I am interested in developing a color configurator so clients can customize colors on different products. Does anyone know of any tutorials available on this. I have some ideas but don't want to re-invent the wheel if possible. ...more >>

Has anyone noticed that when launching a new document with Flash MX 2004 the little character input flag (near the date at the top of the finder) flips to Arabic (that's the only other language I have turned on besides English)? Its a very strange thing because even when I switch it back, some...more >>

I have a logo I'd like to ptu an animation layer on it where it simulates light shining a knife blade. I'd like to do this over a logo. I created a white/grey radial gradient and set it at an opacity and tweened it over the logo but it didn't really give me the effect I was looking for. Any ot...more >>

Thanks for looking. Anyways... Im trying to make an effect in flash where when music plays.... those bar things rise and fall depending on how strong the bass is..... (or however it works....)... ive seen it done on sites that let you download free sound effects, but let you preview ...more >>

Hi all, I have an interactive Flash presentation that will be put on CD for a client. They also want image folders, PDF's, and DOC's on the CD. Is there a way to allow the user to access the CD's folders and files from the Flash presentations's projector? I am using Flash MX if that helps...more >>

Hello, Could someone please tell me how to set the hit area of a movie clip? I want it to be exactly the same shape as the movie clip itself, but for some reason when I either don't do anything to the hitArea property or set the hitArea property to be the movie clip itself, it still won'...more >>

I am a major newbie to the Macromedia development suite. My question is this: Is it possible to use Dreamweaver as the primary editor for the ActionScript code I'm developing for a Flash movie? The ActionScript editor in Flash is a little cramped for my taste. Any help would be greatly a...more >>

i hope this is an easy one (but if it is i'll feel really dumb): in short, the screen tree view has taken up the entire bottom half of my work area, and there is no way of getting rid of it. When you open a new 'Screen Presentation' the work area opens up with the timeline running across the...more >>

I have a flash in which I want to have a scroll bar and a bunch of thumbnails to vertically, single-file scroll through. I managed all of this, but I ran out of room to put pictures in. Here's a crude depiction. How do I make this bottom space unlimited? | ...more >>

I am looking to make playback controls for my movie that work very similar to the one used on this example site.. http://www.intranets.com/Demo/ I need to be able to scrub through video as well as audio that is on the timeline. The client also would like a pause play stop feature. Ideally i...more >>

Hi, can anybody tell me more on the new stroke properties on Flash 8? any beta tester? Beside of gradient fill on stroke, anything else? Basically I'm looking at something that can change the round end of the stroke to sharp end, or, more stroke customise choice to choose. Say, we can draw a...more >>

Does any one know where I can lay my hand on a flash program which allows the import of an image and lets teh user color it in froma color palette. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks...more >>

Hi to all, Could you help me ... on Flash Pro 8, Where i would get link for trail version of flash pro 8. Satish Kumar Rajula ...more >>

Hi, i've ssearched the forum for an answer to this but dont seem to be geting anywhere. basically i have a set of buttons which load selected text from a text file. onRelease = function () { _parent._parent.loadHelpText(this.selectText); i want to be able to fade the text in on entry....more >>

anywhere I can purchase a menu like this ? or get a tutorial and FLA files to create a similar effect ? http://xbox360.com/ click and select USA then you will see al these items floating around and you can click on each and select it. ...more >>

After my movie iterates one time, I want it to stop on the last frame (with all layers intact) and be static , but it loops again and again, just wondering where to stop the looping thanks in advance netsports ...more >>

I am in the process of trying to work out how to create a recording feature for a live video stream. I am needing to be able to allow users to press a button and record a 60second clip which would be saved. The idea would be for this to just reside on a local machine running IIS. Is this...more >>

Macromedia announced the release of Studio 8 <http://www.macromedia.com/software/studio/?promoid=BSOT> this week. The day of the announcement, Community MX already had a week's worth of articles written to cover Studio 8 - some of the most comprehensive coverage of Studio 8 available. Articles ...more >>

Hi, I would like to convert some AutoCAD drawings to .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, or ..png format. These are floor map drawings. I need to convert them to one of the above formats for an Asset Tracking application (it uses web interface for display). Obviouly I need clarity in the maps after conversi...more >>

In case it helps, I've found that all FLV exports from Quicktime version 7.0.1 play with audio out of sync - early actually by about one second. Doesn't happen when exporting from 6.5.2. Has anyone else found this, is there an update yet? Thanks, hope it helps with some of the troubleshooting....more >>

Hi folks! There is alot of posts around talking about the "green mark" that apears in comboboxes, etc when they are loaded in other Level. My issue goes a little far... I?ve got an aplication with a main.swf that loads another swf (form.swf) on the level 2. The level 2 swf have alot of...more >>

:confused; Frustrated again! I can't seem to figure out why the "Sharp Corners" check box located in the custom line object's properties does absolutely nothing. Am I to understand that Flash cannot draw a regular line object without rounding the ends? I need to create a line with a straig...more >>

I was really excited to see in the video demos of Flash 8 they specifically talked about performance on the Mac and how they were working on that. So the day the beta player came out, I rushed home and installed it on my Mac. Since then I've updated with all the new versions of the beta that...more >>

:( Flash MX 2004 (7.2) crashes when I try to open a document bigger than 12Mb. Now I can't reopen my .fla after the last saving yesterday. Any info about that ? Thank you all G. ...more >>

I have 25 dynamic text boxes in a particular keyframe, and depending on certain options that the user selected in a previous frame, the dynamic text boxes will fill with different data. By different data, I mean that if the user selects "ABC", then all 25 will have "ABC". If the user selects "...more >>

Is there a way to make a background music file, be the background music for say, scene 1-5? or do i have to cut the file into like 5 smaller files?...more >>

hi all i have created an application that displays videos using the media display component.... the videos are stored in the webserver alongside the application in a folder called "Videos".... i use the following to set the videos.... vid.setMedia(Videos/vidName.flv) .... however the...more >>

Hi I have been asked to find out how to go about creating an animated catalogue with the curly corners but I cannot find out how to do it.... does anyone have any ideas? plus we need to get data out of a CMS or just regular database... Any comments welcome Lindsay :D ...more >>

Hey, I have a flash file with 10 pictures and I would like to make it so that when I open the flash file it randomly opens one of the 10 pictures. Or anything close to random. Please help me!! Thanks....more >>

Working on my very first project in Flash 2004 on Mac. Have a quick question: Is there an easy way to add frames (and therefore time) across all layers in my document at once (as opposed to clicking each layer individually and inserting the same number of frames in each one)? Need to stretch o...more >>

Hi, I am creating a CD ROM that will play on PCs. It will have lots of FLVs playing, as well as MC animation graphs. My client wants the CD to bookmark where it has been. In other words, they want to CD ROM (not DVD, mind you), to allow the viewer to go back where they left off during ...more >>

I'm stomped. I have a clip that draws textfields with Actionscript, and I have it working like I want localy (almost!).I can view it fine in the flash preview pane, IE and Firefox. When I put it on the server, Firefox doesn't use the text format, and doesn't print characters like "?" ...more >>