I am just wanting to edit a program source code template which i have purchased and customise it to my need I do not want to buy a suite macromedia worth $$$$ which i will never use ever can anyone tell me a software or method how to go about it. I made a wrong choice from the vendor wh...more >>

Hey all - do any of you know of a tutorial in which the resizing of object can be executed? I have seen these around, but the only example I can think of it used in the UML builder in http://www.gskinner.com/gmodeler/launch.html. When you create a class window, you can resize it! This is what ...more >>

Hey all - I hope that someone with some expertise might be able to help me out. I am looking to skin the Button component. I have opened the Halo and Sample skins, but the content in the Button assest seems to be non-existent or at least not important. For example, when you drag the asses on...more >>

I have a problem with audio from flash movies playing in powerpoint as soon as I open the file (before I reach the slide with the Flash movie). Do you have any answers for preventing this? ...more >>

Flash 4.0 I've created a text that would be my website's logo or title. The logo has live effects such as inner bevel and shadow. I made sure Canvas Color for my logo is Transparent. But when I apply background to my page the logo appears on a grey square (Canvas Size). I want this canv...more >>

Can the serial number for Flash MX be found at the bottom of the box? I'm so confused. I lost the CD case, and I don't know the serial number. What do I do?...more >>

I am finding great success with Flash FLV files that run on fast processor speeds. However when accessing the same material on computers ranging from 350 mhz down to 233 mhz Penium II machines, performance is absolutely shameful. How processor-dependent are FLV files in comparison to say a...more >>

Hi, I'm a relative newbie to flash, and I'm currently working on this animation: http://s92212976.onlinehome.us/Dpixl8/media/projects/bis/uploadmaterials/link.ht ml Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it more exciting (at least, not boring), yet, still fit the corporate aesthet...more >>

I'm working on this extremely long presentation, and to avoid having 70 or more layers to work with I created individual segments of the presentation (1 through 18), including embedded video and narration tracks in most of the segments. To make this now into one presentation I have tried var...more >>

Does anyone now what is the best way to get video to play off a CD from a projector file? I find that it seems to take forever for the video to load from the CD when its embedded. Is there a way to link to a video clip, even a flv file rather than embedding it? and will this make the clip load...more >>

I have created a form using flash and am attempting to use coldfusion to process the form. However I have run into a problem, and at this point I'm not sure whether the error originates on the Flash side or the ColdFusion side. The flash form successfully passes all data to the form processing...more >>

Anyone know http://www.brp.com/en-CA/ was acheived?...more >>

I have a multimedia presentation and a few short movie clips to be played in sequence. I have one movieclip per slide. The only problem I have with this is that the clips loop until the slide show is manualy advanced. I have spread the movie clips out over multiple slides to avoid having to...more >>

I'd like to know what tools I need to make a flash based guest book... What do you use for a database with flash and is there any templates for speeding up the process? I am using Flash 5... thx in advance! ...more >>

Hello Peeps I am new to Flash so please bare with me. I am looking at the Flash Form Presentation. I am comming accross a problem and I'm not sure if Flash Forms works this way. First I have an application layer. On it i have made some button to show different forms.(navigation) ...more >>

Dear all, pls advice... thanks cheers, cswong ...more >>

I have succesfully downloaded Flash MX 2004 (trial version) and installed the program. While trying to run the program the computer freezes (the mouse shows sand clock icon) on the main screen of Flash. Here are my system specifications: Windows 98 Internet Explorer 5.00.2614.3500 Pentiu...more >>

Hi, I have a button consisting of a graphic and text. I would like to make it so only the graphic area, and not the text area of the button, responds to the button's onRollOver event. I would like to avoid breaking up the button into separate parts with their own events. Is there a way to...more >>

The dynamic text property: .textWidth is the width of the characters in the dynamic text field, or the width of the actual textfield? A book I have(Flash MX: creative web animation and interactivity by Derik Franklin) indicates that textWidth is the width of all the characters, however testi...more >>

After a recent computer crash I have the option of reinstalling my old Flash 5 and dreamweaver 4 or going to the newer MXStudio education version of these. Question is, do I reinstall my old products or move on to the new comfortable in the fact that I'm not leaving any capabilities behind. ...more >>

AKA: News Scroller I want to create a news scroller in flash. I searched the support docs for "news scroller" and did not find anything. Pretty standard functionality I would think. A series of news items that when the news item is clicked it goes to that particular item. I would set up so...more >>

I need simple form help please... This is not simply a "simple email form" that replicates an email. I need phone and fax fields too... Or ability to add extra fields as necessary. I need to send the form via email, that is, sendmail. All of the form's fields would be sent IN THE BODY of the...more >>

How silly is this? In the Drag and Drop Quiz template, if you don't get the test right the first time, you can't try again! The "Reset Button" ONLY works BEFORE you click the "Check Answer" button....more >>

Two questions: 1) Is setting a projector auto launch from a CD easy to explain? I know it is an FS command but if someone feels like elaborating, I would greatly appreciate it. 2) Also, once launched, how can I make the interface have little or no border on the window? Thanks in ...more >>

Anyone know how to resize a loaded image? This seems like it would be a simple matter, but not so. I found some code on the web, but it doesn't resize the image. The image loads fine, it's just the resizing to 126x147 that's the problem. sideimage.onLoad = function() { var maxWidth = ...more >>

Once upon a time, I had loaded a RoboDemo trial and decided I didn't want to use it anymore. Ever since then, when I start up Flash MX I get the following error: Unable to load external importer c:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX\Configuration\Import...more >>

I'm running Flash MX Pro 2004 version 7.0.1 on a twin 1 gig mirror door Mac desktop with 1.25 gigs of DRAM. I'm running OS X 10.3.4 Yet, I find the program delays and I get the spinning rainbow wheel constantly when I do things like attempt to select a new fill color from the color pallet wind...more >>

I've got "A.swf" (level 0) loading "B.swf" into level 1. Now I would like "B.swf" to collect/get/load some MovieClip from "A.swf" (level 0). How do I do that? any suggestions -- Thanks Pop ...more >>

Hey folks, Here is what I'm trying to do. I'm passing a value to my .swf file through the browser (myFlash.swf?shirtColor=1). It's accepting the variable as far as I can tell (I've tried to print out the variable in the window and it's worked). My problem is, I'm tryign to load an externa...more >>

Please someone help, I have never used flash before and I am really trying to work out what I am doing wrong. I have followed the demo on creating buttons up to the point of the HIT frame, I try to enter in the action but I get syntax errors all the time. I copyed an example from a b...more >>

I downloaded Flash player on my Windows 2000 server and everything works fine when I am logged on as that user. When I log on as another user, admin or not, it will not work. Any suggestions? ...more >>

I have a pretty simple slide show that loads .swf files into a target movie clip using the loadMovie method. The problem is that some of the .swf files have dynamic text fields and the text in those fields do not show up when they are loaded into root's target clip (the text shows up fine when th...more >>

I have used a simple text link to enable visitors to e-mail through Flash MX. The feedback that I have been having is that is that this link is not working in all browsers ? Particulary ones that do not have Outlook Express. I know the ?mailto:? link is not standard HTML, but is there an a...more >>

Can someone please tell me in simple terms what is the deal with Flash & search engines. I have just submitted my first commissioned site to a clients ISP & the client has been on the phone to me waving her hands in the air saying that a guy at the ISP has told her that because the site wa...more >>

hello, i had trouble with gif transparency, because of forum advice i changed to png... but the transparency is still a little lighter than the background. how can this be? maybe i did something wrong with the png import? is there anything to watch out for? thanx a lot for your help! jud...more >>

Some of the fonts currently installed on my computer seem not to be supported by Flash, yet in other programs, such as office XP, are displayed properly. For these fonts, Flash uses a subtitute. This problem doesn't appear in static text, but it does in input or dynamic. Why are these particul...more >>

Hi, I've never uploaded anything onto the web. Is there any information on the net or any books that would tell me how to upload a flash site. Cheers! ...more >>

Hi, I've been given a PowerPoint presentation that my client would like included on his website. I've tried the 'save as Webpage' option from the menu within PP however the results look abit amateurish. Is there anything on the market that would do a good job of converting this present...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004 (version 7.01) on the OSX 10.3.4 I'm only new to Flash so bare with me... I have designed a logo that explodes apart using 'Timeline Effects >Transform. Now I want to make the logo implode back together again so I need to reverse the animation sequence.. right! I h...more >>

Hello... I want to be able to click a FLASH button I created, that when clicked goes to my designated URL. How can I do this? I'm having trouble figuring it out. Also I need a 5-second delay before the page opens in order to let the sound ring out that is in the button. Please help. I'm a ...more >>

I am creating a Collage where a bunch of clips from diffrent pictures move on to the work space and then crack and blow apart leaving a final picture. I need one more layer that I could draw the lines (that thewould serve as the fault lines for the pictuers to blow apart). When I created that ...more >>

Hello. I'm very frustrated, and am requesting help. I've imported a bunch of bitmaps into a Flash MX 2004 slide show presentation. When I publish the movie, and then open it in Flash Player 7, the quality is terrible. When I open the movie using the generated HTML file, though, the qu...more >>

How do you make a custom preloader for a movie?...more >>

Hi, ive just started using dynamic text fields for my flash website, but am just wondering how to use HTML within the text document? All I want to use is simple HTML formatting. Cheers...more >>

I have two questions to ask: please visit http://www.jesperkyd.com/ And you'll see the entire website in Flash Format. I'd like to ask A) When you click on "Games" you'll see that the background moves over. How is this done? B) When you click on "Games", you'll see that there is ...more >>

Is there a way to save from mx2004 into flash 5 format? The only choices I have are MX2004 or MX. Flash MX could save into Flash 5 format. Any way to do that with MX2004...more >>

I am trying to call a function in a PHP file from Flash. I can see how to use variables but I need to execute a function and return some variables. Could someone please point me in the right direction. Thanks Trevor ...more >>

I'm loading in external variables into an array (which is working just fine), but I having a problem duplicating a movie for every element of the array. I have a scrollpane that all these movies are being duplicated into, but it isn't working. In my scollpane movie I am using the following c...more >>

I hope someone can help or steer me in the right direction.... I'm working on a full flash site and want to include video....but I've ssen the standalone type windows in flash and I don't want that...How can i create something like this example..... http://www.macromedia.com/macrome...more >>