Hi, First off let me say that I am completely new in the whole Flash world! What I'm trying to do sounded easy until I started. I have a picture of a blow dryer and "rays" coming out. What I wanted to do is animate it, I wanted to put something over the rays, like a glow or something th...more >>

I'm very new to Flash and am having a problem. I've created a flash movie that shows a picture and test that looks like it's writing itself out until it's done. Once it's done, I put in a stop action so that it shows the picture as well as all of the text and just stops there. What happens ...more >>

I am trying to validate this site I'm working on, yet when I go to validate the page, I find that all my invalidations are related to my Flash movie. Can anyone suggest what I can do to make these items validate? Thanks http://www.4healthykids.info/defaultnew-test.asp Justin J. ...more >>

I was given an FLA to convert from tweening to AS. The problem is that the original FLA was created using Flash MX (AS1) and the one I converted was saved in Flash 8 (AS2). Now whenever the client goes to the page the old Flash used to be he gets a message to install the plugin.....I told them t...more >>

I am using Illustrator CS and Flash 8,when i try to open an illustrator file in flash it tells me to save it as an illustrator 8 file and i have no idea what that would be. I tried saving the file in all formats that where possible. thanks for any help ...more >>

Any tips or things to look out for when creating projectors that I will send out as email attachments for christmas ecards? I will send stuffit files that will contain both a windows projector and a mac one. Thanks much...more >>

Hi all, I am just not getting how to use nested MCs and/or buttons to control the main movie timeline. I want a nested button when released to send the viewer back to a maintimeline frame labeled "Sing" so that my little character begins his song again. Here is what i tried: on (rel...more >>

Hello, I'm working on the "project from Hell" and I keeping hitting roadblock after roadblock. So I am looking for a "fix" with issues to several end user "experiences" that my boss does not like. I will avoid going in the the painful details and get to my questions. Q1. Is there a RE...more >>

Hello, I want to create a button that when you rollover it, it creates like an animation to it, then when you roll out of it then it does a smooth transition out of the animation. Like this website here: http://www.fumari.com/thescene/ The links that I am talking about are the scene, the hype...more >>

Hello, I want to be able to use the preloader that is on the component. I was wondering where can I find that tutorial for it? I search everywhere and I am getting stuff that you make your own preloader. Thanks ...more >>

I am using Flash Professional. I have created an emty movie clip and a button. On the button I have used the LoadExternalMovie command to load a swf file that contains a media playback controller which streams an flv video clip into the emty movie clip. The sound plays but the image does not...more >>

Hi everyone, I have this problem (actually my flash app) I have created a swf with a FLV playback component to play several movies. Everything works fine. The only problem is, when i load movies with different dimentions like more landscape like, the next time i want to play a square mo...more >>

Only a desperate Mom would post this question. But here's the deal. My son took a Flash class at college and one of his projects is posted on a temporary URL that will be erased by the college soon. Well, it may be a little crude, but I'm really proud of his design. Is there some way ...more >>

I have taken on a new client to make updates to their web site. One thing they want changed is a Flash news ticker kind of thing. They just want to change an image used in it. I'm having trouble making them understand that I can't change this without the original file that ends in FLA, which t...more >>

is there a site where it will show me how to edit a flash template site ? ...more >>

http://vanpreston.com/pics/JimStratSS/index.htm looks a lot like a gallery-building program I found, except that it does not make the thumbnails enlarge on mouseover. Presuming that this was not built from scratch, can someone please tell me if they know what software was used to create this? ...more >>

Ok, I just lost a substantial amount of work because I was stupid and I forgot to save my work. =P However, I previewed it several times as a .swf file before Flash crashed, so thankfully I have the .swf copy of the file still. Unfortunately, the .fla copy of the file reverted to the last...more >>

I have an .swf that requires a supporting.xml file a text file (.txt) file and a few .jpg files. At runtime, the .swf displays text from the .txt file, and rotates the images per settings in the .xml file. That's all fine and it works as intended. What I'm confused about is that the locatio...more >>

Hi again. I asked for some help here on how to create a buttom http://www9.informe.org/portal-2003/images/video/video_button_stop_down.jpg , here is an example. I tried but can't seem to be able to get it to work. Anyone knows best way of doing it ? Thanks again ...more >>

I'm relatively new to Flash and I'm about to start my first site using it. I can do the basics like fade a picture, move things around the screen, move from scene to scene and make a cool button. I'm considering building my entire site in Flash, primarily so I can have smooth transitions betwe...more >>

Does anyone know how to make Alt text show in Flash for search engines. Is there something else that will work better than Alt Text for the search engines to pick up. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

ei guys, need ur help badly. i exported the flash page ive just made using Export Movie file extension .swf but after i opened it, i can only see the background. i cant see the picture, text and buttons. i made all the text and buttons in flash (i didnt import them). pls help me. tnx! ...more >>

I know of course that you can change the color of the stage background in Flash but here is my question: I have a page that has a red background but before it's loaded completely or as it loads it is white. I thought I read somewhere that you could change the color so it is consistant up 'ti...more >>

I have been trying to get the script below to work, but cannot. I would like to load a button symbol and change the text for each item in my list. Everytime I run the script below nothing happens. can you please help? Thank you very much! var c = new LoadVars(); c.load("home.php"); c.on...more >>

Is there any way to attach a pdf or flashpaper to a button so when the user clicks the button the pdf or flashpaper document automatically prints or at least downloads to the persons computer? The way I have it set up now the pdf opens up in the browser window and when the user clicks the ...more >>