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missing <object> tag
Posted by Skint Eastwood at 3/3/2005 11:16:27 PM
Ok this is a bit weird. I have a website where there are a couple flash movies on each page, an animated logo and a sort of image slideshow in the content area. My business partner is telling me that she can see the logo movie but not the slideshow which just doesn't appear. If she views the...more >>


how to make FLV loop??
Posted by Tim at 3/3/2005 11:05:00 PM
I am using the Media Display component and I want to make my FLV loop automatically. Where exactly do I place the code below? On a seperate frame? On the movie itself?? I am having no success at all. Thanks. code: endListen = new Object(); endListen.complete = function(eventObject) { ...more >>

adding sound - music video
Posted by mathagat at 3/3/2005 10:51:13 PM
i'm creating a music video in a flash class i'm taking. before i begin i want to make sure i do this the right way. my question is what is the best method for including a full length track (4.5 min) in my flash movie? i will be animating simple shapes and stick figure characters dancing to the...more >>

How can I disable buttons?
Posted by Danilo Fiocco at 3/3/2005 10:49:56 PM
I want to do just like this: http://www.legostarwarsthevideogame.com/ Click on High Band or Low Band under Trailer, you can see that a new window appears to show the video and all the buttons in the background become disabled and fade out...so, hows that? Thanx! ...more >>

array.length doesn't work
Posted by meltedown at 3/3/2005 10:37:50 PM
myarr[0]='test'; myarr[1]='test2'; trace(myarr.length); This is the only code in a movie. the result is "undefined" why is it undefined ? why doesn't it say 2 ?...more >>

Animated button activates an animation HELP!
Posted by websights at 3/3/2005 10:17:32 PM
I might be creating the animated button wrong but - when you click on the animated button I need to move to frame 2 on the main stage so that another animation can start. If you want to see the .fla just let me know. HELP!! See it at http://www.hazardgraphix.com/test.htm ...more >>

Dynamic Flash Sites
Posted by queensryche_05 at 3/3/2005 9:57:40 PM
Being totally new to the whole concept of databases and dynamic flash sites. Can anyone recommend a book or two for the beginner on the basics of databases (from concept) to how one can use them to update data within a dynamic flash site? Are there any good tutes online? Thanks - Qu...more >>

Thanks now how do i
Posted by hwflash at 3/3/2005 9:48:44 PM
Ive converted my animations in the website to movie clips but once i turn it into a movie clip and paste the frames into the movie clip it dosent paste onto the frame it pastes way over off to the side i want it to stay where it was in the first place ...more >>



How do i minimize the amount of frames i use
Posted by hwflash at 3/3/2005 9:21:05 PM
im pretty new at this flash stuff but i know how to use the actions and behaviors so i've made websites that can go back and forth from frame to frame to do different things but im up to about 420 frames is there anyway i can make an animation that happens in the website just one frame? like c...more >>

change text?
Posted by LiveSeller at 3/3/2005 7:49:58 PM
I know it is a dumb question but I am brand new to this and was just playing arround with the flash files and I thought I can edit text easy. I downloaded a template for a website that has flash on top and I wanted to change the DEMO COMPANY to my own text, but after playing arround for over 3...more >>

Active section
Posted by Yamid
Is it posible of any way, that the correspondent button of my flash menu keeps "on" when reload the web of it´s section, whitout use a frame? I hope, make me understand, it´s for this web site: www.goticaeventos.com Thanks in advance for your time, Yamid ...more >>

Import Peril
Posted by sheriff_intern at 3/3/2005 7:01:13 PM
LA County Sheriff's Video Production Unit using Flash 4 on a Mac G4 with 1G memory alloted to Flash I want to import an .aiff song into a project, but I get the message "One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them." The song is about 3 mins long, 44.1khz, ...more >>

Simple Flash MP3 PLayer Help
Posted by ProSam at 3/3/2005 6:48:31 PM
I downloaded http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Sound/Players/Simple_M-Hardknoc-9828/index.php from flashkit and it's exactly what I need but I have a bit of a problem. I'm not very well versed in Flash so all I managed to do was change the first track and the background image. The instructi...more >>

Motion Tween with Images.
Posted by PaGeMx at 3/3/2005 6:33:48 PM
Hi, I don't know how fix my problem, when I apply motion tween to an image, (png or bmp) it seems to see itself as a low fps motion. I use a frame rate 40fps. You can see what I try to tell http://www.intergrafics.com/conmutel/ I hope somebody help me with this. ...more >>

how can I make my website flash template file smaller
Posted by jtjyogi at 3/3/2005 6:18:38 PM
I have uploaded my flash template to my hosting sevice and when I go to view it on the web, it takes forever and I have DSL, I can only imagine how long it would take others to load my page with dial up. Is there any way to compress or reduce my template swf. file without changing the publish...more >>

Adding Controller to a SWF File
Posted by Paul Middlehurst at 3/3/2005 6:13:44 PM
We have some Product Demos that were created using camtasia and exported as SWF files. Is there a way to add a media controller to that SWF file for playback. ...more >>

How do I...
Posted by camalex at 3/3/2005 5:47:48 PM
What I want to do is play a movie at regular pace but have a seperate movie clip/layer at a faster FPS rate. Is there any way to do that?...more >>

resizing stage to fit animation
Posted by robotninja at 3/3/2005 4:53:34 PM
I have an amination that 600 x 180 in a 800 x 400 stage. I tried to resize the stage to fit the animation and move all the frames by using edit-timeline-select all frames, but the animation moves in every direction after that for some reason. i also tried copying everything into a new stage ...more >>

Can you make a slideshow with Flash MX Pro Slides?
Posted by AnnA_s at 3/3/2005 4:51:36 PM
Can't really find information on this subject... Maybe you can only use the 'presentation &amp; slide' mode to create presentations that you view by clicking forward for each slide? Maybe I'll have to use the timeline and scenes? Is there a way to set timings between slides and not having t...more >>

website forums WAY slow?
Posted by sergio t. ruiz at 3/3/2005 4:22:28 PM
quick question.. i have tried several times over the past few months to post to the forums via the website. every time i have tried to do that, i get timeouts, and i just freeze up on the macromedia site. is this something that other people are finding, or do i need to go hunt around in my ...more >>

edit text online to a textfile ?
Posted by vinnio at 3/3/2005 4:12:58 PM
edit text online to a textfile ? can somebody help? thanks !...more >>

HELP NEEDED WITH CHECK BOX
Posted by rustler2001 at 3/3/2005 3:43:51 PM
Hi can anyone help me at all, Ihave done a form in flash which allows the end user, to fill in name, email address etc etc. when submitted goes to a php form, and thus emails the details to me. Problem is i need to put in a check box or radio button, as i want to end user to click a category t...more >>

font size of my Flash 2004 help panel too small !!!
Posted by Karel_cu at 3/3/2005 3:28:38 PM
Greetings friends. My question of today is not properly a Flash design question but somebody out there could be faced the same problem: after updating the help system of my Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, the fonts of the help panel becomes too small to be read. I've turned aroud this p...more >>

any ideas on creating "fog" ?
Posted by roml at 3/3/2005 3:08:21 PM
Hello All, Can anyone make any suggestions for how to have a smoke, or foggy haze kind of "hang", and slowly move, and then disappear? I have searched the flash movies on Flashkit, and read through other threads here and there, and tried my own graphics, without too much luck. What I h...more >>

Welcome Screen Graphics
Posted by Domenico Lombardo at 3/3/2005 12:58:31 PM
Hi We're introducing plasma screens in our reception area on which we'd like to display a welcome note to visiting clients as well as special messages, time and a picture. What Macromedia app would be most appropriate? I've considered using Flash MX to pull text into a dynamic text fi...more >>

Mask Layer Affects Audio.
Posted by Karate Elvis at 3/3/2005 11:58:06 AM
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. I have been sent an flv movie from my client of a person talking to camera with audio, which I need to add an increasing circle mask over (Looney Tunes style). However, when I do this, the mask looks fine but somehow it is putting the audio ...more >>

Artwork from Freehand: how to edit?
Posted by philby at 3/3/2005 11:25:34 AM
When I import artwork from a FreeHand file into my Library, I find at almost impossible to edit anything at all in the resulting graphic symbol. Double-clicking it in the Library opens it on the stage. It has (as an example) 4 named layers with vector data, plus 2 empty layers. Double-clickin...more >>

Dual Screens
Posted by Grayhem at 3/3/2005 11:09:59 AM
Can flash player do 'full screen' setting on a secondary monitor, without showing window borders? When using a data projector on a laptop / pc with an the output set to 'extend my desktop onto secondary monitor' setting, acn the window border be eliminated. Also, is there any way that you can ...more >>

Invisible background ?
Posted by at 3/3/2005 10:41:12 AM
Hello, Is it possible to turn the background of an animation in invisible coulour ? thanks ? ...more >>

Live video in Flash
Posted by Frank at 3/3/2005 7:51:06 AM
Hello everyone, Iki want to create a presentation for a congres. It has to show text en graphics, no problem at al. I make it in Flash. But now I want to project the presentator speaker at the screen. It`s big hall, so eceryone can see him at the large screen. So I want to make a action...more >>

Creating menus with submenu similar to macromedia.com?
Posted by Darnoc at 3/3/2005 6:18:05 AM
Hi, I would like to be able to create a menu with a submenus similar to macromedia.com. Thus, is there any templates for creating such a menu? Thanks in advance, -Conrad...more >>

why
Posted by 8039 at 3/3/2005 6:14:26 AM
Question - I'll make it quick, well the problem is that i am using a crappy 400mhz processor and flash requires 600 mhz, well will i still be able to use it. By the way, i dont intend on using harcore powerfull graphics, im just a begginer. Answer- not a good idea why? i used Dr...more >>

will it work
Posted by 8039 at 3/3/2005 5:56:10 AM
I'll make it quick, well the problem is that i am using a crappy 400mhz processor and flash requires 600 mhz, well will i still be able to use it. By the way, i dont intend on using harcore powerfull graphics, im just a begginer. ...more >>

Flash in the header
Posted by completelylost at 3/3/2005 5:26:19 AM
Hi, I've created a site for a client that includes a flash animation in the header. The flash is just a short animation that turns into the site's interface (home, about us, etc). The problem is I only want that to play the first time the page loads. The solution, of course, is to us...more >>

site preloader stoping XML
Posted by SUPA JINX at 3/3/2005 5:03:47 AM
When I add a preloader to the first frame of my fla it prevents my XML gallery from loading. The xml gallery also has a preloader so of course there is a conflict. Sorry to be a drag with such a newb question but that I am. Here is the script I am using to preload the site: onClipEvent(load){ ...more >>

how to place a flash animation on html text
Posted by mariyaana at 3/3/2005 4:53:19 AM
pls help me how to place a flash animation on html text, i should see the text on it the animation.......i think u understood my problem.. ...more >>

Hardware Considerations for Flash based Kiosk's
Posted by Bucca at 3/3/2005 3:49:03 AM
I have the task of researching the hardware needs for a Flash based kiosk located in a public location. The content that we have is flash heavy, and I need to suggest computer hardware (CPU, Memory, Graphics Card) to make sure that slow down of frame rate does not occur (especially with video...more >>

Flash Advice
Posted by Ray Velez at 3/3/2005 3:32:51 AM
I am about to delve into flash developing just a little further than my basic knowledge right now (which is interface design and functionality). What I want to do is to be able to be able to build scalable flash sites where everything that is read into the rendered flash website is dynamic. ...more >>

New User Needs Help with Button
Posted by kjsargenti at 3/3/2005 3:07:40 AM
I'm having a problem with some thumbnail photo buttons. I used some code suggested here for an action for some text buttons which worked great on those - navigating from one "flash created html" to another. However, now I want to use an image button in a flash html to call up a stand...more >>

IE Problem
Posted by VR6CH at 3/3/2005 2:52:23 AM
Hi All, A couple of days ago I have posted here and got a reply about the problems with Opera -Firefox-IE. Well, Apart from IE, everything works fine. But IE when opening the main page is asking me if I want to d/l Shockwave 10, everytime I load the page in IE, which takes some time. Not l...more >>

Can someone plz help with this
Posted by anjel2005 at 3/3/2005 1:35:07 AM
Error Caused By Macromedia, Inc.: No Specific Solution Found..........I keep getting this message and then it closes out whatever I am doing, I have tried uninstalling flash player and then re-installing it, but still I will get this message. What can I do? ...more >>

Error Loading XML from WEB
Posted by Virtual Man 2 at 3/3/2005 12:49:58 AM
HI ; I want to load an XML from http://rectorat-gabes.8m.com/xml/Institut.xml but the probleme that i have this message : Error opening URL 'http://rectorat-gabes.8m.com/xml/Institut.xml' the problem that the file with the help of Flash does not work . If the problem is related to Crossdomai...more >>

Can someone take a look at my paths please?
Posted by dross202 at 3/3/2005 12:39:21 AM
I have been given a bunch of flash files to be inserted into a web page I'm building. They appear locally but not after I upload. I dont know enough about flash to figure out what's wrong...I have all the flash files in a folder called swf/. There's a file called images/xml a folder called 'm...more >>

Curved Textbox
Posted by Kona02 at 3/3/2005 12:15:42 AM
Is there a way to create a curved text box...how?...more >>


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