ok, so im really just teaching myself flash, so you'll have to excuse the stupidity. anyway, im making a site that has a short intro thing and then loads the buttons for navigation, etc. in order to keep things organized ive split much of the thing up into scenes, like the intro, then the bu...more >>

I am trying to import some adobe illustrator artwork into flash while preserving the transparency of the objects. I have tried importing as eps file but this does not seem to work. Illustrator does not give me the option to save as png file or I would try that. Any ideas? ...more >>

I've searched about three different site forums for an answer. I've gotten several, but all seem to be talking about components or linked files. My Flash file has neither. I've created a 2-scene movie. The first scene contains the preloader which is a very simple bar, a little static text and...more >>

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem, and if so, how they got around it? I have simple script attached to an invisible button that jumps the movie to a new frame number when it detects the letter 'g' being pressed. on (release, keyPress 'g') { gotoAndStop (2); } This w...more >>

Good day, I have a flash projector(.exe), autorun off of a CD, and when it launches the projector, it loads in the center of my desktop, which is fine, BUT the bottom of the movie is going off the screen(the dimension of the movie are 750x765), and the nav is at the bottom and not seen unless ...more >>

I am having a problem with exporting my videos to different formats. I have an MP3 in a layer of my video, and I have various animations that happen to the beat of the song. If I export the video AVI or MOV, everything syncs up alright. But if I try to export to SWF or to an EXE, the animation...more >>

Help!!! I am having some trouble with flash text files. I am using the text file to load links in html. What i would like to do is have the links in the text file load pages into an iframe if anyone has any idea please help. Just a little more to help you understand what i mean... in case i ...more >>

Hello, This one has been using way to much braincells allready. Is there a way to get the real bounding box of a textfield. I mean the smallest area possible around a text. The bounding box that contains only text and no other area? These are some other thoughts for a possible solution....more >>

I am having trouble using flash, since I'm not very experienced with it and am instead more accustomed to ColdFusion. I have an .fla file that uses three images in an animation. I would like to be able to use CF to pass the three images randomly to the flash file. The only problem is, I ...more >>

Hi, I want to display Flash content in a window in a Java app. My preference would be to link to a Flash library that provides rendering support. How would you recommend I go about doing this? Thanks, Bob ...more >>

I have Flash MX. I have created a standalone flash projector file for Mac. but I do not see how to do it on the PC. Any advice would be welcome. ...more >>

I think that the transparent is very useful for websites where you cannot match the flash background to the html background it is placed in. However, there are many people that have mentioned a beware! cause some browsers dont do it right etc. It seems like I have seen it used at plenty of w...more >>

Hello, We have a bunch of CF Applications. We would like to wrap a flash "navigation/desktop" around the ColdFusion and use the Flash for presentation and the coldfusion for layout of forms and forms processing. Is this possible to do? I've been looking for a reference to do this every...more >>

I have a search box that I wish to have a light grey box encompass it while the mouse is anywhere over the flash object and then disappear when the mouse is off it. I made a button with an on(rollover) that changes it to grey and then return to white on rollout BUT, since there are other b...more >>

hello, is there a possibility to get all the swf-files that build a hole flash-site. for example swfs loaded with loadMovie()?? I only need to know, if it is possible with the flash search SDK. I DO NOT NEED A SOLUTION!! please post it, if you know. thx lester ...more >>

Someone please help! We have a 20 page document in Microsoft Word which we need to bring into Flash and have it scrolled. Using MX Pro, what text scrolling features are there? Thanks in advance....more >>

I would like to know what xml is becasue i hear it alot being used with flash.?...more >>

Hi all, The problem i have is as follows; Basically i am loading movie3 into movie2 and movie2 into movie1. All this works fine. The problem started when i decided to organise my directory using folders. I put movie2 into a seperate folder along with movie3 and changed the reference p...more >>

Does anyone know a good search engine for this newsgroup? thanks in advance, Felipe ...more >>

Please post links to Flash tutorial sites ...more >>

I was wondering if it was possible to make a flash web confrencing without using the flash communication server. I want to do this because my school server administrator will nbot allow me to run flash com server on my teams site. So any help is welcome and movies and tutes are more than welco...more >>

How do you set up the links in a MenuBar component? I can decide what labels to display, how many and the text of them but I can't figure it out how to setup the links nor the manual using components is of any help in this matter. Thank you. Dario ...more >>

Hey everybody, I'm having a problem with my sound. When I import a sound file into flash and play it, the sound file is extremely slowed down and just sounds like some sort of creepy creature instead of someone talking. Does anybody know what my problem could be? I've never had this problem...more >>

hi again, thanks for replying to ma last question, that helped loads. another one for you. is there a way to make a 3d object turn to face you? for example: ive got ma dudes head, and i want to make it rotate to face away from me, and then back towards me. so i can see his face, then he turn...more >>

after i burn the projector onto a CD and insert the cd into the computer, double click on the projector icon, it takes too long for the 1st frame to come up.. how can i fix it? 1. using a stub pj in flash?? how do i say play movie("themovietitle.swf") so the main movie loads after the stub...more >>

can somebody direct me to sites that use flash to present either photography or artwork online. Im exploring options available with flash to do slideshows etc. maybe somebody can direct me to slideshow tutorials even...anything would help. thanks ...more >>

I have button to load a movie into second level... The AS on the button is: on (press) { loadMovieNum('Homepage_ypt.swf', 1); } And I have this AS on the button in the loaded moive: on (press) { unloadMovieNum(1); } The whole thing works when I preview this within flash... When I publish and ...more >>

Is there any possible way for protecting Swf movie from importing in the latest version of the certain decompiler which can reconstruct original Fla source file? Thanks Luka ...more >>

Here's the scenario: I have an image on the screen. There is an audio narrative explaining what's in the image. Each sentence in the audio will be displayed as textual content on the screen. Issue - without splitting the audio up into sentences (which is my current solution) how can I sy...more >>

is it possible to have a chat application in flash that doesn't require flashcom server? one that sits on top of .Net? -- -------------------- Michael Guthrie ArtFusion, Ltd. www.artfusion.com ...more >>

Hey, I am a beginner at using Macromedia Flash, so I've just been trying to create a basic little movie with some words and pictures moving around. I used the alpha attribute to fade the graphics in and out with the use of the motion tween. Now, the movie runs just fine in Flash, but...more >>

Ok, I'm working on a website for Gibson Technical Center and my instructor wants something on it that i do not know how to do. He wants when a visitor first comes to the page all the buttons are invisible except for the text on them. He also wants when you move your mouse over the text the but...more >>

I am trying to import an mpeg file into Flash MX. The mpeg imports to the library ok, but when I preview/test the movie the Flash movie only displays the first 65 frames of the mpeg. It seems to cut out where the mpeg fades to black (there is more of the clip after the fade to black.....app...more >>

I was wondering if anyone knows if a Flash Published EXE requires the end user to have flash player installed on thier computer? Also, does anyone know the minimum .exe playback requirements? I have looked around the Macromedia site and have yet to find this? ...more >>

Hello! I have an application which consists of a series of independent flash files (e.g. animation1.fla, animation2.fla etc...). The files basically play in a sequential order, at final frame in each file the next swf file is loaded using: loadMovie("nextanim.swf", this); unloadM...more >>

how do i create an animation where a word follows the cursor around the page (not following it as a block but individual letters). i have studio mx and flash 2004 pro...more >>

Hi, I have to do an illustration (verctor art) for which I would usually use Adobe Ilustrator. But many times that I import it to Flash it carries mistakes, like open paths, etc. Since this one is quite complex I need it to import correctly from the begining. Is there a solution for this? ...more >>

hi how do i load an external jpg's to flash movie? thanks...more >>

I have a movie playing in a web page using the following params: <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash. cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="320" height="240" id="newsplayer" align="middle"> <param name=...more >>

HI i'm building a flash photo album site. my question is : if my client want to add/delete photos from the site , is the only way to do it through the .fla file or there is another way? if so , what is it? thanks ...more >>

Hey Folks, I am looking for a sample shopping cart .swf or .fla that uses xml. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dan blah blah cha-ching blah lengthy signature ...more >>

As far as I am aware of, Flash MX 2004 has several transparency controllers/modes such as "Brightness", "Alpha", "Tint" etc. However, I have been wondering if it's possible to use "Additive" and "Subtractive" transparencies in Flash, too? Does anyone know if this actually possible at all? A...more >>

Hi, hope any of you can help me.. 1) Is it possible through use of AS to animate dynamic text fields (animate by changing size, rotation over time)? 2) Furthermore, is it possible to animate the text content of a dynamic text field letter by letter? I mean think of a dynamic field where I ...more >>

I'm looking for a possibility to get some unique value from the computer of the user, not URL or IP-address. An external application working with Flash that can pass this unique value to Flash would be also fine . ...more >>

how did he make this worried clock? http://yugop.com/ver3/index.asp?id=29 is video or pictures? the main idea please...more >>

how to make the % (dynamic text box) follows the loading bar (the end of it) it is now can't match the steps, always run slower than the loading bar regards, ..::herman ref. file http://wm.pcin.sytes.net/herman430/temp/preloader3.html http://wm.pcin.sytes.net/herman430/temp/preload...more >>

i`m using flash MX. I want to learn how to create a preloaderbar with percentage and show`n the size of the movie loading. hope somebody can help me. thank you...more >>

I don't know why there is a difference around the pic on my background color??? Can anyone help??? http://www3.sympatico.ca/patricia027/index.htm...more >>

I am new to flash and have am trying to delay the timeline for several seconds at the beginning of the peice, and then for a few seconds in the middle of the movie. Can someone point me in the correct dirrection? Thanks, Steve m ...more >>

Hey, I was just wondering about some thing in Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Its true that I could probably figure this out myself with a couple of tests, but .... When I have multiple _child movie clips displaying graphics that are apart of a _parent movie clip, would it take more processing tim...more >>

This is so damn stupid, but I must be missing something. I have the Flash MX 2004 6.0 trial but can't find for the life of me where to input the serial. Is it on the splash screen? All I see are "try", "info" and "quit". I can't find anything under the help menu. Help! ...more >>

I am investigating whether to use Flash or another authoring tool to build some standalone clients that work with a certain server. Somebody in these forums mentioned, among the limitations of Flash, that there really is no way of saving and loading files from the local user except saving...more >>

Does anyone know what happens if you have a movie that loads other movies on higher levels and you try to pulish as a projector or exe file? Will it "suck" in those other movies and give you a single .exe? ...more >>

Hi... I would like to do something like a mix and match game. Eg: --- A-----A1 B D1 C E1 D B1 E C1 A, B, C, D, E will be randomise each time the game starts. A will match to A1, B will match to B1 and so on. When the user click on A then A1, a blue line...more >>