just wondering cause i just started at this company, have less than a year of experiance, but ive already provin myself to them, and built 5 sites for their clients... all their clients loved the sites, and they are supprised im doing so well. they say im a "blessing" to them. around here star...more >>

i need to work on a website that was created on a mac. will the flash files open on my pc? if not is there a way to do that?...more >>

I had experimented with the Dimensions: Percent and published a new .swf. I didn't like it, and through out the doc. I republished using Dimensions: Match Movie. It didn't override the Dimensions: Percent setting. Any ideas? ...more >>

Most Adobe products you can drag the dotted guides from your top left corner to your document to set "Zero point" on rulers, both vertically and horizontally. Somehow my horizontal "zero point is off" trying to reset and can't do it. Any simple suggestions? ...more >>

Can someone explain to this newbee what the dotted line means in the timeline. When I select 'Create Motion Tween', it usually shows a solid horizontal line, but sometimes it shows a dotted line, which, I see is trouble. Can someone explain what this happens and how I can avoid it? Thanks...more >>

I was wondering if there is a way to incorporate drop down menu's with a form and the user can choose from the menu what they wish and it will imput that info in the text box. I.e.--if a form asked for state and the drop down listed the states, the user scrolls down to Delaware(the best state ...more >>

Hello, I've made a flash file which contains two swf files. I used the code loadMovie to load the 2nd swf file into the 1st. Is it possible to link to a frame in the 1st swf file when you click on a button in the 2nd swf file? Which code do I need for this? Let's say i click on a button ...more >>

I had a Flash designed http://www.moabadventurecenter.com/book created on my website. Got the idea from HP's earlier Shrek Web book by Dreamworks. I wanted some useful feedback from the Flash community as to the effectiveness of the book. Is it fun to play with, or a lot of programming f...more >>

ive done this a thousand times, but for some reason, after i mask the two layers, the gradient only picks up the first stroke i do in the shine layer....everything else doesnt show up..... all my shine is in the first keyframe so i dont get it?? help anyone...thanks! ...more >>

I put in sound at a keyframe, and it didn't work! I played it back, it worked, I viewed it in my browser, it didn't!!!...more >>

I have a database of jpg's that i need to call up in a scrollPane. This i can do without issue. But, more often than not, these images need to be rotated 90/180 degrees by the end user with a button click. I can make the entire scrollPane rotate but that is not what i want. i just need the...more >>

I've read several GetURL tutorials. They all open a new window. I want to open the URL within the flash movie. I would also like to specify the size and location. Just like a photo gallery, but instead of loading an image (or movieclip) I want it to load the URL. Can Flash do this? Can ...more >>

Sorry to sound like a complete dummy... but how the hell do you add another frame to the scrapbook sample in flash8 any help welcome.. thanks Phil...more >>

Hi. does anybody know where to find a circular pre-loader like the OSX boot? Thanks much... ...more >>

:confused; Hi! I'm working on a cartoon and it's almost finished. I have found that when I test it in flash player or html it plays perfectly fine. But when I export it as a windows media player file that the movie clips nested in the movie don't play unless it is a sequence that I've ke...more >>

I've got a flash application which is loading in multiple swfs at various intervals. Is there any priority given to the loading of the swf files. ie. if i load in myfile1.swf and as that is preloading i start to preload myfile2.swf is priority given to either file or do both get the same band...more >>

Hey all, just wondering if anyone knows how to change the white bg in a text box to a custom color. I have an email page that the user can enter in thier name, company, email address, and comments. The client wants the text inputs areas to be a different color. Is this possible. I can't se...more >>

Hi, I'm in a very sticky situation.I'm right at the end of a project for a client and have published the movie. When I open the html file the movie has text missing, masks don't function, textboxes lose their content and don't scroll and the pre-loader dosn't even appear. I've neve...more >>

Hi, My movie has video and so the size is quite large. I have set it so that only 20% of the movie loads and the rest of it loads in the background. However i have contents page which enable the user to skip to a certain part of the movie. What i would like to do is disable the buttons on ...more >>

I'm using Adobe's Flash detection script ... it works great, but only one problem I can not get my SWF to go to a 100% width and height ...... in the browser window... any ideas... fixes....etc..... http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection_kit/ ...more >>

I have missed a few of the Adobe Breeze Webinars on various topices. Does anyone know the URL where I can view them on demand? Thanks in advance! Chaz...more >>

Hi, I can't seem to find this answer anywhere so I assume it's not yet an option... can I adjust the brush size on the fly as I am drawing by using a keyboard shortcut? I am referring to how you can increase or decrease the diameter of the brush like you can in Photoshop without selecting it f...more >>

i'm messing around with the sample mp3 player and have put it to some use, learning quite a lot actually - it doesn't play from one song to the next, though, like i'm almost sure it should while looking at the AS - can someone point me to exactly what part of the script does this and tell me i...more >>

I wanted to create a good color picker that would let me choose RGB values in decimal or hex. I spent a lot of time on it and got everything working perfectly, except, when I tested it, I discovered that it was only showing colors in the existing palette. If I set the color to anything else, i...more >>

I am developing a basic drag and drop activity in Flash 8 and am attempting to make it accessibile. I have run into a problem where the screen reader won't read the text or the _accProps for a textfield whose parent movie clip has onPress handler applied to it (the object being dragged). T...more >>

I'm trying to figure out the best way to animate a logo. The logo is full of textures and gradients, that would be pretty difficult to vectorize, so I had planned to use the raster. I was going to try doing multiple partial wipe reveals, however, the results are worse than horrible. One ma...more >>

hi, I have recently purchased a third party .flv player, http://wimpyplayer.com to set up on my site http:1134nyc.com Unfortunately after a successful installtion of the application onto my server the .FLV file only plays first few seconds of the footage. I used aftereffects and quicktime ...more >>

I have a flash presentation given to me to look at. This presentation includes mutiple .mov files and your tipical flash animations. This presentation from start to finish is about 10 mins long, consisting of many video files and audio files. Each video is anywhere from 20secs to 1min long. Cu...more >>

Hello, Here is a little and simple class charged of loading 2 fotos in a parent clip called "diaporama" (I expect the 2nd foto to be set 20px on the right of the first one and above it) You can test it yourself by saving 2 fotos called foto1.jpg and foto2.jpg into your current directory ...more >>

Hello everyone, I've been having a strange problem for the past 24h. I'm working on a rather big project with online databases (MySQL, PHP) using XML to transfer data. This has been working fine for a couple of months now, using LoadVars sendAndLoad method and a XML as a return object, unt...more >>

Hey i ws wondering the best way to learn Flash and actionscripting. Like to navigate through pages and shuch, it confuses me alot. Like is it best to load seperate SWF's or put everything on the main timeline but seperate the pages with frame labels, and what the proper actionscript would be t...more >>

For Windows and MacOS there is already 9th version released. And for linux we have only 7th. It can't display many flash movies properly and I experience many problems visiting some sites. When the new version for linux will be available? ...more >>

i use pixel font in my flash website. But on other machiene the pixel font is not showing instead of it the default fonts displays. also when i restat my computer and open website fla file in flash8 it displays FONT MISSING dialog box. When i check fonts from he font folder in windows,the ...more >>