Hi, Since I can't get my flash movies w/skin to play online (even after following all of the great advise here), I was wondering if there's a way to create a movie with controls into a single .swf file since I do know that these seem to work on my server? Hope it's not a dumb question, jus...more >>

Help! I have successfully created several Flash 6 movies for clients' PowerPoint presentations in the past. But now that I've been using Flash 8, they can't seem to play the movie. They see the flat image in the slide, but they get this error message: "Some controls on this presentation ca...more >>

Has this happened to anyone else? Our files are stored on a network for backup and I can edit a Flash file from the network. Today, while I was working on a file, the network went down and I was unable to save my changes. It said "File failed to save". So I waited for the network to come b...more >>

I'm in one heck of a pickle. I informed a client that i could build them this nifty little flash menu expecting that I would be able to figure out the process fairly easily. I'm passed the deadline, but bought myself time until tomorrow. Any help here would be oh-so awesome. my fla is her...more >>

I'm working with Flash MX 2004 (v. 7.2) and having issues with text being cut off when the file is published (or even previewed). I can't figure out why the formatting is ignored. Flash displays everything correctly when viewing in the timeline. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance! ...more >>

I am a newbie to Flash. Took classes but it's been a while. I have gone into the help pages and it said to make each graphic instance just play once. I did that. I also found something in settings that had a looping option and I set that to play once. I cannot get my animation to just play onc...more >>

Well im new here and i wanted to know if anybody knows any serial codes for flash 8 because im in desperate needs for it...im useing it for sn animation im useing.......more >>

I'm assuming that is what this is? I'm a novice though so I'm not sure how it's done. I want images to load like on this page Go to the link below and follow these directions to get to the action, hit open under name, hit skip, then go to gallery link at the bottom. Click any thumb ...more >>

I am running an interactive quiz that was adapted from Phillip Kerman's @work book. It works fine on my local machine, but fails to execute a call to one of the external files when on the server. Is there something I need to know about how files are called when on the server vs when on ...more >>

:confused; I have a new site with a long list of links filling the whole left side of the page. These are links to businesses. If I just input them normal, the ones on top will always be seen and the lower ones not. Unless anyone has a better suggestion, I was thinking about keeping these ...more >>

I need to copy frames that are on e.g. Layer 1 and put them on Layer 2- is there a trick I can't seem to figure out or find info on? Thanks!...more >>

hi all i have come upon a great little trick to restrict an swf to play on a specific domain but it doesn't work. i was hoping you could help me. here is the code: path = _url.substring(0,18); if (path == "http://www.amayeta" || path == "http://amayeta.com" ){ play(); }else{ stop...more >>

Hi all -- Using the FLVPlayback component and Custom UI components, I've been able to build a simple video player. When I test it locally, I can get the video to play without any problems. However, the second I upload it and try to play, it will not work. Since there's no real Action...more >>

Ive created an HTML version of my flash website. As of right now, when you go to my website www.damonedwards.net it goes directly to the flash version... I created a page that allows people to choose between HTML and Flash, now how do I make it so that page is the first page displayed if you ...more >>

Look on the website www.fishtv.tv, I am a school student working on this at my co-op placement, I was asked to try and figure out the flash program in 2 weeks, and i need a bit of help. I need to figure out how to add a highlight to the picture, if you look on the site you will see what im ...more >>

Hello I was given a project that contains a .flv, a .swf (which references the ..flv), and a .swf that is the steel external all controller. I also have the source .fla file. The .flv has transparency. It's of a person who was shot on a greenscreen. The Client wants to have tr...more >>

Hello, I have a swf file that was given to me with an html file. I would like to redirect the user to another page at the end of the movie. Is there an easy way to do this considering I don't have an original FLA file? Thanks for the help! lynn ...more >>

Hi there, I'm new to Flash and having a problem playing one of the scenes in the movie. When I open the specific scene and click on the menu Control/Test Scene the scene plays properly. However, If I click on Control/Text Movie the movie plays alright but only up to the particular scene ...more >>

Dear all, my flash went mute a few hours ago and it does not want to make sound anymore... buttons, soundtrack... nothing goes, meanwhile, everything else is running smooth so what the hell??? I checked on the mute button and it's not that. Any idea would be greatly appreciated as I was p...more >>

Guys, I am running in to very frustrating problem. I have Flash 8 installed on machines. It works fine when administrator runs, But gives an error when regular user tries to run it. it give Error 1706. No valid source could be found..... I looked up but nothing could resolve this issue. Ev...more >>

well first i have drew a picture and animated it and i then made another flash document and did the page i wanted it to go on and now i need to put them together but i can't for some reason. if u know could u please reply. thanks for taking a look. ...more >>

Hi, Where can I download FlashFile Format (SWF) SDK, I want to create .swf file by C# application. I got the FlashFile Format specification document, but not able to find the SDK setup. Can anyone please help me? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, So I uploaded a .swf that connects to an .flv. When the video finishes playing the player becomes blank. How do I set the video to have a particular video frame as the image seen on the video player when the movie isn't playing. Problem is that the first few frames the video i...more >>

Would any one be interested in helping me with this error? I am in the very beginning stages of learning flash 8 and expermenting with a flash template I downloaded from . frontpage2002.com **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=56:Line 1: Wrong number of parameters; gotoAndPlay r...more >>

Would any one be interested in helping me with this error? I am in the very beginning stages of learning flash 8 and expermenting with a flash template I downloaded from . frontpage2002.com **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=56:Line 1: Wrong number of parameters; gotoAndPlay r...more >>

Hi there folks, I hope somone can assist me with this problem as I'm quite new to flash. I have been experiencing problems with gettiing a video clip to display on my web page. I will go through the step i took to get the video onto my page and perhaps someone can tell me where I'm g...more >>

Hi, I work in an establishment where the internet is well and truely locked down with restricions on viewing a whole host of things. One of the main bugbears is that it won't allow flash content to display... or so I thought. On a few sites flash seems to get through this restriction. Does ...more >>

Hi there... the post below was posted below a couple months ago... has anyone had any success creating a FLV player using the Flash 8 IDE and view it using Flash Player 9 on IE? This is bizarre that an FLV player compiled with Flash 8 doesn't work with Flash Player 9 in IE (works fine in FFox...more >>

Hi, I've embed a quicktime movie into flash. This is to go on the first page of my website. When the movie finishes I want the next page of my website to load automatically, what is the best way to go about this. I assume I should put a key frame on the last frame of the flash but I'm not sure...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me to the right help topic. I want to clear an instance temporarily from the stage when a button is pressed. I want the instance to come back when a DIFFERENT button is pressed. I was looking at swapDepths, but I think this just uses one button to s...more >>

HI, I'm creating a flash where images move from left to right. It is possilbe to make it so when the mouse is positioned over any of the images the whole flash pauses so the image can be viewed for longer. Then the flash continues once the mouse is removed from the object? Cheers, ...more >>

Dear friends, I am trying to embed the following external script from picturetrail.com on flash: <embed src="http://flash.picturetrail.com/pflicks/acrobatcube_r.swf" loop="false" quality="high" FlashVars="backopacity=100&cubecroptofit=1&enlargecroptofit=0&logopath=http://fl ash.pictur...more >>

This site was created with a main swf which loads in the secondary swfs. The main page comes back up each time, which is annoying in many cases. I will attach the code for you to see. Also, the file sizes are 778kb for the main page, and less than 200 for most of the secondary pages. Yet i...more >>

Hello there.. I have been trying this, but at moment I couldn't achieve it: It is when I develop popup menus above a certain banner: for example, when you enter in www.adobe.com website: you can see the banner made in flash and n the top a popup menu.... when I ry to do that... the pop up m...more >>

One of my main clients uses this bloated-detector and it has caused me plenty of headaches. Anyway, here are problems it causes in various browsers that I've noticed; [b]Safari[/b] -Requires more than double the CPU% over just embbeding the object, or using SWFObject, which is my person...more >>