hi all, I can create animated buttons in flash fairly easy, but up until now, i always gotten away with just typing a http:// url. Thats fine if you know what the url for the site will be, but, now, since im starting a web design business, I need my clients to be able to browse through the...more >>

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http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/worldaroundyou/2005-10/norman.html Hi, Please go to the above page. At the bottom are two links. You'll see a Windows Media movie with no captions. It's a very clean looking and non-digitized video. Then look at the Flash version. I imported th...more >>

Why do jpg photos look perfect in IE, but look like 16 color gifs in Safari and Firefox on a mac. I have noticed this even with Macromedia's site...there has to be a solution for this...anyone know it? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello, What would cause an On2 VP6 video w/alpha channel to not appear in IE (windows). I have a video that appears on Safari with Player8 installed. The windows machine only has Player7. The SWF is published as PLAYER 7 and does not use the new player8 video display. I used the player 7...more >>

Sheesh...I created this 5000 frame demo and I can't figure out how to get the user to EXIT? Director is simply "quit" This has got to be too simple ...more >>

:confused; I created a Flash movie...looks great...but for some reason in my browser, it displays really small instead of the size I created. What's going on? ...more >>

Hello, I have tried to have Flash support answer this question prior to purchase, but couldn't get them to answer my question. I would like to create a screensaver for the PC using Flash 8. Mac OSX has a cool screensaver that takes CDart from Itunes library and the screen displays about 5...more >>

I'm just interested in where the people on this forum learned flash? I've read a few books, and I still get confused on alot of things talked about on this forum. I want to reach the point where I am able to answer the questions people are posting, instead of the one asking them. I was cont...more >>

How would I embed a swf file within html code? Is it also possible to specify the size of this embedded file? Thanks...more >>

ok. Here is the situation. I am able to get my SME's to print the pages from my FLA that they need to update. However, when the presentation was originally constructed, printing was not a consideration, so using the script I have causes half the page to get chopped. The movie is output is 900x...more >>

Ok, here's the situation. I have a flash intro to a website. I created my homepage in html so that it is searchable buy search engines. Instead of putting an enter button on the flash intro to go to the html home page, my client wants to have the flash intro fade away and the html page appear ...more >>

I have embedded some Flash 8 content in an HTML page, but when I try to view the page on a Mac with Flash 7 plugins, I don't get a prompt to update my Flash Player... Instead it displays only bits and pieces of the Flash content. The strange thing is that PC's without Flash Player 8 prompt me...more >>

I recently found a bug in flash 8. when creating a masked movie clip that contains dynamic text, the text will not show unless the aliasing is set to bitmap. Any other aliasing will make the text disappear.. ...more >>

I am creating a Flash file that I would like to hold an excel file -- the user would be able to download the excel file from within their Flash program-- I don't need to exchange data or anything, I would just like to "house" the excel file for distribution. Does anyone know if this is possib...more >>

I've been asked to come up with an application which will produce a simple engineering drawing on-screen. Most of the drawing could be pre-prepared as an image, but at least one component has to be drawn to scale according to dimensions entered by the user. If this can be made to work on a...more >>

Veeeeeeeery newbie-ish question here!...........can i make a complete website using Flash 8?.......menu's etc.?......can i do it without learning all that mucky html coding stuff? chadwick.marlor@balcanicsoft.com...more >>

Hi I am trying to position a dynamic text box on the stage. It needs to be carefully positioned to make the design work, but also because I'm using pixel fonts and the X and Y coordinates have to be on whole numbers for the fonts to display correctly. My box keeps moving. I put one coo...more >>

What do we need to do so that Intranet users who do not already have Flash Player installed can automatically download it from a site on our Intranet instead of the Macromedia site? (Our users not have Internet access.) Thanks, Keith ...more >>

Hi there, I have seen some flash mivies with moving horizontal & vertical lines. Is there a tutorial available to help me doing this? -- Regards, Deon H...more >>

I have run into this problem a few times now. I currently have a 14meg flv (it's an hour show). I figure it would download progressively and play, just as smaller files would. But it doesn't seam to play at all. Just a blank screen. It is important to our client that their video be in ...more >>

how can i insert "image with transparent background" in flash. i've created the image in photoshop and try to import it in flash as psd file with copy paste but i didn't work i try do import it the same way but in gif format and it doesn't help too. how can i do this? ...more >>

Hi not sure if this is the right forum but I'm desperate for help I have created a vbscript file which loops through all swf files in a folder and plays them in sequence. In each swf file I have added script (fscommand) which starts the swf file full screen and then does a 'quit' and sto...more >>

Is it only my problem? I have installed new flash pklayer two days ago. From this time I have problem to display some movies on some sites (only in FF, in IE is all OK). How could I solve this problem? (sorry for my english, I am for Czech republic) Thanks for your time and help (I hope) ...more >>

My xml file contains html special characters such as: á é í ó ú Á É Í Ó Ú ñ Ñ I am putting the text into a textfield by using a variable: mymovieclip.variable=[ the parsed xml file] ...more >>

I'm trying to access a movie clip inside a scrollpane to attach movies to it at runtime. Here's what used to work in Flash 6: _root.myScrollPane.content_mc.attachMovie() Not anymore. When debugged, the scollpane variables are completely different. and none of the following works: ...more >>

Ok here's another one in my relentless struggle to finish off this presentation. Is it possible to duplicate a movie clip and then paste it within the same file...then assign it a different action (ie open up a different pdf file)? When I duplicate the movie clip and then paste it...it see...more >>

:confused; I placed two buttons, to move forward or backward one frame at a time. A movie clip with sound clip is also placed in first frame on a separate layer. When backward button is pressed soud replicates one per backward button click. What I intended is that sound should play from star...more >>

I set up buttons so they can change the look of my page. I can't get the button to go to a certain frame so when you press it it will activate that frame with the info to change the picture. I have the down button set to Action->goto--> frame 29. But when I test it out nothing happens. I need ...more >>

I just can't seem to get it right. I am trying to set a button to launch a specific acrobat document in a separate acrobat window. Any suggestions out there? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. I am a bit of a beginner at this but I'm getting the hang of it. ...more >>

have embeded a flv player from flash 8. I used a url like rtmp://222.333.444.33/webcast to connect to the flash communication server and autostart true. It is not connecting (working), but I have manual swf files i have created that do connect. any suggestions? Thaniks Bart ...more >>

:confused; I am a multimedia officer @ Melbourne-uni-australia. I currently have the job of recommending a suitable product to migrate an existing legacy online Veterinary Science Course developed in Hypercard 2.2 on a macintosh. Looking at a specific product, equivalent to Hypercard but ...more >>

I have created a scroller that will scroll across the bottom of the stage. I am unable to instruct it to loop back to the first frame. I have created a "graphic" called "Intro images". This graphic is then placed on the stage. I created a tween of the graphic moving from left to right. Whe...more >>

please take a look at the attached file/s and tell me what ive done wrong... the menu has drop down buttons and nothing is working...it is supposed to drop down when the cursor goes over each selection.. and please give me some direction on this as well... im building a site in flash for the f...more >>

Hi There. I've just been checking out the blur effect in Flash 8, but I don't think it addresses something that I've wanted in flash for a long time... I use flash for drawing still pictures (rather than animation). I'd love to be able to draw an object with neatly controlled gradients b...more >>

Hi all, I am having a mess of a time w/ a preloader. it works as expected when I choose "Simulate Download" from the Flash authoring environment. But, I cannot produce the same result when viewing remotely. Could you please check out this link and let me know how it works for you? ht...more >>

I purchased the DockMenu from http://www.koocaa.com/components/DockMenu/help/use_dockmenu.asp which I love. My problem is, I'm having trouble learning how to set up the links so when a menu item is clicked it goes to the proper page. I've been working on this a couple days now, to no av...more >>

Hello all. I have a graphic symbol that I want to skew. I selct the symbol with the transform tool. then I go to one of the corner anchors and hold down command (working on a mac), this allows me to move the corner of the smbol, but when I release it, it goes back to its original location, ins...more >>

I'm trying to pass a coulpe of different variables into my flash movie from the HTML page. Can I do it like this? src="mymovie.swf?string1=this&string2=that" This doesn't seem to be working properly.:confused; ...more >>

Hope someone can help me here. I want to create a page turning effect in Flash MX and where you will have the curl in the bottom corner animated so it curls slightly back and fourth and then when you press over it it turns the page and content. I have seen it used to good effect and wonder...more >>

I'd like to know how to make the same masking effect when background image changes like in this web site http://www.preload.it/flash/index.htm I've been searching on the web for years without success... :( Anyone help is greatly appreciated :) Thanks ...more >>

hi. i?m new at this. how can i import a flash movie from a site in the internet? thank you....more >>

:confused; I'm creating a Set of Buttons, and I group them in a movie clip, each button has its own behavior, the behavior is like this: on (release){ gotoAndStop("Scene X", 1); } Depends of the button go to diferent scenes, my problem is that all other behaviors works except th...more >>

Hello: I am looking to for a way that the control on a Flash button/movie will open a new browser window with specific height and width the same as Javascript in HTML. For example, if I use the code below in HTML I get a browser window to open that is 325x229: <a href="javaScript:voi...more >>

I have a java applet that displays a 3D model using Java 3D. I've embedded it in a Flash interface, and it works fine when I view it using Windows XP/IE6. However, the Java applet does not display when viewing it on Macintosh. Any ideas? ...more >>

My flash at the moment is turning off layers and setting the positions of movieclips that are static. I want to be able to set the posistion over a number of frames to act like a tween. Because I am setting the x of the clip it does not use the tween created in through the UI. Any help ideas w...more >>

Hi. I'm interested in using flash for drawing (not animation). The pencil cursor is somewhat offputting - how do I change it to a precise/professional style cursor? Thanks, Rich....more >>