Hi all :) I'm new to flash, and was wondering how to set layer hierarchies.. I'm making a game with a tank, got the tank base and a turret I've done the action script to move the base, but when the base moves the turret doesnt.. i'm sure its to do with hierarchies and setting the turret as...more >>

basicly the topic says it all....i have a .swf that hs allready been made...but i wish to add it (by calling on it some how) to the curent flash file im working on. so....swf (a) + .swf (b) = .swf (b) (YAY!) i would really hate to have to go into my new project and make the entire thin...more >>

Although I done this many times before, I`m having trouble importing a sound file into Flash so it will play and stop with the timeline. I imported the mp3 on it`s own layer, click on the first frame, designate the file to play and set to stream but the wave form doesn`t show in the timeline a...more >>

I have a web site that I made a flash document 800x600. I'm want the flash movie to open up with no html background. I have figured that out. I have several different background colors I want to use for different frames and scenes. Can you change the document color, because if you just use a r...more >>

Hi, I have a text box with a scroll bar on the right side. I have force justified the type and it looks good in my .fla file. When I publish though the text is no longer force justified (it is left aligned). Any ideas? Thanks!! ...more >>

When I start my movie, the Flash Player show the title "mymovie - Macromedia Flash Player 6". How to change the player title to a greeting, such as "Welcome to mymovie..."? ...more >>

I need to call a webservice on the first frame of my loader page. Really the webservice is not going to do much but just insert the date and time that it was invoked into the database. I just want to track how many times and when my flash video is used. How can this be done? I have the ...more >>

I updated Panther to the latest and repaired Disk Permissions. Loading Flash goes fine until I open a Document (old or new). Then I get the spinning beach ball and the app freezes. Tried to trash preferences. Console doesn't reveal anything. And I have a CPU monitor that shows that one process...more >>

I have 2 buttons wich should play option X and option Y, but to reach X or Y they should play the animation in bettween. The same animation for both buttons but different targets. I have an idea that it should be "Play and @ frame A go to Scene X" and "Play and @ frame B go to Scene Y". How...more >>

I need to load a URL into the browser 15 about seconds after the end of my movie. A colleague has suggested adding an appropriate number of frames at the end of the movie, then adding a load URL action to the last frame. Sounds good to me, but I'm wondering if there's a better way. ...more >>

why my textBox can't be scrolled? my steps: 1. dynamic text box (instance name: teacher1 / Var: _root.mytext) 2. drag the scrollBar component on text box), Target_textfield: teacher1 3. in the frame, add action: loadVariablesNum("loadText/teacher1.txt",0); when play movie, the text is load...more >>

on (press) { _root.gotoAndPlay("play"); } i have created a frame label in scene 2 named play.. cheers chris...more >>

I've searched this forum and Google and still don't have an answer for this. When I try to Publish Preview to HTML, Flash MX 2004 Pro does not open my web browser to view the preview. If I have a browser session already open, it works. The only information I've found was on settng your d...more >>

how to make a button go the the next scene ? thats all i need cheers chris...more >>

Hi All I have a button that I want, when released to move a MC 150px to the left. The MC is called 'film' and is nested inside a main MC Ideally I want another button to do the same but move the MC 150px to the right. Can anyone help me with the required AS? Thanks as ever --...more >>

we are starting animation in our high school computer graphics class. we have access to both flash 5 and painter 7. my teacher wants us to use painter for frame by frame animation but i think that flash would be more practicle since it can do motion and shape tweening as well as frame by frame...more >>

quality of graphic are not satisfied from illustrator . Do you have some indications to resolve problem. The curve are not perfect???...more >>

Hello, On main page http://www.macromedia.com, has flah image movie. How do you create such image chaning effect...please help morfit...more >>

Hi, I'm experiencing a strange problem here. If I try to play a swf that contains audio (in any compression format), the movie either crashes, plays with no audio, or keeps looping back to the beginning after playing for a couple seconds. It's totally random. Sometimes it will play all the...more >>

Hi There, Would I be right in thinking that you cannot create a .exe file on a Mac that will run on a PC? I've tried using an autorun.inf and also creating a exec fscommand start.exe but no joy when sent to the client. I don't have access to a PC so I'm working blind. I've tried it using Vi...more >>

Need to know how to have one external flash movie aligned to the bottom of the browser window, and one aligned to the top... An example of what I am talking about... http://www.thanea.com/ars/ You'll notice one file that always stays at the bottom even on reSize, one on the top, and on...more >>

Dear users: I am running Windows XP Professional and suddenly my Flash.exe executable file to run Flash 5 will not launch. The splash screen momentarily appears and then disappears without launching Flash. Sometimes even the splash screen does not appear. Has anyone else experienced th...more >>

flash newbie i'm wondering if there is an easy way to add images to a flash movie i want to have images fading in and out randomly and want to be able to : a: replace an image just by uploading a new image (same size same name of course) b: add additional images to the rotation ...more >>

Hey. I've been updating a Flash site that was designed by someone else, so i've been coming across all kinds of idiosyncrocies of how other people's minds work :) . www.era.on.ca This question is something that I'm not exactly losing sleep over, but also completely stumps me. The resolut...more >>

I have created an xml slide show by taking the example from the suport pages and changing it to my liking however technically it is the same, that is to say that when it gets to the last jpg and you try to go forward nothing happens, you have to go back. I want to improve it so that when ...more >>

Trying to set sound for my background music, I succeed. But when I click a button to another scene, the sound still doesnt stop and continue to mix with the other music in the new scene. I want to set the sound to loop but stop when changing to other scene What should I do????? Any help i...more >>

Hello, I created a flash movie that is all operated using the keyboard. The problem I have is when you load the file in the html, and you use your keyboard it doesn't work, until you have clicked your mouse anywhere on the ..swf on the page first. Does anyone know how to make it so, you don'...more >>

Hi, where can I find a free sounds/music library to use in flash movies? Not only short sounds effects, also music to use as background. Thanks...more >>

I'm working on Flash MX 2004 Professional, but don't know enough of the program to make inteligent question... I just know that everything works on PC's but on a Mac i get as far as to the buttons and they don't work if i click on them. (I attach the file with the first project in the list) ...more >>

Hi folks I'm a bit stumped with a site I'm working on. I've set up some buttons as a movie clip, and want to make it so when a button is clicked, it will jump to a different scene. At present I have two scene's, but when I go to set 'On Mouse Event', then Go To and Play, I cannot select an...more >>

Hi all Can someone tell me how to export or set up my finished .SWF file so that I can simply burn it to CD and pass it on to clients as a finished item? This needs to be done without any other purchases, budget cut backs and all that;) thanks in advance ...more >>

When I select and copy all of the layers in a scene, and then paste those into a new scene, everything is combined into one layer in the new scene. The alternative seems to be tediously copying one layer at a time and pasting them into the new scene. Even then, if I'm not very careful some thing...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004 Pro v7.0.1 on Win XP Pro. When I create a text field with some text in it and then change the width of the field, the contained distorts in size, but is fine when I test it. This makes it impossible to do wysiwyg design placement and layout of text fields because yo...more >>

Hello all, I've become inspired by this site: http://www.giantoctopus.com/ I like the way the navigation tree grows as you go deeper into the site. What puzzles me is how you can be deep down the portfolio branch and decide to click on the higher level News link. All the portfolio branch...more >>

Hello everyone. I'm stumped on something and could really use expert advise. I'm working on a mini site and I created a NEWS section in Flash that allows readers to scroll through news. I want to put links to documents and pages in the text, but I do not know how to show them as underlin...more >>

Hi all, Im using flash to produce an induction slide show and was wondering if I could display the company logo(instead of the flash logo) on the top left corner of the top bar when you run the projector file. Rgs andy ...more >>

I am creating a site in flash MX but it has to be published as Flash player 5. When I do this the output generator tells me ? 'WARNING: This movie uses features that are not supported in the Flash 5 player Symbol=subhow, Layer=Layer 4, Frame=6: Flash MX Button Instance Name Symbol=Subwha...more >>

Hi, I am a Newbie so I need your help, I already did a button but I want to place it on frame 200, I cant do it. I created a layer for that button but the button appears in the whole movie, How can I place the button just on frame 200 (which is the las frame) Thanks ...more >>