I have a PC with windows XP on it, sound card is realtek. I tried everything I can think of, like deleting some unnecessary audio codecs, reinstalling flash 8 plugin, but I still couldn't get any sound when I use flash 8, IE, firefox. I know quite a few people have experience that, any solut...more >>

Hi After carrying out a windows update today I've noticed that when flash loads in IE6 the whole movie appears as a hyperlink and a message appears saying 'click to activate and use this control'. The message is annoying and means that the movie has to be first clicked to clear it before any...more >>

I am trying to make a horizontal navigation bar in Flash. When you roll over a certain link, I want sublinks appear below it (like on the Macromedia site). I am having problems with the animation and getting the menus to appear/disappear at the appropriate times. Right now, here?s how I h...more >>

What is a Flash Movie? A flash movie, or shock wave file (SWF), is the file format published when a Flash movie is exported. A SWF file can also be exported by several other Macromedia or Adobe Products. The SWF is usually an animation, dynamic menu, or highly interactive web-based applica...more >>

I am sure that most of the people on this forum is going to laugh at my question, but just bear with me. I am a learner. Here is my problem: I am using Flash MX 2004--Education version. I am following instructions in a book I purchased. It tells me to go to Window>Other Panels>Common Libraries...more >>

FLMX 04 I have a class that extends a movieclip. The movieclip (instance name: essay) has a child object (an input text object) whose instance name is input_text. within the class I want to see if the current focus is on the input_txt instance. I have this: var sel = Selection.ge...more >>

While creating a FLV player using the Flash 8 FLV Playback Components in conjunction w/ a combo box (even if the combo box isn't used and is just sitting in the library)...i noticed a rather irritating bug i'll do my best to explain. For the Volume bar and the Seek bar components there are sm...more >>

Why can't I italicize only a portion of a dynamic text symbol? It appears when I highlight that text that I want to italicize and then click the italicize button in the properties panel, the whole body of text becomes italicized. What is up with that?? Help, please...thanks. ...more >>

Can anyone on a MAC please test the following page and tell me if the DHTML menus appear ABOVE or BELOW the Flash movie, thanks. http://www.thunderhead.com/index_280306.htm...more >>

I'm just trying out some basic flash stuff for a website for work - but not sure about how to give the stage a border. Is there an easy way, or is it going to get complicated and involve layers and masks? If you look http://www.handprintwebdesign.co.uk/CollinsBartholomew/layout44.htm ...more >>

Hi ppl. I need to make an swf full screen which I hav done through the Fscommand ("full screen", true). The only prob is that wen I was making the movie (in Flash 5) I placed some objects outside the minimum work area for animating purposes but I then tested the movie in full screen I found t...more >>

Someone PLEASE help me!!! I?m revamping my company?s website using Studio 8. I decided to build my static navigation using Flash and the rest of the pages in Dreamweaver. I have the nav. Bar built, the buttons done correctly, but when I drop the Flash swf file into the index frameset page i...more >>

I may have posted this in the wrong forum. I'm going to be streaming some video using Playstream and I'm messing up somewhere. The Flash videos I'm encoding seem to be coming out at a much higher bitrate than what I'm specifying. I need to specify three quality levels--high, medium (<150 k...more >>

Is it possible to load external jpegs that are stored onto my server in folders into a swf file via action script? Set properties of the jpeg and alpha so that it seems the jpeg is fading in? If so, how would i go abouts doing this? ...more >>

Greetings, Can anyone help me make this back button work? I have a similar forward button working fine, but when I reverse the likely code, it doesn't work. I used "onClipEvent (mouseDown) {" on the other button too... is that wrong??? } onClipEvent (load) { framelabelArray = ["N01...more >>

Hi, please check this for me: www.mental-image.co.uk/Flash/Hearts.zip If I run the file "Hearts.fla" on its own, it works fine. If, however, I copy all the contents of the library into another Flash file, and then drag an instance of DarkHeart Gen onto the stage, I get the four errors shown...more >>

First let me say I'm completely new to Flash, so I'll try not to sound stupid. I'm using Captivate to create screen capture videos, and have been using Flash 8 to create a "login script" of sorts. My theory prior to attacking this was to have an authentication script that I can include with ...more >>

Sorry. I know this must be painfully easy... but I can't seem to move/rearrange scene files. Once I've created a new scene how do I rearrange it with my other scene files? Thanks in advance....more >>

Quick question. Trying to make a symbol do a quick 'bulge-unbulge' on rollover. Tried this code, but only the final result was displayed, even though the trace shows the increment/decrement. If I remove the second 'do-while' statement, I see only the symbol at its final increased size (no gro...more >>

I want to create a .exe file that will autostart when a DVD is placed into a drive. With CDs I remember being able to use a text file to do this/ Can the same be done for a dvd? Thanks!!! ...more >>

I am using a few web design programs (basic stuff) and keep having problems with Flash. I suspect the problem is not with the programs, but with how Flash is set up on my machine (XP SP1). According the the Macromedia site, I have Flash correctly installed. It works fine in both Firefox and...more >>

I'm trying to import a WMV video into a flash document, but whenever I do so there is either no audio at all, or it doesn't start playing at the correct time. If anyone has a solution it'd be greatly appreciated. Maybe I need to convert the video into a different format? If so, can anyon...more >>

How do you make a flash animation ready to upload onto the internet?...more >>

I have a graphic (.gif) that I want to be clickable (i.e., lead to a different web page when clicked), to have a fade timeline effect and have a transparent background (so that when it fades it is still clickable but shows the image behind it). I have tried making the graphic a button symbol,...more >>

hi everybody! my problem is the following: sometimes i can't copy and/or cut and/or paste actionscript in flash mx 2004. but i got no problems in flash mx (yep, i got both installed) i'll really appreciate some help or suggestions... thanx in advance! ...more >>

I have MX 2004 for Macintosh. I'd like to run through the tutorials but I don't have the sample files. Were they supposed to be installed with the app? Do tell. Thanks....more >>

Hello, I need to make a movie clip "zoom" into a certain part of it. I have tried to enlarge the movieclip and move it around then put a motion tween to it, but all it would do it move, then on the last frame, it would make it big... Then I've tried the shape tween, wouldn't work at all......more >>

I'm new to Flash so I hope someone can give me some guidance. I want to make a website but only by using Flash and not Dreamweaver. I intend (and hope) it to be fairly simple using a banner, a Text headline, four animating buttons that control a TextArea component window that is scrollable. ...more >>

hello! I have my site in an swf in html. The thing is that I would like that the different buttons in the swf change the background in the html so it have differents images backgrounds for each menu options. I'been reading and found something as writing a javascript function in the h...more >>

I have an e-mail form in published in flash 7. When users (with Central European layout) try to fill it out special characters (not in latin 1: like ?, ?...) leave strange results. So far I found three simptoms: either input is ignored and no letter is printed or I get multibyte print (e....more >>

Still no estimated time of arrival. This indicates that both the vulnerability and the fix are far more complex propositions than Macromedia has been willing to acknowledge. It may also be the case that the delay has something to do with the forthcoming change to Internet Explorer that will r...more >>

I mad the first button work but now that i try to us a different movieclip and button it isn't happening. Everything is the same but i have changed the path to the play clip and the button. I just don't understand how one can work and the other can't... the 1st one is the one which isn't w...more >>

We have a flash presentation at work. The content is hosted in the EU. We have 6-10 people downloading the same presentation. Each PC has 10Mbit network connection. The symptoms include: 1) The flash presentation takes a long time to load (about 2-5 minutes). 2) When running the flash pres...more >>