Hi- I am making my first attempt to create a form in flash that will submit the viewers input in the text fields to an email address. I have created the form itself with four text fields, txt_first, txt_last, txt_email, txt_message are the names I have given the textinput components. ...more >>

i feel bad because i always come onto this forum whenever i have some flash project to do, and i'm usually in hysterics about some easy-to-do thing (and because it's usually so obvious to most people, few tutorials bother going into the details i need). I have zero flash advice to offer anyon...more >>

:confused; Hello, I am having a lot of trouble linking a picture to a website. Can you pleaser provide me with details steps on how to do this??? ...more >>

Ok, I'm getting so annoyed with trying to find tutorials on the web where all they say is "To make your flash banner link to a page, simply create a button that is transparent, then link it to whatever page." HOOOWWW!?1?1?!? I figured out how to make the button transparent, but how exactly t...more >>

Hello to all: I've been given a .fla file. I'm using the trial version of the latest (flash pro 8). I'm able to export a single frame of a movie one at a time with file->export->export image. With much trail and error the image will export the way i want if i click on the various layers. T...more >>

I'd like my movie to start playing at a certain percent loaded instead of loading the entire movie first. I have a particularly large video with voiceover flash that im afraid guests will be discouraged waiting for if they see the preloader going too slowly...so i'd like the file to start ...more >>

When testing my Flash movie on my computer, all of the getURL links work perfectly, and worked on exported movie .swf which was loaded onto server and veiwed by another on their system. Now that it has been added to web page, the animation is running fine, but the getURL is not working. (The...more >>

i made a fla a while back with a little animated navigational aid, which because my scripting skills are so poor, was quite tedious to program. now i need to edit it but i've lost the fla. can flash convert the swf back into a fla? any suggestions? thanks, macron ...more >>

:frown; My MacBookPro has Adobe's Macromedia Studio, including Flash, loaded on it. Still, when I reach Websties that have Flash components, I get a big QuickTime Q that quickly fades to a question mark. And the flash feature doesn't run. When I try to download a Flash update, I get the mess...more >>

Is there a way of controling the size of the stand alone Flash Player window? Right now, when you launch the stand alone player, the enduser can drag the bottom right hand corner of the viewer and expand it to any size. I have a client that doesn't want the end user to be able to enlarge the ...more >>

Is it possible to write and deploy jsfl and dll files to flash basic? I've always targeted flash pro, but we're now deploying to multiple stations running flash basic. Thanks....more >>

I have a site using HTML, AJAX and Flash, the flash starts when the page opens the on a html button click event a popup window appears but about half of the flash is covering it, dose any one know how I can get aroubd this? ...more >>

Hello, I'm thinking there's got to be something on the server side configuration that's preventing this ... Do you have any idea why is this happening? I have these two identical cfm files that point to a flash swf file on site # 1 and site # 2. The Flash movie plays within DreamWea...more >>

Is there a way to send objects to the front or to the back. We have switched layers around, but that is not working exactly how we want it to. ...more >>

I'm not sure where to post this topic, so if it needs to get moved to a different forum topic, that is fine. I'm looking to learn a new project in Flash and would like to create a voice chat. this would alow a user to speak into her Comp's Microphone and then get her voice relayed to anot...more >>

Hi guys i am trying to load a variable from an arabic txt file in flash 8 and i want the direction of the txt to be rtl like in HTML <html dir="rtl">some arabic txt</html> i did half the slolution by saving the txt file in unicode so now i am reading arabic from flash but still the orienta...more >>

I installed the demo version of Flash 8, and the authoring program installed fine. However, when I try to run the video encoder, I get a message saying I don't have access to the Config.msi file. My IT contact can't even find that file. Does anyone know how to fix this? ...more >>

Rafiq, I've never seen this many posts regarding this subject. There have been several different people who've come to this forum because their Flash player won't play videos. In one of your replies you stated that this is "very strange". However, from what I've seen it doesn't look that way. ...more >>

So I need to make a banner (468 x 60) with flash that basically is just a background, some text, that text disappears and new text shows up, and then some falling hearts. I've been through so many tutorials, but I STILL get confused as to the exact workflow when doing this. I understand abou...more >>

A audio wav file implemented within a flash file needed a slight edit (in the middle) so I changed it in sound editing software and updated the file in Flash - the file remained at 44kHz Mono 16 Bit. When I update the file in Flash, it plays slower than the original. I decided to switch it ...more >>

Hi there. I'm pretty new to web design and have been sent some Flash Projects by a friend. However, I don't know what to do with them. I have Flash 8 Pro and Flash Player but no joy. I realise this must be very obvious to you folk but to me, it's very frustrating. Any help would be much a...more >>

Hi, Flash doesn't play in internet explorer 6 version. I have following environment. Windows XP. Internet Explorer 6. After visiting to the website. If I right click and choose play option then the flash animation works. Can somebody help me out. Thanks & Regards, Satheesh. ...more >>

HI ALL! Several times I have had this situation, and I cannot for the life of me understand why. Imagine a dynamically created movieclip (createEmptyMovieclip) with one purpose: an onEnterFrame function that just does a trace("I am alive"); [in actuality it has a better reason to exist ...more >>

Hi, This is very starnge, I was just thinking if tring to install Flash Player 8 instead of 9. Hope this helps...more >>

I have created a quiz movie, it loads each quiz as a swf, within the main movie shell. my problem is that i created one of the three quiz types using the flash quiz extension. when i click on next question in takes me to frame two in the shell movie rather than in itself. i dont have time t...more >>

I am a new Flash user. I come from a background of html, php and javascript. I have been reading the Flash 8 Unleashed book and I have nearly finished the 2nd chapter on ActionScript. I am trying to design a simple website, with a few 'sections' with a few links to navigate in Flash. I hav...more >>

Hello, I just installed Windows Vista and Flash 8 Professional. Flash runs soo slow with Vista especially when when you create a movie clip then double click it to go inside it takes like 7 - 10seconds to get into the movie clip. It is weird. I know it is not my Machine because I have a fa...more >>

I want to get the total frames of a movie in level6, running at 12 frames per second and convert that to minutes and seconds as well as the current time elapsed and display them in dynamic text fields on level8 with the variable names: "timecurrent" and "timetotal" so that I can have it displa...more >>