I am new for Flash. I am using Flash mx2004 to design the header part of a webpage, which include a search engine, a banner and a navigation bar. Following the Flash part are the side bar and main content window. I use firework for the sidebar, and the content window is used CSS for positioning (i...more >>

I feel so ashamed, myself being an experienced flash user but... How do you incorperate scroll-over changes and changing page via clicking? I have never had to use the mouse before; I always used buttons outside of the flash movie and mainly used flash as an animation program. Please help..... ...more >>

Good afternoon, I have created several dynamic text fields. One in english, one in chinese, and one in korean. None of the text boxes have the fonts embedded. This works no problem on my MAC OSX machine or a machine containing a full unicode font. However, I can't guarantee that my user will ...more >>

Hey all... Once I imported my MPG file and after crunching it in sorenson and placing it as a movieclip on the screen, I realized I needed some "pause" and "play" buttons. For the "Pause" I imported one of the stock green-gel buttons on screen and inserted the following Actions: on (relea...more >>

I need help! When I write text (using a text box) and insert a tween between two keyframes I can't make the text's change in colour gradual. I can make the text box move freely around the screen but the colour changes instantly when it reaches the last frame. Thanks for any help ...more >>

i have a animation thats about 300 frames an a song and every time i try to export it it it freezes. help please ...more >>

I can't find straight forward info on adding labels in my Flash movies. I left my text at work and am sick in bed with THE FLU and my laptop. All tutorials I find get into actionscript. I am a beginner and just want to organized my movies. When I try just adding a label layer and select a frame and...more >>

Hi Im using Flash MX, and have a flash site up and everything is fine. Ive read through tons of threads and have tried hours of different things and i cant figure this out. heres the deal... I have a quicktime movie, I want to be able to have to click on a button in my flash site and have the movie...more >>

I am attempting to run demo version of Flash MX to see if it can help our organization with animations for a client of yours. When we attempting to run the demo 3.06 GHz Xeon with 3GB of RAM, running Windows XP, and attached to our network, we get the following errors. ~e5d141.tmp The File Ex...more >>

I have an swf that I want to resize on a webpage with a color background. The swf has an exact color background. When I resize the movie on the webpage, a white outline around the movie appears when viewing in a browser. Any assistance will be GREATLY appreciated!! ...more >>

Is there a way to change the opacity of the background of a document in FlashMX? Any suggestions? ...more >>

Hi, I know this is the simplest question but I don't know. What code do I need to add an .SWF file created in flash into a HTML Page so that I can upload it to my website? Thanks, Darren ...more >>

Is it possible to place actions in buttons? The action window states "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it. Why would that be? Chris ...more >>

I am aware of the problem where you need to change http to https in your code to make it work on SSL, but I still have a problem. I have a Flash movie that works on a non SSL site in both IE and Netscape. Went I move it to the SSL(https) site the movie will play in Netscape, but not in IE. Does a...more >>

I was disappointed with the new compiled components in MX 2004. They are poorly implemented, poorly thought out, and horribly documented. If the goal was to make things easier for designers and intermediate programmers, the designers of this product have failed miserably. I'll give a few exam...more >>

Is there a way to close a browser window after the movie stops through AS? FayeC ...more >>

I have a customer who has provided a graphic to be used as a background in his Flash but it is only 128x128 pixels and the Flash is 450x450 pixels. He doesn't want it stretched (looks horrible) so how can I tile it? Oh, and it has to load in because he will be changing the background on a monthl...more >>

Hi, I'm building a page for a client, and I'm running into a very weird problem... The scenerio is thus: Page contains: 2 buttons, first with a goto command to go to frame 2, and the other to frame 3. frame 2 contains 2 movies, showing one button fading, and the other sliding to the top of the pa...more >>

Ok, I wanted a sound to be played from a certain frame, so I set it to an action and tested it. Everything worked fine. Now, the sound is a music, and it needs to be in-line with the animation, and when testing it, everything appeared fine. But when I put it online, the music was not in line with...more >>

anyone having problems with the pull down menu UI component that comes with 2004 pro ? it doesnt work when its in an mc that is loaded into a MAIN mc :( ...more >>

I have been working with some new flash content and there are some effects that use objects (symbol or shape) that are hidden on the stage by making them width = 0.0. I tried to make some in my Flash MX and the smallest I can make is 1.0 wide. Anyone know the reason and/or the history of this? What ...more >>

Hi, I am using a movie symbol in a website design i am working on but have problem controlling the end of it. I want to play the animation and then after it is finished execute a small animation automatically. The only way i have been able to solve this is to use a "stop" on time line and a bu...more >>

I am relatively new to Flash. I am trying to make a little Flash movie for a website that displays song lyrics and a play and stop button. When the play button is pressed the audio of the song will start, when stop is pressed it stops. My problem is that I cannot prevent the song from automatic...more >>

hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to make text scroll without a scrollbar. I've seen this with background images also..where you move your mouse to the right and the animation goes to the right the further right you go the faster it moves to the right. (I'm not talking about mouse trails ho...more >>

I recently started developing an interactie CD for this company. I use Flash MX, but they purchased a copy of Professional for the slide presentation feature. I am having the hardest time getting things working correctly in the hierarchy and at this point am ready to just build a presentation from...more >>

Since the last question I asked had such a simple answer, maybe this one will as well. I've created buttons for a Flash presentation using actionscripts. I want the buttons to move you through the presentation to different frames. I've used the actions - on release goto and stop function. They wo...more >>

Hi, I have created a buttons which is just text because thats all it needs to be! Anyway, because it is text, it is quite hard to activate? How can I expand the active area of the button. Thanks in Advance ...more >>

Quick Question Have just started playing with flash to create interactive training tools. Have played with action scripts to start and stop a video when a button is pressed. However I would also like a rollover effect on the button to replace the button bitmap with a second bitmap. My reference b...more >>

I'm trying to create a "fake" virtual tour of a room. I've taken multiple images and stitched them together to create one long, image. As the image passes through the stage, it replicates the movement of a camera around the room. This works when I hit the return button, but not when I hit the te...more >>

Can some please help. I am loading swf files on differant levels. I need to fade in one swf while another fades out on the same level. This should help with transition. Any advice? http://www.granadesign.com/rem/index.html if you notice when you click on the links it isn't a smooth transition. Th...more >>

Ok, i'll try to put it simple. Lets say i want to make a "image puzzle" with 9 buttons, each of the buttons changes his pic when pressed, and the user as to click to find a right combination. How can i do that? I think it's not possible to make a frame to each image combination, and therefore ...more >>

I was working last night and exporting out some .flv clips for a client, and they were coming out decent, but not great. So this morning i downloaded the flv export update, ran it, restarted and now I don't have the option to export out to an FLV out of quicktime, or anything else that used the code...more >>

how do i understand what LEVEL is what ie (_level0) etc and what ROOT is (_root) what are the differences ? Sincrerely Chris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.572 / Virus Database: 362 - Release Date: 1/...more >>

Hello, Is there a way of using dynamic text fields at an angle? I am working on a design where I have a page at an angle (say 40º rotation). On the botton of this page should appear a text which will be dynamic but since the page is at an angle so should be the text field. I've tried doing thi...more >>

I want to simply overlay my flash movie onto my html page - can i do this? thanks! ...more >>

I'm a relative newb with Flash 5. When you publish, it generates an HTML file that includes all the text used in the flash movie. My particular flash movie is 145k. My question is, is this "<!-- text used in the movie-->" important to have in the html file? Does it make the movie load faster (som...more >>

This seems to be pretty common, but I haven't found a solution that works. Basically, I can't get macromedia flash player to install. I get no response from the download page. The standalone seems to install, but doesn't work. No error messages. I've done everything on the FAQ page. I tried a soluti...more >>

There is a Shevlin extension that allows you to open windows full, centered and random pixel size which I use on my site. I need to have the site open up in a full browser screen. The Shevlin component can only be used with buttons. I know there is script out there for actions on a frame. Any help?...more >>

When I did a search for "flash blurry", it seems most people want to make their images/text unbury. However sometimes (at least for me) I want images to become blurry. I will need to do this within Flash and not import an already blurry image. Is this doable Brad W ...more >>

I'm using the latest version of the exporter (1.1) and when I export a quicktime movie from Cleaner the sync with the sound is off; the image seems to lag 10-20 seconds behind the sound etc. When I look at the file type it says it's a document and not "macromedia flash video" I'm on a mac running...more >>

I have applied the show screen behavior to a button and I recieve this error **Error** Screen=50pic1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 5: ')' expected if((this._parent.50pic2 != undefined) && (this._parent.50pic2 != null)) I know nothing (nearly) about actionscript, this is the code tha...more >>

I have been searching in vain for a simple Javascript, that will redirect to a HTML page, of my choosing if the client does not have a flash plugin. I do not want them to be redirected to the flash site, but to my HTML version of my website. If the client has flash I want the page to load as inte...more >>

Ok, I am a real newbie, but... When I go to create a new file, my only option is a flash file. Why can't I create a new actionsript file? ...more >>

Hi everybody I want to create a flash movie for a CD_ROM and i am just wondering do i just burn the .swf file to the CD ?....or do i create a flash executable that will run when i double click on the CD icon? ...more >>

Is it possible to search and replace images in Flash? I made a slide show with six pictures, and each picture is composed of a motion tween with four keyframes. I use that as a template to build additional slideshows. Now, when I want to change the pictures, I have to go to each instance and s...more >>

When I publish my Flash file, some of the letters is appear in my file. The copy started as static text and I converted it to a graphic symbol. any suggestions? ...more >>

how can i make a sound play everytime a text field's contents are changed. the sound name and identifier is "Sound3" and the text fields variable name is "output". the text field is automatically changed every second (a countdown timer) so the sound needs to be played EVERY time that it changes. ...more >>

Is there a way to get a demo of 3d studio? because there is no way I am paying that much money then if I dont like it i cant return it ...more >>

I'm trying to incorporate a .swf that I created with a program other than MMflash into my MMflashMX2004 movie. Is there another method to use other than import? I know it is probably very simple but it has been eluding me for to long and I need help, so please help. ...more >>

Hello! Ok, so I'm loading other .swf files into a main movie. When testing their interaction on my computer, they work PERFECTLY... BUT, when I upload them onto my server, all of a sudden my main movie can't load the other .swf files. All files, including the main movie, are in the same directo...more >>

PROBLEM: I'M TRYING TO DO A FLV VIDEO - BUT I'M GETTING SWF-video QUALITY (MUFFLED SOUND, GRAINY VIDEO) HELP!!!!!!!! (READ ON...) Okay - Here's the deal. 1. Using a Sony DSR-PD170 DV CAM, I edit and export video using Vegas Video 3.0 - turns out incredibly high quality...great footage. 2....more >>