I have a nice Flash opening for a web site with some laid-back music looping. On my local web, when I click the link in Flash that takes me to a normal web page, the music keeps on playing in the bg...BUT...on the web site, it stops abruptly when I click the link to take to a web page. Is the...more >>

My flash scene contains several images. When I publish flash or .jpg all the image are present and move correctly. However, I need a .gif image. The .gif image only contains one of the 7 images on the background. This one image is a transparency (possilbe reason) the other mini images are ...more >>

Hi everyone, We would like to use Flash for delivering educational video with captioning. We will need to do this for many short videos. 1. Does the newest version of Flash include the ability to create captioned video? 2. Are any plugins necessary? 3. Does anyone who has tried capt...more >>

I am trying to look up some method of how can I let the user download MP3s from a Flash movie (swf). Case: I want to have a few MP3s in a Flash movie (Flash website) that I would like the visitors to be able to download to their computers. The user experience should be the same as with a...more >>

We are working on a new site which has pop up menus and a flash presentation. The menu is appearing behind the Flash. Is there anyway to overide this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. http://wed.siu.edu/Trial/home.php ...more >>

This is whats going on: I have a main.exe projector that calls multiple .swf's into different Drop Zones within the .exe. I want to open a stand alone .exe from one of those loaded .swf's. I found this thread about using fscommand http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messagev...more >>

Hi, I just installed Flash 8 from Macromedia Studio 8 (on Windows XP), and i keep getting certain errors when i try to run it. The installation went smooth, but when i run Flash, it pops up these 3 errors: - Flash XML parsing fatal error: Invalid document structure, line: 1, file: \Scr...more >>

Hi, I am still using Flash MX and have noticed that in flash MX 2004 the normal mode in actionscript has been removed, has this returned in flash 8 or is it still missing ? thanks...more >>

Hi: Is there a tool (third party or otherwise), that will allow you to rename all of the items in your library? For instance, I'd like to append to the name of the items in my library so, mcHappy becomes mcHappy10-1. Sincerely, Loren Elks ...more >>

I'm using Flash 8 to make a navigational button. The SWF will ultimately reside in a program called Lectora that my company uses to create eLearning courseware. Lectora has a command that you can put on a button in Flash that, when clicked, it will advance to the next page of the Lectora pro...more >>

I just noticed that SWF files no longer open when d-clicked from an Explorer window. Nor do my 'Movie Tours' work from applications like PaintShop Pro. Add/Remove programs has entries for Macromedia Flash Player 8 and Macromedia Shockwave Player. And my Firefox browser plugins include the...more >>

How would I fade out music when a user clicks a button? I can stop the music, but I need a gradual "fade out" when a user clicks the button. ...more >>

Hi, I've been in pain to try to work this out, but I failed. The swf I created using Flash 8 works well in IE, Safari, Firefox and Netscape. But when I embedded it to Html file, it only works well in IE and Safari. Here is my swf file http://home.insightbb.com/~plet/frontpage.swf H...more >>

Dear readers, Does anyone have a fix for this? Type in a keyframe looks right, but then the next frame it changes even tho I'm referring to the previous key frame. The menu looks fuzzy and unaligned. Even the "back" button dims. Test is 2 frames where only the picture content changes. ...more >>

Hi, Ok basically i have made an animation currently i have 19 scenes, the sound file was ripped from an movie file, so its just one big sound file with sound effects, music, and talking etc, all in one file. I dropped that one sound file into my scene 1 and left it as event, and i manag...more >>

I ...more >>

Hi all, I got Flash 8's FileReference tools to work correctly with the jakarta commons fileupload package locally, but when I upload it to my web server, I run into security issues. I get an "onSecurityError: securitySandboxError". The docs say to remedy the error by using a cross-domain ...more >>

Hello, I have some Flash pages on a company intranet that have some buttons that point to files on local network shares. The problem that I recently ran into is that the file:// URL's are not working after upgrading the web browser Flash Player plugin to the latest version. I have used...more >>

the beginning of my Homepage is an image fading into the Homepage. I am recommended to use Flash to fade the image into the static Homepage (created in GOLIVE); however after the Flash movie fades in, i want the audience to be able to interact with the Homepage immediately, so how do i add a ...more >>

I'm posting a flash document to the web for the first time and I am faced with the dilemma of html vs swf. If I go to the html page, I have the swf embedded and centered in a table. It works fine, but if the user's window is not large enough, some of the page will not be visible (unless the us...more >>

How do i say.. if checked visible if not check then invisible will be coded into a check componet box also how would i get the graphic to start out invisible without playing with the alpha thanks! ...more >>

Has anyone begun playing with wrapping Adobe's new 3D PDF's in Flash? Specifically, I know that the 3D PDF's allow for javascript interaction...I'm wondering if there's a way to "wrap" a 3D PDF in a browser, where the PDF would be surrounded by a Flash interface, allowing the Flash to, in a ...more >>

I recently purchased a great flash template for my own use on the net. I've replaced the images of the bought template with my own and have imputed all my images to the library, but what do I do to make a page appear after I click on a certain button? ...more >>

I can't get my intro sequence to show the loading bar or the movie, I take it there is something wrong with it. Also how would i add music in to play when the movie starts thanks. I have my loading bar in the first frame completely finished with the attached code. second frame is the same...more >>

Hi I created a slide show with about 100 images.Each image is on a keyframe.Two buttons one next and one prev.Pictures are divided into sections ie frames 20-30 are all black and white pics so a button in the sections menu on release goes to keyframe 20 to show that section.Here is the problem....more >>

Hi, I created an flv and using the FLV Player component to play it. The problem is that the controls are right on top of what I recorded instead of below, how can I fix this so that the controls are not on top of the flv movie ? Aleks ...more >>

Running: Mac OS 10.3.9 The problem: Flash Player 8 will not install. I've tried installing Flash Player 8. No matter what, it always stops at 4 files remaining and then searchs the hard drive, never moving forward in the installation. I have tried removing the player through the uninst...more >>

I am very confused and need some direction: How do you make a link go to a different part of the same swf file?...more >>

Hey guys! Ive seen some multiplayer games in flash HOW DO THEY CONNECT TO A SERVER USING FLASH!???? WHERE CAN I FIND MATERIALS ABOUT THIS!??? Tnx so much!...more >>

Hi there, I've just worked through this http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/count/340, but it doesn't seem to be working. Its fine in flash when I play it, but its not showing up in a browser..hopefully its something simple I'm missing. The link is here, and includes a link to the .swf - if ...more >>

in the scrollpane scroll contents where you put which movie clip you want to scroll, how do you do two or more movies?. so 2 or more different movies in the same scroll box. or is in not possible? cheers ...more >>

I need to present a proposal and have decided to do it in Flash instead of doing a boring PowerPoint one. However, I've only ever used flash for websites and don't have a clue what kind of size I should make this presentation so it will appear clearly when projected on a big screen. Maybe I'm ...more >>

I want to crop off the left side a flash file. But when I just change the document size, always loose the right side and the bottom. How can I trim down the file anywhere I want, like crop images in photoshop? Otherwise, I have to move all the elements on different frames carefully the same...more >>

I am taking the tutorials, and they often direct you to make Symbols out of graphical elements. When SHOULD you do this and why? What are the drawbacks? If all my graphics are different, would I ever want any of them to be Symbols? Thanks ...more >>

Can someone tell me how to link from a specific point in a FLASH movie to a specific point in a HTML page, and back again ? Like you would use 'named anchors' in ordinary HTML pages. many thanks JE ...more >>

I'm making a menu for a webpage using flash. The webpage is built in frames and I wish for the flash aplet in the left hand frame to control the right hand frame. I've done this before (years and years ago when I used flash 5.) but now I cannot get it to work. It will open a new window when...more >>

Hi, me again, Is it possible to sync two flash animations played on two separate screens? Possibly play on one computer. Or should I make one big attached movie and use a duo-monitor set-up to play it? This is just for display animation and there should be no interactivity. please help. ...more >>

Morning All... I am having a problem centering my content in the middle of a loader I have created. The loader is 280 X 120 but the content which is loaded into my loader is not always that size. I am not using a Component Loader. How would I go about centering the content in my load...more >>

I'm trying to install flash player 7 (flashplayer7installer.exe) so i can test some of my sites with it. But during the installation it asks which browser to install for, and shows a list that is empty. I have no choice but to manually tell it install at C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\PLU...more >>

Hey all, I want to know if it is possible to have buttons in a dynamic text field??? I have text that can be scrolled and I want to know if I can have a button in that text???...more >>

Hi guys I wonder if anyone can help me here? I'm not that big on actionscript, so I don't really know where to start with this! Basically I need to load text from an XML file into the scrollpane component. Can anyone point me in the direction of an FLA or tutorial that will help me do this...more >>

has anyone noticed that some button symbols jump slightly on first play of a flash movie. after the first play its ok. its the same keyframe throughout so it shouldn't move?!?!?! feargal...more >>

I am doing a virtual keyboard for my project but am stuck. I have a bg music in my movie that i want to play through out when the keys are being played. Its like playing a melody to the bg music. The problem is i have a script in my keys that says on release stop all sounds ( I dont want the ...more >>

I have a problem with the new security in the Flash player 8. When i install swf into a local machine and i call them from a html page i cam open it. I include a FlashPlayerTrust configuration files with the next path: D:\proyectos\cursoBanca\; but i can?t open file. But if i put c:\ in ...more >>

Morning All... I am having a problem centering my content in the middle of a loader I have created. The loader is 280 X 120 but the content which is loaded into my loader is not always that size. I am not using a Component Loader. How would I go about centering the content in my load...more >>