My flash player works fine in Netscape, but it won't work in Internet Explorer. Does anyone know what the problem is?...more >>

I've been looking for a good tic-tac-toe tutorial and can't seem to find any. does anyone know where to find 1? I'm trying to learn how to make a simple AI thingy so i thought this would help....more >>

What am I missing? I see the video fine (rtmp path using PlayStream) and the border I created in the playback .swfFlash, but not the component skin? I see the skin.swf is added to the same directory. Do they need to be linked? ...more >>

Does anyone have a link to atutorial for some laser efeccts. i`m trying to achive something like http://www.actionscript.org/showMovie.php?id=339 but downloaded and studied and it seems very complicated..if some body have anything easier please...or can anybody get me a step by step on this....more >>

Each section of the website has 6 photos. Every photo has to be fullscreen. Loading time is taking forever. Any advice on speeding up loading time? Each photo is 1300 X 800. ...more >>

I have made a collection of quicktime movies, which are all optimized to the right size, and I want to launch them from Flash. This can be very simply done in Dreamweaver by using the Open Browser Window behaviour, but that method does not work in Flash. I tried to assign the code from Dream...more >>

Can Flash MX 2004 run on Windows Server 2003?...more >>

I'm having a very frustrating problem that I'm hoping someone can give me some ideas as to why it's happening. I've got a mini-video player that has about 10 dynamically loading flv's using the MediaPlayback component. My problem is that some of the videos do not load when they are suppo...more >>

I enjoy making backgrounds for my animations using adobe then importing them to flash. I never had a problem with this in flash 5. But I recently got flash 8 and after importing a background, after a few minutes it will not register as being there anymore. The jpg will be visible, but flash re...more >>

can view it in internet explorer, this all happened since I downloaded the newest flash player, ive tried redownloading it but it still doesnt work. Any reason why?...more >>

Hi Everyone, I've searched high and low for 3 days trying to find a solution to fix my computer problem without any success. I'm hoping someone here can offer some assistance. http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/view_default.asp?curGroupID=1&shapeID=957 Scroll down to the last bird on the...more >>

I need to do a 360 spin with a 3d model rendered with maya. It's basically going to be a loop consisting of 360 frames. I need the user to be able to control the motion. They need to mouse over and drag through the frames to give the appearance that they are moving the model around. Whats the ...more >>

Does anyone have any recommendations for good books on Flash? I'm looking for something like a reference manual with examples. Thanks....more >>

Hi Is it possible to do a presentation where a movie clip plays and text is displayed over it? Thanks...more >>

I just installed flash player 8 and I am already noticing a problem. I have a movie that uses embedded FLV movies streaming in and its always worked fine using Flash player 7 but with the new player I am noticing just before the FLV loads the background turns either a bright red or green col...more >>

Very new user Sorry:) I have 11 buttons in my file. I need to get them to act like buttons in series .. i.e. when the mouse clicks one it stays "on" untill the user clicks another button, then that becomes "on" So only one button can be assigned at all times. Suggestions Thanks ...more >>

I was wondering if the option to key out the background of video is possible with a live video event. Can Flash 8 do that on the fly while you stream a live event to the internet. For example, someone is speaking live (not pre-recorded) to the internet audience...can you superimpose just th...more >>

Hi Guys and Gals I am really :| about this - I can't figure out how to prevent scene two showing through scene 1. Can someone tell me how to do this please? Will the AS on the buttons NEXT and PREVIOUS be: on (release): } nextscene(); } ? Just checking that to save time r...more >>

If this question has been answered before--my apologies. Im a beginner at Flash and I have a bit of a problem. I have 5 buttons on my main page and i want each to act separatly. Ive followed the directions in the manual about actionscript and it works when i only script one button. But whe...more >>

How do they do it? Flash elements are loaded into a well-defined area via the <object> tag. But when I mouse over the Flash element, the area taken up by the .swf expands. The area expanded into before the mouseover has regular HTML (links, text, images, other source code). On mouse over t...more >>

Im basically trying to preload multiple swf's into one preloader..the swfs are quite small all very much under 100k and its sort of important they stay seperate...dont ask why...sighs I dont know if its possible but if it is i would be unbelievably thankfull to anyone who could suggest ANY...more >>

For some reason, Flash decides for me which object I need aligned when I select two objects and click an align button. I have 2 objects selected, a big JPEG that I want center aligned to a small movie clip, but Flash aligns the small movie clip to the center of the big JPEG when I click the ce...more >>

I thought I knew how to do this, but I am evidently forgetting a step. I want a line to text to 'crawl' along a motion path. What I want is for the letters to follow the path individually so it almost looks like a snake moving. What I am getting is the block of text following the path. I hope ...more >>

I am using the masking to show and hide text and when I scroll through the timeline it works perfectly, but when I preview or export .swf the text does not display What could be the problem? anybody.... ...more >>

Sorry if this is a stu[id question, but I got a font from Flash kit, but now I don't know how to use it (i.e. be able to use it in Flash). I guess what I really want to know, is after I download the font, what do I do next so I can use it in Flash? ...more >>

i just bought flash 8...and i would like to transfer all my components I've bought over the year to this new program. So far I've only been able to transfer a few from the components folder but i can't find the rest of the components...All help will be appreciated. Thanks ...more >>

I'm attempting to pull in an image to a Dynamic Text box set to HTMLText from a text file. It is not working. The text from the file comes in fine, but the image does not. Actionscript: loadText = new LoadVars(); loadText.load("data-main.txt"); loadText.onLoad = function() { txtServic...more >>

I made a stand-alone projector. When I open this exe-file, the window come up at the bottom of screen. Every time I open that file, the window come up another place. How can I fix the window position at the center of the screen? Please give me advice. ...more >>

http://www.megawisdom.net/home/megawisd/public_html/ebooks/flash.php...more >>

Please provide your insight. I'm using Flash 8 Pro to import a FLV file as a progressive download. When I test this on my box, it works fine. When my co-workers test the file on their boxes, it works fine. As soon as I put all the files on the server, it doesn't work. All I get is a blank HTML...more >>

Hi just found something that's pain. If you tint a graphic then want to use the colour pallet to finely adjust the colour, it gets set back to #FFFFFF changing it from what it was. Part from that I really like the new stuff ;) ...more >>

Hoping someone from MM might be perusing.... Comparing the UI Components between Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8, I see all are accounted for but the Slider and TabBar Components. Now, I don't remember if these were Components added from DevNet or somewhere else along the way ... they're...more >>

Hi, I am sort of new to flash, and haven't gone into actionscript yet. Well, what I am trying to do is have several buttons control an FMA area( an area for movies in a website) so that when you click each button a movie starts playing. The movies are all played in the same area so when you...more >>

When you load a swf with the flv component into the scrollpane component it adds huge amounts of whitespace to the flv swf on the right of the video player. I have submitted the bug to MM...more >>

Hi , Im a newbie to flash mx 2004 so pls bare with me. 1) Im working on a quiz using the templates in flash and it's going fine. Basically some of the questions that I want to ask have multiple parts like a) b) and c). Therefore I am trying to create a fill in the blank interaction that ...more >>

Hello! I have an ordinary FLV file. What program should I use to edit and convert it into FLV with alpha channel? Best regards, Alex...more >>

**Error** myClass.as: Line 100: Type mismatch in assignment statement: found Function where String is required. **Error** myClass.as: Line 103: Type mismatch in assignment statement: found Function where String is required. myClass.as is 75 lines.. What's going on?? Flash 8 Pro Action...more >>

I have a project I am trying to publish. When I test the movie in flash it works just how it is suppose too, but when I publish it text that contain filters do not show up. Any ideas? Scott ...more >>

Hi again, Ive asked this question b4 but no replys... I'll try be more specific. we are encoding our videos to 320x240 using sorenson spark. We export out as an flv. We are using the media player that comes with flash pro. When you drop the player onto the stage it is set at a default...more >>

today, I found thiat player7 and player8 are not compotable. player 7 can loadmovie local jpg. but player 8 can not loadmovie local jpg. some people say that a few feature are not compotable. So... I want mathod that my html page load flash player 7 when my system has flash player 8. ...more >>

any old webcartoon, flash cartoon, you know those sites that have a limited amount of movement per scene??? yes, yes... WELL, i would like to find out what products i can buy that will allow me to make my own webcartoons!!! 2d that is. help me please, christmas is almost here! ...more >>

How do you make it so that lets say I have a tween of something moving across the screen. I can do that. How do I make it so that the tween starts out slow and then speeds up the farther along it gets? ...more >>

I work at a large univerisity and write quite a lot of web aplications for our staff. Most of our users are not very technical and I've been wanting to move to Flash interfaces so that users can be presented with narrative style applications. Any ideas on how best to sell Flash to my bosses?...more >>

so i took a swf from flash 7 imported it to flash 8. resaved and and republished in flash 8. opened the swf and a movie clip did not get published. rebuilt swf from scratch in flash 8. multipul layers would not publish. When i would test movie it would work fine but the actual swf was not...more >>

Flash 8 is supposed to say that the movie requires flash 8, and to upgrade. For some reason, my movies dont do that (I am testing them on a different computer with Flash Player 7). Is there something that you have to program so it will do it? ...more >>

:brokenheart; I got so close. I'm a beginner, no actionscript knowledge, but I want to put text inside of a scrollpane. so i made a few textboxes and grouped them together to make a movie. i got the scrollpane to load up the movie, but the text sortof floats outside of the scrollpane. ...more >>

How does Flash 8 files effect the user? When you publish your file in Flash 8 do users have to have the Flash 8 player to see the content or will they see the site but without the new effects (drop shadow, text rendering, etc)? Thanks! ...more >>

comment here, how are using the new alpha channel from After Effect videos, the After effect mask is static option, some one has tested with motion character? freddy...more >>

i dont know how i can put my flash thingy online please help me...more >>

Hi, just a few questions i have wondered about 1, why do people seem to load there swfs into there main swf file for diffrent sections of a site insted of just haveing on big swf file? 2, what size would you use for an all flash website? 3, whats the diffrence between dynamic and stati...more >>

When i publish my movie with FLVPlayback component in .swf it plays video great. But when i publish movie into .exe file and run it - no video playing. please help....more >>

:confused; Hi all; I am a web designer who does fairly simple sites and I have never had to "use" flash (I am using mx2004) before to edit something. I am repairing a website for a friend and it is an embedded flash clip. In the .fla file, in the "TIMELINE" section I go to the "buttons...more >>

I am in need of advise on the following Flash question. I would like to take words in Flash that are in a specific font and then motion tween them to a different font. Ex: Frame 1 has the font symbol word and frame 20 has the same symbol word in a different font. I cannot get a smooth twe...more >>

First off, I am VERY pleased with the Flash 8 video encoder. The quality retained is just fantastic!!! I have a few questions I look to the audience to hopefully address. I am wondering how to change the chorma backgrounds in flash using the alpha channel. I can successfully carry...more >>

I am using flash and php to create a mailform on a website and everything is working fine exept I never get the right icelandic characters from the input fields. I am using a html that points to a swf. and the html has the right charset=ISO-8859-1 but that is not solving the problem. Any i...more >>

I have a standalone projector project which uses several mailto: links to launch the user's email client. Whilst this works OK and launches Outlook, it also launches an instance of the default browser (in this case IE6). Is there a way to launch ONLY the mail client and suppress the browse...more >>

After intalling Studio 8, I excitedly began to tool about in Flash. I exported a test movie, connected it to a test.html page, and loaded it up in mozilla, my primary browser. To my surprise, I was unable to see the simple test animation I had made (good thing I tested!). I loaded the same ...more >>

I am trying to do a banner with a random picture in the background, then a random quote or text in the foreground. My purpose in this is to have a picture with a different quote a good majority of the time. I've seen posts about doing it over PHP, but i'm trying to avoid that. I've figure out...more >>

How can i change the Font size in Help document of Flash MX 2004?...more >>

How to change Font size in help document?...more >>

Is there a good tutorial on how to make those slick drop down menus that I see a lot lately ? ...more >>

Under Windows, Acrobat 7 and Reader 7 will no longer play the SWFs embedded or linked to PDF documents when Flash Player 8 is installed. A "buffering" status is report and goes into an infinite loop. This is not an issue with Acrobat 6 or Reader 6. Since its the Flash.mpp plug-in for Acrob...more >>

I have a loading bar in the movie, main.swf, with the following code: Frame 1 myvariable=Math.round(Math.random()*10000); loadMovie("teevo.swf?"+myvariable,_root); Frame 2 (empty) Frame 3 loadedBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0; totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100; perc...more >>

I am working with flash 7 mx 2004 and whenever I import a .avi file and make it into a .swf file after about 10 - 11 minutes the .swf file video and audio are off sync it progressively gets worse closer to 20 and 30 minutes. We're working on modules that can be up to 45 minutes long. At aroun...more >>

i have really been trying to get this on my own, but i cant for the life of me figure out the php side to this form. any help would be greatly appreciated. here is the actionscript for frame 1: stop(); function sendForm() { my_lv = new LoadVars(); my_lv.fname = _parent.first_na...more >>

I am working with two seperate xml connectors to feed a datagrid and a combo box, when i test the movie i get the following error "**Warning** The linkage identifier 'DataBindingClasses' was already assigned to the symbol 'components/DataBindingClasses', and cannot be assigned to the symbol ...more >>

I have Macromedia Flash MX (version 6.0). I recently created a Flash video for a web site, by importing the video into Flash and creating a .swf file. The original video was roughly 72MB in size, and this converted to a .swf file of 4.5 MB. I have only tested this over a broadband connection...more >>

I had my hopes up .. seeing MM fixed other bugs, like the limit for the number of overlapping object with alpha<100%. However, the bug with incorrect bytecodes compiled for gotoAndPlay is STILL present in Flash 8. You'd think after this many years, and the hassles it causes unwary users, ...more >>