Hi, I have an animation with an mp3 in one of the layers, the problem is that for some reason when I go through the different frames the audio does not play and Its hard to sync the audio with the animation. How can I enable the audio to sound in 'design mode' when moving through the frames...more >>

hi folks, I have added a timeline effects->Transition to a line of text, I set the the transition to play once, the text resides on one of a series of slides. however when I view the flash the transition gets played over and over again, why? thanks!! ...more >>

I am a making a movie where I will have one scene play once then the next scene loop over and over again. So my question is, how do I make only one scene loop over and over again without having the first scene play more then once. I am using Flash MX 8 Professional. Thanks ahead of time! Sin...more >>

I'm trying to use the following code to format text fields with the instance names test0, test1, test2, etc. inside the "slider_mc" movie instance. The variable "i" is dynamically changed to 0,1,2,3,etc. through a loop. The variable "txtFmt" represents the TextFormat that the text fields shoul...more >>

Hi everyone. I've been designing my site on a mac g4 power book with flash mx and tiger. I think the resolution is 1409 x something or something like that, higher than 1024 x 768 and wider. Obviously it looks how i want it on my mac but when i view it online on a pc with windows (new version) ...more >>

I'm new to flash and have noticed many tutorials say that your flash movie should be at 24fps. However my website is at 36 and obviously runs smoother and quicker than 24. Ive got it just the way I like but is the 36 fps a problem for the web? I.e. Is it a strain on older computers on anything...more >>

Oh man, I'm panicked! I've worked hard on a flash tutorial that shows up fine on all browsers on my mac. On the PC it tests fine with Netscape and Firefox. But with IE (version 6) on the PC, none of my fonts will show up... I created this file with Flash 8 professional. I created another f...more >>

I've made a flash video that started out as an experiment as a design for a website... it turns out that i spent a lot of time on it forgetting that i had the original size way too big for a website. Is there anyway anyone knows about to shrink the ENTIRE document... Library contents included...more >>

Hello group, I've run searches in this group and others and am unable to find a cause for this: I've built a very simple Flash MX (6) test swf file, and uploaded it to an http server. Its only task is to load a small data file (.txt) from another server (same domain) through https, using...more >>

I have some thumbnail pictures where I want to enlarge when mouse over, I have successfully did this however. when it is enlarged, some of the pictures got overlaped and I want to change the current mouse over picture to the top layer. Is there any script I could use? I was wondering abo...more >>

I'm trying to get an object on my stage to follow the mouse around horizontally as the user moves the it. I'm having a hard time doing it. (it may be because of my old version of Flash). Can someone help me to do this???? ...more >>

Hi all, I would like to load external .swf file into the movie clip on the main movie. After button is pressed on loaded movie I would like picture to be shown on the main movie. How do I connect two .swf files so they can correspond to each other. This would be a typical picture page an...more >>

I often use external text from external txt - files in a dynamic textfield. For scrolling I use the UIScrollbar- Component. Everything works fine - but now I am looking for a solution to scroll the text with the mouse wheel too. I did not find a hint in the Macromedia help - perhaps I can find...more >>

What are the file sizes of the images alone? Before loading into flash?...more >>

Every time I attempt to import a video into flash 8...I keep getting an error that the format is not recognized and cannot be encoded...? I have tried many different formats...(wmv, wm, mov, avi, mpeg)...None will work....! Any Suggestions on how I can get this to work? Thanks, Tys...more >>

I want to insert an .swf file into PPT and am having no luck. I am using Flash 8 Professional and PPT 2004 for MAC. I have gone to many sites for help and they all tell me to open the Control Toolbox from the Toolbars menu in the View menu. However this toolbox doens't seem to exist in PPT 2...more >>

I have never used the progress bar component before. Where can I find a step by step tutorial on building a loading bar? -kirk...more >>

Hi, How do I pass the date chosen from a DateField component to a PHP mail script? I can pass the variables from text input boxes but the DateField component just outputs a blank in the email sent from the PHP script. I have been looking for days for this. Any help would be greatly...more >>

hello all, i have a problem with my buttons ..i am trying to have my text button changing color from blue to purple in the up + over state but when i am doing it it doesnt work...... instead its doing it but not when i am over the text..... any help ? ...more >>

How can it be possible that some places my text disappears as discribed? It is possible to take a look at it on www.euro-dating.dk, though, you will need a login. It will be when you have you favourites list, click the yellow star anywhere on the site. Back to business. It's in textfield...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to do a little demo of a DVD for a website, basically a short intro movie, then 3 buttons to choose from, each one loading a different FLV file to the same player where the intro was displayed. I know how to use embedded video & load SWFs with the video into a movie clip but...more >>

Is there a way to know the size of a .flv file ? (height/width) A ...more >>

Hi, I've had a good look around but can't find a solution to this problem. I have a .swf with some navigation buttons in it. The buttons open a page called mains.htm. mains.htm contains an iframe called menuframe. In the iframe is a page called menus.htm. menus.htm has some named anchors in i...more >>

I have some questions about the digital animation process.(2d animation/anime).Thanks in advance for the explanation!! Q1. What does the animators do to make sure that their characters do not look out of place when they draw the next keyframe. Q2. I'm trying to make an anime character t...more >>

Hi, Do Flash presentations created recently in former versions of Flash get bugged now or what?! What's going on? I have Flash MX (that's version 6). I recently created a full-length presentation & it played brilliantly on my computer. I took it to work to play in the freshly downloaded ...more >>

http://www.cornerstonemitsubishi.com/ ok when you go to inventory i have set a movie to go to a new set of links, now when i click on the links the nav goes back to the first set of links. i want the user to be able to click on all links within that set without refreshing to previous links...more >>

can someone help me make a media player for my site? i'd like to make a radio station type thing...thanks....more >>

Ok so for some reason I cannot save my flash file, whenever I try to save, an error comes up that states that I may be trying to save into a non supported folder because I might be on a limited account, but that is not the case, I have windows xp and am on the administrator setting, I have tri...more >>

Ok so for some reason I cannot save my flash file, whenever I try to save, an error comes up that states that I may be trying to save into a non supported folder because I might be on a limited account, but that is not the case, I have windows xp and am on the administrator setting, I have tr...more >>

Hi everyone. I'm trying to execute this idea in Flash: http://www.aardbei.net/flashtextbg.gif However I can't find a way to do it. Is this even possible? In addition one more question if you allow it. How easy is it to create a flash file that can accept URL queries (e.g. /abc.swf?...more >>

Hello, I used tyhe disco flakes script of Robert Penner in a website (source can be downloaded at www.robertpenner.com). The script does only work properly when the .fla is published for Flash Player 6.0 or below. If it is published for higher versions it doesn't work properly. After ...more >>

I want to improve the printout of an online form and had hoped that as Flash graphics are vector based it would print out at high resolution on a postscript laser printer but it only prints at 72dpi the same as any other web graphic format. Is there a way to make flash print at 300+ dpi? ...more >>

I have given a button the behaviour below but when i preview it and export it to dreamweaver, nothing seems to happen. on (release) { getURL("https://www.google.com","_self"); } any ideas....?...more >>