I have a hidden form that I want to pass the value to another Web page. I want to know if it is possible to send the form without clicking a submit button. I have a Macromedia style menu (Flash) and would like to be able to pass the form value when I click on the menu. Is this possible? If so ...more >>

:confused; Look guys, I'm an enthusiastic After Effects user... for me it's one of the best post-production tools ever invented. My question: why bother learning Flash (a web-based animation program) when I can simply work in After Effects (cool for video/broadcast) and then encode my stuff ...more >>

:confused; Look guys, I'm an enthusiastic After Effects user... for me it's one of the best post-production tools ever invented. My question: why bother learning Flash (a web-based animation program) when I can simply work in After Effects (cool for video/broadcast) and then encode my stuff ...more >>

Hi, first time user to this forum. Flash is not working for both IE and Firefox. What happens is that I will be at a website where Flash is running and instead of seeing something animated I will see the QuickTime logo then a broken QuickTime logo. Upon checking the settings for QuickTime i...more >>

I was reading this article <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rich_media_ads/articles/flash_ad_kit.html">htt p://www.adobe.com/devnet/rich_media_ads/articles/flash_ad_kit.html</a> and this seems to be what I need for my project, when I go to page ...more >>

Well the topic summary says it all. It seems that everytime I try to open a webpage with a .swf extension (ex. <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.freewebs.com/donjworks/snipe.swf">http://www.freewebs.com/donjw orks/snipe.swf</a>), it just shows a white screen ...more >>

I am building a menu that's items do a little animation when moused over. I have the animation just how the client wants it and now want to duplicate the button modifying the text. I figured just right click>duplicate in the library panel. This is what the help says to do but when I try and modify...more >>

I need to encode my short films (up to 5 mins long only) edited in Final Cut Pro into .flv files so they can be delivered to a web design company who will stream them in my customer's Flash website and I don't know how! I believe Sorenson Squeeze could do it, once I have exported a QT, but ...more >>

I was working on a flash animation and allmosssttt had it complete... Been working on it non stop for about an hour and a half. But of course, my stupidity gets me every now and then - and I didnt save it at all. Right when I was going to, Flash "encountered an error" and had to close. Is ther...more >>

hello guys, i found a tutorial to add effect on a text, he ask me to convert a text in grafics symbols, break appart the letters and applying a gradient linear on each letter individualy but he don't work, i tried with simple rectangle or circle and the gradient linear work very well. an ide...more >>

I am trying to load an external movie with a preloader on it. The problem is after the first time I load the external, it still shows the preloader a little before going to the main frame. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, I have a very simple MP3 player on my flash site in the form of a movie clip. 1. When I open up the page the player is on, it starts playing a song immediately despite the fact I added stop and stopallsound action script. How can I fix the code so a song only plays when the user clicks...more >>

How would I go about preloading an attachMovie clip?...more >>

Is there a way to automatically scale keyframes in the main timeline without having to manually move each and every keyframe or change the FPS to get the desired timing? For example: My movie 100 frames long and it?s set to play at 10 FPS. I have a keyframe set on every 10th frame. I p...more >>

Hi all...I produced a banner with a movie in streaming! When I publish, I have the swf with the interface, the .flv and the .swf with the skin... Is it possible to have the skin in the same place of the interface, so I have just one swf and the flv? Thanks all... ...more >>

I'm having some masking issues with Flash 8. I've created a movie clip containing static text that simply scrolls in under a mask, thus revealing it on the timeline. By itself the text looks fine, but when the mask is applied the text becomes pixelated. This never happend to me in previ...more >>

Hello everyone (still raining where you are??) Basis of problem: Have input boxes on stage. Would like to compare the results to an array through a loop. I am not fully understanding how. Taking the existing Input Text Box Variable enter_1 (1- 14) and assigning the number to a standa...more >>

Sounds like you need to clear your cache. If you are using Internet Explorer the swf will be stored in your system cache so that the page loads faster on return visits. Either clear your I.E. cache (Tools>Internet Options>General Tab>delete temp files etc...) or just rename your swf and upload...more >>

I am just setting up a simple maske to make some text glisted. I have done it before ages ago, but for some reason it's not working right. I have three layers:- The Top layer is the text Underneath comes a rectangle mask with a gradient where the sides are the background color and the...more >>

Ok after a couple of hours this is what I have found, and I am after someone to either tell me its a bug or its supposed to happen If you create a text field and have it Render As HTML, its all good until you decide to embed the font for the text field. For some reason, no text inside ...more >>

Last night I was messing around with an HTML/Flash template a friend of mine sent me through email. This is a pretty high quality and professional looking website that I'm looking to edit and insert into my own site. My problem is this; first I tried editing the swf file that came with the tem...more >>

Please somebody help. I created a site with flash, when I open it from my computer it works fine. When I open it from someone elses's computer it popups a message that says something like this: Some files can harm your computer, something about downloading or save...when Iclick to open it say...more >>

I'm watching a flash movie on the internet and there is no way for me to pause it. There are 1 frame snippets of words that I can't make out because they go by too fast. Can someone tell me how to pause a flash movie? When I right click all I get is rewind and forward but those don't work. ...more >>

I have designed a small presentation for distribution on CD"s. Three of the links need to be Power Point Presentations. Does anyone know how I can make it so the when the buttons are released they open the presentations? Any help would be great. Thank you, Katie ...more >>

Well the title says it all. Every fix I've tried makes my flash movies, go white at the beginning. Like flashes of light. This isnt happening on all my pages, thought, just some. Yet they are all set up the same, using DW MX Does anyone know about this issue? Is there a solution? TIA Ame...more >>

I can't seem to get this right. I have a button with go to and play for a specific frame label. When I test in flash it works fine. When I put the flash in dreamweaver I have to click twice to get it to go to and play. What am I missing. It seems pretty simple, however obviously I am miss...more >>

is there a way to select and move several layers at once? I have several text layers that I simply need to move down - I have increased the size of the original flash file to add some more information and, I can't figure out how to select all the layers and move them down together. Every tim...more >>

Hi, Check this out: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.forwardtogetherpac.com/">http://www.forwardtogetherpac.com/</a> A flash movie with the person talking pops up at the bottom of the screen. But how is it done to make the background of the video tr...more >>

I'm haveing a hard time. I've placed a progressive download flash video into a web page and everything works fine until the page is uploaded to the internet. Once it's on the internet the page acts like the movie doesn't even exist. I dont' get it. Could this be related to detecting weather th...more >>

Hi guys, I've been searching in the whole website but I've never found something about this problem. I've a multilingual website with textfields html enabled. mytext_txt.html = true; mytext_txt.htmlText = "&Egrave;"; the result should be ? but it shows &Egrave; When i send a char...more >>

I?ve stumbled across an interesting bug: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://blog.guya.net/2006/05/21/watch-me-bleed-fatal-error-in-flash-70-72/ This">http://blog.guya.net/2006/05/21/watch-me-bleed-fatal-error-in-flash-70-72/ This</a> bug crushes Flash 7 IDE...more >>

Hi, I've managed to lose my Studio MX 2004 CD but I still have my registration code. First of all is it possible to download the programs and install them and secondly where do I find them? thanks Matt ...more >>

I create a static text which contains a text, and then I create a dynamic text and assign a value to it. I set the same format to both of them but when I publish it; their views are different in the swf file. Why? Is it usual? ...more >>

I have a dynamic textfield in a movieclip. I control the _alpha of the movieclip with AS. The background of the movieclip will fade but not the dynamic textfield. Any suggestions as to how to get the textfield to fade as well? Cheers Alfred ...more >>