I just upgraded to Flash MX 2004. The text in the Help panel is tiny and very hard to read. How can I enlarge the text? Resizing the panel doesn't help. Thank you, Ron...more >>

I have a few questions, 1st, where can I download components V2? 2end, I know some actionscript, I am not at the top but not at the bottom, I dont know how to use actionscript in components. I know how to make strollers radio buttons and all that stuff with out any components but just...more >>

Hi There! I would like some advice here: I've got a one frame movie, one layer with a movie clip with a rotating "Q" on top of that a invizible button that, on rollOn, triggers the Q to start rotating, and on rollOff, lets the Q finish its rotation and then stop What I want to, is...more >>

Help! I have several flash site under construction which are all fine when viewed on broadband. But, when viewed on a dialup 56k modem do nothing. The index pages detect for the appropriate player (thanks for your help guys with that), and work OK, but the flash just sits there. How can I ...more >>

Hi, I downloaded the tutorial for Flash, but don't have the file stiletto.fla. Could someone please email it to manishminni@yahoo.com (Along with anything else if required) Thanks in advance Manish...more >>

This is my first attempt at Action Script coding. I have a movie clip that contains 4 other movie clips. I want to use Action Script in starting fram of the main movie clip to control the starting frame for the contained movie clips? Can someone tell me how to do that? Thanks, Keith ...more >>

there is one I found and thought I bookmarked it, but can't find it. It's about 6 pageslong, explains media compnonents and is on Macromedia site. I searched the site but can't find it. It showed a small vidclip of a scorpion or a bug. . . Anyone know of it? thx...more >>

Similar problem to others posted here. Sound is synced pefectly within the flash timeline interface, but when played with the flash player, they fall out of sync. The common answer to this is to set all sound on stream, but they are, always have been, and it's still happening! What's ...more >>

I'm new and I just loaded up my new Macromedia onto my computer. I need to get started on learning this great program. Can anyone direct me to a real good, free, online tutorial? Thanks! [E=raquii1@hotmail.com]raquii1@hotmail.com[/E] ...more >>

I have been working ona big project at school for a scholarship, which I have to send in for today. I didn't get done with the project and burned it to a disk so I could work on it at home. I copied the projects to my hard drive and now when i try and open it, a window pops up saying "faile...more >>

Can anyone help with this? I have a base fla which calls other movies and plays them in sequence. I am trying to make the background music play across all movies by putting this code in the first frame of my base movie: loadMovieNum("movie1.swf", 0); // this loads the first movie which ...more >>

With my site when I look at it in IE (Mac or Windows) or Safari (Mac) it looks fine. I have the height and width both set to 100%. However I just had a look using Netscape (Mac) and my flash file is about 1/5 size and the text is unreadable. Any idea what is going on? ...more >>

Hi All I have added a sound loop to a site that plays on frame 3 of the swf movie. The sound is linked with an identifier of 'bkg_sound' and the linkage is set to 'export for actionscript' How do I use the library 'fader - mixer' to control the volume of the sound? Any help would be m...more >>

I have a button that actvates a movieclip on rollover. Somehow it seems this button has been duplicated and appears (or doesn't) elsewhere on the stage. It's strange... the only reason I know it's there is because I had simple buttons activated and it showed up when the selection arrow rolled ...more >>

How can i print my movieclip without printer dialog box. Is it possible in flash ? Thanks.... ...more >>

1. I made a external FLA file to use it as my preloader but I don't know how to connect separate FLA preloader file to another file. 2. I am trying to have drop-down menu but it is not working as I planned. The worst part is I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I got all the informations fro...more >>

This may be way too involved for me, but I'm looking to create an animation that appears to be drawing a logo. The logo is essentially a line drawing, but the strokes vary in width. I had one idea of erasing it bit by bit, then reversing it, but because of the shape of the eraser and the variat...more >>

Im loading in external text files into a dynamic text field in my flash movie and formatting the text files with HTML tags. Its very tedious formatting these text files by hand and using a wysiwyg like dreamweaver doesnt really help becuase when I save the text file out...it inserts line brea...more >>

Can anyone suggest a SWF, Java or HTML calendar that I can customize for my site? Thanks Chaz ...more >>

hello. i have a few flash movies i would like to put on DVD-to be shown on a television. i thought the best thing would be to make them into quicktimes and then bring them into after effects to string them together and then burn them onto CD as one single quicktime from after effects. was thi...more >>

what's with Flash's user interface? every time i click on the "Actions" bar which stretches the width near the bottom of the user interface, the "Timeline" area squishes up so that as little as two layers remain visible, and the stage area is much larger. What's up with this? I hate it. Why can't...more >>

I'm just learning Flash MX. What I am trying to accomplish is to create two symbols with identical geometry and different border colors. I create a rectangle with yellow fill and a black border. I convert it to a symbol, S1. I place an instance of S1 on the stage and convert that to a symbol, S2...more >>

i am using some scroller that i found on the net, but when it scrolls text sometimes becomes blur.. how can i fix this? example -> http://free-vz.htnet.hr/nofx/scroller.rar any help greatly appreciated.. (or alternative).. (fast..)...more >>

I have a guestbook that rolls out (or opens), so it uses a mask to dictate whether visible or not. However, the input text fields on my guestbook do not work when the mask is enabled. If I get rid of the mask they work fine, but then I wouldnt be able to accomplish the roll out idea. Does anyo...more >>

Hi. Just a quick question from someone very new to Flash. This book I bought keeps telling my to reuse my symbols and change them into something else to reduce file size. I understand what it's trying to tell me. I'm not sure on how to do it. Altering shapes is easy. But, do I duplicate ...more >>

I want to change the normal pointer and hand to a target theing. But only for a limited about of time. What is the EASIEST way to do this??? Also you know of any good places where I could find a free gun target cursor thing? ...more >>

ok, last of about three :-D...i hope i need to know if theres ANY site that teached mx pro actionscript for beginners. i dont know anything about it. i just know that you can make buttons and other actions with it, but dont know the first steps to useing it. ...more >>

Hi, I have encounted a problem when exporting with flash 7.0.1 in that it doesn't!!!! Has anyone else come across this problem and found a soloution. I have downloaded the update for the video and the problem still occurs. When i export, the progress dialogue comes up and after a second or t...more >>

I've made a score system for my stupid Duck Hunt. What needs to happen is when you click on a button it makes the score go up(a movie clip with 0-9000 frames by each 100). So when you shoot a duck I use "_root.score.play();" to advance the score movie clip one to make the points go up. ...more >>

Is anyone else having problems downloading the macromedia 'deconstructing flash video' zip tutorial? http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/flashvideogallery.zip I've tried downloading it 3 different times and every time I am getting the error: "cannot open file: doesn't appear to...more >>

I don't seem to be doing anything wrong. All I want is my movie clip to follow the guid. I have the guid and the points locked on the ends. The first part is motion tweened. One's the guide while the other is guided. ARG! Can someone explain exactly how to use guides. ...more >>

How can I turn off a function for a certain amount of time?...more >>

I'm making a stupid Duck Hunt game. I'm experiencing a problem. I have two ducks right now. They each have an invisible button that makes them explode when you click them. However for some crappy reason i can't make it so that the invisible button on both of them are different. For some...more >>