Hi. Right.... What i have is two HTML buttons at the start of a site, one goes to a basic accessable site, the other goes to the "enhanced site" so to start off the bells and whistles i have it so when you click for the enhanced site it starts a time line and shows a layer with a simple swf ...more >>

I want to create a simple timer that includes: 1. Start button that starts the timer. 2. Stop button that stops the timer. 3. Reset button that resets the timer. 4. text or combobox that associates the time with a task. Mostly I just need the 'timer' functionality. Anyone have any code...more >>

Hi, I just started working with flash. All I want to do is have a picture as my background and a layer of a colored box in front of it. and have the picture appear in segments as the mouse rolls over that certain segment of the picture. I have a timeline set up where a giant black box ...more >>

I am surprised I have not come across this before, but I am desperate to find out how to have a button stop a movie clip on labeled frame within that movie clip. I know how to tell target and such to play the movie, but not how to tell it to "stop if on frame 'myframe' " or whatever. I want to b...more >>

I can't figure out what is wrong with my computer. I used to have flash on it now I don't. The kids can't play on their usual websites eg; Barbie.com or bratzpack.com without flash player and for some reason everytime i hit download flash it doesn't do anything..doesn't even bring up a securit...more >>

What do I use if I want to but a flash movie on a site so all browsers can see it? Please help. ...more >>

Is there a code that allows you to control the speed of a movies by using pixels. I know of frames per second, but is there something that exists called "pixels per second"?? Any information on this matter would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

I am setting a movie clip exported for actionscript in the library as the content of a scrollpane. I seem to have hit a problem where the movie clip is too long and seems to vertically wrap. I end up with a scrollpane that has the mc in it at the top, stretching vertically across itself tw...more >>

If I have two Flash movies on a webpage...each in a different frame, how can I get a new movie to open in the opposite frame when clicked? EXAMPLE: two frames (left and right) movie in left frame, when clicked, should open a new movie in the right frame. Is there something besides getURL...more >>

Re: Flash MX 2004 - under Windows XP professional - updated for 7.1 Am trying the Help Tutorial - Learn Flash Features in 10 mins .... But need to locate the file "document_start.fla". Searched my computer - all folders. Installation CD etc. This file is nowhere. Also been all over the M...more >>

I have a small window containing a short 30 second movie with three control buttons. "Play" plays the movie. "Pause" pauses it. Right now I have the "Rewind" button set to return to frame 1. Is there a command I can assign the "Rewind" button that will allow users to actually rewind through th...more >>

hi umm i was wondering, how can i get the older version of flash mx, not professional or 2004 or w/e i just want the old one for trial, i want this because im more comfortable with it, and thats it so help me!!! ...more >>

I find that when I drag images, gif or jpeg, onto the stage in the flash player...that there is a substansial reduction in quality on images that are of text...say from websites. In other words...the images are of text...not created in the flash player itself. Yet the text is very clear when...more >>

Hi, I have a problem, I have a text that's animated with ALPHA from 0 to 100. If I press ENTER, I can see the animation, its doing what it suppose to do. But, If I try to TEST my movie. The effect is not there. The Text is not doing nothing, why ? Any idea, ...more >>

I have several large pictures included in the animation I have recently created in Flash, but need significant help on including a preloader at the start, with a dynacmic text box displaying how much percent is loaded. It is basic, but I have no idea on how to even get started. A tutorial or a...more >>

I've got several what I suspect are elementary questions about shared objects... * When creating a local shared object, can you specify where on your hard drive the SO is stored? * If a computer storing an SO is plugged into a LAN, can another computer on the system call up the SO? * Ca...more >>

How would I go about putting a hit counter on my Flash site? I have Flash 5. Could I find it in a common library or would I have to import one? ...more >>

Hajo, how can I get at once size of all jpges that I load using MovieClipLoader? I tried to do it in onLoadStart using one MovieClipLoader for all images and one MovieClipLoader per image but with no luck :(. Does any has any idea ? thanks in advanca gawel...more >>

Bryht FlashApp Builder 1.0 was released. Bryht Flash Application Builder is a flash application building tool. It can pack a set of files into an executable runtime which can play flash files when it is started and save data to a local system. A flash content developer can use this too...more >>

I'm making a game and i want an alligator to appear in random places at random ammounts of time, and im not sure why this isnt working. I have 3 keyframes: 1st keyframe- timer = random(10)+5; my_startDate = new Date(); startTime = my_startDate.getTime(); _root.gator._x = random(471...more >>

can someone (hopefully on dial up) please tell me if my preloader is loading first while the images load in the background. on my cable modem i am seeing the images load at the same time. don't know what i am doing wrong. thanks, libbi www.fonicdesign.com/sarah ...more >>

As a newbie to FlashMX, I have a question regarding the Action panel and editing a script attached to a photo clip. I am modifying a Flash file created by someone else. The movie has four buttons. When you click on a button you navigate to another webpage. Pretty standard stuff. I was abl...more >>

What is the best way to sync sound (a background song) with a flash movie (presentation type). I added an mp3 to the library and attached it to a text box which is constant throughout the whole movie. Then, I adjusted the presentation's frames to match the music. I thought everything was fi...more >>

I have published a movie to display at 100% in any resolution, using the publish settings within flash. It works fine with IE, but when viewed in Netscape it comes up absolutely tiny, yet functional. Funny. I believe that there needs to be an added piece of code in the html page containing the...more >>

Just a quick question. Are there any opinions out there as to what reference publication(s) are out there for the intermediate to advanced levels? Any recommendations? Kind regards, ...more >>

when publishing as html 100% x 100% these lines make the html file unreadable in netscape/mozilla: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> ...more >>

I just installed updater 7.2 on Flash Mx Pro 2004 on Windows 2000 Pro. When I try to use Flash, it says my trial period has expired and asks to activate my product. It shows my serial number, I click "continue" and I get a "Too many activations" message. I have Flash MX Pro 2004 installe...more >>

how do you create a stop action? and a frame label?...more >>

It seems like every time I try to go to a web page with Flash, IE crashes. Sometimes it doesn't, but usually it does. I don't have problems using the Mozilla Firefox version of Flash. WinXP Home SP1, IE 6, newest version of Flash. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but to no effect. ...more >>