Hi all, I have a swf file which loads another swf file in a loader component. The nested swf has buttons but they do not work when loaded into the second swf file. How do I get the button to work? I hope you can understand what I'm asking, if not, let me know and I'll try to explain it mor...more >>

I am confused?. I want the browser to detect if the user has Flash If so when you click on a particular link it will go to the page that has the Flash document. If not, when you click on the same link it will take you to a page with NO Flash document on it. It sounds simple, but I a...more >>

Can anyone advise me how to use the getNextPage() and getPreviousPage() methods with buttons to traverse through an xml document called within flash? I am trying to get this working using an xml component. http://www.ultrashock.com/ff.htm?http://www.ultrashock.com/cgi-bin/flas/search.cgi?ww=...more >>

I've got a movie that starts off by animating letters and lines, then a picture fades in. The last part of it scrolls some text from bottom to top with a mask applied to the scrolling text... My problem is that I want the movie to continually loop the scrolling text section only, not the whole...more >>

Urgent I need for a Rush Job a Good Designer for Flash MX Pro. Please contact me directly dimnet@yahoo.com ...more >>

? have a problem after i loaded txt files into flash. % and + couldn't display. i loaded .txt whit this code loadVariablesNum("urun_bilgileri.txt",0); a variable in .txt &urun_1_karisim_composition= %100 Wool(Y?n) + %90 Akrilik(Acrylic) output; 0 Wool(Y?n) ? Akrilik(Acrylic)...more >>

I have a parent flash movie which loads an external flash movie into a movie clip. I want to position this subsidiary flash movie, and to do this I'm trying to use the _x and _y properties of the movie clip, but its not moving the imported movie. Does the movie clip's not determine the po...more >>

Hello, everone been working on this for a few hours now nearly getting bald trying to figure this out. I have text in one movie (Humanist 777 Bt, 24 point, bold, italic) which how i need it to be, but when i copy and paste the same text in another movie, the text comes in resized almost 2x m...more >>

Is anyone aware of something either in the MP3 encoding or in the Flash implementation that would make an external MP3 file play back at a fast rate? I'm streaming off the hard drive and will be streaming from a cd in the final delivery, not over the internet. I've got a chipmunk situatio...more >>

http://www.festifever.ch/swf/main_de.html Thanks in advance Dave...more >>

I am trying to enter a title, that should be in the same place in each frame, but should have different text. How can I do this?...more >>

im trying to pan an image across a 778 x 265 canvas. the actual image is about 1400 pixels tall. ive seen images larger than this pan smoothly on other sites, but my animation seems jittery and skips occassionally. any tips on smoothing out this problem? thanks ...more >>

Hi Folks, Using Flash MX 2004. I am developing a tutorial for a software application. I have imported 12 images into ONE module to replicate the various screens the user may encounter as they use the application. (ie. User click tab A on screen "One" and screen changes to screen "Two...more >>

I noticed that in Flash, the default speed is 12.0 fps. How can one slow it down or speed it up?...more >>

I have a Flash MX file that I created in OS 9. Previously I never had any problems with the file. I recently switched computers and I'm now using OSX 10.3.4. I'm still using Flash MX and I have the font (Meta) installed on the computer. The font appears fine while I'm working in Flash but ...more >>

I want to add a volume slider to a presentation done in flash. I have several sound files in the presentation so I want to be able to turn them all up or down at the same time. Is it best to put all the sounds in their own movie clip, then control that? If anyone knows the best way to do thi...more >>

How do I get my Flash Movie to stay centered in the middle of a browser window and not scaling? http://www.mocreative.com/test/mocreative.swf...more >>

Hi Could anyone please tell me if it is possible (and if so how) to have more than one line on the LineChart that is part of the Flash Charting Components extension ? I want to have a green line and a red line but whatever I try, it just joins both lines together and sets the line colo...more >>

Hi: I have a flash clip I developed and you can see it in Internet Explorer but not in Netscape. http://www.bettysvisions.com/PleasantBay0323/index.html I don't know why it will not show in Netscape, Netscape has the macromedia plugin enabling it to be seen. Please let me know what I...more >>

New to flash, made my first movie that is basically a slide show with animation. Lots of frames with different text and figures. I want several people to review and comment on different parts of the movie (different frames) and want to provide a displayed frame number so that reviewers can com...more >>

Hey I'm considering buying their SWiSHMax product which has cool advanced tools for Flash. I think they target novice Flash users as myself, but I'd imagine the applicability of their tools would be benefitial to any level of Flash user. Anyone used this stuff before? -sus ...more >>

I created a scene named (main) in Flash MX. This scene has various (on release) action scripts, calling to frame numbers in the scene. Everything was working fine with that scene ..... Until ..... I added a preloader in a separate scene named (preloader) This scene has a total of 4 frames. I se...more >>

Can anyone tell me if flash is capable to create flash UI object programmatically at runtime? If so, please point me to any demo.... Thanks Andy...more >>

I've added a checkbox to a column of my DataGrid. The boxes won't stay checked! If I click on one, I see a check mark appear and then immediately disappear. I'm using sample code from this web site to accomplish this. Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something? Has anyone else se...more >>

I did a search on preloading bars and found this thread from Gedeon: Hi, Asuming you want to make a preloading bar kinda thing, paste this on you the first keyframe on _root: this.onEnterFrame = function() { bl = this.getBytesLoaded(); bt = this.getBytesTotal(); if(bl == bt && ...more >>

Hy, I'm a joung member of Flash-world and I try for a couple of months to solve problem abouth flash movie with FLV extension! I import in my flashworks AVI or MPEG movies but I don't know how I can get FLV extension!!?? I can not wasting my time any more, so please help me!!! ...more >>

Our team recently received a project developing a small flash application. Our designer has a copy of Flash MX, and we have a license for 5 from an employee that recently left. If I (as a developer) use 5, and she uses MX, will there be any compatability issues? ...more >>

What is a proven approach to rotate a product (in this case a milk carton) 360 degrees. Do I take a digital picture 360 times (one for each degree) of the milk carton, then stitch the pictures togeather to load into flash. Not sure how it is done. If someone can point me in the right direct...more >>

I am trying to open an excel file in microsoft excel from a flash projector. I am not sure what the code would be. I thought I should use the fscommand. Does anyone have any suggestions? The file I am trying to open is called chart.xls. on (release) { (can someone please finish) I appr...more >>

Is there any size limitations to flash or the flash player when creating a slide presentation. Thanks...more >>

Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to display an Internet Explorer control inside a Flash movie. Thank you ! O.L....more >>

As suggested by someone on this board I used this script in the actions later: var myload:loadVars = new loadVars(); myload.onLoad = function() { textbox.Text = this; }; myload.load("mytxt.txt"); setInterval(scrollDown, 200); function scrollDown() { textbox.hscroll++; } I'v...more >>

Hi, I want to implement an application that copies a font file into system whenever run.Is there anyone who have an idea?? thanks....more >>

Maybe there is no work around for this... In my projector, if the user is typing in a text field and presses a key command (ctrl+s in this case) a return symbol appears in the text field. It's a bummer. -Bret...more >>

Hey, Forum; I'm trying what has to be one of the more basic functions in Director (8) but having zero success. Been at it a couple of hours and I'm wondering if it might be a Flash issue. I have a Flash (MX) preloader animation that I want to run on the front end of my Director movie. ...more >>

Hi, since i've updated to 7.2 all the html text in the help panel has shrunk to a stupid size, has anyone else had this happen, and is there a fix..... i cant find any other comments on it, so it might be something i've done? but god knows what.... any ideas??? ...more >>

Hello Flashers, Looking for a tutorial or info on how have 1 progressbar component (flashmx 2004) poll 5 seperate loader components. I found a site that mentioned it a few weeks ago, but lost the link and haven't been able to find it again. searched flashkit and macromedia.com, but no luck. ...more >>

I notice that there seems to be little traffic for the newest version of MX 2004, which means that, for the most part, it must be working as intended. I'd just like to give a big thank you to Macromedia for the big improvement. The load time for the program is at least three times faster than ...more >>

Hey all. I am an absout beginer at flash, i have no experience or anyfin with it. i know it would be nice to make a wee mini fun flash game, and i would like to know where i would start. i know making a game usuallly takes ages, and would like to know 1stly were to star learning about making ...more >>

Hi guys'n'gals - I love using Flash and don't have many comnplaints, HOWEVER... I'm not sure if this is a BUG with version 7.2 or intentional on Macromedais part (surely not), but... - I recently updated from 7.01 to 7.2 and love the new documentation & speed improventents, however...more >>

I have a 3d animation I rendered in a cel-shaded style. No gradients or photographic qualities. All flat hard edged surfaces (curved and angular). Is there a better way to trace bitmaps like this for Flash than using Flash's "trace bitmap" feature? The animations are for the web. So I need the...more >>

Whenever I make a button using an imported PNG file, it looks fine in the editing process but whenever I test the movie the button height gets distorted.. anyone know whats wrong?...more >>

As a long time user of flash 4 and failing to upgrade til now, what a surprise I got when I started working with Flash MX pro. I cant find where anything is, and cant even do a simple action on a button. What is with this new layout. Before in F4 a double click on a button would bring up the a...more >>

why do I get missing images inside FMX2004 PRO with loading html text ? look here: http://www.the-masters-golf.com/body.htm http://www.the-masters-golf.com/body.htm the html script is: <img alt="" hspace="0" src="http://www.the-masters-golf.com/AdvHTML_Upload/Wine1.jpg" /> i have CSS ...more >>

hi! i have been making a website on flash for a while now and i whant to do a games bit but i whant a bit of it so the game list can scroll up and down and the words in there are links to take them to a game , but u can not do this in a dynamic text box plz help ...more >>

whats the best sound compression software to use for mp3 narration? i want goodish quality at low file size. if you use sound, what do you use, and what sort of file sizes do you get for x amount of seconds of voice audio? cheers! ...more >>

Hi all, I have three files. The first is my index.swf page. My second, is navigation.swf. My third is mouseover.swf. In my index.swf page, I have the following action: _root.nav.loadMovie("navigation.swf"); As you know, this loads my navigation.swf file into my empty movie c...more >>

So, I'm a real newbie at Flash, but the help file isn't too good, as far as I can tell. My question is: what is the difference between a normal keyframe and a blank keyframe, in terms of functionality and all that? Thanks for any help....more >>

whenever i add a preloader to the beginning of any movie i make, when i go to "test movie" to make the .swf file, or publish the movie... Flash crashes with the pop up of the "illegal operation" message. This is the details of the error: FLASH caused an exception 10H in module FLASH.EXE at ...more >>

im working on a header for a website. I need to make the buttons( home,news,contact,forums etc.) so that when u scroll over them, they use flash to highlight it. how in the world do i do this please help me! im using MAcromedia flash MX pro. ...more >>

Hi there, I am working on a project which reads button labels and actions from an XML file. The syntax for attaching the action to the button looks like this: button.onRelease = buttonAction; where buttonAction is a function. Now I can create a function to attach on the fly like thi...more >>

Recently I did some streaming video work for a friend. When I tested it on a Mac it worked fine. However now that I've put it on his web site it no longer works. He said the only video he can view on his Mac is the Conan video. I don't have access to a mac right now so I have NO idea what is ...more >>

Maybe I'm tired, but I can't find how to search or submit bugs to Macromedia. Can someone help?...more >>

N E One Know a good Cartoon Tutorial site ?...more >>

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject: XML and window opening -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all, This may be a newbie post, I apologize in advance. Basically, my site is completely done, except for one minor deta...more >>

I have a flash video which I'm having trouble viewing online, I've made sure all the files necessary have been uploaded on to the server. When I play the .swf which calls the .flv, it displays fine locally on my computer, but when I try to access this page online I get nothing, its a pretty larg...more >>

I've done a number of streaming videos but for some reason Flash Mx 04 Pro will no longer import my avi video. Has anyone had this problem??? Jeff...more >>

Well, I'm making a game called Dodge the Nukes. You're in a plane and you move it left and right trying to dodge the nukes. I have most of the game pretty well done. The movement, scoring, made it so when you hit a nuke you die etc... I'm fairly new to flash so I'm just trying to create a basi...more >>