I have a button in a movie clip that appears to work properly in terms of acting like a button however its not taking me to a named frame on the timeline. when i take this button out of the movie clip and place it on the main timeline it works just fine. current action script as shown below:...more >>

I have created a Rollover Button Code: stop(); hitspot.onRollOver = function(){ gotoAndPlay(2); } hitspot.onRollOut = function(){ gotoAndPlay(7); } hitspot.onPress = function() { getURL("birthday.html", mainFrame) } But the link opens in a blank tab on both IE and...more >>

I have a flash presentation that is 16:9 and I am setting it to go fullscreen fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); fscommand("allowscale", "true"); Once I click the EXE file, my monitor(which is widescreen as well) flickers and the presentation opens in a normal window. The flash document ...more >>

http://materialsDirect.net/ Hi all! I am building a virtual host with a *.flv streaming into a *.swf. You can see the examle above (stock video from Ultra 2) I want her to kinda just "hang out" on the site using a loop. To avoid the skip at the end of the loop, I want to make the clip r...more >>

Dera Friends, I am looking for a free softwere or any other way to produce an e-book. Something that turns pages of an e-book like http://www.desktopauthor.com/ is there any body there who knows? Tommy ...more >>

Hey folks.... am I not allowed to change the fla filename? I did (made a copy and renamed because I was about to make some really big changes) and now the FLVS that are imbedded on the stage in my project won't play. GRR.... please help! ...more >>

I have a white custom shape I've exported from FW as a PNG 32-bit so it has transparent areas. Is there a way to use that as a mask so that only the white is acting as the mask? I only get the entire rectangle area that defines the whole png file as a mask and not the shape itself, though the ...more >>

OK - this is my first post to this forum. I've been working with Flash for a while. No problem with basic timeline images, text, and music. (See pvhistory.org splash page). I've also got no problem encoding and uploading video to play on the web. (see the onliine history show playback on t...more >>

I've recently started learning how to use Flash on my own and was trying to using Flash 8 Pro's built-in quiz template. I've run into difficulty modifying the preset interactions. Whenever I either remove an interaction/frame or add a new interaction/frame/keyframe(such as multiple choice), ...more >>

How do you turn off looping on your .swf by default? I've searched and searched....more >>

Flash MX won't launch. I reinstalled system software (10.4.9) and now Flash won't launch. Reinstalled Flash MX.. but still no good. Is there something I'm missing?...more >>

Dear Readers I am puzzled! lol. I was looking at the Radio 1 homepage today http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 On the homepage there is a Flash menu with a series of buttons titled "Sienna Miller" and "Faithless" etc etc. These buttons finish their loop cycle even though the mous-out event ha...more >>

Hi, I am trying to display a list tag ("<li>") with "MS Mincho". But the bullet is displayed wrong (the rect that appears when a character isn't found). I tried to add all characters but it did not work. TIA...more >>

could someone explain to me how these two programs are similar and how they are different and if you have the time/knowledge a little bit of how FLEX is utilized...more >>

Hi, I am developing a website which will contain 2 videos and a QTVR. I am developing the videos in imovie, this file will be pretty large once finished I expect. By converting it into a flash video will it save space and loading time, I have looked at a program called flash video studio ...more >>

hi, i couldnt find what i needed in a search of the forum... hope somebody can help! :) i have an mp4 video i'd like to display on a webpage. I'd like to place it in a skin that looks like a tv and from what ive read elsewhere flash is the way to do this. Do i need to convert this mp4 to F...more >>

I have a few images set up to play like a slide show and I have also added some audio. Shortly after the last image has been displayed the movie starts to loop while the audio is still playing. It is as if it is playing in rounds. It continues doing this untill I have multiple audios playing ...more >>

Hi Guys, I've got a really frustrating problem. I have a stage with one textbox called 'webinput,' upon hitting enter the following lines of code are processed; addresso = "http://www." + webinput + ".com"; getURL(addresso, "_self"); both 'webinput' and 'addresso' have been declared e...more >>

How is the closed-captioning acheived on the http://www.adobe.com/products/studio/cs_video/big_spaceship/? Thanks. ...more >>

I can't move the two components away from each other and can't combine them. They sit like this... COMPONENT 1 COMPONENT 2 Component 1 is a thin nav bar with drop down menus. Component 2 is an oddly shaped flash component. Component 1's drop down menus fall underneath Component 2. ...more >>

Hello gurus, I was recently on a site that had a very cool bit of Flash that I'd like to use in some of my own sites. Essentially there is an regular html page w/ a thumbnail on it. When the user clicks the thumbnail instead of the usual pop window, the whole window gets a gray overlay at about ...more >>

i had created some object in illustrator then save to illustrator EPS format in order to import to flash and animate it . but after i click on the "import" in flash .. then came out an error says " The EPS file was not completely understood. Part or all of the file may be missing. Flash onl...more >>

A few days ago I posted asking what had happened to the jobs forum that Macromeda used to run. I asked where I might (appropriately) advertise a freelance job that has come up in the company. I was surprised to receive zero repsponses from the community, or from Adobe. So I'll just adv...more >>

I am not by any means a fluent flash user. My issue is that I have decided to combine several flash movies into one. I exported a movie and pasted it into an existing new layer of a flash document that already has several layers. What I need to do is to make the flash document bigger from the...more >>

I have created 4 different text buttons with a hoover "Over" effect having appearing text blocks. All 4 buttons have the text blocks appearing in the same space. In the frame for "Up" I have only the text button and the text blocks are only placed on the frame for "Over". Now - my problem...more >>

Hi I have designed my site in Photoshop and want to get it into flash. Im exporting it into image ready and the exporting it as a SWF to import into flash. Flash imports the file as layers but it puts each text character into a seperate text box, so for example if i have a large area o...more >>

Hi, I want to read the parameters passed from my javascript say if i pass the argument like (test.swf?id=0239) I need to get the id value of 0239 in my flash movie. Please let me know how do we do it. Am a fresher in this.... Thanks in Advance. Madan KN ...more >>

Hi all, I am going to be building a Flash site requiring a validated form. I have plenty of experience validating form entry with htmnl forms and ColdFusion, but have never used Flash for forms. Can anyone point me in the right direction for some how to's or tutorials on: a. building ...more >>

Hello, I have built a FLA file in which I have put 2 instances (of a symbol). I want these instances to link towards SWF files, so here is my script : object1_inst.onPress=function(){ getURL("docs/file1.swf","_blank"); } object2_inst.onPress=function(){ getURL("docs/file2.swf","...more >>