I have a problem with preloader not working on a movie when loaded into another movie using loadMovie action for a button. The preloaded movie ( http://www.gustographics.co.nz/slidetester.swf ) works fine on its own but when loaded onto a target in another movie ( http://www.gustographics.co.nz/flas...more >>

After installing Flashplayer 7, many webpages I visit containing Flash animations/movies begin flickering whenever I move my mouse over a hyperlink, particularly text hyperlinks, like the ones 1/3 of the way down on the Macromedia home page. I have even visited a webpage with no Flash on it, and wh...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for any information about converting a non-interactive Flash SWF to video in any format (MPEG4, QT, AVI etc.) What's the best way to go about it? Udi Pladott --------------------- [ remove "nospam" and underscores for real email address] ...more >>

hello, i'm about to start creating my own flash web applications and was wondering if anyone can recommend file size ranges... (is 10 MB too large? 25MB?) i will be primarily creating flash web apps to be used on friends web sites. so my question really is how big is too big for a standard personal ...more >>

Hallo I have basic skills on flash and am willing to pay for lessons to improve. If you can help please contact me. Gary ...more >>

hi all ..... have a bit of a gremlin ! i have a skip intro button on the intro page if a sute that takes you to the main page .... all works fine but if you press the back button on the browser, the intro is still carrying on playing (the target for the link to the main page is set to parent - i ahv...more >>

Can anyone tell me the easiest way of creating and formating a scroll bar to work and entering the text. Gary ...more >>

Can anyone help me with this? I made a simple menu for a site that's got movie clips (PNG images moving around) for the buttons. Everything works fine, except when the movie clip's animation loops and repeats itself, on the way back to that first frame the image "squishes" itself for 1 frame, then p...more >>

Hi, I worked on a flash presentation for few weeks now. It has about 20 scenes and fla file is about 10MB. Everything was working fine, export was pretty fast, when sudnely it just stopped exporting things! WHen trying to publish i had to wait for pretty while and than this message apers: "Er...more >>

I'm using Flash MX Version 6.0 on a Mac to create my site and have come across a problem that I'm becoming increasingly frustrated about. Details: I have 3 buttons, all contain movies on rollover and on press pop open a new window to play a .mov file. On Safari and Netscape, all 3 buttons wo...more >>

Hi Ok here is my problem. I'm building a web site that is supposed to be in french and english. All textes must be in an external file. The problem is simple. If I use .txt document, I can't use this caracter "&". If I use XML document, I can't use french caracters like "éèôàïë" withouth usign the ...more >>

I've got this really strange problem, hoping someone would help me troubleshoot it. I have two swfs: long1.swf long2.swf In long1.swf I have a button that invokes: on (release){ unloadMovieNum(0); loadMovieNum("long2.swf",0); } In long2.swf I have a button that invokes: on (r...more >>

After downloading the Flash MX2004 Demo trial, when I run the Installer, I get the following error: error creating folder 1008:9,-5000 Access denied error You do not have enough access privileges for this installation. What gives? ...more >>

Anybody know of a dynamic thumbnail gallery built with actionscript that loads pictures from an external source? A tutorial or Fla would be much appreciated. Thank you. -ROD ...more >>

Hi there, Check out this cool software I found on the net! http://www.dualdot.net/default.asp?nav=imagebatch It has a batch mode for converting, naming and resizing images. It's very nice!...more >>

Hey Everyone, I just finished this site yesterday for racecar driver Boston Reid. Let me know your thoughts.http://www.bostonreid.com I am going to have questions about putting the Datagrid component into the schedule page, to display his 04 schedule (in columns and rows) if it's poss...more >>

Seems like such an easy question to answer! So why is everyone asking where and no one as far as I can tell, can find it? Supposedly it is supposed to be here- http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/downloads.html But I can only find one for Mac and Linux. All the other Windows downloads I've tri...more >>

on the download demo place it has the button try 3d studios but then it does not have the download why not? and is there a place to get a demo of 3d swift? ...more >>

I have set up a dynamic text box and used the Flash MX Scroll bar component to provide scrolling text box functionality. Works fine but I have a little problem. Unfortunately text formatting applies to the entire text box. I have section headers which I would like bold, larger and a different c...more >>

hi i have a madden site, and currently the team pages are configured through a header.php file that designates which team (.gif) banner to show for each team, but i have created new banners, but in flash, and need the php to call for a .swf instead, but i believe it also needs to include the plug...more >>

This is driving me crazy. I haven't used flash in a long time and now I have lost all my skills, anyway. I'm trying to link a button to a URL in a blank web page. I select the frame that the button is in and have an onrelease function in my action script. I enter the URL and that it will be se...more >>

Hey, if anyone knows how to resize a new window in flash without using javascript and html files.. please let me know, thanks alot _tony ...more >>

What are the minimum system requirements for a projector that was created in Flash MX? I've looked on the Macromedia's website, but I could only find the system requirements for Flash MX 2004, and those requirements are for files that are playing in a browser. ...more >>

hi hope somebody can help i have a (welcome.txt) file, with a "click here" btn. (for more information) included. when the "click here" btn is clicked i want another .txt file (more info.txt) to apear in place of the old (welcome.txt) what html do i have to use? any ideas thanks craig ...more >>

Does anyone know of a good book that could teach students how to use Flash MX for charactor animation? Thanks ...more >>

Transparent Windowless Flash will work perfectly on most PC browsers, but refuses to work on Mac. Instead of seeing the html behind the transparent flash, i get a white box around the entire piece. Has anyone else encountered this? If so, how did you work around it? ...more >>

Hello, I no you can just get heaps of traffic to go to your site and then it will be listed on google, but cant you just pay the search engine? what happeneds when you pay, do you go up on the list? and how do you pay? thanks www.nuclearfusion.com.au BEST SITE EVER!!!! ;) myemailaddress...more >>

Happy New Year to all, I have an animation that duplicates a textfield clip and fills each instance with text from a variable. When I use no HTML code the text displays fine whether or not I choose to display the text as HTML, and whether the text is assigned as text or htmlText. However, when I ...more >>

Hey guys I am pretty new to flash and have a few questions about moving images. I have a banner setup which fades text in and out in radnom places. Thats all working but the next stage is to get 2 images of clouds moving in opposite directions (like on h**p://www.g0dz.com). The 2 images I have are ...more >>

Just purchased MX Pro 2004...now when I assign the action - 'get URL' - to a button, how do you bring up the area with fields - 'URL', 'Window' and 'Variables'? I need this window as I'm not a programmer yet. Please help. ...more >>

Hi.. i've been using Flash MX 2004 for a while now.. and i got to know how alpha works with tween shape etc. But i can't seem to make images like jpgs, gifs or bmps fade from 100% to 0% alpha. I read a lot of topics here but i still don't get it, some people say i need to convert the image ...more >>

was wondering how you can make internet explorer, ignore the flash plugin and open web based flash files using flash player (so it is full screen & without the internet explorer bars- also allowing you to use actionscripts that are not supported by IE). -cheers ...more >>

Hi, I'm having trouble preloading some streaming sound. In the past I have always preloaded my sound and it been triggered by events on the timeline. Now though I have some things with type on a movie that the voice over artist is saying and I wanted to time them along with the sound so I switche...more >>

Hello to all, I have a flash animation that sits on a layer in a Dreamweaver-coded html page. There is other content beneath this flash layer. When the page loads, the flash plays....when it's done, I need the layer it's on to hide, so that the other content will display. I have tried various ...more >>

I'm creating an installation CD in flash. It's fullscreen, fine and when you click a link to either open a .pdf or browser you can see the taskbar. Also fine, however it says "Flash" on the tab, but I would like it to say " Lorem Ipsum Installer" instead. How would I do that? ...more >>

Hello, win xp flash mx Let me explain my problem: I want to run flash exe file full screen I know that you can do it with fscommand, that's OK. But I also want my flash to be full screen but inside of the presentation I want it to be 100% size that means not full screen. Can I do it also w...more >>

I've got a trial version of Flash 2004, but I can't seem to open my .fla's made with MX in this new Flash. Any ideas or is this a common problem? ...more >>

i have a map movie file with zoom in zoom out button. This 2 buttons was already working fine. When i added a reset button, i can get it through. Any help? attached is the fla file. Thanks ...more >>

I own a website that used to be a flash only site, the only problem was whenevr I wanted to change content I had to upload the flash movie all over again (Being over a 56k connection this can take a fair bit of time). Now I've started remaking the flash side of my site after I learned how to use var...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to have the text in a text field automatically highlighted (selected) when the text field first appears on the screen. Out application has the user selecting a radio button and then (and only then) a text field is displayed that they can type in...more >>

hi! i have a buton with the instance name "button_one". I attached the following script to it: on (release) { trace(this._name); trace(this._x); trace(this._width); } when I test the movie i get no trace for name!!! the x=0!!! and some eronate width!!! the object is liste...more >>

hello, I'm wanting to get a apple power book g4 (might wait til the g5's come out - cheaper) but I was wondering if they are worth it, the main reason I want it is because of garageband - which looks awsom (isnt out is australia yet :( ) but I was wondering if any one (in the US) has it, and if it...more >>

how can i get a pixels rgb values of an image (under mouse arrow) ? thanx in advance, ello...more >>

Where can i get flashplayer 6 plug in for internet explorier? Aciu ...more >>

Hiya all, I have a question. Im a student and for a project we want to make a small internet game. The problem is. How. :) To be more specific the biggest problem is the connectivity. How can we make a server. The idea is that there will be topdown views of a house. And people will be able to wa...more >>

As an extremely loyal Macromedia Customer (I have bought all version of authorware, dreamweaver, flash, freehand macromedia ever produced, and a few of these before macromedia bought them!) I was disappointed that their license agreement allowed me to place a copy on my work desktop and my lapto...more >>

hi, i want to give sound on (button down) but it does not work in swf. please help me. http://webforums.macromedia.com/attachments/button11111111.zip ...more >>

I have a flash movie set up that loads several other swf files into the main timeline. My client will be hosting these additional swf files that are loaded into the main movie, but the main movie will be hosted on our servers. The loaded swf files will be accessing objects and variables in th...more >>

someone know how 2 loadVars from notepad to textArea component.......... thx 2 xpert plz~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...more >>

ok heres my problem... i installed flash player but cannon view ne flash sites... i unninstalled and reinstalled flash, checked my IE properties and reinstalled IE... still wont work.. please help. ...more >>

I have a site with a ton of scenes. I want to rename one of the scenes but when i do, none of the links to that scene refresh. All the buttons linked to that scene still attempt to go to the old scene name, which no longer exsists. Is there anyway around this besides for going to every instance of e...more >>

How would one make a call or action from HTML to the .SWF file. Say, I want to have a menu but not have it in the .SWF file but I want it to control the file. Can I do this? ...more >>

Looking for very professional person to handle a little bit of scripting and Flash work. If you go here http://tamanvanscoy.com and after the movie opens click the bottom tool bar buttons - pay special attention to the way the panels open and shut after you click another button. I would like an est...more >>

Can some please help with dragging a movie clip without having the pointer drag the movie clip when clicked outside the movieclip. The problem i seem to be having is that when i create the movie clip to be draggable the pointer drags the movie clip when clicked and drag outside the object. Thanks...more >>

I am using a Flash template. On the buttons, when you click Home, it goes to the Home page. If you click Home again, it goes to Contact page. All the buttons do this and alternate between two pages. Can someone tell me how to delete this behavior? Thank you. ...more >>

I have a flash site and when tested on my computer, it runs fine and loads pretty quickly...however, when someone else looks at the site it takes about a minute or so to load...I am currently hosting my own website and was wondering if this is one of the reasons why it loads so slow...so my question...more >>

I am trying to create an online tutorial, similar to the one demonstrating Flash. I have created individual movie clips for each of the sections I want to show, but I still want them to seamlessly play one after the other. (I'll add buttons to play the individual movie clips later) Right now, I c...more >>