We are attempting to use buttons to jump to sync points with flash. We are using a tutorial provided from this website. It works, however, not accurately. There are 2 areas where we can provide specific timecode information for this. One is in the actions panel...and the other is in the com...more >>

I have a Flash animation with a series of text graphics and photos fading in and out (at different rates) by changing the Alpha values for the text and graphics. A streaming MP3 file is playing in the background. Halfway through my animation (about 2 minutes), I begin to see "ghosts" of other ...more >>

I am programming for a touch screen, which I have never done before. My users need to enter a password and username on the touch screen. so I need my graphical interface to funtion as a keyboard? I do not know how to do this. I think I need the button to call a letter and enter it into the tar...more >>

Hello all, I have a mediaDisplay component linked by the associate behavior to the mediaController component. everything works fine with the exception of the scrubber. I had to put in the exact time of the flv in the component inspector and the time now works. The flv was encoded using soren...more >>

Im new to flash and I made a movie but dont know how to get it on my site. I want the movie to play when they go to my site then when it ends to go to my index page aoutomaticaly. How can I do this....more >>

hello, i want to make a flash movie that takes up the full size of the browser window im NOT talking about projector view. What is the exact size in width and hieght of the browser viewer toachieve this ...more >>

I am seeing a strange antialiasing problem with dynamically loaded content in a dynamic text field. The field uses an external stylesheet to load the font-family for Mac (Helvetica) and Windows (Tahoma). The problem is that about every 5th line in the text field is antialiased the rest is not....more >>

We created a web site www.fscc-calledtobe.org for a client using a mixture of flash/HTML now the problem is on http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/weinvite.htm we wanted to maintain a certain level of quality on video and audio but now the file sizes range from 6-8 mb on each of the flash video'...more >>

i want to try out just having people can come on it and just start typing in stuff i already have it i just dont know how to make it so a buch of poele can be on at once and see it any tye stuff well other people are typing can anyone tell me how to do this? ...more >>

Button symbols come with 4 frames - up, mouse over, down, and hit. However, they trigger actions not when the mouse button is pressed, but when it is released. I need to know when the mouse button is pressed so I can start a 3-second timer and have something happen if the timer times out, an...more >>

I am trying to do my first Flash project and am having trouble with the initial concept. I have a timeline with 20 frames. Each frame will contain a unique graphic and two buttons that the user can click. Clicking a button will move the playhead to a designated frame. (For example, but...more >>

Hello Eveyone! I just got Flash MX 2004 and I am excited to get into the action. I have no idea what I am doing. However, I managed after awhile to bring in a video clip (mov file) and get it and the sound to work. The clip will play perfectly. I even managed to set them to play and stop t...more >>

i have a button on the inside of a movie symbol that when I click on it, should gotoandplay and frame thats on the main timeline (not the one inside the movie). I've tried using _root.gotoandplay("framename") and it still doesn't work. Thanks for your help :) ...more >>

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Hi, I'd love some help on this issue. Hope I can explain it clearly enough. I've got a series of variables that I'm toggling between 0 and 1 to determine if various parts of my menu are in a particular state or not. They all start off at 0. I am trying to write a function that stores tho...more >>

Hello Friends, Is this possible to justify the text in Flash? Something look like, M a c r o m e d i a F l a s h M X Is there any way to do this? My text is coming from XML files with html formatting. thanks, Shailesh Mewada ...more >>

I have a streamer that loads onto my page with LoadMovie, my music plays through this. I have it loading into Level 15. This loads my player into the top left hand side of my screen. Does anyone know how I can control its position. If I load it into a Target it will not play. Does anyone ...more >>

Hello. essentially, i want to have an updatable random background to my site (which has 4 sections) i'm thinking a movieclip which has 4 blank frames (which i will call on for each section) placed on the main timeline. question is: how can i script the loading of a random image (say ea...more >>

I need to shift the timing of an entire Flash file a LOT. Basically everything's happening too fast (based on some serious edits to the voice-over). What's the easiest way to grab many layers and push them to the right. Then, of course, I'll need to de-select the layers whose keyframes are l...more >>

Need to know how to fade to black at the end of a flash movie....more >>

Hi. I've been having some issues importing the swfs that are created when importing a Captivate (.cp) file to an .fla. When I try to import these associated .swfs into new .fla files to refine the animations, some of the frames are there and look good, but then others appear black with only s...more >>

Simple, huh? lol I'm asking here because the variety available on the Macromedia website just frankly confuses the hell out of me. I sorta think it's Dreamweaver but . . . help me out here folks. And please be ((SPECIFIC!)) This isn't the cheapest program out there and I want to make sure I ...more >>

I hate to be one of those people who shows up, posts a question then leaves again, but this is really irritating me and I can't find an answer anywhere. I am using the loadMovie AS2.0 command to remote source a .jpg file, eg. thumbnail01.loadMovie("http://www.something.com/images/thumb01.j...more >>

Some parts in the help dont work. Especially the "component dictionary". Some parts works fine (flash basics)but the ones i realy need dont. Has anyone experience about this problem?...more >>

Hi, I want to create an infinate scrolling menu, but i dont want it to be one where it moves depending on where the curser is, i want to be able to control it using left and right buttons. When i click either button i want the next image in the menu to move into the viewing pane in the mid...more >>

Hey everyone, I have a quick question about playing an flv file in the media component. Everything works but I noticed that once the video is being played and/or fully loaded you cant scrub the video playhead (fast foward,rewind). It moves to the end of the timeline but the video still plays a...more >>

i want to make a contact list that takes the data from xml ! but i want it to by dynamic - i mean that flash will draw this (the sample below) dynamiclly by the amout of data that he gets from the xml : this is how i want the page to look like : NAME : CRGBH TEL: 098765 EMAIL: FGNKI@NB.C...more >>

Does anyone out there know how to produce the effect on the following link? http://www.bludomainhosting.com/photography16/ I want to know how to do the effect that the orange rectangle (with rounded corner) makes where it looks like it's being unrolled onto the stage. I have searched t...more >>

I've got a print with a print function on it so that when somebody clicks it part of the movie disappears and other parts are enlarged and moved (I used _root.movieclipname._alpha = 0; _root.movieclipname._xscale = 140; _root.movieclipname._yscale = 140; _root.movieclipname._x = 400; _root....more >>

I've been using flas MX for almost 12 months and have produced web sites and presentations. However, I have encountered a problem on a presentation I'm working on that is new to me, and I'm completely stumped! I've published it for windows and mac, it works fine on the mac, but when you tr...more >>

When I initally import a jpg and attatch it to a "button" with the "load graphic" command it works fine when I go to "test movie". But if I shut off my computer and come back to work on it I need to go into my "library" select all my jpg's and re-import them. Is this because Flash uses the U...more >>

I created a header and footer in flash http://itlogic.homeunix.org:9809/ITlogic/index.htm. When I created them, I started with a rectangle and then cut out the rounded corners. After, I could see the white canvas in flash. In Dreamweaver, I created a header and footer table and inserted th...more >>

I need to change the "photos.xml" part to dynamically change to photos_1.xml or photos_2.xml depending on wether a url variable is 1 or 2. i.e. index.htm?ID=1 would look for photos_1.xml The static actionscript currently looks like this... _global.photosXmlFile = "photos.xml" Any...more >>

Hello to all, I have a slight problem. I am trying to dissolve or fade one picture into another picture. I created two symbols in Adobe Photoshop CS and I wanted the first picture to dissolve into the second picture. My questions are how do I import both of these pictures into the same fr...more >>

anyone know how to make a video streaming in Flash MX or Flash MX 2004 Pro? :confused;...more >>

Hi I have created a drop down menu which is a button in the main timeline that is in a movie clip and within that movie clip are some more buttons (the drop down buttons) the menu is working but I cannot get the buttons to go to the frame labels in the upper level or main timeline. Can somebod...more >>

Im having problems with color shifting from Photoshop to Flash. Images are editied and color profiles assigned to the image in Photoshop, but after I import them into Flash they are dramatically different. I dont have issues with this in other applications. Does Flash have any Color Managment ...more >>

I have an input text field on a flash form that collects the user's zip code. It works fine unless the zip code starts with a zero. It either clips the zero off or returns some strange number. For example, if the zip code is 02222, the SWF form sends 1170. If the zip code is 01234, the ...more >>

I have created a swf file and burned that and pdf files to a cd. Within the swf file are links to the PDF files (inserting the relative path in the url link text box). Using the CD, some users are able to open the PDFs when clicking the links while others are not able to open the PDF files. ...more >>

are there some certain tipes of mp3 that cannot be imported?? because i`m trying but I get a message like " one or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them"... the mp3 is good... I can play it with winamp ...can someone help me? ...more >>

I recently inherited a site with a Flash header that needs to have changes made to it. I went to open the .fla file and I get the following error: Seek failed on path to file I am using MX Pro on Win XP Pro. Any idea on what this means, and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated....more >>

I am currently working on a Flash MX 2004 movie, which involves the staged assembly of a number of fireworks PNG images with transparent backgrounds. I have been able to place images on up to 10 layers at frame one of the timeline and these have successfully retained the transparency. However ...more >>

:confused; Hi All: Hate to ask a possibly stupid question, but..... :-) I have a client (design firm), who has a client who has a site that's 100% flash. They eventually want to convert the current product section - which I did w/xml (see link to site below) - to an ecom section. I k...more >>