A few of my friends, and I have started up a Flash Community to help out others who need help with Flash or Photoshop. I enjoy helping out others who have questions about Flash, because I once was asking the same questions and I know its hard for all of the Team Macromedia members to answer all of y...more >>

Hi how can I make a movie where a person is moving very smooth and doing things, like it's a video? (eg. http://www.nieuwscafe.be/midweekfeesten/ ) I can't image that all those movies are made frame per frame..?! How do they make those natural moves?! Thx Da Mike ...more >>

I have a problem, now on the stage all the graphics elements are disappear and the only thing that is showing is a green border of the elements. How is possible to show the whole graphics on the stage and not only the green border? Thanks! ...more >>

I am using MX 2004 pro, and I cant get any of the components to show up in my movie.... I drag the component to the stage, and set the params, and then test the movie, and the component just shows up as a box. it doesn't matter which component I use, they all do this. I thought I was following ...more >>

Can someone help me out, with some button issues? I know Im missing something really simple but its kicking my a$$. Anyways I've created a photo gallery of sorts and I can't seem to get the rollover to stay after clicked. I want people to be able to see what images they have already clicked, mak...more >>

Hello everyone, I haven't worked in Flash in a while and I am trying to creat an animated gif and I just want to do a slow glow from dark green box to a light green box and back to the dark green. I set up the timeline and all works well when I test the movie within Flash, but when I export it...more >>

i copying text and pasteing and is not paste! why?!:( ...more >>

Hello. I have imported images into Flash MX successfully, with loadMovie. But I cant find any support to tell me how to resize the image to fit into a set width and height I specify. Does anyone know how? Here's my code: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("Image", this); loadMovie("myImage.jpg"...more >>

I want to use SetVariable() from c++. Ansi strings work but how do I make Unciode work? ...more >>

Is it possible to force Flash to create and access a local shared object in the same directory as the Flash movie that will be using it instead of the default location? I want to create a local shared object that will be populated with one flash movie, then burn a second Flash projector movie, along...more >>

I've created my site. It consists of a preloader, a main page with buttons that link to other .SWF files. It all works great I just can't get the preloader to load the separate .SWF files such as MAIN.SWF and files that the buttons link to PORTFOLIO.SWF and RESUME.SWF. They are all in the same fol...more >>

Is there a publicly available UI component to frame an application with the Halo style? See, e.g., http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/004255.cfm -- Marc A. Garrett since1968.com ...more >>

Does anyone know where I can find great Flash MX video tutorials relatively inexpensively or even free? Regards, Scott...more >>

I was wondering about a couple simple(for you guys anyway) level questions. 1. What level is your main movie on? 2. If I put 5 movieclips into levels 0,1,2,3,4,5 does that mean that 4 is below 5, 3 below 4 etc? Why I am asking is to keep the same content around a screen, but have movieclips p...more >>

The first question is; can I sell anything I make in flash? I have MX 2004 and am going to buy the full version if i am allowed to sell what I make. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

A client wants to post a 2-minute video (a product demo, currently in production) on his B2B web site. I've been looking at Flash as an alternative to offering the choice of Windows Media Player, Real Player and QuickTime. I've played around a little with embedding video in Flash MX (not 200...more >>

On two computers in our lab, I am having difficulty changing the alpha on text. When I scrub the playback head in the timeline, it works correctly. But, when I publish the movie it does not work. I have tried moving the file over to a computer that is working..no luck. Also,I have tried reinsta...more >>

hi, i am looking for ways to make some 3d environment with flash i have these images that i want to place one behind the other, a different depths let's say and i want to be able to navigate through them and stop at a certain depth and view them if anyone knows a script or tutorial to crea...more >>

I am in genuine need of advise... Due to hardware issues I may have to recreate some of my files... I have a lot of the SWF files. Could someone please advise what the best decompile program I could use? I'm really in a bind! :( Thanks Janet ...more >>

i was just curious on how i can solve the problem of not being able to export flash movies to quicktime, i get the "the installed version of quicktime does not have a handler for this type of macromedia flash movie. please contact the documentation for further information." if anyone can help me sol...more >>

HI, Ive been hearing about the IE updates that are going to cause problems with embedded flash , I am a lightweight user and dont understand scripting very well so if anyone out there knows anything about it please help: I use the script: <html> <body> <embed src = "filename.swf"> </embed...more >>

HI.... Okay....After installing Studio MX 2004 and using it for a few weeks I un-installed older versions......now all files have become un-associated. Right click "open with" doesnt work. Re-installing Flash PLayer doesnt work either. I tried re-installing studio but that caused major probs so I...more >>

Ok, so I have a variable for a sound. In one MC, on the second frame there's a button that, when pressed, will play a sound (the button works because that part works) and is supposed to set a variable (i.e _root.player1soundnum=2;) Well, it's just not doing that. Even when I go into movie explore...more >>

Well, I was wondering if anyone could either direct me to a site or a place on the forum/tutorials, about making buttons that display images. Either by when you click the button, a separate window comes up with the image, or when you click the button once the image is displayed next to it. I tried...more >>

Basically I have a MC, and when you click on it it goes to the second frame of that MC. On that frame are 5 movie clips I'm using as buttons (they're really movie clips, switching to buttons doesn't work though in case you weren't sure). When you click on them they're supposed go to their next frame...more >>

Hi, I have searched the forum for the answer and found many threads related to that question, but I didn't find an answer that seemed definite or that I could understand... All I'm trying to do is center my loaded jpegs in a MovieClip. Each jpeg loads in the same MovieClip one after another, fram...more >>

i'm somewhat of a novice to computers....i've gone through the FAQ, trouble shooting and these forums but havn't found a soulution to the problem. When installing the Flash Player from this site i get an error message stating "An Error occured while copying file flash.ocx cannot copy file to destin...more >>

For some reason, anything i import now into the stage doesnt want to erase or do anything period. I would really like the help if anyone can! ...more >>

I'm creating a simple button that enlarges when you rollover it. But when I roll out it just returns to the UP state. I want it to shrink back to regular size when you roll out. How do I get a roll out movie clip effect on a button? Is it an action on one of the button instances or an action on the ...more >>