Hi all, Im working on a flash project at the moment where the user is asked a number of questions and must answer multiple choice. At the end of the movie (on the last slide) the results will come up. I need those results and the info on that last slide to be saved to the a:/ with the filename...more >>

Hey gang, This is my first post and I would have normally done a search for this; however, I am very new at flash and have no idea what I would be looking for. Anyway, I have a 20meg movie file (wmv) and I am doing my best to place this movie on the intro page of my web site. When I conv...more >>

Could someone please tell me how I can swap a batch of instances in a single time? (instead of swap each instance one by one) Thanks so much! ...more >>

Hi. I want to put a music inside a mc (movie clip) and when the user roll over it, I want it to be heard: mc1.onRollOver=function(){ I want to load music here! in "start" mode! music is in server or in a timeline(scene,inside Flash),please write for both(from server ,from timeline) }...more >>

I'm adding a music sound loop and would like for it to fade out as it comes to the end. Is this possible in flash? Thanks, Jeff...more >>

My company recently upgraded from Flash MX to 2004 Pro. I am revamping a Flash presentation I originally created in MX. The scene to scene navigation no longer works. I'm on Windows XP. It's very simple script. on (keyPress "<Right>") { nextScene(); stopAllSounds(); } It will wo...more >>

I have always had problems getting swf files to refresh. For example, if I create a menu in flash, and one day I add a button to the menu, I want web visitors to see the change right away. I have discovered that when visitors try to refresh an html page containing an swf file, the swf file...more >>

I need help on disabling right click when i publish my flash movie. i dont want users to have the option of zooming in/out, play stop ect. Is this the right code i would use to take these out? how would i go about disabling some right click functions. Thanks. fscommand("showmenu",false); ...more >>

I am unable to use the guides or grids in Flash 2004. Objects just do not snap to them like they should. Does anybody have a clue why they are not working?...more >>

In Flash MX, I enter one value into the color selecter, such as #5FCCEA. The light blue color appears in my paint box I create a rectangle, filling the rectangle with the light blue. When I hover my eyedropper tool over the rectangle, the color selector shows it to be #60D0F0, a slightl...more >>

Hello all, I am opening an MX 2004 / Flash Player 7 SWF that uses a Display component and some custom buttons to load, play and control an FLV file. Everything works fine, but when I close the browser window, the browser crashes. This happens with both Safari and IE on the mac, but doesn't...more >>

http://www.pigeonwire.com/customrock/test.php I'm having trouble matching up the flash bgcolor with the html bgcolor. Whenever I enter identical values for each, the flash bgcolor always appears lighter than the html bgcolor on my computer, regardless of browser. I have been emailing aroun...more >>

Flash MX Professional 2004 says I'm out of stack space? What is stack space and why is it an issue? HELP ME PLEASE....more >>

Does anybody know of where I can get more information/examples of building a list component with custom Icons? Can the font colors per row be changed? I am wanting to build a custom Graph system, where it uses a multiple select List, to show/hide the different user graphs to overlap eachothe...more >>

I've seen some resources on how to disable the right click Flash Player contextual menu, now, is there a way I can make an event handler on right click, say if I wanted to call a navigation or menu movie clip? ...more >>

I have a scene which contains a movie clip which contains a button. When I use on release(){ nextscene();} nothing happens. Is there some kind of path such as parent or root that needs to be used with nextscene()? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

I want to make a repeating background in Flash. Is this possible? I did not find anything on it on the online help pages. Thanks in advance for tolerating the very simple question....more >>

FYI: I posted this in another Flash Forum Section (General)... Sorry to be so bold but i'm desperate since I've received no feedback (under a time crunch) I?m using special pixel* fonts in my Flash04 project that end users won?t have installed on their computer. My .fla consists of two font...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! -- ='o'= Arturo ='o'= www.miltonfrank.tv ...more >>

Hi, I am looking for a photo album / thumbnail product (preferably with FLA file!!). Could anybody refer me to such product? Thanks, Alan ...more >>

Hi, im somewhat new at the coding aspect of flash, and i need some help. Im creating an online quiz for a company im working for, I selected the multiple choice component from the shared libraries and filled out all the blanks for the questions, no problem there, but now how is the easiest way...more >>

On my main timeline, I have a scrolling text box. At first, the font would change dependant on what computer you were on, so I changed the text to html text and used the _sans device font. Now the text comes up as whatever san serif font is loaded on the users machine, but the problem is tha...more >>

OK so maybe I got carried away, but I developed a prototype site for a client that, to me anyway, is leading edge. It features CSS and multiple Flash movies with heavy ActionScript and transparent SWFs. The problem is I can't get it to go on Mac or PC Explorer! On the Mac, Explorer just di...more >>

hi all, i am trying to do something pretty simple here, but i can't find any documentation on it. the problem is i am working with coldfusion 4.5 or 5 (basically the coldfusion before mx), and i am trying to send info from a .swf to a coldfusion document and update a database and then sen...more >>

I?m using a special pixel* fonts in my Flash04 project that end users won?t have installed on their computer. My .fla consists of two font areas: ? Text box using a Dynamic Pixel font pulling an external ?content.txt? file into it ? Navigation Buttons with a Dynamic Pixel font (if...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004. I have two text input fields and a submit button. The first text field is named "firstName." The second text field is named "lastName." When the user clicks on the Submit button I want them taken to a frame where they see the message, "Hello Joe Jones" or whatever th...more >>

I am in the process of creating my first website using solely Flash, so am ignorant to the exact steps I need to take. I have a computer that runs Windows XP Home Edition, and I realise that this does not support IIS or PWS. Will this prevent me from uploading files to the web? Once my files (...more >>

Hi NG, I have a XMLconnector which loads perfectly all data from my XML-file. When I add a scene the whole thing stops working. then 'results' property gives an 'undefined'. Can somebody help me. Thanks !! Jo ...more >>

I've created a opening page in flash and put a button on it, i then put this in dreamweaver. How do i make it so when the user clicks the button it will open a new window with the site in it? Exactly like this site www.danhero.com ...more >>

I wonder who many information do you have in your CAD file. I suggest you to create a series of images with your information distributed by layers, then import every image and trace them to convert it to Vectorial Drawings. There has been always a difference with the import between Macromedia...more >>

Hey guys, I am EXTREMELY new to flash. I am trying to make a simple button, and making, what I'm sure is a complete noob mistake. Regardless, i don't know enough to trouble shoot it myself. I only encountered the error after i added the action to it. I am attempting to attach it as a zipped fi...more >>

What are the extra frames possible in the button symbol timeline when you add a new key frame in abutton, severla times, increasing the timelines length, after HIT,5,6,7,8,9, what are these and how can they be used chris...more >>

Does anyone know how to rearrange the order for scene playaback? I cant find any help on this for MX 2004. Thanks, Jacob ...more >>

hi there! plz help!!! just got a brief now! design a "sting" in flash 4 a tv documentary. my questions are 1. what must the size of my doc be? 2. can i xport my movie with an alfa channel? so that my muvy is has a transparant background? 3. what should i xport my muvy as? th...more >>

I'm currently producing a flash presentation in MX2004. The library has over 2500 items in it (even after deleting unused items). The published file is fine but flash itself runs painfully slow - even simple text amends take an age. Does anyone know how to speed up performance? ...more >>

Our resident artist, Chris Flicke, is giving our own Jim Babbage the cold shoulder. Check it out at: http://www.communitymx.com And I leave you with the following collection of articles and tutorials from the past week: Parsing XML in Flash http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=04A15...more >>

Hello, Please, someone can tell me why when I try to import a MP3 which has been converted from a WMA file, Flash MX 2004 PRo can not import it saying that Flash doesn?t know this kind of format (extension). Thanks ...more >>

Hi everyone. I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. The problem is the following: When I export a flash movie from FlashMX2004 in any version of .swf before 7 I am getting weird transparency overlap. I have posted to pages to the web showing the problem the first is here: ...more >>

My client wants a 2.5-minute 48 MB Windows Media Player file streamed from his company Website. Can I do this in Flash? If yes, is there a technote that covers this, or better yet...how do I do it? Thanks ...more >>

I see that a lot of people on flashkit.com has created animation using video clips of themselves. How do you break apart the video clip to trace the bitmaps of each frame? Or is that done in flash?...more >>

i just got flash mx 2004 and have been trying to put it to use on a website i created. everything looked good on my home cpu but when i got to work i checked and blank screen. i checked a newer cpu and it showed up there. im guessing its just software issues but not sure. if it is, is there a ...more >>

Okay, I have a dynamic text box, and I'm using loadvariables action to get it to load text... I'm new at this, and I'm teaching myself, so please bear with me. I understand that I can format the text with html tags, making headers bold, and whatnot, but this is for a 'news' section, and I'd re...more >>

>Hi there. >I am trying to import audio into Flash MX but it wouldn't play, including videos that have sould. Also, I am trying to import WMA files into Flash MX, but it wouldn't be imported. >The WMA files I are trying to import are sounds I recorded from Movie Maker. >I am using Flash M...more >>

My client gave a wmp file to me that he wants on his company website. Is it possible to convert the wmp file to QuickTime? ....is this possible? If not, will Flash Professional import the wmp file? Thanks ...more >>

I have an email program using flash and php. One time when I tried to send an email using it, I got this error: Error opening URL "http://www.geocities.com/misha_kart/domail.php?message=WHY&subject=Why%5FNOT&em ail=misha%5Fkart%40yahoo%2Ecom&fullName=Misha" But, I have a file called dom...more >>

I have an email program using flash and php. One time when I tried to send an email using it, I got this error: Error opening URL "http://www.geocities.com/misha_kart/domail.php?message=WHY&subject=Why%5FNOT&em ail=misha%5Fkart%40yahoo%2Ecom&fullName=Misha" But, I have a file called dom...more >>

at this site,it has alot of sprites with the motion already and i right-click on the picture and press save picture as and then i import it into flash and it doesnt get the motion.can sum1 help? http://www.fightersgeneration.com/main.htm click on games then capcom vs snk then click anyon...more >>

I saw that any movement with images or even a simple transition from alpha 0 to 100, cause the image to "move" a little. This makes the transition "dirty", do you know how to avoid this? I always use .jpg images (standard encoding, which is non-progressive) ... I tried to attach a .swf samp...more >>

I have 5 text fields on the right side of my flash interface. There's a back arrow button on the bottom left of the same interface. When I navigate from text field to text field using my tab button on my keyboard, this is the order that it goes to: 1st field, 2nd field, 3rd field, 4th field, ...more >>

where did my movie aso cache go? Who did the caching, the Flash Player or the FlashMX? ...more >>

I'm working on a project where I have to import dynamically images coming from MapPoint but they only send GIF. Is there anyway to load a gif dynamically? Any tricks?...more >>

I am creating a directory browser for my website...I'm trying to mimic windows explorer's folder pane...where you see all the folders on the left, content on the right, etc. the problem i'm having is those little plus/minus signs which indicate the contents and open/closed status of a fold...more >>