Ahhh.. Deadline approaching ... and I have no idea what I'm doing! here's the very simple problem: website composed of 4 pages. Each "page" is on it's own scene of a Flash file. My menu bar is a movie clip, composed of 4 separate movie clips. each of these menu items has some action sc...more >>

I am struggling with one concept that I would very much like a bit of assistance with.. And I can sum it up into 1 example.. The example is from Fibonacci flower page 80 g mulzler The following example is attached to a movie clip that is at the root ( main time lin...more >>

I have created a movie clip that contains an animation of a set of images scrolling, when i insert this movie clip into the timeline and then export to preview, the clip looks as though the images streak or smear across the stage, and movement is unapparent. I dont understand what could be cau...more >>

Hi all, I'm not event sure how to describe this problem. I have a TextField that I want to make into a MC button. But when I create it. The link and RollOver fx is only activated when the mouse is over the text exactly. This makes my buttons a pain to use. Please see my page http:...more >>

I was wondering if anyone has yet to figure out the problem with swf's running on IE 6 SP1. I have tried my files on two different computers (with different OS's XP and 98SE) with IE6 (Flash Player 7) and get the same results (i.e. the preloader does not play and the file takes longer than usu...more >>

Hello, Looking to stop the "playing" of Macromedia Flash when reading online. For example, when reading ABC News articles online, large ads are always streaming with graphics and text and it's very distracting. When right clicking on some of these ads, it's possible to "un-check" the ...more >>

I'm ready to pull my hair out. THERE SHOULD BE AN OPTION IN FLASH WHICH MAKES ALL VECTORS SNAP TO A PIXEL!!! Oh but wait there is, only its inconsistent and doesn't force all vector points to the CORNER of a pixel. Take Illustrator for example, that's so much easier to use when creati...more >>

Can you link to an example? Joe Martinez http://www.jrmiii.com ...more >>

Yeah, me too. Terrible above all the Score. You can work with it if you have to move a square or a circle. But for real animation i suggest you: www.the-tab.com www.tablite.com ...more >>

Hi: I saw somebody using com.macromedia.flash.* in his java program to call a flash panel from his main(). Is com.macromedia.flash.* available for free? If not, is there any free alternatives? Thanks a billion. best Leon...more >>

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Does anyone know how to send the play head to a random frame (between frame 1 and frame 10)? I'm trying this: var myRandomFrame:Number = Math.random()*10; _root.gotoAndStop(myRandomFrame); but it's not working. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

I have a flash based menu system on an ASP.NET page that disappears when a postback occurs. Anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know why this is happening? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! ...more >>

This may be a little difficult to explain but let's just say I have an image cut up into 9 squares, 3 across and 3 down. I want to be able to click a square and have it change to a different image. If I click it again I want it to change to yet another different image. I could click around ...more >>

Anyway, sort of still learning and trying to remember what I forgot. Want to know if this is a possibility. I have a Flash Menu, basically some buttons (currently no actions outside of the "states"). That menu is imported into a Dreamweaver web page. In the Dreamweaver web page ...more >>

All I am trying to do is add an sound when the user's cursor rolls over the button. I have two books for flash MX 2004 and neither explanation works. I have a button with all four states, up, over, down and hit. The explanation says all you have to do is add a new layer in the edit bu...more >>

Is it possible to import a vector drawing I've created in Photoshop or Illustrator into Flash in its editable format? I am using Flash MX and Flash 5. TIA Amelia...more >>

Ok, I apologize for starting out with a potentially stupid question- Is there a way to determine what version of Flash player is on a workstation? I looked in the registry and was not able to see any keys annotating the version number. Help? Thanks much, -Govtmule ...more >>

how do you make some kind of form that when they put an email in a text box it sends a certain msg to that email ?...more >>

I am making a presentation where I need to open powerpoint presentations, word and pdf documents within flash. Is there a component available for this or if anyone can help me with the actionscript for this it would be great. Also if there is a way to call web browser within flash, i feel this...more >>

Hello, I have an email GET URL action to get feedback from a Flash newsletter I created and I'm getting calls from staff members that are not able to send email feedback. They are receiving a message that says: "default mail client was not installed." This is odd becuase everyone in our gr...more >>

When Installing flash i get this error: Error Number: 0x80040703 Description: Failed to find dll function: Macromedia_Licencing_Installer.CdaSysInstallEx2 Setup will now terminate....more >>

Hi guys, Im attempting to use the John Faithhorn bounce menu component (Flash ) in an application of mine. However it appears to be having problems. I have tested the bounce menu in an empty new fresh flash file-- pointed it at the xml file and it works. No problems. However If I use it insid...more >>

I'm planning to build a flash game with big and rich prizes... the problem is i want users to play my game ONCE and never play again... i planner a very *close* registration, but this is not really a barrier i tought to set multiple Flash and Javascript Cookies... but also this will not be a...more >>

I've done some web searches for customizable flash games for my peronal site and it's very dicouraging. Many cost $100+ and I can't afford that for my personal site it's just for fun. Mainly I just want a puzzle game with my customized picture. I thought about using the flash tuturial jigsaw, but...more >>

I am trying to create a Menu in my flash movie. This movie is called chat.swf and is loaded by a main loader movie named loader.swf. When my actionscript in chat.swf trys to create the Menu with Menu.createMenu(), it fails saying "Failed to create a new menu, probably because there is no Menu ...more >>

Hi, I'm usign flash MX 2004 version 7.2 with screens. This is the way that I'm loading an external movie clip after a user is login to my page (callAddressBook function) function callAddressBook(){ this.createEmptyMovieClip("myMovieClip_mc",this.getNextHighestDepth()); myMovieClip_mc.loadM...more >>

Hi all! I have a page with a dynamic text field that pull some content (different url/ headlines/ texts) and in the content is a standard html link <a href="http://www.somewhere.com?param=abcdefghisdf&more=blah&blah=blah">link< /a> As you can see the url to the link is very long. When ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to use getURL to make the javascript calls for my SCORM 1.2 content. getURL ( "javascript:SCOSetValue('cmi.core.score.raw', '100');" ); I do not want this to open a browser window. I just want to execute the call and keep on moving down the timeline. However, once the ...more >>

Is there any way to make the mouse wheel zoom (like Photoshop) rather than the default scroll up and down? Its way more useful that way....more >>

Hi I have a boat.swf that I import into a project. How can I centre the reg point on the movie instance that i place on the timeline? -have tried double clicking on the boat and moving the symbols up towards the + -would have to do this for 60 frames! sucks also, why when I export m...more >>

Wouldn't it be nice if some day you could hit the Esc key and all animations would stop playing (similar to how the Esc key makes animated gifs stop playing) ? When reading a tutorial on flashkit, or even just a news article on some of the major news sites, it would be nice to end the unrelent...more >>

Hi all, This is a very 'newbie' type question which I am embarrasingly having problems with. I have a flash movie (730px X 500px) which is embedded into an HTML page. I would like my Flash Movie to appear in the absolute middle/centre of the browser no matter what the users resolution...more >>

Hi, Ok this is my problem : I have a flash client where I can type in a question When I click the button it then sends this information to a .aspx(c#) via the GetURL(flash) and the Request.QueryString["question"] method. The .aspx page then querys a database for information and brings bac...more >>

Hi! first of all I have to mention, that I'm a newbie to flash. is it possible to phrase html-text in flash? I mean I fetch text from a PHP-Script and want to show it in my movie. Actually I only need to phrase <b> <i> and <br> Can anyone help me? greetings from Germany Bum...more >>

Hi people, I have a swf that is very large in height. Therefore when you view it in a browser window you have to scroll down to view it all. This is fine. But is there a way, to reset the position of the html scrollbars? Eg: return them to the top, to see the top part ...more >>

Hi again, I'm trying to figure how to write correctly some expressions, and now I've come into this one: _root["parqueIndexItems.botao0"+_root.c].gotoAndPlay(2); What is wrong with this one? Thanks in advance, Jorge Olino ...more >>

Hi all, I have an old version of Flash MX of version 6.0. Can i update it to ver 7.2 using the updater in the macromedia website? Thanks....more >>

possible to use mouse wheel to control scrolling etc. in flash? sumthing like on (mouseScroll) or onclipevent(mousewheelup) ?? thx...more >>

I have a game board that will contain bingo Cards. I add the bingo cards to the game board ( _root ) dynamically because the amount of bingo cards needed is dynamic. I have the cards adding just fine, but the problem I am running into is I need to be able to detect a mouse click and handle it ac...more >>

Hello everyone I am using WinXP (english) and flash 7. When trying to access a flash application containing cyrillic fonts, I get only gibrish from flash, while my explorer fully supports cyrillic fonts (as far as I can tell). Is there a solution to this problem ? I know my friends see...more >>

I was wondering if anyone knows if this version of flash supports full parsing of XML documents against a DTD. As previous versions do not! Thanks...more >>

hi, im having trouble controling a movie clip. i want to create an effect on a movie clip: when the user puts the mouse over it, the movie clip will start playing from a specific point in the movie, when the user moves the mouse off the movie clip i would like the movie clip to start playing ...more >>

Hi, Can someone point me out what am I doing wrong in this code? The buttons _root.botao01, _root.botao02, etc, should get back to the enabled state, and I can't figure why it doesn't work... on (release) { for (i=0; i<4; i++) { set("_root.botao0"+i.enabled, true); } } ...more >>

I am tweening a graphic and changing the brightness. For some reason flash seems to distort the picture. It seems to be stretching the image a bit for no apparent reason. It's really wierd that it runs fine in the scene but once I eport the movie and play it the image distorts. Anyone hea...more >>

I am having some problems with this any suggestions ? txs in advance...more >>

Hi All, Because i have to write flash program for set top box. But the set top box support flash 5 player only. So, i want know where is flash 5 online doc.? Now, macromedia provide Flash MX online only. Please Help. Gordon ...more >>

Hi! I am using Flash MX 2004. I need some help about dynamic text! Do all the texts input into a same dynamic text field has to be under the SAME font size? What I mean is can I make a line with larger font size and the others with difference font size in the same text field? If so, how ...more >>

I have been trying to go from a Flash MX movie with several flash buttons to a seperate htm page for each button can not seems to be able to make this happen any suggestions? many tx in advance nancy jo ...more >>

Hey guys, i'm making a flash site with Multiple movies. Although when i load a file ontop of another, i cant make the top layer (file) transparent. would anyone have the code for this? thanks heaps...more >>

Hello everyone: I've been trying to build a shape tween - unsuccessfully. Here's what I'm doing: I have two .GIF files that I would like to create a transition from one to the other. I click frame one, select File>Import and bring in the first image, then break it apart using Modify>Break...more >>

ok: i have a folder named "randomimages", 5 jpeg images inside named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg etc.... i want to load a random image from that folder into a layer in my movie and have it change each time the user refreshes the webpage.. any help would be GREATLY appreciated.. ...more >>

Anyone know how I can pass a variable from one SWF to another SWF (possibly through Shared Objects) and INFORM the receiving SWF that it has received the variable?...more >>

I am currently working on two games, one that needs a button to fade away once it has been clicked, the other that needs the button to disappear once it has been clicked. Any help to this would be much appreciated as my games wouldn't be very good if this isn't possible. Thanks... ...more >>

Hi- I'm on Flash Mx04, Win XP, and I'm very frustrated. I just discovered that my Flash program components are gone (loader, text area, scroll pane etc.), and so is the connection I made to my central Library. Strangely, I still have the components that I have purchased thru 3rd party vendors ...more >>

hi i am making a photo gallery of thumbnails which when clicked load the main image in a picture screen. all works fine in flash but once opened in a browser , the scroll for the thumbnails works fine but the main images won't load. i have been spending 15 hours trying to solve this. i would...more >>

Okay, I'm developing a form based Flash application which is designed to require the user to log in and then display a Home form. So, I've written subclasses off of the mx.screens.Form class in a heirarchial structure, like so: forms.UserForm inherits from mx.screens.Form forms.Main and ...more >>

Hi, I have put together a swf. movie with graphics of motorcycles and text. It is about 500 frames long and I don't know if I am downloading it wrong or saving it wrong, but when I download this file, it will play on the computer that I downloaded it from but it never downloads or plays ...more >>

Do classes/Objects get serialized / deserialized automatically between Java Servlet and Flash M 2004 ??? And if anyone has any good tutorials or references on Flash Remoting that would be great. Carnage...more >>

Dear all, Could you please help me with the following. I created a banner in flash and inserted it into the webpage, but the problem is my html navigational bar has a drop down menu which now doesn't show? It seems that the flash banner lays on top of the nav.bar? I tried everything but ...more >>