Hello, I am about to produce a flash animation that is suposed to be reproduced on the Theaters (cinema). Wich is the best size to fit the screen of theaters? How many frames per second should the animation have? Thanks.... ...more >>

We want to add to our Flash team. We have a cool new music app written in Flash that fronts an innovative digital music service. It's out in a private alpha at http://www.mediamaster.com right now. We are looking for a senior Flash engineer who thoroughly understands object-oriented desi...more >>

Certain fonts don't appear in my font menu (they usually seem to be OpenType) even though the same fonts appear in other apps such as Photoshop. I am on a Mac running 10.4.8. Any ideas what could be causing this? ...more >>

I hope someone can figure this one out. I get the following: While executing in 'page name', the following JavaScript error(s) occured: missing ) after argument list I get when I try to apply a timeline effect to an image. One of the tutorial supplied images, in fact, so the image should b...more >>

i was wondering how i can load data from a text file, (this i already know how to do). but i want to know how to manipulate the data for example, i have a flash project that has 3 different backgrounds, lets say the beach, the forest, the city, each one is an image and is on a seperate layer, ...more >>

Hi in need of some assistance with encoding my exported from final cut pro quicktime files , i have 150 clips i need to encode all about 3 minutes in length,when i drag them into flash i use either 512 kb/s or 700 , the quality is poor ,i set it to on2 vp6, i am using a mac, is there ...more >>

Hi in need of some assistance with encoding my exported from final cut pro quicktime files , i have 150 clips i need to encode all about 3 minutes in length,when i drag them into flash i use either 512 kb/s or 700 , the quality is poor ,i set it to on2 vp6, i am using a mac, is there ...more >>

I really tried to figure this out but I guess I don't know how. I spent days creating this 'slot machine menu' and now I'm stuck. If there are some good people that could help me I would be really grateful because I'm sure that it is only line or two change of code and it will work. (but I ...more >>

Here's my problem: I've created a Flash movie I've saved on a CD as a .exe projector file. The ..exe file will automatically open once the CD is placed in the computer's CD drive. When the movie is opened, I want it to play in the center of the computer monitor. Thus far I've not been able...more >>

Hi everyone - I've placed a movie on the stage and have set keyframes throughout the timeline so that the movie will resize (effectively zoom in) in various places. It's pretty difficult to do this without constantly switching back and forth between the movie edit mode and the stage. I...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to make some reusable code, and I cannot for the life of me remeber how to do something in actionscript. Here's the code I'd like to get to work: dropTarg = answer1_mc; then later.... on (release) { if (eval(this._droptarget) == this._parent.dropTarg) { ...more >>

I have an swf file with a movie clip placeholder that plays an external sfw. The pixel dimensions are slightly larger than the parent swf, but the movieclip is the exact same size as the external swf. There's an animated element in the external sfw that is outside of the bounds of the fil...more >>

Are there reliable tools out there to capture a Flash stream from a web page? I would prefer a tool on the Mac, but a PC tool will do in a pinch. Camtasia is much too capable, and expensive, for this simple purpose - I'm looking for something else. Thanks in advance, David Allen ...more >>

I want to post banners of other bands on my website, but I dont know how to get the gifs to animate. I have tried to import them, but it only gives me a still picture. Thanks for the help....more >>

Macromedia MX user: I am currently working on a website that has a large jpg image (700 x 400 pixels / 236 KB, which could be a gif but due to gradient colors is a jpeg) with a textbox in the middle of it, that I would like to load on all the individual pages of my site. Due to the size of t...more >>

Hi there, I'm trying to create a website for my band in Flash and need help answering a very specific question that I'm finding very difficult to put into words. Is there a website where I can upload what I'm doing so that when I do post this question people will be able to understand what...more >>

:confused; I'm fluent in Photoshop, Illustrator and am decent in Flash (but it's been a while). What I'm trying to do is to have multiple masked objects (images - not vector) fade in and out over a background that is also in motion. My client has provided me with a psd with all the ima...more >>

hopefully you can help. My band Ring Of Scars is in the contest to play for the Taste of Chaos tour, and we need a lot of votes like super fast. The voting days are winding down very quickly. Please do no disreguard this. I am a member of the forum and have needed help before and there hav...more >>

Hello, I have seen there are some Flash Movies which have small fram and once you click on the active area they get larger and cover the entire screen. Could you tell how this is done or where I can read about this. Thank you in advance for your help. Babak ...more >>

I just published a site. However, when viewed on a PC screen, there is a white box that encompasses the movie. I am assuming that it is just the explorer recognizing the flash plug-in but how do I get rid of it??? Why don't I see that on any other sites?? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi all, When I import any Captivate 2 question slides into Flash I get everything there, I can play the movie and use the questions. Problem is - I just can't see em! The object is on the stage but it's blank. I've tried importing slides as movie clips as well as just importing the slid...more >>

When i type in the letters some of them are black some are blue and some are a bright blue. why is that? if anybody has any answers please help me....more >>

We are making a video game at school. and we are having problems with the buttons. We are having problems with the action codes. like gotoandstop. and things like that. it comes up that we have errors do you have any possible solutions. Thank you, Blevins EAST ...more >>

I'm trying to reference a movieClip instance with a counter variable, i.e. var my_pic:MovieClip = "Pic" + picCount; I have ten movie clips, with instance names Pic1, Pic2, Pic 3 etc, and picCount increments from 1 to 10. No luck so far, as the above code is an illegal mismatch of variable t...more >>

http://www.malibuestates.com/ How is this effect accomplished? Thanks in advance, Brad...more >>

Hey Gang, Is there a preferred, or standard method to pull this off. Basically have on Video player template that will pull in a different video based on the URL querystring. It can be as simplas as VidId=001 And I'll keep the vids named 001.flv, 002.flv ect. This is my first time divin...more >>

Hi has anybody tried embedding an image in a textfield using the <img> tag? I've found the image jumps on to the next line or in some way doesnt work the way i intend it. Is there a trick to getting the images to line/flow up with the TEXT correctly? Cheers ...more >>

hello! like it is shown in the swftools documentation, i created a flash movie by using avi2swf and combining the output with a preloader: [i]swfcombine -X 320 -Y 240 preloadertemplate.swf loader=tessel_loader.swf movie=film.swf[/i] it worked well for me, but instead of repeating the m...more >>

hi.can anyone help me with the following flash issue. Please be aware im not very technical minded with flash, im teaching myself at the moment, and am still trying to get my head around all the action script etc. I'm trying to create an interactive flash site. I have created some buttons ...more >>

I was just wondering whether anyone knew whether the new WIndows Vista will work fine with Adobe Flash 8? Thanks ...more >>

Flash Gurus- I did the tutorial found here for a website: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/script-star-field-effect. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/script-star-field-effect. And I put images over the actions layer for a logo and was going to fade some images and positioning statemen...more >>

Testing my flash movie in JAWS screen reader - the shortcut keys I had specified were being overriden by those used within JAWS, for a couple of weeks. Yesterday they miraculously began to work when testing in JAWS again, JAWS reading the name for the buttons and the shortcut I had entered in...more >>

I am working with the combo box and I noticed that I can't get the first item in the drop down box to work. I think this is because I am using the on(change) event and the first item is automatically highlighted.\ any ideas on how I can work around this? Kevin ...more >>

I'm doing a animated film and draw all the art in illustrator CS. But when i try to import my files into flash 8 i get one .ai file that is graphic and alot of tmp.png (bitmap) files. And the resulotion isn't near the one i have in illustrator. How do I maintain the vector graphic ? One anot...more >>

The recently upgraded Flash Player (v9) has a new security "enhancement" which has broken the behaviour of the getURL command. Details can be found here http://www.adobe.com/go/50c1cf38. I have tried to insert the bit of code that Adobe have suggested will fix this, on the page that contains...more >>

have installed this and tried every fix - registry entry mapper - uninstalled and tried version 7-8 no info on adobe site i have given up ever hearing sound froma swf file again F U adobe! ...more >>

my php code : <?php $id = $_REQUEST['voteid']; $handle = fopen("get.txt", 'w+'); fwrite($handle,$_REQUEST['voteid']); if($id == 2) echo ("&back=ok&"); ?> my as: _loc1 = new LoadVars(); _loc1.voteid = 1; _loc1.sendAndLoad("aa_receive.php", _loc1, "POST"); ...more >>

i've created the movie clip button with the 4 mouse states: off, over, down, and disabled (don't know WHY i need a "disabled". Visual Quickstart dosn't seem to care if the reader doesn't know "why"). so i've got 3 layers: content, button states, and actions. with 4 keyframes for the 4 states,...more >>

Hi, I have a video player that I constructed mostly by using the componets and then customizing them. The problem is: on the close button I have set up (gotoAndPlay the frame before launching the flv), once that is clicked the handle elements for my seekbar and volumebar scrubbers are visi...more >>

I am very new to flash and please forgive my lack of knowledge. So here is my question... How do I get this http://bourboncowboyneworleans.com/test/splash.htm to redirect to this http://bourboncowboyneworleans.com/test/ as soon as the flash movie stops? Also any preloader guidance or rea...more >>

Is there any way I can open a Flash 8 file in Flash MX 2004? I'm taking a class and they're using Flash 8 at school. I brought the file home and it says "Unexpected file format" when I'm trying to open it. I am assuming this happens because I use MX 2004 on my home computer. Is there anything ...more >>