Hi Im' using Flash MX on a windows machine. The Properties window has disappeared and can not be re-activated. Under Windows - Properties the properties selection can not be selected (made to tick) nor does the Cntrl F3 key activate it. No. It hasn't just been compressed. This fault occu...more >>

Hai I have problem when i make overlays in my page. i.e. the other flash files in the page remain at the top of the overlay. I need my overlay to be at the top of any flash file in the page. Kindly go through the Link : http://www.sulekha.com/beta/FlashOverLay/testoverlay.html (in this p...more >>

Hi everybody, I want to know how can i block or freeze the resizing of movieclips in my flash file!!! if someone resize manually my flash file i want that the movie clips i have in it stay at their initial size. thank you very much for your help! GraiXou. ...more >>

Is this just me? When I look at color #AC1723 in Adobe Photoshop and then look at it in Flash, they're totally different. Anyone else run into this? Is there a way to sync them up? Who's right? When I import a flattened image into Flash and eyedrop the color, it's #CF1020. Strange! -...more >>

I've got a movie that displays a bunch of text using TextObjects. It is displayed in an IE window that can be maximized, so the font sizes get scaled by the flash player as needed. At certain sizes, the last line of text for certain TextObjects is not be displayed. Making the window larg...more >>

hello evreybody i have a input text and i want to show an alert when a user enter a letter and tell him or her to enter a number? and how can i convert an input value to the number (string>>> number) any idea? any help? ...more >>

Does anybody know simple code that I could place on my index page that would randomly load a different html page each time that index page was refreshed? Thanks in advance!...more >>

i'm relatively new to flash...and using flash 5. i need to edit some flash graphics that a friend sent me. she is on a pc, me a mac...so she sent me .fla files. and told me just to open them and resave. but i keep getting error messages saying unexpected file format. does anyone have any ...more >>

Hi people, I have been using Flash on and off for a couple of years now and I am trying to learn actionscript as I go, I have come across a nice menu that I trying to create, I have attempted it the way I thought it would work, which didn't. Here is the link to the menu I am trying to crea...more >>

ok...so for some who need that extra second to load a flash menu that I have been working on, i tried to set up the action script loop the first two frames till the last frame was loaded, like they sugested in the flash tutorials. But when i uploaded that and tried to run it in the browser i ...more >>

Hi, I am using Flash MX on my maschine home. What I need is to download somewhere a trial of Flash 5 to do some modification (banners, no programming) on my desktop computer with much lower performance and Win 95. Any ideas? Thanx much ...more >>

Can anyone tell me how I can make my slideshow to autoplay? Meaning, visitors dont have to klick to get it started. Thanks...more >>

Even after adding the font on my library (embedding the font to the movie) my font (hooge 05_55 Cyr2)looks washed-out, any idea how can I get a crisp font? Thanks, ...more >>

My problem: i need to load an external file an put that values into a dinamic text field. The "loadVariablesNum("file.txt", 0);" is inside a movieClip and the "dinamic text" field is outside it. How can i resolve it? thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows of any tutorials or sample files that may relate to the effect @ www.mirrorbook.de... How the menu kind of grows... when you mouse over the hit area... but specifically how the amount of the illustration revealed is dependent on how long you have t...more >>

How do I use buttons to control volume level. I dont want to use volume sliders. http://www.geocities.com/thediveband/mediaplayer.htm...more >>

I have regular MX (version 6.0) at work and would like to upgrade to MX 2004 Professional at home. If I am just developing standard Flash MX things (not using the additional pro features) at home using the pro version, could I still work on them on the regular MX version at work? Thank...more >>

Hello all, I am trying to use this piece of code (in frame 1 of main timeline) from actionscript-toolbox in flash mx 2004 on a pc: Math.randomBetween = function(a,b) { return (a + Math.floor(Math.random()*(b-a+1))); } for (i=0; i<20; i++) { x = Math.randomBetwee...more >>

Help. I have a movie with background music which only works if I export the sound with the first frame. But this makes the first frame huge and delays my preloader. If I untoggle the export with first frame option in the sound linkage, the first frame size comes down but the sound doe...more >>

Is possible to play a video in a MediaPlayBack component that it is repeated constantly? If is possible, how do you do it? ...more >>

Dear, MacMembers, I am having this problem for last 2 days now. I previously installed Macromedia MX 2004 demo products (flash, fireworks, dreamweaver) on my friends mechine. He uses 98. But I can't install it on my win 98 setup. I just freshly installed it and updated it with Windows Sec...more >>

I have recently done a presentation for an art Gallery in Flash. It plays on a Plasma screen and one or two people are asking for a copy to play on DVD. Can I convert the flash movie to play on DVD. Any pointers would be of help. Regards Mark ...more >>

I am designing a website in flash 2004 pro. I have be designing it with the display setting at 1154 x 864 on my computer. If I wanted to design it at 1024 x 768, is it necessary to re-design the whole site? My friend looked at the published html file on his computer (1024 x 768) and he said...more >>

how to target a movieclip to go to a particular frame ? this doesnt seem to work when targetting the movie clip instance burn burn.gotoandstop(1); cheers chris...more >>

Hi!, I am doing some research looking for great pages done with Flash = for restaurant / bars / night clubs web pages. Please suggest as many as u can. Thanks! --=20 =3D'o'=3D Arturo =3D'o'=3D www.miltonfrank.tv...more >>

I want the movie to automaticly start, and I want the pictures to not just change in a blink, but a litle slower (fading i think its called). And last, I need the slideshow smaller than originally 640 /480. Can anyone please help me fast. Thanks ...more >>

I am having a very strange problem with Flash. I have 3 little swfs in my webpage. But for some strange reason 1 of them doesnt show up if i have my firewall on! I have saved them as Flash 5 swfs. There is supposed to be a (3rd) Flash banner between the top blue bar( horizontal menu) and ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a form tween from a text to another, but i don't know how to do it. I tried to create an adobe Illustrator vectoriel text, but there must be an easiest way within flash mx pro ? thanks... Guillaume ...more >>

I need to draw lines which appear to be drawn as opposed to appearing instantly. Does anyone know of a component or api that will let me set line coordinates and "draw" the line over several frames? I have seen masking used for this but the number of lines involved will be substantial. ...more >>

Two weeks ago I was prompted to upgrade to Flash 7 and since then I can't get flash 7 to run on IE 6.02 SP1without explorer crashing. If flash 7 is installed IE will crash trying to load the page. If flash 7 is uninstalled IE will ask me continually if I want to install flash. Has anyone en...more >>

Can anyone tell me where I might find the best Flash Extensions. TY Bill ...more >>

Does any one know where the real Brush Tool went in MX 2004? When you select the brush and select the top size, you get a square markerlike thing. Real animators and webillustrators (maybe we don''t belong in Flash anymore) really enjoyed the former normal round size which would help you to c...more >>

Greetings flashies, Im making a website fully in flash... It seems that when I load an external movie into a movieclip via the loadMovie command, the next time the user loads up that part, it runs faster, as it has been stuck in cache. If i update content on this site, would people not...more >>

when i open my website in Mac IE5 ,, the swf can not loaded .... but in PC IE ,,, it's no problem! anyone can help me? my swf contain preloading script first,,is it related? ...more >>

Hi all, Have somebody an idea, how I can make, that flash is on the top? I've used the wmode - parameter, but when there is a list (form-object) on the site it don't works fine. This because the list is everytime on the top, and not flash... Regards ...more >>

Hi. I would like to know how can I add an executable program with a flash program . And I mean by that, when the flash program runs , the executable program that I added to it also runs with it. Thank u. (pauli)...more >>

I'm dynamically loading in an image (name of which is passed in the URL of the .swf file), creating a MovieClip from it and then fading it in using alpha blending. The problem is that I now want to be able to click on the movieclip and redirect the browser to a different url (also passed in us...more >>

Can anybody tell me where to find help topics for Mx2004 components??? Thank You;...more >>

I have been troubling around several nights for my 3 (newb) questions to be solved with no luck, probably quite easy for advanced users, I hope anyone can help me, so here they are: 1: I want my slideshow to automaticly start to play my video without pressing "autoplay",2: I want my pictures t...more >>

Is MM server side software as slow as this? Maybe they use very very slow server hardware. I am planning to get MM server software, but a bit concerned about the performance when observing the slowness of their own web site. ...more >>

Lately I've been working very hard, trying to figure out how to get a video to stream properly using the media playback component. Now I want to add graphics into that video with flash, such as text, or other normal moving flash things. The obvious answer would be to create an extra layer and ...more >>

I created some sound file in mp3 format using Sound Forge, the sound editor included with Flash purchase. Now Sound Forge disabled its MP3 format saving after 20 times usage. I want to keep the MP3 format since the file size is small. If I save my audio in WAV, is there way to convert WAV t...more >>

I am using scenes in my FLASH file, but I do have labels in the frames within the scenes. My file is divided into 4 sections, and each section has its own bg sound. The problem is when I use the navigation in one of these sections, it sometimes starts playing the audio froma completly differ...more >>