Can anyone give me an example of the following code in use... my_ns.pause(); // pauses play first time issued my_ns.pause(); // resumes play my_ns.pause(false); // no effect, play continues my_ns.pause(); // pauses play Thanks in advance... ...more >>

what is the vegetable term within flash that enables you to view multiple frames at the same time?:confused;...more >>

someone ask me to do an animation for an ATM, like a screensaver, but it has to be a xml file, so i was wondering if there is a way to put an swf into an xml??? or something like that ...more >>

Can anybody advise me on how I get a piece of text to work as a replay function? Regards, Coxdabd....more >>

I have the following code (from this forum) : on (release) { getURL ("javascript:NewWindow=window.open('movie.html','newWin','width=320,height=320,l eft=0,top=0,toolbar=No,location=No,scrollbars=No,status=No,resizable=No,fullscre en=No'); NewWindow.focus(); void(0);"); } can you set a...more >>

Hello all, I've been told that http://www.coburndental.com is throwing an error when visited on a mac. Can someone confirm this? If so, any idea what is causing this. I have a flash slide show on the main page. Thanks ...more >>

Has anyone ever had trouble sending keyboard focus to the DateField component? Try this: create a new Flash document and insert a TextInput component named textItem, a DateField component named dateItem and a ComboBox component named ComboItem. Then insert the following code: textItem.tabI...more >>

My project is made in Flash 8 with AS 2 I have a project with a main time line and a movie clip showing a product line. In the movie clip I have a second movie clip with scrolling graphics (thumbnails) that each have an under-button for navigation. The buttons need to be scripted so on rel...more >>

Hello there, Does anybody know how to create a mute button in Flash. I've found the 'Mute All Sounds' but thats not what I want. What I want to do is have a button which when pressed, mutes all sounds but when pressed again plays all sounds and carrys on from where the sound was muted. I w...more >>

Is there way in Flash to put text on a path. So that text flows around a circle? I imported a PNG that had text around a circle and it popped it back to horizontal. I converted the text to outlines in Fireworks to overcome this, but was hoping there was a way to create this in Flash in c...more >>

This is probably really simple but I can't seem to get it to work. I purchased a flash website template which works just fine but know I want to add a simple flash movie clip (it's a explosion) to the site so right before my logo appear it explodes. When I add it, it works but continues to kee...more >>

Hey everyone, I'm not sure how to explain what I need. I have a solid symbol with several grouped items. On the stage, I need to create a transparency that increases from top to bottom. For example, in Fireworks, you can create a tranparency mask over an item and set the mask up as a gr...more >>

Hey everybody, I was wondering if anybody had ideas on how nike.com did they video reflections? Did they composite the video and reflection in After effects and export a flv, or did the do the reflection in flash with a mirror flv with a gradient mask? With that said, are there advanta...more >>

I have a FLA with frame by frame animation using 100 keyframes of bmps which resulted in a big swf file, 1.8M. I would like to output into a flv file hoping it would recude the swf file size for the web application. Help! ...more >>

Newbie to Flash 8 PRO here, MAC OSX. I am trying to learn Flash through some online tutorials and reading any documentation I can get. Several tutorials call for me to COPY and PASTE the actionscript. I have tried and cannot get this to happen. I realize I must create a new layer, ...more >>

I am trying to mimic the roll over effect of the main flash ads of this site: http://samsung.com/ I like how when you roll over the 3 buttons the windows raise and lower smoothly. I have been able to recreate evertthing without issue except for that i can break mine and get 2 windows or mo...more >>

I am using flash to export a video file (.avi, .mov) But I have dynamic variables that are on the stage at certain times. These variables reside in a ..txt file. Of course these variables display fine in the flash player, because the flash player is pulling from the text file. Is it...more >>

Hi, I am in the process of re-skinning a game that was made in Flash 5, i am currently working in Flash 8 and finding that the game will work when i have finished reskinning it (without saving) but after i have saved the game and reopen it, all the movie clips have been changed back to a ...more >>

Hi, The effect I want is similar to this: http://www.dedon.de/hotels_film.php?Plang=de I have tried to make a long image and let it slide from right to left - and loop this. At the end, when it should loop, the transistion is not as smooth as I want. Can anyone help me? ...more >>

I ran across this web site http://www.sb-architects.com/ and some others that are using this feature. I was wondering if anyone knows how this is done. Basically what it does is that when you expand the browser a part of the flash expands with the browser too. Thanks for the help. ...more >>

I have a local playback situation ( FLV file is on the hard drive); The source is an uncompressed AVI file. When I'm using the Flash 8 Video encoder and setting all the parameters to provide best quality ( highest bitrate, lowest between keyframes; and the 720 x 480 size (no resizing) .. the r...more >>

Hi there, I'm developing an e-learning course in Flash8 Pro, using slides. I created a navigation menu movie, but now I have problems where to put it. If I place it on the presentation slide, it opens behind the pictures on the slides. Placing an instance on every single slide is way to muc...more >>

Hi all. Just a quick question...hopefully it is in the right topic. I think I remember reading here a long time ago, that you could write a script that would have read the monitor resolution and load the approperiate index.thml file for that screen and viewing size. Was I just dreaming o...more >>

Still finding my way around this program and keep coming up with problems on how to solve the most simple of tasks...for instance, how do you insert horizontal dividing lines of varying thickness between paragraphs of text, as shown here for example: http://www.bed-breakfast-wales.co.uk/loc...more >>

Hi guys, I've made a site using Flash 8 and I've had people come to me saying that they can't see the text which is 'bitmap text (no anti-alias)'. They can see the rest of the site, just not the text with those properties. Does anyone know how I can get round this? From what I've gathe...more >>

Hi, some times ago i was expected a problem with copyPixels routine. look at the sample. http://lanet.yaroslavl.ru/testplayer.zip Anybody can help me ?:confused; ...more >>

I wanted to create a little text box my friends and family could put into their webpages -- their blogs and such -- that loads text that I edit. I'm sure there's [i]some[/i] way I can do this, but I'm stumped. I can't find anything like this online, or any tutorials, and I'm going crazy. I thi...more >>