Hi Ive got 3 images which I want to fade in and out with each other (like a slideshow) I dont know how to do a slideshow so I want to stick to doing it using basics. ie 3 layers, motion tweens & changing the alpha properties. Well my question is.. When i insert my images/symbols onto ...more >>

Hello! I created a flash .flv with a flash control panel (ClearExternalAll.swf). Everything works great and it plays beautifully. The problem becomes when I upload it to my server ... it simply won't load anything even though all the files are there. The same thing happens if I move th...more >>

I am fairly new to flash and have made a few successful movies but have noticed recently that when I use an effect to make text or symbols appear to fly onto the screen from either side or top to bottom, when the movie is exported, it shows the symbol or text outside the viewable area. How do...more >>

I have a flash banner that's displaying at 240px wide instead of 728 for some reason. It's part of a dedicated email, I'm not the one doing the HTML, and they're using a Javascript include. That code (most of it) is below, I can see they're not specifying any height or width tags but I do...more >>

How is it that I can view a site containing a Flash interaction like this: http://www.acromediainc.com/?acp=6709 but cannot view Flash movies. I have tried everything and am really desperate for help now. One company told me that it wasn't to do with Flash but I am not convinced. Am I missing ...more >>

Hi everyone. I'm trying to get a swf file to center in the browser. I've created a swf and an html file and loaded onto my server and when I visit the site, the swf is played on the top left of the browser even when I expand the browser all the way out. I've played around with all the optio...more >>

I have flash 8 and when I do plublish, and upload my movie to the web, some of the people cannot see the movie because they have flash player 7. As soon as they download the latest version of flash it works fine. This is annoying because how can we know if they what player they have and if les...more >>

Please help -- I have a large fla file that I run through spell checker and most of the misspelled words are not detected. In Spelling Setup, I include "Check text field content", and remove all "Ignore" options. I then run spelling, and many typos in words are not detected - even junk li...more >>

I have a movie embedded in html with the scale parameter set to "exact fit" yet if I have that movie load another movie into a different layer of the flash player, the whole windows drops it's "exact fit" parameter and goes back to default. What I'm trying to do is load an mp3 player widget th...more >>

I just upgraded from Flash MX 2004 (7.2) to Flash Professional 8.0 on my work PC and am wondering if there's a bug in the export GIF function or if anyone else is experiencing this issue: I import a PNG or GIF image into Flash 8, but when I export it in GIF format, the image is awful and ...more >>

Hi, Is Flash 8 backward compatible with Flash MX 2004? For example will Flash 8 open a .fla that was created in Flash MX 2004? Also, my audience is limited to a certain version of Flash player. I believe it is version 5 or 6 they are using. What issues will this create with the content...more >>

Hi all, I am currently hitting a brick wall trying to create a front view walk cycle for a character. Needless to say there aren't that many front view walk cycles to guide me so if someone can guide me that would stop my hair from greying!!! But my main problem is how to put an object in fr...more >>

In flashplayer 7 the action _quality="BEST" was used to set the movie to very high rendering quality, which made all the jpegs, dynamically imported or not, look very smooth. As far as imported to library images are concerned, the allow smoothing option is enough. But what about the dynami...more >>

Hi. I have a program which will not run when logged in as a Limited User. This runs fine when an Administrator. The issue has been tracked down to permissions on the C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed folder When running this program with a Flash interface, the user just sees a white window. I...more >>

Hi there, Within Flash 8 Professional, I used the Help file that showed an example how to play an external FLV file using Actionscript. I followed the directions perfectly. When viewing the SWF, the audio from the FLV plays just fine, but the video is invisible. Does anyone have any sug...more >>

http://www.namalefiji.com/launch.html This site has a cool fade-in/wash effect at the very start. How is this done in Flash 8? I know how to do motion and shape tweens, I just can't figure out how its done. Thanks ...more >>

I'm wanting to know if there is a keyboard shortcut for panning around inside a Flash document, WHILE developing the document. In other words, I don't want to pan an image in the finished product, I want to be able to zoom in (ctrl+) and then pan around (without using the scroll bars). ...more >>

:confused; I uploaded my .swf files to my website but for some reason they are not showing. When I test the page out of dreamweaver & flash, it's fine. I contacted support and they said that perhaps my files are too large and that the page is taking too long to load. If my files happen to...more >>

A friend of mine lent me his comcuter to fiddle around with Flash, but it is in another language. Is there a way to change the language? Anyone know how? Thanx....more >>

Hi I have created a graphic which should fade in on a web page. But when I run the graphic it repeats its self, I wish it to only run one and stop. How do I acheive this. Many thanks Rob...more >>

I used to could score high on some of the games I play, but lately it freezes up every time I start scoring good. I've downloaded and reinstalled and upgraded and still the problem persists. Then I get an error message and it boots me offline entirely and I have to get back on, get back on the...more >>

Hello, I am the developer of a popular flash based Drag Racing game that has been under constant developemt and upgrades for a few years now (available at http://www.streetchallenge.info). The performance is good except for at the racetrack (the core of the game). I have been getting comp...more >>

could somebody please tell me how to put flash animation (made by my self) onto dreamweaver and make them actually work on the internet?????...more >>

is there an easier way of animating a paragraph of text coming in letter by letter. i mean other than having a keyframe for each letter! or a mask which moves left to right (which isnt accurate)? client wants me to do it for a load of text, but i dont fancy laboriously adding keyframes e...more >>

Hi, I'm a programmer new to Flash. Want to create a Web Application that will allow users to drag icons of plants around a garden and give them useful feedback about what plants will work well relative to each other. Specifically: - Clicking a plant icon must 'pick it up' and attach it to ...more >>

Call me an idiot. I don't care. I had the task of creating a banner ad dropped on my plate. I don't normally work with this stuff, and claim no great familiartity with Flash. However I work with vector graphics and timeline animation (in CGI) day in day out, so it was the general thoug...more >>

I made a prsentation which acceses additional presentations. Meaning, I have one .exe file which during a presentation, will activate other .exe files. Now i need this for Mac too... So I made the .exe files to be .hqx but it isn't working... I can get the main presentation up just fine but it...more >>

I can not for the life of me figure out why my center flash object is covering up another flash object that has been placed inside a div tag. For an example see here: www.pasadenaford.com/index_test.html I need to get the coupon above the center flash object which is loading the vehicles and...more >>

Hi, Is it possible for my flash video/programs to access the registry? I want my published .exe file to read certain values from the registry. I also want to write some values to the registry. Is this possible? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I'm building a site at the moment in dreamweaver with a flash banner at the top. When I upload the site the Flash banner is blocked by explorer yet I can see other Flash items on other websites. I understand I can go to Internet tools/security and tick allow active content, however...more >>

I have a flash CD where the main file calls up several SWF files (using scrollpanes) and FLV files. Here is my two questions: 1. Some of my SWF files are 20mb in size. The CD does run somewhat slow. Should I be concerned about the size of these SWF files and what can I do to give my CD bette...more >>

I have a dynamic text field (the text is scrollable so the field has to remain dynamic), but it looks different in Flash to how it does in FlashPlayer and ultimately in a web browser. The size isn't the same, the type bolder, and blurred in places. Also only one colour is showing, but the text...more >>