Sorry, I know there is tons of people on this already and tons of info and threads. What I am finding though is that the few solutions are getting tangled up with lot's of tweaks and "other" fixes etc. But can anyone have mercy on the novices? Not being a developer but loving and using ...more >>

I'm using Flash to toggle audio on/off. It's a pretty simple thing that I'm doing (see code). I am without a clue as to why my little audio icon shows up but there's nothing to click. Works fine in IE/FF/NS. Anyone know what I may be overlooking? Thanks! Patrick // assigned to layer n...more >>

i have built a header for my website, and have exported the header with its 4 different images that i want to fade into each other, with moving text over it and all. my question is: how do i set the tween for bitmaps to fade into each other? do they need to be converted to mcs? graphic? do t...more >>

I am trying to create some html formatting within a dynamic text area. First What is the deal with img tags. Why DOES THIS WORK and render the image myBox.htmlText="xx<img src='Home.gif' />" AND myBox.htmlText="<img src='Home.gif' />" DOES NOT render the image?????????????...more >>

I am somewhat new to Flash. I am trying to create a Interactive Map of the State of Tennessee reflecting all the counties of Tennessee. Below the interactive map will be a list of names of all the counties. When a user places the mouse over a name then the county on the map will change...more >>

I have a question about how a site uses navagation. http://www.exclusiveresorts.com. This site's Flash has a way to use the browser navigation buttons to browse through content. How do they do that?...more >>

I have had NO luck lately getting answers to a couple of reasonably advanced questions on this forum: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288&thre adid=1144810&enterthread=y http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288&t...more >>

Why do I get "click to activate and use this control" on IE when trying to use a Flash object? I have to click on it before I can use its controls... I don't understand. Is it my doctype? ...more >>

Is there a way to adjust the casvas (stage) size so that when altered, the canvas will resize by cutting off the upper portion of the stage as apposed to the bottom? As in photoshop, is there a way to dictate which way the canvas is adjusted? Just resized a background image and instead of mo...more >>

on (press) { this.stop() }...more >>

Ok this is my problem. I need to get a new browser window and i am using on (press) { getURL("file.swf", "_blank"); } but for some rason it dose not oppend a new window it dose not do anything ...more >>

Also when I open up a swf that has been embedded into an html page it says click to run content when i roll over the movie which will do nothing until i click on it. ...more >>

I was having problems with my flash player. I had flash 6 player aswell as 8 installed and it kept opening files in 6. I uninstalled 6 and 8 and reinstalled 8. When i tried to open swf files by double clicking there was no responce so i had to select flash player 8 from the list and clicked ...more >>

how do i put a guest book in my flash site... is there any thing ready made out there??? thanks...more >>

im guessing this should be really simple ,but ive looked for ages and theres nuthin i can find , how do you make a button eg play button start a animation?...more >>

I have flash menu rollover effects on my website and they have worked perfectly for over a year. Three days ago I noticed that on some of my pages the effect has gone away, and a gray box appears around the entire menu and the message "Click to activate or use this control" pops up. On other p...more >>

I believe what I am about to ask is possible, and if so, any direction to a source would be very helpful. I would like to be able to load an XML file (this part is fine) containing for instance, a team scheulde. Within the XML there would be a game date and various other game data (time, ...more >>

Can anyone provide me a reliable redirection script? I have read so many tutorials and articles my head is spinning. All of them seem to contradict or be outdated. The bottom line is I have a page that has some Flash 7 content. If they have Flash 7 or higher installed then just display the pag...more >>

:confused; I am having trouble viewing my drop down menu in Dreamweaver when I embed my swf file. It looks as though the drop down is behind the swf file. What do I need to do to bring it to the foreground? PLEASE HELP! ...more >>

I'm sure there's a simple answer to this one: Scene 1: currently has 50 frames, will become my preloader Scene 2: Working on now... Have a button instance that has a Go to and Play command, which should link to the same scene, frame 71 (labeled "subhomeAbout"), to pull up the submenu I...more >>

how do i tell a movie clip not to act like a button, ie no finger on roll over?...more >>

Please help a new newbie!!! This is a very basic thing that I just cant wrap my finger around. I am building a new web site in Flash 8 from a template i purchased from TemplateMonster.com I figured out how to completly custimize the site add with no experience of using flash. Now I...more >>

i'm not sure if this always happens, or if it's just my computer or what. but whenever i go to my page to preview my animation, it doesn't usually play the first time. But then if i hit reload, or leave the page and go back to it, it plays as it should. http://www.whsphealthcaremanagement....more >>

Hey All, I hope you can help me, because my client has a big meeting next week and I'm still having problems tracking down what the problem is here. I've been testing my flash website in both Firefox and IE and both look A-Okay. I've also had several people I know check out the site from...more >>

How do I make it so that when the user goes to my site the flash movie that I created shows up in just an 800x600 window? Is this an actionscript command done right in flash or is it a code i have put into the html document? I also have another question. Why is it that my animations in the f...more >>

hi all i want to create exit button in flash exe. for when i click on that button colse the exe which commad i use ? any body help me pls. thanks ...more >>

Hello, I am attempting to create a dynamic menu navigation using javascript and ASP but am using Icons to hover-over to display the drop-down. I would like these icons to be flash. Is there a way to create a mouseover event inside flash (or maybe from the webpage itself) that would b...more >>

This is what I did for my Brother for his 50th birthday. I had the idea only days before his birthday, so I threw it together. enjoy http://www.petecookis50.com/ ...more >>

Adobe has released an extension that fixes this issue: http://www.macromedia.com/go/7c29e252 -- ****************************************** --> Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) --> www.mudbubble.com :: www.keyframer.com --> http://flashmx2004.com/forums/index.php? --> http://www.macromedia.com/...more >>

Hello folks, Please help! When I try to open an .fla file that I have I get this error: "The application Flash Professional quit unexpectedly." I doesn't happen with other .fla's. Only with one of them. A friend of mine says that he can open it on his computer just fine. What ca...more >>

I would like to take a load bar that I created and make it into a component that I can load into the extension manager and just pull in when I like it. How do I convert my load bar and convert it (.mxi extensioni)? Thanks in advance ...more >>

In case you have not noticed the latest Microsoft Windows update (KB912812, part of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-013) has a feature that KILLS Flash components by inactivating the active-x controls until the user clicks on it. It also adds a nasty dotted type box around the Flash element ...more >>

Hi, I'd like to know if anyone could point me towards a tutorial that allows me to synchronize music with animation. A short time ago when surfing around for some cool things to do in flash I came accross a tutorial that had an image of a speaker in it. The speaker was tweened to enlarge ...more >>

Hello, I'm pillowfighter from http://www.pillowfighter You probally haven't heard of me, because I don't have many popular flashes on newgrounds, and I'm not that big in the forums. But I've been thinking of ways to get more traffic to my site. I've decided to let people put thier flashes on...more >>

I'm having trouble getting an FLV (Insert | Media | Flash Movie) file to be seen on a customers website. I spent the day going through a lynda.com training for this, and I'm pretty sure I did it all correctly. But obviously, not 100% correct. The file previews fine on my local computer, but I ...more >>

1st: is there a way to save a image libray? i ask because im just starting to really get into flash and im makeing a cartoon, but its a pain in the butt to keep makeing the images and so on..., 2nd: is there a place were i can download sound clips? ...more >>

hi, i have the macromedia flash professional 8, and i'm building a web site in flash. Although i have some questions: 1- I want to put a counter, a mp3 player and a mailing list code that is in HTML code how can i do it? example of the code of the counter: <!-- Start Bravenet.c...more >>

Hi! I'm building an application in Flash 8 that dynamically generates a list of thumbnails for each swf connected to the main movie. When the user clicks on the swf it plays. My question is how to make the thumbnail gallery of the swf:s. One way is of course to load all the swf:s i...more >>

Hi All, Ive been battling all day to get some popup windows working to no avail. Ive tried using Method 1 (which doent require any JS in the target html) below, which just bring up syntax errors. Ive tried using Method 2.1 with JS in the html, and 2.2, with the code in the fla. ...more >>

I have noticed that on several flash intros that I have viewed, there is a hyperlink which covers the size of the flash object. The hyperlink has an alt tag - "Click to Activate & Use This Control" Running the mouse over the flash object creates a visible box around the object which is rather ...more >>

:confused; I am using the Windows XP operating system with IE6 and SP2 installed. I have created a site by using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash. When I open the site I am seeing the outline around the flash files. This also happens incase of mouse over event. Please let me know, h...more >>

Just upgraded to flash 8 on OSX, but now I can't publish preview any of my MX 2004 files, I get an output error can't find URL? If I create a new flash file in 8 and publish preview, it works fine??? any pointers? ...more >>

I'm trying to load a clip (flash with video) and then as soon as the movie is loaded I want the movie to stop... right now the movie plays immediatelly... I tried putting _root.stop(); but that didn't work... This is my code: this.createEmptyMovieClip("clip_mc", this.getNextHighestDept...more >>

Hi guys sorry if this has been posted before, I've only recently come back to these forums has anybody got any way of embedding swfs so that the new ie will not show the surrounding box that requires a click for users to focus the movie this problem has only arisen after installing re...more >>

Hi All, I'm using two DateField instances to select "From" & "To" dates. Initially it works fine. If I click "From" DateField's icon it pop-ups the DateChooser and I'm able to select a particular date. The same happens for "To" DateField also. But for the next time, when I want to change ...more >>

Two questions, one is probably easy, the other I don't know.... First off, I have a website with a flash start page. When I load the site, a box appears around the flash movie saying "click to activate and use this control". If i click on it, it goes away and everything is normal. I'm not...more >>