Well, i dont know how or even if its possible. It's the 3rd or 4th time i asked for help but didnt get a response. I have created a animated photo in flash in a mask layer, i know how to create button and how to add them to normal documents but for some reason , not even reading the f1 help i ...more >>

I can't find my drawing tools! I'm using a mac. Please help!...more >>

Hi, i want to create a video to demonstrate the software of my company. The video has to have in its background some naratives. I do have a sample avi file. My next step is figuring out how to add sound into flash and merge them together. I have the whole new studio from macromedia. I woul...more >>

my cumputer is old and it have windows 98. what flash can i install in it to see flash in sites? i tried to install it but it didn't do anything......more >>

Ok, here's the problem... I have an intro 447 keyframes long on my main timeline (videos, all kinds of menu stuff going on). This main timeline has buttons to go to certain frames of that timeline, which have movie clips and a stop action on one frame. Once one of these clips is playing, t...more >>

My company is wanting me to expand my skill set, eventhough I know PHP, ASP, ASP.net, C++, Javascript, Actionscript2.0 /1.0, Flash, etc. My next direction would to start learning Director, but of recent I have seen a flow from director to flash. Is there a reason behind the shift? I know the p...more >>

I thought I had this short intro finished but for some reason all my .gif images become so pixelated (rough edges) ... no matter how I try to edit them I can't seem to get these fixed. Can anyone take a look please? The problem is with the crow.... the .gif images show him nice and smo...more >>

Hi, I have tried to remove the white areas of part of a picture and made them transparent using a drawing program, but when I import the picture into Flash it is all white where it is supposed to be transparent. Is there something I can do to stop this. Any help would be much appricia...more >>

I've recently purchased Flash Pro 8 and published a small flash file. I have flash player 8, but my collegue does not, and all he was able to see on the site was the background with no text. He's using flash player 7. I recall previous versions upgrading the client automatically with no dev...more >>

I have a test site up for a client: http://www.lyons-seafoods.com/lyons2/ The nature of the design demanded that the logo and globe were centred on the page, which you see has a graduated background plus a water texture - so the only way I could figure to do this was to make the entire globe...more >>

Hi. I'm creating a movie with several images. I'm publishing it with a jpg quality of 80%. The thing is that there's a very specific image in which I want to keep the biggest quality available. The rest of the images can have a bigger compression, that's not a problem. This particular im...more >>

NB. I've just posted this same message in Flash Actionscipt discussion as well - I hope that's OK? I'm building a Flash site that uses loader components. The timeline is divided into 5 sections each with its own loader component with its own Instance name. I've had no problem creating butt...more >>

Hi, I'm loading XML data into Flash via the XMLConnector data component. I can display the XML content in a data grid just fine, but all I want to do is display it as text in the flash file. Basically what I have is a site for my band. I want to list our show dates with Date,Location,Start...more >>

Am making a animated banner in Flash MX2004, it's my first little project in Flash. I know Director (it's so simple there), I don't know Flash. I've got it all working and timed, but I CANNOT find the answer anywhere in a language I understand, *how to link to the (whole) banner to an URL*. I ...more >>

Good day, I am somewhat new to this so excuse me if this one is a "no brainer". I use a Mac at work but would like to be able to edit my .fla files at home. Problem is that at work I use a Mac and at home Windows. Is there any way to make this work? Thank in advance. ...more >>

I have a project folder and subfolders inside. In the main folder, I'd like to have a Main Menu .swf file with buttons that link to .swf movies inside the subfolders. You would think that the following lines of code would do the trick: on(press) { gotoandplay("/subpages/level2.swf"); }...more >>

Now I know this is possible, because I've seen it on newgrounds. Im trying to make a option were users can rate surtain things on a website. Lets say theres a group of products they are looking at. They will all have a star rating of 1 -5 rated by past customers. I need to make something like ...more >>

Is it possible to make a search field in flash? In which the user would type in whatever they are searching for just like a search engine, press go, and it would then show up with whatever it found? I would think it would be possible but it is more that likely probably really advanced. Does an...more >>

I am doing my first action script and am having trouble figuring out how to have the flash movie go to the HTML page after it ends. I tried using getURL(http://www.whatever.com");...more >>

I have a simple flash file that contains 4 lines of scrolling text. Each line is also a button link to a URL. I used the getURL command for this. Each button (line of text) also contains an arrow icon. In Internet Explorer, the arrow icon shows up and scrolls correctly and if you click on ...more >>

here goes... i've got a dynamic menu, which loads variables from a txt file. a 'subMenuItem' movieclip is duplicated to create the menu. the actions for the button are located in the first frame of the subMenuItem (i've marked the part of the script that i think needs the work). as each bu...more >>

I have a flash swf with dynamic content, basically an ecard, I want the user to be able to create a ecard that is then converted into an AVI or mpeg, which is downloadable... Am I asking too much?...more >>

hi, I have a variable in macromedia flash8 with value of 2.(test=2). i want to write this value to a .XML file. what can I do? thanks for your helps. ...more >>

I have purchased a 1 frame movie which is animated with actionscript. How can I export it as a 30 second avi?...more >>

I have a flash website that uses a lot of external SWF's. I need to have an HTML link, link to a certain section in the flash website using anchors. Can someone please help me out on this or direct me to a good online tutorial ? ...more >>

I am creating a CD in which I have placed different folder which have several images. I can open these folder through on (release) { getURL ("foldername"); } But I want to open these folder in thumbnail view if possible help me Thanks in advance ...more >>

I've made my first Flash movie and I now need to crop the top bit off the remaining un-used stage that's left but I can't do it without it cutting the bottom off the movie! So I need to move the whole movie up which wouldn't be a problem if I could just select the whole of my 5 Layers a...more >>