I'm stumped. How do you set the content path so my projector will recognize my flv file on a cd-rom (for both windows and mac). It works fine in the authoring mode - because the content path is absolute, if I try using a relative path, it won't play the flv. I'm using flash 8, the media compon...more >>

Hey I?m thinking of creating a flash site to display my flash games as well as others. I was just wondering if anyone here had any experience with this type of thing. Is their money to be made on these type of endeavors or is it purely for hobby purposes ? I?ve included some of the games I p...more >>

Any ideas? My projector 8 movie plays back fine and snappy at actual size (800x600), but when viewed full screen playback slow's noticeably. At full screen, the movie is not being scaled, nor are any elements outside the 800x600 area, just white space around the movie. Seems to play fine on th...more >>

How can I make a link to a movie.swf into xml? I,m into a site all made in Flash, so a section with a link to other section. ...more >>

I have a lot of cuepoints(750) and every cuepoint have some parameters. I have to embed them with Flash Video Encoder. But with Flash encoder i should make every point manuel. it's to much work. is there any easy way? ...more >>

I inserted a flash file from DW and the file only displays in IE for some reason. Any ideas? here is the code: <div id="flashcontent"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve rsio...more >>

Does anyone know if it's possible to get a stand-alone flash app to interface with java classes? Basically, I want to be able to pass object back and forth and to call class methods all from a localhost. I believe that you need to run Flash Remoting on a server, and this app would be a stand-a...more >>

Dear All, I had this problem with Flash MX 2004. I know have it with Flash 8. If Choose a timeline effect the preview window opens and I get several javascript error messages. I close this window, without being able to use any of the preview facilities, and the timeling effect is there. Any ...more >>

Can anyone from MM please answer to this: If create a FLA in Flash 8 and SAVE AS Flash MX2004 and use Flash 6 as export, does the swf inherit the Security sandbox for Flash 8? If so, it means I need to buy two seperate versions of Flash, or re do many hours of work setting up cross domain...more >>

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Not sure if you all have seen the flash integration for google video (http://video.google.com/) , but I guess I'm wondering if Flash Player 8 can stream formats other than .flv (and .swf, of course). Is google streaming these files that it has indexed off of their original locations? Or are...more >>

Hey guys, Okay, here is the problem... I have created a flash interface which will load external video movies into it. I can load the video into it using .flv or .swf format (although I am told that .flv is a slightly better quality format). I create the streams that I require using Sorens...more >>

I was wondering if there was a way to change all the icons in a tree (or at least all the "leaf" icons)?...more >>

I want a reliable method to find the current frame of a flv movie, being played in the flash 8 player. I can find the frame rate and current playheadTime of the movie, but I am not sure if it's gonna lead me to exact frame number. Thanks in advance. Please let me know if there is any way...more >>

I have 157 jpg images that I'm importing into 157 frames. (Actually the import creates the 156 new frames automatically.) I am using "Import to stage", prompts for "series", and it imports each file into its own frame...works as expected. How do I get the images to be placed EXACTLY wher...more >>

1. you cannot click on a keyframe to highlight the onstage items in that frame - the playback head has to be over the frame first 2. If you copy an item on stage, go to another frame and paste/paste in place it pastes it back in the original frame - i.e the one the playback head is over - ag...more >>

Well, there seem to be components in MX 2004 for almost every HTML form element...except input type="file". Any idea how I would make a file upload component for use in Flash? (Or just how to upload a file?) ...more >>

Hi, Im trying to embed several styles of a font (Bold, italic)in a dynamic text field. The text in the field is supplied from an external text file and there are HTML formatting tages (<b>, <i>) in that file. In Flash, when I embed outlines for each example character I want (as per this articl...more >>

How can I get my flash movie to play at the same speed on both the Mac and Windows? Currently it plays nice and smooth on Windows, but on the mac it's clunky and slow. Anyone know a solution?...more >>

Hey guys, I was wondering how you go about saving/downloading the fla and swf from web pages using flash? I can save as an archive, but that won't let me go through the actual flash contents. If it helps any, this is the webpage that I'm trying to download: http://www.tracememory.com/ ...more >>

we have 20 new I mac G5 computers, we installed the Flash MX 2005 on them when we try to open the program it starts to open than it gets to the fonts and it just sets there. It take up to 10 minutes to open the program. Once the program opens it seems to work ok. I tried the updat but it di...more >>

Hey all, I am having a bit of a problem with imported FLVs losing sync when published as a SWF. Right now my SWF is 14 scenes. Each scene containing a unique FLV without audio on one layer and an MP3 track set to stream on another layer. The MP3 is exported directly from the source MOV ...more >>

Can someone look at this: http://www.stonesoupbistro.com/directions and tell me what they think is going on...I can't figure it out......more >>

http://www.ombygningsspillet.dk/ Whan I opent this site, I had to install flash player nearly every time. I have no problem on other sites, so pleas give at feedback if you can enter. I have been in contact with webmaster on this site, and they tell me it is my computer having a problem. ...more >>

Hi, i know this question is already been told on the forums. But I'm developing guided tours on Pocket PC with flash. For a guided tour you have to give a pocket pc to a visitor. With that device he is guided. But if the user taps and holds the stylus to long on the screen the user is ...more >>

I'm using a TextArea component, and I removed the background & borders with the following code: _global.styles.TextInput.setStyle("backgroundColor", "transparent"); _global.styles.TextInput.setStyle("borderStyle", "none"); Is there a way that I can also change the styles of the scrollb...more >>

I have a CDROM that starts with an exe but calls out to many different swf files. I have the fscommand() on the first frame of the exe to make it full screen, However the fscommand is not working. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I've seen in some of the other posts that purchasing J...more >>

Hi all, I have noticed over the last few version of flash that there seems to be a problem which really bugs me, and hoping that it would have been fixed in verion 8 - unfortunately not. if you have a graphic or movieclip - and you change the alpha of it - you can see a faint box around th...more >>

Hi, I want to build an advanced UI in Flash, which will be embedded in a Delphi environment. I understand that it is possible to embed a Flash movie in Delphi (don't know if I put it right, I don't know anything about Delphi), but I can't find anything about exchanging data between the two...more >>

I am designing a Flash piece that will be published as a projector file and distributed via CD. There are a few places that will pause for a second or two before continuing to play the movie. Will a preload help with this? Is there a way I can make everything preload without having a preload g...more >>

I use this button a lot to align bullet points in slides. In Flash 8 it no longer seems to work properly if some of the objects needing to be moved overlap each other. Highlighting one set also highlights the other and they cannot be separated - is there a settin I am missing? Brian ...more >>

I love the express install included in the "Flash Player Detection Kit" and wonder if it is possible to change the colors, fonts, button-design, etc to better match the site using it. Sort of "re-branding" it to match a specific design profile. Anybody know how to do this? Or if it's even ...more >>

Here's the story, I'm working on my current flash project. There is alot of sound envolved which spans over many scenes. I took the obvious precaution of setting my sounds to 'Stream', and as an added precaution have a muted sound constantly playing in the background also set to 'Stream' (to g...more >>

English I have Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 in my PC, but #include "NetServices.as" works only in MX 2004. I Can't instal flashremoting_comp_as20-win-en in one PC with MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8 only. What can i do? How i can use #include "NetServices.as" in FLASH 8? Portugues Tenho as duas ver...more >>

I have a flash movie on my html web page. The background color of the web page is black. When the web page is appeared in the explorer, the place of flash movie on the web page gets white for some seconds. I would like the color of movie place be black without change. How can I solve this problem...more >>

Has anyone worked with Flash 8 long enough to tell if the dreaded font pixel shift between PC and Mac has been fixed in this release? Also, we are trying to track down problems we have when sharing fonts between several developers on both PC & Mac. This includes fonts not displaying properly, ...more >>

im trying to think of something cool to do in flash, but the ideas just arent flowing. if anyone has any ideas on something cool to do, pls leat me know....more >>

We had our first try at encoding a video with Flash 8. We can play it on a station from the C drive (everything appears: player, video...), but if we move all the files to a network public drive, it just doesn't play. Just white page. I log on as administrator, so it shouldn't be a problem w...more >>

Windows XP Flash MX 2004. I've just been attempting to use Learning Interactions for the first time and think I must be doing something fundamentally wrong as I just can't get anything to display in the parameters tab of the Component Inspector. I'm simply trying to work my way though ...more >>

When the users clicks a button on an html page, can you then swap out the flash movie for another? So I have a flash movie playing, with html controls next to it. The user can click a button and the flash movie will switch to another flash movie. Like a slide show for flash movies. Any ide...more >>

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Hi , I want to draw whole scenes and the import the scenes (after scanning) into flash to animate. Is it possible to select certain areas of an image for tweening etc and leave eg the background as is. Thanks Pat ...more >>

Check out http://www.spadent.com/. Can anyone lay this out for me, step by step, on how to make text behave like this using Actionscript. If I can see how it is done once, explain it to me like I'm an idiot, I'll know it forever. I have searched high and low online, and the only thing I can...more >>

I'm looking for Flash Mac users (with a single or double button mouse) to help me with a simple operating system specific test. It would only take a few minutes of your time and I'd really appreciate it if you could help. All instructions are contained within the FLA[1]. You'll need MX 2004 or g...more >>

I have already downloaded Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, but I just need to buy the registration code. Can anyone give me the link to buy the registration code for Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004? Thank you! ...more >>

I could really use some help with making this script fade an image in instead of fading out. This script now reads as follows: img1_mc.onEnterFrame = function() { img1_mc._alpha -= 5; if (img1_mc._alpha <= 0) { img1_mc._visible = false; delete img1_mc.onEnterFr...more >>

Hi, I would like to publish a lot of training swf files on line. But how could i protect my files from downloading? Thks...more >>

How can I get the close event of swf, just like HTML's close event can listener by javascript....more >>

Here has a button, not a button component, and it has a code in it: on(press){ trace(this); } when I click the button, it trace the instance path of the button's parent instead of the button's. How can I get the instance of the button? Yes, I konw that using XXX_btn.onPre...more >>

http://www.geocities.com/michaelmjc63/index.swf I finally finished my site and I just want to make sure eveyone can see it....more >>

I'm wondering if I'm asking for trouble if I export my main SWF as Flash 6 (seems to play smoother on my powerbook), but load into it movies that I exported as Flash 7. What I wonder is if people don't yet have the Flash7 plug-in installed for their browsers, the thing will open and play, but...more >>

I have a javascript drop down menu that will not show up in front of my swf movie on my website. The menu is on to and the swf file is directly below it. When you hover over a menu item the drop down appears, however it goes behind the swf file. Can anyone tell me how to correct this? Than...more >>

Hi, Just after a good website that povides information on how in add XML into flash, like how to add weather updates to flash applications of various cities etc. or if anyone has any good actionscript for similar that they wish to share. Thanks Mj ...more >>