Hi, I am making a flash animation with imports from illustrator, using copy and paste mainly, the resolution of the animation is 1280 x 1024. The fla file has crawled to 110MB and is seriously killing my computer when i trya nd work on it. It takes 25 minutes to save! I need the final ani...more >>

I've imported a .swf file into one of my table cells. The cell is 700x200. The ..swf file is 700x200. www.associatespd.com/CHSA_Web I've recut and resaved my .psd file TWICE. I can't figure this one out. It seems that the flash file is stretching or something, its off one pixel on the...more >>

i want learn use flash action script, i want made a menu style mac dock, i found .fla files but i want learn how to made it, any body knows a tutorial, by the way if you know a profetional tutorials, i have some boocks but they just teach you the basics, so i need help if you can help me i'll...more >>

I know this should be a really easy thing to do, just have a video that needs to play in flash on a website. I've tried converting the video (originally a WMV) both to MPG and MOV files and placing in flash, but when I publish as an SWF there is no sound. I've tried publishing as a MOV, bu...more >>

Is there a correct color space for flash or anyway to handle color management? ...more >>

Working on a flash template, when I pull it up in the browser, it says on the top "press spacebar or enter to activate and use this control". I would like the page to be ready when someone calls up the url, without hitting the enter or spacebar key. Is this a setting in the movie or my browser...more >>

Hi, new here. I am trying to figure out if it will be better to use flash or javascript to do a new project. I have a large drawing that i have on a page as a jpg using html. It's similar to a road map, but not with real places, but signs and such leading to other signs dealing with treatin...more >>

Hi All, I need to play a sequence of movieClips in the timeline. Basically I want to do a self moving slide show with no triggering by use of buttons. I need each MC to have a its own timeline so I can annimate each photo which I can do I just need to know how to know when the first fram...more >>

I have an old flash site that a sustermer wants me to update but I nolonger have the flash file. is there any way I can use the swf file to recreate the flash file?...more >>

this isn't another one of those "hey, i just noticed.... anyone got a fix?" questions ? i've read up on the subject a little (i stop at the point that my eyes start to glaze over) and what i'm unclear on is whether this is something that affects ALL flash sites. in other words, how do i know i...more >>

I am previewing eveything and have been working with flash for years. My flash works fine and it works when exported to dreamweaver, but when I upload everything the flash is just not there??? I have no idea why, can someone help? P.S. I currently have 5 different webpages and have never...more >>

Hi, Im in the process of adjusting my sites to accomodate the recent ie issue. I thought i would wait a few weeks until the bugs within the developing fixes were ironed out. Anyway, I am unable to update my IE and so i am unable to view the activation requests and borders. So i have no ide...more >>

I've been converting PowerPoints and Quicktimes into Flash presentations for the Web. It seems that a file, stealthray.swf, has been traveling along with all the other products of these presentations. I got a warning about stealthray.swf while trying to run a CD with a presentation on it. T...more >>

Hi, What would the best way to check for flash in an html page ? If user has flash then go to the next page, otherwise install flash or link them to the installation page. Aleks ...more >>

Hi Is there a way to set the panel set to the default i made? Everytime i make a new fla it keeps going back to the Default set in the program. I have to open panel sets and choose the one i want.Cant find a way to do this , do i need to go into a file and change something.This is very ...more >>

I've always accepted the fact that a swf or other active content will appear on top of any content on a web page. However, I've seen what appear to be DHTML menus drop down over a swf on some sites. Like for example this site http://www.adobe.com/. Some have offered the suggestion that it ...more >>

I have a short video clip I've encoded with the Flash Video Encoder. I want to bring the clip into my site and have it play in it's own scene as my intro. When it is done playing I want to immediately jump to the next scene which is the main body of my site. How do I do this? I've looked every...more >>

Hello! I have a wierd problem. When I open my site in explorer, there is a dotted line around the Flash movie. This does not happen on all computers. When dragging the cursor over the flash movie, it seams like the whole thing is a button. Difficult to explain but I have never experienced it...more >>

hi to everybody since microsoft applied some patches to IE 7, around every flash movie there's a sort of lined border which ask you to activate the flash control. of course this restriction confuses users who are not so careful about messages .. thus making them think that something doesn'...more >>

Hello, i have a several pages of site layout for a flash website made in corel draw. now i would like to import the elements for the website into flash, but so far all my attempts at exporting from corel in various formats and importing into flash didn't work out well. Does anyone have exp...more >>

I have one question - I have a website in flash where I'm loading SWFs into the main scene. I of course want to have there a loader which will show me how much is already loaded. I have it like that the LOADERbar is a part of a SWF which will be loaded (first scene) which after that jumps to ...more >>

i got to do somthing in flash for my college and i want to do some sort of video clip wher you see a plant growing very very slow in coordination with some music ... the thing is im not supposed to use any actionsscript just the basics thing in flash (like tween and such) can it be done? ...more >>

Hello, Is it relatively easy to create drop-down menu's with transparent drop downs? Any step by step help would be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advance, Jaz...more >>

Hi, I would really appreciate any help on this subject as it's been bugging me for a while. I need to export my flash animation (using flash 8) into AfterEffects but keep the background transparent. I've tried setting 32bit alpha and alpha-transparent on the Quicktime options but once opened i...more >>

I've created a VERY simple flash animation of two squares moving toward each other. I've got two MovieClips of two squares with a "stop()" action on their first frames. When I write on the first frame in the root: _root.square1.gotoAndPlay(2); _root.square2.gotoAndPlay(2); it acts li...more >>

I recently uninstalled Flash by mistake. I download Flash to my desktop and installed, but it doesn't show up on my Add and Delete programs in Windows. Before I accidently uninstalled, it showed up. I've tried to reinstall, but it still does not show up on Windows Add and Delete. Don't know ...more >>

I'm new to Flash and have just created my first animation. What I want to do is have people click anywhere on the file, and it will open mail and be ready to send it to a specified address. Is this possible? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers Dave ...more >>

Can anyone tell me where a good tutorial might be on flash components and how to use them.....specifically the scroll pane component? Ive scanned some flash tutorial sites but havent really found any that explain how to use the components flash comes with. Thank you. ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I'm somewhat new to Flash so please forgive me if these are stupid questions. First, I'm working though the tutorial on creating a slide show presentation. When I close out and reopen later, it doesn't seem to be all there--especially what I had created in the Time Line area. I ...more >>