I was wondering if anyone knew how they animated a lot of the stuff on http://www.drivethrurecords.com/theroomstoocold/movie.html. Like on the preloader how it draws the lines and all throughout the opening how it's as if the lines were being drawn by a pen or pencil. It's as if the object is ...more >>

What piece of code do i need to employ to see my .swf file appear on my web page. Any help would be much appreciated. Tahnks...more >>

Hi guys. I am new with flash. I am intermediate with html. I have created an animation in flash (.swf). Is there any simple snippet of code which will incorporate my animation in a table cell of an html doc? Any level of help will be much appreciated as i am trying to get my business off t...more >>

For my grad school flash class each student has to have a web page that allows the professor to download our .fla files. My page is built entirely with Flash but I can't get it so that she can simply download the .fla file for grading purposes. The browser tries to read the file as a text fi...more >>

Does anyone know why I am able to download the flash player, but the computer will not install it?...more >>

Hey Guys, I know someone out there can help me. I have a client that insists on using these http://www.personsdesign.com/top_menu.swf for the navigation, the only problem is he doesn't know where he got them and I can find them anywhere. Does anyone know were I can find buttons like these, or ...more >>

Hey Guys, I know someone out there can help me. I have a client that insist on using these http://www.personsdesign.com/top_menu.swf for the navigation, the only problem is he doesn't know where he got them and I can find them anywhere. Does anyone know were I can find buttons like these, or s...more >>

:beer; Hi! Here is my dilema: I just recently downloaded swishmax trial with the intent to develop stand alone flash animations to add to my web pages via ms word but it wouldnt allow me to do that. There were options to cut and paste into Front Page and Powerpoint but not directly...more >>

I need a flash detection script that will work in safari ie5.2 and pc browsers as well. I currently have one and t works in PC browsers only. what i need it to do is if flash is present document.write <object>flash content</object> else document.write <div>non flash content</div> Basic...more >>

My flash app is an exe that accesses xml data off of a server by using myXML.load('path/to/xml/here');. I am using System.security.loadPolicyFile('http://www.domain.com/crossdomain.xml') to allow access to the data from remote apps. My cross domain policy contains the following code: <?xm...more >>

When I import an FLV into an FLA, then publish the FLA as a SWF, the FIRST time the SWF is opened and played, the imported FLV begins playing on a random frame, rather than the designated starting frame (example: FLV begins playing on frame 50, rather than frame 1). However, on subsequent pla...more >>

Hey All, I have some .png files and I want to have them in my Flash file. How can I get rid of their background? Thanks!...more >>

can you have 2 start drag on movie clips coz i have a mask thing that has start drag and another movie clip that needs start drag but it wont work...more >>

some antivirus programs block my flash site in the browser( activex ) and dosn't allow the client to enter the site, is there anyway to resolve this problem and let all computer enter my flash site...!!!?? ...more >>

Hi there! I was working on some flash banners and came across this: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14981 Does this information still apply? I wanted to do 20 - 24fps but am a little scared to, but then... The info in the link seems really old. (Look at t...more >>

Hi, I am total newbie for flashMX. I need to create a flash intro for our website. All i want to create is a movie with one image and some text (with effects) on that image changing as the movie is created. Can anybody suggest me a quick tutorial to do something like this? I am using Flash...more >>

Hello everyone, this is my first post here, so I salute you all warmly. Here is my problem, i have a main timeline with a play button which loads a swf movie containing a song. On the main timeline, i have a movie clip called ticker which displays either "name of band" when play button isnt ...more >>

HI! I need to load external swf file into my main swf animation - and I need it to stay in certain position - I know the scripto to load a movie, but ho do I load it to an empty mc ? And What is empty mc ? how do I create it? Please help! ...more >>

I'm using Flash MX 2004 Pro: How can I stop an imported Quicktime video from looping? I see it looping after I publish my .swf file. :( I just want the Quicktime video to play once and then stop, but have the rest of the .swf continue to play. Thanks. ...more >>

how to set the playhead to specific scene while the button is inside a movie clip?...more >>

When i choose to open a FLA. file from the start_files folder, it tells me that the file format is invalid. How is this so? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to mask a video using a png or jpeg? It seems to only work when I mask using a shape that I make. Anyone know what I am doing wrong?...more >>

I've run into a problem. Is there a way to get around the .exe extension and problems of virus software not opening them? I've tried sending the files to a client and he cannot open them on his computer, even if he does get it through his email, the company firewall will not run an executable...more >>

I have a timelinebased flash with 3 'zones of activity'. For organization sake I have placed all the motion and animation for each zone in its own movie-clip, and on its own timeline within that movieclip. After doing this I realized I have no clue how to stop the main timeline (which is its...more >>

Hope someone can shed some light on this. I'm trying to write an swf file parser and have seen a few examples. But, I'm having problems uncompressing the data in swf files output by MX 2004. Was something changed starting with that version? The file format specification says that it uses ...more >>

Hi, I just wondering, does flash does clipping everytime it renders a vector drawings which are out of animation screen ? Right now I'm making somekinda games which requires drawing polygons for the background so I want to know wether I must add my own clipping algorithm to sort my drawings...more >>

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I have flash 04 pro, ver7.2 and everytime I try to import an mp3 I get 'One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them.' I sent the mp3 to another team member and they were able to import it without problems. I was then able to drag it from their library to mine. ...more >>

i am looking to load 'scene 2' from a flash MX [not 04] file from a url variable... such as http://mysite.com/file.swf?scene=2 how can i push the file to scene two from this variable? thanks!...more >>

Hi Flash Developers, I'm creating an observation, experiment, survey and analysis on how people (programmers), or Computer Scientist form logic. Actually, I'm doing a study where from this, I can formulate so that students who are learning how to program could adapt same formulation of ...more >>

I have six buttons that are images moving and are under mask. I want to use rollover to stop motion of the image they rollover then show enlarged image of that image. I can not get any of the actions add to button to function. When I run swf it recognizes the button however nothing happens. He...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to change the look of the MediaController component Play/Pause button. The method i'm using is re-saving the 'MediaComponents.fla' file in the Flash applications - configuration folder, customising it via the library and then exporting a new SWC file into my 'user' components ...more >>

Hi i have created a web site in flash at http://www.mpgcontracts.com any feedback would be good and a solution to y it runs so slow after a while and suggesstions on hw and where to place a preloader, thank you ...more >>

What format should the song be saved in? I've saved it as .wav and .fla. But I get an error message when I try to import it saying "One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them." Any help would be great! Thanks! Morgan ...more >>

I have an .exe that loads in a swf off of my server. the loaded swf accesses xml information that resides on the same server. When I look at the swf in a browserI am running into a cross-domain-policy where it loads the data from http:domain.com but won't load it from http://www.domain.com....more >>

I'm not quite sure if I should post my question here or in the Dreamweaver forum. I was wondering if there was any special way you could add a Flash movie into your CSS in Dreamweaver. Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Morgan ...more >>

Hello, We've been given some HTML files which use a Flash file in them. So the user is able to zoom in or out of the vector image in Flash by right clicking and selecting zoom in or zoom out. From there the user may select a number of things to click on which take the user to a differ...more >>

I have a movie clip which has rollover frames ('rollover1');and rollout frames ('rollout1'). Tag is: onClipEvent (load) { stop(); } on (rollOver) { tellTarget (rollover) { gotoAndPlay("rollover1"); } } on (rollOut) { tellTarget (rollover) { g...more >>

Hi this might be trivial for many but its kinda buggin me to the rooooots. can anyone tell me how do i postion my swf file on the screen on the top left corner (x=0; y=0) or any other postion i want greafulllllllll to all those who'ld stop by and reply thanks! ...more >>

Is it possible to create a flash projector file to act as the front end to a CD, that loads various files from the CD such as Word files? Thanks Nick...more >>

Hi, I have a sample SWF file and I'd like to use the sound track on another file. How can I extract the audio and place it in a new animation. Thanks Roby ...more >>

Is it possible to get the action for the buttons (on release) without having to type it? Can anybody help.Cheers!...more >>

Hi I'd like to have some text with the emboss effect. Is there a way of doing this other than importing a gif from photoshop? Thanks Roby ...more >>

Hi folks, I have an xml that I parse out and then create text fields for the data. I'm trying to get it to add a href in the text field but it does not show up. example: var myUrl = "http://www.myurl.com/"+baseName[i].attributes.name+".swf"; _root.createTextField(("my_txt" add i), i, 150...more >>

am using the following code to open a pop-up html window that is playing a QT file: on (release) { getURL ('javascript:openHTML('../media/audio/bb_choppil.html','audio',0)'); } for one reason or another, nothing is happening on mouse click. can someone give me some help IMMEDIATELY?!?! th...more >>

I have a movie that I'd like to reduce in size. It is a slideshow-type movie with lots of images. I'd like to change the JPEG compression to reduce the file size. I can set it to 10 or 100 and it always looks the same and the file size doesn't change. I tried reinstalling Flash, but nothing ch...more >>

Hi, I was working on an FLA over our network. On an attempt to save, I lost the network connection and the FLA just dissapeared on the server! Does anyone know how I can recover it?? Thanks - Trevor ...more >>

Can you show me how to add an action script on an image? Like I want to create URL link on the image. I did click on the action and click on "+" (add script) but an image cannot be used by script codes at all. How? ...more >>

Everytime I export my main .fla to a .swf, the main actionscript is being stripped -- I've used the flaire program to check the actionscript and it seems to keep the object oriented commands but none of the more complex scripting. I checked the publish settings and they seem to be fine. I'm wo...more >>

I have Flash 5 and am trying to import a .mov file into it. I've searched the Help function and saw that you can import Quicktime .mov files, and that's what I'm trying to do, but can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone know anything about this? Any tips? Easy instructions? I'm not an A...more >>

Hi all, I have recently been asked to create a small flash file which has a few .mov files embedded into it. I have set up all the rollovers, buttons etc however when I came to import my .mov files a message displayed stating 'Flash doesn't recognise the file format of [file name of .mov]. W...more >>