I've recently installed the universal flash 9 download, and it has no taken effect. When trying to view Flash a quicktime question mark/logo replaces it. The beta version worked fine but the latest edition has not shown me anything. Does anyone know what might be wrong? ...more >>

I'm working on a Macintosh 1.35GHz PowerPC G4 Mac OSX version 10.4.7. I have Flash Player 9 installed on my machine. When I run games on the Neopets web site (yes, I am an adult and yes the games are actually fun) many of them are so jerky and slow that they are completely unplayable. I have t...more >>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have made a flash file to show commercial video clips using Flash Slide presentation. Each video is on a different slide and uses a control skin added when the video is imported. The navigation works a treat a...more >>

hi :) i can't download the flash player, & i really really need 2, it's making my life very hard. my computer is very old & i'm working with windows 98 but i'm pretty sure it's still spoese 2 work. if u have any idea why, it will really help me. thanx alot Shuval. P.S it didn't...more >>

I made a 45-slide course in Flash 8 using slides, and have put some learning interactions throughout to check knowledge before moving on. The documentation says that I should select navigation Off in the component inspector, but then there's nothing that keeps the user from skipping the inter...more >>

i admit im a complete amateur when it comes to building websites. I went on template monster.com and saw a template that I loved. I bought it and began using flash to edit it. Im ok experienced in Flash but abd at actionscript. Anyway Im still in the building phase of my website when I start t...more >>

When I enter a flash object into a dreamweaver page and publishing the page F12, the flash object has a grey dotted border around it with a prompt asking you to click or press the space bar to access the tween to the flash object. Can anyone help solve this. Is it to do with the publishing of...more >>

I have no problems encoding .wmv files but when i try to encode a quicktime file i get this message: [b]"You won't be able to encode this file. Your computer doesn't have the necessary codec or the file is corrupt."[/b] Has anyone encountered this problem? And if so can you suggest a so...more >>

We need to design applications that can run off of a user's desktop. These applications would contain a good volume (approx. 300 Mb) of bitmap images and animation resources, all designed outside of the authoring environment. We do not need 3D. I am a beginner with Actionscript, and have ma...more >>

I have tried a Photoscroller that follows the mouse. The Photoscroller works fine on my Mac with Safari, Firefox and IE 5, but with Opera (v. 9.0.1) it wont scroll until I click on the Photoscroller/images. Why is it so and what can I do to make it scroll without clicking first? (One perso...more >>

Greetings- I have a small Flash movie I'm trying to complete, it's my first go around with Flash 8 so I appreciate your patience: I built an array with some actionscript which seems to work fine (I can trace it and all is well in the trace window). Now I'm simply trying to display it to ...more >>

my web is: http://www.bobayerstax.com it would appear that some/all(?) text/text graphics (flash symbols) are not showing up to some/all(?) viewers. would someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong. i've tried embedding the characters...but when i do that i can't see the movie when...more >>

Hello, I am creating a Flash application with Flash 8 and testing it in FP8. The application hanldes a lot of XML data and it is about sending and receiving a lot of http messages or socket messages (SocketXML). All of these data do not exceed 5-10 KB in size. When testing the applicat...more >>

hi there, here is the case im using this flash player detection to avoid the XP issue whit the flash player and quicktime plugin http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ running fine on PC, BUT!! when i visit the site on a MAC the site runs VERY SLOW now i create a testing folder on th...more >>

Hi thanks for viewing. i am trying to loop a string of photos that move across the screen so that the first photo will again follow directly behind the last photo instead of the last photo going off the screen leaving it blank and then the loop starting again. in other words the photos constan...more >>

I have a drop down menu that is a movie clip that works fine, but i need to be able to set the buttons within the drop down menu to goto the main scene to a certain frame. I've tried to do this but cant get it to work. the buttons work if i set them to goto a frame within the movie clip of the...more >>

Wow! Not Very intuitive! I am trying to put together a simple, self-running slide presentatiton...images that fade-in, then fade-out. That's it! ((I thought about using MS Powerpoint, but wanted a higher quality presentation with smoother transitions). I can import the images easily......more >>

Hi all, I have a client who wants me to create a flash file that would display an animation of different pictures that are submitted by the users. And everytime when the users submit different pictures, he would like the flash file to display the new pictures in the animation too. My que...more >>

On my web page, I have a presentation video in a flv file. I want, when the file finishes playing to go directly into another page. does any one knows how to do it. I've tried placing the flv file into a movie clip, calling the movie clip on frame one and on frame 2 using "getUrl" script to ...more >>

Hi, I'm using the actionscript attached below to retrieve text into a dynamic text box. I've also embedded a font that the dynamic text boxes are set to display entitled 'Codex LT' by adding it to my Library and changing the Linkage Properties to 'Export for ActionScript' and 'Export in first ...more >>

I am building a site at www.theroost.co.nz I have followed a tutorial to create animated buttons using movie clips, but the result is very jumpy. I have only applied it to the one button 'Picture This', and if someone could have a look and let me know what I am doing wrong, that would...more >>

Hi Guys: This is my very first post. I'm here because I want to ask the experts what would be the best method to achieve an effect. Here is my question: Please look at the following site to know what i mean, go to http://www.cpanel.com and take a look at the amazing animation they had. T...more >>

Hi I'm trying to load an external SFW into my empty placeholder moveiclip. I can achive this fine using buttons and an onClick event, but how can I have this happen at the start of a movie clip with no human interaction. The code I am trying is below but I am just getting a blank SWF? Can...more >>

I've added flv buttons to control a movie, but as soon as i add anything other than a play button everything seems to stop working. I dont really know that much about flash so i didnt know whether there is some syntax i need to add inbetween the codes. at the mmoment its like this but as soon ...more >>