I've created an animation that plays fine in Flash Player, Explorer and Safari but when it's played in Firefox the animation plays all out of sink. Does anyone have any ideas why this would happen? Any help would be gratefully received! ...more >>

Hi all, How do i validate an integer to be odd or even in flash? a = 7; if (***what goes here ?***) { trace("a = odd "); } else { trace("a = Even "); } Regards, Peter ...more >>

Hi All I have just been asked to create a very simple Flash Banner - 468 x 60 px which I understand is a standard size for a flash banner. To be included on the banner are a couple of small images and also 3 or 4 lines of the text and a link to a website. Not being a Flash Guru I am ...more >>

I have a flash file on a site that is displaying properly upon loading in IE (any ver.) initially. But as soon as the refresh within the browser is done, all my variables turn to undefined.? The file currently imports xml which contains my displayable(text) content. It works fine in browsers s...more >>

I'm sure this is something really dumb and simple I haven't done correctly, but it's my first time actually running a Flash project inside q browser. I used the html that was generated by the publish process, and when the page launches, there is kind of a dotted line around the Flash project ...more >>

Can't seem to find out how to do this: I've imported a Flash 8 video to a web page (with autoPlay set to false) and it has a controller skin underneath it, but I'd also like to show a big "Play" triangle button in the centre of the video, like you see on all the Youtube videos. How do I add...more >>

http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/13587.html I know how to make animated buttons by putting a movie clip for the over state of a button symbol, but how do I make buttons like these that also animate when the user mouses off the button and also stay highlighted for the section ...more >>

Just like the title says!... ...I have a .flv on a server, and I have it playing in my .swf just fine. But when the video is over, I want to invoke an action. I checked the help documentation but couldn't figure it out. Any help??? Thanks! Oh, here's the code I'm using to play the vi...more >>

Does anybody know a command to have your flash movie download external .swf movies within the "main" movie while playing. I have about 8 .swf's that are all linked together but the problem is the loading of each one seperatly (kinda lags a bit b4 each movie is loaded, because you have to down...more >>

Autoplay is set to "false" when exporting the movie. In IE this is fine, but for some reason Firefox autoplays the video. I have 3 videos on the same page, so this can not happen! If anyone has any advice about this that would be terrific. Mark ...more >>

I have this swf with three different movie clips that each load a random image. I have this code and it works when I just use the code for one movie clip. I fugure I'm doing something wrong with the code. Any suggestions???? Here's the code: stop(); pic_arr = ["images2/comm_pic1", "...more >>

Hello people. I have a problem. I have a swf file with animations, and I want to create flv file from swf. But I need that flv create automatically on server (with sound, transparency, actionscript ). How can I do this? Thanks. ...more >>

Hello All, How could make a swf interact with a FLV? All I want is to, once the flv reach a particular point, the swf goes to a different scene. Many thanks...more >>

Ok here it is We are working on a website that use many FLV file in Flash 8 (We use On2 VP6 compression) for transparent background. The question is about the best way to compress it. Is that better to get the highest MOV file quality and the compress it with the Flash Video Encoder, or usig...more >>

Is it possible to pause/play/stop an external FLV file along with the SWF file its playing in? I can pause/play/stop each separately but I would like one set of controls that will do both. I have a "talking head" presentation synched with slides that needs to be paused/play/stopped in line w...more >>

Hi, does anybody know how to trnsform a text like 'SQUARE' into a square-shape...? I do know how i transform a bowl into a square and stuff like that, but how do i do the same with text into a shape, or other image..? thanks in advance ...more >>

hi I am trying to load an external txt file, of which I can do fine. I then have a series of roll over buttons in a flash movie that when rolled over display parts of the uploaded text file. at the moment the roll over button returns a numer variable (hover) my problem is that the scrip...more >>

Hi Forgive me if this has been covered to death - I'm relatively new to this and can't solve this problem. Would anybody be so kind as to look at my preloader and tell me how to rectify it. The revolving coloured circle starts as an elipse all bunched up on the left hand side and as pr...more >>

Hi All, I have this strange problem. I've inbedded a sfw-movie in a html page. The fsw-movie is nothing more than a FLVPlayback component wich is playing a steaming flv video. In the component inspector you can select wich skin to use. And when I export the swf form flash and play it in ...more >>

I am making a simple directory for a CD. I have used the same code that I used a couple of years ago for this purpose: on(release) {getURL("Instructions/filename.pdf", "_blank");} A blank page is opening but not the PDF file also I need to link a wmv movie (I also have that movie i...more >>

hi i have a 1000 frames flash file and i want to attach a sound to it(mp3), when i import mp3 file to library and drag it from library to scence at first there is no problem when i run it consider i have a button to gotoandplay frame 500, when i press thiss button mp3 playing do not chang...more >>

i am wonder what is the size of the object or Number in bytes and how i can find out what is the size of it (in AS2 without byteArray) thank you b...more >>

Hello. I'm sure this a common problem, I've tried to fix it but its proving very elusive! When my Flash movie loads, I get a flash of white (the background I assume) I have set the background colour of the movie to #999999, and done the same in the html that holds it, But the flash of ...more >>

:embarrassment; I can't believe that I've had to ask for help in the first few days of starting with flash. In the Adobe tutorial "Using Flash for the First Time ? Part 2: Adding Symbols, Animation, and ActionScript" it says that when the rectangle shape is drawn and clicked on it should h...more >>

I'm not sure if this is a FIrefox problem or a Macromedia Flash 8 problem. I'm using Flash 8, FF 1.5, Windows 2003 Server, Internet Explorer 6. I have a flash object embedded into my page. The object is used to give my HTML page the ability to select 2 or more files for uploading to the serv...more >>

I have done some basic flash pages before and used small amounts of action script. I was trying to find some example webpages in the original .fla format, so that I can look at the code and structure to better understand how things should work. I can get things to work, but I want to make su...more >>

I want to make a border appear to be "drawing itself" around a rounded rectangle on my site, how would I go about doing it? I'm sure it's easy but for the life of me I can't figure it out. Also, I want to have an X appear to draw itself on the site to cross out some text, how would I do this...more >>

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Ok, so I've worked up a nav bar kind of similar to this... http://www.hypertemplates.com/templates/11103.html (although mine's not nearly as intricate, but same principle, picture that has animation with animated nav bar buttons). What I want to do is make it into a swf, bring it into ...more >>

currently when I create a button that when you mouse over let's say it lights up then you mouse out, it fades so it's in one smooth motion, I create a movie clip and I put a button inside the mc with the following code: Is there a faster way to code this with AS2 ? on (rollOver) { gotoA...more >>

I just realized about 300 frames into my flash document that one part ends up goin outside of the frame. Is there any way to move all the frames at once?...more >>