Hi, I have a bit of a problem with pulling variables from PHP. I have featured item i want to show in my flash movie. So i set my php variable as so: item_id = 1 and i want it to load a movie that corresponds to that item so i named it: 1.jpg Only thing is when i load the var...more >>

Hi guys, i am just wondering how to create 3d boxes using Macromedia Flash MX Professional. I have no clue about it and it's my first time using dreamweaver. If anyone knows about it and can assist me with it..ur help will be greatly appreciated.. Thanx shazi ...more >>

I'm importing into the library an avi file. I choose to edit it by: [bullet]decreasing the physical size 70%[/bullet] [bullet]choose optimum bandwidth at 256kb[/bullet] When i then export it as a flv file, i end up with an flv file more than twice the size of the original avi?! this ma...more >>

Hello; I've been experiencing problems with the TextArea component, and through research, I've pretty much figured them out. Since many of you are experiencing the same problems, I've decided to post solutions. There is one lingering problem which I'd like help on. But first, here are s...more >>

I know I can set the placement of a loaded swf by loading it into a target however I have have a situation where I would like to (need to) use the global function.... loadMovieNum( ). Is there anyway I can specify the _x, _y properties of where i would like to place the loaded swf using this...more >>

After creating a movie I added a new scene for a preloader. But when I look at the bandwith profiler it shows my preloader as a 56 k frame even if that scene has only 2 line of action script. This mean slow connection will have to wait up to 50 seconds looking at nothing before my preloader ...more >>

I want to build a menu-bar that looks pretty much like the one on the top of this page. Can anybody help me? Thomas...more >>

Can anyone tell me an outstanding tutorial site. I'm a newbie to Flash and want to learn it from the basics. Thanks in advance!...more >>

Our company has just assigned me the task of learning Flash MX and publishing to our website. I have been able to created a reasonable movie. What I cannot figure out is how to create a clickable e-mail or hyperlink within the movie. Help would be very appreciated. Chris ...more >>

I have a finished scene which plays perfectly when it is tested however my ultimate destination is not in the flash format. I'd like to export this file as a sequence of images rather then an .SWF file to be used in another movie edition program. Naturaly I've allready tried exporting the movi...more >>

I have upgraded to MX 2004 Pro and installed the recent update. I have been opening files created in earlier versions of Flash to do updates on, and notice that the size and linespacing of some of my text does not match what had been set up originally. I first noticed this when I saw the bot...more >>

I`ve created a simple animation with objects moving from off canvas on the right to off canvas left. When I sent it to my friend, because his monitor resolution is higher, he said he could see the objects sitting in the wings before and after entering the canvas. I was able to move the objects...more >>

I'm noticing that flash mx 2004 is eating my processor in a few different situations, wondering if anyone else has the same experience: -in the actions panel, with more than say 4 lines of script, the CPU is maxed when the mouse is clicked. -deleting layers -click and drag the playhead o...more >>

I've been trying to utilize a few form components but after publishing my movie they don't seem to be working. For example using a Combo Box, I enter in my values, give the instance a name and then go to test the movie to see what it looks like but the Combo Box comes up empty? None of the v...more >>

Hopefully this is something someone out there can answer quickly for me - solving the problem ideally, but letting me know if it isn't possible works too. I have a symbol (a shaded ball with text on it) that I want to motion tween along a path. The path is sort of an oval that the sybol ente...more >>

How are you? Is it possible to have a movie clip or a button draged along a guide path? Thanks ptiPer...more >>

I have a textfield that loads its text from an external *.TXT file for easy flexability. What i want is to be able to use a font on the loaded text that other computers may not have, but still may come up. I have heard that it is possable to import a font file into the flash library so that wh...more >>

Please information, I am new to most of the flash, I need to know if there is a goooood book that works and explain in detail how forms or screens work, and some good samples, I been working with an application but experience a lot of difficulties, however when I place everything in one simple...more >>

Hello, I reinstalled Flash MX 2004 because after having it on my PC for a few months, it became buggy and started to crash a lot. The reinstalled version works fine except for the fact that none of my keyboard shortcuts work anymore. I'm on Windows XP. Any ideas? Thanks, sanserif...more >>

I have imported a sequence of Images to create a Movie Symbol for my Scene. (About 240 jpegs at 490X270 pixels). I would like to do this several times as I am working on a fairly long Promotional Movie which blends multiple movies together. After I have created my Movie Symbol, I should be abl...more >>

I have more than one Flash <object> on a single HTML page. Each one is contained in a hidden table row (<tr style="display:none;">) . Navigation links in the HTML enable a user to show a single row at a time. Problem: a user can start one movie, navigate to another and start it, etc., resu...more >>

Can Flash applications and ActionScript interface with C code and C libraries?...more >>

I am a complete novice I have dowloaded flash macromeadia, and want to use it in my website, but I do not have a clue how to????, I really mean I am completely green at this, I am currently using serif web plus for an exsisting site. Can I apply flash to this?, if not, what can I use to be...more >>

Hi, Has anyone had a problem with the Flash MX IDE displaying BLOCKY or UNREADABLE FONTS. This is not in movies or file but the IDE (eg. Frame numbers, all labels in the Properties tabs). This is a real pain because it is near impossible to read these labels... I am running Flash MX on ...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to create a site in Flash that I'm probably not really capable of... I want to have a five page site with each page following another in a continual horizontal manner (as if it's 3800 pixels wide). For instance, it would start on 'home' - when the 'contact' link is pre...more >>

hi, can someone help me? i have a dinamic textbox, with a scroller (from a component) and sometimes, i can't see the scroller. i really don't know if it depends on the browser version, or what, but i need to solve this problem. thanks sole ...more >>

Hello, Trying to get SharedObject.getLocal working. Downloaded example from TechNote 16194 and it works. But cannot get the example from this page working http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/local_shared_object/l ocal_shared_object05.html The code is below. I have the...more >>

I made an swf file for my colleague but his XP laptop won't recognize or play that file type. When he goes to [L=the download page]http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=S hockwaveFlash[/L] and clicks on "Download Now" he immeditaely gets a message that say...more >>

I am the webmaster of my bands site and i want to make a members only area. Basically in the flash mx movie i am going to have a button linked to a different scene but to get to this scene you must enter a password and username after clicking on the button. can anyone tell me how to go abo...more >>

I've noticed all of the green rollover highlite's macromedia uses, how do they create those? [L=Go here and activate the "Play video now" button at the top]http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/flashpro/video/[/L] The sound button and most every instance has this green highlite...I ev...more >>

I am currently developing a flash video which uses 3 embedded hi-res clips (720x486). What is the best quality and best performance setting I should use during the import process? I currently have Flash Professional MX2004. The flash file and .exe are around 60MB right now, and causing havoc...more >>

Hi all on my main timeline I have a mask layer masking a movieClip. Now, I want that masked movie Clip to mask another mc. I've tried to do that by going into the masked mc timeline, making it a layer mask, and then adding another mc underneath, but that doesn't work. Do you know how to do th...more >>

Hello all, I have a drop down menu in dreamweaver that I would like to show over top of my flash movie. What property/parameter deals with this. I changed the z-index of my css container that holds my flash movie to -50 and that didnt help. Isn't there some quick property or parameter th...more >>

I want to control the playback of a video in Flash with simple buttons that 'play' 'stop' 'fast-forward' and 'rewind.' The 'stop' and 'play' are very easy. But I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to make the video rewind and forward. I am working in Flash MX version 6 and I a...more >>

I have a main movie- with lots of codes, each code is a button. When I press a button, I have a getUrl to another page. So far ok. Now I need to use load movie and target a swf file into a clip. There is a different swf for every code. So I need to add this action script to the button...more >>

I read some more topics about this load movie but it still not working as I want to (or as I expect to) I have a page with a movie-clip inside this. I will get to this page from another one, by using a button. Inside this movie-clip, I want to load an external .swf file, but to a specific ...more >>

Is it posible to call a frame number in a swf file by way of writing a url like www.macromedia.nl/home.swf&goto frame 12 then the swf starts in frame 12 can this be dunn and if so how?????...more >>

I am not sure if anyone else is experiencing this. Flash was working perfectly fine this morning until I updated the iDVD and Security update for Mac OS X. 3 a while ago. Now whenever I launch Flash, it loads just fine. But when I try to open any file or even create a new one, the program just f...more >>

I have created several motion tweens in my .fla all using the same symbol. At the beginning and ending keyframes, the changes to the symbol are :size, alpha(either 0 or 100%), and screen position. The ----> for all tweens show to be correct When I scrub the .fla all the tween transitions l...more >>

I'm trying to find a way to call an ActionScript function from a link in a dynamic HTML textbox. Does anyone know if this can be done? By using an <a href=??> tag, or can you only call URLs with that? Thanks! ...more >>

i got as far as the masking part, looks ok, the problem is, i insert a new keyframe but i can move the new symbol no matter what i do. i just want the white circle with the cat to rollin from the left side, to the middle of the page if you see what i mean. if anyone wants to give this a shot, th...more >>

Hello Flashers, I have a webpage with a dynamic cascading java menu at the top. I also have some flash media embedded just below it. When I preview the page and mouseover the menu items, they fall behind my embedded flash movie. Any way to remedy this. Let me know if you need more details....more >>

Hi, i've been struggling with this popup problem for weeks :( I have swf content displayed in a popup. inside, I have a button that opens a second PopUp (with swf content). From this second popup, I want to display content in the first one. I tried the following code : on (release) { ...more >>

I wrote an Rich Media Application using ColdFusion and Flash MX 2004 Pro. Some of the parts are using WSDL connection to retrieve data and manipulate it. If someone decompile my flash movie using one of the many decompilers out there, can he see that WSDL address Im using? If he can, it's ...more >>

OK, so I've enabled remote debugging in the Publish Settings box, password protected it, published and uploaded the .swf and swd to the same directory. I've selected the Enable Remote Debugging option inside the Debugger. I have Flash MX open. Next the docs say, "In a browser or in the sta...more >>

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I have a movie clip on a frame containing 200 frames. The user looks at the 200 frames of the movie clip and moves onto the next frame which also has a movie clip with 200 frames. How do i make it so that when the user goes back from frame 2 to frame 1 the 200 clip movie clip does not replay. ...more >>

What's the point of having a program that allows you to create a movie that can be downloaded and watched through Internet Explorer, if the movie when viewed in Internet Explorer is displayed completely differently to when you view it through the Flash Player that comes with FlashMX. Then ...more >>

i am starting to learn macromedia flash and i need some help to learn sample files related to photography. that is i want pictures to be put in my website. thanks in advance...more >>

hello everybody, Just wondering if anybody out there could take a look at a new flash site I'm putting together for a client. here's the URL [L=www.exsequorfitness.com]http://www.exsequorfitness.com[/L] ...more >>

over 300 nokia games at http://dcrintea.go.ro see Java wireless ssection ...more >>

Hi! I'm a newbie working with Flash MX 2004 Pro 7.0.1. My scenario is this: say I have a form based Flash application with a form 1 and form 2, and a nested screen off of form 2. I set form 2 and the nested screen to hide on the load event. I wire a button on form 1 to show form 2, and a ...more >>

Hi. Im new to the flash scene. Currently studying for a few certifications. But Im wondering if there is a guide or can someone make one for like cartoon flash animation. I really want to learn how because I like to consider myself artistic ...more >>

Hello All, I have a problem when adding a sound, there appears a "hiccup" of sorts just before the proper sound. Here's an example: http://sonnierart.com/public/mixer01.swf The sound is "Metal Klank" from the Flash Common Library. It's just a straight "slam" sound, but in my .SWF, it's got...more >>

i am loading chinese and english .txt files saved with utf-8 encoding in notepad into flash without problems. however, when there is an "&" in the content, the rest of the text after the "&" will disappear... when i change it to "and" and everything is ok. problem is when it comes to client's ...more >>

Dear Sir, I am preparing a Flash Demo using Flash 5.0. I am publishing the file as html. in flash i am using fs command for full window it is running perfect in flash player with all the funcitionalities. But in html it is not running like flash first of all the full window is not coming a...more >>

How to make pause on one frame in flash movie? Something like wait for 1 sec? ...more >>

HELP.... I'm trying to set the Loop property from my C++ appliacation. I get no reaction whatsoever. I have imported the type library and tried both the put_loop function and the SetVarible function. Clearly I must be using the function wrong. Can any one help? My code: m_FlashPla...more >>

I've created a scrolling text box and with a the scrollbar component on it. I want to insert an image with the text the would be wrapped by the text and would scroll up and down along with the text. How do I get the image in the scroll text box or to behave the way I desire? ...more >>

I need to find a technique for determining the address (or URL) of the server that delivered my movie. The movie must make a socket connection back with the host that served it up but I cant find a way to determine the address of the host that served it. Suggestions? -Tom ...more >>

I'm looking at Swf Studio from Northcode and Screenweaver from Rubber Duck but I don't have any experience between the two and I don't know which one is better. I'll be downloading the trials of both to test drive them, but I wanted to know if anyone had strong thoughts on the highlights and l...more >>

Is there a way to import an exe file into flash and make it workable? Or a way to convert it to a swf file?...more >>