Hi, I've never worked with video in flash before. I have embedded a .mov file and received the error that the audio is not supported on import. I went ahead and imported it anyway to see if it would work. The video is great, but obviously no audio. I am receiving the video from someone ...more >>

h? everyone i have a problem,, iam using flashMX 2004 professional,, well i can create a new scene in my movie with insert>scene but i cant delete the scene i created!!! pls help i used to do this in flash5 but with mx2004 i cant find what to do???? ...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004. I'm in the process of creating an animation, but I'm having troubles with the sound effects. I add the sound to a sound layer at the keyframe where I want to sound to play, but when I export the movie the sound plays two or three seconds earlier than it should. I ha...more >>

hey, I was wondering if anyone can see this flash file. if you check it out, write back with your computer specs, and let me know if it worked or not. you should see a picture that is framed. thanks a lot! here's the link ---> http://www.quistoworks.com/flash/FrameTool.html ...more >>

I've used the studio MX demo for a month. I chose to use flash MX 2004 (not Professional) for the demo. I recently purchased studio MX 2004 with flash Pro, and I have no clue how to get the installer to install flash pro instead of MX2004. It continually tries to install the 'normal' versio...more >>

I am working on an animation that has dozens of layers due to all the moving parts and want to break the movie down into scenes so users can navigate between scenes via rewind and play buttons. Is there a quick and painless way to copy and paste all the layers from the end of one scene into ...more >>

When I try to do the tutorials in Flash and whenever the instructions tell me to click on either the "Stroke" or "Fill" color panels the panels do not stay. I have to hold down the left mouse key in order to choose a color. I do not recall this happening when I first used the "Flash" program. ...more >>

Check out this site. How is this thumbnailer with shade done? http://www.flashloaded.com/thumbnailer.php...more >>

I have an 800 x 600 pixel presentation. My publishing settings for the web are 100% of browser width. My display is 1600 x 1200 pixels. Regardless of my browser window size, there is always an approximate 5% margin on each side of the flash presentation. How can I make it fill the browser window?...more >>

I'm currently authoring a Project in Flash MX that is to be published as an ..exe for PC. The project launches external web sites in a browser window. The issue that I'm facing is that the browser windows pop up behind my .exe, which is a problem, as I'm using a full screen fscommand. Any sugg...more >>

I find that when i make swf sites and upload them to the web, they flash white for a second before going into the movie. why is this happening?...more >>

I need some help creating an interactive map that will allow the user to click on an inset map and use it as a quick "relocator" for a larger map on the screen. A great example is located here: http://map.byu.edu. Notice how you can click and drag the inset locator and the large map reacts to ...more >>

I need to create a flash movie that counts down from 5:00 to 0:00. Is this possible with Flash? Any help in getting started would be appreciated. ...more >>

Hi everyone!! I'm a spanish guy and my english are very bad, sorry. :-( I'm developing a Flash movie that has a dynamic text witch succesfully load from a .txt file. Special spanish characters are shown correctly, because i put System.useCodepage = true; at first frame. Here my troubl...more >>

Hello, Anyone knows a way to set the general sound volume in a flash movie? I can only do this by creating a sound object and using a slide bar for the volume but i have many sounds in the movie, is there a way to set the volume for all the sounds without creating a sound object for each s...more >>

I have a video of somebody talking against a background. I want to take out the background so that I can add Flash grpahicsbehind and around it. I found a site that does this and I would like to know how they do it. They have many flash movies where they use video and interactive materials ...more >>

I'm installing a very old version of Flash (version 5) on Windows XP Pro. This worked fine previously on Windows 2000. But in Win XP Pro the fonts in all the toolbars are unreadable. I read in an earlier thread in this forum (same problem) that Lucinda Console font should be deleted from...more >>

I have begun to play with multiple Flash movies on the same HTML page. I would like to be able to start the second movie playing after the first movie reaches a certain frame. Can anyone tell me what command I use in the Action Script, to reference the second SWF movie? Can you please provide ...more >>

Hello I have a box that ive coloured black and it need to change colour dependant on a button click. Ive instantised the box with a name of ³box² Dependant on which button you press a value is sent to a variable called ³colour² as such: On(release){_root.colour=²0xFF00FF²} Im using the ...more >>

I need an example to understand the "synchronize checkbox" (about synchronize a graphic instance with the main time line) in the tweening motion properties. Thanks Susana Robledo...more >>

Hi, I start with making learning content in flash 2004 pro on mac OSX 10.3.4. If I leave all interactions in the template, it's working fine. But if I clear or add interactions they juxtapose in the swf file. I did as it is told in the help file (adding or clearing interactions) I.E. two dra...more >>

I am new tio flash making and was told that Macromedia Flash MX 2004 was good. i downloaded it registered it and everything. i have tried reading the instructions but they have proven to be too complex for my simple mind. I have been on newgrounds.cam and have seen their works and wondered how...more >>

hi hav a problem here...if anyone can help want to link a button in flash to open a email form in outlook how do i do this...? thx...more >>

Environment: HP Pavilion 8250 running Windows 98SE and Internet Explorer 6.0 Hi Group: In the past I had Flash Player 5.0 running well on my PC. When version 6.0 came out, I was advised by the Macromedia website to download an uninstaller to remove 5.0 before installing 6.0. I did this a...more >>

Hi, is it possible to invoke the "File Open" dialogue box from the .swf file.Or is there any workaround to browse a file like html "file field" ?...more >>

Hello, I was just wondering if you plan to integrate midi-support into your next version of flash? I know you can use midis by using the getURL, but it would be great if you can work with midis the same way as you can work with mp3-files. So you can load them dynamicly into your flash...more >>

Can anyone help me out on how this is done. The effect I want is at http://www.hoppingmad.com.au/home.html Click on the "what" then "website" link. There is a page with two arrows that control a movieclip when the mouse is over the arrows. You can then click on the image to have it appear in a n...more >>

I'm trying to embed a .swf file into a table (using DreamWeaver). Not a problem. Easy. The flaky stuff comes when I try to allow the height to scale DOWN dynamically. The horizontal size is set at 100% and the scaling is set at "no border". HOWEVER, if I enter a percentage for the vertical, it...more >>

I am trying to have it so the flash file on my page does a fresh reload everytime a user re-opens the page. This is because there is dynamic content on the page that changes all the time and I want that reloaded every time. I have tried the NO-CACHE in the head of the page and that doesn't ...more >>

I have a pre-build flash movie which has a music on it. Is there any easiest way that I can add the button "Mute" on it and the music just stops. I am not a flash guys, will appriciate if someone advise me the easiest way. Thanks ...more >>

When viewing a swf, the right mouse button opens a default drop-down. How can you deactivate this feature and use the right mouse button for custom uses? For example: on(rightPress){do whatever;} Will ...more >>

Hi, In the "Using Flash" help files on "Detecting collisions" article it has text on detecting collisions and then it says ...(see shape_flag.fla): and there is no "shape_flag.fla" in the folder Flash MX/Help/Flash/html/movies (which is were the file shape_flag.swf is located). Can anyone h...more >>

hi there friends. how do I set my bitmap editor in Flash MX back to fireworks. the editor has been hijacked by firefox and I don't want to have to 'edit with .. . . " everytime I want to adjust an image. ...more >>

Hi, How can I redirect the browser after the flash animation is played? And is it possible to define the URL as a parameter for the Flash plug-in, instead of hard coding it? Best regards, Norberto Henriques ...more >>

Hi, I have Flash MX, I would like to know if there is a way to control the dialog boxes that are present down the right hand side. By default it has Colour Mixer, Colour Swatches, Components, Answers. I would rather have Colour Mixer, Scene, Tranform, Align, Library. You can control these...more >>

I have been having trouble when downloading FP7 either direct from site or when prompted to download. I get a message saying Explorer has encountered a problem and will be shut down. I then get an error report box and if I answer yes to report error. It goes throught the routine but when it ...more >>

Hi I am new in Flash. I have a preloader which I trie to get on my pages. I am not sure how I should do this. Should it be a part of Index page? I tried Publish as a HTML but when triggering the button I realized that you cannot define the location? How would you proceed? Thanks Kalevi ...more >>

Found this site on my travels across the net. In my opinion this is what a true Flash website is all about. One day maybe I'll reach that standard - or not! Check it out at http://www.nascarstudios.com/High/NascarStudios.html It's in Italian, but that doesn't matter - oh and make sure you'v...more >>

could someone show me and possibly give me an example as to how to make a combobox that when a user clicks on an option, a new browser will open and go to the contents of the data feild. thanks. gahlsaraf@ameritech.net to send me an e-mail if you have the solution. thanks. ...more >>

I want to put the following code inside my flash movie: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript" TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="http://www.tag-board.com/tagboard.js?boardname=MishaBoard"></SCRIPT> <table width="200" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td width="200" height="200"...more >>

I'm having trouble opening or importing a file (from a peer). I suspect it's a compatibility problem... he has a later version of Flash than me (I think 5 or 6). I have 4. I'm new to Flash, and prefer not to upgrade yet, because I don't plan to use it much for a while. Is there a temporary...more >>

Hi- I'm on Flash Mx04, with Win XP pro, and I'm new to alot of this. I'm doing a simple text animation (several different lines of text) with different motion tweens across the stage. It generally works well except that the 'tweened' text shifts slightly up and down (just a tad) during its...more >>

Im making a flash banner and when I test the swf , the swf test is a button that when I click it, Im sent to my browser that opens to a Index of file:///C.........so on and so forth (sends me to where the files are located. First question why is it a button and second why am I sent to the idex o...more >>

I have forms with combo boxes. They work perfectly when used local, but when I publish them to the server they don't work. Everything else on the form, check boxes, radio buttons and text boxes work. Any suggestions? ...more >>

Hi everyone i need some help because i havn't got any idea to create the loading of a file.fla I mean that when i create a flash file i don't want my users to stay and look some white screen until it loads like this site www.pasioni.com i need that before the file being loaded to say ...more >>

I want to create a flash page with outlines (edges) of pictures. Something like this one. See the link. http://houseinamerica.brinkster.net/line.JPG Does anybody know how can I draw edges of objects in a picture. Can I do it using Fireworks or Photoshop? Please advice. thanks ...more >>

Is there a way to change a movie clip's stage size? I dont mean the document size, I mean the stage size for a movie clip symbol. It seesm to default to 1440 px x 1440 px. I have a lot of dynamic text and I'd like to load it into a dynamic text box in a movie clip and it's more that the 1440 p...more >>

Hello, Whenever I try to import a sound clip to the library, I recieve a "One or more files could not be imported because there were problems reading them". I just re-installed windows, and have never recieved this error before the re-install. Thank you. ...more >>

I would like a pre-sales questions answered. Which Macromedia products can I buy to produce a slide show from jpegs which has zooming and panning of the images. Will I be able to disolve from one image to another, and can I control the length of the disolve and the time the image is on t...more >>

Hey gang, I am using Flash MX 2004 Pro, I have a simple % based preloader and everything works fine the first time you visit my site. It loads to 50% and then the movie plays =) However; my problem is when you re-visit the site and all it shows is the preloader bar at 100% and no movie p...more >>