Hello, Please please someone help me. I am almost ready to go live with my site 9 months in the making and have spent 2 days trying to figure this out. When I insert my flash movies into frontpage, my dropdown menus open up behind my movie not over it. Thanks cherryice ...more >>

I had the ocx working in VB6.0 and .NET 2003, but now that I've upgraded to ..NET2005 I get this error upon compilation ActiveX control 'd27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment. Has anyone gotten this t...more >>

Is there a way to check when a swf looses user focus? Such as a flash movie in a browser once the user clicks outside the flash movie?...more >>

is there a way to make all images full quality and not smooth without going though all images manually in libary...more >>

let's say that i've got the same swf file in 2 webpages. in the first page, the flash file shows the preloader and there he goes, after 100% the film starts. but in the second page, when i enter, the same movie loads again. how can i tell flash or the webpage or whoever to load the same movie ...more >>

I have a dynamic text box on one page and have set up the properties such that the font size is 14. I have another page that this one connects to that has two dynamic text boxes, one set to 36 and the other to 14, yet the font size is enormous in the 14 one. I have subsequently deleted the two...more >>

I thought tht if you had a collection of buttons in a menu in a movie clip (isomg as a nav bar), that if you changed one of the buttons into a graphic symbol, the button behavior would be removed, that you would lose the rollover effect (intended). Well, mine keeps its effect even tho the ins...more >>

let's say that i've got the same swf file in 2 webpages. in the first page, the flash file shows the preloader and there he goes, after 100% the film starts. but in the second page, when i enter, the same movie loads again. how can i tell flash or the webpage or whoever to load the same movie ...more >>

Doing swf at 720 x 480 at 30fps for video presentations. I've tried a few conversion programs but am not happy with the quality of the output. I've tied Magic and swf to video. I need something that will give the same output quality as the in flash conversion to AVI but also recognize the MC a...more >>

on http://www.keytoon.com/ website, is the small square image and text next to it loading from an xml file ? does it make things easier to update ? i want to know how i can create something similar so when I update my portfolio, it will make things easier. thanks ...more >>

Hi. I have a website and have a javascript menu and behind that a flash file. I am using the wmode=trasnparent property for the Flash file and in Firefox and Safari in Mac OS the menu goes below the flash file. In windows it is displayed correctly. Does anybody has the same problem and ...more >>

I have been having trouble with an animation I have running perfectly in FlashMX but when put on a website it gets very slow and even slowe during some short motion tweens I was using. After reading though many posts on here I suspect it could be that the images I am animating are ..BMP format....more >>

Ok. So, I have a DataGrid called dgOperMode and it is being populated from CF query. It displays the information correctly, but the data being displayed is just raw data (numeric values that correspond to certain statuses). I wanted to loop through the DataGrid, take the value at each entry, a...more >>

Can anyone tell me how this effect is achieved? This site has a flash portion inserted which adjusts to exactly fit the size of the browser, no matter what the browser resolution size. I would like to do this. http://www.mckinsey.com/ Thanks, Laura ...more >>

I've search google and the macromedia site and haven't been able to find an answer. Does anyone know how to make a flash banner loop only 3 times (as required by the adverstising standards)? Is there a setting somewhere? I thought maybe you make the banner into a movie clip and then assign an ...more >>

Hi I am dynamically loading a bunch of MP3s. After looking through the various components Macromedia provides it looks like just using the old Sound Object might be the best way to go as the Media component makes big file size and netstream only works for flashcomm. I am having a problem ...more >>

Does anyone know the latest Flash MX that works with windows 95? To cut a long story short - I'm using an old computer to teach a few of my friends the basics of Flash & Dreamweaver...yeah yeah I know its an ancient operating system but its safe and stable plus its not gonna be an actual onlin...more >>

ok...can anyone save me? what action do i use to check if a certain frame has been played already, and if it has to gotoAndPlay another frame or label? has anyone ever done anything like this? ...more >>

Does anyone know a simple script to stop an inner Child movie clip from scaling with the parent movieclip? Thanks...more >>

Hi. I've read a lot about the use of special characters under Flash, but none of the previous posts could help me. I hope there may be an answer to this one. I've built a website for a friend of mine. It's about a children's book wich translated is something as "The Portal of Dreams". It'...more >>

I haven't really used flash much lately in the past year, been doing more cms/billing programming. But I'm working on an xml project and wanted to look at the xml object's api. So I loaded up my flash 8 on my work station and started looking through the help panels and actionscript panel and...more >>

Here is my problem: I made a box 385 x 337 pixels in my flash movie so I can put my images in there. Then i edited my images in PS to be the same size 385 x 337 pixels as the box (frame) in Flash 8 and imported them to my Flash movie and Images fit the box in Flash but the images are distorte...more >>

Can someone please look at my .fla and tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I create a .fla with two tweens. First is text that is converted to symbol then the alpha is changed for a fade from 0% to 100% and tweened. Second is just a circle object that is set to tween and alpha fade out from ...more >>

I get file install_flash_player_active_x.msi from http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_19166(link at the bottom of page; Flash Player for Internet Explorer. But I can't start it! If I open it's property on tab "digital signature" I can see that certificate was canceled by certificate's provider(b...more >>

Need some help with scenes in Flash 5. I've created a 39 scene movie with streaming audio. For some reason when I play the movie it stops in the middle of scene 10 but the audio continues. I tested the scene and it works fine. I used gotoAndPlay ("SLIDE 11", "10"); with frame label to trans...more >>

Hi all, I'm a bit of a new be to flash so please bare with me. I am trying to create a nice navigation button that fades in when the mouse rolls over it... You the kind..almost like the ones being used on this site! (grey top bar) I've gone through a couple of button tutorials, and I have mana...more >>

I have a movie that call another Movies using the MovieClipLoader object. This secons movies has Sound objects that qork perfectly when using alone, but when I run the complete project and the second movie is launched from the first one, then the sound doesn't work. I use the next code : ...more >>

My problem is a litle different, but the solution to this example would work for my problem. Let say I have a movie, say 100 frames long. I have a button on the 20h frame. Next to this button, there is a picture. And what I want to do is cover a part of that picture with red color everytim...more >>

Hi there, This may be an easy one, but here it is: I managed to get an image or symbol to become my fill color. Any ideas how I did it? Is it a shortcut? Regards, Toe Cutter ...more >>

I am very new to flash so these are probably silly questions to most of you. I would really appreciate any help I can get. I have made an animated banner ad using Flash MX. It is very simple - with some basic shapes moving across the screen and a couple of words of text. I am trying to publ...more >>

I'm putting together a presentation that will be put onto cd. I've broken it down to smaller files so its easier to manage and is better system resource wise. These are just loaded on the fly with loadMovie(). Question is, is it worth using a preloader when making movies for cd, and are the...more >>

I need a quick tutorialon creating a flash form that passes data to cf page. I have tried creating one myself but have gotten no where & need to have an example one. Thanks, Braulio.:o:disgust;...more >>

In my navigation menu, the up states of buttons are static graphics and the over states are short animations. Is it possible to have a button's over state finish playing even if the cursor is no longer over the button? ...more >>

At this page At this page http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ I read: "Test Macromedia Shockwave & Flash Players When you see the animation playing below the labeled box, then your installation was successful." The lower one of the two, Macromedia Flash Player, is animated c...more >>

WHen u have a 100% flash site then what are the best ways to optimise for search engines?? Sure I can use the index page where the flash movie is embedded but what are the best practices when designing a site in flash? Thanks...more >>

Ok heres the site http://y0urself.net/web_host.html As you can see i have a flash header and the rest is html. Now the buttons have the right code Im sure = on(release){ getURL("about.html", "iframe"); } now I know I need to name my iframe ,iframe which of course ill change when ...more >>