Is it possible to add a 5th state to a button, one that could be used to show "selected?" Is there a way to show or hide a graphic using actionscript? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

I am passing two variables to php script which holds them and writes them to a file. when i run the flash i get two windows popping up instead of one and i think the problem may be i am using two Loadvars.send independant of eachother. Is there a way to add the two into one statement so i...more >>

Hi I'm trying to figure out how to read in a small database of objects (id, name, xpos, ypos) and have flash populate the scene based on the database. That said, I want to draw a marker (a circle or something will do fine) for each row in the table and move it to the appropriate position. And ...more >>

I have converted two videos to an FLVs. I have inserted both of them in a a Flash movie. They playback fine locally, but when I put them on a webserver and view them, nothing happens... I know this is pretty vague, but any tips? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

My Flash (MX 2004) is quitting "unexpectedly" very often - heck, you can actually say it's "expectedly" now! I have the same problem occuring on 3 different Mac computers with separate installations of the software (computers not networked with each other). I've tried reinstalling the software...more >>

I have a picture flash. For example, the flash is based on two image files: picture1.jpeg and picture2.jpeg. How to base the flash on the image file names so that the flash picture will change is the same file has a different image? Thanks. ...more >>

Is there a way to highlight key-frames with color? Lets say that I've applied a transition to an object. I'd like to colorize the keyframes for this transition/object to know that it has something applied. Can it be done? ...more >>

I'm sure I'm just missing something very fundamental... I have graphics and clips and buttons that need to appear in the same spot from clip to clip. Some are replaced with different clips or images depending on where you are at in the movie. If I select, say, a button from the main clip, and ...more >>

Has anybody encounter this problem? When I play each scene individually it's fine but as soon as I try to test the entire movie, flash crashes after the 1st scene. I only have 2 scenes. Also, sometimes, I get strange black boxes across my movie that appear and disaper. I didnt create any ...more >>

Hola a todos! Estoy utilizando una aplicaci=F3n de FLASH con ASP, pero el ASP no me = devueve los car=E1cteres tales como =D1, y acentos.=20 Algui=E9n sabe alguna soluci=F3n? Gracias de antemano!...more >>

When creating a button in MX 2004 and applying the following script on(release) { x=100; trace(math.round(x)); } the output window returns "undefined". This wouldn't happen in Flash 5 or MX. What's up with it? ...more >>

I've just begun dabbling with slide presentations with Flash, and have one rudimentary question. I've imported some bitmaps into the Library, and drag each one into its own slide. The images are far larger than the stage, so when I publish the slide show, the images are huge, cropped, and dis...more >>

We?ve probably all seen wide images that when they?ve been triggered by a menue system smoothly slides to a soft stop, at a defined area. Now my customer want me to make a vertical, soft scrolling textfield (image or .txt) with both scrollbar AND ancors (like a menue making the text move to a...more >>

I've imported a short video clip into Flash mx2004 however the audio isn't coimg with it for some reason. I need the audio!!! lol I believe it's a .avi file that I'm importing. ...more >>

I'm trying to change text when Flash enters frame 30. But when I add actionscript, it executes it right away on frame one. What am I doing wrong?...more >>

I have a Flash web site called www.offtherails-therailway.20m.com. Everything seems to work fine when i preview it in Flash MX, and it also works at work where we use old iMacs that have Internet explorer 5 on them but when i use machines that have Internet Explorer 6 or safari on them the sit...more >>

I posted this message to Flashcoders about 12 hours ago, but got no response whatsoever. Cannot find any information on this problem, but i'm sure i've heard it mentioned somewhere: compiling from MX2004 on MacOSX i get a RADICAL baseline shift for all dynamic textfields. The shift (which ...more >>

I'm designing a website for the federal government. Part of their design standard doesn't allow for the use of any embed tags. (why? I have no idea.) Is there a way to load a flash movie in a Netscape/Mozilla browser without using the embed tag? ...more >>

Is it possible to have two movies (swfs) embedded in the same html document and have them interact with eachother? Example: have a slide show in in one swf and the navigation for that slide show in a seperate swf file (but both embedded on the same page? Thanks ...more >>

I'm brand new to flash so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. I have a php file that reads the contents of a folder and creates links to some of the files within that folder. I'd like to pull this into a flash movie if at all possible. Ideally, I'd like to use the php file that ...more >>

hi all - not sure if i'm missing something obvious here, but, is there a way to dynamically set the height of a dynamic text area based on how much text your load into it via an external file? a. ...more >>

Hi, Does anybody know of any articles or techniques geared at producing a system that allows the visually impaired to access the system. I was wondering also if Flash can do any of the following (a) When an object is hovered over the object is magnified (b) when an object is hovered o...more >>

Hi I'm a complete beginner to Flash and need some tips on how to develop a Flash system that must be assesible to the visually impaired. It's an e-voting system prototype, the spec itself is not important just the fact that you can use the system blindfold or with some impairment of vision. ...more >>

I need to create a presentation which will be displayed on a Hitachi 42" Plasam display (42PMA400E) and will be displayed in 16:9 aspect ratio at a display resolution of 1024 x 1024 pixels which I understand are not square pixels. My problem is what size to set up my Flash movie. The lapto...more >>

If i just link to the file from my page, it works, but the swf is on its own whole page. How do i, using html, put my swf on my existing page...? and still have it not cover the whole screen? thanks ive tried <image src... ...more >>

Is there any way to dynamically create an SWF file? What I need to do is to embed an audio file in an SWF file. The audio file can NOT be "linked" from the swf file but be embedded in the swf file. The audio file to be embedded will be chosen from a number of audio files, so which audio fi...more >>

I have a question if this could be done in flash. I want to make A AppCD in with I can read a database and get info, you know with forms. I?m kind of new on Flash in I?m considering to do this task in it, because of there design features and make it appealing to the user but I don?t know...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to design a simple flash movie that will show some features of my product. I would like to be able to make a line grow in lenght (not in width) so its starting small and its growing. But the Tweening doesn't see to work. Also is it possible to create a dotted line ? If y...more >>

I am creating an interactive panorama using the scrollpane component - the problem is the jpeg, and so movie clip, is large (9000pix wide), the scroller works fine, but because the movie clip is so wide I can't edit it/add buttons to it as only the start of it is visible. Is there a really sim...more >>

Hi! I'm a multimedia developer who has most experience in Macromedia Director. I'm now planning on muildning a web site in flash though. I've already used it a bit as animation tool so i'm familiar with the workspace and scriptning tools. I've read i abit on the net at glanced at some tut...more >>

Hi all! I have a JPEG image on a layer in my Flash movie. I also have some simple line animation on other layers. Everything works & [h]LOOKS[/h] great within the development environment, but as soon as I publish my movie, the JPEG image on the SWF file looks grainy and not as clear. I che...more >>

Hi, i've been trying to create a slide show that loads up JPG files from a text file, but when the images get loaded, all of my dynamic and input text boxes dissapear, even the bounding boxes vanish! The JPG is being loaded into its own movieclip within a Movieclip (eg '_root . 1stmovieclip . ...more >>

Hi I can't get my site to open a picture in a new window! I've used this command: on (release) { //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL("http://www.galleriibenroell.dk/redigeredebilleder/hoved1.jpg","_blank") ; //End Behavior } The pictures are placed here: ftp://gallerii...more >>

How do I specify in actionscript that I want to go to a frame label ? basicly that sincerely chris...more >>

Hi! I have an HTML page. This page has one table. This table has to tables inside of it. The first inner table contains navigation for my web page. The second inner table will contain an embedded HTML page. This HTML page contains "news articles". I want to be able to update this EMBEDDED p...more >>

I need to use comparison operators in a switch function (trying to get away from if-else, if possible), but am getting errors...Any ideas? Here's my bug-ridden code: function CalculateShipping (subtotal){ var myTemp switch (subtotal) { case <= 50: myTemp=4.95; break; case ...more >>

Hi, I'm in need of help in implementing a mail form in a flash site. All I want to do is a white form where the user can inset a text message and a "send" button to send the text to an email address. I've done this in normalò html before, but I don't know where to start from in flash! THNKS! ...more >>

I have installed Flash in two different computers, both running on WinXP, one I use for layout and design (Here's the original Flash Mx Pro 2004 installed) and the other is for video editing ( this has installed Flash MX pro 2004, a copy of the original since I can't work with both machines at...more >>

Why does a button loose its "rollover state" when it is in a movieclip which has actions atached to it ? when I rollover it the cursor changes, but it does not display the rollover state as defined in the button symbol the hit area and up state is fine.. ...more >>

What is the actionscript code I need to put a movie clip into another rather than on a seperate layer? I don't want to replace the current movie either. I want one to play, then another to load in and play directly after on the same layer. Can this be done? I am using this command ...more >>

I was just wondering if anyone could tell me how to link a movie into flash (avi format) so that it plays, stops, fast forward and rewind. I mean if i import the file Movie.avi into flash do i need to put it into a flash movie (symbol type) and then once it has been imported into flash how ...more >>

Hi I have 2 questions about Flash as I am considering using it but don't know much about its mechanics. I am creating a web based educational product with with lots of games in it. Q1. Untill now I have been using DHTML and javascript which works well in modern browsers. The probl...more >>

hi, am trying to find how to make an online diary, it will be a diary that allows you to select days on a calendar and then put entries onto specific hours in the day. have found a great calendar/diary in the flashkit movies section: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scri...-7645/index.ph...more >>

Hi Im trying to create an effect where a line looks as if its being drawn on screen (bit hard to explain check my attached files). Thing is i have done this two ways : 1) Frame by frame work, this looks the best out of the two but is still not entirely as smooth as id like it! The main...more >>

I am putting together a big timeline(about 25 individual test boxes) that will scroll horizontally....my problem is that I can't line up everything horizontally because of flashes limited stage size. Everything I need lined up would go way beyond it....What would be the best way to deal with t...more >>

Please anyone could help me to get a solution for moving a movieclip in x axis with the mouse x position...more >>

Hi, I often read not to use scenes in flash. But scenes permit to better organize work. Without using scenes, is it possible to colorize frames or to mark with labels like in Director? I don't think so, but perhaps a guy from Macromedia will read this contribution and offer a solution in...more >>

Two questions: 1. How can I draw characters which can be accessable to Flash, a tool that Macromedia recommends? 2. Is Flash good for making cartoons?...more >>

Hi What is the difference with using Flash / Director to create a kiosk ? What are the pros and cons of each software. Can Director do what Flash can and which software has a better ease of use? Thanks in advance :) ...more >>

Hello, I'm new to this group and to Flash. I'm doing a small project with fading and scrolling text. In Flash, it looks great. Once published, however, some letters or lines get stretched, shrunk or chopped out. I'm using MX 2004 on a Mac Powerbook G4. I did try to create images in Photosh...more >>

Has anyone tried to mask a text area component? I put a text area component inside a movie clip and on clicking a button the text area slides up into the mask to reveal the news for the day. It works with a regular dynamic text box, but not the component. Of course this could be just one m...more >>

I have an fla of a mouse trail that I want to add to my site. it seems simple but I can't manage to transfer it to my fla without getting 30 errors in my output screen. All I did is copy the frame(with all the script and nesting in it) to my fla as the top layer. Please help, I need this d...more >>

I have a .fla (from learn from the source book) with a grad on and the fill is transparent. How is this done? Here is the [L=fla]http://69.57.131.147/alphaGrad.fla[/L] Please give detailed breakdown of how this was done. Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi there All! I have hit a few web sites that use Macromedia flash but when loading it stalls on 99% and just stays there? I have re-installed IE6 and Macromedia Flash 7 but still the same? Works on other PC's but mine? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! James. ...more >>

I have some checkboxes in a datagrid using the checkcellrenderer, and I'm having problems getting them to do what I want when they are checked or unchecked. I've come up with a partial solution using the datagrid's "modelchanged" method, but that only works right when I'm not using databindi...more >>