Hey All, I was wondering how I may make a button on a certain flash movie a link to Set Your Browsers Homepage To A Certain Link. Any Ideas?? I already know how to "Add To Favorites" Please Help.. Jay ...more >>

I have created a menu that appears when a button is rolled over. A user can then select from the buttons on the menu. However, when I move the cursor outside the menu area, the menu does not go away. I have tried the following: I created an area around the menu as a button and tried the roll...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know a way to create a self-running slideshow using behaviors and screens? I?d like to find an easy way to display a number of images using the transitions available in MX 2004 without the user having to click through. I would also like it to loop if possible. I suppose I ...more >>

Hello, i would like to invite you all to a NEW flash and web design forum: [L=www.adrianTNT.com/forum]http://www.adrianTNT.com/forum/[/L] Feel free to post your web design question and ideeas, you can also find a cathegory for web site promotion. ...more >>

Hi- I am having problems downloading flash player from micromedias web site. I am running windows xp, with microsoft internet explorer 6. I have tried several times to install flash player and when I click on the download nothing happens, I have my firewall, anti virus and pop up blocker ...more >>

Hello, i would like to invite you all to a NEW flash and web design forum: [L=www.adrianTNT.com/forum]http://www.adrianTNT.com/forum/[/L] Feel free to post your web design question and ideeas, you can also find a cathegory for web site promotion. ...more >>

I have a movie clip (clipA) that is motion tweened over 13 frames (frames 20-33 on layer 2). I have a movie clip (clipB) that is also motion tweened over the same frames on layer 3. In frame 1, I load a jpg file into clipA. If I test the movie at this point, the .jpg loads, and moves across...more >>

hey all im doing my art coursework gcse on the pc and i want to print on a1 so flahs with its great amazin vectors was the obviose choice however i do have a problem .. when i got to print out my file with the windows projector it removes my transparances in the title ... any help wopuld be g...more >>

I'm doing satellite jukeboxes (Flash modules that play the CDs being released) for bands on a label with which I am associated. The label has a "tourdates" section from which txt files are loaded dynamically. The .txt files start with "content=" Because the label is diligent about updating t...more >>

I have a flash movie which can dynamically loading mp3 file from the same website by using loadSound(URL, flase); . It works fine with PC but doesn't work under Mac, it stucks at preloading stage. Any hints that may cause this are highly appreciated. Thanks. ...more >>

I am making some disjointed rollovers using icons in a circle. When the user rolls over the icons a larger version shows up in the middle of the ring of icons and in color. The problem I am having is that the center area where the rollover appears is now part of the triggering rollover area and c...more >>

Trying to control a movie / video and really need any help i can get. Here's my scene. I have an empty mc instance on the stage. A button on the main timeline loads a movie clip (with video in it) into the empty mc with the loadmovie command. I have buttons on the main timeline that I...more >>

Hello, After an intensive painfull lengthy time period I finally finished a quite complicated scientific animation. Now my customer wants avi as output. ....Now the only thing showing up in the exported avi is the main time line as can be seen in editting mode. Thus any nested movieclips a...more >>

I am building an interactive calendar that allows users to submit events (i.e. party, golf tourney, etc.) to a database. The problem comes when I want to represent a date that has an event(s) associated with it. Instead of having the user select every day of the month in the DateChooser compon...more >>

hi all, i have a problem designing a logo animation. the logo is like a snake, the animation reveals the drawing step by step. you can check the website http://www.os-design.com/. the animation is a .avi file, too big (500ko). can i do the same effect on Flash (small file) ? i tried on Plasma,...more >>

I have recently created a movie of my 2 1/2 year-old daughter reading her favorite book. The movie simply consists of each page of her book with a voice over (mp3) for each new page. All mp3s are on a separate layer of the timeline and are attached to a corresponding frame on that timeline. ...more >>

It seems that if I use this code to create a "pause" then during this "pause" period my buttons don't seem to work. Am I missing something? Or am I perhaps going about this the wrong way? Thank you. for (x=1;x<150000;x=x+1) { } ...more >>

Hi. I want to make a FLASH ANIMATION for a software developer company.They want to put this animation on their applications' windows. 1.What is the best format to save my Flash? 2.What should I do to make the software read swf? Regards Reza ...more >>

I wont to know how to make a screen saver in flash i have no idea....plaese help thanx...more >>

Hi, I am a newbie on Flash MX (esp. ActionScript) and would like to know, how to make the menu of this site: http://www.insite-e.com/index_flash.html especially: how to make the little arrow follow the mouse under the menue only horizontal? Any help would be appreciated, many thx! Fritz ...more >>

Hi. 1.I need actionscript to close a page(when the user click on the flash text the window(html page) should be closed. 2.I want the same for a html link. If it is JavaScript ,please write it for me. Regards Reza Saheban ...more >>

Hello, I'm writing a little application in flash that I'll publish in EXE format. I want to disable the movie control functions like ZOOM, FORWARD, REWIND. I have set a password in the exe file that will permit only autorized personnal to use the application and I don't want someone bypa...more >>

I've used fscommand fullscreen with success in the past but its been awhile and now it doesn't seem to work. for me. It's gotta be something simple?? On the first frame in my movie, I'm placing the script: fscommand("allowscale", "true"); fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); When testing t...more >>

Hello, One of the advantages putting behaviour in a movieclip is the ability to organise your movie elements better: not having to put everything on one main time line only, but only put in the mc in stead. The biggest disadvantage of this is though, ones you do this you can only see the ...more >>

Hi, I made a little Flash ad for a web page, with the background color to match the page. However, before the Flash starts, the background for it shows up white. I tried setting up a CSS class with the correct background color and applying it to the movie, but that didn't fix it. Does anyone k...more >>

Basic Question but i'm new to Flash and want to set the background to transparrent so the flash movie can run over the background of the web page (the background of the web page is via a style setting). But i don't seems to see an option to set background to transparent. Am i trying to ach...more >>

whats ur opinion on a good file size, for web my site at the moment is 300kb's but i am on broadband and dont care about anyone else. just like the industry standard for a screen size whats the file size? also how do u work out how long it would take a 56ker to download it? i know they don...more >>

Can anyone here tell me how to make a nice looking photo album in flash. Also if u have any tutorials that would be great. Just startin out in flash web-design, and i tryin to build my skill base....more >>

Hello all I am starting this thread as a place for people to post problems with Flash. I don't want this post to turn into a rand fest, I simply would like for the Macromedia Team to have a place to look when they wonder what people are having problems with. Please read the list, an...more >>

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Hey everyone, I made a preloader, and to test it out, I imported an MP3 file. When it was all said and done, my FLA turned into a huge 40+ MB file. I decided that I was going to keep this as my preloader template and simply store it into my "libraries" folder for easier access (Win...more >>

The problem started when Flash MX wouldn't start. I switched to another User and the Flash MX started up fine. So I went back to my main user and I re-installed the app, fixed permissions, repaired the disc, tossed prefs, and pared down the fonts to minimum system level. Nothing worked. In tot...more >>

I used the AS tag loadVariableNum("/url.txt", 0); into a skewed text box that i assigned a scroll bar component to. It works when i type text right into Flash, but when I load text the text shows up with the scrollbar inactive. Is there a way to fix this? (flash mx) ...more >>