My site in question can be accessed with: http://www.mattsrotisseriesite.fatcow.com/ and http://www.mattsrotisserie.net It uses scrollable dynamic text fields under the headline Menus where the food pictures are shown. For the scroller I am using a standard Flash components where I have...more >>

Can anyone tell me why I am getting a border around my swf file with it is imbedded on a Html page and displayed in Internet Explorer on a PC? The swf acts as a link, (pointer becomes a finger), and when you click once in the swf area, the border disappears and the swf file becomes active and ...more >>

Hi Y'all, I am new to Flash 8 and have developed some web banners for a client. When I show it to the client it (published) they open it in a browser and shows the ..swf at "fit-to-page" size rather than 100%. Is there a setting that I could change this to show the .swf in a browser at 100...more >>

I am truly new to FLASH, but really need to have my church's banner done in a hurry. The banner pretty much immitates the behavior of this site's banner (flashing a serives of pictures): http://www.lakewood.cc/site/PageServer If anyone knows a place where I can find a tutorial for this, p...more >>

i want to add some sort of zoom or enlarge for this template (http://www.imagineitmedia.com/temp/flipping_book.zip)...the images are gotten from an image folder using php and txt files.. so they are not in the source...but i want to be able to zoom or enlarge the page that im on somehow.. so...more >>

---- I have installed Dreamweaver MX and later I installed Flash 8. Everything was working fine along these 2 apps (flash Mx2004 + DW Mx) until i decided to try Flash 8. I?m creating a banner with fade effect that reads external jpg files stored under the same directory as the .swf. Problem is...more >>

I glanced through the prior posts but didn't see anything on this subject. I've run into an interesting "undocumented feature" of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7. Here are the details: 1) I'm running a simple Flash presentation. 2) It's a .swf file running in the standalone F...more >>

Hi, I have designed the concept (not live) of a website for a University project that I would like to demonstrate in an online portfolio. I can import the swf of the concept website but I already know that swf do not work in the same way when imported into other flash documents and there is a ...more >>

I need to know how to do this. When my movie comes to a certain frame it needs to stop playing the sound and load a different sound. On my main time line and on the first frame I put this code stop(); var mySound_sound:Sound = new Sound(); mySound_sound.loadSound("01.mp3",true); but ...more >>

Hi I want to animate a symbol containing simple text, and this symbol is supposed to animate a short distance over a (relatively) long period of frames. But the text "jumps" across the stage. I'm attaching a simple example, but I have other fla files that are worse. Does anybody have...more >>

Hi Folks, I have an intro page with and enter button that is all flash.... this isn't going to work is it? The engines won't find this page will they? If they can great...I just was wondering what the best way to go about having the search engine find a flash intro page like this. For e...more >>

Asked this question ithe Captivate forum but had little movement on it so thought I would try asking folks in the Flash community... I have a Captivate slide that I am importing 2 Flash generated SWFs into, and I would like these two SWFs to communicate with each other. Essentially the us...more >>

At present I have sound that loads when I click a button. Inside the button I have this code on(release){ gotoAndStop(2) mySound_sound.loadSound("02.mp3",true); } How can I make the sound change to a different sound upon reaching a certain frame automatically without clicking on t...more >>

Hi all I have made a backup on an external hard-drive of some flash files (.fla) I created on Flash MX2004. When I try to open one of them, Flash MX2004 simply shows this alert: "unable to open document: blabla.fla" No other explanation. I assume therefore that this file is somewhat corrupte...more >>

Hello, hoping someone can shed some light on an issue I"m having for a banner project - the company sent me a .fla which includes 2 dvd cover images, formatted as .png's. Upon opening it in Flash 8, the images are jaggy. I went to the library and clicked "allow smoothing" for each, however, up...more >>

Hi, the ActionScript-VM seems to have a bug, causing the Host-Application to terminate with a general protection fault. To test it, you can go to http://www.seafight.com/, login with user debug1 and password test123, and click on "to the sea chart". This bug only happens occasionally, depe...more >>

Hi, Is there a standard way to determine if the computer is online or offline ? And to determine if the swf is played thru flash player in a HTML page or in a projector ? lea ...more >>

I have 6 frames on my movie timeline. Each frame has a movie about 200 - 300 frames. I want each movie to repeat a specific number of times before it goes to the next frame on the main movie time line. How can I do this ...more >>

Is there a way to create an animated mask from a black and white movie? I have a black and white video, which is a black background with white silhouettes. I want the black parts of the animation to be completly transparent, the white parts to be completly opaque and the grays to have apha...more >>

Hi There, I'm trying to convert a QuickTime file to a .flv file using Sorenson Squeeze (MAC platform) and my audio is popping when I preview the squeezed file in SorensonFLVPlayer. The audio does not pop in my QT file. My settings for the compression are as follows: Codec: Fraunhof...more >>

http://www.imagineitmedia.com/temp/elements.html I want to align the text "Published by Imagine It! Media, Inc." with the right edge of the book.. the book is: width=850 height=750 and <td align="center" valign="middle"> <center> ...more >>

Hello all, I'm relatively new to Flash, but my company wants me to build a drag and drop wall plate builder application. In case you don't know, think of a wall plate as the plate that goes over your light switch, except it has audio/video connectors on it. What this application needs to...more >>

Hi everyone. My problem is extreme and I would appreciate a lot of help on it. I need to put an html object ontop of a flash file which is made up of images. Does anyone know any steps on how to do this. I contacted adobe customer support before and they said that there is a way and didn't t...more >>

Can some one tell me if there is an MSI file for Flash player 9, as I have to roll this out to over 200 clients, and would like to use Active Directory to deploy...more >>

We are looking for a standalone FLV player that would work much like Quicktime. We bascially need a player that we can QC our encodes and also compare different compression settings by looking at 2 or more FLVs side-by-side. Does something like this exist? Any help is much appreciated!!!...more >>

I want to create a simple animation of a person walking then sitting. The person would be as a silouette against a white background. If I video someone doing this action against a white backdrop - what's the best way to convert this so that Flash traces and silouttes everything so that it ...more >>

Hi, I've made an mp3 player that plays the mp3s from a location outside of the swf. I need to know how to make the movie play the next scene(which contains the next mp3) when the current mp3 stops playing. At the moment when the mp3 finishes you have to use the skip forward button to ...more >>

Hello, I am looking to import this video into Flash... http://www.motivationalmagic.com/videos2/saranwrap-beachbackground.wmv Would someone please be kind enough to help me with the steps involved? Thank you! ...more >>

Hi everyone, been trying to figure out why an absolutly positioned div, gets covered up by a flash (normaly it's where it belongs at the bottom) when I hover over links in the div? Any ideas people? Here's the page: http://test.iisd.org/revamp/ css file: http://test.iisd.org/revamp/m...more >>

Hi, I've managed to spend weeks building my website with Flash and have now discovered that I have used the wrong stage size, and it needed to be smaller. So now i have made a smaller stage area and my whole website is still in the larger size, is there any way i can universally change the...more >>

Hello clever experts, I've read the Flash tutorials and posts on variables, but I am stuck in the fog on this one. I have an mc with two frames that toggles a mask to reveal or hide text in a different channel. How can I make the mc remember what frame it was on in the previous scene i...more >>

I have a Flash Video with Alpha Chaneel of a man talking. I have to add it to the site but I want my HTML links to work in the background, behind my flash, talking man. I think that by adding <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> works but not in all the browsers. Please help ...more >>

How can I make a preloader for a Flash video file? I have the .flv, and I have created the skin with a play, pause and seek bar. But whenever I try to add a scene or frames to the skin to accommodate for the preloader, the movie buttons no longer work! How do I do this? -- Seth Meran...more >>

Hi everyone I have a screen capture explaining a section of my web site. Its about 30 seconds long. What is the best way for users to watch it? Regards Mark...more >>

Using the FLV Playback component and and FLV I made from mpeg. I get a gap between the player controls and the movie. Has anyone else had a similar experience. How do I get rid of it? Thanks, Jeremy ...more >>

Is there a way to change the framerate halfway through the video? Like if it starts at 12 can I change the rate to 30 in the middle of the video?:confused;...more >>

hi, getURL("mailto:test@test.com"); works fine in a HTML page but not in a projector (Flash 8). Any other solution ? lea ...more >>

Hi, I've set up my dynamic text field, and I can apply other CSS properties successfully, but when it comes to the font-family property, the text within the class just disapears. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? The problem occurs even when selecting standard fonts such...more >>

We need a software tool for creating some interactive training... but need to have the student input some data... Then as they progress through the interactive training we need to save their responses in order to calculate their grade and to perform analysis on their progress, strength's an...more >>

Hi There Everyone, I just wanted to check that, as in other programmes, it is possible in Flash to code nestedt 'if' statements . . . i.e. . . . if (condition) { if (condition) { code to be executed } else if (condition) { } else if (condition) { } els...more >>

I'm trying to import a flash file into dreamweaver but when ever I import it and preview it the flash file won't load. Its just blank white. When I right click to file it says Movie not loaded.... Does anyone know how to fix this problem? ...more >>

Hi There Everyone, I just wanted to check that, as in other programmes, it is possible in Flash to code nestedt 'if' statements . . . i.e. . . . if (condition) { if (condition) { code to be executed } else if (condition) { } else if (condition) { } els...more >>

idopromotions.com If you go there it will ask for a password. I dont know why. I never gave it one. How do I get ride of that???? Anyone know? Any help is greaaatly appreciated....more >>