Hi all, I am new to flash but am enjoying playing with it so far. I have hit a snag though, I can create a simple movie ok, it runs when i click on the swf but when I embed it in a html p age and dump it on the server all i get is the background color. Driving me nuts. The server is runni...more >>

Hi ! 2 questions: 1. Does the length of the names I give to items in the Library or to Instances have any effect on overall file size? I swear I read somewhere that you should keep your library and instance names small ...? 2. For my menus, I am importing files from Illustrator as sw...more >>

Hi There, Maybe a dumb question... I am making a website: 5 pages. each page is a separate HTML page with a Flash movie embedded in the middle of it. When I navigate between my pages, I see a "flash" of white before the Flash movie appears. I'm pretty sure the background of the Flash movie...more >>

I've been using the Brush tool just fine as a secondary stroke function for quite a while on my Flash MX 2004 program. However, today I started working on my animation project and all of a sudden my brush tool wouldn't work. I would draw the stroke and it would disappear. I checked and c...more >>

I am working on a simple one scene flash file, that contains a lot of animated objects. Soon after playing the swf in a browser there is an unwanted pause before the swf continues to play. There is no actionscript associated with the frame. I took away the AS to remove the stop at the end...more >>

Hi, I am doing a little "experiment" while I'm working on a logo design project for my friend. He wants a logo design for a business card, and the final format will be in Publisher so he can send it to Kinkos. Although I don't have Macromedia Freehand (which people tell me is excellent ...more >>

Hey Folks, I am trying to alphabetize a text box that is being populated from an xml file. Any ideas? Thanks. ...more >>

Greetings I have created a flash projector and burned it on a hybrid cd for MAC and PC. But I am having trouble opening up a simple link to a web address. It works on PC and MAC IE but doesnt work on MAC Safari 1.2. Just doesnt pop up the link... I took off block pop up from the preference...more >>

Hi people, Does any one know how the resizing of the boxes on this website works! I haven't used flash for about three years and i'm struggling to get my head around actionscript etc. thanks k http://www.nooflat.nu ...more >>

i made this score thing when i had flash mx 6 and when you clicked a button it added a number to a dynamic text box on (release) { _root.score+= 10; } but when i used the same 1 in flash 2004 when i test it all it does is write nan in the box . why does it do this plz and can someo...more >>

hey all im makin this kinda buisness game where you have to get money befor the computer reaches a certiun amount so i have a dynamic box thats called walet and another that is called bank and there are 2 buttons 1 takes 10 pound out of whe walet and adds 10 in to the bank and the other do...more >>

Hi, I am evaluating Flash in an attept to find out if it can do what I want. One of the things I want to do is to produce a slide show of images, with a sound track, and sync the images to the sound track. This is standard stuff for apps producing slde shows. But I can't figure out if it i...more >>

I have a falsh movie someone else made for my website. At the end of this movie there is a button to enter the website however the link is wrong. I canot change it to the correct one for two reason 1.- Its a movie and is not on a editable file 2,- I am new to flash and once i can edit it I w...more >>

Please help. Post a response to this thread in order to get the attention of MM. We are attempting to get a new category called "Components" added to the Flash forum. The more responses we can get the better chances we will have. So, please tell everyone you know to post to this thread. ...more >>

Hello, could anyone help me out? I have a dynamic text box in Flash with content coming from a MySQL database. I need to display the "&" character in the dynamic text. I tried to escape the "&" character with "\" but it doesn't work. How do I get to insert "&" into my dynamic text? Thanks!!! -...more >>

Hi everyone, I designed a flash movie for one of my websites about a year ago, put it online and forgot about it. When I wrote it, I used the "whereami" function to make sure it was being run from the server I put it on to prevent it from being copied across the 'net. However, about eight m...more >>

Has anyone encountered this? I have a flash movie that works when I'm in the development environment (CTRL-Enter'ing) but when I play the SWF or even as a projecter EXE, it won't play (well, plays but doesn't do it's thing). However, if I drag it into an IE or Mozilla web browser, it works f...more >>

Anyone have any idea why everytime I try to export a flash 6 to quicktime I get the error message can't export this type of flash movie, with the suggestion to see documentation which is of no help. If I back save it to flash 5 or earlier it'll convert into a .mov, but lose the masks in the mo...more >>

Hello, Does any one know how the animaiton below was done. ( mask with pictures) any ideas? please help http://paulanka.com/flash/splash.html...more >>

I am making a clock with each hand it's own movie clip. Each hand will fake spin on it's own via script. When I drag each hand onto my main movie, is there a way for me to align the center point (plus symbol) of each clip onto the center of my stage? I tried align, but that uses the cent...more >>

Hi, I don't know a lot about the concept of Flash, I do a simulation and the cpu demand a lot. I created array, object and calculation every second. I have a 1 GHz and 256 MBRam What it the problem, Flash demand so much cpu ? Do I need to do client/server, which language it better ...more >>

I get the following error when I test my movie. What does this error mean. WHere do I go to find out what this error means? **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler ; Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 ...more >>

I tried searching to see if anybody else had this problem, but didn't find any. I'm in the How Do I section, and trying to read one of the lessions, but when I got to click to scroll down on the lesson, doesn't matter what one it is, the scroll bars disappear and I can't scroll down. I know ...more >>

Hi, I have a movie clip that contains text buttons. This text moves position during the clip. Although i've drawn in the hit area, it doesn't seem to be active, leaving just the individual letters to click which requires precise placement of the cursor. Why is it that this happens wh...more >>

Can software be registered under a new name and/or company if it has been registered once??? Will Macromedia work with you on this?? I want to keep everything on the up and up, but I bought software that I believed was new and unregistered, but when I tried it, it had been registered. I am...more >>

Hi.. can any1 tell me how I can command a button in Macromedia Flash to execute a file from my computer??...more >>

Hi, I would like to ask how to create a text input, known from html as "password", that doesn?t show the text but just ***** instead of it. I saw some tutorial for this but it didn?t work perfectly. Have anyone of you ever tryied to do this? Or is there any tutorial how to make it? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all.. can any1 tell me how I can use an action in Macromedia Flash to open a file from my computer??...more >>

At the start of my movie I have a logo appear in the center of the screen (via a motion tween....alpha 0 to alpha 100) and then it IMMEDIATELY moves up to the top of the screen (via another motion tween). Following that a bunch of other stuff happens on several different layers. I want the log...more >>

I?m begginer in actionscript and probably it is a simple question. I?m trying to load a swf into my project, but it should go to an especific frame label which is into mc in this swf.... the problem is that I can?t find a way to do that. I?m using in the button: on (release) { loadMov...more >>

Hi there, I have a movie in three parts which at present the user needs to view seperately (select each movie seperately, preload, watch). Each part of the movie is between 3 and 4 minutes and has its own preloader. I'd like to give the viewer the option to view the entire movie. Is ther...more >>

hi, im not sure if you can do this and if you can i havent a clue how to do it!! I have .swf that i want to be in the background. then a javascript nav bar and also a javascript scrolling text box that would go on top of the .swf movie. would i insert it into Actionscript? Please Help! ...more >>

I have a nummber of buttons, each of which instruct a movieclip to relocate to a new xy position. That works fine. But how can I get the object to move to its new position smoothly over two or three seconds rather than just having it 'jump' there? ...more >>

Hi i'm a begineer user of flash. i'm a spnish boy. i have a problem i don't know how do form with flahs... it's so far in dreamweaver or director but how do it in flash?? thank you...more >>

Im trying to do some simple transforming of text. the text scrolls over while rotating onto the screen and then some other various things. It looks fine when I use play from he control menu, but when I preview or publish it, the text does not appear until it has reached its final position. Not...more >>

Hi was looking for some advice on an activity i am trying to create within my website. I am wanting to have all the skateboard parts on one side, and have the user drag and drop them into place on the other side and it will snap in place if they have it right. I was wondering what is t...more >>

I would like to load a jpg image using a value written to a text file. XML will not work due to dynamic database data (please dont ask) here is my code: loadMovie("values.asp", 2); - I know "values.asp" is not a jpg, but the value of '&image' = pic.jpg ...more >>

Every time I save a movie 200x100 pix the Size of swf is 160x160 on the web Page. How do I save this at the size I need? Thanks for any help...more >>

I go to open a .FLA and Windows brings up the box for choosing a substitute font. It mentions the name of two fonts I own, which I assume means that my system recommends utilizing these 2 as substitutes. How do I implement that though? Where it reads: Mapped to, underneath it reads 'Arial' & '...more >>

Hi - Does anyone know if you can use Apple Events (Apple Script) to open a flash executable and send a parameter to open a specific SWF in that executable? In Windows Command line, the command is simply: executablename.exe path\moviename.swf Any ideas? Thanks! Miriam ...more >>