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Importing Text
Posted by joelb NO[at]SPAM sonic at 9/12/2005 11:58:31 PM
I am trying to create an opening title and the range of text in Flash seem limiting. I tried to import text from photoshop, but it lost its sharpness. Do I need to buy fireworks, to create more dynamic text in Flash? ...more >>


need assistance with a movie
Posted by pc1971 at 9/12/2005 11:34:16 PM
i'm trying to create a crawling movie to run in the background of another movie, but i am at a loss how to do it, any advice is appreciated it's basically one image that i want to slowly scroll in the backround to simulate movement for the foreground, if that makes any sense ^_^;;;; ...more >>

Where do i start?
Posted by friedrice7 at 9/12/2005 11:19:30 PM
Howdy all, I'm fairly new to flash and the works. I started using flash to make powerpoint-like presentations, and I have made some basic webpages with it. However, now that I'm trying to do some more advance things with flash, I'm having a hard time finding the info I need. Here's what ...more >>

Movie Won't Play in IE
Posted by delella at 9/12/2005 10:31:39 PM
I have a flash movie which works fine in IE when played by directly from the swf file. The movie works fine in Firefox in any mode of play. But does not play from the object embedded code in IE. When I right click on the movie it says movie not loaded. I currently have Flash player 7 and I...more >>

Wont download
Posted by ashley102877 at 9/12/2005 10:04:16 PM
Everytime i try to go to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockw aveFlash AND I click install nothing happens................i've tryed everything.........help!! ...more >>

creating camera motion effect
Posted by skate&film at 9/12/2005 9:54:31 PM
dose anyone know how to create a camera motion effect so it would like an object is still and the world around is moving like someone was moving around the object with a camera. any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated and helpful. ...more >>

setInterval (s)
Posted by Sneelock at 9/12/2005 4:37:13 PM
Hi All, Quick question.... // AS Sample: ID = setInterval(anniFunction, 6000); function anniFunction() { clearInterval(ID); _root.gotoAndPlay(1); } I guess I don't understand this function. I can get it to work fine in a frame. But when I put several setIntervals in the timeline things ...more >>

flash demo cd
Posted by patvolp at 9/12/2005 1:07:37 PM
Hello Flash users, I'm not sure if my question is "do-able" but here it goes. I'm designing a company demo cd using Flash MX 2004. There are several movies and scenes which link to other external .swf movies through the "load movie" action. My questions is: When it is time to burn the fina...more >>



any goodsound tutorial
Posted by nardove at 9/12/2005 12:27:01 PM
hi there if you kwon any good tutorial or the best way to add good(best) quality sounds to a flash site please let me know i have 5 samples and when you click on then star playing or preloading the sound then you can click again to stop it thanks ...more >>

Creating Flash .exe Presentation File
Posted by Markvs at 9/12/2005 12:11:35 PM
Hello fellow flash users, I have created a flash presentation that links to various sections that are also .swf files. What I would like to do is publish this as a Windows Presentation file (.exe) but I would not like the movie to be distorted. Basically I would like the actual movie t...more >>

How to create a cube with flash mx 2004
Posted by Palomares102 at 9/12/2005 11:37:45 AM
Hi there, Is there a simple way of creating a cube in flash mx 2004? (apart from drawing it myself!,.. as I cant seem to be able to create a perfect one!) What about any other simple 3d objects?...more >>

Datagrid mouseover
Posted by zozew at 9/12/2005 10:25:13 AM
Is there anyway to broadcast the mouseover state in the datagrid component?? And the cell/column name? /Thanks...more >>

Standalone +moviesize +dimensions???
Posted by keiTai at 9/12/2005 9:25:24 AM
hi all, Starting a standalone flash applications and I was wondering which moviesize I should use?? Right now, I am testing with 800X600 and fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); fscommand("allowscale","false"); and I am viewing it with 1024x768 res. Now I see more space on the ...more >>

Calling frame label on the main _root. of the mc
Posted by complexity at 9/12/2005 8:40:00 AM
Hi all, I am trying to call a frame label which is located on the root of my main timeline. I thought it would be something like this. _root.("framelabel"); But it does not work. Any help would be much appeciated. ...more >>

Publishing songs on a web site
Posted by e.bonsi at 9/12/2005 8:01:46 AM
Hi everyone, I am trying to publish a song on Flash MX 2004 for this project and I am getting a little bit frustrated as it is not publishing when I save the file on the web. The little bit of sound track was saved from Final Cut Pro using compressor in .iff then imported to the flash libr...more >>

FLASH CHECKER ??!*
Posted by relli at 9/12/2005 7:50:55 AM
Can anyone help? please ! i have created a website (which is entirely flash) but the hosting company has a problem with the code... i had originally sent them the following code... <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "> </scr --> </body> </html> ...more >>

MSN links
Posted by Fifty81 at 9/12/2005 1:00:47 AM
Is it possible to add a button on your flash site that someone could click and automatically add you to their MSN contact list? If so how would you do it or is there a good tutorial out there?...more >>

swf larger then fla
Posted by liquid4006 at 9/12/2005 12:09:39 AM
Ok... so I'm not new to this program. I've been designing flash sites since ver. 4. I can't figure out why my swf files are coming out larger then my fla files. The other thing that is weird is that not all of the swf files come out larger. This site is on the larger side with several hundred ...more >>

Flash 8 released in Japan?
Posted by pudrocker at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
I was just wondering how the developers of http://www.hybridcity.jp/ site are able to fully develop content for Flash 8, when it hasn't been released to the public yet. Is this a Macromedia inside deal that is available only to a select few? The only other Flash 8 content I've seen on the net ...more >>

Memory leak
Posted by suaq at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi all. I use flash to display full-screen video and image content. The Flash player (7) seems to be buggy, as it leaks huge amounts of memory until the OS (windows xp) runs out of swap space and the flash player. Displaying two 10 second flv movies and a couple of images in a loop makes ...more >>

Publishing problem...
Posted by sankerbrand at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I've been using Flash MX 2004 without any problems but all of a sudden I am unable to Publish files. When I go to File -> Publish I get a message that says "No valid HTML templates are available to complete this operation." Huh? Everything was fine a couple weeks ago .... very weird. Do...more >>

Dancing Silhouette
Posted by guinoentertainment at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
Does anyone know how to create the dancing silhouettes like on this redstar website http://www.redstarnightclub.com...more >>

Problem with movie clip
Posted by kittycomplex at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
On my site I have a top logo, side and bottom menu that I want to stay stationary, while the inside box changes when buttons are clicked. I know I'm suppose to create an empty movie clip and them load the movies into it, but I think I went about it all wrong. I tried to make a empty movie cli...more >>

Open powerpoint file using link
Posted by DDhillon at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
I want to open a power point file using link in flash. Is it possible? I m using Flash MX 2004. Thank you...more >>

Flash Movie Statistics
Posted by racinemilo at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
We are streaming a 5min flash movie and have no idea for how long people are watching it. We can track the time between the player window opening and closing in the browser, but if the viewer pauses the movie, there is no real metric there. Is there a way to embed markers every 30 seconds or s...more >>

Flash and XML
Posted by andrewbyles at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
I'm trying to build my first site using flash reading from an XML file, I have gotten stuck at the very first step and can't see why it will not work. I'm trying to attach movie clips dynamically, using the Array.length: here is my actionscript: var pList:XML = new XML(); pList.ignoreW...more >>

Flash Video Control bar
Posted by visualshocker at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
I?m new to flash video, is there any way to remove control bar at bottom of the video. If I click ?off? in ?media play back parameters widow?, but its still showing one horizontal bar at bottom of the video. How to play plain video without any border or control bar? ...more >>

Tweening blank between shape hints
Posted by tommyboy777 at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
Can someone explain to me why the tweened frames between some of my shaoe hints are blank and others are not. How can this be fixed? Help is needed please....more >>

audio tracks
Posted by patvolp at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hello again, how do I get a button created in flash to load an audio file by clicking on it and stop the audio by clicking on the same button again. As well, how do I make the audio track fade in when clicking it to turn on, and fade out when clicking it to turn off. Thanks. ...more >>


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