I was wondering how to make a loading screen from flash for a website. Like when a load bar fills to show how much of the flash movie has loaded so far, and then goes on to play the movie when fully loaded. If anyone knows how to do this it would help a lot. ...more >>

Hi. My SWF is loading both a CSS Style page and an HTML page into a dynamic text box. The CSS formatting is working beautifully. My problem is that Im trying to create a trademark beside a product name that is in the HTML, which would normally require either the <SUP> HTML tag or the CSS p...more >>

Why is there no finite expression for the perimeter of an ellipse? Sorry for being off-topic, but you are the only person I know who might be able to explain this. (BTW, I'm looking for the simple explanation if there is one.) ...more >>

Craziest thing. You get the layer selected, if you right-click (I'm a PC user), it has "Delete Layer" greyed out. You can't drag it to the trash can either. I'm totally flummoxed and thinking I've missed something in preferences or settings. No, the layer isn't locked. Can ...more >>

:o I created an intro animation for a website that is 120 frames. I originally set for 12 frames per second. After completing the animation it just seems to long. I'd like to make the movie 6 seconds instead of 12 seconds. I tried to change to 20 frames per second and export the SWF file again...more >>

Window>design panels>color mixer gives me the help files instead. Shift f9 gives me the help files as well. Flash Pro 7.2 Mac OS 10.4...more >>

Good afternoon. I am an experience web developer that is used to hand-coding sites. That being said, I have inherited some Flash work that another developer was working on when that developer left for another job and I have not developed in Flash before. In case it matters, I am usin...more >>

Hi There. .swf files that call a .flv will not play in a browser (.flv will not play directly either - not sure if they should) when served from a Win2k3 server. I have followed all the previouse posts regarding MIME Types and tried associating .flv with: flv-application/octet-stream, ap...more >>

I have some Shockwave files. Is it possible to cut them to a VCD and play it on a VCD player ? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi to everybody , i have build a site at http://www.kroketes.gr/gr.html but i have problem with IE :( 1.My site it doesn't cached , what i mean is anyone see the site the first time then if come back again he need to reload the entire site , why? 2. My GetByteTotals it doesn't work correct...more >>

Hi... I'm a Flash user. Have a Question for any can help me. When I use a loader in my flash movie i like tu use rare fonts (in the dynamic text)... when I use see it in my pc it's ok. But in other pc doen't display the font ... displays another (ex. arial) ?what is the problem? ...more >>

I understand (or have heard) that Flash MX 2004 only supports Wacom Tablets. Is it possible to make another tablet brand work for flash in anyway? (and if you know, what is a good brand to buy?) ...more >>

case: I use mediaPlayback to play several FLV files, say mov1.flv ; mov2.flv ; mov3.flv and there is a play loop mov1.flv->mov2.flv -> mov3.flv ->mov1.flv ->mov2.flv->mov3.flv - >... the 3 FLV files are changed in every loop, thus they are not the same as they were before. I don'...more >>

hi, im new to flash mx and for sum reason every image stroke box or anything is coming up as, what i think is wireframe (a green outline?) and i can't get it of, i've clicked the wire frame button on the layer thing in the time line but it will not change. Also the background wont change col...more >>

Hi I have made a flash anim with a frame action GOTO ("B","B1") that is, a jump to a labeled frame in another scene. The Flash plays it correctly (jumps to the specified frame), but in quicktime format it jumps to the whole end of the movie. Thats my problem. regards Viplex ...more >>

I'm a FLASH newbie and I'd like yto be pointed down the right track. I have a number of highly animated PPT slideshows which I am going to try to rewrite in Flash. When I say highly animated, I mean moving diagrams, scientific stuff - not just text flying about. Am I best trying Flash MX 200...more >>

how to send an email in flash? like in html , you fill in a form and submit. can u do the same in flash as well? if yes, can you please tell me how?...more >>

Hi I am having a problem with a Flash slideshow in Firefox and similar browsers (Netscape/Mozilla). In Microsoft Internet Explorer it works fine. Essentially I have a simple picture slide show that is displayed in an IFRAME. I have it set to use the entire space available. In IE it does th...more >>

I have developed a course on sexual harassment and have been asked to make the course have a 5 second delay on each page before the Next button shows up. That way the student cant just zoom through the course and not retain the required information. The outer shell has the navigation and is call...more >>

I have a flash swf navigation menu within a html page. After clicking on one of the menu buttons, I need to go to the 2nd html page (which includes the same swf nav menu) but stop at a certain frame of the swf nav menu. Is it possible to send those controls from the first page to the 2nd html ...more >>

Is there any DRM solution for delivering Flash content? If no currently, will there be in future? Thanks very much in advance....more >>

how to load movieclip if i have unloaded in same frame with card4.unloadMovie(); now i want to load movie per condition on different function...more >>

It works fine in the Flash Authoring Environment, but when I export it as a movie it freezes at the exact same place every time and I have no idea why. First the video freezes, then the current sound clip plays to the end, but it won't go on. However, the app doesn't crash; I can click on ot...more >>

I have a movie clip that I have put static text into. I want to continuously scroll the movie clip, but all I can figure out how to do its on press scrolling. That forces the user to continueally press to scroll down the movie clip. //button action on (press, release) { moviecli...more >>

i am following a tutorial on how to make a scrolling panel. this is the code panel.onRollOver = panelOver; function panelOver() { this.onEnterFrame = scrollPanel; delete this.onRollOver; } var b = stroke.getBounds(_root); function scrollPanel() { if(_xmouse<b.xmin || _...more >>

In order to sync audio to my 3 minute animation I'm using streamed audio. I want to have a preloader showing percentage of entire movie downloaded before playback commences. Can I still use audio streaming, but enforce 100% preload first? ...more >>

I've read through the numerous posts regarding transparent backgrounds in flash projects, but I just can't seem to get it to work. I've created my movie in AE 6.5. I've confirmed that the background is transparent by reopening the rendered movie and using the 'show alpha channel' button in t...more >>

This might be simple, but i have looked through the old messages and cannot seem to suss it out. I have a piece of e-learning that is either viewed over a corporate intranet in IE or as a standalone on a CD in the flash projector when i publish it as an exe. I want an exit button which loo...more >>

In one of the pages inside the site, I have a scroll pane component that contains buttons; each button loads a _mc. Everything works fine once you are clicking around the buttons inside the scroll pane, but if you want to click back to another page of the site (outside the scroll pane) the la...more >>

I think I have everything right but when I roll over the button, nothing happens. I was wondering if I could email the fla to you or upload it and give you the url. Thanks...more >>

To all developers of flash animations, What are the best components for making flash cartoons? So far, most of the components I can find online are for applicaions and web development. I want ones that can enhance the cartoon itself. (like make the outlines rough or automatically cel shade...more >>

This website has a circle at the center where a video clip plays. I have 5 buttons around. Each will load a swf movie. This buttons display an image when Over and then the movie when hit. The problem is that I want this 2 actions to happen on top of the circle where the video is playing. The ...more >>

I'm wondering why my flash movies slow down when played through a browser. When the movie is set to 100% width and height, it slows down even further. Is there anything I can do besides setting my quality lower? Thanks! -ec ...more >>

Any quick suggestion on how to set up a browser detector in the code. If somebody didn't have flash, they would be automatically sent to the html version? Thanks!...more >>

Hi all, I have a swf that draw dynamic lines on a movie. This movie can be drag. When I draw over 300 lines on the movie then the drag action start to be very slow. So I did a test, I drew 500 lines on the same spot (you see only one line, but on the stage there are actually 500 lines)...more >>

Hi, I'm encountering a scenario where the scroll bar of a scrollPane sometimes does not display properly the first time an external swf is loaded into it. The problem is most prominent when loading larger movies into a scrollPane. This leads me to believe that Flash is rendering the scro...more >>

Hi, I'm going to create a login section with Flash MX. But how can I use session variables to create the logged in pages secret? If you have a sample, it will be better. Thanks!...more >>

Flash file, I set the background to black and it looks fine on the PC, however when I test in in Mac, the background is white? Anyone know why?...more >>

hi i have this data line : this.info.price and i want to send it to a third party , i know that this is somthing with Loadvars but i couldn't figure it out yet, i read the help section any help here? thanks ...more >>