Hi Friends, I have a flash presentation with 5 frames. I want to have a script to fo to first frame after the last frame is done. the last frame is a swf movie and inside the library of that sub swf I have and stop to prevent reload itself. but when the movie is loaded, after that I want ...more >>

I have this flash file set up right now, and I'm trying to do a form mail. However the problem is, I don't know how to do the reset part and the submit part. Please, can someone tell me how I can do it? (Don't do it FOR me, but please show me the light!) I will add a link to my file: h...more >>

Hello: I can't remember how I did this a couple years ago. I want to highlight an area by circling it in an animation - just a simple circle - that would look like someone was circling something. I vaguely remember using an animated mask, but I've tried that along a motion path and i...more >>

ok guys i'm havin a dumb moment. How do i make it so that when a button is rolled over it plays a movie clip that is on a different layer but in the same scene? Paul...more >>

It would like to ask for to the colleagues who evaluated my site, with relation design, performance of the shipment and animations, and over all on its navigability mainly. This is the site of a young producer of webdesign, working in XHTML + CSS + FLASH + PHP + MySQL + PHOTOSHOP. http:/...more >>

Hi Friends, I have a fls file which has 10 frames and each frame a gif picture. each gif file is about 80k when I make the swf file it comes to 700 k. I think this is not usual. I used all option to shrink swf and compress but no help. What can I do to shrink the size of swf Thanks ...more >>

Ok i got the free demo of macromeida flash MX 2004 and i wanted to put a windows media player video into flash and put in a "loading..." bar but im completely clueless with flash so can someone please tell me (perferibly in english) What to do ?.? ...more >>

yes thats what I said hell. Thanks a lot MM for all the available documentation. Anyone out there give me a hand with populating a menubar with an xml file? The menu xml just for an example as follows: <?xml version="1.0"?> <node label="Root" data="0"> <node label="A" data="1"> ...more >>

Does anyone know how to turn a video file into an flv file? Thanks, Tim...more >>

hello all, I was wondering if i can use one scrollbar to scroll 2 different loaded text files. Meaning: when my movie loads it will load a text file which is a songlist and the user can scroll the content. How would I load another songlist into the same text box using the one scrollbar t...more >>

Before I start, I'd like to thank whoever helps me out here....I've been racking my brain with this for awhile. To tell you the truth, I have this gut feeling that the problem is the stupidest thing that I just forgot to do or something...well anyway, here goes: Basically, I'm having an i...more >>

Okay maybe someone can help me. My boss has given me the 'wonderful' oportunity of creating training quizes using flash. I have experience doing flash for the web, but this is relatively new to me. I based a lot of what I did on the quiz templates available. I have two questions. 1) ...more >>

Hello! I'm novice with flash, and I've got a problem. I've a frame with a button, and I want pressing the button, it shows another frame... the problem is that, when I test it, flash shows me all the frames in a sequence... it doesn't stop at frame 1.. waiting to press the button. Thanks! ...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004 Pro. I'm having problems fading in text!! (how simple is that?!) I'm doing everything by the book, so I have no idea why it's not working. I have graphics fading in all over the place, and it all works fine. But my text just POPS in. Also.. it plays fine insi...more >>

This may be a stupid question, but it has not happened to me before... I have a jpg that is being used in a short flash intro. 118X75px. The graphic looks fine in any editor, but when imported into flash mx, that graphic and all instances WRAP the bottom few px to the top and the first few p...more >>

Hello, I know how to create a flash menu in a top frame, diplaying on button-event, html pages in a bottom frame in an html page. I want to ko the same without the use of frames because the search engines does not go further the html frameset to look for info. Can I do the same with dhtml laye...more >>

Hello, I'm relatively new to flash and may be just doing something wrong. However, I'm including a graphic into my movie and upon publishing the movie the graphic shows up distorted. I've tried converting it to a symbol as well. Is there something I need to do to have my graphic publish ...more >>

Reggards. I have a problem with the installation of Macromedia Flash. If I install it on a Windows 2000 profesional using the administrator user it does not have a problem , it works correctly after installation but when the user uses his account and try to start the program ( flash) it do...more >>

Is there anyway to manipulate imported Illustrator 10 files such as with tweens or something like that?...more >>

Excuse me, I have an answer: How can i import .FLA files from Flash 6.0 to Flash 7.0 MX Pro ? Thank you LucaM ...more >>

hey guys, im making an ecard and just wondered how i can embed the card(swf file) into the email so that it actually plays the swf within the email...and doesnt have to be downloaded as an attachment..any one with any ideas?...i can use outlook to send the emails, or whichever other program ...more >>

Is it possible to make a button's hit area change size on rollOver?...more >>

Hello Our team is currently stuck with a major issue. We have games on our website that we want to have submit high scores to our mySQL db. The ease of decompiling our games really frustrates us because the call to the script on the server is easily viewable to anyone who wants to know it....more >>

Can i record audio, and save it as a wav or mp3 file and play it later? Any suggestions?...more >>

On an HTML page I came across the code like that: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs...more >>

The problem is that when I call a function and while it is running.Is it possible for me to stop the function while processing ....more >>

Is anyone else having problems publishing from MX2004 Professional to Flash Player 7, in that, certain interactivities or graphics are sometimes "lost in translation"? For instance, on a current project, I lose (completely) five separate scrolling features within the swf when I publish to 7. T...more >>

The Forms that are straight have no Problem with them. But when I Title the Form the Combo box don?t show value and if the Dynamic Box text box is there the Dynamic Text Box don?t show the values too. The Dynamic Text Box Show values if I check the characters with all the check boxes. ...more >>

Hello. I have am in the process creating a little interactive Flash website, files would be included, but attaching them seems not o work at the moment!. Basically, when the user interacts with the buttons on the screen a movie loads and as you can imagine is supposed to display text. I u...more >>

Hello there, Does anyone have any good tips / links / book recommendations etc on how to improve my flash whether it be actionscript, performance or anything else. Here's some good stuff that I've found. www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/ flash/whitepapers/actionscript_standards.pdf ...more >>

Hi all, Ok, I am a complete newb with Flash so I don't know whether I went about the design of my page wrong or if there is a way to fix my current problem... I built a flash document with 3 slides. The size is 800x600. The page was designed for a screen resolution of 1024x768 but inevitab...more >>

where are files from flash games or whatever saved localy on my computer, is there a specific path or are they 'specal' and only flash can mess with them...more >>

Hi, having problems publishing - I have put up a site for a friend. (www.chilternharmony.com) just a holding page. i am trying to this page come up to exact fit to a computer but it stays in the top left hand corner. in the publish setting i have selected the html tag, and then selected:...more >>

hi guys... my first thread here... i am trying to learn flash and started by working on one of my academic projects...but like a noob i am facing a few problems...i would like to ask them here... 1.) please tell me how to make a growing line...i mean there is a centre and i want to sho...more >>

I am having trouble getting flash to catch variables sent to it, the code on the web page I am using is below, it works in both opera and firefox but not internet explorer, are there some weird rules I need to follow to get it to work in IE? <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455...more >>

Hi everyone. Recently, I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled many things. I'm running XP Pro. Before formatting, the Flash Player 7 worked properly as a stand-alone viewer. The .SWF extension was associated with it, so if I double-clicked a SWF file, Flash Player would open, and display...more >>

Hello, I'm c++ developer and this is all new to me so have a begginer question. I'm trying to develop an application with navigation. When user clicks a button, anotjer screen should appear. I just don't know how to solve the problem with the another screen. Should it be a new layer or new ...more >>

hi all, i have a transparent gif that i created in photoshop, a little circular design. when i import it into the .fla file though, it shows up on a crappy looking little square that isn't quite the same color as the movie background. and the square is also visible in the .swf. thing ...more >>

Hi everyone, I am trying to create a Flash text/html editor which allow me to format some text and insert table, can I do that in flash? or can anyone know any of Flash text/html editor?...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 to ...more >>

Ladies and gentlemen, I am looking for an MX download like the trial downloads (not the player). I have my old key, but no installation cd right now. Is there anywhere that I can get the exe? Thanks. krl ...more >>

Hi, I am a new user to the world of Flash. I have downloaded a trial version of Flash MX Professional 2004 to see if it can meet my presentation needs. My question: how do i make my slide show start automatically and run through a slide sequence at timed intervals without a viewer having...more >>

i save one flash file with some free flash saver tool off cnet.com but it would not play after i saved it, it says it will only play in its original website. Is there a way to play it without going to the original website i dont alway have internet connection. thanks ...more >>

hello what i need to do, is implement a flash file(flyout menu) to an existing flash file. how is this possible? i have attempted to import it but the menu flash file has seemed to have extended from beginning to the end of the root timeline and does not work now within this new scene. tha...more >>

Hi everyone, I work for a small children's health nonprofit. I just finished an intro course on Flash MX 2004 and was trying to do a simple nav bar to use with a simple website built in Dreamweaver. (We try to do our work "in house" vs. hiring out due to budget constraints.) My problem...more >>

Hi, How can i do the menu that is in the upper left conner, http://zonamacorisana.hosting3x.com/index2.swf I mean, when the mouse is over the circle in the middle the menu rotates faster and when the mouse is over the buttons it rotates lower, how can I do that??? Note: If you can't ...more >>