I am currently using Flash MX 2004. How can I open an image for a hotspot? Please description of menu on the top of the window so I'll know where to add an image. Thanks....more >>

Hello, Media Controller lets me drag the playhead to a new time in the MP3 while it?s playing - but only when I ?Test Movie?within Flash. Outside of Flash, in the SWF Player or Browser, I can no longer drag the playhead to advance/rewind the MP3. I need this feature to work... W...more >>

I created a simple navigation page using Flash MX 2004, and when I view it on a Mac, the "hit state" of the button is visible when I click it. Aren't hit states suppossed to be invisible? It works fine on a windows based PC. I am using Mac OS X Panther with the Safari browser and the latest up...more >>

how exactly does a preloader work? im doing a site that is displaying images and i would like to be able to freely place a pre loader anywhere the image loades but i dont understand how they work. is it just code that you place before the keyframe of th image or the tween into the image? c...more >>

every time i attempt to reshape an object like a square. it resizes BOTH SIDES of the shop instead of just the side i want to extend or make smaller. how can i make it to where i click the resize tool and can resize ANY side however much i like without affecting the other sides?? ...more >>

I'm looking for a program that i can buy that will make customized preloaders for flash and .flv files. Does such a program exist?...more >>

I have a javascript menu (created in Fireworks) located right above a flash movie. When I mouseover the menu it drops down behind the flash movie. Photos do not overlap the menu, but flash files do. How do I get the menu to overlap the flash movie, instead of what is happening now? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I am making an animation that uses several movies. For some reason the main movie doesn't play to the end, but one of the placed movie clips starts repeating itself. You can see it at www.e-claire.nl/flash/question.htm. The FLA file can be downloaded as well. What am I doing wrong? ...more >>

Please Help. I Import An Image Of Sonic Into A Background Of SA2-Level-7 And The Transparency Does Not Preserve, Leaveing Me With An Ugly White Patch :|...more >>

I've been using Flash MX to create animation to place in a video. So, I've been exporting my work to .AVI, and up until a minute ago this worked just fine. I just added a few more seconds of animation, and now my .AVI is unusable. Media Player complains of a missing codec. VirtualDub said ...more >>

How can I download someone elses flash movie from a html page?...more >>

Hi....I've tried the example that is written in the manual of Flash MX 2004 regarding the Progress Bar Component but it doesn't work.....I've listed it below....Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work ? Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...more >>

I have looked at many tutorials on loading images dynamically and they all seen to do it differently and make it so difficult. All I want to do is click on thumbnail buttons on my page which will grab an image dynamically from an external folder. To add or change images, I want to be abl...more >>

My boss tasked with building a Flash animation in a very short period of time. I am looking for any .fla files I can easily download (preferably free) to help me get this done on time. I would appreciate any suggestions for good websites where I might find such files. Thanks. ...more >>

how do i Load?a text File into flash...more >>

I've created a demo with voice over sound but I have problems on playback on Some CD-rom drives where it is faster or slower and becomes out of sync from the movie. Anyone have knowledge of how to sync sound in this situation. Thanks. ...more >>

I have created a flash project, added components and then imported a video file and included a video controller. Trouble is, when export the movie and run it I have no audio. Cannot figure it out and would appreciate any knowledge, explanations or help. Cheers ...more >>

I'm trying to make a tween that makes a button transparent... I can do this easily with fonts and type by using the alpha channel after creating the tween... but for some reason this is not working for the bitmap I'm using. The idea it make a looping button that pulses from opage to the origi...more >>

I haven't really used flash since 5.0, and I'm getting back into it. I understand that MX 2004 places more weight on Action Script, and I'm learning, but there were some things that were very easy to do in 5.0 that I can't find in 2004. For example, if I want a button to make the playback ...more >>

how do i make a costom scroll bar...more >>

How to make, when page is preloading, on number of percentage to, do something (for example, on 30% to tell "music", on 50 "film"...) ?...more >>

I set text to full justifaction / multiline for "Dynamic Text" in the .FLA file. When I test the movie, the text shows left justification. Is there something I'm over looking to keep my full justification ? ...more >>

I want to load a picture into flash with just haveing the picture in the folder how would I do that?...more >>

Hi. Here's the situation. I have animated movie clip that's suposed to be button. That button should play animation on press. The problem is, I dont know how to convert movie clip to act like a button. any help? thanx ...more >>

Can't quite seem to figure out how to add a song to my flash project. Any insight would be very helpful... Thanks!...more >>

I can set full justifaction (and line to multiline) for "Dynamic Text" in the ..FLA file, but when I "Test Movie" the text shows left justification. Is there an action script avaliable to set full justification for a (multiline) Dynamic text line? H E L P!!! ...more >>

Hi Most of the stuff I do is cartoon character animation involving many layers and tons o tweens. One of the most common tasks in this is to make something happen, then make it happen in reverse (eg put your hands in the air, then take em down again). Obviously, the quickest way to do this...more >>

I have taken about 3-4 minutes of video and squeezed them in Sorenson sqeeze to a flash file with an embeded player. It seems to take forever (3-4 minutes)to load up. Is it because my file is so large (59 meg) or should I not embed the player? ...more >>

Can someone please tell me if there is a way of making a dynamic text but linking it through Microsoft Word. In my Word Document I have everything formated with bullets and tabs and so forth. Is there a way of linking a dynamic text to a Word document? Or is there a better way to do this an...more >>

we have a site that is built on the fly by using loadMovieNum to stack layers on top of each other. it has worked out really well for us, but everything that we have done has involved passing variables directly to swf files. i would like to be able to generate an entire page in the site ...more >>

I have only just delved into Flash but have experience with other languages and such. And I have completed the tutorials shipped with Flash, and I want to get more advanced so can any of you give me any links or help on getting better at the aspects of flash and getting into more advanced flas...more >>

do you know a cms in flash? ...more >>

I have made a button in flash and i want to use it again but have different text how do i do this...more >>

Hi, need help with AS code someone passed me some time ago (see Flash general Discussion Forum - Topic Title "animate text field letter by letter?" - Created On 01/10/2005 11:08:17 AM ) Here's the code: // copy paste to frame in flash and preview function create(str) { for (var i = 0...more >>

I am a newbie working with Flash MX 2004, and have encountered a bit of a problem with shape tweening. I have been trying to morph two images into each other. I have tried several file formats, from psd to gif, and have broken them apart, turned them to graphics for motion tween, filled contou...more >>

I am a newbie working with Flash MX 2004, and have encountered a bit of a problem with shape tweening. I have been trying to morph two images into each other. I have tried several file formats, from psd to gif, and have broken them apart, turned them to graphics for motion tween, filled contou...more >>

i want to copy all the swf files cached from my temporary Internet Folder to a new folder.(offline)...more >>

Hello, all; I just downloaded the Sound Preloader example from Moock.org, and it looks very similar to what I need. However, I want the sound not to play until/unless the user presses a button. Unfortunately, I've been over and over the code and can't figure out which part tells it to sta...more >>

I'm trying to load a simple text file into my movie using the command loadVariablesNum("textfile.txt",0); The file contains variable like m=Sometext&k=someothertext etc It gets loaded perfectly when the text file contains English characters. But when the file contains foreign characters it does...more >>

Does google index the content of flash sites? If so, how does it do it?...more >>

Is it possible to change a div in an html page using a flash button? Thanks in advance for any help! ...more >>

I am useing the getURL to open an html window that i made in dreamweaver. I want it to open at a set size. just like the open browser comand in Dreamweaver. can anyone help?chris@crashfamily.com...more >>

How do I link a quicktime mov file that is on a website into a flash video? Thanks...more >>

I have posted a multi-language version of an animation for operating systems in German, French, Spanish, Japanese. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated as I have no idea of whether this has worked. The animation is at http://www.johnkyrk.com/aminoacid.html Thank you. ...more >>

I'm doing a website and I need some help with a bit of flash programming...Let me break it down for you: I'm going to put a jpg as the background image and off it will be some links that are in the shape of notes (music website.) When you click them, A small rectangular windows should pop up...more >>

How can you make an image work with buttons like if you press A it will skip to frame 20 or however it works cant figure it out.. tnx for any help...more >>

My new laptop has native 1400x1050 resolution and it seems Dreamweaver, Flash, etc. cannot properly display their text at this resolution in their standard toolbars. For example all the text in the 'Insert' and 'Properties' toolbars are very blurry and unreadable. Is there a fix for this? P...more >>

I am told from time to time that I need flash player at certain web sites. So I downloaded Flah Player and Shockwave. But, what are they, and where are they? Neither is on my Desktop or under Applications. Are they applications or plug-ins? Is Shockwave a part of Flash? Is Shockwave ...more >>

Hi, Thanks in advance for any help. I just upgraded to Flash 7.2 on a Mac running OS10.3.7. When I have created a graphics symbol, and then put an instance of it on the stage, there is no box for the instance name like there is for a movie clip instance when selected on the stage. ...more >>

I am starting a project that will run about 70,000 frames. I have created the file, added 70,000 frames and droped an audio file onto a layer. If I save the file, close Flash, and then reopen the file; I lose 65,000 frames. Has anyone else had this problem of Flash loosing frames when the p...more >>

Hi, I have a TextArea that I am loading html formatted text into and showing as html, this works fine except the "+" character does not appear, can anyone help please? Thanks Nick...more >>