Okay, so I just tried installing - that went well. When I start the flash program, it waits a bit - screen flickers (refreshes it seems) and I get this error message. "Flash has encountered a problem and needs to close..." help. ...more >>

Hello, I need to make my flash header wider (from 667 to 760 or less). Is there an easy way to make the canvas enlarge from the left side instead of adding canvas to the right? I don't want to redo the picture effect on the right side of header. Thought it would be easier to enlarge graphi...more >>

Hi! I've just ot Flash 8 Pro at college and I'm pretty much a beginner to this... I've made the odd simple movie with it before but only with my own trial and error methods. I'd like to get some resource which will help me learn it fairly quickly (although obviously theres a lot of wor...more >>

I somehow managed to turn on the end of line indicator icon in my Flash 8 IDE. It also shows a dot for all spaces and >> for all tabs. Would any of you know how to turn this off? Thanks! solidtran ...more >>

I recently created a Breeze Sync Swf application that basically functions as a doorbell. I need to allow participants to use it so I used the allowParticipantPublish() Method. Everything works great, but the issue I have encountered is that when the meeting is first started, a host or presen...more >>

i have a menu index on my site and i created it in flash and have multiple layers with their own buttons for home page, members, forum,etc. and these buttons move around differently thats why they are in separate layers; i need to know how to have those separate buttons link to separate pages,...more >>

Hello, I am trying to diplay the capture of a camera that I have on my video capture card locally. I can't see the cameras when I try to add the camera. I have a USB camera that works without problems. However, when I use the same code and try to connect to my video capture code, the came...more >>

Hi, I'm fairly new to flash and I have several sites that are effected by this IE Update with Microsoft. I'm currently using Flash MX. I'm not sure if I need to update my Flash program, the existing SWF's, the HTML, or all of the above. What is the best way to get rid of activating every in...more >>

On the 2advanced website they have a rollover button that shows a small square fade in in little pieces. (near middle of home page) "View Demo Reel" it is titled. 1. How do they create that button? Is it a movie on a button rollover? Is it it's own movie that plays when you rollover the othe...more >>

Hello, Recently my web browsers (Interent Explorer & Netscape) have been creating a dotted line around my flash and say "Click to activate and use this control". It never did it before. This creates several clips when using the menu's I've created. Does anyone know how to prevent this from...more >>

I am currently looking at up grading to a new pc but have heard that the new Intel Core Duo Processor isn't compatible with Flash or Studio 8? Has anyone got a PC running with an Intel Core Duo Processor, and if so does it work with Flash and or Studio 8? ...more >>

Could someone please explain the differences, advantages, disagvantages of using either flv or swf. is there a site with a comparison chart of the two formats?...more >>

I have a question on Flash/Dreamweaver integration. Where do I post it? Sophia ...more >>

I am trying to display a few video clips in a Flash file. We do not have a Flash Comm Server. Do I need one to display progressive downloading files? The files are small and users will all be on a high speed connection, so I don't need streaming files. Can they be placed on a regular web serve...more >>

Good day kind people. I recently started playing around with the fileReference class and I guess I'm late to the party but I can't seem to find any info newer than late 2005 explaining what, if anything, can be done to allow firefox to function correctly over SSL when using the fileRefence cl...more >>

How do I stop a motion tween earlier in the timeline? Instead of it stopping on frame 200 I want it to stop at frame 150. It is followed on the same layer by another motion tween. Here is the unfinshed version. [<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://]http://portland.q...more >>

Hi there... I have made a small cartoon with sound effects added. To make it more like a real movie (or cartoon) I desperately need music in the background. As I said my cartoon is only small as it's meant to be the intro to my story line. It's made up of nine scenes. I would like to have a mu...more >>

We are trying to load JPEG images into the Flash player from an SQL database. But figuring out how to do it has us stumped. We are already displaying the images on a web page by setting the source of the image as a page. We use a separate file for retrieving an image, for example to d...more >>

Lately I can't view Flash presentations. The message I get follows.I have the latest flash player and can't figure out what my settings should be for JavaScript. Help! "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Click here to get the latest fla...more >>

Hey There, I have a movie clip nested at the end of the second scene in my parent timeline. At the end of the movie clip's timeline, I am trying to insert an action that points to the first frame of the third scene in the parent timeline (to get continuous playback). I tried the followin...more >>

OK, trying to get a star shape symbol to spin slowly.....but the little centre pivot of the symbol is not in the centre, so the star spins off centre. How on earth do you get it to snap to the middle of the symbol!!!????? thanks ...more >>

The next meeting will be 19th June and we'll be contining our study of MXML with validating and formatting (see <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.flashdev.org.au/program">http://www.flashdev.org.au/program</a> for topic references). Note: the meeting frequ...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to play a sound file in a projector. The projector call several external movies and on one of them there is the image of an mp3 player with a play and a stop button. If you press the play button the sound should play and if you press the stop button, it should stop. ...more >>

Hi guys (and girls), I've made a flash movie for one of our clients but he's saying that some of the elements in the movie aren't visible. If you follow this link: http://www.thedesignbank.co.uk/hydrophysio/ you should see a movie, which once its loaded, should show an image at the left, a...more >>

Hi all I have a function that calls about 5 or 6 functions, and from these functions, about a 2 dozen or so processes gets called. Now from this first function that calls the 5 or 6 functions, I want to use a loop, so those functions get called about 300-500 times. So I have a lot of b...more >>

I uploaded an .flv file and it won't display when viewed in a borwser. I just get my blank white background. What have I done wrong?...more >>

Hi ! I would like to know how convert exe to swf ! I don't kwon waht I must use so I ask you :) Thank you :)...more >>

I am currently making a presentation file in Authorware and I have used some Flash Movies. But I can come across a problem. When viewing the presentation on slower and older machines the Flash movies dont run properly (all jitery and jumpy). I have had some advice from the Authorware Forum,...more >>

Hi, Since changing to Flash 8, a project I have been working and started in MX2004 now shows a grey outline of the project area when starting up in IE6.0 and requires a mouse click or return before the outline goes and the project can be assessed. This didn't happen in MX2004, and saving th...more >>

hi guys, my problem is that i have to create survey in flash and all the information provided by the user should be go directly into an excel file or any database, can any one give sugession on this. Please ...more >>