Can someone have a look at this: http://www.adobe.com/go/6a620259 and tell me if there is any solution? Thanks in advance RC...more >>

2d 360 or 3d 360?...more >>

I know this subject has been covered before , but does any one know if there is an update yet for IE to prevent the "Click to activate" appearing every time. I am giving one of my web sites a complete make over using just flash but every time you go from one page to another you get the same me...more >>

i've created an animation at 75 fps. when i open the .swf file with safari the animation is slowed down. why is this? also, Explorer can't even open the file. i suppose i need a flash player for Explorer. I should probably also upgrade from 5.2, huh? hahahaha ...more >>

Hello, i load a image with command "loadMovie ("Image/image12.jpg",1);" so i see ther picture on the left over at position 1x1 (XxY) how its possebble the picture at position 21x188 to load? thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ic...more >>

Hi Folks, Okay, here is another question. I am trink to link the website to Yahoo Maps. They give you HTML Code to use, but I am getting errors. Any ideas? Below is the listed code. Has anyone linked to yahoo Maps? Even giving me an example (a ".fla" file) and I can figure ou the rest. ...more >>

Hi, all. I got question on real time monitoring program here. I am wondering how can do that in flash. Basicly we have a senosr to keep track of the depth of water. The data of the water depth are stored in sql database. According to the data we stored, i want to show an anim...more >>

Hi One quick question for any Macroserfs on here: can Flash 8 and Flash MX co- exist peacefully on the same machine? I ask because I have Captivate 1 and Flash 8 on my machine, and need to export a Captivate movie to Flash MX format to pass to another developer. Of course, when I try to ...more >>

Is it possible to use flash to grab a filemake pro database of products (say 20) and being able to populate a web page designed in flash as well? Is it possible to link this types of files to a flash design? Thank you! ...more >>

I have a projector presentation to be distributed via CD. It currently plays fullscreen. My boss wants a button to give users the option of switching between fullscreen and having it minimize into window mode and back again. I believe he thinks it should behave like Windows Media Player. Is so...more >>

These questions are related somewhat. Initially, I designed a project to be distributed on CD. I set resolution at 760x525 which matches our companies website. Later, as I read and studied, I became aware that it would be better to distribute this as a Projector file. Nice full-screen pre...more >>

I created a fash media player for my myspace page using the media controller and media display components and uploaded to my webspace with the mp3s where it works fine. Then I added the normal flash code on my myspace with the web address as the source path. But alas the the sound does not pla...more >>

I've got a stage with a 320-frame animation with mulitple components. how do i grab every component in every frame of every layer and move it to another area of the stage? i try to select the layers, thinking that they are like photoshop layers and try to move the amimation that way. but Flas...more >>

Hey all, I am moving an image around, and when it moves quickly, it becomes distorted and displays what I can only refer to as "banding". The image appear to be misaligned for some of the frames that it is moving. I have tried a number of the usual fixes, increasing the framerate, using a...more >>

When I created a FLV file of a live presentation (narrator on screen demonstrating products, etc), it came out to 8 mb for a 320x240 window size. However, one of my trainers just recorded a Camtasia (or was it Captivate, we have both) presentation, which is basically a narrated Powerpoint pres...more >>

How do i change a instance name that i already set?...more >>

I have this calculator that takes a number from one text box, multiplies it by the value of a 2nd box and outputs into another text box the total value. When the total value appears, I used the Math.round function to round the final number to the nearest whole number. My question now is...more >>

The default flash combo box you can rescale (make it longer). This is NOT resizing it (make larger by both dimensions). How can I do something similar? If I lengthen my combo box, the drop down arrow is larger (for which I want a fixed size). I only want the text field to get longer. ...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to read in an external swf file that has a combo box in it into another swf file. When I read the external swf file into the main swf file the combo box does not work. I have posted an example here: http://www.geocities.com/deerowbear/source.zip If anyone cou...more >>

http://squarehead.myvnc.com/sunwize/dev/index_dev.html This page is scripted to provide drob-down menus and expanding panels - all divs (click on titlebars of lower panels). I haven't addressed IE bugs yet so use FireFox or Safari please. The large promotional image panel contains a Fla...more >>

I have composed a flash movie but have made the canvass too big so the animated items occupy the central half of the canvass. Changing the document size crops the right and bottom margin but I cannot find a way of cropping the left margin. If I drag to the left I only move in one time frame. I...more >>

I have composed a flash movie but have made the canvass too big so the animated items occupy the central half of the canvass. Changing the document size crops the right and bottom margin but I cannot find a way of cropping the left margin. If I drag to the left I only move in one time frame. I...more >>

Hi, I've been trying unsuccessfully to get an flv file, that has been inserted into an html page in dreamweaver, to play. I've tried inserting it with the streaming function.When i tested the page in the browser it worked fine, when i uploaded to the net there was a blank space where t...more >>

I was advised that I can concatenatnate two movieclips by copy and paste the frames from one movie and paste them into the other. Do I do it frame-by-frame or there is a way to copy and paste several frames in one go? ...more >>

Okay, I get this error message when I try to publish settings: **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=button, frame=1:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances on (release) { Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1 I thought I HAD created a button instance! I...more >>

Hello, I'm new to Flash 8 Professional and am interested in having one .swf player to use for multiple videos for example 100 videos but I don't want to create a ..swf for each .flv file (i.e dog.swf and dog.flv ) and put in the same folder on my website. Can someone tell me how I can do...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possble to send variables from the html page from within the AC_FL_RunContent string to the SWF? It's possible to do it in the object / embed tags using FlashVars. It's also possible using SWFObject using so.addVariable("varName", "varValue"). I don't want ...more >>

I wish to use the Accordion Component. But I want to apply some customization to it: Font, Font size, Font color, Background color for items and sub-items, etc. I didn't found in almost two hours of searching some simple tips providing an understandable method to do this... Hell!, I am not...more >>

Hi, Am new to actionscript and not sure how to do this... I am loading random external swf files into my main movie with this script choice = Math.round(Math.random()*16); switch (choice) { case 0 : ad.loadMovie("ads/ad1.swf"); break; case 1 : ad.loadMovie("ads/ad2.swf"); ...more >>

Hi I can import a mpg into flash mx professional 2004 but there is no sound what can I be doing wrong Thanks Paul M...more >>

I have made a button as follows 1. The button itself - a static graphic 2. The button rollover movie - a movie clip wit the button doing a little thing 3. The button down image- another static graphic The problem is, after the down image is activated, when the mouse goes back 'up' th...more >>

I spent 2 days making some lovely pictures in illustrator, all ready to go into flash. I first exported them into PNG from illustrator and tried importing that that way but after clicking OK nothing appeared on the stage or in the library. There were no error messages. I then tried exporting f...more >>

I spent 2 days making some lovely pictures in illustrator, all ready to go into flash. I first exported them into PNG from illustrator and tried importing that that way but after clicking OK nothing appeared on the stage or in the library. There were no error messages. I then tried exporting f...more >>

Hi ! I've been working and testing my movie in flash only. when I start the file in IE it works but when I try to load the file in firefox or make a standalone exe player it won?t read the XMLfile. I've tried to allow all access and set the root in the tilestructor to a trusted location in t...more >>

I'm new to flash, and I'm working on a simple animation. I have a yellow swirl with a fade-effect in the beginning, after the image is fully visible, three letters will fly in and place themselves on the edges of the swirl in a triangle shape, with the R on top and the L and C at the left and ...more >>

Im using this tutorial to create a flash player that works for Flash Player 6 & 7. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=12EBE It works great when I test it locally but not after its been uploaded. I've tried local and absolute url's, again both work only locally. Funny thi...more >>

I'm probably just being a total n00b but I'm having some real trouble here. Whenever I make a button to navigate around a sire or add a loadmovie command and then test the movie it always hits me with the warning message "The file flashmovie.swf is trying to contact this site" etc. it gets r...more >>

Why me? Why? Is it the file size, bitmap size imported? has someone hijacked my Flash? Error Signature: AppName: flash.exe AppVer: 8.0.0.478 ModName: flash.exe ModVer: 8.0.0.478 Offset: 000074b5 Does flash have a limit to the size? Is there a symbol limit? ...more >>

Hey guys, I am currently working on a project and what i'm trying to do is to create a flash program which makes user able to record their voice from the browser and sends the stream to a FMS server to save them, and i wonder if i can change the recording codec with which the flash player uses...more >>

Ok, ggshow helped me out alot with this animated button nav bar, so it's almost done, but there are some final bugs I need to work out. Here's the file and I'll explain the problems... http://www.sendspace.com/file/8n8ihp The top nav is the old one that I worked up, which I left in for ...more >>

Now hear's a thing! I was wondering if it is possable to make the flash stage area longer than 2800pix's? Because if it can be that would save me some much hassel with a flash form. If it can't be done....... I might just have to revert to "snail mail":disgust; and that would not be good! Th...more >>

I have been seeing some very funny issues runny Flash 8 Professional and Windows Vista Ultimate version. The system responds very slow, generating Movie Clips I am now seeing a strange box appear from the center of the screen and works it way out to the edge before I go into the MovieClip ...more >>