I have a flash movie running using wmode=transparent and all works fine if the div it's in is placed over html. I want the movie to appear over another flash movie already placed on the page however. Instead of appearing on top of the movie it appears (or rather doesn't!) behind it. Here are t...more >>

Ultimately, I am attempting to enable the browser back button. The browser back btn should navigate the different sections within my swf. Details: Because of the forms in my application I must load my application/swfs securely. I am using a frameset to populate the browser history objec...more >>

Hello all, Ok here's the problem. I am designing a CD Presentation so everything loads fine, but I want people to be able to view it online as well. The movie has a music clip in the background for the intro, and when I load it the music will start after the movie starts. I know why ...more >>

I am using Flash 5 and was wondering if it is possible to use "shape tweening" to change the shape of a .gif or .jpg image. You can respond to this post or contact me at -----hajibaba@stny.rr.com-----and put morph in the subject so I just won't delete it. Thank you. Hajibaba ...more >>

The FLash 2004 HOT book says you got to put a timeline stop on frame 2 if you want your sound buttons to work on and off. Well, I do NOT want to stop my now finished timeline on frame 2. Now what? Can I make this sound thing into an independant movie clip: the sound on/off buttons with scr...more >>

How to I change the registration point on the stage?...more >>

I have swfs loading into a holder_mc but the swfs play outside the stage of the loaded swfs(motion and shape tweens). I thought that only the stage would be visible. Am I missing something? Is there a script to limit the size of the swfs that are loaded? Check out the link below. The stag...more >>

Have you nocited when you import big files such as video or MP3 into Flash document it increases extremely its size and even if you remove those files from library document remains big. How can i completely remove such big files from .FLA to descrease its size? ...more >>

Is there a way to lock a line segment so that it stays the same length, but can still be moved? For example, if I wanted to make a stick figure move, and have all his pieces stay the same length consistantly as his joints bend, is there a way to do that? Converting them to symbol form is one...more >>

Hi all, I have a movie whose main timeline contains 4 different frames, each of which contains their own MCs. The first frame of the main timeline is for the preloader, the second frame has a button that when pressed, moves you to the next frame which contains a MC nested within another M...more >>

I am creating a Flash animation in Flash 8 which I want to work in Flash Player 6 and above. Some of my graphics are illustrations I created in IIlustrator. From IIlustrator I export them out as swf files, then import the swf files into Flash. This works fine for Flash Player 8. However ...more >>

Does anyone know of any company or conference that provides quality Flash animation training? I've looking on the MM site and found a bit of online training but I'm not sure it's what we need. I'm looking to get two of my employees additional training in advanced animation techniques. They ...more >>

I'm trying to export a very simple fla to quicktime (mov). When I publish, I'm getting the message "The installed version of QuickTime does not have a handler for this type of Macromedia Flash movie." I've seen the other postings that recommend publishing to Flash Player 5, but when I do thi...more >>

Is it just me or is the debugger badly in need of a good debugging session and worthy of Macromedia...sorry Adobe development time? I have seen Flash grow from the early days of Flash 4 to today where actionscript is a fully developed language. Unfortunately I have not seen the debugger follo...more >>

how do I make it so that a CD containing a Flash swf will open and run the animation automatically when you put the CD in your drive?...more >>

Hello- I have created a rollover drop down menu 1) Created 3 separate buttons titled (SAP_BTN, PSFT_BTN, JDE_BTN) and defined the Instance Names 2) Created a MC called Competitors_MCand attached the following Action Script: onClipEvent(load){ previouslyOver=FALSE } onClipEvent(...more >>

Could someone shed a little light on how this is done. http://www.vitamix.com/foodservice/ I was wondering what kind of action script or other animation is required to get the scrolling copy to move both left to right and right to left. Has anyone seen a tutorial on this kind of thing? Thank...more >>

How come if you want to publish a FLA as quicktime movie in Flash 8 you have to change your settings to Flash 5? You kind of lose a lot of the features/quality Flash 8 offers. Is there a work around to this? ...more >>

After builidng a fla project, I'm thinking the stage ought to be enlarged evenly on all sides. How do we do that? Inspector just gives us bottoms and right. If we shift-select every layer and move them, will they all move together and keep registered? Even hidden movie clips? ...more >>

:confused; I am working with the new version #8 and cannot figure out how to transition from one slide to the next without using control buttons. I can get the first one to work but not the rest. Anyone know how? ...more >>

This has been posted many times on this forum, and I would like to get to the bottom of why this is happening, because it is crippling my application development. While working on a flash file, I made a duplicated a scene in my .fla file to play around with some of the symbols without ruin...more >>

Hi, I'm creating a sponsors banner...each button (logo) I want to go to their URL. I'm using MX2004 and can't for the life of me get this to work. I've concerted bitmaps to buttons and used the following: can someone tell me what to insert in parenthesis? I've made sure to use http a...more >>

Hello, Can anyone explain why a Flash file will execute very fast if ran independently but, when launched through a browser it is very very slow. The file hangs, pauses etc. I ran a size report but found nothing out of the ordinary. The servers speed is not a suspect at this point be...more >>

When I import artwork from Illustrator, the colour shifts dramatically, no matter what colour space the original artwork was in. I'm trying to preserve our corporate colours, is there a workaround?...more >>

:confused; I am working with several minute clips in DV format exported from Adobe Premeire. These files sound fine upon export from premeire but once I export them from the Flash Video Encoder the sound quality is ruined. I have tried setting the data rate for the audio all the way up to ...more >>

On this website i made i got the complain that there was a strange thing visable. Fading out a graphic doesn't completely dissapear this symbol on this machine. Have a look at it overhere : http://www.motifpaper.com/ He say's basically that this is a bug in the flash file and that it is p...more >>

I have a bunch of movie clips that were imported from photoshop, question is how do i make them look transparent when printing, it is a application where you drag and drop items where you want them then print them off for a order form type of deal. when you print them you can see the image a...more >>

Hi Friends, As Linux is emerging OS now a days and , Why there is no Linux version of Macromedia Flash? Cheers, Rohan ...more >>

Hi, I am sure I have read somewhere that a MC with _alpha=0 uses more of the system resources than setting _visible=false, because using _alpha means that the Flash Player still draws the Object, while _visible means it just holds a reference to it rather than completely drawing the item. ...more >>

can you check this site out, am on my placement year for my degree and this is the site I created for the company iam working for, but the image on the first page is very poor quality, is this just because the font is small in the picture or is there a way around this, I made the image myself ...more >>

hi everybody. I've created a animated 3D logo in Swift 3D (version 3.0) and exported it as a Swift 3D Flash Importer-file... but when I try to import it into Flash 8, i cannot find my .swft-file, even though I know it's there. do I need to change any settings to do this? or what have I d...more >>

I have a page where i am sending some variables from javascript to flash (for example see http://www.true2life.co.uk/wwsr/ and click on "race craft" - the flash object is the map on the top right of the screen). Everything works successfully, however, it only works when the files are running ...more >>

Is there a consensus on flash tutorial sites anywhere? Especially video tutorials. Thanks for tips!...more >>

If you build graphics and buttons in Flash, are they already automatically optimized? I did not see how to modify a button for file size once built in flash....more >>

Im looking for a site where i can host my Flash Documents, they are .fla files and the sites ive tried so far dont support them. Is there any way to change it, or does anyone know of any free sites i could use to host my stuff? ...more >>

I have built an uploader using Flash8's FileReference, which works perfectly under my http domain, however move it under https and I get this error: onIOError: BookCover.pdf could not be uploaded (try uploading to jsp/asp/php scripts on a webserver) I have tried : System.security.allo...more >>

ok... so I created a flash advertising Banner..... I want to be able to post it in email or on websites and forums. I exported my banner as html..... now what do I do? I viewd my banner in internet explorer and went to view - source... and this is what showed up: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "...more >>

I thought if you put a movie clip into a new layer, key frame, timeline of another show, the movie clip will play over and over. That's what I have been doing. Today it only plays once. How to fix? Have made no global changes. Have not needed any action scripts to accomplish in the past -...more >>

Hey everyone... Ive been teaching myself FLASH haha yeah I know Ive been told its not an easy thing to learn..... however Ive created a very nice WEB Banner for my band. Im not very good at HTML so I dont know how to add my Banner onto my Myspace page. This banner is something I want to be a...more >>

What does it mean when movie clip plays in the library, but when you drag it on the stage, nothing is there, just the position cross....more >>

most of the time when I start up Flash 8 Pro, my tools palette is missing. I have to go to WINDOW>TOOLS to bring it up. Anybody else experience this problem and have you found a fix? The same happens to my workspace layout. I have it saved, but when i start up Flash, I have to manually cal...more >>

Okay guys, what's up? All i wanted to know is this tutorial that i'm making is correct so far in the information i have typed up and if it looks professionally done. That is what i'm going for. ^_^ All i'm really doing is re-writing a tutorial i have already made and putting it into flash to m...more >>

Hello all. I have created a full Flash site that incorporates a lot of fade-in, using Alpha Tweening. On my P4 2.66 GHz, 256mb RAM (XP), Dell laptop, the site runs beautifully. But on my G4 800MHz, 512mb RAM (OS X 10.4.3), it crawls painfully along. All the actions that are accompanied wit...more >>

I'm just curious about something related to Flash. Is there a way to simply "mute" a Flash presentation, so that the Flash presentation does not interfere with other programs that generate sound? And if so, what's the secret to it? Brandon Taylor ...more >>

Hi can anyone tell me how to link an email ? mailto:.....@hotmail.com is not working in flash 8...more >>

Can Anybody tell me whether I can embed Flash animations & GUIs with event handling in Java Swing Desktop applications. I found a lot of stuff in ActionScript, but simply couldn't understand, when I program in actionScript what do I get, definitely it's not a .exe, then what is it, & where w...more >>

I am having trouble with my video, When i export it and then pop it into dreamweaver as a .swf or a .flv, It doesn't show, is there a tutorial or something. thanks for help Joshua...more >>