Hi Can you open an ipix exe file from a button in flash. The flash file will be used for a cd-rom. I read that you can do it by using the fscommand but i've not a clue what the script/code is. Thanks for your help Carly ...more >>

This one looks good, but it's 90 bucks http://www.medialab.com/psd2fla/ The demo does a good job of loading each layer into a seperate Flash layer. Are there any others? Basically looking for a quick and painless way to import a layered Photoshop file and, if possible, retain all the s...more >>

Can someone tell me how to fix it? No sound will play when I watch flash movies. I've tried reinstalling it, but it didn't work....more >>

Hi, Does anyone know of a site where I can find cool free music for a site??...more >>

Hi! I'm new to Flash... I have saved the name and the URL of a .jpg picture in a variable. Does anyone know wheather it is possible to load that picture in my movie and show it? Thanks a million! derBumi ...more >>

Just looking for some tips in how to best create the flapping of a butterfly graphic so it's wings appear to flap. I'm new to Flash and need some help. Perhaps there might be a tutorial or a snipet that I can use. ...more >>

I need some help getting pointed in the right direction with this. Perhaps a tutorial or something... I want to build a vertical nav bar with flash that has a stationary pointer beside it that rotates in response to the position of the mouse on the nav button. I can figure out the nav bar b...more >>

If you look at our site here http://fantasysportsempire.com/ there is a flash movie in the middle column. It is linked off to another page. But when you put your mouse over it the finger cursor flickers. How can I get around this I just want it to stay the finger like it would when over ...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 >>

I have an flv that contains audio in a flash doc. Whenever I playback the timeline within flash, the video plays fine but I get no audio. If I preview the file (in IE FWIW) the audio is there.. I am pretty new to flash, so I imagine I am overlooking the obvious but I cannot find any solution...more >>

I can't understand how to make more room for drawing in movie clip.Here my problem. When I insert a new symbol ( anew movie clip ) the stage of the clip isn't big enugh for my need. I need a movie clip stage bigger. How is possible to solve this problem? Thanks (the size of the intere...more >>

Is it possible for me to place an anchor within Flash, so that I can jump from say a html page into a specific frame within flash? Getting tired of when I return to a flash page I have just visited, that I always go to frame 1, instead of say frame 5 where I was before I linked to another ...more >>

Hey all. I've recently upgraded to CS and I'm having a terrible problem with color consistency when i export the files as PNGs into Flash. Anyone seen this too? I've calibrated the montior and worked with the color settings in PS prefs with no significant changes. I've also searched about ...more >>

I heard there was an MP3 adio control component that was available for flash mx 2004, and am curious if anyone would know where to find it? If not, i am trying to create a music playlist on my site, and have no idea how to create one that will let you scroll through multiple songs. I know ho...more >>

I have successfully implemented a checkbox in a datagrid column using thecellRenderer class. It works as desired when using the mouse to check/uncheck the box. However, the checkbox is at the end of a row where users enter data and tab between columns. Tabbing through the checkbox field visual...more >>

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Hi Folks, Has anyone managed to get a Flash movie to play over the top of a .wmv video played in Windows Media Player? I can get the Flash to overlay the skin of the Media Player but not to play over the top of the actual video pixels (this minor success was through HTML layers). If a...more >>

Hello. I have created a movie clip within my main flash document. Is there a way I can export this to be a .fla document by itself? The reason being, I want to play a sound and stop the movie clip when the sound finishes. I've been doing this: face.stop(); voicesound = new Sound(); v...more >>

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I'm using the sharp presentation from the templates but want it to autorun without buttons. I've stripped it down and put my own images in it, now if I could only figure out how to get it autorun with a loop that would be great. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Is there a way to protect a flash movie from a windows screenshot (pressing PrtSc)? Many ActiveX movie formats do not show up on a screenshot - I'm looking to add some basic protection to some Flash materials I've developed. And, yeah, I know that some 3rd party tools can still perform a screen...more >>

I've struggled with this problem for quite a while and usually end up going back to Flash 4 when I need to draw directly in Flash. The quality of line I can get using the Brush Tool in Flash MX is very poor. I draw right inside Flash with a Wacom Tablet, and don't seem to ever have a problem...more >>

on a site i am doing, i have a dynamic text field that loads from an external ..txt file with html tags. however, if i try to include a "&" in the text, it will not show up in the text field, nor any text that follows the "&". does anyone know why and how i can include a "&" in the text? ...more >>

i have a simple splash page with no buttons and 170 frames long. i have figured out how to put an invisible button that covers the entire splash page that when clicked will take me to my html site via "button object/self" function. can i get from my splash to my html home page "automatically...more >>

I am working on a file which is developed in mac platform, i am using windows... it is behaving strange... can any one help me if i need to do any setings for that?...more >>

Hi, I have a problem like this. Please help me out. I have a empty movieclip and a button in flash. When i click the button the open browse window shld open and when i select any image of my choice i want to display that image in that movieclip. If at all i require to use the javascr...more >>

Ok, I'm not entirely sure I understand Symbol Swapping, but from what I understand, you can just swap a symbol for another, in roughly the same place, so you don't have to do it yourself. Now, whenever I try to bring another symbol into the stage, it comes up as the symbol I was trying to ...more >>

Since I upgraded to Flash MX 2004 Pro (v1, 1.1, and 1.2) I had found that when writing code in the Actions Pane, when I use the scroll wheel on my mouse (MS Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0) to scroll vertically up within the pane, it scrolls way too fast (usually skipping 10 or so lines at ...more >>

I am putting together a CD that starts with a Flash sequence that ends in a static page with links to PDF files on the CD, as well as other links (QuickTime movies, a website with all the files on the CD, and external web links). I was thrilled when I first tried it out, but very disappointed ...more >>

Can someone please tell me how to assign a variable to a check box?????? I need this so that this value can be sent to the php script....more >>

I locked some text into place (went under "Arrange/Lock"), but can't figure how how to unlock this now. Can you help?...more >>

Hey all... Please take a look at the navigation at top right corner of the following page: http://www.code-media.com/home.htm How do they get it where the sections move to the correct location, collapsing one and opening another? For example, if I click on "08", it knows to have all ...more >>

Is there a limit to the number of lines of action script you can write in a keyframe. I have loads of functions in one keyframe and after I added one more, all of the actionscript in that frame stopped working. When I erase that new function it started working again. What's the workaround? C...more >>

I am trying to export some flash animations as quicktime so that I can edit them together in iMovie then create a DVD later on. The flah movies are all simple animations with no actionscipting and they have some cartoon sound effects throghout the timeline. Why is it that when I export as quic...more >>

Hi, Can I include any file with ASP extension in flash movie, something like iframe ? Thanks ...more >>

I get unpredictable results when working with masking layers. Shapes and MCGs in the mask layer will work properly sometimes, but not others. I think it happens when more than one object is in that mask layer. You can see the problem demonstrated here. It works in http://www.ij.org/flash...more >>

We're trying to figure out how to overlay a video of a talking head (with a transparency) in Flash MX 2004 Pro. I'm sure everyone has seen this by now. If not, here's a link to a sample. http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/online/ondemand/ I've shot my own sample avi in front of a ...more >>

Hey everyone, I am a total newbie at this so please cut me a little slack. I made a flash intro (movie) for my website that uses a lot of video clips. I used the windows media format for the clips (converted from .avi) because it kept the size small. After putting all of these clips, mu...more >>

Hello, I am trying to install Macromedia Flash Player 7 on Linux running on Athlon 64 machine. When I try to install it, it says " Your architecture x86-64 is not supported by Macromedia Flash Player Installer". Is there a version of Flash Player for my architecture? How can I trick the ...more >>

Can HTML be rendered in FlashMX? For example, pulling an external HTML file into FlashMX and display it in a box on a page. Thanks, Brett...more >>

Hi, I've been reading reviews etc about Flqsh MX 2004, and have also tried it for a brief amount of time..mostly because all my existing projects are in Flash MX, and I don't want to "convert" them all right away until I know Flash MX 2004 is worthy. Has anyone encountered any proble...more >>

Hello all, i hope someone can help me on this one I'm using a flash movie inside a Modal Dialog window. This flash movie has a button that calls a Javascript function. The problem is that when the user clicks the button, the Javascript function is called in another window... the pro...more >>

Hi, I am currently using director 2004 MX to control where I am in a flash movie. Using such code as: sprite(1).gotoFrame("Menu") However, I keep getting a white flash each time it goes to the frame specified. Any ideas? Cheers. ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering, can you use javascript in Flash. I have created a Flash product within an HTML page. Can I insert a quit button within the Flash movie with javascript:window.close() which will close the whole HTML page that contains the movie. Thanks Josh ...more >>

Is there a way to do a file upload similar to the form submit here: http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorial/fmx_mailform/ I'd like to allow the user to upload a file, show progress, then a confirmation without having to refresh the entire page. The above form uses the technique of keeping a ...more >>

Is there a way to convert a FLV to another format without using flash or having to guess the FPS and audio settings? ...more >>

Hi Does anybody know a cool book flip *.fla? Thanks Kalevi ...more >>

Hi, I have a serious problem. I have been working on a project for a client which consists of 12 FLA's which will be packaged as a projector - I am on a deadline. I have just tried to open up an FLA that I was working on yesterday - it closes Flash down!!!!!! Every time I try to open thi...more >>

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Hi all i am quite new to flash and have a basic understanding , I have downloaded a photo album kindly created by someone else from the flashkit site , I have added my own photographs and tested the swf , and all woks fine on my hard drive the problem happens when I upload the swf as a lin...more >>

Good afternoon! All the day yesterday tried to understand with a problem, but leaves nothing. A problem: symbols of the Armenian language in input text fields are not displayed. Instead of it there are question marks. But is to use program assignment to a field letters are visible norma...more >>

I was watching a South Park flash animation and at the end, credit was given to www.shockwave.com for providing the South Park characters. The animation was from 2002 or so, I think. Are the characters still available anywhere? Thanks, Damaeus...more >>

Hello everyone, I recently stumbled upon the templete given on Flash MX 2004 Pro that makes it super easy to make a flash photo slideshow. Well I decided to make one and it was perfect. Only thing is that it came out to a total of 1.5 megabytes. So instead of just having it load up with nothin...more >>

I get replies in the Dreamweaver group, but not this one. It's definitely posting through the Macromedia news server -- I know about those requirements. I just wanted to see if the message is coming through. If it is, please reply so I can know that nobody knows about the answer to my previous...more >>

Hi All Is it possible to restore a sound file in the Flash library as an external mp3. Having brought an mp3 into the library some time ago I carelessly lost the original - oops cheers paul...more >>

How was this made? its an animated gif but yet very sharp and high quality, I can't get the fonts to look this good no matter what try?! http://www.masstechgroup.com/HDlayout.gif Brandon ...more >>

Good afternoon! All the day yesterday tried to understand with a problem, but leaves nothing. A problem: symbols of the Armenian language in input text fields are not displayed. Instead of it there are question marks. But is to use program assignment to a field letters are visible norma...more >>

Hi all, Does anyone know how to make an animation that floats independently on a page? I am not sure whether I am making sense here but I have seen it several times. Sometimes it floats ramdomly and other times it moves in sync the cursor's movement. Thanks. VW ...more >>

hello, i am creating a flash site which features a few audio clips that are external and loaded into the main page of the movie with actionscript. these work without any problems, but i was wondering if there was a way to allow users to press a button so that they could download the sound file...more >>

Hi there, I have some text fields (button labels) that are created on the fly with actionscript. I need these to use an embedded font which I have created as a font symbol in the library. I named the font symbol "mainText". I have it exported for actionscipt as "mainText" and I reference i...more >>

Can I deploy a Flash Projector (standalone .exe) on a CE.Net device with the Flash Player? Alternatively, can you run a standalone .swf? Or, as a third alternative, can I leverage the Flash Player ActiveX control installed on the CE.Net device to build a "projector" by embedding the ActiveX co...more >>

Hey Everyone, I'm just starting out and ran into a little problem. I am creating this site where I want to have a mouse-over drop down menu plus a slideshow going on at the same time. My problem is that for the slideshow I have about 30 frames playing in a loop where at frame 30 i tell...more >>

I need a little bit of help. I am currently in the process of building a new website for a small independent punk rock record label, which I own (zod@skrewedrecords.com. If you want to bitch that I am begging for free help, please do so below. Thanks. ...more >>

Hello everyone, I created some slices in Photoshop and I am importing them into Flash. Is it best to import them at the best quality and then compress them in Flash or should I compress them first and turn off compression in Flash? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Cris ...more >>

It could be that I'm just too stupid to walk...but I keep reading about elearning extensions/plug-ins for Flash MX...where are they? What are they? I read a lot of vague stuff on the site and on the CD... Where can I find specific how-to information [and the extensions or components or wha...more >>

Just curious if there is a script that will refresh the browser/page. I would like to add it to a frame on the timeline, not by button! I am having a problem with an externally loaded swf getting loaded. If you hit refresh, it loads right up. So that's why I need to fix this problem. If you'...more >>