:confused; I updated a client CD project today and when I took it to them it crashed. It'll play fine on my PC. The main difference is they don't have the Flash 8 player, but it's a projector so that shouldn't matter. Any ideas? ...more >>

I was wondering if there was a way to place html (or a website) into a flash file. like a textbox within the file?...more >>

I created a top simple navigation menu inside a htm web. I want once you clic and got to the others html pages a "home" botton appear. How can I do that only with one movie as navigation inside all the html pages? Thanks, Olmo ...more >>

On big commercial websites like IGN.com or UGO.com, you often see Flash ads interrupt your browsing experience. These ads not only have transparent backgrounds, but also use alpha channels to allow various degrees of transparency... in fact, they can gradient from any color to 100% transpare...more >>

Why is it that elements in my document are changing position on their own? I have a Flash slide presentation where there are multiple text elements on a slide. I position them with 'round' X and Y coordinates for proper aliasing of the text and then move on. When I have clicked on another sli...more >>

We just finished a product built using Flash MX 2004. It works flawlessly in the Flash 7 player, but fails sporadically in the Flash 8 player. I purchased Flash 8 to begin debugging the issue. The installation process replaced my browser's Flash 7 player with the Flash 8 player. I cannot f...more >>

I have managed to get midi working fine using proxy sounds with FlashLite 1.1, however I'm trying to achieve the same via Flash 8, but when I test the saved swf, no sound is output. Can anybody explain whether it's possible to use the same method of proxy sounds via Flash 8? If not, is there a...more >>

Hi all, can someone please rewrite this script for me so it actually lunches the url mentioned. I am having problems doing this. Here is the script; onRelease getURL("http://www.anshen.com/US/dialogue/dia.ann.html" , "_self"); right now it says there is a syntex error: ( Line 1: Syntax error...more >>

Veeeeeeeery newbie-ish question here!...........can i make a complete website using Flash 8?.......menu's etc.?......can i do it without learning all that mucky html coding stuff? I want my site to look like this: www.sterling-sound.com Thanx! ...more >>

After playing around with the new features in flash 8 I decided to carry on with my Large project that I have been building using flash 7. I opened my project in flash 8 saved and converted it to a flash 8 project and then tried to publish it to check everything was ok. However I get the...more >>

hi evryone:) i was wondering if u can help me where i can find any site to download free templates made with flash:( and if these sites dont exit please tell me .. thank you in advance...more >>

When you have a swf movie within a swf movie, and then you put the main swf movie in an HTML file ? is there a problem seeing the sub-movie? Here's the link: www.costanzodesigns.com/pauls_papers/products.htm I can see the preloader and grey words from the main movie, but the slideshow do...more >>

this link into a PC format for me please http://www.cristancho.net/resetbuttons/buttons.zip...more >>

How do I turn off Enhanced Stroke and Fill warning when exporting to a lower version. I think it should be able to be turned off but currently I am not finding that button. I personally don't care (not upset just reality) if it doesn't work on lower versions I don't really want to be warned ab...more >>

I installed the Flash 8 trial and it uninstalled the 1.6 version of the extension manager that I had installed with my current install of MX 2004. I can download the 1.6 version of the extension manager, but it looks as if it is not compatible with Flash 8. Is there a new version of the ext...more >>

How do you load XHTML compliant flash movies into a webpage? The embed tag has to be removed, but how do you get Mozilla browsers to play the flash movie? Is there a code snippet I can take a look at? Thank you. ...more >>

i made a website in flash and then put it into dreamweaver. when i test the ..swf file and the dreamweaver file, the 3 buttons i have (in flash) that link you to other websites work. but after we got the website up and running, the files do not work online...they still work in the .swf and d...more >>

Hi All, I've been tracking posts for months about Flash Video with Alpha capabilities. Up until Flash 8 there were work arounds (exporting as PNG then import into Flash), now the Flash Encoder supposedly "recognises" an Alpha channel; however, it seems that only in After Effects (and/or i...more >>

Hello- I have a simple scroll bar with a few paragraphs of text. This text is in a dynamic text box, and is attached to the scrollbar component. The text is not an external file. Is there a simple way to add images into the dynamic text field so they will scroll with the scrollbar? ...more >>

I found this code on here that is supposed to write to a txt file and I have it writing the date in the file but not the variable from flash - this is the php code <? error_reporting(0); $fp=fopen('log.txt','a'); if (!$fp) die ("status=CANT+OPEN+FILE"); fputs ($fp,da...more >>

player 8 ask me for safety sites......why??....its a waste of time.........more >>

Hi, EVERY time I start Flash it resets the default application for AS files. Would someone at Macromedia PLEASE tell me how to reconfigure or change Flash's preference so it will stop screwing up my SYSTEM configuration/registration/file type settings? ...more >>

Fairly new to Flash, I have an animation with 5 scenes and I need to reorder them. How do I do this? Also what is the difference between scenes and screens and is one preferred over the other. Thanks ...more >>

Hey everyone :) Im just curious to know how I would use the mouse to move an object (for example a circle) by clicking on the scree and have that object move there I have look for a tutorial on this, but to my dismay, found none (probably due to my lack of searching ability...more >>

We are trying to create a flash program that has mulitple language support. It would be ideal if the user could pick their language when the program opens. Using Flash 8 this should be possible So a simple program uses the following code to change the language of any text boxes that have bee...more >>

hi there i have just loaded the Flash 8 trial version - having fun - but when i open up the Help panel, the font size is too small to read easily - i have a 1280x1024 screen resolution - how do i increase the font size of the help window? tia bhu ...more >>

Hi All, Downloaded the new 30 day trial of Flash 8 last week, installed all OK, but if I try to run flash, it get to initialisation fonts and them bombs out.... Anyone got any ideas as to how to get this to work. I have since tried the Dreamweaver 30 day trial, and that loads fine. Just pr...more >>

Updated installer for Flash 8 Professional: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting/downloads/components/ -- Regards, Bentley Wolfe Senior Escalation Engineer, Flash Macromedia MAX 2005 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, California October 16-19, 2005...more >>

Hi, I'm having problems making a video. It must work in Player 6, but I can only get it to work in Player 7 and 8! I've made it with the component Mediadisplay and have entered this code (it seems that the code is Actionscript 2.0 and it seems Player 6 doesn't support that); video....more >>

I have tried to encode a video (avi) into Flash Video, the program finishes succesfully (no errors returned), but that is not true. I've made a flash with the FLVPlayback component and ran it, no matter how long the video is, at about 2/3 of it's length the video stops. If I move the pointer f...more >>

I have a library of 5000+ TIF bitmap files that I'd like to convert to flash using the trace bitmap feature. But given their number i have to automate it, so I have been testing the "Document.importFile" method in Flash 8 JavaScript API. I have set up a script that uses the code from the ...more >>

All of the icons for published movies (.swf) have changed to the generic windows icon (stating that it is a Shockwave Flash Object) and when double clicking them Windows says it unable to open it. I'm not sure what has happened but I installed Flash Pro 8 and even when making a new .swf file i...more >>

If possible... i am hoping to create a website where kids can create a "Mr Potato Head" and change the characters facial expressions and clothing (shoes / top / pants)... I can do this part fairly easily but is it possible for them to somehow save the character they create as a gif or JPEG thr...more >>

I have tested the flash 8 install on two computers and it required a reboot both times I dont remember having to do this before. is there a way to get around this? this is a good way to lose a visitor...more >>

Is it possible to use Flash to control device over the web?...more >>

I made my own custom UI for some external FLV, which works fine, but now I want to embedded an FLV into a SWF and I want to use the same UI. I can't figure out how to script the controls to control the movie. It looks like it would be easy. Anyone know? Thanks. ...more >>

I'd like to create a website for a band. They would like, of course, to have a few songs available for playing (not necessarily downloading). Are there any prefab players out there--for free or for purchase? Or, can I load external mp3s into a movieclip? Thanks for any help. ...more >>

I have a movie clip with ActionScript on the top layer. Frame 1 is a keyframe and says: trace("frame 1"); frame 15 is also a keyframe and says: stop(); trace("frame 15"); I don't understand why the output is: frame 1 frame 1 frame 1 frame 1 frame 15 What is causin...more >>

Anybody seen this issue before? I have 15 .png files (layer exports from Photoshop) that have been distributed to separate layers and defined as movieclips so I can perform some alpha operations, masking, etc. on them. When the 13th one is imported to stage, .png number 1 dissappears! If I imp...more >>

How do i make a preloader in Flash 8? AIM - h00psta15 MSN - h00psta15@msn.com...more >>

Is dynamic text handled by search engines?...more >>