Im trying to make a button send a person to a url when they open it, does anyone know the Action Scripting for that??...more >>

How to you preview a nested movie without having to view the entire, larger movie? ...more >>

Hello and thanks in advance. I have been using Flash 8 professional on our web site and it has come to our attention that some users do not get to view our entire presentation. The first screen loads then moves to screen two where we stop the movie until the user presses our next button, which...more >>

I'm planning to create a Flash navigation bar that will live in a shared border of my website. For each page of the site, I want the associated item on the navigation bar to be highlighted (ex. if the user is on the "Entertainment" page, "Entertainment" will be highlighted on the navigation ba...more >>

Hi all I am making an autorun flash cd and i want it to play either the 800 x 600 version or the 1204 x 768 version depending on the client's resolution of the monitor. my question is there any java script or any other option or program that can help with this or i have to gave up my idea ;-...more >>

Hi all , probably a simple to solution to this , but not for a new comer....lol I want to jump to a certain line number on the action script if certain conditions are met or not met.. eg. if _root.a<=0 <i>I need it to jump to a line number above the current lin...more >>

I have lots of memorial photos, and would like a make a flash slideshow. I heard a freeware called ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker could help me, anyone can tell me the address where I can find it? ...more >>

I have now figured out how to link my scenes with my buttons, but when I type in the code to do so, it doesn't recognize the name of my button. The error comes up saying: **Error** Scene=Scene 2, layer=Buttons, frame=27:Line 1: The property being referenced does not have the static attrib...more >>

This is probably not the place to post this, however I don't know where to post it. I'm attempting to use .jsfl to add a gradient to a shape. The gradient fills fine with one problem, I can't rotate the gradient, so instead of going from left to right to up and down: var doc = fl.getDo...more >>

Other than a work around array or an event listener, is there a simple way to loop a FLV from a http server? (loop true false would have been nice)...more >>

Hi all, I have a my_txt input text and actionScript like this: my_txt.onKillFocus = function () { trace("anything_kill"); } my_txt.onSetFocus = function () { trace("anything_set"); } Selection.setFocus(my_txt._name); My output on load is "anything_set". OK for now, but ...more >>

Help! I am trying to create a website using flash and I want to use the buttons I have created to link through the rest of my website. But I cannot find a way to link buttons to different scenes in my document. How do I do this?:confused; ...more >>

Hi there, I'm trying to put together a screensaver for a client and I want to create the animation in Flash before converting it to a screensaver file using MDM Zinc. Has anyone ever done anything like this before? I'm a concerned about the file size and I'm pretty novice when it comes t...more >>

How do you apply a gradient color BG to the stage in FLASH 8 Prof? I've made a dark blue to light blue gradient in the color mixer, tried to use the paint bucket but it won't work...what do I do? Thanks KB ...more >>

Hi, I am having problems with passing vars from flash to php Here is the code: //ActionScript code in the button on(release) { //save to db var myData:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); myData.creditos=Creditos_txt.text; myData.sendAndLoad("update.php",myData,"POST"); //getURL("up...more >>

I am new to flash and I am wanting to create buttons that will open PDF files. I have read the you can use the fscommand exec to do this but you must store the files in the fscommand folder. Where is this folder? Is it a folder you must create? If so where does it belong? Also will this w...more >>

With the send method of LoadVars, is it possible to post the data as form data as opposed to the URL string method which is the default? Both "GET" and "POST" methods submit the information the same way, as variable data appended to the URL after the qestion mark. There is a limit to the a...more >>

I am trying to create a basic flash animation of a swinging pendulum. I have created a circle as a motion guide for a ball and have it swinging to and fro nicely. I have 2 problems I want to overceome, the first is the more important of the two: 1) I want to have the string of the pendulu...more >>

Lon Hosford sent me the following code which returns the name of the running flash file minus the '.swf' extension. It was working great until I tried to use it when the flash file was run from a path that had a . (dot) in the name of one of the folders in the path to the flash file. I guess it u...more >>

Hi Can anyone help, i am trying to install Flash 8 and getting this error, "you do not have access to make the required system configuration modification Please rerun this installation from an administration account" I am logged in as Administrator. and still it want load. Pls Help Tried...more >>

My site works fine on all other browers, but only on the newest version of IE does everything go nuts. www.PeterMichaelsAllen.com Nearly all my content is missing. No movie buttons, no dynamic text, and not much of anything else. Why IE? Why? I was told that there was an issue with th...more >>

i need help regarding to working with slide presentation in flash.i have searched a lot in the web but i couldnt find my answer my problem is i want to creat a slide presentation which goes automaticaly to the end of slide without using navigation buttons. i m using flash 8. ...more >>

I am using Flash Basic 8. I have added two event sounds to the timeline on a MovieClip in my library. If i "Test Scene" within the library clip the audio is OK. If i use an instance of the MovieClip within my scene then there is no audio when the clip is playing. I want to create f...more >>

I have some dynamic text fields inside a movie clip that can be scaled (zoomed). When the holder clip is scaled, however, the word wrap of the text field changes. Is there a way to lock the word-wrap so that it doesn't shift? ...more >>

I have created a button for printing. I have duplicated the page I see(homepage) as a MovieClip and hidden it behind the real homepage. I have named that MovieClip "PrintHomepage" I have assigned the following ActionScript to my button: on (release) { printAsBitmap("PrintHomepage", "bfr...more >>

Hiya I'm trying to get some simple Flash video to work on a site I'm designing. The video works fine in a Mac, on both Safari and Firefox, but doesn't work at all on a PC, using either Internet Explorer or Firefox. I've made sure that the Flash player is version 8 on both machines, but a...more >>

Anybody out there have an answer to what is being done to resolve problems with Firefox using the FileReference class over SSL. Anybody at Adobe care. I've posted this question before, there are no more indicators as to what is being done to correct this in the live docs and the most recent ...more >>

Hi hope someone can help me (sorry for sounding a bit thick) I have a holding page on my url at the moment which is just a jpeg saying coming soon, I also have an swf file which I have created. I am trying to combine them both so that when someone goes to my url they get the flash intro and th...more >>

Hi all I'm not a programmer, i'm just a designer. I'm trying to make a preloader to work with several movieClip that i'm passing as a variable I've got this working so far: total = "_parent."+movieClip+".getBytesTotal();"; cargado = "_parent."+movieClip+".getBytesLoaded();"; if ((eva...more >>

I've encoded a quicktime video in flash and published into to an HTML file. The video works locally, but doesnt load on the web server that I upload it to. Take a look at it, suggestions appreciated www.dfwpads.com/other/flashmovie.html ...more >>

Just thought I would do some blatent advertising here, but anyway,anvsoft Flash Slide Show Maker is a wonderful freeware you can transfer digital photos to SWF Flash file format.Please go to http://flash.dvd-photo-slideshow.com if you are interested. ...more >>

Whenever I publish a movie in HTML, it always appears in the upper left hand corner of the browser window. I've tried changing the publish settings to try and get the movie to be centered, but nothing works. I currently have the html publish settings as follows: Template: Flash Only ...more >>

I have a button created with a movie clip on the "over" state. The movie within that over state has a button on it as well. When I try to move from original button to button within the movie it flashes in and out? Is something wrong with the "hit" state of the original button that shows the ...more >>

Hi, I've set the global export setting to fame 2 and have unticked 'export in first frame' for each component. I have a preloader on the first frame and the components layed out on the second frame. Once the movie is loaded in plays through the second frame, then goes to the next secene wh...more >>

Hi everyone, I've almost finished my first Flash site but there's a couple of problems: You can find it <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.makelikeanoctopusandeatyourselfmusic.com/">HERE</a> It's supposed to look terrible, it's ironic. The first problem...more >>

Please can someone direct me... I need to create a simple text box within a flash movie, which will allow the web user to type information into. The information does not need to be sent anywhere (i.e. is just for their own use), we just require the user to them be able to print out the page, w...more >>