I recently bought a magazine that describs a flash project that places a movie over html content. After following the tutorial exactly the last section calls for inserting a layer over an html page buildt in Dreamweaver and then copying and pasting the flash movie published with the Window Mo...more >>

My application really needs popup dialogs to contain some custom controls I have made. The answer seemed to be the PopUpManager, which, when I got the hang of it, works fine. Only trouble is that my app loads another MovieClip into a higher level (_level9, as it happens) while it is running. I...more >>

How do I go about making buttons(Next and Back) to change pictures in a framed in corner? I have the buttons made and I don't know how to make the script to make the picture fade out and then the next fade in. All of the pictures are on different layers right now. ...more >>

Hey everyone, I have been asked to try and design an Interactive DVD by a pal of mine and wondered whether this was possible using flash or Director. It needs to run independantly (from a stand-alone dvd player) in a similar way to a dvd movie interface i.e menu system, scene selecti...more >>

I have a flash program that the text gets bigger and as it gets bigger it changes color of the letter and the outline. I would like to know how this is done. Can anyone help me?:confused;...more >>

Hi I am very new to flash. I want to know how to create good presentations with text effects. There seems to be a lot of extensions you can buy (and even some that are free) that help one to do this. Do I have to buy any of these (if so, which ones?) or is it easy to make decent p...more >>

any reasons as to why the text does not wrap? thanks, brian createTextField("officialRules", 1, 0, 0, 200, 800); officialRules.multiline = true; officialRules.text = "qrg uiqg uirg uhrqog oaerg oare ogjreoijg oiraeg oiijreag ojrieoig qiorgjoi jreoigj ioer jgrj ioerjgio jeraiogj ioera...more >>

Boy this is frustrating. I thought creating a simple fade out of a jpg image would be easy. I am creating a small banner ad. I want a photograph that occupies part of the banner to fade out and reveal another photo below it, and then that photo to fade out and reveal another photo, etc. Sounds...more >>

I understand how basic masking works. My question is can I apply several masks to one layer? For example, I have a logo. I want it to look like a laser is writing it. So Mask1 (with layer logo attached) sweeps from left to right and reveals the top layer of the logo. Mask2 (with layer logo a...more >>

I think that there is a way to import non-flash movie files to frames and then edit frame by frame. Any idea how? Thanks, S....more >>

How would I best do this in actionscript? (Mx) I am guessing create a variable, "bounce" in the first frame-- var bounce:Number = 1; then on the last frame in scene 1 if (bounce > 2) {nextScene(); } But it doesn't work, and I can't tell if this is the best way to do it. Any advice?...more >>

I've just produced an all-Flash web site for a client. He was really happy with it until another rival web company told him that Flash isn't recognised by Search Engines so no-one will be able to find his site on the web. I've told my client that I've allowed for this by adding meta tags and m...more >>

Hi! Can anyone tell me is it possible to make filebrowser with flash and as? That filebrowser should be like in emails. You can browse your own computer and you can attach files. My problem is that how to browse some pics from my computer and send them to server. Is there any methods strai...more >>

Hi I wonder if anyone can help!! I have some clips of video to play in flash and for some reason on playing the video it takes the files and misses the first second of the video footage. Anyone got any ideas why this is happening. Your help well appreciated, thank you Rachel ...more >>

Hi everyone, I've created a banner movie with flash for a new web site, but I'd like a script that would 'swap in' just a normal jpg image if it is detected the user's browser hasn't got flash available to show the banner - can someone assist??? The code enclosed is what I've got so far ...more >>

Hi We came across a request for information on Audio recording abilities of FLash. For example- a record button on screen that will allow for the user to record audio. And stop recording after pressing a stop button. Could anybody suggest if this is possible- using Flash alone or with a ...more >>

:cool; I am loading xml in to a flash and out it in a text box. It has links, bold italic and varius colour and size fonts. Is there a any tool to create XML. Such as creating text and links in html with Dreamviewer nutsy:Dnalinda badOnEnglish ...more >>

I need to find the best way -cross platform- to allow visitors to send me email from my Flash site. I've used getURL in script and it works, except that even if a user doesn't use Outlook Express, it tries to open it. To which the user may become confused. :-) So, can anyone help me out ...more >>

:confused; hello! i have 19 movies i call into an .fla separately. the user has a choice which movie to view. when i access the .swfs by double-clicking on them in a folder, they work perfectly. however, when i import them into an .fla containing the interface, the visuals work but not...more >>

:confused; Our group is learning about Macromedia and Flash. We are editing an internet explorer webpage with a flash player embedded within that page... basic tags look like this: <EMBED src="Center3.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" NAME="Center3" ALIGN="" ...more >>

Can anyone recommend one or two good books(reference and/or training) for using Flash MX 2004 (pro, if possible)? I'm an intermediate user....more >>

Hello, We use flash in our digital signage application. As such, when we show flash files, its generally full screen mode. I noticed that when flash renders even simple animations in full screen, the performance is quite shocking. Even a standard 6kb flash file with some fade ins / anim...more >>

Regardless of what data type it's set as in the schema, a Label component always acts like a string field when it comes to formulas. For example: you have 2 TextInput components X and Y and a Label component Z. You obviously can't say Z = X + Y so the only alternative is Z.text = X.text + ...more >>

Not long ago it seems I had the same problem, though probably not for the same reason. I experienced the "Flash MX 2004 7.2 freezes during launch after using Apple Setup Assistant to migrate to new Mac OS X 10.3.6 machine: 1/7/05" technote, and my circumstances fit the description "to a tee". ...more >>

Hi folks, I've determined through experimentation that Flash will muck up diagonal lines in a bitmap if it is scaled up or down from the original size that you've imported it at. This is really really annoying. Does anyone know of a way to get around this? Outside of wanting to mov...more >>

hi, i am looking for more tools in my toolbar.. since a while i have a cube tool and a grid tool.. ..but does anybody know where to find more of them..? I've read somewhere that there was a tool that could curve lines of text. It was called circle text tool.. but i can't find it anywh...more >>

:brokenheart; Good morning Folks! I have a prob.. i created 2 (grey--blue for "over" state) buttons in Illustrator converted to EPS.. imported them into the library in Flash.. it dumps an extra folder and layers of my buttons seems like.. when i test the movie (complex rollover) one o...more >>

Is there any way to play uncompressed music during a Flash intro? I've imported a wav, but it play it compressed and sounds horrible....more >>

One of our applications serves up GB upon GB of flash content. Some customers have bandwidth issues and would like to be able to cache this content. We'd like to have the same solution for everyone. Any suggestions? ...more >>

I am trying to find out if there is an easy way to switch files in Flash. My client wants his logo changed from his old one to his new one so is there any way to switch out the old one with the new one without importing the new one. ...more >>

I would like to have my slide presentation automatically go to the beginning after the last slide. The format doesn't approach the slides as if they were scenes, so I can't just say the usual "go to scene 1". What script would I use to tell it to go to the first slide?? Thanks! TPS ...more >>

I'm having some real issues with trying to figure out why some text that I've changed in the scene won't show up when I create a movie? The company I work for bought a template that they just wanted me to change some stuff around in (Design,content). So, I changed some of the copy on some bu...more >>

Similar to 50cent.comhttp://www.amerie.net/site.html they both have buttons at top that control music. I can create the buttons, but how do i have them just play and stop music. ...more >>

My flash book tells me that i could find new flash tools on "macromedia.com" Can anyone tell we were i can find them?...more >>

I am a little confused as to how you add music or sound in a flash file. I have tried to place the music file in the library and then import to stage, but it does not work. Is anyone familiar with this? Thanks Alot. ...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash Professional 2004 with Flash Remoting services, Coldfusion 6.1 and Access XP. My Flash application displays the database results through a Datagrid. Now, I very much would like to print some of these results into an already existing form (right now a cfm page). By...more >>

Mac OS 10.3.9 - Flash MX 7.01 I am a newbie and have a problem with a presentation. Each "slide" consists of 2 images and a textbox. Each image is supposed to fade between 2 images before the next "slide". I have created/converted each fade to a Movie Clip - which looks nice. I create eac...more >>

Trying to find a tutorial on how to create a transition effect for a slideshow where a series of squares/boxes appear to reveal an image, then transition to the next image in the same fashion. I know I've seen this many times, but can't find a tutorial for it. I guess I could create a series o...more >>

Greetings to all! I was just wondering. Is there some external program (preferably for Mac?), that can handle Shape Tweening or something very similar for Flash? I'm trying to pull off some fancy shape effects- primarily something like a vector graphic of a circle colliding with another ...more >>

I want a pop-up menu to appear when a user puts their cursor over a button. How do I do that? I know how to do it with Fireworks but I would rather use Flash. ...more >>

All the menus i've created with the menu component have solid background colors. That color is simple to change, but how do you make it semi-transparent with the alpha property? thanks...more >>