I am working on a Mac. I have created several forms in Freehand MX 2004 and saved them individually as pdf files. I am creating an entire site from Flash MX 2004. I want to be able to click a button and have it open the saved pdf in Acrobat Reader. Do you have to have the J-Start program?...more >>

Supposedly a lot of people want to switch to Firefox and some MMedia evengelists like urami even have buttons on their sites encouraging people to use Firefox instead of IE. The problem is that whenever you install Firefox, you have to install the flash plug-in all over again. It is not inclu...more >>

Hey, anyone want to join in in making big branches of RPG sites, based on different things, entirely with Flash? Post here if you have ideas, or if you want to help out on making this happen. I wanna make a site with a huge line of interactive PRG sites, like adventure stuff, but with dif...more >>

I am trying to stream an into on the homepage of my flash site because it is taking dial up users too long to load, but i went thru the tutorial and it told me to export the movie as an .flv i have macromedia flash mx 2004 and it doesnt give me that option, any help? ...more >>

Hey guys, I need some help. Ive been messing around with my design, trying to add a preloader, but that is a whole other issue. Ive since removed the preloader scene and now when i try to test the movie or scene or I try to publish the movie, it freezes in the middle of doing so. I canno...more >>

Hello everyone, www.reliefvouchers.co.uk is now up and running. I'm posting this link for feedback on a professional basis, as in - Does it work ok on all platforms? How do you think useability could be improved? Is it accessible to a sufficient level? Any thoughts on the design - ...more >>

Hello all, I have created a flash animation, were I have made 2 cars (tween animation) to start and stop at the same time (same frame). My question is: Is there any way to change either car's animation speed (frame speed) and keep the other to its original speed.......??? Thanks a lot.......more >>

Hey All, I'm creating a program for a university project that uses Director 3D. Within the 3D environment i have wrote some lingo that allows me to add and remove objetc using the "addtoworld" script. All this works fine. My problem is that i want to use flash to house the director window ...more >>

:confused; how to use scroll pane??? why the button inside the scroll pane cannot use??? plz help urgent...more >>

Can anyone please help? I have a 30-sec movie (flv) that loads fast. But for a second or so while the it's loading a white box appears where flash video will display. This white box against my black page background is the problem. What I would like to do is change this box to black so it ble...more >>

Hello. I am trying to export my Flash movie to a QuickTime (.MOV) format, and I'm getting the following error message upon clicking 'Publish': 'The installed version of QuickTIme does not have a handler for this type of Macromedia Flash movie. Please consult the documentation for further ...more >>

hello i have conducted a full reserach on the topic of how to make my flash site viewed by search engines. I came out with two main solution: 1. using css and 'z order'. 2. using agent detection, detecting that an agent is reading my site, and displaying html text only. so which one is better...more >>

Hello, I placed a Loader in the stage and transformed it into a movieclip. Inside the movieclip, i made an animation, but the loader doesnt display the image when animated!!!!!! bug??? if there is a solution, plz answer me... thx IanLiu ...more >>

I am very new to macromedia and I am completing a very simple menu site, my problem is that on the menu page i have buttons that simply just take them to a different scene ( on Release. (goto and play scene 2 frame1). everything works fine when i enable the buttons on the editor but when i tes...more >>

for 3 years, i didnt solve the following problem. flash 4,5,mx,mx2004, they all have this problem. plz read this carefully, it is very simple but is a big problem: A. import an image to flash, no matter it is, such as jpeg. resize the image, whatever, such as 73% now u have one frame, ...more >>

hi, I have build a site using dreamweaver (html) but with partially having some flash content. The flash player version requires minimum 7, so I have to worn the visitors to install the latest version, but I want to make this warning in a flash movie. I have get the get_flash_player.gif icon f...more >>

:confused; Hi, I have a flash movie which has animated buttons to other pages on my site that I am building. If I create a get url assigned to those buttons they work in test movie but when uploaded to my website they no longer work!!! I can't seem to think what I may be doing wrong...more >>

Guys I am trying to create site with image morphing, however am a complete newbie to Flash! Anway this is what i want to do: I have a selection of buttons each button is an image that when the mouse moves over morphs to a text phrase to say where that button goes to, i.e news, links or bio. ...more >>

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Hi to ALL, I want Flash MX 2004 Not (( Professional )), and not (( Professional with regular version at same time )) BAD Method I want Flash MX 2004 Separate of Professional and new, Please Help me. Please send me Link on That Mail: WaseemNet2000@Yahoo.com ...more >>

I can not get my pc running xp to open an fla file sent from a mac, this seems to be a problem that comes up on chat forms but I have not found a soultion yet:frown;...more >>

Hi! i've got a big problem: I have an mc (created with createEmptyMovieClip). Initially i load an image (jpeg) into the mc (loadMovie). This works fine. But then there is a problem. I set an interval (setInterval) to replace the image by another one each time the interval is triggered. The f...more >>

hi guys i have a problem with this and its that i wanted to edit a box that had text inside it and the only way to achieve this was to use the break apart method now that i have edited the text is there any way of merge these two objects back together (as in the box and the text) ? ...more >>

Hi All, I'd like to do a framework. Flash with html pages. There should be the main menu at the top of window, the submenu at the left side, and web pages in the middle. The top sets the left side, and the left side changes the html pages. I know there isn't html object inside Flash, so I ...more >>

is there a way to DYNAMICALLY load external image format of TGA or TIF? i'm writing an app for some video application and we always have image sequence to deal with. and th emost comoonly used format is TGA and TIF FMX 2004 seems can only load external jpg or swf does FSP has any thing to offe...more >>

As I said in the Topic Summary, the soundtrack to my project (an animation) slowly moves more and more out of sync with the actual animation itself the further I get into watching the exported swf. This syncing problem is not present in the flash-file itself. The soundtrack is approximately ...more >>

Hi group: I have Flash Player 7.0 and Shockwave Player 10.0 in my KTX1000 laptop and I'm wondering how I remove any cache they may store in my computer? It would seem to me that this cache should be removed periodically as I do with the cache that accoumulates in Internet Exployer 6.0. With...more >>

essentially thats my question in the subject line... attachMovie has removeMovie how can I get rid of a sound once I have "attached" it?...more >>

When I look the contents of SWF I can see files .pro .swap .tree. and so on. What are thouse and is it possible to look at the code somehow? Thanks Kalevi ...more >>

Is there any way to tell if a sound has been successfully attached? Or a movie for that matter... it doesn't seem to say "HEY there is no ID XYZ in the library?!?" If you LOAD it from the file system then you get problems but if you are loading from an ID and you spell it wrong or forget...more >>

Please can somebody help me with following issue: I have a graphic symbol called map (with several button symbols) which is the part of movie symbol map_mc and this is placed in the main Scene. There is also dynamic text field called Title - Var: name in the main Scene, where should change the...more >>

Hai I have 2 browsers,IE and Firefox.After a recent re-format I downloaded the flash player stand alone installer,but it falied to install .I tried doing it form the site with the same result.The error window says 'Failed to copy flash.ocx from c:/docu.../temp..This is very strange.On the ot...more >>

Ok... so I thought the best way to begin learning Flash MX was to purchase a Flash template that would fit my mobile DJ business and then make modifications myself. Here's my specs: PC OS with XP SP2 / Photoshop 7 / Dreamweaver MX / Flash MX When I purchased the template, I got all the F...more >>

I have a swf file created in SwishMax (Never used it myself) done by someone else and they are asking if a preloader can be made for it. Does anyone know if you can make a preloader for SWF files? Thanks. Tony ...more >>

im trying to get a back button to go from and html page BACK to a certain area in an swf file, how can i accomplish this? is this by means of an anchor point or actionscript, ive tried the as and the goto prevframe does nothing.:confused; ...more >>

I am trying to get a button on my flash file to link to a movie on a website, but whenever it gets clicked on it says the page cant be found or a load symbol comes up then disappears. on(release) { instanceName.getURL("http://www.angelfire.com/film/caradby4/breakaway.wmv"); } I hav...more >>

hi, i wish to have a animation with a person walking inside a shop.. but i do not how to go about doing it? can any1 help? Thanks ...more >>

im looking for a good tutorial on creating a guestbook. any help would be much appreciated. thanks...more >>

I have followed to help booklet with my flash and have been seeing some difficulty in getting motion....whenever i get a good motion tween that i like it dissapears...any suggestions? ...more >>

Is it possible to create a working "hh:mm:ss" alarm clock with its time synchronized with your own PC clock using Flash? If it is, any tips as to which functions I might find useful?...more >>