Hi, I inherited a FLA file and need to export and edit an image in Photoshop that currently resides in the Flash file. How do you do this? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I want to create scrolling text similar to this website: http://www.christianlouboutin.fr/ If you enter the english site and then click on 'biography' which is the photo frame you will see what I want to achieve. There's a slider on the right hand side which you can move down or up to...more >>

Ok, I am so very confused I am hoping there is a simple explanation. I have a Dynamic Text box called debug which references the variable Class, I have a flashVar.txt file that loads the variable, it's entire contents are: Class=[I]This is italic[/I]. When I load this file, all is good....more >>

Hi -- I am trying to create a gradient that goes from top to bottom as opposed to left to right. How can I do this? I can't for the life of me figure it out.. Rich ...more >>

Sorry, I realize this info is already in this forum somewhere but I can't find it. I don't need to have a 0%-100% status bar while the animation is loading. I just need to briefly stall the animation for 1-2 seconds (showing perhaps a still of the first frame) before the animation goes. ...more >>

Does anyone know of a good rss Weather widget that will not only display text, but the appropriate weather image (sun, rain, etc.) like weather.com has? I'm not familiar enough with XML to parse out data. Any help you can give is appreciated! ...more >>

I'm having trouble with flash player. When i get to the end of the installation it says "internet explorer has blocked this site from using an activeX control in an unsafe manner. As a result, this page may not display correctly." any ideas? ...more >>

I use Zapf Dingbats in all of my Flash animations. I just updated to Mac OS X 10.5 and these characters are gone, replaced with vertical rectangles. The font shows up normally in every other CS3 app. What's up with that? ...more >>

I'm using the FLVPlayback component in CS3 (progressive downloading). I have several component instances laid out in the site in various places. With the current setup of the site, it is most convenient to place each FLV component instance in a separate frame. Here's the http://www.8pawde...more >>

I'm brand new to flash and I need to know how to use the Vegetable tool and what it does. Much thanks in advance!!!...more >>

As a network administrator, it would be nice to be able to install Flash Player via a logon script. However, I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to locate the installer to Save, rather than to Run from the Adobe web servers. Can someone help me find the standalone installer/executable f...more >>

Can you have a flash movie on top of a flash movie? I have a flash photo gallery on top of a flash calendar. how can I move the calendar to the front??...more >>

I've finally finished making my still photo portfolio site in Flash, got my domain name etc now I'm having difficulty publishing site, do I need to use Dreamweaver as a 3rd party to embed te site in HTML to get it uploaded to server, or can it be done in Flash? I'm using version 8, thanks in ...more >>

Is there a limit on the number of variables that one can have in a form? One of my forms has 10 variables. Is that alright? Also can one name a variable with two words. For example, water supply. Two words with a space between. Mary Alice art.design@comcast.net ...more >>

ok so ive very rarely used flash but i really need to do this project...so what i have is a side image of a face...just a one demensional flat image of a white face. what i want to do is create a shining line that moves down the the outline of the face and then gives one big flash when it gets...more >>

I am finally ready to publish my web site, (770x650 px) and would like it to come up centered on the screen rather than aligned with the left edge. I go to publish settings and select "center" under flash alignment, and "default" under html alignment. The html alignment seems to make a diffe...more >>

I am very new to Flash. I have an image of a room. I want to have different components of the room clickable, each linked to different pages. I keep finding code for one button. One button works. But when I try to duplicate the actionscript (3.0) for different buttons I get an error (1021: Dup...more >>

I am loading an external swf like that. In the extrnal swf I have a function called "foo". how can I call "foo" function from the main swf? Thanks ...more >>

Ok, heres what my Studio MX disk has gone through.. First we made a copy of it in case something happened to it.. which something DID.. The damn dogs got up and destroyed it along with 3 of my favorite games. so now im relying on my backup copy. Somehow over the years it has gotten scrathed a ...more >>

Okay, I haven't done flash in probably 5 years and I am now trying to get back into. However the easiest thing is absolutely killing me. I'm just trying to do basic motion tweens and shape changes etc and got stuck on something with flash cs3. I can make a shape into a symbol and make the grad...more >>

Hello, I'm having a strange problem with Flash and I hope somebody can help. I recently sent a Flash document to a colleague and she tells me that she can't open it and that she gets this error message: "Unable to open document with this version of flash as it contains screens". She is usin...more >>

When looking in the help file in Flash CS3, under "Setting Color Values", they have an example of changing the color of a car. When you click on the paint chip, the car changes to that color, leaving the shadowing and everything else present on the car. When I run through the tutorial on ...more >>

We have a project that requires a flash presentation that will run on a widescreen monitor (1366 x 768) at a tradeshow booth. Any advice on what resolution to use for our images? We had thought 150dpi would give us smooth color gradations. True? If we use that, should we made our document ...more >>

I trialed the Flash CS3 and worked with a .fla document and it forced me to save it in the new CS3 format. I did not like the new Flash CS3, and went back and installed Studio 8 which includes Flash 8 Professional. Now I cannot open up the .fla file at all and it says, "unexpected file format"...more >>

Hello, I have an swf movie with a couple scenes and content. Recently I've been asked to enlarge the movie, ... but then I need to center all the content on the stage. I am looking for help in finding a setting or control or general experience on how to enlarge / increase the dimensions of...more >>

Hi. I'm just finishing quite a large Flash game project, mostly done as a learning exercise for myself. However, once it's all tested and done, I'd quite like to put it somewhere. Does anyone have any experience of, or knowledge of the best Flash games hosts? My motive is simply to make su...more >>