I'm sorry, but I really need to vent here......I have posted about 6 different posts regarding a data load issue that I'm encountering and need to resolve......I came to the place that I thought all the "experts" would be sure to be found and thus the answer to my problem would be found. Afte...more >>

I would appreciate some help on a function I am trying to add to a project. I am still using Flash 5. I would like to have an swf file with external graphics. I want to be able to change the images (jpegs) without having to open the swf file. But instead, replace the existing images with new ones...more >>

hi everyone, i was wondering what the maximum _x and _y co-ordinates in flash were.. if there is a maximum. kyokutan!!...more >>

Please help. I can't get any text field variable values from my flash form that posts to cgi. The following is my action script on my release button: on (release) { title = title.getValue(); name = name.getValue(); surname = surname.getValue(); aday = aday.getValue(); amonth =...more >>

I'm new to Flash MX, and recently built two short flash animations, both of which I published in .html as well as .swf format I e-mailed the .html file to two friends to view, but they are unable to play the movie on their PCs (nothing loads). I can successfully play the published animatio...more >>

I have a flash movie on a layer above an imagemap. When the movie is unloaded a residual image remains so that you cannot access the imagemap link that lie beneath.... any guesses on how to resolve this? thanks ...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to follow the tutorial 'in the help files' about databinding = (Create the user interface) but I get -> Scene 1, Binding between <unknown>.. and timeInfo_grd.dataProvider.: The = endpoint of the binding does not exist Scene 1, Binding between <unknown>.. and timeInfo_gr...more >>

After I publish a Flash movie that I made, how do I get it to not show the File and Edit menu bar and the title bar? Thanks!...more >>

Hi everyone I'm working on an personal (I mean for my own use) calender/notebook ( MX ) and I'm having 'trubble' saving data to a file on my OWN computer. No server/net will be involved. I can do it now using IE - JScript but I'd prefer a projector and no bowser Could anyone help me ...more >>

Ok...here's the situation......and I'm really hoping that someone out there can answer this. I thought I had a crossdomain issue, but after further thought I'm not real sure. I have a swf that contains various web service connectors that are tied to ColdFusion components. These cfc's execut...more >>

FLASH MX 200 Just installed software and can't run because of noted error (Subject Line Anyone know what the probelm is The install had NO problems at all.. Not a good way to introduce individuals to Flash Jay Swa ...more >>

hey guys i want to remove the automatic break that seems to be insterted after my flash movie for some reason. basically, this is a mozilla/netscape problem. when i view the movie in ie, there's no break after the movie, but in netscape and in mozilla (tested in the new firefox and firebir...more >>

hey guys i want to remove the automatic break that seems to be insterted after my flash movie for some reason. basically, this is a mozilla/netscape problem. when i view the movie in ie, there's no break after the movie, but in netscape and in mozilla (tested in the new firefox and firebir...more >>

We have this situation........my swf is running one server and my database is on a separate server that does not have any web server running on it. I have run into what appears to be the "crossdomain" issue. The swf runs successfully, you can navigate etc, but anything that requires data tha...more >>

Hi all is there anyway to stream external quicktime movies in MX 2004 Pro ? thanks ...more >>

Hi all I downloaded and tried the sample at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/vidtemplate_corppreso.html. This thing works fine as lng as you click forward through the slide stack. As soon as you click backwards, or in some unanticipated order, the slides and audio get...more >>

Hi there, I want to load an exernal .swf into my main movie which has been converted into a standalone projector (.exe). It works fine when testing it and it still works just running the swf, but as soon as I convert it into .exe it screws up. Any hints please? Regards, Mark ...more >>

Problem: graphic symbol (rectangle) will not transform to handles when using control option to transform the path. ???...more >>

How can this be done? ...more >>

Can someone tell me where to find the Preference File in Flash. Photoshop, Illustrator, & FreeHand all have a Prefs file that can be thrown away. Karon...more >>

I just discovered that google is searching within SWF files now. I think this must be relatively new, becuase I haven't seen some of these results appearing until this morning. Give it a try "search terms filetype:swf Seems to work pretty well ...more >>

I am looking for a tut or a fla that displays an vertical menu with mutiple toplevel link and multiple sub level links. I have found a menu that works great, yet I need the active button to remain "lit" until another button is selected or until the page changes. The menu I have found is @ ...more >>

Ok i am a little knew to flash. I made a banner with my sites name and i want to add some animation to it that i am having trouble with. The text itself is surrounded by a ring (actually it is just an oval) and i wanted this oval to rotate around my text. Is there anyway to make this work? ...more >>

I have a client that heard you can publish your FLA to an AVI. I'm on a mac running MX and when I got to publish it only gives me the option to publish to a Quicktime MOV file. Is it possible that I don't have some plugin that allows me to publish to AVI or am I publishing wrong. Let me know. ...more >>

h i really need help guy I have created a flash animation and put this animation in a layer in a web page . what i wanna do is that when i open the web page, the animation should be in a bigger size covering the rest of the page then when i press a button, the animation should return to it...more >>

I build a presentation and I have a 'little' problem: all slides appear at the same time .. so it's a mess on the screen. Could anyone help me out? Thx...more >>

Well, I have a small flash clip with some text animation wich I include = on the header of my website, and I want it with transparent background = to be able to view the background picture of te site. Heres te code: <OBJECT CLASSID=3D"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" = CODEBASE=3D"...more >>

We've created a very small Flash app that runs perfect on our test servers, but when we post it to the production server it will not play. Each server is Windows 2000 and IIS. On the production server, the file will not play even if called directly in the URL (http://127.0.0.1/flashfile.swf)...more >>

I must first explain that I am brand-new to flash and looking for a probably easy answer.. How can I import photos and remove their background so that they can overlap with other images (the image was made in photoshop and there is a clipping path around it, but that doesn't seem to help) ...more >>

hello I am making a custom 'alert' window for my users that do not have a flash player installed on their machine I would like to include a nice official 'MM get Flash player X.x' icon but did not find anything here on the site any thoughts on getting an oficial MM icon to embed into my...more >>

I seem to be having trouble getting movies published in flash player 7 to run in Internet Explorer. I publish the file with actionscript 2.0 support an when I try to insert the .swf file into dreamweaver it sometimes imports it as a square box. This does not represent the true size of the movi...more >>

hi all! i need to create a webpage in flash for a photography company. i just want to know how to create framesets just like in html. i have my menus on the left and the main area to the right of it! what i want is when you click on any button on the menu on the left. the main area fade out a...more >>

Is it legal to embed fonts in a projector for dynamic fields that users can edit? ...more >>

Does anyone know an example / a tutorial / a program on how to make an online magazine in flash, it would be nice if it had animated pageturns and some other stuff like that. I've searched for over 5 hours but came up with nothing I really could use. So please help me Thank You ...more >>

Hey, I've posted 5 or 6 messages in the past two weeks and haven't gotten one reply! (however I have replied to many questions with advice I hope were relevant)... Is it a conspiracy? Anyway here's my most urgent question, and I hope you find it worth considering, please? I am embedding vid...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 6.0 on OS X 10.3. I want to try out using device fonts but I don't want to go through every text field in the whole movie switching every font. Is there a gloabl parameter for this somewhere Also, I noticed I was using Webdings for one of my buttons and I deleted it to s...more >>

Good Afternoon I'm having a problem I have a Dynamic text field and it's selectable activated I have a Button too Now when I press this button I want FLASH MX to recognise what part of the text was selected with the mouse and store it in a variable How can I do to recognise what part...more >>

hi all is there a way to install the flash player on a user machine as a part of an appliction. and not have it asking for updates while the internet explorer plug in can ask for an update i mean, keeping the player of the appliction the same but keeping the "general" player updating tha...more >>

I know this documentation exists somewhere but I cannot locate it. I need to make the background of a scrollpane component movie clip transparent and then I need to change the background color in another. any help rde ...more >>

Anyone knows or have a Tutorial about the FLASH MX Professional 2004 ? I search for this Tutorial, because this version has a lot of diferences than FLASH MX ! Thanks a Lot [ ]? Alexandre V. Magalh?es Marques - GFFA alexandre@mmarques.co ...more >>

I am having some trouble with a bit of video that I want to be embedded. In this case, its an animation of a room that includes a monitor playing a video. The video plays correctly with the .fla opened and the'test movie' option selected. However, when I publish the file as a swf, and p...more >>

Hi, Just started using MX 2004 (standard version) and whilst i can live without advanced and normal modes, I am cannot live without the pulldowns that used to be at the bottom on normal mode: Eg - if you drag in 'Get URL' at the bottom of your actionsript window there used to be pulldo...more >>

Hello, I would like to make the document size 100% height and width, so it will fit the screen whoever sees it. I looked at the properties of the document but can only fill in pixels, and I want to do 100%. Thanks! ...more >>

Flash says that it has been installed but when accessing a flash site it is not visible. A blank space with the small image symbol is in the top hand corner and the flash does not appear Anyone know why ...more >>

I am having some trouble with a bit of video that I want to be embedded. In this case, its an animation of a room that includes a monitor playing a video. The video plays correctly with the .fla opened and the'test movie' option selected. However, when I publish the file as a swf, and p...more >>

Any advice on how to get my site to load faster? http://www.aboutlakecharleslouisiana.tmidea.com Thanks, Jeffro ...more >>

I am having trouble installing the latest flash player because I am on a network behind a proxy server and a firewall, I have spoken to the network administrator who won't re configure these items to allow me to update. Does anyone know where I can download the player without using the insta...more >>

New work www.implantes.odo.b Last works www.sesconlda.org.b www.paulodocarmo.com.b www.ateneucpv.com.b Thank you for the observations Wilson Francisco Eugenio (Neocortex Beta Tester Macromedia - Brazi ...more >>

This is what I am attempting to do. From our intranet, I want to have a thumbnail open a little .swf, the user then controls it. It has buttons within that flash file that opens up another flash file. The problem is this, it opens the second flash file in a browser. I just want it to open up ...more >>

Could you please have a look at this for me www.grantsmithOnline.co.u On my portfolio pages you should be able to click the image and a pop up appears? However this only seems to work on my machine, all my friends have tried it and it has not worked for anyone? I am using Flash Mx 04, bu...more >>

Just testing out Mozilla Thunderbird newsgroup software....more >>

How do I keep this piece of sh_t from following me around the net begging to be downloaded? I am f'ing tired of it....more >>

i'm attempting to install the trial version of MX, but every time I try to extract the files, windows gives me an "unexpected end of file" error message and quits extracting. anyone run into this before or have any idea what i can do about it ...more >>

Hi all I'm using this script to preload my movie stop() _root.stop() this.createEmptyMovieClip("loader", 2) this.loader.onEnterFrame = function() this.percentDone = Math.floor((_root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal())*100) _parent.loadProgress_txt.text = "loading "+this.per...more >>

Added a video component to a screen presentation....Entered in the total time ....Upon plaing the video runs like it's in fast forward. When done if you hit the Rewind then Play it plays in normal speed. Also if you do not enter a time in the panel it plays normal speed. If you do not use the ...more >>

At any website that includes Flash content, including most of this site, I experience a weird flashing issue. On some pages, the entire browser window flashes or blinks in white when I move the mouse. It looks like the page is blinking on and off Other sites just have an issue with the "...more >>

Hi All I was hoping some one out there could help me Im developing a sales and marketing calculator for a website The calculator is fairly simple and I pretty much have the calculations perfected Im just in the process of cleaning up the minor display issues and I have found that setti...more >>

Has anyone had any success in getting a preloader to work with the slides options in flash professional? I have yet to get anything to work. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers, -greg...more >>

Is there a thing in Flash MX where you can set your Actions WIndow to beginner, or whatever it was, like in flash 5?? I prefer that way alot better, it was much easier....more >>

This is something that I've never seen before in flash until I started using MX. When ever I use a bitmap and resize it, even when I size it down, it gets distorted. I figured that I need to import bitmpas to the exact size I need them. And don't try to resize them in MX. However I am running ...more >>

Hello everyone, I would like to make a short story for my daughter that when she stuck on reading a word she can click it and the word will be pronounced. I am a C programmer, I know I can do it in C but I thought there maybe some short cuts in flash to speed up the production. Please sen...more >>

can i have different framerates on the same layer? Ex- first 40 frames plays at 12 frames/sec and then the next 40 frames plays at 30 frames/sec...more >>

I have a button with this action: on(Release){ getURL("mailto:helmut@humanletterstudios.com"); } BUT don't work, what happened??? ...more >>