If you go to the Macromedia website homepage, there's a Flash Movie that doesn't loop after it plays. My movie loops by default on my browser and on everyone else's browser. Is there some way to "override" the default loop and make my flash play stop at the last frame and stay like that? Pleas...more >>

I have a movie in a html page named "MyTopMovie.swf", and an html button "Next Movie". On button click, I want javascript to do the following: (1). load "MyLoadMovie.swf" into "MyTopMovie.swf" (2). resize the size of top movie from 300x300 to the size of loaded movie Can I do these in java...more >>

Hello guys, There is this very cool zoom plug in to use for viewing detail of photography in flash websites. Unfortunately I have lost the link and I don't remember the name. Do any of you know of any plug that would let viewers zoom on a part of a photography to see detail and quality of the...more >>

How do you make a movie not loop by default? On the macromedia website home page, the flash movie plays and just stops. It doesn't loop. How do you do that? Please HELP!...more >>

I loaded a movie named "mymovie.swf" by LoadMovieNum("mymovie.swf", 0); What's the handle of the loaded movie? _root.mymovie? How to get the size of the loaded movie? mymovie.width? _root.mymovie.width? Thanks. ...more >>

Ok, since I have not gotten a response to my last question, let me rephrase. I'm having trouble w/ external SWF's functions once loaded into empty mc's. Really need some advice or a point in the right direction w/ this. ...more >>

How do I edit an existing symbol, convert it into a new symbol, but keep the original symbol in the library. It seems that when I edit a symbol it changes the configuration in the library. I don't want that..... I want the original symbol and the new one. Help. ...more >>

I know I'm not the first one to bring up this issue, (there have been many posts like this one, earlier in the forums) The fact that streaming mp3's don't work in IE, is something that many people are having problems with. Does anyone know why streaming music will work while using Flash Player...more >>

I am making a flash movie and I'm trying to find a way to make my text dissolve in, but I can't find any way. Please help! I really need this. ...more >>

If there are any Macromedia employees reading this pleeeease read on... The omission of the normal scripting mode in flash mx2004 is making my life hell! Yes - you may have included some behaviours - but this is no way near the same thing. The reason I started to use flash all those...more >>

I am rushing to get a Flash site up right when our baby is born (it's due July 16th but can come any time now) so I've been feverishly trying to get things designed and figure out how to make them work with Actionscript (only the basic commands) My site has a small intro screen with fading tex...more >>

got a little bit of a flash problem here... need some advice, I have a bunch of illustrator files both with embedded fonts and outlined fonts ( 2 versions of the same file ) it seems that no matter what I do to import these into flash the fonts come out blurry and kinda chunky.... ...more >>

I created a Slide show in Flash 2004 professional using the Slide Show template. This template included two buttons that advance slides forward/back. How can I add a control that says if neither button is clicked in 10 seconds, automatically advance to the next slide? Thanks! ...more >>

I've created a preloader using the code below and would like to adjust it so that I can preload a movie in sections, meaning something like ifFrame(whatever) is loaded go to and start movie. I would like to set this up so I can specify to preload a video file that is within a movie clip and ...more >>

When I try to creat two different symbols within flash and morph between the two, I get nothing. Now if I take one or the other and morph it's properties it works just fine. Why can't I morph between the two??? does anyone have an Idea why?? Thx, John ...more >>

is there anyway that i can script to stream videos using flash mx pro? in other words, can i write some kind of script that would import selected video files, such as .avi, .mov or .mpg, and stream them without converting them into .flv by myself? i havent seen anything here in the forum, mayb...more >>

I have a movie animation that loops continuously and want to add a commentary on what is going on in the movie. The problem is the sound continues to loop with the movie over and over. How do I stop the sound when the commentary is completed, but keep the animation looping? I have tried ...more >>

Sorry if this is an FAQ, but where can I find some good MP3 to Flash music players to include on a website? I do not know Flash well, I prefer a stand-alone program that automates and creates the player and encodes the music for me. So far I found http://www.soundnails.com/ which seems c...more >>

Sorry if this is an FAQ, but where can I find some good MP3 to Flash music players to include on a website? So far I found http://www.soundnails.com/ which seems cool, but it only plays one song and it would be nice to make a player that played 2 or 3 songs, had some different templates, and...more >>

I have a guestbook on my site that runs through php and writes to a txt file. Everything works perfectly except when someone types in the & symbol the area with messages will not display anything after that symbol. I figure that the text file is interpreting everything after as a variable. ...more >>

Hi, This is a very simple question. Say I have a movie and that I have 4 scenes in it. Each scene has about 15 frames. How do I jump from say scene 1 10th frame to some other frame in scene 4. The goto action goes to a specified frame but not a specified frame on a scene. I want to des...more >>

Imported an image from the Internet to use in making a movie. Can't separate the image from it's background. In Photoshop you just select the image and drag in to the stage. When I try this with the lasso tool in Flash MX it doesn't work? Ugh??? Why? Why? Help ...more >>

Hi- I'm setting up a flash site where I'm using the loader component(s) to load swf's as the site loads and as one clicks links, other swf's load and play etc. (thru the loader component(s)). My problem is how to organize all this, because with the html version, this is an 8 page site, so the...more >>

I created a form in Flash for use with a Form Mail CGI script. Upon submitting the form, the data (in this case "t") was transmitted successfully. However, it arrived with formatting for the input text fields as shown below. myName: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Trebuc...more >>