Hi, I'm brand new to using Flash. I want to create a simple CD that opens with the Flash Projector. My CD consists of files from various companies so I'm creating screens with their logos and some thumbnails to represent their files. The files are in PDF format. How do you open a PDF in Fl...more >>

Hi Guys May people with Macs please test my site www.worldofwarwick.co.za and www.worldofwarwick.co.uk Your feedback is appreciated in advance. Thanks DarryBoy ...more >>

On the Macromedia site they give a list of applications which can be used with the plug-in to export the FLV files for Flash MX 2004 Pro video. Quick Time Pro is the only application which is in my budget but the site says Mac only and Quick Time Pro is available for the Windows platform too, ...more >>

We homeschool our childern and use a service K-12.com. When we try to login they are using a Flashplayer 7. It tries to startup but never finishes the process. We have two other computers running and they have no problem with this process. After contacting K-12 tech they say the problem is wit...more >>

I've downloaded the Flash MX 2004 trial version to see if I want it for the Mac (OS 10.2.8). I've created my movie and it works fine when I choose Control > Play. However, when I choose Control > Test Movie, or File > Publish Preview, or File > Publish, or File > Export, my movie doesn't w...more >>

Hello, Using Flash MX 2004 Pro, I've created a Flash Movie following both the [b]Building a Streaming Video Presentation with Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 Media Components[/b]: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/media_components.html and [b]Flash Video Template...more >>

Don't laugh, but I'm still using Flash MX (Yes, the previous one...) and the named anchors feature new to this release worked fine in IE, but when testet in Opera my swf starts acting strange?!? It continues to play certain MC and ignoring stop actions... The benefit of Flash/plugin used to ...more >>

Hi there. I made a gallery of art that works on my pc but not on mac's with Internet explorer. Can anyone help me figure out why Mac's don't allow the buttons to work in Internet explorer. Thanks, Blake http://www.techture.net/gallery.html ...more >>

Can flash Macromedia MX 2004 create EXEs out of .fla files? I want to use flash as the GUI for my command line utilities. Thank you...more >>

i want to make a sound rollover. when someone puts their mouse over a certain image, a sound is played. does anyone know how to do that? thanks elie...more >>

Hey All, I am trying to have flash follow a motion path(already complete), and while it is following the motion path flash should also be revealing a third layer. For example, imagine the object was a square and the motion path was an outline of that square. As the animation runs an object...more >>

Hi, I have built a presentation that has several screens that play their own time line. With the AutoKeyNav I can move to the next screen by hitting the space bar or right arrow. When I hit the left arrow it returns to the last frame of the previous screen. How do I go back to the first frame ...more >>

Anyone knows a way to change image on a swf file using an external file (VB.NET)? I want to be able to pass a path to a .jpg file and the swf movie loads the corresponding image. Thanks MameFreak...more >>

Hi there, First post so please be gentle with me..... I'm using MX2004 to produce a CD-ROM with video content. Its all very simple really - I have 3 seperate video FLV files that are called in externally on 3 different slides within a MediaDisplay. I've attached buttons to the slides s...more >>

When I publish my flash project as html and upload it to my website it asks the views if they want to download a flash player. Is there any way around that?...more >>

Is it possible to insert in a flash file a control to control (for example) the number of times the file is played after being downloaded from a site. The question could be reformulated as follow: is it possible to insert some coding, to make the file 'handshake' with a cradle prior to its e...more >>

Does anyone else who uses the actionscript panel lots experience any bugs with it? I have MX 2004 installed on two different Windows OS (XP and 2000), and when I press the quick key (F9) to bring up the panel, sometimes it freezes up my flash for about a minute or so. Since this doesn't c...more >>

Hello, I am developing a web site, but am having trouble with it. When going through the site, I get pages not being displayed in full. Looking at the source shows that the HTML is all there, but often parts of the page are just not shown. When the problem happens, you get the logo at th...more >>

wish to append to a string in a text field ( this is for a touch scrnn app ) so i have the field Email for instance on an "A" buton I wish to on mouse press append Email text with an A I also need a means of Backspacing.. eating off the tail of the string on a back space ky ...more >>

I have a movie with multiple screens. Is there any way to order how the screens are revealed. For instance, screen one uses a transition - then screen two after one is complete, etc. I am sure ActionScript is the answer - but how? I want this to automatically happen with no user input...more >>

Hi all, Does any one have any suggestions for me? I've been trying to get a FLV video to stop when I navigate to the next scene, and can't seem to make it work. I am playing back the video dynamically (progressive) and when I move another scene the audio is still playing. I've posted t...more >>

Hi, I'm coming from a ColdFusion background and am attempting to write my first real world Flash application and need a little help. I need to produce various reports that will be based on data that will be retrieved from a SQL database via a CFC (Using Flash Remoting). My question is, w...more >>

When I open some fla files I've created in the older Flash MX, some of the text areas move, about half the height of the font down from where they were origianally placed. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a known issue? Is there any way to fix this without going in and manually moving a...more >>

Does anyone have the answer? I have been asking everywhere, even here and no one has yet responded. I'm creating a navigation in flash which links are imported from an XML file (so they can be easily amended). however I want my links have a mouse over (rollover) effect like flickering ...more >>

Could someone please tell me how flash video works? Is it embeded into Flash or require a streaming server? If it requires a streaming server then what the best kind to invest in? I don't want a streaming service, I mean an actual server. ...more >>

I completed my first Flash animation and want to put two buttons under the movie. One to replay and the second to skip the movie. Can someone give me an idea how to do these. Thanks, Len...more >>

Hi all, I've posted the swf I'm talking about here www.formedia.nl/test Let's take it that I want to recreate planets circling around the sun. In each planet, which are duplicates, I have made a formula to make them circle around the middle. Its logic is something like this: onClipEvent(o...more >>

Hi, I am running Flash MX 2004 Pro on Windows XP Pro. Over the last few days Flash has become very erratic. It keeps freezing between actions. For example if I want to scroll the main stage area down it will freeze for aroud 10 seconds until it does anything. This is happening on everythin...more >>

How do I have a movie clip which stops on frame 1 and on keydown play the movieclip in a loop? ...more >>

What is Macromedia Flex ? Sincerely Chris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.627 / Virus Database: 402 - Release Date: 3/16/2004 ...more >>

What is XML and How would it be useful within Flash ? Sincerely Chris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.627 / Virus Database: 402 - Release Date: 3/16/2004 ...more >>

With Flash 2004 I want to swap a photo in an existing presentation. I want the new photo to take the place of an existing photo and retain all the effects and animations. Is this possible? -- Peter Aitken Remove the crap from my email address before using. ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make a roulette wheel type animation. I've got everything working except the clicking sound that the wheel should make as it turns. The sound should slow down as the spinning wheel slows down. Has anyone seen anything like this that they can direct me towards? T...more >>

Hi I would like to import my picture whic has no background color (Transparent) into my stage BUT when I import it into my stage Background turn to white it doesn't stay Transparent. Is there anybody help me how to keep my picture bacground transparent? Thanks Sinan ...more >>

I have win XP, and each time i restart the pc, the flash player goes off and i have to reinstall it... any ideas?...more >>

I'am trying to write an arabic script on the stage as graphic, but flash doesn't recognize the script and position... Please can someone help me about...!...more >>

how to add 1 to dynamic text each time I press the next button (also go to next frame) I've created a dynamic text (var: no) just like a page number. Thanks! ..::herman ...more >>

Hi I am creating a project in Flash that opens up at fullscreen and does not scale my movie up. I have done this no problem! I then have a button in my movie where I want to Load a separate SWF file. I want to load this file as Fullscreen, but for it to Scale to fullscreen also. At the mo...more >>

Could anybody tell me what the maximum amount of nested 'if / else' statements you are allowed? Cheers Jon ...more >>

PLEASE HELP ME !!! I am linking a text file dynamically in to flash - no problem - scrolling as well - no problem My problem is with Special Characters in the text document : I need to have a plus sign '+' in front of a telephone number to represent the international dialling code fo...more >>

Hi, I want to create a web page that has a blank snooker table on as the link below but allows the user to arrange the balls in any order that they want and copy that specific picture so they can insert the new altered image into forums for example. This is for a snooker website with forums an...more >>

I WAS UNINSTALLING FLASH AND IT SAID THAT I GOT FLASH OCX ON MY COMPUTER HOW DO I REMOVE FLASH OCX ...more >>

Hello Flashers, I'm searching for a streaming MP3 player, created in flash, which is easily integrated into an existing flash site. I searched yesterday and found a couple of players, but they ended up being so complicated that I practically wasted about 6 hours of work trying to adapt them t...more >>

Hi ! friends, Can anybody please tell me how can we get grid lines in flash published files? Thanks, Shailendra. ...more >>

Hey all, I am tring to add a screen to my flash project, but when I go to Window the Screen option is made unavailable on the menu. What do I have to do to enable it?...more >>

Sometimes I come across a swf that I find amazing design-wise. Unlike gifs or jpgs, you can't right click on a swf and choose "save as". What's the best way to grab these files from your browser? Can you get a special plugin?...more >>

I just installed Flash 6 on a laptop with a hi-res monitor and I have a strange problem. The Fonts in the some areas are unreadable (blocky and clumped together) this happens in the properties area, inside the color mixer and toolbar. Any help will be appreciated. ...more >>

Generator 2 used to take in a flash 4 SWF and allow export to a slew of different graphic formats (PNG being the one we are interested in). The environment is a run time flash file, that the user will be interacting with, needs to be printed (either programmatically on the server, or a "scre...more >>

Anyone know how to get a picture to show up when the mouse rolls over a button? I want to have 4 buttons on the left and have a different image for each show up when the mouse rolls over the different buttons. ...more >>

When I open Flash MX, I get an error saying the program encountered a problem and needs to close. Why does this happen and how do I fix this?...more >>

I am trying to add a scroll bar to a dynamic text box. I am able to scroll a dynamic text box using the ScrollBar component in Flash MX. My problem is that I need to have many dynamic text boxes inside this scrollable box. I have been unable to get this to work. Please help if you have any ...more >>

The images I'm using with in my flash movie are making it too big. My question is, can I just use the getURL function to retrieve the images from my webhosting service instead of imbedding them in the flash movie? ...more >>

Hi, Which flash player will work for windows nt? thanks in advance. --p...more >>