First out I am new to flash; with this in mind here are my questions. 1.) I have a flash animation that has 20 frames; I need to export each frame as Bitmap (.bmp); how is this done? 2.) Is it possible to export the .BMPs with an Alpha Channel? * or- into separate layers in Photosho...more >>

Hi,I get a message when trying to run the Flash 8 Video Encoder,it says that it can't find the .msi file to install the encoder..any ideas?? Flash is running in a 2.0 Ghz Celeron M,764 MB of Ram,and 64 MB video card (Intel Extreme Graphics 2),Windows Xp Pro Thanks ,Miguel ...more >>

I have attempted to make something using photoshop brushes and effects but when I import it as a gif (as it is transparentish) the affects are lost and the graphic goes solid. Is there a way of preventing this? ...more >>

I am currently studying for a ICT teaching degree, and as part of the course have created a portfolio of work using Excel, Access and word. And obviously documentation has been produced. We wanted to be able to submit out work electronically and perhaps produce an online portfolio. I had visit...more >>

Hi I need urgent help with the following flash file it's a drag and drop to target activity, where objects appear one after another to be sorted (it's for kids speech and language pathology) wrestling with it all day the first 5 items work but then it stops can anyway one decipher what's going...more >>

Good day everyone, I've succeded in retrieving data from a MySql db using flash with xml and php with the help of Lee Brimelow's exelent tutorial. What I want to do now is enter data into the table from a flash front end (a quiz for example). I know how to do this using html and php but not ...more >>

I have noticed when I am working with black (RGB; 0,0,0) graphics, converted to symbols or movie clips, there is a tiny white/gray outline around edge of graphic when placed on a black background. Is there anyway to eliminate this so that the transition from black background/stage to black gr...more >>

I'm just learning Flash, and when I convert an object to a movie clip and try to select the movie instance, I cannot do it. I can select a frame or the entire frame sequence of a movie instance, but for some reason I cannot select the movie instance itself (to where it brings up the movie inst...more >>

I'm just learning Flash, and when I convert an object to a movie clip and try to select the movie instance, I cannot do it. I can select a frame or the entire frame sequence of a movie instance, but for some reason I cannot select the movie instance itself (to where it brings up the movie inst...more >>

Does any know of a utility that will convert both the video AND the audio from Flash to AVI or other popular movie format? I've looked at serveral and they don't conver the audio... only the video. Thanks for any help on this. PS - This is a repost as the former suggestions did not con...more >>

Put this on the button: on(release) { if (defined(counter)) { _global.counter++; } else { _global.counter = 1; } } ...more >>

Hello Everyone, At work we recently switched from mac to pc. We had to convert the font from mac to pc with an app called crossfont from www.asy.com The problem is that Flash won't list correctly the converted fonts. For example, Helvetica would only show as 1 font instead of all of its ...more >>

:rose; I have never done this before. I need to know how to save a 5 min movie to my computer. I get that little box where I can adjust my settings but there is nothing to tell me where to go from there. How do I start it or get it to work? Thank you.:confused; ...more >>

Hello, relative newbie i'm afaid. I have a swf which forms the header for my website. I want to use this header in some HTML emails - but realise i can't use a SWF. Therefore I want to copy the SWF into a format I can use - i.e JPEG. Is this possible? thanks Dan. ...more >>

I've set up some code that will resize a div element containing a Flash movie when a user click a button in the Flash movie. The code works perfectly in Firefox, but not in IE. In Firefox, when you click the button, the height of the div increases, the text below the div flows downward, an...more >>

hello! ive ran into a problem.. My flash movie has a navigation menu at the top of the page. but being a show off i had to make it act all fancy. So its got alot of frames and to make it easy to re-possition ive built it inside a movieclip. Now when i try to link the 'Home button' with 'On...more >>

Hi All I hope somebody can help me with what I need to do for to put this website together. A detailed explaination would be great but I would settle for a brief detail on which methods to use and I can search out tutorials on the web at large. I want to create a flash website with a ...more >>

Nothing fantastic but want to display to the end user, not myself, the result of random numbers generated multiple times. Like if I wanted a program to select a number between 1 and 100 a user inputted number of times and display each number selected, that'd be great. I've got a simple itera...more >>

Hi would love Flash 8 Professional but since this for me is mainly a toy at present, I might not be able to spend that amount of money. So what do I miss if I choose basic instead when it comes to playing around making animations and similar stuff. T ...more >>

hi I am not completely new to flash, having had very minor dabbling with older versions. I bought a template flash movie but cant seem to figure out how to change the text on it, the movie is of a xmas present landing, then when clicked on a white rectangular box shoots out of the side w...more >>

Detecting and Embedding Flash in XHMTL, Flash, JavaScript and CSS working perfect together with valid W3C standard code! Learn more at http://www.its-hofmann.com/?hl=en&m=flash ...more >>

As i write this, Flash 8 Pro for OS X (10.3.9) is trying to open a Document Properties window. Earlier, i waited something like 10 minutes (!) for Flash to open a Symbol Properties window. What gives? I'm running on a dual CPU machine that is blazingly fast for everything else. Anyone else exp...more >>

I am looking for Flash Player 8 on the web site, but I could only find 7... and no, I am not trying to find Flash itself, I just want the player so I can watch the new swf made in Flash 8. Thanks for your help. ...more >>

:confused; I have a Flash project to complete by Tuesday morn. This is my issue... I have completed the first section of the movie. It contains a movie clip called 2001broadcast. There are 5 more sections of the movie that need to have the exact same motions that the movie clip called 2001...more >>

Right please check out the following links regarding this post... I need to get this done ASAP, so any help would be greatly appreciated!! http://www.ferdinando.co.uk/pleasehelp/ ANY help will be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, David ...more >>

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockw aveFlash http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.html doesnt work for me. ive turned every security setting off, every fire wall, opend the pc all the way. no download. annoyin...more >>

I got a really simple thing I want to do, but I can't figure it out how to. I have movie A loaded into movie B movie A have some buttons. and I would like to have them talking to movie B i.e, If I hit a button it will tell movie B to gotoAndstop in frame 3 how would I go around doing...more >>

I want to have a border that seems as if it is being drawn on as it loads can anyone guide me to information on how to do this i am a beginner...more >>

Hi, can't remember the script to insert flash sound on an event, designed a drag and drop to target activity and need to play a sound to indicate when the answer is correct. Regards. Malachy...more >>

Hi I have designed a drag and drop to target activity when the target has been achieved I want a sound to play what is the code for this? Thanks...more >>

with my flash 7.2 version on my mac OSX I keep getting an error message when trying to open certain templates. It is saying that I can not open my document with this version of flash because it contains screens. Can anyone help me figure out how to resolve this issue so I can use those templat...more >>

Hi all Im in the process of designing an ERP system for my company (in DOT NET, VB ..NET) .... i wanted to try designing all User Interfaces using FLASH/MACROMEDIA.... so that that the system runs on a "flash screen" rather than a BROWSER..... a. is this possible? b. are there any spe...more >>

i embedded my flash movie in my html page successfully BUT i want to have it in the middle of the stage and it is alwasy to the left ofthe page..... i tried align but it didnt work,,, i want my swf file in the middle ofthe page how can i do it???!!!! PLEASE HELP Thanks ...more >>

I cant figure out how Im supposed to get my flash document to show up on my site. What's the trick? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I found a way to load a flash files in C# this is by Macromedia Flash Object in Csharp where I send by fscommand (written in ActionScript) function in flash to that csharp object and every thing is alrigth, but when i was thinking that my project is finished i sent it to being test to ...more >>