When I try to install the Flash MX demo, the installer says "Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is not supported on this operating system". I'm running Windows Me 4.90.3000. The Flash MX release notes says Me is supported, and my PC meets all the other system requirements. How can I get around this prob...more >>

Can anybody please help me with this? Q: Does anybody know an easy way to make a file, program, doc, video, audio file or ebook etc., download in flash when a user click's on a hyperlink. Any help with this would be really appreciated. ...more >>

'Flash/Video/CD' Hello all, I've been searching the forums for a few weeks, seen loads of different ideas tested most of them only to find: "@~*BALLS*!#" didn't work, carry on looking! I've searched so much my computer's starting to fall asleep, the mouse is complaining of exhaustion a...more >>

I'm trying to create a flash that will allow users to select a demo track from a combobox and stream the mp3 audio from a website. I plan to load it inside a frame so that the controls are at the top of the page when they visit my site. I am able to create the combobox, assign the urls to th...more >>

I'm trying to create a basic shape tween consisting of a line drawing itself starting from a dot. I draw the dot in frame one then the full line in frame 15 as per the instructions. I create a shape tween. The tween arrow appears normallly on the green shaded transition frames BUT, no tween. ...more >>

Hi Everyone! My cousin is using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 (7), and I am using MX (6). In trying to show him the ActionScript panel, I can't figure out how to swich between "Normal Mode" and "Expert Mode". Would any MM Flash MX 04 user know what's differant about that in 6 and 7? Rega...more >>

Greetings, I just installed Flash MX 2004 Pro version on my Mac OS 10.2.8 It is a G4 dual processor with 896 MB of memory and 100 GB of free space. When starting Flash, it takes a very long time for it to start. And when quiting, it really wont quit, I have to forcfe quit it. Overall, ...more >>

Hi, Can anyone tell me if a web browser can be displayed inside Flash? I'm working on a Central application and want to be able to display and navigate HTML web pages from a remote web server. I see that standard HTML tags can be used, but want to go the whole hog. The question might be are...more >>

I know that macromedia discontinued Flash 5 which is used to export .swt generator files for flash buttons. If U can stil download these files then people are still making them, so there must be some other way to make them still. could someone please help me out. I don't have flash 5 and can't...more >>

I cannot get lines with sharp corners using either the line tool or the pen tool. After I draw a line I click the custom button and I see the option for sharp corners and I check it. Nothing. the line still has round corners. Drawing another line again, still gets round corners. I go back in ...more >>

Hello, I have a question and I wonder if someone can help me with this. I want to load a variable from a text file into text field in a movie clip. It won't work unless I put the text field independently on the main time line. Is there anyway I can do that on a movie clip timeline. I...more >>

What's the norm of Flash movie pricing? by duration? by flat rate? How much can you change for a flash ad on web pages? ...more >>

I am making a web site for my high school programming class final. I made a button in Flash mx 2004. WHY DOESN'T THIS VERSION EXPORT TO A GENERATOR TEMPLATE (.swt)? Is there some other way to do this so I can use my button in dreamweaver. :( I read the Macromedia help about this problem o...more >>

Has anyone had any experience using flash's video format? It's my understanding that it allows you to embed video directly into your flash movie, and once published, the viewer doesn't need any players installed (like quicktime, etc). Does MX professional allow you to convert quicktimes into...more >>

Newbie question: I have a movie clip on a slide that includes 3 buttons that go to and stop at individual keyframes within the timeline. I can't get the buttons and the movieclip to stop looping. Any suggestions? Should I use separate scenes for the buttons instead of keyframes? That just se...more >>

We're looking at a project that would require us to play an audio/video clip on-screen, ask the viewer some questions, and should they answer incorrectly, play ONLY certain parts of the video again. Internally for now we're referring to these as 'cue points' but basing it on time would be gre...more >>

PLease can somebody help me. I have flashplayer installed on my pc for gaming persons. WHen ever i play a game on MidasPlayer.com i am half way through a game and it freezes and an error message comes up which directs me to "microsoft crash analysis" and it keeps saying there was a problem wi...more >>

When I post my site on the web the play and stop buttons for controlling the video do not work. They work fine in flash so Im kinda stuck. the stop code is on (release) { _level25.play(); } and the site is www.dbcine.ca in the gallery any help would be greatly appreciated. tha...more >>

Hi ya'll! i have a news textarea in my flash movie, which get it's information from a database, how can i get my textarea in the flash movie to show the special characters , ?,?,? , the last letters in the swedish alphabet. come on plz help me! /Engan ...more >>

Hey guys, I just started using flash this week. I have 2 questions. I am using MX pro. One of the questions i have is how do I unlock my fill color? When I attempt to fill something, nothing happens. I see a little "lock" underneath it, but when I click on it, nothing happens. Also, when I am ...more >>

How do i deactivate flash on 1 of my computers. i want to put it on another one, but it sais that there are to many activations. What do I do?...more >>

When I import multiple jpgs to the stage, some of them are arbitrarily (as far as I can tell) resized by Flash. I then have to delete them from the stage and replace them with the image in the library, which seems to be okay. Not sure if the same thing happens if I import to the library. Is th...more >>

The community needs a plugin for 64bit browsers like mozilla. Please help! ...more >>

Hi everyone .. I am trying to create a narrated image gallery of paintings with pans and zooms on the individual pieces of art. Pans look great, nice and smooth .. but when I try to zoom in or out on a bitmap (using motion tweens between differently-sized symbol instances) the movement is very...more >>

Hello, I have two SWFs one loads the other. Let's call them mc0.swf and mc1.swf. mc0.swf loads mc1.swf into a placeholder mc. Now, in mc1.swf I have an included font that displays nice and crisp when opening mc1.swf itself. Once mc1.swf is loaded into mc0.swf though the font(s) beco...more >>

In the Library of Flash MX, if I duplicate a symbol, and then change the color of the duplicate, the original symbol changes color also. Is this normal behavior? How can I duplicate a symbol and eliminate any inheritance between the original and the duplicate? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

I have a client who is just in love with the ads on CNN that "float" portions of a flash animation - typically text - over an html page. I always though it was an extreemly attention-getting (if not a bit annoying at times) effect if it's done sparingly. So now I've got a guy who wants me to i...more >>

am using the book, "complete flash remoting mx" by joey lott and i can't do the "create an e-commerce website" in the back! i've typed in all the code and it's all correct, but the connection between flash and coldfusion does not work. i have connected coldfusion to sql and that works find...more >>

I am loading dynamic text from a variable into a sub-movie within the main movie. I can do this fine but when doing any effects with that sub-movie (fade,stretch etc) the dynamic text will not react to the effects... I assume this is because it is an actual dynamic text field. I know I've see...more >>

Does gotoAndPlay work with a button state frame? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

do anybody know how to make stars twinkle?...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to make an MC that will control the sound volume of an embedded video. I've made such controls before, successfully, but not for an embedded video, and it seems that the sound of an embedded video is not affected by any of the techniques I've used before, such as glob...more >>

Hi all, I have a site that uses masked URLs in a frameset. I have a flash file which loads in variables with HTML links referencing a javascript on my HTML page. The javascript changes DIV content when a link is clicked. Now, this works fine in a static page, but when the page is loade...more >>

Hello Messageboard. I was wondering if anyone could help with this. We have a licenced copy of Flash 5 Generator, but have lost the installer disks. Still have the installer codes though. Is there anywhere on the site, or anywhere else, I can get a download of the software? Flash 5 Generat...more >>

I am new to Flash and was wondering if this site is using Flash for the slideshow? I think it is but usually sites like this have a link to download a flash player. This site doesn't. If it is could someone tell me the easiest way to make this. I have Flash 5 but recently downloaded the tria...more >>

I have created a flash file that contains a movie which links to an external text file (in .txt format) and is controlled by two buttons to scroll said text up and down. The problem is that when i import the .swf file into a Dreamweaver page everything appears except for the text. Ive t...more >>

when i make my button how do i make it open into a new scene (i guess thats what its called), just like this site http://teenamarie.com/main.html...more >>

Hi All, Could someone please help me out. I have a webserviceconnector that returns a string (in XML format) and I am trying to break the string (XML) and bind its values to some text fields on one of my forms, I have tried to use the dataset and dataholder but cannot seem to get it to wor...more >>

Received "Our Best Macromedia Studio MX 2004" Cd in the mail yesterday. I just opened the package and the disc is scratched in several places. It almost as if someone was evaluating the disc for, dropped it on the floor, scratched the disc and after they got finished they put in in the packa...more >>

Hi I can do an website so that the users handle it with the voice and not with mouse or keyboard? for example: the user says :"home" and the site go to homepage TNX Mariano ...more >>

I dragged 30 empty accordions to slide screens, just for testing. When I run it, the flash player can't start. The Flash player said a script is causing my computer unresponsive and asked if I wanted to abort. This is so odd, I didn't write a line of script code. Everything in the testing m...more >>

I just got the educators version of flash mx, and it isn't working. I installed it, i registered it on the site, but when i try to open it nothing happens. If anyone here knows what's wrong can you tell me what it is and how to fix it? ...more >>

I just got the educators version of flash mx, and it isn't working. I installed it, i registered it on the site, but when i try to open it nothing happens. If anyone here knows what's wrong can you tell me what it is and how to fix it? ...more >>

I want the buttons I have made to fade in when you mouse over, and fade out when you mouse off. I worked on it for about an hour and then just gave up. By the way, I am quite new to flash. I was wondering if anyone might be able to look at my menu, and find what i'm doing wrong. E-mail me Plea...more >>

Is there a way to insert a movie (Swish) into a specific frame, or it ALWAYS have to be inserted in the first frame of the layer? Can I insert 2 or 3 movies, one after the other, in the same layer? Gracias ...more >>

Could someone point me in the right direction to figure out how to add to my web page a "Send page to a friend" code? I can't find it in the Flash tutorial documents or through a search on the internet. Or do I just need to simply add it to the HTML document that runs my flash documents? P...more >>

Sir, I would like to know whether one can place a switch case which takes (string/LPTSTR/char *) as a parameterinside the action Script of FLASH MX 2004. Pls let me know at the earliest. Regards YKUT...more >>

Is there a better way to add or remove frames than: - one by one - selecting several and then remove them? Is there a way you can tell Flash to add or remove a certain number of frames? I have Flash 7 in a Mac OSX (if any difference). Thanks ...more >>

Here is what I want the movie to do: 1. When hovering over the rectangle button, a bubble sound occurs once and a speak-bubble image appears in the stage to the right. 2. After clicking on the rectangle button, it is supposed to simply open up a new HTML in the same window. The first eff...more >>

Does anyone know how this works?...more >>