I am trying to format a dynamic text field. I use \n\r to simulate a paragraph break. But then I realized I could use html mark up. I put in paragraphs and bullets and everything was working fine. But then suddenly it started changing every page's content to bulleted lists. Does anyone have an...more >>

I am trying to develop a movie that starts with a random frame between 1 & 100. After it has loaded that frame, I want it to go to another random frame within that 100. ...more >>

I just purchased Studio MX and am curious as to how anyone is supposed to read the built-in help. The text is the size of a pinhead and to compound issues the text is broken up. Please advise...more >>

Hi every one, I'm pretty new to ActionScript (2.0), and I'm experiencing a weird problem. I declare several properties in a Class which I extend from the MovieClip Class. One of them is an array, to which I push values in one of the defined methods. The thing is that this array behave as if ...more >>

in MX you could toogle on the action script helper prompt (you know what I mean) and it would allow a newb like me some help in writing AS...but I can't find it in 2004 professional......is it there at all... ...more >>

I am trying to make my text transform from transparent to a defined color. I can make it match the grey like my workspace, but I would like to have it be able to float through a picture and then appear. Any suggestions? ...more >>

It is strange, the Macromedia works fine but when I to site like www.acura.ca ou subaru.com my IE hang and I need to kill the process. I did uninstall the Flash Player, restart PC, Reinstall it and still get the same problem Configuration is: Windows XP Pro SP1 IE 6.0.2800 sp2 Flas...more >>

Does anyone know of any good sources for creating customizable websites? I'd like to create a site where the user can make edits to content on the site (like template style and content) and be able to just hit a submit to update all the content without having to worry about FTP and such. T...more >>

My Flash was created with the default 550x400 window. When I play the Flash on my PC it appears in that same size window and everything works fine. However, when I published it to my website, I have a hperlink link to the Flash. When you click on the link, the Flash plays in a full size win...more >>

Hey Urami, i was wondering if you were still helping me with this. [L=http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&t hreadid=790848]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm ?catid=194&threadid=790848[/L] Im still having trouble wor...more >>

You would think this is easy to do but I'm banging my head against the wall trying to figure it out. I have a simple banner ad that I need to rotate 3 times. Looping continuously is obviously easy and no looping is easy but what is the best method for scripting a movie to loop from first frame...more >>

Thanks to the person who helped with this problem before; I'm experiencing loss in my JPEG and BMP files when I export from a FLA to a SWF file. Something about changing the QUALITY=HIGH settings in the EMBED line or something like that. Can someone give me a "how-to-do-this" response? T...more >>

Sorry if this was posted before, i did a search but didn't found any related topics. I have several Button Objects, but they are only composed of text, so they resemble simple HTML links. When you roll over them, they change color and have an underline. The thing is, the roll over efect ...more >>

When I set the alpha to 0 to create an effect of text fading, the text fades to almost transparent. There still remains a faint ghost of the text which is visible and I cannot get rid of it totally. ...more >>

Does anyone know how to make images so that they look like an actual instant camera photo ? With the white edges around the photo. Thanks....more >>

Hi! I am a boy 10 years old. Does any of you know about some good flash tutorials - I am looking for something where I can try out the the feaures step by step, and with little text explanations. Thanks!!! Rasmus ...more >>

I would like to have an editable box with an image thumbnail in the middle. So users would be able to write/enter text in that box, but the position of the image would remain fixed and text would flow around it. Is it possible - any ideas? ...more >>

I have posted previously and a number of nice people have tried to answer my question; however, none of the responses have ever really remedied this problem. I use Flash 5 and, about every third time I open the program, the primary toolbar disappears. Restoring defaults does nothing to fix t...more >>

I am trying to create a new web site that has Flash Drop down menu buttons. Each button upon selection would load an HTML page in a window below the flash movie. I want to do something like [L=2advanced.net]http://www.2advanced.net[/L]. If you take a look at the menu buttons they use I would...more >>

ok, I have to say that I am COMLPETELY NEW to flash, so go easy. I have MX 2004 Pro. I'm actually making a php based program, and I'd like to use a little flash for a calendar to choose a date. I have a standard html form, and one of the textarea's needs to be given a date (preferably as YY...more >>

I have been working on a Flash Header. The original image has horizontal lines. The image is here: http://www.alphawebtech.com/op/idea7.htm When I have the image in flash it publishs a background image with the middle horizontal pixels are missing and the top and bottom are squished togeth...more >>

Nav bar like macromedia.com has, customizable. [L=macromedia menu here]http://www.adriantnt.com/products/micro_menu/index.html[/L]...more >>

We have designed a site for a client with a flash logo. The site and the logo work fine on every machine but the client's own stand-alone PC. There is just a white area where the logo should be, and the progress bar shows that IE is downloading an item but hangs. The client has the latest v...more >>

Hi I have a simple flash navigation menu that has 4 buttons that go to 4 different pages using getURL("page1.html"); and so on, on each button. When you press the button and navigate to a different page, the flash navgation reloads. My question is , is there any way of "keeping state"...more >>

I am relatively new to Flash design. I have fairly small SWF files that I load in my personal site (two or three, all less than 4KB in size). When arriving to the site for the first time (before site gets cached I guess?) the load time is ridiculous -- could take a minute or two just to loa...more >>

Created Flash audio player for website, streaming MP3s from server into player for playback. Want to offer the user the facility to download the MP3 file onto their local drive into a file of their choosing. We are using Flash MX. Any ideas of how this is achievable?? Massive thank you ...more >>

I have this code that loads XML into my Flash Movie. When its finished loading it gets sent to a frame named "load" in the movie. Very Simple. The issue I'm having is that this code works like a charm when compliled in Actionscript 1.0 for Flash Player 7. But if I try to compile it in Actionsc...more >>

Is there a way to create table is flash similiar to html tables? I would like to be able to flow text in tables and control the bg color, borders, padding, spacing etc. thanks, ...more >>

Is there an easy way to make a button go to a "visited" state after it has been clicked? I want to have a large list of thumbnails that will grey out after a user clicks one, so that the user knows they have already clicked it. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. ...more >>

Please excuse the newbieness of this request, but am still at the playing with Flash MX stage. I am trying to set up a small presentation, I want the presentation to jump to a specific frame dependant upon what radio button is selected when I push the continue button. I assume the best way...more >>

I have a movieclip called fader_mc. I have two other movieclips called object1_mc and object2_mc. I want to know how i can change the alpha percent of fader_mc depending on the collision overlap percent of object1 and object2. Eg if the collision overlap of object1 and object2 is 53% then th...more >>

Hey all... I've been handed a Flash movie that my client has made for one of ~their~ clients. I'm not a Flash guru, but it seems that this job won't need any Actionscripting. Here's my question - is there a resource out there for accessibility within Flash? I went to the Macromedia site and it...more >>

Hi, i'm publishing my .fla in html and when you view the html file the swf is nearly in the top left hand corner but not quite! Is there a way that you can get the swf to go perfectly in the top left corner so there is no white space?? Thanks fr any help?? Guy ...more >>

How can I stream an audio file that is about 17minutes long through an external method? I would also just need play controls, simply stop and start. Thanks. -- Aziz Peregrino-Brimah Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer MX Newsgroup: news://forums....more >>

I have two layers. On one layer, "background" I have a jpeg image that'll change to another one. What I'm trying to do is create a nice transitional effect between the two by having a plain white box with no border start at 0% transparency, gradually to 100%, then switch picture, then have the r...more >>

I've deleted many items in the library but the .fla keeps on being enormous!!!! I have deleted a video from the library which had 257Mb, even so my movie file is still 333Mb!!! In the older versions of flash I was able to delete library items to decrease the size of the project, on MX 2004 it ...more >>

I'm got an swf loaded into a place holder, then I want a mc acting as a button within that loaded Movie to trigger a loadMovie of another swf into a placeholder in the loaded movie.... Confused? So am I!!! I've put the fla's on this web page [L=www.wwavtest.co.uk/fla]http://www.wwavtest....more >>

Hello there, I have a Laptop Double Monitor Problem. The setup is a laptop with an external monitor attached to it. So you have to screens... Resolution =3D (monitor 1) 800 x 600 + = (monitor 2) 800 x 600 =3D 1600 x 600 But when I give the FS Command Full screen in a flash movie that ha...more >>

Hi, I have a nice background of some water. I want to add two links to this in the form of rollovers. When the user rolls the mouse over any of the links I would like a ripple effect to go through the water. If this possible, any tutorials ? Thanks Andy. ...more >>

I have a problem with the Flash Player Settings panel. My swf is 1600x1200 pixels and the Settings panel appears at the middle of the movie (800x600). If the user have a resolution of 800x600, the user can?t see the Settings panel and the movie seems disabled. How I can position this p...more >>

This is for Flash MX Is there a way to edit the Starting/Stopping point of a Layer in the Timeline, except via the mouse. I am hoping the there is a properties window that will allow me to enter the frame number for the starting and stopping point. Thanks ...more >>

hello am looking for some reference material, tutorial or explanation to make a project for an online shop. here is an [L=example]http://www.fredperry.com/index.html[/L] of what i want to achieve see the e-store section and lets say you go to the footwear section : you will have an i...more >>

Hey all, I have a flash animation running. What I am trying to do is import a video from After Effects (Raster Animation) so that it sits over the top of my Flash Animation in my flash File. I need for this video to have a transparent background so that I can see through it onto the flash ...more >>

Flash 5 How can I change the background color to transparency? Thanks!...more >>

Im made one flash movie (3kb) and when I go to see that movie in Netscape (version 7.1) I get nothing like movie dont loaded! So please help me I have to find solution for this as soon as possible! thx Chelo ...more >>

Hi all, I have an illustration where I want the user to drag a color from a colorscheme (with 5-10 colors) to different parts of the illustration to change the color of those. What is the easiest way to do this? Thanks in advance!! MO ...more >>

The application I'm building is pretty straightforward and pretty common: a gallery of images; on an event, a scrim fades over the image and text--a caption--fades over the scrim. It's a museum thing. The scrims and text, one for each image, are each held in a separate MC; the scrim sits ...more >>

I am having the same problem with my jpg's getting fuzzy/blurry. Is this a Flash bug? I've asked around (in other forum's) and no one seems to have an answer... but the preloader isn't the problem... the problem is loading images in any other frame than 1 (or having more than one frame, appare...more >>

How do I add sound (.wav files) to clips? Vinny...more >>

Hello. I'm currently researching a solution to a problem a prof. of mine has whom consults for a 3rd party business. The business in question is one that makes children's teaching software in flash. They distribute this commercially on CD for the windows Platform, and hence the problem. Th...more >>

Hey Yalls- check this out! http://www.brianmccutcheon.com/ nice huh?! go ahead and click throught the images..... can someone help me figure out how the flash shell resizes to fit the image... very new to actionscript...any help would be much much appreciated!! ...more >>

Oh man. My flash movie is 20megs. It has an imported quicktime movie that is 700x400 in it, with some flash art along with it. And this animation is supposed to be for my company's website. This is my first project with Flash. Teaching myself as I go along. Is there a good way to shrink ...more >>