Hi- I'm on Mx04. And I'm using dynamic text with a standard text file and Dyn text field on a frame. I've seen it on sites where they animate the dynamic text to fade in. How is this done ? Do I convert the dynamic text field to a graphic symbol or movie clip somehow ? If this requires action ...more >>

hello. i have been trying to create a windows projector on a macintosh via Flash MX (not 2004). the problem is it doens't work. if i bring it to either a windows 98 or windows xp machine, i get a message "this program cannot be run in DOS mode." from with in the dos prompt program th...more >>

hi, im having problems when geting a sound time, i cant put it into a dinamict text, how i do this?...more >>

Has anyone ever had this happen - when I import an eps to the stage and break it apart, it turns solid red. What can I do to fix this? Thanks, Carrie...more >>

Please, please help! What's the actionscript look like to use a button to navigate between scenes? Thank you! Kaihea...more >>

Problem: Language - Slovenian Keyboard - Slovenian All language specific Chars is ok (??????????) except @ (which should be typed like ralt+v - (right alt plus v) When you want to type @ nothing hapens... encoding is utf-8, font is ok, embeded... I am desperate, my deadline hav...more >>

hi, I have this 300 MB .swf file for a cd presentation, of course when I run it on some computers it start latety and people doesn't want to wait so they start clicking and clicking once and again, there is any way to make it start fast and then download the content? I don't know if with a...more >>

Hi, I have a Flash animation of an old arcade cabinet. While using the arrow keys on the keyboard I want my animation to show Left, Right, Up, Down and Normal states for each way you can move the joystick. I have pictures of the joystick for each direction. I have created a movie cli...more >>

I am trying to use small images embedded in html text in a text field. I have created some simple graphics and am embedding them them using the export linkage ID. I have no problem displaying one image, but multiple images work horribly. I simply can't figure out how to get Flash to rese...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to make a button on(press) go from one scene to another. I've added the button in question to another layer under my graphics and added the following actionscript to the button itself: on(press) {gotoandplay("scene 163", 1)} In previous attempts, it wouldn't wait for t...more >>

I'm new to Flash and love it, but I have a problem. I have written two different Flash objects which I need to insert into the same Dreamweaver page. When I insert the first one and test it, success. When I insert the second one, the first Flash stops working. You can insert more than...more >>

I want to change the font used in my listbox, bl. I used the following AS and it didnt work: //AS starts myStyleFormat=new FStyleFormat(); myStyleFormat.addListener(bl); //bl is the instance name of my listbox myStyleFormat.textFont = "Webdings"; myStyleFormat.applyChanges("textFont");...more >>

Hi All, I am using Flash MX Pro. I am trying to stream an MP3 file (containing a voiceover) using Media Components. When I get everything together and then publish the .swf file - the audio sounds like it is being read at a high rate of speed and sounds nothing like the original MP3 file. ...more >>

Photographic Web Project. S?o Paulo from the Sky to the Ground Our city S?o Paulo shown in five layers that are interlaced from the sky to the ground, registering the skies, the people, their courses, collected residues, and feelings lived in the pulsation of the metropolis. Click to...more >>

I need to distribute an xml file for a standalone projector. I would like to prevent editing of the file and wondered if there was a way to encrypt or protect it. (tried seaching but search is off at the moment) ...more >>

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I have over 400 dxf files. each dxf has between 20-1500 properties on it. the properties consist of just text. when i import the dxf i can edit, remove or do whatever i want with the text. so flash knows this is text we have also built a cf application that takes info from the db that the ma...more >>

Hi there. I am having a problem with sound in Flash MX. I have a sound that plays within a movie symbol. It works all fine and dandy. I am creating a presentation that moves along the timeline by using the right arrow key. You can also go backwards by hitting the left arrow key. The problem I'...more >>

I have a friend who lives in a different state than I do. We are attempting to collaborate on a Flash Project, but are running into a major road block. We are running the same version of Flash, but when I send him the .fla file(zipped or unzipped) he cannot open it. Yet, if he sends me an .f...more >>

I've made an animation at 30fps in Flash MX, and I need to use part of it in another file. So I copied and pasted it into the new/larger file, but now the animation doesn't play smoothly. Is this a cpu problem? What's my solution? ...more >>

I have a textArea compnent that I am dynamically loading text into. It works great except that the scrollbar stays where-ever it was last positioned - is there a way to make it return to the top of the textfield when new content is loaded? Thanks! Jessica ...more >>

i made some rectangular buttons with no stroke and a fill color the same as the document background. when viewing the swf though, you can see a very faint rectangular outline around the buttons. is it possible to create rectangular buttons that are completely invisible in the swf? than...more >>

Hi there, I have created an animated Christmas card for a client, which contains audio. The client wants to send it to friends via email. My thought was to export the FLA as a .EXE , zip it up and have the client attach the zip file to his email. The client is concerned with the .EXE file...more >>

is it possible to create a custom shape for a dynamic text field-- in other words a text field in any shape other than a square? input would be great. thanks....more >>

Hi! Anyone know where I might find information on what platforms are supoorted and what the system requirements are for the "Flash Projector"? By "Flash Projector" I am referring to the projector that is packaged in with the exe when you publish to a "Windows Projector (exe)" or to a "Macint...more >>

I'm sure this is so simple, but I don't really get why this isn't working correctly. I have a simple getURL action assigned to a button that is to bring up a blank email. The code is on (release) { getURL("mailto:emailalerts@tidelandsoilandgas.com", "_blank"); } When the butt...more >>

hi,my question is really simple. I have a list box with an instance name, "bl" and i want to change the font to webdings, so i tried: //Action Script Starts Here _root.bl.setStyleProperty("textFont", "Webdings"); //Action Script EndsHere and that didnt work. i dont see why it shouldnt wor...more >>

When i test the movie in wich i use athe colorpicker component everything works just fine but now i want to load it into the main movie and it doesn't work... I'll have them online here: Here's the single colorpicker movie that works: http://www.estone.nl/colorpicker/cp.zip Any help ...more >>

Hello, I have a quiz that accepts multiple answers as correct. If the user enters "1" that is correct. If they enter "2" or "3" or "4", they are also correct. Is there a way to put the correct answers in an array or list and check the entire list against what is entered? thanks, j ...more >>

Hi I have a exe file that stops on a frame and streams in a flv file off a CD-ROM. Is there a way to make the timeline play again when it reaches a cue point. For example when the video finishes playing the timeline will play. I have done it in Director with CurrentTime, but I need to do i...more >>

I have created a music player for my website that streams music and contain a couple of buttons, one of which is a dragger button that allows the user to drag the "dragger button" along the playhead to different parts of the song. Now, it works, but when i preview it, the problem is that it d...more >>

The Scenario: I have a longish (15sec) sound sample that I'm looping to make my background music. I've imported the clip and dropped it into the timeline (ie, no Actionscript used) and set the loop in the property inspector to it's max, which gives me almost 6 days of looping. The Pro...more >>

I have used shared objects locally, and they work fine, but once uploaded to my site, they exhibit this problem... creating the objects, the SOLs are created in "www.xxx.com" folder, but when I write a change to them, they write in "xxx.com" folder...I am using the "/" as a path...could it...more >>

I'm putting together a few Flash Banners... but the same banner will point to different URLs depending on which site it's being displayed on. Is there any way for me to NOT have to recompile this banner 7 times for 7 different sites (because the targey url info is traditionally hard-coded into...more >>

Ok a friend of mine is trying to create a list and it won't show any spells over level 8 and theres an error on like 94. What is the problem? http://wow.gamergod.com/spells.cfm?class_id=3 Parameter 2 of function Right which is now -1 must be a positive integer The error occu...more >>

Hi! I have a big flash project with a mainnavigation flash, which helps to navigate through several (little over 20) .swf-flash slides. So my project consist of a mainnavi.swf (or mainnavi.exe, if published as a projector), navi.xml (which tells the navigation the .swf-files to use) and ...more >>

I would like to have one progress bar keep track of the "total" progress of 5 different loaders. Someone said it could be done, but I haven't been able to figure out how. Anyone here know? Best regards, Torry ...more >>

Hello people I am in a real distress - trying to make a menu looking like the one shown here: http://www.fluid.nl/shockwave/index.html That is a sort of "tsunami" if I get it right... On mousover, the elements nearest to the mouse grow - the nearer they are, the more they grow - like in ...more >>

I¹m just about to complete a site which contains a flash animation, the only problem is some viewers can't see the animation. How do I determine whether they have flash or not and redirect them to Macromedia to get it? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Neil...more >>

Does anybody know the kind of scripting involved in this flash file? http://www.warprecords.com/brothomstates/ It's a tiny file, I tried to interrogate it from my temp folder but it's protected. It seemingly endlessly loops certain randomised patterns and shapes, but there must be particu...more >>

I am dupicating a movie clip lots of times and want to make each one play. The commented lines do not work! What is the syntax to make the duplicated clips play? mSCORE.duplicateMovieClip("mSCORE"+n, 24-n) // with (_root["mSCORE"+n]){ // play(); // } // _root["mSCORE"+n].play(); // mS...more >>

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I'm useing Flash 2004 Professionel, but cann't find the FLV Exporter installer... where is it located. I read somewhere that it would work with QuickTime Pro, and have just installed QT Pro. I can export as FVC but not FLV... So I think I need to reinstall the FLV Exporter..???, but cann't...more >>

Dear community, I'm a MSc student at HWU, and I'm writing to you because part of my dissertation is to do an evaluation of it. My dissertation is to implement an interactive site for Euclid's work. The famous treatise about Geometry. It contains 13 books, I have only finished Book I-VI...more >>

OK then, now I've hit a wall, a big one. Is there any way at all to post data from flash using LoadVars send and load, to a .net c# insert record page and get a response from it? I could do it in ASP VBScript, but no matter what I think of, it appears someone got there first and blocked it. ...more >>

I'm using many different invisible buttons for my flash movie and I was told to use the same one over and over again from my library to help save on the size of the movie. So I've been doing this and each time I need to, I just alter the size of the button as needed and can also change the scr...more >>

Can't remember how to edit the scrollpane component. First to change the background color and second to make the scrollpane background transparent. thanks Rdee...more >>

I am new to flash do please excuse the simplicity of the question. My application begins with an html document that opens an swf that is my homepage. If a user clicks a nav button it takes him to a new swf. Each page in my app is a new swf. When I run the app in a browser (explorer, opera, saf...more >>

Hi smart ones, How do I make the background of a swf file transparent in DW? Thanks! VW...more >>

Hi there, I could copy and paste frames happily between MX files, using the copy and paste frames command. Now I have 2004 I open my MX files in 2004, select the frames I want to copy and paste into another 2004 file that I have created, the frames paste in fine but will not work. Th...more >>

Hi Folks, I have a txt file with a succession of variables thus; &title1=My first Title& &title2=My second Title& &title3=My third Title& etc. If I read in the variables using the loadVariablesNum and can display the titles in a textfield using a button thus. . . myButton.onReleas...more >>

I made a nav bar .swf but I need to make the urls fit each button but the html doesnt appear to have anything according to each button. I am a total noob and its probably very simple. Please help....more >>

I was testing something and ran into this issue: Requirement is that Flash should install and the application should move forward. 1. I deleted the existing Flash object using the browser 2. When i hit the appropriate page, Flash gets installed, but requires a reboot of the system to displ...more >>

Greetings I have a form with several hard coded variables and some components. I am wanting this sent to a .cgi page. I have a component button. How do I write a Function which will send the variables when someone clicks the component button? I couldn't find anywhere in the propert...more >>

I'm trying to build a 'simple' form in Flash but i'm getting the following error: **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 3, frame=1:Line 6: Method name must be GET or POST getURL("http://webdev-free/skylights.cgi",_blank,GET); Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 I'...more >>