HI, I just sold some flash i had made, just letting everyone know about this site, i made some fast money..:cool;...more >>

maybe you can help. i have a "home.swf" loaded into level1, from there you can load a "gallery.swf" on top (level2). once "gallery.swf" has loaded it fades in over "home.swf" in level1 and then unloads "home.swf" i.e. unloadMovieNum(1); i then need to swap the depth of the "gall...more >>

Can someone tell me the difference between frames and keyframes? I just started learning Flash and the current book I have does not elaborate on the difference between the two. Thank you....more >>

I can stop a sound if it's not steamed but if I get it to stream I cant stop it with a button. I'd like to just use the behavior to start the streamed mp3 but whatever works. ...more >>

:disgust; First off, I use Flash exclusively for 2D animation...short 2-3 second scenes mostly. I prefer to use the pen tool to draw vector shapes, rather than using the paint brush and a Wacom tablet. I have been using Flash for a few years now, and with each passing version, I am more ast...more >>

Can you please give me some feedback on: http://home.wanadoo.nl/mttiemensma/Library/intro.swf Does the movie play good enough and quick enough? What about the quality? I just saw a movie for ex. on georgemartin.com and it seems that it looks better and quicker. I wonder.... ...more >>

Once you learn about Animation, it says go to file and get this folder but its hard and cant find it, then once you have that folder, it says go to window, library, drag "tire" but I cant find the picture as its not there..... Andie ...more >>

Is there a way to properly burn a DVD-ROM containing an interactive video produced in flash MX? I need it to run on a regular consumer DVD player. NOT ON A COMPUTER, BUT ON TV. Please advise. Thank you for your help! ...more >>

ok let me explain what im thinking of first how would you keep the same backround, and while your holding in a certain key w/e and then when you let go the person/charactor would stop where you let go at then when you walk to the side all the way it would flip to a different backround.. ...more >>

Hello, I have created a Flash spot on a website that also has a drop down menu (Visual Quick Menu Pro). The menu shows up 'behind' the Flash so I've had to improvise (already called them and they have no fix). I've created the Flash movie to goto another similar page using a graphic instead o...more >>

Hi all When parsing XML, is there a dynamic way to find out how many nodes you have in an XML. So if I have XML that looks like this: <root> <node1>asdf</node1> <node2>jhhk</node2> <node3>dhsjad</node3> </root> The count should be 3 nodes. If I then reload it as: <root> <node1>asd...more >>

I have a banner 938 x 225.( in flash )I am not sure how to reduce / enlarge the size of the banner without making everything all blury or having the lettering stay the same and the background to the size I need Is this a problem with html (in which case can someone offer coding) or can i m...more >>

I'm sure this has come up from time to time before, but I don't see anything at the moment in the Fourms, at least nothing Search could turn up. Anyway, I have a few FLV video files I'd like to convert BACK to a more common format like AVI or MPG. I've found a number of utilities which w...more >>

Okay, I am a novice flash user, and am having a heck of a time getting a 3 minute quickitime movie into my flash webpage. Basically, I want to have a "player" window, where one can click and make the movie start. Is there a way to do this without inserting the 2500 frames necessary when one ju...more >>

I've been trying to link a new button to a scene in a flash presentation I am updating, and I can't figure out why its not working, it should be the easiest thing in the world ...any way when I export the movie and test the first sene the button is on, the button will blink for 5 seconds and ...more >>

OK, I was originally trying to create a motion tween animation for moving clouds to the right in front of a sky blue background, but that problem led me to a new problem. Now, when I try to insert a keyframe, the circle on the bottom is not filled in, and before it was. What is the differenc...more >>

I have a vendor that is building a screensaver for our corporate users. The architecure calls for a screensaver based on a swf file that will load content off a central server. The server is on our intranet. According to the vendor, the swf will use XML to determine when the content server sho...more >>

Hi All - I am working on a cd project that will play on both mac and pc. I have a very large swf file that is going to load on release on level 10. It takes several minutes for the swf to load and while it does I would like to show the viewer "movie is loading" statement. I created a "movie lo...more >>

hi, im building a website, but the preloader will not work. it stays blank for a long time, quickly flashes 100%, then loads the page. here is a link http://www.margoducharme.com/db/TEST.htm the swf is failrly big (5.4mb) because it holds many sound files is it possible to have a sepe...more >>

I'm using a setMask command to view dynamic jpg images loaded from a folder on the web. During testing with all the images locally it worked fine. Now moving the images to the web and running the flash file embedded in an html document the mask no longer works. Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

Hi all. I'm making a movie that loads variables from an external text file. I am wanting to enter a CR at the end of each line for the end-user who will be maintaining the variables in the text file, but when I leave the movie in the following format it doesn't work: line1_name=TV Manual &...more >>

Hello Everyone, Hopefully one of you can help me with this utterly intractable problem. I've been tearing my hair out over it for the past few days. None of the solutions I've found seem to work (either that, or I've been implementing them incorrectly). Help! My flash piece consists of...more >>

when im on flash i cnt get my buttons to work. ive flash mx 2004. Basically i use the on. (realease) (gotoandplay)() but when i press the button it dosent goto and play the part i want! help me plz. just tell me the actionscript for a play button for multiple choices! thnks ...more >>

I have a site for a friend that is running for the city council in Glendale, CA (www.pfield.org). I have to <hr> rules that go the width of the page. I would like to scroll a list of quotes of people saying good things about the candidate across the page. Optimally, when going from one page...more >>

Does anyone know if there is an archive of old topics going back years on this website? Was looking for some old stuff and can't seem to find it....more >>

Hey In Flash MX is there anyway to use or use the equivilent of Cascading style sheets? I'd like to create some generic text formatting throughout a global style. Thanks...more >>

I am missing something, or I need to adjust a setting. My site is kegosaurus dot moc. Also, an image of text (is not text) looks very aliased and fuzzy. Any ideas?...more >>

Hi, I'm having a strange problem with the Flash Player plugin on a machine which has Windows 2000 Professional installed, with every available Microsoft update, using Internet Explorer. The user who normally uses that PC sometimes encounters Flash movies on the web which he cannot play. ...more >>

Hi!!! I have had problems qith text from Corel Draw...I created it and i needed it into flash...so i export it as a JPEG BITMAP and after that i import it into Flash Library...This makes it lose quality and have many lines converted into pixels and i dont know how i can correct it...please...more >>

Does anyone know how to delete a custom panel layout? Thanks!...more >>

I'm developing a flash movie for a client and they want 4 separate flash movies on the home page and they will be played on the page in the same place. So after one movie plays, the next one will play and so forth and the cycle will repeat. Does anyone know how to do this? Should I make one...more >>

i am trying to make 3 buttons by copying from one that's already made. how do i make them independent from each other?( currently, if i modify one, all the others got midified.) helen...more >>

Hello Don't know if I'm in the right thread, but hope so. ;) I'm creating a simple enough cd-rom that basically lets the user choose from a number of files (either pdf, ppt and mpg) and open them in their native applications. I used Northcode's Proxy.exe for the PC part and it works perfectly...more >>

Either I'm a moron or just blind, but I can't seem to find anything on this. Can someone explain to me how to make cirlce (just the outline) morph into a larger square (outline). Once the square is made it needs to bounce a little. Anyone got a link to show me how to do this? ...more >>

a long time ago, i saw something called FlashSaver i believe. i think it was a free download and would turn a SWF into a screensaver. i need to make a screensaver for work and i wanted to use flash, since a 355meg uncompressed AVI of my flash animation isn't going to be practical (and neithe...more >>

Can anyone assist me in setting up forms for a website. i have alot of books on flash and making forms, but the thing is that my mind works best when i have a structured example of what to do. reading the words and description are good but confuse me a bit especially with alot of the lingo. I ...more >>

I deleted the entire first scene of a movie, which was 2/3 of the total movie size and the .fla file is still the same size. I even went and manually deleted all the library items (mostly large graphics) that were not any longer being used and that makes no difference. Of course when I expor...more >>

Hello, I am struggling to set focus back to a Flash movie using Javascript: <script> alert("this is an alert") myMovie.focus() </script> The above doesn't work (myMovie is the correct "id" of the object tag in the HTML) but I can't work out why... Any help here would be hot ...more >>

I've unwittingly created a monster of an animation, and would like to know if there is a means of reducing it's file/size significantly. Without starting over. It's the intro toon at www.davespartyart.com Thanks. davechuck ...more >>

What would be the best way to acheive a Tell Target Action without using Tell Targets. When I was at MAX I spoke to the developers (Lightmaker) for J.K. Rowling's Web site and they mentioned that Tell Target actions will be phased out of future versions of Flash or maybe not supported and I s...more >>

I had an interface in MX 2004 that when you click on the menu it pulls in different swfs using loadMovie. The swfs are loaded into a mc that sits below a mask. I had no problem until I started using textarea and textfields. The textfields/areas show up fine in the standalone swfs. I turned off...more >>

Hi, I'm having a strange problem with the Flash Player plugin on a machine which has Windows 2000 Professional installed, with every available Microsoft update, using Internet Explorer. The user who normally uses that PC sometimes encounters Flash movies on the web which he cannot play. Most ...more >>

hey all, I have made a game with a save thing so it saves stuff to the cookies but peole have been complaing that they want to delete there cookies and dont want to delete there savings, so they wanted me to make it so it saves files to there computer, so it is like a real computer game, ...more >>

Hi guys, I want to create a flash interface to digitize paper documents. For that I think I'll need some kind of TWAIN32 interface. Does anyone know of some solution that enables this? Thanks Hugo ...more >>

Hello, I have some .eps files (of sheet music) which where created in a music notation software called Finale. When I open these .eps files in Photoshop they look perfect. However when I import them into Flash it tells me that there are some missing fonts. When I choose to substitute fonts ...more >>

I had a movie clip which i had to duplicate and then break apart and then create a similar movie clip out of. But the little '+' has now moved to the top left corner. How do i move the '+' without changing the movie clip? Is there a tool i use for this? ...more >>

Hi I'm wondering if anyone knows what is the recommended size (height and width) to make a Flash movie that will be displayed full screen at 1024 by 768 on IE so that at the default show all method it wont distort the movie proportionally? I've also heard there is an extension you ca...more >>

Hello all, I currently have a bit of a nagging problem. I have been using flash for some time but this particular issue has not troubled me before. My problem is that I have made a small flash app. and I am wanting to remove the "Macromedia Flash Player 7" title from the top of the window a...more >>

I'm not a Flash guy but have a pretty simple requirement I need to fill. Just a simple MP3 player... If anyone is interested in a contract for this job, please reply to me at fsqmedia@gmail.com and I will send you the specifications for a bid. Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this post, but ...more >>

here's what I want to do. This code in HTML would make the button I want; <form method="POST"> <p><input type="submit" value="my_event" name="run_event"></p> </form> and would post to a programs web server that I am running. It works in HTML, but I don't like the look of the standard ...more >>

Hi The puzzle.fla movie in the tutorial folder of Flash mx has text in it which has been converted to shapes (modify - break apart, modify - break apart) and then selected and grouped. So my question is why has this been done because the movie seems to present this "text" just as it would do...more >>

Hi I want to learnactionscript i have brief knowledge of it but really want to get into it, can anyone reconmend me any books to learn from please? thanx...more >>

I would like to encode and compress a series of movies to FLV Flash. The end product is to go on a DVD. The original movies are: PAL 25 frame rate, total 256 MB / size 720 x 576. I have about 500 of this movies. I would like to get these movies to play back at high quality FLVs and I need...more >>

I want to create a page only with a button and when I clic the button an image becames visible... Tank you for helping me!!!!!!!!!:disgust;...more >>

Ok. If anyone can help I would appreciate it. I currently have 4 looping videos on a flash site. Any animation on the page stutters while these videos are looping. I understand that this is probably a draw on the system or browser, etc. Does anyone have a possible workaround to make thi...more >>

I Have Made An Online Radio. I Created It Ages Ago... But Could Not Get The volume and station bars to properly work. Now, i have done it again. Using flash instead of javascript for the bars. When moved, the bars send commands to javascript using fscommand. I Have The Station Bar Ab...more >>

My FLash MX does'nt support Right to left(Such as Arabic) language On Windows XP I Install These language on language Setting but when i Type In Flash Stage my type reverse...more >>

I've created a web site in flash and published it using the default settings. When I tried to launch it in Explorer I get the 'You don't have the latest Player' message. I've run the test and show that indeed I have the latest and greatest. I tried publishing the site with detection turned off...more >>

I'm trying to use HTML text to create a text button with underlined text in the over state. I've set the render HTML for the TextField, but I can't find where you set the HTMLText. There doesn't seem to be a HTMLText property in the properties of the TextField. And I can't use ActionScript to ...more >>

Hi- I need to build an Audio player/Jukebox in Flash that will grab either mp3's or stream files. I can have the audio/songs in any format I request. It would also be amazing if this little player would show the album cover graphic as it played. Here's a sample of what I need to build: http:...more >>

Hi, I have a .txt file that resides in my webspace at MyJavaServer: http://www.myjavaserver.com/~veerle/poll/test.txt I created a flash file that reads in this .txt file: frame 1: EOF="false"; loadVariables("http://www.myjavaserver.com/~veerle/poll/test.txt", "_root"); frame 3: if (E...more >>

Has anybody ever seen/used this template before? http://www.jaki-li.com What do you think of the site?[...more >>

am new to e-learning zone. can anybody suggests good e-learning flash sites? ...more >>

I have been trying to figure out why my flash navigation bar wont load, its really a simple navbar that could be done with photoshop and html but I set it up in Flash MX so that it would automatically publish it for me. Well after publishing it I added one image to the published html file, an ...more >>

Hey everyone, Due to target audience limitations, I only have the Flash 6 player available and I'm trying to replicate the functionality in Flash 7's Alert Box component. When the Alert Box is displayed, you cannot interact with anything on the stage until the Alert Box is closed. How could...more >>

Hi, If I have inserted a sound file(.wav/.mp3) into a fla file, is there anyway I can retrieve back to the original sound file from fla file under the Flash MX/MX 2004 authoring envirinment ? Thanks. ...more >>

I go to the download page and select to download it but it goes to the other page where it says that you should wait until a new window appears and select "dowload" or something like that... but in my computer nothing happens.... no new window, no program. and because of that i can?t see many ...more >>

Hi, I have been working with flash a wile and I am just wondering what happend to the flash MX Scroll bar? it is not in MX 2004. Just an idea for your next version of flash could you bring them back with a new look, or have like an adon download for MX 2004. dEcade ...more >>

This message appeared when i try to open the Flash MX 2004: FLASH caused an invalid page fault in module FLASH.EXE at 0167:00c3e097. Registers: EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=00c3e097 EFLGS=00010202 EBX=042d2890 SS=016f ESP=012fed20 EBP=012fedac ECX=00000003 DS=016f ESI=012fed6c FS=1a7f EDX=7f2da1...more >>

a home page (in level 1) with 5 links. each link loads a swf on top. eg. on (release) { loadMovieNum("gallery.swf", 3); } once in gallery, i unload level 1. because of an overlayed loading sequence and transition between pages i have a problem. say i want to return to my ...more >>

I know, the point is to display flash in a browser. But say I want to develop and application; and the application would have a browser control on it.... w/ Javascript? How? ...more >>

yea So I have a text field a scrollbar targed to it and the only property that will work is this: sbarra.setStyle("themeColor","336699"); (which only changes color of when u press the arrows);; all the properties listed here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/w...more >>