I have a CBT that I need to distribute via CD-rom. What's the best file type to publish? ...more >>

I am having an issue with the UI components and wondered if anyone know what could be wrong. The following components show up as white boxes: comboboxes (have no dropdown arrow or data inside), textareas (won't display text), listboxes (won't display list), tree, bu...more >>

I would like to randomly _x,_y populate the stage with randomly sized movie clips at random intervals but don't want them to obscure each other. How do I tell the mc on loading, that the space is occupied/free and that it has to move or its OK. Ive got the random part but I am missing the und...more >>

I have a button within a.swf that sits on level 5 of main.swf. when pressed, I want it to load b.swf into level 3 of the main.swf. Instead, it's loading it into level 3 of a.swf. how to I speak to the main.swf? Thanks so much. ...more >>

I am trying to import some Illustrator artwork into Flash. I need to maintain the transparency and also keep them as vector objects. It was suggested on this forum that I save my artwork as .eps and then open in Freehand. I have tried this but the artwork looks incredibly bad and pixci...more >>

There must be a trick....or a method...maybe a secret initiation...or maybe it's a neighborhood forum where the only people who talk to each other, already know each other. Maybe you have to be religious or there are secret words one must use to be accepted into the club. I have posted no l...more >>

I have created a grey rectangle and made it in to an "Button Symbol". On the "Up" state the rectangle is light grey. On the "Over" state the rectangle is dark grey. I want the rectangle in the "Over" state to fade-in ever so slightly when the user rolls over it. How can this be accompl...more >>

I am absolutely positive that I have Flash installed and for the most part it works fine while I surf the net. However, I occasionally hit a site that doesn't acknowledge my player and tells me to install one. Even if I do this and get a new player with the installation complete message work...more >>

The company that I work for recently purchased Flash MX for me to develop an online tutorial for one of the projects that we have. I was wondering if there are some publications out there that really explain FMX? The last time I worked with flash was version 5 and find that I'm a bit rusty on ...more >>

Is there some way to tell when a datagrid is finished loading?...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem. I don't have Flash on my personal computer so I use it at different friends houses... I created a project, and saved it. But when I tried to open it on a different computer to continue with my project I get a message after Flash has opened that says "Failed to op...more >>

I have sent several people files done in Flash MX 2004 and they have had problems opening them. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thanks, Shell...more >>

i have create one flash movie for a cd presentation. i dont want to work it in any browser. it is working in my computer (flash installed computer) but it is not working in other computers (those are not installed flash software). i installed flash player in those computer ...but no change... ...more >>

I watch Video/Audio via Yahoo and all the video/audio are in a fastforward speed. I can'r seem to slow it down....more >>

Hi All! I need to publish a movie with a bg pattern, width=100% height=100%, margintop=0, marginleft=0 You can see an example of what I want at http://www.trevorleighton.com/home.htm Doesn't matter the window's size, you will always get the same bg filling the hole area, even in the flash play...more >>

Need the ability to bend dynamic text. I've seen similar posts in here, but all responses suggested editing the text/path in Illustrator or Freehand, which won't work in this case. I need to pass text entered by a user into a flash movie and display the text on the curve. For example...more >>

I'm using a mask within a mc on the rollover of a button which works fine, but the mask is being picked up as part of the hit area - even though the mc containing the mask isn't in the hit area. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hello there. I'm new to Flash and I've read a lot of q and a about audio syncing today so apologies if this has been covered umpteen times, but anyway, here goes. I'm aiming to create some promos to accompany music that I've been fiddling with over the last number of years and thought Flas...more >>

Hello there. I'm new to Flash and I've read a lot of q and a about audio syncing today so apologies if this has been covered umpteen times, but anyway, here goes. I'm aiming to create some promos to accompany music that I've been fiddling with over the last number of years and thought Flas...more >>

I have a shape of the letter M. I want to morph it so that it is very wide at the base and narrow at the top. It will still look like an M, just a little distorted and a little larger. Sounds simple. I've tried using shape hints, but the morph still looks like Picasso did it. The points...more >>

hi there, I am stuck on a bit of actionscript navigation and i need your help. Basically my Movie consists of one Scene named "One" and within this scene it has nested Movie clips (symbols). I am at the last frame of one of my movie clips (symbols) and I want to navigate back to the first ...more >>

I'm trying to create a banner ad as an animated gif, and the published movie runs correctly, but when I select 'Export Movie' and animated .gif as the output the animation loops, which is not what I'm going for. Aside from exporting individual images (some 250) and compiling the .gif outside...more >>

another thing that would really work great for us is batch publishing.. is this possible? if i have a project set up on a fileserver that consists of MANY directories and subdirectories of fla files and other resources buried in many directories.. is there a way to batch publish any and all...more >>

Hi, Newby question: Made a movie, with fading text, works fine if I do Control Play, but fading fails playing the SWF file (rest of movie is OK). How to solve this problem? BTW: made text, converted to symbol (graphic). In frame x set alpha = 100 (via properties...more >>

so, as the title implies, im having issues with framerate slowdown. the thing is much of what i have in my movie so far is this sort of wave of growing & color changing circles...hard to explain. but the point is it is basically the one growing circle symbol repeated many times. there are ...more >>

Hi there, Im havign a wee problem with my comboboxes. I have a ComboBox that is part of a symbol. When i use actionscript to place that symbol (using attachMovie), the contents of the box are not displayed until the user clicks on the down arrow. Once the user has made a selection th...more >>

Ok here's the code that I've got, im just wondering how to enable scrolling within the new window that this pulls up. on (release) { page = "chicago.htm"; sUrl = "http://www.ironarmyclothing.com/"+page; wdth = "645"; hdth = "400"; winName="name_"+(Math.ceil(Math.random()*9999)); rsiz = "...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm looking for an update of the TechNote tn_14201: .http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201 This one is from December 12, 2002 :( Especially an update of the operating system/browser combinations that support the wmode="transparent" paramete...more >>

Any of you had the same problem ? All the prelaoders I use in a 2MB movie start from 350KB then they work fine up to 2000 KB. It waits like nothing happents untill it loads 350KB then the line starts moving up to the 2000 kb (total file size). In my publish settings if i set the action scr...more >>

Hi all, I need to make a link (using HTML), targeting a specific Flash Movie and Scene. The movie actually uses the loadMovie script, to load a swf into an mc on the main swf. So basically, the HTML would need to first target a specific scene on the maintimeline of the main swf, and then lo...more >>

All of sudden my DWMX 6.1 is running slow is takes a couple of tries to get a file loaded. It also delays several seconds on making text changes. Really weird? Anyone else have this issue? Running XPpro and have had no problems in the last few months or even years? Reinstall? Thanks...more >>

:o I just started with a template to get the idea behind flash. I can't seem to get the navigation url to work right. The page loads automatically when I click my movie. I just want the buttons to go to certain url of my choice. I chose something in the library, went to the behaviors area...more >>

I should know this and I been looking everywhere to find out who originally developed the flash player....more >>

I wanted to download an image from a website to my flash exe file. I just wanted to know that whether the sand box constraints are applied to the flash exe file also. These constraints mean that i cannot access any resource from a flash swf file from any other server other then the one from wh...more >>

I added 15 scenes to a one movie When I publish, it?s takes more time to publish Is that ok, using lot of scenes in a one movie :(...more >>

Hi. I'm havin problem with plain text buttons that i created and used in my flash movie. The problem is that after i publish it i tried going over the button and found that the sensitivity area is rather small (i have assigned another color as "Over" on the same layer, but only sometimes when ...more >>

I've made a movieclip which slides out from the side of the screen when rolled over, it then extends further onto the screen when it is clicked on bringing an input box into view. Sadly I can't select or type in the input box because the movieclip it is inside has rollOver and onRelease events...more >>

My structure is this.. index.htm on the root.. then a folder called flash which has my main movie, and external swf's. In flash when I use Load Movie, to load an external swf that is in the flash folder it works fine.. but when I do it online it doesnt work.... unless I put flash/driven.swf...more >>

I know (or think I know) that gradients, especially when tweened, are frowned upon in animation due to making the playback slower due to more memory allocation and less simplicity. My question then, is how does a site like http://orisinal.com pull it off? I'm working on a project now where I ...more >>

Can someone suggest the steps to track down why some people can see my Flash animation and others see the shockwave logo? I'm thinking it must be something on their machines - like which viewer, or some settings. We already tried downloading the latest viewer from Macromedia. THANKS SO MUCH! ...more >>