The problem that we are encountering is that the app crashes a whole ...more >>

Hi. FH 10 user Flash MX user I want to rotate a text around a circle (path) I know one way but I wonder if you know any other way. I've made a text and circle in FH 10 and imported it in Flash to animate it. ...more >>

Hello all, I've got some code here: [code] _root.createTextField("textarea", 0, 1, 2, 6.5, 9); [/code] that seems to be creating a text field, but it's not in the right place and has the wrong dimensions. I'm somewhat unsure as to what the depth field is supposed to contain. I'm to unders...more >>

I have an embedded video in flash mc with action "stop" placed at last frame in timeline. Yet, the video continues to loop (without audio). Not using any type of video controller. (want it to simply autoplay and stop) Publishing to a Flash Projector. I do have Director MX and know how t...more >>

Hi, I want to make a menu that will apear after mouse over a small animation and disapear after mouse is rollout . This animation should change to a one color box with menu items on it. These menu items should also act like buttons with mouse over efect and mouse release. I know i can't do thi...more >>

If I import an image into Flash MX, how can I edit around it and cut out the backround, or make the backround of the image transparent? Please help, this has been bothering me for quite a while now. ...more >>

I have my SWF file and want it's width to fill 100% of the browser window and the height to be in proportion. I want 'No Border' so items that are off the canvas aren't seen. I have tried all permitations. If i set width 100% and height 100% with No border set the ends of my movie dissapear. If i...more >>

hi, does anyone know if it's possible to preload/stream audio into an xml driven audio player? at the moment the whole song has to load before it starts playing, which isn't very user friendly. i would be interested in alternative methods of doing this too. i've tried each audio file as an swf, b...more >>

Hi I'm reviewing Flash and Director for the production of a Cross Platform CD Rom which will also include the option for users to open PDF's also on the CD. I'd prefer to use Flash as there appear to be a couple of work arounds to open the PDF especially on the Windows platform, but not a lot for...more >>

How do I create a flash animated movie so that I can pan around a room in a similar fashion to some of these hotel websites that allow the visitors to see around the rooms? I THINK it involves lots of different images that are stuck together and scrolled in some way but I want it a it ike a loop....more >>

Hello, I'm adding some information together and placing it inside a variable so it can then be displayed inside of a dynamic text box. The code i am using to put the information into the variable is: missingObj1 = "Objective 1"+"Short Answer Question 1"+"Answer Given"; This is ok and when is...more >>

Can anybody point me to an online basic tutorial on the stage and axis coordinates in Flash? I am having a little problem with _x and _y placement and movement. Thank you, FayeC ...more >>

I basically want to take a jpeg sequence and use the trace bitmap function to try to reduce file sizes... It works great but so far I have only been able to do one frame at a time....:( I have tried selecting all frames and doing trace bitmap but it wont let me.....any suggestions Thanks four2...more >>

Does anyone know when, if at all, Flash player will support the scroll wheel functionality in textboxes? ...more >>

Hello All, I've got a project that has a Flash interface and launches PDF files on the CD. If the user does not have Acrobat Reader on their system I'd like to supply it on the CD and launch from there. Is there a way to launch the PDF and Acrobat Reader from the CD? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I have created a square shape with a text label just over it. I select both and convert in button. I edit this button and I modified the tint of the square in the "Over" frame. I launch the preview and when I pass over the shape the tint change (as I want) but if I pass over the text the tint doe...more >>

Hy, i have this problem: in a html document i have 2 frames. in one of them i have a Flash button and i want that when i click on it to open another page in the second frame, but it doesn't take the onClick event. What is the problem, if someone can help i'd appreciate that. ...more >>

urami_, On 1/18 you went above and beyond with helping me on my post titled "Help figuring out how to customize this script.." I'm hoping you can show me the solution to one last thing. I need to know how to incorporate a preloader into the flash movie you constructed. I've tried adding one...more >>

Hello, Whenever I load text from an external database into Flash MX text fields, some Spanish characters (á, é, í, ó, ú) are shown wrong. What can I do to avoid this? I hope someone can help me with this. Thank you. CPG ...more >>

Hi all. I have an swf inside a layer. The page has also more layers. Because the other layers were always under the flash, I used the wmode=transparent parameter. It works. But now the problem is: on IE6 browsers, all the flash buttons work bad. No hand cursor (even using useHandCursor insi...more >>

Someone i'm working for wants the SOURCE CODE to the flash intro i did for them. they want to change a couple pictures periodically in it. i told them that i didn't think that was possible b/c it was an animation. is it? thanks. ...more >>

hi there.... I am currently working on a project which is about to due 2moro... You all seem to be good in Flash and helpful....I need some help with the project. I am using levels....a.swf needs to load b.swf and set the position of b.swf accordingly. I have lost b.swf fla, so i cant set the p...more >>

Nothing shows up except the background color of my Flash movie in Netscape's browser. It works fine in Internet Explorer browser. Does anyone know why this might be? Any advice would be much appreciated! J ...more >>

Here's a simple question- I have a movie clip called say, "Navigation MC". Within that movie clip I have a navigation menu made up of buttons. The movie clip is say, 30 frames long with a stop at frame 10 where the menu buttons are. I want to link the menu buttons to frames in different scenes, b...more >>

I finally went and did something stupid (I guess just to see what it would be like...) and I'm not immediately seeing a way to fix the problem. After importing a .wav file into my .fla, one day while cleaning up stray "development" files from the hard drive for some reason I was thinking it was a s...more >>

Embedded font + small font size = anti-aliased text = hard to read Given that the embedded font WILL be used, and the size WILL be small enough to cause anti-aliasing, do you typically just accept the results and hope viewers will have high enough resolution displays for the text to be legible, o...more >>