I am not a professional developer, but I want to offer a flash website development service to customers of mine. It should be possible for either the customer or myself to quickly develop a company brochure/website, by entering text and image information on an online form. The site should be...more >>

Hi friends how we can protect my SWF from SWF Decompilers ? :( some of SWF Decompilers convert it to Real FLA !!! REAL FLA :( what we should do against SWF Decompilers ? Thanks in advance...more >>

hi- i just completed a flash site and i'd like to find a product that will give me detailed web stats. does anyone have any recommendations? thanks... ...more >>

I cant seem to make my preloader werk when it is loading a movie clip or anything other then just a simple picture This is my script stop(); myInterval = setInterval(preloader, 10); function preloader() { if (getBytesLoaded()>=getBytesTotal()) { play(); clearIn...more >>

Im not sure how to got about make my flash intro go to the index page after the intro has ended.. If anyone know how it would be greatly appreciated. If you have any recomendations or suggestions about this site your comments are welcome,,,,, Thanks Here is the site im werking on.. ...more >>

I am using the Media playback component in MX 2004 Pro to play an FLV. It plays fine on my local machine, but when I upload all the files to my server and try to play it, the swf and it's component appear on the page but I get no video. The stream bar does not indicate a progressive download. ...more >>

Hi I've got som problems with flash and Mac! I've alsp got this thread running: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&thre adid=880462 If there are any kind Mac users... could you please test this site: http://www.stylecounsel.dk In IE. If you s...more >>

1. The installer closes your browser without asking permission 2. There's no way to disable flash content without uninstalling the plug-in, so there's no way to leave it disabled normally and just turn it on when you visit a site that has content you want to see (rather than ads that annoy...more >>

I am new to action scripting and need some help. I need to load a random movie clip into a random position at random times. Any examples would be greatly appreciated....more >>

Hello everybody, Last time I posted something here for critique was 2 feb 2002. I received many constructive comments then, I've not touched flash after that until now that I have designed my own homepage with flash. Really like to know how "old fashioned" I have became after 2 years :) http:...more >>

I've been working on a file for a few days now and all of a sudden when I go to publish the file it takes about 30 minutes to finish publishing it. The file size is only 24k, so that has nothing to do with it. I took out all the work I've done to the file since yesterday and it still does this...more >>

I was wondering if there's any way to use a menu created in Flash that will not refresh every time a user clicks on a button. I have a Flash menu on the top of the page and on the left side and I was wondering if theres a way of not refreshing without using frames. Thanks, ...more >>

I am trying to make a floating ad. The ad is Flash and is a div layer. I have a close button in Flash that I am trying to use Javascript to make the div layer hidden when clicked. Here is my code javascript code on the HTML page: <script> var browserType; if (document.layers) {br...more >>

Hello we just uploaded our sites to our webhost provider and we have found out a few things. While on the parent domain ( http://www.wheygroup.com ) the site works fine (along with flash), but on the sub domains (http://ecrd.wheygroup.com , http://ccs.wheygroup.com , http://ecic.wheygroup.co...more >>

Hello. I know this might sound newbieish, and im not sure if it can be done but.. I have a sound (music) playing through my movie. And I need to have the sound lower in volume at times (like when someone's speaking). I know that this might be possible on a movie clip, but I've gone through a...more >>

Hey I'm wondring how you can fade a symbol from one side to another side. I don't mean normal fading. I've been doing flash for many years, so I'm a preatty advanced user. I hope someone understand my problem. Thanks PerArne ...more >>

mayday....mayday.... I did an intro animation at 1024x600...now we need it at 1024x768 for a different monitor...modifying the document leaves the animation riding high on the stage. Is there a quick fix way to center the entire animation on the stage without having to physically move each...more >>

Hello, I'm interested in duplicating this site's main navigation menu which shows sub-menu items when hovering on the main item. Is the flash source code available? Thanks....more >>

Hi I've made a cd-rom which is made up of lots of swf files. I made the cd-rom on a pc. When i run the main swf from the hard drive of the mac (not from cd), it tends to run slow and jerky. It runs real smooth on the pc. Any idea what the problem is? Thanks Carly ...more >>

(Flash MX [not 2004] on OSX.3.5) My mouse tends to be a little jumpy (a differrent issue!), but while I was dragging the actions palette out of the way, my cursor jumped off-screen and I released the mouse button before I realized what had happened. Consequently, my Actions palette is no l...more >>

Hi I have a series of images for an animation I need to place on the timeline. One image per frame and all registered to the same center point so they don't jump around. In director there is a "bitmap to time" command that lets me grab a group of images and place them on the stage. direct...more >>

I have a navigation bar that I have loaded into level3 of my main movie. When the user clicks one of the navigation buttons they should be taken to a specific point on the timeline of a movie that I have loaded into level2 of my main movie. Currently it will only go to the specified frame if t...more >>

Has any had an issue where flash.exe ate up all your resources? I can open it fine but right when I start working in Flash MX 2004 the processes shoot up to 25% right away. And after adding a few layers with different objects it gets even worse. Any ideas? I'm going to try and uninstall an...more >>

hi im working on a website and I want to make a flash contact form, (using MX 2004) are there any forms i can check out for reference? Also I have no clue how to write a PHP script that handles the data on my form and sends it back to my inbox in a easy to read format and no idea where to put...more >>

I've finished an animation. But there are some changes in the design. So I must move some objects, some pixels down. Do I have to move every keyframe of every object separately? Is there some way to move all the keyframes of an object, at the same time? With Director animations I don't...more >>

how to achieve this kind of effect ??? www.cartaxi.com.br like a shattered glass.. CHeers Rodrigo...more >>

Hi all, I am in a super-big time crunch with a client and I need a bit of workflow advice..... What is the best way for me to get my 1.9GB uncompressed video clip (3 min in length) to a small, web-friendly flash video? I have a series of 3 minute videos that my company has produced for a...more >>

Does anyone know who to contact at MM to give feedback on the content of the MM download page = http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockw aveFlash Thank you, Ron ...more >>

I would like to make 4 buttons to insert into an HTML file. They are Home, Portflio, Services, Contact. On each button, I want the off state to be (a) on a background and (b) the word in a lighter color. On the on state I want (a) to rollover to darker text color (b) a sound wave to appear s...more >>

I am using Flash MX 2004. In Flash MX, when scaling an object, the scale was referenced to the top left corner of an object. Now it is the centre. Can I change this back to the top left corner? Regards Mike ...more >>

I want to create pixel-like layout but I can't find the option to prevent the text to be anti-aliased. By publishing the flash movie as low quality can do but some graphics looks really ugly. ...more >>

Can I get one so that I can install these on corporate machines without using internet connection?? Got one from this site a year ago, but can't find any links on the site anywhere - whoever hid the page did a good job. ...more >>

HEy all... Did a search thru the forums in here and couldn't find an answer to this. I have Flash MX Pro 2004 and when I go to "Windows>Scenes", "Scenes" is greyed out and is not an option to select. Any idea what may be causing this? I'm using Windows XP. Thanks - Kevin ...more >>

Hi i need help with drop down menus. ive created the drop down menus and they work fine the problem is that the buttons on the drop down menus wont go to their page.Ive told then in the actions panel to goto etc. but still no response. please help, thanks. ...more >>

Hi I've made a site that loads a couple of extern images into flash. This is quite normal, and the loading works fine. The images is used in a slideshow with a special transition effect. To do this effect every image is placed i 3 layers above each other, the top image with 25% alpha, the...more >>

As I keep contacting macromedia support, they always point me to this forum for a chance to get in touch with Macromedia technicians. Is that true? because the accessibility issues here keeps being unanswered. So I just wonder if this really is the right place to get any answers? /Per Fili...more >>

Hi all does anyone know of a *free* .swf decompiler for the Mac? I have found many free downloads for window, but none for the Mac... Thanks for any tips...more >>

Hi, it goes something like this: I have really huge text field in the flash website. Its 3756px high. I also have a scroller to scroll it. However the whole text doesn't appear when I export the movie to swf. Its only about the half of it. Another thing is that behind the text I see the p...more >>

How do I make a different sound play each time user clicks a button?...more >>

How can I use flash to communicate with other application? I think I can use some three part tools just like FlashJester to launch other application. Now I want to swf file reveive some data that other app. generated. Now I have no other just put the data which other app. generated into a XML...more >>

Whenever i try to install FlashMx2004 the system tells me, the operating system does not work with this version. However, i tried it on a different computer with the same operating system... and there it works........ Can anyone help me? Greetings daniel ...more >>

Hello I have 600+ fonts installed on my Macintosh. I have also Font Book - a font management utility bundled with MacOS Panther. Font Book is supposed to turn off the fonts I don't want so they don't slow down the apps. This works with most of my applications, but not with Flash - and since ...more >>

What is the general consensus or proper etiquette out there concerning the source files (.fla or such files) used to create a website or application for a client. Should they remain with the programmer or the client if no agreement is in place which dictates ownership of the same? ...more >>

Hi, my very first flash site is nearly done, I'm just having a small problem with buttons. I've got the sound thing sorted, so that when the mouse hovers over a button, a sound plays. What I'm trying to do is also have text that appears on the screen when I hover the muse over each button. Not...more >>

hello, I'm on my first flash project ever, and unfortunately, it is a quite extensive one. Now I'm confused about how to structure the work. My first thought was to work on the different parts of the project in separate fla files, and then import them all into the master project as swf...more >>

I have a series of small boxes that contain a lot of text. The boxes on the stage are at 33% of their scale. I would like to create an interaction such that if the user clicked on the box once, the box would expand to 100% of their scale. Then, when they clicked on the expanded box, it would s...more >>

Hi All I am using the below AS to control the colours of the scrollpane component. I want to change the highlight colour you see when you mouse over the selected item. Can anyone tell the name of this 'area' scrollpane.setStyle("name_of_area_here","0xffcccc"); many thanks as eve...more >>

Hi there, I have a flash which is loading images configured in an xml file. On the same flash I want to insert a text area to display other information like news. The problem I have is that the text area component is shown in the designer but nothing appears in the resulting swf. Can anyon...more >>

Does anyone know some way on how to delete some of the things that pop up on the menu when you right click on a swf file viewed in a flash player....more >>

Hi all, I designed a flash static image. I need to publish it in .jpg format. The requirement is background should be transparent. This option i am getting in html and gif format but not in jpg. Is there anybody who may help me. Thanks, Priya ...more >>

Hi all, I designed a flash static image. I need to publish it in .jpg format. The requirement is background should be transparent. This option i am getting in html and gif format but not in jpg. Is there anybody who may help me. Thanks, Priya ...more >>

Hello. My friend recently helped me out with "pop - up windows" with flash, and he gave me this code to "insert in my HTML" And this is what he sent me : <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> function openHTMLWindow(url) { var width, height; var agt = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCas...more >>

Yeah. I've got a bit of a problem. So I was working in Studio MX (Flash) for most of my flash work - but in using a newer version on a different computer (MX 2004) it has changed the file version/type in some way, as the older Studio MX Flash doesn't want to read the file and can't recognise i...more >>

alright this might get a little complicated but ill try and cut it down without making it non-understandable. I'm making a game with a boat and inside the boat mc is a shotgun mc. i want the boat to move with the arrow keys while the shotgun rotates with the mouse. I first tried making a m...more >>

I have collected a number of Flash media files over the last few years that I have often viewed, but ever since I installed Windows XP Home, I have been unable to launch the Flash files. Nothing happens when I double-click on any file ending in .swf. I have installed Macromedia Flash and Macrome...more >>

Hi everyone: I want to query database and return WebService data to client(I use ..NET).Then I want to display the webservice data using Flash's DataGrid. But flash displayed nothing. Whether flash support .NEt webservice ? HElp! ...more >>

Hi, I added some text fields with HTML support to my movie. While tags like Bold or Font work fine, I have some questions for further HTML support: Q1: Can I use CSS in the text, how can I refer to an external CSS file (is it possible?) Q2: I would like to mark some links with images (IMG...more >>

am working on a project that is turning a HTML-based website using a SQL database into a Flash website with dynamically-driven data that is updated constantly Is this compatible? I know Flash Remoting is more current, but as I am new to database integration w/ Flash, I'm confused if...more >>

Hi, I've just started at this new company as a programmer. the company has a website... the website has CFML (Cold Fusion code), html, javascript, css etc... and it has flash images/animations... there are swf (compiled flash) files... the programmer who worked here before - didn't lea...more >>

I have a site which starts off with a flash movie in an html page. On clicking a button in the flash movie it opens a pop up window and closes the previous html window. All works fine. I then proceded in designing another site in flash. On this site I developed a link which opens the p...more >>

I have a movie clip on my stage on frame 5 with a stop on that frame, In the movie clip I have a simple button... When the button is released I want it to play... I have added a label to frame 6 but still nothing... The code that is on the movie clip frame where the button sits is below? ...more >>