Happy New Years everyone -- David Brewer ...more >>

Neodevilbane hey the subject of the movie is about one of my countries century's ago leader. How come u write about him?...more >>

I'll get it out now, I'm a total newbie with flash..and of course, I'm attempting to perform a difficult task as a first project. A friend of mine has a site, http://www.spytech-web.com, that includes a flash based logo. If you look at the logo, he has a spherical globe in place that has a h...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Flash and I'm having some hard trouble rotating an object, so I would like to pose a few questions. Question 1: What I want to do is to rotate an arbitrary angle without ActionScript, so the CW and CCW Rotate are not an option. This leaves me with the "Auto" option...more >>

Hi I'm pretty new to Flash and I am looking to build a banner that fades in / out 10 - 12 different quotes over time. What would be the best way of approaching this without building a huge timeline? I can imagine making 10 -12 MC's containing the quotes (and transitional animation) but I'm ...more >>

Hello! I have a problem and i hope that someone can help me. Here is my problem: I am creating a kind of educational software and i use cult 3D in it. In a lesson for example i have a 2D representation in flash in witch the user can move a line. In a other part of the screen i have a 3D repres...more >>

I downloaded this preloader that Rick was generous to post: www.doubleclicdesign.com/dev/preloader/preloaderTemplate.fla I added it as a new scene and moved that scene in front of my existing scene. It works but it re-runs when my clip loops. What do I need to change to prevent this ? ...more >>

I'm sure I'll figure it out from here, thank you!...more >>

Gotcha, thank you. That brings up a little popup with all the transitions and images I've inserted into my movie... but I'm still not clear on the following parts you wrote above : "So you have your movie in the library. Drag it to the stage." I don't see it anywhere to drag... let al...more >>

I'm a total newbie at Flash - I'm learning it as I go along. The question I have is probably an advanced one, but I'll shoot for the stars. Okay, I want to create a window that has a transparent background. In other words, I get to decide the shape of the window. It's kind of like Winamp ...more >>

Super dumb question... how do I access the library panel? Following you fine on the rest....more >>

Newbie here... to Flash, at least. I'm trying to create a webpage layout in Illustrator and will hand this file to someone better at Flash. However, I'm trying to make sure my drawings import correctly (as they are not familiar with Illustrator). Problem is, the import/export of my drawings...more >>

Hi, firstly, make a button. give it an instance name of butt_btn make your movie. give it an instance name of movie_mc Add an actions layer and put this code in butt_btn.onRelease = function() { _root.movie_mc.gotoAndPlay(1); } To stop it looping you need to decide if you wan...more >>

Hi I'm trying to do an animation in Flash 5 to demonstrate the effects of adding the primary colours using the circular "beams" of red, blue and green "spotlights" to create the secondary colours where the circles overlap. To start with, I'd like to move two colored circles (eg. red & bl...more >>

Hello all, I am hoping for some help with creating a 3D model from CAD and then create an interactive demo in Flash. Does anyone have any experience with this? What is the standard method for creating a 3D model in flash from a CAD drawing? I could always build the product from scratch in a 3D p...more >>

Concerned about creating a flash corporate site. Does xml text imported into flash help searchabilty in search engines like google? How about regular external text? Are either a better choice to attract the spiders? ...more >>

Hi all, happy new year. I am somewhat of a newbie...I am working in a single framed movie and I have a dynamic text field that contains a number, which changes over time. I want to run a small set of actions (A) when this field contains either "6" or "8" - otherwise do some other actions....more >>

Okay I got a short video on my timeline of a person being interviewed (inserted in timeline) I see it is like 800 frames long. I want to try and make a "animated portrait" of the person. That is, take a few frames where they are beginning to smile and animate this elsewhere in a header ...more >>

Yeah the preloader loads, then it waits like 2-3 seconds before going into the main movie. Never used to do this? Also, other animations suchs as movie clips within movie clips also lag for like 3 seconds before going into their animations. Any ideas? Thank You, M4R ...more >>

Happy new year to you all I was wondering how the effects on these two websites are achieved. Have they used pre built effects in flash or have they used some other programs as well. I will like to achieve this for my website, but none of my books reference this. The websites are www....more >>

Hi Can anyone help. I am trying to export a flash movie to a png sequence however I am unable to do it successfully. The exported sequence only shows the items on the main time line. ie. I have a movie clip that is on the main time line and after 60 frames this movie clip tweens from the l...more >>

As a learning project I am basically seeking to replicate the banner-look you see at the Macromedia homepage. Easy enough? Sort of. I have tried several different methods, but my look is sloppy. First tried creating the rounded rectangle with the tiny drop shadow (easy), with a mask that woul...more >>

Very strange my dear brothers! And FRUSTRATING!! Here's the whole of it: In this website I am designing - the movie loads up and after the preloader finishes, the interface movie plays with the background graphics and nav menu and all that stuff. Here's the issue: The only things showi...more >>

Anyone who know how I het rid of this looping? I have made a banner random function. But the swf files are showing in looping mode. And I don't wanna the banners to run on loop. I want the banner to stop after loading. Here's the rotation script: choice = Math.round(Math.random()*1); ...more >>

:confused; I simply can't get a basic circle to change colour using motion tween. I used to be able to do it in Flash 5 but now Frames 1 to 9 stay blue and only change to red when it reaches Frame 10. I actually want to alpha tween text but have gone right to the very basics in my frustr...more >>

Hey folks, I would like to create a survey using Flash MX, I have searched FlashKit but couldn't find any movies or tutorials about it, I am almost positive that I am not hte only one that want's one LOL, but I just can't seem to find any info. URL's appretiated. ...more >>

so i started making this project all the program is supposed to do is move an image across the screen. in this case its a 3d ferret that i am trying to move. i made the image a movie clip so it had the gear symbol (incase you read any of my last posts) and now the image says "actions for [no i...more >>

Hi, I want to create Flash Presentation for 10 mins. for 42 inch WXGA LCD Projector. Raster images will be used but little bit vector graphics will be there also. My questions are: 1. What stage size should I choose so that presentation should not look pixelate and ugly on the LCD? ...more >>

I have just bought Flash 8 and when I have made a flv player, it shows in the flash player when I do test movie, but when I try it in the html view the flv player doesn't show. Why? and what do I do wrong? Thank you in advance. ...more >>

Hello, I made my dimension on my stage 320.0px by 240.0px. When I go to export it to .swf it is bigger then the height and width that I wanted. How can I fix this? Here is the url to few the .flv, .fla, .swf: http://abkdesign.com/video/1/ Thanks ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm an amateur flash user ... just trying to learn enough for a pretty basic website. I've tried importing a .mov file into Flash and the audio does not come along with it. What's up? I hate to beg ... but someone please offer me any support you can. I've been battlin...more >>

omg flash = confusing. i dont know why flash wasnt made so that you could type the code in but since its not that way i cant seem to find _root in the pull down menu. when i did find _root it said expression behind it and i need it to be an object. i need the code to look like this _root.e...more >>

Okay, I have this website I'm working on and it's still under construction. I'm testing for flash version 6 with the built in page generated by Flash. I created it in Flash 8. When I look at the site it works fine. I look at it on my computer at home, work and second job. It all works great. ...more >>

I'm obviously a minority on this subject since there are no discussions about this it seems. I just feel that if a tool is important enough to include in software, that it should also have settable preferences. The layer colors are there for a reason...they provide an identifying visual fo...more >>

Hello there! I have a exe (made in flash) with "web links", but when i run the cd, that is Full Screen, the called sites from the links emerge under the presentation, and are just view when you minimize or close the presentation. Is it possible, for the links, to appear OVER the presenta...more >>

Hello, I have a question about what is the difference between the macromedia Flash 8 and the MX 2004? Are they both the same, is one better then the other, do I need both? Sorry for such a dumb question...I tried going to the product site of macromedia to check if there is any differ...more >>

i was looking at sample projects. the guy who made the project had a uhhh thingy in the action menu. its a pull down menu and says assets and then another layer that reads actions and then there is one in the pull down menu that i couldnt identify. it had a gear on top of a rectangle. so w...more >>

Greetings everyone. I started my website with a very large animated gif file on the first page. I started my trek on the Dreamweaver 8 forum. I was guided there to a great degree. I was told to move my problem to the Fireworks forum. So I did. Along the way I received three criticisms...more >>

when i enter a site that uses flash on it it always says that flash is not installed on my computer even though i installed it a million times, each time that any site refers me to macromedia flash site to install flash, what do i do? ...more >>

Hi, How to read html data and how to write html file? pls help me? or give urls. bye M.Mathivanan ...more >>

I have few questions that I hope someone can help me. - Are there industry-standard contracts for contracting Flash projects? - Is it standard/OK to get the final product along with the files (Flash files, Photoshop files, etc)? Will that affect the pricing? - Is it standard/OK to ask f...more >>

Hi all, I have just bought Studio 8 and have republished my main index page using the player 8 settings with the flash player detection. Now for some reason it has messed my CSS settings right up (originally formatted by calling from an external css file i created) and now the formatting is go...more >>

I have two buttons (bt_prev and bt_next) and a movie clip (mc_states) consisting of 50 frames, one for each state. Using the two buttons, I can successfully advance through the frames of the movie clip. However, I want the user to be able to hold down the buttons and continously progress throu...more >>

Superb! The Right click > Break apart; Right Click > Break Apart trick was the solution. I now recall reading something about this. But now I know. Many thanks! r...more >>

Actionscript 3.0 & Flashplayer 8.5 Alpha http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3 I have no patience for this:clock;...more >>

How come my flv movie works in FireFox and not IE? This is the page: http://www.stjohnwtn.org/video.cfm Here are my config variables: <!--- set Domument paths ---> <CFSET pdfpath = "D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\stjohnwtn.org\docs\pdfs\"> <CFSET mp3path = "D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\stjohnwtn.org\docs\mp3\...more >>

I created a simple banner with some tween text inside graphics (Flash 8 Prof). When I send my banner to the server and view the movie from the computer where the movie was made, it looks and works fine. But, when I go downstairs, or view from my laptop, or send the link to friends, the entire ...more >>

I guess I forgot to tell you chaps... there is a time limit on this game... the price will not be revealed until the answer is given in 5 min. or less. All joke answers will not be credited. NEXT QUESTION: What action script do you use to get url to open in a new window? Good luc...more >>

I'm getting very frustrated...I don't want to have to do this whole movie over again... Here's what's happening: I have a 26 scene movie. (It's a sales presentation.) It plays fine, stops on the stop(); command, etc. up until Scene 13 and every scene after that. When it gets to the en...more >>

I have a html website with 7 different pages, with a flash menu/header. This menu has 7 different links (one to each of the pages). I want to have a different image on the menu for each different page that loads up, however i dont want to have to make 7 different versions of the flash movi...more >>