I'm having sporadic results with transparency working in IE and FireFox. I can't seem to nail it down to a platform or a version of the Flash player. Here is the url: http://www.fotoflix.com/users/jmathai/foto/2840/ Anyone have ideas as to how to get it to work more consistently? These pa...more >>

I want to embed a font and looked up how to do it in Flash 8. The HELP says this: 1. Select the text on the Stage. 2. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), click the Character button to show the Character Embedding dialog box. 3. Select the character sets you want to embed....more >>

Flash MX 2004 7.2 Experiencing an intermittent problem when I open my flash. Sometimes I receive the message Flash MX 2004 has encountered an error. I have the option to 'debug' send a report to Macromedia and view the technical details of the report. I am able to use Flash with no limi...more >>

Part of an animation I'm working on consists of a 2D row of grass at the bottom of the screen. The effect I'm looking for is not complicated to fathom, just very difficult to explain... I want the grass to translate to the right for a long period of time. Another way to describe it, I want...more >>

Hello, I'm building a website for a small clothing company. They've requested everything done in flash. I just completed a rough version of the site (not everything is aligned perfectly, some missing links, etc.)... And when I sent them the link, they said there were outlines around everythi...more >>

i really need to know where in this maze of contents can i find the download to flash mx 2004?! just tell me and when i download it ill be happy...more >>

On my main timeline I have my action layer which contain all (Best Practic) ActionScript. A movie clip instance (Main_mc) is placed on the stage. It contains movie clip instance of another movie clip from my libary. These movie clips are placed on it's own layer and is placen with 10 frames -...more >>

I'm creating a flash movie that will be distributed on cd and need to create a "tools" page where users can click on hyperlinks which will open pdfs or word docs. I'm reading conflicting answers on how to do this, and if it will work. What should I do? I'm using Flash MX. ...more >>

How do you create a movie clip in Flash?...more >>

Can anyone tell me if this is possible? I broadcast baseball games through flash video. I want to add some sort of tag or marker every time the batter changes and have that trigger a call to a database to pull and display the current batter's information. Is it possible to add this type ...more >>

I've created an intro in Flash 8 and used the Flash detection kit to run the installer when needed. The animation runs without problem in Firefox and on safari on the mac. However, in IE 6 on the pc, (and apparently IE and safari on a colleagues mac) there is a glitch. The animation seems to b...more >>

This has me stumped. When I upload this, it doesn't work ('type function') is the error. It works fine when I view it locally. <http://sd-a.netfirms.com/gallery.html> I double checked, it appears that I've uploaded all support files. Any suggestions ? Is it an xml error ?...more >>

I have a single frame movie, with several movie clips inside. If anything, such as a extra scene, or just a single frame is added, the images suddenly become jagged and lose their quality. I am trying to place a math preloader in one scene, and have the movie play in the next. Even if I add no...more >>

Can anyone explaying me why the following three examples result in the corresponding output? In the documentation is stated that eval convert from '/' notation to dot notation. In example 1 this is not the case. Only if I add "_root" the conversion is what I expect it to be. Short explanation...more >>

Hi All, I have a newbie question here :) I have a navigation in flash and I want to link a button to my html page with an anchor on it. The link is extra.html#services So the page is extra.html and the anchor is called services. When I add this link in flash, it will only go to extra.ht...more >>

Hi, I am new in this but I think that with your help I would be able to do it, my web site needs a pop up box with and opt-in form that works, when I say that works is that when people fill up there details they should go to some server and then an autoresponder should say something like "...more >>

First of all please let me admit I'm hopelessly crap at Flash. I have tried over the years to come to terms with using it, and finally thought I had a little success last night. I have some videos on my http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=12EBE&print=true to convert the .F...more >>

I owned Flash MX (NOT MX 2004!). I just upgraded to Flash 8 Professional. Before working with my new "toy", I want to know if the FLAs i'll modify in Flash 8 Professional will be backward compatible with Flash MX. This just in case some persons I work with and who do not own Flash 8 Profes...more >>

I am trying to dynamically create text in an text box that I can link to an external JavaScript call when a <a href> is clicked, but I can't get it to work. Here is my code: loginBox.html = true; my_css = new TextField.StyleSheet(); my_css.setStyle('a:link',{color:'#FFFFFF',fontWeight:...more >>