Say a developer develops a basic .html site that is viewable cross-browser. Now, taking advantage of features available in one browser, he or she develops content that uses those features. Not wanting to negatively impact the experience of other browser users, whose browser cannot use t...more >>

Hi All, Anyone who has VERY strong opinions on not using wmode transparent, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY unti AFTER this test. Let's see the results. Respectfully, Jeckyll, that means you. I have heard from several people on this site to not use wmode transparent. I have been using it for the p...more >>

Hi all. I have a .swf file that was published for Flash Player 6 and has a 30fps frame rate. On my Mac it plays fine, on the PC it plays fine, but when I view it in a browser on my PC and online it plays quite a bit slower. Why is this and can it be fixed? Help would be hugely appreciated....more >>

I just built an app that loads multiple swfs (one at the time). the loaded swf then loads text from a file. I built the whole thing and tested it with Ctrl+Enter and all along the building process it worked like a charm. If I go to the folder where the swf files are and I execute "level 0" swf...more >>

I'm a beginner at flash and i am in the process of making a main menu for a game. I created various movie clips (masking text, shaping tween of boxes) and i thought it would be easy enough just to copy the final frames of all the movie clips and could make that the final main menu, when i past...more >>

I'm more or less a novice when it comes to Flash, but here goes anyway. I've created an animation in Flash and tried exporting it as a Quicktime Video in order to do further work on it in After Effects. It exports fine, but when played back none of the animations are playing. It seems as i...more >>

hello, i begin in Flash and i ask if is necessary to create a separate layer for every symbols to able use them in motion tween !! ...more >>

We would like to export a character animation from flash with an alpha channel, then import into final cut pro and key charcter anim over live video. I that possible? If so, a detailed explanation how please. We've tried numerous exports from Flash 8 .... alpha doesn't show. thanks, r...more >>

I want to add the following code to a button in my flash project. This is coded for HTML. (I didn't create it, it is a 'tell a friend' link from a 3rd party service we are using, I don't know javascript.) How can I include this script in my Flach project. Where do I put it and does it have t...more >>

When I place a swf file into html, upload and view on a pc there is a border that appears when you roll your cursor over top of the image. if you click the image, it goes away but i want it removed from the beginning. below is a link to a splash page which demonstrates the border. place you ...more >>

helo, I have a dynamic textfield and the font is formatted using font symbols. The text field also would do a little animation and some part of it needed to be formatted like I need the title to be in bold font. All of the text would come from a mysql server using php and the query would b...more >>

Hello, I have a secure (HTTPS) webpage, and within that webpage I have links set up for users to view external SWFs (FlashPaper documents). When they click on the link (https://...../document.swf) they get a security warning from IE (this page contains both secure and non-secure items). ...more >>

Where does one find a tutor for Flash + SQL database integration? Thanks....more >>

Hey, I created this banner for a site and was wondering a few things that maybe someone could assist me on. first off heres the URL: http://duaneforrest.com/_cody/header.html The biggest issue would be to the far right i have the bar that follows the mouse, whats happening is its follo...more >>

Does anyone know how to get rid of or hide the bright green highlights on selected input text fields? When you tab through the various fields whichever one you're on has the highlight, and it really doesn't work with the design for the site I'm working on. Even if anyone knows if you can s...more >>

I'm trying to use the polygon lasso tool to trace the roof of a building. Every time I complete (close) the tracing shape it automatically rounds a couple of the corners instead of leaving them at the angles they should be. The corners it is rounding seem to be very slight angles as opposed ...more >>

Get URL of current browser page (incl. ?args) containing current SWF --------------------------------- I looked for 11 hours over two days for a solution to the problem, then today ---- Wings Gauray said: >>>>>>> getURL("javascript:window.document.testSWF.SetVariable('strURL', d...more >>

Hi, I am beginning to explore the built in Flash quiz template in an effort to ultimately include them into an eLearning framework. I have built a very simple test case where I load a published quiz template dynamically into a movieClip on the timeline. quiz_mc.loadMovie("QuizTest1.sw...more >>

I was using some code that worked perfectly in Flash MX 2k4 but is causing recursion errors in Flash 8. Attach an eventListener to a TextInput or TextArea calling a 'focusOut' event. In the focusOut method, call an Alert component. Tabbing from the first input to the next causes a recursi...more >>

I am making a small animation in my project that uses the sound clip of a train. This clip may be shown many times so it may get a little annoying after a wile. To counter this I want to make a button that will turn this one sound clip off. I was hoping someone could help me with the code f...more >>

Hi.. I have problem when i open Macromedia Flash Pro 8 The Tools Window is shown but its Disabled... i tryed to uninstall/install Flash but the problem is still... and when i close Macromedia Flash Program .. it close but it will still in the resident memory... iam using Windows XP. doe...more >>

Hello, this component found in this page ( http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/ ) is so interesting because it synchronizes to speech to the text. Could anybody inform that component is this and where I can get the download of one? Thanks, Bechara ...more >>

hi all, i have an issue with my swf file, I want to call an external swf file in my current swf file. I did that correctly, but after loading my external movie, i used some scroll bar in my external swf file, that is not working properly. Could anyone please help me out with how to solve this ...more >>

hi all, i have an issue with my swf file, I want to call an external swf file inside my current swf file. I did that correctly, but after loading my external movie, i used some scroll bar in my external swf file, that is disappeared Could anyone please help me out with how to solve this issue?...more >>

Our company, Map the World.net, produces community search maps integrated into newspapers across the country. Now recruiting those skilled in Flash to produce volumes of 10 second clips to animate advertisements and other features of these maps. Contact gary hendin, info@maptheworld.net...more >>

Hi All, I looking at using some text input fields on an angle. Similar to the contact page here http://www.created201.com/ can anyone point me in the right direction to achieve this. Kind regards, Richard McKenna ...more >>

hi all , i have a problem that i cant figure out - i have searched here but cant find anything relevant .... i have a button that is within several movie clips - one of which is masked so that the final clip appears in the screen area of a tv !! the final mc has a button that when moused ove...more >>

Hi all, I'm currently developing a flash based application for CD-Rom. Its purpose is to help kids learn a foreign language. There are a number of quizzes to be taken, the reward for completing a quiz fully or achieving a certain score (I'm not sure which yet) will be the ability to acces so...more >>

i have that problem : www.nightmare3d.com/flash_hata.JPG you will see, in center of bitmap; picture is broken... what can i do for this problem? thanks......more >>

:o How do I synchronize color change with a motion guide? For instance I just completed an animation with a scene that had a path of rocks I used the motion guide to have my object skip along this path but I couldn't figure out how to change the color of each rock as the object landed on it. E...more >>