I have a nice flash menu I'd like to include on my site. The menu collapses vertically. I want to indicate what the current page is in the menu. I'd rather not make a menu for each page. Is there a way to do this. For example lets say I have a site with 50 pages. How do I indicate that the ...more >>

I am using MX 2004. I edited a .fla file, and typed my text over their text. The text box is a movie clip, and at the end of the loop it shows the original text.....I really need to get rid of the old text. Please someone help me as I am a brand new Flash user. Your time is so ver...more >>

As i get into more and more readings about flash, i wonder why some authors do compare and contrast Timeline development with class based development. Some of them barely make you feel naive as a timeliner, they overvalue the use of codes and snippets whenever the choice is possible. Well ...more >>

Hi. I'm following a tutorial in Flash MX 2004 and I'm at a step that calls for me to select the PolyStar tool. The instructions say to: "click the lower right control on the Rectangle tool to see a menu that displays the PolyStar tool", however, when I click the little arrow on the Rectangle t...more >>

For some reason, my timeline window is no longer above the stage and it's driving me crazy. How to I move it back to where it's supposed to be?...more >>

Do you happen to know how Marcomedia or other companies do video with the background masked. They use it very offer in there software presentations when they are promoting a product and on there homepage. Any thoughts?:cool; ...more >>

two questions: 1 - importing jpgs into flash and trace em into bitmaps, good or bad idea? 2- i have a layered photohop file, how would i import it so that the elements on the layers are their own items in the library. each layer has an item that needs to be animated in some way ...more >>

I've discovered an annoying bug in Flash MX and Flash MX 2004 when I upgraded to Tiger (10.4.2) on my iBook (512 MB /1.2 Ghz). For no reason, the language changes - in my case from English to Arabic - spontaneously and erratically. So, as I'm typing along, say while creating a symbol, all...more >>

Hi I have been saving my file all day with no problems. All of a sudden I am getting this error when I try to save... "An Error occured while attempting to write to a file. If you are logged in with a limited user account, you may be attempting to write into another user's folder which is no...more >>

I have been in touch with the fox web guru's, and have gotten nowhere. I can see everything on the page exept the video feed screen. It just stays white when I try to play any of their feeds. I was wondering if anyone could help me w/ this problem. I tried adjusting some of my FW settings,...more >>

Need to export or convert Flash movie into DVD to be view in DVD player. I tried exporting Flash into AVI. However, even thou it is able to export into AVI, the movieclips animations doesn't seems to work in AVI and when played back, certain elements supposed to be moving doesn't move. I...more >>

I have created a drop down menu using the template in Flash. When I preview the movie it sais error in opening the associated xml file. When I edited the xml file I used notepad since it said any text editing program. and was sure to save the file with .xml. Should I have used a different prog...more >>

I want to add a sort of appearing menu when you hover over a button I have. Now all is fine and dandy, it appears as wished, but the problem is when I wish to use a button from that 'appearing' menu, it dissapears once the cursor is away from the button. I hope I explained myself correctly...more >>

I want to create a web page that has a curtain that opens up to reveal the contents of the web page. Does anyone know of any tutorials or examples that I could go to get some help on creating this? Any help or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. ...more >>

Hi! I have 2 different layers and on each I labed frame 85 with different names. (let's say "white" and "black") I have 2 different button. One, when rolled over it goes on label "white" (gotoAndPlay(""white")) the other on label black. Now the problem is that when I roll over one button ...more >>

Hi, This is my first post on here, so hope it is helpful! I have a 2500 frame animation which is done along to a voiceover. I have imported the voiceover into Flash, and have a sounds layer where this plays. when i press enter to test the animation on the stage, it works fine, but when i...more >>

I am trying to build a flash movie that would play a diferent frame depending on which page is it placed. myMovie.swf play frame 2 at index.htm myMovie.swf play frame 5 at portfolio.htm andSoOn How can I do that? :o ...more >>

Hello everybody I wonder if there is a way to load eps images into my movie, I tryed to use loadMovie but it worked just for swf and jpg. I also would appreciate it if someone can tell me how to import eps images into flash using flash java script api. peace ya'll ...more >>

how do i scroll a text in flash? i always have to create movie clips and gotoandplay the next frame. this is frustating when one does not kow flash 2004 !@#!@!#!@@#!!@@@!! please help...more >>

Hi I am having a HTML page in which there is a button to open a application. That application file is a executable flash file with .exe extension. That exe also needs some other assets in order to complete the setup/execution. Now when i click the button it shows me the open/save dialog box...more >>

I am making a movie with 2 scens. It has 2 basic tracs one with a narrator, and one with a backgound music looping itself. The seconf scene uses another backround music. I want to stop the background music of the first sceen and play the second one. i tried stop all sounds in keyframe 1, then...more >>

It's said "avoid using Flash in your website." Because search engine ignore it. Is it true? Since flash is such a great tool, why can't the search engine face it? Any ideas? ...more >>

Please, could you help me about this topic? I have to open trhu' a flash button the outlook windows passing some parameters like subject and 'mail to' how to do? thx luca...more >>

Hi all I have mask the sound in the timetime, how come there is still sound in test movie? Thank you for your input....more >>

:confused; Hi, I know that the accepted method of resizing a Flash object is to set it's width and height to 100% x 100% and place it on a DIV and simply resize that. Doing so will resize the Flash object accordingly. I do this successfully, no problem. I have another scenario wh...more >>

hello, i have a little question about flash 8. in flash 7 the maximum size of a mc is 2880x2880px. can a mc in flash 8 be bigger as 2880x2880? cya ...more >>

I have a date in this format: (supplied from MS SQL dB to flash form field as string I believe) Mon Aug 29 11:28:02 GMT-0500 2005 That I want to display in this format: 08/29/2005 11:28:02 AM How do I do that? I have no actionscript knowledge (or very little). Thanks, -Jon...more >>

Hi all, I'm looking at a couple of great websites, and I see that they're fonts are rendered very smoothly in Flash, even though font sizes are very small. For some reason, our site's fonts are not rendered very well, unless you're viewing the site at a fairly large screen size. Th...more >>

I have 2 buttons and for each I have this code: on(dragOver, rollOver){ //for one button gotoAndPlay("home"); } on(dragOver, rollOver){ //for the other button gotoAndPlay("portofolio"); } "home" is the label name of a frame located on Layer 1. The fra...more >>

I have a AVI file that I have imported in to flash. However I don't want to use the first 300 frames of the movie - is there a way to start the movie at frame 300 or to delete them entirely? Thanks - and sorry for the newbie-type question. ...more >>

Hello I'm newbie in flash I have 5 flash movies (mov1.swf, mov2.swf,mov3.swf,mov4.swf,mov5.swf) I want to create or to randomly display these movies. That's mean I want in my final flah movie to display : mov1.swf --> mov2.swf --> mov3.swf --> mov4.swf --> mov5.swf (like a gif...more >>

So I have been searching the forums and trying many different things but none seem to work. All I want is for when I click a button a swf file loads ontop of my swf in a movie clip. So far I have this and when I click the button nothing happens(I have also created a Movie Clip named "placehold...more >>

Hi Everyone! My kid (9 years old) wants to learn Flash. He wants to be able to make some Stick Guy Movies, very simple stick characters. Can anyone suggest some on line tutorials for that or any other suggestion? Thanks in advance. All the best, Boysha:confused; ...more >>

Hi! If you click on a flash movie with the right mouse button, a menu appear where is a zoom in and out submenu. Is there any method to disable this menu ? I mean any actionscript properties/method... Thanks! ...more >>

Hello....I use to run Flash MX and it came with some great lessons. However since upgrading to MX 2004, Flash doesn't seem to include them. Doesn anyone know where they have gone??? Is there any way I can download these tutorials or do I have to uninstall 2004 and put back on MX ?? Th...more >>

Hi, I want to run a projector exe from a web share and facing a problem with paths. It works fine as long as i give the full web path in LoadMovie or LoadMovieNum whereas when I try to give the relative path, it stops working. It is working fine as long as it was a swf (client want to run it...more >>

I made a preloader a while back, and worked fine when published in AS 1.0 for player 6. When I republished it in AS 2.0 for player 7, it doesnt work right..... //attached to frame 2 loadedbytes = getbytesloaded(); totalbytes = getbytestotal(); loadedkbytes = Math.ceil(totalbytes/1000...more >>

I'm trying to install Flash on a Win98SE machine so my daughter can get to Disney sites. <sigh> When I went through the install procedure I got the wonderful flash movie saying it was complete, but had not seen any dialogue boxes. There is a Flash object showing in IE marked version 7. How...more >>

hello there, i have some difficulties while trying to use progressive doenload to my flv. 1. when i am offline i can see the movie but when i uploading it to the server i get nothing. i'm using relative path what is wrong? 2. does flash player 8 support progressive download? ...more >>

I set up a Corel Draw 12 page to 1024w x 768h (pixels) and did the same in Flash MX2004. Then I set the datum in Draw to the upper left corner, same as it is in Flash. Next, I drew a 700w x 100h pixel rectangle in Draw and positioned it to X = 512, Y = -144. This centers it close to the top of...more >>

I am a very new Flash user, and I tried to use an existing .fla file, and when I replaced the existing Text with my own Text, and then run the movie (.swf) it flashes my text, but the previous text still shows up for a split second at the very end of the loop. I thought I removed all trace...more >>

Is it possible to use the setTextFormat on a TextArea component? If I use HTML or CSS style sheet, the Selection.getBeginIndex and Selection.getEndIndex get buggy, they give the correct positions, but when you try to break the text into chunks to insert a new stylew tag around the selecte...more >>

Why is it that whenever I load pics into Flash with LoadMovie some jpg's just refuse to load. It's getting really irratating. Does anyone have any ideas to why they are not loading. ...more >>

I am curious what is faster. I am working on a project that has two scenes. It seems like it is such a load on resources since its such a large file. Its hard to work on since everything starts slowing down!!!!! Would it be faster and better to just make scene 2 a seperate swf movie and just l...more >>

Is there a way to output a jpg image at runtime of part of the flash stage? Please help! Thanks!...more >>