Hi, another person helped me finish off a flash file that was started in flash mx 2004. He completed it and sent it me back, I now can't open it neither in mx pro nor mx. If anyone has an older version could they please check it to see which version it needs, I can't get in touch with the pers...more >>

I'm creating a projector (.exe) file that will go on an autorun cd. I have a frame with a button, that I want to have an image or pdf (that is contained in an images folder on the cd) download to their desktop when clicked. How do I do this? Thanks, Jer ...more >>

Hello, What does it mean when a portion of my graphic symbol is distorted after publishing, or durring publish preview? I tried re-converting the image to a symbol, but that didn't help. This has happened once before in a different file, any ideas? I am using Flash 8 and am embedding it ...more >>

Hi everybody, I want to create an animted Xmas card, and send it by email to my family, friends & clients etc... It won't be used by others...no custom text or any of that stuff, In other words it's just an animation I want to send by email. Just wondering what is the best way to go ab...more >>

i've searched and searched and searched tutorials/forums/etc and i can't find an answer to what i think should be a pretty straightforward question. i have an swf with a series of external jpgs that load into it (a slideshow of sorts). i would like to make a preloader for this swf that recog...more >>

I thought when you make changes in the library item, all the instances update immediately? Mine do not. Boy, Photoshop never jukes me around like this. ...more >>

While waiting on hold for about 5 minutes for tech support, I discoverd what the solution to my problem...and it's weird. The problem was that the the Flash Help Menu files were unreadable, due to the text being such a small size in the info pane. The category pane was fine. I checked my other...more >>

I have some text that I want to make fade in. i broke up the text to convert it to shapes, then in a new layer, put a copy of the text over it the same color as the background, adjusting the alpha level, and tweening it. i got it to work, but it looks funny - there are some marks that show up ...more >>

I'm just trying to learn Flash, am going through the Flash 8 tutorials. In the basic tutorial, "Text: Add Text to a Document," it tells me to do two things, and in context it seems clear that I am not to choose between them, but to do them both: 1. ... in the Font pop-up menu in the Prope...more >>

When running this swf, it crashes the browser with the new Flash player. Anyone care to take a crack at this fla and find out why? http://www.mycenterforsight.com/macromediaforum/eventcalendar/ Thank you. -Christopher C. Keeler ...more >>

i have a bunch of movie clips on my stage. i want to have them play through one after the other (that is, once the first one plays though, it will stop and the second will begin, and so forth). i am confused about what actions to put where. right now for a couple of clips, i have a "Stop" acti...more >>

I have some text boxes in my movie which are attached to an external file to bring the text in dynamically. Howevery, every time I change the size of my text box, it changes the size and line height of the text, and I can't get it to go back to the original format. It doesn't say a different f...more >>

Hi all I used the flash in my site, I need code or method where if some one checking my site and they does not have the flash plugin the code should download the flash plugin itself and run the flash in any browser, any time and any where. I need this because I done some flash in fla...more >>

How did they make this in Flash? Does anyone know of an outline or overview of the process? http://www.subservientchicken.com/ ...more >>

After playing round trying to get a file to upload using Flash and PERL I have come across a bug in the implementation of the FileReference.upload method. The method sends out two requests to the web server, both requests being identical apart from the first request sending: Content-Length:...more >>

I have 4 scenes in the flash movie. The bottons to the other scenes are in scene 1, but some of them simply don't work or take me to scene 1. my actions to all buttons are wright (I think). for ex: in scene 1, i have a botton to scene 3, in the actions i put: on (release) { gotoAndPlay("Sce...more >>

Just a quick question to see if anyone knows if it is possible to embed an Excel workbook (contains several sheets) into a flash file. Some sort of OLE thing? Alternately, anyone know if it is possible to read in data from an Excel workbook in some similar way to reading in XML data? And yet a...more >>

My trail version of flash 8 expired last week and i have a fla or two that i created in flash 8 that i wanted to edit...but i've only got flash mx installed on my computer. When i try to open the files flash mx simply quits unexpetedly or it puts up an error message saying it failed to open d...more >>

Hello, After hitting several walls with a captivate project I have been asked to convert it all to a video project. I imported my captivate file to flash and exported as Quicktime (after removing audio). While the .Mov file plays fine in my Quicktime player it is not recongnized by Avid or...more >>

hey everybody! :) here are a few things that have happened between flash, windows and myself over the past year: Ctrl-alt-s which should open the 'Scale and rotate' dialog just didn't for a month or two. Now its ok again Ctrl-return in the Sepy Actionscript editor goes to Flash, close...more >>

I'm trying to make a complex image fade in in flash. I've drawn the objects in Illustrator and then imported them to stage as a keyframe. No matter what I do, whether I then convert them to a symbol or whatever, I can't get them to change alpha to 0% so I can then tween to them to 100% to get ...more >>

Hi, below I mention my code in which I use a cue point where I redirect the webpage after movie finishes. The problem is that my movie plays corrupted and I have no streaming at all. What can I do about it? Can I have a preloader or can I do something for buffering? Here is an example of the c...more >>

I am doing a mortgage site for a client, and they want a mortgage interest rate indicator that give daily updates of the national interest rates. On his previous site, he as one from a website that gave him a link to the one he could use: http://www.MortgageLeadGuide.com/mortgagerates/IFra...more >>

I have thsi video buffering for 15 seconds and when it gets to the end of the video, i would like it to stop, here is the actions script, any help would be greatly appreciated by you talented folks. var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); var ns:NetStream = new Ne...more >>

When I update my site and add a flash video from w/in DW8, it plays when I display it on my local server. But when I upload to the server, the video never plays..... I encoded it into .flv with Flash Video 8, then used DW8 to pull it in.... Any suggestions? http://scentsiblesolutions.net...more >>

How do I transform a .flp file, or multiple swf files to a single exe file? Is there a way to do that? Thanks...more >>

Hello, I am trying to communicte between JavaScript and Flash. Generality, I want to run a function in flash using JavaScript . I have a page that loads an external swf file (the swf is on a differnet server from the page), and i'm trying to tell flash using javascript to go to a specifi...more >>

This is pretty odd. I was working on a movie in Flash MX 2004. I'd just added a new sound to it and I was testing it, but the test didn't play any audio. I assumed I'd set up the linkage incorrectly, or did something else wrong, but I checked and double checked, and everything looked OK. So...more >>

I've just started putting xml and flash together and can take xml data and display it in flash, but now I need to pass the information from flash back the xml once it has been changed in the interface i have built in flash. I've not seen any guides on this on the internet and was wondering ...more >>

Every time I'm in flash and I click on the toolbar anywhere that ISN'T a button (like where you'd click to drag the bar) It crashes. I have no idea why, it did this for a few months like a year back, but it hasn't happened for months and months, but now it just started up again. I'm on Flash 8...more >>

im trying to change a ordinary animated gif image into a clickable website link. for example, i made an image that is just text saying www.artusclothing.com i want to make the image into a clickable link button that will direct the person to that site. im trying to post it on my myspace pag...more >>

Anyone out there know how I could make assign a button to print the displayed flash page? ...more >>

I am trying to get a scrollbar to work on a movie clip that does not have any text in it, only buttons that load another swf file. Haw can I get one to work, or is there a way to use the UI scrollbar or component? ...more >>

Hi there I'm new to Flash and wondered if anyone could tell me how to create a slide show of photos such as the one on this site - http://www.hokkaidotracks.com/youtei/index.html ...more >>

In the HOT book, they say to select the "sound off" button, and attach the "stop all sounds" behavior. Well, for them it stops ALL sounds. For me it only stops the loop one time. What do we do about that? Please and thank you. I'm using sync: "start", "loop". This thing is a movie cl...more >>

Hi everyone. I've just designed an album in SWF that shows a slide show and brought it across to my flash program but when I put it into the scene and test it, its flashing on and off, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to add some action script or not. If someone can help me with what Im suppos...more >>