The summary says it all. I couldn't find any info on whether Pro comes with more UI components than Flash Basic does. Anyone know? Thanks for any help....more >>

just one question...must de either something i cant see or something i need to change i want the magnifying glass(mag glass) to click down to take me to another frame but i'm havin trouble making the mag glass a button and also using the same mag glass effect this is the tutorial i f...more >>

i have a .exe i am about to burn to cd. can i hide the other flash movies it links to? thanks > mark...more >>

I know that there's a way to put multiple conditions in an "if" statement, but I can't figure it out... ...for instance, how would I write out the statement: if x > y AND if a < b Or, consequently, how would I write out: if x > y OR if a < b I tried this, but it doesn't work: ...more >>

Can someone tell me if there is a bug in the alignment tool? I'm consistently having problems correctly aligning multiple copies of a symbol in a long line. Especially with the "Distribute horizontal center" alignment tool. It almost always has one or two symbols out of alignment. Here is ...more >>

Hi all, So I made a 3D animation which is fairly graphic intensive, and it runs smooth on my computer (3GHz, P4, 1GB RAM, etc), but it's extremely slow on average computers. I was curious if there is a way to perhaps improve the movie performance in Flash. Give it a try here: http://ww...more >>

I've been battling to allow text input into Flash programs from Unicode keyboard layouts and the Character Palette on Mac OS X. It seems that if the ..keylayout file script code is 126 (or at least not 0) then flash player doesn't even show these layouts as options. The problem occurs while ...more >>

If anyone could help, I'm trying to make animations fade into each other....MX 2004 Thanks!...more >>

Tutorial Situation: Upon entering the third symbol of a flash tutorial, "slides_mc" is the suggested instanceName text (? as the movie clip instance name) I have ran thru the tutorial a couple of times & see no evidence of the name "slides_mc" on the "Stage" Thanks for your Help ...more >>

hi everyone. i'm trying to make a simple flash intro for a website. i dont want to import all the images into flash because it'll take too long to load. i tried a tutorial on loading images dynamically, but i don't understand how to animate the pictures. all i want to do is fade them in an...more >>

hi i want that the flash will clera my shared object when i close it i want it to use this if ( closing flash ) { user_so.clear(); } how can i do that , what should the if statement to look like or maybe i should not use if statement thanks ...more >>

Hello, I have a problem with Flash 8. I aligned an image in a scene using the Align panel (horizontal center and vertical center). Then I tried to align the same image in a movie clip in that scene but the same commands put the image halfway out of the stage. How come? Thank you for y...more >>

When you say "reflash" do you mean that a different colour shines up for a split second? I would check if the background colour in the HTML is the same as the flash movie's stage colour (open properties when nothing is selected and look for the "background" box). ...more >>

hi i have an html web site with a flash element in the home page , what is hapening now is if the user is surfing the site and then coming back to the home page the flash is running again. i want the flash to run only for the first time when the user opening the home page and when if h...more >>

Hello there. I'm experimenting with forms in Flash for the first time and could use some help/guidance. I'm trying to build a submission form that sends the data to my e-mail address. I tried taking some pointers from the tutorial on Kirupa, but still having trouble. Here's some of the pr...more >>

I am trying to install Flash 8 on a Windows XP SP2 system. I click to download and I get the swinging screen that says it is "successfully installed", but when I try to run a program using it, it says that I need to install Flash. I've tried this probably 20 times and it always says "successfu...more >>

Hi all i'm new to flash/AS originaly i'm a java games developer. i'm trying to learn actionscript to develop games in flash. i don't have problem with actionscript it is very similer to java, but i need help with all data flow in flash does wnyone have an open game src so i can take a loo...more >>

Hello everybody! I have tried to find answer for this from all the flash forums and I haven't found the answer. Ihope some guru or Macromedia staff guru could help me with this. I have an demo that runs in 40 inch LCD monitor resolution 1360 x 768 and I have imported the mpeg2 video t...more >>

I posted this message yesterday in the Actionscript forum, but did not get any respose, thought that maybe I may get some here.... Hello all, I've done some research on this on and off the forum. I've seen that this is a problem since MX2004. I've implemented some of the suggestions I'...more >>

Hi I designed all my website already my html pages are only different by the content on the right. what i need is the action script for the buttons to keep the main frame but change the content. Appreciate your help Angel*lina ...more >>

Can anyone out there please help in figuring out why my movie is not working properly after I have successfully published my website to my host? The URL is : http://www.worldstarsearch.com/delegate_my.html In fact, the movie is just about 555KB only. ...more >>

I wondered if anyone knew a good way of how to make a magnifying glass that would be the cursor the text would be tiny and then when the cursor (magnifying glass)goes over text it would be show up in the magnifying glass as large text cheers ...more >>

I've a couple of flash files I want to test locally that are connecting to a server; unfortunately, Flash 8's sandboxing won't let them without me specifically telling it to. The thing is, I can't figure out how to get the changes I make on the security panel to save- it just resets. ...more >>

I know how to select a symbol a symbol from the stage and use the ctrl+shift+v command to paste it in another scene so that the symbol instance shows up in the exact same spot.... BUT I'd love to find a way to do the same thing by selecting multiple frams and layers from the timeline and p...more >>

hey im using the following code to play mp3s with c being a value related to two buttons which control the intervals between each mp3, i need to create another array with movieclips that i can load an animated movie clip into, in sync with the playing of each mp3. is there a way to check ...more >>

Hi, I want to change the graphic editor associated with bitmap graphic files from Photoshop Elements to Photoshop. Any ideas?...more >>

can you guys tell me if you have any probs lading this site link http://www.gspdesigns.com/swordy/swordy.html...more >>

I want to make an interactive cd where in that flash program I want to make a button that can browse files in the cd rom, and make a file copied to a folder or drive (mobile gadget). How can I make that thing happen, what actionscript should I use?? Thanks Guys!!! ...more >>

Does anyone knows how to open pdf file in two ways in an interactive cd (not website): 1. open pdf file in a new frame, (without opening internet explorer first, using geturl) 2. open pdf file in a scroll pane, but still in .pdf format? What I do now, is that I import pdf file to become ...more >>

I'm interested in making a Page Flip-document, but has very little knowlegde on this. Does anyone know if there's a free "recipe" anywhere on the net to follow?...more >>

I have a document with several Loader components loading a set of images which will change now and then. I want to make sure the Loader will load the images from the server every time rather than trying to get them from the cache. Not sure if it does this anyway? Any ideas? Thanks for the help...more >>