I have a client who loves the animation I provided for them. It is a simple movie that has 9 images rotating in adn out of three boxes. Now they want to be able to dump more images into a directory, build a database with those images and have my little Flash movie automatically load the new im...more >>

I'm trying to skip to another part of my sound while it's playing by using Sound.start(second_offset); It appears to do absolutely nothing... // root level s = new Sound(this); s.loadSound(src,true); s.start(startOffX,1); // this would be called again with different values for St...more >>

Can someone tell me how I get into presentation screen mode. I got info from this forum that I can work on a slideshow from there. I have Flash MX2004 Pro. Thanks....more >>

Hi! I am having a little preview problem and am hoping for help. I have a textfield in a moviclip in a moviclip, ok... when I animate the moviclip inside the main movieclip by simple motion tween the preview section will not show it. It only shows when my animation contains simple movment an...more >>

I've created 800x600 AVI screen captures of a demo of a program we just created using Camtasia & TechSmith codec. Each of the AVIs is around 10 -> 30 MB (after being edited in Video Vegas 4). I loaded each of the AVIs into Flash MX 2004, and exported to a Movie, using no compression and 10...more >>

Does anyone know how to add bullets to text in Flash MX?...more >>

Does anybody know where a tutorial is on makeing a site with flash mx....more >>

Hello all, I'm just finishing off a new 3rd party developer app that works with Flash, and I'm trying to determine the demand for it. The features of this application include.. - Bolts onto any Flash movie.. either projector OR BROWSER movie. (Runs on the client). - Turns any movie ...more >>

How do i play a .mov file within a flash movie? Thanks!...more >>

I have a Flash movie that is in .swf format ... it was saved so the majority of users can view it without having to download the latest and greatest Flash player. Or am I being led downstream and giving up quality for a non-valid reason? It is my understanding if it is saved as MX most users...more >>

Hello buddies, How can I make a good installer for my v2 Flash component so it appears in user's components panel? Is extension manager the best? if yes how to do so? thanks...more >>

I have created a "situation board" as part of a simulation for training Ontario water bomber pilots. On the screen is a map layer and over the map layer flies a graphic of a bomber (following a motion path). There is a button for each motion path that controls the bomber paths giving the pil...more >>

can someone tell me why when i load the swf directly, the jpg's look fine, and when you load the html page they look pixelated & jagged? [L=html]http://home.earthlink.net/~rocketsciencedesign/foto.htm[/L] [L=swf]http://home.earthlink.net/~rocketsciencedesign/foto.swf[/L] if you look at s...more >>

I hope somene can help me -- I'm sure Flash can do what I want it to, but am at a loss to make it happen. I've got a slide-based movie with the following hierarchy: Background - video (MediaDisplay and Controller, plus navigation buttons between slides/cuepoints) - sld01 ...more >>

Hey guys, I was curious as to what the most effective ways of shrinking imag sizes in flash are. I already played with the compression settings i Flash and they had a minimal impact on the file size in the end. I you guys have any suggestions in photoshop I would happy to hear the as well. T...more >>

Can anyone provide some thoughts on the wisdom of diving into database-driven flash? I'm intrigued by the design possibilities but don't want to invest a lot of time learning this technology if there is a consensus among the web development community that building dynamic sites entirely in fl...more >>

A real conundrum? A set of action script generated 'hidden buttons' (via duplicate) work perfectly in the flash player (7) itself or on the local html OSX 10.2 (safari / explorer) they also work fine when loaded remotely over internet on windows explorer under XP/98. HOWEVER the buttons ar...more >>

Alright.. I've been having this problem for a while. I use Apple's browser, Safari. When designing my sites I use a large marjority of Flash media. Safari and I work together fine. When I preview my work in IE, it gives me problems. Basically: Internet Explorer loads the flash media ...more >>

Hi, I am experiencing a problem with my flash movie. On most computers, it shows fine, however, on some computers, the movie remains black until the cursor is hovered over the movie area. I've checked Flash versions on the different computers and they are the same. Has anyone ever enc...more >>

Hi I've created a web site that uses nested flash files. When the html page loads it brings up a swf which itself loads another swf with A PNG inside it. Except.... when loading the page for the first time get the first swf and then the second but it mdoesn't display the PNG image. The ...more >>

I am not sure if this is even possible. My company would like to redirect all requests for a new install of Flash player to the intranet. I already have the license to redistibute it on the intranet from MM. It, at this time, cannot be "pushed" out to our clients as we are in the middle of ...more >>

i am a beginner flash user and im trying to put a song i have (its a WAV) into the movie so that it starts as soon as the movie does and ends as soon as the movie does, ive been to the help part of flash but couldnt figure out how to do it. if anyone can help plz do so. ...more >>

Argh, Flash is making me nuts! I'm working on a design where I need to import logos from variou companies. I thought that Flash would handle EPS files, but the always come through messed up (chunks of the logo will be missing). I'm trying JPEG and BMP files for the logos now, but these always...more >>

does anyone know an easy way to make a scrolling text box in MX2004?...more >>

Anyone know much about converting Authorware files to Flash? I'm exploring a project that requires taking what is now a CD and converting it for the web...any insight is appreciated....more >>

Hello! I made a flash file by Flash MX and I put an exit button on it. After user click the exit button a popup box come out ask "Are you sure you want to quit?" There are two buttons on the popup box with scripts and I put a script on the "Yes" button. on (release) { fscomma...more >>

It takes ten seconds for our home page to download with a recent version of IE because of the Flash on it. With Netscape the page downloads fine. Our bandwidth is fine. We tried reducing the file size of the Flash, and also playing around with the Object and Embed variables, but it did not hel...more >>

I have a large pic that i want as a backround in this scene, and a few smaller pics for the foreground. When i try to place the smaller pics on top of the larger pic, they go behind it. What do i have to do to make them go in front? God Bless, --Roy ...more >>

Hi, I have 5 input text boxes on a page. The page drags in default variable values for these boxes from an external text file. This all works fine. However whenever I tab through these boxes, the default values clear whenever the box has focus. What's even stranger though is that on on...more >>

Hey guys I posted before about how to create an avoid mouse effect, I've just found an example of what I'm looking for : [L=Example]http://www.lt2.fr[/L] On the left there is an image that avoids the mouse, then bounces back to its original location, If anyone knows how to do it and could ...more >>

How do I call a javascript function from within a Flash and pass the x and y values to it based on a cell event....more >>

I need to get the SWF filename from within the file. for example: if my flash is called myflash.swf inside flash i would have something similar to this: var myname = app.name; and name would equal "myflash.swf" Any ideas? Is this even possible? ...more >>

I have looked through the docs on visibility and haven't found what I need. I am using five instances of a button symbol in my movie. When one is clicked, I would like it to disappear. Is there a simple way to do this? Thanks ...more >>

I am loading an external movie with a button action. It is aligning at 0,0 of my main movie. Where would I specify the coordinates of where I actually want the movie to appear? Thanks ...more >>

I'm having trouble with images and text in flash. It seems to be perfect quality in FLA form, but blurs, gets "squished", and fades & distorts in parts when published to SWF. I have my embed tags set to quality=best, so that can't be it. My size dimensions are correct in the embedding as well....more >>

I've been designing and developing in dreamweaver for years, and have never really ran into this problem before. When I insert a flash button into dreamweaver, the buttons are not wide enough, so thinking well im an intelligent individual, I download a trial version of flash, for multiple re...more >>

I am looking form a way to put together (in one single fla) .flas that have been created by various people working in a team. I would prefer not to cut/paste. Thanks. Dan4089 bazwelle@yahoo.com...more >>

Hi im very new to flash and im just trying to do a simple sequence of image fades basically using the alpha color set over 15 frames. However the images seem to stretch very slightly when they fade in however there is not tween to make them do so. I was wondering was this a common problem and ...more >>

Hi there thanx for this help but being not very technical I have had problems I have saed 4 pages as jpegs at A4 size so the client can read them but as this is set up with a small book centre screen I can't seem to find the book to make it bigger and when adding the pages its a game of hit or...more >>

I am trying to figure out how to seamlessly loop an audio track I got off of FlashKit.com. I put the audio loop in a movie clip, with the audio on one layer and actions on the 2nd. In the actions layer I set a keyframe on frame one and named it "Begin", I set a keyframe in the actions layer to ma...more >>

When I wanting to test my complete project it takes up to 3 minutes to finish. The project isn't that big. I'm using Flash MX 2004. Anyone has the same problem? Or is it maybey a wrong project configuration? ...more >>

Hello A simple problem (probably). I'm trying to get flash to open an html file in a frameset. ie: a navigation frame at the top of the page and a content frame at the bottom. No matter what I do though the page always opens in a new browser window. I'm using flash mx. actions for the na...more >>

Hi, I'm having some trouble. I have noticed that not all people have the flash player on thier computers so this can be annoying for them to find out that ur sites flash and they can't view it and don't want to download the player. Is there a way that you can say that if the flash pl...more >>

Hi, I have created a text file and would like to import html text using Flash MX 2004pro. The tutorials I have used have not been compatible with Actionscript 2.0. I still end up with html code <br> within the text field instead of line breaks. For one, any advice to make this happen? ...more >>

I need to convert fla to avi, I have sound in my movie. I exported my movie to .avi, but haven't sucessfull, because I have animations in my symbols and not have in main timeline. I export my movie to .mov, but haven't sucessfull (error),I think because I have flash MX Professional 2004 and ...more >>

Hi guys http://www.intelligent-marketing.net/ This site has a great download brochure in it which is an interactive using flash to create, I am wondering how to do the page turns though as one of my clients has pointed me there and wants me to do it. Can anybody help. Is it action script...more >>

Hi, This has to be simple, but for some reason I can't find the correct way to do this. Yahoo Flash Movies have a play/pause/stop bar that pops up when the mouse is over the swf. When the mouse is not over the swf, the bar disappears. Also, the mouse is not a hand pointer when over swf, it ...more >>

It seems the UI Components in Flash MX is much easier to use than in Flash MX Pro 2004! Flash MX UI Components have more setting, but when it becomes Flash MX Pro 2004, seems u need to use Actionscripts to control the functions... Am I right? What do u guys think? ...more >>

I have a movie that loads another .swf into a movieClip. When I test movie in Flash it works fine. But when I try to bring it up on the browser, the main movie works but it won't load the second movie. I use Flash MX and the browser is IE6 with Flash Player7. script was simply: butn.on...more >>

I am just getting started with Flash and was wondering if it is possible to have a flash movie act as a browser of web pages. I want to have a multiframed page with the bottom frame essentially being a flash-based web browser. I need to be able to add features to the flash movie such as a cu...more >>

Hi all, The set up is pretty straight forward. A scene with annimation and JPGs precedes each FLV clip. This happens 4 times with each scene and FLV being different each time. I have made each group (the scene before the FLV and the scene with the FLV) their own .swfs. Lets say that ...more >>

Hello, I am experimenting with inlaid video. I have flash MX 2004 installed and am exporting out of After efects with the flash video exporter then importing into flash. I have embedded a video on the same layer of the same timeline as two butons, one play, one pause, both actions were appli...more >>

I have a font set that has many variations of the font. For example, Bold, Bold Extended, Bold Oblique, Bold Extended Oblique, etc. These fonts are all subs of the main font. In Photoshop it shows each style in the dropdown box. In Flash, there's no dropdown box, and the variations of the font...more >>