Hi there. I am currently looking for a host. I am a recently graduated student creating my only portfolio in Flash. A friend recommneded 1&1 (www.1and1.co.uk) Are they any good? Are they relieable? Are they a suitable choice for my needs? Thanks ...more >>

I am importing .WAV files that contain speech into Flash 8 Professional on a Mac. The original sound files are 5kHz Mono 16 Bit. They sound fine when played in Quicktime, but once I bring them into Flash they get a high tinny sound to them, sometimes a pop as well. The reverberating ti...more >>

I want viewers to be able to use the mouse wheel to scroll my HTML page. As soon as they click on my Flash portion of the page the mouse wheel becomes disabled. I noticed it works until I start adding Flash Form Components to the page. After I add the components the scroll wheel stops worki...more >>

I am using a text file to bring data into my Flash program...no problem so far. However, once the data is in my program, I want to use the data by creating conditional if/then statements. However, the dynamic text field/varibles appear to be "Read Only". Is there any way to use data within ...more >>

Sorry, very basic question. Can anyone tell me the flash default stage size when you first open a blank document? Thanks, Lauren...more >>

I would like to load a new page when the last frame of the movie appears....more >>

Hi all, First of all I am sorry if this is in the wrong section of the forum, but I am very, very new to flash & the forum. But here goes, what I am trying to do is product a sales bonus tracker in Flash, the idea is that the target & current total will be displayed on screen as well as the ...more >>

We have an online video course hosted on a Windows server. Sometimes after a video loads, it does not automatically start playing. When it just happened as I was testing, moving the progress slider button caused the video to start streaming. By the end of the 60 second clip, the video and audi...more >>

Hi. I was trying to create a series empty moviclips that i would fill with dynamic images and then be able to click on each. (photo gallery) I did manage to make a bunch of dynamically created movie clips. but when i try to add a onPress to any of the dynamically created movie clips nothing...more >>

I'm working on my first flash website. I uploaded it to the server and it works fine on all of my computers. I use IE. However a few friends of mine in Europe using Firefox display the site in a lot smaller size. The actual size is 780x600, but they're displaying it maybe 10th of that. Is ...more >>

Anyone know of issues or fixes for Internet Explorer when it won't view FLV's vr.8? Or could issue be that Vr. 8 is installed but IE still calls on vr. 7? FLV's run fine on IE with one of my PC's - using SWF with FLV Playback - Player 8 Component, but not on another. The SWF in some cases wi...more >>

I'm making an XML powered menu for my website and it works fine as a stand-alone movieclip on my stage. But when I nest it inside a few more movieclips it stops working and I don't see why. The original path was "_level0.m5d" but now since it's in a few more clips it should be "_level0.por...more >>

Hi ppl. Does anyone know how I would make a website homepage in flash change on a certain day? ie change to a chritmasy theme on Dec 25th or an easter theme at easter etc. Plz? it would really give my website a kick. ...more >>

Hi i just wanna know if there is any free tutorial website about how i can make Video clips. ? I mean mixing up some sound files with graphics? Thank u...more >>

What is the procedure to import an swf into a new fla? We have a new fla movie we are creating and we have created an MP3 player as a stand alone swf how can we get that MP3 player into our main fla movie and get it to play? When we try to import any swf file it won't import? ...more >>

I recently made a long (16 minute) animation for a school project, and I noticed that as the animation played, it it became more and more desynced with the audio. I also noticed that if I would back up one frame with ctrl+left and then play again, it would become synced again. If I would not...more >>

When I try the sample provided in the help doc (Flash 8, Windows XP): http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.ht m?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00003973.html The behavior of the scrollpane isn't working correctly for me. It sort of works, in that i...more >>

I'm about to create a flash video (about 3 minutes long) that, once complete, I would like to transfer to a DVD for viewing on a regular home TV set. The question is, what steps should I take to get this done? How can I get the end product into a NTSC standard file for burning onto a DVD...more >>

Ok, I'm pulling my hair out here. I downloaded and installed Studio 8 Pro. (Upgrading from MX'04). Everything in the suite works ok, except Flash. When Flash goes to load it gets to "loading fonts" and inevitably crashes. Any suggestions. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, blah..blah...blah Th...more >>

Okay, so here's the deal: I have an icecast2 server set up, it's working nice and fine. I'm trying to make a flash app that will stream what's being broadcasted, and display the song and artist, etc. I have it playing the song fine My play button's code: on (release) { mys...more >>

Hello. I am trying to install a new version of QuickBooks, and it's telling me that I need to first install flash 7. The problem is, I have no idea how to go about that. I have tried installing from the flash player from the macromedia website, but it doesn't work. It's leading me to insta...more >>

Hi, I want to make a random music to load, everytime the flash movie is loaded, and the music files are in the same directory. What is the script to type? Thanks, Waiting to your help... Zaki ...more >>

Is there any possibilties to make VR-movies to work in Flash 8? I´m using VR-toolbox to make the VR´s and exporting them to QT but I only get the fisrt frame in the movie when I export the Flashmovie. //Una ...more >>

I have a site build out of one main movie. each button calls one of 13 swf movies into the stage. It is working great on my computer, but on the server only the main movie is working fine, and all other 13 do not load to the stage. www.lookdeco.co.il Would appreciate help ...more >>

Hi! How can I have a custom animation playing in front of my Media Display while the external flv is buffering, and then disappear when the video starts playing? It doesn't have to be a progress bar, just an animation. I can?t use the FLVplayback component since I want it to work for visit...more >>

I am trying to modify a mp3 player that just plays a mp3 streamed from my site. simple play and stop..nothing fancy. I want to use the same mp3 file, but change the parameters only via Dreamweaver. How can i do this with the Flash file? example: my_sound = new Sound(this); my_sound.loa...more >>

:confused; A Quicktime movie that I import into a multi-scene Flash 8 Pro document refuses to play or even to appear when I Test Movie. However, the same Quicktime movie has no trouble playing when I import it into a new Flash document. I get the same results with streaming or progressiv...more >>