http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/ I would recomend checking this one out for a few minutes Have Fun...more >>

I'm developing a multilingual site that requires a contact form that is actioned by PHP on the server-side. However, PHP doesn't understand the special characters (?, ? etc) that are urlencoded by the flash 6 and above players because they are encoded from UTF8 from the text fields in the...more >>

:disgust; I am learning Flash to simulate an interactive television screen. I've looked at a number of tutorials to create buttons or a disappearing menu on the screen as if the TV viewer is choosing to have the menu appear (much like the "info" button on your remote). The ploblem is I wil...more >>

was wondering how this is achieved - not the graphic itself but the fact that if you right click anywhere outside of the beetle it shows up as html - anywhere on the beetle is a flash movie !! not only is the movie beetle shaped but if you keep your pointer in the same place and click on one o...more >>

I made an intro in flash, and imported an animated gif. I need to know how to make the animated gif play from a play button in flash....more >>

Hello I made a .flv from a quicktime movie. Now, I'd like to place it into a Flash file and export a full .swf file that I can upload to my web server and show. I want the video to be contained in the .swf. Are there some simple directions for doing this? I'm new to Flash. Thank...more >>

I would like to do something similar to this website, www.atlantasky.com, where the picture is stationary and the clouds are moving. How would I go about doing something like this with making the picture itself not move? thanks ...more >>

This is why I want to know (You don't have to tell me how, at least tell me if you can): I am working on converting my school's website into flash as a school project, right now the site is in created in fireworks, through image splicing. I want to know if there is a way to do image swap, ...more >>

How would I go about making a flash movie extend the width of a table so that when I maximize my web page it fills the size of my table? thanks...more >>

hi can somebody help me please, i am using flash 8 flv playback component, what i need to do is use 1 swf that has the flv component which streams more than 1 flv files by request of a java scipt, php, or a jsp. for example: you click link 1 and it pulls up " main.swf " playing FLV#1. ...more >>

i am creating a trivia game to be burnt to a cd then distributed to various people. i will save it as .exe. i'm not sure if the client wants mac version yet. anyway, how do i create a custom icon with game logo on it that you click on to start game in windows? thanks > mark ...more >>

Im sure this is a pretty simple 1 i've got some actionscript attached to a button that when released links to a seperate txt file that is then shown within my SWF file. However, i seem to have lost the text file so cant edit the details contained, is there any place that flash may have s...more >>

I have three buttons piling up randomly. How do I know which one is the topmost? Is there something like this? topButton = getTopMost();...more >>

I have a flash document that will be running off of a cd. There are links in the project that go to the internet. I have been working on this project since March. All of a sudden, when I hit the links to go to the internet, I get an alert message saying "Macromedia flash Player has stopped...more >>

I am working on a bio page where the user will select a certain person in the bio and then a separate window will open with that persons bio information. is there anyway to do this without 'getURL' since the flash movie to be called will not be external from the original flash file? Please hel...more >>

hi, the scenario is: i have one button b1 and i also have two movieclips m1 and m2 so the problem is: when i click b1 i want that m1 starts playing and only when m1 is finished i want m2 to start... how can i do this?? ...more >>

I think I am starting to hit the limits of flash - I now receive a message stating that my main app .as file is too big. Does anyone know of a size limit for the main app .as file?:confused;...more >>

Hi, In my Flash document, I made a movie clip. I copied this movie clip on the stage and export my document as AVI. When I open the AVI, I see the image but it is a static image. It looks like it was not able to read the animation into the movie clip. Does anyone know why? thanks ...more >>

Hi all - here's the weirdest one yet. I'm trying to import a sound into Flash. I bring it in - it plays when I try to edit it, I hear it when I scrub back and forth in the timeline. All normal. But when I export the .swf, there is NO SOUND. Not in the Flash Player, not through a web page. But ...more >>

I have a flash I want to loop twice, then stop partway through a third loop. How do I do this? I know about the "stop" action to stop it after one play, of course. Beyond that, it seems to me there should be some sort of script to set up and specify a count for the number of loops, perform an ...more >>

I've created a symbol of type Movie Clip. The symbol is basically text with a transition effect. Then I dragged the symbol to the stage. When I test the movie, the instance keeps looping. When I try to edit the symbol so that I can place a stop(); at the last frame, I get the following mes...more >>

Hi, many businesses and schools have firewalls that block mp3 files. We have a lot of audio that is in MP3 format. I've discovered that I Flash will still play the MP3 files if their extension is changed to SP3 or anything you wish. Are there ANY possible unintended consequences of doing th...more >>

I need either a link or file of a Flash file that plays Audio CD's from the Computers CD or DVD ROM. Can anyone help?...more >>

A customer send me a fla file for an update but when I try to open it there is a warning message> unexpected file format. I work on windows, he in mac, but the last job I did for him didn-t presented a problem, now he cannot yet tell of a different handling of the file and while he is on mac p...more >>

I am a developer and I need to be able to develop for the flash browser plug back to (i hate to say it but its true) player 6. Is there some kind of tool that will allow me to install multiple plugin versions. ...more >>

I've created a .fla at 640 by 480. Publishing has been fine. But suddenly, the ..swf publishes smaller; 550 by 400! Not only that, but when I first open the ..fla, it does the same thing! I've trashed the prefs but it hasn't helped. Any ideas? ...more >>

I am encountering so many problems since upgrading to Flash 8. Is anyone else? My buttons don't work and when I export files from Illustrator (.swf) and then import them from Flash they don't show up when I publish. Also when I create text either in buttons or in design, the text isn't raster...more >>

I have several images in one called background.swf. My menu is in another swf called menu.swf. I want for each menu button in menu.swf to cause an associated image in background.swf to slide in over the previous image that was there. I've looked into attachMovie and swapDepth but haven't got i...more >>

Is there a way in Flash MX to select all objects (not symbols) of the same color if they are in the same layer? For example, assume you have in a layer 100 green square and 100 red circles, all mixed together. I want to select all red dishes to remove them or change their color to yellow. Any sim...more >>

I am trying to learn flash on my own, or rather was but gave up and bought O'REILLY's "Flas Out of the Box" book. And in going thru it I have run into the same problem as when I was teaching myself. When I am trying to to tween somthing I am getting a dashed line instead of the solid arrow...more >>

Hi, i have an email button which when clicks opens your default email application and fills in the address, subject and body. the only thing i cant work out is how to 'return' the body text, i.e if i need a new paragraph: on (release) { getURL("mailto:name@company.com?subject="+escape("my...more >>

Unfortunalety, most browser cache the swf-files, making it problematic to update the swf without renaming it. Does anyone have a fix for this problem? I've been told that it's possible to use some sort of script to make random parameters in the OBJECT- and EMBED-code, something like this:...more >>

Hello How can I make a button in Flash opens a pop up window 300 x 300 pi Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have Flash MX 2004 but can't find the FLV Exporter plugin. I also have QuickTime? Version 7.0.2 Pro and would like to use this for creating FLV's. Any suggestions as to where I can find the plugin (I've already looked on our StudioMX CD and can't find it there either)? Thanks,...more >>

When i try and open certain fla file i get the message Unexpected file format. I can open some fla files but not others. I reinstalled my software thinking maybe that would help and nothing changed. Any ideas why this is happening. It is very open that i open a specific fla file and edit i...more >>

I am relatively new to flash Studio 8, but want to use this template (Modern) to quickly create a large slideshow, so I am wondering if there is a tutorial on this template or if someone could just tell me the best way. :confused; I have a large number of slides and need to get titles in for e...more >>

Hey there, I have a menu in my flash movie (instance name: menu_mc) and I want it to always be 50 pixels from the bottom of the browser window, even if someone drags the browser larger or smaller. Can anyone help me with this as I'm really struggling with it. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi, I have a page with frames, top and main. in the top part is a Flash menu, with buttons that should direct to the page belonging to them, in the frame called main.html. Usually in Dreamweaver i can set the parameters for those things to target "mainFrame". That somehow does not seem...more >>

i have designed a simple quiz with the buttons leading to two pages on which says correct and the other incorrect. How do i score the quiz automatically. is there a function to count up pages which the user has been on and so score the quiz? ...more >>

Hi everyone, Here's my problem, I need to get rid of alot of stuff from my library but I don't know which stuff because the column in library that says 'Use Count' just has a bunch of dashes in it. Does anyone know how to get it to acknowlege the fact that I've used these objects? ...more >>

I have created a web lay-out in illustrator and now I can't export it to flash in swf or similar(I don't wont use a bitmap) without loss of a part of my work. Someone knows if there is a method or a program to make it? -- Messaggio inviato da 158.102.162.5 via MMKit http://www.mmkit.com/new...more >>

Hi, I wan?t that my flash size is 100% x 100%. Firefox shows the swf file top of window and small size. There is no problems in all the other browsers, except firefox. Html code is: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD...more >>

This might have been resolved somewhere else or maybe I'm just missing something obvious but I couldnt figure it out. Anyways, everytime I try to save my progress to come back to later, I open the fla (saved as both 8 and MX 2004 just in case) I no longer have my layers. I start off with ...more >>

I have created a presentation in flash. Its size is about 25 mb. when I publish it to create exe file it gives error. But when I run it from flash it does not give any error. What is the problem?...more >>

I am new to the PrintJob() class in Flash and am unable to get my dynamic text to print. I am trying to print from an .exe that captures data. The design is very colorful, so I would like the user to have the option to print a simple black/white design. I set up the black/white designs on fram...more >>

Hi everyone, here's my problem. I've been working on my most recent flash movie for a few months now with a flawless record as far as my computers performance is concerned. However, today I tried to continue work on my movie when flash started acting strange. The movie was open but it wasnt at...more >>

:confused; I am just starting to use Flash. I recently purchased the Studio 8 package. I appreciate any help on this issue I am having... How do I use a "Loading" clock animation while a movie loads on a website? AND... How do I make the movie begin after it is completely loaded on the browse...more >>

I need to compile a list of hand held devices that will run Flash... hardware and software. For instance... - does Windows PocketPC run Flash? - If so what version of PocketPC? And, does it limit what Flash can do? - what about the Palm OS? Which versions run Flash? - If so what version...more >>

I haven't used director in quite some time; at least 7 or 8 years now. What I thought was great was being able to tie cue points inserted in the audio with Sound Forge audio software to frames in Director. Is this possible in Flash, tiesing audio cue points to Flash frames? If not, WHY...more >>