Hi, I'm pretty new to flash but i'm starting to get the hang of it, anyway here's the thing, i have a website where i want to play my bands music, i can make a play and stop button work but the only trouble is there's quite a few songs and it seems to load all the data to the webpage befor...more >>

I have two buttons in a timeline. When button 1 is clicked it replaces movie 1 with a random movie (all with names Symbol and a number). Button 2 is supposed to do the same only for movie 2. The problem I'm having is when button 2 is clicked, it removes the randomly placed movie in movie 1, an...more >>

Any help with coding Flash to opt in loading over HTML? I have seen it on Yahoo ads on the main page. This would come in very handy. Any help?...more >>

I have tried everything I can think of to do the following... We have a CD with a Flash interface that auto opens then within the UI we want to link to a series of PDFs from within the CD. Tried a full address = file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/CAUW%20CD/t...more >>

Is there a standard out there for whether or not to use a preloader based on the filesize of the swf? How about for loading external content...ex: video or jpgs?...more >>

Hi all. Ok, so I'm finishing up a website, and I have a last bug. The graphics in my flash documents are already optimized for the web before I import them in flash (I'm a big boy, I can optimize image files myself). So, I import them in flash and work with them. Once the flash document is don...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to move several keyframes x number of pixels w/o having to move each keyframe individually? Thanks, elrenook...more >>

Hi there, Can i display alt text over images on mouseover? Ive got an invisible button over a photo which when clicked will take you to a gallery page. However, i would like to display a small desciption. Ive placed this on the over state of the button but was wondering if there is any oth...more >>

i have a few figures and a table. i am trying to create an environment where it looks like figures are gathered around a table for meeting purposes. objects are Movie clips. I use duplicatemovieclip function for this. i duplicate the table first then duplicate figures but figures are on top...more >>

I have a project that I need to dynamically change a the color of a movieclip that is nested inside another. The color information is being pulled out of an XML file along with the button's titles. I have a loop set up to place new buttons out on the stage and now I need to change the ...more >>

I'm using MX2004, and I can't figure out how to delete a scene... In MX, there was a "scene editor" or something like that, and I could just select it and hit the "delete" key on my keyboard, but I can't figure out how to do that in MX2004... I've checked the help file in Flash, and gott...more >>

Does anyone know how to embed flash into a c++ program?...more >>

Hi, I need to load external text files into some Textfields. They have to be UTF-8 enconded to display special German characters. If I encode with ANSI, all is ok except the special characters. The moment I encode as UTF-8, a special "." character shows up at the beginning of the textfield...more >>

I'm making a swf file file that only contains music--no text or graphics. Could I make it 1x1 pixels....more >>

Kind of a simple question: Can I insert a movie clip into a data grid (to display a picture/animation)? If yes, can you please explain? Thank you....more >>

Hey all, Im pretty new to this whole webdesign stuff. Can you tell me how to use an swf as my homepage? Im told it has to be labeled "index.htm" but I can't get it to work unless its a dreamweaver file. I want it to be a flash file so that it automatically keeps it centered as the brows...more >>

I wondered how I can make a flash exe that fills the screen, and doesn't have a browser window round it. I would normally embedd the Flash object into director and make an exe with that. But for some reason my 'flash presentations' won't run properly in director, they work fine from the o...more >>

Hi Thanks in advance, I need to dynamically load movies on top of each other in a target and then unload the first movie - I wouldnt really have a problem doing this except there are a possible 8 movies to be loaded in at anytime so I cant assign them there own level, any ideas on ways to fix th...more >>

how to include specific characters to dynamic text field, which has been created by programming method. my_mc.createTextField(instanceName, depth, x, y, width, height); The problem is that text is loaded from external xml file and is located under the mask. so i can't see my text. Who know...more >>

My flash site contains a "ticker" at the bottom of the page. Its a dynamic text component (ticker_txt). During each frame I run a function "ScrollTicker()" that scrolls this text towards the left. I would like the text to continue scrolling, like normal tickers, so once the text reaches the...more >>

I have a scene that requires a movie clip to loop indefinately while a user is on this scene. Problem is because it's interactive I need the stop frame at the end of the scene. I need the Movie clip to continually loop while the user is on this scene and can't seem to figure out how to do it. ...more >>

Hello everyone!!; I?m trying to give a solution to a company and have decided to solve the problem with a flash mx application. My question is if I can use flash mx in a touchscreen, and if its possible...buttons keep having the same syntaxis???...like... on(press){ }; thank u very much...more >>

Hi, this is a bit of a dumb question but how do you clear a text field via actionscript? Thanks...more >>

anyone knows anything about progressive download of flv files? 1. can i use buffertime, bufferlenght for progressive, or they only fit for streaming flvs??? 2. how can i do a total bar ralative to the total lenght, a progressbar reative to the loaded content and a playhead ? 3. dows any...more >>

I have one dynamic textfield with instance name "a". I have one input textfield with instance name "b". I have one button. Actionscript on button: on(press){ } I need a code there! I want it to be like this: If I write in into the input texfield 'Hello my name is' (and then a nam...more >>

I created some text, and converted it to a button, and applied the behavior to open a web page to a specific address.. but when I render the flash, the text simply remains text... it doesn't become the button to a link.. did I forget something? ...more >>

Hi yea, I was wondering is there is a site that one can down load a selection of flash movies that repeat, as in a sky for instance, I would like the cloudes to keep moving and just to be able to add text myself. can any one point me to where I can get some of these. either commercial or free...more >>

I've got two instances of the same graphic.. the first instance has a motion tween over 10 frames where its fading in... and it works, except that when it does so, it also slides to the right and down a couple of pixels.. why is Flash doing this??? ...more >>

Hi, I?m working on a menu that has to change the colour of a button (a movieclip controlled by a invisible button), when you move your mouse over it. Next to that, when you click a certain button, the colour has to change, and the button must become inactive, till another button is clicked...more >>

Hi Everybody, This is probably a very simple question, but I can't seem to solve it. I'd appreciate a little help. Is there any way to stop a new window opening in the browser when I send my form from Flash using php. Thanks for any advice you can give! nenya ...more >>

Does anybody know what the version is of the Flash player after a fresh install of Windows XP? I'm talking about the original version, version with SP1 and the version with SP2. Anybody? Thanks. ...more >>

More fscommands - I hope 8ball to have much more fscommands like minimize, drag window, etc. I don't like using 3rd party software... And does anybody know when will 8ball come? Excuse bad english... enoice www.enoice.wz.cz ...more >>

Hi I've got problem when i type Farsi in flash mx can you help me to soul this problem for me or what file I must be download Regards, Amir Fattahi ...more >>

Hi, how do I get some text that I type in an input text field to show in another text field simply by pressing a button?? Thanks...more >>

hello, ive been playing around and cant quite figure out if i can get HTML/CSS working with my external text files, my guess right now is no - but than again im hopefully wrong! what im trying to do is have some text in my external text file bolded Cheers ...more >>

Hello, I have created a horizontal menu in flash with many buttons on it. As the user scrolls from one side to the other the mouse passes over the different buttons, I would like the page to show a differerent rollover layer for each button in the flash movie, so --- - Can this be done ? ...more >>

Is it possible to delay behaviors you attach to buttons?....so that although you select the 'on release' event......you can specify that it happens so many seconds after the 'on release' thanks...more >>

Hello, i have used the 'load external movieclip' behavior so that when a button, on my hostpage, is clicked, an external swf is loaded into a movieclipsymbol. how can i have the buttons on the 'loaded swf' do the same, but into a movieclipsymbol on my hostpage'? any help is appreciated...more >>

myArray_1=myArray_2 ? How two arrays can be equal? // I used the loop for that but didn't work for( var q:Number = 0; q<=last_index ; q++){ myArray_1 = myArray_2 }; tnx in advance ...more >>

hi, why the default sieze of movie clip is 1400 X 1400 ( 700 and -700), how to enlarge it, say to 800 and -800)? Thanks. ...more >>

I have a templete that was originally created in flash. However, I don't have any of the original files that were used to make all the images. I just want to know which one would be better to edit the template images with? ...more >>

in trying to figure out why i kept having a problem downloading the trial version of flash, i saw that several other people had posted to this list indicating the same problem - i didn't find the answer on the forum, but i did figure out how to resolve the problem, so i thought i should share ...more >>

I have a client who has given me some FLV files that need converting BACK to SWF... Thats all they have What is the best way to do this? Someone please RSVP...more >>

Hi, Just wondering if it is in fact legal to extend any the macromedia component set and then sell the extended component set? thanks...more >>

Hello, Is there a video type (MPG, AVI, WMV, MOV) that is best suited for conversion to .FLV? I am shooting video of a narrator from the shoulders up, so there is little movement. I do have the choice of bringing it into Sorenson Squeeze in any format I like. Any input is appreciated. Than...more >>

Is there any way of passing data variables between the parent web page, either html or cfm and Flash objects imbedded in the page. For instance an html/cfm page with a menuing system built into it. The user selects a menu item, which calls a cold fusion page and retrieves data. I now want t...more >>

Hi, I need help with a flash site I'm making I have a dynamic text that has a scrollbar component, and I need some parts of that text to trigger some loadmovie's. For example, a certain part of text must link to something like this: loadMovieNum("G2_7.swf", 1); I thought that may...more >>

I have a font problem on PC vs MAC. Document are created on Mac. I work on it on PC. Now opening file in Mac or event on PC, the font are displayed between () like that (helvetica bold). The problem is that text display like font does not exist. I need to know if there is an option in Flash to...more >>