I don't see the FSCommand firing from flash now that I upgraded my client to Flash 8. I have an Active-X Container that I am hosting inside of IE. Inside of the CAB file I actually have the SWF file that I want to load. When I call load movie on flash I grab the request from flash and ...more >>

OK - I have one dropdown box - 12 values (jan, feb, march etc) I have one text box - I need to make the text box populate with the value of the number of the days in the month depending on the month. (i.e. - select January - it will populate the box automatically with the number 31, etc...more >>

I'm a newbie, I need to know if it is possible to create in flash the following: an animation of a walking man, this animation has to be displayed on a Mac OS X desktop without a window as if the man where walking directly on the computer desktop. I'm not sure if this is possible in Flash, can...more >>

I was wondering wether there was a way to simulate an html anchor in flash. I have a long, scrolling text field that I would like to have nav to jump around to different sections of it. i.e., pressing a button below the text box would cause the scrollbar to jump down half way. any help would b...more >>

:confused; I am using Flash 5 and need to create an interface for a CD that contains pdf documents. I cant seem to make a button that will open a pdf file when you click on it. Is there a way to do this within action scripting? so far I am not seeing an easy solution. Rob ...more >>

i want to make a mask in gradient to slowly reveal stuff is it possible ? if yes how and if no , any better ideas ?...more >>

I've created an amination in Flash using one frame and all ActionScript to animate my objects. It works great, but when I try to export it to an AVI or MOV file only the stage is exported (none of the animation). Does anyone know how to export an SWF file that uses actionscript to do most of...more >>

I heard there's a service that will nab a domain name that's soon to expire, but won't charge you for the service unless the domain is actually acquired. Anyone know who does this? My guess is that they sit on your credit card info and only charge to it in the eventuality that they were able t...more >>

I am *brand* new ... almost out the box new! I have been playing with the trial edition and come up with a layered thing. I have the background in the first frame. Then, knowing very little, I put a stop(); command in to keep it there. I have since read that backgrounds are usually copied al...more >>

hey does anybody know how to change a flash 8 .fla file to a flash 6 .fla file. the reason I am doing this is because I have some files I made at home and my school has flash 6 and it won't work there. ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I have a problem... I have a basic HTML page consisting of a table with a flash movie centered in it. When tested on an apple the top 50 pixels (roughly) are cut off, they simply do not appear.... Anyone heard about this before? Any solutions? Thanks, Wietse ...more >>

I love the new filters in Flash 8. Great work all you developers out there. Is there or has any one figured a way to get the filter effects to work on Graphic symbols? Right now they work only on Buttons and Movie Clips. I work on a Flash TV show and we need to export our effects ...more >>

Hi I am trying to create a button from a small bitmap I have about 40 x 100 pixels. I did all as said in the book I got for flash (Macromidia Flash, Hands on training). The problem is when I create the hit area, I create a layer named it hit, on the hit event I insert a key frame, the...more >>

My Scrollpane issue: I am a movie that is a from for people to fill out. I have a bunch of Input Text boxes the instance name is PNameBox and the var for the Input box is PName. This from is name form1.swf I have a "Main" movie where I have a scrollpane on the stage instance "myScroll...more >>

I've created a flash player using an online tutorial but I'm having problems with the XML file, The player is attached as a child in Dreamweaver and I get the player with "undefined" where the list should be. Could someone please review the link below and tell me what I'm missing . I have...more >>

I have a Frame Name: MK100 yadda yadda...throughout my Flash MX 2004 file. I want to universally replace those name tags to MK101 yadda yadda. Can this be done? How can I do this?...more >>

Hello, I am would like to find out if Macromedia is planning to release 64-bit version of their flash player anytime? I am a web page designer and the fact that this version is still missing when 64-bit platforms are quickly becoming standard made me abandon flash graphics in all recent pr...more >>

Is there a compatible extension for dreamweaver 8 for flash video kit??...more >>

Personally I don't like having to now use two fingers to open/close the Actions panel in Flash 8 (alt - F9 on a Mac) so I'm trying to change the keyboard shortcut back to its' MX 2004 Professional style, of the single key stroke of F9. When I make the change through "Keyboard Shortcuts......more >>

Hi, I'm having trouble getting a browser window to open on top of the projector file when there's arleady a browser open prior to them running the projector. Right now, I'm trying to use a simple get url code that's attached to a button, like this: on (release) { getURL("http://www.myweb...more >>

Hello- Is it possible to add images to the UIScrollBar component? If not, how do I add text and images to the UIScrollPane? I can't figure out how to get anything to attach to the ScrollPane. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi all! This problem really blows my mind! When I import an image (jpg,gif,bmp, all types!) in Flash I see that image alterated: not the same brightness, contrast, colours! I have tried this in studio8 an on mx on mac and I get the same results! I have tried a lot of different images...more >>

I've got a strange problem. I'm getting a targeting error when I try to mouseover a menu item and show a triangle under the corresponding word. Url: http://priiva.net/dev/perusich/ Error reported: Target not found: Target="0" Base="_level0.subService" SubMenu instance name: subService ...more >>

I'm trying to morph text from one word to another. Each word has more letters then the next. I'm tryinig to use 4 different words, and then stop the scene.. so it quits looping after the final morph. I would like to make a slight pause on each word, but what I have right now continues to mo...more >>

I m a frame-by-frame animator, i use Graphic Symbol only, because i can check the animation in real time while MC can not. filter effects in Flash 8 is quite good, but it cant apply to Graphic symbol, which means i cant check the final effect in real time. in order to check the final ef...more >>

I am just starting with Flash 8 & I remember from some time ago (Flash MX I think is where I read this) that there were limitations as to how many frames an embedded SWF video file could contain ... since FLV is not embedded, is there a limit on how long an external FLV file (frame count and/...more >>

in flash v6 or 7, we can use setProperty("", _highquality, "2") to force player play in best quality but now is not working in flash 8 !! is this a just a stupid bug ? anyone knows how? ...more >>

what worked and now doesn't work worked perfectly in flash mx 2004 ...export 1111px. x 1567px. JPG file ...Copy things (Ctl+C) in Flash then paste in illustrator not working in flash 8 ...export 1111px. x 1567px. JPG file: it exports part of the JPG sometimes only the top left and the ...more >>

Hi: Is it possible to playback a Flash presentation without the menus and titlebar of the projector? Or possibly in a browser window with no menu or titlebar? There has to be a way to do this. Thanks. Mitch ...more >>

Hi there, a few days ago, I managed to change the parameters and links of a combobox of a fla file. I am seaching now for hours - but so far, I am not sucessfull. I get the combobox, but my component inspector does not show me this window again, where I could change the parameters. Sorry, a...more >>

Hello group is it possible to load a director file within flash?. I have understood that the opposite it is possible. It interests to me to be able to load models in 3D in a tool of flash already developed. For which I have thought that if I can create a file in director with the model in 3...more >>

I know how I can import sounds into Flash .. but I was given an FLA and I need to send just the sound file that I can see in the library to someone as just a sound file for use in video that has nothing to do with Flash. This should be both possible and easy but I sure as heck can't see a way t...more >>

Ive been making a menu with buttons to different scenes currently i have been using the script on (release) { gotoAndPlay ("scene3,frame1"); } for example, but this is not woking in flash mx, does anyone no how to make buttons go to new scenes without playing those befor it... eg to go from sc...more >>

Can anyone confirm my understanding: I hoping I'm wrong about these. 1) When developing in Flash 8, whenever I publish a movie it will require a Flash 8 player to view it? 2) To publish movies that run in older players I must use an older version of Flash? 3) Flash 8 doesn't have a...more >>

Hello everyone? At the website http://www.knighttrans.com/contact/ how would I go about making the circles revolve around each point as it is showing here. ...more >>

Ok, so basically i need to use a single preloader on one .swf to preload multiple .swf's into a users browser cache but for them not to be called up into the site until a swf file tells it to....if that makes any sense?! Hopefully this can be done, maybe not in the way i did it, but any bett...more >>

I have a flash header with a light grey background color to match the background color of the web page. It matches fine on safari and firefox for my mac, but on my client's pc, it's a bright aqua color on exporer and firefox. Any ideas on what's happening? The grey isn't a web-safe color and I...more >>

Hi, When I create a victor shape in Flash working environoment and apply any filter to it, the shape looks like a bitmap image when zooming in. But when publishing the file and zooming in the same published shape, it looks like a victor map shape. Do any one know how does this happen? and ...more >>

According to http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration ..html, v. 8 is an unknown. Is there any way to know how many people have it installed? Or a general percentage, like the other versions? ...more >>

Can it be possible to use microphone by flash and store/save the audio? Amit...more >>

Is there, or will Macromedia issue an executable to install Flash 8 on Internet Explorer? This would be most handy as its needed to install on an RMCC3 educational network. If no installer is released we'll be forced to stick with Flash 7. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi. I need help on how to approach an animation I want to create. I have a straight line, which I gradually want to turn into a wave shape, and back again to a straight line..... If some of you please just could give me a hint on what I should look into, or a url to an example, it wo...more >>

is there a way to put multiple effects on a layer (for instance, be able to make a text have BOTH a drop shadow and a transition effect?) Thanks...more >>

:( HOW DO I make flash games if any one has any ideas or knows how pls e-mail me at spacecowboy_45@msn.com thanks ...more >>

i wanna make a website, where i have smooth transitions all throughout my menu. for instance, i have this following set of menus menu 1 2 3 4 5 6 menu 1: contains menu 1a and 1b menu 1a: contains menu 1ai and 1aii and so forth for the rest of the other submenus menu 1ai will contain ev...more >>

I'm creating a slide show, and am wondering if there is a way to pause playback of a slide at a given frame, and then have it resume using the arrow keys (which otherwise advance to next and previous slides)? I assume it would require a script if it can be done at all. I realize that I ca...more >>

Not sure if this has been the case with all versions of flash, but when flash 8 loads it first loads SmartSketch. Funny thing is that you can ony see it by pressing alt + tab. the process view or application list dosen't show this. (http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/john_gay/page04...more >>