I have a flash movie with some illustrator maps in it. When I try to publish it, I get the following message, over and over: Symbol=2-gabon properties.eps (or whatever symbol it is), layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Enhanced stroke is not supported in this player What exactly is an enhanced strok...more >>

Hey people, I am creating this interactive pixel community..... anyway, I have 2 files, one has a welcome screen then a scrollpane with the contents of map.swf. map.swf has a whole map. when you click on a building in the map, it opens a new scene and frame with information about the...more >>

i have a database called test, with two columns, number and name. I try to read the data from the database and bring it to Flash here's my php code: -- load.php <? mysql_connect(....); mysql_select_db(...); $qr=mysql_query("SELECT from table1 where number=1"); //i have a record with ...more >>

Is there a way to have users login and have a gallery in Flash populated with images associated with the user? But that would not be using a database at all...... Like.. Let's say I create a folder in my images folder called user1. User1 would then login using his username "user1" and then all ...more >>

hey, am looking to create a contact form and want the user to send me their name, email, phone number and comments, don't want any validation, is there any simple way of doing this, i have seen different ways of doing it, but it never quite works out, appreciate any help. ...more >>

Hi, MY flash movie wont work when movie is embedded in webpage, yet if I open the swf itself it works fine? Does anybody know why this happens? Thanks in advance...more >>

I have a database that contains the latitude and longitude of office locations. What I want to do is create an interactive map of California that displays the office locations in their correct relative locations on the map. I also want to be able to display the users location (again, the lat...more >>

I'm using the loader component to scale a swf gallery when loaded into the main site and when I press control enter to test it works great the gallery is scaled down to the size set in the component 498x395 scale content = true, but when the swf of the main movie is published or viewed in the ...more >>

I have created a Flash application consisting of a Flash .EXE file plus sume sub-directories containing .SWF and .TXT files. Could anyone point me in the direction of an Installer programme that would allow me to supply the application to clients on a CD or download and allow it to be instal...more >>

I have various deadlines that i am to meet and was wondering how i could create a countdown clock that i can then open up on my desktop as a swf and it will tell me precisely how long i have left by using the systems calender. Thanks :) ...more >>

hey, i have trubble seeing some colours, well back on white, but in flash, is there away to change the colour? if so can someone tell me how do do this. its on a software aplication made in flash, but im told you can change the colour, but i dont know how Thanks Gareth Ogier ...more >>

Hi I'm learning to write preloaders. I've tried various tutorials etc.: I create a couple of key frames for the preloader which are supposed to loop until ready, then move on to keyframe 3 where there is a large movie clip.My problem is that Flash downloads the large movie clip first, then star...more >>

I have created a projector movie for use on a windows machine, now instead of the Flash 'F' icon, I want it to be an icon of my choice. How can I create the icon and embedd it into the file? Or else how can I create the icon and use it at all!? Thanks in advance! ...more >>

I'm making a CD animation that also includes a big video. How can I get the video to load into memory only when the animation is first loaded? Its a 200MB video, so sometimes it causes memory problems / crashes. :brokenheart; Please Help!!! ...more >>

:confused; I'm using the printObject to print multiple pages from a dynamic text field. Does anyone know a way of accurately positioning the page breaks so that they don't split lines of text in half? (i.e. the top half of the text appears on one page, the bottom half of the text appears o...more >>

www.talentinternational.com.au The site is css driven and has some pretty complex css positioning going on. I know there are issues with the css in safari, but for now my main concern is that the screen "flashes" when playing the flash movie - anybody know whether this is a processor issue...more >>

hi,i want convert .swf flash files into .vcd .mpeg i use many converters and softwares and i am tried.How i can convert swf files into vcd i am waiting for help.thanks ...more >>

I'm making a game where when u click a button as many times as you can in 30 seconds and i want it to show the number of times you clicked the button in another screen. so if you could tell me a script that i could use for this i would be very happy:D ...more >>

I am making text images in fireworks (8) with blurs, and importing this into flash (8). It was working, I select rasterize if necessary to maintain appearance, and flash would import the burred text I made as a bitmap. Suddenly, it stopped. I haven't changed anything. This is to be a flash 7 ...more >>

Can you not download Flash MX 2004 anymore? I have searched everywhere for it on Macromedia web-site and I can't find it...more >>

Hi, I understand that you can create problems with your preloader in flash when you check the export in first frame box when you link your movieclips. I have this problem I think! my preloader doesnt kick in untill a certain amount of kb's have been loaded. But I went back to ...more >>

Am I missing something? I am using loadmovie to load different swf files into a holder_mc. Everything works fine in Test Movie but as soon as I insert it into DW and try to preview the swf it doesn't work. I have the swf files in the same folder as the main swf (media folder) I think I am ...more >>

I am trying to build something in flash which uses drop down boxes to find documents on the company intranet. I have used XML to populate two comboboxes ... the first displays a list of categories. When a category is selected the documents within that category appear in the second combobo...more >>

Hi All How to goto 2 frame when i load movie clip in 1st frame(Movie clip have animation of 50 frame) which code i write in 50 frame (Movie clip) so i can go to in 2 frame Thank you, Praful Damania ...more >>

Hi All, I have a friends "old" computer at home trying to sort a problem that it is having. OS is Windows98 & when installing macromedia flash 8 the following error is displayed: "EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module MSVCRT.DLL at 015f:780154a7" I have tried a clean un...more >>

Why would a flash movie in firefox be unable to loadMovie the last or only file in a folder? Cuz that's what's happening to me. It works fine in IE. If the file is "the last" one (last modified file by the looks of it, because changing the filename to aaa.jpg didn't help) it just doesn't load....more >>

hi all! i have some text that i made/modified from photoshop cs2 and am importing it into flash (via quicktime). what i want to do is isolate each letter of that text and make it into a flash movie. i'm having trouble doing a modify/breakapart command like i would with text that i created ...more >>

Hi there! I'm working on my own presentation in Flash. It's quite simple, just about 70 hi-res jpgs, and about 65 scenes (simple fading in fading out effect, no scripts)... The problem is tahat animatnions stops suddenly near end, and i don't know why. As far as i know it's not cos big siz...more >>

Hi, I have a SWF file along with a menu generated with Menu Machine in a GoLive CS generated website. The menu is covered by the SWF file. The website is http://www.signsofgold.com. I generally use Firefox as my browser. Joe ...more >>

I have a blank document with such a size that I want to use it to display PDF information what I'd like to do is be able to change the URL and Name of the PDF via code I am using .ASP. Is there any way to do such things instead of doing many .SWF file for each PDFs. <embed macromedia flash e...more >>

Does anyone know how to make a movie clip to show smoothly? I had 6 fps and 240f, 8 pix total. I thought it would go very smoothly, but it didn't. Why was that? I tried to change to 12fps, but same problem occurred. Also, it moves so fast, especially the first picture. I can't get it to go slo...more >>

Hi, I am attempting to use the getURL in a Flash file. After all the layers play, the next layer has a stop command. I then have a final layer that includes the following code: getURL(http://www.signsofgold.com/web-content/Pages/Home_Page/Home_Page.html _blank); When I test the movi...more >>

Hi, The SWF file in the Signs of Gold website, http://www.signsofgold.com/, use to autostart. Somehow I made a change to the SWF file that caused it to stop autostarting. Not sure what I did. Can anyone help? Thanks. Joe ...more >>

I am trying to create an editable page in a flash website accessible to only one other person who does not have flash. I thought that I could try and create a page in flash which could grab html text from another page.. But, I cannot figure this out.. Any ideas? an ...more >>

I am using Flash MX and understand that you can somehow add in video to a site? I have a small window on a webpage, i want to act as the video section - does anyone know how to do it or point me in the general direction? Do i need my file as an mpeg or wmv file? And how do i keep tyhe size of...more >>

Hi Newbie trying to learn e-learning using the quiz template in MX professional. I have got to the part where I need to modify the interactions, it says to sleect the interaction on the timeline and use the component inspector development panel to adjust but the parameters for that tab is b...more >>

I had a look on the wonderful website of vodafone future vision, i really like how they change from view every-time, so i was wondering how they where doing that. Until now nobody could tell me how. Take a look at the website sow you understand what i mean. http://www.vodafone.com/section_...more >>

Is it just me, or is this error showing up a lot? http://geocities.com/saif7463/error.html When it occurs, the posted message will appear to be there but on newsgroup readers it isn't there, neither on groups.google... I don't know, but if it does keep happening I might start using outlo...more >>

Hi, I have a simple question : When I work in author environment the left vertical scrollbar only lets me scroll between -700 and 700px( the vertical rules go from -700 to 700px). Here I am working with an object I placed on the stage and whose size is more then 2000px, so I don't see th...more >>

Hi , I am attempting to add sound to a flash movie. I have tried using the mic directly connected to my ipod then into the mic slot , but the sound quality as attrocious. I am yet to try using a standard non direct mic line placed in front of my speakers through to the sound recorder. ...more >>

I'm getting a border around my movie that lives in an asp page. I'm using the following code to display the movie. Any help? <div id="header"> <object data="images/PicShow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%" height="146" align="middle" VIEWASTEXT> <param name="mov...more >>

Hello; Macromedia Flash MX seems unable to import Mpeg-4 video files. How can I use this kind of files in Flash? is there a plug-in somewhere? Is Flash 8 able to do this? Can you give me some advice? Thank you. ...more >>