INTRODUCTION I'm in San Francisco, having attended FlashForward, a twice-annual conference dedicated to the Macromedia Flash platform. This is the fourth FlashForward conference I've had the privilege of attending, and it's been interesting to watch the growth of Flash as a platform for web-base...more >>

This week, CMX teaches you good CSS coding habits, offers you an MP3 player for Flash, provides you with some great CSS snippets and plenty of other cool things. CMX MP3 Player (Flash Extension) http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D2DC4 Paul Newman The CMX MP3 Player component enab...more >>

When I try to run Yahoo's new fantasy baseball StatTracker (the old non-Flash one worked for me), it loads 60-90%, then I get this message - "a script in this movie is causing macromedia flash player 7 to run slowly" and if I try to close the window, it crashes my browser. Otherwise, if I cli...more >>

I have created a combo box with 5 different labels. I want each label to target a different frame within the same movie. So that when the user selects one of the five options for the combo box it will goto a different frame of the movie. I have craeted the labels but am not sure how to make th...more >>

I'm using MX7, and in the UI components there is a scrollpane but not the scrollbar. I had to get this component via someone else's library. My question is, has it been completed removed from MX7 or is it hiding somewhere? I'd like to have it available to simply append on a text box for scr...more >>

A large FLASH movie takes forever to begin playing on my PCs Internet Explorer browser, but starts after only a few seconds on my MACs IE browser. What gives?...more >>

I have a flash movie that I created on a PC. When I double-click the flash movie comes up on the PC in its own window that I can maximize to full screen. However, I need to play this flash movie on a Powerbook G4 for a presentation that will be projected onto a screen. On the Mac OS X, the...more >>

Hello. Text renders differently in a static text box than in a dynamic one. Why does this happen?, Is it a workaround to render text properly in a dynamic text box? Thank you. ...more >>

Greetings I'm having a really freaky problem with my fonts in my .swf movies. I want them not to have anti alias, and I choose that option in flash. But what happens is that they appear with antialias in the swf and in the html files, which really disturbs the reading of the text, the fon...more >>

I'm very new to Flash, and am using it to display photos by having each photo go from transparent to opaque over the one below it. An example of what I'm doing is on our home page, the graphic to the right. http://www.kingestate.com/ I would like to learn other ways of merging one photo ...more >>

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Content of the web side is geting resized while in popUp I have tryed almost every possible publishing metod with no results there is no problem when I don't use popUp I have upload that to the server so you can see it Please check it out if you compare the backroud of index page and ...more >>

Is this posible? Thanks ...more >>

I just learn Flash.. try to put mailto:email@adres.com to a button. So I put onRelease... getURL from the Behaviour panel and put "email@adres.com" instead of a webadres. When I put it online on my website, nothing happens when I push the button. What did I do wrong? Thanks for helping me. ...more >>

How do I remove the 3D Look from the Listbox Component? I thought I might be able to do it with setStyle but it doesn't seem to work. Please, anyone, suggestions??...more >>

Does anyone know how to make flash output variable values to a csv file? ...more >>

I went through the Progressive download video tutorial and carefully followed the directions. During the test, the html page spawned with the media player on it, but there was no video or audio. I tried the simplest local test, so my flv and fla files were in the same folder. I double check...more >>

hi all, I am wondering why I have a button fully covered by a rectangle movie clip (larger than the button), but when i move my mouse over the rectangle i can click on the button, do anyone has this experience? best regards, henry ...more >>

Sorry newbie question following up: I have text and I broke it apart until shapes and then used the ink bottle tool to select outline color and click on each letter to apply. I now want to outline the outline and I need to convert the line to fill. How do I do this please? thanks mudbub...more >>

:confused; I came across http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=52697ee8 for twarting such things. I've read through it and the relevent linked pages. However, one question remains unanswered....... How in the heck do I access the settings panel in the first place ??...more >>

I'm having a problem with my mouse not picking up HTML buttons which appear under my transparent SWF. The SWF is inside of a DIV tag and HTML buttons appear under it. It works fine in IE, but not the newest version of Netscape and Firefox. Is there any additional code that I can add to the S...more >>

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows how to loop a video in flash so that it doesn't start at the beginning for every loop. I would like to video to play from beginning to end and then loop from end to beginning and repeat the looping process. Robert ...more >>

I use projector to host the flash movie (1.5MB). At the beging the player freeze for about 3-5 sec then switch to fullscreen and again freeze for 2 sec. I have writhen all of my script at frame 1 on main timeline. Is there any way to create a message informing that something has loading and on...more >>

Is Flash needed to play a Flash presentation? If not, is the Flash player needed? Also, are these presentations smaller in file size than Powerpoint? Thanks, Libbi ...more >>

do anyone have these fonts: NimbusSanLGR y EuropeanPi 2 could you send me the files to pajaro.shantak@gmail.com Thanks a lot ...more >>

Dear Forum, Does anyone know the actionscript, tutorial or how to make a volume silder and playhead scrubber for an flv streaming video? Thanks in advance, Epee...more >>

Hi, Does anybody know if it is possible to create a DVD playing an .swf file, on a normal (home) DVD player and using the remote control unit for selecting Flash controls like "onClick", "OnRelease", ... ? thanks in advance Fibag ...more >>

I hope someone can help. I have Googled and looked in the Macromedia site and haven't found anything that helped. I have a FlashMX app that up until recently worked fine. Now however, after I make changes to my ..fla, after publishing, the changes aren't seen. If I to Test Movie, they are there...more >>

I am creating some dynamic radio buttons in a loop like this: .... this.radioButtons[i] = mcRadioContainer.createClassObject( RadioButton, "radio" + i, mcRadioContainer.getNextHighestDepth() { selected:preselected }); .... The preselected variable is either true or false based on a con...more >>

Help, anyone. Is it possible to load other files other than JPEGs into the scroll pane component. I'm trying to load text and images into a text box with scoll bars in MX2004. I'm stuck. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Darren. ...more >>

I'm using the FLV plugin in Final Cut Pro but am get a couple of strange results in the exported file. First, my sequence dimensions are 600 x 400, but when I export the FLV its native size has been changed to what looks like PAL (the native clip size in the sequence). Secondly I get a large ...more >>

i am developing a site with 6 menus, when u click on one, a swf loads... this works perfectly. the problem is one of the swfs has an flv video, played with the media playback component. the video plays great. the problem is when i click on an other menu. the sound of the movie keeps playing, a...more >>

My site is http://www.stellarartist.com and I am having problems with the text. I have it as the following: Dynamic text (want it to be good quality), Font = Verdana, Whenever I embed font outlines for all characters it appears on the screen fuzzy (like static text). Whenever I choose not to ...more >>

So Im working on a new project using FlashMX PRO and wondering what sould be done with my preloader in a Form Application. I don't need help building a preloader Im just curious about how other profesionals are intergrating a preloader. I could add some frames to the first page "application"...more >>

All I want to do is have some text that when I hover over it, it turns a different color and I can click on it to go to another web page. So I created a line of text, coverted it to a button and changed the color on the over frame. But when I publish it, it is REALLY difficult to actually clic...more >>

when i try to do flash while my sbc or a online game is on the computer (crashes) and takes me to a blue screen on my windows 98, and flash MX 2004 works fine at start but 30 mins later it starts to get slower and slower then crashes on my windows 98, ...more >>

I know how to do it in Illustrator, but I don't know how to do it in Flash or Freehand. I have two rectangles, One big and one small. The small one is completelly inside the big but they are not centered. PROBLEM: I need to align both rectangles by its centers BUT the small rectangle CANNOT M...more >>

Basically, i'm creating a game sort of like Crimson Room. That whole process is going very well, but i'm having trouble with creating a hall of fame board for it. I want the user to be able to put their name in a textbox, then hit submit. The submit button submits it to a webpage (I'm gues...more >>

just wanted to let everyone know that i figured out what the problem was on the ie rendering using loadMovieNum()... to recap... i was having a problem loading the movies in. they worked fine on anything else.. but in ie.. no dice.. the problem was NOT in using loadMovieNum(), but the pr...more >>

I want my Flash movie coded so a jpg will appear instead of the flash file for people who don't have flash (or the updated version) on their computers. For something that seems so standard, I have been unable to find a solution in either Flash help, or on these forums. I've followed other'...more >>

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how can i open a swf file (a game i created) without the program mx2004? by this i mean that when i work in class, i can open swf files reel simple, whutever, but when i try to open the game (swf file) here at work, it doesn't recognize tha file type. do i need something else to jus open it, e...more >>

This is a really simple question, thanks in advance. All I am trying to do is fade my picture for 30 frames. So I went to insert timeline effects then Transition chose fade, 30 frames, it works perfect in the preview and then when i click apply it doesn't work. It looks to me as if it is no...more >>

Hey.. I need help. My flash is acting up. Inside my swf i have a movie clip containing other 2 movie clips. the first clip takes the ones inside it and moves them up and down... frames 0-20 (inner clips moves down) frames 20-40(inner clips moves back up) I created another movie clip that ch...more >>