When I test movie on all my .fla files, the script "seems" not to work (many things missing, problems with my arrays...) BUT if I run the SWF produced...it works like a charm??!! What should it be please? I've re-install everything on a new system without any success Thnaks very much! ...more >>

I'm making a small application in Flash, which I'm planning to put on CD-Rom. The CD-rom will contain an autorun script to automatically open a certain flash file (in exe format) when the disc is inserted. The only problem is that I want it to be displayed without the menus that appear in th...more >>

Hi, everyone I want to use a layer as a subtitle track, and I want to be able to show/hide it by clicking a button. Any tips? Thanks. Dan...more >>

Hi, I've spent the past hour or two trying to figure something out. I have to textinputs, one called "Adults" and one called "Children". The point of the flash file is to get the number of adults and children. I thought it would be so easy :) I thought: [b]var total1=(adults*6)+(children*3...more >>

ok, here is my problem. I have never had a problem from flash until 2 days ago. I got on the computer when i got home that day from work and everything was normal. After supper i got back on and went to americasarmy.com and noticed the screen was cut into boxes and had little square boxes with...more >>

I have a Flash menu that is accessing a page that is dynamically generated by a Rails, a real estate database. Currently I have the buttons set up wth the following absolute URL provided by the back-end developer: getURL(?http://www.brownandco.com/property/open_houses?); However, the me...more >>

I know I am close..or at least I think...can someone please look at this (http://wwwdev.lafayette.edu/flash/index_movie_1_w_pre.fla) and tell me why I do not see the preloader please! Thank you so much! ...more >>

Hi, I was having trouble with the font that I was using, so I downloaded one from "fonts for flash". If I place the font on the main timeline, it looks great. However, if it's not on the main timeline, and inside of a movie clip or button, it looks blurry. Is there a way to fix this? A...more >>

ok i was working wthi flash 8 video for the first time today and it worked marvelous, i selected my video, selected one of those video controls option they have built in, it encoded it over the enxt few hours nicely and once it ws done it worked fine, then i uploaded it to my web server... ...more >>

Not a Flash developer, I'm wondering if it's the right software for a project I have in mind. I want to create a database of 1000 or so photos. The computer with the database would be linked to several sensors that, if tripped by people walking past them, would cause the display of the photos ...more >>

I know I have seen this done all the time with flash, where they pan and zoom images, but when I try it it looks terrible. I have tried using much higher resolution images, but they still display as if they were not anti-aliesed. I have flash 8, and someone suggested doing some with the sub ...more >>

I have a movie that I would like to start with a preloader in Flash 8. I want the preloader to show the percentage of the movie loaded and have a background image until the movie starts. Can anyone let me know where a good tutorial can be found for this? ...more >>

I made a Flash site with text and graphics, and have been told by some of my customers that only the graphic appears on the page. The site is www.simplypilatesnashville.com. Is this just a browser, Flash player issue? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I currently made my site to fit on 1024 x 768 monitors. I wanted to make 2 other versions - 800 x 600 and 1280 x 1024. When I scaled the site to 1280 x 1024 it looks good at that resolution. When I scaled it to fit 800 x 600 it looks blurry at that resolution. Could that just be my...more >>

Nickels55, Thank you so much for weighing in on this. I really appreciate it. I've put the.swf on the web along with a quicktime version to show how the players handle the video differently. I'm hoping to emulate the quicktime way of doing things. Basically, the quicktime player stops...more >>

Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work and how to make it work? I have an flv (flash 8) that's being loaded externally into a swf called player. I have cue points that are created at run time. The first javascript function executes but all of the other ones seem to fail. I'm positive fla...more >>

If I have a SWF with an embedded font, say all of Times New Roman, and I use duplicateMovie( ) to make another copy of it at runtime, is the Font Data duplicated as well, or is Flash smart enough to just keep one copy of the font data ?? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi all, I need to be able to create a faint effect of smoke moving across my movie in Flash. Does anyone have any ideas or pointer on how this can be achieved? Ideally any tutorials. I have looked via Google but no luck. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I have an .swf file which loads an .flv file on frame 60. After the .flv plays, how do I tell the file to play frame 61? -- Seth Meranda smeranda2<at>unl<dot>edu...more >>

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Under the publish settings dialog I check off MOV, but it's saying I need Quicktime 5 or below and to swich my settings, which causes another problem with the flipbook playing at a lower version of Flash. I also went to export > Quicktime Movie, which seemed to d...more >>

I'm new to flash and having trouble doing something that seems like it should be simple. I want to have a "frame" or "window" inside my stage that loads an .html file from outside the swf. Is it possible? How do I do it? ...more >>

We have had a couple of pieces of work produced in Romania. The companies in Romania have supplied web links for us to view the projects - one a flipbook the other a website and all we get is a blank screen with a grey square. I noticed that the encoding defaulted to Cyrillic (Windows). Anyone...more >>

Hi all, I need helap creating screensavers in flash from basic steps. Everyone is suggesting software tools to converst .swf files into .exe files screensavers. I need source help like coding part how to convert a .swf file into .scr file for screensaver. Any help regarding this will...more >>

Hi all, I am currently making my first website: I have various movie clips in each frame and buttons to navigate the user from one to the next. However, at the end of one of my movies, I want the site to automatically jump back to frame 1 and play that movie clip again (which is the ...more >>