Hi, I have a little problem. I've created shockwave rollover buttons that have a geturl script which loads a html page on my site. When I view the website in full screen mode and click on one of the rollover buttons which load a new page, the contents of the page shifts for a split second, ...more >>

FLMX04 I want to be able to give a start point, and and point and a speed (oh, and a color) and have flash dynamically draw a line. Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction here? Thanks Alex ...more >>

I made a button and I want the white fade to go over the button. I want the people that go over the button to be able to see the word on the button while the whit fade go back and forth? I know all the animation I just need someone to show me how to make a white fade. Thank you ...more >>

This is probably very simple but I can't find any info on it in the help file. I'm using MX and all I need to do is when the website user clicks a button it triggers the download (probably with a download window would be best) of a ZIP file. Thanks Will ...more >>

Hi, if anyone can point me to a tutorial / source file on the Tree component that comes with mx2004 pro, please help! I want to use an xml file to load data and generate the tree. However, finding the documentation about it is very hard! thanks ...more >>

Hi, I believe this is a simple question but I could use some help. Here is what I am trying to do: for(i=0; i<images.length; i++){ mc_viewer.createEmptyMovieClip(i, depth); mc_viewer[i].loadMovie(images[i]); mc_viewer[i]._x = offset+xvalue; mc_viewer[i]._y = 0; widt...more >>

Hi there! I have a litle delicate problem for you hard core flashers to solve ;-) I have created a flash projctor, in wich i have some jpegs in. Its very important that the jpegs are in a very good quality. I dont want the edges in the picture (u following?) to be...... hmmm, well, it loo...more >>

Hi there, since Stan Lee Media isn't online anymore - does anybody know some cool comic and animation related links? Thanks in advance, Mark ...more >>

is there a way to detect that? I want to do something (on flash) when someone leaves the page or closes the browser. As far as i know the only way to achieve this is using javascript... any 'flash' way? ...more >>

which program do i use to make a flash game? right now all i have is the flash mx. do i need to buy a plug-in? thanks in advance... ~andy...more >>

I need help with my first animation. Every time I export it in .fla form it likes to loop instead of stopping and having the person press a button to restart it. Do you get what im saying? Can anyone help me? ...more >>

Hi. I'm learning Flash and I'm making a basic picture gallery. I did a working one with sound, so it takes a bit to load in a website, so I decided to make a preloading. I searched the newsgroup and I found a tutorial explainning how to do it but in one scene, so I the result is that it keeps ...more >>

Is Flash MX the program people use to make the stick figure movies and stuff?...more >>

This is probably a stupid question but how can I create a 30 second pause without creating loads of frames? Cheers.[hr]...more >>

I can't get Flash Plugin to work with either Mozilla 1.6 or Firefox in Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 WS. I've followed the directions and put the made sure the libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt were in my /mozilla/plugins directory. I even tried symbolic links to them to see if it would wor...more >>

I have a .swf file loading on level 1 of a movie that will not stop looping. I have placed a stop action on last keyframe of movieclip.....no loop. I have checked publish settings......no loop I test movie in browser.....no loop I have checked my actions....no loop I have checked my Drea...more >>

Does anyone know why I can't find the tutorial files for Flash MX in windows 2000. I can't seem to find them with the location given in flash help?...more >>

I know this is a stupid question, but my friend told me this website. So what can macromedia do? And is the download free? My friend said he made an animated pic using flash. ...more >>

hi, I have a mainpage which externally loads the page courses.swf when clicking on a button. However...inside courses.swf I want to load an external movie by clicking on a button but I can't get it to work. Does someone have any ideas??? ...more >>

hi! i'm desperatly looking for a demo-site showing a interactive 3d walktrough (building) using flash! found this months ago but lost the link ... any other site using the same idea would be very helpful too! anyone out there knowing one?! needed as a showcase for my master! and its ur...more >>

How can I convert my VB Application into Flash for demo purpose....more >>

i think many people have gone to habbohotel.com to play around. When our mouse press ,the character we use will automatically avoid some furniture,other users and anything blocking him ,and go to the point where we just pressed, My question is how to let the character automatically detect wh...more >>

I just downloaded the trial version of Flash Macromedia. I'm able to motion tween with text, but not with graphics, symbols, or objects. I was just curious if that's supposed to happen, and if not, if anyone knew how to solve my dilemna. ...more >>

I made a Dynamic Text box with flash. when I see the movie after I export it , I can see the border line around the text box. I want to remove the border line. Can I do it? How? ...more >>

This is not your ordinary problem and believe me it angers me at well. Another flash other using flash MX sends me an .fla file of his current project *sigh* filled with errors that i could easly point out. So then i close this file and go back to my own project. A thing i notice is that :...more >>

i'm trying to create a movie clip that you can control to play forwards or backwards from 2 buttons on the main stage. how could i do this? i'm not familiar with actionscripting and would require very details steps on how to do it that way. someone... help.... please?? gabe ...more >>

I created a three layer project. One layer for a background, one for body images, and one for moving parts such as legs and mouths. I want my image and moving parts (an picture of a robot) to move across the background. I placed a keyframe at frame 12. I 'transformed' the robot smaller...more >>

Can you resize the movie clip stage to the max flash stage of 2880px? I hope there is a way! Joe...more >>

I've never used a flash program so I'm pretty confused. I download Jasc animation a few months ago and wanted something better for making stick figure type animations. My friend said that Flash 5 was really easy to use and made smooth animations but I tried to find it but came across MX Prof...more >>

I have been trying to install this flashplayer forever! With no luck. My schools website uses flash AND shockwave BOTH so I NEED this but it will not install into IE6 but shockwave will. In netscape 7.1, flash 7 will install but shockwave will NOT. So neither browser is sufficient. In IE...more >>

Hello, I am a Flash beginner and I'm making a series of images and text blocks fade onto the screen and then fade off a few seconds later. To do this, I'm creating a symbol and making the color alpha 0%, and then creating a symbol a few seconds later and setting the alpha for 100%. Anyway, I h...more >>

I have an image loader componet on my web site, and I have the scale content praramter set to "true". Everything works fine in the preview mode in Flash MX, but when I load it in a browser, the loader doesn't function properly. Anyone know what's up with this? Is there a glitch in the pl...more >>

What is the best way to take/show a thumbnail of a webpage? i.e. I want to show thumbnails of sites I have made on a portfolio page....more >>