Hi all, I'm creating a series flash banners as part of an online campaign. Our current print creative relies heavily on photographic imagery and we'd like to transfer the same style concept across to our online executions. However only having 20k to play with is hampering my efforts to do an...more >>

Alright, I went to downloads, then Flash Player 7. It had that Flash screen that said it done installing, but nothing popped up, or anything. No gold bar, no nothing, is it already it a folder on my computer? Please help and tell me why this isn't working. Thanks. ...more >>

I been looking like crazy in the efford to make a message board for my universities site, can any one help?...more >>

I need to load about 80 images of book pages into a stand alone projector and make them large enough to be readable. First I converted the image files of the book's pages into movie symbols and then referencing the movie symbols in a scroll pane so that the text of the book would be larg...more >>

Hello, i am a web designer for the university of arizona soalrcar team and i need some help with flash. i want to make a short intro of a wildcat (our mascot) claws to brake a black background. I was able to make the finished claws, but dont know how to animate it from start. can any one help ...more >>

We created serveral Flash video files and we are receiving a lot of complaints about the videos stopping/pausing. Our videos are being displayed progressively via swf/flv files. The flv files are of good quality and fairly large. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can remedy the iss...more >>

Using Flash's quiz template I can record student time and total score to my LMS (Training Partner 2003). However, the individual interaction data is not being captured. Is anyone else having this problem?? The LMS guys say that it has to be the Macromedia Flash template that is not working...more >>

I just recently got Dreamweaver MX. I'm designing a website and have got the basics down. But, how do you insert flash? I mean I know how to insert it, but when I play it, nothing happens. How do I get a text to spin around or something cool like that? Like I said, I'm really new to this,...more >>

I recently finished my first website where I used Flash for animations and buttons. On Windows-based computers, it seems to be working well; but Mac users are having problems. For example, in one case, one letter of some animated (flying) text is missing. Another Mac user reported that some ph...more >>

Does anyone know how to put a flash animation into a PowerPoint Presentation? Any help would be great....more >>

Any suggestions? I've tried Tools/ Internet Options/Security but changes there don't seem to affect anything. I cannot even download Flash now because it is telling me that there will be a yellow bar when the download begins, and I dont get one. I turned this off 'somewhere' on my compu...more >>

What are the things one should consider when choosing someone to serve streaming flash video (akamai, speedera, vitalstream)? ...more >>

hello, I just bough mx 2004.. and i modified one of the presentation templates. i added a combo box that i want to use as a dropdown to just between screens. i have added all the screens into the combobox... how do i make it so when you click the dropdown and select a screen it goes there......more >>

Can someone tell me what the syntax error is here? **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 6, frame=1:Line 47: Syntax error. 2005bank = 5;...more >>

Hi, I am working on a project that is completely a video based one. Basically there are 5 chapters and each chapter has two videos streaming up simultaneously. I actually have a base movie which has the navigation and the basic template. on click of the buttons in the base movie it load...more >>

Right, I have been on these forums before asking for a guide to making a progress bar, I got told to try google, I did that and followed the instructions on many different websites, but none of them work, Help? ...more >>

Basically when I add a new graphic or text to a document and just want to add a timeline effect -I am gettng the folloving errors:JavaScript error - missing ) after argument list, then I click Ok, and I get another java script error that says: Type error:Object.fxutil has no properties, click ...more >>

I have a graph that will display 18 different curves depending on which checkBoxes are clicked (one checkBox per curve). The problem I am having is if 12 or more curves are selected and displayed, some random curves start to disappear. This is only the case with the quality setting is set to...more >>

I am using a button (action is to run a javascript new window) and while it functions perfectly in Firefox, IE doesn't recognize that the button is there. Anyone tell me why? Thanks in advance....more >>

Hi This seems easy enough if I'm pulling in one line from a txt file which is of a fixed length. But what if the text changes in length and.or row count? Can this be achieved?...more >>

I'm using Flash to dynamically control elements within my html document via getURL('javascript:...') function calls. Everything works fine in Firefox, but I found a strange quirk in Internet Explorer (6, SP1): If a javascript call is executed and I click the 'Back' mouse button, I get a blank...more >>

Hi all Has anyone ever discovered a way in Flash to mask dynamic text or images? I've tried using the the layer mask functionality and it doesn't work. Is there an actionscript solution? Thanks in advance Chris ...more >>

I am really new with flash, but have a big problema to solve. Have a flash Banner in the center of the page, and on the left I have a Floating Menu developed in HTML, If the floating menu is opened and the selection goes to the flash banner, it goes below it... how can I put ti in "layers"...more >>

Using Flash MX Prof. When I import flv file and then export , still have the sound. So I imported .mov when I go to export to movie I have video but no sound. //create the net connection object myNetConnection = new NetConnection(); mynetconnection.connect(null); //create the net s...more >>

Hello, I am currently trying to use the UI components button and is coming up blank when testing my scene. Any reasons why this could be happening? Thanks....more >>

I have a PDF file. I would like to place the PDF into a SWF movie. I wants my users to be able to download my PDF file from my Moive. How would I go abouts doing that? Thanks in advance. -curios...more >>

I've been making sites for years as a flash artist... and I just got my first professional gig making a site for a company. The site was going fine until I finished it and added a preloader. As soon as I added a preloader as a separate scene all of my buttons and scripts go all crazy. Th...more >>

I was wondering if anyone could suggest where I should begin in educating myself regarding Flash Video. I have Flash MX 2004 pro and I don't believe there is a way to save files as .flv's. I'm not sure if I need to purchase Sorenson Squeeze for Flash MX or QT Pro or something. I would like to...more >>

Hi, I am trying to embed flash into flash. I have created a gallery page with images of flash movies i have created. When the user clicks the image, the swf associated with that image starts the movie. Problem is that 1.) the movie plays right over the present flash page. Both have music. ...more >>

Hi there I am looking to buy a book that will show me how to build a web site using flash. I am fed up of reading books (this is most flash books out there ) that just show how to use individual parts of flash but NEVER show all these individual parts coming to gether. The few i have found se...more >>

mac osx, suddenly i have no content in my help panel. the right window side is blank and remain blank when i choose a topic. ???...more >>

When exporting a font as a symbol in a shared library (see http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/ wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00000413.html)? As far as I can tell, when exporting a shared library font symbol, Flash embeds a given set of ...more >>

Hi, I need a movie to load at a predefined time and date into a presentation which runs continuously 24/7. The presentation already loads external swf files from a timeline into a movie holder There is now a requirement to load a specific movie on certain dates only so I can't write it into th...more >>

Hi, I have a flash file which contains a movie clip. I have created a button within the movie clip, and am trying to link this button to a specific frame or label within a scene in the main flash file. Is this possible, and if so how? ...more >>

Creating a photo gallery - I would like the image I load into a holder clip holderClip.loadMovie("image.jpg") to position at the center of the clip. I've centered the registration of the holder clip, but it loads the top left corner of the image to that registration.. feel like I'm missi...more >>

I have created an email hyperlink on a CDROM I have created with Flash MX. The problem is that it opens a browser when I click on it as well as opening Outlook. Any ideas how to prevent this opening the browser? The CDROM will need to run on Windows 95 so I doubt I can use a third party a...more >>

I have just had the results from a testing company of a cdrom I created in Flash MX. The CDROM plays external mp3 files and the testing company says 'The Media Player supplied with Windows 95 cannot play MP3 files' These are failrly long audio files (2 mins approx) Any ideas how to play t...more >>

Hi, I have a fairly simple movie, with 5 scenes, and its taking an AGE to publish, with the percentage bar going backwards and forwards. does anyone know what might be causing this? or even how I can begin to find the problem? I could post the publish 'output' log if that helps? Thanks in...more >>

I was trying using anyway to make WMV or MPEG files playing in flash movie without converting them in SWF or FLV first, but got no way. I know that DIRECT mx could embed activex object (of course including media player) in direct movie. Is there anyway in FLASH? use actonscript?? ...more >>

I am developing a splash screen and I was wondering if a file size of 170kb is too large - would I need to plug in a preloader for this size? I know that for broadband this size is not biggie - but I wasn't sure about dial-up and I don't have a dial-up machine to test it on. Thanks so much! ...more >>

I am loading several external .swf files into a main movie and the largest one is around 300 kb. The average is about 128 kb. I don't think this is a large file size, but they do not seem to load as fast as they should. What can I do to make them load faster? Thanks. ...more >>

I was wondering if it is possible to use the clock time from my webserver to select a SWF to be played using a action button on press if time == > 18:00 hrs or ==< 06:00 play open.swf else play closed.swf thanks for helping me out Danyel (newbie) ...more >>

I cant believe there arent any tutorials on the internet, well at least i couldnt find any good ones, none of them actually explained how to use the scrollpane. Can someone help me?!?!?!? I made a movie clip called site and right clicked it and did the linkage stuff. Then i put the scroll pane...more >>

I just finished posting my beautiful new movie and everything checked out fine with firefox and ie for mac. I got to the office and received this message when I tried to show the movie to my coworkers: The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please corr...more >>

Thank you for helping with this question. I have a flash file in my html page and I have both the OBJECT and EMBED code to display the flash. Do I need them both or can I get away with just having the EMBED code? This there a benefit to having both in the page? Downsides? Thanks! ...more >>

As part of a course I have created videos in finalCutPro exported in flv format and incorporated them into a Flash Pro document. All works fine except: The videos run smoothly in IE on windows based machines, but the performance on Macs using Safari or Mozilla firefox is poor. The videos play...more >>

Ok, newbie question - I'm sure this is something obvious I'm missing (been a long day...) I'm trying the example in the help files: stop(); //Creates a movie clip to hold the container this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc", 9); //loads an image into image_mc image_mc.loadMovie("...more >>

I want to have a combination of text and pictures and then have a scroll bar that makes them scroll just like a website. I tried using the components in flash but it was confusing (i am a component noob). Can anyone help please? would making a movie clip work? If so how do I attach the scroll...more >>

How do I get rid of the lines that seperate the text in the headers of my dataGrid? Actually, setting them to a solid color would be good enough. Is there something similar to "vGridLines" (The style property you set to get rid of the column seperators in the body of the dataGrid). Ma...more >>

Hello, I am redesigning a site and like to incorporate a flash .swf file on the frontpage. I have 5 photos that is cropped and I like to make a crossfade of all 5 photos and display it on one place. In Flash MX 2004, how would you start the work? Thank you in advance! :D ...more >>

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