Hey j2studio, i am a bit confused, what you want to do is essentially this??...... Index.hml whick loads a flash Movie that is a advertisement.... after the advertisement has run it's course you want to load a different Flash movie that allows the users to choose between 5 different Movi...more >>

Having a very bizzare and odd problem with Flash MX. (not 2004 version). This is driving me crazy, I can't figure out what is causing Flash MX to crash!!! We have a pictured opened in Fireworks, then when I go to copy and paste it in Flash MX, flash quickly closes and exits, doesn't g...more >>

Does anyone know if there's a simple way to create the retro-computer pixelated look that you see often on sites like Homestar Runner? http://homestarrunner.com/games.html Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

Greetings to all, I am creating a simple page transition. I have a transparent leaf shape tween that grows as well as changes to alpah value from 0 - 100 % in 25 frames. This LeafGrowing_mc is then embedded into another mc around 13 times every 4 frames on different layers in order ...more >>

Ok, i'm trying to create a nav. where when your mouse rolls over a certain part of the screen, the nav bar slides over. And then when you rollover the buttons on the nav. the buttons also have a rollover animation. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Hutch ...more >>

I work for a Technology Company that uses Macromedia Flash Player to access its web pages. We have received a couple reports from users that receive the error message "A srcipt in this movie is causing the Macromedia Flash Player to run slowly. If it continues to run, your compuert may become ...more >>

I have dynamic TextFields that are multilingual based on browser settings. There are three swfs used in total by the orignal swf and each has an external xml file it reads translations from. Two of the three render just fine, but one swf's characters' tops are cut off. There are many kanji cha...more >>

Hello all, I am experiencing some very strange behavior with my static text in Flash Pro 8. First off, I'm having some reports from my client that on some of their machines running IE6, none of the text shows up on the flash website I've created. They see blank buttons everywhere. To ma...more >>

I'm making a little underwater thing, just a movie at this point. Anyway, I have my main underwater thing, and then I'm animating individual things (fish, plants, etc.) as their own separate projects and then importing them. It took me a while to create a seaweed that moves as if it's underw...more >>

So... I just got Flash 8.. Hoping that it wouldn't quit all the time just like my old copy of MX did.. So I finally got it, and installed on a completely different Mac. And, sure enough, it's quitting randomly.. I probably get about 5-10 minutes before either a rather large image transf...more >>

Flash defaults to 12 frames per second, but in my flash intro, at that frame rate things look a little jumpy. What's a decent "rule of thumb" when it comes to frame rates? Is it ok to go higher, to like 20 or 25? It makes things look smoother, although it increases the file size. What does...more >>

this reminds me...when you buy some commercial CD's, say hip hop, r&b e.t.c...before the music starts playing on your computer CD-rom, a splash page apears intorducing the artiste to you...after reading through the credits of the programmers, I read that some macromedia softwares and quicktime...more >>

ok I know there are a lot of posts regarding loadMovie - but I can't seem to get the info I need. Call me whatever. But here is what I'm looking to do. I am presenting a site on Monday in which the client home page will open in a DreamWeaver shell. In the middle of the page I would like to l...more >>

Ok. I'm trying to create a navigation menu on the left of my page. I have my main buttons that each entail several subcategory buttons. I want the main buttons to be the only thing displayed and then when you click on any main button, the rest of the menu moves down and the subcategories a...more >>

I'm a new Flash user and would like to know if there are any tutorials on how to do a simple Flash page where I can display my cartoons. I just want to have a cartoon show up when the user arrives and they can click a "NEXT" button or "PREVIOUS" button to go through the cartoons. Thanks ...more >>

http://www.beer.com/beer.com-Content_C-section_id-1126642896690_vb.html How did they do it? I am guessing flash. If it is flash could someone suggest where to hire a programmer. thanks mjd out ...more >>

Hey happy Flashers... i am wanting to create a rss feed in my flash movie. My movie is created dynamically from an xml file. The user creates the xml file and then flash creates the parts that they would like to see. Images, text fields, buttons, etc. I would to ass rss feed to that. Is ...more >>

I am stumped. My designs were working fine a couple weeks ago. Now, when I add a transition to text, it is not happening in the publish preview or the final version. Although it does look fine as I run through the timeline. Latest Mac OSX Please.. any help is appreciated. Thanks ...more >>

i want to have a page where the content is in a white box in the center and the background of the page itself is a color. i know i can accomplish this by putting different swf's into different html pages, assign the background color to the html page, and linking the pages together. i'd rather ...more >>

I don't remember which what I used to create my fla. How do I check to see which version it is MX or 8? Thanks ...more >>

Hello Folks, I need to build a simple animation as an intro to my website, I created it as an animated gif, but the image quality is terrible. I need to recreate it in flash, but it is much more complicated. The animation is five images tweeing into one another then all tweeing forward at...more >>

When on website, viewing something that is done with Flash Player, the browser crashes, does not freeze, just closes by itself. Win xp sp2 IE 6.0.2900 Macromedia flash player 8.0.24.0 Shackwave player 10.1.1r16 I uninstalled all macromedia, deleated and installed all new. I updated...more >>

Hi there, Searching through here, I realize there are coding workarounds for IE blocking embeded flash movies. My problem is that I am not a javascript dude (pretty much no coding ability), so I cannot seem to implimplement these. There seem to be 2 types of workaround, a seperate javascript...more >>

Hi, Im currently working at adding a streaming mp3 to my .swf. Im doing it with loadSound command. I have put the Sound Object just at the start of my movie, so it locates the file and streams it automatically. It works fine. Now I want to add only one button that toggles the sound ON or OFF. ...more >>

I'll be working on a Flash project for the web that will have several different video files that will load when their respective buttons are clicked. My questions: What is the best video file format for Flash? What frame rate? Once I've imported the video files, is it best to convert them ...more >>

Does anyone know if it is possible to stream movieclip symbols? e.g. on the main timeline I have a single frame containing a movieclip symbol. Inside the movieclip symbol there are several large bitmaps, positioned along the timelime to create an animation. I would like the animation to begi...more >>

Help I have an MP3 music file that is the same length in time as my movie I have created (40 seconds) At the start of the movie I have the following code in the first key frame to play the MP3 file from the library (see below) However on my machine and another one the mp3 fades out exa...more >>

Is it possible to put a Divx movie file into flash? If so, how can I do this to export a swf that will play the movie while it is embedded? Any help would be appreciated....more >>

I have a single button that won't work, everything looks ok but obviously it isn't. I was hoping that someone could have a quick look at it for me and see if they spot any glaring errors. If you load up the site, you will see that when you press the ^ button the black frame will move u...more >>

I am pretty experienced with Flash but I will let you know right off the bat I'm a newbie with actionscript. I am trying to create a "smart" navigation menu that, without using frames in the html pages, will have the same button highlighted when you get to a page as the one you just clicked on t...more >>

u have an illegal version of flash! i hope all of you using illegal versons of flash get wise and try to purchase, older versions very cheap. companies like adobe have added files that will slow down your cpu when an illegal copy is launched. flash 8 will be the last illegal flash product you'...more >>

I just tried to fix some problems with the fonts on my Mac and found that all my problems have been resolved except for Flash (MX Professional). Some fonts look a little funny and some even show in a different language. Seems middle eastern. Anyways, is there a way to find out what fonts fl...more >>

Can anyone advise me please. I am looking to purchase a new Apple 20" imac Intel Core Duo, but need advice as to any problems there may be with running speeds whilst the program is run in the Apple Roseta mode!? Also, is there a release time for any update to fix this? Thank you in advan...more >>

I am creating an instructional animation on an IT system with a voice over. My voice over sound file is embedded in a movie clip. The original file is a 16bit 44khz wav file. I have configured the export setting in a multitude of different ways (by right clicking on the file in the library) bu...more >>

So people can't see some of my links on my site. www.figurebynicole.com Is it becasue they have activeX turned off or a popup blocker or something. The site is 100% flash with action script here and there nothing too fancy. Any ideas why they cant view gallery and other links? ...more >>

Hello again, I'm trying to put a preloader on my flash movie so that visitors will know that something is actually moving while they wait for the movie to play... Except there are some complications... I've made a preloader the way I made this one, except in that version I was only working...more >>

I thought I had a problem with my flash mx. I was getting a windows error when attempting to open some .fla files. I could open files that I created, but I couldn't open the others. I was also getting an importer could not be loaded error message. I tried to uninstall Flash. Flash mx is someho...more >>

what happened to flash 8 with embedded fonts? everytime i click embed on a dynamic box and choose the chars i want to embed they don't appear. i've tried even taking off the export the actionscript class in frame 2, changed it back to 1 and nothing works. other fonts don't work either??? and i...more >>

HI!!! How to increase the application memory in Flash MX. Thanks!! ...more >>

Hi, i was searching the internet and i found no help so i thought i would come here and ask "How do you make a flash chat room?". I have no idea where to start so anything and everything would be a great help, i would like to have a log in so it would be able to remeber people as well (be...more >>

Hello, Some friends who want to develop games for cell phones have asked me the question which of flash lite or J2ME would be the best choice. I sincerely don't have enough idea to answer them. I am searching for answers, if anyone who knows both platforms can comment that would be very he...more >>

Hi everyone I have a question about the action panel of Flash MX2004 v7.0 I am used to work in Flash MX v6.0 ? the action panel set as Normal mode(easy to use). In Flash MX2004 v7.0 the action panel appears to only be as Expert mode. Is there a way I can set the action panel in MX2004 v7...more >>

Ok this may seem silly asking, but it's driving me crazy! How was the animation on the Home page of Macromedia built (just the circle anim)?? For the life of me I can't figure out how the circle animation was constructed.. I know all the actionscript and tweening required, but the gradient e...more >>

How do I go about assigning an action (to link to another .html page) to an imported graphic in my movie created in Flash Pro 8? I looked through the help database, but didn't have much luck. I need to assign this this link on the last keyframe for the imported image. In this case, it is a but...more >>

am developing a site that needs to gather info from users + spit it back in a flash movie. have seen this done in php, flash + coldfusion but have no idea which way is the best. other things will need to happen on the site that might tip scales (?) create user account upload comp...more >>