Hi can anyone shed light of this subject? Flash Satay http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/flash_satay.html There's been a few reports on the web, suggesting this technique, however you get this terrible, 'no image' area for a split second while it loads the whole m...more >>

I just installed the 7.2 updater. I de-activated all my extensions as it said to do. Now Flash won't open at all. I get this error message: "This application has failed to start because actlib.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.". Any ideas? ...more >>

I had three trace statements in a row that printed to the output screen every frame (while testing from the development environment) - it obviously flooded the output and was almost impossible to use. It looped for a while and then appeared to stop printing to the output screen. I stopped the ...more >>

I thought that this little clip was awesome and want to recreate something close this it. Does anyone have any idea on how this would work. Please help! Thanks in Advance!!! http://home.comcast.net/~sixiong/dubdub.htm ...more >>

I've been asked to provide a flash animation that willl play automatically in an email. I have created the animation, but how do I get it to play automatically when you open your email? All I end up with is your normal attachment. Can anyone help me please. Cheers Dave ...more >>

Hi, have been doing html sites for a while and thought i would enter the world of flash gently by getting a template with a flash menu and by editing it myself would get me into it, unfortunately its driving me nuts!! I've managed to change some of the buttons to the correct urls, and change...more >>

hi, I was hoping someone could help me achieve a true pixel bitmap in flash. I made a checkered pattern in photoshop, saved it as a GIF. patern is one pixel red one pixel transparent, repeating. I then imported this into flash. my jpg compression is 100, within the compression of the movie I...more >>

I have a button with on (release){ getURL("index.html"); } I want to pass a value from this button through to index.swf which is embedded in index.html - how should I do this? What I want is to send through the variable/value pair : currentVisitor=1 I want to check this v...more >>

Well, aside from the title there isnt much else to this... This is the first time i have attached music to a movie that i made. I included a sample file for users to dl (I assure the security of the download). The only thing i find confusing is that when i attach a sound to a layer, it show...more >>

I tried publishing and testing out all options and parameters from Flash MX 2004 to generate a high quality animated gif but no matter what I do it still comes out very low quality. I would like to generate something like this at a low file size. http://www.masstechgroup.com/HDlayout.gif ...more >>

Hello all, Can someone give me a step by step instructions on how to do this: Create a rollover map of the United States where when you rollover a state, lets say Washington, it turns green and then you are able to click on it and it opens up another window. Any help would be appreci...more >>

Meaning how can I make it so that the arrow pointer mouse thing has a different graphic in Flash. Like a target or something. Please help. :)...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to get the source for "http://www.yahoo.com" in flash and show it in a textArea? Let me be a little more specific. I would like flash to go to the www.yahoo.com page and download the source of that page into a textArea. Thanks Andy ...more >>

I tend to save a file I'm working on under a new name frequently. Does working with a fla file that is many generations removed from the original increase the likely hood of corruption?...more >>

Hey, i'm nere here and this is my first post. I have been trying to learn flash. I have some ok buttons and some fly out menus done. But the buttons are light blue and I need dark blue. How do I change this by coding or dreamweaver or flash? I do properties and you can change the BG of th...more >>

I am trying to download Flash, but for some reason, I can not. I click on 'Download Flash', but the security box never pops up, the movie never plays, and the text never appears. I closed all windows, except the Flash window. I also have given it time, I've left my computer for over half an ho...more >>

I have developed a file in Flash 5 with Video and Audio and have been unable to export this file to DVD which was my intention. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 2nd problem, upgraded system to windows xp and the program I had developed will no longer run in Flash 5,...more >>

Dear all. I have created a basic 4 page (products, About etc) site and have used the scrollpane feature in a movie. Within this layer of the movie the buttons I've created loads other .swf files - which are basic picture. When you click on next buttons the next .swf is loaded - all works...more >>

Hi, I've been using Flash at a basic level for a while now and I want to create a small animation that I've done before but I've forgotten how and everything I try seems to fail. I want to tween a small circle into a word. Now I can tween one shape into another but not a shape into a word....more >>

Plz, I have created a scrollpane in Flash Mx and i want to load with a botton it's content but the problem that the content is about 100 Mb so I need to create a loading bar for this . What should i do ? Plz Help ; Thanks ...more >>

I'm a new flash user and am in the process of editing a flash template website. I was able to edit the basic text like company name and the slogan but it seems to be more difficult to edit the portion of the site that has sub-sections. Can anyone offer any help? Thank you! ...more >>

I am researching the potential of using Flash to create a "Desktop Buddy" application. I am certain I can create it with Flash and use Flash Studio Pro or SWF Studio to create a dynamic projector that will live on the desktop transparently.. I wanted to get some thoughts from the group t...more >>

Hi, I have a flash file exported as exe runs on its own. How can I include it in the autorun after another exe file? For example; [autorun] open=dyncd\dyncd.exe ??????? Movie1.exe I am not very much familiar with the syntax Thanks Regards, ...more >>

Hallo zusammen, hoffe mir antwortet vielleicht jemand auf Deutsch ;-) HAbe folgende Frage. Bin Anf?nger bei Flash MX. Ich habe unter www.aleksschmidt.de eine Navigationsleiste entwickelt. Soweit bin ich bis jetzt ganz zufrieden. So, der User zieht seine MAus ja nun ?ber die jeweiligen Men?...more >>

I am creating a cd for a client that holds some pdf, and has an flash interface to view the pdfs (via flash paper). So in the app, I will use flash paper docs for viewing and printing, and the pdfs will be elsewhere on the cd. The problem I am having is they want to beable to save the pdfs...more >>

I have Flash MX 2004. I want to create a movie player which takes QuickTime MOV files and plays them back. I want the MOV files to be in their original forms. ie. I don't want them to be compressed into the SWF file. The SWF will just be a UI shell that opens the MOV and plays back. Is this...more >>

I'm researching the plausibility to put training in a web based Flash form. The idea is to build a trainer in Flash. This trainer then would import training modules also made in Flash which in turn would fill in text from a sister XML file. On top of this there would he a Flash chat client...more >>

Hello Flash Folks! Please come to the rescue of a graphic designer playing around with Flash Actionscript! I have created six scenes and want a navigation button to sequence through the scenes one by one. I have two buttons (next) and (previous) and have added a frame label to the ope...more >>

can any help me out with this? for some reason.. clicking on nav item on my page seems to crash the browser for users with flash player 6.0 79 home_btn.onRelease = function(){ getURL("../home.shtml", "_self"); } i've published this as flash player 6 compatible and it just flat out c...more >>

I have an array in the main timeline aSECTION4= new Array(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0); I then load a movie into a container movie which has an action in frame 1 of _root.aSECTION4[1]=1; But this does not update my array in the main timeline. Any ideas why? Thanks Dave ...more >>

Is there any way I could have a background image on an html page be transparent over the leftover white space in a swf file? I have a nice background image and instead of the flash swf file being loaded over the whole page I would like to have only the video display to be over the background....more >>

I wish to have the home page of a site a Flash homepage. I have a Quicktime movie that I want to show within the Flash homepage that will link to the site - which is totally HTML generated in DW. I don't want to have a Quicktime link or a Quicktime download but want the movie to start when the...more >>

I have 2 .swf's that need to start simultaneously in one HTML file. The framerates are the same (12) and the number of frames are the same. Does anyone know how to make them talk to each so they both know they are loaded and ready to play from the beginning together? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to create a mini-CD (business card size/shape) presentation just using Flash, or do I need to purchase Director for this? The CD should be able to run on its own without an Internet connection. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!!! Ki...more >>

Hi all I have a circle that will follow the mouse. I want to have a line connected to that circle. One extremity of the line will stay attached to a point of that circle no matter where the circle goes, while the other extremity of the line will stay immobile. Like: x______________O ...more >>

Hi... I have a managed chat program, used for online counselling. It's been in use some time, works OK... but some clients cannot load the client movie (it connects to the counsellor movie). Nothing appears, not even the window frame. Example: client has Pentium3, adsl, used to run AOL but n...more >>

I want to animate drawing in Flash. Problem is I've got drawing (logo) in fh.11 format and can not import into FlashMx (reading problem). Can anybody tell me what to do so I could import drawing? If I save drawing as swf I can not manipulate it... thx -- Edmund...more >>

I need to learn Object oriented programmin in flash. Do any one have some basic flas that can give me understanding to 1. writing classes 2. registering with the MC 3. manipulation and creating Objects fro this classes Thanks in advance. If possible do mail me at mbbs0@yahoo.com ...more >>

Hello there, I would like to have a dynamic text box that displays text found in an HTML file located in the same directory / address as the swf file. Is there a simple entry I can make into the 'variable' field to achieve this. The HTML file being called 'sample.html'. Any help greatl...more >>

Is there an easy way to resize an entire Flash movie from 640x480 to 1024x768? Using Flash MX 2004. Thanks....more >>

I just started using Flash MX 2004, and I have no prior flash experience. I have the basics down already, but I can't figure out how to edit objects that you import onto the stage. Say you copied an image, and then pasted it onto the stage at a certain frame. Every time I do this, there's ...more >>

Hi there, I am well underway on a project that loads data from external XML files into Flash templates. It works well, and does everything I need from loading images and text to creating buttons and menus. However I am a bit concerned about the speed of loading the data. My XML files are a...more >>

What in the world would cause a button to be in a different location than where I've placed it ? When I export it to view it it's off to the right and looks like it' slightly smaller too. (Flash MX) TIA Amelia ...more >>