I am looking for Macromedia badges. Small graphics to put on a site I am developing that say "Get Flash Player" etc. Most companies offer these graphics along with rules and guidelines for using them. Does anyone know if Macromedia has a similar resource page? ...more >>

There is no sound in the clips you are trying to view!! To quote from the site you have linked to: "These clips are short Flash animations without sound."...more >>

Trying to get different sized photos (.jpgs) to fade in and then fade out. So far they just fade out. Here's the actionscript (modified from Todd Dominey's free script). I'm no expert, so it may be something obvious I've got wrong. swapPlace("container_mc.loader2_mc",1); alpha...more >>

Hi - I'm having a bit of trouble with 'text'. First the text was created in Illustrator CS2, then converted the text into outlines. Using the cropping tool, the page size was determined to match the movie size. I then exported as a .swf. In flash, I imported the .swf onto the stage and use...more >>

And they appear to be deleting my posts regarding NO SOUND in Flash movies. Windows XP: sound works for everything EXCEPT Flash. 3 Desktops, 1 laptop - ALL have this problem. MM doesn't like it when I say "Flash sucks". ...more >>

And they appear to be deleting my posts regarding NO SOUND in Flash movies. Windows XP: sound works for everything EXCEPT Flash. 3 Desktops, 1 laptop - ALL have this problem. MM doesn't like it when I say "Flash sucks". ...more >>

Hello, I am making a map with points at specific cities, what I am trying to do is when you rollover each specific city it should display a little textbox at a specific location(i.e. to the lower left of the page) displaying my text. I thought I could do this using loadmovie(), but haven'...more >>

Flash mx 2004, help files are not found, when requesting them from within the application, I am on a powerbook G4. Besides, drop shadow and other javascript makes an error every time is applied, is there a way to fix all this mess??? ...more >>

How do I reduce the document dimensions, and hence the final .swf file size, in Flash MX? My 680x460 pixel Flash animation is coming out to about 1.2 Megs. I think I could reduce the file size, and load time, if just reduce the dimensions of the animation to about 480x228 px. Seems easy. B...more >>

Flash MX2004 Professional Ok I am a little confused here. I have a class that I have declared, and I am attaching it to a movie clip in my library called box by using the handy little AS 2.0 Class box in the Linkage Properties. When I attach a movie to the screen it works great. The on...more >>

I am running the latest version of Yahoo messenger but only a few of the audibles will work. Does this have to do with Flash and if so, any suggestions as to how to fix it?...more >>

Hi, I was trying to do a silly little effect on some text. It is for an online training course for my company. The segment of the course is about data encryption standards at our company. On the first page of this segment, there is a definition of encryption as it relates to our company...more >>

Hi, I have a flash movie of a rotating earth and another of flying text that says welcome when its done. How can I merge them together so instead of 2 flash movies I get one....more >>

Hi there. I'm a Graphic Designer currently creating my own portfolio website with Flash. I predict the final file size will be 5MB which is obviously far too big. However the majority of this size is taken up by the examples of my work which are in JPEG format at 150Kb each, there are around 2...more >>

I have a flash file that loads XML info from my domain. The XML call inside the flash file is such as: http://www.domain.com/myinf.xml If I call the page with the flash file using 'http://ww.domain.com/page.asp' it works fine. But if the url is just 'http://domain.com/page.asp', the...more >>

After surfing the ColdFusion forums all these years here I am in Flash... awesome! I'm just getting started with Flash and I'm building a simple 2 page form application in Flash 8 Pro and need some direction. I have one page setup to accept a number from a user (text input field and a butt...more >>

I hope this isn't too much of a dumba$$ question. I'm building a fairly simple site that contains a flash header and footer. I don't want to use the frames but the header and footer are to appear on every page. Is there some way to stop the Flah replaying every time a new page gets loaded. ...more >>

Hello I need some help. I made a flash movie and it loads another movie on a lyaer(1). On layer(0) I have a button. I need to know how I can make it so that when I click on the button it will go to another frame in the movie on layer(1) Thanks ...more >>

I'm opening a flash MX doc in flash 8 and don't have the fonts. The site suggests I reistall all fonts, how do I do this? I'm missing univers and zurich blk bt....more >>

I have Flash 8 installed, and am using FireFox 1.5 (Beta). When I go to a page that has flash, the place where it is supposed to show up is just blank... Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have any ideas? ...more >>

Hi guys, Something I can't solve myself. Probably it's very simpel, but I can't find it. Check the problem on: http://www.roadlash.nl/newsite/navigatie2.html http://www.roadlash.nl/newsite/navigatie3.html The only difference between the two is in navigatie3 I added 1 extra frame. ...more >>

Hello, It is possible, to do this presentation http://hpemea.richfx.com/catalog_hpemea/esesnov05/index.aspx easily with Flash? how is it made? Thanks,...more >>

Hi, all I've put together a slideshow using Macromedia's slideshow/xml tutorial... I've gotten it working, including a small modification to bold some of the text captions in the xml file. However, I'm finding that the images don't show up when you view this on the mac platform - which is ...more >>

First off I have Flash MX running on OSX 10.3.9. When I use enable simple buttons in Flash to preview my roll over sound buttons, they work fine. But when I publish the movie and view using the Flash Player (the most current version) the buttons roll over without sound. I have exported both .s...more >>

I have a simple flash movie that has four named frames, "1", "2", "3" and "4". Right now I have forward and back buttons that I want to recognize the next and previous named frame. For example if the movie is running between 1 and 2 I want the back button to know to go to 4 and the forward but...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create a simple flash menu which generates its buttons from a text file - it is for a client who wants a flash menu on an html site (e.g. animation and nice rollovers) but wants to be able to add buttons & links to it dynamically by modifying a text file. Can anyone gi...more >>

Hey everyone, I have a client that wants a "friend of the family" to update her website that I developed for her. I'm worried that the new "designer" will ruin my original design, which has a large amount of ActionScript, or add the site to their portfolio. This is my name on the site credits...more >>

Hey, smart folks! Quick question. How do you check to see if a string of words contains a certain word? The string of words could be in a variable called "response" And we want to check if response contains the word "hello" for example. How do you do this? Also, another quick question...more >>

Hi I've put together a flash presentation. I'm trying to use external flv's. I've placed a media component (media display) on the stage. In the components inspector i've selected: ? flv URL: myflv.flv ? auto play ? respect aspect ratio In the timeline there is a stop actio...more >>

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Button and yellow bar, frame=1:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances on (release) { Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 ...more >>

I have a question about the usuability of full flash websites, I'm new in the field and I'm developing a website for a Decorating store and I'm wondering if I should go flash 100% or not? What are the pros and cons? If you guys could give me your opinion on that I would really appreciate. ...more >>

I keep getting a white box before my Flash movie runs. Can anyone help me to figure out why?? Thanks, Les...more >>

I guess I do not understand components well enough as I have an isuue I cannot resolve It I use a textArea component (my_text_area) and code that says my_text_area.text= "fred", I can do a trace thus; trace(my_text_are.text) that returns "Fred" However, If I populate the textArea using...more >>

Hi, first time poster here. For an intern project I need to complete I'm desperately searching for a tutorial or open fla about an 8 mm creaky old-cinema effect like in http://www.peterwilster.com I've tried animating the effect even at 60 fps but it doesn't get even close to the crispnes...more >>

I have a program with flv files done in Flash MX 2004 Pro for Flash 7 player. My computer now has the Flash 8 player and the program no longer finds the flv files. Still works fine on a computer that still has Flash 7. This is a big problem. Is there a fix for this? thanks much, -jim ...more >>

I'm making a map in Flash, but given the limited space to work in, I was hoping for a zoom in/zoom out button for the user. Where do I even begin to look for how to do something like this?...more >>

I have upgraded to Flash 8 and still use Flash MX2004 as well. I notice that in the publish settings area in Flash 8 that the settings button for detecting the version of Flash one uses is now gone. In the previous version of Flash you could also set it so it would generate an HTML page if f...more >>

In mozilla, when scrolling down the page, flash appears to lose the cursor position as soon as the embed is 1px off the top of the browser viewport. What i'm doing: -1300 px high swf embed (3-levelnavigation that imports cf-generated xml at runtime) -css on containing div: overflow:hidde...more >>

Hi all, The effect I am trying to achieve is to have a background image and some numbers that when you mouse over each number a text box appears with a discription. Only I have pretty much no idea where to start. Does anyone know of any tutorials that might help me learn this? regard...more >>

I have a movie made in Flash 8 with with 42 pngs 680x510 pixels big about (250k). When I export it to swf it takes 3 hours to complete. I have a 1.8ghz iMac with lots of ram. So its not the computer. What else would cause it to export so slowly? ...more >>

Hey! Since i discovered Flash for myself i noticed very bad thing. It has been bothering me for about a couple of years. When i create some shape no matter what it has it's filling and outline(stroke), ok. Now if i delete filling then i'll be able to fill it again with Paint Basket tool. B...more >>

I am currently using Flash 8 Professional which I have just installed. When I goto Publish the flash file using HTML it doesn't appear in Internet Explorer as it did with Flash MX. Is there a setting I need to change on my system, please? Many thanks. ...more >>

Can someone from Macromedia explain the comapny's policy of not supporting Right-To-Left Text rendering? I have been considering Flex and Flash as a development platform for a major application, but had to rule it out due to the lack of bi-directional support in Flash. Instead we have to use J...more >>

Well i have win XP at home and win2k (SP4) at work. I dont have access to the internet at work. i dont remember my IE version but i know its the default IE that comes with win2k. I want the executable installable. Can anyone help me with this. ...more >>

Hello -- I searched the forums and knowledgebase, and could not find an answer to this problem. Sorry if this has been discussed before. I'm sort-of new to working with long audio streams, so please be patient with me. I exported the SWF with audio compression set to varying quality leve...more >>

i.m attempting to give my animated button an alpha motion trail via actionscript...more >>

Hi there! I've just finished a software in flash and I wonder if there is a way of adding some sort of key to protect it from unauthorized copies. Do you have any ideas?? TonyJ...more >>

It's me again :-) How can i import video into FLash and transparent some areas of it, e.g. like it Adobe Premier does. I know i can import a huge number of PNG frames with trnasparency into Flash document to create a frame-by-frame video but it extremely increases SWF's size. Any ideas? ...more >>

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I want to install flash player on a win2k(SP4) OS with IE5.0. I just cant seem to find a link to the download....more >>

Okay week 2 battling it out on this contact form. Here is my situation. Running everything on a Mac G5 hobby server with unlimited client. When someone hits submit, the email gets received however none of the fields get inputted. Here is my PHP form: <?php $to = "info@mydomain.com"...more >>

I did a .fla which has an #include "filename.as" statement...so far so good.but because I had some problems with the .as file(the file was just 2 functions, without "interface" or "class" and it errored), I removed the #include statement...the problem is I still get the error, and if I modi...more >>

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Dear Flash experts! Right now I am having difficulties putting Flash movie onto a web page. How do I upload files? Do I upload .swf file first or HTML file only. Do I need to upload all Images and Audio files seperately one by one. I have never done it before so it is absolutely new for me. Do...more >>