Please help me. OK, what I have set up is a box on my stage, and it comes in from the side (like sliding in), and that is the group/animation thing on my timeline which has an instance name of 'home'. Then on another layer, later on in the timeline, i have two animations, one that animates t...more >>

Hello, I loaded the external vertical scrolling menu menu.swf with loadMovie function to main movie. Now, menu.swf has hight of 240 px, y-center is at 120 px. Menu works so when i move mouse pointer up from the center, menu slides up, if I move it down it slides down. The problem is...more >>

Navigation buttons restart my sound How can I prevent this? I tried asking in the action script forum but nobody there knows what their doing. So i am asking here hoping somebody knows how set up "on" and "off" buttons for sound in flash 8 that actually work correctly. I tried several ...more >>

Hello, When trying to hire good flash artists, it has been difficult to find good places where they tend to conjugate. Obviously this is not the places to post the actual job listing, but where does an employer go to find qualified artists that love the job and won?t bend me over a barrel? ...more >>

Hi to all, I'm a newbie, and I would like to know how is the easiest way to build a timer with hours, minutes, seconds, a start/stop button and a reset? Thank you in advance, Ricardo....more >>

I need to lay a movie clip on top of a BMP image background. In order to line it up, I need to see the ending frame of the clip, but I can only see the first, empty frame when dragging it around. Is there a way to show the last frame of the clip while dragging it so I can see where it needs ...more >>

how can I make that, when I click on a button in a flash movie that it opens some directory in Windows? tnx...more >>

I'm a bit of a newbie so, please forgive me, but I'm using Flash MX and I'm trying to do something that should be very simple. I'm trying to use a shape tween and a motion tween at the same time as a mask. I have a photo that is moving from the bottom to the middle of the canvas. I ...more >>

I am trying to get the é (for the word blasé) character in some external text for my flash site. I have the text saved as UTF-8, and have tried both using the regular é and the encoded character %E9, but it just shows up as a question mark or some other things. How can I do this? Thanks! ...more >>

I don't know how to do this, and wish I did. Let's suppose that I've created a strip graphic consisting of a series of photos, from which I've create one big graphic. I want to bring that graphic into Flash, and then write action script so that, as the mouse approaches the strip, the strip sta...more >>

I have a couple of .flv files that we are using on our website. I go through the steps to insert a flash movie in Dreamweaver and it goes just fine. I can preview the movies with no problem. When I upload them to my web server, they cannot be viewed. The area where the movie should be show...more >>

Need a simple progress bar preloader for a jpg slideshow within flash. The code I have used consistently uses getBytes() and evalutates the entire movie. I want to load jpgs into empty movie clips and only show progress bar as each image is loaded, not the entire movie. (If the slideshow repe...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to set an flv file to auto mute as it is loaded into an flv component? And if so, how? Thanks, Mark :frown;...more >>

Hi guys, If someone could help me with this one I?d be so grateful!... I am just after finishing a wee flash animation which has people singing and I had the months of people lining up to the singing down to a t? but when I look at the same flash file on different computers the speed of th...more >>

I've got a button with 3 frames, one for when the button is up, one when it's down, and one when the cursor is over it. If I put it on the stage, it works fine using gotoAndStop(1), gotoAndStop(2), etc, but when I load it dynamically using create and attachMovie, it shows on screen, but I can ...more >>

I am a newbee to flash. I am having the problem with the co-ordintes system.. In have placed a movie clip in the centreon the stage and in AS I have specified that it be at a certain position (see attached code). The problem is that when runs the movie clip jumps to a position that I have not ...more >>

Greetings, I've been looking for a solution for weeks, and thought I'd give the forums a shot. I have a client site with 6 progressively downloaded flv clips that play when a button is clicked. The flv files are encoded with After Effects 6.5, and the swf files are published in Player 8...more >>

Guys, Need some desperate help for a deadline approaching by the end of today - we have put the following ActionScript into our timeline, it creates a brilliantly realistic snow effect - however, at a later point in the movie we want the snow to stop - what command do we issue on the timeli...more >>

hi.... i made a flash file with an input field (variable "utente") and a simple button: on (release) { getURL("http://www.miosito.it/pagina.asp?utente="+utente+""", "_blank", "POST"); stop(); } now the destination url is not: http://www.miosito.it/pagina.asp?utente=mionome but...more >>

ok this is probably going to sound dumb but i have like this cartoon i am supposed to draw and i drew a race track. but when i put the car on it its fine. but when i go to move it in the next frame it takes that part of the car out of the track can somebody please just tell me what i am doin w...more >>

if you were building this site from scratch, how would you have done it differently? www.quintandquint.com assume that you want to: ? have a seamless transition from section to section (and not the 'blinking' that comes from loading each swf into its own html page) ? have the backg...more >>

Hello, I am coding an application that display 3d scenes using Open GL on windows platform, an what I would like to know is if it is possible to render flash movies into a bitmap picture, a Device Context or into an OpenGL texture (pbuffer, etc.) so it would be possible to actually display the...more >>

so i have this site that i'm very happy with ? problem is, i want to be able to email clients a link to a specific part of the site (rather than simply dropping them off at the front door). now, i understand that there's a way to do this but i think it's a bit over my head... and that i may ha...more >>

Hi There, whats the current deal with popup windows in flash? I'm trying to include popup windows in a site, and with IE7 (or whatever the newest version of IE is ...the firefox lookalike) the popups are not working at all, I have gone out a gotten other sample popup scripts and I encounteri...more >>

Is there any program that converts swf to clickable wallpaper (desktop background) ? I want to make something in flash and I need a program that will allow me to put my swf on my desktop and that I can click on buttons from that swf tnx ...more >>

I'm using one of Flash's built in buttons. Problem: when I stretch the button wider to resize it, the text gets stretched as well. When I go into the button to change the text in the text layer, any new text I type is also stretched. Is there a way to get around this? Thanks for your he...more >>

Flash has always been uppermost layer withing html document. Regardless of z-index, Flash will claim the top layer. I recently visited a site (flextronics.com) where a javascript pulldown menu clearly displayed over the Flash component. It worked on Firefox and on IE7, but not on the Mac. ...more >>

I am trying to make a slide show that is automatic. I have done simple stuff in flash with the timeline etc...etc... I cant figure out how to make it auto, without user navigation controls. When I add behaviors it wont go to the next slide or if it does it wont add my transition. Does it...more >>

I?ve searched this topic and I?m not the only one having this problem. The only solution present was found by the person posting the problem: ?I actually Reset the IE features in the Advanced tab and that seemed to fix it.? from Chris Georgenes 11/08/2006 07:47:06 PM I emailed him off for...more >>

my flash (swf) can load xml file when i am open the swf file, but , the xml file can't be load when i put the swf into the html using dreamweaver , it display nothing ...more >>

I'm beginner. I typed the code but it's error every time. Is there any homepage that has flash code list? on (release) [ gotoAndStop(open); Can anybody help me please?...more >>

Hi everyone, I have created a Flash web page, where I am using FScommands to call a pop-up window through JavaScript. It seems to be working perfectly on my localhost test server, but when I upload the Flash web page to the external online server this no longer works. Why is that? Can a...more >>

I am working on a website project http://www.brinkerhoff.biz/. The main page contains a flv player which loads multiple flvs when different buttons are clicked. I am pretty much sure that all the code is correct but every so often, the site seems to lose connection with the server and the ...more >>

I would like to change colour permanently using flash while the mouse cursor go over a button graphic (box for instance). At the moment while the cursor is on the button it changes colour but when it is not, it revert back to original colour. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE CHANGE STAY ACTIVATED ONLY...more >>