i am exporting a movie that refers to other movies... i put them in my library but it doesn.t work how do i do that... cuz when i export my main movie in a folder it wont use the other movies... how do i put all that in a single file i am using loadmovie action script ...more >>

Bonjour, Je souhaite initialiser et faire entendre une bande son, toujours la meme et en continu , à partir de la page d'accueil, et sur toutes les autres pages, quelques soit le sens de la navigation des visiteurs... 1/ est - ce possible ? 2/ dois je utiliser FLA ou DW (lequel serait le + si...more >>

Hey, Does anyone know how to remove an item from a list box in Action Scipt? Thanks...more >>

I cannot get Flash to export a useable file format for DVD studio Pro or Final Cut, whether it be a .swf of .mov. I have tried opening it in Quicktime and exporting in various formats, and changing the various settings from within Flash before publishing. I am working on a Mac. Does anyone ...more >>

hello. i need include a draw board or a draw palette in my site, and i'd study php and everything about this, but its so dificult to me. in fact, i don't speack english very to. well, somebody can help me with this problem? i need find a draw board that can i copy and paste in my site easy... ...more >>

Hello everyone, Before my question I need to tell you that I have replied to loads of your questions but after a few days it said that the messages couldn't come through. Just to let you know i haven't given up altogether. I have a menu bar and I've recently found out how to use it. Here's...more >>

I made a simple flash movie with Flash MX2004 Pro (flashplayer 7) and published it with quality set to "BEST". The EMBED and OBJECT tags have also parameters set to "BEST". 1. When I open the html-file with the swf as a local file on my computer, the quality is correct (for example C:\Inetp...more >>

Hi i have a project that is due on monday and as of now i have an interactive movie with 300 different movies within it. I need a way to keep the file size small! I tried .flv but it wont work in my situation because i need the quality to stay at it's best. Is there a way to get it so that whe...more >>

i am exporting a movie that refers to other movies... i put them in my library but it doesn.t work how do i do that... cuz when i export my main movie in a folder it wont use the other movies... how do i put all that in a single file ...more >>

This question is posed to experiecned flash developers, are there common pitfalls or problems(misconceptions) that a newbie will surely run into beginning with flash?...more >>

I want to use the media playback component to play 5 or 6 mp3's back to back. I'd also like to let users use the left and right arrows (on the media playback controls) to skip forward or backwards through songs. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks a million ...more >>

what happened to the loveable edit center tool ? if its still in MX i can't find it.... is it there?...more >>

I've got a simple, two column table that I'm inserting a flash file into, and I'm trying to get the flash to scale with the browser. If I set the width and height attribute to 100%, the flash doesn't appear at all in IE 6 PC. The page acts appropriately on IE mac... anyone know a solution? ...more >>

for some reason MX locks up during the publish process first couple times i published - it worked fine -- but when i went back to the file to do it agian ... it started creating the published file, but it was EXTREMELY (30+MB) large (when my orig fla is only like 7mb) & finally MX closed out...more >>

hey, I'm trying to load a slider navigation MC into an empty MC in another movie and the slider is not working. I know you have to refer back to the main movie when doing this _parent. but I'm not sure how to throw it into the code as it is now. scrollpos = getProperty("/scrollbar", _x); ...more >>

Anyone run into this? I'm developing a piece in MX 2004 Professional, with Form Application setup, and one of my screens contains a mask. All content on that screen shows in the published SWF except for the mask AND the masked content. If I delete the mask and try again then the content is vis...more >>

Can Flash MX 2004 create a standalone projector with HTTPS communication capabilities? I need to exchange SOAP/XML securely between my executable and a server on the net. I cannot have a browser open for this. Can this be done natively? 3rd party tools? Flash remoting? Can it be for bot...more >>

Hello I have a project made with MX 2004Pro on OS X 10.3.4. In there I have a lot of dynamic text boxes with scrolling text inside. This text must be HTML formatted (the "render text as HTML" option is checked) as it contains different fonts of different colors and sometimes links. The text ...more >>

I have a digital catalog where I am bringing in the images dynamically. The images have to be jpeg to work properly, but when I publish, the images are scaled up just enouph to pixelate them. I have exhausted every image setting and idea to get it not to scale up, but to no avail. Any ideas wo...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to set up a movie so that it can be started by pressing a key such as spacebar? I don't want the movie to start or be visible until a key is pressed. I was thinking of having it open but minimised and paused then once the spacebar is pressed the exe starts as usual. ...more >>

http://www.artfunction.com/ISAHP/HTML/ In the above page I made the javascript menaus which pop off the top nav fall behind the flash. I tried putting the js on a DHTML layer and the flash on a DHTML layer but the zindex thing didnt work and the java is still behind the flash. How do I mak...more >>

Is there a way to change a symbols name, without replacing the symbol itself? I want to make a copy of a symbol and edit it without having the original change with it. ...more >>

Hello everybody I'm developping an aplication wich uses custom interfaces.. Te end-user=20 can change the interface at his own "flavour". I use the simpleButton with two skins that are embeded in the app movie.=20 This means increasing a lot the final app size. Is there a way to have ...more >>

Hi, I am relatively new to flash and am interested in the best (or most common, logical, easily maintainable) way to develop sites and/or applications using flash. Is it common to create a single .fla and use many movieclips to create a site, or would you use an "index" type of .fla tha...more >>

hey guys (&girls) i'm sorta new ... well, REALLY new to flash i got flash MX -- created a movie... no problem i exported the movie, and published it as well ... which gave me 3 files (.html, .fla, .swf) i started up the swf file - and everything ran smoothly -- no problems or glitches ...more >>

iv tryed and even tried to get help here but no one will help me so iv come to conclution im flashstupid. but anyways i still need something built and i was woundering if thers any one out there whoo could build it for me? its vary simple and not at all big and intricit. Please e-mail me at ...more >>

I have a 5 scene file set up at 20 frames per sec and is 800 x 600. This file is then being published as an .swf and imported into a Director file, which in turn is being burned to a CD ROM, so final playback is via CD ROM drives on the end user's computer. In the first scene there is a la...more >>

just a few "best Practice" syntax questions: 1. What is the single underscore used for? Properties right? 2. What about the double underscore? 3.What about the square brakets?[Bindable(param1="writeonly",type="DataProvider")] Thanks ...more >>

I've made a flashmenu. When using the explorer print function i've got no problem with it, but a costumer of mine gets the flash menu printed upside down. Can anybody help me solve this problem? Thanxx ...more >>

Hi I've created an interactive CD which has an autorun and starts up full screen. On the CD there are quite a few buttons that link through to websites, the links work fine, but the problem is (on some machines) the browser is opening under the interactive cd. Does anyone know why th...more >>

I have already built a flash animated movie and now I need to move the multiple layers to a newly sized canvas. Is this possible? The Select All and all other options I have tried just is not grabbing it all. Please help if you can. Lesson learned for the future... size canvas before you ...more >>

Hey guys, In a Flash movie, I know how to stop the movie dead. How do I stop the movie for only set set period of time (like 10 seconds or so) and the start again? I could use some help ASAP....more >>

Here's a link to the image, so you understand more clearly what I mean: http://fkserv.ugent.be/lombrosiana/flash.jpg I only want the hit zone to be the image of the animal (smaller than bounding box), without the bounding box. If i define the hit zone as the shape of the animal, it uses th...more >>

I need to move an animated GIF accross the screen while its animating, like if I had a GIF of a running person, I want to move him accross the screen while his legs are moving- hope that made sense Dave ...more >>

Does anyone know how to write to a csv file from flash? Dave...more >>

Hi Friends, This might seem like a pretty elementary question but if a movie is made using FLASH MX.., which player should I have to view it? Sorry for my lack of knowledge and thank you for anyone who can answer this for me. ...more >>

Hello, How is the best way to converte movies WMV to FLV format? I'm exporting WMV from Premiere, so later I import in flash tem export FLV with the video exporter... :( There is a simple way to do this? Thanx ...more >>

I have a very small preloader in frame one. When the movie is tested, Flash will not show the preloader until 24kb have been downloaded. There is nothing else in frame one. Can I regulate when the preloader will appear? I'd like it to appear ASAP. TIA, Dave ...more >>

hi i have made presentaion in flash that contains lots of movi clips which i have exported in .swf. Now i want the movie for cable for which i have to give it in video format i.e. .avi or mov or sequencial files. what ever. but the problem is it exports only main (_root) timeline. Wha...more >>

i have a movie that contais 6 scenes, and i have a sweet loop which i want to play throughout the movie. i have placed the sound in a movie clip, and i have kept that movie clip in every scene but when the scene changes the sound(movieclip) restarts wchih doesn't give a look of continiuation...more >>

OK, here's the example I have 2 swf file - A.SWF and B.SWF i want to have a button on B.SWF that will load up A.SWF (nice and easy) but, I want the button to go to frame 30 (or to a cetain frame label) on A.SWF can this be done? sounds easy right? thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi everybody, I have got a "small" problem regarding a file .swfwhich I create. It has a button in it and when it is pressed it should print the whole window, which is the action to do that? Thank you so much to who will help me because I am stuck newbie flash user Michele ...more >>

I export my movie... that is calling other movies... but when i send it to my friend he does not see the interactivity and its very heavy... how do i compress the swf and make it that everyone can visualise the aniumation.... is there way to export all of the .fla in a swf so all the buttons w...more >>

I am a new user to flash mx 2004. I have several photos that have been stitched together through photoshop, and i want to use them in a website that i am designing in dreamweaver. Does anyone know how to pan the picture in flash? ...more >>

Hi, I made a website and included some flash video on one of the pages. It plays fine when viewed in Internet explorer, but it doesnt play at all in netscape, just says "Display" in the area where the video should be playing. Is this a netscape problem or my problem? Thanks Mike M ...more >>

I am using Allwebmenu to create some pull down menus. Problem is that the menus go under a Flash animation I have on my webpage instead of over top. Is there anyway to make the Flash movie go behind the menus? ...more >>