How do you skew a gradient? I've tried everything and I just can't figure it out! I can rotate and scale with the fill transform tool, but how do you skew? I downloaded the sample files from the http://www.birnamdesigns.com/misc/flash_skewed_fill.jpg -- take a look and please tell me how...more >>

Problem: I found several programs "out there" that decompile Flash aps (SWFs). In the Flash authoring environment, I password-protected my ap and selected "protect from import". I downloaded "Flash Decompiler" (Eltima software), and opened up my ap swf and was able to do the following: 1...more >>

Hi, I need to know how do I call a pop-up window by clicking in a button in an swf file that will be embebed in an html ambient. Thanks :)...more >>

How do I make red text that is stroked in white and then stroked again in black?...more >>

I recorded an application demonstration with Camtasia Studio and would like to know what advantages/disadvantages there are in choosing SWF vs FLV in order to publish it to the web? Are there any size and/or frame limitations with either? Is one more efficient with respect to RAM? Are ther...more >>

Greetings I am trying to create a presentation in Flash. What I would like is for each screen to play on mouseDown or something similar - like in Powerpoint. I have added the screen behaviour of goto next screen on mouseDown, I've added a stop actionscript to the first frame of the p...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to set up a preloader/progress bar to call an external swf into my movie. Actually, it will be calling in one of several available swfs to a target. Although I've seen it written before in these forums several times that you are basically an idiot if you can't figure out a p...more >>

Okay-- PC running Flash MX pro-- created movie, lots of layers, lots of effects, worked fine. Then suddenly-- the following message appeared. == **Error** Scene=loading, layer=Layer 3, frame=1:Line 3: Unexpected '/' encountered gotoAndStop(/:FrameLoad); Total ActionScript Errors: 1 ...more >>

i've been trying to figure a way to do this but i can't and i was wondering is it possible? I would like something like a inline frame please let me know how i really need this :)...more >>

Hello, Me again with another problem... I?ve been looking around , in help files and books, but none helps me. I have a dynamic text field in a flash movie. The swf reads a php file that has the names inside. In PC it works consistently, but in mac?s, the flash eat?s ??????????.... etc... WH...more >>

I have got a very serious issue and wonder if any of you can help??? I was working away in flash today then suddenly it said you do not have enough memory to open this scene. Your document is not damaged and maybe saved. please exit all documents etc.... I saved the file but now I cant o...more >>

I have a "more" and "back" button that are not reponding in the .html window. Also after I uploaded the more button didn't even appear in the site. The actions panel says goto and stop frame 2, which I think is correct. Does anyone have any troubleshooting for this? I'm still kinda new at...more >>

Fonts are very small in some of the MX 2004 Pro workspace panels (eg. project and library panels). has anyone encountered this? If so...HELP!...more >>

I am working in MX, and having difficulties, due to my novice nature. Building a self-contained project cd with movie clips and screen navigation using buttons. My slide presentation overlays all pages at once in publish AND I can't get a separate page to link to the slide presentation (the ...more >>

Any help here would be greatly appreciated, I have a button which moves along a path. When I try to get the _x and _y coordinates of the button I am only seeing a zero (0). I also have a movie clip which I attach on(release) and must run at the exact _x _y location of the button at that ti...more >>

Whats the easiest way to put a stroke on a bitmap? TIA Stargrrl...more >>

PowerBook G4 17, 1Ghz, 1GB RAM, Mac 10.3 Ran the 7.2 installer. re-activated. Now, it unexepectedly quits during launch during the "Initializing fonts..." phase. Help, I really don't want to have to do a clean install of my system! ...more >>

Hi. ?'m designing a project. thera are two languages. turkish and english. in each part there are 3 menus. and in one menu(under products menu) there will 5 pages and each page there are 6 product. when visitor click or onmouse over one product. a new flash window open and appear big pictur...more >>

Is there anyway I can change the transparency of text? I've got some text that I'd like to tween between being invisible and 100% alpha. I have to keep it as text because I've got the text scrolling. Thanks ...more >>

I'm an educator and wondering how to export students' work result out of flash into a folder. As far as I know thru reading several books, I can only export to a server. I need the results to be saved on a folder residing on the computer the students are working on. ...more >>

Is there a way to add informational frames to the interactions layer and maintain the navigation system on the scorm quiz template? I added some frames that do not have questions on them prior to the frames with questions. However the forward arrow is disabled now when I test the movie on...more >>

I am a beginner with Flash and I am designing a splash page. Simple I know, but all of the animation needs to overlap so I thought I would be quick and dirty and just use the main timeline. Only my music clip is 38 seconds long and at 20 fps I need 760 frames... but Flash is only giving me 540...more >>

I created a text rollover button with a rectangle for the hit area. When I Enable Simple Buttons it works as it's supposed to. When I test the movie, it is not a button. It is just highlight-able text with no rollover effect; a cursor appears rather than the hand icon. kjk ...more >>

Hello All, Can somone point me towards a simple way to link to mp3's to a flash file, and then play them? When I search flashkit, all I find is elaborate WinAmp-esque mp3 players. When search Flash MX help, all I find is loadSound (without clear direction what to do once it is loaded). Not ...more >>

I've successfully imported an .avi file & in the library it identifies the file as Embedded Video (37.8Mb file, imported @100%quailty, 0 Keyframes) - but when I drag/drop from Library to stage, get error message of "Embeddign OLE objects is unsupported. Use File>Import to Import Media. Ple...more >>

Hey everyone, I got to some problems with this flash movie. The link is http://i.b5z.net/i/ui/4000465/i/menu/fs.swf But, when i copy it (using flash downloaders or copying temperorary Internet files), and I open it, I only see a white screen. I tried importing it to a file to see if it...more >>

The problem is that when I try to load my web site it loads really slow. Here is what I have done: I created the web site in Flash 5. In the publish settings I have the tabs Format, Flash, Html, GIF, and JPG. I published the web site. Then I went to publish preview. Viewed the site and went t...more >>

i'm using flash 5 for a project of mine... first, i load a text file which has a number of variables, right now var1 - var20. i have a dynamic text box inside of a movie clip, and i only duplicate as many movie clips as i have variables for. the problem is, i can't seem to find any way to ...more >>

How I do full screen in projector mode but allow the windows task bar to show?...more >>

in the simplest sense when I use the MX Quiz templates and export the movie to flash 6 it DOES NOT work under flash 6 player. It does work with the 7 player but I am developing for an audience where we can't guarantee the flash version and some users will not be able to upgrade thier flash pl...more >>

What happens if someone w/o flash goes to a flash intro page? What code or option would I need in order for non-flash users to get through the intro page and into a non-flash page w/o any errors . The rest of the site would be non-flash. Thank you remove 357 to email me...more >>

At the end of a flash movie I want to allow the user to type in an email address so the movie link is forwarded to a friend. How do I do that? ...more >>

Does anyone know how to embedd a font into Flash MX 2004?...more >>

Hi there, I have created a pre-loader movie clip(swc) for my project. In Linkage... I have deselected the export in first frame option. Then i use the pre-loader movie in my project. My project's first frame is 100kb. All the frames are empty (only the one with the pre-loader has content)...more >>

Help! I need to solve this problem, is it a bug with Flash MX? I'm opening up websites from a Full Screen projector.exe and they only open in the background, even though I've tried _top and _blank. If there is a javascript solution which I can put in the html of my web pages, may I hav...more >>

Hey guys, i need some more help yet again. Can anyone tell me how (if possible) i can load different external .txt files into one area dependant on the button that is clicked? In other words i already have it so that an animation plays and a box appears, in that box is a welcome message...more >>

Hi, I have read on flash team that Ellipsys will be a new release. I have downloaded the 7.2 release, is that Ellipsys ???? Thank you for your answer ! CR...more >>

Good morning from London: I think a lot of people have had this problem. I have published my presentation as an EXE file and I would like it to appear centered on the screen. I am used to controlling the position of SWF files on screen but not exe files. Does anyone know of any way I c...more >>

Hello all! I am preparing a project to go on CD and I am debating what size to do it at. I want it to stay at a constant size no matter what size monitor it is viewed on, I know how to do this with the fs command, but I am wondering if anyone has any info on monitor sizes so that I can set t...more >>

Hi guys, im hoping you can help shed some light on this problem. Basically I have a SWF file which i have made and want to import into my current falsh movie and use it as a rolling animation in to background. My problem is that the SWF file has embedded vdeo which works fine before import,...more >>

Using Flash MX on WindowsXP. I have a frame containing 2 movies; each movie has 3 images which, in turn fade in (tween), is static and then fades out. (tween). No matter what I do there is a slight judder between the tween and static phases. There is no movement as I created the total number...more >>

Err, I am trying to animate a simple MC. Frame 1 of the MC has a simple stop action, and is to be triggered when the user rolls over the area. The MC contains an invisible button which has the action: on (rollOver) { gotoAndPlay(2); } on (rollOut) { gotoAndPlay(1); } Frame 3 c...more >>

Anyone know if it's possible to add a Show Screen behavior to a button in a Flash Form Application, so that the screen shown is randomly selected among a given set of alternatives?...more >>

OK, I am going crazy here ... ALL my slides have the parameter "playHidden" set to FALSE and yet they continue to blithely play while hidden. This presentation is for my boss to impress some top level execs and if it comes out all weird then my head will roll!!! X_X Help?? Has anyone run i...more >>

Hi, I tried to set the size of the HTML page to the stage size by changing the Dimension to "match movie" in the "publish settings", but still, when I open the HTML it is opened in full size. How can I change it? Alse, eventhough I changed the alignment to center, the flash is in the left to...more >>

Hi, I am trying to add my movie a button that by clicking on it, it sends to another sprite. I added a button (using component inspector) and added a behavior - click - GoTo and Play at frame...... my frame. When I ran this movie and clicked on that button, it didn't bring me to tha wanted f...more >>

My variables seem to be lost when I go from one flash movie to another on a different url in my site. ie. from index.htm to menu.htm how can I pass the variabes in my flash programs from on page to another? ...more >>

i have a small swf file which i can see when i place it in a basic dreamweaver page and preview it. but if i take the same swf file and place it in a frameset, i can't see it when i preview the file. any ideas what might cause this? thanks, m. ...more >>

When I test my movie, it goes much faster than when I play it on the internet. This causes a conflict in my audio timing which is really not helping much. Not only that, but I've deduced that if I test the movie accurately at 18 fps and then up the fps to 24 when I upload it, then it will be ...more >>

Hi, I would consider myself to be a beginner with Flash (only had it a few days, got flash mx pro) and am trying to make some buttons similar to the ones on this macomedia site, ie on rollover you can see some more text. However I would like my text to be animated letter by letter. I ha...more >>

My flash site works fine on most pc's but it doesn't work on some. There's no error but all that shows is my dreamweaver back ground....more >>

I was editing my flash file and for no apparent reason a mask layer that I had stopped masking. I was editing the movie clip that lay on the "masked" layer. Everything had been working beautifully previously. I tried to deleted the mask layer and start over but with no success. It still wasn't...more >>

Hi, I have created an animation and this is what I want to do with it: put it on a webpage so that it plays, stops on the last frame, and plays again from the beginning 30 seconds later, and then repeats that process. how would I do that? Thanks! ...more >>

In my Flash presentation, I've imported some audio. I set it up at the right spot and set it to event, then tested the Flash. The audio started much earlier than it was supposed to. So I went back and changed it to "stream". That didn't work, either. I deleted the audio file and re-recorded it...more >>

I am trying to get my site working on the net, but when i try to view it it loads really slow. Any suggestions why? Help....more >>

I have a 3 minutes movie formed by 8 small movies that load one after the other by an action (load movie...,0) located at the last frame. When I uploaded and tested there is a blank space between movies, which I don't want; I need a continuous movie. I tried moving the action frame backward...more >>

Well, its about that time. Ive used all this time learning how to use flash, now i have no idea how to get past this final bump. I have a flash site that is comprised of three flash movie files, and an HTML index file containing the site itself. I dont know which ftp client to upload it ...more >>

can I change the dynamic text box's border width ?? I already set the text box border color & background color myText.border = true; myText.borderColor = 0xFF6600; myText.background = true; myText.backgroundColor = 0xFFFF00; how to change the width to 2px or other size ? Also, can I c...more >>

Hi, i have made a button in Flash, and i have placed it in dreamweaver but i dont know how to link it to another page, and im not sure if i do it in dreamwaever or in flash...more >>

Hi, I have a flash animation I created ("swf"). I tried to open it on a computer that "flash" is not installed on it, and it couldn't run. So how can I see on that computer websites with flash animation? Is it because the HTML can run this application? What I need is to send this flash an...more >>

FYI! As you may have already noticed, the Ellipsis (Flash 7.2) updater was just released - you can download (and read more about) the 7.2 updater at the following location: <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/special/7_2updater/">http://www.m acromedia.com/software/flash/sp...more >>

I am using Flash 5. What does it mean to publish something in flash? and how would i do that? thanks...more >>

hello everyone, was wondering if someone knows of a tutorial for having a custom scrollbar., with easing..but for loaded text. The ones I find are not for loaded text. i dont want to deal with components, I would like to make a custom bar with just the bar, no up down arrows. Can anyone help ...more >>

hi i just downloaded an installed the 7.2 update to flash.. and after i did that i cant publish my files any more.... can any one help me.... i have tryed to publish some files that worked in 7.0 but the publishing frezes i am using windows 2000 ...more >>

Flash is completely screwing me over. It crashes when i try to export, publish, test, anything that would allow other people to view my work. My big project that i have been working on has been delayed due to these problems. Help ME! ...more >>