i have a flash doc that has lots of movie clips- the preloader i have in each seems to not work although when i have it in the main stage it works fine. here is a copy of my code: var amountLoaded:Number = _root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal(); loadText.text = Math.round(amountLoa...more >>

can someone give me an example of a url i would put into the loadGraphic menu? i get an error that it cant find the file and i assumed that it would go to my library but... ...more >>

Running Windows XP Pro, SP2 I am unable to view swf files in my IE or Slimbrowser. When I go to this site: http://www.eagleslanding-beaumont.com/floorplans/floorplans.htm I click on a floor plan and the system opens a new page but asks if I want to save or cancel- it will not show the ...more >>

Hi there, I have a game idea which I originally wanted to build in XHTML and use Ajax and Ruby on Rails/mySQL for backend and behavior development. Because my game idea involves an isometric grid, HTML has become problematic to get the quality I want. I'm thinking about Flash, but I'm no...more >>

I've got a flash movie with a lot of input fields, but I want to restrict the user to only being able to tab over to a subset o f these text fields. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Thanks, Michael ...more >>

Dear All; Iam animator and i build a web site for kids which has many larg games; by the way i have a main land that contains 10 houses every house 30-60 kb with sounds; Please, How i can load all houses into my land very fast, which is good; put every hous on server as seprate Movie Cli...more >>

i have a large flash doc and i want to do something that seems very simple. I will have a portfolio section on the site and i want each jpg to load separately. for example: nextseason.net (how their images load)- i dont want a progress bar- just the percentage loaded. (and i dont want to...more >>

When ever I open this one file I have been working on I keep getting this Error: There is not enough memory to open this scene. You document is not damaged and may be safely saved. To increase available memory, close open documents or quit and use the Get Info command in the Finder to...more >>

Is there a quick way to 'unload' or 'clear' all of the variables I have defined on the _root level (i.e. _root.companyName )? I am trying to dynamically load information from a MySQL database, but I do not want to keep the information in the _root variables all of the time, or it will slow do...more >>

I'm at the end of this project. I got the LMS initialize the call, and flash to pass variables to the LMS via the course_functions.js and API wrapper. However, I'm trying to pass a finalScore to our LMS. How do I call the LMS? The "_parent.callLMS(finalScore); "code shown below did no...more >>

My website uses more than 1 MC. When a user selects,"contact", it loads the content in a new MC. How do I make the "contact" button remain red until the user leaves that section? Thanks...more >>

Hi I am trying to export an FLV from FCP that will preserve transparency. I shot a subject (talking head) on a green screen. I imported an MP4 video file of the footage into FCP and then used a chroma keyer to remove the green back ground. It is transparent in FCP but when I export it...more >>

I'm encoding a lot of videos using the Flash 8 Video Encoder and I was wondering if the queue information is stored anywhere. If you remove the items from the queue, you lose all ability to change your cue points and need to start over. In addition, is there another way of adding cue point...more >>

I'm creating a movie in Flash 8. All of my movie clips are made of vector graphics imported from Freehand. Here's a link to the movie: http://www.lshd.com/client/massmutual/11357/TAP.html. So far I've just added a simple little tween. The file size of the .swf is only 69kb. I've generated...more >>

I produced a quiz using the template with Flash 8 that works very good with the flash 8 player. Is it possible to configure the quiz to work with versions of flash earlier than 7? ...more >>

http://www.telsim.com/mistakes/combo.gif I am loading an external swf into a movieClip. Everything seems to work fine except my combo boxes. They have a gray box (see above link) over them whenever enabled=false is set. Does anyone know why this happens and how I can fix it? Thanks in adva...more >>

im having trouble insetting a sound to a button, i understand you have to add a new layer to do it. so i added another layer for the sound to go onto the button. When i go onto the properties to get the sound clip to put into the new layer, the sound option is not available. can anyone hel...more >>

i made a flash movie in swish and it is only one frame in the scene. how can i tell it to play the whole movie and then jump to another label? ...more >>

greetings earthlings! here's a simple one - damned if I can get the shapeFlag parameter to register. ie: imagine two circles (movieclips) on stage with unique instance names. Standard collision detection isn't enough - need to get more than bounding box. So, use the Boolean parameter p...more >>

hi i am currently working on a flash project on mx 2004 edition and i have 2 buttons on the stage,one button to play one movie and the other button to play another movieon the same scene but when i click on either button it plays both movies instead of the one i want, any ideas? ...more >>

This one is really frustrating me. Can anyone help? I created a flash doc with two input boxes and one dynamic box. I just want flash to add the two numbers I type into the input boxes and when the user clicks the "calculate" button the results of the addition are displayed in the dynamic t...more >>

Hello there: I'm trying to do a very simple (I think) thing within Flash8 and I'm searching for some orientation here. I'm poor in Flash Actionscript knowledge but I believe I can get the messages then So I have a background image with a lamp off. I have a movieclip with frames which ...more >>

Hi, I need to create 2 frames. Inner Frame and Outer Frame (meaning= 2 Squares,where the inside one is smaller,leaving some space above,below,right,left. Just like a box within box. I have posted here and on Dreamweaver and god knows where, but received no answers what so ever.Not even a neg...more >>

Should be a simple task ? Yet changes in the Flash header are answered as " Yes, I want to over wright the existing file." Published: saved as...etc: yet when viewed in my editor, nothing has changed from the original Text in the purchased template... ...more >>

In the picture http://www.box-em.com/img13.gif on the left side of picture is the start point. You have unpacked box. On the right side of picture is final points, the closed box. I want to learn how to make animation which shows proces of making box from start point. Just like it's on ...more >>

Where can I find tutorial about how to make animation of making carton box from flat paper or animation of making envelope from flat paper. Also if you know where can i see similar flash movie on the internet (about making box or envelope). Here is the example of carton box (final and b...more >>

I have noticed that if I pull a .pmg file into any of my flash projcts, they add to file size, and do not open smoothly. I highly recommentd not using .png with Dlash. Expot to .jpg, and they open well in any browser. .png files do not open well, and are huge in file size. Why is that? ...more >>

greeting~ I am trying to embed the flash swf file in my windows CE application project~ I have read articles on how to embed swf into Visual studio. that is I only need to import the "shockwave flash object" However ~ it works only on windows application ~ on windows CE project , this comp...more >>

We've tried pretty much everything we can find information on to get Flash 8 to work on our computer. It used to but it hasn't for several weeks. I've tapped into all the advice I can find on the macromedia site and started reading the suggestions in the forum, but I'm getting nowhere fast. ...more >>

Greetings I'm just getting into Flash about 3 weeks now, one thing I have noticed if I preview .swf's in IE6 the movies look excellent. If previewed in the Firefox browser it looks like they are at a lower framerate & play jerky. Is there some truth to this? Thanks, Brian ...more >>

I am creating both a web site and a Flash movie. In the process of learning both programs. I opened my defined DreamweaverMX site and tried to load the Flash MX movie. The gray box with the F shows on the Dreamweaver page but it won't play when I hit "play" in properties, and it won't play in ...more >>

Stupid question, but how would I do this? I have a button inside a movieclip, and I want it so that it goes a plays a frame in the main timeline. I know how to do it if the button is in the main timeline, but how do I do it if it's inside a movie clip? ...more >>