Does any body know if the silde show feature from Flash 7 work on eearly versions of flash, such as flash 5. I take any sujestions from any one out there. please help....more >>

one of the things i hate about flash.......i try importing a picture to use as a background for my movie(instead of the boring colors)..but the thing is that the background image keeps looping with the rest of the movie components and the overall view looks terrible(it seems as if the movie is...more >>

Whenever I try to import a .mov file into flash pro the audio doesn't come with it. The video is just fine but there is no sound. Any suggestions?...more >>

I posted this message the other day, but still haven't found a solution, so I figured I'd post it and hope that some fresh eyes will see it and have the answer. I recently upgraded my XP machine to SP2. After that, all flash content will not display in Internet Explorer. It displays a li...more >>

Hi all, We designed a menustructure in photoshop using a pixelfont. In photoshop this font is very sharp, when i use this font in flash however i't gets all blurry. Also trying to import a png with the text from photoshop keeps making it blurry. I was using all the highest settings in the ...more >>

You will have to forgive me if this is obvious to everyone else but it is new to me. I have dynamic text that is within a movie clip for the purpose of scrolling. It is formatted, selectable and rendered as html. I have linked the font and applied the character options. The problem is ...more >>

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Hi Folks; Hopefully I can explain this correctly. Sometimes I see a site that has a flash intro that has an animation of a line drawing around what seems to be the outline of a photo or other object (cityscape for example). When the outline is done, the photo kind of fades into the outline...more >>

I have Flash MX Pro 2000 and received the Free Flash Video Kit as offered before Sept. 30th. However, I cannot install the Sorenson Squeeze app that came with it. It asks for a serial number, but I don't have one. I tried to enter my Flash MX Pro 2000 serial, but that did not work. Am I m...more >>

I'm a newbie to flash remoting, just downloaded and installed both Flash MX 2004 (for dev) and Flash Remoting (java for server). Question, in the sample cfc code by Mike Chambers, it has the following <cfinvoke component="com.macromedia.test.HelloWorld" method="sayHello" re...more >>

hi, ive got to do a sort of e learning project for school, with tests etc. for some of the tests however ive got to be able to save the results somewhere for the teacher to see how the students are doing. i am looking at using flash because of the quiz function. i read you can export the re...more >>

I'm wondering if there is anyone that can answer this... I've updated to pro 7.2 and suddenly none of the help window contents will open... the following message is displayed upon clicking on any topic... file://localhost/Machintosh%20HD/Users/~username~/Library/Application%20Support/ ...more >>

I have a flash file. user clicks button. it loads movie using the loadmovie, i'd like to jump to frame 25 of loaded movie on its load. how can i do this? Will have 4-5 buttons that will load the movie and start at different phases. thats the goal. anyone help????? marc ...more >>

Hello all: I have done this tooltip in a flash movie, but as I fllow it by a tutorial, it appears with backgroud white, and a line black. I would like it to appear differnet, i would like to apply some alpha parameter so it seems transparent. I've trying to do it but without any succes. I ...more >>

Hi to all. I am still learning the Flash. But I got this dilemma. Is there is a way to make a text follow the wave path. That letters would curve the same as wave goes. And letters would be going from the left to right. ?Welcome to New World? So letter ?d? from World will be first ...more >>

So I upgraded to MX 2004 and there's no expressions box to check. I used to be able to type: getURL(clickTAG); and then check the expressions box, which is no longer there, what do I do? ...more >>

I've scoured the forums for this and can't see a posting. If I was producing a "library" CDROM with a bunch of PDFs all in different levels of directories and I really couldn't be bothered to create a link to each and every one of them, is there a way of browsing the contents of the said C...more >>

Hi all. I've been looking for an Actionscript command that will allow me to pause the playhead at a certain frame for 10 seconds (and then resume playing). I've seen a couple pause commands and looked for a loop command, but nothing seems to do what seems to be this simple task. Do any of y...more >>

I have a problem with flash movie embeded in my web page. The flash movie has an external movie loaded into its parent movie and it work fine in flash itself. However, when I embed the flash.swf in my web page and upload them to the server, the external movie dosen't show up. What's wrong. Ple...more >>

I am trying to maximize an exe file that is set to open in the autorun.inf file on a cd. Right now it always opens at about half screen size and slightly off the screen. FYI, this is a Flash Projector file. I do not want to go FullScreen with the fscommand. I just want a simple maximize so ...more >>

Hello all, Real newbie in Flash here. Am thinking of doing a project to do with producing a Virtual Tour of my college with Flash. It would encorporate Streaming Video - not Live video though as the college is very busy at times and i was thinking of it as an aid for first time studen...more >>

I am trying to import avi video into Flash MX 2004 Pro but for some reason I only get one frame! I have tried different profile settings in Sorenson, even importing the entire video, but to no avail! Please, please, please can somebody help me out here? I posted earlier and only got one re...more >>

Hello I am using flash for multimedia CD-rom project in wich I have included video. Video is in flv format and displayed through media play back component and the UI published as a windows projector. Video (25fps, 640x480, 850kb/s) is runing fine, even in full screen mode, in my PC (P4 2.4G...more >>

Hi.. I'm trying to make a FLASH slideshow clickable. In other words I want to be able to click on the movie image to open a URL link. I made an invisible button with the HIT state of the button active. BUT when the page opens with the FLASH movie the URL opens automatically before being click...more >>

Hello, ´ I would like to know if in a movie published has flash 6 (done in mx 2004 pro), when a user when viewing the site which only has the plugin of flash 5 will it ask to install "Macromedia flash 7" like it would do if he haded no plugin at all? What will happen? I tried to test this...more >>

My main swf is centered in the middle of the page (index.html) Because it doesn't fill the whole page - in Infinite Exploder (internet explorer - did i just make that up?) when you drag click from the right side in and over my swf, the right edge of my swf is highlighted. How do we go about ...more >>

hello - - seems like it should be simple - - but, i can?t seem to find a way to convert a colour jpeg to black and white in flash. any suggestions? thanks! ...more >>

Hi, Ive duplicated a layer by selecting & copying all frames in a 1 layer, making a new layer, and pasting the frames into the new layer, however, when I change the type in any of these layers, it changes the type for all of the layers so they seem to be linked somehow - Is there anyway of...more >>

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/scrolling_text_mx02.htm?mode=thankyou This is a pathetic step backwards, the TextArea solution leaves you without the fine controls of the scrollBar component , and using actionscript just brings back the horrors of pre Scrollbar scrolling....more >>

As I said in my first topic, I?m a newbie on programming and flash. But that?s what forums is for, to give and get help, isn?t it? When I try to program a simple function (I want it to gotoAndStop at scene1, frame 1 at onRollOut) I get the message "Statement must be *something*. I?ve gott...more >>

Hi, I?m new to flash (and quite a newbie on programming too) so excuse me if this is newbie questions. But when animating in Flash (MX 2004) the following annoying events occur. I start with placing the items on its starting positions, then go to the next keyframe and place them in there endin...more >>

People first how can i center my flash site when i Publishing it or how do i just center it anywhere. how can i do a login thing of the site ?? i mean like the site that when you get in them ther is a loading and after all the loading you get into the site please just give me the idea ho...more >>

I've just downloaded the 66MB of flash windows 7.2 updater. During unpacking, it tells me the file is corrupt. Is it just me, or is anyone else getting this problem? Thanks, Paul...more >>

Hello all, Here is second question I'm posting on macromedia group. First one noone answered, I hope this is not going to be the case :) My question: Is it possible to load images from xml into movie clip frames, keyword frames not frame. Example: 1. I have index.xml that containts pa...more >>

I have MX Studio 2004 all patched up. I am following the tutorial "Components in Macromedia Flash MX" from http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/tutorials/gettingstarted/ . I drag the ComboBox onto my page but I am unable to fill in the Change Handler as it does not appear i...more >>

Re Flash MX (not 2004) I have a movie clip containing bitmaps and associated text captions; these captions are editable (NOT broken apart). The clip is made to scroll beneath a mask to give a scrolling window effect and works ok, except the text does not show through the mask. The captions...more >>

Hi guys, I have a problem with a simple script that doesn't work and I cannot figure out. The script is pretty simple, it is supposed to show a slideshow of symbols in sequence then start again, using the setInterval function. The problem is that it refuses to change the image - the tra...more >>

I have made an animation and I have saved it in swf format. Every time when I double click to the swf file, the animation is presented, but with titlebar, menubar and border. How can I remove them (titlebar, menubar and border) to being presented only the animation? Thank You! ...more >>

how do i make an image where when you move the mouse the picture moves? how should i take the picture and i found out the exact mechanism can be done on flash so what is the procedure PLEASE HELP A BROTHER OUT PEACE p.s i want something like this http://www.titan.manhattan.edu/intro_fl...more >>

I think people are a little slow to answer these questions as they are answered every day, with every new user. There is heaps of help in the application aswell. To load the external swf use (where target_mc is the instance name of the movie yuou want to replace with the loaded swf): t...more >>

Got a real deep problem that is a real pain in da A$$ for some time now! I make animatons through a way of copying and makeing movie clips inside of one another! the thing is that when i try to transfer one movie clip (with thousands of movieclips inside) to another fla project it says that ...more >>

I have created a map with a zoom action that occurs over 120 frames. Now that I have the map zooming like I want, I would like to add a scroll bar to allow the user to control the level of zoom manually over the tween frames by using the mouse. Here is the location of the map: http://www.d...more >>

I have a series of swf files with links to FLV videos. All on CD for delivery. All media files are in same directory which are linked from html files in other directories. I have a @#$% intermittent problem in that when browsing around the site, sometimes when I return to a page the SWF has n...more >>