hello people. does anyone know how to use this free mudbubble plugin for flash mx. when i downloaded it, i got an swf file and a html file. how do i edit this thing. thanks people. later ...more >>

Greetings, How can this be? I've read the related messages from a search, and it seems there is a bug in Flash audio? I import a 64K mp3 file into a .fla which totals 216K on disk, right click on the sound file in Library and set the export to mp3, and voila, a .swf nearly three times the size...more >>

Can anyone recommend a reliable SWF decompiler? Thanks! ...more >>

hello ou there... i am working on a quick game and am having a problem with swapDepth [which i am using for the first time] i am using the following code to have two objects swapDepth based on their relative _y positions: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (_root.toaster._y>=_root.app._y-10) {...more >>

I am using Flash MX 2004 Pro on a Win 2k machine. How do I add lines to an existing fill? I know this is simple but I cannot just simply select the fill and then add the line color by changing it from "off" to a line color and style (referring to the Properties Inspector). Can anyone give me some po...more >>

hello, just wanna know any issues for licensing flashplayer hosted on windows desktop application. if i sell a windows desktop app that uses flashplayer AX control, do i have to purchase a license for it? thnx in adv, // chall3ng3r // ...more >>

hello, im just making a media player kind of app, and wanna playback the video in flash based gui. im trying to run diffirent types of media formats, but none of them playback in flash. just flc :( 1. can anyone tell me what types flash can playback? 2. if i wana create a software that...more >>

Are there limits as to how large Movie Clips dimensions can be in Flash and /or their positioning? I've created a MC that contains both text and images - from a magazine article. I then use actionscript to scroll the MC up/down. This works well for smaller size MCs that are less than 1000p...more >>

im very new to flash and i get this problem: i try to make a carttony character i made bounce out of the screen with a motion guide i have twi characters on 2 layers with 2 guides, one works almost perfectly (when he stops he seems to jolt up at the end for no reason) but the other one just moves ...more >>

I know how to have a button fade in when the cursor is over the hit area by simply adding a movie clip to the "over" instance of the button. However, since there is no "out" instance, how do I have that same button fade out, or even just play the original movie clip backwards, when the mouse leaves ...more >>

mx04 is there some way to control "overWhileDown" with a button or an MC? ...more >>

I'm trying to save and read from a sharedobject using Flash MX 2004 Pro, and it wont work. I've used the same code in the past with MX. Is this something that doesn't work with actionscript 2.0? myCookie = sharedobject.getLocal("myCookie"); function GetCookieValue(name) { returnVal = myCoo...more >>

I'm using Flash 5 and I'm trying to create a series of images next to each other with arrow buttons on the left and right. On mouse rollover, all of the images should move right or left depending on what arrow your mouse is over. For my purposes in this post, I have 3 objects. 'arrow left', 'a...more >>

Anyway to spread the Flash workspace onto a second monitor??? -- D- www.ddh1969.com ...more >>

Hello, does the transition form the old flash to the new flash mx 2004 has problems? I mean, It should be better, is it? thank you Paolo ...more >>

Hi, Does anybody know the proper way to keep color values consistent between Illustrator and Flash? I have an illustrator document, and when I bring the file into Flash, all of the colors seem washed out. Is there a certain setting or anything for the colors (CMYK, RGB, Spot, etc) in Illustrator...more >>

I'm making an asteriods type game. When i try to get the asteriod to move it gives me an error that says "the script is causing flash to slow down. Not terminating the script may cause flash t become unresponsive" or something alonmg those lines. Heres the scrpit im using it is for the asteroid...more >>

Situation, using MX 2004 Pro and trying to use the IDE to specify cuepoints for playing back an MP3 and have a slide presentation advance. It works fine if ALL the slides are on the same level (i.e., one below the presentation level) but it doesn't work for slides that are nested because the syntax ...more >>

My .swf flash movies appear upside down when the page is first load, on refresh they are the right way up. Any ideas ...more >>

I just picked up a trial version of MX 2004 and am pretty new to flash. I can't find where to set the actions panel to normal view like the older version of mx. Does anyone know how to choose normal view or set it back to having the scene, type, and frame dropdowns? Thanks in advance ...more >>

I have currently embedded a 53 meg video clip in a CD Projector presentation I created. Problem is it takes forever to load. Is there any work arounds for this? is there any way to have some kind of preloader at least that works with the generic movie controls? Ideally I would just like the vi...more >>

i m new at this and i m having a problem with: how can i load random swf from another swf? ...more >>

i have created a graph(_root), and when a user presses a button i want the graph to remove itself. i have this action on a nested btn on (press) { gotoAndStop("pre"); _root.removeMovieClip("bar"); } the graph is created like this: stop(); // // set the array // arr = ...more >>

I am an application developer. I create sites that have dynamic data and load extremely fast with css. Our company is working on a new web site and the director has requested that the web site have a couple of really nice flash intros. Because I work with scripting and databases, I know very l...more >>

I'm using dual monitor. When I set a Flash player or project to full-screen mode, it always appears on the primary monitor. Is there any way to show my player on the secondary monitor in full screen mode? My graphic card(ATI chip) support 1-DVI, 1-Analog, 1-TV out. My gole is to show a full s...more >>

Hi We want to send out an email that has a flash file embedded in it. We have it working, but Hotmail and individual computers that have active-x controls disabled are unable to read the file. We cannot create an animated gif because there is sound. We want to try to embed it versus supplyin...more >>

I'm trying to create this standard bit of flash at the top of my website of clouds floating bybehind the logo of my company. I would like the flash to loop and for the clouds to go by continuously (slowly) is there any way to accomplish this? I'm having difficult as I'm a terrible novice at Flas...more >>

tutorials on using slides or mask layers in MX 2004??? ...more >>

Can I have arrays of arrays, ie a 4x4 array How do I write to and read from it, is it something like value=myArray[4,4] This didn't seem to work and I wondered what the syntax should be. Thanks a lot Dave ...more >>

I have a page that I am trying to put together a website but I cannot get the buttons to load into the frames http://www.mike-hobbs.co.uk/all%20latest.zip I am also confused as to why I cannot get the buttons on the left always copy the buttons on the right very anoying http://mike-hobbs.co.uk/p...more >>

how can I create a "page loading" animation whilst background page loads, and how do I control it??? ...more >>

Somebody can help me, please? I need use a dinamic text (in flash mx) with any mask over that text.... The problem is that dinamic text with a mask over him don't show the text, is like dinamic text was invisible.... If anybody can to know how I can resolve this, please, answer me, Thanks :...more >>

Looking for tutorials/lessons. I've been looking at Macromedia tutorials and have learned that they are very different. ...more >>

Hi, can anyone suggest any good books for learning to draw cartoon style graphics and characters in Flash. I can use Flash and Actionscript OK but I can't draw at all. Thanks Nick ...more >>

can anyone please guide me when to use tweening and when to use actionscripts, which is fore flexible , can we achieve the same kind of effect using both If Not then what's the difference and what about behaviours , as I don't find them generic , they have got only some special components, the...more >>

hi am trying to create frames in flash - i.e. I want my basic background, logo, and buttons to remain where they are - but to load in the pages information within a frame??? is there any easy way of doing this??? (this is just because I don't see the point in loading a new page in it's entirety wh...more >>

Scenario: child.fla - contents a combo box with a few labels entered; parent.fla - contents a movie clip which is used to load in the movie child.swf; grandparent.fla - contents a movie clip which is used to load in the movie parent.swf; Case 1: In Flash MX: (using component of this version) ...more >>

Does anyone know if it is possible for Flash MX Pro to desaturate colour from images? I want to turn a b/w image to colour and back again but to save on file size I want to know if I can do it with only one colour pic and desaturate it rather than have 2 images (1 colour and 1 b/w) and tween them...more >>

I've noticed that in Flash MX 2004 (don't all groan at once...) the frame rate will drop when in preview mode, regardless of what it has been set at in the Document settings. I have a presentation I'm working on at the moment which is destined to be distributed by CDROM, so size and content is no...more >>

I' ve published the movie as an animated gif, nothing special in it. In the last frame of the movie I asigned the action 'stop' After checking the animated gif it show the animation keeps on looping, no stop! Any solutions? The animated gif is to be placed in a power point presentation, on a wind...more >>

where do I actually set this in flash mx - everytime I publish it's default is always set to left??? thanks ...more >>

I am trying to create a simple rollover using the following code. On rollover movie1 plays and on rollout it disappears but on release I can't get movie1 to play even though movie2 works. Can you see where I'm going wrong? on(rollOver) { _root.movie1._visible = true; _root.movie1.gotoAndSt...more >>

Beginner basics, I know, but I've created a flash in one size and now I need to make it smaller to fit in a table in a web page. How is that done? I've done it before, but it has been a while ago and I am an infrequent user of this software. Help appreciated. BG ...more >>

Can anyone please help? I have a flash file I am using to streaM in a flv video file. However I want to stream to load say 30% of the video before it starts playing? Can you do this? The problem is, on a poor connection, it streams a bit of video,, plays... stops.... streams more.... stops.......more >>

I am losing my movie animations when I try to export in any format (gif & jpeg sequence, importing the swf back into flash etc) When I try publishing as an animated gif with 256 colours, flash quits every time. Is there a way to extract a frame by frame sequence that retains the animation within...more >>

Hey, I'm having trouble with making a basic preloader (actionscript part). Can anyone direct me to a good-for-slow-leaners style basic preloader or if you cn't can anyone give me a rough template to follow in actionscript Thanks Ian Mundy ...more >>

hello everyone. i have created a button in flash, and now i need to make that button link to a url. where in flash can i add in in link to a button. thanks for the help ...more >>