Hello, I need to reset my security settings on my flash player, basically, at some point I accidently clicked "never ask again" on the "your flash player is trying to access a file outside the domain" notification. obviously, this is kinda bad if you develop large flash apps. I t...more >>

To view the problem/bug open the quiz template as a new flash file and run it immediately. As soon as the quiz loads or a few seconds after click the nav button.... and there you go it happens - the button disables (fades out) and the quiz remains on the welcome screen when it should have gone...more >>

I have designed a form in which I used the combo box and check box components. 1. How can I capture the options chosen? 2. How can I display a choice from a combo box on another part of the same form? 3. How can answers to the questioner be submited via email? ...more >>

Hi all, I am sorry to be posting this again, but I have still not found a solution for this. Is there a way to convert a slides presentation to a "standard" timeline based document? Thanx in advance, steff ...more >>

I'm having a problem with shape hints. I have to use shape tweening for a certain animation I am working on... the problem is that I have created the whole animation sequence on the main timeline and now I need to turn it into a movie clip so that I can bring it into another movie. copied ...more >>

Hi, Where do I find small fonts that look good in Flash? I'd like to get free ones without searching through a hundred sites only to pay in the end to get anything good. If I need to buy some, anyone know of a good package (or single) that will be good for tech interfaces and small butto...more >>

I use Internet Explorer 6 sp1 on a Windows XP system. For some time now, around six months, whenever I go to a website that requires Flash, and I click on a button or link on that page, Internet Explorer closes without any warning. I can see Flash websites fine and can tab through the buttons ...more >>

I am trying to do a motion tween between to photos. The photos sho hands holding a clump of earth which he breaks up leaving a trail o dust. I want to try and get the movement of the dust using two photos But it's not working..What am I doing wrong? make a keyframe in frame one Insert firs...more >>

I'm sure everyone is probably sick of questions about progress bars, but I decided I'd start to work on some flash for a website and I decided I'd try to work on the progress bar first since i always thought they were pretty neat. right now its just the progress bar in one scene and a pic from...more >>

Hi, I've created a text box and I'm reading the text for it in from a text file. If I enter the text myself in Flash then I can get it to scroll using the scroll bar from the UI components, but I won't scroll when the text is read dynamically. Anyone know how to fix this? Cheers, ...more >>

Hey I have made a simple flash animation that has a soundtrack compressed as an mp3. The timing in the movie is fine when I view it in the working DW window, but as soon as I view it in a browser preview the timing goes off as much as 1 sec sometimes, it gets out of sync in both IE and Safari. ...more >>

I have a problem, I have a movie with 4 frames 130k -22k -21k-24k . When I add a new frame In front to add a preloader then Flash takes 34 k frome the first frames and put It in my preloader frames even if my preloader frame is empty. 34k-97k-22k-21k-24k. Do you know why Flash Mx 2004 d...more >>

I can't seem to find any info on this. There must be a better way of moving objects in multiple keyframes around other than by moving each object one frame at a time. Anyone know how this works? I have 145 frames, and each frame needs to be centered on the page, I really don't want to do it ...more >>

Sorry if this is a common question, but I'm kind of new to Flash. I've been using Flash since V4 but not enough to learn anythin more than a motion tween. Now I'm trying to get better. I'm loading text from an external text file, which works fine. Problem is the text contain a & sign, I...more >>

I have an accordion component with a datagrid first child bound to an xml object and this works fine. But when I create a second child that is a textarea, I can't write to the .text property. I can resize it but no text shows up inside. I have: myTextArea = myAccordion.createChild(TextArea, ...more >>

i know its a newb question, but........... HOW I GET THE .SWT ???? I ONLY CAN EXPORT TO .SWF , .GIF , .FLA , ETC... PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZ HELP MEEE!!!!!! thx, very newb Maverik :' (...more >>

Hi All!! I really hope someone can help me with this. I really love Flash and use it daily. However, I really cannot stand the little bell that dings every time I rename a layer and hit the Enter key. It drives me batty!!!! I really hoope there's a way to disable or delete the bell. Please h...more >>

I create a movie which fades in text. When I export the movie, it no longer fades?? What am I doing wrong?? Thanks Adz...more >>

When I export to Quicktime using Quicktime Video on a Mac, my flash movie gets truncated. What am I doing wrong?...more >>

1) Anyone know the correct way to embed a font in the TextArea control. I don't seem to be doing this right and the documentation is lacking. // This does absolutely squat ResponseBuffer_ta.setStyle("embedFonts", true); ResponseBuffer_ta.setStyle("fontFamily", "Futura Md BT"); ResponseBuffer...more >>

How can I check to see if my page at <http://www.descom.org/contents.html> redirects users to the html version of this Flash page? As all of my computers have Flash Players installed, I can't tell what happens when someone who doesn't have the Flash Player 4 or above on their computer tries to...more >>

Any suggestions? Flash MX 2004 Pro is the Application, Want info on Preloader bars, AS, FLV etc. I am very green to all of this but I am a fast learner. Any help is greatly appreciated....... [E=e-mail]msimper-altos@elltell.net[/E] thanks Matt ...more >>

Hi, all; I am trying to find a Technote that lists all the versions for the Flash player. Since the files we will be running must also run in Authorware, we want to preview the Flash files in the Flash 6 player. However, all I can find on the MM website is version numbers for 4 and for 7 (MX...more >>

Hi I've got a simple preloader which works when I export the movie but I can't make it work when that movie is brought in to level 1 (by using another movie in level 0 to bring it in) It seems to think that everything is already loaded. I've pasted the actionscript I've used so far - any...more >>

If I purchase Macromedia Studio MX 2004 , will it allow me to create flash files (*.swf, *.fla) or do I need to purchase Flash MX 2004?...more >>

Know where i can get hardware specs for flash projector playback. I have seen this: [L=flash player system specs]http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/[/L] but it does not show hardware specs like how much ram, processor speed, etc... I am basically tryin...more >>

Does anyone know of a way to convert a Real Media .rm file to flash or flash video file within Flash. I hear there's a way but nobody knows how....more >>

I have developed an activity quiz using a Learning Interaction Template as a separate swf file. The quiz swf is accessed through a button in the main swf. When I test the pulbished quiz swf on its own the result page indicates the number of correct, incorrect and total score as it should. B...more >>

Can anyone help? What ever I do when I view a swf file in Netscape it appears as a really small file in the top third of the page.. I've tried messing about with the <embed> tags and not had any joy. It's fine in Internet explorer but I really want people using netscape to view it correctly. ...more >>

I need some suggestions. I'm pretty new at this flash stuff. I want to have a loader bar show progress when loading a FLV at run time. Also does anyone know how i can get my video clip to import with audio as well? What format do I need to have? What I am doing is importing the vide...more >>

I have a flash movie (flash mx) that will not preload. I believe the issue stems from the fact that I have a bunch of movies linked from the library as export for actionscript and export in firstframe. I've placed my preloader on the first scene and my entire movie on a different scen...more >>

Hi, can anyone help me on this? I would like to create a simple form using Flash MX 2004 Professional for my website, where viewers can post their names and email addresses and the information comes directly to my email when "submit" button is pressed by them. I do not wish to create a da...more >>

Hi all I thought one of things they were introducing to MX 2004 was the ability for Gradient Masking? But now I'm trying to do it and its not working. I looked in the help files and there's nothing there. Any info on this? Thanks Chris ...more >>

Here's what MM says: Fast Forward and Rewind Behaviors missing in 7.0.1 - issue update: 1/05/04 Issue When attempting to apply a Fast Forward or Rewind behavior to a button or graphic symbol in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 (7.0.1), the menu item is not available in the Behaviors panel. Solu...more >>

Hi all, I have a Flash slide presentation that I would like to export to video, or at least to JPG sequence. When I try to do this, Flash only exports the first (master) slide. : ( Is there a way to do this? Thanx in advance, steff ...more >>

Hi, I'm using a custom pixel font called Advocut(DaFont). For the life of me, I just cannot get this font - or any other pixel font - to embed correctly in a dynamic text box. I think I've done it all; I've set the box to whole intergers for x and y; I've put the font in my library...The f...more >>

I am new to Flash, and have run into a problem. I am working on an elearning animation of a hydraulic system (lots of pipes and cylinders, pistons etc.) Getting the "objects" (moving parts of the system) to behave correct is no problem, but I am also supposed to animate the flow of oil-pre...more >>

Hey people, I am using loadmovie to get some jpgs into flash. However when loaded these jpgs appear to be low quality, I am only getting in low quality images when using loadMovie. Is there some kinda method that controls image quality? Cheers, Dave ...more >>

Hello: Is there the ability to do screen captures in Flash for the purpose of making training videos? The videos available on this site for example that walk you through how to use Flash are the kinds of videos I'd like to make. I've used another tool called Camtasia to do this, but would ...more >>

I am on OSX 10.3.2 and running Flash MX 2004 Professional 7.0.1. Any time I edit an object I get the cursed pinwheel and am forced to wait a couple of seconds every time. It's really slowing me down. Does anyone know how to make this stop. It's been doing it from day one of installation. ...more >>

Take a look at that : www.pozz-agency.com The first ad agency based il Paris, London and NY, specialized in creating and producting ad films for the web. ...more >>

I am having trouble "getting" a concept here. If anyone knows a tutorial or info to help... I have an xml source that is this strucure <group id="1"> <item name="name1"> <iteminfo> info1</iteminfo> <itemdetail>detail1</itemdetail> </item> <item name="name2...more >>

Right now when I export my Scene to a Jpeg Sequence, all I get is the first frame 200 times. Now here iswhat flash help hasto sayabout this process: "Flash exports the first frame in the SWF file as a JPEG, unless you mark a different keyframe for export by entering the frame label #Static."...more >>

I want to use the media component to dispaly movies and mp3's.....i got a movie to work but how do I add multiple movies the the player....or how do I add multiple tracks for mp3 to one media component...or can you even do that. ...more >>

I used the 'import image series' feature of Flash MX 2004 and now have a series of bitmaps on the timeline, with each image in its own keyframe. The series of images plays like video, as expected, but I would like to eliminate the jerkiness between frames. How do I accomplish this without too ...more >>

I want to use Flash for an online class. The class goes for 15 weeks so I want to make 15 different .fla files and convert them to .exe files for delivery on CD-ROM. Each .fla file will be composed of a 2 minute video introduction and a voice over going over the topics discussed during that le...more >>

Hey, the help says "secondOffset An optional parameter that lets you start playing the sound at a specific point." but i need milliseconds! i just want to make it pause and play from the point it stopped. well, i know how to make it stop at any point (milliseconds) by checking Sound.position pro...more >>

Hello: I am desinging my first flash website and I have some questions. I have a movie that plays only once in the background, it contains 5 photos that fade in and out, just like a slide show. The issue is that I have 5 buttons at the botton of the site, one for contact, links, etc and I...more >>

I have no place to upload my button, so trying to explain my problems in word here! I created a button, when u over it, words will slides out, and when u hit it, the words will slide back! So I created a graphic of the words, a movie of the words slide out and a movie of the words slide ...more >>

Does anyone know of an example of a mobile phone keypad emulator in Flash? I am looking to create a 'virtual keypad' to test on-line a new key layout suitable for dyslexics. The issue of assigning mutliple actions to a single key - perhaps up to four clicks to differentiate between characters ...more >>

I'm using Flash MX Pro and have access to ASP (not ASP.NET) I'm wondering if there is a way to utilize ASP in place of ASP.NET. Also, this is my first attempt to connect Flash to a server database. Any recommended tutorials out there? ...more >>

Dear All, I am making a demo in that i am calling some html files through button. my problem is the target, means i am using get URL function and the target=_top or something it is opeining another window. what i need is it should open in the same window i.e parent window. Even i tried wit...more >>

How do you import a scene and it's library into another .fla file? I want to use my friend's intro from his site, in my site, but I don't know how to import the scene and it's libraries into my site. Thanks! ...more >>

I have a photo album that loads the photo dynamically based on a counter controlled by up/down buttons. I have trouble positioning the photos, however. Each photo has an associated text file which contains properties for that photo, such as "caption", "xsize", and "ysize". I want to modify th...more >>

My project group and I are trying to make a videoconference app and everytime we run our app, we get NetConnection.Connect.Failed everything is in its correct directory but it will not connect to our flashcom server.... We have a sample videoconference app and it connects perfectly.... When ...more >>

I've created a site in Flash with fairly elaborate buttons using movie clips. Now, my &#)^* client wants her site done in html but with the very cool Flash buttons I've created. Does anyone know if this is possible to do and, if so, how I would go about inserting them? I use Dreamweave...more >>

hello out there, I live in Brisbane Aust. and basically there is no advanced Flash courses that are not exceedingly expensive. Example: 3 days for $1800.00 You may think this is not expensive let me know your view OK If you are interested in teaching your self maybe we could work together ...more >>

Hi, I have many images of 300dpi of different sizes and want to scale all the images to 120% of their original at the same time I want to convert all 300dpi to 72dpi. My question is: do anyone knows of a software which can do this or Can I have an Action ion Photoshop to do this in batch...more >>

I am new to MySQL and PHP. I am trying to get the addressbook sample application up and running on my localhost server. This feels like a really dumb question, but is the servername "localhost"? The reason I ask is because I can't get it to work, and I am trying to troubleshoot things th...more >>

Hi, I'm an Instructional Designer for a mid-sized software company. Just recently, I was asked if I was interested in learning DreamWeaver and Flash in order to create some e-learning courses. I'm really excited about the prospect of this, so I volunteered.... Came at the right time too, si...more >>

When trying to open the fla file from the Macromedia Flash Article below, I get the following popup message: [i]"Unable to open document with this version of Flash because it contains screens."[/i] http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/media_behaviors.html Any suggestions...more >>

I want to create a flash intro for a school website, any ideas on what to put on the website? (I know this is not the place, but any ideas would be greatly appericated)....more >>

Hey all, In order to complete my current Flash application, I need to add in a file browsing component that allows the using to browse to a particular file and then saves the path information in a variable. I'm guessing this isn't terribly hard to do, but given my limited Flash knowledge,...more >>

I have recently made a webpage with a .swf banner and some .swf music. Neither of them load for anyone who visits the webpage but it loads fine for me when i load it on my desktop. the webpage is http://www.onechance.cjb.net can anyone help me out here? im clueless. Any help is appreciate...more >>

Please let me know what you think about the navigation and ease of uses, my main concern is the scroll feature on some of the pages, the customer did not want the typical slide bar on the side and wanted to keep the pages clean. The files are large, but most visitors to this site will have a ...more >>

Has anyone seen these two banners anyplace? I've run into both of them on Yahoo and am desperately seeking a tutorial or any resources on how these banners are done. 1. They start off as normal (say, 640 or so by 60) traditional banner ads enticing the user to "roll over for more info". 2. Wh...more >>