I've got my dynamic text masked (phew, the hard part is over, I hope), but I don't want the dynamic text anti-aliased. When I turn off anti-aliasing, I get no text. What do I do?...more >>

Hi, I am a Flash MX 2004 newbie and am trying to build an Order Form for my brother's website. Can someone point me in the right direction? When I say simple, I mean simple. I don't even know which configuration I can use with my web server, PHP, etc.? How do I find that out? Believe me,...more >>

Hello, I had a powerpoint presentation and I tried saving it as a web page but it didn't work. Any ways I didn't like how it work and look. So I was wondering to do a bunch of jpg picture file and have a button going to the next slide. Would you think that is good? Or maybe a different w...more >>

Hello all- I was wondering if anyone can help me with this issue. I have developed a Flash site for my business, and compiled it for Flash Player 6. Most people in the company are using Flash Player 7, but there are sporadic Flash Player 6 users as well. What I have found is that wit...more >>

Hello I have a flash movie that a developer made for my company. It works fine every where I've tested it and I have gotten no complaints from customers or from the field. However, on one employee's machine, the movie will play fine but the back button does not work either when he hovers o...more >>

:disgust;I have a problem with a movie clip and I can't figure it out. I create movie clip where I put a scroll window in from the component. Then I created a movie clip(location_mc)that that a long list of text and linked it to it. That works fine but the problem it that my text list is very ...more >>

It runs- but when I burn it to CD and try to run it from the CD on any computer, when I double click the .exe file it takes forever and then says "A script in the Flash movie is causing your computer to run slowly.. bla bla bla" and asks me if I want to continue, if I say yes and continue thin...more >>

:confused; I have this .swf that contains 4 layers. The first layer is a "body-shell" graphic, the other 3 layers are movies of changing parts, so that depending on a set of variables loaded (a, b & c) the movies should stop at certain point and the body-shell should hava a face (variable a), ...more >>

Using a mac here. os 10.3.7. emac 1.25 ghz G4 with 1g of ram. Flash v. 7.2 I go to use the text tool to create static text. Give it a font size and color. I click on the stage, then when I start typing, nothing happens for a second or two, then I get the rotating rainbow wheel. Essentially...more >>

How do you pause Flash from the root for a few seconds and then allow it to resume so it can loop?...more >>

I am trying to export an extremely detailed and complicated drawing of a map from Flash for a print project. The dimensions of the printed piece are 35x60. So I had to increase the drawing 400% to achive this size. When I do export to an AI file I lose alot of detail, fills and it distorts ...more >>

First, some background: I'm on a PowerBook G4 with 512MB running new OS 10.3.9. Browser: Safari email software: Mail (Mac) email providers: earthlink and .mac broadband: Charter Pipeline via Airport I don't know if this is related to the new 10.3.9 update I performed on Sunday ...more >>

Hi, I am facing a very strange problem. I have created a fla file. In this fla I created a movieclip. This MC has two comboboxes. I populated the values in these comboboxes in the onLoad event handler for each combobox. Then I created the instance of this MC on the stage and publishe...more >>

I'm developing an interactive CD using FlashMX. The CD will require people to have Flash player 7.0 or higher installed but I wanted to make it easy for people if they didn't have the free software installed. Currently I use a autorun.inf file on the CD that calls the .exe flash file for the...more >>

I have a movie that uses a scroll pane, I have reskinned this by bringing in 'scrollbar assets' from the Sampletheme.fla library and then changing the graphics in that. When I test it, it works great. However I am loading this movie into another movie... the skin still looks the same but o...more >>

i read all the forums but can not find solution that successful. can any one import quicktime VR file into flash and publish .as swf ... then in flash use the VR by quicktime as well thanks...more >>

how do i create a preloading bar that gives the percentage of how much the page has loaded? is there an actionscript code or process for this? a guy on another website said this: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Her...more >>

Flash plugin is not working on comcast.net on mozilla firefox but works fine on IE on the same website. Tried every possible combination of installing, uninstalling, restarting flash as well as the browser, any ideas? ...more >>

Im quite new to flash, but I do know what direction I would like to go with my design. I saw a webpage that was interesting and I was wondering if anyone knows what technique they used or what is a good start for me to get my skills to that level. Its a rap web page the address is http://www.s...more >>

I am having a slight bit of a problem. I have created my Flash file using PNGs that I have brough in for Photoshop, and in Flash, all is well. But when ever I publish, I get back what looks like a SWF that has gone throught image compression. I have adjusted my publishing setting and set the J...more >>

Hello Folks, I have looked at this for nearly an hour and i can't see anything wrong. Please help me. on( release ){ tellTarget(_root.emd.gotoAndStop(36)) tellTarget("") setProperty (_root.team,_visible,true) loadVariables("swflash/team.swf",_root.team) tellTarget(_root....more >>

I have an animation, about 30 seconds long. Have music that plays through the entire peice. The animation is mostly text flashing on the screen, a few words at a time, with an occasinoal photo flashing on and off... The issue is that the animation plays much slower than the Music; the music r...more >>

I would like to know how to define the area to, and call up an external swf to play in this area of my movie. Can you be very detailed because I am a newbie with flash and it can be a source of learning for me....... I appreciate all the help greatest regards to all Danyel flashn...more >>

I have added a flash animation to my webpage. I need the webpage to display a gif, or something else, if the user does not have Flash installed. Does anyone know how this is done? All the non-flash user currently sees is a "can't load image" icon. Cheers Darren ...more >>

In Macromedia Flash MX, I knew to make a scroll text. I want to insert pictures into scroll text but I can't do this. (I mean : when I drag the scroll bar, text and pics go up & down) Can you show me how to do it? You can visit beyonceonline.com, click on "download" button and see. Thank y...more >>

Hi All, I have a flash movie, i need to display it on the browser with the wmode=3D"transparent" so that the BG image of the html page can be visbl= e. It works in both IE and fireFox but doesnot work in opera. any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance Vinay -- = Using O...more >>

Hi, I've been trying to create a mask, which I got inspiration from this website. http://www.sharpeonline.com/ but I just can't figger out how it works. Thanks soph...more >>

I am trying to load pictures continiusely into a movie with the help of a counter and a button (button calls for the next picture). It is some kind of picture diary. Here is what I am doing so far: //IN THE FRAME imagecounter = 0; createEmptyMovieclip("imageholder",1); function loadNex...more >>

Hi guys, I have been teaching myself flash and I am trying to make some buttons to link to artwork on other pages. I have created an animation for the button, but I cannot link it to anything. I have tried converting the whole animation to a button symbol and attaching a behaviour (like in ...more >>

Hi all, Very new to Flash. The primary purpose, for now, is to create slide shows and galleries. I used this turorial http://www.renaegade.com/mickVids/slideshow/sShow_A.html to set up a basic slideshow/gallery. But I'm struggling with adding transition effects going from one slide/ima...more >>

The reason some people don't know for sure if they are going to Heaven when they die is because they just don't know. The good news is that you can know for sure that you are going to Heaven which is described in the Holy Bible as a beautiful place with no death, sorrow, sickness or pain....more >>

Hi, I'm a newb and I was just wondering how do you switch from flash pro to regular flash? I have training tutorials but I follow along with the wrong version. Please help. ...more >>

i'm creating an interactive cd using flash - is it possible to action a button to browse for a folder on the cd?...more >>

I have a content developer that is consistently creating swf's that are over 4MB ea. I've read a lot of discussion on the forum about keeping swf's small, but does Macromedia have and authoring guidelines on the subject? I'm trying to provide some documentation on why we shouldn't be authori...more >>

Hi, i would like to add a sequence of sound files, that play one after another. how do i do this? The sound files are pretty long (4mins each), but i would like to add them onto a page, so the sounds play one after another in a loop. ...more >>

Hello, I've got a flash navigation system in the top frame of my frameset, and I want to be able to click a link in and jump to anchor points in a normal html page in the frame below. Is this possible? Thank you! ...more >>

Hi All, is there anyway i can set fscommands in flash using java in linux environment? or is there any way i can use usb card reader using flash? if yes kindly let me know Thanks in advance...more >>

I'm a newb to Flash MX 2004. I have to edit text in my company's existing website's flash homepage. I downloaded the free trial (probably will buy later), did the online tutorials, and the program starts up fine with Tools on the left. But when I open the "flash.swf" file, all editing tools d...more >>

Hi everybody; My SWF have to update some content (text) every 5 minutes. It has to get the content from a database on the server. I use ASP and VBScript and know how to handle tha very well but, i didn't find a way to get the refresh thing just on the SWF movie and not on entire page. ...more >>

I need help with a problem. I recently made a 8 layer image in Photoshop, and on two of the layers i have an Overlay and a Pinlight. I turned off all the layers except for one and then saved each layer as PNGs. When i imported them into flash, I layered them in the same order as my Photoshop f...more >>

I'm trying to tween a line that moves across the stage as well as gets longer. However, when making the line longer, it also gets thicker. The only time I can make the line longer is before it's a tweened object. How can I make a line longer without making it thicker when it's tweened? ...more >>

I would like to sort my library based on size. This way, I could see which library movie clips, buttons and graphics are consuming the most space. It would be great if I could also view the actual size of this sorted group. Is this possible? Thank you for any suggestions. ...more >>