I have a combobox that I put in its own swf. I need it there so that I can dynamically load it into my application at a specific level.When I test the movie that has the combobox in it, everything works fine. However, when I load it dynamically into my app (loadmovienum) the change handler doe...more >>

how do i create a media player like http://www.bandbuilder.com/distillers/player.php...more >>

Hello, I've created an application in Flash MX 2000 pro, and it tested it from a website. Machines that have flash player 6 run fine, and machines with flash player 7 also run fine. The problem is when I try to run the .swf files on their own as a program in itself (without the html ...more >>

How do i add a play button that you click on and then it plays my flash animation??...more >>

in my flash animation, i put a song in the background of it, but i cant get it to stop, it just keeps playing until the song is done, what should i do to stop the song when i want to?...more >>

I'm trying to have real-time data updates appear in a flash interface. I'm not married to the process below, it just seemed like the best way to accomplish the task after my days of research. I plan on creating a trigger in MS sql server that will call an extended procedure when a table ha...more >>

Hi All I have 2 movies. 1 is called navmen and contains my navigation menu on the left and space for page content on the right. I have several buttons in the nav menu that, when clicked, load text (in a movie) into the spage for page content on the right. In my navmenu movie, I...more >>

Anyone ever seen "stopDrag" not work. Occasionally the item continues to drag even though you've released the mouse button? -E ...more >>

I just found out that Macromedia requires products developed with Authorware to show a big Macromedia Logo as the viewer exits the Authorware Presentation. Plus they require a Made With Macromedia label on the package. Both issues that are loosing us the largest contract in our history... (S...more >>

hello is there a actionscript-command to turn off the alias for a dynamic textfield???? i have a dyn textfield and wanna have my text "centered", i did this small script: linktext = new TextFormat(); linktext.align = "center"; link.setTextFormat(linktext); works fine....but my te...more >>

Hey A few days ago I went to a web page with a flash intro and it didnt ever show up so I couldnt enter the webpage. Thinking I had deleted my flash plug-in I went to redownload it. At the download page, the flash movie never shows up and im never asked permission to download. I have cable i...more >>

Hey people, I am a complete newbie and Flash, but I have a problem I can't crack. I wanna make a small button which plays an mp3 over this imported AVI, but only start when you click the button. Can anyway tell me how to do this ? Any possible method ? I've tried messing with Action Script...more >>

Hi there, I have created a dropdown menu in Flash. When the .swf file is placed in an HTML file by publish in Flash the dropdown part of the menu no longer disappears when the mouse is not over the menu. The last dropdown remains open. Everything works fine while testing in Flash but not i...more >>

Hello, actually I have 2 question here. I got flash and when I open the actionscript (PC) it doesn't have the "easy" selection, I have to type it all out manually, how do I change it? And the more important question, say I have two songs. There's two buttons. When I hit the 1 button I want it...more >>

I've problem with a preloader that works in Flash Player 6, but not 7. The Actionscript is presented below. Does anyone now what the problem is? Its kind of urgent and I would very much appreciate any ideas. (In the actionlayer in the timeline) setProperty ("_root.Bar", _xscale, 0); _l...more >>

how does one load an i frame in flash. I have seen it, but so far i can only load text into flash not a whole scollable html page as an iframe ...more >>

VERY Newbie here... I have a button that I want the OVER event to load some text beside the button to describe the action of clicking the button... I have it working except that the text also becomes visibile when I mouseover the area where I inserted my text! Did I miss something.. Basi...more >>

I need MC to increase in size when the mouse moves closer to it and decrease in size when the mouse moves away from it can anyone help me on this or point me in the right direction...more >>

Hey, Im self teaching myself flash and have overcome most hurdles so far, but now ive got one which has got me stumped. I have a movie clip, with a movie clip in it which contains a masked motion tween. For some reason everything which isnt masked works and is visible, yet everything whi...more >>

Hi, I would like to do something like an invisible textfield: user writes text but doesn't see it. My solution was to set the _alpha of a textfield to 0. After that, the text is invisible but the borders of the textfield are still visible. Do you see another solution or how to remove this ...more >>

Hello, Does anyone if flash movies done in Flash MX 2004 pro work with Flash player 6? What's the best way to test? Is there a page somewhere that shows this information, because if there is, I really canlt find it. Cheers. ...more >>

Hi group, I want to put blocks of text onto a background, but want them to seemingly fade in and fade out again as the movie plays. So as one block of text fades out another fades in but on another part of the background. I can make the text fade in and suddenly disappear, or th...more >>

OK, I created this thread for these two suggestions: 1) Add Pressure modifier to Flash MX 2004 if it isn't already there. 2) For people without drawing tablets like me: Make also a Pressuer Modifier depended on the speed of drawing. Slow=thick, fast=thin. Of course this could be modified i...more >>

I wonder why there is an option in the publish menu to optimise for this particular release. I am stumped as to why. I hope somebody can enlighten me. Many Thanks, Lazz. ...more >>