Hello! I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with an issue I am having with the Select arrow. Example: Frames 30 - 46 are a motion tween and when I try to select frame 35 the select arrow selects the whole group (frames 30 - 46) and not just frame 35. Also my select arro...more >>

I am working on a Flash based online demo and because of corporate branding standards I have to use the "Myriad Pro" font. I have this font installed on my system (PC) and programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc are able to see the font just fine. Flash however does not like this font (...more >>

Regarding your press release: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200606/062106AdobeGoogle ..html Like a lot of people I do not like getting other software installed on my PC that I did not ask for. Real Networks did the same thing when installing Real Player, an...more >>

I'm creating a multimedia disc with flash, and when I publish it it plays fine, but when I burn it to CD the projector crashes. If I publish it a mac projector it works fine. Any help??...more >>

i have a mac intel. i was workin on my preloader tutorial today, and i suddenly got the little spinny rainbow of death. and it doesn't go away. i leave it some time to catch up. i have lunch, do stuff, and at 5:30 i come back and its still spinning! the only thing i can do now is force quit fl...more >>

I am having trouble with (what I thought was) a simple animation with a jpg. The image is a photo of a house. All I want to do is move the image behind a frame and create a sort of panning effect. The problem is that the image becomes distorted when it is moving and it takes on a sort of ju...more >>

Hi I need to make a simple flash animation - there are about a dozen talk clouds/bubbles, on a simple gradient blue Background and I need for only one cloud/bubble to be on screen at a time, then fade off, then up comes another one, then fades off and so on until the last thought bubble co...more >>

Is there a way to prevent FLV files from showing up in the cache, or atleast protecting them from local playback? I do not want to use Flash Communication Server and I have already tried all of the ASP and Meta tags, so another method would be great. Thanks! ...more >>

Hi all, I would like to program a control-click feature in Flash. I want to be able to control-click on one of my existing buttons and produce a "hidden" feature/movie clip. I'm hoping this "control-click" can be used on both PC and MAC. I've searched on the forum but w/o much luck, and I'...more >>

How do I set up the stage to it fits the contents exactly? There is always a border of 100 or so pixels. Basically I have to batch extract a bunch of images from FLA files and put them in their own .fla so I can batch publish them with a project file. So another solution could be is there ...more >>

Hi, I know there must be a simple answer, but when I make buttons in flash, they go straight to the link, however, many sites I see, when you click a button, it, e.g. flies off to the site, or fades away or many things happen, but how is it done. In short, if I have a navigation menu a...more >>

Greetings. Me and a friend are developing a videogame using Macromedia Flash MX 2004. The videogame is featuring plenty of 3D art imports in the form of JPGs. Since the videogame aims at being similar to an RPG (Role Playing Game), it features several heroes. Each heroe (done in 3D but ...more >>

:confused; Can anyone point out the different between Dreamweaver and Flash? I used Dreamweaver for a while and recently tried Flash, but getting lots of feedback , some people takes a long time to get to the site. Also, some people said they can not access to the site, and Mac user have ...more >>

Hello, I emailed Adobe/Macromedia about this, but never heard back. If you change the color of a movie clip using the adjust color filter via the interface or on the fly via action script, the changes will not print. When the image is sent to the printer, the original colored mc will print ...more >>

Hi, I'm still new to using Flash and Actionscript and I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a quick code to get the Flash movie to stop on a certain frame and the continue when the user hits ENTER. I've tried experimenting with Actionscript and I've gotten the frame to stop/play but ...more >>

Hey all... I am working on an interactive presentations that will run on computers in retails stores, and was wondering if anyone knows of an all-in-one solutions for locking out computer functionality other than the presentation itself. Essentially we are concerned about people mucking ...more >>

I am using Flash and Slideshowpro for an image gallary. Is there anyway to allow someone to righ-click and selct copy/download of an image? The only options available are: Zoom In, Show All, Quality, Settings and About Flash. ...more >>

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I have several sites with a combination of HTML and Flash/Menus. If I load a new movie using php that has a menu in it, the user has to click once to activate and second to use the menu, and if that command calls a new file to load via a php command, they have to do both steps again. I have ...more >>

Can annybody tell me if there is still a way to purchase Animoi converter (bought by Macromedia / Adobe end 2004). They had a converter that enabled the creation of Multimedia Java content (J2ME MIDlets) for telephone market , simply by using Flash (4) and then converting it to J2ME. H...more >>

I have developed a CD ROM, and it was working ok up til now. When I go to play the projector file now, it sometimes runs out of virtual memory, saying flash is low on memory. to increase available memory quit flash and allocate more memory in the system properties dialogue box. Can somebod...more >>

I have developed a CD ROM, and it was working ok up til now. When I go to play the projector file now, it sometimes runs out of virtual memory, saying flash is low on memory. to increase available memory quit flash and allocate more memory in the system properties dialogue box. Can somebod...more >>

I have developed a CD ROM, and it was working ok up til now. When I go to play the projector file now, it sometimes runs out of virtual memory, saying memory low, change device property settings. Can somebody please tell me, is this that my computer hasn't enough RAM or is there a propert...more >>

Hello. First off i should say that I am not very hardcore in flash ! I have a problem that probably is quite simple for you to solve. After getting flash 8 i seem to have problems making a moviclip with a fading text i make a clip in the clip i enter some text then i make 4 keyfr...more >>

Hi.. I'm having a problem with the character @ in firefox.. I have a flash movie with a input field. I'm portuguese, and my keyboard is set to portuguese. The normal use of @ is Alt Gr+2, but on firefox it just inserts a 2.. but if i go Shift+2 like english keyboard setting it accepts.. ...more >>

I'm using something called Gallery by Dali from http://www.tufat.com/s_flash_image_gallery.htm It's pretty incredible, and as long as you can edit some basic XML you can use it. There are some pretty cool flash animation effects. In general I've been extremely happy with it. Got it running i...more >>

Hi I use MS E Learning for Office 2003. This works fine on Flash 6 and 8.0.24 (flash8a.ocx). However, on another machine which has the latest flashplayer flash8b.ocx, it no longer works. It just sits there trying to load.... and nothing happens. The E Learning files are on the network sh...more >>

Hello All, I have a problem with one of my Flash navigations in FireFox only. Here's the link: http://apexcommunity.donet.com The Flash has a dynamic mask with onRollOver and onRollOut calling a function that changes the size of the mask (revealing the rest of the Flash content - o...more >>

do we need to have both <object> and <embed> int he html code? I've tested in IE6, Firefox, Opera8, and Netscape8, they all work fine with just the <embed> tag. Only IE works with the <object> tag alone. I hate having redundant code, can I safely omit the <object> wrapper? thanks ...more >>