i've created a button that should open an email window when pressed. i found some code... but it doesn't seem to work. contactHotspot_mc.onRelease = function(){ getURL("mailto:inquiries@alamorganart.com"); } could someone point me in the right dirction? thanks in advance for any h...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to use the movie class loader component to set up a photo gallery. I want to center all of the images, but they are staying to the top left. Any suggestions? Thanks!...more >>

Hi, Iwas struggling to resize a small movie in the header of my page, so decided to use the exactfit param: <param name="scale" value="Exactfit" /> works a treat in IE, however in Firefox it is 'ignored' and does not fit. Any workaround ? ...more >>

Does Flash MX 2004 use activation software that writes to track 0 of the hard drive? There are forum entries that say that this is so. Also Adobe site says that there is no need to reactivate with a regular drive format. But if you do a "low-level" you will need to reactivate. Why w...more >>

I have NO idea why, I've read all the posts about having a flash nav menu target a frame within a HTML frameset. I even set up a quick test... (I'm using flash MX2004 professional so you all know) Ok, this is what I did.... I created a framset in Dreamweaver using their fixed top frameset...more >>

If anyone / company is looking for some work to be done on a small project, I am very willing. I am a graduate of Marketing Management diploma at Mount Royal College and the New Media Production & Design diploma at SAIT, where I am now employed as a Flash developer for the college's online We...more >>

Hi ya. Just a quick question hopefully someone can help me as im stuck again. I have created my initial front (index html) page for my website, its a kind of entrance page asking if the user has flash etc. What i would like to happen is when the user clicks to enter my flash site (the main...more >>

Hi I am using a quiz template and would add a help feature. Upon click of a button labelled I want the viewer to get help. on the first frame I put the code mybutton_btn.onRelease=function(){ myHelp_txt.text="xxxx xxxx xxx" } This does not work when I have a quiz template or quiz b...more >>

is there a way that i may change my frame rate during the movie? any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance Drew...more >>

I *know* this has to be a common question, but I'll be darned if I can find it. Simply want the flash video to load last on a simple HTML based page. The video is rather large and is causing delays for lower-bandwidth users as it loads at the same time as the rest of the page graphics. ...more >>

This must be very easy. I need to specify in the code the size of the window that I want to open with the GetURL action. Thanks a lot to everyone. BYE...more >>

Hello, I'm a newbie with incorporating Video into Flash. I've created a player that plays several FLV files. This seems to be working correctly on all of my machines (Mac and PC) - and several friends have tested also, but my client is suddenly having problems with the playback on 4 machin...more >>

I'm using a Flash 8 Projector file on a CD. I'm allowing people to explore the CD by using the following code in a batch file: start @ECHO OFF explorer D:\1ASSESSINGTHELANDSCAPE\CMKLEARNINGS\ EXIT This all works wonderfully, apart from it leaves the DOS window open in Windows XP. ...more >>

Could anyone refresh my memory and tell me how to go about not displaying the background within the Flash movie once you put it in a HTML page....more >>

I embeded a movie on this page and its not lineing up quit right... http://www.jjdog.com/newlook/index.html Its the image with the text "welcome to our new site"...seems to be pushing to button below it down and moving up some? Any help would be greatly appreciated! :o) ...more >>

I have an image that grows across the screen and is very pixelated. Does anyone know if there is a way to accomplish this without the jagged pixelation? Here a link: http://acquacures.com/preview/ It's the tapestry imageg that grows from the top right corner. Thanks, Greg...more >>

Hi i want the web browser holding my flash site to always open central and at a specific size 800x600 when in the users screen when opened. (its not the publish settings, i can get my site to be central in the browser fine, i just want the browser to open at a sepcific size and central within ...more >>

I am working in Flash Pro 8. My project is 3 minutes long. It includes background music and narration. The audio files are each in the library as MP3s and are called in by sound objects via actionscript. I have animated words that need to match up to the narration. It works great on my top of ...more >>

I am making an animation for my website that would only animate when the mouse would go over the animation. Please could anyone explain how to do that or would know a tutorial that would?...more >>

Hello, I'm running Tiger 10.4.6 and for some reason, when I publish a Mac projector file, there is no "Flash Player" icon. I appears to be coming up blank. Is there an extension I can add so it finds it? I find this very interesting because things like this are only suppose to happen on Wi...more >>

Is there a way for someone to help me make this code work in Flash Player 8 (Actionscrpt 2: largodemo = 25; myString = this._name; temp1 = ""; for (n=0; n<largodemo; n++) { temp1 += chr(random(42)+48); } temp2 = this.myString.substr(0, i); this.eltexto = temp2+temp1.substring(i, lar...more >>

Intially a flash doc was created as a slide presentation/video interface, using embedded video. Buttons on the left are for individual slide titles, slides are on the right, and a small video window at the bottom showcases the speaker talking to the slides. Using embedded video was the easiest...more >>

i would like some help having a line draw as the movie goes. any suggestions?...more >>

in my movie, i want a little picture of a pencil to run across the screen and as it goes, i want it to leave a line behind it as if it was drawing. any step by step walkthroughs or suggestions that could be given would be greatly apprieciated.. Thanks in advance Drew ...more >>

can anybody help me? im having trouble changing the colour of an object during the movie. when i try, it changes it from the beginning of the movie to the end. How do i fix it so that it changes for a small portion of my movie? Drew ...more >>

My mom has a bracelet buisness like silver custom name bracelets.She wants me to make something with flash where you can custom design a bracelet. You would haft to have alphabet beads,regular beads,different kinds of clasps,you would haft to have gold beads and so forth. Any ideas on how to d...more >>

My mom has a bracelet buisness like silver custom name bracelets.She wants me to make something with flash where you can custom design a bracelet. You would haft to have alphabet beads,regular beads,different kinds of clasps,you would haft to have gold beads and so forth. Any ideas on how to d...more >>

Is it possible to save a flash movie as a screen saver or file that could be turned into a screen saver? If so, would it be as simple as creating a looped movie and then saving or exporting as a certain file? Thanks, Dan ...more >>

/// outgoing loadVars var dbQuery:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); /// incoming loadVars var gotCurrentRose:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); If I create an incoming loadVars object as above, is there an easy way to completely empty the incoming loadVars object at runtime? As I query my database, t...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if flash supported any sticky buttons, as in, buttons that don't go back to mouseover frame after the user lets go. I know I can do this with movie clips but that would take me a lot longer. Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, This is probably really simple but I am creating a portfolio of my work and wondered how to show an interactive swf in this portfolio. When I publish the flash file, the swf is showing but all frames play as if they are an animation and ignore any actionscript. I just want it to work as ...more >>

Hi All, I want to create a .exe file from a Flash swf at runtime with some xml data, images and audio. I am not sure whether we can do this or not. Any expert comments how to achieve this? Thanks in advance! ...more >>

Many thanks for your reply I have managed to do a test with one picture. But still can't see what to do to add a second or third, on the same timeline or adding timelines? ...more >>