hey guys. I am building a website and i need help on one thing. Can i add animation to a graphic that i already have, for example, to a photo ? I am using flash mx pro 2004. Can someone help me out, please. Thank you so much Luis Martins ...more >>

When I encode video is it possible to set the preview image to something other than the 1st frame of the video. I know it's possible because I see others do it.. Please help me.. I've searched everywhere for an answer. THanks.. ...more >>

Dear All, Has anyone come across or know of a site that has a sample jezzball (ex-Xonix) game? I want to learn how to create this game. Alternatively if anyone knows of a book that has sample code I would also be interested. Thanks again, Alastair MacFarlane ...more >>

I am using printjob to print a movie clip that is dynamically created based on external data, therefore the movieclip size changes depending of the data. Most of the time the movieclip size is larger than an 8 1/2 x 11 size sheet of paper and consequently gets clipped. I am able to print ...more >>

I have a form with combo boxes that is working fine inside of my movie. But, when I put the movie inside of it's parent movie via loadMovie function, the combo box no longer drops down? The rest of the form is working? Anyone out there that has experienced this problem? Thanks in advan...more >>

Got a wonderful template I want to use as a site for my production company. We are currrently in production of several projects for the Museum of Tolerance and a documentary. I would like to hire someone to show me the ropes on updating the template with my own copy and pictures. I do...more >>

The following seems to NOT work on IE for windows (xp at least) but works on Mac safari, IE Mac, firefox (both systems). http://www.jmthiemefinearts.com/jmtFineArts5.html Under "Galeries" choose "Video" A video player should load into the page. thanks for checking it out! ...more >>

I'm wanting to know, "How to Make a Multi-Level game with Flash 5"? EX: If I were to make a space game, where after reaching a score of 2000 points, the game pauses and displays the text "Stage 2", then continues or provides a button to make the game continue starting on stage 2. Any help with...more >>

I am looking for a way to abort the "progressive download" of a flv file. I am using a .swf to call in the flv source and assigning ti to flvplybk through a flashvar. I am using a metadatareceived listener object to load the flashvars from param tags. The flv file is 150Meg. The flv is do...more >>

I just started having issues with flash displaying in IE. For example, I know there is a swf on the page but nothing visual shows up. If I right-click on the swf I get a greyed out "movie not loaded" and About Flash Player. I've tried the uninstall tool several times, reinstalled, even reinsta...more >>

:confused; I am designing a webpage for myself which will be made entirely of Quick Time video (mov) using the simple import feature in Flash 8. The problem is that, with streaming video, it does not play "smoothly" if the download speed of the viewer is not fast enough. Is there a way to ...more >>

I am trying to export a short Flash animation that uses a snowflake effect. The animation exports fine other than the snow does not fall in the AVI. The snow actionscript and symbol are on seperate layers, both in the first frame of the animation. Am I missing something? Thanks in adv...more >>

I am new to FLV, I have converted an AVI to FLV, and it comes OK in the player, but the audio is soooo slowwww! Where is the bug? Lennart - Denmark!...more >>

Hi, I'm having trouble getting my flash movie to go back to frame one of the time line. I have a button on the stage which when pressed should start the whole thing over again. It doesn't work. I have used on (release) { gotoAndPlay(1); } Thanks ...more >>

I have been trying to install Flash from the Macromedia Studio 8 on my MacBook Pro. It gets almost done and has 190 files left and just hangs. I read some other threads and found that the problem was with the Extension Manager. So I downloaded the EM and tried to install that by itself but ...more >>

Hi, I have a flash movie which basically has around 10 frames and I am moving between the frames by pressing the down and up arrow keys from the keyboard by adding an action listener. Now what i want is that when i am moving i always want a flash movie to play in the background. I trie...more >>

Hey, just a quick question. Im not a huge flash user, just getting into it. Im trying to get a wave shape going at the top of my file. Ive had it working fine with motion tween but i need below the line to be blue (sea) and above to be white. Ive tried using a blue box and manipulating the lin...more >>

Hello Flash People of the Universe, I'm a multimedia design looking for a technique to create an index SWF page in Flash. I have heard it through the grapevine that a 100% Flash-based homepage will load much, much faster than a HTML index page calling for the SWF file. Is this a myth...more >>

Hi, I'm designing a website aiming to provide visual coverage of surfing locations across the UK through the use of webcam images. Each of the images themselves will be retrieved externally, with permission, from various hotels over-looking these locations. I have spoken to someone who ha...more >>

I want to add a large list of all the PDFs that I have in one file to my swf without typing them out 1 by 1? This will be so that the user can browse through them and open it. How can I make that happen? ...more >>

I have looked through this forum and have failed to find a solution for this issue: I used the "Import Video" tool off of the file menu and selected a local flv file off of my local drive. Upon publishing, the swf works fine locally. So then I upload the skin, the new swf and the flv to a we...more >>

Hi, My employer has a set of QuickTime spherical VR's that have a full range of coverage (i.e. 360 degrees around and you can look straight up and down at the floor and ceiling). Anyway, we're trying to move on over to all things Flash. So I'm wondering, is it possible to convert the...more >>

Sorry to clog up your technical forums with something mindless, but I consider myself intelligent enough to perform better than average computer tasks and I cannot get flash player to download. I just bought a new Dell PC. I ran flash uninstaller to remove any former versions that could have b...more >>

I did a pretty extensive search today trying to find video controls for FLV videos that I could download (free or fee - either way), and had no luck. I was hoping to find something more streamlined than the standard controls that come with Flash, and I have neither the skill nor the time to cr...more >>

Hi all, I want to create a pop window link from flash. (click on a button, in flash and then opens up a browser window non resizable) thnx...more >>

I have a swf file on server1 at http://subdomain.domain.com/flash.swf and it access data from the page http://subdomain.domain.com/flashdata.aspx and all is fine. I now put all of this on a new server, server2, and it stops working. So now its: http://subdomain.newdomain.com/flash.swf ...more >>

Hi folks In my SWF file, I would like to see the waveform of an audio file. I want the user to be able to select / type in the name of an audio file. When the file is loaded, it is important for them to see the waveform - can this be done? ...more >>

One of the Art Directors I work with asked me if it in any way is possible to skin the upgrade message window used in the inline Express Install, described http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/express_install.html. I previously looked into skinning the prompt to allow access to u...more >>

I am passing a string to a sql server database from within flash as a query, I have mostly successfully queried the database, but have had problems with queries that contain certain characters (such as pipes |, or '&') is there a way I can replace these characters before passing the query stri...more >>

I would like to learn to create apps and animations using Flash. I don't have internet connection at home, at present. Where can I download some books and tutorials about Flash? ...more >>

I just tried the Secuna security test found at http://secunia.com/software_inspector It tells me i have loads of older versions of flash installed, many of them with security issues. How can I get rid of them as there is no uninstaller in Add/Remove programs for them, except for version 8....more >>

I'm trying to load data from an external text file into a text area and then have it formated according to my specification using textFormat. How do I go about doing so? currently text that is already in the text box gets formatted...not the text that gets imported. ...more >>

Hi, all I'd really like to see an official message from Adobe concerning the issue with Flash9b.ocx crashing in IE. Surely they must have received a lot of messages from disgruntled users. I work for an online newspaper and we have several hundred thousand page impressions every day. A...more >>

Hello, I've got some strange problems with flash 8 and importing video files. The problems started yesterday with me creating a streaming flv using the flv playback wizard, the file worked for me locally and online but was not viewable to anyone else, I got a version working for everyone but n...more >>

I hope someone can help me with this!!! I want to send an animated email, but I want it to be embbeded in the email and not as an attachment. I have placed it in the server and tried to export it as a complex HTML X--it is not working... please, if anybody knows a way to do it, please let me k...more >>