Hi, I am building my first Flash site, but I got some problem, hope anyone can help me here. I am building a menu on the left and the content on the right. I want the menu half to stay but when the buttons are push; the content side will change accordingly. The question I am asking is...more >>

Guys, I have a flash movie with a button. When the user clicks the button I would like the movie to call a javascript function in the host page. I have the button on screen. The timeline section shows the 'up', 'over', 'down' and 'hit' states, then in the middle is an image of the button....more >>

I'm not really a newb to Flash, been using it for years and am in school for the programming aspect of it now. But I've never really used the LoadMovie class and I'm curious about some parts of it: If I "loadmovie" how do I control WHERE it gets loaded (I.e. it's dimensions and location o...more >>

I've seen a Flash app before that allows you to click a start point on map, then a line would follow the cursor until another point was clicked, then another, and so on...Once the "end point" was established Flash would then calculate and output the distance of the line based on the map's scal...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a link that loads a movie, but the movie loads right behind the links. In other words I can still see the links in front and the movie clip loads right behind it. I've tried link._visible = false; and a variation thereof but it still doesn't work. Below is the AS on ...more >>

All of a sudden I get a dotted line around my text after I deselect the text area. I am using flash 2004MX and I am a newbie can anyone help? vppaul...more >>

I am wondering if its possible for my client who doesn't have Flash, but has Quicktime Pro, if he can export video to a flash video file and put in the serial number of the software that he is going to buy for me so I can do the flash design side of it and the customizable skins. I already ha...more >>

Hi - I have a site with a group of Progressively downloaded FLVs. This problem occurs with only one. I can see the playhead and downloading progress on the skin. The playhead is alway right up against the download causing the vid to be choppy. How should I remedy this? TIA your help...more >>

Are there any quick fixes to the ActiveX control issue for Flash MX (not MX 2004).? I'm still using MX and what i'm publishing has to be activated by clicking on the page. Will I have to MANUALLY re-write these html files to externally load the ActiveX? ...more >>

Hey Flash Geniuses, I am exporting graphics out of Illsutrator as swf's and importing them into Flash 8 Pro. When I place an incstance of Graphic A in the "Up" state of a button, and place a movie clip in the "Over" state, the instance of the same graphic (A) in the movie clip, seems to be s...more >>

I cannot figure out how to get a embedded event cue point to advance to the next scene of a movie and have zero experience at writing action code. The event cue point is on the last frame of video and was encoded with Flash 8 video encoder. The application I am working on has three scenes. T...more >>

Just wanted to let you know that a new episode of the Director Podcast was posted on today featuring our battle between FLASH VS DIRECTOR. If you are subscribed in Itunes already, just update your podcasts and you will find our new episodes there for your listening pleasure. For those of you...more >>

would it be possible to capture an of the flash screen on which the user has created a custom item made of elements from a database? could this capturethen be passed to a shopping cart so that the user will have confirmation that this is the custom item that they want to purchase? does an...more >>

We are currently implementing a pop-up flash video player, but I have concerns that his may not fit into Macromedia/Adobe ?Best Practices? While CNN and iFilm both use pop-up video, I haven?t yet seen this done with flash video? Both CNN and iFilm seem not to support flash. http://www....more >>

Hi Community, We are developing a full screen flash project-based project and at times we need to launch .pdfs. We have this working with getURL, launching a browser which then invokes Reader within it. We have found that doing this off of a CD often takes too many seconds of time. We th...more >>

While using IE on Mac OS X 10.4.6, my flash movie disappears when I launch a simple JS pop-up window. It can be made visible again by rolling over the various parts of the movie, but that's silly. It works fine on all other browsers, including Windows browsers. Anybody? ...more >>

I am a trainer for an automation company. When looking for course authoring software that could be both web-based and CBT I came across Captivate. After playing with it I found it to be very flexible and easy to use as well as wonderful things like being able to format a published copy to expi...more >>

We are a fortune 500 media company in mid-town Manhattan. What would be the best way to obtain flash resources for our flash video project? Should I get a macromedia consultant, or look for someone from the outside? I agree that macromedia consultant may not get us the most bang for ...more >>

Does anyone know how to have text buttons travel around an image in circles, not twisted around, but simply following the shape of a circle. Actionscript or not, I need to get the text to travel around the image and then when it is highlighted with the mouse it stops moving so the user can cl...more >>

Is there anyone out there that wants to create a Flash Slideshow? I need a scrolling Thumbnail Menu down the side...that when clicked, enlarges the photo to the Right. I am willing to pay a few bucks for an editable version. Please help? ...more >>

I have inherited some flash .swf files that have a call to a .php file embedded in them - they run for a few seconds and then load the .php page. I'm replacing the php with asp. Whithout spending any money or having to learn a whole lot about flash, is there a simple and free .swf editor that wi...more >>

This is likely too basic a question, but why is there now a 'highlight' box around flash swf files on some web pages, and not on others? Is there a workaround, so you don't have to have the user click the swf - to activate the clip? Thanks in advance JS ...more >>

This is likely too basic a question, but why is there now a 'highlight' box around flash swf files on some web pages, and not on others? Is there a workaround, so you don't have to have the user click the swf - to activate the clip? Thanks in advance JS ...more >>

loadMovie(imagePath,"loadImage"); the imagePath value is dynamically set to an image on the server based on the users interaction. loadImage is an empty movie clip sitting on that timeline that receives the loadMovie command. one frame after the loadMovie command I set the width and he...more >>

Hi, I'm hoping somebody can tell me a nice easy way of displaying quiz results, so that just the user gets the result at the end of the quiz without it being sent to a LMS or score tracking system? Any help and / or examples appreciated as I'm not big on scripting! 'Am using Flash Profess...more >>

I have two scenes in my presentation, one called Intro Scene, and one called Content. Content contains all its informattion inside Movie Clips. In one of these Movie Clips, I have included a button to rerun the introduction movie in the other scene. My problem is, I am not sure how exactly...more >>

Please let me know how much you would charge to create a website similar to the one in the link below: http://www.teamcig.com Thanks,...more >>

- I create several movie clips. They appear in the library. - I instantiate the clips by dragging them onto the stage. - I decide I want a hierarchial movie clip. Thus I double click one of the clips, and drag another clip into it from the library. I now have a hierarchial clip relationshi...more >>

I was just reviewing a few of my web sites and a get a weird message with my flash nav bar. I have to click it now in order for it to start flash. What is up with that and is there any work around on it. Here is one of my sites that that I am having this problem with. http://www.lakelan...more >>

Recently I downloaded it to make a slide show,but I don't know how to use it.Anyone can give me a address to see how to use it?Thanks very much. ...more >>

Hi all. I have a nice application(swf) that is running inside a browser. From time to time i show an alert box (amonst other things). For off-the-shelf windows installs, the text in the alert box is FINE. But, for users who INSIST on setting their display properties>settings>general>DPI S...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to add more than the default 8 Hot Objects to one interaction. I actually need 16 options. I've looked through the help files and can't find anything that will allow me to add more objects. I've created them, but they don't show in the Component Inspector even after al...more >>

I'm about to build a site entirely in Flash (at the client's insistence -- I warned him about the pitfalls with regard to search engine indexing) and have been scouring Google groups looking for info about how other people are overcoming the indexing problem. However, all the useful threads ...more >>

I'm creating a slide show on Flash 8 and I want the last slide to actually be a video clip. It's a slide show where the pictures just play themselves, fading in and fading out one after the other. No viewer interactivity. So, I imported the .mpg file I need and set it in the final frame of t...more >>

Hello all, I am a long-time FreeBSD user and lately I have been wondering why there is no native release of Flash player/plugin for FreeBSD? Only supported operating systems are Windows (doh), Linux and OS X? Now that all videoclips on the net are moving to services like youtube.com and vide...more >>

Hi Everyone, I am having problem and i still cannot find any way to put skin on an Embedded FLV from Library. I have a movie which i dont want to stream through netConnection or content.Path. I just want it to load directly from Library, but if i want to add skin, then i am having difficul...more >>

Dear all, Flash is quit new for me and I don't really know how to do the following... (I'm using Flash 8 Pro) I have 5 buttons for navigation When I'm for example in "scene 2" on frame 100 (there's a stop action) and I press the first button the following should happen: play next...more >>

Hi, Can anyone help me? I'm using Flash MX, and when I get sent .fla files to edit I get a "Unexpected file format" error or a "An unknow error has occured while accessing ..<location of file.fla>" Is this because I'm trying to edit/open .fla files that aren't compatible with Flas...more >>

About 3 years ago when i was making clips in flash i had quite a handy tool where i could import a sound, and then edit it in the flash program. It brought up a small window, with the 2 Soundwave graphs and i could draw the volume lines on each channel up or down, so i cud get louder, quieter,...more >>