My website needs a flash UI (user interface from someone experianced in both Flash itself and Actionscript. Please email me (patlea12@gmail.com) with more questions, and if you are interested. Fair commission will be discussed upon creation. ...more >>

Hello all, I want to resize a movie clip that is loading an external .swf file while its in the process of loading said external .swf file. I notice that none of my attempts at setting the ._height/_width or even _x/_y cords of the movie clip that is loading the external .swf file will tak...more >>

I need help!! I've been experimenting for days now trying to find a good way to preload streaming mp3 clips which are loaded from an external folder. I would rather load them in this way as apposed to dropping them in on the stage and making my file size huge. I've successfully loaded in a...more >>

First of all, I'm trying to sync my audio up perfectly with animations because it is a long presentation with several voice-over mp3's. The best way I've found to sync up the audio "perfectly" is to drag it on to the timeline and set it to stream. The only problem is that when I do this and...more >>

Hi there, I built a site and exported it with the setting set to flash player 7. Will this mean that if someone tries to access the site with an older version (say flash 6) that they would be unable to view it? And, if so, if i change the export settings to an earlier version will the site...more >>

Ok I have a cool song for an intro of my flash....and I want it to do something.This may be hard to answer...even to ask...and it may not be possible...but I was wondering if i could get this to happen: The music to play in the begging...to stop in one scene...then to play again when the son...more >>

hi all! when i open a file names sample.fla into flash MX ver 6.0 it closes Flash MX automatically, but it does gets opened in library, and there are movie, image, graphic symbols in the library displayed, but there are some movie clips when i click on them , it closes the flash mx software....more >>

Is it possible to change the font or colour of text in Flash MX after it's been animated in a motion tween? I have a client who wanted grey text, then wanted green, now wants grey again and it's getting annoying having to retype and animate all the text in her presentation. ...more >>

Greetings. I'm new to Flash and have been teaching myself how to use it and using some of the online tutorials to practice. I was trying the 3D text rotation (http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Flash-MX-3D-Text-Rotation/4886) and have tried it 3 times with the same problems every time. My...more >>

Hello! I have a containerMC that dynamically loads a jpg. The images are optimised at a good res but when I test the main movie, the images look really pixilated. I've set the image res to 80 in the publish settings so I can't figure out why this is happening. Does anyone have an ide...more >>

I have downloaded a free menu (.fla) which works fine but each option in the menu is currently the same. I have tried a number of approaches to rectify this but i find none of them bring me the desired results. The menu is a component system which contains a vertex movie clip so if i change th...more >>

Hi all, Totally new to flash and not quite sure if its the tool we are looking for. Have just downloaded trial version and wanted to check with users if its gonna do what we need. Basically we want to create a small, non interactive, animation to email to clients at christmas. What we...more >>

Hello, I've found following funciton on actionscript.org. When I put this code in the root timeline and call it, no image is loaded. But when I only put the code below marked with --->, the image is loaded... What do I do wrong ? Bert loadAndFadePicture = function (picture, xpos,...more >>

I'm making a flash movie, and there is a splash screen, with the movie's name and stuff like that. There will also be a button that you click to begin the movie, but I don't know how to make the button work. I have a tutorial on how to do it, but its not too clear on how this is done. I just w...more >>

Hi, i have a text field (helpText) within a movieclip (menu01) which i load dymanic text into. i've changed the textbox into a movieclip called (text01), (so, 'helpText' is now within 'text01'). how can i change my script to now target the textbox within the movie within the movie. i thi...more >>

in my application i want the user to be able to drag and drop elements on to the stage to create a drawing... can this SWF be saved on the harddrive? can a part of the SWF be exported and saved onto the hardrive??? hope that makes sense.... thanks ...more >>

Hello again, I'm still having the same problem; my flash file isn't pulling in the XML files required. However, we've realised that if we browse to the .swf file directly it works, if we use the .aspx page that pulls it in (and is linked from the site ) it does not work. So the problem m...more >>

can someone please help here - especially tech support. i work for a company that has produced tonnes of flash movies over the past 4-5 years. Someone in the office has sparked up about reading an article on the macromedia site about Flash8 and newer versions pulling the plug on older ...more >>

I am new to flash and cannot figure out how to control the number of times my flash will play. How do i get my swf file to play 3 times and stop....more >>

Help!Help!How to forbid user download swf file,even from IE temporary Folder! Msn :jenemery_2002@hotmail.com Help!Help!How to forbid user download swf file,even from IE temporary Folder! Msn :jenemery_2002@hotmail.com Help!Help!How to forbid user download swf file,even from IE temporary ...more >>

hi, iknow that this is a flash forum but i am kind of lost, and i don't get an answer with the dreamweaver forum , so i thought aybe one of you got into this problem.... i build a home page with css stylesheet! it works fine for firefox on every pc, it workED with IE at my office pc and my...more >>

I currently own Macromedia Studio Mx 2004 Pro Educational Version. I was wondering if i can buy the upgrade for 400 dollar to the normal verison of studio8. Can i do this?...more >>

Ok let me explain basically what I want to do... I have a song playing and I want to make an animated character who sings along with it. However, to do that I have to know what is in the sound at each frame point. Is there a way I can drag the timeline bar (the red line) across the frames ...more >>

http://www.subdisc.com/ go to the photography and click one of the images. the images don't scale, but stays centered, but if the stage gets too big the image scales but also constrains x and y proportions. any idea how i can do that? ...more >>

ok, i made a flash witch is really small, but becouse of my song (import-Import to stage-My song) it killed my entier flash, and i when from like 2 mesg to like 10 megs(for an example) so how do you steam im tried it befor i dont know how, can some one show mw how and exaplwian what i ...more >>

Hi, We are having a studio shoot video for us so we can create flvs to use for a Flash CD ROM we are designing. Is there a check list I should know about for the studio that is shooting this video? We are exporting the raw video to flv format. We want to videos to be 400x300 and l...more >>

What is the latest proceedure for creating a QUALITY DVD from flash. Starting with a 720x480 size flash document, with high resolution images (240dpi), my dvd results are very poor. I've tried all the mpeg conveters, but nothing seems to give good results on LCD Tv screens larger than 22 inc...more >>

Hi Everyone, Can I load SWFs into a projector file? I'm creating a Projector with FLVs for a CD ROM. Thanks for your help. ...more >>

How can I create image thumbnails buttons then a picture would show up when people click on the buttons... Hope you get it... Thanks ...more >>

I'm using the 'Load Streaming mp3 behavior' in a frame. When the mp3 file plays it plays a million miles a second. The mp3 plays fine using a variety of players or even off a link on an html page... Whadja? ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to get some spanish characters to display on my flash application, but I do not know how to do this. Is there a special font I need to use or do i have to specify something else on flash. Any help will be greatly appreciated. ...more >>

Hi yea, I seen this post in the past and it has helped me out no end. http://www.projectseven.com/support/answers.asp?id=127 but I seem to have problems with it now. I downloaded firefox again from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ I wanted to make my flash movie with a transparent b...more >>

I have tried everything to get flash to work, but it just acts like i never installed it. After i got a virus i cleared my hard drive, and when I wanted to download Flash a little while later, it doesnt work. I download it, install the ActiveX, but nothing happens. I go to websites and they ...more >>

I'm not sure if this is a Flash or Dreamweaver issue, so forgive me. I took the simple, built-in "Show Pop-up_menu" from DW and have designed it to be triggered from a Flash window. Basic but effective. It seemes to work great, but my problem is that it makes that annoying "clicking" sound...more >>

Hi there. i have a questions it's posible with a trick justify dynamic text load from a mysql data base. Another questions i have a form that send the data to email using php code, but words with accents have problems..... Another question........ how do i design a site to see it in 800 ...more >>

I'm using getURL to call a JS function to open a pop-up. Works perfectly well in IE, Safari, Mozilla, but not at all in Opera. The function's not even triggered, as an alert won't even run... Any ideas if Opera has issues calling Javascript from a Flash movie?? Here's my code: ...more >>

I have some movies from a client I need to detect the player version of that they were published to. Can this be done? If I bring the movie into the debugger, I can't find any useful information. The player version variable is obviously what player I'm currently using, and NOT the player versi...more >>

Hi Everyone, Can I load SWFs into a projector file? I'm creating a Projector with FLVs for a CD ROM. Thanks for your help. ...more >>

As a newbie, some advice please. Is it possible to use either movie clips or images in flash to make a 360 degrees virtual tour? i.e., how are these made? can you use macromedia products to make? The tours I'm after making, look like still movie clips and can be used to rotate 360 degre...more >>