That's the question. I want to create a movie with embedded videos, lot's of interactivity and design and burn it to a DVD. Any hints on how to get there?...more >>

(Flash 5) if i load into a empty mc on the mainstage a movie on the second keyframe with that action loadMovie ("movie.swf", "../empty"); setProperty ("../empty", _xscale, "100"); setProperty ("../empty", _yscale, "100"); what is the action to unload it? unloadMovie ("../empty/movie.swf"...more >>

Hi guys . . . new to the forum, relatively new to flash. I am designing a site that incorporates an image that should cover the entire window in the web browser. However, every time I do a publish preview in HTML there is a small border around the image in the web browser. Now, I've tried all ...more >>

I have acted on and/or followed up all tips, tricks, advice and directions from Macromedia and MSN --all to no avail--I have NO AUDIO in my flashplayer. My system(XP Home) is as up-to-date as Windows Update and Bigfix can make it. I have gone back and uninstalled and deleted all previous ver...more >>

I added a second scene to a project and started placing bitmaps. While I am editing, the bitmaps don't show up correctly in the new scene; the only thing that shows up is an outline. I can't see the bitmap on the stage. On the first scene, bitmaps show up fine, but when I switch scenes, any ne...more >>

Hey guys...I'm making a two player flash game with three keys for each player, it seems to be that three keys is the limit that can be pressed at a time, and if you press only four keys it jams up and the keys just sticks until you let go of all but three. Is it a widows setting or are three keys...more >>

Hi All I have created a flash movie v5 . I am able to see it on IE browser, on window, but does not show on the mac platform or Netscape on window platform. Any help I cn Get? Thanks a latte! Norby...more >>

I'm sure this is incredibly simple but I can't figure it out for the life of me. Does anyone know how to remove the inset border on the scrollpane component? Thanks!...more >>

Has anyone else experienced this? 1. Movies published for Flash v6 play just fine in IE. 2. Plug-in updated to v7.0.14.0. 3. Movies won't play but prompt the user to download a new Flash plug-in. 4. Update plug-in to v7.0.19.0. 5. Movies play fine. Unfortunately, the current standard...more >>

hi. I am creating a flash slide presentation... I added transition effects to every slide. In the preview, when I am on a certain slide and navigate to another slide, the transition effects are occuring, but the first slide just disappears quickly, then the background is white and the secon...more >>

I have a Flash page I am using for a website. When the user clicks on a certain button on my HTML page, it then brings the user to my Flash page. So, once on my Flash page I have an image next to text in a box. That's what they see when they first get to the page. Now, I have several buttons o...more >>

ok...I've never had any formal flash training, not doing too bad, until today. I am confused about the "target = getProperty" tags I am trying to use to scroll som text behind a mask. it works on one instance but not on teh other. I would be happy send over the code! I am in a time deadlin...more >>

http://www.louisdilello.com/staging/riggedproductions/ Im trying to make a site similar to this one. I want to have a flash shell with the navigation on the top and bottom, but the inside call html pages that can be scrolled inside of it. In the version on that site, its all html. I tho...more >>

Hi I have a dynamic image gallery which I want to use as a photography portfolio, i have successfully used it as a presentation exe. My problem is: the movie works fine when on my machine, or as a cd- rom presentation executeable, but not when uploaded to the web. The gallery coding...more >>

I am currently developing a slide presentation with video and voice (mp3) components. I have having issues with the following: -Symbols (text and graphics) are looping continuously -Attempting (& failing) to replay the slide as navigation demands (I.E. forward/rewind to slide 3, play s...more >>

Is there a way to make flash scale to fit the browser window. I have tried every setting for the allow scaling. I have set allowscaling to true and the swf scales fine. The html version does not scale. I have removed the height and width and the wsf goes tiny. Can anyone tell me what t...more >>

Hello, I am looking for the program Flash Generator which doesn't seem to be around anymore. Did it just get included into Flash MX? I would like to be able to connect a Flash file to a SQL DB and I thought that Generator was the ticket. Is Flash Remoting the same as Flash Generator? T...more >>

Hey out there. I'm a new Flash user, and I believe I have a pretty simple question here: I have a document where I have some simple animation going (just a box with text over it, both fading in); after all my work getting this just right, I now realize that I need to move my box and the text...more >>

I'm doing a simple animation using Flash 2004 Pro 7.2 and have run into a problem with Flash reporting that it needed more memory and that I could adjust it in the Get Info memory panel. Well, I'm using Mac OSX, so adjusting the memory allocation is out. The animation set at 60 fps uses 6...more >>

Hi, Does anyone have a script for saving a text file to floppy disk from within flash. Cheers....more >>

Hi All, Using Media Components in Flash MX Pro, I created a player to stream MP3 files. I published the .swf file and the basic html page containing the swf. When I load the page for the first time, everything works correctly - the swf file loads and then the MP3 begins to stream. But if ...more >>

I've always used html for my menus with simple rollovers. However, I like the look and responsiveness of a menu done in flash. My wife is polish and saw this menu at http://www.web-art.pl. I like how quick and responsive the menu is when you move the mouse over it. I also like how the bars ...more >>

hi, i am trying to export an animated film to avi. for burning it later to a dvd format. after the export is complete the avi. size is 4 giga and its corrupted. why does it not happen when i do the same for a 700 MB file? thnx very much shai ...more >>

Hi, Is there a simple way to pass HTML link "onClick" event to a embeded swf? I know we can fire javascript function from a swf, but how can we do the reverse: firing an Actionscript function in swf when a link in the main html is clicked? Thanks for any advice. ...more >>

I created a Flash Promotional message for my company and now several execs are asking for a DVD version that they can place in the break rooms to play and loop to help employees learn about the new system. This is a non-interactive movie, but I am not sure how to best get it from Flash to ...more >>

Go to the link below. http://www.v-i-k.com/ How do you click on the pictures and go to the next one. I like this slide show menu does anyone know a tutorial I can learn to do this. Thanks for your time. ...more >>

I apologize if this question has been asked before, but the Search function has been unavailable lately.... I was wondering if anyone has information as to how the Interactive Catalog from the Better Homes and Gardens (www.bhg.com) page was constructed, more specifically, the page curl / page ...more >>

I've got a flash application that I'm gonna offer to customers, but I want to insert a unique ID key into the flash .exe with each download of the application. This is partly for security and partly to identify each customer indiviually. I have no idea how to go about this however! Before...more >>

Where does one get the new upgrade that does not require a choking 70+ Mb download. I have the boxed version of MX2004 Studio Professional and would have expected something similar to be available for a critical (?) upgrade. ...more >>

I have created a Flash movie and put it onto CD as an .exe file, with an AUTORUN.INF file to load it up on a PC. Because of the file size, it takes about 40 seconds to load up. I was wondering if anybody knows if there is a way of having an image or something that pre-loads with a message sa...more >>

Hi.. small question here.. I have a client to whom I sent a swf of work that I had done. He was unable to view the swf... directly or even through the html file sent with the movie (I had instructed him to download both files onto his pc before trying to view the file). Yet I know that he is ...more >>

I found a tutortial on how to preload swf files into another swf, but how do you preload an swf which has actionscritp functions. If you look at the files attached, open the Gallery swf file which works and now open the tutorial_complete.swf file and click on the Gallery button which loads up ...more >>

Create a sock monkey or sock puppet online! http://www.easterpig.com ...more >>

hi there, I want to create a flash movie which I want to start for example on a certain time. let's say the movie starts an 3 p.m. everyone who visits this page should see the same like everyone else. is that possible? if yes, can someone give me some help to create such a movie? than...more >>

Hi, I have made a website in flash (MX 2004) using both TextArea and ListBox components. When I view the website everything looks nice and works (except for my other problemo which I will get to in a second)... However when I load this swf into another swf, I suddenly get all these annoy...more >>

Hello: This has happened to me twice, and the first time i had to start all over... This time I cannot do that because my project is reaching its deadline. The problem is, I have uploaded 2 main .swf files to my ftp. The first is an intro that gives the user an option ...more >>

I have experienced problems with displaying flash on browsers IE 6+ due to the Java vertual machine not being a part of that browser and the need to download it. Help anyone???? Any fixes??? or do my users have to download the JVM to fix it?? ...more >>

New to Flash. Anyone familiar with this? Is it possible. Working in Flash MX 2004. Create a .fla file, then want to save it/convert it to a common image format such as .bmp or .jpg. Can't seem to get this figured out. You can import these formats into flash, but can you go the other way. ...more >>

I want to change the font used in my listbox, called "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("te...more >>

After reinstalling OSX Panther to sort out a few niggling problems (as instructed by the nice folk at Apple) , I have found that anytime I try to use any of the MX 2004 suite, it bounces in the dock and closes. I can't use any of the software. As MX is my Bread and Butter, can anyone make ...more >>

I get the Error gla81.tmd or close enough, it happens during the installation and i need flash right now :(...more >>

I'm loading a movie into another using loadMovie, the movie has a ComboBox Component in it, but it doesn't work. It shows up, but when you click on it, it won't expand. It does if the movie is loaded directly into the browser or is linked directly in the HTML file, but if it's loaded into ano...more >>

How can I format a dynamic text box to have a maximum nuber of decimal places eg. 25.82 instead of 25.82365458 ...more >>