Ive been slamming my head against the desk for the past week trying to figure out what this Function does and for the life of my kind find any "request" strings that work. The function in vb.net is the following Public Overridable Function CallFunction(ByVal request As String) As String ...more >>

:camera; Hello, I am having difficulty in installing Macromedia Flask. I removed all toolbars closed all open progs, when I press Download within two seconds it say's sucessful installation with a moving oblong. No gold bar appears for option to install an active X neither does a movie appea...more >>

Hi, I recently moved to Windows SP2 and I am now facing a strange problem with Flash Player. I have a gallery with buttons that once clicked, should prompt the user to download a .ZIP file (of a high resolution image). It all worked on Windows SP1 and now it does not work anymore. Acti...more >>

I loaded a movieclip with the following code. How can I unload it when i move to a different frame? Do I have to loop through all the xml images again & use UnloadClip or is there a better way? StencilGalleryXML = new XML(); StencilGalleryXML.onLoad = init; StencilGalleryXML.load...more >>

When importing AVI files into Flash 8 I am getting an error message that reads, "The source file " " contains video in an unsupported format and cannot be encoded." It suggests downloading DirectShow 9. I already have this installed. Yet it is still not allowing the import. Please re...more >>

Okay, I can launch PDF files from my flash program by using getURL. However, I do not want to use that feature since it is possible that the computer I may use it in may not have acrobat for the browser. So, does anyone know how to launch a pdf file via swf without a browser (such as get URL),...more >>

I have a movie that's playing an imported mp3 file and it has over 50,000 frames. The controls I have set up to "Play", "Pause" etc. seem to stop working when playing the last half of the movie. I've noticed that Flash gets buggy when working with a file that has this many frames. Are there an...more >>

I have a website i am working on here: http://www.myprivatesongs.com I want to add a new button to the "menu" below "listen to music..". Here what I have done so far: I have duplicated the one of the buttons, renamed it and have given it different text. However, when I do this it change...more >>

I set up a volume slider on one layer, the next layer has a FLV Playback linked to an external FLV. I'm trying to figure out how to get the volume slider to control the external FLV's volume, is that possible? ...more >>

I have buttons inside a tween, which is inside a movie clip. The buttons are supposed to take you to another scene. I can't get it to work. If it isn't possible to do it in a tween, I can put the buttons directly in the movie clip. Either way, I can't get it to work. ...more >>

I want to have a button to allow the viewer to turn the website music off but then put it back on. I already have the off action working by using stopAllSounds action, but I don't know how to turn it on again. Appreciate your help. ...more >>

Hello all, I would like to change the tint of a movie clip object in Flash 7. Can someone tell me how can i? I have seen the script in help: fl.getDocumentDOM().setInstanceTint(0xff0000, 50); which i can't use in the document. The instence name of the object is "aa". Thanks in advance....more >>

I created a movie clip that simulates up and down states for use as part of a button. When I place instances of this mc into a single-frame mc (and attach AScript), then place the single-frame mc into the main timeline, everything works great when I preview ... But for some reason the roll...more >>

I'm new to Flash and have been doing lots of samples and tutorials. One things that puzzles me is that in one Flash document that I've created (example straight from Ch 50 of the Component Language Reference: Tree Component) when run from a the "Published" html generates a "Macromedia Flash...more >>

I'm loading some images into a scrollpane with XML, but I want to change the height & width of them once they're in there. My code below works until I add the 2 lines that change _height & _width. Then all the images disappear when i try to run it. Does anyone have an idea how i can do...more >>

Greetings: The local utility has asked me to host a 45-minute video (5MB+ QuickTime file). This is a federally mandated training piece and will be accessible only to employees. We've tried QT and RM, but download times are just too great. I am absolutely new to Flash video and need to know...more >>

Hi, I have created an animated intro page using mask layers. The image I began with was 650x480, so I imported this onto the stage. However, no I have completed the project, when I publish the swf, the animation is about quarter of the size. I was assuming that when you begin a proje...more >>

I want to return focus to the flash component I was last using, when I restore focus to the flash player. I have found an activate event command but I am struggling to implement it. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/flash/display/Stage.html#even t:activate Any help, t...more >>

Hy guys , I want to have a scrolling text in my flash movie, how can I inport a script code where can I put it, I have one scroling text on may old site, that scroll text I want to have in my new site's flash, how can I do that. this is the script. <script type="text/javascript"> /* ...more >>

Hi I have a problem, my actionscript doesn't work. I have some sample files, that if i play the action script works, however if i just delete a semi-colon and press the ; button again so nothing has changed it stops working. If i make a new doc and a new symbol and rewrite the whole thing ex...more >>

I have a file which throws up this message twice on open; "out of memory...blah blah ....quit and use the Get Info command with Finder ..." This sound like a Mac message, however I'm using MX Pro on a PC with 2GB RAM and GBs free disk space. The file then continues to open OK and also pu...more >>

Can i set a button to do the equivelant of 'open browser window' in flash? I can easily set the getURL to open in a '_blank' window, but i would like to be able to control the size of the pop-up window also. Is this possible? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I've got some quicktimes that are just the right size and quality for web viewing, but when I import to flash they become twice as big. I've loaded in external swf files using targets before, so tried the same method with my quicktimes, but a grey square flashes up when I test it and t...more >>

I have searched the player for pocket pc since a couple of weeks. All the links bring me to a "page not found" or "the request page has no link". It happens only to me. Anyone who has experienced the same problem? I have tested with differents browsers. ...more >>

I try to change the event for the sample file (Movement-keys) that come with flash MX the file move the "beetle" by using arows keys left right up and down ..now I am using flash 8 and action script 2.0 ,How can I change the keys event to use the numbers like replace up with 8 ,left with 4,......more >>

I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong but i have a very simple flash animation that loads and plays fine on one computer but on another with the same OS and browser and flash plugin it won't load correctly. Any thoughts? site http://www.urbantruth.com. i probably did somthing wrong but i'm new to ...more >>

alright for some reason my flash 8 pro has all of a sudden just starts making yellow lines. well, i have no idea how it happened. i keep trying to make lines of different colors but only makes them yellow, how can i fix this? ...more >>