Does anyone know if there is a way to set the leading in components, mainly comboBox and scrollPane? I've looked around the web and Flash help but haven't found much on the topic. Thanks to anyone who has advice. ...more >>

hi, i made a movie that uses actionscript to generate random color to color the objects in it, but when i load the movie into another movie, the movie has no color. what am i doing wrong? jigen3...more >>

Hello, My web site is pretty much all flash cause I am trying to learn html. I can't get a preloader to work no matter how hard I try. I need help where can I go or can someone give me a tip? Jason Psycle www.wearepsycle.com ...more >>

The problem I have is using a preloader in Frame 1. My movie is loading all of the linked movie clips and components BEFORE the preloader shows up, THEN the preloader shows up "about 70% loaded" and appears to be working properly. When I uncheck the "Export in first frame" for components, i...more >>

Say I have a bunch of frames of objects moving that loops. Is there a way to make it so that when an object is clicked with the mouse it stops moving and everything else keeps going? I want is so it goes to another frame outside the loop once all the objects are clicked. Is there a way to do t...more >>

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/americangirls.shtml ADE ...more >>

i have three scenes, one simply shows black, the second has a full animation sequence, and the third a conclusive animation sequence. how do i attach scenes to each other? and how can i fade the second scene into the third scene? ...more >>

Is there any way to Action Script buttons in Flash to link to other pages on my website so that the links work when viewing the site on my hard drive AND on the server? Using the absolute URL I can go to my desired page on my hard drive by coding this: on (release) { getURL("file://l...more >>

I have attached in this message my church's logo for their website. I am new to flash and all I have done so far is dynamic text. My church wants this file that I have attached to do something really cool, but I'm to new to know. I could also use anything you might do as an example to help me ...more >>

Hello all, Question. If I will be having a flash section within my site, and it will soon have to support many languages, what would be the optimal workflow to architect for this scenario. I mean if I will work on my english flash section and other languages later, how would...more >>

Hi Everyone ! I am working on a fill in the blanks quiz using Learning Interactions template since I need the quiz to be SCORM compliant. One of the exercises has two entries in the same question. Here's an example: 1) Macromedia Flash is a powerful ................. for developing ric...more >>

Hi, Any way to take out the gap between the beginning and end of an audio loop without having to use actionscript, or at least a very simple actionscript? I have a music on and off button. You press music on more than once and you hear the song playing over itself the more and more time...more >>

anyone know how to load a html page onto specific iframe target using getURL(from a swf) i tried using this on (press) { getURL("if_poll.html", main) //main is the target name } but it didn't work ... any idea will be appreciated _swai ...more >>

On my home computer I can not see any flash movies. I have downloaded the flash player and it works fine if I double click on a flash file in explorer etc. The files also have the flash icon so that I know flash is loaded properly etc. I have closed Zone Alarm and any popup blockers etc. but s...more >>

Is there a way to attach a movie clip to a specific layer in AS? Like say I have 2 layers. Background and Foreground. I want to dynamically change the background so I want to attach a new MC to the Background layer. I know how to do this with loadMovieNum but can't find a way to pull som...more >>

Well just as I said, I need to know how to make the text larger in the help menu screen. I tried going to preferences and etc but I just can't find anything to increase the size of the text within the help menu and other menus as well, how can I learn if the text is so small it's illegible. ...more >>

Is it possible to create a web interface that enables users to record video at their home without installing anyhting on their machine. If so, has anyone done this type of application? Your help is greatly appreciated.. Thanks Kiran ...more >>

I'm new to Macromedia. Putting together a program. Using a lot of text. Want to click on click on words in bold to bring up definitions. I'm able to locate buttons over the words but unsure how to connect button action to hidden definitions. Any suggestions? ...more >>

Can anyone tell me where i can find information on how to work with pre loadings of swf? how to do it... Thanx...more >>

OK just a brainstorming session needed... I am developing a Flash/PHP site. I am good with flash, but just learning PHP. There is going to be multiple video files (MPEG and or ..MOV) on the site. I need the main site to load quickly, and for each video file to load completely (possibly with ...more >>

With FlashMX 2004, I created an application that connects to the Google webservice, the Amazon webservice and the Stockquote webservice. When I test the application or start the application locally all the webservices function fine. When I upload the application (htm page and some swf files) ...more >>

Is there any way of getting Flash MX 2004 to support mp3PRO formats? Just ive made a flash Jukebox that plays Mp3 files, but when I come to play mp3PRO files they sound terrible. Im guessing its becuase Flash cannot use them, thus (like normally), the files are just played back at their enco...more >>

I'm having problem creating a flash application at which i want the movie to play to a certain frame and stop there while certain animations still plays on and the movie only move to certain frame when a button is pressed but i cant get the movie to pause/stop at that point is there anyway to ...more >>

Hello, Yup, that's what I'd like to know. I am passing parameters to flash from the browser, but it doesn't work, so I need to debug it while it's running so I will know what value the browser has passed. How can I set up debugging for this purpose? thanks les...more >>

I have a 2.5MB PowerPoint file that I need to convert to Flash. So I have two questions. First, does anyone know of a good free or cheap PowerPoint to Flash converter program? I don't need a lot of features, just a basic converter. Second, can anyone provide an example of using the obj...more >>

Does anyone have any experience with Swiff Chart 3.0? Can this component be used to dynamically generate graphs ? My Flash interface loads a XML file from the server and I then intend to create a chart using the xml file information. Is Swiff 3.0 is different from Macromedia charting component...more >>

Here's the movie: [L=www.wmsj.org]http://www.wmsj.org[/L] I added an "on/off" switch for the sound, but now we want to change that so it automatically plays the first time you visit the page, but then each subsequent time you return to the page, the sound defaults to "off" (while you can sti...more >>

Hi, I'm new to this group, so please bear with me if this is an obvious question. Can anyone advise me on where I can go (books, tutorials, etc) to get information on how to create live content in flash. An example of what I mean would be a Sports Scoreboard where the score it update regul...more >>

I am having a problem with Flash reading external XML files. Layout: main.html (calls the flash file within the flash folder) - folder: "flash" contains the swf file and the xml files. We are testing this on various browsers and os's and delivery locations (servers and local delivery). On s...more >>

Has anyone noticed that if you have a flash MX file, with a certain amount of data in the library... for example 3,7 mb, and you later delete data from the library and resave the file, the file size is the same?!? Now if you took that same file with the "reduced" library and save it as anoth...more >>

anyone know how to load a html page onto specific iframe target using getURL tried this on (press) { getURL("if_poll.html", main) //main is the target name } but didn't work ... any idea will be appreciated _swai ...more >>

I have a mailing list form that passes the contents to a cgi (formmail) script. All my variables are being passed that are on the main timeline. But I have some varibles that are not getting passed that are in a movieclip. How do I get those variables passed? Thanks -Chris ...more >>

where can I find macromedia cd rom icons and macromadia flash icons to be puted on the back of a cd made with flash? thanks www.paquito.it...more >>

I have a font I want to use in a logo, though I like the overall style, it is too fine to work well. I have tried converting the text to paths but then the edges are too jagged. Any Ideas? bill ...more >>

Hello, in MM Fireworks I have the Option 'Open as Animation' and I will get the imported images in seperated frames. I have 400 images to import in Flash. Can I import them setting each image automatically in a seperate frame (frame-by-frame animation)? Thanks a lot! Andre ...more >>

Using MX2004 Pro trial I've made an animation using text which moves, scales and changes colour by applying Motion Tween. Each separate text element consists of two movie clips - the initial letter and the rest - so that I can animate the initial letter independently of the rest of the wo...more >>

There seems to be an issue with scaling images in flash when there is more than one frame on the _root.timeline. If you create a movie on the timeline and within that movie place an image and, having converted it to a symbol, tween a scale and test. The image scales smoothly. Now put a fe...more >>

We are thinking about starting to work on a rich internet application using Macromedia Flash. I read a lot on the site about this dev. process. I am just wondering, to what extend are there good interface elements components available from MM? I can see in the articles that MM advocates t...more >>

i am trying to dynamically create a movieclip, load a jpeg into it, and make it draggable. this seems like it should be very easy. right now, i have this in frame 1 of my movie: // creates the image just fine. no response to mouse this.createEmptyMovieClip('mofo', 1); mofo.loadMovie('...more >>

how can i add sound to my project and can i make games with flash ? ...more >>

Hi, I've made a movie clip with a couple of hidden layers that I use to line things up, but don't want to see in the final scene. They are not seen when playing back in the movie clip's timeline, which is what I would expect. But when the movie clip is used in another scene, the hidd...more >>

Hi, does anyone know if there is a player or any other way to play and preview a .flv video file without embeding it on a .fla movie? thanks www.paquito.it...more >>

I'm still not sure I'm using the correct terminology, but here goes. I have several pages I'm redoing in flash. All have some parts in common, and some different. For instance all will have the same logo, all will have the same "nav bar", but each may have additional animated items (flash movie...more >>

Hi, i?m working on a project which requires a lot of scrolling text fields, all working fine when text only, but i really need to be able to integrate graphics and/or buttons within some of them, can anyone tell me how this is possible? I dont have a stack of experience with Flash and no i...more >>

Hi Can someone know how to change the swf file when browser refresh each time. Thx Rgds, kk...more >>

I am trying to use the info box to set the width of a text box to 150 pixels. But Flash tries to change the whole object as if it were a graphic and stretches or shrinks the text to fit into 150 pixels. Any ideas as to how I can make the text box 150 without change the text itself? ...more >>

Ok folks, here goes... I have a series of swf's that I want to link to a single swf that will play them all. This is for a standalone animation, not the web. So there is no user interaction, no buttons to load the next swf onto the next level. How can I have swf1 play all the way through the...more >>

Hello. It seems an earlier post did not come through correctly. Here is a re-try.(The old one may still pop up) I am interested in animating the following: Human seen from the side, stands straight up, arm hanging straight down. Next arm reaches towards a table to pick up an eatable item...more >>

I am having a major problem. I have placed my preloader (32kb) on keyframe one in the main timeline. Then the clip (700kb) on keyframe two. When I test the movie, the debugger tells my that the size of keyframe one is 736kb so I don't see my loader till about 88%! Why is it trying to load the ...more >>

I have 6 images (all the same size) and I want to create an automate slideshow with each image dissolving as it transitions to the next one. How would I go about doing this....it's the dissolving part that I'm stuck on. ...more >>

hey guys ur help would be greatly appreciated. i used anim fx to create a couple of flash intro's for a website I'm making. http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/5thfreedom/speed.swf http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/5thfreedom/bang.swf unfortunately, anim fx doesnt have sound or pictures, just te...more >>

I was looking for a really simple flashform that would check if the user filled on the proper fields correctly. I found what seemed great on flashkit, a small script what did just that... http://www.flashkit.com/search.php?cat=movies&per=10&page=1&term=Stephen%20Moran&field=Contact_Name I have...more >>

im making a website using flash ot be uploaded later. i want my text box to update itself automatically taking the info from an uploaded/updated text file or html file so i dont have to re-publish and upload the entire swf everytime the content is the text box is changed/added. how do i d...more >>

Hello, I have a small flash movie embedded in the HTML file. I am using this flash movie as a navigation bar (home, contact, info, etc). When you click a button in the flash navbar, the corresponding HTML page loads. I'd like to detect which HTML page is being displayed at the moment. In ...more >>