anyone ever have this problem? I've placed javascript that calls a popup window onto a button action. When I publish the movie as HTML, the popup works spectacularly. Then, when I publish it as a flash movie, or when I try to embed the swf file in a dreamweaver page and test it, the popup...more >>

I am new to Flash, this is frustrating, I have removed and reinstalled with no help. Error warning appears and says: While executing in untitled-1, the following JavaScript error(s) occurred: At line 328 of file ?C\documents and settings\..\ Local?\App? Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004...more >>

i searched the forums and was able to find a number of tutorials on making a blurry image come into focus on rollover (or some other event)... but what if i just want a simple movie where something slowly comes into focus by itself? thanks!! ...more >>

Ok, straight up, I never took a computer class before March 06 and it took me 30 min to figure out how to post this message! I just completed my first quarter which included a class in Flash MX2004 and one in (X)HTML. I created a crude version of a website (from scratch, no text editors ...more >>

Can anyone give me a basic method to round a number to the nearest 1. e.g: if(number = 134.87896) number = 134 but i need it for any number that could appear obviously......more >>

I'm new to Flash... just about half way through the Flash Hands On Training book by Rosanna Yeung. I'm noticing there is a lot to remember. Does anyone know of a good Quick Reference Guide for Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8? ...more >>

Hello. I have a problem with the combobox component in macromedia flash mx pro 2004. I'll try to explain it properly, excuse my level of english. The movie is composed of a number of frames with few comobox instances in each one. Every time the user pass to the next frame, I store the value...more >>

I am working on my portfolio site www.pandadesign.com and in the "book" section I want to call a DHTML layer with a flash button but alas I do not know how to do this...So here i am asking the Flash gods of the net for a little help.. alos i know there is a way to have the flash UNDER the dh...more >>

I need to know how to access relative files in a directory so I can place them (or the file names) in a list within my flash application. My goal is to allow the user to download new XML files to a directory and have flash search the directory for new files. Flash would then display the files ...more >>

Dear experts, I recently created some flash and uploaded. Point to the files with IE, the swf loads. however, the strange thing is that even after the swf and everything else are loaded, the progress bar at the bottom of the IE is still moving and the status says "downloading (1 items rema...more >>

(Crosspost) We have been working on this project for the last couple years and it has finally got to the beta testing stage. Lemme 'splain what it is, what it does and what we need you to do: 1. go to the site: http://www.tornadostream.com 2. The basic concept is an online radio station ...more >>

I know this is like asking a rabbi for ham recipies, but bear with me. I am trying to send an animated logo to be posted to a site, and they require the image to be a GIF. We are trying to create an animated image, but between AfterEffects and Flash, the GIF that is exported is too slow with t...more >>

Have imported video in Flash file the FLV was created (640x480) and everything works great when I test the movie. I published it and it produces an HTML file that works on my machine. Transferred it to another machine it works great there. Then took the batch of files and loaded them up to t...more >>

Okay this is the scenario: I have a page with 3 videos. They start downloading as soon as you enter the page. What I need to do is just have the first one to automatically download and the second and third video, just show only or an image or "click to download" or something like that. I...more >>

I have spent way too long building a dynamic drop-down Flash menu. Now it is time to publish but if I use wmode to remove the bg my mouse events get all screwed up, plus from what I have read on the forums I really don't want to use wmode if I can help it. Is there any workaround here? The men...more >>

I've been looking for a while and haven't found any info on this yet... Is it possible to use the new file upload feature to transfer files through FTP? All examples I've seen have used some sort of server-side script to process the file upload. In my case, I use PHP, however with PHP there...more >>

Does anyone else see this? The "Start Page' that is displayed after launching Flash Professional 8 displays a white rectangular graphic in the upper left-hand corner that covers up the red banner. The graphic is all white excpet for the reddish-orange flash "F" symbol. It's as if it is downloa...more >>

I am able to distribute an object to layers in flash, but how can I distribute it to keyframes instead. There are 600 small objects in the image so I would rather not do it by hand. Thanks jay:confused; ...more >>

i've imported a powerpoint presentation and i want to have sound over each frame, i've got the sounds in the library and have managed to brag them onto the correct frame, when i run it tho the sound plays over onto the next frame if it hasnt finished then you have two sounds at once, prob not ...more >>

why does this not work please take a look at these files. 92k .zip file w/ fla's (version 8) www.garyhush.com/freeMe/pathProb.zip...more >>

If i have a button and on the mouseOver frame I have a movieclip with a short animation, what's the easiest way to stop it playing again until it's finished it's current timeline? I.e. If the user repeatedly moved the mouse in and out of the button it wouldnt keep skipping back to the starti...more >>

we have a rich media piece that we started using the flash slide show presentation, thinking this would make navigating through the 5 pieces easy... however, things are getting messy. Would it have been wiser to use a regular .swf and call movie clips into it as needed? TIA, Greg ...more >>

Hi, I am new to Flash. I have an image of a group of students. I want to have the a rectangle with the students name pop up when the user mouses over the persons face. Is this something easy to do? I can not seem to isolate the rollover to just the persons face, it pops up when th...more >>

I would like to ask if it is possible to play 2 timelines (for example, the root timeline and a movieclip timeline) simultaneously. I have tried it in Flash 8 Pro. On the root timeline, I placed a movie clip. Inside the movie clip is a button. The actionscript on the button is: on(pr...more >>

I want to create an XML object from a php file on the web. I have got my php file creating everything perfectly on the web...I have to view the source of the page, but it outputs perfectly... I can paste its output to an xml file, and load that to my swf fine, but when I try to just load t...more >>

:frown; www.radiantcommunicationsnow.com Hello, When I view my site, I can see the home page image for a second while waiting for the next movie to load. Is their a way to keep this from happening? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi All, I am having some problems with rollover buttons that only work when you exit the page and then reload. Has anyone experienced this before? The website I have created is http://www.scottlawlerphotography.com.au, but the issue only seems to happen on the "Real Estate" and "Portrait...more >>

Hello, I have a problem in Flash MX 2004 where when I drag a symbol from the library to an empty frame, the symbol changes into the symbol that was behind a frame... I can't fix this problem and I don't know what is wrong... can anyone help me? it keeps on changing into the one before.... ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to get the RGB values of MC's which are loaded into the main SWF. (That means that the RGB values are not set, so getRGB returns 0). Does anyone have a solution to get RGB values for existing MC's on which setRGB is not used? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Ric...more >>

Hi all :-) I created a rotating globe with flash. It's only a fake rotation without any 3D tools. Now I have two problem, which I can't fix. One is, that the globe stagnates at one point. I don't know why it is so. The second problem is the size. The globe is around 500 x 500 pixel. But it s...more >>

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