Hello, I made a flash button for my web site which I am making in Dreamweaver. I am trying to make the button have a link however when I try and select the button in Flash it says that this selection can not have action script added to it. When I test the button everything works fine ex...more >>

How do i fade objects in an out of a flash movie. For example, if i wanted to fade a title in from a black screen, then out after a few seconds. Or, if i wanted to fade pictures in and out?...more >>

We have previously used another program (and it was a good one) to create Flash applications... But now it is time to get the real Flash. - We will be buying Flash and Captivate. - Unfortunately they don't come in a Creative Suite package as far as we can find. - List price on the pair i...more >>

Hello I recently purchase Adobe Production CS3 (PC) and trying to put Flash animation projects onto DVDs but the video quality is not up to par. I was wondering if anybody has run into this problem, or has any tips or advice on getting the video quality on DVD. rocket12works ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to get a counting loop working. well i don't really know if its a counting loop. What is supposed to happen is this code stop(); selectModuleCounter = 0; if (selectModuleCounter>15) { gotoAndStop(1)...more >>

Hello all, I am making a 360 gallery and i have an image that was stitched together and is 200 X 1807 and my stage is 265 X 200. I want the user to be able to click and drag the image to slide it around and I am having some problems... first problem is i cant figure out how to make it drag...more >>

I have 6 different swf's. They play one after the other automatically with NO next button etc. How can I have the first swf play, while that is playing have the next swf preloading in the background..and then while that one is playing have the next one loading...and so on... I currently ...more >>

Is there a difference in Flash 8 and Flash CS ? Is CS just Flash 8 included with the Creative Suite or is it the latest version? I'm about to buy a couple of Flash books as references and see both Flash 8 and Flash CS books still available online and at book stores. Thanks for any he...more >>

Please if anyone can help with advice on exporting to avi it would be much appreciated. I have Adobe Flash CS3. I continue to try and export the fla file to an avi and go through the process of selecting the appropriate sound settings, codec, etc; however when I complete the export there is ...more >>

I have a dynamic textbox with slide bar populated by and action infotext="some text"; this works fine but i want the text to be a doccument with parragraphs etc as soon as the text has a carrige return the flash wont display it what can i type to create a new line ? many thanks in advanc...more >>

hello, been racking my brain for weeks with this. trying to get my externally loaded dynamic text to scroll. My code to make it appear and scroll for one line at a time works fine, but when i replace the "scroll buttons" code with the "NEW scroll buttons" code in an attempt to get ti to scroll...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to embed a flv file into a webpage: - I dont want it to play when the page opens - I want to the user to see an image (a still of the movie, like youtube do) so they know to click on - and i want to customise the control panel can anyone help? cheers ...more >>

Dear People, Hi. I dont know what to class this problem as, so I hope my description here helps... When I out Flash content into a web page I get an annoying thing happen. Now, with IE7, all Flash content appears with that funny "marching ants" kind of border, or a serated looking border. ...more >>

Hi, I?m going to import a image in to flash and reduce the size to a half, But it?s not looks good when I reduce the size of a image in flash, So I heard that there is a actionscript class for avoid it, Someone please tell me where I can find it Thank you ...more >>

i have a as script that plays a mp3 and show the tittles in a list component what i want to do is when someone clicks on a song that is on the list component , i want that song to play. this is my code how would i make it work. //Set up sound object var s:Sound = new Sound(); s.onS...more >>

I am trying to make a custom flash video controller that is not visible until an area is moused over. I made a movie clip with all my controls (play/pause, mute, close, and a link). I then made an inviible button for a mouseover area which has a script telling it to set alpha to either 0 or 10...more >>

Most of us in the development world like flash because of that wonderful buzzword... "browser independent." What's that mean? Simply put, no more fighting to make things behave the same on different browsers with things like javascript. However, I have a huge problem. In developing a wi...more >>

I have this action script (Action Script 2.0) attached to a frame: function dragDaStuff() { _root.onEnterFrame = function() { _root.robotArm_MC._x=_xmouse } } dragDaStuff() //how would I set limits for the movie clip so it does not move freely anywhere on the x axis? Thanks. ...more >>

I just upgraded from CS2. I am creating drop nav menu for html site because spry is too generic looking, and no one in DW forum answered my question regarding customization. My problem is that in CS3, flash is telling me that I cannot add an action to a movie clip or a button. What's with ...more >>

I have a 24 buttons on frame 1 of a scene. Button 1, 'on release', goes to frame 2 where it plays a Movie clip called 'Benzoom'. Upon the last frame of Benzoom i'd like the play head to return to frame 1 of the scene so the user can select one of the other 24 buttons. Can anyone tell me what c...more >>

I have an object (a logo) on a timeline which should go round a circle in anti-clockwise direction. I want to move the start position of first frame, but when I do that and test it, it starts playing in a clockwise direction and then at the next keyframe stops and plays in the right direction....more >>

Ok this problem is weird, any replies are greatly appreciated, for some reason whenever I click on certain things while making an animation, for example the library or a certain image, this would not be so annoying if it was not so random, sometimes its one thing sometimes its not, and it ins...more >>

Hi, I?m new to flash programming, and I have to take an existing swf and make some small changes to it. I decompiled it into an fla file but there are quite a few sprites which are themselves swf files which did not get into the decompiled fla. How do I put them back into the project so tha...more >>

Hi there! I succesfully managed to complete the tutorial on how to make a coloring book with Flash 8 (or its predecessors). (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/coloringbook.htm) I mofified it to suit on of my previously created characters, in order for the main parts to be fill...more >>

I want to load an mp3 file dynamically. So I used a standard sound object. I also wanted the file to play ASAP, so I made it stream. var music:Sound = new Sound(); music.loadSound(_root.song, true); But now I want the music to loop. I tried this: music.play(0,999); But that didn'...more >>

Hello I want do draw a circle on ballons and detecting there presence inside the circle. just like this http://www.flashgames247.com/play/823.html How do I do that. Please help. ...more >>