Anybody out there have trouble with the Style graphics tablet from E3works on a Mac. It works in photoshop, but crashes flash and fireworks as soon as the computer detects that I'm trying to use the pen on the tablet....more >>

Hi, I was wondering why the website I'd been developing didn't work on Mac. I have never got close to mac machines, but now my "client" wants to see his website working on Mac. I've already tried a G3 and a G4 iBook (latest plug-in on) but it failed to work. It works perfectly on any PC. :...more >>

In Flash 5, I am drawing a filled square over an intance on the hit state of a button. The square is going behind the instance instead of over the top. And my button doesn now work. Any solutions for this? TIA Amelia aka Stargrrl ...more >>

Here's my disclaimer, I am completely new to flash. I am looking for a tutorial or a quick answer (if there is one) on creating a "media player" in flash. I was looking at a website and I noticed a "player" that allowed a user to skip, play and pause tracks. Can anyone point me in the ri...more >>

Calling all Gurus. I have a couple elementary questions. I hope someone can give some direction to this lost individual. To the point: 1) When I test my flash movie, the JPGs I imported from Photoshop (96dpi, max quality) become pixilated. Is this due to double compression? -I am bui...more >>

My project is a cd rom. I have created a presentation which plays full screen as I have used - fscommand("fullscreen","true"); - on the first frame. Ok so far, but when i click on the buttons that I have created which have a "load external movie clip" behavior the movie snaps to the top left ...more >>

Hi folks, I'm new here and pretty new to the world of Flash as well, and would appreciate any assistance you can offer with this... I posted the same thing to the flashkit forum, but thought I'd post here as well... Here's the scenario: I'm using a flash navigation panel with a number of ...more >>

Hello, I am using MX04. I wonder if it's possible to use the "tellTarget" script to trigger multiple MC's at once instead of writing a command for each MC. for example, now I am doing this: on (press) { tellTarget ("_root.MainMC.aboutHeader") { gotoAndPlay ("start") } } on (pr...more >>

im a beginner in flash and i have to do a work for the uni and i'm having a small problem...i'm trying to do a begining menu from which you can open all the other pages of the work. but now when you choose one of the other pages it opens up on the menu page and i don't find a way to make it di...more >>

I am working on some projects integrating Flash with HTML. Without getting into the details of what I'm trying to do, I'm wondering if there is a way to send Flash(.swf) information using the embed/object tags. As a point of reference, here's a basic embed code: <object classid="bla" codeb...more >>

Hello, Have a question, are there any good or really good cd based actionscript training cd out there? Have looked a couple of different ones, but they say nothing of Actionscript 2.0. Thanks to all. ...more >>

I've created a small swf (as per the LiveDocs insructions) using MediaDisplay and MediaController components, to control playback of an MP3 file. When I Test Movie, it works perfectly. But, after publishing, all I get is a bunch of garbage being drawn...over and over and over. It's like it's ...more >>

geturl seems to do an adequate job of popping a url into a browser. Is there any way to then tell the browser to save that content as a file? I'm not stuck on geturl, it seems to be the only way to load general content. Loadmovie notably does not always work. Wont even work for all jpeg file...more >>

How would you send everything in a ceritn frame or sumin to an email adress like an ecard...more >>

how can you make a gamethat saves peoples names and stats so when they whant to go on there game thy have to put there user name and password in to get to it. ...more >>

I'm not sure if this is a Dreamweaver issue but here it goes. I found this cool Flash Ticker from Amarasoftware.com. Its great because users don't need to know flash or DM to input the data they need to have scroll in a news ticker. The interface created is great and one can easily just upd...more >>

Hi all, I'm loading an image into a panormaic image viewer so obviously the image is very wide relative to its height (over 3000px). The viewer uses a MovieClipLoader to load the image in. Unfortunately, Flash seems to be limiting the width of the image to 2880px wide and actually crops the imag...more >>

Hopesome one can help. I've done a very sucesful Flash presentation as an .exe file. I worked at 20fps as Iknew it would be shown on a high spec PC and they wanted nice smooth graphics. They now want it available fromthere website but at 20fps it's just too much. I was thinking of reducing the...more >>

Hi all on Flash MX 2004 all my old preloaders start to show after 70% of the movie has been loaded when tested with bandwidth profiler simulating download. The same is happening on my swf on my internet servers. is somebody experiencing same behavior? Thanks, Daniel from Caracas, Venez...more >>

I don't know action script real well and I want to assign a button a pause feature so that when someone clicks on it, the slide freezes on the current frame. Anyone know how to code this? I've tried a on (click) { stop(); } And that didn't work. Thanks ...more >>

I have some simple shapes drawn in Flash that come out a bit blurry on the printer. Is there a way to take these shapes and convert them to vector graphics so they print cleanly? Please let me know, thanks! ...more >>

I'm using html pages with flash buttons. I need to put some script on a flash button to open a new browser windo at a fixed size. Can this be done?...more >>

Hi, I'd very much like to know how to make an effect where some shape or line goes out of flash document boundaries if possible. I think I saw it on a shoe makers banner. Thanks! ...more >>

Ciao a tutti!! spero di non annoiarvi con una domanda che può sembrare ormai già postata svariate volte... cmq io ci provo: devo fare un cdrom contenente vari filmati video... posso usare Flash mx 2004 dato che gestisce molto bene i file .flv importandoli esternamente? oppure utilizzare ...more >>

Hey, can i get a little info on how exactly one styles the scrollbar of a scrollpane, the online help is kind enough to tell me to update the help (i have latest help) for more info on how to do this. So how does one get access to the scrollbar of a scrollpane? Styling the scrollpane (basicly ...more >>

Ok I have 2 cells for a news section on a web page. Cell 1 is to hold an Image Cell 2 is to hold text Using Dreamweaver MX 2004 php <> MySql in the database we have the text and maybe a path to the image, maybe not. So if there is an Image, I want to load the Image into Cell 1 and ...more >>

Hi people Well does anyone know if it is possible to import a powerpoint presentation in flash. I have got a client who got a presentation and who wants in on his site online. And the client dont want it downloaded put to be played online within the site. Any suggestions for that. ...more >>

Hi. I need to use an Active x control from my Flash appication. I think it?s possible, but i don?t know how. Somebody to explain this me? I use Flash Mx 2004. Grettins from Spain....more >>

I've been evaluating FlashMX 2004 and am slightly confused(directorUser) I've created a simple quiz from the templates and the quiz.swf works just fine, keeps score and everything. However when I try and simply pull it into a different movie (loadMovieNum "quiz.swf",3) the quiz.swf load...more >>

I am trying to figure out how to do some interesting transitions between photos instead of just fading in and out. Maybe something like a page turn? Any suggestions? Thanks Glenn...more >>

Does anyone no how they created the wand curosr with the trail behind it on the disney page? It is located at the disney site below. http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/?bhcp=1 Thanks Glenn ...more >>

I should first point out that I tried this with many different kinds of images, and throughout different flash document files. When applying a timeline transition on a image, the program hangs more often than not. On the few occurrences when it does come up, it seems to take an absurd amou...more >>

When I insert a flash movie into Dreamweaver, how do i allow it to only play once and keep the last frame on?...more >>

Hi. I have posted stuff and sometimes people have tried but given up on helping. Please try to help. The feature I am trying to figure out is one main reason I want to use Flash (MX Professional 2004). I want a user to select a state from a menu which in turn produces content relevant t...more >>

How can I fill the browser window with a background while still maintaining the aspect ratio of my main movie. I tried using the publish settings to 100% in the HTML tab but that scales the entire stage to fill the browser window. I need to isolate my movie from the background. Can anyone help...more >>

Does anybody knows an extension that I can use to simulate an object exploding. I will like to simulate the explosion of objects. Thanks Ruben...more >>