Hi...I have a client who wants their logo in one format so that when they export it in a word document as a pdf file, that it displays crisp on screen, and also prints out crisp as well. Any suggestions? I can do this from Illustrator and save an entire page as a pdf for both print and web and...more >>

hey ya I am trying to create a simple image and text layout app in flash. i want to let users import jpegs and be able to resize them with a little resize handle (like you see in Flash or Powerpoint, for instance). I have attached a sample FLA file that gives you an idea of what i mean. ...more >>

I have inserted some txt, made it a button - all i want it to do is go2 a mainpage when it is clicked (it is an enter button)- how do i do it? im sorry im so stupid :P Im using flash mx pro 04 Thx for any help!! ...more >>

Ok... this is the more annoying thing for a developer... I'm working in Flash Mx 2004 Professional and when I need to save as MX, I have to choose "save as..." and select MX from the dropdown list EVERY DANG TIME! I need to know if there is an easier way of saving for MX... how lame... Also, i...more >>

Setting the rowcount on a data grid in Actionscript causes a grid with a vertical scrollbar to "bleed" upper record data into subsequent rows. Holding the scroll bar all the way to the last row and holding it down causes the upper most row data to bleed into the subsequent rows. Hitting a so...more >>

I am creating a site with Dreamweaver, I have that under control. But I would like to make a media player with multiple songs in it. For example, www.maroon5.com has a wonderful example of a media player. I know that there whole site is made out of Flash, but http://www.limpbizkit.com/ has ...more >>

I'm making a menu that slides out and in based on a mouse rollover. I've found that if I move the mouse fast enough on top of the button the code won't run to open the menu. The mouse just sits on top of the closed menu. Only when I move it a couple of pixels does the button register the mo...more >>

This I've never seen. I'm using Flash MX 2004 Professional on a Mac running OSX 10.3.3 and have been working on a file saved on my company's file server for the last few weeks. I save early and often. This evening, I was giving the file one last save before closing and I got an error message s...more >>

I have a 2D triangle-shaped symbol that I want to simply spin around its registration point (like a spinning dial). I've tried creating the movie clip with simple transformations and tweening, but I think I'm doing it wrong... what I've ended up with is the arrow staying in its original, vert...more >>

A boy with a destiny becomes a man with a mission! Marcus Peblo tells the tale of a young man who is granted a mystical key by a mysterious fiery hand. Unlock the Mystery! Journey with Senior Peblo through the ghost towns of Corpulous, the watery depths of Atlantis, the burning pits of Hades, ...more >>

I've developed a Central/Flash editor for the Palm OS. It's a good way to organize your Central projects....the Central application is on the way! Hope you enjoy the app! Carlos Eduardo. cadu-rio@ibest.com.br Application Description: Flash Machine 2004 is a Smart List / Tiny Byte ...more >>

Is it possible to create a preloader for a movie clip? The only preloader method that I'm aware of is inserting a new scene into a movie, which I don't think is possible for a movie clip. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...more >>

I used to use the Shockwave installer because it installed Flash and Shockwave. There were issues and Flash has been removed from the XP Shockwave stand-alone installer. Please: I need a Flash MX stand-alone installer for XP but cannot find one on the Macromedia site and Im going MAD!! ...more >>

Ok, I can't beleive somthing this simple shouldn't work. The goal is to have a text button whose text is determined at runtime. (and perhaps changed as well) I created a button, added a dynamic text graphic to it, named the instance A Added another dynamic text graphic to the "over" key fr...more >>

I am trying to load an external swf that also has an external text file to my main movie. The external swf loads fine but the text file is unavailable in the main movie. Could anyone advise what I am doing wrong. ...more >>

....using flash mx 2k4? or is there another program?...more >>

This may be an easy question. I'm working on updating an existing Flash files that was created on a Mac. When I attempt to open or import the file, I get an error - "unexpected file format". I have tried renaming the file with the .swf extension, but this doesn't do the trick. Is there ...more >>

I am using the slideshow template that comes with mx. can anyone tell me how to convert it so it always starts on autoplay. right now, it opens, and it just sits on the the first frame until you select autoplay. ...more >>

How does someone add a link to an existing swf file? In other words a banner provided by an advertiser that you may add your own link to. How can I add let's say a link for a user to go to a url on an existing swf banner? ...more >>

I want to add a quicktime movie too my site, using Flash to control it. Basically a flash file as big as the movie file, with a little animation telling people to click for a preview. They click it, and the movie starts playing. Basically, just like how Quicktime can have a jpg image that says...more >>

I want to have a preloader only load till frame 125 and then play the movie. Then when the user clicks the gallery button load the rest of the movie. Right now the preloader loads the whole movie and takes a while to load. I need to cut down the loading time any way possible. Flash example...more >>

hello, i'm learning flash and trying to get masks to work. i have animated some circles that fade in and enlarge behind two different masks, but the circles leave faded outlines in the areas they're not supposed to show through. what is wrong? take a look at the link [L=here]http://www.par...more >>

I have a Flash movie that is 750x650. When users with a resolution of 800x600 view the page in a browser(tested in IE6) and scroll the page, Flash doesn't refresh which in turn doesn't allow the user to see certain things at the bottom of the page. Is the just the nature of the beast or is the...more >>

Running ordinary SWFs as accents in an HTML app (IE6/Win). Attempting desperately to rewind them using movie.Rewind() as outlined in the Flash methods for the player as embedded with an <object> tag. None of the described methods seem to work, and movie.TotalFrames throws an exception. Do ...more >>

OK, I'm having trouble making a multiple choice quiz that has different responses at the end, depending on your score. I look everywhere for examples but couldn't find one with what I am doing. Please help. The file is here---www15.brinkster.com/canase/flash/temp.fla thanks ...more >>

I have a picture flash. How to base the flash on its picture name? Thanks....more >>

I am interested in learning what professionals feel is the best video editing software for use with Flash. We are interested in editing video and then exporting into Flash environment for Web clients. Been reading alot about Premier, Pinnacle Liquid Edition, Avid Pro DV, etc. What is the most ...more >>

I authored a movie in MX2004 and saved to player version 6. All is fine in IE on windows 98 and mx...ALL I GET is sound in Netscape on both os's. You can view (obviously not on Netrscape) at: http://www.tailgatetom.com/flash/1/ Any help? Thanks! CB ...more >>

Hello, I have a file from a colleauge that was created with Flash MX. I downloaded MX 2004 v7.0.1 and when I try to open it up it tells me 'Unexpected FIle Format.' I can send the file if needed. The file opens just fine for hm, but I would like to work on the file. Any help would b...more >>

Hello everyone, I need to animate arrows on a path to show electric current. I know how to attach arrows to a path and animate them but I keep getting this wagon wheel effect. If you look at the arrows in a certain way they look like they are moving backwards. Does anyone have a technique ...more >>

Hi I have abt 20 questions which i need them to appear randomly. Each questions have 3 choices. there are 9 btns, which when click will randomly pick up 1 out of the 20 questions. i know that i can acutally work it out using frame labels. i can have 20 labels so that when 1 of the btns are...more >>

i have three dynamic text boxes that all use the same font within the same .swf file. is it possible to 'embed all characters' once and have all three of the boxes recognize the font without creating a shared library? i wouldn't mind creating a shared library, but id like to have everything in...more >>

Hi! I saw this at a few sites, but here's an example: here When you visit, the background comes in in a unique way - is this some sort of scripted mask effect, and if so, does anyone have an idea of how to do it or a tutorial online that could be of help? Also, the main background that fi...more >>

I have a flash movie that's going to open up in a new browser window when it's launched. Is there a way when the movie ends to have a command in the flash movie that closes that new browser window? If not, does anyone have a different suggestion? Thanks ...more >>

I have a flash movie that is about 4MB. I need a preloader that just loops a movie clip I created until it's ready to play. I have been looking up preloaders and dabbled with the ifFrameLoaded script and something about totalbytes but neither is working. I'm obviously doing it wrong but nee...more >>

Hi, I have a local connection set up between an intro splash page and the main site popup. In the intro there is an animation running which stops after the main site has loaded and made the local connection. If the pop-up window is closed by the user, I want the animation to begin again....more >>

Does anyone know where there is a site that offers pre-made movie clips or flash simulations for purchase?...more >>

Not for the life of me can I figure out how to add a stroke to an image that doesnt have one. For example. draw a square, delete the stroke and Im left with the fill. Im trying to find a way to re-add the stroke without having to redraw the image. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advan...more >>

I have a wmv file that i would like to convert into flash for my website. is this possible, and if so what do i need in order to do it? ...more >>

I am trying to output a .exe file. I don't know if there is a way to change the icon that will appear on the end-user's desktop from the Flash "f" to something unique to my application. Is there a way to alter this in the flash file itself? If anyone has any input I would be greatly appreciate...more >>

I just noticed that my copy of Dreamweaver (WinXP MX 2004, 7.0.1 upgrade) uses an older-than-current codebase attribute in the <object> tag when it embeds a SWF, regardless if that SWF requires Player 7 or not. Mine happens to be blah/blah/...swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0 -- while Flash MX 2...more >>

I have a movie clip that has to be very long, more than 3,000 pixels in height. Whenever I try to enter an x or y coordinate, I get an error that says "Invalid Size and Position". Does anyone know of a workaround? I have to do it this way because I have a long list of fields to show feedback f...more >>

I have developed a movie in Flash MX. When I test it with CTRL-ENTER, its fast - it is set at 30fps. When I publish and run it with any browser, its much slower. Which one is correct? ...more >>

i normally use only HTML for web design but need to make something in Flash for a content management system. It's a team selector like the one here... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/squad_selector/default. stm could someone give me a few clues of how this is pr...more >>

Where can I find a tutorial how to make an external preloader and to learn how it works? thx Eduardo Tavares...more >>

I have recently been working on recovering some of my accidentally deleted files. I did recover my Flash files, one of which a a huge project for me, but they will not open. I am not to terribly surprised that the files are unreadable. I was hoping that there might be a way to repair these fil...more >>

Hi there, Im trying to play a projector file ive created but im gettting a message to increase my partition for the flash player. Im running a 1.25 G4 with nothing else running at the same time. Im not even sure how i would increase the partition. Any thoughts? Many thanks. Gonger. ...more >>

Hi.. I'm trying to make a rollover that when mouse on or mouse off of a button it appears to bounce. Please see this link for an example. http://flashdevmart.b7ven.com/product_detail.php?pid=007 How can I duplicate this effect? Is it a FLASH technique? Thank you much.... Race ...more >>

I have a presentation.swf file that I created in Flash MX. It runs fine on my computer. I emialed it to a co-worker and when she attempts to run it, she sees a dialog box that says her computer may not be configured correctly to run it. How can we determine what needs changing on her computer? ...more >>

I have created some text in a scrollPane but my "textlinks" don't seem to work Any ideas? Thanks...more >>

I just can´t find it and have a couple questions. Thanks! -- ='o'= Arturo ='o'= www.miltonfrank.tv ...more >>

hello, i'm learning flash and trying to get masks to work. i have animated some circles that fade in and enlarge behind two different masks, but the circles leave faded outlines in the areas they're not supposed to show through. what is wrong? take a look at the link [L=here]http://www.p...more >>

when im making an animation with imported bitmaps, while im making the animation in macromedia flash mx, the quality of the image is perfect, but when i play the movie in a player, the quality is really bad. why does this happen, and how do i fix this ...more >>

Hi all, I have small query abt converting exe file of flash to swf. pls help me out Thanks&Regards Rajesh ...more >>

Hi, I am doing a science project in Flash 5 about space, and I get this error when I test the movie: I don't know what's wrong with the coding. I have copied the box over from keyframe to another, and it worked, and for some reason it won't work the third time. If you need me to uplo...more >>

Hello, I Need help setting up links in a combo box. Here is where I am so far. I have created the combo box with 3 labels and put it on its own layer. I have 3 more layers with a movie clip on each and have labeled the keyframe for each layer. How do set up the links from the combo box labe...more >>

function choosePortrait(topMovie) { thmbnl = "thmbnl" + topMovie; thmbnl.gotoAndStop("on"); } thmbnl is a variable which references various movie clip instances -- but the above doesn't work. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Lee ...more >>

I am trying to create text that slowly fades out. I believe I have done it correct and when I run it in Flash MX it works. However if I click Control -> Test Movie the text just appears and doesn't fade. Same thing when I add it to my web page. Here is what I did: I typed in my text then...more >>

Hi, can anyone help me, I need to know how can I run a flash moie (swf file) on my mobile device?? The swf file is embedded in an XHTML Page. I have made a lot of modifications to the actual code used for embedding swf in IE or Netscape, please see this url : http://www.alistapart.com/a...more >>

Please help!! I am new to Flash MX and use to Flash 5, how do you make actions for buttons in Flash MX Professional? I am in Flash MX Professinal, but it appears that it doesn't offer an option for basic action scripting and it is only for expert mode?? Someone please help!! ...more >>

Ok i'm new at this so i need so help with something. how do i make it so that if a user highlites some thing in a scroll box, and then pushes a button, it will send them to a specific place. like u see in the navigation for this site. help me please!!!!!!!!!!! ...more >>

Dear Sir I cannot to import a complete movie to Flash (the movie has 2.5 giga). Is it possible?...more >>

I have the following ActionScript set up in a loop: CurrentAlpha starts out as 100 _global.ellipseIncrements=40 this._alpha = currentAlpha-(_global.ellipseIncrements/4); When I trace this I get the following: currentAlpha :100 this._alpha: 100 currentAlpha-(_global.ellipse...more >>

Hello, I am having a small problem with my slide presentation - every time a slide is done playing - it automatically starts replaying itself over and over and over again - until a button is pressed to move on to the next slide. To try to save time, I used one of the presentation slide ...more >>

I want to make a scroll bar like the one on the Gates Foundation Web Site. See Link below http://www.gatesfoundation.org/StoryGallery/ I want to make it so a person can click on a picture in the scrolling, and it would take them to play the video. Another problem with this design is ...more >>

Greetings! My question is whether you can have a "generate jpeg" or "generate pdf" button within Flash that a user can click on and a .jpg or .pdf is generated from that. For example if I want a user to customize a Postcard to his/her likings and then save it as a jpg/pdf to print it, is...more >>