Newbie here, so try not to be shocked if this is really dumb.... Is there anyway to use a mask on top of a dynamic text field. When I add a mask layer above my dynamic text field in author mode, it seems to work, but as soon as I test, the dynamic text seems to disappear. If I make the dyn...more >>

I?m trying to start an animation when a viewer rolls his mouse below a certain level on the stage and stop it when the mouse is above it. I can do it with an invisible button, but the pointer changes to a hand when it is within this area and I do not want that. Can someone help and tell me ho...more >>

I have some text fields in a form that are set to a tab order. when I tab through the form, a grey rectangle appears around the textfields. I can't seem to get ride of them. I would mind them, except the rectangle of the last form item tabbed to stay were it is after the form is submitted, ...more >>

How can I get a extension on a trial version of flash?...more >>

On our website, championbaptist.com, we want to use FLV files. They work great locally, but do not play when uploaded to our web host. The actual page that has the video inserted is www.championbaptist.com/multimedia_Dec06.htm. I have been told by our web host that they support flv files (I...more >>

Hi, Anyone know how to acheive these motion blur effects, http://www.jguevarra.com/ . When you click on an image it zooms up in a blur? (in the site click one of the images behind the sketch book. Thanks.... ...more >>

I was looking though some of the different files in the Flash 8 Folder and found a file named MMNotes in the Configuration folder. It has an interesting icon so I 'Got Info' on it and apparently it can only be opend with Blizzard's Warcraft III game. I haven't opened it yet, although I have a ...more >>

at my school we have a webpublishing class that makes the web page for the school. right now we want to change from html to flash. its a class of 20 students and none of them know how to write flash. so my question is this is there any program out there that works like frontpage in that it wri...more >>

Is there a way to set the stage to transparent? I am using the swf through activeX in a standalone application and would like to have the effect of fading the stage in over a background image....more >>

Hey guys! What do you think of my new site? http://www.iwannabeamillionaire.co.uk...more >>

this happend to me when I installed Flash 9 or so, don't really remember annymore. but when I try to watch movies now, I see a vague square around each moving object (I ghues you call them "icons"). annyway, this kind of removes the smoothness of flash, the square is usually a bit lighter ...more >>

ok, when i create a new document and i select something like the rectangle tool and create a shape, the fill is seperated from the stroke so when i want to move the shape around the stage i have to drag my mouse around it, and i cant seem to send a shape behind or infront of another, Please! c...more >>

:froUNABLE TO INSTAL FLASH PLAYER 9.0.16.0 from Flash Player download center. Operating system - Windows XP Pro. (Service Pack 2) Browser - IE7 using default security level (medium high) The installation fails. I cannot receive the ?installation completion movie? ...more >>

I'm at the end of my rope. I'm trying to get a FLV to play in a Flash 6 player and I keep getting propted to download a newer version. It works fine with Flash 8 Player but not 6.0.21.0 Player on my Mac using IE in Classic mode. A friend on a PC with 6.0.88.0 is having touble too. Here's what ...more >>

Is this a problem with versions? I am exporting my flash files as Flash8. There doesn't seem to be a correlation btwn who can see my flash file and who can't. Do i need to put something in my HTML that tells the person to download version 8 to be able to view my site? i thought it was supposed...more >>

HELP!!! My site freeze when you press link and show messenge "a script in this movie is causing flash player to run slowly. if it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort this script?". After I say yes or no site become crazy and running all movings. I'm 1 ...more >>

I have a progressive download FLV set up using the FLVPlayback Component which has cue points embeded. Everything plays back correctly locally or over a network. But once the files are deployed to the web the link to the FLV is broken. The Activity in Safari reports that the FLV file is not fo...more >>

hi all is there anyone out there who would beable to tell what font this is and where I can download it, the font used for the navigation http://www.djsasha.com/fr.php cheers for your help...more >>

Hi I know that we can control sound in Flash, but it's not possible to create a real MP3 player with a visual that follow the sound beat. I found a software that can convert MP3 into swf or flv to allow us to really control sound with variables that represent the spectrum values. I't a cool ...more >>

This is what I did: 1. I imported a bitmap image on the stage 2. I broke it apart 3. I split it into 9 smaller parts 4. I made the 9 parts into individual symbols which I will then animate The problem is when I test my movie or publish it I will get the same individual symbol showing u...more >>

Hi all, I have installed the newest version of flash and updated windows xp sp2 completely. I have installed flash with administator account. But the normal users cannot view website with flash contents. Adobe troubleshooting says that only older version of flash is affected. I have instal...more >>

Hi, In Flash, I sho in my pages data from XML file. Accents ( ex é è à ) arent corectly shown. I do I do ? Thanks ...more >>

hello, i have 2 sounds in a flash movie, music and narration. I have this script in frame 1 for narration sound: _root.my_sound = new Sound(); _root.my_sound.attachSound("antedespacho"); _root.my_sound.start(); and i have a MC, in frame 1 of movie, and inside, in layer 1 this script fo...more >>

A graphic designer wants me to build a website with a fancy looking iFrame within the home page without the typical scrollbar. She wants it to have little dots on the right with a slider button that will make little clicking sounds as the the scrollbar mouses over each dot. Is it possible to b...more >>

Hello, I am a game developer building a game that features a lot of vector animation (about 13,000 frames). The animation came from a 3D program that outputs to SWF. The animations look fine when played back in the Flash player, but when I import these swfs into the Flash authoring environ...more >>

Hi All: If this topic has been done, my apologies, but I didn't know what to search for to find out. Here's the thing. I've created animated editorial cartoons here in Canada. I will be syndicating them, and sending a weekly flash cartoon to multiple newspapers. I want to make this ...more >>

Hi All: If this topic has been done, my apologies, but I didn't know what to search for to find out. Here's the thing. I've created animated editorial cartoons here in Canada. I will be syndicating them, and sending a weekly flash cartoon to multiple newspapers. I want to make this ...more >>

Consider the following situation: Set _global.test = "asdf"; in one movie clip. Then load another movieclip into this one using loadClip Can the movieclip loaded into the primary one reference _global.test. I would think so but it does not seem to work for me. The reason I ask is that ...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to embed a link into a swf file so that when the user clicks on the movie, they are directed to the main page. As of now, I have drawn a rectangle over the entire movie, dropped the alpha to 0%, converted it into a button, and then pasted getURL(http:/...more >>

I need help converting .SWF files to video format like AVI. I tried exporting it in Flash its self but the quality is poor. Does anyone know of any high quality encoders out there that they know would do the job? I am planning on converting my flash files so I can submit them to websites like ...more >>

I would like my students to be able to click and drag their mouse and have a line appear on a graph background that I have. Moreover, after they unclick their mouse and the line appears I would like Flash to tell them if they drew the correct or uncorrect line and then I would like Flash to ma...more >>

How do you think they did the animation on www.adobe.com/fr/products/photoshop/ Looks like gradient mask or something. Problably did with white shape that fade ? I just wanted to know. Thx ...more >>

Hello, I've been reading on this site the various solutions to a problem that I may have. However none of the solutions I have tried have worked. I'm using Flash MX 2004 Pro. My problem is that I have created a simple animation using motion tween. It does not load in the Test movie sc...more >>

Hi there - I am troubleshooting how to launch PDFs and Windows Media files from a folder via links in a Flash executable and having inconsistend results. The links (using getURL) launch fine from a web browser with a .swf but do not work for the .exe version. I was reading how using fscomm...more >>

i have an old flash which has a movie with background sound recording that was not removed. how can i mute the sound so the whole flash has no sound?...more >>