Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm running into problems with deleting points within my symbols. I have been trying to optimize symbols and sometimes when I select points in my symbols and hit delete it works fine but other times it deletes all the paint. Does anybody know why this hap...more >>

i am making a website in flash.. i have an instance of a button called prices_btn when the user clicks the button, i want another flash file to load up (i.e another swf file..in another window) anyone know the ActionScript for this... assuming both flash movies are in the ...more >>

Does anyone know how I would send a random frame to go to any frame between 4-9. Thanks....more >>

Hi, Can someone tell me how I can make a loading scene? I finished my project and its very heavy and I when I upload it all I see it?s a blank page until it loads. How can I create a loading page? Phillip ...more >>

Hi, Can someone tell me how I can make a loading scene? I finished my project and its very heavy and I when I upload it all I see it?s a blank page until it loads. How can I create a loading page? Phillip ...more >>

I downloaded and installed shockwave with Firefox and all was OK. When I tried to install it for IE it couldn't find IE. The list of browser's only had Firefox. I tried removing Firefox, but then the installer didn't have any browser to install on. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling...more >>

Hi, Just a short note, that I uploaded the latest version of MM-Exporter. New in this version: - Site Search and Replace - Save and load MM-Exporter export settings - Batch mode - Append current date to export path See http://mm-exporter.joexx.de/ for more details. Did I already menti...more >>

I am relatively new and any help would be greatly appreciated. This link will take you to an example of the navigation bar that I am having problems with. [url=http://www.3rdrockcom.com/flash_navtest.htm]navigation test[/url] If you click on the button, a sub-menu will roll in from ...more >>

I am working on a relatively long presentation. The first author created the presentation in the middle of a large stage. The presentation does not fill the whole stage so I would like to make the stage smaller and move everything up. But this has proven to be a time consuming task. Since ...more >>

1. I'm using MX 2. I have a text box that is getting generated on the fly. It can have as many as 3 lines, or as little as 1 line. I need to center it vertically with in a box depending on whether there is 1, 2, or 3 lines. Any ideas how to go about doing it? I haven't seen anything. Tut...more >>

I am attempting to load a movie when I click on a button. It works when I open the file throught the Flash Player but does NOT work when viewed though a browser. on (press) { loadMovieNum("hcs_add_domain.swf", 2); } NOTE: The file is in the same directory as the one calling i...more >>

I have asked this question several ways and never received a response so please bear with me. I have the user browse their hard drive for an image to upload. (IN FLASH) I then set a LoadVar for passing to a cfm page. The LoadVar has the hard drive location of the file to be uploaded and th...more >>

I have a situation where I'm going to be sending people directly to a Flash splash page -- I want it set up so that they just get moved along if they don't have flash -- they're not offered the opportunity to download the player (I don't want to interrupt the initial impression of the stie). ...more >>

Hi Iam creating a website in Flash, I have a back button in a movie clip and when pressed I want it to go back to scene1 and a certain frame on the main timeline leve how do i go about doin this please, i cant seem to make it happen. Also I have a few movie clips that i want played at a certai...more >>

Hello all, I was just wondering if you can take two flash movies in a HTML file and have them interact with each other. Sort of like this: If i had a slide show, and one movie consist of tiny pictures that are posing as bottons and in another movie Ill have those pictures (enlarged). can...more >>

Hi all, I have an animated button that plays when the movie loads. Rollover state is static. I do NOT want the animation to play again when the user mouse off the button. I'm a little confused about how to control the behavior of the MC in the button to make it not go back to frame 1 when ...more >>

Announcing: The First Ever Citizens for Global Solutions Flash Movie Contest Made possible by Harlan M. Smith's Builders of a Better World Fund Citizens for Global Solutions is holding a contest for students, budding artists, young graphic designers, and human rights activists who ...more >>

alright most of you all know im a beginner still so i need to more about it, anyway i am making a shooting game and you can move around a building but when they go back on to a frame where they have all ready been all the people that the player has destroyed come back so i was looking at the a...more >>

I am loading dynamic text into a textbox. The UIScrollbar is attached and working. My question: is it possible to detect the need for scrolling? If the text does not exceed the text area, I want to hide the scrollbar. Any ideas? -- Grant ...more >>

I have Flash MX 2004 Pro with the Sorensen video pack thing, and I've imported a rather large avi file last week, no problem. Now, when I try and do the same thing, whether I choose to import the entrie video or I edit the video first, I get ONE FRAME. That's it, that's all. What's going on ...more >>

I want to create voice overs for my animations. Power Point and IMovie have recording capabilities, but I can't extract the sound bytes to incorporate into Flash, Is there a Flash, or generic application in which I can create AIFF or MP3 voice- over sound bytes to put into my animation??? ...more >>

This is a simple question. I want to link a flash movie to a web page. I don't see a way to do this in Dreamweaver, so I'm thinking I have to do it in Flash. How would I go about doing that. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I'm brand new to this flash business, but was told I needed to convert a number of .avi files to flash. These files are about 2 minutes long each (2-4gig each). Can anyone please tell me what product to use or any advice to converting these files for intra-net purposes? ...more >>

I'm a newby and have been going through online tutorials for "flashMX" because i couldn't find any for flashmx 2004 pro (what i'm running). I've noticed some differences in the lay out and can't find some buttons. -Open as a library -Open as a templete -scrollbar UI component If anyon...more >>

I'm new at Flash. I've made movie which i want to use on my site. I want to combine tis with DHTML menu from Sothink. The problem is that I want to make the DHTM-menu acorss the flash movie which is located in an iframe. To achive I have to add the following code to the movie. <PARAM N...more >>

Hi All, Please see my personal site and tell me your openion.. I may be little slow as I use free host.. http://beeworks.artshost.com/ I would be happy to hear from you.. Thanks in advice.. Yours, Rafiq ...more >>

Hi All, Please see my personal site and tell me your openion.. I may be little slow as I use free host.. http://beeworks.artshost.com/ I would be happy to hear from you.. Thanks in advice.. Yours, Rafiq ...more >>

I'm working on a flash presentation and I want to know how to make a line move (or travel) across the screen. I was messing around with the motion tween, but I don't think thats what I want. I want to see it start at one point and then slowly follow along a trail. Could anyone link me to a ...more >>

Hi, I have a group of buttons. When a user does a mouse over though i need that button to be on top of all the others. Is their any code for this? or anything i can do? on mouse over bring to top Thanks Aidan ...more >>

I'm new at flash so I have no idea if I can take some of the things i've done in fireworks and convert it to flash, does anyone know if this is possible and if so where I can find out how? (the navbar im trying to convert is at www.ssownage.tk ) ...more >>

I have got a prvious made movie, is there a way to now make it a link for use in dreamweaver? Thanks ...more >>

I recently installed SP2 on my XP machine and now Flash movies don't work. I've tried everything that I can think of from lowing the Security Settings and removing the firewall and reinstalling the Flash Player, but nothing works. Any ideas what I can do to fix this problem? Thanks, Je...more >>

Hi, I'm developing a CD Rom in flash with a main movie where several videoclips are mounted as external movies. The problem comes with quite long videoclips (the biggest is 27.8MB). The loading thakes 20 seconds and I can't make the usual loader (as used for web contents) working to sh...more >>

Hi, I got a problem with memory. I have a flash exe (MX2004) that loads a number of flash movie into it. When the flash movie used up above 280MB ram, some of the movies that loaded cannot display properly in it. The strange thing is these disappeared graphics will be shown up when my mouse mo...more >>

Hello, Can u help me to find this out? How do we detect the Flash plugin from a .inc page? Thanks in advance, DomY...more >>

I am using MM Flash MX (not 2004), and I have a movie that I want to loop infinitely with a five second pause between the end and beginning. When I say "movie" I don't mean movie clip... there are several contained in the main file... I mean the entire swf file itself. The original file played t...more >>

Hi, There is a swf file in which the Link(anchor) is embedded. I need to know the embedded href inside the swf. For example.. There is a test.swf.If you click on this file you will be redirected to http://www.macromedia.com How can i decode this Link? Thx Saba ...more >>

hi, all My problem is when I do multiple scences movie and put the buttons that I use to navigate through these scences inside a movie clip.The buttons does not work..Why and what can I do? I tried to use _root.gotoAndPlay("scene1", 1); and it did not work.. Please tell me what to do? Raf...more >>

http://www.roger-that.co.uk/ Hi, I have a Flash Form and Dynamic Text in my Flash movies. If you type in my form the text looks awful, stretched and uneven? Firstly, why? And how can I correct it? To the left I have a scrollable text box which loads text from a external text file. When...more >>

We purchased a flash-based office XP training CD which up to now has been running perfectly. On one machine, however the application starts then quits with IE crashing with an error in iml32.dll the machine is a windows xp home machine with a Pentium 4 2.5Mhz CPU and 512MB RAM, plenty o...more >>

Hey does anyone know how to make horizontally scrolling text...I know this link is javascript but this is what I want (made in flash) http://www.appletcollection.com/ascroll.html I would also like it to be able to have buttons inside of it like in the example above, but when you scroll y...more >>

Hello! After looking carefully at the archives, I have advanced a little bit but I still haven't found a solution for this problem, so I will let myself ask: I have a MC with buttons, and I want this MC to be draggable. At first, didn't work, after looking at the archives I realized that, of ...more >>

Recently I had my windows 98 upgraded to windows pro 2000. Since then my windows will not play any sites that use the flash player for audio or sites with audio in their flash like this site. I dont know if it has audio with the videos. I have made sure the flash players are in stalled...more >>

I want to have a small icon and a text to appear for users who don't have the flash installed on their computer... Just like Macromedia home page has that goes something like this: You may not have everything you need to view certain sections of Macromedia.com. Please see our site requirem...more >>

Hey all, Just wondering does anyone still use tweens in their animation? As I am noticing more and more that the professional animators (if they are fading, moving, resizing) do not use tweens, but they go through and make all keyframes for any transformation or percentage of alpha on each...more >>

Hi, I am trying very hard to learn actionscript, but i really need some help. The macromedia sample file here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/sample_files/html/load_images.html loads external images, but it has no preloader for the images. can someone please point me in the ...more >>

in the components window i can not find the ScrollBar under UI components or anywhere else. can someone tell me where to find it....more >>

Hi. I am loading some big JPG into a loader component, I am getting the info routes from a XML file. It works great in the programing enviorement but once I put it on the web it doesn't work, it does not rezise, and doent show me the loading info ( very important since they are big imag...more >>

I'm using flash 5 and when I want to preview my work in Netscape 7.1 nothing happens, only an empty screen. Mauricio Quriroga...more >>

Before using flash, I've been using swish and have had the same problem. I have two frames in my html page, topFrame and mainFrame. topFrame contains my flash navigation bar and which has the on Release { getURL ("bottomFrame.htm", "mainFrame") } etc. actionscript assigned to the buttons. ...more >>