My buttons have a layer called "sound" and the buttons work (I can hear the sound in the down state, which is where I put it) only on the Flash stage with enable simple buttons checked but not in the .swf or ..html files. What could I be doing wrong? If someone could help me out I would greatl...more >>

Hello I have been having problems downloading Flash 6. Every time I try the download seems to freeze. Has anyone else had a similar problem?...more >>

Hi, when I rotate a movieclip with an imported jpg, imported with loadMovie("test.jpg", _root.photo);, the jpg file gets screwed up (looks low quality). when I do the exact same thing but I don't rotate the movieclip the jpg looks perfect. Does anybody know why this happens?? Harm. ...more >>

Created a Flash presentation. One of the slides has a nested child slide. This is great during development because I can line up the child slides movie clips with the parent slides movie clips (which gives me a good idea of how the child slide will look). When running the presentation however,...more >>

Hello, I want to make a tutorial on how to do something in Flash like phpBB has. I have Flash MX Pro 04. How would I go about doing this? Thanx, Adam...more >>

http://www.anetabartosphoto.com/anetatest/ Click on "FASHION" and start clicking the small thumbnails. I've loaded each individual photo externally (approx 150kb each), but Client is complaining that each photo takes around 4 minutes to appear. Please have a look and tell me what yo...more >>

I'm currently developing a site... and although it is rather image heavy, I feel is running a tad slow. However, this is the first site I am constructing using target movieclips all in the one timeline. The question is, would loading the elements into their own _levels help the movie to run qu...more >>

Hey, I'm realizing that I can't use a text link in a SWF without it being embedded in a HTML file. Can anyone suggest other means of fetching a web page from a stand-alone SWF? Thanks, Kristofer...more >>

I have a problem with Flash displaying on Mac's... [L=http://www.sanitechinc.com/singulair.html]http://www.sanitechinc.com/singulai r.html[/L] ... The top movie flickers at the start then plays fine, but the smaller movie on the left side will sometimes flicker and disappear all together, and...more >>

Both files play the exact same 30 video clip. I had the wmv file on my website but then realized that NN and Mozilla ignore it. So I tried a flash file and it works in all three. But the file size is so much bigger ! why is that? What can I do to have cross browser support and a decent fil...more >>

I just worked the first tutorial in which you put together an "advertisement" with a logo, a button, some static text and a box with a picture of a car in it with a fading effect that loops. The application "tests" fine and I continued with the instructions to "publish" the project and t...more >>

Hello, I'm having a problem inserting a particular background in Flash MX. The background is a photo with different tones of gray fading at the sides to white. The problem is that if my scene is one frame long the background appears fine, but when the scene is longer than one frame then the pi...more >>

I had a bunch of Flash % buttons for Dreamweaver 4. I now have Dreamweaver 2004MX and it now chokes on the old Flash 5 buttons with an error referring to Generator. I'd prefer to use the buttons I've got, and the 'pay for' ones, so far, are mediocre at best, hardly worth my $$. The Flash ...more >>

I am attempting to create a button bar to drive a simpe flash motion tween movie. In the movie, I tween 4 different version of a Image exported from a vector drawing prog (Xara X) to ping format,. I found the image quality quite good. In creating the button bar, I again drew each of the elemen...more >>

OK, I set a website for my mothers record label with Dreamweaver and Flash. The site has been up for quite some time now but recently (Month ago) the flash has decided not to show it self appearing as white blocks. I haven't changed anything on the website in a while and so this is really conf...more >>

I hope I am in the right forum with my question...If not, I'm sure it can be moved. I have several flash templates that I need to edit the text in however after downloading Mac. Flash MX I found it is not supported by Millennium Edition, which I, of course, use. Are there any Macromedia p...more >>

I have a mask layer which contains two shapes, but my image is only showing through one of the shapes. The two shapes were copied at the same time from Adobe Illustrator and pasted into a graphic, which I place on the mask layer. It seems to be placed as one graphic but as two "groups". T...more >>

On TigerDirect.com a pop up window comes up. When clicked on Register Now it closes the pop up and opens the URL in the main window. What actions or behaviors do I need to add to the buttons in my flash document to do that? --and-- how do you create a "close" button in Flash? ...more >>

I had to re-install Flash MX because it crashes ALL THE TIME and now I want to run the updates, so i have the best version, but I can't find them. Can someone help me? I can find updates for MX 2004 (7), 5 and 4 but no MX (6). Was there any? I thought so. This is Flash MX NOT Flash ...more >>

Can anyone explain to me or show me where I can get info on adding an icon to a button in Flash MX 2004 Pro? The help tells me to go to linkage and add an identifier, but it is greyed out. I'm not familiar with linkage...any ideas? Thanks. ...more >>

FLASH has only one disadvantage - it has no advantages. - ActionScript that violates any rules of proper programming (even if you use strict datatyping) - the API is a non-sense (property names mixed up with "methods/function" names WTF!!!) - poor debugging and almost no compilation (pu...more >>

I've created a menu in flash using JPG's as my Up, Down and over states, but for some reason when I go to add and URL it says that you cannot add an URL to this item or image. Is there a certain format that has to be used? It seems like a simple thing to do, but I keep getting that message. ...more >>

Hey, I need to know if it is possible to input javascript or webpage in a scrollpane? What about inporting images and text? Please let me know! ...more >>

I have a character on the screen who is doing various things, all this is in scene 1. I then have a second scene with things on but when i publish the movie it automatically jumps from the first scene to the second when the animation is finished. I put a stop on the end of the animation but th...more >>

I've put a movie into a Dreamweaver MX page at http://63.167.144.166/WM/mainpages/events.htm. It works in IE6, but not in NN 7.1, Moz 1.6, or Firefox. Haven't checked it in other browsers yet. Visually, it consists of three buttons: play, pause, and stop. Contained is an audio file. As I say...more >>

I'm using the new menubar component in 2k4Pro and am having problems checking for events on the main menubar. I have no problems checking sub-menus, but can't find out a way to see if a user has selected an item on the top-level menu. I want to trigger an action off of the top-level items also...more >>

Hi, Anybody use Camtasia with Flash and does it work well. I would like to put some Camtasia Flash tutorials on the Web and Camtasia is supposed to integrate well into Flash, i.e. you can convert Camtasia video files into swf. Thanks, advice appreciated. ...more >>

Hello, I have an aplication which colects data from the user. I need to write this data to an external file like a TXT file or an excel file. I am using flash mx 2004. Thank you very much in advance, Nir ...more >>

How do I make a button within a movie clip control the main timeline. When I use the actionscript gotoandplay(Scene1,1), it doesn't work. Does anyone know why?...more >>

Can any clever person help me. I have a problem that is tearing my hair out. I have a drop down dhtml menu on the same page as some swf files. The drop down goes underneath the swf file. It shows above gifs and jpgs but goes below swf. Can this be solved. HEEEEELLLLPPPPP ...more >>

Hello, my company is building a Flash Comm application which contains a slide show. I want user's to be able to upload their PowerPoint presentations to the server and have a converter on the server convert it to an SWF. I know of several other companies who are doing this with their Flash C...more >>

Hello there. I'm trying to track down a tutorial or some help on a rather common animation effect. What I basically need is four items to expand/shrink and affect the rest. So if the four items had the same width on load: [---A---][---B---][---C---][---D---] When "B" was cliked the others ...more >>

I am currently developing an animation which has a lot of texts it`s almost like a enciclopedia and I need a zoom so the text can bmaximized if need it can some one help me...more >>

We are importing MC to targeted field. Some of the imported MC's are too big and I would like the file to check size of incoming MC and then set a scale so it will fit in target area. Any ideas!! ...more >>

Please test site www.giorgia.net Thanks ...more >>

Hi! The preloader (array) works fine, but do you know how to have individual preloader for all the .swf that's loadin in the mainMovie. right now I have preloader for the mainMovie and then it jumps to frame 2 which has only the bg image, then the loading start pulling the the .swf file (I'm o...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash MX. When I enter the following code in an action frame: ---- loadMovieNum(background, 1); loadMovieNum(header, 10); ---- ....in my flash actionscript window, "background" shows up in blue and "header" shows up in black. If I change "background" to "background1", "...more >>

Can someone point me in the right direction I am using a website that has a flash menu at the top however Im getting complaints that some people just see a red x ( ie no flash ) the flash shud automaticlly install and download when visiting the site but it appears some people with firewalls ar...more >>

Helo all, I am using the numeric stepper component in Flash MX 2004. I do not want my users to be able to edit the number directly or use the down arrow - is there any way to disable these parts of teh stepper? Any help is greatly appreciated - I am really stuck for time on this one......more >>

Hi, i'm pretty sure that the answer is no to this question, but would like some confirmation either way! Is it possible to curve text in flash MX 2004 pro, i would be great if i could get the text to follow along a line?? Thanks for any help, Guy ...more >>

I've created a small movie to run in a web page, simply a sound control for streaming audio. Problem is that it appears fine in IE6, but doesn't appear at all in NN7.1 or any of the Mozilla based browsers - Moz 1.6, Firefox, etc. I don't understand why this is. I'm using Dreamweaver MX to inse...more >>

Hi - Been working with MX04 Pro on some of the tutorials and articles in DevNetNews. I have one on stock quotes and the DevNetNews Reader both working properly from within Flash. When published they also both work from the generated HTML file on my desktop. However, when the same HTML and s...more >>

Hi, I have a website that is full of progressive download sorenson3 quicktime movies. Some at 320*240 12fps some at 192*144 12fps. Clips vary from 10 seconds to 4 minutes. I am considering changing to using Flash MX and the Sorenson Spark Codec. My reasoning for doing this is the wide distr...more >>

Hi, I have a presentation with a preloader. but the preloader taking time and it didnt appears from start it means its not appears from 1%, it appears from 20 or 25% using this code (on Ist Frame) totalBytes = this.getBytesTotal(); loadedBytes = this.getBytesLoaded(); remainingByt...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to use a dynamic text field as a mask but this doest seem to work. Instead it just shows the graphics in the layer underneath the mask. When i use a static text field it works perfectly. Does anyone know a way to use a dynamic text field as a mask? ...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 I p...more >>

Hi all, I've looked after a tutorial dealing with how to create an "Out-of-the-box" banner with Studio MX 2004 or MX, but I did not find it ! Would you know where I could find it like this? Franck http://www.dorje-pictures.net ...more >>

i load some content into a form. i test the movie, and the content appears at the place where the form is. i close flash, and run the .swf just to see it. now the loaded content appears all the way at the top of the Stage! not where the form is. I keep tring it over and over: ...more >>

In many programs such as Director, Hyperstudio, Toolkit etc. it is relatively to click on a button and hide/show text. For Flash MX 2004, this seems more difficult. I have a movie that will run and have audio with it. When I hit the stop button I want text to show near the bottom to provide add...more >>

Hi everyone ! This is shahgillani I have been see many site with the certain technique in which scrolling images or text etc. don't have a leap on click it rather go smoohly to the target position. For example if I click the link no 5 to scrolls all the images between them like it shows ...more >>

i am brand new to flash and the macromedia products. I have a trailer I want to put on a splash screen/ intro screen. I want it to play it then go to my default home page. I am following the instructions from a book and I did a new file and then did a import and selected my *.MOV file. I am ge...more >>

I am attempting to adjust alpha levels on graphics in several motion tweens. The color pop-up menu and alpha slider are not showing up in the Property Inspector. I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I am working inside a couple of different movie clips on individual graphics. Any ...more >>

[L=My file]http://www.kubrickian.com/test.fla[/L] I have about 40 buttons that I have set to bring up and image whenever they are rolled over. Unfortunitaly whenever I roll over the first one(my test button) it immediatly goes to the last frame, instead of the one I want it to. ANy help...more >>

Hey Folks... been using MX for a while... started to get pretty comfortable with Actionscripting, etc... today i upgraded to MX2004 Pro. love the new components... but i'm in a bit of a haze... i noticed the NORMAL format for actionscript is gone... i'll get by (and it'll fo...more >>

How do i attach a sound loop to play across a six or seven scene movie? ...more >>

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Well I thought I had this all figured out until I had to split my movie up and use the LoadMovie command. In my last scene, I put an action at the end to loadmovie("video.swf, 1) and no luck when I publish the exe and run. I tried using loadmovie("c:\final\video.swf, 1) and no luck after I p...more >>