Hi- I've seen verticalmoon.com ...well,...advertise on some posts lately. Their products do look interesting; does anybody (maybe in addition to 'FlashHappy'...!!) know whether their products are of good quality ? I'm not trying to be flippant - I'm honestly curious as well as interested in th...more >>

Hi. I've been looking for a flash site but the only one that is good, I think, that I found was www.flashplayer.com/forum . But it won't work for me for some odd reason. I was wondering if anyone knows any other great forums for Flash. ...more >>

Hi, I noticed that the max document size in Flash is 2880 px. Does anyone know how to change it to 4077 px? Thank you. vichaii@hotmail.com...more >>

Hi all, I've been tasked at work with making some changes to some of our flash stuff. Unfortunately, this stuff was created before I started here and it appears the .fla file is nowhere to be found. Is there a way to make changes directly to the .swf file or even rebuild the .fla source from...more >>

i have main.swf ,audio.swf,and background.swf on main i have a nav bar,in which all of the buttons have a command that im having a problem building this is what i want it to do when the button state is on press i want it to go the background.swf and select the frame number or the label it...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 first...more >>

I saved a PDF dociment as a TGA file. I imorted it to the stage and made a Flash movie. The problem is that the part of the TGA file that I deliberately left off the stage appears if I maximaize or otherwise enlarge the Flase movie on my computer screen. I have set the stage property to 720...more >>

I'm relatively new to Flash and I'm trying to make a flash animation where one object should slide in on the stage to a specified position av stay there "forever". In the same animation I want another object to fade in and out "forever". How can I make this happen? Any tips or hints apprec...more >>

Does anyone know of code that detects flash and if not found substitutes a static jpg in a HTML table rather than a re-direct for the whole page? I do not want to make the user choose HTML or FLASH, and I my client does not want to force the user to download the plug in, or cause any delay...more >>

Good day, I have a movie that when you click the buttons it loads a movie on top of the original movie,(and covers the original movie) no problem there, but the buttons on the original movie are still active thru the loaded movie. Now I know in director you can set the background layer in th...more >>

I'm trying to animate an imported image wanting to give it a "camera panning" effect. I tried to free transform the symbol to give it a sense of perspective (the closer side is bigger than the further side) I can't transform it at all. I can skew it parallelly, I can resize it, but I just c...more >>

Hello, In Flash is there a way to make a movie clip head in the direction it faces? Thank you ...more >>

he is starting threads and replying to legit threads with a link that only improves the life of some online gaming character (or similar). he is a spammer - don't waste your time - he has been reported already. ...more >>

how to do that? i've tried something like getURL with mailto: but ain't work anybody can help?...more >>

Hello, I want to have a specific pop up window from the geturl function. Do someone know how to do this without using html script. I know it is something like this, but I am wrong somewhere... getUrl("javascript:window.open('historica_f.html','width=100,height=100'); ...more >>

Could someone test my site with Flash player version 5 or 6? It should forward you to a page to ask you to upgrade the player. I have tested it at home and it worked. I tested it at work and it just hangs there on the test page. Could there be some kind of security setting that is not letting ...more >>

Hi, in transition, I can wipe and fade in, but there are two things I want to do and can't figure out how to do, one is to fade from one image into another and currently it's fading out to the canvas white before fading into the next image. I want one to go out as the other comes in. also,...more >>

I am building a presentation using the MX 2004 Pro Slide Template. Is there a way to move the playhead of the MediaController to a certain cue point? I need a set of buttons to advance a video (loaded using an external .flv) and to go to the appropriate slide (which are located at the video cu...more >>

I just launched my new Flash site and I have a Music issue... Users need to shut the Music 'On' and 'Off' on each 'Scene'... Can someone offer a practical remedy for this? Also, is it possible to Force Popups to stay on top of the Main movie via Action Script? I posted a thread in (Action...more >>

I imported my .wmv into the library in 2004 Pro, double-clicked on it in the library, and exported it as an .flv file. I created a new file with the Media Playback component, set a relative URL to the .flv (it's in the same folder). The video plays fine: - in the 2004 preview - in the flash ...more >>

I just sent an email to Flash tech support. After I sent out the email, I got the popup window which says"two incidents/90 days". What does that mean? My Flash purchase had passed 90 days. I have never used tech support, can I still ask just one question? An automatic email notified me that Ma...more >>

In Flash MX 2004 Pro I'm having some trouble changing the Alpha on my Jpeg images. I go to the properties, but there isn't the usually area where you CAN CHANGE THE DIFFREnt settings of the graphic like alpha and tint. HELP! ...more >>

There are 6 different Learning Interactions that you can drag and drop into presentations. However, when I try to use the same one twice it bring up a Library Resolve Conflict warning screen that asks if I want to replace existing items or not to. No matter which option I choose, whatever in...more >>

I am using a Windows XP Tablet PC running flash player 6.0.22. I dynamically create movie clips that contain text fields and insert text from an xml that contains hyper links. It works on my desktop (Windows 2000), but the links do not work on the tablet pc. I am wondering if there is...more >>

Hi all! We are working at project, that contain a skewed text, and this text must be dynamic. So,the question is: is it possible to make a skewed and rotated MC, that we can load inside a dynamic text? P.S: i made the object, and when i load a text inside, i can't see anything. PLZ he...more >>

Hi, I've developed a site of which I have made a preload scene so to keep users aware of what is going on, the only problem is that it will load up to a point and then stop. http://www.broken-egg.com/monkeybusiness/site. , any ideas? ...more >>

Hello, I need to be able to track the amount of time a test (made in flash) takes a user to complete (from opening and exiting) and then pass that information to an html form. I'm not so concerned about the form part but just doing the tracking in flash to start. Thanks for any help you can...more >>

I have a flash movie in the same folder with 14 images named sc001.jpg, sc002.jpg, etc. I am trying to load them one at a time, but first I need to know how to load 14 images, so I broke this into tasks. The first task is to figure out how to load multimple images with a script. In the fi...more >>

I used to make custom buttons in MX using a button nested in a movie clip. I would leave the button blank except for the hit state and I would put my actionscript on the button. The rest of the movie clip would contain whatever I was animating, labels and actions also. So, the up state would b...more >>

Hello all... I'm using the mediaplayback component to play my .flv file, but instead of hard-coding the flv name into the URL field I would like it to be dynamic. I can get my variable info into the swf file, but I don't know how to specifiy the variable name in my mediaplayback swf. When I pu...more >>

I am using a tree component whose branches are dyncamically generated based on information in my database.I want to add horizontal scrollbar capability to the tree object in case the number of branches causes the tree expansion to grow beyond the width of the tree component. Any suggestions? ...more >>

OK guys, you think that i could get better results outputting this as vectors or pixels? Mostly conserned with play speed. http://www.highercirclesmusic.com/test Thanks, MJO...more >>

Hi all, How can i do a find and replace in ALL scripts? Thank you. -- _____________________________ DESIGNSERVER D. Volaric (Multimedia Designer) dario@designserver.nl Tussen de Bogen 111 1013 JB Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31(0)20 - 5318490 fax: +31(0)20 - 5318498 http:/...more >>

Hi! i have made a banner with Looping MC with a text scrolling. And it is so Slow and Jerky.. what can i do to make it more smooooooth... i mean there is nothing else going on, just some text scrolling.. :( I have tried diffrent fps with no success.. and try to break it into Keyframes.. B...more >>

Hi! I'm new to the forum. I am just getting my head around flash. I am a graphic artist who wants to learn the web stuff. I am needing help putting in an mp3 clip. I am building a site for a musician who wants people be able to click on a play button and audition mp3 clips. I hav...more >>

Hi, Can anyone explain me how to create a component? I don't what that the triangle component was created in almost all the sites. I want something new and easy to learn. pls help me out :(( waiting for the reply ...more >>

Hi, I have set an initial value for an input text box qty_txt.text = 0; how do I set the focus to this so it is ready to take text input without having to click on the box first before typing in the text. I thought it would be something like: qty_txt.setFocus (This method is from V...more >>

I created a presentation at home for my office. Later when the need arised to do some rework on the .fla file created earlier. I copied the file on the CD, later when i tried opening in flash it pops an error failed to open document. Can someone please suggest how to open the file on a differe...more >>

Hey all, I am wanting to setup a speech recognition system utilising Flash. The goal is to have animated characters speech the text that is typed into a text box. EG Such has visitor names. Has anyone done something like this? Is it even possible to achieve a decent result without fini...more >>

I am creating a Flash-only website (yes, I'm aware of the issues here). The problem I have is that I need to incorporate a messageboard into the site. However, the hosting server does not allow any scripting. What I am looking for is a non-scripted (no PHP, CGI, ASP, and etc.) messageboard...more >>

How do I drag a repeating animation across the screen? The animation was already done by drawing a few keyframes in one layer and putting them in sequence. Shouldn't I be able to drag it across the screen while making it loop like they do in poorly-animated Adult Swim TV shows? This is...more >>

I'm a newb.... Is it possibly to open a Flash movie at a particular scene, not necessarily the beginning? Say the user are in a swf and click a link that opens a normal html page, and there is a close button on the html page that I would like to take them back to where they were in t...more >>

I have a regular update site (html) which is read by a flash-site. The flash-site loads the text from the update-site with a php-script. But flash doesn't seem to be able to read characters like ?, ?, ?, ?. I have tried to use the &... combination when typing the text in to the update-site w...more >>