Just need to confirm there is no way for a swf file, residing on a web server, to access files on a local machine. A client wants to build a web-hosted flash interface that allows users to view files stored on their local machine, however I am pretty certain this is impossible..correct? ...more >>

Hello, hoping someone might be able to help on a probably simple, but puzzling problem I'm having. I have a button menu pretty much completed; however, when I publish it, the small numbers (01-06) on the left do not appear. I've attached links to how it should look (#1) and what I'm getti...more >>

Hi all, i am working on a flash banner ad. and i would like audience to view a poster in a new pop up window when they click specific button, just wonder if the script involved java? my poster format is jpeg. What will be the script for a new pop up window with scroll bar (cos my poster is...more >>

I have a flash application which is pulling information to populate dynamic fields from two XML files. We have three languages supported, and have been having problems with the non-english accented characters displaying properly when they are called from the XML. I have checked that the XML ...more >>

Hey Guys, I got this flash template from dreamtemplates.com and I know how to customize most of the things except I cannot get the links on the header to go where I want them to. For instance, I want the small home button in the top right corner to go to my homepage, but I can't find where...more >>

I need to create a flash version of the game skeeball. I've never done a flash game before and don't know where to start. I've found several tutorials and stuff on games, but none of them seem to fit the game of skeeball. Does anyone know any good tutorials or have any suggestions how to se...more >>

I've got a template I bought and I'm trying to fix a few things - am doing fairly well - considering I only try to 'rework' flash - but I'm stumped - on the contact page - it has an email form and a 'send' button - should I add the 'get url' action on the action panel and insert mailto:soands...more >>

A friend of mine is trying to create a flash page, and it works fine so far on all Mac broswers, but on IE7 on PCs, it won't become active until you click on something once, then you have to click it again to make it actually work (play a sound and or link to other content). When I first put the...more >>

I am using a white background for my HTML page, the Flash movie has a white background, and previews show a black square around the loaded flash. When the flash is loading the loading bar is visible on a black background. This flash image fade in movie did have a black bg originally. Ho...more >>

Has anyone noticed problems when setting the wmode to either transparent or opaque? It messes up tab orders in IE. You can see it at http://mmxer.narod.ru/test/avTabTest.html Click on the "Login" link sets focus to the activeX' first control. And the Tab won't work in the activeX until w...more >>

I just found the "Flash Player Settings" on a live SWF file. A little pop up window that appears when you right click on an online SWF file. Can someone tell me what this function is for? Security? Cookies? Browser Detection? There seem to be controls for allowing someone to acc...more >>

I hope my question makes sense. i have a graphic that i've turned into a simple animation button. such that when you scroll over one part of it, that particular part enlarges a little bit and takes you to a link. what i want to do is make 2 other parts of this graphic do similar things but lin...more >>

Use 2 different video player indexes: yourFLVPlayerInstanceName.activeVideoPlayerIndex = 0; // or 1 for 2nd video. yourFLVPlayerInstanceName.visibleVideoPlayerIndex = 0; // or 1 for 2nd video. yourFLVPlayerInstanceName.load("Movie1.flv"); // or Movie2.flv for 2nd clip. yourFLVPlayerInstanc...more >>

Hi; I imported a Windows audio visual file into a new flash document and created a nice compact video.swf file that plays perfectly when I click on it. When I insert the .swf file into a web page using DW8 it appears and plays when I preview that page - except the video controls don't work....more >>

I am having difficulty building a parser for my XML file, I have tried adapting one of the pieces of code from the examples supplied with Flash but still can't get it to work. Can anybody help or point me in the right direction of where I am going wrong please. Here is my adapted code:-...more >>

This is an old question. At the time of the original post 2 years ago, Flash did not support dynamic compiling of string to functions. I was wondering if things have changed now? See old post stored on google. http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.flash.actionscript/browse_frm/thread...more >>

We own Site A www.mysite.com which hosts 100 short (1 minute) swf movie files created with Flix Pro (Flash 8). We created an SWF movie player (like YouTube, also Flash 8) to load, start and pause the movies. It is also located on Site A www.mysite.com. It works fine when we include both o...more >>

Hello all. I have a 600 x 400 (pixel) Flash movie embedded in HTML. I am having trouble getting the browser to resize to the exact dimensions of the Flash movie. I've removed the browser's inherent margins but it still won't resize. I guess it could be wrong param values, so here's the HTM...more >>

Is there any way to view a quicktime movie from inside a swf file without converting it... not a flv??? Thanks!...more >>

What HTML code do I have to have to ask the user to download the latest Flash player to view my movies? right now, it simply does not play...more >>

Hi, a quick question, well I hope it is..........I wanted to know if it was possible to have collision detected in flash by using colors rather then shapes (movie clips, graphic etc...), I mean is it possible for example to have a range of random colors being detected when they come in con...more >>

I want to creat a simple Flash movie that uses some portratits of people. I have jpg images of them, but I want to cut out all the stuff around them, and have that area of the image transparent in hte Flash movie. How would I do this to have the image show this way in Flash? Could I use a Phot...more >>

i have a flash game i'm making for a class that's due on wednesday. it's a take on the space invaders type game and so far everything works except when i shoot the "aliens" they don't disappear. when the bombs drop on me they don't kill me either. is there anyone that can just take a look at t...more >>

I got my flash movie finished and when published for testing, in Bandwidth Profiler i recognized that the first scene called Pre-Loader session (must be almost 2 KB naturaly) gets 16 KB of capasity! Inside my pre-loader session there are some plain objects and 2 frames of actionscript. but whe...more >>

After an upgrade to Flash Player 9 some functions in my Powerpoint presentations with flash embeded doesn't work. Setup: Powerpoint 2003 SP1 - Flash Player 9 Slide with Flash Object (not embeded but linking to local swf file) Slide shows the flash just fine, but my FSCommands or External...more >>