How exactly do I insert a clickTAG script? Please help me step by step with the menues and buttons. As I know the clickTAG will look like this: [Q]on (release) { if (clickTAG.substr(0,5) == "http:") { getURL(clickTAG); } }[/Q] Do I have to fill in the URL after the [Q]"http:"[/Q]...more >>

I have some static text to which I've applied this link: motor.htm#a4 with the target of _blank. When I run the SWF in Firefox and click the link the page opens at the anchor while in IE the page just opens (its not scrolled to the anchor) and the location bar does not show the anchor in th...more >>

I have my main website that loads and I have used load movie to bring in the SWF file which works, but the preloader does not work. why is this? I thought you can have preloaders inside external SWF's and use the load movie command which shows the preloader and then loads the movie? I have...more >>

Hello, I need help with a button. I created a button and set it up so that when you click and hold it, the button becomes lighter in color (I used Alpha). I want the button to stay this light color after i release the click. Right now it goes back to the normal color when I release the ...more >>

i have a flash intro i want to use on my website its 410 px width by 357px height. The space on my webpage is 364px width by 259px height. I went under modify document under flash and tried it, the problem is part of the flash intro gets cut off. Is there an easy way to do this I hope. T...more >>

HI! How can I get Flash 8 video encoder to accept mp4 files? when I try open it I receive an error message. "You Won't be able to encode this file. Your computer doesn't have the necessary codec or the file is corrupt" Do I find this codec at Macromedia or somewhere else? Paul ...more >>

Imported a bmp as png, made it into a movie clip. Setup the AS to call for page 4. It works great. I would now like to have a text box come up on the rollover. I tried to nest the mc into a button. I can make the text box work but the script won?t work when I click. Could you refer me to a r...more >>

I was wondering if there was a way you can controll one swf with another. mainly what I'm trying to do is have one swf with buttons and another with images, when you rollover a buttons the images change accordingly. any suggestions would be very appreciated!!! thanks, hutch ...more >>

Hi, wondered if anyone could help me. I really like the way the images appear when clicked on in the gallery section of this website http://www.graemeswinton.co.uk. Could anyone point me in the right direction, or know any tutorials i could follow to replicate this effect?? Thanks so much ...more >>

How would I create a Javascript to communicate with a Flash SWF file to jump to a particular cue point? How would I need to setup my Flash source file and what Javascript is needed to do such? Essentially, I would like to be able to use Javascript to tell Flash to jump to a particular poin...more >>

Hello, I know very little about publishing websites but I designed a flash portfolio site and was wondering if anyone had any good recomendations for places to buy domain space?...more >>

In trying to take advantage of some of the new features in Flash version 8.0, I've been trying to compile the Flash Application we've built for presenting our content in version 8.0. But, I've hit a fairly serious problem, in that a lot of the documentation we load into our application is in ...more >>

I am attempting to build a quiz using the quiz template. I have no problem creating as many check boxes on the stage as I want but when I go to the component inspector to set parameters,etc... there are only entry spaces for 8 check box instances. How do I add more entry spaces for check box i...more >>

Hi all. I have flash site with a dynamic text field that load a symple txt file. When viewing local its works fine. But once I upload the swf to the server it disappears. I have tried embedding font, change font but its still with the same problem. Can anyone HELP? Thx for the attentio...more >>

:confused; Hello everyone, bonjour, My problem is relating to this "Outline" surrounding Flash objects on a Web page, that disappears once cliked. In addition when the movie is clickable, it is reacting only at the second click! Is there a way, by coding either inside the Flash or t...more >>

Hi everybody Im trying do design an application in flash and I want to use random colors. But i just want to use 4 pre-defined random colors. So my question is this: how do I set the 4 colors to display randomly?I must say that I'm a begginer in flash so please have some patience... Thank ...more >>

It is easy to embed a Flash movie in a PowerPoint slide but when I save the deck as an MHT (single file web archive) the movie does not appear in the MHT version of the deck--no placeholder or anything, just a black slide (right-clicking does not show the Macromedia context menu). I am using t...more >>

I'm working on a project where I'm loading in a video player as an external swf to my main movie. I'm not able to get my video or the custom player to show up, but sound is there (I've done the whole Library>New Video thing, so I have a video object to reference). My question is: My loade...more >>

Hi all, After clicking on my button, I want the button to open a new window for the http://www... link and also go back to the beginning of my Flash movie. Below is the entire code that I have on my button. Please help as to how I can write the ActionScript better, so that both actions can...more >>

Hi, I'm a flash character animator for television in NYC. I often have to reuse animation that's in a symbol. Many times I have to play this animation backwards, but doing so requires me to keyframe it. All the symbols we use are graphic symbols. Does anyone know a script, plug-in or a...more >>

I am trying to edit a flash site but I am new to flash and have a couple of problems. I have the flash document up in Flash Professional 8 and I figured out how to edit the text and picture content in most of the frames. If you look at the first picture I included you can see that on the rig...more >>

Hi, I have a link on my web page which when pressed opens up a small window with a web page (called linebreak). This works when I try it on a web page, however if I try to copy the code to Flash it creates an error, saying access denied. The code written is attached. What do I have to do...more >>

Someone name a good Decompiler that would strip the img library from an FLA...more >>

Hi I have tried to upload a Flash slideshow to test a tutorial out and when I view it offline it works and looks perfect, but when I upload it to my site there is an empty space where it ought to be. Can someone please tell me where I am going wrong. Many thanks Nig ...more >>

I have an HTML page where the user can select from several swfs to play a little audio piece. Currently I have the audio swfs set up as popups, but I don't like that solution. So I'm trying to figure out how I can have, say, four swfs on a page, and when the user clicks Play on swf #1, it fi...more >>

I have an fla with an image effect in it. You can see the swf here:http://www.grossmannjet.com/image_effect.swf Seems like you can't attach an fla so I have put it here: http://www.grossmannjet.com/image_effect.zip I just can't figure out how this is done. It is the same jpeg in the sam...more >>

Can someone please troubleshoot why the trace is coming out as two "undefined"s?... On the stage is a MC called "link_mc" that is basically a box. Then there is another MC on the stage called "box_mc" and inside that is a text field called "output_txt". Thanks!... function popupBox (...more >>

Too lazy today to search the web when hopefully I can build a decent collection of referrals from those who been there and done that. Maybe even a referral to a site of collections of this type of inquiry? Any type of Flash player for that matter, meaning video or audio, with a special emph...more >>

Everyone knows that level 0 is the main timeline or stage, whatever. Well, let's say I have a bunch of buttons and stuff on level 0, then i load an swf into level 5 above level 0, which also has a bunch of stuff. Now, the problem here is, that i can still interact whith the buttons under the...more >>

How do I create a start screen for a movie. That's ALL I want. Just a start screen. If you could at least direct me to a place that could help I would appreciate it. ...more >>

My site is completely made in flash, and for example when i upgraded my site a enter it again i don't see new content, and i need to reload it in IE window. is it possible to reload my site automaitcally? ...more >>

I would like to add a preloader and audio before my flv video plays. However, when I add a frames before the keyframe which loads the flv file, my buttons to control the flv loose their actions. I have found articles which involve NewStream, but nothing for progressive. (I don't have access ...more >>

Is there a way to have the bitmap option "Allow Smoothing" turned on by default for all imported image types (PNG, JPG)? I'm importing a lot of images at once, and it would be nice to have this turned on for all that come in. Thanks. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= remove "_nospam_" to...more >>

i really need macromedia flash player to view sites however having trouble installing it. whenever i try and install i get a blacnk screen were it should be installing or it say "Network error. Please check your internet connection and try again". can someone help me get it sorted i need it as s...more >>

Is there a way to stream a video in flash other than to load up a big movie into cache and then play it. Current command is using gotoandplay. Thanks...more >>

Ok, strange issue here. I've converted a file to FLV using Flash 8, imported the video into Flash 8 and published it to my site. When I try to view the video in IE (I'm on winXP by the way) using the Flash 8 player it loads correctly and starts playing. If I'm using Flash 9 player the video ne...more >>

How do you copy frames from one movie to another in Flash 8? I found this one, but it does not work on Flash 8. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_12863 I want to copy the contents of a scene from one movie, and then create a scene in another movie and paste it ...more >>

Hi All, I need some help . . . I have a bitmap image output from an application into an XML file, which is stored in the XML file as a hex string. I need to pull this information in from the XML file and convert the hex string to a bitmap image in my fla. file to display the image on...more >>

I have embedded a couple of SWF files in the following page: http://www.kandrews.co.uk/the%20alpineescape/index4.html this works fine with Mozilla but with IE I just get a message about pressing the spacebar , all that happens is the space for the files is then blank. What is weird is th...more >>

Recently designers have been sending me artwork in CMYK; when I open the images in Flash all the colours change into RGB settings. Is there away that I can change the colour settings around? :confused; ...more >>

:confused; I would like to know if there is a way to buffer about 20% of the movie before it starts playing....more >>

I'm doing a preloader which i have got to work. But am I correct by saying that the preloader is only relevent to the main stage that it is on? What i have been doing is creating a movie clip, putting the preloader inside this movie clip and then once it loads the main movie will start. jus...more >>

Hi guys, Thanks for checking out my post... In my Flash 8 movie I have a centred pop up window that launches when you press a button. I want this pop up to open the url 'news/news.php?pagename=headlines' but everytime the pop window opens, it just displays news/news.php and doesn't ...more >>

Hi, I have this event which is not working and I am stumped! on(rollOver) { _root.mc_home.gotoAndStop("over"); _root.mc_home.mc_homemove.gotoAndPlay("rollover"); } Instance mc_home consists of 2 keyframes labelled 'out' and 'over'. Keyframe one has a stop() action and a brow...more >>