I have tried everything in your Flash support categories and no mattwer what I do the Administrator who installs Flash (now ver 9.x.x.x) is the ONLY one who can use flash. No other member of the Administrators group can use it, nor can any of the users (Though if they go to the Adobe download ...more >>

What's the latest preferred method of detecting the correct version of flash.... allowing for the recent Microsoft activex contorl changes in Internet Explorer...more >>

Is one alowed to use the "Download Flash Player' inon on a website. Wher does one obtain it legally (other than just copying it)...more >>

I've got a movie clip that I'm dynamically loading another movie into so I can make use of a scroller I built using masks and an empty movie clip. This movie that's being loaded into the empty movie clip to be scrolled, has several components in it. Such as drop down menus, text areas, and n...more >>

I have downloaded the cab file for pocket pc flash 7 and then put the file on my storage card, however when i click on it, it will not open to start the extracting of files or install. any help appreciated. ...more >>

I've just finished doing a fair amount of actionscript on a site and when I published it and FTPed it to the web it acts completly different. What could cause this? It works perfectly on my computer and then half of it doesn't work online. ...more >>

The site that I'm working on is just a tad too big for an 800x600 resolution. Is there an easy way that I can make is so that the swf will shrink to fit entirely in the browser window, but will not expand any larger than the origional swf size? ...more >>

I am doing a site for someone and they sent me a .swf file, and not the .fla. The .swf works fine offline, but the text in the swf doesn't show online. Is there anything I can do without the .fla file??? thanks, hutch ...more >>

I've read that when a Flash movie is broken up into scenes, upon publishing the scenes are just combined into one long timeline. That's fine, but something strange seems to happen with 'stream' audio. I have a voice-over track in each of my scenes set to 'stream'. Each scene stops in the...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to have an alpha on a shape? I'm design an expanding shape that uses a shape tween but want the effect of a transparency on my shape. Thanks....more >>

Hello, We completed simple .swfs for the website alexfledderjohn.com. All the links work fine in Safari (Mac browser) but certain links (like 'photography' in the main menu) don't work in Explorer or Opera. Could you please take a look at the site and give some suggestions? Thanks! ...more >>

I imported a jpg image into Flash MX. Is there any way I can edit it? I mean erase smth from it and etc. I know I can do transformations but thats not enough. When I try to erase with erase tools nothing happens, as if the image is not editable. Maybe I'm doing smth wrong? I tried the same wit...more >>

Hello all, I am trying to create an animation of a person with sound. I've created a movie clip with three layers. One for the animation, the second layer for the sound that I have imported to the timeline (instead of linking the sound as an object) and the third for the AS but I have no c...more >>

Is it possible to create a generic flash shell that would load an external swf without affecting any of the paths of the loaded swf? Basically I have a large set of swfs without access to the source files and I need to cover a logo within all of them. Thanks! ...more >>

I'm new to Flash, and I'm trying to decide how to set the bit rate (kbps) for my audio files. I'm creating PowperPoint-like presentations with voice audio. You can see what I'm doing at http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Audio_Book.htm I first decided on 16 kbps, but I'm not hap...more >>

I have installed Fedora Core 5 and Firefox 1.5.6.0 on my laptop. I wanted to see the FlahPlayer ver.7 content on my ISPs website, www.comcast.com. So, I installed this latest version of the player. Now the problem is that the fonts within the FlashPlayer content is either missing or invisibl...more >>

My flash MX (2002)is not importing any movie (mpeg or quick time) is there any body can help me out with this issue, the msg is "One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them" Thanks Jc ...more >>

Anyone know where I would purchase an upgrade from 6 to 7? I have a fla created with 7 that I need to edit. Or, will 8 be able to modify 7 files? Thanks - Eric...more >>

here's the error message I get: "couldn't complete the operation because there was not enough stack space" this happens when I go to publish a swf file. I'm making a web banner for a client. It's been working fine, but in an effort to reduce file size, I replaced bitmap images with vecto...more >>

hello, just wehn i finished my small movie (letters moving), i decided to bring a background and move my moving letters to the right side of the screen. It is impoosible. The whole letter animation is not moving together. I changed the document size and document size expands to the right. ...more >>

I need to know how to make a slider bar that will move as a movie clip plays. And when the slider is dragged, it affects the position of the movie clip. Any help would be GREATLY apreciated. Thanks, Mike ...more >>

I have an .mp3 file in the library 44kHz Stereo 16 bit 893.9s 14302.0 kB (it's an interview, no music). Sync is set to Stream. I am exporting using MP3 compression and have 'use imported MP3' checked. Every time I publish, the audio souds terrible all crackly and dull. I've tried using differe...more >>

How can we make in a textbox a hyperlink (only one word in the text) to another frame of another scene? Is that possible? Lucas...more >>

Hi, i'm making a quest flash-game with aprox. 10 different scenes. Each scene is stored in a different SWF to make the editing part more easy. The scenes are loaded with loadMovie(). So for a web version, no prob; but i want to create a stand-alone version of the game in a EXE and i have no...more >>

I have a large interactive *.fla file heavy coded using UI components. I created it in Flash 6 MX and also work on it in Flash 7 MX. It worked fine until I decided to add another element which involved extra coding. I basically added a pop-up window with a close button on it. At this poi...more >>

Hello, I have created TWO Flash movies. They work just fine individually, but I get problem when I put one into another one! The main Flash is a Menu and the second one if a Photo Album. The Menu is series of animation (Moving Objects) which finally comes into rest and create the men...more >>

I am trying to import a .mov file into my library so I can create a .fla file. Every time I try to import it into the library using the import wizard, it starts the importing process and always quits not quite two minutes into the process. It then returns me to the front page of the import w...more >>

Hi, I have a created a flash movie with audio through out the movie. I have put audio from the scene after the loader scene so its on the 2nd scene. The audio is music clip. However, the audio plays on the the other scenes too. It overlaps the audio that is on the that particular scene. So...more >>

I have searched and tried many way to do this but i am still having problems. what i basically want to do is apply a shake browser window action java script to a frame in flash so that when a user enters the wrong password it shakes the window. the tutorials i have come across all deal with ...more >>

I've made http://james.ch/Grundrisse/Hochhaus/ a while ago in Flash 8. After upgrading to Player 9, this isn't working anymore. The even more complicated http://james.ch/Grundrisse/Langhaus/ is still working fine in Player 9. Has anybody had similar problems? How can i fix this? My Debugger ...more >>

Hi guys, I currently have a series of buttons linked to HTML pages. What I want to do is have them trigger another flash animation, for example in the middle of the page spawning links according to which button is clicked. Im a complete noob on action script and dont know any as i use th...more >>

I load a 4Mo image using my_clip.loadImage("'my_image") The image isn't totaly loaded. Right and bottom border are missing. Is there a limitation on the image's weight? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I am fairly new to flash and am having a prob with my site. I am trying to include music with an on/off button. I have 5 pages, all except for the galleries page fit within the main page so all the buttons can still be seen. On my galleries page I have a button called home which takes yo...more >>