I am wanting to make a flash file have a transparent background. How do I accomplish this? I've seen it done before, jsut cant' seem to figure out how to accomplish this effect. Thanks for any help. -Brent ...more >>

hi i have this xml: <AdreesBook> <Person> <name>Yaniv Bahat</name> <tel>917-710-1356</tel> <email>yaniv73@gmail.com</email> </Person> <Person> <name>Aviv Oranim</name> <tel>646-557-0097</tel> <email>aviv@vooz.com</email> </Person> </addressbook> and ...more >>

Hi, I hope you can help me. I have an exe from where people are going to be able to download high resolution pictures. For each picture I ve created a button and code it to execute a getURL function. This works perfectly in Windows 98 (It give the options of opening or saving the fiile),...more >>

I am looking for web stats for browsers that are compatible with different versions of the flash player. For example if IE 5 comes with the flash 5 player? I have checked the stats here on the macromedia site, but there is non concerning the browsers. any help would be much appreciated. ...more >>

I am using scrollbar with Dynamic text . I need to have the text different sizes or styles. Can this be done and how I am using MX 2004 Pro Thanks...more >>

I am a basic/new user and I have a question about how you guys would recommend the following scenario. I am creating a CD that will have a flash menu bar for files on the CD (PDFs, etc.) and would like to know what I need to do to get the flash menu to auto run upon placing the CD in the CD RO...more >>

Ok I hope this makes sense...in need of a bit of help! In order to optimise my flash site I stumbled across a technique used by other flash designers...... Rather than using frame names and external .swf files to load new content - I have seen some sites which load movie clips/symbols, w...more >>

Hello, I've been working on a series of animations of a character, saving each attitude/action as a separate .fla file. I was told that the animations would be stringed together with actionscript by a programmer eventually, but now we find ourselves in the situation of "we must show the cl...more >>

Hi there... is there a way to make objects (pictures for example) sit on a kind of canvas so that you can fly with an imaginary camera through them? I am not quite sure if I described that too well, but is should look as if one is flying through a 'forest' of different pictures and/or text...more >>

When I download the movie from the animator's website, I try to play it in Flash and it says that it is a proected file. Can anyone tell me the source code for an unprotected swf of Xiao Xiao 3 or send me the file at maxwellp5@frontiernet.net? Thanx a lot! :D I hope my little brother doesn't...more >>

so i am doing some actionscipt for a site that i am building. i have a animated menu that goes through a wik animation then stops to reveal the buttons. the problem im having is that when there is more that one frame i cant access teh instances so i do menu.button.onPress = function(...more >>

hi, i created my flash file in MX 2004, and i have names for each instane used in the file, but i couldn't save it down to flash 5. a message saying "WARNING: This movie uses features that are not supported in the Flash 5 player: Flash MX Button Instance Name". please let me know what ...more >>

Hello. Can anyone help me with this? I am building a menu that looks like the one on macromedia.com and I cant get the font settings right. It looks ok when I set the font as Verdana size 10 with fonts not embeded, but I have to embed the fonts so that I apply a fade effect, when fonts are e...more >>

I am trying to keep my Flash movie from reloading when I use the back button on the web browser. I want the state of the movie to be at the end, instead of replaying the entire movie. Is there a solution to this or am I missing something obvious? ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to get a SWF file to open in a seperate window from the main flash program. Is there a way to do this? ...more >>

I'm a print graphic artist who needs to sub the web guy for a couple of weeks. My knowledge of Flash extends to basic animation and sound. However, I need to incorporate a search form in one of our flash banners. The good news is that we have actual programmers that can handle the actual sc...more >>

Many code editors alow you to use control + an action to do entire words/lines/files at a time. Flash allows Control + Left/Right, why not Backspace/Delete? Is it so you don't accidently delete too much? That is why they made ctrl+z (undo). Is there a way to enable it? ...more >>

This should be an easy one, but I can't find what I need in the help materials after seaching for a couple of hours. The standand List Component displays a default light green background for the selected row (also for the mouse rollover of the row). What list property, if any, changes thi...more >>

Greetings! Currently, for most of my websites I use the Java-based "PopupNavigator", an applet menu fully configured by parameters. I would like to know if Flash-based navigation menus can be frame-overlapping, as well. If anyone knows some examples, please let me know. For better und...more >>

i have a menu which resizes depending on the width of your window, but i need to set a limit on it so that it never exceeds a certain size (924 px). can anyone help me with the script... (my instance is called 'menu_mc') the script i currently have is... menu_mc.onEnterFrame = function()...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to do a code that would randomly go to a keyframe that is named. I have many keyframes, but only 4 are named. So this code should randomly go to these NAMED keyframes. The names of the frames are 0-3 and my code on the first frame is. Does the following code work for me? ...more >>

does anyone know if prototypes are supported in flash 8? Cheers Richard...more >>

Hi i have created a flash website, however pages seem to take a bit of time appearing can someone give me advice on how to improve this or create decent transitions between the pages. All the pages are external swf.s that are loaded into blank movie clips, this is the script i use to call on n...more >>

I am trying to use the "load variables" in MX2004 and wondered how I can load a text file or html file into Flash. I want it to load so all I need to do is update the text file not Flash..How can I do this? I slightly rememeber from Flash 5, I think it was like make a text field and name th...more >>

Hi yea, when I view a dir in my new laptop it will not allow me to double click a ..swf file and have it opened to see what it is, I have the flash player loaded but lost as to what to do now. any ideas thanks regrsd Kenny ...more >>

Hi, As I mentioned the other day, I have a flash pensions calculator (fun, I know) which works out what amount you'll have depending on age, contributions, sex etc etc. There is a massive list of annuity factors which are taken from an xml file which is 200k in size. This data is in a da...more >>

Hi, I'm having this problem with a site that i have created: http://www.nu-web.be When a project is loaded and i try to use the navigation buttons they don't work al the time... When i go outside the button and the back on them it works again... strange strange i just use: on(press) {...more >>

When I test the form on my site, as I think most users do, I use 'tab' to progress through each field. When it is a form created in Flash, for some reason it selects other 'active' objects on the page (buttons...etc) and highlights them with a yellow keyline in between the form fields. Is ther...more >>

I want to develop some 3d images for a flash application.Please tell me whether there is any free software for creating 3d objects which can be used in flash....more >>

hi. I'm new. I've searched the forum for something similar, but have only found one other topic. When I edit a symbol, by double-clicking the symbol in the library, half of it displays off the top-left corner of the authoring area. I can't scroll to see or change parts of the symbol ...more >>

Downloaded the trial version a couple of days ago, earlier today it was saying I had 29 days left on the trial, now its expired. Is there any quick fox or something that may be causing this that I can fix. I emailed customer support but I have no idea how long that will take or even if they ca...more >>

hi, is there a way to get the correct time in a flash movie instead of using the "GetDate" function that only displays the date and time set in your system (what if your system is wrong)? cheers. krustafarian. ...more >>

I've been having problems with Mozilla with my flash file shrinking. I found a fix, being removing 'DOCTYPE' line from the HTML. Now Mozilla works fine, but Internet Explorer will not open the flash file. Is there a solution to this? I've searched & can't find one. Alternatively is t...more >>

This is probably the easiest question for a lot of you, but how do I save a flash image from a website? Or can I copy and paste it somehow? ...more >>

I?ve been using a flash template that I purchased for my website. I?ve been able to adapt it to meet my needs. However, in my attempt to learn Flash better I would appreciate some help with the semantics of one particular issue. This movie references text files outside the .fla source file. I ...more >>

hi there. i'm currently facing this issue of not able to launch local email agent (outlook express) thru using .swf or even .exe. just wan to confirm whether its a flaw to winXP or what, because previously i can do it with win98...:confused; the usual way of geturl or the fscommand(exe...more >>

I can't seem to run Flash on my new Dell dual-processor PC (3.8GHz and 1Gb RAM) Crashes on startup. Hav uninstalled McAffee 8 as others have has issues with that - still crashes. Does anybody have a dual processor PC that Flash MX Pro 2004 runs on OK or is this a general issue? ...more >>

i have recently compiled a couple of flash cartoons on www.101deadrats.co.nr .. but im having trouble with the sound. when i publish preview the sound fits in perfectly, but when its on the web (even after its fully downloaded before playing) the sound is quite delayed... is there anyway of...more >>

Anybody ever experience this? I have a very simple flash movie that plays an external mp3 file. When I hit F12 to preview the movie in IE, the mp3 won't play. If I upload the files to my website or preview it locally in Netscape, it works just fine. I assume it hase to be a browser setti...more >>

http://www.digitaluweb.com/flash/imranmalik.html How was this done- the whole of right click has been disabled (including settings and about macromedia flash player) and it has been completeley customized? Any ideas?? Mike ...more >>

I have a tutorial movie that needs some playback control. I figured out how to set up a slider that alows you to scrub through the movie both rewind and fast forward. The problem I am running into is that it does not do the audio that I have placed on the time line. The audio contines to play ...more >>

I think i have tried every solution in the book to stop a swf applet caching, but it still refuses to show the new version when the user refreshes the page. First ill explain my system: 1. I have a newsticker swf file which loads its news items from an xml file. 2. The user is directed ...more >>

Hi, it is possible to vectorize a bitmap in flash MX 2004? if yes, how? thanks...more >>

hello, I'm working on a site using mx professional. the page will load in every browser except IE...which is kind of a big deal. would anyone be so kind as to have a peek and let me know what they think is the cause of IE failing? http://www.joshlingenfelter.com/turbine/mother.html ...more >>

Hi.. I want to change or edit a Variable in a XML Node from my flash file... for example I have a swf and It has an INPUT TEXT BOX, I want to enter a value in it, and then after clicking on a Button, It inserts or Update a variable in my XML fiel... thank for your help regards ...more >>

Does anyone know the code for playing a Quicktime movie after hitting a button?...more >>

hi. i want to load a different (external) random image into 4 frames of a movieclip. my 20 external images are called 'image1.jpg, image2.jpg...etc). can anyone help me do this, i have no idea how to script it. much appreciated, krustafarian. ...more >>

Hi everyone... let's see if you could help me whit this: In the Flash's help there is an example about setInterval function. Understandig it, I build something like this: function progressBar(num) { if(num==1) { trace("It Works"); var intervalID:Number ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to implement a pageflipping feature for an online manual/brochure (PDF). After doing enough research I came across an opensource code posted at http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/. I downloaded the source files, but I have no idea what to do next! I am a beginner in Flash an...more >>

I set up a pre-loader - no matter which one I use: If it's a component or a little code, it still seems to give me trouble. The preloader doesn't appear until about 15-25% into loading. So all you see is a blank screen, then it show up and starts to work ( what I hope is) properly. ...more >>

hi i have been making flash animations(simple ones) for the past two months. i now want to start using action script so does anyone know a good e book or a tutorial that i can use to get started thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I've reposted this from yesterday since I'm aware that in this particular NG a day is a very long time, and, as such, my original post will have moved off from most people's radars... A similar message to this one will also be appearing in the Director.Basics NG as I am not y...more >>