I have a movie (Main) that loads another movie (nested). In nested I have locked the root with _lockroot, for multiple reasons. Is there a way I can comunicate with the Main movie from the nested movie? For examle: _root._root.gotoAndPlay() or Caller._root.gotoAndPlay() or something...more >>

How do I make graphics and animation in flash? I have been looking around at other's sites, and see a lot of people use some sort of frames page (how do you do this BTW) and when you click a link it "Fades" into the next page. How do you do this little bit of animation? How do you make gra...more >>

I have found that if I give the 'Number()' method a string with leading zeros that it assumes the number is in Base 8 and converts it to Base 10 before returning the primitive type number to me. For instance, if I have a string "014", and use 'Number', I get back a value that does not matc...more >>

Please help... anybody... I've created a custom theme, only by changing colors in the default HaloTheme.fla. I changed the red parts into another color. I've created a new flash document (many times), imported the modified and saved theme file as external library, dragged the main asset ...more >>

how do i create a pop up in flash using AS w/out using a browser? this is for a flash cd- rom i'm creating....more >>

Hi All!! How can I make a flash movie's background transparent so that it won't show the BG when I export it to Adobe After Effect? Thank you very much in advance!! Lasbi:(...more >>

I'm trying to scale a dotted line. It's easier if you look at the test: http://www.jolyonruss.co.uk/dotted-test.swf Is there a way to get flash to draw the line properly (not quish them with motion tween or just default to a solid line with shape tween) short of frame by frame animat...more >>

Hello All! I am a developer, but not in the Macromeduia Universe. With other words, from your point of view I am a simple user. I have just purchased an AMD Athlon 3400+ system (64 bits architecture) and installed MS XP Pro x64 operating system on it. Everything works fine and fast. My h...more >>

hi. I use different movieclips that load into a movieclip according to user input. Most of them have numeric steppers in it and one of them does have a combobox and radiobuttons. If i choose for the one with the combo and the radio buttons and then turn back to one with the steppers, ...more >>

I'll give an example: I want to bring an irregularly shaped object, such as a flowering plant, onto the stage in Flash MX 2004. When I do so, the plant appears, but it is in a square frame with a white background. How do I remove that background from the image so that the only thing showing on...more >>

When I publish file to quicktime movie, I have error "The Installed version of QuickTime have not handler for this type of Macromedia Flash Movie. Please Consult the documentation for further information." I use Flash MX Professional 2004 ver 7.0 and QuickTime 6.3 from bundle CD. I use Windows...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to get the http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/download/search_engine/ to work. I've read the readme-file over and over and over... but I just don't see what to do. Actually I even didn't find the instructions in there :confused;. So my question: How do I get the...more >>

Hi all, i don't have a real problem but it's really annoying: *.ASC Files are associated at my computer with GnuPG . originally *.asc files are Signatures from PGP /GPG. But Flash always associate them with itself as Actionscript files on every start. Is there a way to prevent flash from d...more >>

I have several .swf files triggered to start by buttons on the stage. Unfortunately some of them are quite large and I was wondering if it is possible to make them all have preloaders before they start playing. They are all the same width/height if that helps. ...more >>

A few years back I saw this cool image bank on the flash home page. It was like 40 images that comprised this rectangle shape. As I rolled over the images they each would float up off the row and grow in size. Each was a link to either a page or a larger image. Does anyone know how to do this...more >>

I have a fairly simple project that I am working on in Flash 4 (maybe that's the problem) and it is driving me crazy. In a nutshell, I have 12 PNG images with transparency that I have converted into single frame movie clips. The 12 movie clips are divided into 3 categories and there is a b...more >>

Hello All, I have a .swf file which displays .jpeg files on a web browser. Due to jpeg HEAVY File size, I want to use tiff images. Can I display tiff images in a .swf ? Please help Thanks Prasu ...more >>

One thing... is it possibel to use Mpeg4 in Flash ? can i use Mpeg4 movie files like flv files or Swf files.. we ore talking about progresiv download if this is possibel where can i find some infomation on this subj. ...more >>

Don't you think Flash is one of the most difficult programs to master? For those of you gurus out there, what's your secret?? I wanna be a guru too!!!...more >>