I installed the 'upgrade' over the top of Flash 04 evaluation version and now it doesn't run, returns a runtime error in Flash.exe and it won't uninstall either. Any ideas on how to re-install Flash (because it won't!)? Flash MX is installed and runs OK. I've uninstalled this in case it was co...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone guide me on how to set up my enter button on my splash page.... I can make the button (from the templates provided) and I can make the button link to a website online - but what I need is for it to link to my homepage, which is offline at the moment - for assessment purp...more >>

Is it just me, or do the 'smooth' and 'straighten' options under the pencil tool no longer work? I remember that before Flash MX, whenever I used the straighten under the pencil tool, I would draw a lopsided square and it would make it a perfect one. Now, no matter what I set it to, it alway...more >>

I have a flash movie that I am working on in flash mx for mac os 10.3,, I want to incorporate another interactive swf movie I have created from another file. What is the best way to do this? I have tried copying all of the frames from the other interactive movie and pasting it into my new o...more >>

Hello All, I need some guidance from a Flash expert or an MM engineer on the LocalConnection object. I've got a project which uses the LO object to communicate between a .swf (in a browser) and a Director Projector. The .swf passes an array of objects to the projector at certain times. Everyth...more >>

I've looked through the tutorials and still havn't quite gotten it. My question is how do i make a button loop to the start of the clip when clicked? I know its a stupid question....more >>

I created a beautiful 7 page form in Flash, which included input text, combo boxes and radio buttons. Each page is on a separate frame, all on a single scene. When you make selections in the combo boxes and radio buttons, and enter text, evrythings works great. When you get to the last page an...more >>

I've made an extended movieclip class, I'll post the code below. Basically, it makes a MC fade in and out, then removes the movie clip when the _alpha drops below the minumum - 0. My problem is this: I need to keep track of how many movie clips are on the stage at one time, when one is remo...more >>

Problem: I update a site in MX '04... I then visit the site in OSX/Safari and the updates show up immediately, but when I visit the site in Windows 2000/Internet Explorer 6, I still see the old files. The updates don't show up for 3 days or so. This doesn't just occur with my sites but othe...more >>

I made a flash intro for a website and am having troubles completing it. I can not figure out how to have the intro play itself through one time and then automatically go to the site (site made with dreamweaver). can someone PLEASE help me with this? also...on the <<skip intro>> button (in...more >>

How do i create a textscroller that has no scroll bars or buttons and scrolls at different speeds when you mouseover on the text itself example: www.showstudio.com/projects/018/018_start.html click on the TEXT link ...more >>

Hi, I have a flash app that is a list of events. The stage size is dependent on the number of events. This is easy to do in flash, but if I want my html code to set the 'height=' property of the flash movie to the right size, (which needs to be loaded dynamically) how do I do it? ...more >>

HI everyone, I am an architect building my own site, and I have designed ASP sites but I am not an expert at programming. Right now I have a movieclip with 14 buttons next to one another coming up in an animation one by one, and alpha fading when moving the mouse over them. This movi...more >>

Howdy! I was wondering if anyone knew how to get a textarea to scroll with a seperate button or movie clip that scrolls the textarea on an event. I've turned off the vScrollBar in order to use a less conventionally placed scroll button. thanks a bunch!...more >>

Hi In my main MC, (MC1), I have an MC (MC2) with a mouse over action that affects MC1. In MC2 I have an MC (MC3) with a mouseOver action that also affects MC1. All my paths are correct, all my MCs have unique instance names, and they are all present in the same frame. But MC3's mouseOver act...more >>

Hi i am search a conceptor for create for me a fireworks in Flash for my personnal web site contact me to list@nightrain.com thanks ...more >>

Has anyone else noticed that if you resize the timeline that the scrollbars for the timeline window get all screwed up and you cannot ever get them back without closing the program and re-opening it? I thought maybe there was an update that would fix this annoyance but as far as I can tell the...more >>

I hope I am in the right spot so here goes. I am running a compaq deskpro ep with integrated video card Intel 82810e on windows 98. When I load flash version 7 my screen flashes everytime I hit a flash enabled link, and the flash video flashes in and out. I have updated the video driver and...more >>

When a new MC is created only a fairly limited area is available for arranging elements. Other than dynamically attaching items, does anyone know an easier way to work with the extended area? I am making a custom scroller that scrolls a clip containing various pieces of content. I would like...more >>

When I go to File>Import (or Import from Library)...and browse to the CD I want to use (it's one I bought that has royalty-free music in mp3 format), nothing shows up in the window. I've tried view all files, view all audio files, still nothing shows. When I view the CD on my D drive, all...more >>

Hi, When I put my Flash swf files into dreamweaver and then save and look at it in the browser, there is a semi large white border around my flash file. The layer it is on is the same size as i have streched the swf file. How can I get rid of this white border so that it does not show in Dre...more >>

I am trying to mock up for the client how this nav bar will function. Episodio 4 is the active button. On rollover it plays it little animated build. I need the Leccion 4a button to jump the "Main" scene to frame label "Ep 4" to play the closing of the nav bar. I have on (release) { _ro...more >>

Is there an "easier" way to do the header and navigation area as seen in this page? I am familiar with Flash. I am also familiar with Swish. Not great at either, in my opinion. Is there a package (similar to Swish) or add on for Flash available to get this done fairly easily? www.aervol...more >>

hey everyone, I hadn't had any luck searching for this topic, and thought maybe someone around here might know. I am using an fscommand to open a project up in full screen, and have some links in a dynamic textbox. These links open a new window (and works fine), but while in full screen mo...more >>

I'm hoping this loop is available royalty free. Anyone have an idea where they got this loop? http://www.halkin.co.uk TIA...more >>

i have a simple movie loading action going on. user presses button, action directs: on (release) { unloadMovie(2); gotoAndStop(5); } in frame 5, the script reads: loadMovie("1.swf", "/container2"); stop(); the next button unloads movie in frame2, sends to frame7, where the sc...more >>

Hel(lo)p, is there a way to check in AS if the audio device is in use? I have already tried it with the System capabilities but this doesn't seem to be the solution..... i ask because when i have a flash movie which plays music (mp3) i have a performance issue when i try to play this movie on ...more >>

how do u make a shape shange form with motion tween in flash sort of like the movie on this link/? www.flashplayer.com/animation/bludd10.html or how do u make lines extend themselves with motion tween, and if u can how do u do curves so it follows exact path like on this movie(u have to ...more >>

How would one go about creating a circle in Flash so that when the movie is played, it appears as if the circle "draws itself"?...more >>

When I had the trial version of flash mx 2004 I could switch between the professional and the standard version from the help menu. Now that I have the permanent flash I only have the professional one. Do someone know if there is a way of switching? thanks! ...more >>

I hope I am able to explain this problem well enough. From a button I call a swf into a Javascript dialog box on (release) { getURL ("javascript:openNewWindow('Portfolio/Commercial/american heart association/More Images.html','thewin','dialogHeight=25;dialogWidth=35;center=1;status=0;resi...more >>

Hello. I would like to know how to put that bar, when the page is loading... Thank you very much....more >>

I have seen and read many threads on how to import flash into Director. Are there any threads on how to import Director files into Flash. I created a 3d primitive in Director and would like to use this in my flash movie. I would also like to keep all my director controls once the file is impor...more >>

another bug? The first layer has a button. The layer above that has a movieclip of a big box covering the button. The button still changes your cursor to the hand and the button still works. Is there no way to cover a button? Did Flash always work like this? I thought I remembered be...more >>

Hello all, I have a simple webpage with a Flash navigation held inside a <div> and another <dif> set aside for content. The content I'm calling is Miva Merchant storefront in the form of a SSI. This all seems to work well enough. However, when I call the page with a https:// prefix, the p...more >>

Anyone know if there is a way to track pay per click, for flash pages individually? TB...more >>

Hey... here's the question. I understand the concept of using getBytesLoaded/getBytesTotal to build a preloader for the _root timeline of a movie but how does one use this to create a progressive download indicator for a movieclip? I was under the impression that a movie clip brought into th...more >>

In ActionScript, I instantiate the MediaDisplay component and load an external MP3 into it and set streaming to true, then I use the play() method. When I test the movie in Flash, or play it in FP7 or run in a browser, the sound file stutters by repeating the first one second of the audio file...more >>

Hello everyone. I've made a curved line with the Pen tool and have the stroke options set at a 3 wide solid white. After I finish, Flash only strokes a small segment of the total curve. How might I get the entire line stroked white? Thanks! -screen ...more >>

I am an animator and I have used Flash for many years to create online cartoons. I would like to bring to Macromedia's attention a bug that has been inherent in Flash since it's inception. For reasons I won't speculate, Flash shortens audio upon importing. In a composition playing continuo...more >>

Hi there, I am experiencing some trouble with shared libraries and = Sound... I want to create an external Sound library, import the sounds I need in = RunTime and instantiate them (attachSound) from ActionScript... This seems to be impossible... anyone can give me any insight in this = su...more >>

I am passing vars via the URL into my flash script: /test.swf?var1=testing 1 2 3&var2=test etc I developed the script while testing in IE.Have just tested in Netscape and found my passed variables are displaying in URL encoded format. eg: 'Testing%201%202%203' instead of 'Testing 1 2 3' ...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows anything about when using the shared object, I notice that it defaults for putting the saved information on the location. domain.com. But is there a way to specifically save it to more a direct location such as domain.com/folder/folder? Any help would...more >>

I am loading text dynamically from a .txt file that has html code, when I use the html code for a bulleted list, the bullets are always black in the dynamic text field even though I have that dynamic text field set to white. I have even tried to code the .txt file to make the font #ffffff. I c...more >>

Is it POssible to make full dynamic flash site with menus & all other content generated from DB. I ve tryed but there is always some stupid bugs that make all that enoying. Sorry for my spelling. ...more >>

See http://www.gray-associates.co.uk/catalogue.htm for example (roll over a catalogue) The images appear to have a shadow - is this something that can be done in flash - as currently the images are in the library as cut out symbols? If not, how do i import the image transparently so that...more >>

Can I send you a sample file showing what I'm trying to acheive? TIA Steve ...more >>

Hello, I am new to Flash and have spent a day playing around with the various tools and features, but the blur effect has me stumped and I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Basically I'll create my object to blur, select it and then add the blur timeline effect. The preview window will...more >>

I am new to flash. I have some images in my library that are in the presentation. I would like to update the images in the library and have them updated in the presentation. Is there a simple refresh command or do I have to re-place the image in the presentation and redo all the transitions t...more >>

Please could you help me with a simple piece of actionscript. I've been trying to get my head around it for 5 days now, and seem to be going around in circles. I'll try to explain as simply as I can! I'm using Flash 5 by the way... On frame 1 of the timeline, there is a small piece of code w...more >>

I have a problem with getting a graphic to fade in. I know tweening but have some trouble with brightness. Could you help me? thanx...more >>

What HTML code should I use if I want to load a flash file with these requirements... 1) If Flash is not loaded on the users computer, the user will be prompted to install it. 2) The flash presentation is run. ...more >>

Hi Guys I realy need some help, here is my problem I am preparing a presenrtation CD where i have one folder holding all my swf files but one, the main movie is out of the referred folder with a series of targets where I am loading my swf as requested by the viewer, but if I try to load a s...more >>

I would like to know how to place a scroll bar on a piece text. Is there a user friendly way for doing this? I have seen this discused here in different threads and each solution is different. How can this be so difficult???? I am using 2004 MX. Thanks in advance ...more >>

Internally to a fash file (fla) I can create nested movie clip symbols with full timeline, layers, etc. They look just the same as the parent fla in most respects. I have found I want to get an external fla into a new fla preserving timeline and layers. Can I do this, and if so, what are the s...more >>

Hi, im trying to use fscommand to run a javascript code in the root htm page that holds my flash movie. This works fine from the base movie bu when I use loadMovieNum to load another swf into a layer, that movi cannot run fscommands, I am very confused and on a tight deadline Please help, Thanks...more >>

First it is getURL and not GetURL. Try getURL("anyurl","_blank");...more >>

I have just made a whole website in flash, and now i want to uplaod it onto the web, the problem is, i dont know how. I have dreamweaver and i imported my swf file into the html but i dont think thats all i need to do. Can someone please help on how to turn my flash web into html? Also, ev...more >>

can someone help me with finding a verticle picture sliding menu. Its the kind that continually moves up or down depending on the position of the mouse????...more >>

I recently created a flash intro for our local chapter of Phi Beta Lambda. I had arranged the text to be in sync with the embeded sound. It seems that now the sound/text sync is WAY off, yet I have made no changes to the file. Any suggestions on what might have caused the new loss of sync? ...more >>

2 questions: Are they're more fscommands that we can type into flash mx, rather than what flashmx already provides? If so, where's the list? Does Flash MX 2004 or professional 2004 provide more fscommands than flash mx? Thanks ...more >>

Hello. In order not to loop an animation, I added <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false> this, but in Netscape, it does not use this setting and keep loading the movie in a loop. Is there a way to set not to loop an animation in Netscape? I needed to set like this because it has another option for non-...more >>

Hi ng, I tried to do a simple presentation with screen on the new flash version... On the main screen I have a simple menu that links 5-6 screen (using behaviors) each containing a simple animation... I'd like to start the animations each time users click on its menu item, but when I change ...more >>

Hi I have been using Flash 4 for a few years and just started using Flash MX. I am just trying to assign a simple get URL action to a button and can't find the simple explanation anywhere. here is the way it's coded in Flash 4 On (Release) Get URL ("http://hotmail.com") End On Could...more >>

How do u change the canvas size in flash? I mean make the working screen smaller or bigger?...more >>

Help, This should be so simple! I've never used action script before at all. I've created several ASP pages and want to use the same Flash animation in each but with different text. The text will be dynamically inserted via ASP in the parent page. How do I read text from the page the Flas...more >>

Sorry if this has been asked before. New to the Forum. Is it possible to load an html page ( "eBay" for example ) in my flash web page. Still have my navigation for my site on the page but say open "eBays" content in another window on the page? Any info, templates or tutorials is appreciated...more >>