Why does Flash 7 on IE6 on pc not show the white bar on the preloader of this Flash (click on one of the buttons that is shaped like a talk balloon to play the movies) http://www.brandspa.net/talks/index.htm It shows on other version/browser combinations of Flash -- Firefox w/Flash8 on Ma...more >>

Hi ! Anybody here knows perhaps what are tools to customize keyframes while FLV encoding? Expecially I need all my FLV video files to have a keyframe at the last video frame. I mean video keyframes, not metadata cuepoints. Regular encoding options do not provide this feature (why?) and ...more >>

I have a swf-file which was created with Flash 5. Now i want to open it in Flash MX 2004 Pro. But i get the message that mx can not open a secured file. But i know that this file was not secured. I didn't have the source files while it's being two or three years ago and my pc was cleaned in t...more >>

like i wrote in subject i want to use text with shadow as a button. The text with shadow was created and positioned on the scene. I can change the propertys for the text to be like a button. But when i moved the mouse in the film to the text only the text showed the mousecursor as a hand for ...more >>

I am using Flash 8 and when I try to print a published animation, the image prints very distorted (stretched out vertically). I can't figure out why and haven't seen this before. If it makes a difference, I printed from Internet Explorer. ...more >>

Earlier today, I came across this intriguing little gallery of swf's. One of the animations in particular struck my fancy, and I would like to try to emulate it. Once I understand the basic concepts at work, hopefully I can start to create my own Flash inventions. This, however, is an idealist...more >>

I am going through Dan Carr's screen/cue point template and adjusting it for one of my videos. It works. However, when I stream the video, I'm running into some glitches. When I steam the video and go straight through, the screens load correctly and everything works. But when I try t...more >>

Hello, This isn't a priority or a technical question, but I stumbled upon these forums, and am looking for gem threads, full of useful information for a transitioning programmer. I'm relatively new to Flash and Actionscript, but have a pretty decent head on my shoulders for procedural pro...more >>

Hi all I've been trying for a couple of days now to do make the images move up and down (at the moment they move left and right) I tried changing the code to 'y' from 'x' but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Thank you very much for any help the .fla can be downloaded in the link below, ...more >>

Ok, well when I go to publish an animation I created It wont play the entire movie back.....It starts out fine and then it will skip this paragraph that I made fade in, It will play all the frames but it just wont show the words at all. Then after that it goes to the movie I captured and then...more >>

Does anyone have a recommendation on a product that can build Flash Presentations (cost or no cost). A client of the company I work for is interested in having us build a series of slick Flash Presentation templates with ability to add audio etc that can be easily reused/built. I personall...more >>

is it possible to set 2 audio tracks both as mp3 streaming with different compression rates? I've tested multiple methods, but the compression always seems to be set the same for both tracks. I'm trying to have the VO nice and clear while the background music track can be at a higher compres...more >>

Has anyone gotten the Microsoft fix for active content to worK? I followed their directions from here exactly: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overvie w/activating_activex.asp The object tag is created externally, but it has absolutely no effect. ...more >>

I want people to automatically update to the newest flash player when they go to my website. Is there something I can put on my website or do I need some javascript code? thx...more >>

I want to do something that I think is pretty straigtforward: I just want to create a simple movie that lists a couple of audio files that the user can download as well as listen to. I'm not sure of the actionscript that would allow this. How do you do that? Thanks, Michael ...more >>

Can someone tell me is it possible to launch an exe off of a server then have the exe launch an swf file once the exe has launched on the users computer? the swf and exe are residing in the same folder on the server. Without using an absolute path?? what I am using now - on (release) ...more >>

I have three sites that need a shared object function that will place a cookie on a user's machine to keep both the flash animation header from playing on all sub pages as well as on return visits. Here's one example site www.nbwifi.com Please contact me with yrou estimate on how much you woul...more >>

I created a scrolling menu using a series of buttons with in a movie clip. What I'm having trouble with is, when the movie clip is placed on the stage, I need to assign Action scripts to each button in order to navigate throughout the site, but so far I havent been able to get it to work. Does...more >>

Is it possible to use flash to create a touchscreen kiosk presentation? Does anybody have experience with an application that does this well?...more >>

How do I fade in and out, using several photos, with flash 8? I just want to fade into the first photo and out and fade into the next photo and out Thanks for your help! JC ...more >>

I'm primarily a graphic designer who uses, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash. Currently I'm on a Mac but the advantages of a PC seem good ? higher speeds (for the money), more software available, waaaaay cheaper, more compatability. But some of the dissadvantage...more >>

I develop e-learning for a major company. Until our company upgraded all users workstations from Flash 6 to Flash 8 we had the ability to deliver rich media form a cd rom on the users workstation. We were having users login to our learning over the network so they were hitting a intranet site....more >>

Hi Still having problems with this, any input would be appreciated: I'm having difficulty in producing flash video which is as smooth as the original. Playback always seems a little 'jerky' no matter what bitrate we render in, and this is just on the PC itself before uploading to the serve...more >>

hi all , i have my movie which uses the fullscreen command .... but when this is embedded in the index page of my site the fullscreen doesnt work - so lots of scrolling if your screen res isnt the same as mine ! it is fine if your browser is pointed straight to the swf ..... is there a way of...more >>

My company has developed a very large Flash application which supports a multi-player card game. We have an unfortunate problem, where very rarely on some computers the screen blanks out to white. It sounds as if the game is still functioning as you can hear noises from player actions. H...more >>

Hey there, My Qestion is How would I stop a Flash Video Progressive download? I have gotten the flash video to stop playing automatically when our site loads but the Video keeps downloading in the background. This is causing my site to load extremly slow. I would like for the Movie ...more >>

Hello, I have a .swf file at www.domainA.com, and an HTML file that is trying to use that .swf at www.domainB.com, and it doesn't seem to work (the page is just blank). I've tried looking through articles about Flash's sandbox security, but as far as I can tell that seems to apply .swfs ...more >>

Hi, I have a quite simple question. I've placed a movie clip on the timeline, in the end of the movie clip I've an action to go back to the stage and continue playing the rest of the content. The script is: _root.gotoAndPlay("", "start"); but it just keep playing the movie clip over and over ...more >>

Can Any one provide some insight on converting a flash Project 900px by 506 px to a work on a DVD (16:9 Aspect) Using DVD Studio Pro 4. I've been exporting as an uncompressed self contained .mov file and trying to use that to convert to an m2v for creating the DVD but the any quality I can re...more >>

Hi, I'm really upset now cus a power outage fucked up my working file yesterday! I've been working on a movie for 7 hours and I just keep testing the movie with .swf and for god sake I should've save the file but I didn't till my room went "puff" power's out:Q Now all I have left is the testin...more >>

I am in the proccess of created a Flash movie, and added 3 short sound clips into the library. I placed them in the movie, somewhat close to each other and published at 24fps. Worked fine. I then changed it to 12 fps and published again, still worked fine. I went back and changed it to 24 ...more >>

Hi, I want to navigate an image panning and zoom in. Something like this navigation: http://www.dynamicfactory.us/004/snav/snav.htm I know how to make the zoom in, but not the pan. Thanks for any help or links. ...more >>

Greetings everyone, I am a novice to flash and I was assigned to do a school project. I have to run a simulation of a highway through which 50 cars pass every hour, on the side there is a gas station and 50% of the cars will go in each hour. So what I have to do is: Make a total of 50 c...more >>

Microsoft have just started to roll out an update that changes the way IE handles ActiveX controls: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/ MS offer a few work arounds, but all of them involve altering the way the object tag is written to the page, but here is a much easier solution that I c...more >>

I have a scroll pane which dynamicly loads text data from an XML file. I linked to the file using the href tag and it can open the MP3 in a new window but if you try to right click it the save as option just isn't there! theres open, open link in new window and copy link. I think this is a mor...more >>

Hi, I've installed Macromedia Flash in both, IE and Firefox, and everytime I visit a web page with flash content, the computer reboots without showing any errors (I'm using Windows XP SP2) I took a look at the system log, but Flash leaves no traces, no errors, nothing at all. ...more >>