Is it possible to add preloader to a progressive download video which streams with a media component? Thanks Paul...more >>

I have a simple SWF file that allows the user to draw whatever they want using their mouse. I want them to be able to click a button and send a snapshot of what they have drawn to me via email. I am using ASP on the other side. Anyone have any ideas (preferably free)? ...more >>

Hi everybody,, I have a FLASH site .. http://www.oguemot.net - I have published it %100 percent size in html file .. It is looking very good in Internet Explorer at 1024 * 768 , but in FireFox ....The movie align starts form the middle of the page and goes to top..the hal...more >>

More and more people keep asking about streaming video online. It's tempting to suggest Flash video to my clients, but is it really a viable option in terms of plugin ubiquity? Or is it still better to offer two options: Quicktime and Windows Media? Also, what are the limitations of di...more >>

Hello, I am just wanting to be able to link to another page in my site (www.3rauto.com) by clicking on a Flash movie embedded on the index page. This seems to work in Safari 1.3.2 but when I view it in MS IE 6.0.2900.2180 It doesn't work except that you can see the url indicated in the botto...more >>

This was a "test" How do I delete this thread?...more >>

Can receivers view flash movie attachments in emails if they dont have flash installed on the ir computers? If so, can both PC and mac users view it? Or is their a way of doing this? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I am looking for a programmer who is capable of building a Flash component for a client?s website. The component I need is the Table Designer that you can find at http://www.partymosaic.com/. I am entertaining quotes for a completed module that I can add the image files to. The ...more >>

I received a message to upgrade macromedia. I wasn?t ready to do this and I accidentally clicked ?always deny access? Now I can not change it back?how do I correct this? The following is the message I see when I look up Global Security Settings: I should not have done this, but I di...more >>

Im publishing a program i created in flash 8. Its going to be distributed on a cd and i published in a projector. However, when we open the exe file it is half way off the screen. is there a way to open a flash movie published in windows projector to be centered on the screen? ...more >>

I've been finding some anomalies when testing the movie, for instance the question regarding the BA degree keeps telling me the answer marked correct in the Component Inspector (# 6 American Urban) is incorrect; other times it seems one question contains part of another question's graphics, th...more >>

If the HTML is loaded from the local pc and the swf from an url, the getURL() can't call the Javascript in the HTML page. I used the 'allowScriptAccess' parameter in the HTML Object with the value 'always'. What more has to be defined ? ...more >>

On some games, an message pops up and says there is an error with my flash add-on and closes out. What does this mean and how do I fix it?...more >>

Ok, so check this site out: http://network.aol.com/ Click on, say, the "Music" and rollover the little rotate icon in the middle. Notice how the windows rotate in a circle and appear to scale. When the window in focus moves to the front it sort of pops forward, which appears to be a ...more >>

i've been building a site for a friend of mine for 2 months now and everythings been goin fine until last night...i told him i'd have everything done by friday and as i was adding new content to the fla file i tried to publish and got the error message "error creating flash movie. not enough m...more >>

Hello, I designed this site in flash and placed the .swf files inside a dreamwever table to center it. When you go to each link before the page loads I see a white box in the background. How can I get rid of this white box. Also some people can see my links and others can't any ideas. ...more >>

I am atrying to create a 3 button menu of movie clips that function as buttons for a website. Here is the problem. The website owner wants a special type of behovior that I am not able to produce. Here is how they are to work. 1. In the up state they are to show a specific label. 2. When you...more >>

Hey everyone, I have modified an already existing flash mp3 player. It loads songs into the flash movie using an xml file. This is all simple enough and works just fine. The flash movie is always beside the xml file in the SAME directory. This works just fine too. The problem arises ...more >>

i am trying to use the fscammand("fullscreen", ture); to make myvideo adjust to the user's resolution and it is not working. the site is mortgagemaestro.net. anybody know what to do?...more >>

I'm dealing with a problem that's been mentioned here on the forums before, but never really been resolved (or not that I can find). My project uses a series of TextFormats and Dynamic Textfields created with the "createTextField" method. I'm trying to make the document support multiple langua...more >>

I just install the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004.Im facing problem when opening it .A message appear to state that the computer's clock has been moved back and ask me to restore the clock to its previous time. I have never chage the clock, what should i do to solve this problem? ...more >>

Using the MX2004 media playback component, do anyone know how to dynamically set the "_contentPath" variable? When I try to set in using actionScript: playerinstance._contentPath = "audioFile.mp3" it doesn't the file, but it will if I use the component inspector but I can't dynamically cha...more >>

How do i get my ComboBox ( or any other Component for that matter ) to set variable & goto Label or Scene in 2004 / flash 8. It might sound simple but i'm not use to the new components. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated! ...more >>

I have made a website for a musitian called rubby perez. The website is www.rubbyperez.com.do. If you brows it you can go to the listen to music menu, located in the discography. This section uses a scrol pane that loads an other SWF into it. The problem is when you browse the site in Fire Fox...more >>

Can someone pretty please give me an easy to understand, clear reason of why people use Authorware for e-learning instead of Flash???...more >>

I'm trying to make a searchlight beam pan across the sky and back. The shape is triangular, and uses a gradient fill with alpha transparencies. It's all designed the way I like - as long as it is standing still! How do I tween the light so that the bottom of this triangle stays in place, bu...more >>

Greetings, Between Flash 5 and Flash 8, I have lost my O.S. sound ability when using flash swfs or flas. I never know why it happens or when it's going to happen. In order to correct the situation, I have to reboot, re-login. Has this happened to you? Who stole my sound? Regards, Toe...more >>

Hi can someone please tell me how to link an audio file to a media controller i have dragged onto the stage. I have an audio file already imported. Thanks...more >>

Hi, I've created a Flash movie that uses the Flash 8 FLV display component. When I run my swf from my hard drive, it plays fine. When I load it onto my web server, the 2 FLV displays within my swf do not display. The rest of the swf seems to be fine. I am using relative pathing within ...more >>

hehe.. see what i did there... (how sad!) anyway...why would this script make my external text appear twice?, i.e. if my external text file says 'yoyoyo.', with if i set the autoSize to true, it appears as 'yoyoyo.yoyoyo.' text02.display_txtx.autoSize = true; ...more >>

Hi all I've made a cool swf to use it as a wallpaper (win XP SP2). I can load it within a html file. But my animation is a flash 8 version, and my desktop flash player version is 6, so all graphic effects are not displayed. Read carefully, to avoid confusion: Both my Firefox and intern...more >>

I am using Flash 8 Professional,and I am trying to load a swf into a movie clip, I never had a problem with other versions, but I can't make it work with Flash 8. What I did it was to asign a scrip to the first keyframe, which is loadMovie("welcome.swf", "this.container"); -previously...more >>

Hi there , I am building a flash website atm. What I wanna do is: on mouse release = play the animation and once it has come to the last frame of the animation make the playhead skip to a different frame. Can anyone help me plz? thank you :D ...more >>

A page published trough Flash does not contain much text for search engines to grab for. How do you make a flash page (the html file) searchable for search engines. TIR...more >>

I have a video image here - http://neapco.beyondunreal.com/n_capabilities.php?type=oem - and the client wants to remove the vertical lines left and right. Can I do that? If so, how? -- Murray --- ICQ 71997575 Adobe Community Expert (If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)...more >>

Hello, On some of my files, when I drag a checkbox on the stage, either from the components or library. No matter what I do, I can not get it to display as a checkbox, it looks like an empty text field. Do the same thing to a blank form or other file and no problem. There is not much to th...more >>

First of all i should say that i use Flash MX. The problem i have is that i have a movie with three frames. In each frame i have a print button . I want when i push it to print the frame in which i am. For example when i am in frame 1 and push the print button to print frame 1 onl...more >>

I have a site in flash, www.mousemedia.it and when you view it in firefox, it is very very small. Has anyone had this problem? I did a search on the board and found nothing thank you Michael ...more >>

Hi guys, I am having trouble with my Flash "webcam" video input resolution. I want to make it full screen as i am planning to do installations with the effects i'm doing to the inputed videos. I know the webcam is only 1.3 megapixels so it's not possible to get a clear picture input on a f...more >>

Hi guys, im kinda new in flash. I just want to know "how can i make an object rotate around an object"? like for example i have a circle and around it is a text line, so how can i make the text line rotate around the circle? ...more >>

Would it be possible to create a Flash application that splits an MP3 file? I want to enable users to cut out a portion of an MP3 file. ...more >>

I literally just loaded FLash 8 and have spent about 4 hours looking working in the program. All I want to do is take my top web banner and dissolve to another and then to another (4 photos in all). Anywhere I can learn these basics faster? ...more >>

can flash play a sound by you telling it to play a frequency? like maybe a function like playFrequency(440) would play an a?...more >>

I would like to have hundreds of pages in typewriting effect. I am new to action script and Flash MX 2004. Cn any one explain me the detailed procedure and script for this purpose ? Hrlp is greatly appreciated. ...more >>

Hello, I have a simple rollout menu that is a button/movie clip that slides out when moused over. There are links to other pages on the rollover.. but because they are on top of another large button (the menu background), the menu disapears when the links are moused over. What does on...more >>

Ok i got a code from the help om Flash 8 pro and it said i could skip scenes and frames but when i tried it it could only skip to the next scene and the first frame. and only one button works! so can u help he with another code. O ya i was wondering how could u apply a action into the button i...more >>

Hey folks, i have a long (10 min) video with lots of cue points i'm exporting to FLV. Problem i'm having is i have to enter all the event/cue points again each time i encode the video by hand. Is there any way to "save" the cue points you define prior or after the encode so you can load up the...more >>

i'm on a mac... os 10.4.5. any ideas? thanks....more >>