When I see a neat site I like to look at the source html code. Is there a way to open swf files into an editable format so I can see the action script etc? (assuming it isn't password protected) Will ...more >>

Hi all I am using a scrollpane to display text. The text will be scrolled up and down within the scrollpane. The idea is to have a scrollpane that lists my client's schedule. There could be up to 30 items at any time, so I thought a scrollpane would work best. Here's what I have so ...more >>

hi, i am having a problem in using loadVariablesNum i am loading variables from an "htm" file. placed in same directory as the SWF. i used loadVariablesNum("executiveclients.htm",0); in main time line also that my variable field is NOT a MC and is on main timeline. This ...more >>

I can't seem to find any help on kerning/ tracking text in dynamic text(fields). All I can find (on this great-big-internet) are workarounds, like using seperate MC's containing a textField for a single character. This creates a whole new problem: One would have to define so many variables to g...more >>

how to make a variable dynamic? ...more >>

Hi all, can you make the rollover of a button not change to the hand, in fact can you make it not change at all, I'm sure it can be done but how?? Thanks Ken...more >>

I have my menu where when you roll over a button, the button changes color, and text rolls in. Now I need to make it where you can roll your mouse over the text without it dissapearing or the color of the button changing back. Here is the web-site. Web-Site: http://www.tx-hosted.com/alans/...more >>

I am brand new to the Flash world and I'm beginning to suspect I'm in a bit over my head. I've created a short movie to "introduct" a training topic and I want two buttons to appear after the movie finishes. I've dabbled in JavaScript and I'm a good HTML coder, but I can't figure out how to ma...more >>

Hi, i am using flash MX 2004 Professional and i am a beginner. I am trying to modify a webpage for my company. I have to embed some PDF and Word files into the web page. I know this is an easy process but as i said i am a beginner. Please explain me how can i do it. Thanks a lot....more >>

Hi, I'm having heavy problems setting the focus on a text input component. As attachement I build a little example which shows the problem. I tried _root.focusManager.setFocus() as well as Selection.setFocus() but nothing is working. Please have a look at the example. Thanks Salz...more >>

Hello, I need some help with 'HitTest'. Is there a way to make a HitTest that is the actually border of the movie clip, not just a box around it? Thank you, ...more >>

I am publishing a flash 7 file as a projector and exe. What are the minimum playback system requirements?...more >>

Hi I have followed someone's advice from a previous thread on how to link to a html page from flash and being able to control the size of the window the page loads into. This is the code I used on (release) { getURL("javascript:;window.open('http://www.mypage','','height=650,width=750,sc...more >>

Hi Camarades, I have this thing wich is driving me nuts. I have a MC which is the navigation system, the MC moves randomly across the stage, but also I want the menu options to scale from 100% to 120% in a random manner; for example from 100% --> 118% --> 112% --> 120% and end, it stays in 120...more >>

Hi Folk! We just completed a CD that incorporates video into Flash MX. The interface is an executable and the videos are external swfs. When we test the CD we find it works perfectly - on all machines except for Dells under 2 years old. With these machines the videos pause, unexpecte...more >>

I?d like some suggestions on how I can handle this file size problem I?m experiencing. My website is organized as follows?. Preloader / intro animation / main selection page / cartoons(scanned images) Everything except for the cartoons is created in Flash. The problem is this that as I a...more >>

Hello Everyone, Is there a way to define the width and height of a browser window when using the "get URL" command in Flash? Thanks in advance, mkh...more >>

Is it possible to make a database with a Flash Front-end and a MS access Back-end where you dont have to use ASP?...more >>

I'm working on a flash photo scroller for a company website of their portfolio of work. I currently have a scrollpane in 'Scene 1'. This scrollpane is linked to my 'Movie_Content' which is a list of buttons. In that 'Movie_Content' each button has an action to goto frame XX in 'Scene 1', whi...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004 and Mac OS X 10.3.4. I couldn't find "copying frames" anywhere in the application. Can someone tell me where to find it? Basically, I want to copy a scene and paste it into another flash movie. Thanks! ...more >>

I have a question involving a Generator object called TreeMenu. It isn't in the standard collection of Generator objects, how would I edit it? Thanks anybody, D ...more >>

MAKE MONEY!!!MAKE MONEY!!! MAKE THOUSANDS!!! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't care about the useless pre-fabricated crap this message usually says. All I say is, it works. Continue pre-fab crap. WELL GUESS WHAT!!! Within five days, I started getting m...more >>

Is it impossible to have a block of dynamic text and change the look of the text? ie - some of it is bolded, italicized or in a different font size? If it is possible to do this, could some one point me in the right direction? I figured that I would make the dyanmic text block, set it on m...more >>

Hi I'm making a scoreboard for a "mame cabinet" for my dads air hockey table (hence the strange controls). I've had no probs but wanted an intro type thing with a sound file playing against several changing frames. It works find in when I "test scene" but when I export it, it stalls at thi...more >>

I went on many forums for a get url with javascript that will open a pop up window with a specific size. I tried this one: getURL("javascript:window.open('historica_e.html','width=800,height=500');void(0 );"); And I have and error on i.e. (javascript error) I tried another one: ...more >>

Hello- I have two questions on an upcoming Flash project. It will be a 15 minute animation converted to Quicktime and then burned on DVD: 1) I would like to have the animation be ultra-smooth. What frame rate should I build the animation at? 2) Most of my drawings are done in Illustrator a...more >>

Hi! Has anyone else encountered this: When masking text, the outlines of the text outside the mask can be seen like a shade on some screens, especially on laptops. To put in other word: I have masked text. On some laptops the outlines of the text outside the mask-object (or shape) ca...more >>

Hi All I have a problem with windows media player and Flash MX. I have created a small flash movie consisting of 5 buttons (play, pause, stop, ffwd and fullscreen) used to control a WMP activex control on a web page. Essentially all I am doing is using Flash to call javascript functions on the...more >>

I am trying to do something that should be easy, but I can't seem to get it right. My Flash piece is just a simple button that uses the getURL command, but the URL doesn't start with www. The site is on our dns server. Flash is not accepting the url with our dns. It shows up as an error when I...more >>

the site I am working has a wierd problem. It concists of a main swf that loads and unloads seperate swfs for each section. The problem I am having is after visiting a few of the sections, the site starts to slow down, meaning the swfs slow way down, like it is using a ton of memory. I trie...more >>

Hello, Our company is going to develop simple multimedia CDs which will include basic navigation for running quicktime videos and perhaps a few quizzes. Can I produce such multimedia CDs easier and more efficiently with Flash or Director? Cost is not an issue, rather ease of use as there w...more >>

hello guys im trying to import text from external xml file in my flash movie and i have done succesfully but i need to format certain text as hyperlinks in the xml now standard xml can anyone help me or send me a link worth reading abotu flash and xml text please and thanks :D or is it possi...more >>

Hey all, A really basic question here, but I can't seem to work it out w/ the documentation. How do I make a grapic move when I click on a button?! When you click on a button, I want to slide a rectangle of color up or down to reveal a line of text/links. I'm struggling to work ...more >>

Help! I'm a new user and don't know much at all about Flash. I use Flash MX to convert wav files to swf files for voiceover audio that I record. I work at IBM, and almost all of our systems have Flash installed on them. Here's my problem: on some systems, everything works perfectly every time....more >>

Hi how does one import symbols from an outside directory into the library of a flash 5 document so they can be used as if they were created in that document? TIA, D ...more >>

Why does Macromedia not come out with the latest version of Flash for Linux for the AMD64 platform. Flash is the defacto standard for webpages today and not to have it in the 64bit AMD64 format means that those with the chip and OS cannot view many of the "cool" new webpages. please ...more >>

hi i a html page embed with flash, that flash has a button(name:Save), when i click the button, this flash(swf) .must get saved in the specified path. is that can be done?? thanx ...more >>

Hi! My computer burned out just when I was finishing some new flash stuff. All left is swf file on my web server. Is there any way to convert swf file back to original fla file (or anything close to it)??? I would really need to get at least those action scripts back, if not movies and anim...more >>

Hi, I have created a menu in flash, everything works perfect and but when hyperlinks are added to a symbol in the Library it messes up the whole flash routine. If you can?t find out what I am talking about mouse over the text and the top 4 aren?t in sequence but the bottom 4 are and this i...more >>

If you move the stop action to allow more frames of the text instance to be displayed, the text becomes blurred where as if it is displayed for only "1" frame the text is un-blurred basicly beyond "1" frame the text is blurred, the stop is their to demonstate this. I am using the ALIAS text...more >>

I have optimized the jpgs individually in the info window in Flash but the movie I am working on has so many jpgs that I was wondering any other tips to optimize the final movie size. Thanks, Catharine...more >>

Hi, Can I create an animated gif based on my flash movie? ...more >>

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Does ANYBODY know how i can display subtitles (OnDemand, like MM do) while my FLV plays via Media Playback Component. To Be more specific, i want to display external synchronized (with my FLV) subtitles. For Example look at www.macromedia.com/software/flex and look the video. Click the i...more >>

I am creating a CBT website, and need to have the main Flash page expand to fit the screen. The link would be off of a web page, then the Flash page would open full screen. This would be similar to using the 'fscommand' when opening a Flash projector. Let me know if anyone has any suggestio...more >>

hello, i've created a CDROM presentation using flash. in the presentation, i need to click a button to call out a pdf document. my question is, for those who dont have adobe acrobat reader installed in their pc.. can i make the pdf file into an exe file? so that they can view it. or is it an...more >>

//projector in center of screen hi all how do make the projector.exe file to be in the center of the screen on autorun ? (currently during autorun, when I insert the cd in the drive, the projector file opens at a random location on the screen) this is the autorun.inf file.. ...more >>

good evening! I have created a preloader for my movie, and all is well except for this: the "%" I have created does not appear until it reaches 99 and 100%. Does anyone know how to fix this so all numbers appear? Here is my code (although it may not be necessary to show this): stop(); ...more >>

How could I add a Flash timeline to a ASP.NET web application????? I know I have too add the Shockwave Flash Object to my ToolBox. I have add the the Shockwave flash Object but I don't know how to play a Timeline when the Web application loads??? Can someone help me out??? ...more >>

Im guessing the answer really is no but i have my image and i want to create an outer glow to it. I can kinda see a way to do it if the item had a solid color backgroud but my image is overtop of a photograph. can a glow be created? ...more >>

Hello, I need a little help on publishing a flash movie. I have noticed that some Flash Movies don't have there settings activated when you do a RIGHT-CLICK on the movie in the browser. One great example is the Menu Bars of www.macromedia.com itself. When you right-click on it, you don't s...more >>

The progress bar in the "Flash" area of my site http://www.strivefans.com does not seem to be updating on every frame. It only updates five or ten times during the load, and then advances on to the movie. The method I used was to create a preloader mc that contains a motion tween 100 fr...more >>

Hi, I have 2 flash introduction pages and I have problem make it to stop after the movie is ended. Does anybody know how to do this? You can view the source from the links below http://www.topwebseo.com/flash/test.htm http://www.topwebseo.com/flash/test-2.htm Thanks a lot...Jimmy ...more >>

Hi, I am new to flash and I would like to edit the buttons on flash movie. I have a flash file. When I do a movie test, I managed to see the buttons on top right but when I am trying to edit it (Home/Logo/Flash/Website/Affliate), I can't find it in the .fla file! Please shade some light for ...more >>

Hi- I'm new to Flash, but I've looked at alot of preloader tutorials on Google. Can one do a simple preloader (that is, doing a simple text "Loading..." animation with the dots and have it based upon "IfFrameLoaded" type code) on Mx04 ? I've tried to do it and I get the following script error...more >>

probably a simple question...how do you put an outline on text? If the text must first be converted to a symbol, how do you put an outline on that also?...more >>