I have an interface that will load several 100 Re-Usable learning objects for a student population of over 45,000. Each re-usable learning object (an swf file created in robodemo) has narration....more >>

My company has asked me to do a Flash invitation that will be emailed. I have only played around in flash, I have never actually produced anything. Our theme is a fortune cookie and we want to be able to click on the cookie, have it break open, and the information come out onto the paper ins...more >>

www.macromedia.com/support/ flash/ts/documents/scrolling_text_mx.htm I went to the above link and found that I could not create text that was linked via loadVars() function. How am I supposed to use text that I create externally and link this into Flash via whatever method? Thanks for any s...more >>

Hello, Is there a feature (script) where we could manipulate Brightness and Contrast? By that I mean, we have images (TIF), that will be imported in the Flash program. The client wants the users to be able to play around with the brightness and contrast of the images. We thought of usi...more >>

if this has been posted before, i can't find it. but i've got a dynamic text field that is taking in info from a .txt file. my problem is that the text shows up horribly formatted. it is all aligned to the left but a chunk of the first letter is missing and no matter what i try to do to ge...more >>

does any1 know how to send an email in flash but not so they put an email in just so when they click send it sends it to me staight away like a feedback form basicly...more >>

hi, i have a movie that will play one of 3 music files, depending on the button that you pick. the thing is, these music files are huge. the client wants the music to stream - so that it will start playing right away as it continues to load (like on many online radio stations). i...more >>

I have just finished a project and the client likes it. But now they come back and tell me that it has major issues, that it doesnt run right on a 500MHz system with 128 ram. We are talking about a 7 minute Flash demo that is cued to an audio file that is also 7 minutes. The MP3 file has been...more >>

Please help, I have tried every download tip possible....more >>

Hi all, I'm using Macromedia Flash Forms in Flash 2004. When I am working on the forms in Flash IDE, how do I hide components on another layer? Thanks. -- Lucas Tam (REMOVEnntp@rogers.com) Please delete "REMOVE" from the e-mail address when replying. http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/co...more >>

Can anybody please help me with an idea on how to display the current running playhead time without using the controller component? I know it seems like I should want the controller, but I don't want it because I don't want them to be able to use the scrubber. I have my reasons in this ca...more >>

I have a movie that has about 25 slides, 1 MC per slide. I have all of the movies being exported from the library for actionscript in the first frame. I do this because having all the instances of all the movie clips causes the entire swf to run very slow and choppy. The pre-loader doesn't sho...more >>

Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I am using Flash MX 2004 and 3D Studio Max 6. My question is: what is the best way to rotate a 3D object in flash? Is there a tutorial out there that can help me out? I could render a couple cameras rotating around the object but the file size wi...more >>

Ok, I got this swf: http://www.onlineflyer.com/mickael/photos.swf when I open it or preview it it works fine, third picture on the first row is clicable and open a drag window with a close button, it opens, drags and colse without any problems but When i load this swf from this falsh project...more >>

I have searched the forums but not found an answer to this: a couple of my clients have reported that when they visit a Flash MX website after installing Win XP Service Pack 2, they are given this message (and the site will not load into Internet Explorer) ... "Internet Explorer has blocked th...more >>

I created a menu with each button having a rollover. How do I get each button to display the rollover (OVER) state rather than the normal state when its corresponding page is open to indicate that this is the page currently being viewed? ...more >>

How can i get text to rollover......when you put your mouse on an object...more >>

I moved recently to flash mx 2004 but i used to have an object (component ) called scrolltext that i just attached to a fixed size textbox, and voila, no i can't find it, though i can find te scroll pane. Any idea where that is now? Vamp ...more >>

I am trying to load a swf into a scrollPane in MX (not 2004). The form only has a button (to activate the ScrollPane's loadscrollcontent) and the scrollPane itself. I have tried loading the swf directly and creating a MovieClip, loading the swf into it and then doing a setscrollContent. I c...more >>

In FLASH MX 2004. I have a text field. I want to bold just certain words however when I select those word and bold. Everything bolds. How can I just bold certain words? thanks, cj ...more >>

I need to call a .bat from a flash movie in a cd to execute a powerpoint presentation... any idea how to do that? Vamp...more >>

I need to create a CD that runs with a flash menu. THen that flash menu should call some files in powerpoint (run a .bat process) but since I don't know how to run the .bat process, i was thinking more like migrating the powerpoint presentations to a .swf file, with the diapositive function in...more >>

Hello, I am having a great success using flash mx2004 xml functions to populate text fields from xml files. I have a project where I am populating these fields in different languages such as Russian. My problem is that I can't seem to print escape characters such as ampersands without ...more >>

hi all, Miss you all;) I need to know how to creat swf animation with sound on mobile devices espcially Nokia 9200 series. Do any one have information about how to do that and doing application on mobile devices as well. thanks for help Rafiq ...more >>

I am having difficulty using this program. I downloaded Macromedia shockwave for a class that I am taking for Anatomy and I am trying to use a Virtal Pig dissection and nothing is coming up. Am I missing something? I know the basics of computers but this has got me stumped. I downloaded it...more >>

Ok, this is my problem: I created a floating frame on my index page and now I would like to put links on this index page, that open other pages in this floating frame. Everything was ok when I created button or text link (as a target I inserted the name of the floating frame), but when I creat...more >>

Hi there, I'm looking for some way of achieving this screensaver effect: http://www.valeit.com/screensaver.pdf I guess the screensaver needs to take a screenshot of the desktop and use it as the background in some way. It needs to work at whatever resolution the user's got there screen se...more >>

I'm new to Flash MX Professional 2004. My company purchased a Flash template to update our Web site. I need to resize the new movie to fit into the fixed space of 486px x 220px. The template is currently 550px x 400px. Is there a way to resize and keep the text and images in proportionate size...more >>

How do I make a piece of text fade in over several frames in Flash 7. Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I noticed that you can control the scene properties with script, but can you duplicate the scene with duplicateMovieClip()? thanks ...more >>

Hi I have a back button in a movie clip and when pressed the movie goes back to the main timeline, I have placed the script of on press go to scene1 1 and frame 65 this all works fine however once i place that script on the timeline when i rollover the back button the over state does not work ...more >>

Is there anyway of attaching a PDF to a flash site? Cheers!...more >>

Hi, I am looking at producing simple online surveys/quizes to drop into a standard html page. The Quiz Template looks promising, but when i go to ammend the questions using the component parameters it looks fine in flash, but when i export it or test the movie/scene it simply shows "Labe...more >>

In Flash MX I created a series of buttons for a navbar the exact same way and made them appear on the screen via a motion tween. They are all BUTTON SYMBOLS. For each I created the same rollover effect in the OVER frame of each button's timeline. On Testing The Movie, all the rollovers work...more >>

What's the best way to setup text along a curved line?...more >>

My tween is still jittery in the animation at the url below. I did try increasing the frame rate. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks in advance. http://www.nfada.com Betsy...more >>

I have created a slideshow in flash MX that dynamically loads in a set of jpegs that are external to the flash .swf. The jpegs are created in photoshop and saved as jpegs, however I have found that they fail to load into the flash movie, and the movie remains blank if I use the "Save for ...more >>

I have downloaded the fla file that Urami posted. its brilliant, very easy to use. I am assuming it is ok to add further animations to each page as they are movie clips. However i am trying to add a link to load an external swf file into a holder placed on the main stage, outside of the mo...more >>

Is it possible to execute program from flash movi (in flash player)?...more >>

greetings everyone! I really green when it comes to working with macromedia and flashmedia, but better late then never to get started right! I need to update this website that was developed using Macromedia 6.0 and Flashmedia. I'm trying to open up the *.swf file to make the update but I ...more >>

Hello everyone, Does anyone have any idea on how I can script a kiosk to start over or go to the start screen after it sits idle for a certain amount of time? Thanks in advance, Doug ...more >>

Hiya, I'm having issues progressively Streaming an FLV file from a IIS6 Server. The files plays fine if I have it on my hardrive, but once it's on the server it's not playing, it just displays a blank Media Playback Component. When I test the movie in Flash I get an with the URL pointin...more >>

CAN I CONVERT A SWF TO A GIF???? FROM CALLUM WWW.FUN-ZONE.UNI.CC (MY COOL WEB)...more >>

hey folks, simple question.....when i go to publish my flash as swf.....which version should i select? does it matter? i'm guessing i should select the latest version for the most compatibility? no? wats the consensus on this? thanks everyone ...more >>

Hi, I animated a png file scrolling from right to left, the problem is that it keep jerking while it move. How can I prevent that?...more >>

Hello all, I have Mocromedia Flasx MX 2004 and I want to copy a layer from one file to another... can anyone tell me how I can do this? I cannot figure out how to copy from one file to the other. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tony ...more >>

hello! i've got a line of text and i'm trying to have a small rectangle move across the text depending on the location of the mouse (therefore moves right or left, following the mouse) with absolutely no up-down movement. I have been successful except for one thing.... i only want it to mo...more >>

I'm having problems with the mp3's playing through the flash player. I've made my mp3's have a sampling rate of 16kHZ. When I do have it, the player cannot paly it correctly. When it plays it makes it sound like chipmunks. When I have a file at 44kHz, the file will play correctly. I need...more >>