Hello all. I am fairly new to flash and I am wanting to try to scroll a masked image in my flash movie. it's basically an online resume and portfolio that I am building and I cannot figure out how to scroll the image that is holding the resume. The only reason why I made the resume an imag...more >>

I need to know how you can make an image fade in and out, to other images and to black. My email is andyrcwd@alltel.net. ...more >>

I am very happy with the new accessibility features and love to provide text descriptions of my flash movies because I feel it is the right thing to do. I was wonderign though from a business perspective....could I use the new accessibility features to make conent accessible to search engines....more >>

Why is it that whenever i see a Flash site, it is no longer than 600px in height. What happens if you've got so much to display on the page that you have to make the page longer, do you have to switch to html. I can imagine that scolling down a page with animation may be a bit taxing on the ol...more >>

Is it possible to dynamically link to an external spreadsheet in Flash? If so, could you point me to any tutorials or articles where I could get started learning? Thanks for any help! -- Rob ...more >>

Hi guys having a bit of bother with this drop down menu i got from a mate which i will attach now. When i click on the buttons it doesnt swtich scene and im wondering why.... never had this problem b4 and its startn to bug me. Maybe bcuz i copied the button accross a few times to have several ...more >>

Everytime I try to export a quicktime mov I get the message quicktime does not have a handler for this type of Flash movie. I am running quicktime pro 6. What does it mean?...more >>

I have a text link that i want to play a swf movie in a specified window size. the movie is 160X120 and it is called movie.swf. I want when I click on the text to go to the movie that it pops up in a flash player. can anyone explain to a doddering fool how to get this to work, i do not want to...more >>

i have a song that loops when u enter the site - and buttons that have a sound assigned to them when you click them ....thing is with the song playing in the background it sounds a bit messy ...... is it possible to have the song fade out when you go within say 5 cm of the button then fade bac...more >>

Does anyone know how to create the menubar on the macromedia homepage? I would really like to learn how to create it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks....more >>

Hi, I have problems showing my sliding menu. they are hiding behind the flash i created. please help me with this. thank you....more >>

II have been asked to develop a site that will make various training videos available over the web. The videos will run from 5 to 10 minutes each. I am looking for the best solution for making these available. The instructors will be filmed Would it be better to create the videos (for exa...more >>

I am trying to create linked text that does not show and underline and cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it. Can anyone out there help me? Thanks MM...more >>

I have a exe file from a flash movie that needs to play in a web browser. I am not the creator of the exe and I don't have the original fla I was wondering if there is any way to convert the exe to an swf or to play the exe in a web browser. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

I made a flash movie and it works fine when i try it. BUt when i export it and play it The timing is off. It doesn't match up. However when i just tried it with Quicktime it seemed it was matched up. or at least a lot better. What is my problem? ...more >>

When I export my project into an SWF file, the JPEG or BMP image I have in the background loses a lot of quality...can't allow this, because the picture looks so damn good to start with! What can I do to prevent this loss in quality? Thanks in advance. http://www.hellofblades.com ...more >>

Hello, I am using Dreamweaver and Flash, however, I do not know how to write the script to make that whenever I move the mouse to the small picture on the right hand side, then the larger size of the same picture would show on the left hand side. Does anyone have the code for that kind of acti...more >>

Anyone got any idea how to make the white spaces in a graphic, and movies become transparent so u can see behind it? Cheers 4 any help Barney...more >>

working with the "free trial" version 7.0.1 and "Insert Timeline Effects" doesn't work. returns an error saying some code is missing. can't seem to get a straight answer from anyone as to why it won't work. certainly seems to be a problem with at least the trial versions per the previous p...more >>

Can anyone recommend any good Flash E-Learning Communities? Somewhere I could go and pick the brains some other Computer Based Training (CBT) developers who use Flash? Whether it be a mail list or forum like this one - doesn't matter. I'm surprised there is no forum for such a community her...more >>

Hello everyone, I would like to know if it's possible (and then how!) to load an image if I have the filename passed as a parameter to the flash player. Tanx all...more >>

does FlashMX do the followings? - in the movieclip, there is a dynamic text box (Var: style001 / InstanceName: company) in the 1st frame, loadVariablesNum("myText.txt", 0); It loads nothing, but if it's not in movieclip, it works. I also tried loadVariables("myText.txt", "_root.prod.comp...more >>

All of the sudden when I try to open Flash, it pops up with a message containing a bunch of jibberish and is titled "Entry Point Error: Cannot Open The Program" type of heading... I have no idea why it's doing this or where it came from but I have been searching this site qnd cannot find a...more >>

I am working on developing my first MX form application and things have been pretty easy to grasp so far. I have run into a snag with screen visibility settings. Thus far I have built four seperate screens that are all at the same level within the hierarchy and all except for one has the visib...more >>

Bizzare problem... my trace command doesn't work. I tried it in frame 1 of my movie, as well as various other frames, mc's, etc. just a simple trace("hello"); doesn't work. If I start a new blank movie in Flash, it works fine. So obviously it's something in my movie. Is there such...more >>

I have a very straightforward flash file that has a circle that I want to pop up next to some words on the screen. My problem is, when I scrub within Flash the circle is in the exact location I want it to be, but when I preview or export the movie the location of the circle changes. I'm at a l...more >>

Hi, Apologies for the long winded subject line but it explains roughly my problem. The drawing bit is simple but I can¹t, for the life of me, think of a way to export out this drawn frame as a bitmap (eg: drawing01.jpg) I need to be able to save a pointer to this image in a MySQL database and ...more >>

When I publish the swf itself it's about 15k. When I add a 230k wmv file and publish it, it becomes 5.6 megs! This is my first time using mx and wmv's so maybe I'm not aware that is supposed to happen.Maybe I'm I doing something wrong. I thought the file size would only be the size of the file...more >>

hmmm... i wonder if anyone else is experiencing the same problems i am having with mx 2004? When i publish a movie, and then run the .swf as it is in a flash player the movie plays at the frame rate i've set it to (fps: 21)... fine! But when i run it through an Internet Explorer browser th...more >>

Hi, I've made some examinations that i've piblished in swf and html format! I works fine when i put them on my web-site but i wanted to make it so the HTML view is a completly blank screen with no buttons or place you can put the web address in, so the only thing on the screen is the swf an...more >>

Hi. A very strange question for me. this time I use IE5 As you see on (release) { getURL("www.yahoo.com"); } I gave it to my swf button,but when I upload it ,it goes to www.mydomain.com/www.yahoo.com not to www.yahoo.com During these few years I haven't had any problem with...more >>

I'm trying to put an SWF into an html document. Which, is easy in itself. However, my swf is broken up into areas that are designated by frame labels. So, in html, on the line that loads the swf, how do I tell it to start at a specific frame [label] location? I'd prefer to use the frame ...more >>

Hello, I am using datagrid to display some data. One of the cells is a checkbox that allows users to pick various records from the grid. I was able to implement it but the problem is after checking a checkbox in one row as i move out of that row the checkbox automatically becomes 'un-checked'. ...more >>

I am going to try putting together an interactive Jeopardy game for my high school classes to try and make reviews for tests a little more engaging. Since this is a pretty big undertaking for me, I want to make sure this doesn't already exist in a form that I could adapt for me needs. This is ...more >>

I'm using the Sound object in FlashMX to dynamically load an mp3 event sound. It plays too fast. Any ideas? Here's the script: mySound = new Sound(); mySound.loadSound("MySound.mp3", false); mySound.onLoad = function() { while (mySound.getBytesLoaded() < mySound.getBytesTotal()) {} } my...more >>

Hello, I'm totally new to Flash. I learn some of the basic tools on the internet. My reason to learn Flash because I want to built my own web site and I bought a template, however, it just doesn't match my requirement. There is one web site similar to what I want: http://www.colettemalouf.c...more >>

Hello! On my windows system, SWF is associated with the Flash player. This however is version 6. For my browser I have installed ver 7. Is there a stand alone Flash player, version 7? If there is - where can I find it? Thanks! /Bertil ...more >>

i'm wondering how to open a popup window of a certain size, say 600 x 300. I will be having small images (thumbnails) fade in and out and when clicked, I want them to popup in this new browser window. what's the code to attach to the thumbnails? ...more >>

Hi Is it possible to insert or attach mov-files in a swf-file for cd-rom publications ? (Flash 5) When I tried this the file could only be exported completly as a mov-file, but this made some problem with the flash properties. (The original imported mov-file was placed at the top of any...more >>

I generally use Flash for animation, but I was asked by a friend who is a graphic designer to produce a comic page for an exhibition. It is going to be printed at a huge size about 2.5m x 1.7m, and although I am aware that Flash is not designed for print, I do not use any illustrator type pack...more >>

Does anyone know if it is still possible to download the 30 day trial of FlashMX 2003? I need to trial Flash on a Mac, but 2004 does not work on the OS 10.2 that is installed. From what I understand 2003 should work on 10.1...but I can't find it on the Macromedia site. Any ideas? E ...more >>

Hello all, is it possible to edit the Flash MX 2004 components? I have edited components from previous versions but can't see a way to do it with the new components. I basically want to be able to disable/remove parts of teh numeric stepper..... Any help greatly appreciated - I've ...more >>

Many thanks to all who replied with book recommendations. Next question: Is there a switch I can add to the startup properties that will start Flash without automatically opening a new blank document? As an example, I can set an MS application to open without a new blank document by creatin...more >>

hi all, basically I want to create a picture gallery. i want the pictures to be in a folder with a text file containing a list of the file names (thumb1.jpg, thumb2.jpg... etc). want each of these filenames loaded into separate elements of an array. I can do this part using a loadVar object ...more >>

IBM Thinkpad. already had MX04 installed and just reinstalled it. They install went fine - no issues - upon starting MX04 i get this: [L=http://www.mudbubble.com/mx04_error.jpg]http://www.mudbubble.com/mx04_error.j pg[/L] Flash does not start. I searched the forum and only 1 other thread ...more >>

I am using the trial version of Flash Professional and getting the "timeline effects error" that already has several postings here. Since there is "no phone support available for trial versions" and since no one from Macromedia has answered any of the previous postings regarding this major er...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 just lost one full folder of symbols and graphics in the library this morning , the folder is still there but it lost all of its content.. this sucks.. I don't remember about deleting anything on my flash library since last night and I remembered I saved them just fine.. The funny thing is...more >>

Hello all.. Ok to the point. I have an SWF movie, its really cool and I didn't save the FLA kill me, I need this movie to be the background of my title banner, however when I try to import this swf, all I get are blank key frames. Is there a way that I can import this movie and edit my bann...more >>

I have never had this problem, but after working on a flash site, I tried putting in a few buttons, but everytime I put it into the movie, and try to run it, Windows gives me an error message saying there was a program error with flash.exe and it will have to shut down. After doing this, it d...more >>

One question, why isn't there any easy-mode in the actionscript-panel, sometimes it's easier for me to work in the easy-mode. And second is, why can't i go from the timeline to the actionscript-panel, the "action" option is gone from the menu. Maybe you can make a update so you can still u...more >>

Hi, I am using one movie holder to load different swf in dependance of action. Inside flash or flash player it works ok. When I click to loan next movie it destroy old and loads new. But the problem is when this main movie launched in browser first load works fine but second erase main mov...more >>

Hi All I have one swf called 'Main.swf' and a number of other swfs called 'myMC1.swf', 'myMC2.swf' etc Withinn the 'Main.swf' i have created a number of movie clips in which to import the external swfs. These have instance names of 'mc1', 'mc2' etc. I load the external swfs into the ...more >>