Hi I am fairly new to using Flash. Is it possible to create a form in Flash 8 and use the CGI Script FormMail to post the contents? Thanks....more >>

Hi - Text boxes, using LoadVars to bring in the css and the html. When I test the movie I can see that the html is there and I can tell that the css is working because of links, headings, etc. It's all there. The problem is that the text is about 55px!! My css calls for 12 px. What c...more >>

When using a keypress command , for example to move an item left .if you hold the key down the item will move once then momentarily pause then start moving again and continue moving till you let go. Is there a way to remove the momentary pause? this is the code I use: on (keyPress "<L...more >>

All of sudden the other day, I can't see videos or webpages designs because Safari, Firefox and even Netscape all tell me I don't have a plug-in installed for MIME type. [i][b]"Safari cannot find the Internet plug-in. The page "QVC - Official site" has content of MIME type "applicati...more >>

I have a movie that I am trying to align centered on the top of the page - should be easy I suppose. I'm not too fond of anything not Flash related, so I get stuck. Here is my code that I am trying to make work: + 'td valign="middle" align="center" width="100%"' + 'width="600" he...more >>

Please, somebody tell me this is not the case. How can Macromedia/Adobe have built this component and not allow an https address? I built an entire application using these components and now I need to switch it all to a secure area with https URL's and I cannot. Help?! Thanks ...more >>

:disgust; For such a great tool, Flash can't create numbered lists with hanging indents. WHY? Many things we in training do involve steps. Without the hanging indents they look like crap. Is this ever going to be fixed? ...more >>

I created a slide show in flash (I'm very new to Flash). The slideshow works great so far. I recently added some buttons to the slideshow (each in their own respective layers) and the buttons are Prev, Play, Stop, Next. I want to add actions to each of those buttons with the action script. ...more >>

Here is the deal. When I create a shape in flash (a rectangle with rounded corners a white fill with a black stroke) and convert it to a symbol (a button) the rounded corners on it show up a little blurry and choppy in my ..fla file. How do I get rid of this because it doesn't look very pr...more >>

I HAVENT DOWNLOADED FLASH 9 YET BUT ON EVERY TIME IVE TRIED THE DOWNLOAD COMPLETION PAGE COMES UP...EVEN THOUGH IVE NOT GOT ANY SECURITY NOTICES OR ANYTHING..WHEN I CHECK WHAT VERSION I HAVE IT SAYS I HAVE NONE..PLEASE HELP ...more >>

I have a movie with frame rate of 51fps, and a video file with 25 fps or so. When importing/embeding video into fla, there is an option of determing the frame rate of video: same as source; same as fla... Whatever option do i choose, the video is faster in swf than it is in its mpeg format. Ho...more >>

Hello to all I have signed up for a volume license to redistribution the Adobe Flash Player in a corporate environment . But when I go to the Website to download the Msi file. The only file that is there is the one that installs Adobe Flash Player 9.0.16.0 Can any one tell me were I ca...more >>

I'd like to let the user type a full URL in an input field, then click a 'launch' button to open that URL in a new window. I haven't found any reference to such a function. Any help is appreciated! ...more >>

hi, why is it that on some sites I can view Flash content and on some I can't? on the ones I can't even after installing the player I can't view Flash content (even after quitting browser and opening again..) for example: http://www.hotsoup.com/ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/in...more >>

I am creating a page with six buttons that need to have an active state when clicked, ie., the button currently clicked needs to change colors to signify that it has been selected. Then it needs to change back to its original color when another button is clicked. Please help!! I am relatively ...more >>

I have a flash movie on my front page...I want to be able to click on it and have it take me to the next page..I am new to this and have searched the forum but can't find any relavant questions....I am making my pages up in dreamweaver so I can't see any way to select the flash file and make a...more >>

Ola pessoal, Estou com um problema com o flash player dos visitantes de um site que = fizemos, tem uma galera q n=E3o tem o flash player 8 instalado, ent=E3o = qualquer objeto q use funcionalidades exclusivas do flash 8 (tipo: blur, = outer glow, sahdows...) simplismente desaparecem, e o visit...more >>

Well I am in this class and each week we are suppose to find a term dealing with the new program we start and I was wondering if anyone could help? Here's the question: What is the vegetable term within Flash that enables you to view multiple frames at the same time? Can anyone help, T...more >>

I have a button in my flash movie and attached is the GetURL code linking to a website. However, when I'm testing the movie and I click the button, I get a message that says "Macromedia Flash Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation. To let this application communicate with the inte...more >>

Hi, I've just uploaded a flash website. I embedded it into a dreamweaver html page and then uploaded the files through FTP. The website works fine but in order to reach the flash site/flash movie I must type the html extension after the main web address i.e. rather than simply typing www....more >>

Hi, I'm trying to load two images dynamically (into mc placeholders) each movieclip is on a different layer over the top of each other. I want to mask the top movie clip and animate the mask to reveal the image below. When the timeline moves to the point where the mask is, the mask doesn'...more >>

I can't publish a Quicktime file with Flash Pro 8. Keep getting error "required Quicktime component could not be found" Anyone know how to remedy this?...more >>

Here is my flash program: http://www.jimmydreamz.com/audio/audio/test.html I'm loading an XML file with the following fields: title, artist, album, link As of right now the combo box is displaying all of those fields but I would only like to display the title and album fields. I'm using an...more >>

doing some simple masking of text in a scene. got my 0% brightness set on one layer and on another layer i have the same word with -80% brightness set. then i have a spotlight effect on the third layer. when i check if it works within the flash file, it works. when i test my movie it doesn't w...more >>

Hi, I've got a system made by a php script which generates on the fly an html page with different links on it, according to the files it finds in the database. The database at the moment is a database with video files and there are 2 formats: .mov and .wmv. Basically the php script recogni...more >>

Hi everyone. I recently started a website with a few friends of mine called http://www.goeagle.org/dow/tv which is a flashed based website designed so that people can watch and learn about this game called Dawn of War, by downloading(kind of like streaming without a buffer) and viewing .flv fi...more >>

Hi, I want to play video files in Flash from external source file( .mov, .mpeg, ..avi ). I dont want to convert them into FLV format. Can anyone tell me how to do that. I am using Flash 8. Regards, Sridhar ...more >>

I've sucessfully updated my flash browser plugins (IE6 and Firefox2) to version 9 and they're working fine. However, when I open flash files locally in the standalone player, it's version 8. I've tried deleting the player exe from the Macromedia/flash/players folder and then running the latest...more >>

I have already put some music on my web page for specific pages. I was wondering if there was a way to have one song play for the remaining pages on the site, yet when the user goes to a different page, the music doesn't stop it is playing continuously in the background without breaking as th...more >>

Is there a way to runtime reading / access MetaData from a php script so i can from the file it self get stuff like videodatarate / audiodatarate / framerate / width and height .. ?...more >>

:confused; i have an assignment for my multimedia class and we are supposed to find a specific term about Flash. the question is: "What is the vegetable term within Flash that enables you to view multiple frames at the same time?" does anybody know what this might be?! thanks! Emilei ...more >>

I have been able to play .swf files grabbed off the net using the SAFLASH player (v.6) from Flash MX. It always worked just fine, but suddenly I no longer get any sound along with the animations. I can't find any setting or preferences which related to this. Anyone have any idea what is goi...more >>

Is there a way to install an ActiveX control from flash. What I am looking to do is have primarily a flash application and then for some specific functionality utilize ActiveX control that I can download directly from Flash rather than having to get out of the Flash application to do this. ...more >>

I have a Label instance on my component, I want to change it's properties. I have to use a convoluted method to get it, as Flash sucks for scoping. Why is it I can get a refernce the Label component (I verify such but outputting the name), but later I can not set the text? var test...more >>

:frown; I am creating a site with the navigation calling pages which are only different frames (gotoandstop) in the same swf file. Only problem is that some of the pages (contactus.html, etc.) are html based. The button in flash will point to the html to get to the html based pages but I...more >>