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Mouth animation
Posted by themightylink88 at 12/28/2006 11:41:01 PM
I am doig a project for FBLA in my school and I'm making a "music video" i have finished everything in the video except for the animation of his mouth moving. I want it to be just like a black circle moving and closing kinda like south park.. What is the best/easiest way to do this, i'm not ex...more >>


Flash Player 9 messed with Quick Time
Posted by BKDub at 12/28/2006 10:48:15 PM
:confused; I just recently downloaded the new? Flash Player 9 Universal Binary for Intel Based Macs cuz I thought I wanted to play some stupid game ... well now I'm getting the big Question mark in the middle of the Quick Time symbol whenever I am presented with anything Quick Time! What have ...more >>

'Layering' html/css over a flash file (flash aplet as background)
Posted by swedemily at 12/28/2006 10:17:46 PM
so i know VERY little about website design and html/css/flash blah blah - but i was wondering if anyone knew if it's possible to create a .swf flash file and use it as a background on a webpage - i.e. put links and text over it using html and such rather than creating them in flash. am i talk...more >>

button + sound
Posted by LuisDesigns at 12/28/2006 9:39:33 PM
Hey Everyone. Hope you guys had a very Merry Christmas. Well, i have created a button and i would like to place a sound to it but for it to play only when someone places the cursor or click on it. Can someone help me on what best way to do it ? Thanks again Luis Martins ...more >>

I can not export Flash animations successfully as a Quick Time Video. Please Help...
Posted by Brandoski at 12/28/2006 8:48:28 PM
Hello there, I have been trying to both publish and export a Flash animation from a native Flash file as a Quicktime .mov file. I am using Flash 8 and have Quicktime 7.1.3 installed on my Mac running OSX 10.4.8 - I get an error message every time I try to publish the animation as Quicktim...more >>

Flash player 7 vs. 8
Posted by deniseheff at 12/28/2006 7:46:03 PM
I am looking to see if there are benefits to saving an .swf for flash player 7 vs. 8. Accessibility improvements? I work for a large company and we're designing a site with quite a bit of flash. We're looking to see if we should save out those files for v7 or v8. Any assistance would be appr...more >>

Help! Movie Clip Hotkey Publishing
Posted by JCSUN1 at 12/28/2006 7:35:47 PM
I forgot the hotkey to publish individual movie clips from your fla file. I don't want to publish the entire movie, rather exprot individual MC's as swf files. I am have a brain lapse. Thanks in advance J ...more >>

Scrolling Text
Posted by Mlpol79 at 12/28/2006 6:55:16 PM
Hello, Iam using flash 8, I need to know how do you change color or make it bold or italic inside scrolling text (Dynamic Text) when I try to make first word bold the whole paragraph gets bold and if I change the color of one word to red everything else gets red, do I need some kind of acti...more >>



Flash Tips
Posted by Mr. Rish at 12/28/2006 6:41:59 PM
Hey guys, I have been working with flash for almost 5 years now. I am a self-taught individual and I can't help to feel like I am doing a lousy job structuring all my .fla files. Do you guys have any tips to keep everything nice and clean, especially when I want to make additions to the .fla i...more >>

Help, I'm new at this!
Posted by corinnekramer at 12/28/2006 6:05:42 PM
Greetings! I draw free hand on paper. I just learned how to use a touch pen and pad on my computer. Now I want to add motion to my drawings, blinking, walking, jumping etc. "Fun stuff." I've never done this before and I'm clueless as to which software to start out with for a beginner like...more >>

swf title on browser window
Posted by stephdog at 12/28/2006 4:51:08 PM
I load up my swf file but it has the file name at the top of the browser window. Can I change this to what I want it to say? Is this a flash or dreamweaver topic?...more >>

Input Text and Masked Layers
Posted by andrePT at 12/28/2006 4:31:01 PM
Hello ppl, I have a problem! I made a form with several text input boxes so visitors can submit some information but that form is behind a masked layer beacause i have a scrollbar to push the form up and down inside a restricted space (restricted by the mask). The problem is that when i ...more >>

Line tool still Snapping to Objects
Posted by DXcalibur at 12/28/2006 4:22:22 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/DXcalibur/linetoolissues.jpg It's been like this for a couple of days, I thought I could just restart the program and it would work, but apparently not. It still has that circle indicating it is snapping, but it does that to everything even when there i...more >>

Customizing (Skinning) Components
Posted by Sw Jiten at 12/28/2006 4:19:04 PM
Please, I ahve been trying to find some info on skinning the Scroll Bar component for example... I can not find anything to the moment. Can anybody give me a good suggestion ? This is not only for Scroll bar.. if you also have the know-how for other components..please let me know... Thanx in a...more >>

Flash-Application to run on CD-Rom only
Posted by peter_76 at 12/28/2006 4:13:38 PM
Hi I'm looking for a solutions to a seeminlgy simple problem: I have an standalone Flash application on CD-Rom, and I want the application to run only if the app runs directly off the CD - or at least if the CD is inserted in the CD-drive. Thus if the app gets copied from the CD onto th...more >>

flash
Posted by treeguy1 at 12/28/2006 1:10:18 PM
:confused; My screen saver does not work anymore, and a message comes on in its place about file flash.ocx missing. I did not think this was a big deal. However, trying to access a few of my favorite web sites, I get messages that I need to download adobe. I have tried this, (apparently...more >>

Dynamically Load Image
Posted by OneTen at 12/28/2006 11:18:39 AM
I would like to dynamically import a JPEG from a remote url, apparently I should use either of the following actionscript methods: loadMovieNum("http://www.website.com/image.jpg", 0); loadMovie("http://www.website.com/image.jpg", target); However, the JPEG is from a webcam feed and is...more >>

Importing Arabic text from an XML file
Posted by Devant at 12/28/2006 9:12:42 AM
Importing text from an XML file to appear as text in Flash works in English, however if the text I want to import is in Arabic, when I test the movie there is no text at all. Is there some particular syntax to preface the Arabic text? I'll want to import text from XML in other language...more >>

HELP! CAN I? movie 2 _quality="low" movie 3 _quality="high"
Posted by Jason Wettstein at 12/28/2006 8:19:30 AM
CAN I? I have movie 2 set at the action is in the first frame _quality="low" I have movie 3 set at the action is in the first frame _quality="high" each movie is loaded into my loading movie separate. can i not control the quality separately ? it doesn't appea...more >>

Breaking Apart Twice
Posted by Coxdabd at 12/28/2006 7:57:57 AM
Hello there, Could anyone explain to me the reason why something needs to broken apart twice? Regards, Kristopher (UK)....more >>

Slideshow from scratch
Posted by P-C-Surgeonz at 12/28/2006 3:28:53 AM
I am somewhat familiar with Dreamweaver/Fireworks but have not used flash much. I do want to start using it more though, since there's such alot that can be accomplished with what I've seen. What I would like to do is create a slideshow from scratch with 10 jpeg's that I have (each is 220 x 26...more >>

Creating instances
Posted by cepi;;in at 12/28/2006 2:16:33 AM
I'm new at using flash (obviously) and need help drawing a new instance, I've benn trying to do such with the brush but I've had no success. Help would be very much appreciated....more >>

Why the heck doesn?t Flash 8 include an FTP client?
Posted by meart at 12/28/2006 2:03:29 AM
It?s incredible to me that Flash 8 doesn?t include a way to enter FTP information such as site address, user name and password when the time comes to upload a Flash site. I spend days designing a Flash site and then when it came to upload it to my Internet Service Provider?s FTP address I lear...more >>

white space around movie
Posted by kevin raleigh at 12/28/2006 1:29:30 AM
I have a movie that I enlarged from the standard 550 x 400 stage to 996x609 In the properties of the movie file in Dreamweaver. However, when I view it in IE I have a 200+ pixel border down the right and the left side of the movie. Viewed here: http://www.testbeddesigns.com/runinthesun.htm...more >>

This MUST be some kind of cruel joke...
Posted by GypsyStorm at 12/28/2006 1:23:17 AM
Long story short: I'm trying to add on to an existing flash presentation. The presentation has 4 pictures in it. Each picture respectively drops in then fades out of the presentation. I would like to add 2 additional pictures to the presenation that does the exact same thing, but e...more >>

Go to frame
Posted by ruipalhinhas at 12/28/2006 12:36:46 AM
Hi! I need to make the movie go to a frame at a specified time and date, so it plays the rest of the movie when that specified time arrives. I haven't got much experience in flash and action script so I would appreciate if someone could explain how to do it! Thanks. ...more >>


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