Hi, I want to have a flash movie on my front page that will go through all producst I have, the images would be about 300*300 and what I'm hoping to do is that the flash movie will start with the first image till it gets to the last one then it goes back again to the first one and loops. ...more >>

Is there some kind of blur tool? I'm trying to create buttons that blur in and out - but I'm not aware of how I can do this other than create a shape to tween from - but if there's a way to blur it that would be awesome! Any ideas? ...more >>

Hello, I'm a newbie to the flash. I have the following doubt. 1)How can make the flash to read arguments. 2)Can I write action script to import a dxf file? I want to do some thing like this. From the web page, I want to pass the dxf file name as an argument, flash movie should be ...more >>

I want to have music playing on the website I am making for an artist. But this artist wants at least 5 tracks. So what would be the best way of doing this? Thanks, P.S. I am very new to using flash for the music part. I have never done it and I tried but God only know what I was doing. So ...more >>

--i have an external .txt doc -- &Title=Scroll Bar with Text File& &myText=<c>Our History</cr> <p> Established&#8482; --the last little bit -(&#8482;) - is html for (TM) - --this conflicts with the variable "&" --what could i put in for (TM) that will show up ...more >>

I have read , heard and experienced that a Flash movie is Browser-independent as well as Platform-independent. But my recent discovery led me to doubt this statement. I recently built a Flash Photo album meant to be for online display of images and project snapshots in Flash MX 2004 Profession...more >>

OK, I am fairly new to the flash environment, and have been reading a lot, but I cannot seem to figure out how to stop a movie clip from continuously replaying. I want to play the movie and have it come to a stop when it is finished. I know there is a very simple solution to this, but I...more >>

I am trying to achive this effect I have seen many times but cant make it to work: I want a rectangle to be "drawn" in my movie like you woud do it by hand: one dot appears (what would be the top left corner of the rectangle) and then you see a line growing to the top right corner, down, t...more >>

hi guys, i want to get rid of the border which surrounds the scrollpane object. any one know how to do this easily? cheers, dean...more >>

I am using a getURL to try to access a Word document. I expected it to call up the screen that lets the user decide to Open, Save As, or Cancel the Word doc in its own window. I get two kinds of page errors: either Page Not Found or Action Cancelled. Any thoughts? getURL("server/folder...more >>

Hi, I want to create an expanding banner ad for my website and I just don't know how to start. I can make a normal banner in flash, fine, but cannot wrap my head around what is needed to make it expand and retract on mouse over and mouse out.. Please help!! ...more >>

:confused; I am simply trying to get my images to fade in and out and I am having a frustrating time trying to figure out what is probably so simple to do. Can anyone suggest a simple solution? Thanks. :-) ...more >>

Hey, Has anybody had the problem of when typing or selecting actions to go into the panel they are typed in white so you can't see them? At first I thought my actions weren't working, but I copied and pasted them into textedit and the scripts appeared. So as it turns the scripts are being ...more >>

I'm extremely new to Flash and I am wondering if it is even posssible to link to an external swf file. By external, I mean that it is in my site, but not playing on the page. I created a hyperlink to the file, but when it opens, the page dimensions are ignored and it opens in a IE page. I have...more >>

I filled a rectangle with a bitmap (diagonal pattern) looks ok in editing mode but when I publish the movie looks different (ugly) Copied same movie clip holding the filled rectangle to a new movie, published, looks ok. What is that? I can't make it look ok on my real movie. ...more >>

At first I couldn't export because I had the old version of QuickTime, so I downloaded and installed quicktime 7 from thier site. Now when I try to export i get "quicktime component could not be found" Thanks, TJ ...more >>

I have a flash nav bar and flash movie on a page. I cannot figure out how to set the nav buttons so that when pushed, they change the flash movie on the same page to another file; by changing the source. Possible? Please help! Corey ...more >>

This is a very basic question but I can't seem to figure it out. I have several different sections of text fading in and out and some of them work and some don't. They are all symbols etc. If anyone has any basic tips I would appreciate it. ...more >>

why i in explorer i got my page at the size published and in firefox the size is way to much small?.... CHEERS...more >>

I've been reading through some other threads and I haven't found an answer. 1) I have imported a single 100X100 pixel image into Flash (PNG, Gif, JPG... doesn't seem to matter). The image has a 1 pixel black border around it (part of the image) 2) I dropped the image onto the stage. Whe...more >>

Hi, it's possible to include in a Flash application a button which takes a screenshot of the current scene, and save it to an image file? Even with a server component, external application, etc.... Thanks ...more >>

how do I attach a link to a swf (image not movie) in Flash 5? I know it's doable, but I can't seem to find the panel/parameter input where to do this. I have a flash presentation and I want to be able to have the user click on an image and have another image open up. I want the link to be cont...more >>

Im using flash 5 to create a small game. I know how to use drag and drop. The problem is when i drag the item on to the mina stage i want to be able to drag that same item more then once. For example if i drag the letter "A" on the the stage from the navigation bar i want to be able to dra...more >>

Has anyone ever seen a box with the word "Display" in it show up on top of the movie in the Opera Browser? This works fine in IE and Firefox. Thanks, Suzanne...more >>

http://christianlifemissions.org/commercial/charisma.swf is my flash file. Although I have used a global style to format the radio button text, I've noticed that users need the font on their system for these global styles to display. But if I use the text tool to label the radio buttons,...more >>

I am invoking a web service and binding the data to a DataSet. I then bind the DataSet to a DataGrid component. I am having trouble getting all the results from the XML (see below). I have no problem getting the values of "Place" and "FKID", but I can't get the results of the values within...more >>

Hello, I'm tryin to make a layer of a button go to a particular frame and scene when it is clicked by the user, but its not working, can anyone help, the codeing is below. At the moment the button's state is a movie symbol, cos I couldn't get it to work as a button either, so I tried a movie ...more >>

I haven't done flash in a while and I know I'm forgetting something obvious.... I have two elements of a logo, both taken as gifs from layers of a psd in the same size as my stage. I have put them in my library and converted them to symbols. Essentially, I have flat and embossed text (as bit...more >>

I am using the template that comes with Flash--it's called Templates > Video > Bandwidth Select. I have the whole thing working. Basically, the user selects what bandwidth they are using, and a video designed for that bandwidth plays. After the video is finished playing, how do I return...more >>

How can I add an image that displays when the user does not have flash installed? (And chooses not to install it?). I simply want an image as an alternative to the movie but cannot seem to get this to work - any ideas? ...more >>

Hi y'all I'm trying to create an entirely flash webpage that goes from scene to scene when a user clicks on a button. However, the buttons are causing the problem. Imagine this, a glass lookin ball with green goo inside it. This is what I have created thus far. Now the ball and goo jus...more >>

Hi, I am doing research for a project. The project involves some videos (DVD actually) that needs to be put on the web with a flash interface that will allow me to go from one chapter to the next. The interface itself is no problem and the DVD I already ripped into a high quality video. I ...more >>

Sorry for my short English writing skill. Sorry if this question had been answered. (I've searched all topics but found no answer.) My question is "How can play external SWFs in sequence?" For example, I have: - base.swf - which is contained short intro movie - folio1.swf - which i...more >>

Hello. I am making a site with flash and html I have two flash movies embedded into my html. The first movie, I have a horizontal dropdown menubar with a z-index of 1 (set in CSS). The second movie, underneath the menu I ha ve a tab that drops down with the title of the page, this has a ...more >>

Hi there, Thanks for checking this post out. I want to use trace bitmap for an image on my site but the image either looks nothing like the original image or too much like it with the settings I have tried. How can I achieve the same style as the helmet in the bottom-right on www.r...more >>

Hi, I can read in the variable containing the html and display it using the text tool option in flash. The problem lies is that with the text tool it does not display html. The text area component contains an option for displaying html but I do not know where to set it my variable to dis...more >>

Hello! Do you have any clue when Macromedia will release the flash plugin for 64bit architectures with X86_64 technology? (AMD64, EMT64, X64, whatever you call it) under Linux? It's quite annoying to have no flash for a few months now. Thanks, Carsten Otto ...more >>

I have a preloader that keeps displaying "NaN" in its textfield. please tell me what I'm doing wrong. thanks a lot! percent = (container.getBytesLoaded()/container.getBytesTotal())*100; if(percent!=isNaN){ if(this.percent==0){ this.percentage = 00; }else{ this.percent...more >>

I recently visited a site and was asked to download flash to view the animation. It was all automatic and the animation was viewed I noted that in my browser (Firefox) plugin directory that I have certain files such as NPSWF32.dll, getflash.exe, flashplayer.xpt. I clicked on getflash.exe...more >>

I have multiple questions here. I am trying to follow a tutorial on how to make a preloader but the tutorial is for flash mx not mx 2004. Apparently they are like the difference between english and japanese because almost nothing is the same and it is almost impossible to figure out... Here is...more >>

Is there a quick way to make frames be farther apart from each other? I'm using frame by frame animation and the animation is going to fast....more >>

Need some help pretty please !!! I've made a movie over 2 scenes. Scene 1: Introductory movie to my website, it allows for a Skip Intro. Scene 2: Is my homepage with other links. When I link from my homepage to other pages and then try to get back to my index page it ends up runnin...more >>

Looking for a nice simple flash video player. Anyone know what player this is? http://daytradingu.com/daytradingvideostream.htm Is this a player part of a streaming service or can something like this be easily created? Or something like it available for purchase? ...more >>

i have a flash template and i want to alter this templates fla files. if i add a mc for over state of a button, it appears two tween graphic symbols in library and these two tween graphic replaces with most of the symbols in fla file ... there is many motion tween animation in the file but the...more >>

Ok, im a really noob to this, so i need your help! im starting to get a bit better, about as good as CRAP, anyway's sorry for that word above now, i did EXACTLY AS THE VIDEO SAID, i made shure, i watched it 15 times, with is alot of times, so anyways i made buttons, and did all the thing...more >>

I'm very new to Flash and trying to learn but after several hours scouring the WWW I've come to a roadblock and was wondering if this could be done and how: Two images (imagea and imageb) which are before and after pictures. What I wanted was a rollover effect so when the user rolls over (o...more >>

My problem is pretty simple. I have converted animated sprites straight from a game to animate in flash. The problem is that when I was converting them, it turned all the frames of the gifs into seperate files. So I want to know what is the fastest way to import 100+ gifs into a single...more >>

i try to set WMode=Transparent in PPT flash object, but it is not working. I'm not getting Transparent effect like HTML page. Anyone has idea about this issue. This is very urgent, if anyone can help me would be great. I'm usine MS Office 2003 & latest flash plugin ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create SWF file directly writing binary values and I have a question regarding MATRIX datatype values. Manual says there're 2 values - RotateSkew0 & RotateSkew1 but i cannot understand what is the exact meaning. For example, if I need rotation by alpha, which values do ...more >>

I am wondering if there is a way to merge one FLA's scene, into another FLA scenes? i am working on a cartoon with about 25 scenes, most short, less than 100 frames each. however, it is a group project, and currently, i dso not know if we can work on this seperatly, or just on one file. ...more >>

Here's my problem, in my flash movie I have a movieclip called "Chinese", within this movieclip I have a button. When the user clicks on this button I want them to be able to go to Frame 100 of my main movie (not Frame 100 of my movieclip "Chinese"). Is there a script to direct them to a fram...more >>

I am doing this tutorial http://www.webwasp.co.uk/tutorials/b05-preload/preload.php , and in one part it says "1. Create a new Layer called: Actions 2. Right click on the empty keyframe and select: Actions" There is no "actions" command. I have a picture of what it looks like here: htt...more >>