I have a small problem, yet it bothers me. When I use my pencil tool and set it to "straighten," my lines do not straighten. I continue to draw with the tool and yet nothing is "straightened." I have the same problem with "smooth." When I draw with the smooth setting on, nothing smooths out. I...more >>

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There are a dozen .swf files that I want to import into an .fla file. I want each one to play as a movie. The problem is that when I import them there are naming conflicts and the only options offered in the dialogue box are to replace the old ones with new ones, or not. Is there a way...more >>

:o I am a design student on winter break, and I wanted to learn more about Flash before the next semester begins, so I downloaded the trial. I (I know, please, no lectures here) set my system clock ahead to 2007 before I installed the trial version, and after install, I set it back to 2004. ...more >>

how do I make and implement these small movie clips that appear while the main movie clip loads? I'm a bit new to flash, I just need a small hint about this! thank you...more >>

Is there a glitch, more importantly a fix for some browsers resizing my 'scaleable' swf file? In IE I can scale it to my window size, but in FireFox and Netscape it is not scalable, and it is also not viewable! only 2' wide! www.studio66design.com any suggestions other than set it to a fixed...more >>

Hi - I am working on a cd project and have some very large movies that have to load (I have already told the customer they are to big, but anyway...) The movie files are 10 minutes long. I've been able to get them to work but I'm looking for suggestions on the absolute best way to compress, lo...more >>

Hello, I am getting ready to have my animation moved to dvd. However, it will be displayed on a plasma screen (46" wide). I have to make sure my movie will not distort when displayed on the widescreen. Can anyone shed some light on prepairing my movie for this type of migration? Stand...more >>

I've actually been using Flash off and on for awhile, but I've only started using it seriously for animation recently. Here's the problem. Say I've got a walk cycle all done with a character There are three layers-- one is the head and body, one is the arms, one is the legs. It's 16 frames lon...more >>

Hello, I have a .mov file of clouds rolling in the sky as a background layer of my movie. Is there any way I can speed it up within flash to play so it almost looks timelapsed. This swf is going into a mac. director projector file and the slow rolling video is really noticeable when opened...more >>

Hi , I am looking for any documenttaion tool that can document Flash movies, like it accepts *.fla file and tell you how many layers are there, how many frames are there, is there any action script being used if yes where and on which frame, can also document the action script files and can...more >>

ok. i am clueless when it comes to flashMX 2004 and i have no clue how to change the thickness of a line.......please save me....more >>

After importing and image I choose Insert > convert to symbol and I don't understand why but the screen goes into edit mode and I don't see the image, not even in the library. I see a circle in the corner of my stage. Is that the registration point ? what to do? ...more >>

Hi folks, Does anyone know how to create Single Choice Quiz by using Learning interactions in Flash MX (2004)? For Multiplechoice Quiz, you can select more than one answer. Is there any way I can limite the user to select one answer only? Thank you for your help in advance... Kevin ...more >>

Ok, new to all of this, and wondering if I could get an answer to the question that got me involved in the first place. I came across a website with some neat features. In other formats, I copy and / or download them, study them, and then try my hand at creating something similar, to se...more >>

OK... I?ve gone crazy trying to figure this out and still can?t find a way to solve it. I have two bitmaps, one is a happy face and the other is a sad face. They are practically the same except for the mouth and eyes. What I wanted to do was to transform using shape tweening the happy face int...more >>

Hey everybody. First of all check this site's menu >> http://www.design.udesc.br/ Can you see those icons? They really look like as if they were images, but when you give a zoom you can see they look as if they were drawn in flash. So my question is: Is there a way to convert images into fla...more >>

Text (*.txt -with couple of links to some pdfs) is loaded into text field. When an user click on those links it automaticaly opens pdfs in the same window - unless he/she right click that link and decide whether it will be in new window or not. And people usualy dont know that right click ...more >>

I'm settingm up my new site, consisting mainly in flash format. Does anyone know of a site that I can get a hit counter from and and second question is I would like to add a link to my page where the viewer can download a word document or .pdf. If you could supply me with the code or a site ...more >>

hi, i'm pretty new to flash and am stumped by what seems to be happening with my project. i'm building a very basic "scrapbook" for my all company meeting. i've got photos fading in and out on a couple layers and a layer of images moving across the screen. when i preview the file (in h...more >>

I have a an application that is divided into 4 chapters. Each chapter is a separate swf file. When a user finishes a chapter, they load the next one, etc so that only one swf file is open at a time. The chapters contain audio that a user can turn on or off. The audio for each chapter is contai...more >>

Ok, I've been working on my company software demo presentation for like a month and I have imported screen shots of my company software. When veiwing the movie in full screen the screenshots look fine however when they are at 100%, well anything less that full screen, they are blurry and unrec...more >>

I'm creating a flash project in which I load several swfs into different levels of a container swf. For example, "master.swf" loads "menu.swf" into level 5 and then "content.swf" into level 10. This works fine. But what I want to do now is load "popup.swf" into level 15. When "popup.swf" is loade...more >>

Hi, I got a C++ application I have built with Visual Studio and MFC. This very simple application imports the flash ocx and just call the play() function to play a list of 3 swf files. At the end it loops to play the list again. Those files have been built with Flash MX 2004. And I'm using ...more >>

I had my flash mx 2004 designer exam on the 28th of dec and passed with 85% and still my name didnt appear on the certified list , when do u update it ?? :S ???...more >>

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hi guys i know this must be very noob question but i have been playing around with flash and would like to know how to link a movie clip to a url, u see atm i have these objects buttons and i don't know how to link them to a url. I am able to link the text as they have an option in the propert...more >>

I made some advanced shape in flash then I saved it on my hard drive. FLA file have about 10Mb (and its only shapes). Next day i try open this file but I get message thet its out of memory and I can't open this file which i made. I have win Xp and 1Gb Ram and 4086 Mb psyhical memory and its ...more >>

Hey all, We're developing a traning course and we've externally linked our text files. What we're being asked to do is link our text files to a path that will vary: [snipped of page code] <param name="movie" value="/TB/Flash/TB45-Cat-03-02-01.swf?txtpath=/TB/Flash/"> ...more >>

:confused; I was wondering whether there are any ways that allow my flash file to load a fresh new copy every time I open it from the same browser, instead of cache it and retrieving it from HardDisk? ...more >>

1. I have this picture of a planet. I would like to cut it off from the rest of the picture so that there would be no backround, just circle shaped area. I tried that by cutting it in photoshop but when I paste it it creates black backround to that image. Is the some way to do this proberly?...more >>

:brokenheart; I have a link to an swf which has a basic transition in it. It loops even though I have turned loop off everywhere I could find the option.... help....more >>

I always seen that use flash for the advertisement like yahoo, click the left hand coner and browse the advertisement. Anyone know how to do it? Thank you very much <(_ _)>...more >>

This may be some screwball, novice, problem--but I am at my wits end. Everything was going fine, then my flash stopped working. I tried to re-install the program on the Macromedia website, and although it does download, it then does nothing... nor is it in my program list. I loaded shockwa...more >>

hi i have a movie clip with sound in it and stop/play button. i want that the stop button will not stop the song and the next time i'm pushing the play button the song will start all over again , i want it to act as a pause button . for the stop i use the stopAllsounds() what should i do...more >>

I made a mask layer. Then placed a movie clip that has a motion guide in it as a mask. Popped a pic in the layer under the mask and published the SWF. I have some streaks of the image under the mask appearing behind the object that moves across the mask. These appear roughly where the motio...more >>

How can I make a round object like a face turn or appear to rotate? Or at least what is the easiest way to do so?...more >>

Hi, I am desperately seeking some help. I have read the manual but there is not enough in-depth explanation for a beginner. Problem: When I compress this movie using Sorenson Squeeze, the voice comes out super fast. The video looks good and normal but everyone sounds like a chipmu...more >>

how do I rotate an object around a point or another object?...more >>

http:reenie.org/test/works.fla is a slightly modified xmlMenu.fla file from this tutorial: http://www.ultrashock.com/ff.htm?http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flashmx2004/databinding.php I just took out some of the unnecessary graphics. It makes an XML based menu, and it works fine. I tr...more >>

I am using Flash MX 2004 Professional trial version. I created a Windows and OS X app. The OS X app seems to work fine on my Mac and the Windows app seems to work fine on a friend's Windows machine. 1. One OS X person can't get the app to startup though. What are typical reasons this mi...more >>