hi i know i can read data from xml to flash . is it possible to write data from flash to html or it you can't write a data to html? thanks...more >>

i didnt know if there is a way to make a mod (exchange) so 2 symbols can be linked together by one point. I would like to use something like this for stick figure and regular animations, which is very hard without joints, like the program "pivot stickfigure animator". please reply. Is this pos...more >>

Question concerning the jpg export from Flash... I have a Flash file containing some jpgs saved with very little compression, 80-90%, from Photoshop. If I export them from Flah with 100% in publishsettings, the files automatically increases the file size of the jpgs. What is the best way ...more >>

I added radio buttons, configured all the properties, etc... but, when I publish a movie, I only see white boxes instead. None of the components diplay. What could be the problem?...more >>

Hello everybody, I am having difficulties to find some info with regards to the following: 1) is it possible with help of some utility or in any other way to supprt JSON within flash application? 2) is it possible to download for example text document which contains input parameters for ...more >>

Hi I have made some 3d in 3dsmax and exported as both a jpeg sequence and avi's encoded in every codec I have on my computer (except for QT and Realplayer). I cannot get the quality I need for my video from anything but the jpeg sequence and that runs so slowly in flashplayer im almost cryin...more >>

Can anyone recommend video editing software? I'm unfamiliar with this area, but I have a video on DVD that I want to take segments from and use in a Flash presentation. I'm hoping to find an editor that is relatively inexpensive. I'm running Windows Xp. If anyone has any advice they would lik...more >>

Users could not see my documents from IE browser. They will get a message saying "IE can not download aaa.pdf from www.abc.com. IE was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or could not be found..." I guess it is a link error. I have checked the...more >>

I am using Flash MX Pro and trying to export a movie with varying compression settings. It seems that no matter which setting I choose (anywhere from 0 to 99) the file size is always the same...31k. I thought that all you do is change the setting and publish to a local folder and there you go....more >>

Hello everyone, I go to publish my flash page . But I get the message - Not enough stack space. But I can test the movie and it works fine. So If the test movie makes a swf. Then all I need is the HTML. But how do I just publish the HTML. In the settin it when I uncheck flash - I cn't just...more >>

Hi Friends, I have a FLASH movie that has several mini movies I created (in the LIBRARY). What I want to do is have the various mini movies play at certain times, (timed one after the other). Does anyone know how I can do this? I would imagine there is a script I can use but still have not f...more >>

I'm a total FLASH novice! I was given an existing flash movie that I'm trying to edit. It's a nav bar for a web site. I am able to add new buttons and modify the labels, but there is some property or behavior that when you press the button, different text pops up and and a shaded box ap...more >>

I just wont to to know what is the best way or my options that I should consider to present site in the full screen mode and I mean with out the browser JUNK thank you Adam...more >>

I have an external text file loading through: this.loadVariables ('mytext.txt', 'getvar', 'GET'); This happens on frame 1. Once Im sure the varibles have loaded from that page I want it to goto frame 2. Otherwise continue to load. I couldn't find this in the search... thank you for your h...more >>

Hi, I am loading a pretty large SWF into a MovieClip on a button release. Over the web it plays fine as there is a call to a preload function and a loading bar, but locally the preload is skipped and there is a few second delay between button release and the start of the SWF. I figure load ...more >>

I have a long audio clip (set to stream) that's on the main timeline. The audio cannot be loaded as a sound object because it need to be synched to animation on the timeline. How do I access timeline audio using setVolume method? ...more >>

I have a long audio clip (set to stream) that's on the main timeline. The audio cannot be loaded as a sound object because it need to be synched to animation on the timeline. How do I access timeline audio using setVolume method? ...more >>

I have a problem I do not understand, I had to use a popUp as a container for my web-site the quality of the web-site lowers while in a popUp but only in Explorer and Firefox browsers Quality is just fine in Safari & Opera and there is no such problem when used with out popUp at all T...more >>

hi everyone, i have a flash paper file that im trying to load inside another flash movie (projector),the path of the flashpaper file is sent as "http://myserver/files/document.swf" . i used the functions specified in http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashpaper/articles/import_flpaper2.htm...more >>

Somebody know where i can download flash 5!!???? I am finded in on google and on yahoo but if i enetr flash 5 trail download i cant find flash 5! Google allways show me flash mx professional please help!! If somebody know or have a link for download Flash 5 plase tell me!! This is very i...more >>

Please look at this url like woman appears. http://www.pgc.com.br/site/content/home/ How can I do this? Do you know a tutorial to explain this? Thanks a lot ...more >>

Does anyone know how to open a fullscreen browser from a button in Flash? I know the HTML page needs javascript to go fullscreen but what do I need to put in the getURL command in Flash. Any help is appreciated. Thanx ...more >>

I don't know how to make a drop menu (with XML!) .... ...more >>

Does anyone know why my text appears on my swf but not on the web site. I have it as dynamic text , Verdana but it only comes up on the screen blurring like a Static text entry. Someone must know this, please help Shane ...more >>

How can I center my symbols easily in the middle of the stage? And how will the Flash-movie always be in the middle of the browsers? Thnx for any further help....more >>

I use Dreamweaver and now did one little website in Flash. I just can't find how to upload with FTP from FLASH???Tnx for any help....more >>

Hi all, As a complete noobie I'm trying to design a site using screens but I'm having difficulty hiding a movie. You can see my efforts so far here... http://www.lunablubeach.com/Flash/flash.html I have a "home" screen and a variety of nested screens which all sit nested one level d...more >>

Have a client who is interested in building a user option mock up on ebay. The customer could pick options like chair leg style and fabrics. But there are too many options to store as jpgs on ebay, so I am wondering if Flash allows you to draw images from another site via absolute URL. I know in ...more >>

Hi, I am quite new to Flash. This is why my question may seem trivial ... I am familiar with the procedure of looping a single background. But what if it consists of several 'layers', let's say clouds, hills, the meadow close to the user's eye? How can I make them run by at different speeds? O...more >>

Hi, I maintain a few websites for my job and we are in the process of creating some pictorials, and interactive maps. My supervisor is willing to pay for me to take some Flash Classes to create these but we are wondering it is better to outsource and then learn Flash to update as needed ...more >>

I have a piece of music which takes 360 frames to run. The little animated gif lasts 14 frames. I want the gif to loop while the music plays in the background. I am a complete novice and have just dipped into flash to solve this for a web page. can anyone help in words that an idiot will under...more >>

I have PowerPoint experience and have been asked to do a presentation in Flash. Is it relatively the same or completely another galaxy? Thanks. Libbi ...more >>

Hi, Wonder if anyone can help me! I'm relatively inexperienced in using flash and am trying to put together an application that users can access and print large quantities of formatted text (taken from word documents). I've tried various action scripts, dynamic text etc and nothing seems t...more >>

Please Help - Does anyone know how to make the back button return to the previously viewed frame NOT the previous frame i need this script or function as i am working on someone elses already created flash file and there is no space to drop in back buttons all over the shop the file is ru...more >>

Hi, WIN XP Mozilla 1.0 I would like to controlle flash from HTML in mozilla browser with gotoframe command. Problem is that it works in IE but not in Mozilla. Can you help me with that one. thank you and best regards, dEnis ...more >>

hi i'm going to format my pc and reinstall macromedia products (flash and DW) am i going to lose all the extensions , if so is there any way to save them? thanks...more >>

So I have a file that right now when you click on the navigation is loads a different color background. But as you'll notice, they all actually default to the blue background and then scroll the new one over it. Right now each page (print, web, etc) are fixed with scrolling in a specific new b...more >>

Supposedly 10% of people don´t have flash installed. I have tried therefore to export my .swf as images but it seems to go wrong. Does flash generate an animated gif automatically? Thanks for any pointers ...more >>

can someone point me in the right direction of loading several flv files at runtime? I need to use movie clip buttonto and load flv files at runtime....more >>

:disgust; Are you kidding me? I just spent $450 on a Studio MX 2004 updgrade from older products (i.e. DW4 ,Flash 4 etc.) and there is not a single piece of printed documentation. Unbelievable. Macromedia use to have great manuals, and they were always included. Adobe still always has new p...more >>

Hi everyone, Im wanting to make a click here button (which I can do) but instead of "go to web page and open" or "load external webpage or SWF" Im wanting to make a button where you click and it opens a PDF in Acrobat reader automatically. Is this possible? Is someone able to help?? ...more >>

Hi all, Have a deadline and really want to know the following: I am doing a website with basic navigation buttons. The website is for a business and is text heavy. Each page has differing lengths of text, so I have set each page up with the same width. Under the comand of modify, I...more >>

Hi, Could you help with a simple task, I need a button to download a Word Doc from a CD, the Flash will be set up as a application to auto load. I see button can load a web url, whats the action to download the file from a folder on the cd ? Flash MX 2004 Thank you ...more >>

Hi, Could you help with a simple task, I need a button to download a Word Doc from a CD, the Flash will be set up as a application to auto load. I see button can load a web url, whats the action to download the file from a folder on the cd ? Thank you ...more >>

Since I upgraded to Flash MX Pro 2004, I've been getting a strange effect on my HTML pages. As the .SWF is loading, I get a 3-d border (highlight and shadow) with an 'image' icon in the upper left. It disappears when the SWF loads and all runs fine. But it is ugly. Looks to some people as tho...more >>

Hello Any Flash experts out there? Sorry for being an interloper in the Flash forum when I am using Dreamweaver MX 2004 but I have tried the Dreamweaver forum twice already but to no avail. Short version: I have created a slideshow using the Insert Flash Elements function in DWMX2004. My im...more >>

Flash player 7 keeps wanting to be installed whenever I go to a website that is running flash. I click ok to install, and it does, but when i shut dowm my browser, I have to reinstall again. I don't want to run the yahoo toolbar, so I have uninstalled it. Can I keep the Flash player without ...more >>

Due to the whole Ipod and Itunes craze my entire CD Collection has been encoded to AAC files. I would very much like ti make a flash jukebox of all my music. Do you guys think flash will play the aac's or do I need to encode to MP3. ...more >>

We recently completed a project for a customer that involved the Flash movie playing .FLV files. Unfortunately, their host did not have the .FLV MIME type configured in their server. Is there a detection script or something that would allow us to check externally whether a company's server is ...more >>

Has anyone seen it when you create your swf file and it shows up fine on your local drive, but when you try and view it on the server it doesn't show up. Just a blank swf file. I've tested this on my home server and two servers at work with the same results. Any idea's are welcome ...more >>

Whenever my page loads right now it loads a flash thing that has a song play in the background, and i change it every so often, this is extremely easy to make. (drag sound from library and save) But now i have a bunch of shorter sound clips that i would rather have play instead of a song....more >>

IS ther ANYWAY I can get back my layerd or no layer fla from a swf? or undelete my fla file from ntfs?? ...more >>

when i break apart an image in flash, can i SELECT PART OF THE IMAGE BY ITS COLOR and replace it with other colors...more >>

I know that you can't imbed video or create FLV files in Flash 5, but if I create a movie in 2004 MX w/ video imbedded and export as an SWF file, will the 5 Player handle that???...more >>

Hi i'm new with the php staff , is it the same or "near by" using php with flash , and usnig php with html or i need to learn both things ? do i need to install mySql and aphce on my pc to use those languages or i can run it straight to my server host ? thanks ...more >>

So, I have five solid colour blocks and a piece of text over each one. I would like to select the text blocks without selecting the boxes but, as you all know, if the selection tool only covers part of one of the blocks, it actually cuts the block. 'Shift-click' is a PITA. Is there any key co...more >>

I have Macromedia MX 2002 and am having trouble finding "Play Once" in Flash to make a frames play through only once. The Help says that it's in Properties under the Instance Name in a menu. There's no pop down menu under the Instance name and I've spent far too many hours trying to find this....more >>

What other ways are there to link to a webpage other than geturl?...more >>

:confused; I am trying to create a DVD. I have been advised to save a .mov file from flash in order to do this. This part is ok, the issue is with exporting the file from flash.. each time I do this the sound is not playing.. any ideas ??? cheers Mich ...more >>