I'm a total newbie to flash 8. I'm working on a website that I started using a prefab template and so far I've muddled my way through pretty successfully. I've been able to create buttons that will link to a URL with a getURL script. My following problem description isn't a "security error", s...more >>

I'm using Flash8, encoded FLVs with On2 VP6 codec, using progressive download with NetConnection, NetStream, and Video objects. Everything works fine on test server using normal socket, but the videos do not play from secure server. I'm not using a media server, just file-based transport. A...more >>

simply: can you please suggest me a site/ guide / turorials to download in order to learn flash? (i already can use it) thanks cheers! ...more >>

Hi All, I recently created a hybrid of our old favorite board game, = "Battleship;" and Flash seems to be the perfect way to bring this = wonderful new game to the Internet. Let's start with some bad news - My first time using Flash was when = Studio 8 Professional showed up about two weeks...more >>

Everytime I visit a site where Flash is needed in order to view something on the page, I follow the link provided to download it. Unfortunately, I can't! I checked my settings which are OK . I think I narrowed my problem down to needing Flash MX first (would this be correct??), but I cannot fi...more >>

When a person is watching streaming content on the web in flash they lose the ability to right click on the player to get the bitrate that the video is streaming at. Also you have no menu options for he player so you can't get any properties of what the player is doing. How does someone find o...more >>

Hi, this is a pretty simple question, but I can't figure it out, so hopefully there is a way to do it. I have 6-7 layers in the root of a movie, filled with keyframes and actions. Though I should have planned better, I realized I need to put all this into a movie symbol, but I can't figure o...more >>

I know there's been a lot of discussion about the imcompatibility for Flash Player 8 and Macintosh (speed issues), but in addition both on PC and Mac, I'm having trouble with layer masks that don't work in Firefox! Is there any solution for this? Thanks in advance! ...more >>

This may be addressed somewhere, but I had no idea where to even begin searching. I have a Text Input field a user can insert a quantity into. There is also a Preview movieclip that onRollOver provides... a prievew. And onRollOut, hides the preview. When I click in the Text Input field t...more >>

:frown; I simply want to have users launch a video(s) from thumbnails on a web page! Can someone point me to a Sample / Example File or tutorial on this> NOTHING FANCY - JUST NEED TO GET ER DONE ...more >>

After purchasing Studio 8 and designing two sites in Flash 8, I've encountered what appears to be a serious problem. Since Flash 8 is not compatible with earlier Flash players, elements of a Flash 8 site cannot be viewed, ie; text or some images on the earlier viewers. The real problem lies ...more >>

Hello all, I made this image gallery from scratch and it's meant to have a few 'snapshots' from my grandpa's website which I'm building in his memory. The is one of the last things holding up this site and keeping it from going live so I would so appreciate feedback so I can finish this. ...more >>

Hey everyone. I've been hooked on Bomberman for the last month now so i decided to make one of my own. I've managed to get most of the programming done for the main structure of the game... Now comes the part i need help with... I've never done a multiplayer game before on the internet w...more >>

Well I was on another forum and some one said that if I was using flash for none profitable perposes then I could probably get it for free. I have no money at all and flash is just so darn expensive so I was wondering- can I get it for free some how if it's for a none profitable organisation o...more >>

I have a video player application which will play videos on the web and off the cd on a mac however the flash 8 Projector won't play the same flv files off of a PC. Any Ideas? I recomplied in Flash 7 and it works but not Flash 8 Projector. ...more >>

I have created a web site using Progressive FLV's. Locally they Flv play perfectly. However once loaded to the web server nothing. I have changed the content path to Identify the file on the web server once agian nothing. Is there something that I might be missing or is it a server side proble...more >>

I am making a fully flash website but i don't know how to make a hyperlink in FLASH. I've got flash professionel. It is possible because i saw a lot of websites wich are made out of flash. Does somebody know this and could he explain it to me of can he give me a site or something where i can't...more >>

Hi, A few months back I saw mention of a good tutorial on doing a page turning effect in Flash in this forum. I glanced at it, but it was over my head at that point. Now that I've got some time to study it, I can't locate my link. Any thoughts on where it was? I thought it was in FlashK...more >>

I have a Flash 8 Flash presentation that is included in a Web page with other content. If you print from the browser, there is empty white space where the movie is. Can Flash be set to print with the rest of the content without the user needing to do anything? ...more >>

How do you stop something on a guide path and make it zoom in and clickable, but if not clicked and mouse off then goto and follow guild again... I have a image in the center of a movie and I need 4 images to rotate around and behind in a V-axis, which when moused over the image stops and zoo...more >>

Hope one of you can help me out here. I have designed a number of preloaders that work in Flash 6. But when I open them and publish them as Flash 8, the preloader freezes at the start. But the rest of the file works fine when the preloader is removed. I can't belive I'm the only one to ...more >>

hey ive made a (crappy) website and ive uploaded a game i made a while ago to it, could you please tell what what you think of the game and how i could improve it www.freewebs.com/reelbigcheese thanks ...more >>

I have my navigation located in a one movieClip. I want to put actionscripting on the button to tell the button to gotoAndPlay a frame label in another movieclip. What is the actionscript needed to do this? The movieClip where the content is located is nested inside 2 other moviclips. I ha...more >>

Hi All, I've invested in Macromedia Flash as I'd like to be able to create some good slides of Images for my site. What I'd like to be able to do is show people how far the whole document has loaded, lots of sies do it, especially online gaming ones. Also how would I switch between frame...more >>

I want to make a simple self running slide show, with simple fade in and fade out images, each slide lasting around 6 or 7 seconds. Is there a tutorial available? I don't want any viewer interaction or control panel. Also with an audio track.:confused; ...more >>

Hi, I just recieved Flash 8 Pro and started fooling around with the new features. When I try to apply an effect, like blur or dropshadow Irecieve the following errors: 1. missing ) after argument list, 2. TypeError:Object.fxutil has no properties, 3. unterminated string literal After ...more >>

I am new to Flash development and interested in getting started. One thing that I noticed in the examples was shake in the animation when an object is moving across the screen. The lady bug examples have this. I have done some work in this area with DirectX programming. The problem occurs when...more >>

I'm displaying a random image in my movie by using the code below. It works great. I want to place the same image in a separate movie clip but since it's random, I don't know which one it is. Is there a way to assign the chosen image to a variable and then call that variable in the other movie...more >>

there is a box having transition point at left most upper point. lets assume its height width x and y all are of 100 size but if we start rotating it then according to x y co-ordinates X and Y change but i want X and Y sholud be same as of length and width how it could be possible . ...more >>

ok so here's what Im doing. I have a fancy template that I got. now whoever made, only made it with 4 header buttons and obviously each button when clicked brings you to a different page. Now I actually want 8 of these buttons on the main page, but I can't seem to just be able to copy and past...more >>

Crosspost from DW Forum. Most of you would know Pablo (Paul Dell) who's been hanging around these forums for quite some time - generally making a nuisance of himself ;-) He is in trouble and needs our help. He is being sued for a heap of money (which of course he can ill afford). His crime?...more >>

I have to call a new XML file from the current XML file via a link from what is playing in the TextArea. That link will load a new title into a label field, a new picture into a loader and new text into the TextArea. I am trying to use ASFunction to do this, but it doesn't work. My fun...more >>

For some reason my Flsh MX 2004 and my Flash 8 keep unexpectedly quiting. I don't have a clue why. Can anyone help?...more >>

I'm working in Flash MX on a Mac. I have an existing movie with 2 scenes. I want to go back in and add a preloader. I have a preloader built, I just can't figure out how to place it in the existing movie without screwing everything up. Do I need a separate layer? Do I need to move all my other...more >>

Hey I'm programming in Flash 8 Professional. I've created a movieclip that contains 5 navigation buttons for the website.. (The movieclip will when finished be placed inside a xhtml/html webpage and the buttons in the movieclip will be used to navigate the website - That was the plan....)...more >>

Hi all I wanna do that ! http://www.keytoon.com/ I have been looking over all the internet to find tutorials about flash and xml but I can't find any goods... If someone know how i could find one let me know cheers ...more >>

Hi, I'm still new to flash and not good in action script at all. I'm making an ..exe file which is a menu with a button and a window. I want it to play a .swf file online when the button is pressed and if there are no internet connection or some server error, it will then play another .swf fil...more >>

Is it possible to set an event to occur when playback of a sound reaches a certain point? For example, I'd like the function "nextPic" to be called after the audio has played for 7.3 seconds and 13.3 seconds. If the audio comes pre-compressed from an older project, could I alternatively ...more >>

currently i am using the trial version of flash professional 8 n having trouble to publish the flash file to .gif format. Tthe gif image wont animate and it is distorted in a way. is there anyone that can help me with this matter? pls help! thanks ...more >>

Hi, i have a movie where there is a wire across the screen. there is a bird on this wire. i want the bird to follow the movement of the mouse across the screen but be constrained to the wire. The wire is also moving. At the moment i'm trying to use a motion path, but it doesn't recognize th...more >>

Why when i copy and paste a vector drawing does the pasted version have more points. I copy a shape with 4 points, and when i paste it it has 10. this goes for copying and pasting something which i have drawn in flash and something which was drawn in illustrator. HELP! ...more >>

There seems to be a problem with viewing faded colours in flash...for example, i went to go watch an animation called Smile!, and for some odd reason the faded black was all discoloured and fuzzy. It may have to do with my graphics card but it is new and i have configured with it constantly a...more >>

Dear kindly flash helping type people. First of all I would like to make it plane that I am no good at actionscript. My skills extend as far as copying and pasting actionscript and changing the odd value to suit what I am trying to achieve. I really can't write it and become easily confuse...more >>

I saw this fridge magnet game and was wondering if anyone knows how it works http://web.okaygo.co.uk/apps/letters/flashcom/index2.htm...more >>

when I move mouse , current focus disappear. how can keep current focus state when move mouse? using 1 movie clip containers with 3 child buttons. My code is: Selection.setFocus("_root.mc.button1"); mc.tabChildren=true; mc.tabEnabled=false; //set the tabbing sequence ...more >>

I have my site and the audio file was put into it a long time ago, however now I don't have it and would like it back. Is is possible to pull that one audio file out of the movie?...more >>

Is there a way to make sure my flash file is getting the newest version of an XML file before loading it into the flash file every time the flash loads. I have a PHP script dynamically creating an XML file, but the flash and/or xml file is getting cached and it's not getting updated everytime ...more >>