I got a student version of Studio MX last year, and haven't really touched it much. A friend of mine is a DJ and is going to pay me to build him a flash site. I picked up a book on flash MX, but it seems to mostly focus on using flash to make animations and movies, does anyone know of a good b...more >>

Hi there! Got a little problem. I?m currently working on a presentation for a furniture company. The would like to let the user print some pictures from the CD based presentation. Thats no problem, BUT. The pictures are great, nothing to complane about. Crystal clear in flash. But when i...more >>

I want to make a simple catching game, if theres any tutorials out there please let me know. This is what I've done so far to create random objects along the X axis. The only problem is that I want them to move from the bottom of the screen upwards. Also I think this code doesn't work properly...more >>

Hello every one, Here is my problem : i have a PHP page with a flash application on it, what i need to do is to send one of variables sent to the PHP page to flash. after an hour of search, i haven't found my answer. can anyone help me ...more >>

When I export from AE5.5PB, I get a horrible hissing noise in the audio - it skips in and out every second or two. When I export from Cleaner5.0, it crashes as soon as it starts. Cleaner only crashes when exporting to FLV, no other formats are effected. I do have the latest release downloaded ...more >>

I have a movie clip from static text. when you roll over this clip another menu is shown. my problem is that I have to be exactly over one of the letters of the text. when I'm between 2 letters additional menu isn't shown and of course that's not good. how should I change it? -- best regards, ...more >>

Is it possible to use a bitmap as a mask? I am using some bitmaps to do a simple character animation and would like to use another set of bitmaps that match up for each frame as a mask (to take out the background of the character frames). From what I could find in documentation the only w...more >>

When i convert a sprite from my sprite sheet into flash , it has a colored block around it , when i try to fill it in , it fills in the whole sprite ! How do I make that block transparrent ?...more >>

help me, there is no "convert to symbol" under "Insert" i have created a cirlce and selected it and still there is no "convert to Symbol" help!!!...more >>

I am trying to get a handle on using slides for displaying video. I have downloaded the samples and explored them as well are read up on them. Now I just need to know if there is a way to ad slides to an existing FLA or do I need to start over? Can't seem to find the answer, or it is so simple I...more >>

lol, can flash games be made using Flash MX? if yes then how hard is it to make a game like this? http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/osamabinladen.php can it be done easily or i shouldn't even try?...more >>

hi guys, is there anymore (except macromedia's sample questions 10, and study guide questions) sample questions and exams available for flash designer certification.? i am going to write the exam in march last week, it would be really a big help, if u guys suggest the sites regarding thi...more >>

i would like to open an exe file from my flash movie. I have tried "getURL" but this brings up an annoying error message, and have been experimenting with fscommand, but can't get this to work - is this the correct syntax - fscommand("exec", "file.exe"); ...more >>

Someone I know is having a bit of trouble with viewing flash content in Internet Explorer. Flash does not get displayed. All that happens when you go to a site with Flash it doesn't display the .swf file and all you see is the outline of where it should be and the small image icon in the t...more >>

I'm using flash and PHP to try and dynamically load jpegs into place. My HTML code is as follows: <EMBED src="large.swf?location=<?php print ($filepath); ?>" quality=high..... which, when on the server, in the browser becomes: <EMBED src="large.swf?location=images/trees/flowers/" quality=...more >>

Someone I know is having a bit of trouble with viewing flash content in Internet Explorer. Flash does not get displayed. All that happens when you go to a site with Flash it doesn't display the .swf file and all you see is the outline of where it should be and the small image icon in the t...more >>

Hi, I downloaded Macromedia Flash 2004 from Macromedia site, when I install it to my machine it didn't ask me which mode I want "Normal mode or Professional mode" I have now Professional mode and really I don't need it. I try to switch from help menu but it dosen't work. How can I switch i...more >>

Hi all, I designed an HTML page with red background. I inserted to it 2 flash banners. during page loading, instead of the 2 banners, 2 white squares appears. What should I do so that the 2 white square will not appear? Many thanks for your help, Mali...more >>

I am not sure what is happening here. I have a background image in the bottom layer and a motion tween above it, when the motion tween moves down, it works in my published page, but when I add the .swf file to another page, for some reason the tween masks the background. I am not sure what I am ...more >>

Hello.. I'd like to trigger a FLASH animation on mouse over of an image in my website. I'm using DREAMWEAVER. How can I do this? Thanks! Race...more >>

In order to prevent people from running my movie on thier home computers i put a line within an if then statement in my action script that goes like this: this._url.toLowerCase() == "http://myserver.com/movie.swf" It seemed to be working pretty well but I have gotten word that users are ...more >>

I have a menu that I want to open at a particular frame when the HTML is opened. Within the code that you use to link the flash file in the HTML, is there a command that allows you to set exactly where the movie starts? eg frame 30, or frame 'menu1' etc Cheers ...more >>

Hi - i have a flash movie as part of another web page which is all dynamically generated via ASP. The problem is the fsCommands aren't being picked up by the javascript/VBscript hook that gets output by Flash MX... I keep getting this error: Nested Script Block A script block cannot be...more >>

hi, i am loading a movie into an empty clip with loadMovie. The movie i am loading is the same size as the empty clip. what the movie does is scale an image, but when the movie does this action in the empty clip it appears past the boundaries of the empty clip. so how can i constrain the ...more >>

<b>My Problem</b> If someone could answer this I would greatly appreciate it. I want to display many instances of a button that all have different AS. When I have the buttons on the stage, and I change the AS for one, it changes all of them. Is there a way to have AS different for all of the...more >>

Hello, I am having problem with a simple animation tweening. I am trying to animation a spring sitting on the ground being compressed and extended. So I converted the art to a graphic symbol, then I move the anchor point to the bottom of the object when I scale it shorter and taller in a f...more >>

Iv'e been messing with the Particle Illusion demo which makes some nice effects like fire and smoke, these are usually composited with Affter Effects, but I'm hoping to use them for flash. I need to know if I can import an image with and alpha channel to flash. I would like to be able...more >>

I got no response on my post regarding server-side solutions for avoiding the AOL art compression of jpegs. Does anyone have anything to share on this? I'm really stumped. TIA ...more >>

I really find it sad the direction in which Macromedia is taking Flash in. The new Flash 7 player only introduced more bugs then reduced them. I really don't see how people are supposed to develop anything in Flash if there's no guarantee that their products will work in future version of the ...more >>

nynma.org(ny new media ass.) aka supercybersuds.org went belly up/kaputski/kicked the bucket. For those in NYC, it is indeed a sad day. Where shall we, new media artistas, go? Whom should we turn to for support and comfort when we are passed up for $2/hr Indians? Let us all mourn the passing o...more >>

umm. .. I lost my tool bar, so every time I start it up, there's no tool bar, how do I get it back?...more >>

d00d d00d d00d d00d d00d this thing is so confusing. i thought i'd make a stupid little animation just for fun and as it turns out... this thing. OMG i got the trail version and woooaaa!!!, can anyone just tell me the basics of this thing? ...more >>