hey people, I need some help with a flash project I was workin' on and I've been workin' on the story for 4 or 5 months now. I don't wanna see all that work go to waste. Unfortunently my comp crapped out and it deleted my Flash MX. I don't wanna download it again because the reason my comp crapped o...more >>

I've built a web page using flash MX. In the page I've used three images which fade in and out over each over, I want the last image to stay solid in the last frame which I've done. The page is now saved and also exported. When I place this page into dreamweaver I remover the loop field in pr...more >>

Just wondering were to post suggestions for Flash. Why isn't there a newsgroup for this? I tried searching Macromedia.com for "suggestions" "wish" etc, but to no avail. My first suggestion: Make suggesting easier. Eria ...more >>

I appear to have found a Flash MX bug, but have been unable to discover how to overcome it (this includes Macromedia...their bug file does not even list MX <pre-2004> bug fixes, their technical department wants to charge me, and their bug reporting feature has not resulted in any email communication...more >>

I'm importing Quicktime content into my Flash movie, and I want to "Trace Bitmap" it, so that it makes each frame a vector image. I know it's possible, it's just not quite working. I'm running Flash MX, on Mac OS X Panther. Thanks. ...more >>

I am entering semi-retirement, and am developing an app base of programs to service web clients from my home office environment, based on DreamWeaver and Flash. I have a totally tricked out Windows XP Pro puter, NVidia Ti 4600 graphics card, and 2 gigs of RAM. Looking for the best 3D Animation Mod...more >>

Hello, I am having problems refreshing flash content on a site. Everytime I upload new infofmation to a site in flash I have to close the browser window and open it again to see the new content. I have try the refresh button but it does not work. I will realy appreciated if someone can help me w...more >>

Well...now I know what all the hoopla is all about regarding MMs release of Flash 2004. I've been getting acquainted with my Pro version the last few days and it left me with the impression that MM is marketing this software for the coder and not the designer. I consider myself a designer first bu...more >>

Hi.Flash MX user. I'm to design a logo for a company and I really need help. I have a logo(movie clip) which I want to turn,but when you move your mouse over it.When you do that, it will turn once (one 360") and it'll stop after that.During this rotation if you move your mouse over it I want noth...more >>

How did these buttons come about? I know it's a tween, but would love some starting points... Thanks, David http://www.wilmingtonathleticclub.com ...more >>

Hi, All When I load image to a movieclip there always something confused me--why macromedia make so limited to it? Only some JPEG files can be loaded, no gif,bmp and so on. Since my application need user to load their own images to flash, I need to use it often. Even if I only let customers to load...more >>

Is it possible to loop part of an animation on one layer while having another layer play only once? Example: Layer 1 ? A 10 frame animation of a flag blowing in the wind. This part is looped so the flag continually moves never stopping. On top of this: Layer 2 ? A 20 frame animation of a bird ...more >>

Please check out this page. www.danecook.com You see how you change sections (bio,news,aduio/video)on that site? I would like to do the same thing except instead of chnaging sections left to right or right to left, I would like to change top to bottom & bottom to top. Hope that makes sense....more >>

Hey gang. I'm getting ready to take my first crack and creating a FLASH presentation via CDROM and I have a few questions I was hoping the experts here could offer up some guidance on. I've done quite a bit of FLASH stuff for the web, so I'm not a total newbie, but I'm looking to make this CD really...more >>

How do I trap for when a user highlights a selection of text? I want to be able to have a bold button for the user to select like something out of wrodpad or MS Word. But the text listeners don't have an on select event, and the onchange event does not register the selection process? So how do yo...more >>

hi i wanted to know is it true that pictures with more than 800k in flash don't have any differences in quality with 800k. since i have faced a real problem, i want to dissolve some pictures into each other but with high quality and fullscreen for a multimedia CD, but during the picture moves, pi...more >>

How do you convert a .fla or .swf file to a .wmv file? ...more >>

One of the nice things about Flash is the aliased fonts - smooth. If I don't embed font outlines I see very hash text. No smoothing. Can I non-embedd AND have smooth high quality text? :-( ...more >>

I've drawn a simple straight vertical line and converted it to a movie clip. When I increment its height its width also seems to increment sligthly. How can I stop this happening. Any help appreciated. ...more >>

HELLO! Im desperate in need for help. im Working with a webshop project an a saw this smoooth!!! menu on http://www.boardtactics.com I have tried to find a tut for this but cant find any, that come close to this one. Mybe u must be a flash guru to make it, im a noob on flash to Could someone pro...more >>

Hello !!! I have a little question, I was wondering what is the best way to navigate with movie clips I'm doing a site this is my structure : - my menu is a movie clip - Each page is one movie clip What is the best way to load my page when the user clicked on a button For the mome...more >>

Does anyone know of a good website to download Fonts (either shareware or buy) for Flash? I need to use a specific Font for a site development and the Font that I have looks "terrible". Thanks, ...more >>

Hello: I am new to Flash MX Professional 2004. We also have Vegas Video 4.0, and work in PC environment. Was wondering if someone could give me the best (and simply stated) steps to take a video created in Vegas and get a workable FLV file to use in Flash? Or if there is a step by step t...more >>

why the button still can be touch when a movieclip cover on it.... anyone knows what I'm saying ?? please help me>_< ...more >>

Can I put a Flash made interface in a table on a Dreamweaver page? Jeffro ...more >>

Hello all, fairly new Flash user here. I am currently redoing our companies website in flash. Things seem to be going smoothly except for moving what is my mind to the PC! The problem is this: If you look at the site : http://glacierlakes.com/test/GLS%20Flash/gls_content.html , you will see 4 b...more >>

i am video editor. i just found flv files(compressed with soreneson) i'd like to know which software is necessary to open it. i'd like to know tha capabilities of this format thanks ...more >>

What is the easiest way to load a PDF from Flash MX and load it at a specific page. i.e. i want to open test.pdf at page 9. I would like to open it in a new window and then when i close the PDF the Flash window is behind it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, DannySS ...more >>

I need to add actions on a line inside a dinamic text. Is it possible? thank´s alot guys! ...more >>

Ok, this is get'n REALLY annoying ... I've spent most of my nite on trying to figure this out ... I have a TextArea which has a style sheet attached to it, it pulls in some HTML ... and it looks lovely. HOWEVER, when you go to scoll, you click the scoller handle and it selects the entire contents of...more >>

http://www.redheadinteractive.com/edboxer/home.html Is there a way to have the text scroll more smoothly? Seems kinda jerky. -Kirk ...more >>

I have a movieclip symbol that plays when I click on a button. I want to reverse this movieclick with another button. Can I do this without creating a new movie clip symbol - ie simply reverse the one I already have. ...more >>

anyone can anyone tell me a link or help file, to explane how to work whit the "symbol - graffic"?... thanks to anyone that replays... ...more >>

Is it possible to launch a new window using getURL( ) and have the widow be a specific size with no address bar no nav buttons etc Like you could do in JavaScript? Dave ...more >>

Hi This may seem like a ridiculously simple problem, but these are the facts. I've tried repeatedly to download version 7.0 Flash Player. I've gone to the Flash Player Download page, where it asks you if you would like to download version 7. I've clicked the install button. I get a message sa...more >>

I have a question or two about buttons. 1. How do you change the text on them? 2. How do you assign actionscript to them? Thanks in advance ...more >>

hi. i created an application in flash and burned it in a cd-r. is there a way for flash or actionscript to protect the cd from software piracy? as of now, the only security i can think of is by setting an expiration date. can anyone please send me your ideas... if ever, do you know of any 3rd ...more >>

I am using flash MX 2004 Pro. When I type certain letters side by side, no matter what font or side I use, the one letter is hidden behind the other. If I add a space the gap is too large. The worst one is the f followed by an i. You cannot see the i if you type it after the f. Any ideas why th...more >>

hello. i am making a button which when the cursor goes over it, 5 images display under it. the problem is, is that the pictures come up when i put my cursor over the area where the pictures are to appear. so my problem is that the images that should appear when i put my cursor over the button, are a...more >>

Not a technical question, but something that is begging to be asked: If Macromedia Flash Player was distributed by Microsoft since Win98SE(?), how come they do not distribute the new 7 player as a Windows Update? ...more >>

Hey Now! I'm using the load_images.fla from the Samples folder and have pointed into the right folder to get my images. So far so good! I'd like to automate it so as not to have the forward and back buttons. I know I can use the setInterval function but I'm not sure how to trigger the existin...more >>

is there anyway of pressing a particular button from another function? If I have created my own button? is this possible? if anyone can help, this would be great. thanks. ...more >>

Is there anyway of highlighting the text in a text field, say by pressing a button. When a button is pressed, the text in the text field is highlighted so that it's ready for replacing. Is this possible, thanks to anyone who can help? ...more >>

is there a way of making a swf file your scrensaver or your desktop background? for mac??? ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if some of you guys might like to take a look at this site http://www3.telus.net/lipke/ . I find that when the Blue Border fly's from the right that it seems to be a bit slow and choppy. I was wondering how I should fix this. Some ideas I had would be to use smaller files, as we...more >>

Just wondering if it's possible to create a simple email form so I don't have to post my email address on my website. Basically, I just want a form with three fields (return address, subject, message) and a "Send Email" button. Can anyone help? Thanks. ...more >>

sorry to post two questions in one day, but i have run into a second problem. i have a looping movie clip which changes _y position randomly with every loop. that is working fine. but what i want to do is is have it check on the first frame of that loop for its _y position and adjust its depth based...more >>