Hi, I've never worked with video in flash before. I have embedded a .mov file and received the error that the audio is not supported on import. I went ahead and imported it anyway to see if it would work. The video is great, but obviously no audio. I am receiving the video from someone ...more >>

h? everyone i have a problem,, iam using flashMX 2004 professional,, well i can create a new scene in my movie with insert>scene but i cant delete the scene i created!!! pls help i used to do this in flash5 but with mx2004 i cant find what to do???? ...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004. I'm in the process of creating an animation, but I'm having troubles with the sound effects. I add the sound to a sound layer at the keyframe where I want to sound to play, but when I export the movie the sound plays two or three seconds earlier than it should. I ha...more >>

hey, I was wondering if anyone can see this flash file. if you check it out, write back with your computer specs, and let me know if it worked or not. you should see a picture that is framed. thanks a lot! here's the link ---> http://www.quistoworks.com/flash/FrameTool.html ...more >>

I've used the studio MX demo for a month. I chose to use flash MX 2004 (not Professional) for the demo. I recently purchased studio MX 2004 with flash Pro, and I have no clue how to get the installer to install flash pro instead of MX2004. It continually tries to install the 'normal' versio...more >>

I am working on an animation that has dozens of layers due to all the moving parts and want to break the movie down into scenes so users can navigate between scenes via rewind and play buttons. Is there a quick and painless way to copy and paste all the layers from the end of one scene into ...more >>

When I try to do the tutorials in Flash and whenever the instructions tell me to click on either the "Stroke" or "Fill" color panels the panels do not stay. I have to hold down the left mouse key in order to choose a color. I do not recall this happening when I first used the "Flash" program. ...more >>

Check out this site. How is this thumbnailer with shade done? http://www.flashloaded.com/thumbnailer.php...more >>

I have an 800 x 600 pixel presentation. My publishing settings for the web are 100% of browser width. My display is 1600 x 1200 pixels. Regardless of my browser window size, there is always an approximate 5% margin on each side of the flash presentation. How can I make it fill the browser window?...more >>

I'm currently authoring a Project in Flash MX that is to be published as an ..exe for PC. The project launches external web sites in a browser window. The issue that I'm facing is that the browser windows pop up behind my .exe, which is a problem, as I'm using a full screen fscommand. Any sugg...more >>

I find that when i make swf sites and upload them to the web, they flash white for a second before going into the movie. why is this happening?...more >>

I need some help creating an interactive map that will allow the user to click on an inset map and use it as a quick "relocator" for a larger map on the screen. A great example is located here: http://map.byu.edu. Notice how you can click and drag the inset locator and the large map reacts to ...more >>

I need to create a flash movie that counts down from 5:00 to 0:00. Is this possible with Flash? Any help in getting started would be appreciated. ...more >>

Hi everyone!! I'm a spanish guy and my english are very bad, sorry. :-( I'm developing a Flash movie that has a dynamic text witch succesfully load from a .txt file. Special spanish characters are shown correctly, because i put System.useCodepage = true; at first frame. Here my troubl...more >>

Hello, Anyone knows a way to set the general sound volume in a flash movie? I can only do this by creating a sound object and using a slide bar for the volume but i have many sounds in the movie, is there a way to set the volume for all the sounds without creating a sound object for each s...more >>

I have a video of somebody talking against a background. I want to take out the background so that I can add Flash grpahicsbehind and around it. I found a site that does this and I would like to know how they do it. They have many flash movies where they use video and interactive materials ...more >>

I'm installing a very old version of Flash (version 5) on Windows XP Pro. This worked fine previously on Windows 2000. But in Win XP Pro the fonts in all the toolbars are unreadable. I read in an earlier thread in this forum (same problem) that Lucinda Console font should be deleted from...more >>

I have begun to play with multiple Flash movies on the same HTML page. I would like to be able to start the second movie playing after the first movie reaches a certain frame. Can anyone tell me what command I use in the Action Script, to reference the second SWF movie? Can you please provide ...more >>

Hello I have a box that ive coloured black and it need to change colour dependant on a button click. Ive instantised the box with a name of ³box² Dependant on which button you press a value is sent to a variable called ³colour² as such: On(release){_root.colour=²0xFF00FF²} Im using the ...more >>

I need an example to understand the "synchronize checkbox" (about synchronize a graphic instance with the main time line) in the tweening motion properties. Thanks Susana Robledo...more >>

Hi, I start with making learning content in flash 2004 pro on mac OSX 10.3.4. If I leave all interactions in the template, it's working fine. But if I clear or add interactions they juxtapose in the swf file. I did as it is told in the help file (adding or clearing interactions) I.E. two dra...more >>

I am new tio flash making and was told that Macromedia Flash MX 2004 was good. i downloaded it registered it and everything. i have tried reading the instructions but they have proven to be too complex for my simple mind. I have been on newgrounds.cam and have seen their works and wondered how...more >>

hi hav a problem here...if anyone can help want to link a button in flash to open a email form in outlook how do i do this...? thx...more >>

Environment: HP Pavilion 8250 running Windows 98SE and Internet Explorer 6.0 Hi Group: In the past I had Flash Player 5.0 running well on my PC. When version 6.0 came out, I was advised by the Macromedia website to download an uninstaller to remove 5.0 before installing 6.0. I did this a...more >>

Hi, is it possible to invoke the "File Open" dialogue box from the .swf file.Or is there any workaround to browse a file like html "file field" ?...more >>

Hello, I was just wondering if you plan to integrate midi-support into your next version of flash? I know you can use midis by using the getURL, but it would be great if you can work with midis the same way as you can work with mp3-files. So you can load them dynamicly into your flash...more >>

Can anyone help me out on how this is done. The effect I want is at http://www.hoppingmad.com.au/home.html Click on the "what" then "website" link. There is a page with two arrows that control a movieclip when the mouse is over the arrows. You can then click on the image to have it appear in a n...more >>

I'm trying to embed a .swf file into a table (using DreamWeaver). Not a problem. Easy. The flaky stuff comes when I try to allow the height to scale DOWN dynamically. The horizontal size is set at 100% and the scaling is set at "no border". HOWEVER, if I enter a percentage for the vertical, it...more >>

I am trying to have it so the flash file on my page does a fresh reload everytime a user re-opens the page. This is because there is dynamic content on the page that changes all the time and I want that reloaded every time. I have tried the NO-CACHE in the head of the page and that doesn't ...more >>

I have a pre-build flash movie which has a music on it. Is there any easiest way that I can add the button "Mute" on it and the music just stops. I am not a flash guys, will appriciate if someone advise me the easiest way. Thanks ...more >>

When viewing a swf, the right mouse button opens a default drop-down. How can you deactivate this feature and use the right mouse button for custom uses? For example: on(rightPress){do whatever;} Will ...more >>