I have Flash MX 2004 Prof. I developed a slilde presentation. I want to print all the slides of the presentation. How do I do this? Thank.s Ruben Corvalan...more >>

How do i draw ontop of a jpeg so i can show a destination, from 1 point to another? i want to show it drawing itself so the line goes in sortof a motion tween, along with plotting destinations. Please help. thanks a lot. ...more >>

i have a :15 mp3 imported into flash and the file plays inconsistenlty. one minute appearing to take up fewer frames and other more. what gives? i need to sync some tweens to effects in the file and it never lines up the same way twice.... help! ...more >>

I developed a few intermedaite sites with Flash MX 2004 Pro. I have been adding AS to each indiv object. Such as onRelease/onPress for buttons, if/else, and goToAndPlay, etc. A book I am learning from places all/most AS in the first frame. One advantage I see is all the code is in one plac...more >>

"It" being Flash MX 2004; I can write database applications with it (from stand-alone grocery list to 3-tier client server apps that connect to monster Informix or Oracle databses). I can do web design with it, INCLUDING server side scripting. I can make animated cartoons and music vid...more >>

My flash components are loading blank unless I change the export settings to export classes on the first frame. This makes the first frame file size 128 kb and it makes my pre-loaders pretty much useless because it doesn't even load the preloader until the entire first frame is loaded. The c...more >>

Does anyone know which version of Flash player (if any) shipped with IE 5.0? Thanks! Miriam...more >>

Does anyone know which version of Flash player (if any) shipped with IE 5.0? Thanks! Miriam...more >>

Can anyone help? I'm working on a flash project. What I need to have is a "more info" button, where when someone clicks it, a new window opens with some text (with a scrollbar) in it. It's a window in the flash project, not a new browser window. I'm still kinda new to Actionscript so can a...more >>

I have created a flas movie that contains upcoming events, each event is in a separate scene as the events pass I would like to delete that scene from the movie. I do I do that?...more >>

I know this is a very open question but could someone suggest how I might further compress a .swf I have made? If anyone wants to look at it the file is here - it is 8.1MB at the moment. http://www.crackingdavinci.co.uk/lastsupper.html The movie is mostly animated Bitmaps (JPGs to be preci...more >>

I am a beginner in flash. what do i do first? thanks Cath...more >>

If i made some simple animations at flash and i would like to import it to dreamweaver, would that be possible?...more >>

Is there a way to get rid of the outline around dynamic text fields? I don't want a border of any kind but I cannot get rid of it....more >>

Hi I have created a quiz using the Flash MX 2004 quiz template and learning interactions. I published the quiz using the HTML with Scorm Tracking template. Using the Dreamweaver MX manifest maker extension, I created the manifest files. I used nothing but templates, but my quiz fail...more >>

I was trying to embed a .mov file in a flash file and even though the .mov file does have sound Flash says it could not find a soundtrack and therefor it embeds a soundless video. What is this and does anybody know how to fix it? ...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 >>

Is there a way I can get a "*.fla" file created on a Mac work on Windows and vice versa? I've tried opening them through how they would normally be opened but I get an "Unexpected file format" error. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. ...more >>

I created a movie with tons of animation, but I created it with the wrong size stage. When I re-sized the stage (to the correct dimensions) the animation was off-center (it needs to be in the center of the stage). Can anyone help? ...more >>

Hey, my animation arn't looking that smooth at the moment. Any of you guys know how to make it smoother? Possiably with Interpolation Thanks in advance!...more >>

hello everybody, could anyone tell me how can I say flash to open a word file? thx J...more >>

I am planning to put flash content on my site. Will today's browsers automatically detect that a page has flash content and pop up a message to download flash, or is that something that needs to be considered when developing a page containing flash content. I am using dreamweaver to develop ...more >>

I want to remove the border on the ScrollPane component and am told I do it with the Drawing API script. Problem is I can't find it and I'm not sure I'd know what to do when I do find it. Can anybody tell me where it is and what to do? Thanks, Lee ...more >>

ok i have a flash doc at 995x768 and i set it to transparent to remove the bg in a html doc and if ur reso is 1024x768 or lower any thing not visible u can't click on. please help thanks...more >>

Hey I need some help! I'm creating a CD-ROM portfolio using flash but I also want to include some director projectors. At the moment I'm using the getURL command to open up the projectors but it comes up with that horrible box asking users if they want to save/open etc. Is there any way I can ge...more >>

I have create a rectangle and used New Symbol to make it into a button. Once the rectangle/button is selected, I get a message in Action that says, "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it." What do I have to do to apply actions to the button? I want to apply a GoToAnd Stop a...more >>

Flash mx had a normal and expert mode for actionscript. I've just upgraded to Flash mx 2004 pro and it no longer seems to have a normal mode in the actionscript panel. Is there only an expert mode? If not, how can I get to the normal mode? I'm a virtual actionscript illiterate and found the norma...more >>

I'm going crazy here guys. I'm fairly new to Flash. But I'm stumped when it comes to this comboBox Component. I want to use it as a navigation tool that lists all of the scenes for my movie. I created an on (change) event that should take the user to the selected scene, but it's not worki...more >>

I need to make one of those dot matrix type score boards, with the yellow lights lit up to show the numbers. I think im supposed to use masks. But i have no idea how to it. Does anyone know of a good tutorial or links or anything that can help. cheers ...more >>

Hi all, I'm not new to Flash, but I'm not all that good at it yet either. I'm trying to do something that should be very simple, and it's just not working. I have a Perl program that returns the name of a randomly-selected image from any number of images in a directory. I'd like to pass th...more >>

Hey, I would like to have a listbox. And when I click fx: Label 1 I want to show a custom text in a text field on the right, could anyone help me here? Like name the Listbox 1[i]list[/i] and the dynamic textbox [i]textbox[/i]. How can I get multiple Labels in the listbox and make so i can ...more >>

Hi I am facing problem in using substring and indexOf since I am new to this programming world. Well..let me tell you my problem.....first.. I am getting a string from the XML file in following format a = <b>{gender}</b> {date} <i>{address}<i>....etc....(note: format will keep on ch...more >>

Firstly, a thank you to all who take the time to read this and reply, The Issue: I have a flash movie embedded in an html page that has 4 buttons to 4 different sections. The goal is to allow certain users access to certain sections (depending on their login name) if one does not hav...more >>

I want to make a drop down menu like propelllermediaworks.com I have the drop downs working but i cant get the menu buttons that go into the drop to work. Here is what I have so far. www.cbmediasolutions.com/menu.htm Someone help me please. Thanks ...more >>

I just created a scrolling text box in Flash MX 2004 Pro and noticed that when I try to specify formatting, it applies to the entire text box. Is there a way to apply formatting to selected text (only) within a scrolling text box? Thanks. TechM ...more >>

Please can you help? I'm working on a flash site and have created a dragable menu (a movie clip that has a button with a startDrag command). Want I would like is for the menu to fade as it's dragged so that instead of a solid block being dragged its original position starts to fade (giving the...more >>

Can anyone tell me why flash 2004 Pro on OSX ignores individual export sound settings when publishing? This is causing me major problems no matter what I do the individual sound setting are ignored! I heard this is a bug? Can anyone help? What can I do? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi I'm using two switchpics in a button-clip symbolizing down (neutral) and up (switched on). The up-pic shows on MouseDown. How can I make the switch stay in up-position? Only way I can see is to switch the switch-button with another where the switch is up. U guys got a better solutio...more >>

I have designed a website and within the website I have made a pop-up window. I am now having problems because the buttons from the first window are clickable through the pop-up window. Is there any way that when the pop-up appears the buttons in the first window are deativated and then a...more >>

Does anyone have any resources on reading and parsing csv files with flash 4? Any help would be great Dave ...more >>

I have a couple of masks happening on a couple of movie clips. The masks are tweened, as are the movie clips. All of this seems to be working fine with the exception of the items on the 'TurnPageLeftMask' layer and the 'TurnPageLeft' layer. If you remove the mask on the 'TurnPageLeft' l...more >>

I have a dynamic text field with five table of contents items in it. These five table of contents items are as follows: Basics Principles Teams Tool Set Foundation I would like it so that when the user clicks ?Basics,? for example, it expands to display several indented sub-items...more >>

Hi all, Again about my game, but I hope someone can help me. I try to make a game where a movieclip moves by following the directions you give it by pressing the keys up, down, left and right. Now my question: How can I make that when the movieclip is over the button it's just like your curso...more >>

Hi all, I have to make a game for school in Flash, now I want that when you press the start button of the game that there starts a timer and shows how long you are playing allready. Can somebody help me here please. Greets ...more >>

Can anyone tell me why flash 2004 Pro on OSX ignores individual export sound settings when publishing? This is causing me major problems no matter what I do the individual sound setting are ignored! I heard this is a bug? Is this true? What can I do? Can anyone help? Thanks ! ...more >>

Does anyone know of a good flash 5 tutorial to create simple forms? Thanks, Jake ...more >>

I have a scrollable dynamic textfield (i have tried this with both textfield and the textarea component) that holds text from an external xml-doc. The problem is that the text in other dynamic textfields in the movie disappears. this happens for textfields in a movieClip not for identical text...more >>

I'm trying to get a simple rectangle to move up or down depending on whether the user presses up arrow or down arrow. Any suggestions anyone?...more >>

hello. i am trying to create an animation in flash. i drew many pictures by hand and will scan them in to use in flash. i would like to use the trace bitmap function to vectorize my drawings so i can color and manipulate them easily. the drawings are just black and white sharpie drawings and...more >>

Hello, Here is where you can see my issue: [b]www.angelfire.com/bug/grossmantesting[/b]. My problem lies with the buttons in the upper-right hand corner, 'photos', 'print', and 'web'. I have brought ..jpeg images with a nice resolution from the library into a movie clip. This movie clip ...more >>

Hello, I am having a problem having flash display a literal "Less-Than Sign" (<) in a dynamic HTML text box. For example, if I set the variable text in the box to equal: Here is this sign <. It does not display correctly - despite the fact that I do not intend the "<" character to be...more >>

Hi all, I would like to use Chinese Text in Flash.. However whenever i paste text in, it just becomes "???????" I've tried static,dynamic (and enabling enbeding for all chars). I can save chinese text in word and view it in IE properly It just wont work in Flash :( I have attached a z...more >>

I have a movie that I wish to scroll using startdrag and defining the _x/_y constraints. It is a scroll bar and slider that controls the position of another movie clip. I have this set up on Flash MX but when I apply the same code in MX 2004 the movieclip I have set up as a slider disappear...more >>

hi, i have a loading scene (with a stop action) before my main scene, which uses the script 'ifFrameisLoaded', i enter that if frame 5 main scene (final frame in final scene), go to and stop frame 1 main scene. but... it goes to the main scene too early, (before it has loaded the entire swf...more >>

Hi, I have a movie clip that contains a world map in wich a few countries are buttons. For better precision, I want to change the cursor to a crosshair when exploring the map, but when I leave the movie clip area, I want the regular cursor again. The following code with a mask layer pe...more >>

hi i want to know what are the softwares are required for the e-learning concept,is there any website which direct me.for those, and how these software can be integerated. plz can anybody help me in this thanx ...more >>

I've got a CD based project and I'm including a few customer testimonial videos of 2-3 minutes. The sound is the most important element so I'll keep the clips relatively small and the video quality only needs to be adequate. I've got Flash MX. Will I see any great benefit by moving to MX2004 ...more >>

i have a movie clip which i would like to make a random colour everytime the movie is played. how do i do this? ...more >>

Hi, I've recently upgraded to OS X 10.3 and also installed Studio MX 2004. I have over a 1.25G of memory, running on a G4 400MHz, disk cache 8160K. When I use Flash, it hangs on very simple tasks, selecting tect, moving a photo here to there. I've had to force quit 5 times this morning. On...more >>

Hi, I have created a symbol ( a circle) and am looking for an effect where the cicrles would increase/decrease in size and numbers and move across the screen. I know there is a script that generates this effect and all I need to do is create one symbol instead of having to create many ci...more >>

I've been reading that FlashMX Pro will integrate directly with MS Visual Source Safe (with the assistance of a 'plug-in', according to the help docs) but I can't find any specifics anywhere. All I have managed to find is marketing fluff saying it is possible, but nothing that actually says h...more >>

Can you put a flash project "swf file"on a CD? Like a VCD or DVD. If so how? I have MX Studio and Flash Pro Thank for any help....more >>

how do i play a audio without contorling it and allowing it to loop throughout a number of scenes...???...more >>

I want to make the menu they have at this site. www.propellermediaworks.com I got the menu to work when I go over the button so that it drops down. Now I cannot figure out how to get the buttons to work in the drop down. I want them to highlight and be able to click to go elsewhere on my site...more >>

I apologzie if this question has been asked. I posted (at least I thought), but it did not appear so I am trying again. Is there any way to have an swf file open at a specified point on the timeline rather than at the beginning? I have a very large and complex navigation bar that on cert...more >>

I'm getting replies from some people saying that when they try to access my site ( [L=www.designbydave.ca]http://www.designbydave.ca[/L] ) using IE (6), they get the following error: AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2800.1106 ModName: flash.ocx ModVer: 7.0.14.0 Offset:00023664 ...more >>

Why when I try to manage my _X and _Y properties from actionscript it doesn't give the right position ? For example when I'm designing and I drag the movie to the desired position I can see in my property panel x=462.4, so when I use this number for my x variable and play the movie it gets ano...more >>

i hope i posted this in the right place. if not oh well. anyway...HELP im new to flash. and i just recently got flash mx pro 2004. im having trouble getting my layers to work right when i tween. ill explane what i have done, and its effect. im working with several diffrent documents to make a...more >>

I'm hoping an extra pair of eyes can help me discover my error. I have an external variable file called "ImageCount.txt" The only thing in that file is: 'qty=9' (no quotes). I'd really like to convert this to a _global variable in my main movie. Here's my AS myVariable=new LoadVars();...more >>

When I import my Swish document into a Flash document, the Swish document plays fine, but the Swish buttons don't work! Am I doing something wrong? Or am I missing something? Thanks. ...more >>

Is it possible to put a flash movie onto a DVD? All I'm looking for it to do is play the movie automatically when the dvd is inserted into the player. What software is required for creating the dvd or doing any format conversions? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. -Landon ...more >>