Can you mask a motion guide sequence. I can't make it happen. Motion guides are so damned 101, but I have to do one for a client. Anybody know the answer?...more >>

I have just made a 1mg .swf that looks great in "test movie" in Flash MX 2004 Pro and great in "play" in Dreamweaver MX 2004. However, when I attempt to preview in browser in DW, I get only a white window. When I published I generated a .swf and a .html file, which are both in the same folder...more >>

the ex-friend of my father has made a site in flash and my father has do some things for him and he modify the swf file from internet (my house) and to modify the swf file he have to rollover 4 or 5 words in order on the site ans then he can modify it . I want to know how to do that, if somebo...more >>

Does the BASE parameter (within the OBJECT tag that invokes Flash in an HTML page) actually work in IE? Although the documentation clearly indicates it should work, I can't for the life of me make it work. Windows XP, SP2 IE 6 SP1 ...more >>

does anybody know any software to make a decent website and the software better be free!...more >>

The Scene option is very handy for doing multiple versions of an animation, trying different things, but is there a way to export just a single scene from a group of them in a Document? Thanks! Frank ...more >>

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How come I can't paste live text into a text box without it breaking apart? I like to start in Word, the paste into Flash but it's a problem. I'm on a Mac, OSX, Flash MX...more >>

Is it possible to do the following in Actionscript :- Load a page with a flash movie from another flash movie on another page and going to a certain key frame and stopping the movie ...more >>

Ok.. I'm using flashmx 2004.. publishing my app to flash player 6 and actionscript 2.0... I need this way for remoting to work properly. The simplist thing it would seem, but.. All I want to do is have the cursor flashing in the textInput box I specify when the form is viewed. I do...more >>

I've created forms in HTML and have integrated them with a CGI script. How do you do this when you create a form in Flash? Is there some kind of script that you import? Or do you have to switch to Dreamweaver or FrontPage to do this? Collie ...more >>

Flash expert only please: When you finish a large Flash piece, do you deliver the FLA with the SWF? I have a client that could possibly take the FLA, make some minor changes, and rebrand it to save money. What is ethical? ...more >>

If I develop a Flash application, what needs to be installed on the server to make it run? Do i need Cold Fusion MX? Can i develop the flash application in notepad and just run on IIS?...more >>

im stuck on making stick figure animations like xiao xiao or stick death, im using flash mx 2004 but mine are crap can anyone give some advise please!...more >>

my friend makes websites in publisher, and I make some flash for him, except well, we can't import the swf files. does anyone know how to insert swf files into publisher?...more >>

I have a client who has a flash movie on his webpage and he wants me to take of some of the artwork in the flash movie and use it for another purpose. The problem is someone else designed the flash movie and we no longer have access to the original flash project, just the .swf itself. Any th...more >>

Hi, I have a web page with a flash movie embedded. What I'm trying to do is add buttons in the html to open a different swf file in the same area of the first movie. For example, if you were to go to the page you would see a movie playing with 2 buttons underneath it. Lets call the bu...more >>

Hi everyone! I have been thinking about creating a flash nav bar for our website and I really like the one that Chevy (www.chevy.com) has on their site. I would like to create something similar to it. I also want to create a product tour similar to Volvo's XC 90 tour (http://www.volvoxc90....more >>

This seems like it should be so simple but I cant get it to work. I want a button on the end of a movie clip to take me back to the first frame in the main timeline. I have tried naming the target frame and using gotoandPlay and a few other things but it either goes back to the first frame in ...more >>

Is there anyway to extract the serial # from flash 5 when it won't execute anymore? It just stopped launching. I get the following error: "the application flash 5 could not be opened because WinSock Lib" could not be found." I tried purchasing another flash 5 installer from macromedia ...more >>

Lol i am a newbie and i was wondering if someone can simply tell me how to get this media controller to work... i have tried myself but all else fails.... If anyone knows how to get this to work please respond. thanks. ...more >>

Aloha, I want to be able to feed in map coordinates (x, y) into flash, and it draw lines connecting the points together in order to show a bus route. I also want it to be able to figure out where two routes intersect so that a person can know when to get off of one bus and onto another. A...more >>

This is my first flash site and of course I have come in too a bunch of problems. Any help or suggetsions would be very much appreciated. www.normlclothing.ca problem1 The fonts that i used dont show up when i put the site up on the internet. my solution. I broke apart the fonts...more >>

I trying to work out how to use a preloader to load certain areas of a Flash site. I would like to work out how I can use the the preloader to load certain movie clips and certain pages, would I have to have the preloaded in a different scene and have some actionscript to call up the prelo...more >>

Let's say I have a long piece of text that I want to flow into three columns. I set up three dynamic textboxes, but I can't figure out how to tell Flash to flow the text into columns 2 and 3. I see that Flash has some idea of how much fits into a box via bottomscroll, but that doesn't tell m...more >>

I want people to be able to add numbers only into an input box. Is this possible? ...more >>

When I edit a sound in the edit envelope can I flip the sound and change the length of it or can I only change the fade of it?...more >>

<Snippet> Adding Actionscript to ScrollPane Buttons Create a new MovieClip by selecting menu item "Insert" - "New Symbol" . Tick the Moviclip option and name it "big01" and in its linkage window, give it the actionscript name of "big01" - same. Drag the first large picture onto the moviec...more >>

Is there any way to set a flash movie as the background in an html page?...more >>

We had content professionally developed first in Director/Flash for online platform - then had it "sucked" into Toolbook for particular LMS use - now I am interested in taking html and flash and interface files and creating a CD based delivery. Need to do this in-house, of course. I have Dr...more >>

I have a flash intro to the site. At the end of the intro, the actions frame has: stop(); loadMovie("LL_draft2.swf", _level0.bigLoader_mc); and "bigLoader_mc" is sitting on the frame. LL_draft2.swf is loaded into it as planned. Now, here's the problem. In LL_draft2.swf there's anot...more >>

I have just purchased Macromedia Suite MX 2004 and trying to get back into to a little web design. IN FLASH - I am trying to do the Tutorial document_start.fla. The steps are taking me through assigning behaviors to buttons (play, pause, rewind) I have the first two OK. But when selecting ...more >>

I am trying to pass some variables (e.g the users name) to a flash file using either .swf?name=value or using flashvars. My problem is I am using a dynamic text field to display the paramater however the text is not antialias as the rest of my static text boxes. Also if the length of the param...more >>

How do you make things transluescent? I've seen in other peoples flash cartoons, things like lighting and tinted glass, but i dont see any button or anything.. please help haha...more >>

Dear all, is it possible to export Flash movies from the command line (and if so, how)? I have a large number of movies that need exporting to do a "build" of the complete system and am working on automating this task (using apache ant). Any feedback greatly appreciated, S. ...more >>

My company has assigned me the job of putting an 8" binder -- consisting of catalogs, product specs, etc. -- onto a CD which will be distributed to our sales team to be used as a resource tool. I am hoping to collect most of the data in .pdf format but there are 60 CAD drawings which need to b...more >>

How do you make a scolling text box work? I've tried using the scroll bar from the components library and it will never work. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks....more >>

Newbie here, very familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript but not Flash. I opened a new document with flash 2004 pro. I loaded in 1.jpg and flash asked if I wanted to load in all 5 that were numbered 1 through 5. I said yes and named the the layer with the 5 images, 'Images.' I then put two invisi...more >>

Hello - A server hosting my Flash project has just started throwing an error: [26/Jul/2004:00:03:03] warning (17784): for host xxx.xxx.xxx.xx trying to GET .../WFPlayerAppletBeanInfo.class, send-file reports: can't find ..../WFPlayerAppletBeanInfo.class (File not found) (IP address and ...more >>

I HAVE A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION. HOW DO YOU MAKE A BITMAP OBJECT SLOWLY FADE AWAY IN FLASH. I HAVE GONE THROUGH TUTORIALS AND I KNOW TO CREATE A BLACK RECTANGLE AND USE THE ALPHA CHANNEL AND SET ITS PROPERTY TO 0% OR 100%. HOWEVER, MY OBJECTS ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING. ...more >>

Hello! I have a problem with Tree component - it fails to render XML correctly after I remove XML node. XML is being updated correctly (node is being removed), but the Tree renders XML in a wrong way - number of items in tree remains same, but the last item became absolutey incorrect....more >>

hello, i'm working in a new project that is an on screen information exe. ok, i'll try to explain! and i'm sorry about my english :)! it?s a kind of screen saver that gives information about a certain product, for example a portable pc!!! and the pc is running that exe. with the information!...more >>

Hello, we're developing a Direct 3D program, and want to be able to play Flash "on the walls" in this 3d world, as an animated texture. There are two ways to accomplish this: 1) Some sort of component running as a service, (without a GUI, screengrabbing not an option), that can extract fram...more >>

I am trying to create a flash page with pebble like objects, I'd like them to float on the screen with apparent randomness, but obviously within some fairly tight parameters so that they don't dart about erratically. I have created symbols which have varying numbers of frames (but in the hund...more >>

Hello All, Can someone help me with masking. I have done a search and read the comments on http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&thre adid=758803 http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&thre adid=825468&highlight_k...more >>

How can i make my flash movie scalable in an html page, like http://www.icebox.com/icebox/shows/show_54/viewer_frameset_ep1.html try to resize the browser and the movie is scaling acording to the size of the browser.. thanks ...more >>

http://espn.go.com/bottomline/espnewsbottomline.html Well ESPN the bottem line is a application u open, and it attaches to the bottem of ur screen, its kind of like a browser window. It shows the html page (see link 2) composed of a swf and 3 gif buttons. I was wondering if anyone knew how...more >>

I have a set of buttons set up on one layer. They are each set to move forward to some other layer. When I select a button it goes forward to the correct layer. However, if i click that button a second time it moves forward to the next sequencial layer not the layer indicated. Help? ...more >>

Hi, I am creating a tutorial CDrom in flash MX which needs to link to a website, however getUrl doesn't work. I have looked at solutions such as screenweaver and flash jester but I am creating this on a Mac it will be used on a PC. Any help would be much appreciated. ...more >>

I just started using flash to assist in editing a flash template I just bought. I'm trying to edit the text and having a difficult time. I emailed the supplier asking them how to edit and this is what they said: "To edit the content please follow these steps: Press Ctrl L to open the libr...more >>

now i know this seems silly but i'm currently following http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Interactivity/Other/Drag_n-Chris_Ma-192/more6. phpand i seem to have ran into a strange problem. I dont have a modify > frame option on my version of mx 2004 i need this so i can set valous to actionsc...more >>

Can someone direct me to a tutorial for a scrolling menu. I will have thumbnails in it that calls the larger version of the image. TIA Amelia...more >>

yep AGAIN, those damn sounds do not want to play at the right time. Tried placing the "Streamed sounds" in a seperate movie clip and then placing them into the scene and that did work. But the event sounds are all off. Cant this stupid program do anything right...... Got any suggestions?...more >>

My fonts are not embeding when exporting my swf. They load nicely within Flash but as soon as I export it, the fonts are not embedded or appear to be jumbled. The text fields are not dynamic and I am using OS 10.3.5 ...more >>