We have been saving a file under the same file name throughout the day in Flash MX 04 on a Mac OS X system. During the last save today the file/program froze. We ultimately had to Alt-Option-Escape to unfreeze the system. When we tried to open the file the file was not in the directory w...more >>

how do i change the background color of the textarea box in flash mx pro 2004?...more >>

Hi all and ttya - I thought what I was trying to do is very simple, but it is beating me down. I am sure that I am just not doing something right. Anyhow this is the situation - I have a list of buttons all coinciding to a song. Basically I just want the user to be able to press one of t...more >>

i'm trying to creat a series of images fading in and out. i'm importing JPEGS and setting the tween right accoring to guides but it doesn't get transparent and fade out when i change the alpha. i'm using a motion tween and following the right steps but nothing fades. thanks. ...more >>

Is there a way to make a Projector EXE always on Top?...more >>

I built this site ages ago and now I've just updated it for a client and I'm getting a strange display on the navigation buttons. Letters are missing! This has nothing to do with the code (as far as I can see.) Can someone explain what might be happening? Thanks. http://www.articulateintegr...more >>

Is this even possible? Im using flash MX 2004 pro. I have a mask on a simple graphic on a button. The mask previews OK when the layers are locked, but upon publishing, the mask does not work. Any ideas?? ...more >>

Hi folks, I am using the ScrollPane component with no troubles at all--expect one. I am loading a MC composed of text into a pane. Upon viewing the movie, the text displays in the pane as it should, however, it is flush up against the sides of the ScrollPane. Do any gurus out there kn...more >>

Hello I am using FlashMx2004. I am trying to add to a dynaminc Text a scrolbar. I read that i need to use the Scrollbar component from the UI components. but i dont have any scrollbar in my UI components lists?! where is it? its not in MX2004? if not what should i do to slove the problem?...more >>

Now then, I dont know a great deal about html, but If I had a flash movie say 500 x 500 and wanted it to stay that way on all resolutions and not scale, so that a person seeing it on 1024 by 768 would see it the same as someone on a resolution of 800 by 600, how would I achieve this? I am sure...more >>

When I click on download it takes me to another page, then nothing happens. At the bottom it says 'done' but no flash animation. No security warning, dialog box of any kind. I've tried all of their trouble shooting steps on the website and I keep finding myself going in circles. I downloaded t...more >>

Hey NG; I'm jumping back into Flash to help some friends with their (tangled web of) Action Script. Can I open MX / MX2004 .fla's with my Flash 5? I had problems opening the files but I've always had problems with .fla's over the net. Larger question - Is it time to dig in and upgrade to MX...more >>

Not getting the right answers?? Know a lot about flash?? Getting bad service here?? Well then why not try a forum where we give the exact answers, check and respond every day, and know a good bit about flash? Its found right here at: [L=Flash Support and Help]http://www.flashsupport.tk...more >>

Hi, I imported to stage a simple vector object made in Illustrator 9, created with the pen tool on just one layer with a color fill, and on import I flattened it, imported to stage, converted pages to scenes, then broke it apart. Then I tried to free transform it for purpose of a shape tw...more >>

Does Flash allow for data to be "pushed" from a centralized server source, or does the client have to poll the server for updates? In other words, for online games consisting of multiple players, does each client game application have to post user moves, and ask for new ones? Or, can the ser...more >>

I am using myformat.font = "arial bold"; to set a font for a dynamically created menu, which looks fine on PC's, but reverts to times on macs. see www.danielswallow.com, launch the flash, you will see the numbers as th nav on the bottom. Anyone have a solution/ideas? Cheers MaTT ...more >>

I am new to flash. I have created buttons and want to import or insert them into Dreamweaver. How do I do that? thanks!...more >>

ok i have one image that i edited in Photoshop to have a transparent background so say if its a pic of an "@" symbol everything white would be transparent. so what i wanna do is have an image so up underneath it and have it show up but still have th @ show on top. but when i do that now the im...more >>

I thought this problem had been fixed. I need to give to a client, WORKING .fla files, created on a mac and editable on a PC. I dont know if this is something i need to do on my end with the MAC, or there end with the PC. ...more >>

The text in my flash panels (using XP) is unreadable. Can someone tell me how to fix this problem? Thanks...more >>

I installed the demo of Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 this morning, and thought I was making progress. Oops! I closed some windows in the main portion of the screen (the ActionScript editor view, the help window, a few others). Now how do I get them back? Not even F1 will reopen the he...more >>

I'm using Flash MX Pro 2004 v7.0.1 and I can't seem to get text to fade in or out using either the timeline effects option or by creating a tween with the first frame at zero alpha and last frame up full. It works when I use the controller on the work stage, but when I go to test mode or publi...more >>

Hi all Here's the idea: my main flash movie would be invisible. If you mouse-click somewhere, then it reveals the movie underneath the mouse, only in the area clicked on. If you would then Click-drag, it would act as if you would "draw" or reveal what's underneath, following your mouse. Basi...more >>

I would like to know please, if there is any way to fade out music when you are in a timeline of a flash presentation. I am creating a slide show and when I have a video clip come up, I want to know if there is a way to fade my background music down so the movie sound plays on top of it. If an...more >>

Does anyone know of a good tutorial on how to send email through flash with asp.net. Or has anyone built something similar and would be willing to share some hints. Thanks in advance J...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to put the text of a dynamic textfield into an email automatically. I have a shopping basket thing that makes a list of items that i want to email off when you are finished. But heres the problem.. Its running off a cd, i hear that it is very very difficult to do. Bu...more >>

Hi, I need to save data in a movie consisting of just a couple variables. I can't have it save it on the server, so it will be on the userside. Should I use cookies or flash shared objects. I need to be able to pull the variables from different flash movies such as I have a pop up window...more >>

Ok, Ive been out of the Flash loop since ver. 5 My employer purchased MX Pro 2004, and opening it up has made me very anxiety ridden. I need to make a dynamic slideshow controlled by a simple text table of contents. What I would like to do is take the text entries and turn them into an array o...more >>

Hi there, Bit of a strange one this. Whenever I use the progress bar component for a loader object, it works fine the first time I load something in to the loader. There is a bit of code in the pbar to switch the _visible to false when it completes. However when I load something else i...more >>

Greetings, I'd like to create six nicely beveled and shaded buttons (probably in Fireworks), but I'd also like to use alpha tweening to have the six buttons fade in one at a time as the web page loads. The hurdle for me is that I'd also like to create a popup menu for each of these butto...more >>

I have a movie that uses the loader component to load in another .swf file. The swf file that it loads in contains form elements. All form elements in the loaded movie will work except the combo box component. I have tried publishing the 2 swf files in different formatts and still the same pro...more >>

I have an animation that plays with music. The animation and the music are supposed to end at the same time. But when played from a server the animation looses it's frame rate sync with the music. (The frame rate in the document settings is 30fps.) Solutions anyone??? [S=Check it out.]h...more >>

Has anyone played with Flash MX 2004? What are the benefits of upgrading? thanks...more >>

How can I display a flash animation in exact dimensions without having to use javascript to open up a pop-up window defining window size??? (no blank windows in background)...more >>

1) I have a swf that currently works great in the Flash mx 2004 professional authoring environment, but then does not display any data when published and ran in the Flash 7 Player. This app calls various ColdFusion CFC functions to retrieve and set data in a SQL database. 2) I'm also at...more >>

I've been banging my head against the wall for three days now. I need to send a QueryString via rollover image to my database and return just one line of data to be displayed in Flash. Attached is a stripped down version of my mdb, fla, and asp files. could someone please show me the light. ...more >>

Hey. I am creating a Super Mario Bros.-type game. My question is this: How do I properly animate the feet so that they "plant" correctly? My character will speed up and slow down depending on how long you are holding down the arrow keys. So a standard animation will not work. I has to b...more >>

i made an mc and exported it from the library so I can load it at runtime when it's needed. i set my loader component to say: on(complete){ this.contentHolder.gotoAndPlay(2) } but the loaded mc doesn't play. the .swf also doesn't have the 'play' option in its menu. BUT if I...more >>

Hi, I need a good swf2exe, but it have to be for free or a good one with a crack. I am making something for free for our local kidzcorner, with flash. But kidz like to experiment so if I leave the help option or the ALT-F4 option or escape button, we weel need someone the whole day near the c...more >>

What is the actionscript to hold and wait on a frame for a certain amount of time before iit starts to play again? ...more >>

Hi all, I am just in the process of replacing my PC and have instead opted for a Mac which I have just bought from Apple Direct. Does anyone know of any good UK based suppliers of Mac software such as MS Office & Macromedia? Cheers, Matt ...more >>

I have a site with several single frame movie clips. Is it necessary to include a "stop();" oin frame one of these movies to prevent them from "looping" and dragging down the processor? I assume it is not necessary, but thought I would check. Thanks, - Eric ...more >>

is it possible to move a symbol's registration point after you have created it?...more >>

I'm in the process of making a CD-rom based on html language. There are Videos in it coming thru a .swf file containing a mediaController and a mediaDisplay linked to a .flv file (Flash 2004 Pro 7.1.1. French version). On Windows, everything works on any media (net, HD, or CD). On macos X, i...more >>

IM CURRENTLY DESIGNING A GAME IN FLASH ...more >>

I need export the flash animation for avi but the software only do with the root's timeline How can do for the export the full film, including the animation of the movie clip I can the capter screen software? What is the best for this? thank Rafael ...more >>

I am opening a small Flash animation from another Flash-based page and I want to specify the size of the child window so that it matches the size of the animation. How do I specify this from within the parent window that launches the child in question? ...more >>

I'm using Flash mx 2004 for a piece of university work. I need to submit the final piece of work so that the uncompressed .FLA file can be read by Flash 5. Anyone have any ideas how I can convert what I got with Mx 2004? I have looked under the 'save as' and 'export setting' but it only has su...more >>

Hi, does anyone know why the quicktimes on my website www.othersidecreation.com do not work on Pc's. They work fine on mac but when u use a Pc it says the plug in is not available. Navigate to the animation part and click on showreel to see it in action. i can't think why this is ...more >>

Hello! I would like to create a small box that shows like a scrolling (auto) news ticker for my site. I am fairly new to Flash, so I am looking for a good tutorial on this subject. Suggestions? Thanks, Brian ...more >>

Anyone knows the code to disable the "Configuration" option of the Flash Player Context Menu? In some swf, automatically it's disabled... Thanks....more >>

hi Can anyone help me create a preloader that will load a set of images from folder.( if possible i dont know if jpg can be preloaded) thx...more >>

ARGH! The photography site is done, except for the movie that is killing me. Flash 4: simple series of photographs that fade in and out Goal: highest image quality/detail & lowest load time From PhotoShop 6 converted jpgs to bmps, imported to flash. I thought I was doing this to preserve ...more >>

how do i link a button to download a pdf file in flash mx 2004...more >>

Hi, please help as i'm a little rusty on flash.... I have created a movie clip which has 6 buttons, all on the same layer. Within this movie I have selected a button and added the follwing action on (release) { gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 1); } I have placed that movie on my main scene but t...more >>

Hi there, We have created an mp3 player in Flash and wish to enable the user to download an MP3 to the users local drive howver is there a way to achieve this without php scripting as our server does not seem to accept it??? Many thanks for any help. ...more >>

I want to create a "tell target" button similiar to the one in this tutorial. http://www.echoecho.com/flashbuttons02.htm My probem is that I can create the button, but it won't work when placed in another MC Any ideas? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, I'm doing research for making simple e-learning content. In flash there are several e-learning components and standard assets. Is it true that a user that never used flash and is not familair with flash terms (words like movie, timeline) can use the quiz templates to make simple e-lear...more >>

Hi, Been using Director for a while, but new to Flash (MX2004 Professional) although I've been making swfs in other apps for a long time and new this forum. Hope I'm not asking too much of an old chestnut. Task: Import a 300 dpi bitmap sequence with image size = stage size. Import ...more >>

How do I synchronize the number of frames between a Movie Clip and the document's main timeline at ease? I hate to manually adjust the frame number of main timeline each time I change a Movie Clip's frame number, waste of time thus less productive. :-( Thanks in advance! Cheers Chris ...more >>

Flash MX 2004 pro PC: winXP For the past few mornings I have come to my desk and thought I was loosing the plot and that the last hour or so of coding from the previous night has actually been a dream..... When I finish for the evening I save the files I am working on as MyFile0_1_18.fla an...more >>

Contact me for prices. I am a very skilled producer of flash material on the internet. Also do photography and have a well functioning network in my city of ?rebro / Sweden. Hope to hear from you who want a site made or parhaps just somethin cool to spice your site up! best regards Pet...more >>

Hi all! Actually this is a big problem:I'm a graphic designer,warking with action-scripter.. Almost all project we do together,and we can't work on the SAME TIME WITH SAME FILE.. Is there are asome way in flash to work together(like in 3Dmax)??? THNX...Juras... ...more >>

Hi I have a map with dots on it and when users move the mouse over the dots i want some text to appear. (eg. name of place) and the user can click on the dot and a webpages will open. Can some please help me, I have been using flash for about 1week now. Thank you From Simon ...more >>

Hii All, What should I do in order to develop a web based game programming with Flash? Which product should I use? Flash Remoting or Flash Comm Server.. ?? Which one shud I use? The game will be online where 2 users play a single game. Thanks in advance. Ashok ...more >>

I have been trying to figure out how to load movies in and out of my Flash projector from the cd. I am new to "computer programming" but pretty good in action script. I have made several FLV files and a custom player for them. I can link to them perfect if I place the folder on my c drive or str...more >>

text = " You Win!!! You Have Got 10 Colors Correctly."; t = new String(text); for (i=0; i>t.length; i++) { x = t.substr(i, 23); trace(i); trace(x); } Why is it that I do not get a return for i nor x? ...more >>

Hi all, I have a flash movie where the user can drag and drop colors on different parts of a product-illustration to customize its colors. I want the user to be able to save a copy of his own custom-colored product to be able to mail this with an order. Is it possible to export a jpeg from...more >>

I am making a site where you press a button which needs to load a movie then goto a particular frame label in that movie. It needs to hapen in one step. I have tried attaching the following script to the button with no success. Seems too simple I think. on (release) { loadMovieNum("z...more >>

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Is it possible to pass parms into the SWF from the <PARAM> tag within the <OBJECT> tag from HTML? Example "srcurl" passed here.. Can I retrieve that value from flash? <object ..> <param name="movie" value="player.swf" /> <param name="srcurl" value="http://www.chizl.com/test.asp" /> <...more >>

Hey, i'm just starting with Flash '04, i used an older version a while ago. Right now, i'm trying to figure out how i can make a "Skip" Button, so that a viewer can choose to skip watching a flash intro. The best that i can figure right now is that i need to make it into a button, and possib...more >>

hey, i am creating this game, where the scroe will be displayed using a dynamic text box. The problem is, once the dynamic text box reach 100, i want to display a congratulation message which will be located in another scene.... So, I know the basic idea on how to do that, but dont know...more >>

I want to make a nice ad for my site but I'm new to Flash...I do have Flash MX Professional. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Trint...more >>

im trying to uninstall flash player, and the support FAQ says to run the "uninstall_flash_player.exe" file. however THE FILE IS NOT THERE! i click on it and IE tells me "cannot find server". i thought i might be able to get it on a different computer and internet connection, but i get the s...more >>

I want to use a flash document as a background, but it didn't work. Instead, I tried making layers. My flash document was underneath my text. For some reason the flash still falls ontop of the text. How can this be fixed. ...more >>

Hi.... I got a fla with a few scenes. I want to have a controller panel that consists of slider, drag bar, pause, play and rewind. Something like a video controller How do I go about doing it? Thanks. LY ...more >>

I'm setting up a quiz with multiple choice questions but the fields for the answer selections do not expand so the text is chopped off. Is there a way to adjust the length? I can't seem to find a setting for this. Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

Is it possible to make text into a shape so that I can put text into a movie clip? I ask this as text needs to go on one of my shapes to say what it is. Cheers, Paulie...more >>

First off, here is the URI: http://tgdc.doyougetme.net/indexx.php Now... you may have noticed that when the flash boots up there is a small pre-loader, but it's got a bit of a problem. When it gets to about 75% loaded, it goes ahead and goes straight to the flash movie. I know this can be st...more >>