Hello, In short, is it possible to create a custom class with a data structure and a couple of functions that can be later referred to after being loaded from disk via SharedObject? -- The detailed question -- I'm relatively new to the OO in ActionScript so please bare with me. I've created...more >>

(fresh new user) I wanted to create a informational form that the voyer (the person viewing the page) could answer questions by filling in blanks. And when they are done filling in the boxes, I would like to have a button at the bottom that would email me their answers. (kinda like a med...more >>

I want to put a dynamic text field on the hit states of a button but I can't target past the instance of the button, any ideas?...more >>

- I made a small series of very short cartoons. but now i want to post em up as one big cartoon. i tried copying frames from each cartoon to each separate scene, and it worked perfectly for a while untill the damn symbols or tweens got messed up and the guy in my cartoon suddenly had the main ...more >>

well excuse me if im usin the program for things it may not be supposed to do, but i dont its asking much of it to make a .gif of an animation with embedded video in it. cuse whenever i try to publish a gif the embedded video doesnt show up.is there any way i can fix this? what i was thinki...more >>

hello how do i get a exe file to launch when i make a link in a flash mx projector file ? for windows only. please let me know thanks...more >>

I'm running os 10.3 I have macromedia FLashMX 2004 professional. everything worked before UPDATE I have a file that use MediaDisplay component. media url: mymovie.flv time 00:05:45:00 I've added 10 screens to the MediaDisplay via component inspector. I've also attached the followi...more >>

Is there anyway that I can lock two movie clips together? I've created a menu bar (inside a movie clip) which is dragable. If I click on any of the buttons in the menu bar then the animation is advanced to a new frame which contains another movie clip. Ideally when the menu bar is dragged I'd ...more >>

Any caveats to doing this? I am on XP with 2004pro 7.2 installed. I would really appreciate any help/advice =) ...more >>

Does any one know of a site that provides professional flash templates ready for publish with minimum editing. I am looking to learn flash applications and need creative ideas for other sources. Please advise as I am working on a project and would like to have something to bounce off of. ...more >>

Hai! I had got a project of designing small game with Flash and the datas to be send to Oracle database? I want to know if flash could support Oracle has its backend. eagerly waiting for reply! ...more >>

Well you i have this kick butt stick cartoon but i also have the music and the sounds now one says to self HOW DO GET INTO THE CARTOON SO IT PLAY WHEN A GUY GETS SMACKED ASCROSS THE FACE WITH A HAND PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME OUT...... ...more >>

i'm a little new to flash and am using macromedia flash 5 right now. i just wanted to know how we change the canvas size. i tried looking for it in the help section but didt find anything...more >>

Hi, I know the title may be a little confusing, but I was wondering wether I can code a movie clip itself. What I mean is actually place all the objects inside a movie clip (lines, images, text areas, etc) trew code. I'm still new to flash, and so don't know exacttly how it works. What I co...more >>

How is this done? http://www.neave.com ...more >>

hi all, What makes me puzzled is, i wanted to make a flash intro..where two movie clip will plays on different frame rate. I wanted to make two movie clip within same movie with different rate...but seems like..its impossible. so, how this is possible ? anybody know about privious versio...more >>

hi www.nevs.co.uk/00_main.html i was wondering how they got this flash movie to shrink to fit in too different size screen resolutions, it looks fine in a large monitor and then shrinks nicely to fit into a 800x600 monitior. How was this achieved, couldn't get anything from the source...more >>

Hi, I have a slide presentation that plays sounds in certain slides, including the last one. For some reason, when I export the movie, the sound from the last slide starts playing immediately, but the other sounds don't. I tried stopping the sound at the end of the last slide and at the b...more >>

Hi, need help with the screen presentation. On my second slide i did some transition of pictures. when i test the movie, navigating from slide 1 to slide 2 went well. However when i press the previous button to go back to slide 1 and then next to slide 2 the transitions of pics didn't work...more >>

What are the steps to change the JPG color from color to black and white or from black and white to color? I have tried everything but can't figure it out. Here is the link to the site. I need to create the same effect for my client's site. Please help! http://www.greatheadshots.com/inde...more >>

I've made a nice little drop down menu movie clip that contains simple buttons. Rolling over the buttons takes you to a different frame within the menu movie clip via assigned button actions. I've also assigned gotoandplay actions to the buttons that are supposed to take you to another scene...more >>

I've made a nice little drop down menu movie clip that contains simple buttons. Rolling over the buttons takes you to a different frame within the menu movie clip via assigned button actions. I've also assigned gotoandplay actions to the buttons that are supposed to take you to another scene...more >>

I wrote a script that uses TSetProperty [turn on/off visibility of some clip]. It works great on PC [IE and Netscape], but doesn't work with MAC . Any help ????? ......................................... html javascript function ......................................... funct...more >>

I found inside a piece of software I have some .swf files. They will not play on their own. Only thru the software. What has been done to the to keep them from being played in Flash or Flash Player? Just wondering how the did it. The software was Core Concepts SolidProfessor. JW ...more >>

I am new to this forum so if this is the wrong place to ask that, I apologize. I am looking for a flash photo viewer for my site. I have a few photos I'd like my visitors to browse through and when they click on the photo it brings up a popup of a large version of the photo. Can someone...more >>

I am building a website with my portfolio in Flash. The problem I have now is that I wanted to name my different pages with different title names and I know how to do this in Dreamweaver but I don't think I can do it in Flash. Also is there any way that I can export each different frame/ sect...more >>

Flash 2004 MX Pro Drag a MediaPlayback object onto the stage. Set the instance name to 'myMediaPlayback' In the component options window click autoplay off Now click the stage and add the following actions in the first frame: myMediaPlayback.autoPlay(false); // Set Media starts the so...more >>

I am putting some power point slides as gifs into a flash presentation...but the quality of the images is not very good. Does anyone know how to keep these images looking sharp? Need assistance. Thanks ...more >>

Hey there. I've imported a couple hundred sequentially numbered images as a sequenced import, but they're all hanging half off the stage. For the life of me I can't find the way to align them as a group. As soon as I select the whole timeline, the coordinates area of my properties shuts do...more >>

I have a client that would like this: when mouseover on on a bit of text, the text changes colors, but it does not go anywhere. also, the client would like the pointer to stay at the default arrow, not turn to the hand indicating a link. Is there a way to do this? I cannot figure out how t...more >>

hey you know when you insert a flash file on to dreamweaver like a game you made or somthing people can right click so it comes with a load of comands but then they can skip threw my game by pressin play, how do you stop play and forward from coming up from the right click menu if you know wha...more >>

I have a very simple sound board in flash and some of the music clips are loops of background music. I was wondering, is there someway to have a "stop all sounds" button that, instead of outright stopping the sounds like I have, fades the sounds out over 3 or 4 seconds? That would make my so...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me figure out the construction of a sliding button. Basically, I would have a main button, which, when there is a mouseover, 2 buttons will slide to the right of it, sort of like submenu buttons. The problem I am having is that when I move the ...more >>

On Macromedia's site they say: "It is not advisable to permit HTTP content to access HTTPS content. This practice can compromise the security offered by HTTPS. " I guess I'm not seeing this. Guys, please tell me if I'm wrong, but here's how I see it. If you try to access Https data via fl...more >>

This sounds incredably stupid but I'm completely new and I don't know where to begin. I've wanted to learn how to make Flash Movies for ages but I dont have a clue where to begin and im looking for some pointers! Anyone can help? ...more >>

After several months learning Flash, I find I need to learn how to build and manage databases for use on e-commerce websites. I know zero about this. My websites are hosted with Ipower web which provides databases. I stare at them with complete ignorance. I read a book on SQL but it was ov...more >>

I have been trying to get a simple jigsaw puzzle that I can easily change the pictures on. I have downloaded a few but i can't figure out how to change the images. I also am looking for any other easy to edit simple flash games. Any info would be great. Thanks! ...more >>

I was wondering if anyone has yet to figure out the problem with swf's running on IE 6 SP1. I have tried my files on two different computers (with different OS's XP and 98SE) with IE6 (Flash Player 7) and get the same results (i.e. the preloader does not play and the file takes longer than u...more >>

Usually, when I make an invisible button (one with only the hit area defined), the button is still visible in the flash editor because a blue highlight in the shape of the hit area is visible. But in one of my flash documents, the blue area is not visible, so the button is completely invis...more >>

Can someone tell me how to create a background from a gif file. I am creating a new page for our school district website and am trying to match the existing background. It is a textured background from a gif file. I have inserted it ( nad resampled it to match my stage) but it does not fill...more >>

Hey, this might be a simple question, but how do you tell Flash not to automatically loop in a browser. When I publish my Flash movies and put them on my website, the movie automatically loops. I only want it to play once and stop. ...more >>

I have created my movie. How do I go about making it a website? ...more >>

My dev team is talking about doing a sort of built in instant messaging thing on our intranet. Since I'm the multimedia guy it has sort have been decided that this is my project. First things first, I want some opinions. How should I go about this? Flash or Director, or both? Communication ser...more >>

When trying to run the lastest Flash updater, I'm told that Flash 2004 is not installed! - Same thing happened with the Fireworks updater. Does anyone know why this could be? (Both pgms of course already installed). ...more >>

We have a flash site that is simply text in a grid which renders fine on Windows but does not render properly on any MAC browser (Safari or IE) - we downloaded the latest plugins. We need to decide if we want to purchase Flash and go forward .. but are very concerned that we can't get the...more >>

I have created a animated movie button. When I drag a new instance of the movie button on the stage and try to give it a new URL, it changes the URL for all the buttons. The only work around I have found is to duplicate the original movie. I thought the whole point of the instance was that you...more >>

What setting should I start with if I am trying to make a Flash Presentation that will be viewed on T.V. through a DVD (not an interactive DVD). Also, is this possible using Flash alone, or will I need to make changes in another program? ...more >>

I would like to pruduce an virtual interactive digital postcard with digital photos and a menu for different links to different locations on the cdrom i would like to add music and control the picture run time also i would like to include music and allow picture printing and install screen sav...more >>

im making a game and i want an alligator to appear in random places at random ammounts of time, and im not sure why this isnt working. I have 3 frames 1st- timer = random(10)+5; startTime=_root.getTime() _root.gator._x = random(471) _root.gator._y = random(381) 2nd- endTime =...more >>

Dear All: I am new to Flash Multimedia and would like to learn as much about the product as possible but, I have limited time to do so. Can anyone assist me with some additional resources (inexpensive)? Also, is this the correct forum for asking remedial questions about the product beca...more >>