i have a 30 day trial version of flash mx.... do i need to buy the full install ($400) or can i get the upgrade ($199)?...more >>

Hello I am using flash MX 2004, but my client want the site to use the flash player ver 6 (and not 7). I notise that i can publish the swf as 'Flash Player 6', but do i need to restrict my self in some way when i build the Movie? is all the Action script the same??? Many thanks Adi ...more >>

I'm creating a VERY simple mp3 player, one song, with just a play and stop button. I've figured that part out, using the streaming mp3 behavior and the stop all sounds behavior. the only thing left is to get the song to play automatically on startup. How would I do this? I also need to mak...more >>

Thank you so much for taking time to listen to my problem. Im trying to make an intro to my web page, and i have it entirely invisioned in my mind, yet i am quite a newbie when it comes to Flash. If you've seen the Martrix, then you will better understand what i am trying to accomplish. I w...more >>

I am drawing a blank as how to approach this, so bear with me?.. I am trying to create a movie where when you type, the letter appears in the flash movie. The hard part is that I want a movie (which is associated with the letter you typed) to appear along with the typed letter. Does this...more >>

I need you guys to tell me if u like the layout, and if there are any usability problems espically on the wedding button on the portrait studio page. http://www.tx-hosted.com/alans...more >>

I have a long list of buttons and text within a movie clip. This movie clip is inserted in my main scene with a layer mask. I have a button above and below the mask (on a background layer) for scrolling. The scripting for the up button looks like this: on (rollOver) { mouseOnUpArrow=...more >>

Is there any efficient way (besides frame-by-frame) to trace outlines of images? I'm trying to make it looklike it's being drawn out real time. Help!!...more >>

Hello, I need help making a movie that is a button that can go to 4 differents scenes. It works when I allow the enable simple buttons, when when i export the movie the button(movie) does not work. C?sar moralesr@uiuc.edu ...more >>

What is RASH? RASH is a program that resides on the client, and works cooperatively with Macromedia Flash movies. RASH bolts onto your .swf file, giving it a whole new level of function and control. RASH Features... Allow Flash to connect directly to databases, including MySQL, Or...more >>

When i use keyframe by animating and when i finish the animation it's very fast, how can make it slower? Thanks, :) ...more >>

I work for Macromedia as an Information Architect in their web group and I am redesigning the content on Accessibility at Macromedia.com -- how to build an accessible ________ [web site, flash site, Director piece, etc.]. I'm looking for feedback on the current content. If you came to MM....more >>

Hi, I hope somebody can help me as im really stuck. I have created a flash slide presentation and for each slide I wanted a narrator to talk about the copy on the slide, think is when i import sound on to each individual slide when it plays all the narration for each slide plays at the...more >>

i just did a Breeze Central online presentation for Macromedia and the viewing web public - it was last minute and i didnt get a chance to advertise it - but it can be viewed in its entirety here: http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p46515568/ it features how i went from a sketch to flash-...more >>

Hi there! Is possible, in Flash, to compile a project (fla file) using some command line? Like VB: vb.exe myproject.vbp /make Thanks! Claudio Sartori ...more >>

I'm having trouble with a flash file. I have a scrollpane of buttons (thumbnail images & text) on the left that loads a larger image on the right. The buttons have this code: on (release) { _root.gotoAndStop("lilo1"); } Evevything works out fine in the flash preview. But when the ....more >>

Recently I rec'd an obvious phishing email and was going to junk it but decided to have a laugh and see how badly they had mutilated the ebay website this time. What caught my eye is they actually have the ebay login page including the correct address ... kinda sorta. Of course there is no ...more >>

I have a menu here: http://www.tx-hosted.com/alans/PortaitIndex.htm and I'm having trouble figuring out what actionscript to use. On each button I have it where text rolls out from the side. What I need it to do is have it stop on that button that you r rolled over so you can click the text on...more >>

I am having trouble putting anything BUT a relatively located .swf file into a ScrollPane component. I can enter the swf name in the parameters tab, or I can pass it to the scroller with Action Script and then view it on my PC, but I can't put a .jpg located in the same area into the scroller...more >>

Don't mean to annoy anyone... this question has been posted also on the "Design Forum"..... ============= Salutations everybody, I am excited to learn flash, and would love it if someone could point me to a good resource of free information on learning flash. I have no programming ...more >>

Is there a way (without going full-screen) to either remove the projector window's title bar or change the icon/text displayed therein? Thanks in advance....more >>

Hi , I don't know what I am doing wrong ! I need an e-mail link and url-link in Flash I made the button and I used the code underneath to link the button to a webpage but it does not work ! on (release) {getURL(http://users.pandora.be/rzp/back.html); } when I check my script for e...more >>

Hello everyone. I have a simple movie that ends with an arrow (movieclip with some actions assigned to it) that links to a page in our website. Since most of our visitors are using Flash 5, I've been told to optimize for them. So I removed the arrow movieclip and created another one in b...more >>

I need to embed an "image tag or an image inside" my dynamic text box. Pls help! Thank u...more >>

I have several audio samples that I want to be available for my audience to select to play. Each one has a "Play" and a "Stop" button associated with it's title and info. Because of the sizes of the files, I want to have a preloader to inform the audience of the potential time and loading prog...more >>

Does anybody know how you create a photo trasition which they have used at the W Hotel site. where the photo changes in a liquidation way, I have look for it in 3 party extension but I can't figure it out, if anybody knows about it please let me know how to do it or where I can get the program...more >>

I have used the loadMovie to load jpegs because there are so many for this swf. The problem is that the jpegs aren't available to the swf quickly enough and don't show up when they need to. Any suggestions would be so appreciated. Also they flash when they come up. I tried putting each new m...more >>

I created a flash movie for a presentation at work. it plays fine in a few scenes, yet others it freezes on me. i am using the same next/back buttons i did in the scenes that work. I cannot locate any help on the issue, so any guidance would be great! problems start in scene 12 Thank...more >>

Can´t i change the space between each letter in a dynamic text box, just like the static box? How can i change that value? Thanks Nova página 1-------------- Mário Diogo Poderá contactar-me através: mjorge@netliz.pt ICQ:164987050 MSN: mariodiogo@sapo.pt ...more >>

I have a file with a button that opens a window (flash component) and that loads a swf that has the media component in it. it works fine the the first time but if you close the window and then click the button to watch it again it crashes. it'll crash IE if viewing the swf from a web site or i...more >>

Hi all I know the 180 degrees pan issue has already been talked about here, but threads are too old to show up. Anyway my question is not really about the Flash side of the issue, but about how to take a 180 panoramic photograph (I'll know how to make the pan navigation in Flash, as long as ...more >>

I am starting to tie my flash MX '04 movies into our Plateau LMS. Any help our resource links on tying flash into an LMS using SCORM, etc. would be very appreciated. Cheers, Brian ...more >>

Hi Just starting this. How do you copy a preloader clip into your index movie? Thanks Kalevi ...more >>

I have just posted a draft website http://www.downstreammedia.com. There is embedded in several pages a Flash movie that plays audio only. It appears that image download in IE 6 is often interrupted when the Flash movie loads. (Have not tested yet in other browsers). Pages with audio incl...more >>

Attempted transition on some text I had broken apart to vectors before. Regardless of the object - I had tried with a plain shape too - will produce this error. I don't understand what this means and how to fix it. This error text appears in a small window behind the transition preview window ...more >>

I'm finding "help" in Flash to be very difficult to use - I have a 17" monitor, set at 1024x768 and I can't read the text! Is there any way besides working at 800X600 to fix the problem?...more >>

Hi, Just got a new server here, Windows 2003 with Cold Fusion MX Enterprise and Flash Communication MX Server Professional. For SOME reason and I can't figure out why up to this point after a week of troubleshooting and searching for answers, it will not stream my .flv media files. I use...more >>

got a new site up! this ones a bit of a stretch for me though, nav was crazy. Let me know what you think pls, love to hear suggestions for improvement. Thanks all, Krunchy http://www.highercirclesmusic.com/temp ...more >>

yo.. i i´m having problems with my loadmovie. i don´t get it. it does not load on internet explorer. but when i run it as swf in my computer it works just fine... anyone ??? /Astro ...more >>

I need to enlarge the size of the stage of an existing flash animation. But I have problems to easily move the entire content of the animation further down in a way that it is applied to all elements on the full length of the timeline. Where lies the trick in doing that without big hassle?...more >>

Hi all - does anyone know of a way to tell if a user has accidentally pressed 2 keys on their keyboards simultaneously, and if so, to ignore the second key press? I'm making an animation that requires user input on the keyboard. If they hit the right key, the letter that appears turns black. ...more >>

I am creating a demo for somebody, and I want to make it look like the cursor is moving through a browser window that turns into the hand with the pointing finger when it moves over a link. Does anybody know where I could get a clean vector graphic of the hand that I could use in Flash? ...more >>

Hi !! can anyone explain why this works: _root.animationcontroller.animation1.gotoAndPlay(2); BUT this doesnt (when used in the below function - playanimx doesn seem to be recognised!): _root.animationcontroller.playanimx.gotoAndPlay(2); ---------------------------------------------...more >>

I draw a circle Then select it and make a symbol of it, say a button. Then the edit symbol window appears. BUT, there is nothing shown there: i.e. no circle, just an empty white field. What did I do wrong or what should I change????? I really hope somebody can help me out and of cour...more >>

Hello, I am trying to create a popup window (html) that is launched from a flash button using javascript, my code is this and it works: on (release) { getURL("javascript:openNewWindow('index.html','thewin','height=282,width=320,to olbar=no,scrollbars=no') "); } do you know a para...more >>

I have a trouble using ScrollPane components... i develop all site with Flash MX 2004 so when a client with Flash player 6 see my site, He see all site but content into srollpane doesn't display. why? i know that scrollpane component is also in Flash MX. sorry for my bad english. ...more >>

I have a MediaPlayback component that i use to load external MP3-files for playback. I load the files dymaically with the setMedia method on a MediaPlayback component. But when the sound is loaded it plays a bit of the sound, before I have told it to start playing. This results in a sh...more >>

Hi there, apologies if this is really simple, but I cannot find anywhere which tells me how to do it. Basically I want to have my own text in the title bar, and also to appear in the little button bar menu at the bottom of my windows (sorry!) screen. Please does anyone know how - I think I...more >>

Hi, I have created 2 switch case functions in 2 different frames. The first would output the trace("A") should it be case 1 and trace("B") if the case is anything from 2 to 10. The second would output the trace("A") should it be case 10 and trace("B") if the case is anything from 1 to 9. ...more >>

Hi, I am a new user of Flash and really struggling with this: I have made a nice ..swf movie. It plays perfectly when Flash MX is installed, but not without. The macs I have tested have Flash player 7. Is it a plug-in that is missing? How can I make my html pages automatically download a n...more >>

Hi There, I am currently learning my way through flash, and have a small problem I was hoping someone on here could resolve. I have already worked out how to apply a zoom effect via a push button using _xscale and _yscale, however my problem is that this zoom effect is applied across the wh...more >>

i am currently workin on a flash animation and I have a lots of layers and in each layers i have lots of keyframe, I wanted to zoon in my character at one shot...i selected all the layers and keyframe...and I adjust the size of the image....but it was after. i realize that I have only change t...more >>

How do I set it up so that when I link from my Flash web page, and I want to link to another flash page, i can have it so the new document I open is sent to a flash pop-up, so there is no tool bar at the top of the viewer's new browser? For example, if any of you (which I'm sure you have) have...more >>

Try this (I'm using Flash MX Professional 2004 on Mac OS X 10.3.4): 1. Create a new Flash document 2. Create a dynamic text object on the stage 3. Open the strings panel, set up two languages (I'm using English and Japanese), turn off automatic actionscript detection and set a default lang...more >>

I have to clue how to add stuff to the library, fr example im trying to put a mp3 file in my flash and i cant get the mp23 in the library. Please someone help....more >>

Hi, I can't work out how to put a preloader into my Flash MX Pro Slide Presentation. It won't allow me to insert a new scene. Anyone out there know where I can look????? Jane Mure...more >>

Guys/Gals, I need to pick on your brains. Have a look at http://www.aikenracing.com/contact.htm Two concerns: 1- I have a thin line above my Flash object (left pic), where does that come from? How can I get ride of it? There is a "no border" option in DW MX, but it doesn't change...more >>