my flash movie works fine with pc's, but mac's are having trouble seeing it!!! my flash movie is at http://www.quistoworks.com/flash/FrameTool.html this is how my movie works... frame 1. loadVariablesNum("/flash.cfm", 0, "GET"); frame 2. test if all the variables have been loaded. if so...more >>

whew...you don't know how glad i am to find *this* forum. newaz, i' trying to open a .fla file from a pc. when i try to open it, i get a error message saying "unexpected file format" is there anything i ca do? anyway around it? don't know if this matters, but i'm on a mac an it does it whether i...more >>

I have some external text that I load into flash that contains some ampersands. The problem is that flash considers these ampersands to be the start of a new variable. Is there anything I can do server side with PHP or something else to make these ampersands not be a new variable? Can you e...more >>

How can I exclude a few first frames from looping? I'm trying to make animation which when it is started doesn't need to lopp first 10 frames. Thanks! ...more >>

I read a while ago someone asked this question and I searched for the thread but couldn't find it. The replies said it could be done in the publish setting I think but I can't find how. Could someone help me out? stillwaiting ...more >>

Hi Folks, Probably this question has been answered before, but how the heck does an externall text file gets displayed in a dynamic text box inside a MC.....I'm going crazy over this.......Would really appreciate help regards to this....I have a button on the main timeline that when a ...more >>

Can anyone suggest a good place to learn about flash? ...more >>

I created two movie clips to be used in a movie. I need to make them smaller so I use the Free Tranformation tool on the first one and everything is great. But the second one I can not use the tool. I do not see the resizing handles. All I get is the movie clip dot. I got to play and the fir...more >>

This is the script called from a button in a movieclip in a new scene. It should go back to a scene called ³menu² to a frame labelled ³mainmenu² _root.gotoAndStop("mainmenu"); Has anyone encountered this anomaly before-- Is there a more reliable way to code the goto¹s? DD...more >>

I'm running Flash MX 2004 pro on Mac OS X (10.3) and have a .mpg video file that I want to import. I have read that Flash MX 2004 supports .mov .mpg and .avi but when I try to import the .mpg file I get an error message in Flash saying "Flash doesn't recognize the file format of 'Scotty_En...more >>

Please check out this site: http://bobvila.com/DesignTools/ExteriorDesigner/ExteriorDesigner.html Bob uses Flash to show how pointing to different paint "chips" on a color pallete change the color of the house. Can someone point me to a tutorial? Does this require a special server? ...more >>

I'm incredibly frustrated! Surely there is a simple solution to my problem which has eluded me for my lack of experience with flash - I've created a linear animation - no interactivity other than an "enter" button once the file has completely pre-loaded. The animation is made up of 4 sc...more >>

I FOUND A MACROMEDIA FLASH 7 PICTURE ON THE INTERNET THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAVE SO I CAN PRINT THE PICTURE.ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED....more >>

how come when I write a simple sound code like <--------//code//--------> s = new Sound(); s.loadSound("mysound.mp3"); s.start(); <--------//end code//-------> it works in flash mx, and doesn't work in flash mx 2004, professional? any ideas? thanx ...more >>

I have a dream: create a fully dynamic, fully automatised image gallery in flash. Each time I solve one problem, a new one appears. To understand my latest specific problem, i have to describe the way the gallery functions, idealy: A php script goes see in an image folder how many images ther...more >>

How di I get my menu to follow the users mouse...more >>

Hi, I hope someone can help. I've been wracking my brains out for the last 4 1/4 hrs trying to make a test flash drop down menu. Creating one via Javascript is ok but when trying to do it in Flash I can't make heads or tails of it. Is there some sample code (or sample) out there that I c...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash MX 2004 professional on Windows 2000. I created a mask layer. In the masked layer, I placed an input textbox, along with some other graphics. Mysteriously, everything came out well except that the input textbox could not be seen. However, when I place my cursor over whe...more >>

I'm looking for a simple way to have a movie clip react to the volume level of a sound as it plays. ie: as the volume level goes up the height of a movie clip increases. Is this possible? I've seen tutorials using third party software that reads an mp3 and outputs a text file that you can bri...more >>

After updating I can only open one browser window. When you open a second browser, or clic a link to open a second (or third or whatever) browser it closes the other one. Does anyone know what this is ? I have Internet Explorer 6 on Win XP. ...more >>

Hello, When I was using Flash 5, I remember you can get rid of the DETAILS when you RIGHT CLICK on the movie in a browser. I remember it goese something like this <param name="menu" value "false"> How do you get rid of those ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT, LOOP, REWIND etc., when you right-click on...more >>

How do I swap a picture I have for one that is in a .fla file? Can someone point me to a tutorial or give me the steps please? Thanks!...more >>

Hi all I made this flash photo gallery that loads external jpegs... I concentrated all the code for navigation (nearly all the code in the whole movie) in the first frame of an MC (_root.series.Photos.). It's 150 lines of code (array, variables, functions with conditionals...) I wonder if that...more >>

Hi- This question is sort of directed towards Anishu in that he informed me of the preloader movies on the flashkit site. I've written the author of one of the movies that I'd like to use on my site (at least temporarily,.. while I learn how to do a preloader myself). I'm doing what they sugge...more >>