Hello everyone. Here is the video I am trying to watch http://www.infomillionaire.com/update/small_market.html I can see the video and can hear seom noise... but it's all jumbled garbage that makes no sense, no matter how loud I turn the speakers. I have a brand new Dell PC. I use Win2K an...more >>

Is there a way to protect the graphic and actionscript codes of your .swf file from importing but from decompilers like "Sothink SWF Decompiler" or "Action Script Viewer 4.0". I tried "Swift Optimizer" and tested it against "Sothink SWF Decompiler" and it can still clearly get all the grap...more >>

Hello folks, Using Flash MX i would assign a short .wav file to a keyframe in a movie clip. That movie clip is a child of a child on the timeline. When the movie jumps to a labeled frame on the main timeline, the event sound of the movie clip plays. Very surprising. I ended up placing ...more >>

I'm Trying to tween between one gradient to another , any ideas how I can achieve this, any help would be greatly appreciated Cheers...more >>

Hi, When I search the Macro WS for information about updates to StudioMX all I get is information about 2004 information and no the original version, which is so annoying. Can anyone tell me where there is a section for that? eg patches and stuff, because dream weaver keeps crashing an...more >>

Hi everyone, I am a newbie to Flash. I am using Flash MX Pro 2004 to create a Flash movie that I want to place in a webpage. On the stage I am trying to import Quicktime video. I created the video using Canopus ACEDV as the card to import analog video. Using Premiere 6.5 I get th...more >>

I've got two embedded FLV files in a single movie. The FLV videos are both used twice (placed on stage at two different points in time in different scenes). They are both used in scene1 and both used in scene2. The problem is that the bits are not being reused (both videos are showing up ...more >>

How can I change the background color of the stage with action script ?? What's the script ?? Thanks Best regards...more >>

All I want Is a simple loading bar (or %) and maybe an image or text, (which I can do) ...more >>

Is there a way to convert a Base64 to a human readable string in Flash. If so how does one do this? Thanks Joshua Bloom jbloom AT popstick.com ...more >>

a quick question, are there any bugs attributed to wmode="transparent"....cant seem to find any bug reports/fixes. thanks....more >>

I took over administration of a website that contains a Flash audio player. It is at the top of the window at this website: http://www.lourdsmusic.com/main.htm The Flash audio player file name is player.swf which is located here: http://www.lourdsmusic.com/images/player.swf I want to c...more >>

I have included two comboBox components in my file. After clicking on either of them then my other buttons do not work properly. For example, 1) I have a view_cb that lists different viewing ratios such as 200, 150, 100, and 50. (The movie then scales by the number selected). 2) I also...more >>

What is the best way to get the best looking images (pixel and vector) should I use jpgs, or pngs, and at what compression. Fireworks or Photoshop? The jpgs I have been using are not doing the job. I have some bandwidth to spend, but I don't want to bloat my sight too much. thanks ...more >>

Hi ! I have one probleme. I have a SWF's file and I would like to go in a new SWF's file. But, I want to go in a specific scene in the new SWF's file, not the first one. How ??? Thanks you...more >>

Hello, I am trying to compress speech for my flash game. What is the lowest bitrate that I can achieve (I am willing to sacrfice quality)? Using mp3 encoders what is the best software/technique? Is there any way of achieving 1kbs? Cheers ...more >>

Hi, I wanted to add to my website something like the navigation bar on macromedia.com. Does anyone know how to design this complex navigation bar in Flash... Some general pointers or a brief description of the technique would be greatly appreciated... Thanks.. ...more >>

I need to add a new name that fades in on the flash animation located in the top right of this page: www.pas.com I have worked with flash before, mainly just cartoons, and I thought this would be easy but its giving me lots of trouble. Can anyone help me? ...more >>

Before I spend too much time barking up the wrong tree... can someone tell me if it is possible to create a flash page that I can pass the name of an image to and have it display the image and allow me to rotate it up to 360 deg.? Thanks ...more >>

Alright people, I am creating a viral marketing campaign for a client. It is basically a flash animation, that at the end of it shows the name of the person it has been emailed to. Obviously the persons name will have to be pulled from a database. At the end the ...more >>

So here's a question for you flash gurus. I have a project that will have 20 to 30 video clips, which I'm trying to keep at high quality (running the file to several hundred megabytes). I would very much like to keep my project as a single file for distribution purposes, but I don't know if t...more >>

Hi everyone, I created a flash banner 745px x 88px using text ( break apart and symbols) on tweens now i need to have another banner (same one different size ) so it fits 416px x 55px ii can't have it fixed within html, it needs to be done in flash. question is, how do i do it...more >>

hi im fairly new to flash but i have decided to make a flash driven site how ever i am getting stuck when it comes to using a scroll bar is there an easy way or straight forward way to get a scroll bar to work i have a number of images i wish to show on 1 page when a button is clicked and i wa...more >>

Hi there! I hope that someone can help me with this... I created a movie clip and embedded a button in it. Thereafter, I included the following actionscript code to make the button link to another Scene: on (release){ gotoAndPlay ("Scene 2",1); } Somehow, my button does not seem ...more >>

Can anyone help. I can't import any sound files into flash, anyone have any ideas why? It was working ok a week ago!!...more >>

I'm fairly sure the flash player (7) has a vertical retrace problem which causes animations to run choppy. You can reproduce the problem by creating a black movie and let a white vertical bar(50px thick) tween from left to right at a frame rate of 25. You get a choppy animation. The f...more >>

I've created a template that is now outdated... is there a way to delete it from the menu? TIA, Greg ...more >>

I'm creating a password protected area and had some script which I adapted. This works perfectly for one usernam and password: on (release) { if (user add pass eq "pariet" add "skydiver") { getURL("secure_pariet.htm", "_self"); } else { gotoAndPlay("failure", 1); } } I t...more >>

I have created a small Flash animation to go in my PowerPoint presentation. I have got the animation in PowerPoint thanks to the Flash Movies in PowerPOint 2000 tutorial. The only problem is i can not get the animation to run from start to finish more than once. It runs once when i import it b...more >>

Hi all, I'm having a problem with my Movie. It has a single frame which contains a movie clip. That movie clip is stopped at the first frame but it plays an animation which loads an external swf at the end of the animation. In the _root timeline, I have a function that triggers the animation to ...more >>

Hi All, This is probably something simple. How can I set the size of an alert message box? I try this but it doesn't work, when I have a long message it looks horrible. var myAlert:Alert; myAlert.setSize(250, 150); myAlert= Alert.show("This is a Test... This is a Test... This is a Test... Th...more >>

Hi Is there a way that I can stop a movies sound across multiple pages. At the moment I have a movie which you can stop the sound on but when you move to another page the movies sound comes back on. How can I get it to cut all sound across multiple pages? You can see what I mean ht...more >>

What's your opinions about macromedia's FlashPaper ? I think that PDF's time is up!!!...more >>

is it possible to use a scrolling dynamic text box to scroll a image? if so how can i do this...more >>

Is this possible? ...more >>

Can I use Flash version 2, 3 or 4 to teache students (academic use) - these versions are free today? Do you know it is true? AC...more >>

ok i just recently reformatted my computer and i had no way of copying down my own personal cd key and other things. so i am wondering how do i receive my serial key for Flash Mx 2004 back ?? please help me. this is very dissapoiting ...more >>

I have a scene on VHS tape that I would like to convert to DVD. Is it possible I can make a video scene from DVD become a digital still image, then implement it into web page? If so, what type of software program will I need to take the dvd image to make a certain scene digital still? ...more >>

Hi there, I'm new to flash, but getting better everyday (I hve to now that I told my boss it would be no problem to learn it, lol). I'm trying to make a flash presentation that plays start to finish on its own (i.e. on clicking to advence screens). Its suposed to be set to music, so that w...more >>

Does flash player 7 support earlier versions on flash? I converted a flash site from MX to MX 2004 and it works fine, but to get my XML and CSS to work, i need to Publish it with Player 7. It had major problems when i tried and I was wondering if any knows if that will occur with users who ...more >>

Hello, In my properites panel my edit button is grayed out. I would like to use Fireworks as a editor but can't. I can't even right click or use the triangle in the library. I can search for the program but that is not very useful. I don't have the done button in fireworks to send it back t...more >>

Please visit http://www.xiaotunes.net/highbw/ After the site loads, please click on "About Us". You will be moved to a new section. After this section loads, please take a look at the menu on the top Right and click on HOME. This button is supposed to bring you to the Second Frame of the ...more >>

Hi there...I am strying to add an mp3 sound clip to my movie but it never plays when i publish the movie. I placed it on the main timeline and also inside a movie clip and edited the clip down through the edit palette, placed fades in and out, then i set the clip to "stream". I set the sound p...more >>

hi, I know flash moderately well, but I don't even know where to start on this one. What I'd like to do is have the cursor leave a trail behind it. Like it's dropping off movie clips as it goes. I want it to alternate between about 4 different MCs - each will just be a different colored c...more >>

Is Flash MX Professional 2004 really hard to use?...more >>