Hi, I work in the web team for a multi-national company. It appears our SOE environment (XP SP1) has problems with Flash Shared Objects with browsers using Flash Player plugin 8 (tested thus far with IE6 & Firefox 1.0x) On accessing the Global Settings Storage Panel (found at http://w...more >>

I actually never knew how Flash player updates. Would users with previous Flash Player see conent and features of Flash 8? Or it would automatically update?...more >>

Is flash hard to learn if not what is a good place to start or something? - MountainUU - http://www.sharewareisland.com/mortgagecalculator.aspx...more >>

Why might I be getting inconsistant reports on a demo I uploaded to my web site? I have three users all with XP. I can see all sites and sounds of the demo, 1 of the other two see everything but no sound, and the third, no sound and only about half of the graphic content... Why on earth mi...more >>

Is Flash 8 content text searchable by the search engines?...more >>

I have a dynamic text that uses a specific truetype font. If I do NOT incorporate fonts, when I load an HTML code in that field I can perfectly see the whole text. Only on my machine, of course, or in any other machine with the same font installed. However, if I select Basic Latin and Latin I to...more >>

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Hi all, I have a movie which is run at fullscreen and I have exported is at an .exe. At the end of the movie, i have button which opens an HTML file and the user would then view a website. What is the actionscript to completely close the swf once the user has clicked the button? I ba...more >>

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I'm having trouble portions of my workspace showing in my final published swf file. In this particular file, I have text going in a spiral pattern, and the text tends to be visible where it shouldn't...I have other elements on the screen that are right at the edge of the stage, so I know that...more >>

Can someone please tell me why, when I try to embed a basic arial font to my dynamic textfield, the dynamic text does not show? Here's a link: http://www.copelandcasati.com/test/jackpot.htm ...more >>

Am I the only one with components problems??? It seems that all of the styles don't work for the components. If they list styles of the components in the help then they should work. I'm trying to just make a check box disabled because through code I'm selecting it or not selecting it. I don't ...more >>

Need to find the way to send an image loaded to the server (sent using the loadfile example in flash 8 samples) to a different swf not the same where the button and script are. ...more >>

Any idea why a font (Impact) shows up differently on my home computer than it does at the office? It is the same exact font(downloaded it from the office) yet it appears smaller at home. So my font is no longer centered or the right size. So when I work at home I have to redo the fonts and then ...more >>

Hi, I am building a website in Flash and want to insert 'Buy Now' buttons linking through to PayPal. I went on the PayPal site where it generates HTML code for each product that you want to link to. It says I have to insert the HTML code into my page, but I don't know how to do this. Can an...more >>

When I tried to save, Flash 8 says: "An unexpected network error occurred." I was unable to save my work locally or over the network. Restarting Flash solved the error but I lost ten minutes of work! The network was down for a small while earlier, but that should not result in being unable...more >>

Hi ALL! Can anyone help me? So, what I want to do? I' d like to made a very simple effect: rotate a dynamic text field, or change its alpha in runtime. But how can I complete it? I tried it, but didn't happen anything. After then I tried some other effects with dynamic text field, but ...more >>

In our company we have an software that can save applications (MS Word, IE, Mozilla etc). The saved data are stored as images and xml that describes their attributes (tooltip, location etc). Now we use our import tool called LNG that can import this images and xml into Macromedia Director....more >>

Is it possibe to install Flash 8 into a computer that already has MX2004 installed? Can anything go wrong with either by doing so? Thanks in advance Pic...more >>

Is there a way to open a inner frame to load REAL HTML code (not the limited version supported by Flash MX) inside a movie clip? -- Dario de Judicibus - Rome, Italy (EU) Site: http://www.dejudicibus.it Blog: http://lindipendente.splinder.com ...more >>

I am looking foor a simple way to rotate a solid figure. I have the coordinates of corners and I do NOT need any perspective effect, but faceshave to be colored, that is, no wireframe. I ALREADY tried SEVERAL algoritms which also include perspective, but they have always some problem for compl...more >>

Can anyone help me with this anoying bug? It has been a known issue since the release of Flash 8, and it hasn't been fixed yet, so I assume it is a 'feature'. But a very annoying one if you are trying to build a game where 2 keys can be held down at the same time, and you want to track the onK...more >>

I have a main swf, and have a two loaders loading two different .swf's. In both the external swf's, I have a button, that when you press it a small rectangular box swings out. On one of the two boxes I have it swing out to the side. However, the other external .swf is over there, so the box...more >>

I created a movie in Flash that looks lovely when I "test movie" and check it out. However, when I export it and try to play it on its own or insert it into a page using Dreamweaver, the darn thing won't work. I kind of feel like the thing isn't autostarting on its own. How would I go about...more >>

Chris: in one of your reply, u worte: ---------------- "my personal issue was creating a keyframe, and having to apply a motion tween via the drop down menu in Properties Panel to avoid the Sync issue (long story) then hitting "F6" and no keyframe would be added because the timeline was no l...more >>

:confused; I had video playback 6 months ago on the web using the Flash MX 2004 Professional Media Playback component - and now it wont work for the life of me. I cannot get any video file to work now.. Could this be because of the newer version of Flash Player (8)? Anyone have any idea? ...more >>

When drawing shape in flash 8, it automatically group it so the next drawing on top of it won't bleed into each other. Found it very annoying. Is there a way to turn it off ? It has been working well for almost a decade, now MM had to change it. No kidding, with every release for every new fea...more >>

Each time I convert a video from whatever format to FLV the video gets created but when I go to play the video it always plays for about 2 seconds and stops. The play button won't start the movie again, the only way for the movie to continue is to drag the progress arrow a few stops, then the ...more >>

i am trying to open a file in flash mx and i geting a msg failed to open document if there is any one can help pls ill be glad 10x ...more >>

I'm trying to link a button to another scene within the movie in MX 2004 and can't seem to figure it out. It used to be simple in past versions but now I'm stumped. Please Help!!!!!!...more >>

Hi, I've made a small movie in Flash MX (the version is about three years old) but when I export the file I can only export it to Flash Player 6. And the person who wants to use it only has the newest version of the player. I know you can download older versions - but it would be nice if I...more >>

How can I make my flash movie have controls, just play, pause, and stop. Also I need to have a progress bar that you can skip to different parts of the movie. How would I do this? Thanks....more >>

Hi we create flash banner. The current state is that we have to develop for flash7 players. However my pc crashed and now i can not download a flash 7 player just a flash8 player. Does someone knows where to find a flash7 player? Thanks! ...more >>

Hello, I have made a Dartgame with Flash MX, the dartboard consisting of multiple buttons that increase/decrease the score when being pushed. All the buttons have names like Single 10, Double 17, Triple 5, and so on. I would also like to include a dynamic textfield that says someth...more >>

I am using the generic Macromedia FLV player. Has anyone found a work around to not being able to replay a video once it plays thru the end? The main problem is that if a user plays the streamed video to the end of the file, the player goes back to the beginning but won't allow the user to r...more >>

I'm fairly new to Flash, and although the scripting is easy enough for someone like myself with a coding background, I really, really have to fight with the &*$@#! interface. I've spent the last hour trying to do something really simple: create a filled rectangle with a 30% tint on which I can put s...more >>

I've set up an swf that when you click a button with this code: on (release) { questions.loadMovie("accordion.swf"); } it loads the accordion.swf into the correct place. When I view it using the original swf it works fine but when I put the original swf into an html page noth...more >>

I have made a pretty basic movie for my teacher, but I do not know how to end it. It has 9 scenes, and after the 9th scene it just goes back to the first and keeps going. The music keeps playing, too. If somebody could please explain to me how to end the movie it would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

is it possible to link an excel file with xml to flash... wondeirng... ive got a list that would be perfect if i put it in excel... and i could update it extremely easy... i have a football website ive done and one of the page's is the roster with all the player's...is it possible to create so...more >>

I have a simple form asking for email and zip that sends the results to a database. I'm in beta now and have had more than a few people tell me that they are unable to enter text into the box. I have no problem with it and tried it on Mac: Safari, IE, Netscape, Firefox, Opera PC: IE, Netscape...more >>

Hi, I have been told that the Flash player (during run-time) does not use the video card to render/process the animation/information, but instead uses the CPU!? Is this correct? I throught that it uses the video card, so the better that it is the better and clearer the animations!? ...more >>

I would like to add a stop and a go button to my slide show. I already have two buttons for incrementally moving through the slides one at a time forward or backwards. I now need to allow the user to stop the slide show at will. the slide show cycles using a function called by setInterval. ...more >>