Hi everyone, i have just created a flick book in flash 8. Everything works fine when i test the movie (ctrl enter) or when i publish it in the same folder where all my images are. However, when i publish it outside the folder containing all my images, the animation works fine but no images are...more >>

Since newer versions of IE have come out, Microsoft has subtly but effectively provided an impediment to visitors of sites with Flash content. If using IE, when hovering over an embeded Flash object, IE forces site visitors to click once before the user can interact with the embeded object. Im...more >>

I am fairly new to flash, however I do know my way around pretty well. I live traced a drawing and imported it into a movie clip to manipulate. As soon as I apply a shape tween to the timeline, the image gets distorted. Could my graphic be too complex? In the help section of Flash, it said...more >>

Here's what I want to do: Load a clip into my main movie - "loadedMovie" at the end of the timeline in "loadedMovie" i want a function, perhaps setColor, which will change the colour of another movie clip which sits in the main movie. Does this make sense? for a loaded movie clip to ...more >>

Ok, I haven't posted many times on these forums but the few times I have I've looked for an answer from Adobe (formerly Macromedia) that would explain why the heck I cannot get the awesome filereference class to work over SSL with mozilla based browsers or on a Mac. So far I've received Ja...more >>

Hi, hope someone can help. I've got a flash movie called test6.swf. Someone has modified my movie so that I can use an HTML link to mid-way through the movie. The code I use in the html link is <embed src="test6.swf?button=3" I now need to change the link to somewhere else in the file,...more >>

I am working on a Flash application that is downloaded from a server to multiple client machines in a controlled network. The client machines have a local XML file. I want to be able to load that XML into the Flash app, but security settings are getting in the way. It looks like using ei...more >>

Hi all, I cannot make a projector that exceeds my laptops screen resolution. It's running WindowsXP Pro SP2. My main desktop workstation is also XP Pro SP2 and I can make a projector of any size without this restriction. I have a Win2K SP4 desktop that also can exceed desktop resolution. ...more >>

I'm creating a Flash web banner ad that I only want to loop 3 times, then stop on a specific frame. How can I make this happen?...more >>

I am sure many of you have already seen how google implemented a flash application with their stock chart. (It also interact with the news section to scroll the news to the time period where you are looking at on the chart. Take a look at this link: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&...more >>

What I'm trying to do is simple enough - I have a custom setting that I like (bitrate, cropping, size etc.) - now I want to apply it to several different source videos.. How do I do that? I thought I could just duplicate the original setting and select a new source file - can't figure out how ...more >>

I have an MC that plays in my timeline. On the last frame of the MC I put "gotoAndStop("Scene 1", "home"); ...more >>

Hello I have an uncompressed video at 720x486. I need to encode it to Flash video at 640x480. When I import it into Flash Video Encoder, I use the custom settings to output a 640x480 movie at 30fps and 550kbps using the VP6 codec. Flash video outputs a 720x486 movie. What am ...more >>

I'm working on flash 8. I have a dynamic text box and I embedded a font (Bitstream Vera Sans). Since my text is in Spanish some vowels have accents which won't show up when I publish my SWF. Instead I get some funny rectangles where a vowel with the corresponding accent should be. Somebody can...more >>

when i test my game it is really slow, can anyone tell me why and how i can sort it. thanks...more >>

Hi, I have this code that it's working: <object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0' width='100%'> <param name=movie value=my_flash.swf> </object> This made that my flash have wi...more >>

Hi - I'm stuck i've made a small banner for a client to go on a web portal. It's small in terms of area - 140 x 60 pixels - and the client is happy it's just three pictures with a little animation between them (tweens) and soem text with a transparent button over the whole thing with a lin...more >>

I am using the newe Flash Player Detection generated from Flash 8 to look for Flash 6 or higher. It all works well when tested until one user decided to remove the Active X control for Flash but leave the Flash Player installed. When he came back to the page he was able to see the Flash conte...more >>

Hi I don't use flash very often and have to design a flash movie that opens from an html link however when I do this it opens full screen, blurring my movie. Can someone explain how to get this to open in a correctly sized new window or any tutorials that may help? I've looked through t...more >>

Greetings All, My client has received several complaints by customers that they can't see the public website which opens automatically once the splash movie is finished playing. They say that all they can see is a yellow screen. I believe this might be due to the splash screen hanging when th...more >>

Hi guys, I'd like to know how to create a similar effect to the animal planet home page http://animal.discovery.com/ I like to recreate the slideshow, with play and pause buttons and have images change within it. Let me know how I can get this done to make my static site http://in...more >>

:brokenheart; Hello .... I'm embedded a short video sequence into my website. It played perfectly when tested on my browser - but now I've uploaded the site, it just doesn't appear. Has anyone got any ideas? cheers ...more >>

Hi all , new to flash. I am trying a very simple project of two balls on a screen , both converted to movie clips, one named ball1 the othe ball2. I just want to be able to click on ball1 and remove the movieclip of ball2 , but am having no luck. Any code suggestions please. ...more >>

I can run my flash 8 prog OK from my PC, the queries go out OK and return all the relevant info, but when I try to run it from our website I get a popup window asking me for login information (username/pwd/domain). The reason is probably because the webserver and the database server are two di...more >>

:confused; Hello everyone. I've just spent WEEKS developing a new website, and it's got a few flash buttons... nothing too fancy... but it's designed with Studio 8. I've just uploaded my new site, and when everyone views it at work, they can't see the flash objects. Some people ha...more >>

I am developing online product tours for a health and safety application. http://www.ehands.info/flashdemo.html I do have screen recordings where the SWF is about 6 or 7Mb and they load really quickly. (Risk Assessment button). I have now added sound but have managed to reduce the SWF s...more >>

That might be confusing. I am new to Flash, and I have a scene with animations happening, but I'm finding that things that I want to just stay static are ending up disappearing unless I have something in every keyframe...I'm just wondering how it is you make some generic text, for instance, ju...more >>

Hope anyone can help solve my question. I've made a flash-made website (Width 780px, Height 580px) and it looks ok on PC (using IE7). But it looks slightly (about 5 to 10%) smaller when I see it on MAC (using Safari and Firefox). How can this happen and does anyone know why?? Measurements are ...more >>

:confused; No matter what I do, a movie clip labeled "menu" refuses to be dragged to the stage per instruction in "Getting Started with Flash" for Mac Flash 8. Is there any reason why this might be happening? I have managed to drag other movie clips to the stage. My newbie education is at a...more >>

I'm testing a site that loads swf's into new levels for each new page. when some of the buttons are clicked the animation stops for a quick second and then continues loading. The swfs that are laoding are around 10-20MB's. Once the pages are cached the animation perform smoothly. Why does the ...more >>