Hi, this is my first Flash movie. I have been reading the book "Flash MX 2004 in 24 Hours". I'm on hour 12 and have been able to create this: http://itlogic.homeunix.org:9809/ITLogic/aboutflash.htm I want to know all thoughts good and bad. Basically, I wanted the move to end and then cal...more >>

I know I will live to regret this, but can anyone and everyone check out my site and let me know what you think of the design and concept: www.projectproofing.com Ideas, thought, suggestions.. :-D ...more >>

Hi! I'm a real newbie to flash so please excuse me if this question is realy stupid. I would like to create a form getting some data from a user. Flash seems to be perfect to create a nice form for this purpose. But now let's say I want to add a barcode reader attached to a serial port...more >>

I am just getting started with Flash. I just created my very first movie. I will post the link as soon as I can for comments. Anyway, now I want a new page to load up when the movie completes. I'm not sure how to do it. I looked at a site that did this, but there was nothing in the HTML other ...more >>

:confused; Once again, harassment from a newbie here. I'm trying to insert a couple of sounds into my swf and it half works. By "half works" I mean that one sound that I have inserted works just fine, but the other will not work at all. They are both .wav files on their own layers and set fo...more >>

Why is it that when I try to import complex EPS file into Flash from Illustrator I receive a error messgae saying that some of or all of the file is imcomplete. Then, the file will import, but it will be fragmented, missing sections and colors? Does anyone know if there is another way to impor...more >>

Greetings, all I have placed a flash file directly under a dropdown menu that I created in Dreamweaver. http://www.racingforgod.org/index_REVISED_flash.html The dropdown menu drops behind the flash object. It you look at the page-in-progress, you will notice that the menu behin...more >>

Hello, I have a static text box that is - 7900 pixels high! Crazy right. I am trying to achieve an effect similar to a scrolling credits page for the text in this static text box. You all know the problem: Flash is limited to text boxes of 2800 in height. I could break the box int...more >>

I just had a quick question. When using fonts in flash, you need nto worry, right? No one is going to need to have the font installed for it to display properly?...more >>

I I wanted to know if there is a version of macromedia flash for Linux. Do any of the studio products work on Red Hat? Thanks Dee ...more >>

I have an illustration of a map and separate illustrations of each county. Each county is a button that has 3 parts. A standard county, a highlighted county, and a county name listed to the side. When a browser rolls over a county of the map, the county, and the associated name highlights. Wh...more >>

I am using a UI Scroll bar in a dynamic text field, publishing with the settings of version 7 and a-script 2. When done, the scoll bar doesn't always load it's control areas, just showing a blank bar. What can I do to help it load correctly evey time for my viewers? Thank you Robert ...more >>

Hi! I'm a beginner, so please help me. I have downloaded a flash intro sample, and I want to change the text in it. I changed it, but after exporting the movie the text do not fade out. But it should. It stays on the screen. When I export the flash in avi format it works. When exporting in...more >>

hi all thanks in advance for your help. i am working with a bunch of flvs and i need to have one play [say for 5 seconds] and then when that flv is done, another one should start playing. does any one know how this can be achieved? basically how can the flv play and then flash move onto...more >>

I need a flash movie to be placed on a web page along with some HTML Layers. To place the layers above flash movie WMODE parameter has been set to "Transparent". After changing the WMODE parameter to Transparent the Screen Reader Program (I am using Jaws Reader) does not read the content in t...more >>

does flash support more than 16000 frames ? actually i was trying 2 insert a blank keyframe at 16500 , & it was not allowing the same. is there any way out...... :D...more >>

I have come across a problem with Flash MX 2004 which i dont think happened before. I am trying to use the UI Components, in particular the UIScrollBar, when i place this on the stage flash quits. i have tried some of the other UI Components and it happens with them as well. I have reins...more >>

how can I make a movie (not just the quiz) SCORM compliant? thanks for your help...more >>

Hey I searched the forum and people were getting the same problem as me ages ago like in 2004, "failed running mlm process. try the activationlog.txt file for more info" which was supposedly caused by the windows service pack 2. Just wondering if any1 has found how to fix this. Any help much...more >>

Okay, my FlashMX 2004 Trial version wont start up in my computer, i have windows XP, and yeah, i click for it to start and all it does is make my computer make thinking noises and then stops...i really really need help, its bothering me lol, but!! yeah...i've reinstalled it so many times its n...more >>

I am using Flash 04 pro to convert videos to flv files. The file sizes are definately smaller, but the sound quality isn't as great and that is a big part of each piece. Is there any other program that converts video into higher quality flv files? thanks for your help. ...more >>

dear all , I have problem with flash ,is I want to run a WINDOWS program or a WINDOWS's program shortcut ,I try to paste a program command at link section but flash ask me to "save" the file ,not run the program ,can anyone help me ?? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all! I'm new to this forum.. so sorry if I'm missing out on some etiquette. Well I am new to Flash MX 2004 as well and desperately wish to know that how should I go about making a loading screen like the millions of them I go about waitin n watchin on ol those Flash sites. A working exa...more >>

i am developing a flash site that needs to be 508 compliant. i have read up on the white pages and other resources how to do it. I was wondering if anyone else has done this. Do you have any tips or run in to any problems? any help would be appreciated. dawn ...more >>

Hi all I'm trying to keep all of my AS code in the first frame of my movie. Now my movie is broen into 3 scenes, "init", for the AS, "intro" for the intro animation, and "anims", for the main functionality and animations for the rest of the site. From my "init" scene, I want to control...more >>

I have a situation where I have created several things that I converted to movie clips in my librayry so that I could add them dynamically to a scroll pane. Everything works fine except that when I add a clip that contains a combo box, the drop list goes behind the other items in the clip. I...more >>

I am a photographer and new to Flash, building my first web sight but getting along pretty well with timelines, transitions, etc so far...even actions. But my question is vital and I sure could use some help/advise! I am using the default settings for the stage size and the background colo...more >>

How would I tell flash to gotoandplay/stop a frame that is inside a Movie Symbol. For example, I have a Movie Symbol named "mov1" and frame inside that movie symbol thats named "start". How would I tell flash to gotoandplay/gotoandstop on that frame? I've tried looking this up in google and ...more >>

I have tried going to file, import but when I try to do an import the only file type I see is .fla. When I change it to all files (my only other choice) and click on the file I want to import I get a message about unspecified format. Is there somewhere else I am supposed to import from? ...more >>

I'm fairly new to Flash. I have an animation that will be about a minute, made up of about 10 other separate brief swf files. The swf files that do not contain movie clips work fine, and the full animation tests fine. But when I import a swf file that uses a movie clip, that movie clip st...more >>

I am trying to simulate video in flash 5 by using a sequence of bmps, and using an mp3 for audio. The images aren't very large only 200x300. I had the images a little larger to begin with and I tried deleting those from the library and all the frames so I could start over and bring in the new ...more >>

Hi, I'm a newbee in flash. My boss wants me to make a "scrolling pictures" for our company website. I don't know how to describe it exactly but this website shows what I mean: http://www.impaxlabs.com/ (the scrolling pitures above the pulldownmenu) I reallty don't know how to make something l...more >>

hi when ever i came to this site for help in the past- thankfully i always got the help i needed. lately it seems i can't get the answeres to the questions i am posting. i have stated that i do not write action script , but the answers i get always assume i know action script. all i ...more >>

Hello All, I am currently working on a file that has a calendar...I would like user to be able to click on a particular date on the calendar, and have a zoom in effect to a daily schedule. When the schedule is clicked, I would like the daily part to zoom out and then return to the calendar ...more >>

I was exporting some images that I had drawn in flash. I had 6 frames with different images on each frame, I though that I could just go through the frames 1 by 1 and export each image, the images were all different sizes. So I started exporting, I was gonna export into jpeg, and I set the siz...more >>

Recently I created a Flash document which was saved on my desktop. When using an FTP program, I uploaded another flash file that accidently had the same name as my previous Flash document and it replaced it. Is there any way I can get the original flash document back to its original state b...more >>

pls. I'm a new user. my boss install macromedia flash for me and told me to just design.pls introduce.:o...more >>

I'm working on a site that uses a flash SWF file for the menu/navigation. When I published the file all was good, it worked. The thing is, for some reason, in IE and IE alone - when the page is viewed, nothing shows up on screen except that flash movie. The raw HTML doesn't display. Whe...more >>