When i press apple key and return to view movie - i am given a blank window - with the message ?Movie did not load? written inside - What have i done wrong? This is the output error message: Error opening URL "file:///work/ME%5FEco%2DProduct%20Lifecycle%5Fanimation/imports%20for%20Flash/i ...more >>

Hi, How do I disable the entire menu on right click? I want this to be done in flash player, not in the html page. Is there a way to achieve this? Regards, Parag Shah ...more >>

k im kinda new to this whole flash thing and im sorta stupid. i need to know how to make lines with the line tool thicker, like 6 pt. thanks...more >>

Are any features disabled in the trial download version of 2004 Flash MX? ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying out the trial version. I imported an animated gif to convert to flash to test it out. Trouble is, when I select one of the graphics of the anim, and try to paint on it, I can paint but when I release click the brushwork disappears. However when I paint on the page (off of...more >>

I have a projector file (It could easily be a .swf file if need be) called welcome.exe that contains an introductory video clip. Is there a way to at the very end of this movie, make this file load another projector file called home.exe into itself? Sort of replace itself automatically with t...more >>

I've designed a site that uses the loadMovieNum script to load in each page of the site (each page is a separate .swf file), rather than the getURL function. However, the frame with the loadMovieNum action is embedded into a movie clip on the main timeline, (because i'm also incorporating a fa...more >>

hi all .......i have a new movie i am working on and have a problem ....i have the intro sorted and then at a certain frame i want to to use the goto and play action to go to a swf movie i created earlier for the main menu ......trouble is the moviw comes up ok but it doesnt do what it should ...more >>

Hello. I have a function in my Flash movie that is routinely called. How can I also call this function from Javascript. I want to be able to click an html <img> and perform the same function in the flash movie. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I got a G4 533 here at the office running 9.2.2. Tons of HD space and its maxed out at 1.5 Gig ram. I've been having this issue for a couple years now, but I've never really posted anything about it. I also kind of doubt any of you will have seen it or know of a fix. When I contacted Macromedi...more >>

I have created a short flash movie using flash 6. It looks fine when I preview, but when I export and put it in dreamweaver and view it the text isnt doing the fade in and out effect and also sometimes isnt the color its supposed to be. When I preview in Flash the text has dashes ------- surro...more >>

I'm running a G5 1.8 ghz, 1.5 GB ram... and Flash is SLOW. it works fine for a while, and then suddenly everything i do requires the spinning beach ball of death. it varies as to how long it takes for the ball to start spinning.... but i invariably get tired of it, force quite and restart. any...more >>

Hi - I am having trouble specifying which level a button is talking with. I have a movie named "one.swf" that is loading "two.swf" into a blank clip. My trouble occurs when I publish the buttons inside of "two.swf" generate an error. I'm sure this is because they are talking to the r...more >>

I would like to create a stock ticker in flash. Any suggestions on how I might be able to do this would be great. I don't know if it is even possible. How sould I get the updated info? Thanks Rich ...more >>

Newbie here. I am trying to apply an alpha transformation to an animated sequence. I cannot get the alpha values to appear in the test movie. I have verified that the text is a symbol (movie clip) and not dynamic text. I have done this before and it worked fine, but obviously I am missing some...more >>

Does anyone know where I can find a good tutorial on how to make a Flash Shopping Cart, or maybe just the ActionScript code I can steal?...more >>

What is the best book for learning Flash MX? ...more >>

Hi- I have a movie with a quite large bitmap file. I tried to force high quality (the image looks like garbage if it's not) but it doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions? -Vopka...more >>

Hi, Having a problem with the scrollpane component. Quite simply, as soon as I add a scrollpane, the gui editor (MX 2004 Pro) intermittently races away using 100% of the CPU. It does this when I'm moving around the editor panels, typing actionscript, just about anything. It races for a...more >>

Hi, I import a text from a textfile (.txt) into a dynamic textfield (html property set to true).* Question : how is it possible to conserve the accents and stressing contained in the textfile such as "?,?,?,..."? Thanks ...more >>

I have a problem; huge to me; probably a bug on your shoe to you. i would really appreciate some help--i have been working on this and cannot figure it out (yes, i've taken tutorials but none seem to provide you with the real world stuff.) I made an intro page where the images sequenced. ...more >>

I've made a button that has an over state where the text color (next) changes, and an arrow to the left of it starts to spin. What do i do to make it so when you click the button, (which makes the arrow shoot to the right), it disables the over state and allows the down state to finish. righ...more >>

I am having a problem with audio quality when playing an SWF. I have a video clip with audio that I wish to play in a Windows projector. I encode it using Cleaner XL to flv, with audio settings 192Kbps/48KHz/stereo. The source audio is 48 KHz stereo. When I import this to Flash, place i...more >>

Hi all, I have a flash MX application that reads data from an XML file. All is working fine except not all characters are read properly. The question mark (?), for example, is not read at all. The & is read as AMP, and so on... Is there a special code to insert in the XML file to make fla...more >>

On my flash animation (http://staging.igi.net/jason/scene_buttons.swf), I have the link buttons at the top open up a set of sub links on the bottom of the page. What I would like to do is when you click on a new link button, I would like the previous sublinks to do a reverse animate and then hav...more >>

I have a problem with flash 5. Some websites requere flash 5, so a while ago I installed it. Now I updated my flash because I wanted to look at another website which requered higher flash. But now I can't look at some websites because they ask for flash 5. It seems that the new flash deleted...more >>

I have an animation that is made of a title (static text in a graphic symbol) that's masking several lines that go acrros from left ot right. This gives a nice effect of the text apearing. When I preview it in Flas window(hit enter) it works perfectly, but when I publish it and preview it (ctr...more >>

Hi... I have been working all day to try and figure out the "mailform" for flash mx (not mx 2004) I filled out all the necessary fields (i think) in the php file and the flash script (my e mail address etc...) I noticed that the "submit" and "clear" buttons are not functioning. I tried t...more >>

Hi. I've been using flash on and off for the past 3 years but lately it's been more "off" and I seem to have lost some basic skills in flash. I'm building a banner that I'd like to have an imported Jpeg panel scroll across to three different sections with a 3 second pause on each panel. ...more >>

Hi, I am making a browser based Flash quiz. When the user right-clicks on the SWF in the browser there is a menu. I know it is not possible to disable the whole menu, but is it possible to disable just the rewind, forward and back controls? I do not want users to be able to navigate throug...more >>

Hi, I have added a data grid to my flash mx 2004 file. I am trying to change the header names for my grid. In flash mx, i could use a setheader command. it seems most of the action scripping capabilities have been replaced by wizards...how can i change headers? I saw the header text, but that ...more >>

My form opens, but I need it to open to a secondary or additional page. rather than replacing the main site page. Cant figure this out....more >>

Hi, I have animation on buttons so that when one button is clicked it slides into an 'active' position. Then when another button is clicked it slides into an 'active' position, but the previously clicked button has to slide back to an 'inactive' position. I first tried using ._x and ._y va...more >>

Hi guys, Have just worked on a site for a client of mine, and although the client is perfectley happy with the site, I have a bugbear. She has a portfilio of her modeling pics in the gallery, and to save time downloading, all the pics are in seperate swf files. On opening the gallery p...more >>

I have a file with only one frame on the main time-line. All of the graphics display properly. If I add another frame to the main time-line, even if It is empty, some of the bitmap graphics don't display properly (appear jagged). If I delete the empty key-frame and run it again, they display p...more >>

Hi There: Could you please let me know how to move all my frames at once without disturbing tweens etc. I resized the movie and now I want to recentre everything. I selected all frames and then try to move them and it only moved two layers. When I selected all it selected all layers but th...more >>

Dear Forum Users, When i am working with Flash MX 2004, Suddenly it gives the below given error, Can any one guide me? HELP!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------ FLASH caused an exception 10H in module FLASH.EXE at 017f:009c04d9. Registers: EAX=000000...more >>

I visited pc store and they said that Flash MX should work in my system (win me). But after downloading the trial it doesn't work. Does Flash MX require some components/programmes which I should download in Internet? What do you think? ...more >>

Help, When I export my fla files to .swf and load them in html they are like just a small trace on the page. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Trint...more >>

I created a movie called "Main" at a size of 600 x 350. I also created several separate text effect movies. I load them using loadMovie(loadmovie("text01.swf",1);) They are also created for a 600 x 350 size stage. The text movies play exactly where they are supposed to. However I needed an...more >>

im making a website using flash but my buttons arent working. i already click each button to "goto" then "goto and stop" and put on the right scene but when play the movie, it just keeps on blinking from one scene to another... i dont know what i did wrong?! how can i fix this?! ...more >>

Hi All, I?ve already performed a Google Search, but no answers. Does anyone know of a way to create links to urls using dynamic text from within Flash MX? Example: Dynamic text box has a variable named ?text?. Actionscript has text = "While employed at "<a href=http://www.ericsson...more >>

Is it possible to do 360-degree panoramas with flash or director? I mean not simple, flat panoramas, but full, like http://www.ipix.com/ does?...more >>

Hi I know how to make a basic LOADER, but what I dont know is how to make a LOADER involving additional movies (.swf) i have embedded into my file. Scenerio: I want my loader to load the additional (.SWF) movie files first before it Plays. Does anyone know a script that can help me. When ...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to use PrintJob to set the orientation of the print to be Landscape instead of Portfolio? Thank you ...more >>

Hi I have the following code in a class called CUserStatus public function CUserStatus () { m_pStatusLight = new MovieClip; var m_pStatusLight = this.attachMovie ("statusLightOffline", 'statusLight1', m_iDepth); m_pStatusLight._x = 10; m_pStatusLight._y = 30; m...more >>

What do you people think about the letter I wrote MM Flash People? I am working away looking at some web site and I got a popup asking me to update my flash whatever... Why do you people look at computer use on the Internet different than ALL OTHER companies? I know I can't get away...more >>

My prob. looks so: In Dreamweaver i have made some frames (header frame & 2 side frames) After that i opened flash, made buttons, how will look the buttons actionscript, when i press the button, the new page must open in the middle frame, not in a new window, but in the same window & just in...more >>

i'm trying to import a quicktime into MX 2004. it's a combined audio and video file. when i import the quicktime to the stage, the video appears but there is no sound and when i export it same thing although i can see the audio and video files in the library. the reason i'm using a combin...more >>

I am trying to import a Quicktime movie into flash. I did this the other day and the time line filled up with all the frames from the Quicktime file and it played OK, about 150 frames. I am trying to do this with another Quicktime file but the movie just appears on the first keyframe on the ti...more >>

i am a customer (not I, but my firm where i am working). i need a flashMX projector that acts like flash4 projector in the FSComand part we use flashMX, to deploy content on CDROMs too... and that feature is very useful sometimes (i know that the feature was pooled out because of the virus ...more >>

i have a presentation made in macromedia flash witch is designed to be published on the CDROM it's contents are various. it is split in many swf, so i can reduce it's compexity. my problem is that i have some large SWFs (about 10Mb) witch are loaded at a moment of time. the broblem ap...more >>

Hi, I just have a question. I don't know if it's possible because I'm not that good with scripting. If you have an external text file with html formatting and load it into flash as a textbox you can also use the <a href> tag for links within that textbox. Is it possible to attach simple act...more >>

I am trying to help out a friend but as I am a non flash user I am stumped. I created a small JavaScript/CSS script for my friend that displays a small advert that can be dragged around the screen. My friend uses a flash menu and when the advert is dragged over the flash menu it disappea...more >>

Hello I hope somebody can help me I have been frustrated for days trying to find an answer.I have created an animation using motion tweens of images.I have turned the images into buttons.However I cannot press the buttons because at the end of the animation the images disapear,how can I get th...more >>

i have created a scrolling text field - that is working great. However when I pull that movie into another movie the text is no longer getting pulled. It is just blank. Has anyone else had this problem - or know a possible solution? regards - j ...more >>

I have 2 square shaped movie clips smaller one inside the bigger one (http://www.cs.unr.edu/~cetin/flash/). I want to detect mouse clicks seperate from each other, ie. if someone clicks the mouse on the smaller one, I want to do one thing and if someone clicks the mouse on the outer clip, ...more >>

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html download spyware blaster install it go to "tools" at the bottom left go to "flash killer" tab uncheck "disable and block macromedia flash" reply here to let me know if it works for you. thanks, ken THIS WAS POSTED BY KE...more >>

"""Each screen has its own Timeline. The main Timeline for a document with screens, however, is never visible.""" that's funny...I'm looking at the main timeline of rmy screens document right now... ...more >>

Hi, Can we simulate some sort of speech recognition techniques in flash? Say e.g., if I speak loud on a microphone the ball raises higher and if the sound is low, raises lower. How? Regards, Parag Shah ...more >>