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Hello. I'm quite new to this. When making Flash movies it seems that the Text in flash is pretty basic, unlike in fireworks where u can do allsorts of stuff to it. Is this right? If i want to create a movie (for example Flying letters) do i have to make the text up in fireworks letter by lette...more >>

I recently purchased a book on how to make Flash games. There is a sample game on a CD that comes with the book . When I open it up, it only has one layer in the timeline. I can peek into the library and see various movie clips, bitmaps, sounds, buttons, etc. But how do I add something to ...more >>

Wanted to build a slideshow where the slides rotate automatically without interference from user. It will just move from slide 1 to 2, then 3,... , and the end, it will move back to slide 1 and repeat itself. However, I have no idea how to make the slideshow to pause for a few second befo...more >>

I've been trying to use a preloader, which is causing my jpg images (when exported and played) to appear jaggy. I've used this preloader succesfully on swf's that don't have jpg. Here's what I've tried to fix it. 1.Changing from a framesloaded to a bytesloded style of loader. 2. Saving the jpg...more >>

I have 40 plus thumbnail images (embedded into a MC) that I need to put into a scrollable window. Total height of the mc is 4790.0. When I try to position it at 0,0, it tells me 'invalid size and position' Any one know what the max height of an MC can be? Thanks ...more >>

Does linking to an external quicktime even work? I followed the instructions in the help file and it still doesn't show up. I can't seem tofind any reason why it will not work. I imported a quicktime to my timeline and I am linking to an external file.It shows up when I scrub through the timel...more >>

So my orriginal movie was 600x400, but then i decided to put a lot of flash aroudn the outside of teh orriginal movie...so i made it bigger. The only problem is that flash doesn't give me registration options when putting in the new size of my movie and always expands the stage to the right an...more >>

So my orriginal movie was 600x400, but then i decided to put a lot of flash aroudn the outside of teh orriginal movie...so i made it bigger. The only problem is that flash doesn't give me registration options when putting in the new size of my movie and always expands the stage to the right an...more >>

I'm working on a flash logo for my website. On the logo I want to include a search form. I want the text input box to be partially transparent as it will overlay a background picture. I place the text input field in a movie clip, then adjust the alpha on the mc. It looks ok on the document win...more >>

Say I make an empty movieclip and place it on my main timeline. Now when a user clicks a button for example, I want a movieclip that is stored in my library to replace or load into the blank movieclip. How is this possible, I know could do it using external clips, but I want them to all be i...more >>

:confused; When publishing my flash work, selecting the fromat with flash and html, selected. Publishing will start and then crashing of the program will shut down half way during the publishing ? Why ...more >>

Am I right in thinking that everytime i refresh a web page, flash movies contained in that web page are re-loaded??? Is there any work around this problem, so flash movies do not need to re-loaded everytime a page is re-freshed. For instance, can we cache a flash movie in a web page?? ...more >>

This is possible in Flash After completing a presentation A Html page will call automatically Suppose there is a Html page named Index.html Ok And there is a presentation file named Pre.swf So after completing a Pre.swf presentation a Index.html page will be call automatica...more >>

Hi there, I am a semi-new flash. I have got my head around the basics for animation, but am now up to interactive elements. I am trying to create an interactive portfolio (just making the buttons play a movie clip). I am needing some guidence as to which direction I need to take. I don't ...more >>

Hi guys! I'm working on a CD presentation I make it full screen by the fscommand('fullscreen', 'true'); but the presentation have PNG images and JPG's so while it is full screen the images looks pixelated I set the movie dimensions on 1024*768 but it is still look pixelated on larger resolutio...more >>

Very upset about this - the flash downlaod page should be for flash only - and not the yahoo toolbar. Please please please - idealy - REMOVE the yahoo toolbar - if this is not possable then make the default selection for flash player only. This is WRONG having this toolbar on the player down...more >>

Hi I am tearing my hair out with this issue amd I am hoping it is just something daft that I have done or a know bug that I can fix with your help!!!! For some reason, Flash has started doing 2 odd things today... 1. It is adding a top and bottom margin/border/gap to all my published movies...more >>

Hello, I've made the graphics and transition animations for a digitial resume however the way it works is that when a link is pressed the timeline skips to the transition animation then i want it to change scenes. So basically i want to remember which link was pressed, then run a transitio...more >>

I know it must be simple but I can't figure out where I'm going wrong. I'm using MX Pro 2004. I want to change the font on all my comboboxes. They are all non-editable. So I used _global.styles.ComboBox.setStyle("fontFamily", "_serif"); _global.styles.ComboBox.setStyle("fontSize", 11)...more >>

Dear all, Could someone pls help me out on this one...... If you take a look at this website http://www.learnactivity.com/pages/lo.htm# The 13th learning object (from the top) is titled speed. When this educational resource is activated there is the animation of a road that keeps running ...more >>

I am running WinXP Pro and Flash MX 2004 Professional w/ 7.2 update. When I try to access Publish Settings via File Menu or Properties Pallet, it crashes Flash. Any and all help is much appreciated! |rossimo| ...more >>

I downloaded the Flash MX trial software twice today. Both times when I tried to extract the files with WinZip 9.0 SR-1, WinZip gave me an error when trying to extract Flash Installer_a.exe: invalid compressed data to inflate. Any ideas on how I can get a working trial? ...more >>

Hi I am creating a multipage site. When a btn is pressed i want to animate the current movie off then animated the new movie on.I can use loadmovie and unloadmovie to get the new 1 on but this just removes the cuurent page instantly wheras i want to animate it off over a number of frames. on...more >>

Hello all. We have a SWF that dyanamically loads media. It works on Windows XP, 2000 and 1998 in IE, but doe snot seem to work on a Mac in either IE or Safari. None of the media will load. We use images and video (flv). Anyone else have problems like this? ...more >>

:disgust;Macromedia loves their mothers balls. This is true. I have never given away my new email, until I purchaised a product fron these its. It said I need to give my email for notification of updates. As it turnes out, within dayes I am getting THOUSANDS of spammed junk mail. These fkers s...more >>

alright how do u make a synchronised soundtrack? i tried telling a file to start with a behavior, but when it says type the name of the sound instance, i dont know what to put. any help?...more >>

I was adding some basic "bleep" sounds to my buttons and they worked fine in flash, so I published the file. I checked it in windows, runninf the full index. htm file and everything worked perfect, but as soon as I posted it on the net, there was no sound. ...more >>

I really like to be able for my site to be able scale to any size - but when i use the scale option (per cent) it works great in safari + IE but is really teeny and werd in Netscape - it just displays in this narrow width in upper half of browser. I have read for netscape you cant use pe...more >>