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Please help! Im young, 13, and stupid!
Posted by zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz at 5/15/2004 10:08:38 PM
ok, basically, i have a html script i wanna put on my flash site im making, can anyone tell me SIMPLY, cos im only 13, how to put the script on, its a site search script . Please help!!...more >>


Problem with Flash and 'special characters'
Posted by Two2Tango at 5/15/2004 9:49:29 PM
I need some help in finding a solution to a problem I'm facing regarding the display of special characters, such as "language accents" and other characters that normally could be considered as ASCII characters. The situation is this: I have develolped a Flash template (built with FlashMX) ...more >>

how do I....
Posted by ronaldo at 5/15/2004 8:33:37 PM
how do I set the content for the text box? Can you give me an example? thank you ...more >>

Size Error When Publishing for Player 6
Posted by davetdreamweaver at 5/15/2004 7:48:12 PM
Using MX 2004, XP. When I set the movie to publish for Player 6, the size or centering of the movie is off. When I publish the identical file for Player 7, it looks fine. See the difference at http://www.sfsoftball.com/flash.htm The border on the Player 7 version is correct, while the bo...more >>

Beginner - Transparency
Posted by Joe Childs at 5/15/2004 7:44:39 PM
How do I make images transparent? I've just got Flash and I'm playing around, and have been cutting and pasting images frm MS Paint and animating them, but can't find the transparency option. I only want to get rid of the white background. Thanks. ...more >>

screen resolution issues
Posted by rl0404 at 5/15/2004 7:30:25 PM
i am using windows xp as an operating system on a dell inspirion 8600 there is only one screen resolution size we are suppossed to use 1680x1050 whenever i open flash the text within the panels is unreadable how can i correct this error? ...more >>

Viewers' connection speed
Posted by Toby181 at 5/15/2004 6:03:35 PM
Is it possible to detect a viewer's connection speed before deciding whether to give them my flash site or a basic html site, even if they do have the right flash player? Thanks in advance....more >>

!!!.:Reverting Symbols:.!!!
Posted by Mitsu-Hitsu at 5/15/2004 5:42:55 PM
Please help me. I have a symbol on one layer and hten I delete it later on, about a hundred frames later, I try to add a new symbol, but when I drag it onto the frame, it reverts back into my old symbol. Its added a blank keyframe, no tweens, and any symbol just reverts back into the old symbo...more >>



animation will not centre
Posted by bindlestiff7 at 5/15/2004 5:31:51 PM
Using Flash Ver 5.0 I'm importing an animated .gif of 280 separate files. I have centred the animation on the stage in Flash using the align tools and when played in Flash the display is centred. Problem is, when I export as Shockwave the stage is centred on the webpage but the animation ...more >>

where can i download Flash?
Posted by rex at 5/15/2004 4:58:44 PM
Hey does someone now where to download Flash? ...more >>

Disabling a movie while a loaded movie is running
Posted by phil NO[at]SPAM electricedgesystems.com at 5/15/2004 4:56:21 PM
I'm new to Flash, so please excuse me for asking what is probably a very basic question. I have created a movie which contains a movie clip named "MainMenu". The clip contains several buttons. Each button loads an external .swf file using the "LoadMovieNum" function. When I first tried this...more >>

Beginner questions!
Posted by Xargo at 5/15/2004 4:19:37 PM
Ok, I just bought Macromedia MX 2004 and I don't understand many of it. My questions are... ...when I created a menu, how do I get submenus? ...how do I can get links at every item? ...how can I put sound at my menu? ...I don't understand anything of the timeline, and how, when I ...more >>

Tweening buttons?
Posted by Jonha at 5/15/2004 4:17:58 PM
I have imported an .mpg video into Macromedia Flash MX of a museum exhibition. I would like the end user to be able to click on objects displayed within the video and be taken to a seperate frame that contains further information. I can create an invisible button that users can click to take...more >>

response to rlc5611- Re - Spam
Posted by Jack at 5/15/2004 2:48:43 PM
Point taken, hence the fresh thread. In all other moderated forums that i have used, Spam ( regardless of affiliation ) is bad netiquette, and is flamed or removed. MM has chosen the path of hypocrisy, - as long as the Spam is Flash-Spam it is now acceptable. I will no longer answer quest...more >>

.swt file
Posted by splang at 5/15/2004 2:30:57 PM
Is there a way or a software that will allow me to save/export a flash button as .swt. Flashmx does not have this facility anymore. Thanks...more >>

Font for Flash
Posted by Reza Saheban at 5/15/2004 2:22:30 PM
Hi. 1 .I'm searching for some free fonts for FH & Flash. Please direct me where I can find them. 2. Please tell me where I should put the fonts(in which folder).(for FLASH MX & FLASH MX 2004) ...more >>

Open Recent Item
Posted by Henry-8 at 5/15/2004 1:39:48 PM
Hello, Flash MX 2004 has an opening screen with 'Open a recent item' displayed for convenience. I like the idea, and I want to keep the screen, but is there anyway to remove some, or all of the entries so that I only have the ones I want on view. I've checked through 'Local Settings' of Mac...more >>

Can't open .swft files
Posted by super Coco at 5/15/2004 1:00:27 PM
i having trouble opening my Swift files, anyone know why I'm getting "Unexpected file format"? Thx. ...more >>

Printing contents of textarea component
Posted by Duncan Shepherd at 5/15/2004 11:52:06 AM
I am using the text area compenent to manage the inclusion of large blocks of text with a flash movie. What I would like to do is to enable the user to print out this text, rather than the whole flash movie itself. At present I have created a 'print' button which opens the text in an external ...more >>

has anyone done something like this?
Posted by randal at 5/15/2004 11:30:32 AM
I am looking for a way to have a clock.fla where you can have an analog clock and change the background out. Actually, I want the end user to be able to change the background out. I want to have the analog clock, which I have created, be either on the desktop or really the wallpaper and also a...more >>

making text "glow"
Posted by 9228762 at 5/15/2004 11:12:51 AM
Im creating a button and I want the text to change from white to a glowing yellow when the mouse is over it. I can achieve this effect in Fireworks but I want to o this in Flash MX. Thanks, Paul...more >>

Form in a scrollPane
Posted by Titouille at 5/15/2004 10:22:00 AM
Hi Hello everybody !! I have a problem... I have developped a tabPane component, to display multi-clip on the same element (like tab files in excel) Now, I have started a developpement with Flash Forms, and I have seen on UltraShock.com, that the accordion component accept to display For...more >>

Basic question - 2 buttons and 2 movie clips
Posted by BeverlyD at 5/15/2004 10:12:52 AM
Hello, I have 2 buttons which initiate 2 movie clips. I have put the first button in frame 1 with a stop command and the corresponding movie clip in frame 2 (both on the same timeline). I have attached the following script to the button: on (release) { _root.dropMenu.play(); ...more >>

local language support "arabic"
Posted by amjad-ghost at 5/15/2004 8:45:04 AM
Hi all , I have a problem displaying arabic font in my flash 2004 can anyone direct me to away to solve this problem? or if there is a plug in or special version of flash to solve such issues! thx for your time and waiting for your kind reply :) ...more >>

page check
Posted by LowellHenderson.com at 5/15/2004 7:52:00 AM
Question? Does anyone not see the flash on this page? http://www.looksbylori.com/services.asp ...more >>

scroll bar in flash v.5?
Posted by grcoad at 5/15/2004 7:51:23 AM
is it possible to insert a scrolling bar in flash version 5, if so could someone assist me please?...more >>

problems with connecting lines
Posted by kmkbe at 5/15/2004 4:09:29 AM
Hi there, I often struggle to manage the drawings when using lines (drawn through pen tool , or line tool) I couldn't attach the lines properly to create a filled shape. Is there any method to connect lines easily. Regards Karthick ...more >>

Google API & Crossdomain.xml
Posted by Wh0ru245k at 5/15/2004 4:04:42 AM
I have a Flash program which contains an implementation of the google search API, this file works without flaw locally, but will not operate on my webserver. I have read about the security changes in Flash 7, and I understand that I need to make a Crossdomain.xml file in order to let my movie ...more >>

how do i.....?
Posted by hubb_99 at 5/15/2004 2:41:35 AM
go to http://thornleyband.com the nav bar and titlebar at the top. how the pictures shake when they change is there an easy way to do this?...more >>

Get sound to loop without looping over itself
Posted by Arto9991 at 5/15/2004 2:33:22 AM
I'm having a problem with a looping wav file. I have a small clip that I want sound to loop on. The sound clip is not as long as the video part, and everytime the video restarts, the audio does too, and ends up playing on top of it....sounding really bad. If anyone can tell me how to have t...more >>

Movies with transparent background?
Posted by TC5 at 5/15/2004 1:08:53 AM
Is it possible to create a Flash movies with a transparent background to embed (nest) in another Flash movie? If so, how is it done?...more >>

saving a flsh button
Posted by splang at 5/15/2004 12:44:06 AM
Any ideas how I should save a button made in flash so that when I open the "insert flash button" in dreamweaver, my button is listed as well. Thanks...more >>

flash file size
Posted by Gurg at 5/15/2004 12:38:35 AM
Hello, I recently made a flash demo that, when I exported it, was 11.4 MB in size (19 minute, self-playing). When I play it in Flash player or through IE, it starts eating up RAM, to the point that by the end of the demo, it takes up 120 MB (I know this by clicking on task manager, then pr...more >>


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