hey, about a couple of weeks ago i noticed that the music player on myspace which is run by the flash player, no longer works for me. i'm using firefox but i've tried other browsers, still nothing. i get the top buttons and "LOADING XML FILE", and that's it. it never loads up. any ideas? ...more >>

need help on the following: whenever i watch flash movies i don't have sound :S i put my speakers on max, still no sound... can someone plz help me! tnx!...more >>

Hi I created a simple from in my flash movie, one field I asked ppl to enter email address. Is there any easy script to add to the text field so it will check if the preson enter a right email address not something like "efwegrwrggg!?!gj" before he submit the form? ...more >>

I uninstalled my Flash MX 2004 Educational Version and cant find the download for it at all. I realy need to get it soon for an important project. Please help...more >>

I need to be able to set a variable that refers to a function name and run the function from the variable name. (Example: testvar = ?somefuncitonname();? then just user testvar to call the function) The reason I would like to so this is if there is a data connection problem then I woul...more >>

What are we as Flash developers supposed to do with regard to the latest Security Bulletin? http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html Are we to build a detection script that forces all users that don't have version 8 to download it? How do you build a detecti...more >>

Is there away to have flash auto tab (once tabindex is set) to the next field; once a specific number of keys are pressed? Without having to count them per instance. I want to auto tab once the user types in their phone area code, then the next 3, then 4 and so on...Its helpful when filling...more >>

All, Here I am again with another problem. I have a Flash slide presentation. On the master slide, I have all of my coding. I have a few event listeners assigned as well. I used this.addEventListener("revealChild", rc) and this.addEventListener("hideChild", hc); and they both worke...more >>

I bought Flash Pro 8 as a tool for making a webtoon, are there any training manuals or tips online that can help me, in plain english. I bought a book, that was really only good for simple animations. I need to make moving characters, lip-synch, all those things you woiuld find in a decent web...more >>

Hello again. I imported several video files into my .fla then deleted them. Yes, at one time I dragged them onto the stage. I deleted every trace of the video I could, but the file size is still huge? Is there anyway I can find those sneaky files and delete them, reducing my .flv to th...more >>

Where do I begin? I am using Flash MX Educational and i'm using a Mac. All I want to do is embed some video in my Flash document (I want to put subtitles in my video, that is why i'm embedding.) First of all, when I import the video, the sound doesn't play, period. Also, when I export, the...more >>

I am editing an existing Flash presentation. What I did was duplicate the original 2004 MX file and opened it in Flash 8. I did about 4 days of updating content. I have not changed any scripts, however. The only new feature I used was the filters/drop shadow which forced me to author in Flash ...more >>

Hey, I have a group of images that I am using loadVariable to load them into my flash page. When I publish the movie and test it in my swf everything works fine. When I go to the web server however the images fail to load. The load bars complete but no pictures pop up. Any ideas? I have been f...more >>

The last time I used these board extensively was in 2002. It worked great and I fel in love with them. The dark clouds passed and I was torn away from flash, only to return four uears later. But the pace has gone up! Incredible. I simply can't keep up. Is it just me getting four years older or...more >>

Hey all, I have a swf which is set to 100% width and height. In this swf I am loading a jpeg image using the attached actionscript. I am looking for a way to take the loaded jpeg and have it not resize with the main swf. Is this possible? Many thanks, Paul loadMovie('images/medi...more >>

Hi, I am working on a mac (OS X Tiger) and am producing a Flash CD. In the Flash movie one of the scenes contain thumbnails of pdf files, which when clicked on should open the file in acrobat. As Im on a Mac, I have written the Applescript to call and launch the pdf file which works great...more >>

Okay, this bug's been around since at least Flash MX (currently using Flash 8 Pro), so surely someone here knows what's going on... Basically, the problem is that if I have a sound on the timeline, then a stop statement, then another timeline sound *after* the stop, the second sound will p...more >>

I'm wondering if someone can shed some light on what (if any) cross-browser options I have for layering Flash and HTML on top of each other, with or without wmode=transparent. Specifically, if I want to support at least IE6, Firefox (all platforms), and Safari, which of the following can be do...more >>

Okay..general question. Using the drag and drop features I have seen a few Flash 'games' that look like Mr. Potatoe head.....where I have different eyes,eares, noses etc that I can place on the main body. Question...once the user has dragged everything where they want to..is there a ...more >>

I upgraded the plugin for security, but I can't seem to find a debug version (like the one that comes with the authoring tool). Any ideas where to find one....more >>

I have been able to use .bat files to open external files using fscommand until now. But I have a x-platform job and need to create same functionality on Mac. How does one go about this. There are no bat files on Mac, can I point directly to the file, a PDF? many many thanks, I'm in SUCH a...more >>

I saw this effect on a website a few months ago but unfortunately it is no longer there. It was for a band bio page and when you moved you mouse over the photo, a gloss appeared, (probably just a transparent box placed over the photo). However, when the mouse rolled over one of the band memb...more >>

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to connect to my MySQL database and load the data in many of the tables I have in it? For example, I want to load some records of a person and then he/she can update any information that is incorrect and then update the records back into the MySQL database....more >>

I have created a splash page in flash MX how do I make it cover the whole screen even with different browser resolutions? Thanks, JHatley ...more >>

Hi, I have a movie which is reading values from an XML file and putting them directly into an array. All this is going fine so far. The numbers are such like "603.8107" for example. My problem has arisen with trying to do any calculations with these numbers: PMAmcYOB * 2, for exampl...more >>

Hi I have a quick question about presentation of images. I have a .swf of thumbnails on a scroller. When each of them is clicked their corresponding large image is shown on the page. The original image that is there before anything is clicked is scan0002.jpg which has the following dimensions:...more >>

Hi, I want to be able to display 5 thumbnails of pdf files held either within the movie or locally on cd (for distribution) then have the user click a thumbnail which will open the pdf file in Acrobat Reader. Is this possible with Flash (MX Pro 2004)? I cant seem to find the way! Help! ...more >>

Workin with Flash MX 2004 Professional, I developed a simple movie with 28 objects that were created in Fireworks and imported into Flash. Now I revised the items in Fireworks, and would like to replace the current library items with the new revised items. Please tell me how I can do this ...more >>

I upgraded the ActiveX control to version 8,0,24,0 because of the security bulletin. Now it doesn't work for the limited user accounts on my Windows XP machine. I think the installer is setting the wrong permissions on these registry keys. The Administrator user can still use the ActiveX contr...more >>

I need to have a button open a new browser window at a certain dimension, say 720x700 pixels and point to a web page that fits within that size. Something similar to the following Javascript code: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- function popup(mylink, windowname) { if (! window...more >>

i was working on a FLA file in MX 2004. now i cant open that file, wht might happen to it ?? i can open other files, but not that .. can anyone help me ??...more >>

Hi all, I have created a flash animation and it plays fine but it loops back and plays agailn. I have tried adding a stop command on the last frame but it stops at the keyframe of where I want it to stop. Which is at present 30 frames behind the end of the movie. So how do I stop the mo...more >>

Hi. I have a strange problem... I wanted to create a button that would download a .pdf file after clicking. So I had put the pdf file on the desired server, then created a button in Flash with this action script: on(release){ getURL("download.php?filename=berserkers.pdf"); } I check...more >>

Hi there! Well, I have a little problem with a elastic rollover button. The button works well, but now I just want that this button takes the user to another scene, or to another frame name. This is the code I have that was given to the object: onClipEvent (load) { this.elasticScale = f...more >>

Hi there guys For no apparent reason every time I try to import something to flash, regardless the file type, I'll receive the following error in my output window. ERROR: (Swift 3D Importer - File: 162.mp3) Invalid SWFT file - Import Aborted. ERROR: (Swift 3D Importer - File: 162.mp3) ...more >>

Hi I'm trying to do something really simple here and making very hard work of it. I've created a simple slide show of about 10 images where as one fades out another fades in. What I didn't do at the start of my project is set a doc size. I'd like to do that now. So I change my doc size to sa...more >>

I can test form in flash and it works in flash but when i publish it, it goes to my failed part of script, i have recived the emails when itested in flash but nothing when its on server. could a php script cause this, or an action script, or is it just down to my flash settings? the form h...more >>

This is First Problem -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Hi I created a Movie Clip the instance name is ?my_mc? inside a another clip name ?mainClip_mc? When I am accessing the my_mc clip...more >>

My flash movie doesnt reload with the new flash movie that was uploaded.....i have cleared the cache and everyhting else.......i remember someone saying that implementing a time stamp or something like that will solve the problem?? how do i go about implamenting this? http://www.saysocre...more >>

Probably a daft question, but how do you add Alt text to images in Flash?...more >>

How do i nest an array inside another array? something like array(i).aray2(j); Can I do that? ...more >>