hy there guys i have a problem, when i open the actions bar on a movie clip or frame or i test my movie or else... the flash exits without i do something, i have flash 8 pro, can you guys help me?? thx!! ...more >>

i understand that it is a bad idea to have a big block of flash for search engines finding your site, but i love flash and you can create the best effects/interavtivity by using the whole page. Ive read countless articles, im waiting for my Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF) Specification sof...more >>

I just installed Flash MX on a new Dell laptop and I cannot read some of the text on the program screen. For instance, in the Properties pane, the word "Size" and the value "550 x 400 pixels" are bady distorted. They are not too small, just distorted. The word "Color" on the Tools toolbar, as...more >>

My website www.vinodelsol.com offers several different resolutions. However, when one changes resolutions, the different images get blurred after the size change (when they aren't in the original resolution). Someone told me the way to fix this was to make images as .swf files. So I convert...more >>

well , have finally finished my movie, which is at http://www.craigwilsonphotoart.co.uk now, at 1024 x 768 the movie fits the browser like a glove - any one with bigger resolutions then the movie is smaller (which is not the end of the world) but is up in the top left corner !!...more >>

Hi - having trouble installing flash 6 free download. When i click install, no box appears just says installation complete which is not the case. I am using auctiva showcase on my eBay listings but nothing is showing, just an empty box saying you need flash player. All was ok previously but ...more >>

Hi, I have posted this yesterday, but I thought my questions weren't clear. I have attached some code to hopefully help explain myself better. I am trying to create a zoom in/out photo in the background with text scrolling across. I got this part to work. But they all work in one frame o...more >>

Has anyone encountered problems having users on a network not be able to use Flash? We have a program that requires Flash to run. I installed it as an administrator to each computer, but it did not work when the students logged in under their own accounts. I work in school that has fairly t...more >>

When I use certain fonts (right now, Mrs. Eaves) in Flash 8 the spaces between words do not work / display (somyparagraphsenduplookinglikethis). In order to get spaces between words, I have to go in and change just the space to a system font, like Arial. It's extremely time consuming and irrit...more >>

Hi everyone, The question is...Can you build a touchscreen application with Flash. I searched this site with the keyword touchscreen but all that came up were threads on Director. Is it possible to make one using Flash? Thanks ...more >>

does anyone know if it is possible to delete every other frame. I have a movie that I need to slow down. Originally, it was developed at 30 frames per second and our new project requires 18 frames per second. I figured if I can delete every other frame I would be closer to the end results....more >>

I've been told the mantra of "avoid using bitmaps unless totally necessary" enough times that I find myself repeating it to others who ask "why not?". Well here is some work that apparently breaks those rules and exploits it to great effect. My question is, how did they pull this off? Why are ...more >>

I've been told the mantra of "avoid using bitmaps unless totally necessary" enough times that I find myself repeating it to others who ask "why not?". Well here is some work that apparently breaks those rules and exploits it to great effect. My question is, how did they pull this off? Why are ...more >>

I am trying to resolve an issue with the 16,000 frame limit - I am working on a project that is for online training - and has to be SCORM compliant (DOD requirement - Sharable Content Object Ref. Model). We have done dozens of these, but have never had one of this length. We are currently hitt...more >>

I keep getting the gold bar in my browser telling me I need to install Flashplayer 8. Not only do I not understand this because it was on my computer only a couple of days ago, but now it won't install. I click on the gold bar, tell it to install, click the install now button and it does not...more >>

i'm gonna sound stupid here, cos it's pretty simple.. i thought that to target a movieclip within a movieclip (from the root timeline) you just do this... mc_1.mc_2.gotoAndStop(5); but it's not working. have i missed something? ...more >>

I need to create a Flash presentation using 10 or 12 Keynote slides that are saved as individual jpeg's. I will also need to integrate the audio captured during the live Keynote presentation. Keep in mind the slides are just image files, and contain no anaimation, builds or anything like this....more >>

How do I find out which flash plugin version is currently active in my InternetExplorer (v6.0) under WIn2000/WinXP ? If I install now separately the Macromedia Flash software (not the plugin) does this affect the flash plugin inside IE ? In other words is there an automatic update of the flash...more >>

I've checked out several top flash sites and I've noticed that they've all mastered a screen-size-sensitive resizing function. It works like this: If I have my screen full size on a widescreen, the contents are centered and things look great. If I have it on a little tiny 800 x 600 scr...more >>

I designed at site at 1000x width. Is there a way to size it to any screen resolution? ...more >>

Hey! I'm a student who is working on a bachelorproject. I have produced a webpage, but need to attach a FLASH "imageviewer", slideshow presentation (dont really know what to call it) I need to view multiple pictures (as slides) in one and the same frame (looping) ANYBODY KNOW OF A QUI...more >>

Annoying Flash re-draw on IE I've created a small Flash map ( http://www.cabovillas.com/flmap2.html ) that, for some reason, is having problems on some IE browsers. If you scroll up and down using the mouse wheel or nav bar the flash gets very erratic and looks like it has to re-draw itsel...more >>

Hello I have a 110 frame short clip... just one shape tween that I need but the video program won't accept flash swf... and I need it either in .avi or .mpg please tell me ways that I could export flash movies into .avi or .mpg Thanks! Keehun Nam ...more >>

I'm lost in trying to get this to work...I've actually been working on this flash project for about a month now and i still can't get it to work. I started out with movie clips, recreated in scenes (twice), and now back to movie clips. What I want is very simple (very hard for me). And if some...more >>

I am using Macromedia Flash Player 8 for Windows, and every time I go to a site that has flash and you roll your mouse of the flash it will say: "Click to activate and use this control" And its getting on my nerves, sometimes you have to click on flash to get it to display because of this! I h...more >>

Im trying to create an applicatoin that allows a user to import a video from their local file system into flash. Their would also be an embeded video in the program that the user could drag over top of the new video and adjust their transparencies so that both were visible and playing. Howev...more >>

Hi A few months ago I upgraded to Flash Player 8 and nearly every web site I go to now tells me I need to install Flash Player 6, 7 etc. I try to re-download, but it doesn't even let me see the entire page, so I can't I am not sure what the problem is. I tried the test link on the su...more >>

Hello, I created a drop-down menu containing movie clips in a specific Flash 8 project. Now I would like to copy this scene into another Flash 8 project containing a web site. The problem is that when I do that the drop-down menu does not work any more. I guess there must be a correct ...more >>

Hey, Im completely stumped upon this problem. I created an outline of a tree and wanted to create a outline kinda effect, so i was planning on masking it but i have no idea how... i mean i know how to mask but i have no idea how to give it a tracing kind of effect... any ideas? thank...more >>

Man, I've been stressing like crazy trying to figure this out. I've got one button that directs you to the right scene, but when I use the same actionscript and change the scene, it sends me to the wrong scene when I test it. Heres an example of some script: on (release) { gotoAndPlay( ...more >>

hi i was looking this site and i couldnt find flash mx 2004 download , the reason i want flash mx is because i want to check the differnces between mx and 8 so if you know where i can download flash mx 2004 can you please post a link thank you. ...more >>

Hi, I'm having a hard time with the Live Preview feature for Flash components. For some reason, as soon as I define/activate the live preview on my components, the preview is shown with a 1 pixel shift (the blue boundary box is at the right place, but the component content is displayed shi...more >>

late last year i started to get reports from clients world wide that certain buttons on my FLASH websites wern't working... these were all sites using flash 6 with the relevent plugin preloader code correctly embedded within my index html file containg these flash sites.... the buttons...more >>

Help :( I have a problem when i playback my swf online - that doesn't show any problems when I run it in Flash 8's Download Simulation Environment. The problem seems to be related to the preloader section. My code is based on the preloader code as in the tutorials for the XML Photo Galle...more >>