I'm doing a web page, but I don't know how to stop the animation while it's running thx to help me Juh...more >>

I am creating an online portfolio for a published artrist using a scrolling menu in FLASH 8 Professional. Is it possible to "lock out" the end user from using "ALT + Print Screen" to capture the images onto the users clipboard. ...more >>

HI, I'm trying to make a flash movie in which a character walks. I remember in adobe after effects there was something called parenting you could do, you'd make each leg on a different layer, set a pivot point, and have the layers parented to the layer where the torso was. that way th...more >>

I'm working on the animation of a movie projector. I would like there to be a beam of light from the front that projects and flickers onto the screen on the wall. Could anybody suggest some keywords or examples to get me started. I searched for the keyword flicker, but most people were c...more >>

my problem: http://www.unicomweb.co.uk/test/help.htm The dynamic text loads and scrolls down but when the scroll up button is active and the movie plays backwards the text is no longer loaded. Is there a way around this problem? here is my .fla if you need to see it: http://unicomweb...more >>

Even though I'm fairly new to Flash, I've managed to figure out nearly everything I needed to, except this: I've made several flash movies in which the animation is syncronized with audio files, but now, on my latest (and greatest) project, when I test my movie in every published form I'm ...more >>

_root.onMouseDown= function () { mx=_xmouse; my=_ymouse; if (balloon.hitTest(mx, my)) { balloon.play(); } } thats the code for the program. it plays a video of a balloon popping when the user clicks the image. i have the source file and i have the published version. there isn...more >>

Hello-- Here's my problem: I have four movie clips that I want to park on the stage in my main timeline. I have four buttons that I will use to tell them to play, hopefully in this fashion: on (release) { with (MCinstancename) { gotoAndPlay ("frame"); } } The "with" scr...more >>

I have created a flash animation on my laptop in work. As the site I am working on is on my home computer, I saved the file with all the fla's and swf's on my USB pen. The problem is when I copy the flash folder from my USB into my site folder, and try to open up the fla, flash does no...more >>

hey guys is it possible to make a flash game that could be played on a mobile phone? And would i use flash mx 2004 or something else Thanks!...more >>

hey guys is it possible to make a flash game that could be played on a mobile phone? And would i use flash mx 2004 or something else Thanks!...more >>

This is somewhat a dumb question, but I have tried everything. I am using Flash 0.6 and I am trying to get my animation to loop only once. Told you it was a stupid question. I have changed "loop" to "loop once" but its still looping. ...more >>

Let's say I want to upgrade to Flash 8. If I live in America, I pay $299. If I live in the UK I pay $463. Why? Is there a difference in delivery method? No. They are both zero cost options for Adobe. Is there a difference in language? No. Why do they do this? Because they have a tire...more >>

hey I am new to Flash, and whilst I am steaming ahead and loving it all, I still cannot get my head around how to determine how layers take precedence of one another. Is there a streadfast rule? ie buttons sit above sound which sits on top of text am i making sense ...more >>

In Flash 8 I hate that the color of the group outline is the same color as the outline of a symbol. I want to make the group outline G Green and leave Blue for symBol. That seems sensible. But I can't find a pref for this Does anyone know how to change the outline of the Groupings? ...more >>

I am trying to export audio as an MP3 from my FLASH MX library. How can I do that? Is it possible? Help!!!...more >>

Can anyone give reliable, up to date stats on F8 adoption? The Version penetration pages at MM don't sem to have been updated with F8. I'm hoping we're up to 50% by now! Thanks Nick ...more >>

Hi, I soo deebly hope any of you can help me with this: ..Im working on a fla file.. and create a new symbol (grafic) I paste in it som grafic from another swf file.. then I save my project.. and next time I open my fla file - I get a BIIIG MESS in a bunch of my movieclips seen in the libe...more >>

Hi, I tried Chris' tutorial ( http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/design_character.html ), and this is what I came up with... http://geocities.com/swf7463/runtest.html Any suggestions to make it look better? ...more >>

Hello, I'm a newbe at flash and like to start learning the skill of it. This is my first time on the forum and like to no what i need to get started using flash. I know this is maybe a little too much to ask maybe but I'd really like some discution about this. Thanks for reading. ...more >>

This code is supposed to display an early sales total to the screen as standard American currency. The programming seems very simple and I can find no error in the code. I attempt to accomplish the desired format by multiplying the total by 100 to eliminate the decimal places (since addition/s...more >>

Hey guys, approaching this one as an end user, not as a developer. When browsing around I often come across some site where the developer thought it would be cute to add in music and thought that his music is obviously better than mine and that he should force me to listen to it, giving me the...more >>

Basically, I want movie playback to stop at a certain point, and then have a button I make resume playback when it's pressed. Here's the script I'm using : stop() play_btn.onRelease = function() { _root.gotoAndPlay(1); } Playback stops at the right spot, but the button doesn't do...more >>

I'm trying to make something where an old fashioned projector is playing movies (.flv files) on a wall. I would like to skew the playback component on the wall to give it a liitle of a perspective. But everytime I try to drag out the corners, they snap back. Any suggestions on how to do th...more >>

see if you can find the space feel.let me know.Thanks! http://bluekylin.cnblogs.com/archive/2005/12/30/308567.html ...more >>

I browsed the disks and I do not see a flash player install. When I look at a swf file in the file browser, my computer does not know what to open it with. Is the flash player installed whne you install studio 8? Thanks Mathias ...more >>

SImply that. Can someone pop me the answer?...more >>

Hope you can help me out and thanks for your time. I was given the source files for a Flash movie created by another contractor. The client would like me to edit some of the text that flies around within the movie. I've been trying to open the .fla file with my Flash but I continually get ...more >>