Hey everyone, im new to using flash and i just started yesterday. When i copy and paste and import pictures in flash it comes up with a blank box in the middle of the work area, i cant see the image until i preview. Why cant I see this image and how can I fix it? Thanks Pat ...more >>

Ok this is going to sound crazy but seriously, this is happening and I cant figure out why? I made a mini flash movie of buttons for my site that I crated in dreamweaver. The buttons are links to the url of the other sections of my site ie: photos, retouch, whatever. The buttons totall...more >>

I need to get an FLV and a Quicktime movie to play on the same page in the same spot. What I want is for people to be able to click on the button a watch either flash or a quicktime verision of the movie play. This is incase someone doesn't have a Flash player or wants to see it in QuickT...more >>

I wanted to know if there is a way to position html over flash? I have an image that will need to fade in and out to other images, but I don't want to embed the html into the flash due to SEO concerns. Anyone done this before? Here is what I've started. doesn't seem like flash likes the z-in...more >>

I work for an NYSE company. We have a hall of fame in our lobby which shows a scrolling list of our top sales associates' names across five different widescreen LCDs in five categories. For the past two years I have been displaying this data in Flash 7 projectors running on each computer and h...more >>

hi, I am done making a website on flash and I was wondering how you can put it onto the internet???...more >>

My movie launches full-screen. Instead of hitting "ESC", I'd like users to have access to a "Close Window" button. What's the script to get this to happen? Thanks....more >>

Hello everybody, I am trying to create a fill-in-the blank program so that each (of many) questions is a sentence with blanks the user fills in. (These questions are dynamically loaded in from an external text file.) In HTML this would be a breeze, just put <input> tags between text. ...more >>

man can somebody help me when i click on download flash now it brings me to the page but nothing happens and the box where the flash videos is suppose to show up well nothing happens it doesnt download it what the hell is wrong???????? theres a little square with a red cross on it sometimes it...more >>

I'm making a site using flash and I want to make a button when the user clicks it, it will download a file....more >>

What happened to all the tech guys...they used to answer your questions in a very timely manner. I've had mulitple questions that were never even addressed and I've heard this from others as well. Is this a sign of things to come from Adobe? ...more >>

I'm creating a microsite for kids, and I'm looking to have some games on the site. I would like to be able to customize the look (or the skin) of the game to match my client's brand. I don't want to pay for game development, which is why I want to take existing games (traditional, like puzzles...more >>

i want to know what do i need to connect many computers in a classroom to a server, for every student to have a test made in flash and all the answers to get to my computer (the server), where all the answers of each student appear like: student 1 answered: q1=correct q2=incorrect q3=c...more >>

Hi all, Could anyone please help me with the following? Original Scenario Root Movie = "Contents" movie with 6 category buttons which load in a new movie into root for each section clicked. Some of these new movies have various subsections which I have navigated with "next" and "back" ...more >>

I'm trying to build a product search page. Here is what I have so far. Template created in one Flash document containing a map that shows everywhere the product is able to be purchased. I have an external .swf file that contains my Nav within a movie clip. I have that .swf setup as to how I wo...more >>

Hi. I'm george from Argentina. I was developing an application. It's free. Open to fair suggestions... Thanks, George. http://www.swfextract.com....more >>

I've searched on Google for a while, but cannot find any stats on what the installed base is for the Flash player. Does anyone know? Macromedia? Thanks....more >>

Okay, I am just going to apologize from the word go, If this is a common newbie question. I bought a website template. I like the flash menu but everytime you select another menu option it replays the entire intro again. How do I get the intro to play only once so when you select the differen...more >>

In Flash can you create an animation that just uses a cylindrical map wrapped around a sphere? :moon;...more >>

Hi all, I don't know much about Flash, so excuse my ignorance on this subject. I'm just starting to investigate what the best architecture, in performance, viewing, ease of use, and deployment for a project we have. What we need to do is take simultaneous data feeds, which update at approx...more >>

:confused; Hello, I am reasonably new to flash and was looking for some help. I have put together a sequence using images, text and music, but cannot seem to stop the video looping. I have zeroed out the respective boxes in the parameters section, and added (end) + (stop) in the script but it ...more >>

We're using macromedia's standard flash check to the oeTags to the html document using javascript's document.write in case the user has the right flash version. This works fine usually but on certain flash files the swf movie is only shown partially in FireFox (IE works fine). The flash fi...more >>

Hello Everybody, I am attaching row movieclips to a ScrollPane. But there is some time gap(Delay) in successive attachments. After attaching all the movieclips the Scrollbar is not appearing in the ScrollPane. I want to show the scrollbar in a case where the height of all attached movieCl...more >>

say i've just loaded 'mypic1.jpg' into movieclip1 on the main timeline. is there a way that i can drop it into movieclip2 once it's loaded?...more >>

Hey Flash 8 Professional I'm trying to create an animated button, but there must be something wrong with what I do because when I test the button - hover mouse over the button the mouse changes from arrow to the mouse pointer used to select text.. Here is what I do: 1.) Import...more >>

I have a website that is all flash. Each section is its own flash file with loading bar. This works fine. What I would like to do though is somehow have a master navigation file that all the individual flash files feed off of. So I can update one navigation file and all the individual flash...more >>

I was wondering if there was an easy way to create drop-down menus in Flash. The only way I can think of is to create a button and make a movie clip for my drop-down menu inside the button, but a problem arises when inserting buttons into that movie clips (structure = button-movie-button). ...more >>

Using iMac5; DreamweaverMX2004; FlashMX2004: Sites are www.portraitelegance.net and www.portraitelegance.net/new: The Engagements button does not work properly when on the server. It works fine locally. If you navigate thru the buttons (the order doesn't seem to matter), the Engagements page...more >>

Anyone knows how to do this? Its driving me crazy and I can't figure out how to turn it off. Thx in advance...more >>

I've just gotten Studio 8 educational issue, and have been working with Flash professional. I don't see how I am able to make internal links to another file in the same folder. Help anyone?:confused; The only information I see says that I need the URL for the target, not a file name. ...more >>

i created a flash document at university in either flash 6/7 (i am unsure of the version) but when i try to open the document at home, it says "Unexpected File Format". I've tried opening it on trial versions that i had lying around of: Flash MX, Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8. Any Suggestions ...more >>

Can anyone help me. I have created a flash swf. I put the music in an movie clip so it continues to loop. On Scene I, I have a music off button. When I press it, the music stops but not permanently. It will start again. I have used stopAllSounds, which is temporary and I also used the ...more >>

I'm trying to match text on a web page screen shot that is Verdana 11pt and aliased (jaggy). I created a text field and turned this on (bitmap text - no aa), and when I view the SWF it's fine. But this SWF is being loaded into another SWF and at that point, the text gets blurry - like it's off...more >>

hello everyone, i just successfully downloaded the 30-day trial edition of flash 8 basic/professional. When I try to open the program it asks for a serial number. A message says I will get a serial number in an email from macromedia. I got the email but it doesn't contain any serial number o...more >>

Similarly to http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&thre adid=1114085&enterthread=y I want to have a plane skywrite a logo (http://www.kadisdesign.com/stuff/will_rogers.jpg -- mirrored from http://www.performingartsforyouth.org/images/will_rogers.jpg). I...more >>

Hi, I'd like to know one thing about the new flash 8 movie codec : if I import one movie and create an flv file using the new codec will I have problem straming the flv with a movie exported for flash player 7 ? Thanks a lot ! ...more >>

What is currently the best web video format / codec ? Any essential settings I should use to get the best export quality / size with that codec ? Thanks. ...more >>

I want to externally load JPGs into my flash movie. The images should merely autoplay (one after other) as I dont want to have 'previous' & 'next' buttons. I also want them fade-in / fade-out while appearing (by adjusting their alpha value). If possible, the images should be called from a te...more >>

I have just created a slide show from the template in Flash 8 and published in on a web site. It will only run on computers that have Flash 8 installed. Can anyone tell me how to overcome this problem. PaulineC ...more >>

I use the brush tool a lot and found there's problems with it in this new version. Namely the processing slows right down. What first happens is it begins to take ages to save anything after you've started using brush in a scene. and then actually making marks with the brush, there's like a...more >>