I am creating a website and I notice that all the wbsite that I looked at they all had a preloader. Do I really need a preloader on the website? If so how do I use it? Thanks...more >>

CAN SOMEONE COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR FLASH, NO TOO HARD, NOT TOO EASY THAT INCLUDES ACTIONSCRIPT....more >>

I click "watches", "local" etc. in the debugger but down there I see nothing but the execution stack... what is wrong with it? ...more >>

I have put a line of text on the stage in one keyframe, and in another keyframe have rotated the text 90 degrees and repostioned on the stage. When I go to publish the movie, only the text in the horizontial position is published, none of the veritcal text is published. I have tried makeing th...more >>

Every time I publish a flash file, mac users are incapable of veiwing it. windows users have no trouble viewing it at all. I have Flash MX (not 2004), and windows '98. I am simply stumped. please help! ...more >>

How can I apply constant rotation on a object in a layer???? I want it to spinn around while moving! Anybody? ...more >>

I'm wondering if there are any "big" flash tutorial sites around. I'm a programmer that learned Director way back with version 5 and I'm trying out Flash now but I can't really find any "big" tutorial sites... I mean somthing like www.codeproject.com or somthing like that for flash or macrom...more >>

I saw the macromedia site of the day today http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/top10_2003/ and to my dissapointment it was a very, i mean very, how should i put it , lame! The sites that are usually site of the day are really impressing but this one was made with a sowtware called zomify tha...more >>

Is there anyway to intergrate SVG into Flash? Flash isan excellent interface method, but SVG is a better content development method. I would love to combine the two. Any help is greatly appreciated. James www.deerring.com ...more >>

hi i have created a painting board for creating drawaings, i want to give it online for the free drawing generator, like online menu generator at www.flashbuttons.com[L=www.flashbuttons.com]http://www.flashbuttons.com[/L] i want facilitate to user to save/email/download user own created dr...more >>

If im running my flash file from a cd, do i still need a preloader? (file size is about 5 mgs) thanks,...more >>

i want to preload an attached sound in my movie clip.....is that possible? the sound [b]name[/b] and [b]identifier[/b] is "nightloop". if it is or even if it isn't possible, please tell me......more >>

I have a web service which returns a URL. I want to put that URL in getURL() function !!! How do I do that ?? Pls help !!!!!...more >>

If somebody can help me, I lost the original FLA, i have the swf and the exe, I need to make some changes for an important presentation...I tryed to importa the swf, but when I export the movie..its not the same.....anybody who can help me..I will really REALLY appreciate..... thx............more >>

I need to create an application which will allow the input of several pieces of information and display that info on the screen. Such as name, location, ID number, etc.. the input would be much like that of a database but the info would only be displayed, not stored, so no database is requ...more >>

I am trying to sync text with a sound file. I have my sound file on a layer and have made enough frames to show the whole song. I want to go in and put text in over the music, synced to the lyrics. I used to hear the song played when I press enter in earlier versions of Flash, but now when i pre...more >>

Hallo, Ich habe folgendes Problem: Ich möcht von "macromedia.com" den Flashplayer downloaden, aber es passiert nichts. Win xp SP1 ist aktuell und die aktuelle java von sun ist auch installiert und aktiv. Ich habe nun die Flash MX 2004 installiert, da ist der Flashplayer mit dabei, der funkt...more >>

Hi, I'm new to Flash and I'm starting with Flash MX 2004. I'd like to create a picture gallery and that is what I'm doing: - In one layer, I add a frame for each image and drop the image directly into the canvas. - Then, I add a layer with stop() function so it stops in each picture. - Now I ...more >>

got it sorted on my lonesome ... thanks for nothing! Getting Sharper...more >>

Can someone please tell me how to set no looping as default for playback of swf files? Everytime I fire up an swf my the player has 'loop' turned on. Right-click to turn it off, but I am trying to make the website we are developing dummy proof. Much obliged. Not The Sharpest Tool in the...more >>

I am trying to export a movie as an AVI file. Everytime I do it, it just exports the background color. No animations or text shows up. Any ideas?...more >>

Hello, I have a Password protected site (pay per minute) and I want to use actionscript to verify my database for username and password. How can I do this? I do not want to add a box where they should fill in their username and password, I just want to check it with my script without any ...more >>

Small fonts are blurry and hard to read so, i used text fields above the button. The problem is i cannt able to select the buttonwhich is behind the text fields. .would plz help me from this problem. ...more >>

As part of the Media Course, I teach Flash to students who just need to learn to animate, make simple CD ROMs and do rotoscoping. Unfortunately, for a new course I am running I purchased Flash MX 2004! Macromedia, in their arrogance and stupidity, have removed the "Basic" Action Script com...more >>

I have a animation (swf) file which doesnt perform well on a low config system - [u]233MHz 64MB Flash Player 6[/u]. The file is in 12fps with full of vector shapes. My file contains a character which has a walking animation cycle and the long background with quite a few [i]background details[/...more >>

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for drop downs. The drop downs I created have alot of bugs which I can't figure out how to fix? http://www.granadesign.com/rem/index.html ck out the site still in production Thanks GRANADESIGN...more >>

i know this has nothing to do with flash but i need help, is there any html code that you can disable right click without using java? thank you...more >>

http://www.boies-schiller.com/htm/flash.htm There's some masking, some of this, some of that... I would love to have the actual functionality of just the movement of 3 images going back and forth (with buttons that cause the movement, not movement on its own) and the masking effect as well; not t...more >>

Got carried away with button...more >>

HI all, I have a quick question. I have a preloader in my movie which works great, but if a slow connection is being used then even before the preloader loads there is a great big white square that is in place of the movie. This would be okay if the background on the web page was white but it'...more >>

HI all, I have a quick question. I have a preloader in my movie which works great, but if a slow connection is being used then even before the preloader loads there is a great big white square that is in place of the movie. This would be okay if the background on the web page was white but it'...more >>

How did this website that created all these flash website do this one particular thing that I like. The thing that I like was the rollover effect on the navigation how the larger letter come from the left and the small letter come from the left then when they come together the fade away. It co...more >>

Is there a way for me to export a Flash movie so that I can create a DVD (with DVD quality)? I tried exporting it as a MOV and the quality wasn;t very good. Any ideas?...more >>

I need to add a delay script. I'm not good at explaining so, first go [L=here]http://www.geocities.com/revenge1919/HelpDuplicateNI.swf[/L] and watch my swf. I want the box following the prev box to appear when it (prev box)'s alpha turns 100%. It would really help if you looked at the fla. So...more >>

How do I do a double (or possible more) gradient in an object such as a circle?...more >>

is there a way to download images from a flash. because there is this one site that has buddyicons but i cant save them....more >>

Any Animation expert here? How to make "effect of water flow " like this website? [L=http://www.e-medien.com/]http://www.e-medien.com/[/L] Thanks for advance. :) <a href="http://www.e-medien.com/">http://www.e-medien.com/</a> ...more >>

Does anyone know how to add a delay in action script. You see, I have a script that duplicates a movieclip a lot of times. So, I want to know is there anyway to add a delay (maybe 1 second) in action script. Here take a look at my script: columncheck=1; clipheight=getProperty(Test,_height)...more >>

Hi, I'm fairly new to Flash. I'm using MX 2004 here at work. I'm trying to get the 3 items I have in my combobox to, when clicked on, link to an outside URL. This has got to be super easy to do, and I just can't see it. I've tried putting only the URL in the data field, I've tried putting t...more >>

I have a dynamix text box next to a photo in a movie clip. I want to place the movie clip into the timeline and fade it in and then out using actionscript. When i run the movie, the photo fades in and out correctly, while the text appears without fading and then never goes away, even when t...more >>

Hi, I've a problem, when loading an external swf into my movie the buttons of the main movie remain active on the just loaded new movie, what I'm doing wrong ? Thanks...more >>

When i try to play sounds on Flash MX or any Flash Related Sites, it doesnt work!! its making me mad. i looked for other Topics to see if they had the same Proplem as me...and they did not! ...more >>

I have a series of files that I need to launch from one Quicktime projector does anybody have any idea how to do this?...more >>

I'm new in Flash, so I hope someone can help here. [b]Movie Description:[/b] I've created an interactive map of our school campus. When each building gets a rollOver, information about the departments in that building are displayed, including HTML links to different departments. The user...more >>