Hello, I have flash 8 & I'm trying to make a text gradient. I have followed the video from learnflash.com & created text without breaking it down, then created a gradient on a layer below the text then I right click the text & click mask but everything dissapears the text & the mask, the the i...more >>

:confused; For some reason, whenever I go to the flash player website, it starts to act like its loading hte movie that tells ya flash player has been downloaded, but instead I only get a double quotation mark, and nothing loads or downloads for me. Please help me around this. I work on a Wind...more >>

Hellow to everybody, i have been making a proyect using the expresion: _root.text.loadVariables("home.txt", "") to load an external txt file wich i use in a flash proyect. Everything works perfect, when i generated the flash movie, the texts appear. But the problem starts when i want to give ...more >>

Hellow to everybody i wolud like to know how to load a external image, used on a flash movie. I whant to generate a flashmovie that calls a external jpg image, that give me the posibility of changing this image with out editing the fla proyect. Thanks to anyone, who can help me. David ...more >>

Hi! I am new to Flash and I am just finishing off my first website. This Flash site contains many separate SWF files each of which represent a new page (there are around 20 in all). I need to find a tutorial or instructions of how to publish this site to the web. I have the entir...more >>

I have just uploaded a website using Flash 8 with the swf embedded into an html page. I am on Mac OSX and it plays perfectly in IE, Opera and Firefox. Other people trying to access the site from a PC say the swf content won't play - the page comes up blank. They have downloaded the Flash 9...more >>

Hi, I am about at my wit's end. I designed a splash page for a web site and all seemed to be going well until the artist started sendng me a few e-mails that some people could only see a small version of the movie in their pcs. It works totally fine on my mac in IE, Safari, Netscape, and...more >>

Hi! I've created a movie in Flash which previews fine and then embedded it into Dreamweaver, which previews only some of the elements and then uploaded the file to the web which shows nothing but the frame of the site. Can anyone tell me why I am having trouble publishing? thanks, Pati ...more >>

I am trying to open a Web Template that I bought ages ago online in Falsh MX, it keeps giving the error "Unexpected File Format", when I go into the properties on the file it says Flash 6.0 r25 Can anyone tell me what may be wrong ...more >>

I've inherited a project and am having problems, compounded by the fact that I'm totally new to Flash. Flash 8 to be precise. Anyway, the site was built with a main navigation piece, main_nav.swf. This main_nav.swf calls others, like bio.swf, news.swf and contact.swf, etc. Problem is, when it ...more >>

Hi, I have tried out samples showing how to bind components in a flash application to XML files. What I need is a way to update an xml file from my flash application. Is this possible? And if so, can I do that without going trough a database? If anyone have a sample or a link to a sample conce...more >>

I am creating a label on click on button. can this is possible if i click multiple times on the same button and that much labels should be generate and how? thnx...more >>

Hi everyone - I think the solution to this is extremely simple, I just can't seem to figure it out. Here's my FLA: http://staging.geckodesigns.com/fold_test.fla I'm trying to design a basic envelope and have the flap open in a mock-3D manner using a simple shape tween. 2 problems: ...more >>

I'm new to Flash and understand how to make a link in Flash with text but I keep trying to link the buttons and images on the template I bought and I keep not getting the answer. I would like to add a link to gif files so people can double click on them and see a bigger picture. Also I wa...more >>

I have flash pro. 8 and have been watching a few tutorials. On the tutorials I have seen their program has had a silver and blue skin. Mine looks like the old windows style. I have windows xp. Could this be that they are using a mac? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated:) ...more >>

I am trying to import data from a text file into a dynamic text box. When I play the movie on my local system, should the dynamic text appear or does it only work on a remote server? Thanks ...more >>

I've created a transparent flash app which contains an advertisement that covers part of the top of a web page it is running on (flash over HTML). The idea is I want the user to click anywhere within the flash app area to close just the flash app and then allow them to access the web page tha...more >>

I cannot install Flash on IE. I installed it successfully on Firefox, but IE [b]always[/b] takes a long time and fails. I tried another way by updating from the Add-On list; after a few minutes downloading, a window appeared asking if I will install Flash Player 9, I clicked OK and this me...more >>

Hi, i am building my own website in flash, and in the home page i have my signature. How can i get flash to animate this, so that it looks like the signature is being written out by me when i enter the home page? as if im writing it myself ? ? hope someone can help !! :beer; ...more >>

hi. i want to open a new page and i use the following actionscript : on (release) { var myURL:String = "http://foo.com"; getURL("javascript:openNewWindow('" + String(myURL) + "');"); } but it doesn't work.what can i do? please help me. ...more >>

i am creating a CDROM for primary school children using Flash 8. i would like to add a narration of a boy as welcome speech for my users. Where can i get the compatible software that i can record audio and insert to Flash? Or there is another method for solving my problem? ...more >>

Hi all, I'm experiencing a huge problem right now. I hope one of you can help me. My workstation is an Apple iMac G5 with internal memory of 1024 MB (!!!) Yesterday I was working on a website, with a lot of tweens etc. Size of .FLA: 90,5 MB Size of .SWF: 980 Kb. When I tried to o...more >>

Hi there, I am building a flash animation, and in one section I need to do a cell-based raster animation. I have 75 jpeg images that I need to import, and then place one image per keyframe to make a 75 frame animation. Is there a way to automate this process? In Director I can grab an image ...more >>