Let's say you want the same movie loop to appear in different parts of the same page, but you want each movie instance to be on a different cycle, so they are NOT in sync. Do I have to remake each movie with a different starting point? Will that add lots of KB? Low KB is the objective. ...more >>

When I export from flash MX, the progress meter stops about halfway and stays there for a while, then is gone. I have figured out that it is only exporting a small part of the swf. The swf file sizes are just a fraction of what they should be and do not play back properly online, they just lea...more >>

:confused; I have a jpg that I made in Photoshop and gave it a tranparent background. I imported it into Flash 8, but when I converted it to a symbol, the symbol became a bmp file and the background is not tranparent. I need the symbol to be transparent over a backgrounf photo I imported. ...more >>

I need to know how to make a movie clip and sound continously flow while the site is being navigated. I dont want it to constantly restart every time a button is hit. Please help thank you...more >>

In IE/Win when you rollover the flash part is says click to play and puts a border around it that shows through the drop downs. If you click on the image and then rollover the drop downs then it isn't there. Do you have any idea how to disengage this special IE feature??? here is the link ...more >>

All I need is the animation that shows the page loading until it does. The rest of the site is html (done in Dreamweaver) but there are several pages with flash that are taking a long time to load. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time finding what seems to me to be one of the most simp...more >>

Hello- Can someone help me? I have been trying to install Flash 9 on my mac (non-intel) and I keep getting this error message: 1008:5,-5000 It then tells me that I don't have enough "acess priveledges" whatever that means. Anyone else have this problem? I have read that the only fix is to ...more >>

Seeking flash/ actionscript pros with 2-5 yrs experience, creative designs, and love of game. If you are looking for a fun, creative environment to do your thing (not an ad agency, not an e-commerce site, not an insurance company, not....) email kevin@chiefpeople.com ...more >>

Hi, I have devleoped a video player which plays videos in a playlist which have been encoded into .flv files. I'm wondering what the advantage is to that over using an embedded windows media player instead. Right now I have to take a ..wmv file and encode it into a .flv file, then upload...more >>

I am trying to create a website that has a main swf file that loads several external swf files into itself. I would like the preloader not only to preload all of the "main" content, but also the content that exists inside the external swf files before proceeding to the main user interface...more >>

A client gave me a wmv file. They'd like me to post it on their website. I've got OS X, Flash Pro 8 and Flash 8 Video Encoder. Can I make a Flash movie out of the wmv using what I've got? How? If not, suggestions? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi all I'm looking for a way to sort an array by the length of the strings within it. So if I have an array like this array = ["XXX", "XXXXXX", "XXXXXXXXXX", "XXXXXXXXXXXX", "XXXX", "XXXXXX"]; Is there a way using sort() or sortOn() to sort those items by the length of those string...more >>

Has anyone else had this problem? Hopefully!! Whenever I go to Publish a file, Flash crashes. I just installed version 8 yesterday and it's already done it twice during the publish phase. I'm publishing to a gif file so I don't know if that's it or not. Sometimes it does it and sometimes i...more >>

This is a Flash 8 vs. Flash MX 2004 issue... Anyone else noticing a difference saving files over a network from Flash 8. I have never had a problem with Flash MX 2004 saving over a network, but now saving a 14 MB flash file to a Mac OS X Server is taking up to 2 minutes over AFP!! Server i...more >>

When using the Flash Detection Kit to detect flash, I am unable to detect any version of Flash on IE. I am using IE7. Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone have a solution for this? I really dont want to install flash each time I vist a website using flash detection. ...more >>

Hello, I am using Flash MX professional and would like to deploy my Flash-movie as a Pocket PC projector file (CAB or EXE). How do I do this? I already changed the publish settings to Flash Lite 1.1 Thanks ! Marc van der Meulen ...more >>

Yeah if there is anybody out there who understands how to work the layers on Flash can you please thouroughly explain it....more >>

Yeah if there is anybody out there who understands how to work the layers on Flash can you please thouroughly explain it....more >>

I am having trouble making my dynamic text show inside of a movie clips, but it works ok on the main stage I have a text document called "text.txt" and I am using a dynamic text box with the instance name "Icelandair" on the main stage. In the first frame I have the actionscript loadvariabl...more >>

I'm creating a sort of image map with rollover areas that should turn red when moused over. Each rollover area is a movie clip with its _visible attribute initially set to False. The onRollover action will turn its _visible attribute to True (with rollout turning it back to False). However I c...more >>

They are different using different computer's Obviously different screen sizes etc, but how do i overcome this problem see images below ... http://www.leedrummond.co.uk/screen1.gif http://www.leedrummond.co.uk/screen2.gif ...more >>

Hey all, I've developed a flash animation that has a transparent background and it overlays a repeating background. When Windows is in 32 bit colour mode this looks fine, but when Windows is in 16 bit colour mode or less you can see the edges of the flash animation. On closer inspection, w...more >>

My website is finally finished. And I tried to make the images as small as possible, but the problem is there are so many of them and my site is huge. I can remember the excat size but its about 15720 mg http://www.lovethevoid.com I dont know a lot about how big sizes of websites sho...more >>

Hi, I am trying to add accents (French/Spanish words) to text in Flash and can't seem to figure it out. I know there must be a way to do it, but just can't figure it out. Has anyone done this before? :confused; ...more >>

This is probably really simple How do i make a progressive stream for a video clip loop All i have currently is the restart/play via the control panel. - PLUS i want to switch the control bar off and without the loop i cannot do this (as i will need the play button) ...more >>

Hi Folks I wonder if anyone can help me with a progressive streaming issue that is sending me mad. Now i will try and explain what i am trying to do (easier said than done) I have a 3 level site/movie 1 - is the main site (main menu) etc 2 - is each of the site sections (loaded i...more >>

I'm just jumping into Flash video. For some reason, I had the idea that streaming wasn't necessary. Looks like I was wrong on that. Streaming costs a lot of dough from what I can gather. Are there inexpensive solutions to this out there? Buffering is not going to work for me, I'm going to need ...more >>

Hi all, I am having issues with IE V.6.0.3790.0 not loading dynamic text into text boxes inside a Flash 7 SWF on a remote desktop. Does anyone know of any compatability issues with dynamic text boxes and IE? The file loads properly into Safari on my MAC, and I have the latest Flash Plugin in...more >>

I have FLV (audio & video) clips on my website that automatically play, then automatically take you to the next scene... work fine in Firefox, but not in IE...IE seems to cut off the last few seconds before going to the next scene....anyone know why?...there's also random audio "pops" only...more >>

Does anyone know if there's a way to disable the Output panel in Flash? I've tried turning off most of the Warnings section in the prefs, but apparently that doesn't affect the Output panel. ...more >>

Apparently, in Flash 8 OS X I cannot import wvm files? So, can anyone suggest how I can easily convert a wmv file to something I can import into Flash? Thanks....more >>

I'm having a strange problem with a swf I've created. It is a very simple intro splash that is supposed to play through about 70 frmaes then go to a html page. This works fine locally, but when I upload it to the server, it play through about 20 frmas and then just stops. You can see it here: ...more >>

Can any body supply me with the JavaScript used to make the box disappear when viewing a sef in IE. Example site with the box around the swf = http://www.xerox.com/ you have to click the swf to make the box go away. Help Please, Newbie! ...more >>

Hi there, I'm having trouble using a button within my flash movie to close the movie altogether (i.e. closing the flash player). I've tried using on(release){ getUrl("javascript:window.close()") } but all this does is open up a new IE browser window and brings up a dialog box a...more >>

fairly new to flash. have built home page as a flash file with other web pages non-flash. How do I make it so that you can click anywhere in the flash file to enter the site....eeeeekk...more >>

i would like to use flash to super impose someones face, a .bmp file, onto a ..wmv file . the face would placed onto the person in the videos' body so whilst the body was walking around, obviously the face would follow it is this possible? can anyone tell me how to do this or do i need to us...more >>