i have a gui that has Movie clips placed. The movie clip has a onPress event in which i create menus for the movie clip. so u left click u get a menu. Now the problem is that the menu is not on top. it spaws behind the movie clip. how can i make it come to the top? thanks ...more >>

I am a bit new to Flash so please be gentle... I would like to create a flash movie that is much like those old adventure books where you could choose to do something and the story would change accordingly. For example: "If you choose to turn left go to page 76" or "if you choose to turn...more >>

I've placed a "stop"action at the end of my movie. I also placed a Play Movie button in the last frame of my movie. How do I add an action to the Replay Movie button so when the user clicks the button the movie replays? ...more >>

Hi. I seek to collect a continuous flu in MP3 diffused by a serveur of streaming, therefore it is not file MP3 with properly spoken on the serveur. All occurs well when I launch animation SWF locally without HTML. But as soon as animation is launched through an HTML page Nothing does not occ...more >>

Hi, I need help for a menubar. I create a menubar, which includes some menu. I used the default setting. I would like to catch the click or release event on a menu, not a menuItem. In fact, when I click a menu, the menu will show. In addition to the menu show, I also want to do someth...more >>

Hello, I have a problem with a flash intro that is not loading. The site is http://www.rockawaybeach.se/ The problem occurred after moving to a new ISP. I have recompiled the original .fla file and refreshed it but this did not help. Can anybody give me some tips on how to make it work...more >>

What is the best way to see if my site will work on all computers? I have added .swf files into several of my webpages. It works on my computers, but I don't know how to see if it will work with MAC or how it will work with users of older internet explorer or netscape. Is there such a thing...more >>

Does anyone have any sample code or suggestions for the following scenario? I have a presentation that has individual audio clips and a written transcript. I need to have the transcript automatically scroll as the audio plays. Is this possible? ...more >>

I want to scroll a dozen images across a 780x100 header. So upon page load, the visitor sees 15 seconds worth of the 12 images scrolling across the top of the page. After 15 seconds, the scrolling stops and remains static. How do I achieve this? (I'm assuming Flash is the best choice?) O...more >>

is there a script which just gets the first 3 or 4 or so on letters from a dynamic text box, like text box 1 == (first 2 letters of) "text box 2"...more >>

I need to know if the flash player will play mp4 files in flash. Please let me know asap. Thanks, Tom Borton...more >>

I can't seem to get the quiz template that comes with FlashMX to diplay the score when uploaded to a web server. When it is run locally everything works fine. Is there anything special that needs to be done to get the scoring to work on a web server? ...more >>

I cannot extract the free trial of flash. Half way through it is telling me "unexpected end of file" and errors out. thus I cannot even get to the installation. I have tried downloading the file at least 10 times. I have gone through all of the tips on downloading and installing the Flash ...more >>

Hi everyone there are a couple soundboards that were created on flash that I am trying to save so I can place on my website... I tried downloading a program that said I could export the files from my site but I tried this and couldn't find the downloaded files on my computer. Is there an easie...more >>

Hi there. Can anyone tell me why the following code works fine in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox? var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var mclListener:Object = new Object(); mclListener.onLoadError = function(target_mc:MovieClip, errorCode:String) { count = coun...more >>

I have a movie that when published doesn't work correctly after scene 29. The code in the scenes is virtually identical. I can naigate to the scenes using a custom menu and back and next buttons. But the audio doesn't play. I've attached the pertinent code. //This is the code in the fi...more >>

I'm loading an mp3 file with the stream parm set to true. No problem. On the Start method I'm specifying the loop parm at 100 like this: mySound.start(0,100); The sound file plays once and fails to loop. Is there something I'm missing here? The Flash docs don't say anything about not bei...more >>

Hi, I'm working on my first Flash project and have run into a bit of a problem. I have an mp3 that I am synchronizing .jpg images to; (switching between different images during drum beats and such). I was able to synchronize things to my liking when I used the play button on the "Windows->T...more >>

Dear all peace be upon you all, again, I have a new problem, when I run my SWF and toggle tabs (*change frames), the Flash crashes !? I don't know why ? Specially it's never happen the first time, randomly when you toggle one of the basic tabs like (topics, objectives, validation) an...more >>

hi I know the basics of how to use flash and how to integrate it into a website...but I have created an introduction [made in Flash] and when the intro ends, I want my main site to appear...any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreaciated meLissa ...more >>

Hello All!! I would like a simple solution to adding controls to inline *.swf video files. Basically, the video will only start to play or download when the user presses a play button. After an exhuasting search I finally resorted to paying for a video player only to find that there is no w...more >>

Can somone tell me what is the character set I need to embed in order to display Korean characters? I see Chinise and Japanese, is is something separate for Korean or do I have to use Chinise/Jpanaese ? I use MX 2004, I saw that there are few differences in character sets from MX. Thank ...more >>

:confused; I?m facing a very serious problem. How to write Arabic in flash???? I used some software?s but the problem is that we are working on a fully flash based dynamic website. But Flash MX doesn?t support Arabic. Kindly help me what to do? Naveed ...more >>

I've got a flash site which has 4 scenes. each scene requires a large jpeg image background. i've have a bank of 10 external jpegs. i want to randomly load 4 of them before entering the site and use them for the backgrounds. what i reckon i'm going to do is use a movie clip with 4 frames...more >>

Howdy, I simply need to have a basic flv player (progressive) to play flvs on user interaction. I would just go ahead and use the MM one, but other than the size, I want to remove the audio control, as the flv's I am play have no audio track, and I don't wnat to confuse the user. Is t...more >>

Hey All, I am trying to develop a small menu with a small footprint. It would just be a dropdown with a list of companies. Choosing the company brings up their logo below it, they click on the image, it links them to a new window and the URL. Kicker is I want to do it dynamically, usin...more >>

Why am I getting 404 errors for favicon.ico when a flash movie is played?...more >>

I created a simple flash form (flash mx 2004) that has 2 combo boxes, 1 text area, 1 date field and 1 button. I selected the generate size report option when exporting the movie. The report says "67036 ActionScript 2.0 Classes". The total size of the flash movie is 72kb. My question ...more >>

Hi yea, I have got sorenson sqeeze, I have flash and I have adobe premiere, I have made a small quicktime movie but want to have it stream on my site, do i end up with a few flv files for this or swf, has any one any lionks to a good tutorial on this. I have create some files already but w...more >>

I have been designing a website recently and have been using many flash elements. The first page is an into page where I use animation to display my website's title and the word ENTER. When enter is clicked it takes you to my first real page, but it opens the page in another browser! Is there ...more >>

I'm using a textArea component, because I dont' know yet how to create my own, but the white background of the box doesn't match my layout. Can I change the background and outline colors?...more >>

I did an animation and now I need it in an smaller size. Can I resize the whole thing?...more >>

OK, I want a .jpg to appear when a button is clicked. It's for an ice hockey team roster, so when you click the button with the players name on it a .jpg appears with all their relevant pics and details. So, I made the button with the name on it (say "J.Smith"), I made a movie clip called "...more >>

I opened an swf file containing a movie clop which is just a picture I draw earlier. Iopen it by double clicking in that clip in the Library I wanted to change something using Lasso. Lasso draws, but as soon as I release the left button, the loop disappear. How do I make it work? ...more >>

I am working on a website that has a flash movie and a few rollover subnavagation menus. In IE it works fine, but in mozilla the submenu go under the flash movie. is there any why i can correct this. ...more >>

Can someone tell me where Flash Plugin is in Windows XP? I've located it (quite easily) on Mac OSX but no luck so far in XP. Thanks :)...more >>

I have seen it done on many different occuasions but I don't know what's it called. I am trying to create an interactive brochure environment that will launch indepedently from a cd. Something similiar to what many retail software have as the autorun (The exe that pops up and ask you whether y...more >>