Can flash be used in an e-mail header?...more >>

:confused; Ok. I am trying to make a slide show with sound. The first slide has music and some minor animation - goes ok. It even starts the proper next slide. BUT when slide 2 starts talking, slide 1's music comes back on. How do I stop this???? I want to put the presentation on a ...more >>

Hi, I want to create an area on a website that will play like a dozen videos which will be submitted by different people to me. I'm in the preliminary stages of this & still trying to figure out how I'm going to do it but the videos are being made. I was wondering if anyone could tell me...more >>

Hi I've just installed Macromedia Flash and I'm trying to follow the getting started tutorials, the only problem is that I can not seem to find the getting started tutorial files which are supposed to come with flash mx. Can somebody recommend some getting started flash tutorials, or i...more >>

Is there a difference in file format between Flash MX and Flash MX2004 Professional? I have a client that used MX2004 Pro and I am unable to open his files in Flash MX. Is this why?...more >>

Is there any way I can get a hold of flash 3? Someone told me it's better for tracing art. I have flash mx now. Thanks....more >>

When I play my swf file in the html viewer all internal and external links work fine. When I upload to the server some of the links, internal and external, no longer work even as most still do. Any suggestions? ...more >>

hello, I am working on a project that requires that I get back to the main timeline from a movie clip upon pressing a button. I have a movie clip on frame 5 in scene 1 (main timeline). Inside that movieClip there is a button that needs to get me to frame label "profile" in scene 1 (mai...more >>

:frown;Grrrr, I am unable to select certian shapes to fill them. I have tried grouping the shape lines, applying a stroke etc. When I select the shape the properties box indicates there is no fill. It allows me to select a color, but it doesn't fill it??? Others I am able to fill just f...more >>

Ok, I'm a PHP programmer. I make sites that are all PHP/(X)HTML/JavaScript/CSS. I need to learn to create flash-type sites (I say flash-type, becuase I'm vacillating between Flash and Flex). First, let me summarize what I THINK is the only real similarity (feel free to correct): Flash and...more >>

I searched the forum but I couldn't find anything to help me make a slideshow in flash like the one on the houston texans website. please direct me in the right direction. http://www.houstontexans.com/ ...more >>

hello. I downloaded the trial version of flash mx/ mx pro 2004, but I can't extract the file called "Flash Installer_a.exe" it says "error: invalid compressed data to inflate." is there any way around this? ...more >>

I found this code that would generate a pop-up window using tFlash's button component. What if you are trying to use your own button? How would you change the following code: buttonListener = new Object(); buttonListener.click = function(){ myWindow = mx.managers.PopUpManager.createPopU...more >>

If this is in the wrong forum, I appologize, but I didn't find any 'Help Wanted' forums or anything to that effect. Rather stupidifed that this place wouldn't have one considering other large programming sites like GameDev have basically no flash programmers on them. Anyways, I'm looking f...more >>

Hi everybody! I have a problem with my Flash! When I make a button to open a "_blank" external link, it doesn't work! The most amazing part is that if I try to open a "_blank" page which is under my domain it works perfectly! This is not a big problem because I created a new HTML page p...more >>

I have a portfolio section in my website that uses buttons to load graphics as users select them. These buttons have two actions attached to them: first the button will move the playhead to a new frame. The only content that changes in this frame is a typed description of the art. Second, the ...more >>

Hi, I wondered if there is a setting in preferences or document set-up that would allow me to increase my workspace in flash. For instance when I zoom out to 25%, my graphic is so large that it is out of view. Thank you ...more >>

I've seen on several sites where flash was incorporated into the site and if the user didn't have an updated plug-in there was an image in the background that would show instead. This was done without a browser detection file and two seperate homepages. The code was built into the page. I was ...more >>

Hi, I am using flash 7 and i had a img tag in a textfield. Localy on my PC it works fine, but when i transfert it on my web site it do not work. The image is not display. Localy on my PC it use an ActiveX to play the flash and remotely it download the player from macromedia is th...more >>

We have a relatively large Flash movie with approximately 100 frames, 25 layers and 500 symbols in the library. If we modifiy code, Save and Compact and compile, symbols/movie clips get replaced or mislinked to other symbols or images. This results in the wrong symbol/image being associated ...more >>

I currently run a website where the user selects either flash or html on the index page. I would like to know how to set up a site where a user is automaticly directed to either the flash or html site depending on if they have flash installed. I was told this is a fairly easy thing to do with ...more >>

If anyone could give me some guidance on this I would really appreciate it. How would I go about making a map similar to the one on this page: http://www.swifttrans.com/template.asp?PageOrder=7a...more >>

Let me clarify, I am trying to get a string of text to go around an oval (but I want each character to be on the oval, following each other like little ants). I also want to be able to change the color of the text so that in the end, the characters go from black to red, to black to red each t...more >>

Hi, I'm use FlashMX pro and Dreamweaver every day in my business, and since I move my system on Tiger 10.4.x, Flash and Dream after a moment start to run slower and slower and need to be restarted to be used correctly. :( My configuration is not really bad, Dual G5 2.0 GHz, 4Gb RAM, 400G...more >>

I'm currently trying to create a Flash based website using Loader Components and external swfs. The master swf file has a menu bar at the top with buttons that call up various external swfs in the appropriate Loader Component below. These links work fine. The problem is I want to sometimes hav...more >>

Hi, I'm new to flash. I hope this turns out to be easy. I made a scene with a background image and 6 movie clips that I want to animate over it. When I put them all in the same basic timeline area and publish, they all do what I wanted them to do - but all at the same time. I want them to play...more >>

Hi all I need to make a flash movie that will automatically run when the cd is inserted and will run full screen playing a quicktime movie. The res of the movie is 768 520 and I need the rest of the screen blacked out with the movie in the center. Is this possible? If so please can som...more >>

Does anyone know how I could open a pdf file from within a swf so that it opens directly in Acrobat Reader and not in a browser window. Meaning is there an alternative to "geturl" ? Would help me a lot. Thanks ...more >>

Im having a problem with making pictures unprintable. I have disabled the menu, added the code !#p to each label, and and gave each a action command of print(false); but if some one goes to the file menu in the explorer browser they can still print the pictures as they are in the swf file...more >>

Hi, I see there is somme problems with search engine (like google) to positioning a web site totaly made with flash. Have you some tips to have a good ranking ? Sorry for my "froggy" english... ;) ...more >>

I have a bit of a big problem. I wish to have an 800x600 flash movie playing from a source avi that I currently have. If I separate the avi into an image sequence(200 images), I can import it fine into separate frames in flash, but when I export to swf and play it, the RAM skyrockets up to 4...more >>

Does anyone know if flash can be played in DirectX? If not... Will it by the time Vista ("Longhorn") comes around?...more >>

Hello, I am using Flash MX 2004 and trying to get Flash to export. Unfortunately it fails...it will export about half way, then freeze...it will continue to try, but get no where for about 4 minutes until it just closes the export window having done nothing...would reinstallation be my best...more >>

I was wodnering how to create a twirl effect in flash mx...i am completely stumped thanks in advance -steve...more >>

Hi, I'm a realtive newbie to Flash, but I'm willing to learn, in a hurry! I've been commissioned to make a site. I've been asked to make it similar to the following one . . . http://www.maverickrc.com/alanis/ I have an HTML "donut" but I need to fill the hole with a Flash setting ...more >>

I am using the standalone flash interactions. Specifically the multiple choice component. I have added the component to the stage and customized it appropriately. What i am trying to do now is after 2 tries of an incorrect answer i want to prompt the user with the correct answer and promp the...more >>

Hi, Basically heres the scenario, a variable is set in the "scene1->Nav_mc' screen from a button, when the operation that it pulls up runs which is in 'scene1->ret_mc' that set variable of 'product' is not recognised, ie, the user clicks on a button in the nav_mc screen and the product var i...more >>

When I'm publishung swf, and set jpg compression to 80% in publish settings, only objects (drawed directly in flash) are losing their quality (to 80%), but jpg pictures, imported into flash dont. Why is it so? I want jpgs to be compressed too. ...more >>