Hi... I've created a flash menu for my site, and i want to open the links in a iframe. No problem here...the issue is that in Firefox the links work perfectly, but in Internet Explorer the links open in a new window! here's the code: on (release) { getURL("contactos.html", "mai...more >>

I'm very new to this, and am trying to draw a circle using the pen tool. When clicking on the pen tool I get a "plus sign" instead of a "pin" incon. It doesn't behave the way the text book (HOT) tell me it should. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Any help? ...more >>

Hi, I'd like to create an application in flash that interacts with my Yahama Piano Keyboard, which has midi In and Out ports. Does flash support this? I don't need flash to play midi sounds, but just receive the midi message sent by my midi keyboard. Thanks ...more >>

I have an mp3 embeded in a .swf. Its about 3-4 megs. Load times are too long for slower connetions. Its an audio website, so I don't want to encode it too low. Here are some options that i *think* are possible. Any advice would be great... 1. Have the (mp3 or mp3 in swf) file on the ...more >>

My Javascript menu does not display over a Flash object. The menu is displaying properly until it touches the Flash <embed> <object> below. In other words, I can see the menu pop-ups above the Flash object, but the expanded menu that touches the object does not display (or is displaying behind...more >>

Usinf flash MX I've added two static fields - both using "Use device fonts" (Tahoma, 11). One of thise static text fields has a mask on it because it's used inside a scroller. The one behind the mask has invisibile text when I test or export the movie. The one not behind the mask looks fin...more >>

I'm working on a movie that will eventually plug into another flash movie. Everything is going great except... and works fine when I debug the movie from within flash... but when I load the movie from the parent movie that will eventually load it... stuff starts disappearing disappears. Butt...more >>

Hi I know very little about Flash and must apologise in advance for what may be a very stupid question. I am using Dreamweaver to create a simple website and have used one of the standard Flash buttons from within Dreamweaver itself. After viewing it online and hovering over any of th...more >>

Dear All. I have been tyring to export an animated banner, in animated .gif format. it's a simple animated text with no gradients. it should go on top of a graphic which has some gradients and is multi-coloured and with effects (the colours are similar to the one i used in the page) as y...more >>

why is that? where i work i use a PC and is a Intel Pentium 4 2.6GHz we use flash 2004 pro, and at home i use a imac G5 2.2GHz and flash is so slow!!!!! even the font on the software like the action panels looks like flash is about to crash when i publish a file in the PC is 70% quicker th...more >>

Lately Flash video and audio seems to be entirely unsynchronized. Sometimes it'll start just fine, but the audio will gradually fall behind the video, until it's seconds off. For instance, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Nlkc3BLP4 (Daily Show: President Bush vs. Governor Bush) can be off ...more >>

Hi There, I would like to be able to create a very smooth drop down menu, but it needs to be populated by data from a database. I am not sure where to start, so any help will be greatly appreciated....more >>

Hi - I have a project where I'm being asked to synchronize a Flash animation to a 3 to 5 minute audio and it raises a number of questions which I hope I can get answers to here. The only way I can think of to really synch these up is to embed the audio into the timeline but 5 minutes of...more >>

I am new to Flash and have started creating a Flash document using multiple scenes. My document contains audio, so I have decided to give users the option to show or hide narration text while playing the file. I am using a movie clip in each scene that is triggered by a button which allows u...more >>

Hi, Good day. I have a movie clip (lets call it [b] mapMC[/b]) which motion tweens from right to left. Inside this mapMC are [b]smaller buttons[/b] that are on different keyframes. These smaller buttons load movie clips. I target and load these smaller buttons from [b]main buttons[/b] ...more >>

I'm having a problem making the 'download pdf' link to function how i want it. it's opening a blank window but its not targeting the url i've specified in the xml can anyone help me? the url is: http://www.danielatkinson.com/test1/ thanks! ACTIONSCRIPT CODE: function loadIm...more >>

hello I have a scrollpane with a movieclip, at the bottom of that scrollpane there's an object that's dynamically switched visible or invisible. How can I restrict the scrolling area of the scrollpane to not scroll to the very bottom of the movieclip. (I want to hide the white area) In oth...more >>

I've got a simple rectangle (with a red fill) and some text over the top of it. Why is it that when I make a button, not the entire rectangle is live - the bounding box around the text is just normal and cannot be clicked. ...more >>

Hello folks, I about to replace my website logo with a Flash animation but I am concerned that a website viewer that doesn't have Flash will see a broken website (or at least the logo). Rather than force a viewer to download a Flash plugin, I want them to see a static .png or .jpg file inst...more >>

http://www.larrycarlson.com/flashmovies_freefood.htm ...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash 8. I have 3 swf files which i want to load one by one, each one after the preious swf that was loaded finished playing. I have tried using : this.onEnterFrame = function () { if (myMovie._currentframe >= myMovie._totalframes){ gotoAndPlay("Movie2"); } } wher...more >>

Hi, I have a client that has a ton of Windows Media Player content (video) and wants a Flash site that would feature a WMP embeded in the page.... Using Flash video is currently a non-starter for them, they run a large VOD operation and all of their stuff runs on MS Streaming services, et...more >>

Hey this is a really stupid question but i cant find the solution but How do I make it so when I create a new symbol or would like to edit a new symbol that it opens in a new tab...more >>

Ever since I loaded the new Internet Explorer, 7.0, my FLASH won't load. When I go to a site requiring FLASH, it tells me that the site requires FLASH, and I need to downloaded it from Macromedia... I have download it twice, and still NO luck. Any suggestions? Can anyone help? tha...more >>

Hi. I got a problem in macromeda flash ! I don`t know how to use next scene becus im allways get an error **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 1: Wrong number of parameters; nextFrame requires exactly 0. nextFrame(1); Wath skall i do i have read every help gu...more >>

Hi all, I would like to use a company logo as the image displayed during preloading of the flash movie, but I would like the inside of the logo to essentially be the bar that moves from 0% to 100%. The idea being that the logo is 'filling up'. The logo itself is a letter 'S'. It is a s...more >>

I'm a basic Flash user with not much ActionScript experience. How can I implement a double click event to go to the next scene. I want to double-click on a button (or anything) to be able to go to the next scene. I could use the regular single-click option -- but for this use, it has to be...more >>

hello all i am really noob at flash , i need help about this; i want to create square boxes (for example 4x4) then i want to fill them (it maybe with different color or maybe with little pictures in boxes, i am not sure what i can do by using flash). when i hold mouse button on a box and ...more >>

hi, i am having this problem in my player that will not open pop-up window could you pls help me to figure this adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation. the following local application on your computer or network: c:\ file location is trying to communicate with ...more >>

I've got a site which needs to load various different swf animations into a loader component. The animations however invariably have items which extend beyond the edge of the stage which are then tweened. The loader seems to include these items when calculating the size of the loaded animation...more >>

Hey, I am putting together a website and i am making flash drop down menu's. i completed the first one and when you put ur mouse over the button, the list drops down with a white outline. It is set to "wmode"and value=transparent. Here is the link if you would like to see it for your self. ...more >>