I am using Flash to design something (playing cards) using vector art. But, I am having trouble finding the elusive Free Stuff. Is there a library of vector clip art that anybody can use? I found some EPS stuff, which Flash promptly refused to display. ...more >>

Hi, I'm using the mediaPlayback component for a project, but want to change the look of it. If I use this code myPlayer.setStyle("themeColor", "0xFEBD2F"); the pause button changes to orange but all other buttons stay green. Does anyone know of a component that can be used for playing mp3...more >>

I having a problem with Macromedia Flash Player & I don't know what to do. I have the latest version of it install on my system, which is Windows XP Pro, and yet whenever I go to a webpage that uses Flash, it says I need to install the Flash Player! I went to Macromedia's website but I didn't ...more >>

Hi all, I am sure this has been a hot topic for years and I did do various searches and was surprised not to find anything on it quickly. Sorry if this has been discussed a lot, as I imagine it has. We are able to make our functioning mac and win projector with our win version of flash 8...more >>

Hi, I'm just trying to jump the user from frame 10 to 15 on mouse over and return to 10 on mouse out. I tried to click on my finished button and add this to the action box. ('menu' is the name of my button). Didn't seem to work though. Please advise. on (rollOver) { menu.gotoAndPlay(15...more >>

Hello, I feel like I am losing my mind, and this may be a very easy fix that I am overlooking, but I am trying to just change the Get URL address of something that I did a long time ago. When I open the file, I found 2 instances where I put in the new URL in place of the old one, but when...more >>

Powerpoint has an add in called "Swiff Point Player" that enables you to insert and play flash movies into power point presentations. I installed this add on to powerpoint. When I follow their instructions (basicaly poihnt and click) to add the swf file, an error message says "your system...more >>

In .fla files where I'm linking to an external .flv file (progressive download), why do I need to add enough frames to the timeline to to the length of the video? Logically it seems to me that the timeline should stop, play the video, and then come back, and this is really what I would like i...more >>

Is there some properties box somewhere that will tell me the total number of frames or total time for an FLV? I can see the time after I encode the files, but that information doesn't seem to stick around. Thanks. ...more >>

I just installed the new Flash Player 9 and went and viewed a site www.claudiacreates.com and it will not render. This is on my mac and on my windows machine....more >>

Ok... I went to adobe.com and click to download the latest version of flash player(9). I published a flash file published under flash player 8 settings and used the new On2 VP6 to encode some video. I export a .swf and an HTML file. When i open the HTML file the movie plays fine. When i try ...more >>

I want to transform static origami (paper folding) diagrams found in books into flash animations. Anybody have an idea of how i could best go about it?...more >>

Currently, I have a map of the united states, where each state is a button that jumps to another page when you click on it. I also have a list of customers and the (town, STATE) where they are located. I would really like to be able to have flash coordinate with a list, be it XML or othe...more >>

We are working with a set of old files, first developed in Flash 4 or 5. They contain text, audio, and embedded QT video, and they were published as .mov files. We've converted the videos to .flv files and now we need to link to the ..flv files, using progressive download, and keeping all th...more >>

Uh, Yeah Where is the freakin' flash 9 debug player or stand alone player for PC's for that matter...more >>

Anyone with Flash Video experience - pls respond. I've tried all sorts of framerates (15 fps, 24 fps, 30 fps) and bandwidth bitrates (300, 400, 700kbits) with my video - and even cropped my 300 x 360 px video to 288 x 352 (in order to make each dimension divisible by 16) - all to no avail. Sou...more >>

Hi, I just went through the ActionScript tutorial for the jigsaw puzzle found here: http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_tutorial/actionsc ript_tutorial02.html I would like to change the image used for the background and the puzzle pieces, and am running into p...more >>

Please check out the menu of this http://www.grave-digger.de/index_english.html. Any ideas how to create something like this? Each menu option has a different image assigned and when you click the option it changes one image by another with a fading effect. I know how to fade images and how ...more >>

Flash 9 is now available, but still no Linux version available. What is planed for Linux? I'd read a few moths ago that flash 8.5 will be released for Linux. Any news? Steph....more >>

I've tested my sites today, and Internet explorer required me to install Flash Player 9, even on the ones that were published for Flash player 6! When declining the install, my old swfs didn't want to play. Shouldn't be that way, right? The same did not happen on Firefox, probably because ...more >>

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a software that will turn a Flash movie into a Screensaver. I am interested in knowing the good, the bad, and the ugly! Thank in advance!...more >>

Continuing my adventures into component usage. I noticed that if the List component is still focused, but disabled, it will continue to listen to Key events. Causing the desired outcome to be thrown for a loop. ...more >>

hi i have a graphic that includes the white background. how do i eliminate the white so i can place the graphic on top of a blue background and the white does not show? thanx reid...more >>

hi, what do stroke hinting & what's mean it ? can i see image after & before check stroke hinting ( to know what do in stroke ) ? thanks inadvance ......more >>

i want to say 'if the root current frame is greater than 40 and less than 50... if (_root._currentframe= ?) sorry, i'm kinda crap at this! please help!......more >>

I created a flash file that works something like this website (http://www.lafitness.com/Pages/default.aspx). I have three images with text flying from the center and ending outside of the stage. The problem that I am having is that at the end of my last frame it doesn?t start over smoothly. ...more >>

I have created an online comic using the slide presentation method so that people can move forward and backward through the comic...however I am needing to upload this with a preloader at the beginning so people can see the progress of the download. I am quite new to flash and could really us...more >>

I am trying to creation a motion tween on a label, it just moves from postion a to b, the animation looks ok on stage. after I click test movie, the label doesn't show up, however I know that the end of the frame in the animation is reached because I put a trace on that frame. what's going o...more >>

The purpose of this project is to take an existing PowerPoint training presentation and convert it to an interactive Flash file that can be accessed via the web and completed by people via the web. This is what I've done (working with Flash Pro 8): 1. I have set up my file as a Presentatio...more >>

Hello, I'm not an advance flash user, end we are adding flash video (FLV) in our website by progressive download. I configured all parameters such as path, autoplay, volume, etc, but I wish to set the autoload to flase, since I don't want the video to start downloading until de play button...more >>

hi i'm creating an array like so... _root.myArray1 = new Array(); and then pushing some variables into it. how can i delete the array and start over at a new part of the movie?...more >>

In all my flash movies I've a strange behaviour that happens only whit Mozilla Firefox. When I go over a clickable area it just doesn't work and it's located lower than expected, with Internet explorer and opera I don't have this problem. The clickable areas are movieclips with on(rele...more >>

Greetings all, I have Flash player 8,0,22,0 installed on a Dell P4 and for some reason, when clicking on menu options or images at: http://www.motogp.com/en/motogp/index.htm the links simply do not open. Other Flash heavy sites do seem to work okay. Another oddity is that if I try ...more >>

Hello there, I'm trying to develop a small multimedia application which will use the Tree component as the menu navivation. I've managed to setup the tree object and load the menu titles from an external .xml file. The problem i'm experiencing is that i cannot assign actions to the menu sel...more >>