Hello, Can you please tell me where can i find Flash MX preloader tutorial, and let you know that i have many scènes (séquences) in my .fla file - Pourcentage - Loading animation - The connection speed rate - The kilobytes loaded/remaining Or if you can let me good web sites where i can find ...more >>

I'm new at Macromedia Flash 7', and I'm trying to creat a "Flashy Button" like all the ones that do cool things when mouse hovers over the button, you know? And I can't figure out how to creat a button that changes coolers or do cool thing whin mouse gose over it! So I was wondering, if yo...more >>

This is the only place i know of to get valuable feedback. Appreciate your input. Thanks, todd...more >>

It appears learning interactions will only navigate between frames on a single timeline rather than (or as well as) navigating between screens in Flash MX 2004 Pro. I.E. You could not create a bunch of nested screens with different interactions on them and expect them to navigate to each other i...more >>

How do I create an e-mail link in Flash. Just an icon someone clicks on that opens their e-mail program???...more >>

I made a movie I exported as an flv and I want to use as a banner on my site, but I want it to loop. So far it just stops when the movie ends. Any idea, I've tried to look everywhere for an answer, forums, tutorials, I haven't been able to find an answer. :( ...more >>

I'm sure this has been answered before, but with the search function out on holiday, I'm just going to have to ask plainly. I've got a game in development that runs just fine as a standalone, even inside the Flash application. But when I view it in a browser window it is much slower, by b...more >>

Case Study: I have a flash movie that I know that I have created and published a long time ago. But I don't remember where I have put it and I don't remember its filename. Is it possible to do an application like ACDSee (the picture viewer) that will facilitate browsing folders and searc...more >>

Hello, I'm trying the flash detection scripts for IE in Macintosh but the site just won't detect the flash plugin. I know somewhere i'm going wrong with the detection script. Pls check indagegroup.com This site shows nicely in IE PC but not in mozilla or Mac (IE). I'm a little new to fla...more >>

Does anyone know how I would go about publishing my flash movie so that it can be read by both windows and apple/mac computers? To complicate things even more I would like to open a PDF file from the .exe (windows execuatable version). How would I achieve this same effect on a apple/mac compute...more >>

i have a flash piece embedded in my dreamweaver site. i want it to default to a static piece to replace the flash piece ( i do not want it to ask the user to download flash because these particular users often cannot download anything) can i get this sourcec ode from anyone? thanks ...more >>

I have bunch of buttons with simple animation in them, but the animation slows to a crawl when video is streaming, any ideas how to fix it. Thanks...more >>

Greetings, Just posting this, if someone has some insight I'd appreciate it. Running latest updated version of mx 2004 Pro. Also running older flash MX. Windows XP sp1, fully updated. P4 2.26ghz with 1GB of RAM 10,000rpm IDE drive I have a movie clip of a soccer player, embedded wi...more >>

Everyone has been such a beg help, I thought I would ask a couple more questions. 1) When exporting a flash file as a projector file, does flash automatically write it as an INF file? 2) I switched from MAC, Flash4, to PC MX. Considering formatting issues, when distributing on a CD wit...more >>

I was wondering if commercial licenses are included with Flash MX 2004 or Studio Mx 2004....more >>

Is there a way to show a html page in flash and if so how would one do it?...more >>

i was wondering if its possible to disable the right click menu on .swf files....or disable the ability to move forward frames by the viewers control. thx...more >>

Does anyone know anything about the cell phone biz and how realistic it is for using flash interfaces on them? If so, what companies are using these interfaces or games and how hard is it to get into that industry? Regards, -Wiley ...more >>

I can't get the right path string because Flash evaluate escape string inside string as follow: var myPath = "C:\tmp"; trace(myPath); // the result is "C:mp" instead of "C:\tmp" How to get my path back? ...more >>

How can I make a preloader that displays the number of K loaded? Or the percentage loaded? Any tutorials you may suggest?...more >>

Hi there, I need to have an element in a game explode realistically (like what After Effects can do) and i was wondering if it is possible to make a small video clip of the element spinning and exploding in After Effects and then import it and convert it to a movie clip in Flash? The movie...more >>

Hi there, I have a client that wants an explosion effect for a game we are building for them in Flash and I haven't been able to find anything realistic looking. Does anyone know of a resource for pre-made special effects of this type for Flash, or how to make a realisitic looking explosio...more >>

I'm new to Flash--used Director, but it doesn't seem to make learning flash any easier! I am creating a motion tween & want each graphic to "fade up" onto the screen--in flash 5 all you had to do was adjust the alpha in the effects pallette, but they seemed to have done away with that in M...more >>

Hello, I aAm trying to make a VISIO-like program. I am doing pretty good, but I am unsure about how to make the arrows. I have seen this done, but how? Should I use hitTest to get the boundaries? I know the from-MC instanceName and the to-MC instanceName...so I can draw and update the ...more >>

I am making a music player. I have speakers that I want to slide out when a button is pushed, I want them to stay out until the button is pushed again. Is there some way to do this or do I have to make the button direct to whole another movie clip. thanks. ...more >>

My movie.swf has the document size (500x300) and within it, there is a button of size (120*50) in the middle, leaving the rest area empty. I loaded movie.swf into top.swf. When I check the size of loaded movie, I got (120*50) instead of (500x300). Why does Flash take the object size as movi...more >>

I'm a student web designer, and I just got Studio MX. I know a good deal about static web design, so I've figured out Dreamweaver and Fireworks to some extent, but I'm totally clueless about Flash. Can anyone recommend a book that would start at the very beginning and take me a good distance...more >>

I am creating a somewhat simple Flash animation at the top of an html page and I seem to have run into some weirdness with the video being laggy (when rolling over text links) and affecting the CSS rollovers on the rest of the page. This happens mostly when you rollover a text link and also ha...more >>

Is there a way to silently install Flash 7 from the flashplayer7installer.exe? I tried it with a "/s" flag and that seems to work. The only problem is that if I have a browser open, it relaunches to macromedia's website. I need the install to be completely silent. ...more >>

when I play the published html file, the browser window does not follow the movie size. How should I set the broswer size? ...more >>

I hunted for the answer for a couple of minutes then thought I'd ask you guys... How do I go from a normal php page to a specific scene and frame in a swf file? I'm guessing I have to pass some variables to the swf. a_url.php?playhead=sceneX&frameX Maybe?? I'd have to set something up i...more >>

Hey, I'm going to create a site for a Federal grant - Title 3 - and this site needs to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. My question is, if and how this compliance will affect the design of the site. So far the sites that I have found that are compliant are not t...more >>

OK, I've got an interesting problem... I've got a swf that I've compiled. In that swf i've got some drop down components (the regular ones from MX2004). When I load the swf directly into a level, there are no problems. But I am unable to reference the _parent of the loaded swf (to call...more >>

Time to take a deep breath and despair at the idiocy of computer users who are having their first outing with Flash MX... I've created a small flash file - it's a basic, animated banner ad for a friend, which he wants to have on another site, linking to his. How do I make the swf linkable to ...more >>

hi: would like to know if there is any way to publish text as outlines, but keeping it editable in the original .fla file. This because I wish "rare" fonts (as Gill Sans, Univers... not installed in all pcs) to see just the same that in my computer, but able to edit later. I appreciate any hel...more >>

Hi, i'm having some trouble to create a action wich would send my movie to a random label. What would be the smart way to do this? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi group i have a movie structure in this way: FOLDER SWF's init.swf >> preloader.swf >> movie.swf FOLDER HTML if the HTML file is in the same folder as SWF all is fine else if the html file is outside and links to the embeded swf , in a swf folder Movie doesnt work at a...more >>

hi i've got a sound file which is a whole song of about three minutes, basically i want to know if i can chop the first 30 seconds of the front and make it fade out as the file size is too big. i want to this witihin Flash MX 2004, est-ce c'est possible? ...more >>

Thanks for reading this post, im having a head scratch on how to edit a compnant, I want to change the button designs. How do i open a componant to edit it? Thanks in advance Will...more >>

I have a pdf file for which I'd like to create a link so the user can download the pdf file from a Flash Movie. I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone help. I'm kinda new at this. ...more >>

hi i need select file in my HD ussing flash ...more >>

hola quiero poder seleccionar un archivo en flash dando click en un boton y salga en navegador de windows seleccione asi un archivo ...more >>

Hi, I'm a newbie in this aspect. Just came across the flash movie/clip potentials. I was browsing through the internet and came across several personal blogs containing flash movies and I was both laughing and astounded at some of these movies. However, when I tried to download these movie...more >>

Hi Group I am embeding a swf in a html page If the plugin does not exist i want two things to happen [1] displays a jpeg instead [2] opens a pop-up window where can i find such code for this using Flash MX professional 2004 ...more >>

Hi I'm trying to import an MPEG-2 video into Flash MX but it either crashes or says it can't read the file. Is this because all the videos are corrupt or is there some major plugin for MPEG-2 that I'm missing? Any help appreciated. Trevor. ...more >>

I am trying to hide my cursor in Flash MX 2004 and use another graphic for the new cursor. I keep finding examples for Flash 5 and I can't seem to follow them in Flash MX 2004. I am fairly new to Flash, I may not be up on the the lingo. Thanks Glenn ...more >>

With the trial of Flash MX, If at the end of 30 days, I am not satisfied, must I delete any basic flash file I create under the license use, or are they still useable or save-able in any fashionj what so ever? ...more >>

how do you convert text into a bitmap ...more >>

I have Flash MX and I can't seem to get a circle to spin/rotate smoothly, it sort of jerks around. How do I get it to spin/rotate smoothly? Please explain step by step and in detail. Thanks. Greg If you want to know what I mean I attached a zip file with the fla inside it. So you can see w...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to figure out how to create an expandable window that opens within a webpage such as shown in the Sony ad at http://www.zdnet.com/ Any thoughts? P...more >>

I have previously imported quicktime movies without sound to flash and published them as flash movies embedded in html. I want to avoid needing to use the quicktime player and to be able to control the movie (get url's,close the page etc) (delivered on CD). I am now trying to do this with a 65...more >>

in the regular Flash MX , after about 1000 frames the sound would go out of sync, but does it do the same thing in MX 2004?...more >>

Hello Folks, I think this is a relatively easy question!? Can flash stream audio that is in an external .swf? Or does the audio have to be on the timeline of the _parent clip in order to stream? I have not worked with audio at all so my knowledge is very basic. I have a ten second audi...more >>

Today i spent all day converting all of my videos to flash to put on my site, But when i went to upload the files, it had them all saved as only .fla fiiles there was no .swf file. Usually when you save there is a .fla and .swf saved. SO now i cant upload it to my site. I tried going back to ...more >>

I'm bidding on a large CD-ROM project which will involve text, images and a few videos, divided into 9 chapters. The CD-ROM will also be repurposed for web delivery. I would like to produce this in Flash, first of all because I know Flash while I haven't used Director in years. Also if it'...more >>

I'm in desperate need of one of the above. I can't seem to find anyone who could help out. I'm looking for information on how to create sites like below. These are located at MonsterTemplate.com but help on designing any one of the flash sites will help. I'm wondering how they got the sit...more >>

Hi, When I load up a page I've made that uses a flash navigaiton bar I get the following message: "Where is the Flash MX authoring tool running?" What is this message and how do I make it go away? Will my visitors see this message as well? The page can be seen at: http://www.thom...more >>

I am trying to create a box that moves across the screen and starts very small and gradually gets larger. The box has a standard (Solid) grey stroke. I also want the box to gradually fade in to full opacity as it gets larger. I set up a small box in frame 1 and then did a motion tween to fr...more >>