Hi - I am learning to use the loader and preloader bar components, and from the Macromedia help I have set it up in the following way: 1. An .swf with one frame, two layers called "loadWhatever.swf" 2. the actual swf I want to display ("whatever.swf") which will be loaded into the loader ...more >>

i need a player for my bands site so i can put 2 or 3 mp3's on it for ppl to listen to when they log on, anyone know where i can get a good free or cheap one tht i can integrate into my site design? thanks for the help ...more >>

Hi... I have a button that is linked to a pdf file using the action script: on release get URL. I need the pdf to open in a new browser window. Does anyone know how or if I can do that? I know in HTML you can add target="_blank" inside the <a href> tag, but I'm just not sure how to do that w...more >>

Is there a way to stop a movie when the browser window is in the background (behind another window, or out of focus)? And to start the movie where it stopped when the browser window is on focus again?...more >>

Hi, I made navigation with a mouseover effect and have text show up. But before you go and do a mouseover there is text in that place and when you do mouseover the text shows up with the other text. If you don't know what I am talking about click on this link and go over the Home button...more >>

I'm using MSIE 6.0 and Flash Player 7 in Windows 98, and alot of times I'm working in Yahoo Mail on the web, and having problems with the browser crashing. Microsoft sent back a message after one of these crashes tonight, indicating the problem was with the Flash player. I updated the Shockw...more >>

On one area of my web page I would like to be able to play movie a, and when movie a is finished would like movie b to begin in it's place. The goal is to have several movies and be able to play them in sequence randomly. can anyone help? thanks. ...more >>

I'm sure this is a simple question to answer, but I just can't figure it out. I'm linking from a flash document to an html document, and I want the new page to open up in a new window. This I've been able to do with the following code.: on (press) { getURL("javascript:n_name = wi...more >>

MX 2004 Trial cannot open any previously created *.fla - I mean files created with MX or files created with previous installation. I can only open files created with current installation. I mean - I installed the trial, than got the error message "Unexpected file format" when trying to open so...more >>

I am unable to install the Flash update a few months ago. I've been troubleshooting if for as long to no avail. Even when I select the Flash application folder, I always get the following error: No installation of Flash 7.0 was found or selected. ...and the installation halts. I've tried...more >>

i would like to know how to implement a percentage loaded bar in a flash file which shows the percentage loaded of an externally loaded flash file (which is loaded by the choice of the user). if anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated. Mentleman ...more >>

I made a small video that i want to export to an AVI or some kind of video file. Ive tried exporting to every type of video option it gives me and when i go to play it, it seems to just be a single frame. Ill load the movie in media player and it stops just as it starts with the first image....more >>

Im making an animation for my website at freewebs.com, i want it to have bullet time. Does anyone know how i could make trails or afterimages that would somewhat resemble bullet time?...more >>

I have a variable being passed from a text file pageNum=10& That I want to use in a math function. I know the variable exists as I have traced it and display it in a textfield. However I can't get it to work in a math function. Can somebody help with the code below. var1 = Numb...more >>

Hi everyone. Would anyone know any site that I can find freeware/shareware flash sound loops?? Any suggestions are welcome! : ] Thanks, Andrea Santos...more >>

ok hi i am creating a frames web site and everything is going well until i create the links bar in flash i want it to display the site in the other window and there is no option for that just "self" , "parent", "top" is what i want possible to do? ...more >>

I am trying to work with a 15 minute video. I am using mac.g3.256r.mxpro. the problem I am having is that when i embed the video it takes too long to work with for saving, publishing etc. Is there a way I can link to that video after I encode it with sorensons. s...more >>

ok..theres a text word...i have made it a movie clip. iv masked it so when u move your mouse over the word . it looks like a gradient is flowing through it....the problem is . i want the gradient to start moving even wehn u get close to the word....currently only works when the mouse is direct...more >>

I'm trying to get a seamless music loop going in Flash and can't seem to be able to make it *seamless*. The loop itself works fine in my audio application but when imported into Flash I get a slight hickup at the loop point. The audio is placed in a keyframe in the timeline and property is set...more >>

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Hi all I have a home page that have a constant animation in it. When you click on different things, popup windows open with more movies in them. I'm concerned that the continuous animation in the background window (in the home page) might slow down the animations in the popup window. So, I w...more >>

Hey hello. I need some help :) On school we need to keep presentation about a product. I have choosen Macromedia Flash as product, but I am having trouble finding good info about it. A nice fact-scheet or some commercial stuff about flash would we really nice. If anybody could help m...more >>

i want to design an animotion,a penciel drew a line on paper, i create a picture of penciel, and defined a movition way give the penceil to move,but the line can`t show out when penciel was moving. if i use single frame ,one by one ,can do it,but i hope to knew how to do it in Action script 2.0...more >>

MX 2004 Pro Why ever time I type one or two letters into the actons window does the hour glass keep showing as if it is trying to save my file? Is there a setting somewhere to stop it from doing whatever it is doing? Thanks Mathias ...more >>

Hey all... Am creating a FFWD button in Flash MX Pro 2004 and was wondering if anyone could tell me how to create a button which allows me to ffwd 15 frames in advance? I've got the: Pause, Play, Rewind to beginning buttons down, it's just the Rewind and FFWD buttons that I am having issue...more >>

I ve ran into a problem about embeding, or enableing the 'TAB' character anyone have an idea (enableing - i mean copy-pasteing from clipboard) - sometimes this works and in some swf-s it does not ...more >>

Need some help from a Flash Guru. I have my swf file which has several menus that the user can click on which allows other swf files to be loaded into the parent swf file. Basically I am creating a flash project which allows the user to assemble vehicle components on the screen which a...more >>

How do I set a Flash movie as a link? In other words, while the movie loops on the page, I want to be able to click on it to go to another page. Thanks, mickey ...more >>

Here is my problem... I have a page with select boxes where the user selects data from the first box and it effects the other box and filters data in the second box. after the data is loaded into the select boxes, I am loading another movie clip to the scene. Question is this, when that m...more >>

i was trying to do a simple rollover image so that when you put the mouse over the flast text file i had, it would fade to spanish and then back again if the mouse was moved...being a newbie im still tryin to learn everything, any help would be great, ...more >>

Hi all. I implemented a simple fs_command in a movie and it works in all browsers except in safari on macintosh. Has anybody solved this or isthis a nkown item?? If you know anything please respond , i might have to redo a LOT in my new site if i can't solve this.... thanx Blue ...more >>

Is there a way for me to change the green shading color on the combo box component? Also would anybody know what the color number is for that light shade of green? Thanks Mathias...more >>

I am working on an e-learning project in which I would like to animate a character with hand gestures and mouth movement for speech. I have found a few decent tutorials - anybody have any examples or tutorials I could review? Cheers, Brian ...more >>

Someone know about the possibilities of creating IDE or GUI Flash 2004 extensions (like do in JSAPI) in C++? I think is possible because the "Pixel FX" or "Distort FX" by Red Giant Software work with external dll. Do you can help me? Is there a Macromedia SDK? Maybe I remember there was som...more >>

Hi, I want to make a website in which there is a button that when you press it there is an illusion that the screen is shattering, like it was shoot with a bullet. any ideas?? thanks... dafna...more >>

Windows 2000 I believe I have download the latest player (7,0,19,0) by going to the Macromedia install page. But when I right click on a .swf file and select Open with... the only option I have is Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 r2.1, and I do not see a version 7.0 player if I try to choos...more >>

i've been working for 2 hours now trying to figure out scope issues with loadVariables(), and even working with the most basic script i still have problems. here's the deal: 1) i have a 10-byte text file, "vars.txt", which has one line of code: user=steve 2) i load the variables into frame...more >>

Hi all, Can the Transform method of the Color object be used to transform a color image into a black and white or 256 grayscale image via actionscript? Is there any way to accomplish this "real time" change? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I am creating a cd rom and I would like the movie to open in full screen (I am adding a autorun.inf file to run the swf or exe). how can I make the flash movie (not HTML) open in the player in full screen without the toolbar? is it better to use a projector? I should mention that ...more >>

I have created a MC which has a background that is a graphic with a 20% alpha setting. No matter where I put the other content on different layers, they are semi-transparent.Even if I move the background clip up the ladder, it doesn't help. Any ideas are appreciated....more >>

I've got a problem with a flash file that won't play in Internet Explorer. However, I'm able to play the file using Flashback (http://www.wekasoft.com/flashback/). I've published the .swf-file here: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~olehenni/flash/ This is the code I use: <OBJECT classid="cls...more >>

Hi All, i have to do a CD directory for companies and Banks with their prodcuts & services using Flash and some sort of database, Php & mysql for example, so that the CD is standalone one not need to be installed or setuped on the user computer, the user just put and explore it. how th...more >>

I have a project with dynamic text fields that have the "render text as HTML" option checked. When I publish it, Flash publishes the .swf file, and then crashes, without publishing the HTML for the swf. I figured out that, when I uncheck the "render text as HTML" option in the dynamic text box...more >>

Im just picking up flash again for the first time in a good while and im forgetting the most simple things. How do i do a simple fade out of one bitmap or graphic and fade in of another? I know it has to do with the alpha setting but I jsut cant get it to do what i want ...more >>

I have a project I did in Flash mx version 6 and now I have the newest Flash mx Version 7 Pro and I try to open the mx version 6 in version 7 pro mx and I get the error "Unexcpected file format" error mesg. Why is this? What is going on? Thanks ...more >>

this is non flash related but i figured it was worth a try.. does anyone know of a site where i can download free movies, specifically independent films thanks a lot...more >>

I am finding that adding a v2 Component to a movie adds 32K to the first frame no matter what I do. Even if I set the library item not to export in the first frame I still get the 32K in frame one. I am using my own preloader mc which is only 400 bytes so the 32K in frame 1 is a showstopper. ...more >>

Frames that resize depending on what size of image????????????? How can you do this.... does anyone have any ideas on where to point me... Example: http://www.loubopp.com/ ...more >>

I have a movie with several scenes. I created a movieclip menu with several buttons and on scene four I want to click on abutton to go back to the main scene but it doesn't work. scene 1 is called "Main" and the ac on the mc button is on (release) { _root.gotoAndPlay("Main", 1); } What...more >>

What would be the easiest way to outline text? ...more >>

Frames that resize depending on what size of image????????????? How can you do this.... does anyone have any ideas on where to point me... Example: http://www.loubopp.com/...more >>

I'm designing the fourth version of my website. I'm starting from scratch with a clean FLA file and brand new library. I have designed each section within a Scene. At the beginning of every scene there is a small 19 frame movie that loads the navigation buttons. Within that movie I have select...more >>