Ok, I have just dloaded the BounceMenu from the Exchange here, and when I make the bouncermenu to a html and runs it in Dreamveaver, the buttons work fine, but I am having it on a flash doc (.fla) with some text and stuff....and when i upload it with ftp and go to my site, i can see it, but th...more >>

Hi, I've just made a relatively simply flash (splash) page with an enter button which appears after 10/15 seconds. Now, I don't have any problems linking the enter button to a normal online URL page - BUT, what I want to do is link the flash button to an offline HTML page. I have created t...more >>

I am new to flash and unsure as to how most flash designers design their flash web sites. I have read tutorials and books about Flash, but none mention the proper way to build a web site. Not sure if there is a proper way, but I have seen .fla files with all different types of architecture. ...more >>

Can Flash make random text or symbols pop up every time the swf is loaded thorough the internet? I am currently using Flash MX for Mac...HELP!! [E=E-mail to sw@rattleandroll.com]sw@rattleandroll.com[/E] ...more >>

I don't like borders around my shapes. Every damn time I make a shape in flash, I have to go and delete it's border. Why the hell is it 2004 and there's still not a setting in flash to have no border? Or is there? To make it worse, the little "circle" icon to close a shape while your using ...more >>

How do you make a blank keyframe with shortcut? Its not in flash mx....more >>

Hi, I have yet to get Flash MX 2004, my stingy company won't oblidge and update yet, but I was wondering if it was possible to update my stand alone Flash Player from Flash Player 6 version 21 to higher version only in the Flash MX editing platform. We got Flash MX awhile ago and I'm still...more >>

Hey folks... (using FlashMX 2004Pro) have a large flash movie that i added the built in detection script for (with _alternate.html and _content.html pages, etc...) the preloader was working fine before this... now it only displays from 50% on up. where the movie should be is WHITE then...more >>

Hi, i want to increment the value of a variable while th user press a button. The problem is that i can't do that, when i press the button the variable increments in one, but only one time (by the onPress event) and don't continue until i release the button. Anybody knows how i can do it. Than...more >>

I have been scouring these forums as much as possilbe, along the the rest of the site... All Im trying to do is make a Media Display flv file loop. Currently my movie plays straight to the end and stops. Any help would be totally appreciated :) ...more >>

Hi, i try to make a button out of a masked jpg image. In the preview everything works fine, but after i export it, the mask is visible an the image is not masked. When i put the masked image i an normal timeline the exported swf works too! thanks, markus ...more >>

Hi all! In Director there´s and Xtra called BuddyAPI to perform system operations like check if a file exists, create a new folder, access de system registry, obtain memory info, set screen saver, set wall paper, open a system msg box, install fonts, eject disks, file age... etc etc... Is...more >>

Hi, I am trying to put Flash.swf files into Dreamweaver, but the white part of the flash stage shows up in dreamweaver. isnt there someway of having the flash file be just what you have put in it and not show a background. Thanks a million. Eleanor ...more >>

Is there any means to print the code inside the actions panel for a specific frame? I hate to lose the color formatting that Flash applies to my code when copying and pasting it into Notepad. Unfortunately I haven't been able to discover any means to print the code. Flash will only print what'...more >>

I'm working on a flash animation, basically I have some lettering, and I would like to animate it so that it looks like it's being written (like for an S, you see it start at the top and and draw out the s shape till it ends). I've seen sites that do this before but I can't remember them off-h...more >>

Don't know if it is the right place. But here is a try. I am currently looking for somebody who could animate characters (cartoon style) in Flash. It is a paid contract. To be hired, you have to be legalley entitled to work in Canada. You need to have an artistic profile (able to draw) with go...more >>

This may be a very basic question, but my search has come up empty-handed. Can a Flash movie be played with no Flash Player toolbars/not in a window? I am creating a menu that people will keep open on their desktop, and I would like it to play without the Flash toolbar and border. I have publi...more >>

Hi all...hope everyone is doing fine. A friend of mine alerted me to what he describes here: "You might want to consider disabling the forward and rewind options on the flash start up options. This happens when you right-click on the photos and choose "rewind" from the menu. The...more >>

Okay, this is really weird and is baffling me. I have a timeline with 3 key frames. The first is a login screen. Simple form with username and password. This gets passed to a CF file which verifies everything and passes info back about the user. Inside the movie, when the user is verif...more >>

Is this possible? If one of my columns is full of numbers, it sorts them as if they're text. This seems like it should be an easy fix, but I see nothing at all that sets the datatype of a DataGridColumn. ex. 1 3 32 35 4 41 5 ...more >>

I posted alitle earlier! My site gets redirected to an other site that i used to have a link to..... It also happens when i test movie in flash........ the url is : www.rumkontoret.dk Can any one help me, it makes me MMMAADDDD!!! ...more >>

Hi, I am using LoadVariables function in my swf file. This swf runs in the web browser. Can I use relative URL on the web server to load the variables or should I have to specify the hostname and the loaction to Load variables. I have tried out both and relative URL does not work: this.l...more >>

How do I create the glow effect in Fireworks - in Flash? ...more >>

When you hit "enter" to test-run your work in progress, the audio gets triggered and won't stop playing, even after you "stopped" the test run by hitting enter again. This is a major annoyance. Is there any way to stop the audio manually that would allow me to make quick edits and re-test the ...more >>

Hi all, <a href="" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('flash/RWCintro.swf','RWC','width=760,height=435')"> I am using DW to open my swf from an html page. Is there a way in flash to prevent the browser or people from resizing the movie? Notes is filling the screen with it, and thus my images are los...more >>

I'm new to flash, and also not firing on all eight cylinders (for you youngsters, that's how many there cars used to have :-) ), so this may be obvious. I am thinking about replacing a button bar don with gif's and JavaScript rollover. One of the advantages of keeping the javascript approach i...more >>

i had a link to a site , and the when i entered my url this other sit poped up in my window and when i hit the back butten my sitecomes up but only for a sec. the it pops right back to that other site ? WHY.........HELP! ...more >>

I downloaded the Flash Video Exporter, and ran the exe. It never opened an install wizard. It just gave me the progress bar saying that it is "...preparing the InstallShield Wizard". I opened AfterEffects 5.5 to do a test. Nothing appears to have changed. I don't see anything with a version nu...more >>

Where is the appropriate place for a Freelancer looking for work to post??...more >>

Whats the status with Hebrew text as text using ......Flash 2004 pro (or mx). I have a project that requires the text to be placed within the action scripts and then show upon screen. This text will have multiple ongoing changes hence it has to remain as text (unicoded text). any differen...more >>

I have 2 images that I want to fade from one bitmap image to another, then back to the first. I couldn't find a way to do this, so I decided to just fade the first image out, then fade the 2nd image in, then fade the 2nd image out again, then fade the 1st image back in, and have it loop back a...more >>

I have this code on a button for a quiz. The good variable is incremented for each good answer. I want the user to go to frame r1 only if he has 10 good answer (good as the num value 10), but with this code below even if the good value is under 10 it goes to frame r1 instead of frame r2. ...more >>

Hello, I would like to create something similar to what this site does at the top: www.arkansastwisters.org Is there a site that has a tutorial on how to get started with this? Thanks, Brian ...more >>

Hi, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated! i have created a website which loads external jpegs into a movieclipholder, with the following command: function photochange(counter) { slideshow_mc.loadMovie("gallery"+counter+".jpg"); that works fine, but i've masked ...more >>

I'm using FlashMX and created a button with up, down, hit instances. All three I created with the text tool, and just changed the color on the mouseover/down instances. It all works just fine, but the user has to put the mouse EXACTLY over the letters in order for it to work properly. If th...more >>

Can someone provide an example (with source code) of an interactive flash driven lightbox where one can rearrange the order of images using drag and drop? Many thanks....more >>

hello all... I have built a crossword puzzle. Each letter is inputted into an input text box. I have a tab order set up so it tabs through the puzzle; but need for it to automatically tab to the next box after the student types a letter in the first box... Anyone know how to do this? ...more >>

Ok, now I know how to stop a movie at the end...is it possible to close the movie after it stops... When I put it on a site, I want to close the movie after it played...so people can see the site Else it's to difficult to fit the right piece of background in the movie Geemuse ...more >>

i want to create a installiation wizard to my exe file ,please explain me how to do, (for example when we browse macromedia collection cd a set up file appears when we click on that an installation wizard appears like list of all the products and a install button, the same thing i want to c...more >>

I am trying to make an image (photo) move across the page. I can make it move, but it is very jumpy. Any idea of how to make smooth transitions (same for fading in and out). I have tried changing the frame rate to no avail. ...more >>

How can I stop a movie after 1 time...so you see the movie and after that it has to stop... I tried a lot, and it keeps repeating. It drives me crazy ;-) Geemuse...more >>

why since i have made this preloader has it messed up all my buttons? Each page on the web site sits in a movie clip. each movie clip is on a seprate keyframe on the main scene. The buttons in the menu bar point to these individual keyframes. The web site can be viewed from this url ...more >>

I am having problems extracting the installflashmx2004.exe file from the zip file. I have downloaded the zip file several times onto different computers via my broadband cable connection, but everytime winzip fails to extract the install file. Is there a problem with this file? Jackie ...more >>

This is hard to explain, so please bear with me: I am creating a site in Flash at the moment which has 13 pages. Each page is made up of an animated movieclip (13 in total) which plays in and then stops. I have a drop down menu with 13 buttons, which access the different pages. When the user...more >>

Hi, I've got 3 movies, A, B and C. The main one is A where you can load B or C. From each of them you can navigate to the others, it's not a just one way trip. On movie B there is a music loop embed in a clip with the possibility of turning it off (tellTarget). I need to avoid the musi...more >>

Can anyone tell me why I can't insert an open curly bracket in the actions window - I've noticed that my previous requests for this problem have been removed - strange. When I try to do so the actions window becomes inactive as if I've been kicked out of that window. I know there are other...more >>

HI all, Q: Is there any known problem with reading xml files that have nodes with rich text formated strings? I'm actually developing a backend with a php-script reader/writer of xml data. The problem or i hope not is that I will be using rich formatting in my swf's and save the dat...more >>

I'm having some problems getting a Flash MX component scroll bar to activate with the text from text1.txt.[L=Here's]http://home.austarnet.com.au/stuange/help.zip[/L] the file if you think you can help. I'm in desperate need so any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. If you mana...more >>

'lo i want creat a 1 point contour on a texte i try to find a script to do it but i thought there is an other solution like in photoshop (bevel... i've seen a next similar problem on this forum, the solution was : Modify>Text>Effects>Relief , i didn't find "text" in modify table. can...more >>

I have images preloading using code found on Bokelberg.de for preloading multiple movies to targets. The only problem is that the movies open once they are loaded and I don't want them to actually open until the user clicks on the button to load each picture. At Bokelberg.de it says to put a...more >>

To be able to get to know flash fastly, I am working with premade templates. This is what I made of it: http://www.vargit.com/test.html The source is: http://www.vargit.com/test.fla the result is this http://www.vargit.com/test.swf I am not able link the buttons to a page. The most lef...more >>

I put a loader on my movie because it is large. But when people go to view it, it is a white screen for a while and then the loader shows up and it is about 50% loaded. How can I get it to start the preloader right off hand? ...more >>

When I open my library and try to bring something out of it, the program freezes. Why does this happen?...more >>

I don't have access to my home computer right now, so I thought I'd ask a quick question. If I have a sound file that I want to be played (or start to be played) at a select frame I go to the properties panel of that frame and pull the drop down box and select my sound file , right? Well my q...more >>

May I have same link to know how can I implement something like this http://www.euroslot-architecture.com/descriptiontechnique.htm It's not a simple loader of geometric images ! Thanks...more >>

Sorry for my bad english. I want to load into a string named 'testo' the value of the leafs Example of news.xml <news> <item> <data>1/1/2003</data> <titolo>tit1</titolo> <luogo>luogo1</luogo> <note>note1</note> </item> <item> <data>4/4/2004</data> <titolo>tit4</titolo> ...more >>

This is my situation. I was recently asked to figure how to update our company website. www.pacificcoastmotoring.com I am pretty sure the entire website was created in Flash. I have all the passwords to access the ftp site. I was wondering how I would go about editing the site. Mainly just upd...more >>

I am using a scroll bar and therefore have dynamic text boxes to display several instances of text. Sometimes the text formats properly, and other times it seems to bold without me applying this formatting. Also, I have tried to change font colors on some words, but this doesn't seem to wor...more >>

I have created a website in flash at a size of 800 by 600 but when i export it and watch it online at any higher resolution the animation is very sluggish. Is there any way to make it flow smoothly at all resolutions. Any comments are greatly appreciated ...more >>