I hope someone can answer this question. When I create flash files (*.fla) using external XML & CSS files and export the flash movie file (*.swf) and send the movie to be processes into a training video. Do I need to send the external XML & CSS file as well? Or does this get embedded (XML ...more >>

I built a website all in flash. If you go to this one page there is text boxes that scroll using the scrollBar component. You can go to the other sections and come back and the scroller works great. But if you go to the gallery and click a link which performs a load movie and then come bac...more >>

If anyone can help I would appreciate it! My buttons have stop actions, but if you continue to click on the button it will advance to other sections of the page and I can't figure out why. Thanks!...more >>

Just a quick question... I have a combo box with some options in it. When the user selects something within it - I'd like the movie to advance to a different frame. Before I make it more complicated - I have some very simple actionscript in it. on(change) { trace("hello") g...more >>

is there any way to use php variables in flash to take the place of the text and background colors? for instance, the background would be "$backgroundcolor" which is really "#FFFF00", or the text color would be "$fontcolor" which is actually "#00FFFF". I dont need to import the variable...more >>

:disgust; Hello, I am trying to publish my Flash MX 2004 Professional files. However, they take forever to publish to .swf files as well as Projectors. I'm talking up to 30 minutes to a 6Mb file! Yes, the keyframes are over 1500, yes, there are 4 different scenes. But this is cra...more >>

Can someone please help out a newbie? Can you tell me how to script a button to go to an email address. I have on(release) but I need the rest, I know it should be mailto:jsmith@noclue.com or similar. Any help? Thanks. ...more >>

I have successfully created a movie clip cursor that I would like to use, but when I go to test it, the actual cursor is way far off from where my movie clip is. I set my movie clip up at x=0, y=0. If I start my real cursor there to begin with, it moves it about just fine. But when starting up...more >>

I am very new to Flash, but I desperately need help creating a logo. I own a film production company and need a film reel logo. I need it to spell out Oh-Kay Prodcutions, but with the film reel. Basically I want to have a reel fall from the top of the screen and have the film spill over to eve...more >>

I have a movieclip that has code to make it move on a mouse rollover, but when the buttons are pressed that i have created to take the user to another frame, framelabel, or the next swf file, it does not react. i am attaching the fla file, and the code that the movieclip button contains.. cou...more >>

Note: this is one question that i asked on adobe forum for premiere pro. I post a copy of it here just in case a flash user that also uses premiere can help. Here it goes: " Hi, iam a new user of premiere pro and for my first project i imported 4 footates (1MB each, 10 sec video each), pu...more >>

can movies be created dynamically and then added to the library for later use in the application? any help will be appreciated THANKS...more >>

OK, I'm up for a huge project right now. I have NO idea how to this. I'm not making this as much as I want credit for the flash, but I want to get a working stat tracker for my clan so whoever helps me I will give you 60% credit with and me 40%. OK, now if anyone plays Halo PC you know that ...more >>

I am trying to generate a flash movie for a website. I have Play, Pause and Stop buttons. I can get the imported audio file to play and stop (reset to begining) with the Play and stop buttons. What I cannot figure out is how to simply pause the audio with the pause button so that it will ...more >>

Hello everyone I am trying to reproduce the method used to create a wee mee for a project I am working on. Thing is i dont really know where to start. does anyone know where i would start, Im sure its going to be OOP in flash but am confused on where to start. If anyone could help me get ...more >>

IE6 v6.0.2600.0000 returns a page not found error within a flash movie!! While IE v6.0.2800.1106 works well, as do allt he other browsers. The site is here : http://217.194.98.185/onbekend-1.jpg...more >>

Well, didn't know where to post this question, under the Macromedia Flash Player forum or here... decided to post here... Nature of question in detail: Ok, i'm developing a site and publish my site's SWFs for flash player 7. In movies I use System.capabilities.version to determine if visit...more >>

Hi All, I have an email form that the user fills out and then clicks on a submit button. I have saved the form as a Movie Clip and named it Form. After the data has been transfered to the PHP program, I want a popup to display an "email sent" message, and then I want all of the fields in th...more >>

this is not an authoring environment only issue. I am importing a .SWF file into my main movie as a movie clip. I select "File > Publish Preview > Flash" and when the .SWF (movie clip) plays it runs through the timeline without stopping - it is not obeying the 'stop' scripts that are inserte...more >>

Hi. If you take a look at www.pixagon.com and click the "desktops" button you'll see two options for users to download graphics for their desktops. As you can see, the color version button brings up the correct graphic, while the black and white button once again brings up the color graphic ...more >>

Down the road in the pipeline we are planning to do an industrial productorial video, and we will be featuring a few segments of animation. Just 2D cartoon kind of stuff. This will be put on a DVD, possibly made into a national tv spot, etc... Things like good food beating up cholesterol a...more >>

i am going to create a site where the home page will have the navigation in flash, and the rest such as text, logo, and a few links in html. the main concern is that the navigation is the main focus of the home page which involves a lot of movement, is it reasonable to create the navigation i...more >>

Ok heres the scenario, there is a car in a page banner, i want it so when you click the car the sound begins and increases in volume, then when you let go it starts decreasing in volume till its quiet again (or just completely stop but id rather it decrease) thats it ...more >>

Maybe I'm wrong but this is the prgram used to make Flash animations, right? Why does it cost so much? Is there anyplace I can legaly download it for free?...more >>

hi I've been a freelance web developer for 2 years now and have always stuck to HTML/PHP/MySQL programmed websites, but now the time has come when I'm regularly being asked about flash sites, and I come stuck! I have only ever played around with flash and it seems quite daunting as it's so...more >>

Hi! Im developing a program with Flash inside it. Now, as the Flash is playing, it should communicate with the "mother program". The Flash tells the mother program some details about itself such as the present timeline, (ex. if the Flash is composed of 300 frames, as it plays frame by fra...more >>

can i set the stage color to transparent? thanks, bryan...more >>

I need a very simple preloader to load before my Flash movie. Can anyone help me with a simple script I can insert? (or point me to where I can find a simple script to insert) Thanks!...more >>

I have graphic I am using in my animation and it looks great in flash and other applications. when the swf is published the graphic becomes very pixilated and does not look good. I changed some of the publish setting to try to fix this but have not found the right setting(s). could this be ...more >>

ok, I have been researching creating v2 components, (using mx 2004 prof.) have got my custom UI to work, and live preview. except, I can not get my live preview to resize properly. ie if you change its size in the authoring environ, it stretches, as opposed to running a reSize method. // ...more >>

i know this may sound a lil stupid..sorry..coz im just a newbie and i dont know much about flash and i got something in mind that i wanna ask everyone here. Is flash capable of supporting ai programming codes? how? tnx so much in advance for answering my question...i appreciate it.. ...more >>

Hi, I saw this on http://www.fullsail.com (video of guy in lower right hand corner) and was wondering how this is accomplished? I am thinking of doing something similar for an e-learning module I'm developing. Many thanks! JR ...more >>

Not really a newbie but cant remember the answer to this question. When .as files are included into a movie, are they included at runtime or at compilation? Thank you in advance!...more >>

First of all - I am very very new to Flash MX 2004 I am trying to create a scrolling music score. I have created a layer with an mp3 file that runs about 5 minutes. Over that I am attempting to insert individual score pages that correspond to the music. They have been created in Finale and...more >>

I am working in Flash MX 2004 and extensively make use of the excellent video player components. I need to add video to an older project of mine which I made in regular Flash MX. When I open the older .fla file in MX 2004 and insert the video player it does not display video upon viewing it!...more >>

Hi, I used Flash a while back and there was a function where if you put two points on your projects say at frame 1 and then something at frame 30, say the letter E written in size 2 font and then at frame 30 the same letter E but expanded to say 100 size font, the function basically completed ...more >>

I have a TextArea component that displays sections of our institutional policy. If someone types the word vacation in a TextInput field and hits the "Find" button, I want every instance of the word "vacation" to change colors from black to red. If I use a TextField instead of a Text Area C...more >>

Hi! I have a program developed in c#. Inside the program is a Flash. How can the c# program get and set the Framenum property of the flash inside it during runtime?. Thnx and god bless! cowel ...more >>

Hello, I made some flash animations and now I have a problem with bitmap. When a bitmap is behind the animated object, for example text or some vector graphics, and the object is bigger one (bitmap cover 1/3 of the movie - 780x240 and text is nearly over the bitmap), it shakes (or move) ...more >>

Anyone know of a simple online set of instructions that might help me with this? I'm simply trying to create in Flash a list of options on the left side of the page and a main content area on the right side of the page. When you rollover the options in the list on the left side of the page, th...more >>

How would I load an MC in another MC Example I have a MC called "container" on the timeline. I have a MC called "movie" in my library. I have a button that I want to load the "movie" MC into "container" MC. Here's how I would do it if movie was on the timeline: on (release) { ...more >>

Need help with multiple combo boxes; the fields in the second box dependant on the selection made in the first box. Anyone have an example I could look at? Perhaps, Select State then select City, might be the most common. ...more >>

how do you put a flash movie in a layer on top of a website, so that the flash movie is on top of the page? you know how there are animated images that look like they are completely seperate from the underlying webpage and when the animation is finished delivering it's message it fly's of the ...more >>

i need to create a shell of a website where i can have my home page in flash and open all the pages in plain windows where i can load regular html, asp pages and the html inside will have links in it to navigate inside the window. Is it feasible with flash mx 2004 pro? ...more >>

Hi all, I have a movie with heavy tweening that is effecting its performance. Just wondering if I converted all my tweens to keyframes, would there be an improvment in performance? Does tweeing require more resources? Any help is much appreciated. ...more >>