I use a lot of my original music in Flash and while designing it seems 8 just keeps playing the sound file even though I've stopped it. I press return to play, should be able to press return to stop, but the music keeps playing!? How do I stop this from happening, your help is greatly app...more >>

I made a photoslideshow using flash 8. I saved as SWF. When I went to website, the shockwave logo appears, and nothing happens. I uninstalled shockwave and the flash plugin kicks in and bingo! But (in IE), it will show the install plugin bar at top for shockwave also. I saved it for flash...more >>

I am making a simple movieclip. It is a sort of Photoalbum where people that are clicking on the small thumbnails the picture will slide down to the lover end of the page and grow bigger. What I dont understand is how I can figure out where the picture will be located on the stage .....more >>

I wonder how many of you people know that Flash communicates online without your knowledge? I checked my browser extensions in Firefox--Flash is not listed. I checked "Add or Remove Programs"--Flash is not listed. I checked my firewall software--Flash is not listed. Flash checked for an up...more >>

We are creating a CD-ROM that installs the Flash projector and related files onto the user's machine. However, I can't seem to find a way in Flash to change the default icon. I thought surely this was located in the Publishing settings, but no dice. Any ideas? I'm assuming there's someth...more >>

I am very desparate, and these expensive books aren't really helping me and I'm lost. Please, pretty please :( (read my message before to see if you can help me) THANK YOU SO MUCH! ;) I know someone can help!!!!!! ...more >>

Hi All, I'm developing a site that has to function properly on the Flash 7 players. I'm having trouble finding it now that Flash 8 is out. Does anyone know where I can find a download of the Flash 7 Player? Thanks! ...more >>

I downloaded Flash 8 trial and played it a few days and then suddenly realized that I could no longer access to my MX2004pro. Does Flash 8 wipe out MX2004pro or is MX2004pro disabled during Flash 8 trial? If I uninstall Flash 8, will my MX2004pro come back or get lost? This is so disruptin...more >>

I've made some basic text animations like fading in/out and motion effects using tween, but I converted the text to a graphic symbol first. I'm animating the letter "D" in a font I downloaded and everything seems to be fine. When I play the movie using the enter key, everything looks good, b...more >>

Hello, I have been tasked with getting Flash 8 and doing the following: Take a 1 minute Beta tape and make a movie in a window like you would find at www.floam.com. Question: What do I need to know to acomplish this? I am guessing I need to know the following: Frames per Sec.? ...more >>

:frown; hello, i'm new to Flash. However, I've read 6 books on it from the library. So, I know a few things about it. i'm having lots of trouble figuring out how to get the root timeline and the timelines in my movie clips to behave as expected. let me try to explain... I start a ...more >>

Is there any way to change the width of the scrollbar in a combo box using the built in components? I'm designing for a touchscreen, and the scrollbar with is just too narrow for the typical fat-fingered user. Whenever I change the width of the whole combo box, it uses a fixed value for the ...more >>

Is there ANYONE out there who has had no problems with Flash 8 whatsoever? Luckily, I've already learned my lesson when it comes to installing updates of Macromedia products :) so I'm just wanting to know if a majority of people are having problems with the update to Flash 8. Pretty sad that w...more >>

My flash program is very simple. I have a scene 1 with a preloader. On this preloader I have 2 small gifs (~3kb each) and vector graphics. Then in scene 2 I have basically a looping animated gif with next frame and pause frame buttons. There are quite a few graphics in scene 2. My problem...more >>

http://www.therobers.com/shifted_hit_area.htm I've got a button that has a rolloever and rolloff effect and it works beautifully except that I don't want it to play right when the page first loads or it is refreshed. I have applied the following code to the movie clips (not thier timelin...more >>

Any comments about MySpace's move to disallow users from putting Flash objects on their pages?...more >>

It is impossible to type national characters using keyboard in applications based on Flash Player 7,0,25,0 plugin for Linux. How to simulate this problem on Debian 3.1 Sarge: 1. Install the XFree86 4.3 and make following changes in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 configuration file (we will use Ru...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem while working with Javascript and a swf file. Inside the swf movie I make a call to setea() function declared in the htm who contains the swf file. This function loads some parameters to flash movie using this : var flashMovie=getFlashMovieObject("myMovie");...more >>

Sorry for reposting but, has anyone had any problems with the new FLash 8 player and Javsascript? None of my getURL's in flash, calling javascript functions in a HTML page seem to be working? sample: getURL("javascript:CP_showCelluloid()"); Any suggestions as to why this would be happe...more >>

Hiya, I was wondering if some one could give me some advice, I want a pre loader to do what it does, show the details etc and the when the movie as downloaded it should play it or ill give an option to play... this bit is simple to do. The problem im having is that I make the preloader a...more >>

I produce QTVR movies but have no way of converting them into Flash files, does anyone know if there is a way yet to get them into Flash at all?...more >>

Hi I have developed a Flash application which has to loop through a 16MB XML file to find data corresponding to user choices. As you can imagine, the process takes several seconds therefore the application appears to hang and do nothing whilst it is finding the data. I have set up a war...more >>

Hi all, This simple code worked fine before I up graded the swf file to the latest flash player version. Any help or incite into the problem would be greatly appreciated. wel_btn.onPress = function() { fader_mc.gotoAndPlay(2); onEnterframe = function () { if (fader_mc._curre...more >>

Hi, For the last year or so i have been working on a Air Traffic Control Application that simulates radar screen(s) of an approximatly 800x250 km area, including airports and height-map information. The radar detection algo utilizes a very large array with a length of 550,000 integer entri...more >>

When I export my graphics from photoshop as 24 bit transparent png files the colors appear very washed out when I import them into flash. Any suggestions how fix this issue. I am using flash mx 2004. ...more >>

Funny thing - when I try to embed fonts for dynamic text fields and publish for Flash player 8, quite often the text simply won't display. Static text fields work just fine. I wondered if this was an issue with open type fonts, but it seems in my case to affect both Open Type and True Typ...more >>

Hi, while integrating flash with a VB.NET or C# form, i'm facing issues with transparency. I've set the 'wmode' parameter to 'transparent' but still the flash's canvas shows when i run the form. I'm having the flash 8 player installed on my sytem. Could that be an issue? All help appre...more >>

If I place this code in an action script file using Flash 8. It creates the clip and loads the assets, but rollover and rollout do not work. If I move rollover and rollout down 15 frames Rollover works once but never again and Rollout will not work. var changeGroup_mc:MovieClip = this....more >>

The code below is a general login script that I have in my application. They problem I am having is that when you try and log in, it does not work. But if your try a second time, it works fine. What am I missing, that it's not getting the variables on the first attempt? on (release) { if...more >>

I just upgraded to Flash 8, but when working off of a server, which we do almost exclusively at my work, it takes an obscene amount of time to save the files?even on simple files, or simple changes. I just timed it and it took 10 minutes to save. Seems to work fine from the hard drive. Any...more >>

i am using the getURL command to open html files from my hard drive. This is the code: getURL("newchicken.html","_parent"); this ends up loading a blank page and a page on microsofts website about not being able to rename the documents and setting folder. wierd. I needed to get rid ...more >>

I have 90 frames of the earth modeled and rendered in Softimage 3D. They are saved and optimized in Fireworks and are currently .PNG files. I want to create a movie symbol so I can have furhter control over the size, position etc. I have taken all the steps (created a symbol, imported the file...more >>

I created a button that, when released, targets a frame based on the value of a variable named 'tra'. My syntax is off somehow, and I can't figure it out!!!! What am I doing wrong??? myBtn_btn.onRelease = function(){ if (_root.tra == "1") { _root.gotoAndStop("tra1"); } if (_...more >>

I'm trying to export a simple quicktime movie as an FLV which I've had success doing, but for some clips, (seems to be specific to the source file) the colors come out completely distorted and messed up. I can find nothing about it on any forum. Has anyone had this problem? Heres a screen sho...more >>

:confused; I installed Studio 8 and got comfortable with the idea that uninstalling MX 2004 was not going to break anything. WRONG. I uninstalled MX 2004 and now all of my swfs are not associated with Flash player. This happened with I moved from MX to MX 2004 too. I can't remember what I did ...more >>

I have a banner (flash) and want to link it to my intro page (intro.html) when you click it. i need to know what to write for the code in the action geturl my site is not on the web yet and the intro.html is in D drive, website, pages, thanks. ...more >>

will it allways be a tween symbol in the libary when i am using a tween in time line? i beleive this is a simple question but i never thought that through thanks...more >>

I don't know if I'll have much luck getting help with this one, seeing as other people have apparently had similar issues without much help. I have a multiline dynamic text box with an UIScrollBar attached to it. In testing it in IE and Firefox, I noticed that the scrollbar shows up apparent...more >>

http://www.drewmedia.com/ I'm wondering if anyone knows how to create a flip motion like the one on that site. Thanks, Jaime...more >>

ok my flash spazzed and killed it's self. so i tried to reinstall it and now it installs 3 files getflash.exe,getflash.exe.manifest and another random file when i click getflash it says click to update the bar gets to 100% then says an error has occurred while downloading the installer. pl...more >>

Hi, I have quite a few buttons that link to webpages in my Flash. But the URLs may change. Is there a way to make changes without re-opening the .fla file? Maybe using text import? Thanks....more >>

I have made many websites before for various purposes (eportfolios, business websites, creative sites, etc) and I manage to put them together and get them working. Now I have a more serious project and I would like to tackle it properly. I even bought some Flash Tutorial books, but still I am ...more >>

:brokenheart; I have a movie on the web and when I right click on it I do not have a PRINT option. Where did it go? I could print from earlier versions of player....more >>