I want to know--yes or no--is it possible to make a button cause a graphic to appear without using gotoAndStop to advance to a scene or frame that has the graphic? In other words, can a button make a graphic appear and stay there, even after the button is released? (I am making a Windows emu...more >>

hi guys,... pls download this. http://www.designs-view.com/test.zip Here u can see 2 flash files first.fla and second.fla In first.fla, u can see 2 links link1 and link2 inside a mc and in second.fla u can see 2 small animation with label names first and second. I have draged that mc i...more >>

Hello, I wonder what's the easiest and simplest way to load external images (JPGs)... For example... I want to have my swf file and IMAGE folder with 2 photos inside, in my root folder. Let's say I just have 2 buttons on the screen, and when I press button 1, I want photo number one to appe...more >>

First, any who read this, When "Murry" answers save the response, Murry is gold I have a school site. I want to put up video files on the site. They will be from 30 seconds (intros, and short topics), all the way up to 15 minute learning segments (a number of them!). I am already using ...more >>

I'm trying to connect to my FTP server for my website (ftp.tomdooner.com) to no avail. Any time I hit the "Test" button on the Site Definition page it gets hung up on "Opening Connection". This same site works in Dreamweaver. I have a Local Area Network. I have tried various combinations of ...more >>

Sorry about the caps i just wanted to get your attention :) I Have Created Flash, comic, design forums.. every one go there and register we can make this a great for but i can't do it with out any if yous.. flash forums with you users from macromedia forums.. that would be crazy! www.und...more >>

I have video within my courseware that is in .mov format. The videos tend to be about 3 minutes or so in length and on average are about 11MB in size. I converted the .mov files to .flv files (so that I can play within my media player component from Flash MX Pro) and even though they are 11MB ...more >>

hi there, i can't seem to get small images to look good in flash (7). it seems that some sort of anti-aliasing is always on for my flash files. you can see here: /www.xs4all.nl/~heffels/play/ how the original small gif image looks like. and also see the html file where it doesn't look go...more >>

My PC won't accept flash player - I've reinstalled and got the movie on the test page a couple of times but when I move to a game site it tells me I need flash player. Are there any settings which would stop my computer accepting this software? ...more >>

Hi all, I am a newbie. I would just like to know how to animate various graphics (these graphics are just letters in my heading of the website). Various letters (graphics) inside a movie clip. How can I do this? Thanks :confused; ...more >>

When I try to print overlapping png images, the transparency of these images is ignored. Instead of the transparent area the background color is shown. these images show what i mean: printed: http://studio.stage.vintage.be/michiel/forumimages/bad.jpg Altough when i look at the previe...more >>

I am simply doing a escape/unescape for URL encoding, yet if I set my publishing settings to flash 6 I get different conversion results then when it is set for Flash 7 Flash 7 ? = %C3%A9 (which is wrong) Flash 6 ? = %E9 (which is correct) I know I am doing something silly wrong.. but ...more >>

Can anyone help please? I have an application that requires cirtain clips to launch as pop up windows. They need to be modal so that nothing in the background is active while the pop up is present. The clips I have are small and have about 15 text fields, 1 datagrid, 3 buttons. curr...more >>

I imported a flash text reshape and a flash movie into my home page. When I click play in the design layout the images play, howerver when I go to preview my site in explorer a blank outlined box with a red x in the upper right corner. How do I fix this problem? ...more >>

Hi... I've used the presentation class (also the file was started as a presentation) to make a little (8 simple slides) presentation for an online product. The file size turned out to be 450 kb. Now, i thought i'd add a loading progress bar.. I'm the eternal newbie, mind you, so i read the...more >>

I am calling in text from a txt file and have noticed on a number of occasions that the text makes a quick jump when the user rolls over an <a href link. It seems that the movement can happen anywhere, not just near the link. I am also using an externall css file to control the formatting ...more >>

For the past 6 months, I've had no trouble with the whatever_btn.onRelease = function(){ gotoAndPlay(37) } type of code, but now it is just not working. I have a picture of the Recycle Bin icon in my Flash, and its instance name is recycle1_btn. I enter it into the abov...more >>

OK, so Im new to this somewhat. Heres what Im trying to do. I made a movie of a bottle with words spinning around it. There are 5 layers in the movie. I want to play that movie, then fade out and play another movie. So I copied the frames, created a new movie clip, pasted the frames there, rem...more >>

Is there allready information available of a new version of flash?...more >>

Hi I have a flash site that I ahve created here www.freshlemon.co.uk/paragon/home.html The site works fine from the main menu buttons, How ever I want when you rollover products and go to projectors and then micro-portable i want it to load the main products pageswf then at same time load ...more >>

Sorry if this isn't exactly the right board, I'm really not sure where to direct this question. Ok, I ran a shockwave game locally and it worked fine. this one: http://static.thewb.com/downloads/games/charmed/charmed.html However when i ran this one: http://homepage.mac.com/poc...more >>

Hi there I was wondering if i could ask for you help. I am looking for a resource to help me build a whole site. All tutorials seem to focus on indiviual components of Flash but there is nothing out there that actually shows you how to build a whole site. 1. Planning it. 2. Creating so...more >>

Brush and erase tools are doing boolean backflips at the moment. If I paint a line with the brush- nothing happens. If I paint a circle- the inside fills and the painted line disappears. The opposite happens with the eraser. I'm working on an illustration 5 timelines deep, and think that might...more >>