Hi, I'm hoping that someone is able to help me with my problem. I am creating a prototype system for children to encourage mouse based navigation. The interface is based on a street map with a number of houses on it. Its up to the kids to move a car around the street map, but I only want the c...more >>

Is there a way I can find the domain name that my flash is running from? i.e. if my animation is displayed in a browser with the following url http://www.mydomain.com/default.html, then i want to flash to be able to know the mydomain.com part of the url. I'm a brand new beginner so pardon m...more >>

i have a toshiba A60 S535 notebook, i installed studio mx (version 6) when i try to import the first PNG file into macromedia flash it work fine, but when you try to import another PNG the software will close automatically! so i go to bios setting disable the CPU hyper threading, everything...more >>

I need to make a gotoAndPlay after I load a movie with LoadMovie this.createEmptyMovieClip('tester_mc', 1); tester_mc.loadMovie('photo.swf'); function checkLoaded(target_mc:MovieClip) { var pctLoaded:Number = target_mc.getBytesLoaded()/target_mc.getBytesTotal()*100; if (!isNaN(pctLoaded)...more >>

Hi all, Does anyone know why a FLASH animation (simple two-layer tweened fade in graphic and text) insists on appearing to float as a top layer over the page content when inserted into an XHTML Transitional doc? I can control positioning of the animation with CSS-P but cannot get the mov...more >>

Howdy! OK ... we built a Flash site, looks pretty good, seems to work just fine... www.stumptownprinters.com ...BUT ... out clients are telling us that they are getting 5-6 e-mails and phone calls a week from people who can't access the site. Why? Is it because it was built in Flash and r...more >>

Hello all, A local Ad Agency is looking for a Flash Developer to do a contract. If you qualify and are interested, please email your resume to the person below with the subject 'Flash Developer for Ad Agency Contract'. Name your resume as your FirstnameMiddleInitialLastName.doc. Linda Camp ...more >>

I am using a text blow-up for the first time in MX 2004, and no matter what I try, when I scale the text to 500% (converted to a symbol) it is still jagged. I have tried different symbol types, and have the 'alias text' button checked, but it still looks AWFUL !!! If I fire up plain ol' MX, I...more >>

I have made a graphic symbol of a raindrop falling and have a sound playing when it hits the ground. The sound plays when I preview it in the graphic symbol, but when I put it on the stage and increase my frames on the layers so the graphic plays, I do not hear the sound. What should I do? ...more >>

I made an auto-run cd with AutoPlay Menu studio, it was a powerpoint presentation with flash inserted into it. The cd runs well and the show works fine. My question is, what do I do for people that do not have flash installed on their system? I ran the flash player install that came with Flash...more >>

hi, if you go to L=]http://www.stickpage.com then on to stick games, theres a game called rag dolol. i was wondering how this is made, and whether its a flash game at all. it looks flash, but unless its a very stylish button or a action scripting thing (im not big on the action script thing)...more >>

I made a fairly long flash form and whenever I click on any part of it to enter data.. I can no longer scroll the page with the mouse-wheel. I noticed that macromedia has a text-box in their flash menu and they do not have this problem... any idea's for a fix? Thank you. ...more >>

Hello everyone. I'm building a cd-rom flash presentation, and I'm trying to open a html window with geturl. I'm sucessfull enough to open it without javascript, but that means that I can't ajust it the way I wanted, like the size, no toolbars, no scroll bar and so on. Is there anyone ...more >>

Is there any way to get Flash to behave as anything other than the "top" layer so it will work with Laters or DHTML Menu Pop-ups? -- Jerry...more >>

Can i insert a html page to show up in my flash site. Example if i wanted to link to another site but keep it in my flash site...more >>

Have been working on a CD presentation for a couple of days. There are 3 scenes. Senes 2 and 3 are linked from scene 1. Click button goto and play scene 2 frame 1 or scene 3 frame 1. All worked fine but now, scene 3 stops on first frame or (if I re-arrange the scenes 1,3,2 instead of...more >>

Hi, I'm new to flash and have a simple question. I working with a dynamic text box and it seems that the font size seems to relative to the dimensions of the dynamic text box. I'm hoping this isn't correct. For example, I have a dynamic text box with dimensions of 250x100 and a font size...more >>

I am using Flash Mx 2004. I posted last week but now have more information and need help. I have created my site in flash. Everytime I have used the getURL action script to pull up html pages, my client cannot access them without holding down her control key. I understand this is hap...more >>

Hi everyone: I am a high school teacher that teaches a Web Development program. The kids learn the "design" aspect of Flash in the first course and they learn ActionScript and application development in the second part. We use Macromedia ActionScripting: Training from the Source as a boo...more >>

I'm making a project with Flash MX 2004 professional. I use a dynamic text field in the flash to load a web page in it. But the images are not showing up that are on the website. Only the text. I couldn't find on the forums how to solve it. Here's a link to my published flash file: http://h...more >>

If it isn't difficult enough to get people to install the Flash plugin, now you have to make it more confusing by optionally offering the Yahoo Toolbar? Most people who are not web savy will just blindly hit 'I agree' and download the toolbar and blame the site I work for for changing their br...more >>

Just want to see if anybody has ever heard of a work around or explanation as to why you can not click more than once on some of the components such as buttons or dropdowns without moving the mouse slightly first... I hope I don't have to dig into the button/dropdown classes to extend their f...more >>

I would consider myself to have an average knowledge of Flash and a basic knowledge of action. I have produced an animation using that shows timber being treated in a vessel with a coloured liquid. Is there anyway that I can make it so you can decide what colour to make the liquid at the begi...more >>

I have an example which I also would like to do: In: http://www.sirgeorgemartin.com/ if you click on the clip the movie pops up. How is this to be done (workflow). I have a page + button + swf file.... It's probably easy then, but dunnow....:( ...more >>

My pages look so ugly with <a> links for navigation. I found others' web pages don't use <a> for navigation. They use something like menu at the top. How do they do that? I have HTML and Flash books at hand, but can't find clue. What should I look for? ...more >>

Hi all, I am in my first steps in article and technical writing. Following is my first article that I hope you read and send me your feedback and comments regarding it. It is a general and short brief about Rich Internet Application Technology: RICH INTERNET APPLICATION: ?Although the ...more >>

suppose i had a symbol, a graphic, and i changed it to a movie clip in the library. then i would go through the timeline and change each instance into a movieclip. but suppose there were thousands of instances to change. is there a shortcut for the proccess? wishfully jon...more >>

Well, I can get the flash to get external data from asp.net variables just fine altho, using response.write("&var=data&") will print this on the screen: ----- &var=data& ---- and Since I am loading a flash in a popup and want exact fit, the text that are passed on to the variables and ...more >>

:D:D:D after create a game or demo with flash, normely convert it to windows projector If we do it using flash 5 player it'll be small file size(but have to make with only flash 5 actions) But not in flash player 7, exe will be big sized(but can make using new methord in flash 7) Anyth...more >>

Hello! I am selling the Flash MX full version in the Ebay, I Received the letter ask me to send the serial number or Botton side Lable scan picture to them. (The Ebay nick name is macromedia_anti_piracy. and e-mail (mmiyara@macromedia.com) The original question as below: Q: I have rev...more >>

whats the code to make you be able to drag stuff also how do you make the picture in your animation face the way your mouse is at i dont mean follow the mouse i mean rotate to the direction of the mouse ...more >>

I am looking for some very basic instruction on creating drop-down menu...more >>