I'm designing an online survey application in flash. The application will show N pages of questionaire to the survey participant. The survey is represented by a "survey_specification" xml file (that conforms to an xml schema of the same name) that's stored in a database on the server. My c...more >>

Ok, I've read other posts and the help in flash, but can anyone explain thouroughly how to change a comboBox color? All I want to do is replace the green with 0x6699cc, but nothing works. thanks...more >>

I am using an input text box to collect email addresses via PHP. I can not get the box to clear once the user selects the send button. Is their a line of code that will clear my text fired?...more >>

I have a textArea (MX 2004) that I would like to dynamically add a css style in. Specifically I would like to highlight a word or phrase. Then when the user selects an option higlight a different word or phrase. I already have all of the text manipulations done, I just can not figure out how ...more >>

ok when i say wipes i mean like change scenes in a cool way.. i need to kool wipes any ideas blur how do you get a blury picture. like i want a blury background and the possitve peice will just be normal all i need to know is how to make a still blurry picture thanks ...more >>

I know this may sound really stupid, but I cant figure out how to play a document. I tried looking through everything in Flash MX, and cant find it. I tried to uplaod it to my site, that didnt work. I even tried to e-mail it to myself, and that didnt work. Because it wants to open it in Fl...more >>

Hi. I'm kind of new to Flash, but decided to use it to help make a website for my band. http://funeralpartyrock.com Problem: it appears that the movie fully loads before the preloader begins to play. A ~400K swf which contains the main navigation UI and other graphics will begin to...more >>

I imported previous animaions into my library and incorporated them into one long animation. Everything worked fine but when I changed the frame speed to 30 fps, everything went faster than it's supposed to. I had created them using 15 fps originally and when I stretch the keyframes apart, i...more >>

My scrolling text box shows in development mode but when I test scene the text box does not export, the area is blank. I am using 2004 MX. Does anyone have an answer? Thanks in advance TommyG...more >>

Hello, I'm working on my first flash project right now. It's a very simple game whose only difficulty is that it has to be done by Thursday. I have a guy on a bridge throwing tomatoes and whenever a tomato reaches the ground, it pops and leaves a red stain. Since the stain has to stay there,...more >>

Hi, This is a response to screennameunavailable's 2 questions, since there is already an answer posted: Here is where movie clips come in. Instead of your animation sequence happening in the scene of the movie, you copy frames and paste them into a movie clip which is a type of symbol. G...more >>

Hello. I am trying to make a presentation in Flash MX. I want the video to run in the same window as the presentation but the time that takes to load the video is too long, extremely long once you have clicked on the play video icon. The video is about 50 MB so it takes too much to load. I'd l...more >>

I would like to include several videos in one document, but only one window. When the user reads the information on the page, he or she can anytime click on a link to play the video corresponding to the subject. The video is then played in the window. If this person clicks on another link, fur...more >>

Hello , I am looking for some help in making my ideas come to light. What I would like to do is create a director program about cars and motorcycles. After an introduction screen with name on it there will be a menu with buttons which include " The first car ", " "Improvements" (which woul...more >>

do u know how i can make my flash button open a webpage in a seperate browser that does not show the address bar? in other words, i dont want my visitors to know they are linking to another website....that make sense? i hope i am being clear and not sounding like a scatterbrain. thanx ...more >>

I'm building a simple quiz game and want my audio loop to continue throughout the whole game. I have a soundloop within a one frame movie clip. I've placed that movie clip on the first frame of my movie and it extends right to the end. It's on it's own layer. No problem. That works just fine...more >>

I was using flash version 5 to develop our company's demo. I was just asked make a loop version and combine it with other course which made by Flash mx. I was using flash MX to open my flash 5 file. I saved it as flash mx file and inputed other flash mx files (fla). I now get the following pr...more >>

I maintain a couple different Web sites on different servers. I have created a frameset on one site that links in a page from another site within one of the frames. That page contains a Flash movie which has links to other Web pages within it. I am using the following javascript with the ge...more >>

I am trying to open a cf page passing a UserID from flash. I first attempted this with a Loadvar (Loadvar.getURL() and received no response. I then attempted to create a movieclip, then set a value movieclip.UserID and then tried movieclip.getURL(). This seemed to work but the CF pag...more >>

I need datagrid help... I cannot seem to find any place to get help...i assume people actually use the data grid? So I have a datagrid connected to a .cfc using the dataset and rdbmsreslover components. I am also using flash remoting to populate the datagrid. So if I have 30 items and di...more >>

hey ive finished my flash, but i noticed it might be to big for dailup users, 70kb. is there any way to make the file size smaller. and ive noticed www.dell.com has a flash image but in jpg format? and its very small as well (same effect as my flash, the fading away). can i do that with flas...more >>

Hello, I have a movie which is biger then screen. I have a bunch of text fields which I have set up the tab order for and they work fine. MY problem is when an user tabs to a field which is not currenlty in view the HTML page does not auto scroll down to that field. The user has to cli...more >>

OK, Look here: http://www.joefreelance.com/bueter/ and click on the play button on the right center. So I export the video from Premiere as a QT movie (320x240 @ 15 f/s) Then I squeeze it using Sorrenson Squeeze (200x150 @ 15 f/s) into an FLV, then import it into a Flash movie that is ...more >>

I'm a Portuguese boy and I need help to begin in flash. Thanks...more >>

The following code is in a frame in a very simple test document. 10 frames later I try to play the loaded clip. root.nextFrame starts the movement towards the frame which contains the play statement. Under Internet Explorer 6 I see the clock movie played. Under Netscape 7.1 I do not. Ple...more >>

I have searched the forums and the support knowledgebase, but didn't find this issue addressed. Sometimes when I edit a symbol, double clicking it in the library, it shows up centered on the top right corner of the stage. The scroll bars will not allow me to view the whole symbol. The regi...more >>

On frame 1 of my movie I call a variable "mcnum" and give it a value of "001" I then have a movieclip called "001" on the stage and a few buttons... When I click on the buttons, I want a code similar to the following to happen... on (release) { _parent.mcnum.play(); } This obviously...more >>

Hi all, I have a quicktime movie that is basically a square shape. I want to crop it so that it is a long rectangle. Right now I am using a mask in Flash to hide the rest of the movie, and my file is huge. I want to reduce file size. Anybody know how to crop a movie in this way? I have Quic...more >>

I'm very new to Flash. I have an animation set up in flash. It's a bunch of Illustrator objects imported in and rotated and shifted or whatever over like 115 frames. I need to move all of the pieces so that basically, the character is shifted to the left side of the stage. I looked through...more >>

can anyone explain how sites like this one: http://www.robertreich.de/v4/website/index.php?mode=normal&clickid= are able to utilize the whole screen (i.e. the loading boxes fly all the way to the edge of the screen) while keeping the movie to scale - not stretching it...?...more >>

Well i made a menu using the built in template in flash mx. It worke out well until i uploaded the page. When i preview the page in dreamweaver it shows up great, and when i open the .swf file it looks good and i see the menu. So i uploaded all my pages, the .swf .fla and .xml file to my s...more >>

Is it possible to drag multiple movie clips in flash? Examples? Thanks!...more >>

I am loading dynamic text into a scroll pan and was wondering if there was a set max height that I can change. On a frame where I am loading text the scroller stops before the end, this text is really long. Only about three paragraphs dont show up at the end. I am looking at the component A...more >>

This has been driving us nuts for weeks. I am building an interactive world map - click on an area of the world and it will open up and you can drill down to specific areas. The movie starts as a complete map of the world. Each main area is composed of buttons with an "go to and stop on release"...more >>

I have a dynamic textbox that would disappear when I apply a mask layer to it. I trace my variable inside the textbox and it is still there. I just can't see it. However if I insert a static textbox with text in place of the dynamic textbox, everything looks fine. Does anyone know what is goin...more >>

I don't know if this is a known bug, or if I'm doing something weirdly wrong or whatnot, but... After tweening the animation for an object to a specific keyframe, if I attempt to animate that same symbol with another motion tween after that keyframe (like the wheel in the tweening lesson),...more >>

Is there a way to specify (in the HTML, outside the SWF itself) an alternate image to display if Flash is not present on the user-end? ...more >>

Can anybody help me, I'm trying to move more objects placed at different frames at once. I select more frames at the timeline at one layer but only object at selected frame moves. Thanks Marijan ...more >>

Hi Never used flash before and have only ever created simple web pages with frontpage. I have to learn Flash MX 2004 for a project I need to do at work. Can anyone point me in the direction of some good teaching aids, either books, DVD's or online videos. Cheers ChewieT ...more >>

Hi, everybody! I need your expert help. I made an animated Flash banner with lots of ActionScript(no sound, no interactivity) in Flash MX 2004 and I exported for the Flash Player 6. But for some strange reason, the site where the banner should be placed, only accepts Flash 5. I tried ...more >>

How to create a bulleted list with hyperlinks to text bookmarks in the same frame (page). Note that a scroll bar exists in the Flash file. I have searched the forums for bookmarks and shared objects, but no luck. Is what I want even possible to do? I want an advance organizer, as follow...more >>

It's known that Flash cannot import a quicktime unless it's an image sequence. lookin at the website www.aim-band.com/index2.html I noticed the links in the "video" section launch the movies (with sounds) directly in the swf and without any loading! Could some flash guro tell me how di...more >>

Simple question, forgot the answer. So please help me out of my misery. When you have a tetArea or textfield and you fill it with simple html styled by a CSS file you have to add some simple code somwhere to get your special character right. I mean like ë or ü or é or à. In the dutch language...more >>

I'd like to automatically call a webpage at the end of my Flash movie, but the problem is that depending on what your hardware is, the last event in the movie may be audio or animation. Slower computers will have the audio finishing before the animation, and faster computers will hear the audio ...more >>

We jumped on the MX 2004 wagon and have started several RIAs. Now here comes Flex. What the...? Do we move to Flex? Do we stay with Flash? Do we pray that the two will merge into one? What's the future hold? Its like first we hae Remoting, then we get Web Services. Can we be stable for...more >>

hey guys, can flash set a variable on an asp page? I know flash can retrieve variables in an asp apge but, I need flash to create and/or update a variable on an asp page when a button is pressed. Or, I need flash to create and update a cookie in a browser every time a button is presse...more >>

hello, i hope anyone can help me.. why is it when i load an external swf file onto my stage the speed of the animation is quite too slow, i have used 35fps bu when i load it to another movie clip, the speed was degraded, its like moving in 20fps, is there any other way i can maintain t...more >>

Okay, I've been using flash for awhile now, and have encountered some troubles, and would appreciate any guidance. I mainly do character-based animations with a lot of dialogue. I find it hard to decide between using MCs and Graphic symbols for situations. Movieclips allow me to fully ani...more >>

Since Macromedia is continuing it's non-support/non-responsiveness to my technical questions, I thought I'd post a question and ask for help. When the Flash Player is installed, it writes information to the Windows Registry. I need to know what Registry keys are created, where they are c...more >>

Can anyone help with this? I presume its straight forward, and if there is a better way of doing it, please let me know! I have 2 buttons and 2 movie clips Each movieclip is 40 frames long with a "stop()" on frame 20. I have the 2 buttons and 1 movieclip on the stage. Let's call the curren...more >>

Here is my issue. I know all you guys have done this so please, if you could help me, I appreciate it. I built an html page. Image and one word which links to my .swf file. In dreamweaver I highlited the word and in the link field I pointed it to the .swf file. My goal is to open the sit...more >>

I have a slight problem when playing an mp3 loaded dynamically when a movie starts. It loops 99 times, but between each loop it jumps so playback is not consistent. s = new Sound(); s.loadSound( "intro3.mp3", false); s.onLoad(success);{ s.setVolume(15); s.start(0, 99); } Has ...more >>

hey, i got 3 images, and i want them all to fade away and show up again. first the #1 image is showing > it will fade away > then image #2 will show up (from 0% to 100%) and fade away (from 100% to 0%) and then image #3 will show up and fade away and then image #1 will show up again... then ...more >>

When I import a gif file with about, say 1000 bitmap graphcs, they are loaded at the stage posion of x=0 and y=0. I can edite each of them to different (x,y). But is there a way to move them all to a given (x, y) posion on the stage? With simple selection of all frames, it does not work. I app...more >>

I would like an opinion on different approaches. I want to make a flash movie that spells out something, first in text, then changing from text to "signal flags" i.e. first letter -> first flag; first flag & second letter; first flag & second flag, etc. Keeping file size and load time in mind,...more >>

I would like to include several videos in one document, but only one window. When the user reads the information on the page, he or she can anytime click on a link to play the video corresponding to the subject. The video is then played in the window. If this person clicks on another link, fur...more >>

Ok so I am trying to build a drop down menu in flash. Here's how I have it structured. In the master button's "over" state I have inserted the buttons in the drop down menu so that when the user mouses over the master button the menu will appear. But my problem is that when I mouse off of the ...more >>

You know as well as I do that if you don't spend more and more money every couple of months your computer is sure to fall behind. This is a 'built-in' feature of omputers. So we have to buy a new computer or upgrade the computer we use. Both methods kick our pockets. The problem clearly affect...more >>

I hope that someone can help me I have built a Conten Management System for a company, everything works fine and well like it is meant to however when they try to copy and past a news story into flash text boxes on their Mac it doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas why this is. It wor...more >>

Hello. Does anybody know about unit testing and Flash?, any article or book about it? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi All, I have a cbt running in a player, when I dont do anything for few minutes, say I open another application and run and come back, it doesn't work and hangs. Please let me know what could be the problem , if u have faced something like this before... thanks in advance ...more >>

I`ve got a simple animation with music track up on geocities and the swf file will not play. The file and the html page work fine on my computer and I have other animations that work on geocites. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help, Chris ...more >>

I'm trying to show two swf objects in the same html page, overlaying them. I need to know how to control which one of the two swf objects is on top and which one is under. The result that I'm getting now is that the second swf object in the page code appears over the first one. I'm using <...more >>

Hi forum, I am developing a web site of my own. I want to have a calculator in my web. Can i use any calculator(swf) file, which are already in the web for my site? Is it is against any rule? Expecting an earlier reply, Thanks ...more >>

I am aware there was an Effects panel at one time, but I don't have one with MX. I had a test and missed a question. I guess the correct answer was to choose the "effects panel". The book says to change the transparency of a symbol you do this with the "effects panel". I understand this t...more >>

well i tried everything i can think of but there doesn't seem to be a way to change the color of a text box border from the default black? surely one of you can point out the answer to me. the only thing i could think of was to just make a box with the color stroke i want and no fill and ali...more >>

After exporting my Flash project in Flash MX (publish settings are on Flash 5) to a quicktime movie, I am losing the functionality of buttons. They simply aren't working after the export. Anyone ever seen this behaviour before? ...more >>

I'm a Project Manager running a small project with a single Macromedia developer, who unfortunately is out of reach today. I have a Client who is asking whether a Macromedia presentation which we have created for their website can be run from the website without the viewers having to have the...more >>

Is there a way to hide the menu bar when the flash.exe file pops up? is there a way to have the file at a fixed size too? windows 2000 flash mx ...more >>

I'm trying to create the growing shape effect that is found on the main page of the website http://www.maroon5.com/main_site/main.html Its the brown, pink and yellow lines after everything else has loaded down the bottom of the page over the picture. I tried shape tweening with hints...more >>

I want to create a scrollbar similar to the one seen at this url (without the logos on each end): http://www.csuchico.edu/athletics/ I have created my image bar in Photoshop, imported it into FLASH, made it into a symbol and created the motion tween. On the last keyframe I added the fo...more >>

does anyone know how to install the flash 5.0 plugin from this link? http://www.macromedia.com/support/f.../oldplayers.htm I unzipped it and was left with two files...now what?...more >>

I'd like to use a .fon (Windows system) font in Flash MX 2004 Pro, but it doesn't show up in the font list in the properties palette. I've been looking for tech notes or other info on the matter and can't seem to find any. Does the Flash authoring tool not support .fon fonts? If not, does anyo...more >>