I have 4 input boxes and I would like to find an action script that allows a button to clear these input boxes from their data to allow new input info. I need a action script to do the following: (For Button I.E Box#1: "5" Box#2: "7 Box#3: "8" Box#4: "4 Button: Press here to clear ...more >>

Hell Im quite new to Flash MX 2004 and was just wondering if you could help me with a problem i have. When ever i add an animation to text (e.g. spin in, or fade and wipe) after the effect has finished the text immidiately dissapears. Ive tried to add a keyframe after it but to be honest d...more >>

Flash MX2004 Pro. Slide Presentation. My slides befing to play before they are shown. I have about 6 slides set up. In slide 6 i have a chart (movie clip) that animates to max exposure. Why does it start playing before I get to the slide? Is there a way to get it to not start? I tried a stop a...more >>

hello i would like to make it so an image doesnt have a white background. i used trace bitmap but it also alterd the texture of the picture. im looking for something that will just get rid of the white background in the image without altering the the texture of the picture all and any hel...more >>

I could be missing something really obvious.. I ran the 'blur' timeline effect on an instance in my timeline. It was successful and looked fine Then I wanted to apply the same effect to a different instance. It was on a keyframe in a layer just above the one I had already applied the eff...more >>

I thought that there was the ability to blur (motion blur) images or whatever in MX 2004? Am I just not seeing it or where is it? Thanks eh. ...more >>

When you create a new Flash document, the stage dimensions and color swatch are initialized to user-specified defaults. Anyone know where the template file containing these defaults is stored on your local system ...more >>

I'm having a bizarre, terrible and new problem. I'm in OSX 10.3. I can open the MX 2004 Pro application, but whenever I try to create a new document or open and old one, the app freezes up and I have to force quit it I've reinstalled and run all of the available updates and it still happens ...more >>

I am working on a site for our school district and the main navigation I use requires FLASH 6. Most computers in the district only have Flash 5 and I am sure some parents only have 5 installed. Is there anyway I can have them download the latest Flash plugin when they navigate to the site au...more >>

I put in a nice jpeg of the banner.....it looks good when I test it in flash Then, when I publish it as an animated gif it looks really grainy and bad. I'm not familiar with all the settings in the gif publish settings box, can you explain them to me Or better yet, which ones should I se...more >>

Hope I'm in the right forum for this, but can someone help me out I need to know, if I create a file in Flash and export it to Illustrator will I have full editting capabilities of that .ai file in Illustrator? (changing colors, adding layers, etc Thanks in advance fellow Flash freaks ...more >>

Ok, I've found the article on the Macromedia site about special characters needing to be URL-encoded when loading text into Flash. However, it does not tell me how to display the two characters that I need the trademark (?) character and the EM-dash (? I've tried %97 and %99, but the...more >>

I made flash projector in 800x600 resolution. How to change resolution on PC to 800x600 when someone put cd-rom of movie into? ...more >>

I have two questions that I have not been able to find the answer for in the knowledge base nor anywhere else. I do hope someone can direct me where I need to go here. 1) How can one do an animation of a circle going around. (sort of like the one that appears on this site when a movie is load...more >>

Can anyone help I want to create a form with flash, but I don't see in the library or components any items that pertain to the creation of a form. How do then create, an editable text field? Regards Pete ...more >>

I created a video file using a video editing program. I then imported the mpeg into flash and created a flash file out of it. It took a bit of resizing, but I got it to work. However, the text in the video is of poor resolution. The video footage is a bit grainy (this I can deal with), but...more >>

I have tried to install flash player but no luck. I had it on my PC but when I installed ADs Popup blocker, I lost flash player. I have uninstalled my ADS popup blocker, reinstalled IE6, Reinstalled Video drivers but no luck. I am running Win2k Professional on a T40 IBM Thinkpad. When I go to ...more >>

Hi All I'm a novice Flash user and I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction As part of a movie that will form a page header for a CCTV Camera Company, I wish to create the effect of a beam of red light forming in the corner of the movie, then widening and sweeping ove...more >>

A client has asked me to make a stack of paper 100 sheets deep that stacks up then decants into a filing cabinet I have already done this for a stack 5 sheets deep using the timeline but now I need to work how to do it more efficiently using actionscript Each duplicate needs to be placed 1 o...more >>

Hi I am fairly new to flash max 2004 and I need some help. I want to change the opacity of an object in Flash, for example I drew a rectangle and made it a graphic, how do I change the opacity of this graphic to maybe 30% ? Any help is appreciated Thanks -Riya Riyaz Prasl IDV...more >>

Hi DataGuru's, AnyOne knows how to get the settings like the above (jpg for the helpFile's) instead of the below setting ??? http://www.vinzent.nl/macromedia/CompIns.gif Where I get: results.datapacket.row the help tutorial shows params.datapacket.row. I am following the data tutorial ...more >>

I really like the menu system used here http://www.bigactive.com Does anyone know of any tutorials on how to do something like this (where the menu items expand, making room for sub-sections)? Any wisdom is greatly appreciated Thanks [L=http://www.bigactive.com/]http://www.bigact...more >>

I wrote a flash animation that's used in a PowerPoint presentation and I need to add a text box on top of it. Simply creating a text box and positioning it over the flash makes the text box flash (no pun intended) on the screen for a second and then the flash plays over it covering up the text...more >>

How do you get rid of the menubar(File, Edit, etc...) and the titlebar so it does not show up when I publish a movie and run it? Thanks!...more >>

I have 4 input boxes and I would like to find an action script that allows a button to clear these input boxes from their data to allow new input info. I need a action script to do the following: (For Button I.E Box#1: "5" Box#2: "7 Box#3: "8" ...more >>

When you make a button in Flash, that has a mouse over, and you have other buttons show up when you put your mouse over it, how do you make it so it doesn't go away when you take you mouse off the say "menu" button and move it to say 'profile" ...more >>

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can I use a motion guide with a mask?...more >>

I have a flash5 script here and need to convert it into flash7. I really don't know how to do this. I have attached the skript as a text-document. Thx4help Jan -- Erstellt mit M2, Operas revolutionärem E-Mail-Modul: http://www.opera.com/m2/...more >>

Hi everyone. I hope this hasn't been covered under some different thread. I tried a search for keywords I thought relevent, but came up with nothing. So here I am. This is a multi part question, as there are several ways I could go about getting something to work quickly...i.e. over the we...more >>

I am trying to put a large number of jpg's in an swf file for use on the internet. These files will scroll through very quickly (view example at www.formfield.com/flash_index.htm , just mouse over the symbol on the left side that says "aural"). I have many more jpg files to put in there. ...more >>

Is there a way to detect whether the swf is playing locally on someone's machine or over the internet? I want to be able to bypass the preloader if playing locally. Thanks in advance... DK....more >>

Hello -- I'm curious to know if there are any online tutorials that discuss using Fireworks to create the background images, buttons, and other page contention, slice it and do whatever, and then importing the slicing into Dreamweaver. I'm most interested in getting more sophisticated in my we...more >>

Hi all, I posted this question in the actionscript forum but no replies. Thought i would try here. I am trying to change a height of a movie clip with this script. I can get it to work but the problem is when it changes its height it moves both the top and bottom to shrink/expand. What I wa...more >>

I create Flash banners that will be served in various banners tracking systems, such as Dart & DoubleClick. I have created the button with the "get URL" action in MX2004. This is the code I see in flash GUI. on (release) { //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL(clickTAG,"_blank"); /...more >>

Hey there Am I missing something here? I have a scrollpane that loads in a mc that is a whiteboard. I've created a print button that should print what I've drawn on the board but instead I see everything but what I've drawn. I tried calling in a different mc (an image) and I can see the im...more >>

I'm trying make an TextInput field have focus so as to eliminate the need to click on the field before you start typing. So far I've had no success I've been using the TextInput component from the layout_library.mxp from DRK4 I've been using Selection.setFocus(fieldname) and Selection.setS...more >>

I am a novice when it comes to Flash, but I'm trying to figure something out that may be quite obvious: I know that I can "compile in" a variety of audio formats into a Flash "object", and that the audio will play on both Windows and Mac. But what I'm looking to do is play an externally linked...more >>

Hello I have a block of text which was converted to a symbol. I duplicate dit, and I want to paste some text fom Word into the new block of text. When I paste, the text appears on top of my original text and it's dicided up into a million little pieces. Can anyone...more >>

Hello, 1- Would anyone know how to create an installer to install my several .swf and .html files automatically from a CDROM into C:/Program Files directory ? I nkow there is the Install Shield software, but it is rather expensive. Is there any other way to do it ? 2- Also, I would like ...more >>

I am creating flash banners for a website and have a question -- If users come to the site without the Flash 6 Player installed, will the Player download automatically, or do they need to download it manually in order to see the animation ...more >>

I am creating a Flash Banner which will allow the users to click on the banner and be taken to another page. I have to hand off the .swfs before the URL for the second page is determined. Is there a way of including this link information in the HTML document that accompanies the .swf so that t...more >>

I was wondering what the best way to become an actionscript guru would be, in particular what is the best resource for learning actionscritping in detail?...more >>

Could someone tell me in a nutshell exactly what Dynamic content is? I understand it is content that changes, but where is it stored, how is it accessed, why do people use it?...more >>

For the most part the .swf plays on almost everyone's machine -- except on a few folks' machines that have not been updated with a reasonable version of Shockwave Player. So they sit there staring at a nearly blank screen. Problem to solve: what to put into the html file that replace the...more >>

Does anyone know how I can duplicate a input Box with the data that was input there. For example lets say I have 4 input boxes and one person enter the number "5" in the input box one. What would be the action script for duplicating what was put in input box #1 and it automatically goes into...more >>

I have just upgraded to Flash 2004 and can't work out the publish settings for an alternate jpeg if Flash is not present Can anyone assist? I used it in MX a lot, but I can't work it out in 2004 Thank Justi ...more >>

I have seen effects similar to this one on a number of auto sites. Does anyone know what goes into creating an effect like this. [L=http://www.lexus.com/models/sc/index.html]http://www.lexus.com/models/sc/inde x.html[/L It seems like it might just be a series of preconstructed bitmaps... ...more >>

Hi guys, I'm new to this forum so hello : I was looking at a site and have seen an example extremely similar to what I want to develop [L=Flash and VRML example]http://www.gertstein.org/hal/vrml/vrmlfixor/[/L It's VRML embedded within a flash interface and I would love to be told how i...more >>

I want to do a slide show with about 30 images. Do i need flash MX to do this, or can it be done with Flash 4? Can anyone give me a quick pointer on how to do it with Flash 4? thanks!...more >>

I made a flash intro for my website, and there are two problems with it, for one it doesnt automatically play when you open up the site. So in other words you have to right click on the flash animation and then click play in order for it to play. The second problem is that i want the last fram...more >>