Hi, can anyone recommend any tips for optimizing the filesize of my SWFs. And what about those third-party utilities that optimize your flash movies, which one is the best?...more >>

i cant seem to get this answered so i thought id ask again... ive got 2 drop down menu's in my movie--how do i link them to a url... and how do i link my buttons to a url as well... flash newbie here... also this is a question that is a little out there...help me out if you can..im going back ...more >>

:confused; I need help with adding Large Audio Files to my flash presentation. I am using FLASH MX, and I need to add several audio files to my flash project. I need to add 25 songs that I have cut short. They are to play in a jukebox type setup. You can see what I am working on here... ht...more >>

The Toobar is not allowing tools to be selected and dragged onto the stage ??? Perhaps my settings are wrong although I am using the default settings......What can I try, I will try anything once and if I like it, I will try it again.......Dont forget I am just a beginner although i ve had two...more >>

Im very new to flash, and was wondering if someone could help me out. How would you make it so if someone opened the flash document it would go to a url I selected? This is what I want to do, but I dont know how to code the flash file to do it. Could someone add my msn and help ? Prompt@gmail....more >>

Rpg - Design Help Introduction To Problems Hi, As a flash Rpg auther I run into flash problems every day, most problems I can fix by my self with just a little brain power and motivation. Then there is the problems I can't solve, but I look to my friends for friendly advice and som...more >>

Hi, I would like to know how to make my textfields scroll smoothly. I believe its done with easing but im in need of a tutorial to help me along. I ve looked aroud for the last half an hour and found nothing. Maybe my keywords are wrong. Anyway, Can anyone point me towards a tute? Cheers...more >>

What's up, I'm new to Flash and I'm currently taking a cool video course at Lynda.com. I have Flash MX Professional 2004 and I'm useing a PC, and the coarse that I'm learning from only has MX 2004 (not professional) and they are teaching it on a Mac. They say there is next to no difference bet...more >>

I work at a company that would like their site to only support flash 6. If you go on the site with flash 7 everything is ok. If you go on it with flash 6 some of the movies try to download the newest version of flash but others do not. All were published with action script 1.0 and flash 6. Can...more >>

disgust;Hey macromedia: I am proving with Flash 8 in a school project. I am doing a web page for a class. When my classmates and my teacher wants to see my webpage in computers without macromedia flash player 8 plugin for internet explorer, they can't see flash animations developered with Ma...more >>

Anybody come to Actionscript from a PHP background? The concept of everything being an 'object' is really weird for me- instead of being able to simply load a variable I have to create an object to load the variable in - so my syntax is constantly getting messed up, and I'm coming at thing...more >>

:disgust; Hey Macromedia: I have problems with acute accent. I am proving Flash 8 for a school project and I am using the loadVariables() method and POST method for show variables storaged in an Access data base using ASP and logically Flash 8. I live in Mexico, and logically I speak Spa...more >>

I reckon by "as soon as it loads" you mean fron the web, and your game is supposed to run in the web-browser? If so the good advice of fc338339 won't help, as this only works with the stand-alone browser and with projectors. You'd have to do html and javasript to acieve (at least partly)...more >>

Is it possible these days to do a flash presentations for DVD's that can be played on TV? Thanks, Kinga...more >>

Dear Friends. I am using Flash 8 to create a movie, the fla has 2.5 MB, I cannot create Flash Movie, or create a 9MB swf but see nothing. please help how to amend it?? Thanks Fc...more >>

So I've got a site that I've built (see it here: http://www.artinmusic.com) and it uses a function I've written called 'changer()' to swap out different events using a folder with textfiles inside. So I plug in the name of the folder and the function pulls the info from "folderName/title.txt"...more >>

I have imported a quicktime movie in to flash to be exported as a intro page on a site. When I import it as a movie it lays it out on the time line and is about 30 sec long. The problem is when I export it, its about a 9.9meg file and when the movie starts it will only play on frame on the sit...more >>

Hello - I am a documentation consultant working at a client site in Racine, Wisconsin. I was brought in to edit some training material that was created by another consultant. I have never used Macromedia Flash, am on a deadline, and need to know how to edit some text in 3 Macromedia files I ...more >>

Hi everybody, Is there any way to recover a document after the Flash application crashed? Some kind of Autobackup? Thanks a lot for your help D...more >>

on (release) { if (answer.text() == null && pass.text == null) { stop(); " here stop not working " } else if (answer.text.toLowerCase() == "hussain" && pass.text.toLowerCase() == "100") { gotoAndStop("yes"); } else { gotoAndStop("no"); } } i ha...more >>

hi all I have problem pointing co - ordinates on Image loader.Desc:I have image to load in flash. On top of that Image I have to create a dynamic text to enter text on base of co-ordinates coming from c#. When i am considering co-ordinates from c# for that Image but its pointing same locat...more >>

Hi I successfully have my movie loading within the main flash movie, but I notice when the sub movie loads. I scroll my mouse over it and the main movie links behind it changes my mouse icon to a hand. What do I need to do to set focus to the submovie loaded without any interference from the o...more >>

Hi When published as flash player 7, all my context menu works perfectly, but when compiled as flash player 8, some work only on part of the target clip and some don't work at all.... Could someone tell me if something had changed since flash 8 in the contextMenu Class ? Maybe the way ...more >>

I'm a very new user to Flash & have gone through the basic tutorials as well as Flash 1 from the online library. I'm having a problem with the end of the animation. I can tween the two bitmaps, but the animation doesn't stop when the first shape has become the second. It keeps looping. ...more >>

I am having a problem with drop down menus in flash. all the links work fine, they go to the right pages, but the odd problem is, once I'm on a page and I click on the button thats supposed to take me to the page I'm already on, it will take me to another random page in that scene. Im clueless...more >>

My tablet Genius EasyPen is working properly when I open flash 8 en my Windows 2000 but when I start/open a new flash document, the tablet doesn't respond. Anyone knows a solution?...more >>

ok hi all im a newbie in need of help. Im doing a site where i have a jpg image that when the user moves his mouse over a part of that image a box expands from that with connecting lines to the spot. This box then has an image displayed in that. I know in flash i can use the transform tool t...more >>

Big problem: fscommand( "fullscreen", "true" ); does not work correctly in Flash Projectors created with Flash 8 on Mac OS X. The Projector enters fullscreen mode but after a second shows the Menubar of the projector. A Projector created with Flash 7 works correct. Is there a wor...more >>

We can convert SWF files to FLA files, right? If we build a Flash Application for commercial use, how do we protect the copyright ?????...more >>

I'm gonna change my name to Trouble with Flash Text.... http://priiva.net/dev/perusich/ Fonts on the left opening text section are extremely fuzzy. I've tried everything I know of. I cannot make them images as the info is xml fed. They are currently set to _sans, but are still fuzzy as a...more >>

Hi, I am having problems with my new website: www.originate.ie. The movie takes a few seconds to initialize for some reason, when the preloader should appear straight away. I have tried removing all the larger items from the library but it still happens... Can anybody suggest why this is...more >>

OK this works fine in Firefox and Safari and IE 5 on Macs, but doesnt work on PC with IE 6 and flash player 8 heres my problem, Im hoping someone else has seen this issue as well: I have a main movie (root movie) inside this movie I have a button which loads in another swf: on(releas...more >>

I'm trying to make a very basic flash site..... .....all i want to do is have a menu with buttons (i already know how to make buttons/menus)... ..so, when you hit a button, the content on the page changes but the menu bar stays the same (but of course the button stays in the "down" state...more >>

I am trying to create a popup menu. My problem is that if one of the buttons reaches the static text, the text of that button displays incorrectly. Thanks for help....more >>

I am using two .jpg images for an intro web page. I want to use one as a main background, and the other to reveal over the first only when the cursor is rolled over a particular area. I've successfully done this by setting up the second image as an invisible button. My problem is that th...more >>

ich hab eine frage ist es m?glich den flash player auf eine cd zu packen in einem ordner mit swf dateien und die ?ffnen sich wenn man sie anspricht und der kunde muss den flash player nicht installieren da sich dieser auf cd befindet! ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if you look at this website on the border , how have the given metalic touch to the color. Alo how are they producing this affect like there is light in the center of border. I tried have tween motion between two graphis by giving aplha to one, but ti did not produce...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to import PNG files to preserve the background transparency. When I've imported the image, do I still need to trace the bitmap to separate the alpha channel, or should it automatically show up with a transparent background? I'm merely saving these images as a copy from a...more >>

Hey- I'm making an ecard for a band I work with, and on the ecard there is a "send to friend" placeholder which I'm making the flash for. I got a flashkit and I custmized it to fit my needs. Everything seems to work except... it never finishes processing, and never submits. The flash...more >>

Does anyone know how to use soundfonts within flash? thanks....more >>

When I posted my frustration with Flash I knew there would be users who'd bristle at my comments and, quite frankly, I don't care. What I do care about is that the jugheads at Macromedia/Adobe turn Flash into a program that adheres to most of the conventions of real animation programs (AE, Lig...more >>

Hi. I am just wanting to play the games on Camel's little casino site they have there but I am having some issues with the flash player that I apparently don't have. Whenever I open the page with Mozilla 1.0.7. I believe, I receive a message to update to Flash MX and once the plugin has been...more >>

im a newbie... please help.... im using the combo menu ( drop-down ) and im a little confused as to how i script the choice's... im choosing the component " drag and drop " and then im going into the inspector and labeling it... how do i add the choice's and how would i add the accompanying u...more >>

I have in the main movie clip with a bg sound that loops called "bg_loop" playing. i click a button, this loads an external swf "track1.swf" into an empty movie clip "container". the bg sound "bg_loop" is stopped. the loading swf "track1.swf" preloads, then plays a sound file. once the file ...more >>

Can anyone help me out? I am not a programmer. I bought a template that can attach images. I've attached a slideshow to it, but in flash it opens a separate window that can be closed without losing the entire interface. In html, the slideshow opens in the window that the entire site was in...more >>

Hi all, hopefully someone can help me. I built a music selector and it works fine. Other then the fact that when I change pages on my site the song stops. Now I would of course love this to play while the person browses the site, how can i accomplish this? Shawn ...more >>

hi, every time i go to sites that require flashplayer i get told that i need to download the latest version of flashplayer. i go their site (macromedia), download the player then go back to the site and it says i still don't have the latest version or that i don't have any player at all. i...more >>

So here is the deal: Paintbrush paints normally when i'm on the main timeline. Paintbrush paints normally when i'm editing a symbol from the timeline HOWEVER, Paintbrush works completely different when editing a symbol within a symbol. If you try to draw lines like in this fashion: \...more >>

Hi everyone. Hope someone help me with this. I got a Container Movieclip where I load other movies with the Attach Movie command. But when I do this the buttons and the whole script doesn't work anymore on the loaded movie. Please tell me how should I solve this problem. Thanks to everyone. ...more >>