Flash and Graphic Designer We are seeking a Flash and Graphic Designer/Developer. Primary responsibilities will include creation of flash versions of training programs, implementing designs, and animation. Must have experience with design, animation, and audio in Macromedia Flash documen...more >>

I'm trying to make sure my flash movie with audio and animation can play over a 56k modem and not take a long time for it to begin playing. Is there a secret to doing this? Right now my audio is between 60kb and 130kb MP3s - the lowest I could get without it sounding like I'm talking in a ti...more >>

What should I do to make Flash to read text in .txt file....more >>

How difficult would it be to develop a flash application where users can customize their own images and have the result be uploaded to a server. Specifically, this would be an application where a user creates their own logo, with the ability to upload their own background and choose from a li...more >>

I built an all flash site using .SWF. What is the best way to go about uploading it to the Internet so people can see it?...more >>

Hi there... Im trying to get a new DATE object with the following: _global.FutureDate = new Date(2004,7,20); The date returned with: _global.FutureDate.toString(); is: August, 20 2004. Not July 20 Im confused. Its making my Date Math REALLY messed up. Anyone rep...more >>

I'm a teacher in Canada. I've got multiple students who've made cool games using classes and objects in flash actionscript. Most games contain classes like "Tie" or "Xwing". The games work fine. BUT when we add frames before the frame the game is in a a strange thing happens: when the movie f...more >>

I successfully imported bitmap(JPEG) files to my FLA file, but I don't know how to change opacity(alpha) on it. I am trying to move my bitmap images and change opacity while it is moving. I have no idea what I'm suppose to do to make it happen. ...more >>

Does anyone notice how Macromedia.com has the scroll bar light up when you hover it or drag it. I was trying to apply skins to the thumb so it would do that but looking into the as file I found that there are no thumbMiddleDownName, thumbTopOverName, etc. variables. The ScrollBar.as file onl...more >>

I created a website using Flash 5. I created several .SWF files. I published all of these files along with an HTML file using Frontpage 2003. When you visit: www.TheRareFormBand.com and click on the "O" in "Form", it takes you to a page that I put out there for testing. It loads TRFBIntr...more >>

can i change my screen resolution via fscommand, java,vbscript or something else i was trying to change my res but i don?t know the way. if exits please help me ?cause im developing an interactive cd at 1024x768 an the most pc user here are using 800x600?n when the projector starts ?my movi...more >>

Ok, I have the MediaPlayback Componet working, but how do I tell it how big the MEDIA should be and not the player? How big are the component's borders? I have a 320x240 video that I'm playing... and if I set the width to 320 for instance, the player then becomes 320 pixels wide and it shrinks...more >>

Does anyone know if and how you can edit the fonts, colors and sizes of the text within the text area component?...more >>

Does Flash contain any CMI functionality or the ability to track user completion of programmed sections? How can you set that up within a self-contained executable? Thank you....more >>

I click on the "install now" button on http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Win32&P3_Browser_Version=MSIE It takes me to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.html Flash is not showing on the fo...more >>

I'm relatively new to Flash video, but was under the impression that Flash could provide video at a similar quality and smaller file size then Windows Media (wmv) files. I've tried both Sorenson Squeeze and MX 2004's export function, but neither seem to convert my original MPG to either the q...more >>

I have found that with my Norton AV software set to block or prompt for ActiveX downloads that visiting the following websites result in Norton intervening: www.honda.com www.benjerry.com www.coraccess.com/ The following websites can be viewed with no visible Norton Intervention....more >>

Like lynda.com ... do you know any other sites that are good? Thanks! -- ='o'= Arturo ='o'= www.miltonfrank.tv ...more >>

I have 2 seperate FLA project files. One for the preloader I created (preloader.swf), and a seperate one for the main movie. How can I combime them together? I thought this would be simple to do, but I've tried every sort of copy & paste, click and drag, and looked through all the i...more >>

When making a movie clip how do you turn it into a "plus sign within a circle?" It looks like the registration point symbol. When I right-click on it, I can edit the movie clip. It can only be highlighted in the timeline. ...more >>

Hey All, We are in the process of developing a site that uses a flash dropdown menu coded in ActionScript, that is in WMODE and will fall in front of the HTML directly below the movie. There are two versions of this menu, one here: http://usia.geckodesigns.com Which works...more >>

I've got a drag and drop scenario using movie clips. Everything works except the cursor remains a pointer when rolling over, dragging, etc. How can I get it to react like a button, and change to the hand cursor? Thanks! Jamie ...more >>

how do you make that little plus sign with a circle around it, then I want to make it into a movie clip, it looks like these two symbols put together + O When I right click on it, I should be able to "edit" it. How do you make this? Please someone help!!! ...more >>

hi, how do i get values from outside a movie without using loadvars or such a solution needing a request to an url ? i tried passing values as a param of the movie object in the html page (<param name="my_param" value="nnn" />), and the line of the embed within in the same time (my_param="nn...more >>

Help! I just screwed myself over by deleting the navigation button and controls from my quiz template. You know the one- with the forward button and the counter telling which question out of how many questions you are on. I found it again in the library, but am lost as how to reintegrate it...more >>

I am having trouble import avi video into flash. I get this error: Flash does not recognize this format. would you like to try using quicktime. When I try to use quicktime it says one or more files were not imported. I am using Flash MX 2004 pro Thanks, Justin. ...more >>

I have a potential project creating Flash quizzes to be tracked by a SCORM LMS. I just started looking at the quiz template (Flash MX 2004) and am wondering if it is possible to do a standard mutually exclusive radio button multiple choice question. I would like to have a question with fo...more >>

Hi all ! :) Thanks for this advice ... :] I'd like to finish a Flash game ... I don't know how to use ShareObject() to save the final scores and the player name. Can you help me, please? :) For french people: Bonjour, j'aimerai finir un jeu Flash ... et voudrai conna?tre la fa?on d...more >>

hii, can i send http request from flash to .net page??...more >>

I have created a flash file and also have an .inf file to go with it. I can't figure how to include these two after I zip them and create an . exe, to autorun. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Mary ...more >>

Is it ok to attach a .fla file to my msg?...more >>

I have a flash demo that has next buttons to go to the next frame. I want to have a self running demo loop continuously without having to click the next buttons. How do I do this? I am using Flash Pro MX. ...more >>

I'm baffled and think it's a bug of some kind. My Flash Projector and associated flvs play fine on even slow PCs. But on G4s I can't barely get about a 300k data rate without incurring stutters and weirdness. My target is a G3 but how frustrating if all it can support will be postage size flvs. ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm after a tutorial or some advice on controlling video's in flash. I basically, have 17 video clips inside my flash movie. (can these be loaded in on the fly?) I want to create 3 buttons, one to rewind clips, one to forward and one to pause/play. ...more >>

hello - have a macromedia flash 6.0 animation that i have to convert to a 5.0 animation in order to read it with quicktime pro. any suggestsions how to do this? the 6.0 animation is listed as an .exe file - thisis how someone sent it to me. please advise. thanks. ...more >>

hello - have a macromedia flash 6.0 animation that i have to convert to a 5.0 animation in order to read it with quicktime pro. any suggestsions how to do this? the 6.0 animation is listed as an .exe file - thisis how someone sent it to me. please advise. thanks. ...more >>

I want to put a pdf file to be download but i do not know the actionscript to do it. Can anybody help me?...more >>

How do I play a number of .wav files without using buttons? Without the user doing anything, I am trying to play .wav files in a specific order. Each file would start after the last .wav file finishes playing. How is this done? My knowledge level is: I know how to do this if a button i...more >>

Hi There, Is it possible for anyone to show me how to make a rain effect for my flash movie. Thanks...more >>

Hello, I have a flashmovie with a label "start". I want to tell this movie to gotoAndPlay("start") from within the HTML code of de HTML page that is nesting the flash movie. what kind of code do I need to put between the <script> </script> in the HTML page to tell the flashmovie to gotoAndPla...more >>

Hi everyone. Up to now, I've been using other multimedia presentation software such as Robo Demo, Camtasia, and various PowerPoint-to-SWF converters, to create SWF files. The resulting output is adequate, but I want to have more control over certain things, such as mouse movements. So...more >>

I have created an E-Learning application which is fairly basic and menu driven. Basicall the user starts off with 6 menu options, each option then gives the user between 2 and 10 further menu options which then reveals the content they have selected. The problem is my users keep on getting los...more >>

Why are my site's sooooo slow to download? I've saved all of the images as jpegs with the maximum compression possible or as gifs, but they still seam really slow. Should they be tifs or some other format. The sites are: http://www.anthony-robinson.com http://lucyohara.uku.co.uk http:/...more >>

Problem: I have imported a video (mpeg) into Flash MX. When I test the movie the it plays with no problem, except there is no sound. When I was in the soreson window I did select import sound. Any suggestions. Bart ...more >>

I have searched usenet and the web, but can't find an answer. I have a Java application that runs as a standalone app. A third-party would like to integrate with my application. They have a Flash app that is running in a browser. Basically, the user will press a button in the Flash app, an...more >>

I am trying to grasp the concept of movie clips, and could use a little help. I have an object on 1 layer moving across the screen from frame 1 to frame 35 on the main timeline, I placed a a movie clip symbol on another layer , the movie clip is suppose to spell out the word June, but...more >>

Hi all Is there a command in Flash MX to determine the URL of the HTML page calling the SWF? Thanks in advance. Vaughan ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to fins an online resource that sells icons or bitmap for visual buttons and site navigation, But I can't find a good one. I checked clipart.com, but their buttons don't look professional. Could anyone refer me to such website? Any help would be apprecited, Allan ...more >>

Hello Every Flash book I read about Importing images says there is a very good compatibility between Flash and PNG images. However, sometimes I import them to my Flash movies, and when I export, they look jagged or blurred. If I do the same thing with a JPEG (same export settings) it looks nice...more >>

could anyone help me out please check this link http://www.24-7media.de/ i need to work on this type of navigation .. i was seraching on google but i found only a component could anyonve help me out. Thanks Mukti ...more >>

Hello fellow Flashers ... I'm creating a site in which I would like to use Flash extensively via the player embedded in html pages. I noticed in my unrelated browsing that I would often be informed by Norton Antivirus that the site was attempting to download an ActiveX control. Upon invest...more >>

Does anyone know where you can purchase credit card sized blank cd-roms from? Or how much volume they can hold? It would really top my product off if I could write it to these.. Cheers in advance, Chris...more >>

I'm trying something but it's not working... Is it possible to duplicate movie clips then mask them? What I'm trying to do is create an automatic menu system. An array holds some info, which is read and buttons generated and positioned accordingly... here's the but. Obviously the scree...more >>

Trying to run flash and dreamwearver 2004 at the same time causes major system instability.... HELP This has been the case since i first installed the product - and still persists today with all patches and updates installed. This is not normally an issue as i dont often need to run ...more >>

Hello, Im very new to using flash...here's my issue: After creating my project, I go to test it and I get an error. Invalid path. Im also very new to Macintosh. On the imgpath line I entered where the images should be :Macintosh HD/desktop/thumbnailer/thumbnailer_demo/thumbs The two ma...more >>

Greetings: I am designing a FLASH CD-ROM and would like to have a button that opens a PDF file , which will also be stored on the CD-ROM, in acrobat. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Jeff ...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 >>

Hi, I need somebody to help me. I have flash 6, when i use the square tool or circle tool to draw , when i drag to form a square i don't see the square growing i only see a small circle on top of my mouse and i see the final shape when i release the mouse but not while i am doing it, i hope an...more >>

Hi, I need somebody to help me. I have flash 6, when i use the square tool or circle tool to draw , when i drag to form a square i don't see the square growing i only see a small circle on top of my mouse and i see the final shape when i release the mouse, i hope anybody knows how to correct t...more >>

Making a "Next button" that cycles through buttons in one scene. Anything to direct me with making a "next button" would be great...more >>

Hi, When I load a movie clip, I would like to limit the cursor movement to that clip only, until the user clicks a button in the clip. Can this be done?...more >>

Hello, I don't know where else to get help for this problem, so here goes. For some reason, all of a sudden Flash Player 7.0.19.0 will not stay installed on my Windows XP Home, IE 6 machine. It will install and work fine until I delete my IE temp files. For some reason that is taking out t...more >>

The font size of Courier New is NOT CORRECT. Why does the as editor in MX2004 not show Courier New at 8pt properly? MM, you suck -- you know when you think you know something and then you realize you know nothing ...more >>

is it possible to modify the gradient color of the menu bar component? ...more >>

I've verified this on a couple of other machines. In 10.3, the symbol font appears as boxes. This persists through publishing. I haven't modified the fonts at all, or installed any other fonts. Most other fonts seem to work fine, Zapf Dingbats does not. ...more >>

I just got done with a little flash game and have done a simple preloader script that simply adjusts the width of a movie clip in conjunction with the getBytesLoaded method. I'm sure my script is fine--my question is where to place it exactly. I have a title screen on frame 1 where the loader als...more >>

If some one could help me out. On all flash using sites a white box shows up. I click on it and it goes to Segon.com saying i have some kind of Keylogger problem because of one of their items .. I own nothing from them and i have never downloaded anything from them. I have the most recent flas...more >>

Dear all, I have a movieclip which I want to move over a curved motion path. It is no problem to accomplish that in MX 2004. But the movieclip rotates during the tweening. I have 2 layers, of which the top one is the motion guide. On this layer I made a curved path (pencil) which should be ...more >>

need someone's help: have a flash 6.0 animation with an .exe file ending. need to change it to flash 5.0 in order to import it to my avid editing platform. any idea how to do this please? thanks. P. ...more >>

I recently upgraded to Flash MX 2004 Pro. It worked fine for a few days. Earlier today I upgraded to Flash Player 7. Now, when I try to open Flash it says - "Authenticate - Flash Professional requires that you type your password." I type in my password and it asks for the password again...in a...more >>

Is there an actionscript code that makes it so when a movie clip is clicked its destroyed? It's very important that I find out how to do this, so if anyone knows please let me know.. Thanks....more >>