Is there a way to create a text field in flash and tell it to be 200px wide? I have created a text field that I think is roughly 200px wide and then changed the width and height in the properties bar to suit. The problem with doing this is it skews the text and only applies a transformation to...more >>

I have a movie that loads 4 different flv files from the server. The movie works fine from a cd and from my local machine. But, when I upload the movie and its html to the web server then the flv files don't play. I have other flv files playing withing flash movies on the same website and ...more >>

hiya all ..... i am building my own photo site and have a problem ..... i several thumbnails that when clicked on fade out and the image appears full size in the centre of the screen .... i am loading the pics from an external file which works fine ...... what i want tho is for the full size i...more >>

Hi, I've never encountered anything like this. This site I designed is for some reason NOT completely viewable on some computers. Its completely viewable on my computer, but we've been getting emails from people that can't view some of the text others can't view some of the graphics, I'm a...more >>

Yes, that would be great, I cannot view some popular media ( like stuff at starwars.com ). How do we poke MM to make it so?...more >>

I talked my boss into getting studio 8 for me to create marketing videos, using Flash. I've created some nice software demo videos using captivate. I've been through the basic Flash tutorials and have created some rudimentary flash projects. Now I want to create my marketing video using ...more >>

I am creating a slide flash document. I place buttons on the parent screen to naviagte the child screens. i want to use the go to screen, and not simply next slide previous slide. The buttons I am creating to navigate are simply text converted to a button. It seems very random, but often t...more >>

As an animator I've always stuck to the old fashioned drawing on paper and stop-motion technique. Recently I bought Flash 8 and a Wacom Intuos 3 Tablet to play around with. It seems to me that for some reason either Flash or the tablet is set to smoothen out my lines. I'm using the pencil t...more >>

how do I set the target of a link so that new flash movies load in a mainframe or index, rather then opening a new browser or just loading over the current page?? I can't figure it out. i swear i've looked everywhere thanx ...more >>

Hello I have a cowker that is tech support - she has a customer that got a little warning type box - with little green blue and red warning symbols to allow content or flash or soemthing... I have seen it before and can't find it - it may not be macromedia related - I dont know.. maybe this ...more >>

Hi I created a flash bingo cart and it marks the numbers as you click on them. I was wondering what should I do to make the numbers stay marked after I close the EXE file and open it again thanks Marcus ...more >>

I am using FL MX 2004 I created a Movieclip and name "thumb" instance name thumb also. I used a scrollpane component and call the thumb. It works fine. Inside the movue clip thumb --- are buttons a small images of the bigger once --- what I intent to do is --- when I click on the scrollpane ...more >>

I made a movie in Flash with document dimensions of 142 x 50. When put the movie in html, it like shrinks it down to a size that's not even readable. If i had to guess it looks like 4 x 25. Why is it doing this. <embed src="/includes/quicksearch.swf" width="142" height="128"> Thanks....more >>

so I have created a flash menu navigator. I have put it on my index.html, which shouldn't change regardless of which link is clicked. 2 of the links do bring up a page in a new or _blank window though. Anyway, how do I set the target so that the links ONLY change the pages within the main...more >>

I'm new to Flash. I'm going through Jen deHaan's 3 part beginner tutorial and am currently on Page 7 of part two located at: www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/intro_flash_pt2_print.html. The tutorials are excellent. However, I am beginning the section called "Creating a Tweened...more >>

i'm getting fed up of seeing so many games on the net which i know are made from flash, and i want to learn how to make them!:frown;...more >>

I have the previous version of Flash: Flash MX Professional 2004. Can anyone refer me to a very good 'How To' book (Tutorial/User's Guide) for the Flash Pro 2004 version? Ideally this book will have plenty of examples and hands-on practice sessions...starting at the 'beginner' level and leadin...more >>

i'm thinking it might be because of the sound compressor i'm using, but i don't know which one to choose. Any ideas?:o...more >>

I have installed both Flash 8 Professional and Flash 8 just the player and still I have no audio when I view a flash movie on the internet. I have created these flash movies my self in previouse versions. Any ideas? this is very important I really need this. Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have the lastest version of Macromedia Flash 8 Professional and I am trying to export my my animation in a Quicktime movie. However it doesn't actually work. I go to File>Publish Settings & then I select SWF. & Quicktime however it says that 'This movie uses features that are not support...more >>

Hi. I am trying to figure out how to make a seekbar that allows the viewer to click anywhere in the seekbar and have the playhead jump to that spot. An example of this is at YouTube.com. Instead of dragging the playhead, you can just click wherever in the seekbar and it jumps to the correspond...more >>

Hi, Getting started with Flash tutorial - building the slide show for the cafe I have how spent two very frustrating days trying to follow this tutorial and each time I get stuck at the same point. I do the edit the main Timeline section. The add the slideShow movieClip to the stage ...more >>

Anyone else have problems getting flash to export audio without having their audio screwed up? About 80% of the time I try to export a movie the audio sounds scratchy - like nails on a chalkboard. This happens even when exporting audio at 128mbps. There doesn't really seem to be any sort of pa...more >>

I am making a site that has a flash menu that calls out to html pages. the whoel thing refreshes each time. kinda like your blinking. is there a way to code it not too do that? cause the top menu and side are always the same. only thing changing is the html to the righ tof it. ...more >>

I've created a preload swf to load a target 110KB swf which uses the window and radio button components. Using MovieClipLoader in the preload swf. The target swf calls the content of the window component from the library...but when the target is opened by the preloader, the window component ...more >>

Hi, how to make a flash background transparent? I used the param name="wmode" value="opaque"... but nothing works. thanks Mic...more >>

I just got a macbook which I understand shipped with an intel (not universal -- intel only) version of the flash 8 plugin. Of course as soon as I installed flash it was overwritten. I CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE!! Not online, not on the DVDs that came with the powerbook. Will someone please post...more >>

Hi all, I'm after a product I can use to script the conversion of video (avi, mov, wmv) and audio (mp3, wav) to a flash format. I don't want this GUI-based at all, but rather have my own application that runs and does the conversion. Does anyone know of a product that converts both video an...more >>

I would like flash to automatically move on to the next frame in my movie after the user clicks the mouse a certain number of times however I have no idea how to do this. Does anyone know how I can go about doing this??? ...more >>

Does anyone have any ideas why I cant export to an .flv file any longer from quicktime? I'm trying it on 2 different quicktime pros (7.01, 7.04). my mac OS (on both machines) is 10.4.4. I've tried a number of different combinations of export quality and I'm exporting locally to my machine. wha...more >>

Hello: I have a proble with the a music player that you can see here: http://www.grupodream.com/nuevaweb/inicio.html The thing is that I have a preloader in the first frame of the movie, also I have an mp3 in the library for the music player...When I attached the song, I did "linkage...more >>

Hi folks, I'm a Graphic Designer by trade but I have been asked to create a CD ROM consisting of 6-7 pages that can be navigated between. I have minor knowledge of Flash and know how to create flash buttons etc that can link to other 'pages' etc but I don't know how to take it ...more >>

Ok, i have Macromedia Flash MX 2004 installed.. the problem is that on both Firefox and IE, some of the flash movie doesn't show up anything. I have two computers and they're both not working. I checked on my friends computer and it shows up fine on theirs but not on mines. Its funny because...more >>

OK, Just had a developer build my site using 100% flash... the url is www.premiercoastalliving.com The problem is that when you run this in FireFox the site works fine UNTIL you scroll the up on any page... As soon as this happens the location of the active navitation links "invisibly"...more >>

....and it's VERY annoying! If I just want to check out some trace variables, or the debugger, I have to keep moving the damn window! I've tried the prefs, but unless I'm blind, no luck. ARGH! Please help Thanks, Dave ...more >>

I have a swf on my hard drive that loads a swf from the web. The loaded movie can't call the loader movie's _global functions and I can't figure out why??? I don't see any documentation on cross-scripting with _global functions. This code works fine when the swf is loaded from my hard drive...more >>

Hi...I'm using this script for a progress bar. As you can see I am starting the movie after loading 50%. What do I need to change so that the progress bar shows 100% when the movie is 50% loaded? With the progress bar loading in sync with the movie people think it will take twice as long as it...more >>

TEST POTENTIAL FIX for 1904 Flash Player install issue. A number of users have had this problem. Some have posted threads, others have opened support incidents. We have a potential fix but I need to have it confirmed by end users before I feel comfortable publishing a technote. If you h...more >>

I just finished my first E-mail form in flash and using php to catch the data and send the mail, but when I test the flash form it just won't work! Nothing happen! can someone know flash and php well take a look at my script to see if anything went wrong? I'm using Flash MX and my server sup...more >>

I have several questions about this flash template that someone made me, and I am trying to customize to fit my needs. You can see it HERE: www.zaclohrenz.com/site.zip to know what I am talking about. First of all, it seems it relies upon that text file to pull its info to display on t...more >>

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i know html but no css not even javascript , my question is , is possible to learn flash but just knowning html ? i really like flash cause is fun and you can create alot of fancy graphics and cool website so for me that i just know html you think i can skipp css and javascript and jump in fla...more >>

Hey! I was wondering if it was possible to have two movieclips of say 30% alpha overlap each other but they don't add alpha values onto each other, this is to create a sort of shadowing system. I was wondering if this was possible? The only way I can think of achieving this is too convert th...more >>

HI- I am starting from a huge 500 MB .mov file that is sized to the correct width and height. I am running it through the Flash 8 encoder with the highest quality settings set. I am streaming it from a server. The client is not happy with the image quality. There are hardly any settings ...more >>

This is a bit confusing. The live-docs about Reserved Words state that we should not use the names of properties, methods, classes, interfaces... as variable names, classes or instances: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.ht m?context=LiveDocs_Pa...more >>

I have Flash 8 0 22 installed and the download/install confirms it is installed properly. When I go to other sites such as disney.com it states I don't have the latest version. Can anyone help?...more >>

Can anyone recommend some affordable Flash Video Streaming services that would successfully stream 2-3 minute video shorts I've been using Load SWF for this 2-3 minute shorts and I know this is asking for trouble please advise, thanks ...more >>

user enters the angle in an input box and we want to rotate a text field according to dat text if user enters (-10) then i have to rotate a text field in -10 degrees but if we rotate dynamic or input text then its text disappears. How come it wud be possible to do dat please let me know...more >>

I'm wanting to produce an interactive 3d element to my next Flash website. I've tried searching for something similar to what i want but it is too specific + i'm not really sure where to look anyway. What i want is about 4 sphere's that appear to float above an image of a hand (that bit is ...more >>

:confused; Alright, so I've "installed" Flash Player.. and, well.. there are no changes on my computer. Now, I'm not completely sure if there is supposed to be some sort of shortcut to actually "start" Flash, but a friend asked me to view some animations he did, using Flash, and I can'...more >>

Hi. I work in a Unix shop. My boss wants me to make an online manual of all our procedures. I'm making the manual with Flash, but thought it would be awesome if (from within the Flash manual) I could send commands to Unix so that scripts would run on our Unix machines. Can Flash and Unix talk?...more >>

Hello everyone, Is there any solution for playing Flash on WinCE embedded OS? Beside standard Flash ,I found that Macromedia deployed another two versions : Flash Lite and Flash player for PocketPC. However, none of them can run on WinCE directly. So, any solution, plz let me know. t...more >>