when i make a layer for the audio, and then place the audio, when i push play, the audio plays, but does not stop playing if the frames run out, or if i click stop. I'm making a cartoon, so i need the audio to sound frame by frame, but when i run the bar over it, i hear nothing. does anybody...more >>

Hi, Please refer me to good tutorials, samples for Rewind (previous), Pause, and Fast Forward (Next) for movie clips that control the entire movie. Any advanced references for the AS would be heplful as well, instead of the simple button references. Does each movie clip to control the t...more >>

For a school project, we were assigned to create videos. I volunteered to do the video editing in my group, and I thought to do so with Flash. I, of course, know very little about the program and have used it only to create animations. I'm wondering what file type is needed in order to do ed...more >>

I'm having a problem adding flash components to a web page. Whenever I publish the movie, I can go into the generated HTML page with no problems. When I copy/paste the code into the HTML of my page, Internet Explorer pops up the "IE Has Restricted this file from showing active content that c...more >>

Hello all, I can't find any documentation on this bug. So I am wondering if anyone else has ran into this problem. Basically a working line of code: removeMovieClip(clip_mc); stops working as soon as the textArea component is a) on the stage or b) just in the library. very ...more >>

I downloaded the update I found at: http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html and believe I followed the instuctions pretty careful. But I am no guru with all this. I have a Flash site that is for a small business. I republished it for Flash Player 8 as the html fchoosing the HTTTPS ...more >>

:|For the 500th time I've lost the fla file I was working on because I forgot its name. Was it version 1, 2, 3, 4... 10? The one where the little boxes turn green or yellow on rollover, or the one with the action script that changes how it acts depending on what your cookie is? It would be...more >>

:o Dumb question - how do I create a slide show presentation in Flash (single pictures, no text) and then get it into a Dreamweaver page? Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!1...more >>

Has anyone run into this: I've got a Flash file that tests and plays fine as a stand-alone .swf. However, when I go to embed the .swf, nothing is displayed. Nada. I cannot get the .swf to embed using ANY of my usual methods. Let me know if you've run into anything similar. ...more >>

I've built a small flash movie and uploaded it to the web. It looks fine from my computer in all browsers but I viewed it on another machine this weekend and the images on the stage were much smaller, showing images outside what should have been the stage border. How can I make sure that t...more >>

i imported a avi file to flash 8 and export it (create a flv and swf file), i upload to server... PC user is ok to view the movie but why mac user can't view it? ...more >>

Have a mini-animation (which is the background) which I'd like to repeat throughout my movie. I know I can copy & paste the sequence in the timeline over and over, but I imagine there is an easier way to get the sequence to repeat? I tried gotoAndPlay(1); but it repeats the entire flash, not...more >>

Basically I am in the final year of my 7th year architectural education in the UK and have been asked to put together a presentation of my project in flash so that the external examiner can play around with it..problem is I don?t know flash and got to do it for three weeks time. I am curre...more >>

I export a flash file as a compressed avi. When I go to play it in Windows Media Player, I get a pop up that says "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. One or more codecs required to play the file could not be found." Export Settings: 24 bit color, compressed video, smooth Sound...more >>

How come querystring variables don't work with Flash Slide Presentations When I create a regular new Flash FLA and publish it I can add a querystring to the file name in the object tag and get that value back in the flash move like this: myflashfile.swf?myname=andrew But when I try t...more >>

I've got trouble while installing Flash Player, because every time this turns up: http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/6863/0a2ak.jpg this screen doesn't change, and I've got no idea what to do Does somebody knows what it means? ...more >>

I am creating a CD ROM whereby I have an series of links that play an animation of a train going to another section of the screen. I have a sound of a train for each of these, and realise that the novelty of this sound will wear thin after a while. I have created a button to stop the sound a...more >>

how do i embed flash player onto a web page? I am creating a site that will stream music and video files but i do not want these files to be downloaded. I also want to use a CMS system that will allow me to update and add more audio and video files without having to build the pages again. D...more >>

Greetings - new client wants a series of images fading into one another on their homepage. I think Flash is the way to go. I have done this before manually using pictures on separate layers and adding tweening and alpha fades but its a mare to do if there are many images and difficult to tweak...more >>

I have filled in a combobox with values from an .asp page and have used it successfully. The problem is that if the flash file is ran from a different domain from the load location, the combobox doesn't get filled in (as apposed to the error if I ran it off of my drive). datafeed.asp spits out...more >>

Is there an auto-trace function within Macromedia Flash? I need to import large quantities of bitmap images and create vector graphics from them. Tracing manually is slow going. Thanks for any help, Peter ...more >>

Hello friends, I need to send a mail using a form from flash that calls an asp file. I have created some input textbox with their variables (txtName, txtFrom, txtEmpresa, txtMessage) and a send button with the following action: on (release) { if (txtFrom ne "" & txtName ne"") { loadVar...more >>

Does anyone know where I can manually download the activex control for flash player and shockwave. I cant seem get the activex controls to install no matter what I do. Im on a PC using IE6....more >>

When trying to update my Flash player, this message came up... http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/6471/kiujh5op.jpg...more >>

I've never really been great at sound in flash, because it always struck me as being fairly complicated, but this is the first time it's legitimately not worked for me. I used the following code: var soundthrust:Sound = new Sound(); soundthrust.loadSound("cannister_loop.mp3", false); var s...more >>

Using an iMac, I'm learning Flash 8 Basic intuitively on experiences with other "Movie" programs. How do I keep the player from continuously repeating? In properties panel before exporting movie, all repeats are set to 0. Demo runs only once. My 79-year-old brain can't comprehend the HELP ...more >>

Hey, OK, so in both IE and Firefox Flash websites don't allow but one click, period. I click on a link or something and it works, but if i try and click on anything else, it won't work. The only way to get it to let me click just ONCE again is to focus on a different tab (in Firefox) or a diff...more >>

Hi, When i publish a movie i find that loads of the content is missing. Anyone have any ideas why this is? Thanks.....more >>

Hi, Hopefully someone has had this issue before and managed to resolve it. For the last couple of times I have opened Flash I have been unable to tween text. I am turning it into a Graphic symbol and using a Motion tween as I have always done. The tween is working (if I slide the timel...more >>

I just started Flash and I have learned just how easy it is, however I can't figure out how to hold a transformed (slid over) at its last position without effecting its timing. Is this easy to do?...more >>

Any suggestions appreciated... I have had to sort out someone else's Flash based web site. The site has a splash page, the user clicks on an 'Enter site' link and it opens up another window. Problem one was that, for non-Flash users, the link to download Flash was within the Flash m...more >>

I am using flash for advertising, and I usually link to the customers page by this: on (release) { getURL(clickTag, "blank"); } and in the script to publish the flash is this: <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.somesite.no/flash.swf?clickTag=http://www.customersite.no"> Ques...more >>

I am using flash for advertising, and I usually link to the customers page by this: on (release) { getURL(clickTag, "blank"); } and in the script to publish the flash is this: <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.somesite.no/flash.swf?clickTag=http://www.customersite.no"> Ques...more >>

When you include Flash on your website, does the page need to re-cache each time it is displayed on a different page, or once it has been downloaded is it always present? I'm trying to find out if by adding Flash it adds to the bandwidth space. ...more >>