This may be very basic, but I'm fairly new to Flash so bear with me: I am trying to make dynamic text gradually appear by alpha tweening the movie clip which contains the dynamic text. And while it seems to look fine and work in the FLA, when I go and publish the .swf it doesn't work-- the tex...more >>

Hello, I have been messing around with Flash Pro 8 just a little bit. After all of the initial fun I have tried to follow along with the tutorials but somehow I can't get the Property Inspector to show up. There are steps within the tutorials that I can't follow along with because I can'...more >>

Newb to flash. Watching various tutorials trying to come up to speed. What I would like to create is a small flash ap that displays text in a randowm order from an external text file. I wantot create a small text box in the sidebar of a web page where customer references are displayed in r...more >>

Hell there, Can anyone help? What I want to do is not let the Flash play or load until the whole of the webpage, in which the Flash is included on 100% loads. Basically, what I'm wanting to do is not let any Flash load/play until the whole of the page is loaded. Regards, Coxdabd. ...more >>

:mad; Please can somebody help, i havent had flash for long and i now Nothing about action script. I have a problem where when i creat a shape for example a square, when i try and drag it somewhere on the stage, it dosent carry the whole square, only the fill colour!!! and if i place it on top...more >>

I cant figure this out to save me i made a flash movie with a bunch of photos, made a stop command at the end of the movie. I have a text button that moves in during the end of the flash, now im trying to get the button to play the move again when clicked, how do i do this? [img]http://i46...more >>

Okay, here is my problem: Whenever I draw or import anything it only shows the outline and nothing else. Like when I imported a picture all it showed was an empty box with an outline the same color as the current layer. Also, when I draw with any of the tools, only the outline shows in the lay...more >>

I'm trying to create an app that allows the user to upload text and warp it with a pennant, blimp or double bridge effect. Each of these, unlike arching, create perspective on the letters to acheive the proper effect. I'm very good with flash but I'm stuck on this one. This guy at this link ca...more >>

Just downloaded a new template for my website and I'm trying to edit it along with my website. The problem is that I can make the changes in Flash, but they do not show up when I preview the flash through Dreamweaver.(if that makes sense). It could also be that I'm not correctly editing the f...more >>

Hello, I have a background sound bite that I would only like it to play the first time the page loads, not each time. How do I set that feature. Also, is it possible to also have the flash animate the first load also? After that, each page the consumer loads will from that point be a soli...more >>

:mad; i need help i think the flashj player is messing up or something on programs that use the flash player like on you tube i cant hear no volume my volume is not on mute and i have my volume all the way up please help ...more >>

Hi, How can I get my flash movie to handle the drop event when dropping objects from outside the flash window. Thanks for your help.....more >>

I still cannot save changes I make to a library image back to the library. I open library, drag the image to the stage, make a change ... and then it just sits there. Nothing in the library changes, nothing I do can make the original image in the library take the changes. I've tried saving...more >>

downloaded: download.macromedia.com\pub\flashplayer\updaters\8\flash_player_update2_flash8_w in.zip unzipped and tried to run: Players\Release\Install Flash Player 8 ActiveX.msi error message: windows cannot open this program because it has been prevented by a software restriction polic...more >>

Appreciate any help in figuring out how to animate something using Flash MX. I am recreating the illustration shown in the following link: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm. (Scroll down to the first animation of the cylinder and piston.) I've been able to handle everything except...more >>

Hi, stick with me since im a total noob at flash, so yeah. All i do is animation... nothing else. I dont even know any actionscript. Someday ill just sit down and try to learn it, but for now, i dont know it. Ok, im sure there is a way of changing the fps within different scenes right? S...more >>

If as part of my actionscript for a button i have: on(press){ gotoAndPlay("1",50); } But if I try to say ("2", 50), it does not work. I've read some solutions to this on the net, but they all assume i know other stuff (which i dont:P). Something to do with "labeling" a scene as "sce...more >>

just use flash 8 to export uncompressed avi file(24bit color). but after import such avi files into premiere pro 2 or final cut pro 5, btw the hardwares are top ones, both systems respond very slowly, it seems the systems are not powerful enough to handle those files. on pc system, after Prem...more >>

I would like to change the design of the flash player skin on the player for my website. How can I do this?...more >>