i have a site with a main banner, on the bottom left corner of that banner, i want to have a button, from that button (when clicked) my site menu will appear. And when clicked again, the menu will dissappear. right now, i have made a flash file that size of the actual button, and included...more >>

Im pretty new to flash, so does anyone know or does anyone has a link to a tutorial on how to background music to my animation?...more >>

After installing Flash MX 2004 using a local Administrators User account , I logged out and logged back in with a User account that is only a member of the Users group. (No Admin Rights/Permissions). When I run Flash, I get an error, "Error downloading help content. Please check your network c...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a project that involves taking a series of digital still photos, then importing them into macromedia flash to make a time lapse 'movie'. From my limited understanding, I've established that going File >Import and selecting an image prompts Flash to recognise a sequence...more >>

i have a website and i want to put a music video on it. the music video is retrived by a html code. how do i put this video into my flash movie? thx...more >>

Please help - NetConnection Window No longer Displays after 7.2 updator - any ideas anyone?? Thanks Joe...more >>

I'm a new user in Flash, and my english is't so good. I hope someone could understand me. So, I'd like to know: 1) is it possible to use flash animations in e-mails, news letters, etc.? 2) flash animation is used on this kind of thing? 3) where's flash animations more used? what's the be...more >>

I had made 3 short games in Director long time ago. I don't even remember how I did the code and it's kind of a drag to figure it all out again from scratch for Flash. IS there any way to import code from Director into Flash or am I better off by making projectors or some kind of seperate file...more >>

I'm new to using FLASH, but would like to use it to develop a simple interactive CD that can be distributed. The CD would contain 8 or 9 pages of "information". The information would basically be some static content (mostly text and pictures) about a "marketing promotion". I was assuming I cou...more >>

Hi,friends I want to make a menu exactly like the macromedia menu,when you mouse over an item the sub menus opens,but when you accidently mouse over another items you will not see its sub menus,but when you eaxactly mouse over on it you will see,you know exactly like that,what should I do? ...more >>

After registering my MX 2004 upgrade last week, I was shown a free downloadable update to the Flash Help as a reward to registering (called Flash MX Doc Updater). The installer says it will completely replace my Help system in Flash. But is it newer than the MX 7.02 Help that comes with that u...more >>

I am posting this question on this forum because it seems that every one who uses Flash seems to have it. Attached is a sample of the font. I know it is not Verdana becuse of the unique "Y" and "N"s. I need a font like this because it seems to be the only font that looks great when very sma...more >>

Hi there, I need to export a part of flash movie into a jpg file in runtime. Is there any method or command to help me. I am working on a web project, not desktop based so couln't involve any exe based external tools with flash to do it. I am using mx2004. Any suggestions. Thanks...more >>

Everytime I have Dreamwaver,Flash, etc open I can't open any other programs like Photoshop. But as soon as I shutdown dreamwaver or flash opening Photoshop works fine. And I have 1Gig of ram. anyone else having this problem, and is there a fix? ...more >>

hi I tried the solutions on the previous threads but I can't figure it out. I am trying to put together my portfolio in Flash and everytime I click the button I want a small pop up window to load with my swf files (videos, etc.). I did it with html, following the advice on previous threads. Bu...more >>

I have Flash MX, and can't open some FLAs created in v6.0. The error says, "Unexpected file format." What can I do to fix?...more >>

I have a map and a list of cities... Now i can turn the items in the list to buttons and assign them to do something with an onrollover command, but what i want to happen is for a little blinking dot to appear on the map where the city would be located, and probable blink for 3 or 4 seconds, ...more >>

Is Flash MX 2004 compatible with Dreamweaver 4 or do I need Dreamweaver MX 2004? ...more >>

I am creating a splash page (thank you for the frame help by the way, I have wacky software); and my client requests a button on the splash page or a pop up window that gives the viewer the option of never seeing the splash page agian on that computer. I know this is possible, but what is the ...more >>

I will admit right now that my abilities in flash are rudimentary at best. I got an application called MIX-FX to do some text animation but it will only output looping swf files. Is there a way in flash (version 6) to load the swf movies one after the other without the looping? Any help or adv...more >>

Hi, I'm encountering a sporadic problem with Flash MX. With my static text, I always use a standard font (_sans) and font size (12 pts.) In isolated files, the 12-point text looks fine in the authoring environment (FLA file) and fine when I select Control > Test Movie. However, in the pu...more >>

Anyone have any idea where I might find a template even *close* to this, as I'm a newbie and would love to 'toy' with this? www.shelbyamerican.com Cheers, David ...more >>

I am a beginning flash user and am having a problem making the buttons that I have created, jump from one scene to another and back again. I'm also not sure what tutorials to look up to find assistance with this. Should I look under Actionscripts or Buttons? Thanks! hrosales@echo-inc....more >>

Hi, I'm trying to tween a rectangle in to a right-angled triangle. If refering to the corners as A-D clock wise. What i do is that i connect A to D in the key frame ending the tween. This works fine. But if i instead try to connect the corner C to D, strange things starts to happen. D...more >>

I am making our company logo which consists of the letter A with 2 arrows circling around it. How do I animate the arrows so that they actually encirlce the A? I am looking for something similar to the graphic on this page but with arrows (graphics) instead of text. http://www.cbtcafe...more >>

I would like to construct a simple quiz of three questions, all multiple choice, connect it to a database and then publish the results. This is simple enough using PHP but I have no idea in flash. I saw there were some quiz templates set up but they have all sorts of library items I don't w...more >>

<param name=FlashVars value="index=4"> As you can see I'm sending a flash variable index with a value of 4 to my movie. This has worked great before and works great now... as long as the browser is IE. For some reason when I open the page on Mozilla Firefox it doesn't work. Does anyone ...more >>

can someone please tell me why i can only load a text file in this function once? _root.loadInfo = function( n ) { myVars = new LoadVars(); myVars.load( "scripts/item/item" + n + ".txt" ); myVars.onData = function( raw ) { var tmpText = ""; if ( raw...more >>

does anyone know how to turn the volume down to 0 from 100, stop all sounds, and then put the volume at 100 again? what I have so far is this: on (release) { i = 100; s = new Sound(); while (i>0) { s.setVolume(i); i=i-Step } stopAllSounds(); s.setVolume(100); } ...more >>

I'm sure this is probably straight forward question. I have a flash item on an html page. Is there an easy way to start the flash only after all the other images and html has loaded? Do I just have to guess the average load time and add time to my timeline, or is the onload in the body tag I c...more >>

I have a multiple frame movie. On each frame is a separate sound track. There is also a navigation bar on each frame with forward, back, pause and play buttons. Is there a way to pause the sound track that is playing in the frame and then have it restart from that point again when the play but...more >>

I cant get the rectangle tool to draw a rectangle. All other tools work fine. Sounds dumb, I know. Tried reinstalling Flash MX but got the same results. Anyone run into this before? Thanks, JM Mac G5 OS10.3 Studio MX (not MX2004) ...more >>

Hi, I develop an application MySQL / JSP / Flash which permits to display the data in a flash movie. in the jsp file, in a first time i create a XML file generated with the user number. in a second time the swf file is embedded in the same jsp file. the problem is that when I load the ...more >>

Hello, Can anyone tell me how I could make the background of my gif transparent. Basically I am designing a little drag and drop tutorial and want the word text (the drag object) to only be the text (ex Green) and not have to match the mc_green with the background of the sceen as it covers p...more >>

I can not target the text box of a loaded movie no matter what I try. I have a main movie and another movie called Jackpot.swf. Jackpot.swf has a textbox called Jackpot_txt which I am trying to poulate but can't. Here are some thing I have tried. loadMovie("Animations/Ads/Jackpot.swf", Ad...more >>

Hi All, anyone know of a good simple html editor that creates flash compatible html? that uses <b> instead if <strong> tags and <FONT color = "#fffffff"> rather than <FONT color =#fffffff> (note the missing " ) Thanks TG-1 ...more >>

Hi, I've created an animation site containing 2 scenes. At the end of the first one, the action "gotoAndPlay("Scene 2",1);" should launch the second scene, but it stops instead. When replacing "gotoAndPlay("Scene 2",1);" by "gotoAndPlay("Scene 2",5);", it goes indeed to Scene 2 but thi...more >>

It simply doesn't work.... it displays my default stage color and the background div is not visible. it does work on firefox 0.9/winxp and on firefox 0.8/win 2k.. The same for all supported wmode flash players (tested with the pluginswitcher) the wmode example on the macromedia site is...more >>

hi i've just upgraded to flash MX 2004 from MX. there was a font in MX which i used which 2004 doesn't have.is there any way i can get the font from the old version or download it from somewhere. the font is called "chinese rocks" i am using Mac with OS 10.3.4 also, does anyone fi...more >>

Hi - when i publish my movie, any tweened text just appears, without fading in as it does when i run the playhead in Flash MX 2004 7.2 - i am suspicious that it has started doing this since i installed the update... I have cheked i'm not using device fonts too. Has anyone seen this or can an...more >>

Hi, I wonder if it´s possible to have a scalable background image(in flash) that fills the browser. And then load nonscalable content on top. Either by different levels or in different mc:s. Thanks... /K ...more >>

I have two swf movies. Movie one contains only a dateField component. After compiling this one, i can get the dateChooser. Movie two contains only a scrollPane. This scrollPane i set the contentPath to the movie with the dateField component. After compiling this one, i only see the dateFiel...more >>

i have a full flash site working, but i am getting a double, triple clicking sound from some of my navigation btns is it the way i have designed it or is it some think to do with the btn over states? thanks craig ...more >>

Hi guys, I am stuck on the HMTL feature in Flash. I have a dynamic text field which loads a HTML text (contains hyperlinks). The problem is the clickable area is ALWAYS left-centered. Do u know how to move or increase the clickable area of the hyperlinks?? Really appreciate ur guys ...more >>

Hello, This is my first time using Flash, and I've spent a few hours on a scene using the normal flash document format. But then I realized the benefits of the slide show format and would like to change the scene to a screen, is this possible?? Any help would be great! Thanks a lot! :)...more >>

yes its very easy i no but im a noob so how do u put sound effects and music in a movie...more >>

New to embedding video files into flash and keep running into problems I can't find easy answers too. - What is the preferred format to import - .avi, .mov., wmf. ? - If I am importing an .avi file, how can I remove the sound? - Why when I import a movie and mess around with the actionscript...more >>

i want to make a menu, where a "button" is placed at the top/left corner of my site. When clicked, a drop down menu will appear below, (this would be the normal menu for site browsing) When you click the button again, the menu dissappears. (menu should not dissappear until button is clicked ...more >>

why i can't use key press under flashMX2004 ? It works under FlashMX, does the AS change? on (keyPress "1"){ _root.gotoAndStop("myFrame"); } Thx! Herman ...more >>