Trying to get a new fader to work. I can make the fader "fader - gain" in the common library work but i made a custom fader which is horizontal and starts in the middle. I can't figure out the end of the horizontal code I think. could use some help. here are the codes. VERTICAL FADER - G...more >>

Please help me!!!! I've created dynamic text and I managed to put a mask on it but the text is not crisp. Is there a way to have masked dynamic text that looks very crisp? Thanks, Evunia:(...more >>

Hello there! What I did: I did a flash button, which I exported as a MC. After that I imported that button into Dream weaver The problem: Results the MC imported has a big size in my HTML document. Works fine, but if I try to reduce the size of the grey box (looks like this when I dont p...more >>

Why hasn't macromedia aknowledged this problem and fixed it yet. They just ignore all the posts. There is no solution or even a "were working on it" from the support team. A lot of work has been lost due to this issue by people buying and using a product that should not have this problem. Why...more >>

I have a .swf that I imported and am tweening it to appear like it is flying into the screen. I have successfully created the motion and two additional layers-text and actions. On the actions layer, I placed the stop(); command on the last frame and made it a keyframe. When I do this, the t...more >>

We have moved our web site from an external host server (windows 2000) to our internal server (windows 2003). The flash portions of the site are not working. Since we did not do the development internally, we're unsure what we need to do. Are there components that need to be installed on our s...more >>

I tried to create a dynamic event listener to replace the duplicated lines; however, it did not work. Anyone has idea? for (var i=1; i <= 3; i++) { "calculatedColumn" + i + ".addEventListener('dragEnter', _global.doDragEnter);"; "calculatedColumn" + i + ".addEventListener('dragDrop...more >>

i have a movieclip that uses geturl to call a javascript function, but when you mouseover the movie clip the cursor doesnt show as a hand, i found out that usehandcursor does this but i just cant get it to work, can anyone tell me exactly how to do it, i can also upload the fla if necessary ...more >>

I've used the procedure below (from livedocs) to create a preloader for my Flash presentation. However, the problem I'm having is that the progress bar image is still appearing when the presentation is displayed. How can I get it to lose visability upon load completion? Thanks! To us...more >>

Hi, http://xx.xx.com/xx.swf?id=x How to debug my xx.fla when I use Flash open and run it? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I'm editing a .fla file, and I don't have a specific font for it. How to indeed avoid the (absent font) warning window popup? Not just select the "not warning again" checkbox. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I am looking for some topics explaining how to increase prformances of my flash movie. Indeed, my flash movies takes to much ressources whereas other (when I browse on the internet), don't. Are there any tips to follow, if yes, please which tips? Check yourself my latest project ...more >>

Hi yea, I was wondering what are the best Flash extensions available, I do not want to be pointed to a site that may have a poll of the best, I would like to know what people here is this forum think is there best either commercial or free flash extension. regards Kenny ...more >>

Dear all , I'm having a problem with play a *.swf ( 300 X 100 *.swf ) in a big *.swf ( 800 X 600 *.swf ) file this is my sample file http://hk.geocities.com/joeyliy/news.swf what should I do with my 800 X 600 *.swf so that I can play a small *.swf ( 300 X 100 )file ? ...more >>

I have a document 800*400, when I insert some text in (Arial 18) it looks ok when zoomed in, but when I view it 100% the text looks fuzzy, i've tried it on another pc and it looks the same. I use a laptop, and I viewed it on TFT screen. I'm new to flash, and thought vector images/text wh...more >>

I'm new to this action scripting thing. I have a movie clip on the main stage that covers the whole stage and in the actions layer of the main timeline, I have loaded a JPG into that movieclip. watermark_mc.loadMovie("images/fuel-bg-800x600.jpg"); It works fine. In the middle of th...more >>

first attempt to work with sound...i am trying to figure out how to add music to my website! i'd like to link audio externally to a sound only movie clip. file name = volume.fla i have a mp3 sitting on my website. file name = bodyandsoul_loop.mp3. i tried linking to my site via link...more >>

Hi All: I'm trying to use Flash MX 2004 to convert some bitmaps to vectors and am experiencing a few problems. As mentioned in the title when I try to export the vector to .ai, the colors appear to be all washed out when I open it in Illustrator. The colors all look fine in Flash, but was...more >>

I have a map (movie clip) set up within a scrollpane with zoom buttons located outside of the scrollpane. Can anybody help me as to how I can get my button actions (zooming) to relate to the map within the scrollpane? Thanks... ...more >>

Sorry but it is a really stupid question and I don't know where to post it. In flash MX is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between the opened documents? It is annoying to always use the window menu or to split the screen. You know, just like Windows does using Alt+Tab Thanks i...more >>

This site has some nice techniques going on that I'm curious about. Mainly the building of the page and then the "light" that kind of draws the text and navigation. I'm guessing this is done with some masking and the light is on a layer above the mask following a similar path? http://crashfi...more >>

i need to make a tutorial from a web-based program in flash, print screens in photoshop and load those bloody bitmaps in flash to create the animated movie, so that the programmers can get it and inspire on my work. but it's annoying to print screens and load them in flash!!!! any ideas ho...more >>

When do we get a sneak book at your Flash 8 cartooning book? ...more >>

I'm sure I've seen this done before, but possibly not. What I want to do, is embed a flash file on my desktop and use it to replace my taskbar, IE; I want to use it to click "Start", or to open the "My Documents" folder, etc. Nothing fancy like tray icons or anything, just access to basi...more >>

I need help animating an image of a helicopter along an object path so that it will flow smoothly and have sharp angle changes from different keyframes. By adjusting where the image is in certain keyframes i minimized the visible amount "sharp" angles and it is relatively smooth yet does not ...more >>

Hi, This is my first post so please excuse any errors of omittion or comittion. I'm a photographer in the process of updating my website. I had the idea of having small camera icons as buttons that when pressed, will produce a small effect of a stobe or flash-bulb firing just prior to pag...more >>

Hi all, I am kinnda new to flash. Can any one tell how are these effects made in flash at http://64.207.133.120/Erain/illuminations/default.asp a) Flash illuminations text glow effect in the intro b) Evolution of leaves and trunks from the flower at the end of Butterfly intro/movi...more >>

I have a DHTML menu on the same page as a Flash movie. The menu was going behind the flash but I followed the technote to make the flash transparent and that fixed the problem in Netscape but it still is a problem in IE. Is there a trick to getting this to work in IE? ...more >>

I am wondering if there is a known bug with my version of Flash (v 6.0). When I elect to rotate a symbol during a tween, (by clicking on the tween arrow and selecting Rotate CW with 1 turn) all o fhte intermediate frames are correct, so if I press enter in the editing window, I can see the te...more >>

How was the top menu on this site designed www.tranquilseas.co.uk, I'm mainly interested in how the background color and transparency of the menu was done. I realy like it. TIA Hany ...more >>

Been trying to find a good way to solve the double returns in text files when loading into a dynamic text field. I found an article that described using the split function on "\n". Which works fine, but if you do not embed font outlines it leaves a comma at the begining of each line, after the...more >>

i am making a math game for my students. when the user clicks a button for help i want 2 of the wrong answers to dissapear. im not sure i am doing this right. the correct answer is being called by a dynamic text field from a .txt file. i tried it with all if's but that doesnt work and i tried ...more >>

The default is 12 fps. Is it better to use for example 24 fps, or not? I want to avoid from problems that can occour because of using different Browsers, or even OS. Are there any recommendations? Thanks. ...more >>

I have a datagrid with 6 columns. The first column contains an image and is implimented using a cellrenderer. The remaining columns contain texual data. All of the cell contents are centered vertically in the cells (including the image). The result is the top of the image begins half way down ...more >>

Ok, here we go. Im currently using Flash MX Pro, for students (im a student). I also bought a ?ready made? flash website template to use & practice on. Im learning my way around, so far so good. my dead end problem, trying to create a ?pop-up window? from a button. I have followed the d...more >>

Hi, Our corporate COE (Common Office Environment) setup includes Flash Player 6. I would like to create a movie in FlashMX 2004 Professional that will only play in Flash Player 7. My question? "If I publish an executable file that includes Flash Player 7, will the viewers, who do not have Flas...more >>

After months of developing, we have got a pretty good grip on xmlsockets via flash to a .NET application in C# we have written, we are in the process of developing and finalizing a very large application that communicates via XML Streams, the server side communication layer seems to work fla...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could layout the steps of working with a designer to develop a Flash file. How should I expect to receive the files from the designer? Could I work with the Photoshop files or should we stick to vector based images? Please help. thanks so much. ...more >>

I have an htm page that has a hidden layer in it. When the user clicks a button, the layer's attribute is changed to visible. Inside the layer is a swf file that starts playing. At the end of that movie, within the swf, I have a close button. I want that close button to set the layer visi...more >>

HELP MEEEEEEEEEEE hi, i am having a problem with a preloader not working it works fine until it gets to 100% but then it will not go to the movie and start playing, even tho it is scripted to do so. my movie contains 7 total scenes, the total file size is 45659kb, and the preloader is on the...more >>

Hi. Im just wondering if the following is possible and if so can anyone please point me in the direction of a tutorial or advice on how to go about it. If i have 10 images stored in an external folder and have them load dynamically into flash, i need it so that when more images are added to ...more >>

Ok, I know a lot of people out there hate fighting the pre Loader issue...we all want one thats nice, professional a not fat and gay looking. So if someone out there can just attach one to this message...I am sure a lot of Flash Lovers would really appreciate it...And we promise to chang...more >>

I want an image to be zoomed in, and slowly zoom out to reveal the entire image. I want to do this using halftones. As if you were looking at a TV up close with the halftone patterns showing as it slowly zooms out, as if you were moving away from the TV to view the entire image. Does anybody...more >>

I have a flash movie that imports data from an XML file (artist name, title etc) and some of the data (artist's name) are in Japanese text. This information is loaded into a dynamic text field within the flash movie How do I get the flash movie to display the japanese text? If I "embed" the...more >>

Standard newbie apologies for asking potentially stupid questions. That said, here's my question: I'm creating a flash movie with an intro that is very different, content-wise, from rest of movie. By establishing a separate scene for intro, can I also establish a different stage size for t...more >>

Can someone tell me how to make a preloader that actually works. Every preloader I've tried the loading bar doesn't show up until right before the swf shows up. I just want something that will show the loading progress right off the bat. Pleeeeeeaaaase help me. ...more >>

I have a movie that features three different products, the first two products will link to one page and the the third product will link to a different page. Can someone please let me know how to acomplish this or send me to a place were I can find out. Thanks in advance. Dean ...more >>

Hi I'm using flash MX 2004 I'm trying to publish my swf file but it's not working I have to publish a file: Menu.swf on the end of menu.swf I called index1.swf : _root.loadMovie("index1.swf"); on the end of index1.swf I called index2.swf _root.loadMovie("index2.swf"); on the end...more >>

OK....... I've got my zoom buttons to work in my scrollpane and am using my scrollpane sliders for the panning part. However, because my movie clip contains my zoom buttons, I can pan over to the far left and they'll (buttons) disapear. Is there any way of setting my zoom buttons at a constatn...more >>

Hi, I have been searching everywhere for the answer to this: I need to open a browser window from a Flash .exe file, I want the window to be a fixed size and have no address bar. I know how to do this if flash was imbedded in an html page but I cannot figure it out when it is from an .exe. ...more >>